[CTRL] Jimmy Carter calls Cheney a disaster for U.S
-Caveat Lector- http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1026419120071010? feedType=RSSfeedName=politicsNewsrpc=22sp=true Jimmy Carter calls Cheney a disaster for U.S Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:42pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney as a disaster for the country and a militant who has had an excessive influence in setting foreign policy. Cheney has been on the wrong side of the debate on many issues, including an internal White House discussion over Syria in which the vice president is thought to be pushing a tough approach, Carter said. He's a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military and he has been most forceful in the last 10 years or more in fulfilling some of his more ancient commitments that the United States has a right to inject its power through military means in other parts of the world, Carter told the BBC World News America in an interview to air later on Wednesday. You know he's been a disaster for our country, Carter said. I think he's been overly persuasive on President George Bush and quite often he's prevailed. Asked to comment on Carter's remarks, Megan Mitchell, a spokeswoman for the Republican vice president, said, We're not going to engage in this type of rhetoric. Carter, a Democrat who was president from 1977 to 1981 and won the 2002 Nobel Peace prize for his charitable work, is a strong critic of the Iraq war and has often been outspoken in his criticism of President George W. Bush. In a newspaper interview in May, Carter called the Bush administration the worst in history in international relations. Carter did have kind words in the BBC interview for U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. I'm filled with admiration for Condoleezza Rice in standing up to (Cheney) which she did even when she was in the White House under President George W. Bush, Carter said, referring to Rice's former role as White House national security adviser. Now secretary of state, her influence is obviously greater than it was then and I hope she prevails, Carter added. 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] Closeted GOP gay senator on deck to be outed
-Caveat Lector- http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20071010_2 October 10, 2007 -- Closeted GOP gay senator on deck to be outed publication date: Oct 10, 2007 Download Print Previous | Next October 10, 2007 -- Closeted GOP gay senator on deck to be outed WMR has learned that the GOP, still reeling from the men's room toe tapping performance of Idaho Senator Larry Craig in a Minneapolis Airport toilet stall, will soon face another major outing of a gay Republican senator. Just as Craig has embarrassed the GOP in the solid red state of Idaho, the impending outing of another GOP senator in another solidly red state will diminish the chances of the Republicans to prevent next year a Democratic electoral tsunami in Congress, particularly in the Senate. WMR has been told that South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is the next to be outed in what may be a series of outings of Republicans in the Senate and House. The outing of Graham will pose problems for the Defense Department and the Bush administration. The Pentagon's don't ask, don't tell policy on gays in the military will be tested by revelations about Graham because he is a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. If Graham is not the subject of an administrative hearing for suitability for retention in the service, other gays and lesbians who have received less- than-honorable discharges for reasons of homosexuality will have ready-made legal cases to seek either reinstatement or monetary damages. Graham is up for re-election next year. The expected controversy surrounding his sexual orientation is sure to result in a GOP primary challenger from the right who will attack Graham on his orientation as well as his stance on immigration. Comments Arthur T. Murray (Seattle, WA) Clap ypur hands! Tap your toes! NSGOP is in its throes! Chan (camas) Ole Mitch is next. JM (Pine Ridge) The Republican party is going down fast, and it's about time. They're full of shit, hypocritical, idiots. Is that why Bush is shoring up loose ends by trying to add immunity for the companies that allowed him to spy on Americans? His days of majority support may be coming to an end. Diane Bourdeau (Winnetka) This could not happen to a more deserving Party! George LoBuono (Davis CA) And if it does go down, it will be replaced by another stooge party that does the same. Until the eye of the pyramid is decapitated and exposed for what it is, it will be more of the same. Bill Wade (Exeter) as George LoBuono above so eoloquently puts it, I'll add: Nancy Pelosi on the protestors outside her home: And if they were poor, and they were sleeping on my sidewalk, they'd be arrested for loitering, but because they have 'impeach Bush' across their chest, it's the First Amendment. Marycatherine Barton (Indianapolis) Impeach Cheney/Bush. Vote for Cindy Sheehan for Congress to show unhappiness with Democratic Nancy Pelosi standing against impeachment. Styve (Portland, OR) JM~ I have long said Bush is going down...the question is, on whom!! All right...I'll keep my day job... -) Chan (camas) Pelosi has to go Bill Wade (Exeter) Chan, help us - it's Vichy Dem Pelosi please, thanks! Chan (camas) Bill Wade and that's too kind... JM (Pine Ridge) Styve- No don't quit, that's funny. Is it Tony Blair or Victor Ashe? Ahh, he probably already has grown weary of those trysts. Maybe as an extra prize to being handed over the next presedential election, the elected official will also win an early stay in the Lincoln Room, where George will doll himself nice and sexy and bequeath a deep throat full of glory to the victor. And, to the victor goes the glory! Curious George has become glorious George while precious Rome has been set ablaze! Richard Hein (New York) No wonder why Graham was so outraged that he led the charge to impeach Clinton for consensual heterosexual relations - and then rode the fame and fortune the the Senate. sysiphus (Melrose, WA) George L hit it again in this thread!! Only the really mentaly challenged didn't see past the Rethuglican perverted killers even before 2000 but what worries me are the millions of intelligent people that think they are being cool by voting Democrat. I have been voting Nader for the past 11 years but even that is not advisable. What we need is a hit list of Democrats who We the People can take aim at and throw out on their asses in every election from no on. We can't change the two party duopoly in the short term and we can't throw our votes away on third options no matter how good they are; so, if the Democrats are too fat and sassy to shape up, let's ship them out! At this point the only one I would leave in is Cynthia McKinney but we have to prioritize by doing the least amount of sacrifice to our values. Let's aim for
[CTRL] S. Africa's silent war in Iraq Apartheid-era hired guns drawn by money
-Caveat Lector- www.chicagotribune.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/chi- mercenaries_salopek_bdoct07,0,7919674.story chicagotribune.com S. Africa's silent war in Iraq Apartheid-era hired guns drawn by money By Paul Salopek Tribune foreign correspondent October 7, 2007 PRETORIA, South Africa Andre Durant, a burly policeman from this leafy African capital, was kidnapped 10 months ago by unidentified gunmen in Iraq. Apart from one brief phone call, in which Durant managed to shout a strangled I love you to his wife, he hasn't been heard from since. Yet there are no yellow ribbons trimming Durant's quiet suburban Pretoria house, as hopeful ribbons might adorn the home of a U.S. soldier missing in Iraq. There has been no drumbeat of sympathetic news coverage about his case, as one would expect when a local man gets sucked into a global story in the world's most notorious war zone. Indeed, Durant's family, like the families of three other South Africans who were snatched with Durant in a Baghdad ambush in December, has maintained an anguished and puzzling silence for the better part of a year. And in that hush lies a clue to this African nation's murky and angst- ridden participation in America's military adventure in the Middle East: Durant is one of thousands of South African police officers and soldiers, most of them white veterans of the old apartheid regime, who have left their jobs to work as private security contractors in Iraq -- a semiclandestine exodus of hired guns that has alternately embarrassed and alarmed the pacifist government here. Maybe in the States soldiers' wives can talk about these things to ease their loss, said Lourika Durant, who has kept a low profile for months not only to safeguard negotiations for her kidnapped husband's release, but because of the stigma attached to operatives who freelance in a war deeply unpopular in South Africa. Here we must suffer alone, without making waves. The Sept. 16 killings of up to 11 Iraqi civilians by guards from the security firm Blackwater USA have rekindled intense debate in the U.S. over the propriety of outsourcing security responsibilities in Iraq to scores of private companies. But the acrimony in America can't begin to match the political hand-wringing that surrounds the issue in South Africa. Sensitive to its apartheid-era reputation for exporting soldiers of fortune to wars across Africa, the young, black-led government in Pretoria recently drafted the harshest anti-mercenary bill in the world, a measure that would criminalize virtually all of its citizens working in Iraq. And as the war grinds through its fifth year, there is growing concern that Iraq's drain on skilled police and military personnel may be crippling the nation's elite security services. Local media reports warn that tactical police units in major cities are being thinned by the stampede of officers to Baghdad. And a former South African military officer who runs his own security firm conceded that most of the nation's best special forces trainers now are on the U.S. contracting payroll in Iraq. South Africa's national police force, meanwhile, has begun offering its most experienced staff monthly bonuses of about $900, in part to stanch the flight of talent. We don't deny that there has been an exodus, said Selby Bokaba, a police spokesman. We simply can't compete with the obscene salaries that our officers are being offered in Iraq. Wages for private contractors who work as bodyguards, convoy escorts and oil field security workers in Iraq average about $10,000 a month -- more than 10 times the pay of a South African army or police captain. Up to 10,000 in Iraq Nobody knows how many South Africans have signed up for such hazardous duty. The foreign affairs ministry puts the number as high as 10,000, though industry experts and U.S. contracting firms say the figure is far smaller, more like 2,000 to 3,000 men. Still, even the lower estimate would make South Africans the third-largest contingent of armed foreigners deployed in Iraq after Washington's closest military ally, Britain. A Blackwater spokeswoman, Anne Tyrrell, said no South Africans were currently employed by her security firm in Iraq. She said the company's main contract, guarding State Department officials, requires a U.S. security clearance. Industry sources said most of South Africa's guns for hire rent their services to British companies, or U.S. companies with strong South African ties. Their presence in Iraq certainly isn't new. Beefy South Africans armed with submachine guns were guarding Washington's first proconsul, Jay Garner, within days of Saddam Hussein's fall. Up to 30 of its citizens have died in Iraq, the South African government says. The Americans like us because we're well-trained and used to working in rustic conditions, said Alex
[CTRL] Rahm Emanuel: the mini-Rove of the Democratic Party
-Caveat Lector- http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20071011_1 October 11, 2007 -- Rahm Emanuel: the mini-Rove of the Democratic Party publication date: Oct 11, 2007 Download Print Previous | October 11, 2007 -- Rahm Emanuel: the mini-Rove of the Democratic Party US Representative Rahm Emanuel, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and former chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), has a history of penetrating opposition political campaigns in a manner reminiscent of Karl Rove. WMR has learned that Emanuel went to work for Ohio Senator John Glenn's presidential campaign in Illinois in 1984 with the intention of disrupting it. A Glenn campaign worker told WMR that he got into a physical altercation with Emanuel after Emanuel attempted to take control of campaign responsibilities without authorization. Glenn had an off-and-on stormy relationship with Ohio's other Democratic senator, Howard Metzenbaum, a strong supporter of Israel. Emanuel again crossed paths with the Glenn campaign official in 1988. The former Glenn official was working for Illinois Senator Paul Simon's presidential campaign and Emanuel again appeared on the scene. Simon's campaign ultimately failed with Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, another strong supporter of Israel, picking up the Democratic nomination. Emanuel served in the Israel Defense Force during Desert Storm in 1991. Emanuel's father, Benjamin Emanuel, was a member of the Israeli terrorist group Irgun Zvai Leumi, whose ideological mentor was Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a Jewish fascist who admired Italy's dictator and Adolf Hitler ally Benito Mussolini. Jabotinsky is, along with German-born Leo Strauss, a founder of the modern neo-conservative movement, which has strong underpinnings in fascist and National Socialist ideology. The Irgun blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, killing and wounding a number of British soldiers. The group also specialized in planting bombs in Arab markets (souks) in Palestine, killing a number of civilians. WMR has heard from a number of Democratic congressional candidates in California, Florida, Missouri, Illinois, Virginia, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, and Georgia who have complained that Emanuel acts as a political litmus test gatekeeper, ensuring that only those Democrats swearing allegiance to strong support for Israel and a strong US military presence in the Middle East receive Democratic campaign contributions and political support. The Democrats would have increased their numbers in the House in 2006 had Emanuel's DCCC provided more funds for cash-strapped Democratic candidates in congressional districts where GOP incumbents were vulnerable. Although Emanuel is from Illinois, he is not supporting Democratic presidential candidate and Illinois US Senator Barack Obama. Emanuel, a former official in the Bill Clinton White House, is strongly in Hillary Clinton's camp. Comments sysiphus (Melrose, WA) Eureka!! We now have a number 2 for We the People's hit list for Democrat slime to off in 2008. Number one is Pelosi. All recommendations must be supported by evidence such as our host provides us here. liberty antigone (?) Steny Hoyer, if I remember what you said before, Mr. Madsen, is part of the Israel-first block. altruist (Austin) Emanuel starved Col. Bob Bowman for cash in Bowman's Florida '06 congressional race. Col. Bowman was outspent 30 to 1, I believe and still won 44% of the vote. Col. Bowman is also an outspoken proponent of a new and real investigation of 9/11. Is that an investigation Emanuel does not want to take place, for fear of where it may lead, perhaps? Wayne Madsen Steny Hoyer's sister is Bernice Manocherian. She was President of AIPAC in 2004. Excerpt of Hoyer's speech to AIPAC conference in 2004: ... Now let me speak about my sister, Bernice, your incoming president. She and I were born not together, but at the same hospital in New York City. I was born at least a couple of decades before Bernice. Bernice does not have a microphone, but she said, absolutely. Bernice, we are so proud of you, we sons and daughters of the Fifth Avenue Flower Hospital. And I look forward to working as closely with you as I have with Amy – as I have with Howard. I know you will do an extraordinary job. (Applause.) Bill Wade (Exeter) Here's an important article from CounterPunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/taylor10102007.html One of the unintended consequences of 911 was that it brought a sense of we are all in this together between the races in the USA and in particular between Blacks and Whites. I witnessed many poignant moments on that fateful day while watching TV of Black victims helping White victims and the reverse. It was hard not to notice and it was one of the few heartening things going on that day. It's
