[CTRL] Fwd: Cheney-ite Warhawk Eric Edelman PERSONALLY Involved w/ Libby in PLAME Leak
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 19, 2007 8:16:35 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cheney-ite Warhawk Eric Edelman PERSONALLY Involved w/ Libby in PLAME Leak http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/search?q=edelman There’s an organization called the American Turkish Council (ATC) which is the prime body that has been investigated by the FBI and the CIA for years, going back to 1996. In the Vanity Fair article about Sibel [Edmond]'s case, she says that the ATC is a front for criminal activity -- the ATC is the main one, but Sibel’s case also touches very heavily on AIPAC, the Israeli lobby. Sibel intimates that AIPAC and the ATC are both essentially front groups for a larger [neocon/Israeli] network that [profits from] the black- market nuclear arms trade, illegal arm exports, and heroin- trafficking. eric edelman bio. part one http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2005/11/eric-edelman-bio-part- one.html OK -- I've been promising my piece on Eric Edelman for a week - I've somewhat failed again. My primary interest is understanding whether Eric Edelman is involved in: a) the outing of Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings b) any of the conspiracies suggested by Sibel Edmonds, c) whether a) and b) are related I've largely finished the first installment on his background - so i'll post this now even though it's long, and a bit messy, and somewhat incomplete - but at least i'll be able to say that i've at least partially met my promise. First, lets take a look at his background - from RightWeb we learn the following: During his government career, Edelman has shuttled back and forth between the State Department and DOD. His latest assignment was as ambassador to Turkey, where he gained a reputation as a meddlesome critic of the Turkish government at a time when anti-Americanism began flaring up throughout the country. President Bush named Edelman ambassador to Turkey a few months after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003... Serving at the time as Vice President Cheney's national security adviser, Edelman assumed the ambassadorship in Ankara in July 2003. ... [snip] Like many other top officials of the Bush administration's foreign policy team, Edelman began his government career in the Reagan administration. While completing his doctorate in history at Yale University, Edelman joined the U.S. Middle East Delegation to the West Bank/Gaza Autonomy Talks. He then became a special assistant to Secretary of State George Shultz. In 1990 Edelman moved from the State Department to the Pentagon, where he officially served as assistant deputy undersecretary of defense for Soviet and East European affairs. Edelman served under Cheney during the administration of Bush pere. At that time he worked as part of a team headed by Paul Wolfowitz that was charged with formulating a Defense Policy Guidance that would serve as the post-Cold War framework for U.S. military strategy. Others working on the draft grand strategy were Zalmay Khalilzad and I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff. [snip] During the Clinton administration, Edelman moved back to the State Department. As ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the secretary of state on the Newly Independent States, Edelman oversaw defense, security, and space issues. Vice President Cheney brought Edelman back under his wing as principal deputy assistant for national security affairs. As an assistant to Cheney, he was part of the foreign policy network that hurriedly established the intelligence rationales for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Edelman, who is close to such leading neocons as Michael Ledeen and Richard Perle, worked closely in the vice president's office with Scooter Libby in establishing a policy network of hawks and neocons that was based at the Pentagon and Cheney's office but extended through key figures into State, the various intelligence agencies, and the National Security Council. Edelman's full bio can be seen here I'll discuss Edelman's more recent history in a moment, but first let me demonstrate the extent of his 'entanglement' with the neocon neocrazies who currently run the planet. Here's one from the NewYorker in 2002: After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dick Cheney, then the Secretary of Defense, set up a shop, as they say, to think about American foreign policy after the Cold War, at the grand strategic level. The project, whose existence was kept quiet, included people who are now back in the game, at a higher level: among them, Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense; Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff; and Eric Edelman, a senior foreign-policy adviser to Cheney or there's this article describing the incoming Bush administration in 2001: Wolfowitz reportedly brings with him, and has
[CTRL] Fwd: Berezovsky on Most Wanted List in Brazil Too
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 17, 2007 8:38:19 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Berezovsky on Most Wanted List in Brazil Too Berezovsky wanted in Brazil for alleged money laundering Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and Saeed Shah The Guardian (UK), July 14, 2007 http://www.guardian.co.uk/brazil/story/0,,2126355,00.html The tussle between Britain and Russia over the London-based billionaire tycoon Boris Berezovsky took a new twist yesterday when the Brazilian authorities issued a warrant for his arrest. Brazilian officials vowed to seek the extradition of Mr Berezovsky from the UK to face charges of money laundering. He is already wanted in Russia, accused of embezzlement. The Brazilian move comes after the authorities there released the findings of a two-year investigation into a suspected money laundering racket involving the Brazilian football club Corinthians, which was effectively bought by a company linked to Mr Berezovsky in 2004. Brazilian prosecutors argue that Media Sports Investments (MSI), the subsidiary of an offshore company that formed a partnership with Corinthians in November 2004, is funded with the profits from organised crime in Russia. In Brazil on Thursday, Judge Fausto Martin de Sanctis ordered the arrest of Mr Berezovsky and two other men, including the Iranian businessman Kia Joorabchian, who controls MSI in Brazil, which is accused of laundering Mr Berezovsky's money through the Corinthians team. Since none of the men was in Brazil, arrest warrants were forwarded to Interpol. The lawyer behind the federal investigation, Rodrigo de Grandis, told the Guardian that if the men tried to enter Brazil they would be arrested immediately. Officials from Brazil's public prosecutor admitted yesterday, however, they were not hopeful that Mr Berezovsky could be extradited. Mr Berezovsky said the Brazilian court order was an extension of the Kremlin's politicised campaign against me. The tycoon fell out with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and left the country in 2000. He has since been charged with embezzling millions of dollars from Russia's flagship airline, Aeroflot. This week, a trial in Russia started in the Aeroflot case, in Mr Berezovsky's absence. The tycoon also faces potential prosecution in Russia over alleged calls for the government's overthrow, stemming from an interview he gave earlier this year to the Guardian. Britain, which granted him asylum in 2003, has repeatedly refused Russian requests for extradition. Last year, Mr Berezovsky was detained and interrogated at Sao Paulo's international airport as he tried to embark for London. He was released without charge. Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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: DoJ Won't Permit Testimony Before Congress in Matter Unrelated to Atty Firings
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 5:37:51 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DoJ Won't Permit Testimony Before Congress in Matter Unrelated to Atty Firings DoJ Prevents Voting Rights Section Chief from Testifying By Paul Kiel - July 16, 2007, 5:20 PM http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003694.php The House Judiciary Committee was set to hold a hearing on the Civil Rights Division's voting rights section tomorrow, but no more. That's because the Justice Department has refused to allow the chief of the section, John Tanner, to testify. The committee has postponed the hearing until the Department allows Tanner to appear. A career employee at the Department, Tanner worked hand in hand with political appointees Bradley Schlozman and Hans von Spakovsky to ensure the passage of voter identification laws in Georgia and elsewhere -- sometimes overruling the recommendations of staff analysts and attorneys, who found that the laws might discriminate against African American voters. Both Schlozman and von Spakovsky endured hard questioning during testimony last month. Tanner would have gotten the same treatment. Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) wrote to Alberto Gonzales today to request that he make Tanner available for testimony. Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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: 7 Days in May, 2007?
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Gore Vidal Feels Military Is Resisting Bush, Will
Not Collude in Another Phony Terrorist Attack
Literary giant slams Bush coup d'etat
-- Bush let 9/11 happen on purpose
Paul Joseph Watson
October 24 2006
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/241006gorevidal.htm
Controversial and prolific author, political commentator and
essayist Gore Vidal is reassured by a belief that the military's
growing revulsion at the Bush junta's policies makes it likely they
would try and prevent any false flag staged terror attack, while
slamming the end of Habeas Corpus and the administration's coup
d'etat in America on a nationally syndicated radio broadcast.
peaking with the Alex Jones Show, Vidal decried the end of the
foundational bedrock of due process of law, and expressed his
astonishment at the recent loss of Habeas Corpus with the passage
of the Military Commissions Act, the most egregious assault on the
Constitution since the USA Patriot Act of 2001.
Wow. I didn't think I'd live long enough to see that one go --
Magna Carta. The spirit of Runnymede runs no longer in our
Republic, said Vidal.
Vidal stressed that the framework for the USA Patriot Act was
erected with Bill Clinton's Omnibus Crime Bill, a massive expansion
of offenses that would mandate the death penalty, passed in the
immediate aftermath of the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Vidal predicted the bankruptcy of the United States of America
within the next two years, citing vast unchecked payments to
corporations like Halliburton and spiraling inflation.
Labeling the Bush administration's [accession to power] as a coup
d'etat in which we lost the Republic, the literary giant slammed
Bush's claim that he is a wartime President and thus has a blank
check to run roughshod over the Constitution.
You have to have a country to have a warm and you cannot have a
war unless declared by Congress -- which they will not do.
They've got a mantra now which is totally incredible - 'if we
don't fight them over there, we'll have to fight them over
here' ... Well, how the hell are they going to get here, and to
what end? These are questions which you could shut these people up
with -- if there was any media to attack, or if there was a
Congress capable of oversight, said Vidal, comparing the mantra to
the same scare tactics used by Herman Goering to frighten the
Germans into submission under the pretext of an impending Soviet
invasion.
Vidal blamed the media for abandoning its duty as the Fifth Estate
and watchdog of power monopolies.
Our greatest difficulty at the moment is that our media is totally
corrupted, starting with the New York Times. The media belongs to
our rulers.
In the old days when something ghastly went wrong you could count
on journalists writing something about it Today there are no
voices expressing disagreement, said Vidal.
He related how he appeared on a CBS television morning discussion
show shortly after the Oklahoma City Bombing to discuss the
motivations of Timothy McVeigh when mention of the Waco massacre
caused the [network] to abruptly cut his audio, following a
military intelligence order to cease the feed.
The controversial figure also predicted the demise of the Internet
in stating, They'll find a way of wrecking it -- they cannot
permit free speech in the United States, because free speech will
ultimately define them, name them, and describe their crime.
While stopping short of claiming the Bush administration directly
carried out 9/11, Vidal was certain that they let it happen on
purpose, citing the head of the Pakistani ISI bankrolling the
hijackers while also meeting with U.S. government officials in the
week before and on the morning of 9/11.
What made no sense is that CNN wouldn't follow up on why the
fighter planes had not been scrambled and gone up to stop the
hijacking -- that's the law of the land, you don't need the
President to order you, you don't need a general, those are your
instructions -- I know, my father wrote them, said Vidal.
When asked if there should be a new investigation of 9/11, Vidal
insisted, of course there should and a wonderful time to do it
would be at the impeachment of Bush -- I think you might find
everything that we ought to know but do not know.
Asked if the Bush administration would go to the lengths of staging
a terror attack to smokescreen their scandals, Vidal stated, They
certainly know how to cry wolf Let's say it was on their minds
to stage an event -- I don't know how they can do it -- luckily for
us ('we the people'), they've antagonized the entire military, so I
don't think the military would let them**.
Despite
[CTRL] Fwd: Pentagon Disputes Bush's Claim Pulling Out of Iraq Would Cause Catastrophe
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 1:17:19 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Pentagon Disputes Bush's Claim Pulling Out of Iraq Would Cause Catastrophe 'US withdrawal not apocalyptic' July 18, 2007 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/ 0,25197,22093524-2703,00.html WASHINGTON: Recent war games exercises conducted for the US military conclude that if American combat forces withdraw from Iraq in the near future, the result would not be apocalyptic, but that the country would divide into three separate nations. The military exercises decided that the most likely scenario would see the Shias drive the Sunnis out of ethnically mixed areas to the western Anbar province while southern Iraq would erupt in civil war between Shia groups. The Kurdish north would solidify its borders and invite in a US troop presence. The war games were conducted for the US military by retired Marine colonel Gary Anderson, The Washington Post reported. I honestly don't think it will be apocalyptic, Colonel Anderson told the paper, but it will be ugly. The report dilutes recent predictions by US President George W. Bush who, in making the case for a continued troop presence, has argued that al-Qa'ida or Iran would take over Iraq if US forces withdrew. The US military, aware of this political battlefield, had been quietly exploring scenarios of a reduced troop presence, the paper said. Dozens of Iraq-related war games have been conducted for the military, many premised on a US combat pullout by a set date -- leaving only advisers and support units -- and concluded that partition would result. The games also predicted that Iran would intervene in a Shia civil war and become bogged down in southern Iraq, the report said. An extended Iranian presence in Iraq could lead to increased intervention by Saudi Arabia and other Sunni states on the other side -- perhaps leading Tehran to stimulate insurgency among the Shias in Saudi Arabia. Agencies Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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: Constitutional Crisis over Power of President; White House Summons Top Gun
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 20, 2007 10:46:00 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Constitutional Crisis over Power of President; White House Summons Top Gun Broader Privilege Claimed In Firings White House Says Hill Can't Legally Pursue Contempt Cases By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein Washington Post, July 20, 2007; A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/19/ AR2007071902625.html Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, saying that the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges initiated by Congress against White House officials once the president has invoked executive privilege. The position presents serious legal and political obstacles for congressional Democrats, who have begun laying the groundwork for contempt proceedings against current and former White House officials in order to pry loose information about the dismissals. Under federal law, a statutory contempt citation by the House or Senate must be submitted to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, whose duty it shall be to bring the matter before the grand jury for its action. But administration officials argued yesterday that Congress has no power to force a U.S. attorney to pursue contempt charges in cases, such as the prosecutor firings, in which the president has declared that testimony or documents are protected from release by executive privilege. Officials pointed to a Justice Department legal opinion during the Reagan administration, which made the same argument in a case that was never resolved by the courts. A U.S. attorney would not be permitted to bring contempt charges or convene a grand jury in an executive privilege case, said a senior official, who said his remarks reflect a consensus within the administration. And a U.S. attorney wouldn't be permitted to argue against the reasoned legal opinion that the Justice Department provided. No one should expect that to happen. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly, added: It has long been understood that, in circumstances like these, the constitutional prerogatives of the president would make it a futile act for Congress to refer contempt citations to U.S. attorneys. Mark J. Rozell, a professor of public policy at George Mason University who has written a book on executive-privilege issues, called the administration's stance astonishing. That's a breathtakingly broad view of the president's role in this system of separation of powers, Rozell said. What this statement is saying is the president's claim of executive privilege trumps all. The administration's statement is a dramatic attempt to seize the upper hand in an escalating constitutional battle with Congress, which has been trying for months, without success, to compel White House officials to testify and to turn over documents about their roles in the prosecutor firings last year. The Justice Department and White House in recent weeks have been discussing when and how to disclose [their legal position], and the official said he decided yesterday that it was time to highlight it. Yesterday, a House Judiciary subcommittee voted to lay the groundwork for contempt proceedings against White House chief of staff Joshua B. Bolten, following a similar decision last week against former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers. The administration has not directly informed Congress of its view. A spokeswoman for Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), the Judiciary Committee's chairman, declined to comment . But other leading Democrats attacked the argument. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) called it an outrageous abuse of executive privilege and said: The White House must stop stonewalling and start being accountable to Congress and the American people. No one, including the president, is above the law. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) said the administration is hastening a constitutional crisis, and Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D- Calif.) said the position makes a mockery of the ideal that no one is above the law. Waxman added: I suppose the next step would be just disbanding the Justice Department. Under long-established procedures and laws, the House and Senate can each pursue two kinds of criminal contempt proceedings, and the Senate also has a civil contempt option. The first, called statutory contempt, has been the avenue most frequently pursued in modern times, and is the one that requires a referral to the U.S. attorney in the District. Both chambers also have an inherent contempt power, allowing either body to hold
[CTRL] Fwd: Mass-Murderer Caught Red-Handed on Videotape Blames Cameraman for Murders
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 19, 2007 5:14:53 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mass-Murderer Caught Red-Handed on Videotape Blames Cameraman for Murders Pentagon Rebukes Sen. Clinton on Iraq (AP Photo/Steve Helber) Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D- N.Y., speaks before a meeting of the National Association of Counties at the Richmond convention Center, Richmond, Va., Tuesday, July 17, 2007. By DEVLIN BARRETT, The Associated Press 2007-07-19 20:34:17.0 http://www.examiner.com/ a-837046~Pentagon_Rebukes_Sen__Clinton_on_Iraq.html WASHINGTON - The Pentagon told Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton that her questions about how the U.S. plans to eventually withdraw from Iraq boosts enemy propaganda. In a stinging rebuke to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman responded to questions Clinton raised in May in which she urged the Pentagon to start planning now for the withdrawal of American forces. A copy of Edelman's response, dated July 16, was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia, Edelman wrote. He added that such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks. Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines called Edelman's answer at once outrageous and dangerous, and said the senator would respond to his boss, Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Clinton has privately and publicly pushed Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace two months ago to begin drafting the plans for what she said will be a complicated withdrawal of troops, trucks and equipment. If we're not planning for it, it will be difficult to execute it in a safe and efficacious way, she said then. The strong wording of the response is unusual, particularly for a missive to a member of the Senate committee with oversight of the Defense Department and its budget. Clinton aides said the letter ignored important military matters and focuses instead on political payback. Redeploying out of Iraq, with the same combination of arrogance and incompetence with which the Bush administration deployed our young men and women into Iraq, is completely unacceptable, and our troops deserve far better, said Reines, who said military leaders should offer a withdrawal plan rather than a political plan to attack those who question them. As she runs for president, the New York senator has ratcheted up her criticism of the Bush administration's war effort, answering critics of her 2002 vote to authorize the Iraq invasion by saying she would end the war if elected president. Edelman's letter does offer a passing indication the Pentagon might, in fact, be planning how to withdraw, saying: We are always evaluating and planning for possible contingencies. As you know, it is long-standing departmental policy that operational plans, including contingency plans, are not released outside of the department. Edelman is the Undersecretary of Defense for policy. He is also a former U.S. ambassador and one-time aide to Vice President Dick Cheney. During the 2004 campaign, Cheney told Iowa voters that electing Democratic ticket would [increase the] risk another terrorist attack. Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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: Republican Presidential Candidate's Idea of Law and Order
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 20, 2007 10:20:01 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Republican Presidential Candidate's Idea of Law and Order Romney aide’s bogus badges: Sources detail ‘illegal’ security tactic By Casey Ross Boston Herald, Friday, July 20, 2007 http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg? articleid=1012402format=text In an apparent violation of the law, a controversial aide to ex-Gov. Mitt Romney created phony law enforcement badges that he and other staffers used on the campaign trail to strong-arm reporters, avoid paying tolls, and trick security guards into giving them immediate access to campaign venues, sources told the Herald. The bogus badges were part of the bizarre security tactics allegedly employed by Jay Garrity, the director of operations for Romney who is under investigation for impersonating a law enforcement officer in two states. Garrity is on a leave of absence from the campaign while the probe is ongoing. A campaign source said Garrity directed underlings on Romney’s presidential staff to use the badges at events nationwide to create an image of security and to ensure that the governor’s events went smoothly. “They (the aides) knew the badges were fake and probably illegal,” said a presidential campaign source who asked for anonymity because the story could damage the individual’s career. “But they went along with it because Jay (Garrity) pushed it on them.” A spokesman for Romney issued an e-mailed statement. “No one on the Mitt Romney for President campaign is authorized to use a badge, nor has the campaign provided anyone with a badge,” the statement reads. “Jay Garrity is not working on the campaign because he continues to be on a leave of absence.” Two additional sources confirmed that the badges -- described as bright silver plates with a state seal attached -- were first created and used by Garrity while Romney was still governor. Under state law, it is illegal to use a badge without authority, an offense that carries a fine of not more than $50. A spokeswoman for Garrity referred all questions to the Romney campaign. The campaign source said the badges were used extensively by Garrity and staffers on Romney’s advance team, which is responsible for coordinating events for his presidential campaign. Sometimes, the source said, a staffer would use a badge for crowd control to restrict access to Romney. Other times, they were flashed to gain quick access to emergency exits and back hallways at campaign venues. In at least one instance, a staffer used a badge to go through a Massachusetts Turnpike toll booth without paying, the source said. In addition to Garrity, other aides who used the badges included advance staffers Mark Glanville and William Ritter, the source said. Garrity remains under investigation by the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office for allegedly impersonating a law enforcement officer in a May 13 phone call to a Wilmington plumbing company. During the phone call, Garrity allegedly referred to himself as “Trooper Garrity” and told the plumbing company its driver was operating erratically. A spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley said the investigation remains “open and active.” Garrity’s attorney has denied that he made the phone call. Garrity is also under investigation in New Hampshire for a separate incident in which he allegedly told a New York Times [NYT] reporter to stop following Romney’s motorcade. He also allegedly told the reporter his license plates had been run. Garrity has denied through his lawyer that he checked the reporter’s license plates. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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
[CTRL] Fwd: Women and Children First
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 1:34:49 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Women and Children First Marine ordered Iraqi women and kids shot, squad member testifies The Associated Press Tuesday, July 17, 2007 http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/18/america/NA-GEN-US-Marines- Haditha.php CAMP PENDLETON, California: A Marine charged with murdering two girls and killing several other Iraqis gave orders to shoot into a roomful of children and young women, a squad member testified. Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum then went into the room himself, followed by loud noise that could have been M-16 gunfire or a grenade, said Lance Cpl. Humberto Manuel Mendoza. I told him there's just women and kids in the room, Mendoza said Tuesday. He replied, 'Well, shoot them.' Mendoza was with Tatum and two other Marines when they went to clear houses in Haditha, Iraq, on Nov. 19, 2005, in the aftermath of a roadside bomb that killed one Marine and wounded two others. Marines killed 24 civilians, resulting in the biggest U.S. criminal case involving civilian deaths to come out of the Iraq war. A military prosecutor, Lt. Col. Paul Atterbury, asked Mendoza whether he thought it was possible Tatum was joking about shooting the women and children. He was very serious, sir, said Mendoza, who testified with a grant of immunity. Mendoza said he shot a man in the first house the squad entered and believed he was dead. Tatum went into the room where the body lay and fired more shots. He said it was to make sure he was dead, Mendoza said. At the second house, Mendoza said he shot a man as the team went in. He then stayed in the kitchen while squad members threw a grenade and moments later found a woman in her 20s cowering in a back bedroom with four or five children. Mendoza said he returned to the house later as part of a body retrieval team and saw that the woman and several children were dead from multiple wounds that could have been caused by M-16 fire. Tatum's attorney, Jack Zimmerman, questioned Mendoza's account, noting that Mendoza initially gave a different version of events to government investigators. Mendoza, who is among seven Marines given immunity in the case, told investigators in March 2006 he shot at least two men because they were in houses declared hostile. I was following my training that all individuals in a hostile house are to be shot, Mendoza told investigators. Zimmerman brought up a polygraph test Mendoza failed after changing his account of events. Mendoza replied he was telling the truth, and freely admitted lying initially to protect his fellow Marines. You'd lie to protect your fellow Marines, but not to help yourself? Zimmerman asked. Yes, Mendoza said. Mendoza, a Venezuelan citizen, has an application for U.S. citizenship pending. That application would be denied if he were charged with any crime, he acknowledged. But he said that he had not told any government lawyers about the content of his testimony before he was granted immunity in December 2006, shortly before charges were filed against Tatum and other Marines. According to a report by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service dated May 17, 2006, Tatum told investigators that he shot women and children because women and kids can hurt you too. He went on to say he later felt remorseful about the incident. The report describes an interview with Tatum, but it was not signed by the Marine. In March, Tatum passed a polygraph test, ordered by his lawyers last March and submitted as evidence, in which he said he thought both houses he entered in Haditha were hostile. Mendoza was the second of Tatum's squad members to testify on the second day of preliminary hearings to determine whether he will be tried for murder. Also Tuesday, Sgt. Sanick P. Dela Cruz testified that after the deaths Tatum disapproved how the United States was waging war and wished troops had more leeway to shoot. Tatum poked fun at a squad member who asked permission before shooting and said he thought the war should be fought the way it was in Biblical scriptures, where you just go in the city and kill every living thing, said Dela Cruz. With Tatum, 26, leaning intently forward behind the defense table, Dela Cruz spoke quietly and was repeatedly told to speak up for the court reporter. He said Tatum made the comments to him while they were on patrol in January 2006. Dela Cruz said that he recalled Tatum entering an Iraqi home near the bomb site where Marines had found more than $5,000 (€3,630) in U.S. currency and suggested that the money should be sent to the family of their fallen comrade to pay for a funeral. I think he was serious, Dela Cruz said. Tatum did not take the money in the end. At the opening of
[CTRL] Fwd: The Orange Revolution Begins in 6 Days [Resend]
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 12:31:40 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: The Orange Revolution Begins in 6 Days [Resend] July 17, 2007 The Orange Revolution Begins in Six Days. Will You Be A Part of It? On July 23, 2002, the head of British intelligence reported that Bush and Cheney were intent on invading Iraq and planned to fix the intelligence and facts around the policy -- i.e., lie to do so. Five years later a million people have died as a direct result of these lies and there's no end in sight. Meanwhile, torture has been institutionalized, habeaus corpus eviscerated, and illegal spying made routine. New Orleans lies devastated -- along with our Constitution and the rule of law. And Bush and Cheney are making a mockery of the Democrats' feeble gestures towads accountability. [Blocked image] Enough is enough and this July 23rd a new phase in the movement for peace and justice will be launched. We call it the Orange Revolution because starting that day will wearing orange will signify that you want Congress to START IMPEACHMENT and STOP THE WAR. The majority of Americans want to see Bush and Cheney impeached and want an immediate end to this war. But they are rendered largely invisible by a complicit corporate media. Wearing or displaying orange will be our signal to one another -- and to the world -- about where we stand. Anything orange will do: a t-shirt, a wristband, a ribbon -- get creative and post your images and ideas on ImpeachSpace.com. Here are a couple of items to get you started: Orange Drive out the Bush Regime bandanas [Blocked image] Available at: http://www.worldcantwait.net/ Orange Impeach Bush and Cheney t-shirts [Blocked image] Available at: http://www.beachblogger.net/barbara/ The Orange Revolution will be launched with acts of civil disobedience in Washington and elsewhere to show Congress that we are serious. In D.C., Cindy Sheehan, Ray McGovern, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Col. Ann Wright, Debra Sweet, Dave Lindorff, David Swanson, Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, Kevin Zeese, Tina Richards, and others will march from Arlington National Cemetary to the office of Congressman John Conyers. They will sit in Conyers' office reciting the U.S. Constitution until they are either arrested or he agrees to start impeachment. All are welcome to join them. See:P http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/sit for time and location. Similar actions will take place at the offices of Rep. Howard Berman in California, Rep. Pete Visclosky in Indiana, and Rep. Conyers' district offices in Detroit. If you are willing to risk going to jail for justice you are encouraged to go to Washington or to stage a sit-in at your own Representative's district office. See: http://www.democrats.com/sit for more information and tools to help you organize this. If you cannot participate in civil disobedience, please wear orange in solidarity with those that are and please call Congressman Conyers that day and ask him to move on impeachment: (202) 225-5126. The march in D.C. is also part of Cindy Sheehan's Journey for Humanity from Crawford, Texas to New York City. Participants in this Journey for Humanity share the goals of ending the occupation of Iraq, impeaching Cheney and Bush, restoring New Orleans, and funding human needs at home and in Iraq and Afghanistan. The march will include stops at the district offices of House Judiciary Committee Members Mel Watt, Howard Coble, and Bobby Scott along the way, before arriving in Washington, D.C., on July 23rd. For more information and to get involved visit http://www.thecampcaseypeaceinstitute.org. Essential Viewing: Bill Moyers on Impeachment http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07132007/profile.html On Friday, P.B.S. aired a one-hour special on impeachment featuring Bruce Fein, Deputy Attorney General under Ronald Reagan and well-known Republican, and John Nichols, author of The Genius of Impeachment and well-known Democrat, both arguing for impeachment. [Blocked image] If there's one video to share with your friends and family who are still skeptical about impeachment, this is it. Fein and Nichols argue with passion and eloquence that the necessity of impeaching both Bush and Cheney is not about politics, but about salvaging our Constitutional form of government. Watch the video at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/ 07132007/profile.html and pass it along! How to Get Impeachment into the Next Democratic Presidential Debate Also on July 23rd, the Democratic presidential candidates will take part in an evening debate run by CNN, Google, and Youtube. You can submit your own questions on video to the candidates through Youtube -- and everybody can vote for which questions they most want to see asked. Right now a
[CTRL] Fwd: The Free Press, or Orwell's Ministry of Truth?
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 12:08:49 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: The Free Press, or Orwell's Ministry of Truth? Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com. From: Jim S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 2:29:00 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A Free Press or a Ministry of Truth? Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18021.htm *A Free Press or a Ministry of Truth?* By Paul Craig Roberts 07/17/07 ICH -- In his novel 1984, George Orwell portrayed a future time in which the explanations of recent events and earlier history are continually changed to meet Big Brother’s latest purpose. Previous explanations disappear down “the memory hole.” Sound familiar? Any American who pays attention can observe the identical phenomenon occurring in the U.S. today. Think about the Bush Rfegime’s changing explanations for the failed U.S. occupation of Iraq. Shortly after Bush’s May 2003 announcement of mission accomplished, the mission revealed itself to be very much unaccomplished. Americans were told that the cause of the snafu was a small Sunni insurgency of two or three thousand at the most inspired by die-hard Ba'ath party remnants. Remember the propagandistic deck of cards identifying the most wanted down to the less wanted? Americans were assured that once Saddam Hussein and his relatives and henchmen were rounded up, our troops would be pelted with the promised flowers instead of roadside bombs. When the roundups, trials, and executions failed to fix the problem, the die-hard explanation disappeared. A new explanation, with no continuity to the old, took its place. The new explanation was that Syria was allowing foreigners to cross its border into Iraq to commit jihad against the American troops. This explanation lasted until it became all too clear, despite the propaganda, that the foreign fighters were remarkably well accepted by, and concealed within, the Iraqi communities that were suffering all the collateral damage of the conflict. When it came time for the U.S. to create an Iraqi government, it was evident that it would be one dominated by Shi'ites. Then, for a limited time, it was permissible to recognize that the insurgency was popularly based in the Sunnis. As the insurgency evolved into what the Iraq Study Group described as a Sunni-Shi'ite civil war [PDF] with U.S. troops unclear on which side they stood, the Bush Regime and the captive media began blaming Al Qaeda for the escalating violence. Americans were assured by the Ministry of Truth that there wasn't a civil war, just outsiders stirring up conflict. This enabled Big Brother to deny that there was a civil war and to revive fear of terrorist attacks in the U.S. and U.K., the new Oceania. The Al Qaeda explanation was soon discarded into the memory hole. The explanation implied that Oceania's invasion of Iraq had greatly expanded the ranks and strength of Al Qaeda, thus contradicting big Brother's claim that his war in Iraq was making Oceanians safe by stamping out terrorism. The Al Qaeda explanation had to depart for another reason as well. Cheney, Israel, and the neocons, the rulers of the new Oceania, plan to attack Iran, and so the insurgency in Iraq is now being blamed on Iran. The Ministry of Truth has accommodated the latest explanation, just as it did all others before, without remarking on the funeral of the previous explanation. All of a sudden, a new explanation appears and is repeated until it, too, goes down the memory hole. The American and British media work the same way as the Ministry of Truth in Oceania. A day arrives when the truth no longer serves the empire or hegemonic power or center of moral purpose in the world, or for short, the regime. When that day arrives, a new explanation appears and is repeated until it, too, is discarded down the memory hole. In recent weeks, Americans have been fed a series of reports from official sources that Iran is arming both Iraqi insurgents and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Experts, both within the government and without, who have been made more attentive by the Bush Regime's false charges of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, have disputed the news reports. But the reports keep on coming. As I write, the latest story is that the US military discovered a field of rocket launchers near a U.S. army base south of Baghdad armed with 34 Iranian-made missiles. Can you imagine? The insurgents went to the trouble of lugging powerful missiles within striking distance of a U.S. base and just left them there unfired to be discovered by the Americans. To further serve Cheney's plan to attack Iran, the media report states: Earlier this month, U.S. commanders stepped up the charges [against Iran],
[CTRL] Fwd: If the Democrats Expect to Survive...
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 7:28:34 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: If the Democrats Expect to Survive... ... Democrats would call on the American people to take a stand at this the most dangerous moment in their history, when the president and vice president are enemies of the constitutional system devised by the Founding Fathers NEVER have a president and vice president abused the public trust to the extent that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have. Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com. From: Jim S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 7:09:42 PM PDT To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: If the Democrats Want to Win... http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/071707.html *If the Democrats Want to Win...* By Robert Parry July 18, 2007 If the Democrats really want to prevail over George W. Bush on the Iraq War and on his authoritarian vision of presidential powers, they would put back on the table two options that their leaders have removed: a cut-off of war funding and impeachment. Rather than all-night debates about resolutions that will go nowhere, the Democrats would make the case to the American people that Bush has trampled on the Constitution; he has ensnared the nation in a catastrophic war by lying; and he has his eyes set on more dangerous chicanery in the months ahead. The Democrats would explain that Bush has refused to compromise when offered the chance; he has told the people's representatives that their only war role is to finance whatever the decider wants to do; he has declared that he has the right to ignore or break the law; he has engaged in cover-ups of serious wrongdoing by his subordinates and is now counting on his right-wing judicial appointees to protect him from oversight. The Democrats would call on the American people to stand up at this dangerous moment in their history -- when the president and vice president have become enemies of the constitutional system devised by the Founders, a Republic based on the idea that all people possess inalienable rights and governments must ensure those rights. Never have a president and vice president abused the public trust to the extent that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have. They have engaged in a consistent pattern of deception, not just political spin or cover-ups of petty matters, but lying about the most profound of issues, including war and the meaning of freedom and democracy. While Bush's remaining acolytes -- the likes of New York Times columnist David Brooks -- continue to gush over Bush's rhetoric about freedom, the reality is that Bush has eviscerated many of the most important civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Claiming plenary -- or total -- powers as Commander-in-Chief during an endless and boundless war on terror, Bush has swept aside the rights that have traditionally defined freedom, including habeas corpus guarantees to a fair trial, protections against unreasonable search and seizure, prohibitions on cruel and unusual punishments. Bush also has shown contempt for democracy, from blocking a full counting of Florida's votes in Election 2000 to bullying dissenters prior to the Iraq War to punishing the Palestinians for voting for leaders that Bush doesn’t like. Yet Brooks and other pundits remain in awe of Bush's supposed reverence for exactly the principles that he has trashed. For instance, in the July 17 New York Times, Brooks hailed Bush's unconquerable faith in the rightness of his Big Idea as expressed by the president during a question-and-answer session in the White House's Roosevelt Room on July 13: It's more of a theological perspective, Bush said about his confidence that democracy and freedom are on the march. I do believe there is an Almighty, and I believe a gift of that Almighty to all is freedom. And I will tell you that is a principle that no one can convince me that doesn’t exist. *Offensive Lies* But Bush's declarations about freedom may rank as his most offensive lies of all. They go beyond mere hypocrisy, to some Orwellian formulation that demands public allegiance to an assertion that is the opposite of the truth, like “freedom is slavery” or, in this case, freedom is obedience to Bush. Similarly, Bush appeared before the United Nations on Sept. 19, 2006, praising its Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. He said, The words of the Universal Declaration are as true today as they were when they were written. But either Bush didn't have the faintest idea what those principles were -- or he had grown so confident in never being challenged that he thought he could say whatever he wanted, no matter how false or deceptive. Among the 30 rights proclaimed in the Universal
[CTRL] Fwd: No Escaping Poisoned Foodchain: Chemical Waste Absorbed by Fruits Vegetables
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 17, 2007 8:35:09 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: No Escaping Poisoned Foodchain: Chemical Waste Absorbed by Fruits Vegetables 12 July 2007 Antibiotics Absorbed By Vegetables http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20070611194357data_trunc_sys.shtml Evaluating the impact of livestock antibiotics on the environment, University of Minnesota researchers have found that many vegetables uptake the antibiotics. The study, in the Journal of Environmental Quality, shows that food crops can readily accumulate antibiotics from soils spread with cattle manure. The findings were based on a greenhouse study involving three food crops: corn, lettuce, and potatoes. The plants were grown in soil modified with liquid hog manure containing sulfamethazine, a commonly used veterinary antibiotic. The researchers found that the antibiotic was taken up by all three crops. The antibiotic was found in the plant leaves and concentrations in the plant tissue increased as the amount of antibiotic present in the manure increased. Worryingly, it also diffused into potato tubers, which suggests that other root crops - such as carrots and radishes - may be particularly vulnerable to antibiotic contamination. Researcher Satish Gupta said that contaminated plants had the potential to cause allergic reactions in people with antibiotic sensitivity. He also noted that contamination is likely to foster antimicrobial resistance, which can render antibiotics ineffective. And co-researcher Holly Dolliver warned that antibiotic contaminated plants may be of particular concern to the organic farming industry, where manure is often the main source of crop nutrients. While the USDA stipulates that organic producers must manage animal materials in a manner that does not contribute to contamination of crops by residues of prohibited substances, manures containing antibiotics are not formally banned or prohibited. Dolliver concluded that further research is needed to investigate how different plants absorb different antibiotic compounds. Related articles: Prevalence Of Antibiotic Resistance Surprises Prof Ponders Bacterial Benefits Down On The Farm: Yields, Nutrients And Soil Quality Increasing Soil Erosion Threatens World's Food Supply Source: Soil Science Society of America Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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: Blessed Is the Name of the Lord
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 19, 2007 10:02:18 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Blessed Is the Name of the Lord Lords A-Creeping You thought Conrad Black was bad? Meet the real degenerates of Britain's ruling class By Nick Curran http://radaronline.com/features/2007/07/ british_lords_conrad_black_sex_scandals_1.php THIS LITTLE PIGGY Convicted felon Lord Conrad Black shows his embezzling hand to reporters. He's got nothing on Britain's sex- crazed, drug-addled, degenerate, criminal aristocrats Following Conrad Black's conviction on Friday for criminal fraud and obstruction of justice, politicians across the pond are now threatening to revoke the British lordship given him by Queen Elizabeth in 2001. Black, who coveted the title so much he sued the prime minister of Canada for blocking his path to English nobility (and ultimately renounced his Canadian citizenship in order to obtain it), is clearly a rogue and a criminal who stole millions of dollars from innocent shareholders. He may spend the rest of his life in jail, but do his crimes warrant an expulsion from England's elite fraternity of aristocrats? A quick glance at a colorful carousel of British lords who dignified their titles with leather pants, porn stars, grenade launchers, and a colony of prostitutes suggests maybe not. 'SEX MACHINE TO ALL THE CHICKS' The 10th Earl of Shaftesbury and the Tunisian hooker who had him iced The 10th Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley-Cooper) 1938-2004 This descendant of a great 18th century philosopher had a philosophy of his own—enlightenment through booze and hookers. The Earl of Shaftesbury frequently abandoned his palatial estate in England for drunken, Viagra-fueled sprees through the brothels and bars of France. He was known to embark on such journeys clad in leather pants, pink shirts, and large red-and-black designer eyeglasses, brandishing large wads of cash and cheekily pronouncing to all: I am the Earl of Shaftesbury. I am a millionaire. He dated many women, including a Penthouse pet, and had three marriages that, of course, ended badly. It was his third, to a Tunisian prostitute, that did him in. The woman, who claims George Clooney and Bruce Willis among her conquests, responded to his desire to leave her for a Moroccan nightclub hostess he had allegedly impregnated by having him killed in 2004. The Earl of Shaftesbury's body was found in a ditch in the French Riviera. EARL INTERRUPTED An obviously blitzed Lord Lambton gets off on hidden camera The 6th Earl of Durham (Antony Claud Frederick Lambton) 1922-2006 Lord Lambton just loved smoking dope and screwing hookers two at a time. And if a hooker's husband hadn't documented this predilection with the help of a camera and a tape recorder embedded in the nose of a teddy bear, he would never have lost his job as undersecretary of defense for the Royal Air Force. British investigators were particularly alarmed by his decision to pay a hooker with a personal check (this was before Jerry Springer popularized the move) and by pictures showing sexual practices which deviated from the normal. Lambton publicly explained his motivation -- People sometimes like variety. It's as simple as that.— and expressed bewilderment that it was such a big deal: Surely all men visit whores? Official documents released in 2004 showed Lambton wasn't quite so flip with British intelligence agents trying to determine if his sexcapades had compromised national security. He advised that he was both frustrated with his job and despairing over a grueling battle to retain the right to be officially recognized as Lord Lambton even though he had officially renounced the title several years before in order to keep his seat in the House of Commons. According to officials, the dispute had become an obsession with him that could only be relieved through frantic activity, which, in addition to Patrick Bateman-esque hooker romps, also drove him to become an enthusiastic gardener. Lambton lived out the rest of his days dabbling in literature with his mistress in Tuscany. JELLICOE'S LAST JAM The dissolute Earl in his heyday The 2nd Earl of Jellicoe (George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe) 1918-2007 The son of a renowned World War I hero and a World War II hero himself, the Earl of Jellicoe had it all: fame, wealth, political power, and lots of hookers. Jellicoe dodged a bullet early in his political career when his friend Queen Mary excused some career- threatening marital troubles and gave him what one friend called a royal license to sin. The license later expired, however, when his hooker habit came to light at exactly the same time as Lord Lambton's more sensational piccadilloes (see previous). Jellicoe reportedly blamed
[CTRL] Fwd: Judge Ronald McDonald Reads Us the Menu in America's Junk-Food Judicial System
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 19, 2007 6:02:35 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Judge Ronald McDonald Reads Us the Menu in America's Junk- Food Judicial System Cheney, Rove, Libby Win Dismissal of Lawsuit by Valerie Plame By Cary O'Reilly http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=20601103sid=aqulBf1auxNMrefer=us Former CIA officer, Valerie Plame July 19 (Bloomberg) -- A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Vice President Dick Cheney, White House political adviser Karl Rove and former Cheney aide I. Lewis Libby of illegally conspiring to reveal the identity of a CIA agent. U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington threw out the suit, saying he lacked jurisdiction. Valerie Plame, who worked at the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and her husband, former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson, sued in July 2006. Plame and Wilson accused Cheney, Rove and Libby of violating their constitutional rights by revealing Plame's identity in retaliation for a New York Times opinion piece by Wilson questioning the Bush administration's evidence for going to war in Iraq. It is a federal crime to knowingly reveal a covert CIA operative's identity. ``Plaintiffs have failed to state a claim on which relief can be granted,'' Bates said today. ``This court lacks subject- matter jurisdiction over plaintiffs' claims for public disclosure of private facts.'' Translating this ruling from legalese for the layman: I'm just another whore of the White House and you come to *ME* expecting me to bite the hand that jerks me off?! ROFLMAO If you doubt that's an accurate translation, see below. Suit against Cheney task force dismissed Lawmakers sought details on contacts with energy industry December 10, 2002 http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/09/cheney.energy/ index.html Vice President Dick Cheney WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by the investigative arm of Congress, seeking the names of those consulted by Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force in determining the Bush Administration's energy policy. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates said the case filed by Comptroller General David Walker, the head of the General Accounting Office, did not make a compelling showing on why the judiciary branch should get involved. Plaintiff's failure to produce stronger evidence with respect to historical practice leads unavoidably to the conclusion that he lacks standing to pursue his claim, Bates wrote in his 43-page decision. Congressional Democrats have called for the Bush administration to reveal the contacts that Cheney's task force had with energy industry leaders, suggesting those executives had undue influence on the energy policy that was released. The Bush administration refused to provide most of the information sought by Congress, saying it was a matter of privacy -- that the executive branch can consult with outsiders in confidentiality. Bates noted that Congress hasn't issued a subpoena to obtain the information sought by Walker and has given no expression of support for the pursuit of this action. The judge also said there is no precedent for the judicial branch to enter into this inter-branch dispute, Bates wrote, in light of weighty separation of powers considerations. Such an excursion by the judiciary would be unprecedented and would fly in the face of the restricted role of the federal courts under Bush's interpretation of the Constitution. --- http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/ 20070719_plames_lawsuit_dismissed_by_federal_judge/ #88054 by R.M. on 7/19 at 1:43 pm (Unregistered commenter) Well, this proves it...the country is broken beyond beyond repair. What was done was treasonous and a judge has ruled that it’s OK by him. As a decendant of one of the signers, I call for all to read or reread the Declaration...beyond being an intentionally morally incomplete (re: slavery) statement of principle, after the first paragraph, it outlines the reasons for it’s creation -- the trangressions of King George III. Ironically, this current George, our third president by that name, holds the office illegally. Therefore...as is stated in the aforementioned document: “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guard[ians]s for their future security.” Impeachment of this un-American reprobate and his cabal is a must if we are to reclaim our nation for our children. Where is our Congress? Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER
[CTRL] Fwd: Keith Olbermann to George Bush: It's YOUR War, YOU Go and Fight It
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 19, 2007 9:12:29 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Keith Olbermann to George Bush: It's YOUR War, YOU Go and Fight It Olbermann: YOU go to Iraq and fight, Mr. President Bush’s latest choice of scapegoat --Hillary Clinton-- boggles the mind MSNBC video** Special Comment: Blame Hillary? Olbermann says the choice to scapegoat Sen. Clinton is unfathomable: Go fight YOUR war yourself, Mr. President. **http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00g=fac6440c- b8b8-4d0a-8243-dae60b2def7fp=Source_Countdownt=c1149rf=http:// www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19859124/fg= SPECIAL COMMENT By Keith Olbermann MSNBC, July 19, 2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19859124/ It is one of the great, dark, evil lessons, of history. A country — a government — a military machine — can screw up a war seven ways to Sunday. It can get thousands of its people killed. It can risk the safety of its citizens. It can destroy the fabric of its nation. But as long as it can identify a scapegoat, it can regain or even gain power. The Bush administration has opened this Pandora’s Box about Iraq. It has found its scapegoats: Hillary Clinton and us. The lies and terror tactics with which it deluded this country into war — they had nothing to do with the abomination that Iraq has become. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault. The selection of the wrong war, in the wrong time, in the wrong place — the most disastrous geopolitical tactic since Austria- Hungary attacked Serbia in 1914 and destroyed itself in the process — that had nothing to do with the overwhelming crisis Iraq has become. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault. The criminal lack of planning for the war — the total “jump-off-a- bridge-and-hope-you-can-fly” tone to the failure to anticipate what would follow the deposing of Saddam Hussein — that had nothing to do with the chaos in which Iraq has been enveloped. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault. The utter, blinkered idiocy of “staying the course,” of sending Americans to Iraq and sending them a second time, and a third and a fourth, until they get killed or maimed — the utter de- prioritization of human life, simply so a politician can avoid having to admit a mistake — that had nothing to do with the tens of thousand individual tragedies darkening the lives of American families, forever. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault. The continuing, relentless, remorseless, corrupt and cynical insistence that this conflict somehow is defeating or containing or just engaging the people who attacked us on 9/11, the total “Alice Through the Looking Glass” quality that ignores that in Iraq, we have made the world safer for al-Qaida — it isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault! The fault, brought down, as if a sermon from this mount of hypocrisy and slaughter by a nearly anonymous undersecretary of defense, has tonight been laid on the doorstep of... Sen. Hillary Clinton and, by extension, at the doorstep of every American (the now-vast majority of us) who have dared to criticize this war or protest it or merely ask questions about it or simply, plaintively, innocently, honestly, plead, “Don’t take my son; don’t take my daughter.” Sen. Clinton has been sent — and someone has leaked to The Associated Press — a letter, sent in reply to hers asking if there exists an actual plan for evacuating U.S. troops from Iraq. This extraordinary document was written by an undersecretary of defense named Eric Edelman. “Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq,” Edelman writes, “reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia.” Edelman adds: “Such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks.” A spokesman for the senator says Mr. Edelman’s remarks are “at once both outrageous and dangerous.” Those terms are entirely appropriate and may, in fact, understate the risk the Edelman letter poses to our way of life and all that our fighting men and women are risking, have risked, and have lost, in Iraq. After the South was defeated in our Civil War, the scapegoat was Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and the ideas of the “Lost Cause” and “Jim Crow” were born. After the French were beaten by the Prussians in 1870 and 1871, it was the imaginary “Jewish influence” in the French Army general staff, and there was born 30 years of self-destructive anti- Semitism, culminating in the horrific Dreyfus case. After the Germans lost the First World War, it was the “back- stabbers and profiteers” at home, on whose lives the National Socialists rose to prominence in the succeeding decades and whose accused membership eventually wound up in torture chambers and death
[CTRL] Fwd: History Rewritten by the Winners: Luckily, A Lone Nut Killed Evil Traitor JFK
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 20, 2007 7:11:46 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: History Rewritten by the Winners: Luckily, A Lone Nut Killed Evil Traitor JFK The BBC's Flawed RFK Story by Jefferson Morley and David Talbot http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Essay_- _The_BBCs_Flawed_RFK_Story On November 20, 2006 -- the day that would have been Robert Kennedy's 81st birthday -- the BBC program Newsnight aired a startling report alleging that three CIA operatives were caught on camera at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on the night of Kennedy's assassination. The story suggested that they were involved in his killing. The BBC broadcast, produced by filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan, identified the three CIA operatives [present] as George Joannides, David Morales and Gordon Campbell. All three were known to have worked for the Agency in Miami in the 1960s when the White House ordered up a not-so-secret effort to overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in Cuba. The report was wholly mistaken ... Did a decorated CIA officer run a covert action operation involving Lee Harvey Oswald three months before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? Morley v. CIA, now pending in federal appeals court, seeks to answer this question. http://web.mac.com/jeffersonmorley/iWeb/ Morley_v_CIA/Questions.html ... Congressman Hales Boggs was a member of the Warren Commission. In 1972 the twin engine airplane in which Boggs was traveling over a remote section of Alaska disappeared. The plane presumably crashed and was never found. After Hale's disappearance, Lindy and Hale's brother, a Jesuit priest in New Orleans, were fearful that he had been murdered because of his inside knowledge about the role of the FBI, CIA, and organized crime in events leading up to the Kennedy assassination-- knowledge that he had acquired as a member of the Warren Commission and that might also have some relevance to Watergate. Congresswoman Boggs had expressed her fears to Congressman Bill Hungate as well as to me and Peter Rodino in the strictest confidence. In 1971 Boggs had made an extraordinary speech on the House floor. The then-majority leader accused the Department of Justice of using Gestapo-like police-state tactics that included bugging the offices and homes of members of Congress and other political leaders--and in some cases using illegally obtained information to blackmail public officials. The unreported truth was that when Boggs made the speech he was undergoing psychiatric treatment for manic depression, and the CIA and FBI were concerned that his judgement had become sufficiently impaired to endanger national security. http://www.amazon.com/Without-Honor-Camelot-Impeachment-Richard/dp/ 156025128X Review by Library Journal This book by the chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment proceedings goes a long way toward debunking the notion that the legal process of impeachment is above politics. It seems to be based mainly on an 800-page diary Zeifman kept at the time. His descriptions of personalities and conversations outside the hearing room adds an almost novelistic quality to the work and makes it accessible to wide audiences. Especially interesting today is his references to such staffers as Hillary Rodham Clinton and his argument that Democrats on the committee did not dig as deeply into the CIA role in Watergate as they might have for fear of dredging up damaging information about Kennedy's role in CIA assassination plots involving Castro, South Vietnam's President Diem, and other heads of state. Watergate investigation shown deeply flawed, intentionally., June 18, 1997 Reviewer: A reader The haplessness of the House's investigation of the Nixon White House over the Watergate cover-up is revealed as being intentional. The author, who was majority counsel to the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate investigation, shows that it was the result of obstruction by the very Democrats supposedly driving the investigation, done to prevent revelation of abuses of power during the Kennedy Administration that subsequently came out in the Church Hearings. Probably the best, and most poignant, aspect of the book is the tone of the diary excerpts, which reveal the author as a lawyer who believes in the Constitution deeply, and is increasingly dissillusioned by the machinations he observes. The book is both a good read and essential source material for serious students of Watergate and the resulting erosion of public confidence in elected government. Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic
[CTRL] Fwd: British Head of State Needed Hotline to Rupert Murdoch -- Who's In Charge?
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 19, 2007 4:37:22 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: British Head of State Needed Hotline to Rupert Murdoch -- Who's In Charge? Murdoch had a hotline to the PM in the run-up to Iraq war By Andrew Grice, Political Editor Published: 19 July 2007 http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2782514.ece Tony Blair had three conversations with the media magnate Rupert Murdoch in the nine days before the start of the Iraq war, the Government has disclosed. Details of the former prime minister's contacts with Mr Murdoch have been released under the Freedom of Information Act. After trying to block disclosure for four years, the Government backed down in a surprise change of heart the day after Mr Blair resigned last month. Requests for information under the Act were submitted by the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Avebury and The Independent journalist James Macintyre. An appeal was pending and evidence was about to be served in a case before an Information Tribunal. Yesterday the Cabinet Office said there were six telephone discussions between Mr Blair and Mr Murdoch in 20 months, all at crucial moments of his premiership. The subject of their calls was not revealed. In 2003, Mr Blair phoned the owner of The Times and The Sun on 11 and 13 March, and on 19 March, the day before Britain and the United States invaded Iraq. The war was strongly supported by Murdoch-owned newspapers around the world. The day after two of the calls, The Sun launched vitriolic attacks on the French President Jacques Chirac. The Government quoted him as saying he would never support military action against Saddam Hussein, a claim hotly disputed by France. Mr Blair and Mr Murdoch spoke again on 29 January 2004, the day after publication of the Hutton report into the death of Dr David Kelly. Their next conversation was on 25 April 2004, just after Mr Blair bowed to pressure led by The Sun for him to promise a referendum on the proposed EU constitution. They also spoke on 3 October that year, after Mr Blair said he would not fight a fourth general election. The Cabinet Office also said Mr Blair had three meetings with Richard Desmond, the proprietor of Express Newspapers, between January 2003 and February 2004. The Government had said releasing the information would be prejudicial to the effective conduct of public affairs, and disclosure of the timing of exchanges with stakeholders could reveal the content of the discussion. Lord Avebury said: This is a welcome victory for the cause of freedom of information. It shouldn't have taken so much time and effort to extract information that was clearly of great public interest. Rupert Murdoch has exerted his influence behind the scenes on policies on which he is known to have strong views, including the regulation of broadcasting and the Iraq war. In Alastair Campbell's diaries, published last week, the former spin doctor described a Downing Street dinner for Mr Murdoch and his sons, James and Lachlan, in 2002. Murdoch pointed out that his were the only papers that gave us support when the going got tough. 'I've noticed,' said TB, Mr Campbell wrote. Lance Price, Mr Campbell's deputy, called Mr Murdoch the 24th member of the [Blair] Cabinet. He added: His presence was always felt. No big decision could ever be made inside No10 without taking account of the likely reaction of three men, Gordon Brown, John Prescott and Rupert Murdoch. On all the really big decisions, anybody else could safely be ignored. Last year, Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, ruled that official contacts between Mr Blair and Mr Murdoch should be disclosed, but other contacts were not if no minute or note was taken. Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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
[CTRL] Fwd: CIA Mutiny Against Bush?
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 4:33:55 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CIA Mutiny Against Bush? Fox News claims CIA 'sabotaging War on Terror' When you've lost a war, start a witch-hunt for the enemy within http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ Fox_CIA_undermining_War_on_Terror_0717.html Fox News on Tuesday interviewed veteran Pentagon reporter Rowan Scarborough about his startling allegation that elements within the CIA are sabotaging our own War on Terror. Scarborough, a former columnist for the Reverend Sun Myung Moon-owned Washington Times, is the author of Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA, which claims that CIA bureaucrats are undermining President Bush and the War on Terror through disinformation, incompetence, and outright sabotage. Angry CIA Operatives Torpedoed Rumsfeld http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/7/17/100703.shtml?s=ic Dissident U.S. intelligence officers angry at former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped a European probe uncover details of secret CIA prisons in Europe, the top investigator said on Tuesday. The Americans themselves admitted there were secret prisons, that they abducted people from the streets, that people were handed over to countries like Syria, Yemen, Egypt where they were tortured, he said. Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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: No Al Qaeda in Iraq, Military PR Man Announces; They're All FOREIGN Terrorists
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 12:41:38 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: No Al Qaeda in Iraq, Military PR Man Announces; They're All FOREIGN Terrorists Senior Al Qaeda figure in Iraq a myth: U.S. military By Dean Yates Wed Jul 18, 10:35 AM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070718/ts_nm/iraq_qaeda_dc_2 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A senior operative for al Qaeda in Iraq who was caught this month has told his U.S. military interrogators a prominent al Qaeda-led group is just a front and its leader fictitious, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. Brigadier-General Kevin Bergner told a news conference that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq, which was purportedly set up last year, did not exist. The Islamic State of Iraq was established to try to put an Iraqi face on what is a foreign-driven network, Bergner said. The name Baghdadi means the person hails from the Iraqi capital. Bergner said the information came from an operative called Khalid al-Mashadani who was caught on July 4 and who he said was an intermediary to Osama bin Laden. He said Mashadani was believed to be the most senior Iraqi in the Sunni Islamist al Qaeda in Iraq network. In his words, the Islamic State of Iraq is a front organization that masks the foreign influence and leadership within al Qaeda in Iraq in an attempt to put an Iraqi face on the leadership of al Qaeda in Iraq, Bergner said. U.S. military officials in recent weeks have been pressed to explain the link between al Qaeda in Iraq and bin Laden's global network given the military's heightened focus on al Qaeda in Iraq as the biggest threat to the country. The military blames al Qaeda in Iraq for most of the major bombings in Iraq, saying the group is trying to spark all-out civil war between majority Shi'tes and minority Sunni Arabs. Bergner said Mashadani served as an intermediary between the al Qaeda in Iraq leader, Egyptian Abu Ayyab al-Masri and bin Laden and also the Egyptian cleric Ayman al-Zawahri, who is the global network's No. 2 commander. The Islamic State of Iraq was set up in October, comprising a group of Sunni militant affiliates and tribal leaders led by Baghdadi. In April, it named a 10-man cabinet. The Islamic State of Iraq has claimed many high-profile acts of violence. But Bergner said Mashadani and Masri had co-founded a virtual organization in cyberspace called the Islamic State of Iraq in 2006 as a new Iraqi pseudonym for AQI. To further this myth, Masri created a fictional head of the Islamic State of Iraq known as Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, he said. To make al-Baghdadi appear credible, al-Masri swore allegiance to al-Baghdadi and pledged to obey him, which is essentially pledging allegiance to himself since he knew Baghdadi was fictitious and a creation of his own, he said. The rank and file Iraqis in AQI believe they are following the Iraqi al-Baghdadi. But all the while they have been following the orders of the Egyptian Abu Ayyab al-Masri. Voice recordings purporting to be from Baghdadi have appeared on the Internet, although Bergner said he had been played by an actor. He did not refer to any video clips. Bergner said Mashadani was al Qaeda's media emir for Iraq. He said the operative was providing significant insights into the nature and circumstances of al Qaeda in Iraq. The U.S. military has always said al Qaeda in Iraq was run by foreigners. Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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 Won't Secure Border w/ Mexico Even If Terrorists Can Use It to Enter U.S.
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 1:57:53 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bush Won't Secure Border w/ Mexico Even If Terrorists Can Use It to Enter U.S. FBI / Joint Terrorism Task Force Report: Iraqis and others from the Middle East Being Smuggled Across the Rio Grande July 17, 2007 3:11 PM http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/07/fbi-iraqis-bein.html Brian Ross Reports: The FBI is investigating an alleged human smuggling operation based in Chaparral, N.M., that agents say is bringing Iraqis and other Middle Eastern individuals across the Rio Grande from Mexico. An FBI intelligence report distributed by the Washington, D.C. Joint Terrorism Task Force, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, says the illegal ring has been bringing Iraqis across the border illegally for more than a year. Border Patrol officials in the area said they were unaware of the specifics of the FBI's report, and federal prosecutors in New Mexico told ABCNews.com they had no current cases involving the illegal smuggling of Iraqis. The FBI report, issued last week, says the smuggling organization used to smuggle Mexicans, but decided to smuggle Iraqi or other Middle Eastern individuals because it was more lucrative. Each individual would be charged a fee of $20,000 to $25,000, according to the report. The people to be smuggled would gather at a house on the Mexican side of the border and then cross the Rio Grande into the U.S., the report says. Unidentified individuals would then transport them to train stations in El Paso, Texas or Belen, New Mexico, according to the FBI document. A spokesman in Albuquerque said the FBI had no viable information that could lead to a case. Until recently, the United States has kept its doors all but shut to the estimated two million refugees fleeing the violence in Iraq. Until this year, the country had taken in fewer than 800 Iraqi refugees, according to the State Department. This May, the Bush administration pledged to resettle 7,000 Iraqi refugees here by the end of the year. Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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: Paris Hilton Gets Religion! (And Seems to Be Attending George Bush's Church)
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 19, 2007 6:40:11 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Paris Hilton Gets Religion! (And Seems to Be Attending George Bush's Church) Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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=""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: For Bush to Be Winning, He'd Need to Be Working for Al-Qaeda, not US
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 19, 2007 6:34:14 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: For Bush to Be Winning, He'd Need to Be Working for Al-Qaeda, not US Even Bush recognized that his campaign had been rescued by bin Laden. I thought it was going to help, Bush said in a post-election interview about the videotape. I knew it would help remind voters that if bin Laden doesn’t want George Bush to be President, [he] must be doing something right. Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com. From: Jim S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 19, 2007 5:03:04 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bush Is al-Qaeda's Strategic Ally Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/071907.html *Bush Is al-Qaeda's Strategic Ally* By Robert Parry July 19, 2007 U.S. officials have finally admitted what has long been obvious: that George W. Bush's global war on terror has been an expensive failure, costing hundreds of billions of dollars and claiming possibly hundreds of thousands of lives, but making the world no safer and quite likely more dangerous. Bush's top counterterrorism advisers acknowledged as much on July 17 in releasing a summary of a National Intelligence Estimate that represented the consensus view of the U.S. intelligence community. The report, entitled The Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland, described a resurgent al-Qaeda that has regrouped in remote sections of Pakistan while exploiting Muslim anger over the war in Iraq to increase its operational strength internationally and to take aim at American targets, again. We assess that al-Qaeda will continue to enhance its capabilities to attack the [U.S.] homeland through greater cooperation with regional terrorist groups, the N.I.E. said. Of note, we assess that al-Qaeda will probably seek to leverage the contacts and capabilities of al-Qaeda in Iraq [A.Q.I.], its most visible and capable affiliate and only one known to have expressed a desire to attack the [U.S.] homeland. In addition, we assess that its association with A.Q.I. helps al-Qaeda to energize the broader Sunni extremist community, raise resources, and to recruit and indoctrinate operatives, including for [U.S.] homeland attacks. In other words, Bush's repeated warnings that the United States must fight Islamic extremists in Iraq so we don’t have to fight them here or so they won't follow us home turn out to be the opposite of the truth: because U.S. forces are occupying Iraq, al-Qaeda has more resources and more recruits determined to bring the war to the United States. The underlying reality is that Bush remains the perfect foil for al- Qaeda and other Islamic extremists. The surging anti-Americanism, which derives from a widespread hatred of Bush, represents a recruitment boon for al- Qaeda, so much so that Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders understand that Bush and his stubbornness are indispensable assets to their cause. Almost six years into the war on terror, Bush has overseen a strategy that has simultaneously alienated world public opinion -- with torture scandals over Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and secret C.I.A. prisons -- while fueling Islamic extremism and giving new life to the 9/11 masterminds. *Unilateralist Arrogance* Much of the current dilemma can be traced to Bush's special mix of arrogance and rashness. In 2001, even before the 9/11 attacks, Bush adopted a unilateralist approach to the world, asserting U.S. global hegemony under a strategy laid out by the neoconservative Project for the New American Century. At the center of this grandiose scheme was the belief that the oil- rich Middle East could be remade through violent regime change in hostile Arab countries like Iraq. Bush later broadened his target list to the axis of evil, tossing in Iran and North Korea and making clear that other lesser enemies included the likes of Syria, Cuba, and Venezuela. While this neoconservative plan wrapped itself in the noble language of democracy, the concept was always less about respecting the will of indigenous populations than in restructuring their economies along free market lines and ensuring compliant leaders. Bush also grew enamored with his gut instincts about war, especially after U.S.-backed forces ousted Afghanistan's Taliban leaders more quickly than many expected. Even though he let top al-Qaeda leaders slip away from Tora Bora in late 2001, Bush ignored warnings that he needed to finish the job there before turning America's attention elsewhere. Bush redirected the U.S. military toward Iraq, a country that wasn’t involved in 9/11 and actually had served as a bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism, both the strains from Shi'ite-ruled Iran and Sunni-dominated al-Qaeda. But Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was something of a Bush
[CTRL] Fwd: Getting Rid of Hitler Only Narrowed the Field to THOUSANDS of Hitler-Wannabes
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 7:10:42 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Getting Rid of Hitler Only Narrowed the Field to THOUSANDS of Hitler-Wannabes A gentle reminder to anyone who mistakenly believes that, come 2008, after Bush, Cheney, et al., have (God willing) departed from the scene, we the People can relax and go back to business as usual, working within the existing two-party system in which the Nazi --er, Republican-- Party is essential. Bush is NOT the disease, nor is Cheney, they're just its most dramatic symptom. There's only one cure for the cancer that ravages our body politic and it requires surgical removal ... I've said it before and I'll say it again -- the Republican Party must be outlawed as a criminal organization. If the Republican Party wins even 30% of the vote in 2008, that's a warning to all lovers of liberty that it's only a matter of time before America suffers another, possibly even worse, coup d'etat. Republicans block Senate's Iraq withdrawal plan http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/19/1982143.htm?section=world Republicans have blocked a plan to bring some US troops home by the end of April. (File photo) (Reuters: Goran Tomasevic) President George W Bush has escaped a Senate showdown over Iraq with his war policy intact, after Republicans blocked a bid by Democrats to force most US troops home by the end of April. After an ill-tempered and rare all-night debate, Mr Bush's party frustrated the latest drive by majority Democrats to mandate troop withdrawal timetables, despite growing unease among Republicans over US strategy. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a personal appearance on Capitol Hill as the vote approached, shuttling between meetings with law-makers, in an apparent bid to bolster the Republican vote. Senators voted by 52 to 47 to move to a final vote on the measure, well short of the 60-vote super-majority needed for the bill to proceed. Only four Republicans deserted Mr Bush and voted with the Democrats, meaning a bigger revolt, which had seemed possible last week, did not materialise. The measure would have required a troop withdrawal to start within 120 days, and for most combat soldiers to be out of Iraq by April 30, 2008. Remaining US troops in Iraq would have had a limited role: battling terrorists, protecting US personnel and installations and training Iraqi troops. A similar bill has already passed in the House of Representatives, and Mr Bush has vowed to veto it. --- http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jun2007/repu-j07.shtml Republican presidential candidates back nuclear strike against Iran Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:52:00 By Patrick Martin Nine out of ten candidates for the Republican presidential nomination explicitly or tacitly supported a US attack on Iran using nuclear weapons, in response to a question at Tuesday night’s nationally televised debate in New Hampshire. Despite the extraordinary character of these declarations —giving support to the first use of nuclear weapons in war since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 62 years ago— there was virtually no US press coverage of these remarks and no commentary on their significance. While the Republican candidates sought to present the military action as a limited one against Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons facilities, calling them “tactical nuclear strikes,” no one should misunderstand what this means. The use of nuclear weapons, in whatever form, against a densely populated country of 75 million would be an act of mass murder. These comments reflect the derangement and depravity of considerable sections of a ruling elite which believes it must make a “success” of its occupation of Iraq, even if it requires “doubling its bet” and attacking another major country in the Middle East — one which is three times larger than Iraq and with a long history of struggle for independence and against colonial- style rule. The initial exchange came about half an hour into the debate, which was broadcast on CNN and moderated by CNN anchorman Wolf Blitzer. After some initial discussion on the Iraq war, in which nine of the ten candidates vowed to persevere in the effort to control the oil- rich country, Blitzer asked Congressman Duncan Hunter of California, former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, about recent talks between US and Iranian officials in Baghdad. He asked Hunter whether it was correct to negotiate with Iran, given Iran’s alleged efforts to develop nuclear weapons. When Hunter endorsed the talks, Blitzer followed up with this question: Blitzer: If it came down to a preemptive US strike against Iran’s nuclear facility, if necessary would you authorize as president the use of tactical nuclear weapons? Hunter:
[CTRL] Fwd: No-Bid Government Contractors' Fringe Benefits
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 19, 2007 5:27:03 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: No-Bid Government Contractors' Fringe Benefits Bechtel Jacobs contractor accused of stealing nuclear secrets National lab worker allegedly stole classified information, tried to sell it 19 Jul 2007 Federal prosecutors on Thursday accused a low-level Bechtel contract worker at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory — birthplace of the nuclear bomb — with stealing highly classified information about how to make enriched uranium, a key ingredient in nuclear weapons. The suspect was allegedly caught trying to sell it to someone he thought was representing another country, who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent. --- No one claims $500,000 stash in truck By Cindi Lash Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 20, 2006 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06110/683609-57.stm When security guards at the Beaver Valley Power Station discovered a bag containing thousands of dollars in a tractor-trailer cab, one of the vehicle's occupants told them his boss planned to use the cash to buy a truck. It must have been some truck. State police said the bag, which guards spotted on Tuesday while conducting a routine search of the tractor-trailer at the entrance to the nuclear power plant, contained 10 plastic-wrapped bundles of cash totaling $504,230. Police later seized the money and bag after a dog trained to detect drugs sniffed and reacted to the bag, indicating contact with controlled substances. The truck driver and passenger, whose names were withheld but who are from Texas, were released without charges because no apparent crime had been committed. State police were investigating to determine who owns the money and how it got into the tractor-trailer. If no one comes forward to claim legitimate ownership of the money, police said, they will begin proceedings for forfeit of the cash to the government. I wanted to know, why is somebody running around with that amount of money when they're not in a Brink's truck? said Shippingport police Sgt. R.N. Davis Jr., who pulled the truck over after it left the power plant in Beaver County. Investigators also notified the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, but said they do not believe the money or truckers are linked to workers or activities at the plant. Most likely, they were just between runs, said Trooper Jonathan Bayer. The investigation is continuing, but there is no indication that there is any connection to the power plant. The truckers worked for a company hired by San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp., which is performing construction work and replacing equipment at the plant, said Richard Wilkins, spokesman for plant owner First Energy Nuclear Operating Co. The name of the company was not released, but police said the truckers had come from Chicago and were making a scheduled stop to pick up and transport containers of tools to Youngstown, Ohio. The white semi-truck and empty flatbed trailer pulled up to the plant entrance about 4:15 p.m. Plant security officers told them every vehicle entering the plant must be searched and obtained permission to do so, police said. In the search, the officers found a green, blue and black duffel bag with a padlock in the sleeper berth of the cab, Trooper Bayer said. The truckers didn't have a key for the lock, so guards cut it off and spotted cash inside, he said. The truckers said the money wasn't theirs and they didn't know how it got there, Trooper Bayer said. In court papers filed to obtain a search warrant, state police said one of the truckers told security officers that it was their [boss's] money and he was going to buy a truck with it. But when the security workers called the truckers' boss in Houston, he also said he knew nothing about the money. The security officers called police, but the truckers backed out of the plant and drove off. There's nothing [in the law] that says you can't carry a lot of cash around with you. It's just a little unusual, Mr. Wilkins said. Any kind of unusual or suspicious activity, or even a person who's acting a little suspiciously, whether they've broken a law or tried to do something that was against the regulations on site, would be reported. Police broadcast a description of the truck and Sgt. Davis pulled it over after spotting it on Route 168 south, near the Shippingport Bridge. He said the truckers were polite, but the passenger had no identification and said it had been stolen from the truck the night before. Your ID is stolen but not that bag of cash? Red flags were popping up all over, Sgt. Davis said. State police also arrived and obtained a warrant to search the truck. They said the cash was packed in bundles of $50,000, each containing 10
[CTRL] Fwd: Natl Defense U./War College Ex-Official: Bush Might 'Postpone' 2008 Elections
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 5:18:09 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Natl Defense U./War College Ex-Official: Bush Might 'Postpone' 2008 Elections http://www.correntewire.com/ us_ambassador_concern_that_united_states_2008_elections_will_be_postpo ned US Ambassador concerned that 2008 election will be postponed Submitted by lambert on Wed, 2007-07-18 11:55. Republicans vs. the Constitution So we're not the only ones to think this way. Former US Ambassador** Dan Simpson writes for the Toledo Blade: http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070718/ OPINION04/707180321 I thought that by now the White House would have decided that the strains of the job on his health were too much for Mr. Cheney to continue as vice president, that he would then have stepped down for valid health reasons, and the Republicans would have plugged into the position a viable 2008 presidential candidate. I can think of several reasons why they didn’t do that (I will give them credit for enough intelligence to at least realize they had a problem). First, Mr. Bush felt he couldn’t live without Mr. Cheney around. Second -- and I suspect this is probably the truth of the matter -- Mr. Cheney didn’t want to step down, and Mr. Bush decided he didn’t care what happened to the Republican Party after he was out of the White House. There is also the late-at-night, eerie concern that Mr. Bush has in his head some sort of scenario where, for reasons of national security -- real or drummed-up -- the 2008 elections will have to be postponed and he will get to stay on. My suspicions [are based on] the feeling I have that, given their operating style NOW, this bunch will NOT leave the White House EASILY in 2009. Nice to see this mainstreamed at last. Because when the going gets tough, the tough get foily. Because, really, when do monarchs ever voluntarily surrender power? ** http://www.globalsolutionspgh.org/unreformpanel.html Simpson is a career diplomat who worked for every American administration from Lyndon Johnson through George W. Bush. He has served as U.S. Ambassador to several African nations including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and Somalia. [He] has also served as vice president of the National Defense University in Washington, DC, and as the Deputy Commandant for International Affairs of the U.S. Army War College. Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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: Old-School Republican Warns: Unless We Impeach NOW, a Police State Is INEVITABLE
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 21, 2007 8:02:51 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Old-School Republican Warns: Unless We Impeach NOW, a Police State Is INEVITABLE Old-line Republican warns 'something's in the works' to trigger a police state Muriel Kane Published: Thursday July 19, 2007 http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ Oldline_Republican_warns_somethings_in_works_0719.html Thom Hartmann began his program on Thursday by reading from a new Executive Order which allows the government to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies. He then introduced old-line conservative Paul Craig Roberts -- a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan who has recently become known for his strong opposition to the Bush administration and the Iraq War -- by quoting the strong words which open Roberts' latest column: Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran. I don't actually think they're very strong, said Roberts of his words. I get a lot of flak that this understated and the situation is worse than I say. ... When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order] ... there's no check to it. It doesn't have to be ratified by Congress. The people who bear the brunt of these dictatorial police state actions have no recourse to the judiciary. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule. ... The American people don't really understand the danger that they face. Roberts said that because of Bush's unpopularity, the Republicans face a total wipeout in 2008, and this may be why the Democrats have not brought a halt to Bush's follies or the war, because they expect his unpopular policies to provide them with a landslide victory in next year's election. However, Roberts emphasized, the problem with this reasoning is that it assumes that Cheney and Rove and the Republicans are ignorant of these facts, or it assumes that they are content for the Republican Party to be destroyed after Bush has his fling. Roberts believes instead that Cheney and Rove intend to use a renewal of the War on Terror to rally the American people around the Republican Party. Something's in the works, he said, adding that the Executive Orders need to create a police state are already in place. The administration figures themselves and prominent Republican propagandists ... are preparing us for another 9/11 event or series of events, Roberts continued. Chertoff has predicted them. ... The National Intelligence Estimate is saying that al Qaeda has regrouped. ... You have to count on the fact that if al Qaeda's not going to do it, it's going to be orchestrated. ... The Republicans are praying for another 9/11. Hartmann asked what we as the people can do if impeachment isn't about to happen. If enough people were suspicious and alert, it would be harder for the administration to get away with it, Roberts replied. However, he added, I don't think these wake-up calls are likely to be effective, pointing out the dominance of the mainstream media. Americans think their danger is terrorists, said Roberts. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution. ... The terrorists are not anything like the threat that we face to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism. Americans just aren't able to perceive that. Roberts pointed out that it's old-line Republicans like himself, former Reagan associate deputy attorney general Bruce Fein, and Pat Buchanan who are the diehards in warning of the danger. It's so obvious to people like us who have long been associated in the corridors of power, he said. There's no belief in the people or anything like that. They have agendas. The people are in the way. The Constitution is in the way. ... Americans need to comprehend and look at how ruthless Cheney is. ... A person like that would do anything. Roberts final suggestion was that, in the absence of a massive popular outcry, the only constraints on what's going to happen will come from the federal bureaucracy and perhaps the military. They may have had enough. They may not go along with it. The full audio of Thom Hartmann's interview with Paul Craig Roberts can be found here. Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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
[CTRL] Fwd: Color Coded Politics: Federal Court Ruling Makes Shady State Voters See Red
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 4:52:45 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Color Coded Politics: Federal Court Ruling Makes Shady State Voters See Red In Mississippi, Ruling Is Seen as Racial Split By ADAM NOSSITER New York Times, July 18, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/us/18south.html?_r=1oref=slogin JACKSON, Miss., July 13 — A federal court ruling in June that forces voters to register by party could return Mississippi to the days of racially polarized politics, as many white Democrats warn that thousands of white voters will now opt definitively for the Republican Party. Republican-leaning voters in Mississippi have long been able to cross party lines in primaries, voting for centrist Democrats in state and local races while staying loyal to Republican candidates in national races. But political experts here say that by limiting these voters — almost all of whom are white — to Republican primaries, the ruling will push centrist Democratic candidates to the other party, simply in order to survive. Most black voters in Mississippi are Democrats, and black political leaders have been pushing for years to prevent crossover voting in Democratic primaries. Black leaders say they want to end precisely what white Democrats here seek to preserve, a strong moderate-to- conservative voice in the Democratic Party, and in the process to pick up more state and local posts. The ruling last month by Judge W. Allen Pepper Jr. of Federal District Court allowed the legal remedy sought by black leaders. Judge Pepper said the Democratic Party in Mississippi had a right to “disassociate itself” from voters who were not genuine Democrats. Most other Southern states also have open primaries. As a result of the ruling, which was handed down June 8 and barring an appeal will go into effect next year, few whites are likely to remain in the Democratic Party, experts here say, a prospect that Republicans regard with glee, white Democrats with horror and black leaders with indifference. Not for the first time in the South, Republicans and blacks have achieved a de facto unspoken alliance of common interests that has been particularly evident in the drawing of Congressional districts, where blacks are packed into majority-black districts, leaving little space for moderate white Democrats to be elected. If white voters go Republican in these districts, so too, will white candidates and office-holders, ending a persistent anomaly in a state that easily went twice for President Bush but where hundreds of local officeholders remain Democrats. As elsewhere in the South, grass-roots leaders tend to be moderate Democrats with roots in the New Deal. The governor is a Republican, and Republicans narrowly control the Senate. But the House is heavily Democratic, and in races this year for local offices like sheriff, supervisor and circuit clerk, about 2,500 of 3,000 candidates were Democrats, said W. Martin Wiseman, director of the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University. The Democrats’ dominance at the local level may now be threatened by Judge Pepper’s ruling. “If they are required to re-register, the Democratic Party will be a shell of its former self because I just don’t think you’ll see those conservative whites re-register as Democratic,” said Jere Nash, who is white and a veteran consultant and onetime chief of staff to former Gov. Ray Mabus, a Democrat. R. Andrew Taggart, a white lawyer who succeeded Mr. Nash when Kirk Fordice, a Republican, was elected governor, agreed. The ruling was “very far-reaching,” Mr. Taggart said. “He has essentially ruled our entire primary structure must be changed.” “If forced to make a decision,” Mr. Taggart added, “a plurality of Mississippi voters will identify themselves as Republican.” Black Democrats who pushed the lawsuit that led to the ruling seemed to view the potential hemorrhaging of white voters with equanimity. One of their leaders is Ike Brown, a state Democratic executive committee member who was recently found by another federal judge to have systematically violated voting rights of whites, through intimidation and other means, as party boss in his home county, Noxubee, in the eastern part of the state. Welcoming Judge Pepper’s ruling, Mr. Brown said in an interview: “We are tired of being abused by the white Democrats in Mississippi. We have just had enough. We want the Republicans out of our party.” Democrats here have recently made other efforts to rid their party of Republican leanings, trying, for instance, to force the state’s conservative insurance commissioner, George Dale, off their primary ballot because he voted for Mr. Bush. A judge put Mr. Dale back on. But none of
[CTRL] Fwd: What are we waiting for? Let's take these two guys out! (Guillotines, Anyone?)
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 22, 2007 9:03:23 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What are we waiting for? Let's take these two guys out! (Guillotines, Anyone?) Impeachment -- and an ominous Executive Order Sunday, July 22, 2007 http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/ This post expands upon the previous one, which discusses John Conyers statement that he'll begin impeachment proceedings against Cheney after three more Representatives sign on to Dennis Kucinich's call for impeachment. In the post below this one, I give the names of those congressfolk most likely to join with the fourteen who have already signed up for impeachment. Now we learn this: What are we waiting for? Let's take these two guys out, Conyers reportedly told the enthusiastic crowd at a Progressive Democrats of America event in San Diego. He later repeated the same line according to the caller, KPete, who wrote more about the event at Democratic Underground yesterday. She reported that the comment was met by huge cheers. A similar account of Conyers's statement was offered by progressive talk show host Bree Walker who also attended the same event. Conyers reportedly urged patience in the process, and asked for everyone's support as things moved forward first with Cheney, and then with Bush. By the way, some people have said that the Judiciary Committee cannot look into impeachment without a directive to do so by the House Leadership. Not true. The Constitution does not so mandate, and the 1998 precedent should not apply to the current situation. 1998 did not involve the Vice President or the line of succession, and thus could not be construed as a coup by the Speaker. Russ Feingold has renewed his call for censure in the Senate. A terrific idea, that: A censure motion will give us an idea as to whether any Republicans in the Senate can be turned against Bush and Cheney. Impeachment is one thing; removal another. You cannot ask Bush to go back to Texas without cooperation from at least some senatorial Republicans. Unfortunately -- and I know that this viewpoint conflicts with common wisdom -- there is far more disunity among Democrats than among Republicans right now. Note, for example, the hate vibes some Dem rank-and-filers have directed at Feingold for his censure suggestion, because it does not go far enough. (Yes, I know that he said he does not support impeachment at this time. He's a Senator, not a House member. If he had said Impeach now! his censure call would be even less palatable to Republicans. These things must be handled with some delicacy.) Wonkette has published an incredibly daring column which asks: How to stage a revolt? http://wonkette.com/politics/dept'-of-revolution-for-dummies/what- next-for-the-bushcheney-administration-maybe-guillotines-280860.php SEE BELOW The piece discusses all options from military coup to attacks on the home offices of congress members. Needless to say, I do not condone violence or illegal activity. But can you believe that we are actually discussing such matters? Dark response: If Bush feels power slipping away, how will HE react? We see increasing signs that he is considering the false flag terror option, under which he will assume dictatorial powers. Consider this executive order, which allows the President to take away the property of any United States persons who threaten stabilization in Iraq. Please note that this order is not directed against insurgents in Iraq -- we are already firing bullets at those fellows, as you may have noticed. No, this EO is directed at unnamed people in the United States... determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, (i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of: (A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or (B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people; (ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order... I need not point out how vaguely worded this is. We know how aggressive the President's lawyers are, and we know that they are quite capable of of construing any anti-war protester (or blogger) as a threat to the stability of Iraq. Most people reading these words could be considered broadly guilty of undermining Bush's efforts. Conservative zealots will argue (have argued) that anyone who writes
[CTRL] Fwd: DoJ Pushing States to Do *Florida-Style* Purge of Voters Before 2008 Elections
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 5:47:02 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DoJ Pushing States to Do *Florida-Style* Purge of Voters Before 2008 Elections Bush Government to Poor Voters: We Don't Want You to Vote By Steven Rosenfeld AlterNet, July 18, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/56957/ State welfare offices across the country are not offering millions of low-income Americans the opportunity to register to vote when applying for public assistance despite a federal law requiring them to do so, according to an analysis of a recent federal voting registration report and experts who say the Department of Justice and states are to blame. It's huge. It's another area where the administration is failing us, said Donna Brazile, chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute, speaking of the Department of Justice's oversight of the nation's voter registration laws. They are not pushing states to recognize their voter registration responsibilities. At the same time, the Justice Department's Voting Section, which enforces voting rights and supervises elections in some states, is pressuring 10 states to do more to purge voter rolls -- or remove ineligible voters -- before the 2008 presidential election, according to letters sent to state election officials this spring. We conducted an analysis of each state's total voter registration numbers as a percentage of citizen voting age population, wrote John Tanner, the Department of Justice Voting Section chief, in an April 18, 2007, letter to North Carolina's top election official. We write now to assess the changes in your voter registration list ... and the subsequent removal of persons no longer eligible to vote. Cynthia Magnuson, a Justice Department spokeswoman, confirmed in an e-mail that similar letters had been sent to 10 states, but did not list the recipients. The Department actively works with all states to comply with all provisions of the statutes we enforce, she said. Voter lists are updated because people move, die or lose their right to vote if convicted of felonies. But because this process occurs out of public view and without much regulation, it can be open to partisan abuse or produce incorrect results, such as in Florida in 2000 when an estimated 50,000 voters were incorrectly removed from voter registration lists. The contrast of a Justice Department that apparently has not enforced voter registration opportunities for poor people -- who tend to vote Democratic -- and a department that is pressuring states to more thoroughly trim voter rolls has prompted some voting rights advocates to accuse the agency of selective enforcement and partisan bias. I think it's pretty clear the Justice Department is pursing a partisan agenda to get states to purge voters while ignoring requirements to get states to register voters, said Michael Slater, deputy director of Project Vote, a national nonprofit specializing in voter registration drives targeting low- and moderate-income families. Voting Section chief John Tanner did return a telephone call to discuss his office's priorities and accomplishments. On Monday, July 16, the House Judiciary Committee announced it was postponing a hearing scheduled for Tuesday, July 17 because the Department refused to make Voting Section chief John Tanner available to testify, its press release said. However, Hans A. Von Spakovsky, a former assistant attorney general who served four years as a top Civil Rights Division lawyer overseeing the Voting Rights Section discussed accusations of changing the enforcement direction of the department in a June 29, 2007, letter to the Senate Rules Committee. He became a federal elections commissioner in December 2005, and his appointment is under review. Von Spakovsky's 18-page letter is a detailed defense of some of the department's most controversial recent rulings, such as approving a Texas congressional redistricting plan and a Georgia voter I.D. law that later was blocked in court as a violation of the Constitutional amendment barring poll taxes. Nowhere in the often- technical letter is any mention in section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), which is intended to help poor people vote by requiring state welfare agencies to offer the chance to register. Instead, Von Spakovsky defended an aggressive stance with enforcing the NVRA's voter purge provisions, which fall under section 8 of the law. The division could not willfully ignore the list maintenance requirements of the NVRA, he wrote. It is the responsibility of DOJ to enforce these laws. While the national media has followed the department's firing of U.S. attorneys who, in some cases, did not pursue voter
[CTRL] Fwd: Flash-in-the-Pan Fulford
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 20, 2007 10:55:43 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Flash-in-the-Pan Fulford Final Verdict: KOOK Even Dr Henry Makow, whom Jeff Rense had cited as approving of him, now feels Fulford is full of sh*t The Secret History Of The Freemasons In Japan By Benjamin Fulford http://tyrantwatch.blogsavy.com/2007/07/11/the-secret-history-of- the-freemasons-in-japan/ Japanese Freemasons claim their links with Western Freemasons go back to ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian times but, I have not been able to verify this. The earliest verifiable links go back to when the Khazar empire was destroyed by the Mongols and the Russians about 1,000 years ago. At the time their elite class fled with their treasure into Europe and China. The group that fled to China then fled to Japan as Kublai Khan’s armies conquered China. That is why the Star of David can be seen in 1,000 year-old shrines in Japan. The original Khazars were fully assimilated by the Japanese elite over the ensuing centuries but certain Freemason/ Khazar influences became a permanent part of Japanese culture. After Admiral Perry arrived and forced the Japanese to open up their economy, the Rothschild’s man in Asia, Jardine Matheson, sent an agent to Japan. His name was Thomas Blake Glover and his mission was to create a new arms market by starting a civil war in Japan. The ultimate aim of this war was to prepare Japan for colonization. He managed to sell some battleships and weapons but in the end, Glover’s plot was uncovered and he was driven into bankruptcy. By this time, learning of the association with their long lost cousins, the Freemasons decided on a different approach. A different Rothschild Freemason agent, Guido H.F. Verbeck, started a very successful Japanese franchise. He is the man in the center of this photograph. http://www.asyura2.com/0406/idletalk10/msg/503.html The people around him are the founding fathers of modern Japan and the senior members of the original modern Freemason lodge. They set up the Meiji emperor as their symbol and modernized Japan. The Japanese masons were given full assistance by their English and European counterparts and were thus able to defeat the old Khazar nemesis, Imperial Russia, in the Russo-Japanese war. In later years, confronted by Western racism, the Japanese Freemasons decided they needed to conquer and modernize all of Asia. Their ultimate aim was to prepare for a final show-down with the West and make Tokyo the capital of a world empire. They allied themselves with the Baron Rothschild (known to us as Adolph Hitler) and were badly defeated by the Rockefellers. After the war, the victorious Rockefellers arrived in Japan to survey their new possession. Negotiations on the new post-war order took place mainly inside the Japanese Grand Lodge (it is a hidden underground facility next to Tokyo Tower). Every Japanese Prime Minister since the war has been a Freemason. To the Japanese it is common knowledge that their secret rulers are David Rockefeller and his nephew Jay Rockefeller. The old Rothschild connection still exists but, since the Rockefellers were victorious in WW2, it is the upstart Rockefellers who exert the greatest control. To this day Japan remains a vassal state, making huge annual payments to their new masters. In theory, they can cash in on the $35 trillion in worthless paper (official data put the number at close to $5 trillion, secret data at over $35 trillion) they have been given in exchange for 60 years of supplying Americans with radios, TVs, cars etc. In reality, any Japanese Prime Minister who tried to do this was killed or deposed. More recently the Japanese have been threatened into submission with powerful secret weapons. Using former Prime Minister Koizumi and Finance Minister Heizo Takenaka (a Henry Kissinger prot’g') they also engineered a semi- secret take-over of the Japanese commercial banking system. For example, Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ bank’s new logo is a Masonic eye. http://www.bk.mufg.jp/english/ Last year the Japanese government provided the Illuminati with close to $800 billion which they have used to finance U.S. wars and to go around the world buying up stocks and real estate. With the arrival of the Chinese secret society into the power equation, the Japanese secret government is now considering how to renegotiate its status. The plan I have suggested to them is to make an alliance with Russia, China, India, the free Muslim countries (e.g. Malaysia, Indonesia), South America and Africa etc. before announcing to the world they will no longer finance the Rockefellers, Rothschilds and their Illuminati ilk. Instead, they will call for a global meeting to discuss a new way of running the
[CTRL] Fwd: Old-School Republican Warns: Unless We Impeach NOW, a Police State Is INEVITABLE
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 21, 2007 8:02:51 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Old-School Republican Warns: Unless We Impeach NOW, a Police State Is INEVITABLE Old-line Republican warns 'something's in the works' to trigger a police state Muriel Kane Published: Thursday July 19, 2007 http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ Oldline_Republican_warns_somethings_in_works_0719.html Thom Hartmann began his program on Thursday by reading from a new Executive Order which allows the government to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies. He then introduced old-line conservative Paul Craig Roberts -- a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan who has recently become known for his strong opposition to the Bush administration and the Iraq War -- by quoting the strong words which open Roberts' latest column: Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran. I don't actually think they're very strong, said Roberts of his words. I get a lot of flak that this understated and the situation is worse than I say. ... When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order] ... there's no check to it. It doesn't have to be ratified by Congress. The people who bear the brunt of these dictatorial police state actions have no recourse to the judiciary. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule. ... The American people don't really understand the danger that they face. Roberts said that because of Bush's unpopularity, the Republicans face a total wipeout in 2008, and this may be why the Democrats have not brought a halt to Bush's follies or the war, because they expect his unpopular policies to provide them with a landslide victory in next year's election. However, Roberts emphasized, the problem with this reasoning is that it assumes that Cheney and Rove and the Republicans are ignorant of these facts, or it assumes that they are content for the Republican Party to be destroyed after Bush has his fling. Roberts believes instead that Cheney and Rove intend to use a renewal of the War on Terror to rally the American people around the Republican Party. Something's in the works, he said, adding that the Executive Orders need to create a police state are already in place. The administration figures themselves and prominent Republican propagandists ... are preparing us for another 9/11 event or series of events, Roberts continued. Chertoff has predicted them. ... The National Intelligence Estimate is saying that al Qaeda has regrouped. ... You have to count on the fact that if al Qaeda's not going to do it, it's going to be orchestrated. ... The Republicans are praying for another 9/11. Hartmann asked what we as the people can do if impeachment isn't about to happen. If enough people were suspicious and alert, it would be harder for the administration to get away with it, Roberts replied. However, he added, I don't think these wake-up calls are likely to be effective, pointing out the dominance of the mainstream media. Americans think their danger is terrorists, said Roberts. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution. ... The terrorists are not anything like the threat that we face to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism. Americans just aren't able to perceive that. Roberts pointed out that it's old-line Republicans like himself, former Reagan associate deputy attorney general Bruce Fein, and Pat Buchanan who are the diehards in warning of the danger. It's so obvious to people like us who have long been associated in the corridors of power, he said. There's no belief in the people or anything like that. They have agendas. The people are in the way. The Constitution is in the way. ... Americans need to comprehend and look at how ruthless Cheney is. ... A person like that would do anything. Roberts final suggestion was that, in the absence of a massive popular outcry, the only constraints on what's going to happen will come from the federal bureaucracy and perhaps the military. They may have had enough. They may not go along with it. The full audio of Thom Hartmann's interview with Paul Craig Roberts can be found here. Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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
[CTRL] Fwd: New Executive Order: Asset Forfeiture for U.S. CITIZENS Obstructing War Effort
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 21, 2007 9:13:43 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Executive Order: Asset Forfeiture for U.S. CITIZENS Obstructing War Effort Vice President Cheney advised Democrats in Congress to “be very cautious not to seek political advantage by making incendiary suggestions that the White House had advance information that might have prevented the tragic attacks of 9/11.” He warned that [creation of a 9-11 Commission] would be tantamount to “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.” To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies.” --(R) Atty General John Ashcroft to (D) critics of the Patriot Act who claimed it threatened civil liberties “... Public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda ... --(R) Pentagon official Eric Edelman to (D) Sen. Clinton of Oversight Committee New Law: Protest misdeeds in Iraq and lose your property http://www.noquestionsasked.org/blog/?p=187 If you protest the war in Iraq, you can lose your house, your car and have your bank account emptied by the U.S. government. While Americans were sleeping, the president signed an executive order — titled Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq — that gives him the ability to seize the property of anyone he sees as a threat to his efforts in Iraq. Wake up folks, we now officially live in a fascist state. Among other things the USA Patriot Act allows the government can listen to our phone conversations, read our mail, monitor our purchases and arrest us and hold us without charge. Now, under this executive order if we protest the war, the government can leave us homeless and penniless. This is major news that nobody picked up because it was conveniently sandwiched between his comment that the “CIA interrogators compliance with the Geneva Conventions against torture” and his colonoscopy. Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq RSS Feed White House News Fact sheet Message to the Congress of the United States Regarding International Emergency Economic Powers Act By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)(NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by acts of violence threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the interests of the United States to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order 13364 of November 29, 2004. I hereby order: Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided in section 203(b)(1), (3), and (4) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(1), (3), and (4)), or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the date of this order, all property and interests in property of the following persons, that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of United States persons, are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, (i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of: (A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or (B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people; (ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose
[CTRL] Fwd: Old-School Republican Warns: Unless We Impeach NOW, a Police State Is INEVITABLE
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 21, 2007 8:02:51 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Old-School Republican Warns: Unless We Impeach NOW, a Police State Is INEVITABLE Old-line Republican warns 'something's in the works' to trigger a police state Muriel Kane Published: Thursday July 19, 2007 http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ Oldline_Republican_warns_somethings_in_works_0719.html Thom Hartmann began his program on Thursday by reading from a new Executive Order which allows the government to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies. He then introduced old-line conservative Paul Craig Roberts -- a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan who has recently become known for his strong opposition to the Bush administration and the Iraq War -- by quoting the strong words which open Roberts' latest column: Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran. I don't actually think they're very strong, said Roberts of his words. I get a lot of flak that this understated and the situation is worse than I say. ... When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order] ... there's no check to it. It doesn't have to be ratified by Congress. The people who bear the brunt of these dictatorial police state actions have no recourse to the judiciary. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule. ... The American people don't really understand the danger that they face. Roberts said that because of Bush's unpopularity, the Republicans face a total wipeout in 2008, and this may be why the Democrats have not brought a halt to Bush's follies or the war, because they expect his unpopular policies to provide them with a landslide victory in next year's election. However, Roberts emphasized, the problem with this reasoning is that it assumes that Cheney and Rove and the Republicans are ignorant of these facts, or it assumes that they are content for the Republican Party to be destroyed after Bush has his fling. Roberts believes instead that Cheney and Rove intend to use a renewal of the War on Terror to rally the American people around the Republican Party. Something's in the works, he said, adding that the Executive Orders need to create a police state are already in place. The administration figures themselves and prominent Republican propagandists ... are preparing us for another 9/11 event or series of events, Roberts continued. Chertoff has predicted them. ... The National Intelligence Estimate is saying that al Qaeda has regrouped. ... You have to count on the fact that if al Qaeda's not going to do it, it's going to be orchestrated. ... The Republicans are praying for another 9/11. Hartmann asked what we as the people can do if impeachment isn't about to happen. If enough people were suspicious and alert, it would be harder for the administration to get away with it, Roberts replied. However, he added, I don't think these wake-up calls are likely to be effective, pointing out the dominance of the mainstream media. Americans think their danger is terrorists, said Roberts. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution. ... The terrorists are not anything like the threat that we face to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism. Americans just aren't able to perceive that. Roberts pointed out that it's old-line Republicans like himself, former Reagan associate deputy attorney general Bruce Fein, and Pat Buchanan who are the diehards in warning of the danger. It's so obvious to people like us who have long been associated in the corridors of power, he said. There's no belief in the people or anything like that. They have agendas. The people are in the way. The Constitution is in the way. ... Americans need to comprehend and look at how ruthless Cheney is. ... A person like that would do anything. Roberts final suggestion was that, in the absence of a massive popular outcry, the only constraints on what's going to happen will come from the federal bureaucracy and perhaps the military. They may have had enough. They may not go along with it. The full audio of Thom Hartmann's interview with Paul Craig Roberts can be found here. Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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
[CTRL] Fwd: Congressional Democrat w/ CLEARANCE Can't Read Bush C.O.G. Plan: TOO SECRET!
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 21, 2007 1:34:59 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Congressional Democrat w/ CLEARANCE Can't Read Bush C.O.G. Plan: TOO SECRET! Maybe the people who think it's a conspiracy are right. DeFazio asks, but he's denied access Classified info - The congressman wanted to see government plans for after a terror attack Friday, July 20, 2007 JEFF KOSSEFF The Oregonian http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/ 118489654058910.xmlcoll=7 WASHINGTON -- Oregonians called Peter DeFazio's office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack. As a member of the U.S. House on the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure bubbleroom in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the White House to see the secret documents. On Wednesday, DeFazio got his answer: DENIED. I just can't believe they're going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack, DeFazio says. Homeland Security Committee staffers told his office that the White House initially approved his request, but it was later quashed. DeFazio doesn't know who did it or why. We're talking about the continuity of the government of the United States of America, DeFazio says. I would think that would be relevant to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the Homeland Security Committee. Bush administration spokesman Trey Bohn declined to say why DeFazio was denied access: We do not comment through the press on the process that this access entails. It is important to keep in mind that much of the information related to the continuity of government is highly sensitive. Norm Ornstein, a legal scholar who studies government continuity at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said he cannot think of one good reason to deny access to a member of Congress who serves on the Homeland Security Committee. I find it inexplicable and probably reflective of the usual, knee- jerk overextension of executive power that we see from this White House, Ornstein said. This is the first time DeFazio has been denied access to documents. DeFazio has asked Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., to help him access the documents. Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right, DeFazio said. Jeff Kosseff: 202-383-7814 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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: A Prescient View, from 2003, of the Coup d'Etat We're Still Afraid to Recognize
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 19, 2007 7:37:08 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A Prescient View, from 2003, of the Coup d'Etat We're Still Afraid to Recognize Axis of One Evil: The ‘Unipolarist’ Agenda by Gary Dorrien This article appeared in March 8, 2003 in The Christian Century http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2681 Copyright by The Christan Century Foundation; used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. Many critics of the U.S. plans for going to war in Iraq point to oil as a motive. If that is true, it is worrisome indeed. But the policymakers who have long demanded this war are more concerned with ideological and strategic considerations than economic factors. The Bush administration is loaded with policymakers who have long maintained that the U.S. should use its economic and military power to remake the world in the image of Western capitalism. While holding office they cannot say that, but they did say it when they were not in office and they are closely allied with people who are saying it plainly. After the Soviet Union imploded in 1991, a number of hardline anticommunists began arguing that the U.S. must use its military and economic power to remake the world and put down Americas remaining enemies. They declared that the unipolarist moment had arrived: the U.S. needed to use its overwhelming military and economic power to create a new Pax Americana. Not all hardliners went along with this transition. A few of them defected from the cause, notably Edward Luttwak and Michael Lind; and some rediscovered their realism, such as Irving Kristol and Jeane Kirkpatrick. Kristol characteristically opined that no civilized person in his right mind wants to govern Iraq. But a version of the unipolarist ideology was adopted by some key figures: Elliott Abrams, John B. Bolton, William F. Buckley Jr., Stephen Cambone, Richard Cheney, Angelo Codevilla, Eliot Cohen, Devon Gaffney Cross, Eric Edelman, Douglas Feith, Frank Gaffney, Donald Kagan, Frederick Kagan, Robert A. Kagan, Robert Kagan, Lawrence F. Kaplan, Robert Kaplan, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, I. Lewis Libby, Joshua Muravchik, Michael Novak, Richard Perle, Daniel Pipes, Norman Podhoretz, Donald Rumsfeld, Ben Wattenberg, James Woolsey, Dov Zakheim. In his article Universal Dominion: Toward a Unipolar World, Charles Krauthammer spelled out the unipolarist idea: America’s purpose should be to steer the world away from its coming multi- polar future toward a qualitatively new outcome -- a unipolar world. Elsewhere he explained that unipolarism refers to a single pole of world power that consists of the United States at the apex of the industrial West. The term didn’t catch on, but the idea was seized upon by hawkish conservatives and neoconservatives. Ben Wattenberg urged nervous politicians not to be shy about asserting American superiority; We are the first universal nation. ‘First’ as in the first one, ‘first’ as in ‘number one.’ And ‘universal’ within our borders and globally. Because the United States is uniquely universal, he reasoned, it has a unique right to impose its will on other countries on behalf of an American-style world order. With a lighter touch, Wattenberg declared, A unipolar world is a good thing, so long as America is the uni. Joshua Muravchik put it this way: For our nation, this is the opportunity of a lifetime. Our failure to exert every possible effort to secure [a new world order] would be unforgivable. If we succeed, we will have forged a Pax Americana unlike any previous peace, one of harmony, not of conquest. Then the 21st century will he the American century by virtue of the triumph of the humane idea born in the American experiment.’ These comments were made in the early 1990s, when there was [already] a debate about unipolarism within the first Bush administration. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney quietly commissioned a new strategic plan. Paul Wolfowitz (undersecretary for defense policy), Lewis Libby (Cheney’s chief of staff) and Eric Edelman (Cheney’s senior foreign-policy adviser) outlined a policy of U.S. global domination. Pentagon Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell countered with a case for a more moderate realism that was backed by Secretary of State George Schultz and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. Though Cheney leaned toward Wolfowitz’s strategy, the realists held the upper hand in George H. W. Bush’s administration. Cheney’s attempt to create a new big-picture strategy was derailed by the Persian Gulf war and the leaking of Wolfowitz’s plan of world conquest to the press, and the unipolarists despaired of Bush’s lack of
[CTRL] Fwd: Bush Is the President Our Founding Fathers WARNED Us About
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 5:30:18 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bush Is the President Our Founding Fathers WARNED Us About King George W: James Madison’s Nightmare http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/ 20070717_the_president_we_were_warned_about/ Posted on Jul 17, 2007 By Robert Scheer George W. Bush is the imperial president that James Madison and other Founding Fathers of this great Republic warned us about. He lied the nation into precisely the “foreign entanglements” that George Washington feared would destroy the experiment in representative government, and he has championed a spurious notion of security over individual liberty, thus eschewing the alarms of Thomas Jefferson as to the deprivation of the inalienable rights of free citizens. But most important, he has used the sledgehammer of war to obliterate the separation of powers that James Madison enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. With the “war on terror,” Bush has asserted the right of the president to wage war anywhere and for any length of time, at his whim, because the “terrorists” will always provide a convenient shadowy target. Just the “continual warfare” that Madison warned of in justifying the primary role of Congress in initiating and continuing to finance a war — the very issue now at stake in Bush’s battle with Congress. In his “Political Observations,” written years before he served as fourth president of the United States, Madison went on to underscore the dangers of an imperial presidency bloated by war fever. “In war,” Madison wrote in 1795, at a time when the young Republic still faced its share of dangerous enemies, “the discretionary power of the Executive is extended and every means of seducing the mind is added to [methods] for subduing the [will] of the people.” How remarkably prescient of Madison to anticipate the specter of our current King George imperiously undermining Congress’ attempts to end the Iraq war. When the prime author of the U.S. Constitution explained why that document grants Congress—not the president—the exclusive power to declare and fund wars, Madison wrote, “A delegation of such powers [to the president] would have struck, not only at the fabric of our Constitution, but at the foundation of all well organized and well checked governments.” Because “[n]o nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare,” Madison urged that the constitutional separation of powers he had codified be respected. “The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war ... the power of raising armies,” he wrote. “The separation of the power of raising armies from the power of commanding them is intended to prevent the raising of armies for the sake of commanding them.” That last sentence perfectly describes the threat of what President Dwight Eisenhower, 165 years later, would describe as the “military- industrial complex,” a permanent war economy feeding off a permanent state of insecurity. The collapse of the Soviet Union deprived the military profiteers and their handsomely rewarded cheerleaders in the government of a raison d’être for the massive war economy supposedly created in response to it. Fortunately for them, Bush found in the 9/11 attack an excuse to make war even more profitable and longer lasting. The Iraq war, which the president’s 9/11 Commission concluded never had anything to do with the terrorist assault, nonetheless has transferred many hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars into the military economy. And when Congress seeks to exercise its power to control the budget, this president asserts that this will not govern his conduct of the war. There never was a congressional declaration of war to cover the invasion of Iraq. Instead, President Bush acted under his claimed power as commander in chief, which the Supreme Court has held does allow him to respond to a “state of war” against the United States. That proviso was clearly a reference to surprise attacks or sudden emergencies. The problem is that the “state of war” in question here was an al- Qaida attack on the U.S. that had nothing whatsoever to do with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Perhaps to spare Congress the embarrassment of formally declaring war against a nation that had not attacked America, Bush settled for a loosely worded resolution supporting his use of military power if Iraq failed to comply with U.N. mandates. This was justified by the White House as a means of strengthening the United Nations in holding Iraq accountable for its WMD arsenal, but as most of the world looked on in dismay, Bush invaded Iraq after U.N. inspectors on the ground discovered that Iraq had no WMD.
[CTRL] Fwd: REAL Spyware
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 20, 2007 7:23:20 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: REAL Spyware FBI planted spyware on teen's PC to trace bomb threats Gregg Keizer http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9027418 July 19, 2007 (Computerworld) The FBI planted spyware on the computer used by a Washington state teenager to finger him as the person behind a rash of bomb threats e-mailed to his high school, court documents revealed this week. The 15-year-old, a former student at Timberline High School in Lacey, Wash., pleaded guilty Monday to making the bomb threats, as well as to identity theft charges, according to The Olympian. He was sentenced to 90 days in juvenile detention and must pay the school district $8,852 to cover expenses. The first e-mailed bomb threat was sent June 4. In several of the messages, the student taunted school authorities and police for their inability to trace the e-mails to him. Seeing as how you're too stupid to trace the e-mail back lets [sic] get serious, an e-mail on June 5 said, according to an unsealed search warrant application filed with a Seattle federal court in mid-June. Stop pretending to be 'tracing it' because I already told you it's coming from Italy. That is where trace will stop, so just stop trying. Within days, however, the FBI had obtained a warrant that allowed the agency to infect the student's computer with a program it called a Computer Internet Protocol Address Verifier (CIPAV). If a warrant is approved, a communication will be sent to the computer being used to administer [the MySpace] user account 'Timberlinebombinfo,' said FBI Special Agent Norman Sanders in the June 12 filing. The CIPAV, said Sanders, would cause any computer -- wherever located -- to send network-level messages containing the activating computer's IP address and/or MAC address, other environmental variables and certain registry-type information to a computer controlled by the FBI. I'd call that spyware, said Roger Thompson, chief technology officer at Exploit Prevention Labs. Or it's pretty darn close. The warrant did not spell out whether the CIPAV could, for instance, capture keystrokes or inject other code into the compromised system, as do commonplace Trojan downloaders. The exact nature of [the CIPAV's] commands, processes, capabilities and their configuration is classified as a law enforcement sensitive investigative technique, said the warrant applications. Sanders, however, did say that after making its initial data harvest, the CIPAV would shift into a silent pen register mode in which it only recorded the IP addresses, dates and times of each communication. The contents of those communications -- such as e- mail messages -- would not be captured and passed to the FBI, the affidavit said. It was also unclear exactly how Sanders expected to get the CIPAV onto the suspect's computer, although the warrant application hinted that it would be delivered through MySpace's own messaging service. The CIPAV will be deployed through an electronic messaging program from an account controlled by the FBI, the warrant application read. The electronic message deploying the CIPAV will only be directed to the administrator(s) of the 'Timberlinebombinfo' account [on MySpace]. The FBI may have used an exploit -- one already in circulation or one of its own -- to plant the CIPAV on the student's machine, said Thompson. Or it might have just gone the simple route, and counted on the suspect's curiosity to get him to launch an attached file or click on a link to a malicious site. Even if his computer had security software installed and active, the CIPAV could have gotten through, Thompson argued. In order to evade antivirus, all you've got to do is use a new version of [a piece of old malware]. The bad guys do it all the time. It's also possible, speculated Thompson, that the FBI asked security vendors to whitelist their CIPAV to let it through any defenses. They've always talked about things like this, whether it was Magic Lantern or Carnivore. But the last time I saw anything from [the FBI] was three, four years ago, and it was pretty rudimentary stuff. Magic Lantern was the name given to a 2001 FBI effort to develop a keystroke and encryption keylogger. Carnivore, meanwhile, is the label for e-mail tapping software from the same time frame. When asked if he would agree to whitelist CIPAV today, or had in the past when he was with PestPatrol, an antispyware developer acquired in 2004 by CA Inc., Thompson said: I don't know. We never had to face that decision, because we were never asked. Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is
[CTRL] Fwd: To Quote a Senior Republican Senator: Bush F**ked Up America's War on Terror
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 1:09:52 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: To Quote a Senior Republican Senator: Bush F**ked Up America's War on Terror Right-wing moneybags Richard Mellon Scaife, in editorials in his newspapers, condemned the President vow to stay the course in Iraq as a prescription for America's suicide, and even hinted that George Bush was mentally unstable Bush told Iraq war has helped al-Qa’eda By Tim Shipman in Washington The Telegraph (UK), July 18, 2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/18/ wiraq118.xml President George W Bush was facing increasingly blunt criticism of his Iraq policy last night as a US intelligence report suggested that the war has made al-Qa'eda attacks on American soil more likely. President Bush is losing support from Republicans in Congress Senator George Voinovich, a close ally of Mr Bush, delivered a withering assessment of the situation in Iraq, declaring that the Bush administration had fd up the war. The Ohio senator revealed that he warned Karl Rove - the President's chief political adviser - last week that Mr Bush must devise a new plan for Iraq or he would vote with Democrats on Capitol Hill to withdraw troops from Iraq. He spoke out as a declassified National Intelligence Estimate of the terrorist threat to the US indicated that the Iraq war has helped al-Qa'eda raise resources and to recruit and indoctrinate operatives, including for homeland attacks. The document, which represents the considered views of 16 US intelligence agencies, appeared at odds with Mr Bush's repeated claims that America must prosecute the war in Iraq to prevent terrorists following us home with attacks in the US. The three- page report, two pages of which were released to the public, argues that al-Qa'eda will probably seek to leverage the contacts and capabilities of al-Qa'eda in Iraq. advertisement The findings echo similar assessments of the terror threat from British spy chiefs. They inflamed an already febrile atmosphere in Congress, where Mr Bush is haemorrhaging support from Republicans. Mr Voinovich had previously indicated that he would delay any vote to leave Iraq until September, when General David Petraeus, the commander in Iraq, reports to Congress on the status of his surge strategy. But Mr Voinovich shocked political Washington, where personal criticisms and profanity are generally more muted than in Westminster, with the vehemence of his views - which he stated in the halls of the senate. Mr Voinovich, who meets Mr Bush and his inner circle regularly, revealed that he told Mr Rove the President must change course, or face a new mutiny. The President is a young man and should think about his legacy. He should know history will not be kind unless he can come up with a plan that protects the troops and stabilises the region, he said. He said other Republicans were close to speaking out against the President's current strategy. I have every reason to believe that the fur is going to start to fly, perhaps sooner than what they may have wanted, he said. Mr Voinovich is not the only ally of the President losing faith. Yesterday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, owned by the hitherto loyal businessman Richard Mellon Scaife, branded the Bush administration's plans to stay the course in Iraq a prescription for American suicide. In an editorial, the paper condemned Mr Bush's performance at a press conference last week, in which he vowed to press on with the surge, saying we had to question his mental stability. Democrat leaders last night ordered the Senate into an all-night session in an attempt to force Republicans to back a motion calling for troops to withdraw from Iraq by the end of April 2008. Later this week another motion, proposed by the Republican senators Richard Lugar and John Warner and calling on Mr Bush to get a new strategy in place by mid-October, is also due for debate. Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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:
[CTRL] Fwd: Richard Nixon and the Man Who Silenced Lee Harvey Oswald
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 21, 2007 12:14:38 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Richard Nixon and the Man Who Silenced Lee Harvey Oswald http://crimemagazine.com/03/richardnixon,1014.htm A 1947 memo, found in 1975 by a scholar going through a pile of recently released FBI documents, supports Giancana's contention. In the memo, addressed to a congressional committee investigating organized crime, an FBI assistant states: It is my sworn testimony that one Jack Rubenstein of Chicago ... is performing information functions for the staff of Congressman Richard Nixon, Republican of California. It is requested Rubenstein not be called for open testimony in the aforementioned hearings. (Later in 1947, Rubenstein moved to Dallas and shortened his last name [to JACK RUBY].) The FBI subsequently called the memo a fake, but the reference service Facts on File considers it authentic. Undercover work for the young Congressman Nixon would have been in keeping with Ruby's history as a police tipster and government informant. In 1950, Ruby gave closed-door testimony to Estes Kefauver's special Senate committee investigating organized crime. Committee staffer Luis Kutner later described Ruby as a syndicate lieutenant who had been sent to Dallas to serve as a liaison for Chicago mobsters. In exchange for Ruby's testimony, the FBI is said to have eased up on its probe of organized crime in Dallas. In 1959, Ruby became an informant for the FBI. - Seared into the memories of all Americans who lived through the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is exactly where they were on November 22, 1963. Yet private citizen Richard Nixon, who — believe it or not — was in Dallas, could not recall this fact in a post-assassination interview with the FBI. The interview dealt with an apparently false claim by Marina Oswald that her husband —alleged Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald — had targeted Nixon for death during an earlier trip to Dallas. A Feb. 28, 1964 FBI report on the interview said Nixon advised that the only time he was in Dallas, Texas, during 1963 was two days prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. While Nixon eventually came clean regarding his whereabouts on that fateful day, he seemed touchy whenever the matter was raised. For example, in a 1992 interview with CNN's Larry King, Nixon interjected he was in Dallas In the morning! when King cited the presumed geographical coincidence. Nixon left Dallas on a flight to New York several hours before Kennedy's noontime arrival at Love Field. Not only did Nixon misremember where he was on November 22nd, he made at least two conflicting statements about how he first learned his arch-rival had been shot. In a 1964 Reader's Digest article, he recalled hailing a cab after his Dallas-New York flight: We were waiting for a light to change when a man ran over from the street corner and said that the President had just been shot in Dallas. In November of 1973, however, Nixon said in Esquire that his cabbie missed a turn somewhere and we were off the highway...a woman came out of her house screaming and crying. I rolled down the cab window to ask what the matter was and when she saw my face she turned even paler. She told me that John Kennedy had just been shot in Dallas. In yet another curious twist, a November 22nd wire service photo of Nixon indicates he might even have learned of the shooting before his cab ride. In the photo, a glum-looking Nixon, hat in lap, is sitting in what appears to be an airline terminal. The caption on the United Press International photo reads: Shocked Richard Nixon, the former vice president who lost the presidential election to President Kennedy in 1960, is shown Friday after he arrived at Idlewild Airport in New York following a flight from Dallas, Tex., where he had been on a business trip. In the 1992 King interview, Nixon maintained he'd never had any interest in digging into the JFK assassination: I don't see a useful purpose in getting into that and I don't think it's frankly useful for the Kennedy family to constantly raise that up again. Nixon's professed disinterest doesn't ring true, however, for it came from one of our snoopiest chief executives — a politician who just relished investigations, spying, secrets, and conspiracies. As Nixon aide John Ehrlichman once observed: He was a conspiracy buff. He liked intrigue, and he liked secret maneuverings of the FBI, and he liked to hear about what the CIA did, and so on. He just couldn't leave that stuff alone. As for Nixon's stated compassion for the Kennedys, let's not forget that he deeply despised them. So much so that, as president, he ordered chief White House spy E. Howard Hunt to forge diplomatic
[CTRL] Project Monarch: Nazi Mind Control
-Caveat Lector- this may be very heavy for survivors - Project Monarch: Nazi Mind Control - The Evolution of Project MKULTRA by Ron Patton _http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_mindcon02.htm_ (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_mindcon02.htm) Ritual Abuse and Counseling: A Survey - Author: Zoslocki, Linda “Ritual abuse consists of mental, physical, sexual, and psychological abuse motivated by religious reasons, out of anger and stress, or inflicted on victims for reasons unknown. Little is now being done to educate and train school counselors on ritual abuse and its signs. This paper offers a literature review of ritual abuse and the results of a survey of school counselors conducted in order to assess whether they had encountered the signs and symptoms of ritual abuse among school-age children. A 45-item questionnaire was developed and sent to 200 randomly selected counselors--119 were returned. Since the study was conducted as a blind review, it focused on whether counselors had encountered the signs and symptoms of ritual abuse at least one time within the last two years, as opposed to the number of times counselors observed these signs and symptoms in their students during the counseling session. Results indicated that, although counselors may not be aware of the signs and symptoms of ritual abuse, they did encounter such abuses in the counseling process. ...Approximately half of the respondents stated that their students were either self-mutilating or accident prone and fearful or preoccupied with death.” _http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true_ ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED380736ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accnoac cno=ED380736_ (http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true_ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED380736ERICExtSe arch_SearchType_0=eric_accnoaccno=ED380736) (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour 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: Free or Caged Animals, No Visitors Allowed Unless They Submit to Interrogation
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 23, 2007 9:47:26 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Free or Caged Animals, No Visitors Allowed Unless They Submit to Interrogation Europeans alarmed at US right to highly personal data Religion, sex life among details that must be passed on to officials Jamie Doward, home affairs editor The Observer (UK), July 22, 2007 http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2132099,00.html Highly sensitive information about the religious beliefs, political opinions and even the sex life of Britons travelling to the United States is to be made available to US authorities when the European Commission agrees to a new system of checking passengers. The EC is in the final stages of [negotiating] a Passenger Name Record system which will allow American officials to access detailed biographical information about passengers entering international airports. The information sharing system with the US Department of Homeland Security, which updates the previous three-year-old system, is designed to tackle terrorism but civil liberty groups warn it will have serious consequences for European passengers. And it has emerged that both the European parliament and the European data protection supervisor are alarmed at the plan. In a strongly worded document drawn up in response to the plan that will affect the 4 million-plus Britons who travel to the US every year, the EU parliament said it 'notes with concern that sensitive data (ie personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, and data concerning the health or sex life of individuals) will be made available to the DHS and that these data may be used by the DHS in exceptional cases'. Under the new agreement, which goes live at the end of this month, the US will be able to hold the records of European passengers for 15 years compared with the current three year limit. The EU parliament said it was concerned the data would lead to 'a significant risk of massive profiling and data mining, which is incompatible with basic European principles and is a practice still under discussion in the US congress.' Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor, has written to the EC expressing his 'grave concern' at the plan, which he describes as 'without legal precedent' and one that puts 'European data protection rights at risk'. Hustinx warns: 'Data on EU citizens will be readily accessible to a broad range of US agencies and there is no limitation to what US authorities are allowed to do with the data.' He expresses concern about 'the absence of a robust legal mechanism that enables EU citizens to challenge misuse of their personal information'. Hustinx concludes: 'I have serious doubts whether the outcome of these negotiations will be fully compatible with European fundamental rights, which both the Council and the Commission have stated are non negotiable.' The new agreement will see US authorities gain access to detailed passenger information, from credit card details to home addresses and even what sort of food may have been ordered before a flight. In addition, US authorities will be free to add other information they have obtained about a passenger, leading to concerns about how the information will be shared. It has emerged that neither Hustinx nor the European parliament were aware of the final draft of the plan. 'If you are going to have this kind of agreement it should involve parliament and the data protection supervisor,' said Tony Bunyan of Statewatch, the civil liberties organisation that campaigns against excessive surveillance. He warned that under the new system the data will be shared with numerous US agencies. 'The European parliament is angry that it was not even consulted,' Bunyan said. 'The anger is also about other elements of the plan, such as giving the US the absolute right to pass the data on to third parties.' Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, another group that campaigns against state surveillance, said the new agreement gave huge powers to the US authorities. 'We have no guarantee about how this data will be used,' Davies said. A spokeswoman for the Information Commissioner's Office in England and Wales said it would be discussing the matter with European counterparts shortly. 'We are working with the European Data Protection Supervisor and our other EU data protection colleagues to come to a joint opinion on the level of data protection set out in the final agreement,' the spokeswoman said. Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are
[CTRL] Fwd: Justice Dept removed federal prosecutor who uncovered Warren Buffett's Enron
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 23, 2007 3:58:08 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Justice Dept removed federal prosecutor who uncovered Warren Buffett's Enron U.S. dropped Enron-like fraud probe Prosecutor who built case against Virginia insurer was replaced. By Marisa Taylor - Mcclatchy Washington Bureau Published 12:00 am PDT Monday, July 23, 2007 Two years into a fraud investigation, veteran David Maguire told colleagues he'd uncovered one of the biggest cases of his career. Maguire described crimes far worse than those of Arthur Andersen, the accounting giant that collapsed in the wake of the Enron scandal. Among those in his sights: executives from a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment empire overseen by billionaire Warren Buffett. In May 2006, he felt strongly enough about his case that he prepared a draft indictment accusing executives from a Virginia insurer, Reciprocal of America, of concocting a series of secret deals to hide its losses from regulators. Although he didn't name anyone from Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiary, he described the company as a participant in the scheme. But Maguire never brought those charges. Months after preparing the draft, he was removed as the lead prosecutor on the case and reassigned. His replacement, a prosecutor who hadn't been involved in the case until then, soon announced that the Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, General Reinsurance, would not be indicted. By April of this year, the entire investigation, which the Justice Department once hailed as one of the largest insurance-fraud cases in Virginia history, had fizzled. Former employees and policyholders of the Richmond-based insurer were astounded. Why had the Justice Department spent upward of $2 million to investigate the case only to decline to prosecute? Maguire and his team of investigators had secured two related guilty pleas, interviewed dozens of witnesses and gathered 7,000 boxes of documents. At the Justice Department, some whispered that Maguire and his team had overreached and had been knocked down. Others heard that the government needed resources for terrorism investigations. Lawyers for the two companies had another explanation: Prosecutors realized they didn't have evidence of a crime. It was a black and white decision, said Stanley Twardy Jr., one of General Reinsurance's attorneys and a former U.S. attorney. They just called it like they saw it. But Tom Gober, a certified fraud examiner who worked on the case, thought investigators had gathered plenty of evidence. Gober, a government-contracted investigator, concluded that the Justice Department had buckled under pressure from defense lawyers. Shortly before Maguire was removed, his supervisors were urging him to drop the case against General Reinsurance, Gober said. Gober's suspicions were fanned by allegations of politicization in the Justice Department after nine U.S. attorneys were fired. He took his complaints to the Office of Professional Responsibility, which investigates Justice Department misconduct. That investigation is under way. It just stinks, he said. You don't come in out of nowhere and in no time kill three years of sophisticated effort. Maguire and officials with the U.S. attorney's office and the FBI in Virginia declined to respond to questions about the decision. Justice Department spokesman Bryan Sierra said he wouldn't comment, either. Internal documents obtained by McClatchy Newspapers show that Justice Department lawyers in Washington had become locked in an intense debate with Maguire over the case until he was removed from it. Five years after Enron collapsed and tough measures aimed at white- collar crime were enacted, federal officials struggled with questions of corporate accountability: Who should be held responsible when fraud leads to a company's demise? How far should federal prosecutors go in pursuing corporate suspects? In the Reciprocal of America case, the fallout was clear. More than 80,000 lawyers, doctors and hospitals in 30 states lost their malpractice coverage. As they couldn't expect new insurers to cover them for past cases, some who were sued have claimed losses of hundreds of millions of dollars. A company under siege A team of state insurance auditors arrived at Reciprocal of America's headquarters in January 2003 to launch their investigation. They shepherded the company's 300 employees into a conference room and locked the doors. Suspicious accounting activity had been detected. The company and its subsidiaries were being shut down for the duration of the investigation. Federal agents soon expressed interest in joining the case. The auditors had found troubling numbers. Insurance companies are supposed to avoid insolvency by
[CTRL] Fwd: Texas Repugnicans Rally Around Zionist End-Timer AKA Christian Evangelist
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 23, 2007 6:09:24 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Texas Repugnicans Rally Around Zionist End-Timer AKA Christian Evangelist Imminentize the Eschaton, NUKE IRAN NOW Hagee, Israel backers push get-tough-on-Iran policy Web Posted: 07/22/2007 01:32 AM CDT Abe Levy Express-News http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/politics/stories/ MYSA072207.01B.hagee.346bf8a.html WASHINGTON — Inside a reserved Senate room, several hundred evangelical activists who came by plane and bus Wednesday waited for the arrival of Texas' two senators. As their leader, Pastor John Hagee, entered the room, they erupted in cheers, snapping photos of the face of modern Christian Zionism, a movement that promotes Israel as a biblical mandate. The room turned silent as Hagee greeted Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn near the stage. Hagee looked the senators in the eye and said: These people are from Texas — and they are voters. That message came through loud and clear last week as Hagee and 4,500 like-minded Christians visited the Capitol to lobby for Israel and a get-tough policy against Iran. Motivating them is their belief that Israel's fate is tied to that of the free world. We didn't come to Washington to figure out what Washington thinks, Hagee said. We came to Washington to express our views, and we came as people. People hold the power in America. Pastor of the 18,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio and a world-reknowned TV evangelist, Hagee organized the lobbying blitz (the second in two years) to try to exert political power in Middle East policy, including consideration of a pre-emptive strike on Iran. (Lisa Krantz/Express-News) Surrounded by his security team (left) and San Antonio Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg of Rodfei Shalom Synagogue (far right), San Antonio Pastor John Hagee (center) leaves the U. S. Capitol building after posing for a group picture with Christians United for Israel's Texas delegates after the delegates spent the day lobbying for Israel at the Capitol on Wednesday. He founded a non-profit organization, Christians United for Israel, 18 months ago, to give a louder voice to Christian Zionists, who are among the 60 million to 100 million evangelicals in the U.S. Many of them believe they are living in the final days described in prophetic books of the Bible and that standing with Israel assures them of being on God's side when it is all said and done. Known for his fiery apocalyptic sermons and books, such as Jerusalem Countdown, Hagee, 67, is no stranger to conservative Republican politics and mobilizing Christians to vote. Last week, along with the visit to Congress, CUFI conducted a three- day summit for 4,500 delegates that included seminars on the evils of militant Islamic groups, lessons on effective lobbying, the showing of pro-Israel documentaries, banquets for donors and its signature event, Night to Honor Israel, which was broadcast on Israeli TV. The ceremony drew nearly 5,000 participants inside the Washington Convention Center and 15 protesters outside. The dissenters, part of Project Straight Gate, based in Phoenix, held signs that read Hagee's apostasy kills Palestinians and Blessed are the peacemakers. The group, representing six states, started five years ago to counter the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. To them, Hagee is the next Rev. Jerry Falwell, who they say misrepresented Christian faith through his political activities. The whole Christian Zionism movement is causing Christianity to be a laughing stock all over the world, said Charles Carlson, the group's founder and director. It's bringing (Hagee) fame and fortune by putting Israel on the throne right beside Christ. Inside the convention center, high-profile Israeli and U.S. government leaders revved up the audience with impassioned speeches by, among others, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay also attended. At a banquet for $1,000-plus donors the night before, Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent and practicing Jew, likened Hagee to Moses as a leader of a multitude. The support of Christian Zionists is critical to Israel's security and strength, he said, and to America's security and strength. The average delegate found in the seminars the material they would need for lobbying and later grassroots activism. Panelists, both Jewish and Christian, promoted the use of alternative fuels as a way to wean America from Arab oil and deeper study of pro-Israel arguments to clarify biased media reports, win converts in their neighborhoods and vote pro-Israel candidates into office. There was particular emphasis on one core belief that Israel must not give up any land to Palestinians for peace, a view that
[CTRL] Fwd: War Is Helliburton: While U.S. Troops Dying, Cheney Co Reveling in Blood-Money
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 23, 2007 10:11:23 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: War Is Helliburton: While U.S. Troops Dying, Cheney Co Reveling in Blood-Money Bribery Network to Bloat War Costs Is Alleged By JAMES GLANZ New York Times, July 21, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/21/washington/21contract.html Federal investigators have uncovered what they describe as a sweeping network of kickbacks, bribes and fraud involving at least eight employees and subcontractors of KBR, the former Halliburton subsidiary, in a scheme to inflate charges for flying freight into Iraq in support of the war, according to court papers unsealed yesterday. The latest conviction in the cases related to the scheme came yesterday, when a former Houston-based executive for an air-freight carrier hired by KBR pleaded guilty in federal district court to dispensing bribes and then lying to federal investigators. The executive, Kevin Andre Smoot, 43, of The Woodlands, Tex., served as a managing director for Eagle Global Logistics Incorporated, a carrier that received a subcontract from KBR to ship the freight. The guilty plea by Mr. Smoot is the second by an Eagle executive in the case. But the papers describing his plea indicate that investigators believe at least one more Eagle employee and five KBR employees, all so far unnamed, were also involved. Mr. Smoot alone admitted to delivering bribes, called gratuities in the legalistic language of the court papers, to the employees of KBR on some 90 occasions between 2002 and 2005. At the core of the case is a contract that KBR, previously known as Kellogg, Brown Root, won before the war to supply the American military with food, fuel, housing and other necessities. The value of the contract soared with the Iraq invasion, and has so far paid KBR some $20 billion. The company hired Eagle in a subcontract to fulfill part of that mission, carrying military goods from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Baghdad. But the scheme by the Eagle executives began in November 2003 when a plane operated by a rival carrier, DHL, was struck by a missile and landed in Baghdad with its left wing in flames. The Eagle executives used that incident to charge a fraudulent “war-risk surcharge” of 50 cents for every kilogram (2.2 pounds) of freight on its own flights, the papers say. Between November 2003 and July 2004, Eagle made 379 flights as part of the subcontract, charging some $13.3 million — an amount that included $1.1 million in overcharges. It is not clear whether KBR knew of the overcharging scheme, but the papers say that Mr. Smoot and an Eagle subordinate delivered nearly $34,000 in gratuities to KBR employees “to obtain or reward favorable treatment” in connection with the contract. According to the papers, the gratuities included “meals, drinks, golf outings, tickets to rodeo events, baseball and football games and other entertainment items.” A spokeswoman for KBR, Heather L. Browne, said in a statement yesterday that the company “in no way condones this behavior.” “We are fully cooperating with the government’s investigation of this matter and will continue to do so,” Ms. Browne said. The guilty plea by Mr. Smoot was announced yesterday by Rodger A. Heaton, the United States attorney for the Central District of Illinois, where the Army Field Support Command, which administers the logistics contract, is based in Rock Island. Auditor in Iraq Finds Job Gone After Exposés November 3, 2006, New York Times By JAMES GLANZ Obscure provision tucked away in huge military authorization bill calls for shutdown of federal oversight agency that exposed corruption and mismanagement in Iraq reconstruction; investigations by Republican lawyer Stuart W Bowen Jr have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Halliburton, and discovered that military did not properly track hundreds of thousands of weapons it shipped to Iraqi security forces; Bowen's supporters say agency is being shut down because it embarrassed Bush administration; opposition is building on both sides of political aisle in Congress as implications of shutdown provision become clear; neither House nor Senate version of bill contained termination clause before bill went to conference committee; Pres Bush signed measure two weeks ago Inquiry Widens To Bid-Rigging At Halliburton New York Times, March 2, 2005 By SIMON ROMERO Halliburton Co says Justice Department probe into bribery charges related to its dealings in Nigeria has broadened to encompass whether its executives rigged contracts with competing companies in effort to profit illicitly from
[CTRL] Fwd: Middle East Peace Negotiator Blair Will Live in a Zionist Palace in Israel
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 23, 2007 9:03:17 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Middle East Peace Negotiator Blair Will Live in a Zionist Palace in Israel Blair under fire over plans to move into Jerusalem palace 23rd July 2007 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html? in_article_id=470186in_page_id=1811 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert greets Tony Blair, left, in his Jerusalem residence last year Tony Blair was accused of having delusions of grandeur as it emerged he may base himself in a Jerusalem palace for his role as Middle East envoy. The former premier has been looking at an imposing, historic edifice with a ballroom, fragrant gardens and a wonderful view of the golden dome of the city's al-Aqsa mosque the site where orthodox Jews expect to rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem . Built in 1931, the house was once the home of Britain's first High Commissioner to Palestine Zionist Jew M.P., Lord Samuel . Today it serves as the UN's Middle East HQ. Critics said Blair's job as envoy of the so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators - the EU, UN, U.S. and Russia - did not merit such opulence. Abdelbari Atwan, editor of the London newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi, said: 'He's not a president. He's not a prime minister. He's not even a minister. 'He's just representing a quartet, which is a very small job. So why should he have a lavish residence? It would look very bad.' Mr Blair's aides confirmed he hoped to use offices in the building but denied he planned to make it his residence. He is making his first trip to the region in his new role today and will spend at least a week a month in the Middle East from September. But he has not chosen where to live. The building's UN status would make it a good base because of its neutrality in the conflict. Gerald Butt, editor of the authoritative Middle East Economic Survey, said: 'Choosing where to base is a very sensitive issue in that it reflects the sensitivity of the whole crisis.' Critics warned that living in luxury while many Palestinians struggle in squalor would only inflame anger over Mr Blair's appointment. Get a sneak peek of the all-new 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: Ocean of pollution from China wider than Amazon, deeper than Grand Canyon
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 23, 2007 4:12:07 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ocean of pollution from China wider than Amazon, deeper than Grand Canyon Huge Dust Plumes From China Cause Changes in Climate July 20, 2007; Page B1 http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118470650996069354- buQPf_FL_nKirvopk__GzCmNOq8_20070818.html One tainted export from China can't be avoided in North America -- air. An outpouring of dust layered with man-made sulfates, smog, industrial fumes, carbon grit and nitrates is crossing the Pacific Ocean on prevailing winds from booming Asian economies in plumes so vast they alter the climate. These rivers of polluted air can be wider than the Amazon and deeper than the Grand Canyon. There are times when it covers the entire Pacific Ocean basin like a ribbon bent back and forth, said atmospheric physicist V. Ramanathan at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. On some days, almost a third of the air over Los Angeles and San Francisco can be traced directly to Asia. With it comes up to three- quarters of the black carbon particulate pollution that reaches the West Coast, Dr. Ramanathan and his colleagues recently reported in the Journal of Geophysical Research. This transcontinental pollution is part of a growing global traffic in dust and aerosol particles made worse by drought and deforestation, said Steven Cliff, who studies the problem at the University of California at Davis. Aerosols -- airborne microscopic particles -- are produced naturally every time a breeze catches sea salt from ocean spray, or a volcano erupts, or a forest burns, or a windstorm kicks up dust, for example. They also are released in exhaust fumes, factory vapors and coal-fired power plant emissions. Courtesy SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE A satellite view from 2001 shows dust arriving in California from Asian deserts. Concentrations of dust are visible to the south, near the coastline (lower right); To the west the dust is mixed with clouds over open ocean. This dust event caused a persistent haze in places like Death Valley, California, where skies are usually crystal clear. Over the Pacific itself, the plumes are seeding ocean clouds and spawning fiercer thunderstorms, researchers at Texas AM University reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in March. The influence of these plumes on climate is complex because they can have both a cooling and a warming effect, the scientists said. Scientists are convinced these plumes contain so many cooling sulfate particles that they may be masking half of the effect of global warming. The plumes may block more than 10% of the sunlight over the Pacific. But while the sulfates they carry lower temperatures by reflecting sunlight, the soot they contain absorbs solar heat, thus warming the planet. Asia is the world's largest source of aerosols, man-made and natural. Every spring and summer, storms whip up silt from the Gobi desert of Mongolia and the hardpan of the Taklamakan desert of western China, where, for centuries, dust has shaped a way of life. From the dunes of Dunhuang, where vendors hawk gauze face masks alongside braided leather camel whips, to the oasis of Kashgar at the feet of the Tian Shan Mountains 1,500 miles to the west, there is no escaping it. Courtesy SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE. A satellite image from 2005 shows a plume of dust flowing from China to the north of the Korean Peninsula and over the Sea of Japan. Such plumes can cross the Pacific and scatter dust across the Western U.S. The Taklamakan is a natural engine of evaporation and erosion. Rare among the world's continental basins, no river that enters the Taklamakan ever reaches the sea. Fed by melting highland glaciers and gorged with silt, these freshwater torrents all vanish in the arid desert heat, like so many Silk Road caravans. Only the dust escapes. In an instant, billows of grit can envelope the landscape in a mist so fine that it never completely settles. Moving east, the dust sweeps up pollutants from heavily industrialized regions that turn the yellow plumes a bruised brown. In Beijing, where authorities estimate a million tons of this dust settles every year, the level of microscopic aerosols is seven times the public-health standard set by the World Health Organization. Once aloft, the plumes can circle the world in three weeks. In a very real and immediate sense, you can look at a dust event you are breathing in China and look at this same dust as it tracks across the Pacific and reaches the United States, said climate analyst Jeff Stith at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
[CTRL] Fwd: Essential COG in the Juggernaut's Wheel
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 23, 2007 8:52:21 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Essential COG in the Juggernaut's Wheel Operation FALCON - USA is turning into a Police State Feb 28, 2007 - 07:43 PM By: Mike_Whitney http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=431 On 29th June, 1934, Chancellor Adolph Hitler, accompanied by the Schutzstaffel (SS), arrived at Wiesse, where he personally arrested the leader of the Strum Abteilung (SA), Ernnst Roehm. During the next 24 hours 200 other senior SA officers were arrested on the way to Wiesse. Many were shot as soon as they were captured but Hitler decided to pardon Roehm because of his past service to the movement. However, after much pressure from Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler, Hitler agreed that Roehm should die. At first Hitler insisted that Roehm should be allowed to commit suicide but, when he refused, Roehm was shot by two SS men. (Spartacus.schoolnet.co) Later, Hitler delivered a speech at the Reichstag in which he justified the murders of his rivals saying: If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the German people. It was no secret that this time the revolution would have to be bloody; when we spoke of it we called it 'The Night of the Long Knives.' Everyone must know for all future time that if he raises his hand to strike the State, then certain death is his lot. The Night of the Long Knives is seen by many as the turning point where Hitler made it clear that he was above the law and the supreme leader of the German people. Operation Falcon: Blueprint for removing dissidents and political rivals The Bush administration has carried out three massive sweeps in the last two years, rolling up more than 30,000 minor crooks and criminals, without as much as a whimper of protest from the public. So far, not one of the more than 30,000 victims has been charged with a terror-related crime.Operation Falcon is the clearest indication yet that the Bush administration is fine-tuning its shock-troops so it can roll up tens of thousands of people at a moment's notice and toss them into the newly-built Halliburton detention centers. This should be a red flag for anyone who cares at all about human rights, civil liberties, or simply saving his own skin. Operation Falcon was allegedly the brainchild of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his counterpart in the US Marshal's office, (Director) Ben Reyna. But its roots go much deeper into the nexus of right-wing Washington think tanks where fantasies of autocratic government have a long history. The name, Falcon, is an acronym for “Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally.” It relates to the more than 960 state, local and federal agencies which are directly involved in the administration's expansive criminal dragnets. Typically, law enforcement agencies are protective of their own turf and wary of outside intervention. The Falcon program overrides these concerns by streamlining the information-sharing processes and setting up a chain-of-command structure that radiates from the Justice Department. This removes many of the traditional obstacles to agency interface. It also relocates the levers of power in Washington where they can be manned by members of the Bush administration. Dictatorships require strong centralized authority and the Falcon program is a logical corollary of that ambition. It creates new inroads for Bush to assume greater control over the nationwide police-state apparatus. That alone should be sufficient reason for alarm. The first Operation Falcon took place during the week of April 4 to April 10, 2005. According to the US Marshal's official website, “The emphasis centered on gang related crimes, homicides, crimes involving use of a weapon, crimes against children and the elderly, crimes involving sexual assaults, organized crime and drug related fugitives, and other crimes of violence.” More than 10,000 criminal suspects were arrested in a matter of days. It was the largest criminal sweep in the nation's history and, according to U.S. Marshall chief Ben Reyna, “produced the largest number of arrests ever recorded during a single initiative.” The Washington Times noted, “The sweep was a virtual clearinghouse for warrants on drug, gang, gun and sex-offender suspects nationwide.” The emphasis was clearly on quantity not quality. Still, this doesn't explain why state and federal agencies had to be integrated with local law enforcement simply to carry out routine police work. More importantly, it doesn't explain why local police
