Re: [CTRL] Earth First Group and NWO

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In a message dated 1/23/99 1:02:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> The NWO/UN/Global government crowds ultimate goal is to stop all
>  logging/mining
>  and other things and allow the land to go back to nature.
>Whether knowing, or unknowing the enviro's as a whole are supporting the
>  NWO/
>  global government plans.  While some of the rank-in-file enviro group
member

If environmentalism is the gist of the NWO's plot, then we have no case
against this 'movement.'  If Earth First! was involved in such a complicity
then they would not be spending so much time in jail, getting beat up (by
cops, etc.), getting blown up by the FBI on the way to testifying against that
very agency, not to mention all the bad press, i.e. terrorism labelling, blah
blah blah.

This is among the lamest conspiratorial claims that I have ever seen.

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[CTRL] One More Excuse for Seizure of Property

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>
>  By DONNA DE LA CRUZ
>  The Associated Press
>  01/21/99 8:10 PM Eastern
>
>  NEW YORK (AP) -- Anyone arrested for driving drunk in New York City will
>  have their cars seized and not given back unless they are acquitted of
>  the charges, the police commissioner said Thursday.
>
>  "There's nothing more serious to the innocent public than people who
>  drive drunk," Commissioner Howard Safir said.
>
>  The NYPD plans to implement its so-called "Zero Tolerance Drinking and
>  Driving Initiative" within the next month, Safir said. He said New York
>  is the first major city to implement such an initiative.
>
>  Under the forfeiture provision in the city's administrative code, police
>  can seize "instrumentalities of crime," Safir said. But the provision
>  does not specifically say that police can seize cars from drunk drivers.
>  "This is a creative use of a law designed to deal with instrumentalities
>  of crime," Safir said.
>
>  Norman Siegel, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union,
>  thinks Safir's plan can be legally challenged because the provision does
>  not cite drunk driving.
>
>  "The executive branch can't add punishment to the drunk driving laws,"
>  Siegel said. "We recognize that drunk driving is a serious crime, but an
>  open-ended grant of authority ... is not adequate in our perspective."
>
>  Last year, 6,368 people were arrested for drunk driving in the city,
>  down slightly from 1997 when there were 6,836 arrests. There were 31
>  fatalities attributed to DWI last year, compared with 52 in 1997,
>  according to police statistics.
>
>
>  November Coalition Forum



By DONNA DE LA CRUZ
The Associated Press
01/21/99 8:10 PM Eastern

NEW YORK (AP) -- Anyone arrested for driving drunk in New York City will
have their cars seized and not given back unless they are acquitted of
the charges, the police commissioner said Thursday.

"There's nothing more serious to the innocent public than people who
drive drunk," Commissioner Howard Safir said.

The NYPD plans to implement its so-called "Zero Tolerance Drinking and
Driving Initiative" within the next month, Safir said. He said New York
is the first major city to implement such an initiative.

Under the forfeiture provision in the city's administrative code, police
can seize "instrumentalities of crime," Safir said. But the provision
does not specifically say that police can seize cars from drunk drivers.
"This is a creative use of a law designed to deal with instrumentalities
of crime," Safir said.

Norman Siegel, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union,
thinks Safir's plan can be legally challenged because the provision does
not cite drunk driving.

"The executive branch can't add punishment to the drunk driving laws,"
Siegel said. "We recognize that drunk driving is a serious crime, but an
open-ended grant of authority ... is not adequate in our perspective."

Last year, 6,368 people were arrested for drunk driving in the city,
down slightly from 1997 when there were 6,836 arrests. There were 31
fatalities attributed to DWI last year, compared with 52 in 1997,
according to police statistics.


November Coalition Forum

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[CTRL] Jail Hurwitz

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http://www.jailhurwitz.com/





(These pages are under construction and are being updated as you read!)

Texas corporate raider Charles Hurwitz, with the help of junk-bond broker and
convicted felon Michael Milken, looted and crashed a Savings and Loan, United
Savings Association of Texas (USAT), costing U.S. taxpayers a staggering $1.6
billion!

With looted money funneled from the S & L, Hurwitz engaged in a hostile
takeover of the Pacific Lumber Company, commenced rabid clearcutting, and
tripled the rate of logging of the world's largest stands of privately held
ancient redwood forests, including Headwaters Forest, a precious, sacred and
irreplaceable international treasure of the ages.

Hurwitz simultaneously raided Pacific Lumber's worker pension fund, removing
$55 million from the retired loggers and millworkers' nest egg, and began
raping the company, selling off much of it's other liquitable assets for the
quick cash he needed to make his pressing junk bond payments.

Hurwitz had previously looted the Simplicity Pattern worker pension fund in
1982, reducing worker benefits by nearly $4000 per year.

Hurwitz has entered into out-of-court settlements for insurance fraud,
securities violations and a land swindle of his own company's shareholders!
Hurwitz has lost seven environmental lawsuits over his incessant, illegal
logging in these ancient redwood forests of Northern California.

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Lott, Barr, and the CCC [Think KKK]

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In a message dated 1/22/99 11:15:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:

> >This ALL sounds like a propaganda war to me.  This is pathetic.
>
>  Nope.  It's the truth and hurts only the ones who wont accept it.
>  Jim,
>  Residing in the Federal Satrapy of Ohio

Duh.  I was referring to both sides in this argument - it's why I used the
word 'ALL.'  Are you saying both sides are the truth and I just can't take it?

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[CTRL] Quayle Will Run

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http://www.lycos.com/news/flash/prezrace.html

  QUAYLE ANNOUNCES WHITE HOUSE BID


Surprise, surprise: former Vice President Dan Quayle has announced he will run
for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination. "I think I'm the best
qualified," Quayle declared on CNN's Larry King Live. Quayle said he will file
a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission next week and
announce establishment of a campaign fund-raising committee. The former Vice
President has never lived down his gaffes with much of the American public.
But he has a strong base among social conservatives.

Quayle says he's ignoring the polls in his decision to run for president. He
told the family-owned Indianapolis Star and News that his experiences as Veep
give him experiences no one else has, apparently ignoring the presence in the
race of Vice President Al Gore.

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Lott, Barr, and the CCC [Think KKK]

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In a message dated 1/21/99 10:09:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:

>  You spout yankee propaganda like
>  Mortimer Snerd.

This ALL sounds like a propaganda war to me.  This is pathetic.

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[CTRL] Fwd: EPIC Alert 6.01

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> ==
> Volume 6.01January 20, 1999
> --
>
>  Published by the
>Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
>  Washington, D.C.
>
>http://www.epic.org
>
>  ===
>  Table of Contents
>  ===
>
>  [1] Internet Censorship Goes on Trial (Again)
>  [2] Crypto Update: US Issues New Export Rules, French Drop Restrictions
>  [3] Supreme Court Rules on Anonymity
>  [4] EU Releases Report on Privacy Adequacy
>  [5] GAO Finds IRS Security Lacking
>  [6] EPIC Bookstore
>  [7] EPIC Bill-Track: New Bills in Congress
>  [8] Upcoming Conferences and Events
>
>  ===
>  [1] Internet Censorship Goes on Trial (Again)
>  ===
>
>  In the second challenge to a federal Internet censorship law, a
>  three-day hearing began today in United States District
>  Court in Philadelphia.  At issue is the constitutionality of the Child
>  Online Protection Act (COPA), the statutory successor to the
>  Communications Decency Act (CDA), which the Supreme Court struck down
>  in June 1997.  The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties
>  Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Electronic
>  Frontier Foundation as co-counsel on behalf of 17 individuals and
>  organizations.
>
>  During the hearing, the plaintiffs will present the testimony of seven
>  witnesses, including Vanderbilt University Prof. Donna Hoffman; Dan
>  Farmer, network security director for Earthlink online service;  CNET
>  Vice President Christopher Barr (representing the Internet Content
>  Coalition); and Los Angeles Times columnist Larry Magid.
>
>  On November 19, a U.S. District Judge Lowell A. Reed issued a
>  temporary restraining order (TRO) against enforcement of COPA, which
>  imposes criminal penalties against any "commercial" website that makes
>  material that is "harmful to minors" available to anyone under 17
>  years of age.  The TRO remains in effect until February 1, by which
>  time the court will decide whether to issue a preliminary injunction
>  against the law.
>
>  The COPA lawsuit -- ACLU v. Reno II -- is the latest legal challenge
>  to Internet censorship laws.  In June 1996, the same federal court in
>  Philadelphia struck down the CDA, a decision unanimously upheld by the
>  U.S. Supreme Court.  In enacting COPA, Congressional supporters
>  claimed that the new law corrected the constitutional defects of the
>  CDA.  Several federal courts have also found state laws seeking to
>  regulate online content unconstitutional.
>
>  Complete information on the legal challenge, including daily updates
>  from the courthouse in Philadelphia, will be available at:
>
>   http://www.epic.org/free_speech/copa/
>
>  ===
>  [2] Crypto Update: US Issues New Export Rules, French Drop Restrictions
>  ===
>
>  * US Revises Export Controls *
>
>  The US Department of Commerce issued new interim regulations on
>  on encryption export controls on December 31, 1998. The new regulations,
>  which were announced in September, are targeted towards
>  large corporations. Restrictions on the exports of strong encryption
>  used for private, non-commerical reasons is still strictly limited.
>  The new rules:
>
>  Allow export of software-based 56-bits encryption programs
>  including DES. On January 19, a cracking contest sponsored by RSA
>  broke DES in 21 hours.
>
>  Allow exports of products of any key length to insurance companies,
>  medical end-users, and online merchants (only for buying and selling
>  goods) under the current exception available for banks.
>
>  Allows export to US subsidiaries for "internal company proprietary
>  use" and provides for favorable rules for exporting to partners
>  of American companies.
>
>  Removes some of the licensing requirements on export of key
>  escrow/key recovery systems.
>
>  Comments on the rules are due March 1, 1998. An copy of the rules is
>  available at:
>
>   http://www.epic.org/crypto/export_controls/bxa-regs-1298.html
>
>
>  * France Announces Major Crypto Liberalization *
>
>  French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin announced on January 19 that the
>  French government is relaxing its current restrictive policy on
>  encryption. Under the new policy, a key escrow system of "Trusted Third
>  Parties" will no longer be required for domestic use. The 1996 law
>  requiring TTPs w

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Lott, Barr, and the CCC [Think KKK]

[Agent Smiley]

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In a message dated 1/21/99 12:23:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> It is sad that one MUST hold 'popular' politically correct views to be
>  represented
>  in this 'free' nation.
>
>  Regard$,

>  --MJ

People may be attacked for their views but they are hardly unrepresented.  We
are talking about people in Congress who are REPRESENTING such views.

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[CTRL] Group publishes home addresses of abortion doctors - Spokane

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>
>
>  Poster meant to shame, witness says
>
>
>  Associated Press -
>
>
>  PORTLAND _ A poster that lists the home addresses of ``The Deadly
>  Dozen'' abortion doctors and brands them ``guilty of crimes against
>  humanity'' was meant to shame, not threaten, an activist testified
>  Tuesday.
>
>  ``Those fliers contained nothing illegal, no threats,'' said Monica
>  Miller, an abortion foe from Wisconsin who helped design the poster.
>  ``We did not intend ... that abortion providers would be frightened.''
>
>  But abortion doctors and clinics claim in a $200 million federal lawsuit
>  that the posters and a similar Web listing called ``The Nuremberg
>  Files'' made them very afraid and amount to nothing more than a hit
>  list.
>
>  They contend that even though the materials contain no explicit threats,
>  they seem to encourage violence through the use of such tactics as
>  providing detailed personal information and crossing through the names
>  of slain doctors.
>
>  As the case headed into its second full week, attorneys for more than a
>  dozen defendants pressed the argument that the posters and Web site were
>  constitutionally protected political speech.
>
>  Miller testified that the poster was designed merely to incite protests
>  at abortion providers' homes and expose their work to neighbors and
>  members of their church.
>
>
>  Miller, once named in the lawsuit but later dismissed, was the first
>  witness called by the defense. She was followed by defendant Michael
>  Dodds, an anti-abortion activist from Kansas.
>
>  Dodds, who helped organize the American Coalition of Life Advocates
>  conference where the ``Deadly Dozen'' poster was unveiled, blamed the
>  media for its wide dissemination.





Poster meant to shame, witness says


Associated Press -


PORTLAND _ A poster that lists the home addresses of ``The Deadly
Dozen'' abortion doctors and brands them ``guilty of crimes against
humanity'' was meant to shame, not threaten, an activist testified
Tuesday.

``Those fliers contained nothing illegal, no threats,'' said Monica
Miller, an abortion foe from Wisconsin who helped design the poster.
``We did not intend ... that abortion providers would be frightened.''

But abortion doctors and clinics claim in a $200 million federal lawsuit
that the posters and a similar Web listing called ``The Nuremberg
Files'' made them very afraid and amount to nothing more than a hit
list.

They contend that even though the materials contain no explicit threats,
they seem to encourage violence through the use of such tactics as
providing detailed personal information and crossing through the names
of slain doctors.

As the case headed into its second full week, attorneys for more than a
dozen defendants pressed the argument that the posters and Web site were
constitutionally protected political speech.

Miller testified that the poster was designed merely to incite protests
at abortion providers' homes and expose their work to neighbors and
members of their church.


Miller, once named in the lawsuit but later dismissed, was the first
witness called by the defense. She was followed by defendant Michael
Dodds, an anti-abortion activist from Kansas.

Dodds, who helped organize the American Coalition of Life Advocates
conference where the ``Deadly Dozen'' poster was unveiled, blamed the
media for its wide dissemination.




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[CTRL] Synthetic Hormone in Milk Raises New Concerns (NY Times)

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>
>  Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/
>
>  Synthetic Hormone in Milk Raises New Concerns (NY Times)
>
>  January 19, 1999
>
>  By SUSAN GILBERT
>
>  It was the confluence of two important events that made Carol Baxter
>  start buying organic milk about five and a half years ago. Her oldest
>  daughter had just turned 1 and soon would move from breast milk to
>  cow's milk. And American dairy farmers had just received approval to
>  inject their cows with recombinant bovine growth hormone, a
>  genetically engineered hormone that increases milk production.
>
>  Ms. Baxter, who lives in Palisades, N.Y., knew of environmental
>  groups' claims that treated cows got more infections and needed more
>  antibiotics, which could then enter their milk. And she learned that
>  some scientists had raised the possibility of an increased cancer risk
>  in people who drank the milk. "Milk is such an important part of a
>  child's diet," she said. "I didn't want my child to be a guinea pig."
>
>  The Food and Drug Administration has long dismissed such concerns. In
>  the journal Science in 1990, two agency scientists concluded that "no
>  toxicologically significant changes" were seen in rats that ingested
>  the hormone. The agency's approval of the hormone in 1993 rested on
>  the strength of that 90-day rat study, which was commissioned by
>  Monsanto, the manufacturer.
>
>  Safety questions about the hormone never went away among
>  health-conscious consumers, and recently the old questions have
>  resurfaced in light of new research and a fresh examination of the rat
>  study.
>
>  Last week, the Canadian government said that it would not approve the
>  synthetic hormone. Canadian scientists reviewed unpublished data from
>  the study and found health effects that had not been cited in the
>  Science report. Canada's decision leaves the United States the only
>  major country to permit use of the synthetic hormone.
>
>  In its analysis of the Monsanto rat study, the Canadian scientists
>  found that 20 percent to 30 percent of the rats that ingested high
>  doses of the hormone developed antibodies to it, a sign that it was
>  active in the bloodstream. And some of the male rats developed cysts
>  on their thyroids and abnormalities in their prostates.
>
>  In December, after the Canadian researchers released their findings,
>  Sens. Patrick Leahy and James Jeffords, both of Vermont, asked Health
>  and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala to investigate whether the
>  =46DA overlooked evidence in the case. Dr. Shalala has not yet
>  responded.
>
>  In addition, in December, 21 dairy farmer associations and consumer
>  groups in the United States said they would file suit against the FDA
>  for failing to require additional safety studies of the hormone. "The
>  90-day rat study doesn't show that recombinant bovine growth hormone
>  is a human health hazard," said Dr. Michael Hanson, a research
>  associate for the Consumer Policy Research Institute, a division of
>  the Consumers Union, one of the groups. "But neither does it show that
>  there is no possibility of any health hazard, as FDA claimed. It's
>  clear that FDA has grossly misled us."
>
>  The agency is writing a response to the concerns, said Dr. Stephen
>  Sundlof, director of its Center for Veterinary Medicine. He
>  acknowledged that the agency had not reviewed the antibody data in the
>  approval process "for reasons I can't explain."
>
>  He said the agency had seen the information on the thyroid and
>  prostate effects, but considered them "biologically meaningless"
>  because they were no more prevalent in rats fed high doses of the
>  hormone than in those fed low doses. Ordinarily, if a substance like a
>  drug affects the body, the effects increase as the dose increases.
>  "Consumers have no reason to be concerned about the milk," he said.
>
>  Monsanto said its product, called Posilac, is safe. Extensive
>  evaluations have established that the hormone supplements for cows do
>  not change the composition and wholesomeness of milk, Dr. David
>  Kowalczyk and Dr. Robert Collier, Monsanto scientists, wrote in a
>  statement released Jan. 12. The scientists point out that the United
>  Nations Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives, which determines the
>  safety of residues from veterinary drugs in foods, affirmed in March
>  that the growth hormone was safe.
>
>  Besides the Canadian investigation, two studies published last year
>  rekindled longstanding worries about a possible increased risk of
>  cancer from consuming milk from hormone-treated cows. Reports from two
>  continuing Harvard-based studies, the Physicians' Health Study and the
>  Nurses' Health Study, found that insulin-dependent growth factor 1, a
>  protein that is elevated in the milk of hormone-treated cows, is a
>  strong risk factor for breast cancer and prostate cancer.
>
>  Researchers in the study say this protein circulates naturally in t

[CTRL] aww, poor Monsanto's having troubles

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  Hi: this is from that massive MAI site:
>
>  http://www3.islandnet.com/~ncfs/maisite/list.htm
>
>   MAI & Monsanto?--maybe it's a site of articles beginning with the
>  letter "M". ;) some of the way into the article are two websites on how
>  and where Monsanto's being attacked. maybe Monsanto's an MAI
>  proponent--duh!
>
>  Enjoy! (MWA_HA_HA!),
>
>  Nick
>
>  From a failed $35 billion merger failure to a boycott of terminator
>  technology seeds
>
> MONSANTO UNDER ATTACK
>
>Setbacks from Brazil, to Canada, to the U.K.
>
>Ronnie Cummins, Little Marais, Minnesota
>
>  Quote of the month:
>
>  "It's a gradual process of allaying public fears and obtaining more
>  public acceptance," says Monsanto U.K public and government affairs
>  director Anne Foster. "Gradually people will gain confidence in a new
>  science."
>
>  After a disastrous month of internecine power struggles, a collapsed
>  merger with American Home Products, PR (public relations) snafus, and
>  continuing "glitches" in its genetically engineered products, Monsanto's
>  stock has plummeted 30%. Despite millions of acres of its GE
>  (genetically engineered) crops under cultivation across the world, the
>  Behemoth of Biotech no longer seems quite so invincible. In the last few
>  months, the St. Louis-based multinational has suffered a number of
>  reverses, including the following:
>
>  A failed $35 billion merger with American Home Products (AHP). Monsanto,
>  heavily in debt, has literally run out of cash. The company desperately
>  needs the kind of capital and sales force which a pharmaceutical giant
>  like AHP has in order to finance their recent multi-billion dollar
>  acquisitions of seed and research companies and to market the numerous
>  genetically engineered products in their pipeline. Without a massive
>  influx of capital, an over-extended Monsanto now will have no choice but
>  to slow down its manic rush to bio-colonize the world. In the wake of
>  the AHP fiasco, Citibank has agreed to front Monsanto several billion
>  dollars in cash, and the
>  company announced plans to sell four billion dollars in new stocks, but
>  financial analysts predict that Monsanto may now be ripe for an
>  unfriendly takeover by one of the other larger "life science"
>  transnationals such as Dow, Dupont, or Novartis.
>
>  Continuing public relations and marketing problems in Europe and around
>  the world. Although calls for a three to five year moratorium on
>  planting GE crops in Britain and across Europe apparently have been
>  shelved, at least for the moment, the fact that mounting public pressure
>  has forced the European Parliament and European Commission officials to
>  even discuss such a GE moratorium has Monsanto and the entire biotech
>  industry spooked. Across Europe genetically engineered field crops
>  continue to be uprooted by protestors, more and more supermarket chains
>  are attempting to source non-GE products, while activist organizations
>  like Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Global 2000, European Farmers
>  Coordination (CPE), and the Genetic Engineering
>  Network generate steady media coverage and publicity.
>
>  In late-September in the U.K., a special issue of The Ecologist magazine
>  on Monsanto was pulled off the presses and destroyed by its printer.
>  After finding another printer brave enough to publish the magazine, The
>  Ecologist then learned from leading U.K. newsstands that they would not
>  distribute the issue. Although Monsanto claims they haven't threatened
>  printers or magazine vendors, almost no one seems to believe them. As
>  Zac Goldsmith, The Ecologist's co-editor,
>  stated, "Through reputation alone Monsanto has been able, time and time
>  again, to bring about what is in effect defacto censorship. Their size
>  and history of aggression has repeatedly brought an end to what is
>  undeniably a legitimate and very important debate. They believe in
>  information, but only that which ensures a favorable public response to
>  their often dangerous products."
>
>  In the United States Monsanto has begun receiving adverse publicity for
>  prosecuting farmers for saving Monsanto's patented herbicide-resistant
>  "Roundup Ready" soybean seeds. According to press reports Monsanto has
>  hired Pinkerton detectives to harass more than 1800 farmers and seed
>  dealers across the country, with 475 potential criminal "seed piracy"
>  cases already under investigation. A group of seed-saving farmers in
>  Kentucky, Iowa, and Illinois have already been
>  forced to pay fines to Monsanto of up to $35,000 each. Besides the cost
>  of the seed, a $6.50 technology fee is charged by Monsanto for each 50
>  pound bag of Roundup Ready seed. As Monsanto told the Associated Press
>  October 27, "We say they can pay (either of) two royalties --$6.50 at
>  the store or $600 in court,'' said Scott Baucum, Monsanto manage

[CTRL] Fwd: Libertarian Party News

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  Former Libertarian candidate arrested;
>  party condemns police action
>
>  SACRAMENTO -- Steve Kubby, the 1998 Libertarian
>  candidate for governor of California, and his wife Michele were arrested
>  Tuesday morning in a police raid of their home in Olympic Valley.
>
>  Steve, 52, and Michele, 32, were taken to Placer County Jail where bail
>  was set at $100,000 each. Arraignment is scheduled for
>  Thursday afternoon in Tahoe City Court. The Kubbys are charged with
>  unauthorized cultivation, harvesting and processing of marijuana;
>  possession with intent to sell; and conspiracy. "This arrest is an
>  outrage and a slap across the faces of California voters," declared
>  Libertarian state chair Mark Hinkle. "Steve and Michele Kubby are
>  law-abiding citizens and the police have no authority to raid their
>  home, throw them in jail, and jeopardize Steve's health."
>
>  Steve, publisher of the online recreational magazine "Alpine World,"
>  played a key role in Proposition 215, the medical marijuana initiative
>  which voters overwhelmingly approved in November,
>  1996.
>
>  Steve was diagnosed with adrenal cancer in 1975 and uses medical
>  marijuana under doctor's orders. His cancer is currently in
>  remission. He also takes medical marijuana to treat high blood pressure.
>  Since his arrest, Steve has been denied access to his medicine.
>
>  "How long will the state of California continue violating the will of
>  the voters? How many people will have to suffer or die before the
>  government realizes the extreme harm it is causing medical marijuana
>  patients who are denied their rightful medicine?" asked Hinkle.
>
>  State Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced earlier this month that he
>  would be taking a softer stance on Prop. 215 than his
>  predecessor Dan Lungren did. But Libertarians aren't holding their
>  breath.
>
>  "Is yesterday's action an example of what Californians can expect under
>  Lockyer's watch? The Libertarian Party of California
>  condemns the Kubbys' arrest in no uncertain terms, and we urge Mr.
>  Lockyer to order all local law enforcement to immediately cease raiding
>  and arresting medical marijuana patients who are following the law,"
>  Hinkle stated. "Let Steve and Michele Kubby go."
>
>  Yesterday's arrest was the first for both Kubbys.
>
>  For subscription changes, mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the
>  word "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in the subject line.
>  Libertarian Party of California 400 Capitol Mall, Suite 900
>  http://www.ca.lp.org/
>  Sacramento, CA 95814





Former Libertarian candidate arrested;
party condemns police action

SACRAMENTO -- Steve Kubby, the 1998 Libertarian
candidate for governor of California, and his wife Michele were arrested
Tuesday morning in a police raid of their home in Olympic Valley.

Steve, 52, and Michele, 32, were taken to Placer County Jail where bail
was set at $100,000 each. Arraignment is scheduled for
Thursday afternoon in Tahoe City Court. The Kubbys are charged with
unauthorized cultivation, harvesting and processing of marijuana;
possession with intent to sell; and conspiracy. "This arrest is an
outrage and a slap across the faces of California voters," declared
Libertarian state chair Mark Hinkle. "Steve and Michele Kubby are
law-abiding citizens and the police have no authority to raid their
home, throw them in jail, and jeopardize Steve's health."

Steve, publisher of the online recreational magazine "Alpine World,"
played a key role in Proposition 215, the medical marijuana initiative
which voters overwhelmingly approved in November,
1996.

Steve was diagnosed with adrenal cancer in 1975 and uses medical
marijuana under doctor's orders. His cancer is currently in
remission. He also takes medical marijuana to treat high blood pressure.
Since his arrest, Steve has been denied access to his medicine.

"How long will the state of California continue violating the will of
the voters? How many people will have to suffer or die before the
government realizes the extreme harm it is causing medical marijuana
patients who are denied their rightful medicine?" asked Hinkle.

State Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced earlier this month that he
would be taking a softer stance on Prop. 215 than his
predecessor Dan Lungren did. But Libertarians aren't holding their
breath.

"Is yesterday's action an example of what Californians can expect under
Lockyer's watch? The Libertarian Party of California
condemns the Kubbys' arrest in no uncertain terms, and we urge Mr.
Lockyer to order all local law enforcement to immediately cease raiding
and arresting medical marijuana patients who are following the law,"
Hinkle stated. "Let Steve and Michele Kubby go."

Yesterday's arrest was the first for both Kubbys.

For subscription changes, mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the
word "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in the subject line.
Libertarian Party of California 400 Capitol Mall, Suite 900
http://www.ca.lp.org/
Sacrament

Re: [CTRL] JonBenet Ramsey - A Theory

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

The word on the streets of Boulder is that her daddy pissed off some
businessman who had her RITUALLY killed as a message.  Of course, the word on
the streets of Boulder is also that he has not come forward with this because
this would shed light on his nasyt business dealings.

This is merely the word on the streets - where it all happened.  Sometimes I
think that the word on the streets is as reliable as any newspaper. 

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[CTRL] America - End of Empire? (FWD)

[Agent Smiley]

>  FWD From: alt.activism
>
>  In 1899 if anyone had suggested to an Englishman that the British Empire
>  was about to end he would have laughed.  100 years later America is in
>  the same position as Britain was.  America is at the zenith of its
>  power. Within the last ten years it has seen off the only serious rival
>  it had to world domination when the USSR imploded.  It virtually ignores
>  world opinion in pursuit of its own interests.
>
>  Human rights? How will it affect the opinion polls - ie is it a
>  "popular" cause? Tibet - not enough votes and China is a bit big to kick
>  - ignore it where possible and platitudes elsewhere.  Kuwait? Looks
>  good. War takes the popular mind off problems at home. It keeps the
>  military happy as they can play with their bright shiny, deadly, toys.
>  It keeps Industry happy as it spends money that swirls through the
>  economy. It can also be portrayed as standing up for the little guy
>  (ignore inconvenient facts such as one dictator removing another
>  dictator).  So support human rights where it makes the voters feel good
>  and ignore them elsewhere especially if it might lose business.
>
>  In fact almost any policy in America appears to relate to these aims. Is
>  it good for business especially a business that gives out large sums in
>  political support? Will it enhance a politicians image with the voters?
>
>  Today America arrogantly assumes she can do whatever she wants around
>  the world without repercussions that can affect her.  In the last year
>  America has stuck its thumb in its mouth and gone on ad nauseum about a
>  President who likes sex with anything female.  Could you really see it
>  indulging in such shenanigans at the height of the cold war?  Of course
>  not it could not have afforded to show that sort of weakness. Now it has
>  warned off any one who is even half intelligent to stay away from being
>  President. The result will be a string of second rate people with second
>  rate minds achieving third rate ambitions.
>
>  Her people are splitting amongst themselves into divergent and opposing
>  cultures. Instead of emphasising their sameness they emphasise how
>  different they are. Instead of promoting a single language so that all
>  can have equality of opportunity with it they promote divergent
>  languages so that racism can flourish on the grounds that "I can't
>  employ youno one around here will understand you."  Each group tries
>  its hardest to achieve victim status so that it can put all the others
>  on a guilt trip and
>  hopefully get some money or other benefit off them.
>
>  Abroad it's Imperial ambitions have a major defect. It is unwilling to
>  shed the blood of its soldiers. The only way to maintain a hegemony is
>  to be willing to uswe force to keep it. Iraq has shown the limits to
>  what that force is. Air power is easily used. Unmanned missiles only
>  hurt the "enemy"  hundreds of miles away. Manned aircraft are so far in
>  advance of any potential enemy that they are almost invulnerable. Yet
>  these alone do not win wars. You must be willing to risk the lives of
>  your servicemen. America is not.
>
>  It would appear that America can only go from strength to strength but I
>  would suggest that like every other Empire ever known that America will
>  actually start losing power and become second rate.  When you are at the
>  top there is only one way to go...
>
>  Just a few (draft) thoughts with a question. What or who will replace
>  her?





FWD From: alt.activism

In 1899 if anyone had suggested to an Englishman that the British Empire
was about to end he would have laughed.  100 years later America is in
the same position as Britain was.  America is at the zenith of its
power. Within the last ten years it has seen off the only serious rival
it had to world domination when the USSR imploded.  It virtually ignores
world opinion in pursuit of its own interests.

Human rights? How will it affect the opinion polls - ie is it a
"popular" cause? Tibet - not enough votes and China is a bit big to kick
- ignore it where possible and platitudes elsewhere.  Kuwait? Looks
good. War takes the popular mind off problems at home. It keeps the
military happy as they can play with their bright shiny, deadly, toys.
It keeps Industry happy as it spends money that swirls through the
economy. It can also be portrayed as standing up for the little guy
(ignore inconvenient facts such as one dictator removing another
dictator).  So support human rights where it makes the voters feel good
and ignore them elsewhere especially if it might lose business.

In fact almost any policy in America appears to relate to these aims. Is
it good for business especially a business that gives out large sums in
political support? Will it enhance a politicians image with the voters?

Today America arrogantly assumes she can do whatever she wants around
the world without repercussions that can affect her.  In the last 

[CTRL] Iraq/DU: PERMANENT War on Civilians, Children ...

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  http://leb.net/IAC/fisk2.html
>
>   Robert Fisk - The evidence is there. We caused cancer in the Gulf
>
>--
>
>  October 16, 1998
>  The Independent, UK
>
>  PHIL GAMER telephoned me this week to ask how he could make contact with
>  the doctors treating Iraq's child cancer victims. He had been reading
>  our series on the growing evidence of links between cancers in Iraq and
>  the use of depleted uranium shells by American and British forces during
>  the 1991 Gulf War.
>
>  During the conflict, Gamer was in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was
>  not in the front lines, but he handled the uniforms of Britain's
>  "friendly fire" casualties - men who were attacked by US aircraft using
>  depleted uranium rounds. And now he suffers from asthma, incontinence,
>  pain in the intestines and has a lump on the right side of his neck.
>
>  I know what those lumps on the neck look like. This month I've seen
>  enough Iraqi children with tumours on their abdomen to feel horror as
>  well as anger. When Hebba Mortaba's mother lifted her little girl's
>  patterned blue dress in the Mansour hospital in Baghdad, her terribly
>  swollen abdomen displayed numerous abscesses. Doctors had already
>  surgically removed an earlier abdominal mass only to find, monster-like,
>  that another grew in its place.
>
>  During the 1991 war, Hebba's suburb of Basra was bombed so heavily that
>  her family fled to Baghdad. She is now just nine years old and, so her
>  doctors told me gently, will not live to see her 10th birthday.
>
>  When I first reported from Iraq's child cancer wards last February and
>  March - and visited the fields and farms around Basra into which US and
>  British tanks fired thousands of depleted uranium shells in the last
>  days of the war - the British Government went to great lengths to
>  discredit what I wrote. I still treasure a letter from Lord Gilbert,
>  Minister of State for Defence Procurement, who told Independent readers
>  that my account of a possible link between DU ammunition and increased
>  Iraqi child cancer cases would, "coming
>  from anyone other than Robert Fisk", be regarded as "a wilful perversion
>  of reality." According to his Lordship, particles from the DU hardened
>  warheads - used against tank armour - are extremely small, rapidly
>  diluted and dispersed by the weather and "become difficult to detect,
>  even with the most sophisticated monitoring equipment." Over the past
>  few months I've been sent enough evidence to suggest that, had this
>  letter come from anyone other than his Lordship, its implications would
>  be mendacious as well as misleading.
>
>  Let us start with an equally eloquent but far more accurate letter sent
>  to the Royal Ordnance in London on 21 April 1991 by Paddy Bartholomew,
>  business development manager of AEA Technology, the trading name for the
>  UK Atomic Energy Authority. Mr Bartholomew's letter - of which I have
>  obtained a copy - refers to a telephone conversation with a Royal
>  Ordnance official on the dangers of the possible contamination of Kuwait
>  by depleted uranium ammunition. An accompanying "threat paper" by Mr
>  Bartholomew, in which he notes that while the hazards caused by the
>  spread of radioactivity and toxic
>  contamination from these weapons "are small when compared to those
>  during a war", they nonetheless "can become a long-term problem if not
>  dealt with in peacetime and are a risk to both military and civilian
>  population".
>
>  The document, marked "UK Restricted" goes on to say that "US tanks fired
>  5,000 DU rounds, US aircraft many tens of thousands and UK tanks a small
>  number of DU rounds. The tank ammunition alone will amount to greater
>  than 50,000lb of DU...if the tank inventory of DU was inhaled, the
>  latest International Committee of Radiological Protection risk
>  factor...calculates 500,000 potential deaths."
>
>  "The DU will spread around the battlefield and target vehicles in
>  various sizes and quantities ... it would be unwise for people to stay
>  close to large quantities of DU for long periods and this would
>  obviously be of concern to the local population if they collect this
>  heavy metal and keep it."
>
>  Mr Bartholomew's covering letter says that the contamination of Kuwait
>  is "emotive and thus must be dealt with in a sensitive manner".
>
>  Needless to say, no one has bothered even to suggest a clean-up in
>  southern Iraq where Hebba Mortaba and other child victims are dying. Why
>  not? And why doesn't the Government come clean and tell us what really
>  happened?
>
>  Here is a clue. It comes in a letter dated 1 March 1991 from a US
>  lieutenant colonel at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to a Major
>  Larson at the organisation's Studies and Analysis Branch and states
>  that: "There has been and continues to be a concern (sic) regarding the
>  impact of DU on the environ

[CTRL] Massacre in another Delta Community

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  ERA FIELD REPORT NUMBER 20
>
>  CHEVRON'S NEW YEAR GIFT: THE OPIA AND IKIYAN MASSACRE DESPATCH LINE:
>  OPIA & IKIYAN DATE:  JANUARY 8, 1999 FROM: VICTORIA ALUYOR
>
>  * TWO VILLAGES RAZED DOWN AND INHABITANTS SACKED
>  * TRADITIONAL RULER, OTHERS MURDERED
>  * CHEVRON'S "ILAJE COMMANDO STYLE" REPEATED
>  * NO EXPLANATION FROM CHEVRON
>
>  INTRODUCTION
>
>  Opia and Ikiyan are two Ijaw villages in Warri North Local Government
>  Area of Delta State, Nigeria.  Opia is a remote riverine village about
>  3 hours away by speedboat from Warri.  Their main occupation is fishing
>  and lumbering.
>
>  Sedeco Forex, a drilling company with Chevron, the American oil giant,
>  has a rig in the area called serial 4 rig among other rigs.
>
>  DEADLY NEIGHBOURS
>
>  On the 4th of January this year, members of Opia community sent some of
>  their women to Serial 4 rig to request that Chevron provides some
>  facilities in the community in the spirit of the new year   having
>  harboured them in their land, and so far have been good neighbours.
>  Chevron sent the women away and requested that the men and youths of
>  the community should come. They did.
>
>  THE SACKING OF OPIA
>
>  Chevron staff on the rig then sent a radio message to Escravos and
>  while they were still on board the Serial 4 rig, soldiers came in
>  Chevron helicopters at about 2 p.m. and razed down the village.  Two
>  hours later, more soldiers came on speedboats and opened fire on the
>  people.  Many jumped into the sea to avoid the hellish hail.  Many
>  others ran into the forest since the whole village was on fire.
>
>  MURDERS AT IKIYAN
>
>  After the operation in Opia, the soldiers moved to Ikiyan the next
>  village and killed a youth, Bright Paplogba, who came out to inquire
>  about what was happening.  They also killed a traditional ruler, Chief
>  Agbagbaidi Ikiyan. He was shot several times at point blank range.
>  When the shootings had no apparent effect on him, the Chevron commandos
>  went closer and shot several bullets into his heart and shoulder blades.
>  The old man slumped and died. Having done this, they set to burning down
>  the village.
>
>  According to some Ijaw youths, the corpses found have been buried. Some
>  persons are still yet to be accounted for.  The villages have been
>  deserted and most people are now taking refuge in nearby villages.
>
>  Nobody knows where the directives to shoot and raze down the two
>  villages came from but one thing is certain: the soldiers came with
>  Chevron helicopters and Chevron boats.
>
>  MARKING AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY WITH MURDERS?
>
>  There are reports that on the 4th of July 1998, Chevron had launched a
>  similar attack on these same communities and in the process some
>  villagers were killed, including an elderly woman, Madam Wonama Bigha.
>  As usual, Chevron got away with it.  The incidents in this report
>  occurred 5 months later.
>
>  On May 28, 1998, Chevron hired soldiers to raid local youths on their
>  Parabe Platform at Ilaje, Ondo State.  Two youths, Mr. Arolika Irowainu
>  and Mr. Jola Ogungbeje were confirmed killed in that incident.
>
>  In the unreported raid of 4th of July 1998 an unrepentant Chevron,
>  while denying involvement at Ilaje, mowed down innocent villagers at
>  Opia/Ikiyan. While Americans at home were celebrating National
>  Independence on July 4, Chevron was brutally ensuring the denial of
>  liberties and right to life of Nigerians.
>
>  ERA DEMANDS
>
>  * Chevron must be called to order, now.
>  * Chevron must desist from murdering innocent Nigerians.
>  * Chevron should learn basic good neighbourliness.
>  * Chevron should be held accountable and should be made to reconstruct
>  the razed villages complete with basic facilities.
>  * Chevron should publicly apologise to the people of Opia/Ikiyan, the
>  Ijaw nation and the entire Nigerian people.  They should sign an
>  undertaking not to repeat these attacks on Opia/Ikiyan or any other set
>  of people in Nigeria.
>  * The Nigerian Army should desist from being tools in the hands of
>  multi-national oil companies and remember that their job is to defend
>  the Nigerian nation and not to destroy her people.
>  *An end to hostilities against oil communities, and total withdrawal of
>  troops from the Niger Delta.
>
>  WHAT YOU CAN DO:
>
>  *Send letters of protest to Chevron in Nigeria and to any of their
>  offices nearest to you. Demand that they respect the individual as well
>  as the collective rights of the Nigerian people. Write: Chevron Nigeria
>  Limited, 2, Chevron Drive, Lekki Peninsular P.M.B. 12825, Lagos, Nigeria
>  Phone: 01- 260-0600 Fax: 01-260-0395
>
>
>  **
>
>  Kenneth T. Derr, Chairman and CEO Chevron Corporation 575 Market St.
>  San Francisco, CA 94105-2856 Tel.: 415-894-7700 Fax: 415-894-0593
>  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
>  +++
>
>  For more information/reports and phot

[CTRL] Arab governments powerless and fragmented

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/
>
>  Arab governments powerless and fragmented
>
>
>  Agence France Presse: Saturday January 16, 9:05 AM
>
>
>  DUBAI, Jan 16 (AFP) - Eight years after the end of the Gulf War, Arabs
>  remain powerless and fragmented over their stand on the Iraqi regime
>  -- refusing reconciliation but also failing to define any clear
>  policy.
>
>  "The Arab governments are powerless to formulate a common policy over
>  their main problems, firstly the Iraqi question, and this forces them
>  to submit to others' strategies," said Burhan Ghaliun, political
>  science professor at France's Sorbonne university.
>
>  "Arab countries' weakness to resolve the Iraqi question stems
>  essentially from inter-Arab conflicts and an inability to have a
>  policy independent of the United States," he said.
>
>  As the odds of further US and British strikes on Iraq increase, the
>  Arab states cannot agree on whether to hold a summit or even a
>  ministerial meeting on the previous missile attacks launched in
>  December.
>
>  Several countries, led by Saudi Arabia, are blocking Iraq's
>  participation in an Arab summit proposed by Yemen.
>
>  Iraq, which has not attended a summit since its 1990 invasion of
>  Kuwait, has called for the Arabs to unite to lift the UN embargo
>  imposed after the invasion.
>
>  "There will be no summit, because the Arab regimes will act to delay
>  it to allow the United States, which is pressuring them, to continue
>  its strikes on Iraq," said Abdel Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of
>  London-based Al-Qods Al-Arabi newspaper.
>
>  "It is difficult, even impossible, to reintegrate the Iraqi regime
>  into the Arab family," said former Kuwaiti education minister Ahmad
>  al-Rabei.
>
>  "Iraq has never managed to have normal ties with its neighbours, and
>  no Arab country trusts it," he said.
>
>  Arab states, particularly the Gulf countries, are caught between their
>  fear of the Iraqi regime and a fear of the unknown if President Saddam
>  Hussein was overthrown.
>
>  Not long after December's four-day US-British air campaign dubbed
>  operation Desert Fox, Saddam appeared on television urging the Arab
>  people to rise up against their leaders.
>
>  His speech revived the Arab states' old fears about Baghdad, even for
>  those which had been making headway for more friendly ties.
>
>  Saudi Arabia launched a humanitarian campaign to ease the crippling UN
>  sanctions to alleviate the suffering of the Iraqi people without
>  strengthening Saddam's regime.
>
>  But Iraq dismissed the initiative as inspired by the Western allies to
>  "replace the temporary embargo with a permanent embargo", and "assuage
>  the Arab world's anger".
>
>  If the Arabs were divided during the 1991 Gulf War in their support or
>  otherwise for Iraq, today "there is on one side the Arab people and on
>  the other their arguing governments", said Atwan.
>
>  During December's strikes there were widespread pro-Iraqi
>  demonstrations across the Arab world.
>
>  "The gap is widening between the Arab street and the governments,"
>  said Atwan, who predicted "a popular explosion" if there are new
>  strikes.
>
>  "It is certain that the Gulf regimes are losing crdibility over the
>  repeated strikes against Iraq ... and are finding themselves forced
>  into being more and more dependent on foreign protection," Ghaliun
>  said.
>
>  In a situation like this, "it is desirable that Iraq be reintegrated
>  into the Arab world," Ghaliun said.
>
>  But first "there must be an end to this inter-Arab war which serves as
>  a pretext for American intervention."
>
>
>
>
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Arab governments powerless and fragmented


Agence France Presse: Saturday January 16, 9:05 AM


DUBAI, Jan 16 (AFP) - Eight years after the end of the Gulf War, Arabs
remain powerless and fragmented over their stand on the Iraqi regime
-- refusing reconciliation but also failing to define any clear
policy.

"The Arab governments are powerless to formulate a common policy over
their main problems, firstly the Iraqi question, and this forces them
to submit to others' strategies," said Burhan Ghaliun, political
science professor at France's Sorbonne university.

"Arab countries' weakness to resolve the Iraqi question stems
essentially from inter-Arab conflicts and an inability to have a
policy independent of the United States," he said.

As the odds of further US and British strikes on Iraq increase, the
Arab states cannot agree on whether to hold a summit or even a
ministerial meeting on the previous missil

[CTRL] IRAQ: Agreement Between Government and Opposition

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  /** mideast.gulf: 338.0 **/
>  ** Topic: IRAQ: Agreement Between Government and  Opposition **
>  ** Written  1:56 PM  Jan 16, 1999 by mideastdesk in cdp:mideast.gulf **
>  --- Forwarded Message Follows ---
>
>  ArabicNews.Com
>
>  Agreement in Baghdad between Iraqi government and opposition factions
>  Iraq, Politics, 1/15/99
>
>  Diplomatic sources and Iraqi opposition sources announced that an
>  important agreement was ratified in Baghdad on Wednesday between the
>  Iraqi government and eight opposition factions who made a two-day visit
>  to Iraq to hold talks that were described as "urgent" after the
>  agreement of President Saddam Hussein to meet with the representatives.
>
>  The Iraqi diplomatic sources described the agreement as "historical."
>
>  The opposition sources said that Baghdad asked for a period of time to
>  apply what came in the agreement to last until the end of the conflict
>  between Iraq and the United States and US allies in the area.
>
>  The eight factions that signed the agreement are the United Iraqi
>  Organization, the Communist Party, the Islamic Union, the Islamic
>  Association, the National Movement, the Socialist National Union, the
>  Islamic Forum and the Socialist Association.
>
>  ** End of text from cdp:mideast.gulf **
>
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/** mideast.gulf: 338.0 **/
** Topic: IRAQ: Agreement Between Government and  Opposition **
** Written  1:56 PM  Jan 16, 1999 by mideastdesk in cdp:mideast.gulf **
--- Forwarded Message Follows ---

ArabicNews.Com

Agreement in Baghdad between Iraqi government and opposition factions
Iraq, Politics, 1/15/99

Diplomatic sources and Iraqi opposition sources announced that an
important agreement was ratified in Baghdad on Wednesday between the
Iraqi government and eight opposition factions who made a two-day visit
to Iraq to hold talks that were described as "urgent" after the
agreement of President Saddam Hussein to meet with the representatives.

The Iraqi diplomatic sources described the agreement as "historical."

The opposition sources said that Baghdad asked for a period of time to
apply what came in the agreement to last until the end of the conflict
between Iraq and the United States and US allies in the area.

The eight factions that signed the agreement are the United Iraqi
Organization, the Communist Party, the Islamic Union, the Islamic
Association, the National Movement, the Socialist National Union, the
Islamic Forum and the Socialist Association.

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Re: [CTRL] Clinton - I Agree

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The number of issues on which the body politic stands at odds with the people
grows.  Historically, this has only resulted in one thing.

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Clinton's War On Your Privacy

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Clinton is complicit in this but to claim that it is HIS war denies mountains
of evidence and testimony.  It DOES feed the mentality, thought, that if we
just get him out of here we'll be OK.  I am for Clinton's impeachment and
removal from office.  I am also for holding the rest of DC to the same
standard.  I hope this is a start but I doubt it.

It's 1999 and America is nervous.  If republicans and democrats get together
and get rid of this guy, we get to feel that the system really does work and
THEY get to go on doing what they have been doing.  This is entertainment
folks!

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Re: [CTRL] Reader's Digest: Bioterrorist Warning

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Reader's Digest is a joke.

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Re: [CTRL] Clinton - I Agree

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The facts are that there are a whole variety of items on which Clinton is
impeachable but all those in favor of removing him from office in DC CHOSE to
focus on the sex issues.  Could it be that in order to implicate Clinton in
these other scandals would offer too much of an opportunity to expose the
entire federal body for the corrupt parasite that it is?

Ask yourself, "Why have a variety of items of high crime been cast aside in
favor of his sex life and his attempt to maintain privacy in his sex life,
whether he broke the law or did wrong - or not?"

It's easy.  It's a lot easier to get the public to pay attention when it
involves such 'dirty' business.  In this country, it is deemed dirtier to have
extramartial sex than it is to take away our rights and enslave many, in the
name of freedom.  Of course, to implicate Clinton in these matters would show
the entire bureaucracy for what it is.

When you cast aside matters like these and opt for a trial around sex, you are
embracing the Oprah mentality: it sells.  The impeachment pitch goes on and
THAT is politics.

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Re: [CTRL] JFK MURDER SOLVED - The truth after 35 years . . .

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>
>  Perhaps.  But I'll still give slightly more credence to the eyewitnesses
>  who were directly involved than in any conjectures by 'true believers'
>  who have turned their pet assassination theory into a religion...

I did not theorize the silver barrel, I saw it.  I did not theorize the cloud
of gas that was emitted from it, I saw it.  I did not theorize that at the
exact instant the cloud of gas is visible, Kennedy's head flew back, I saw it.
I did not theorize that the individual in the passenger seat looked calmly
back at Kennedy, turned back around, spoke to the driver, and that that was
exactly when Greer's hand lifted, that then the cloud of gas appeared, and
that at that exact instant, Kennedy's head flew back - I saw it.  I am
completely perplexed by the 'true believers' comment.  It sounds like you are
alluding to the fact that you have heard this story too often already.  Has
anyone else heard this before?  I have pet theories, but theories are not
based on video.

If what was in Greer's hand was not a gun, why the cloud of gas and why did
that cloud coincide with his lifting of this long shiny object and with
Kennedy's head flying back?

Really, I don't blame you.  You very likely have not seen what I refer to.
Why has no one seen this?

I'm done with this.  I think I have made my point.  Whether or not any of you
think I have misinterpreted these incidences, ask yourself, "Why have I never
seen this?"

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Re: [CTRL] JFK MURDER SOLVED - The truth after 35 years . . .

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>
>  The father, quite understandably, thru his son to the ground on first
>  hearing the shots, and placed himself over his son's body to protect the
>  kid...so other than the initial shot, he didn't SEE much of anything
>  else...but he DID testify to a bullet or bullets hitting the curb by him,
>  which throws the whole Warren Commission scenario out the window...
The folks I am talking about were not on the ground when the second shot
occured.


>  >secret service agents were calm throughout.  When Jackie is seen to be
> making
>  >a break for it, a secret service agent is seen sternly direcing her to get
>  >back in it.
>
>  Jackie was NOT 'making a break for it'...according to her own account,
>  she climbed out onto the back of the limo to retrieve a sizeable portion
>  of her husband's brain,

Even in the commonly seen version she can be seen ON THE TRUNK OF THE LIMO.

>  The secret service agent from the rear car jumped onto the trunk of the
>  limo just as Jackie was gathering up Jack's brains and bits of skull,
>  ostensibly in an attempt to protect the occupants (one would presume
>  Jackie in particular)...nothing ostensibly ominous about it...

I am referring to an incident when Jackie was on THE BACK OF THE LIMO and the
secret service agent I saw very visibly pointed to the seat at which point
Jackie is seen to make her way back to her seat.  You seem to be talking of
another segment, probably the one you were afforded the opportunity to see at
all.  Incidentally, is Jackie going to go by any other than the official
account when it is the highest police body in the country that she can see is
part of this?  Just who is she going to go to?  I imagine words like, "If you
do as we tell you, your kids get to be ambassadors, senators..."

>
>
>  >Was the limo really deemed the safest place for her, given the
>  >fact that the shots were all being directed at it?
>
>  Why not?  What was she supposed to do, jump out onto the street and
>  become a STANDING target?
>
>
>  >Go ahead folks.  Bring it on.  Start with character assination and name
>  >calling and attempts at discrediting.
>
>  No need for all that.
>
>  While I admit that there's a big question as to why the limo driver seems
>  to have been inordinately slow in deciding to get their collective asses
>  out of there, THAT is as far as I will go in granting the driver may have
>  been part of the conspiracy...I feel there were enough professional
>  assassins in the crowd, they didn't need the driver to blatantly shoot
>  JFK in the open like that...
>
>  Besides, if the driver DID shoot, why didn't Jackie or either of the
>  Connallys notice it?

Who was it that testified in the trial that Connally said, as the shots were
being fired, "My God!  They're going to kill us ALL!"

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[CTRL] Fwd: y2k

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>
>
>
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> ---
>  HOUSEHOLD & NEIGHBORHOOD PREPAREDNESS
>
>  Boulder County, Colorado, provides an excellent example of community
>  preparation for Y2K. We present here their story, followed by the
>  guidelines developed by Boulder County Y2K Community Preparedness Group
>  (BCY2K), which include meeting agendas, a flyer, a speech, and forms you
>  may copy and fill out. Thanks to Kathy Garcia and BCY2K for sharing this
>  information with all of us.
>
>  --The editors
>
>
>
>  What Has Been Accomplished
>  in Boulder County
>  By Kathy Garcia, Margo King, and John Steiner
>  We kicked off our Y2K Community Preparedness campaign with a free
>  conference at the University of Colorado, Boulder Campus, from August 20
>  through 23, 1998. The conference was cosponsored by the City of Boulder,
>  the University of Colorado, and the Cassandra Project. Present at the
>  conference were national experts on Y2K, including: Jim Lord, Roleigh
>  Martin, Doug Carmichael, Meg Wheatley, Paloma O'Riley, Cathy Moyer,
>  Steve Davis and Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi. The conference was
>  attended by 700 people from across the United States.
>
>  On Monday, August 24, 1998, we met for the first time with the Multiple
>  Agency Coordinating System (MACS), which is led by the Office of
>  Emergency Management for Boulder County. Boulder County consists of nine
>  cities/towns, each with its own municipal government. Each town has
>  representatives on MACS from fire and police departments, along with
>  representatives from Red Cross, planning department, risk management,
>  University of Colorado, school districts. We now have three citizen
>  members sitting on MACS who are working with the community to prepare
>  for Y2K or any other disaster that may strike.
>
>  We have had educational Y2K meetings with the following groups:
>
>  1. Growers/farmers: asking for their assistance in encouraging
>  individual gardening, harvest, storage, collection of seeds, and
>  canning; and assisting farmers on how to get water to irrigate their
>  fields.
>
>  2. Religious community: asking for their assistance as possible shelters
>  in the neighborhoods where they are located and educating their
>  congregations.
>
>  3. Hispanic community leaders: working to get information to local
>  Spanish television and radio to educate the Hispanic community in the
>  Denver Metro area.
>
>  4. Hospitals: working with Boulder Community Hospital to set up a
>  conference to educate medical personnel on Y2K and its impact on
>  medications for patients (some HMOs only allow a 30-day supply), and
>  inform them on the readiness of the hospital. BCH was also asked to work
>  with two other large hospitals in Boulder County to share what they
>  learned about their bio-med equipment and software.
>
>  5. Human Service Agencies have been asked to educate their clients about
>  Y2K and help them hook up to neighborhood preparedness groups.
>
>  6. Youth from around the county are joining the efforts by becoming
>  Certified Emergency Response Team members to help in all disasters, as
>  well as assisting to weatherize the homes or trailers of elderly and
>  low-income families.
>
>  Some wonderful things have happened here.
>
>  1. The City of Boulder has joined forces with our preparedness group by
>  advocating with the university for free office space; holding a joint
>  press conference to outline the "community plan" for 1999; allowing us
>  to use city stationery to convey information about Y2K meetings
>  throughout Boulder County, city FYI line to convey information about Y2K
>  meetings.
>
>  2. "How To" meetings have been held throughout the county. (See the
>  format description that follows.)
>
>  3. A town meeting was held on October 4 that included representatives
>  from Public Service (utilities), US West (telephone), City of Boulder,
>  Office of Emergency Management, The Cassandra Project, and Boulder
>  Community Hospital. The meeting was attended by more than 400 people who
>  applauded when Chief Stern of the OEM told people they needed to
>  individually prepare and then prepare their neighborhoods. Somehow folks
>  were waiting for permission to act. The biggest message sent by the
>  citizens was "I want the truth" not "everything will be okay" or "we are
>  handling it." Future town meetings will be held every other month.
>
>  4. A rhythm of meetings in each municipality is now in place, from
>  orientation (what is Y2K), to a neighborhood congress (how to conduct
>  meetings), to open meetings (task forces present information to
>  community on food preparedness, companies selling products, and so
>  forth), to community coordinator meetings (coordinators for each
>  municipality get together to fill each other in on what is going on,
>  support needed, and idea sharing).
>
>  5. We have coo

Re: [CTRL] JFK MURDER SOLVED - The truth after 35 years . . .

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In a message dated 1/17/99 3:18:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Other
>  prints, most recently the digitally enhanced version on the "Image of an
>  Assassination" video, show clearly that this is not happening.

I like the phrase 'digitally enhanced.'  At any rate, where can I see this
'digitally enhanced' video or get a copy of it?

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[CTRL] U.S. Medical Journal Editor Fired Over Sex Item

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>  U.S. Medical Journal Editor Fired Over Sex Item
>
> CHICAGO (Reuters) - The American Medical Association on Friday fired
> the editor of its journal for publishing an item on how college
> students define oral sex, timed to appear in the midst of President
> Clinton's impeachment trial.
>
> The article, which will run in the Jan. 20 issue of the AMA Journal,
> reported that 60 percent of U.S. college students in a survey taken
>  in
> 1991 did not define oral sex as sexual relations.
>
> The AMA said its leadership fired editor George Lundberg, because he
> had inappropriately injected the journal into the Clinton impeachment
> debate, threatening its integrity.
>
> Clinton's definition of sex is a key issue in the debate over whether
> he lied about his relationship with former intern Monica Lewinsky.
>
> Lundberg had been editor for 17 years.
>
> ``Through his recent actions (he) has threatened the historic
> tradition and integrity of the Journal of the American Medical
> Association by inappropriately and inexcusably interjecting (the
> journal) into a major political debate that has nothing to do with
> science or medicine. This is unacceptable,'' said E. Ratcliffe
> Anderson, executive vice president of the medical group.
>
> ``The AMA has a responsibility to the medical profession, our
>  patients
> and to the country to ensure that the editorial decisions of the
> world's most trusted medical journal are based on science and the
> highest standards of the medical profession,'' he added.
>
> Anderson said that Lundberg had done much over the years to advance
> the stature of the magazine but ``Over time ... I have lost
>  confidence
> and trust in Dr. Lundberg's ability to preserve that high level of
> credibility and integrity.''
>
> The article in question came from the Kinsey Institute for Research
>  in
> Sex, Gender and Reproduction, located at Indiana University. It was
> titled ``Would You Say You 'Had Sex' If'' and stated that it was
>  being
> published in the context of ``the current debate regarding whether
> oral sex constitutes have 'had sex' or sexual relations ...''
>
> The survey of 600 U.S. undergraduate students found that 60 percent
> said they would not say they ``had sex'' if it was oral-genital
> contact.
>
> The Jan. 20 issue of the journal is already in print and had been
> circulated to news organizations.




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U.S. Medical Journal Editor Fired Over Sex Item

   CHICAGO (Reuters) - The American Medical Association on Friday fired
   the editor of its journal for publishing an item on how college
   students define oral sex, timed to appear in the midst of President
   Clinton's impeachment trial.

   The article, which will run in the Jan. 20 issue of the AMA Journal,
   reported that 60 percent of U.S. college students in a survey taken
in
   1991 did not define oral sex as sexual relations.

   The AMA said its leadership fired editor George Lundberg, because he
   had inappropriately injected the journal into the Clinton impeachment
   debate, threatening its integrity.

   Clinton's definition of sex is a key issue in the debate over whether
   he lied about his relationship with former intern Monica Lewinsky.

   Lundberg had been editor for 17 years.

   ``Through his recent actions (he) has threatened the historic
   tradition and integrity of the Journal of the American Medical
   Association by inappropriately and inexcusably interjecting (the
   journal) into a major political debate that has nothing to do with
   science or medicine. This is unacceptable,'' said E. Ratcliffe
   Anderson, executive vice president of the medical group.

   ``The AMA has a responsibility to the medical profession, our
patients
   and to the country to ensure that the editorial decisions of the
   world's most trusted medical journal are based on science and the
   highest standards of the medical profession,'' he added.

   Anderson said that Lundberg had done much over the years to advance
   the stature of the magazine but ``Over time ... I have lost
confidence
   and trust in Dr. Lundberg's ability to preserve that high level of
   credibility and integrity.''

   The article in question came from the Kinsey Institute for Research
in
   Sex, Gender and Reproduction, located at Indiana University. It was
   titled ``Would You Say You 'Had Sex' If'' and stated that it was
being
   published in the context of ``the current debate regarding whether
   oral sex constitutes have 'had sex' or sexual relations ...''

   The survey of 600 U.S. undergraduate students found that 60 percent
   said they would not say they ``had sex'' if it was oral-genital
   cont

Re: [CTRL] Libertarians: The Cult of Liberty

[Agent Smiley]

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In a message dated 1/17/99 11:51:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> > Is the Libertarians ultimate value really even Liberty?  It seems that
what
>  > they really seek is selfish gratification of various vices and the
freedom
>  > to partake in those vices.  This is NOT liberty but rather licentiousness
>  > and avarice.  This is what happens when freedom is not tempered by virtue
>  > and a moral standard.
>
>  You got that right.
Liberty is not liberty if defined by those who seek to limit the bahavior of
those who do not harm or take.  THAT is often referred to as not having a life
of one's own.

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Re: [CTRL] JFK MURDER SOLVED - The truth after 35 years . . .

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

In a message dated 1/17/99 10:20:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:

> I don't get it. How could the driver shoot the president without anyone
> seeing
>  him? Did I read this correctly, or did I misinterpret what you wrote?
>  Please clarify, this is very interesting. Thanks-JOHN
>
In every mainstream airing I have seen of the famous second shot, a zoom is
shown and NOT the broader view.  Only once have I seen this film outside the
mainstream media and here the whole view was visible.  Incidentally, from what
I have heard, the 3 or 4 individuals actually standing near enough to see this
are no longer alive.

The gun rested on the driver's shoulder and at the fatal moment, it was only
slightly lifted and aimed.  A second or two prior to this, the secret service
agent that sat in the passenger seat is seen to look calmly back at the
president, who had already been shot once, and calmly turn back around
speaking something to the driver.  Within a second, the driver lifts his gun
from his right shoulder, where it had been held by his left hand while his
left arm lay cross ways across his chest.  There was very little movement on
his part.  When the president is being shot at, anyone looking for any sense
of what in the hell is going on would be searching the crowd for a gunman or
looking at the president to see if he is alright.  They are unlikely to notice
the DRIVER lifting his hand about four inches.  In this version of the film, a
cloud of gas is seen being expelled from the barrel of the gun and at that
exact instant Kennedy's face is removed from his head.

I suspect that when the agent in the passenger seat was speaking to the driver
that he was giving the location of the president's head in relation to the
driver.  Isn't it interesting that during the whole shooting spree, the driver
never thought to push the pedal to the metal and get the hell out of there.
Even without this key view that I speak of, it is obvious that all of the
secret service agents were calm throughout.  When Jackie is seen to be making
a break for it, a secret service agent is seen sternly direcing her to get
back in it.  Was the limo really deemed the safest place for her, given the
fact that the shots were all being directed at it?  It could be, IF the secret
service already knew that the job had been completed.

Go ahead folks.  Bring it on.  Start with character assination and name
calling and attempts at discrediting.  I challenge all to tell me why I
shouldn't report this here.  Incidentally, I backed this video up and
forwarded it enough times to witness this about forty times.  Some time ago,
someone sent me to a website that was supposed to let me know what really
happened in response to an allusion that the driver was complicit and a
murderer, a political assassin.  At this site, I saw an image of the very
situation I here describe and I saw the gun.  Apparently, the photo was not
intended.  I reported to the webmaster that that very photo contradicted his
take on it and now the website no longer exists.  

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[CTRL] Fwd: [Bay_Area_Activist] URGENT MESSAGE CONCERNING USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM WE...

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>
>  Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/
>
>
>  URGENT MESSAGE CONCERNING USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONS
>
>  The documents from the December 2-3, 1998 Conference on the "Health
>  Consequences of DU Weapons Used By US and British Forces" held in
>  Baghdad is available on the web.. This material is vitally  important
>  and should be looked at closely by all concerned groups in an effort
>  to put a stop to any further military actions against Iraq. The
>  physicians and scientists who compiled this report are asking our help
>  in disseminating this information in hopes of stopping further use of
>  depleted uranium weapons. They are also requesting help from the
>  international community in conducting more studies on the health
>  effects of DU on the Iraqi people. We all need to work to disseminate
>  this information as quickly and widely as possible.
>
>  The report is located at
>
>  
>  http://asterix.phys.unm.edu:8000
>
>  It is available as a microsoft word and a html document.
 Type in the url, clicking on it seems not to work.



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URGENT MESSAGE CONCERNING USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONS

The documents from the December 2-3, 1998 Conference on the "Health
Consequences of DU Weapons Used By US and British Forces" held in
Baghdad is available on the web.. This material is vitally  important
and should be looked at closely by all concerned groups in an effort
to put a stop to any further military actions against Iraq. The
physicians and scientists who compiled this report are asking our help
in disseminating this information in hopes of stopping further use of
depleted uranium weapons. They are also requesting help from the
international community in conducting more studies on the health
effects of DU on the Iraqi people. We all need to work to disseminate
this information as quickly and widely as possible.

The report is located at

http://asterix.phys.unm.edu:8000">
http://asterix.phys.unm.edu:8000

It is available as a microsoft word and a html document.


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[CTRL] What Is Political Extremism (Pt. 2)

[Agent Smiley]

emises. This ploy
>  attempts to invoke an uncritical gut-level sympathy and acceptance of
>  their position which discourages examination of their premises or the
>  conclusions which they claim necessarily derive from them.
>
>  16. Some Extremists, Particularly Those Involved In "Cults" Or
>  religious movements such as fundamental evangelical Christians,
>  Zionists, members of the numerous new age groups and followers of
>  certain "gurus," claim some kind of supernatural, mystical or
>  divinely-inspired rationale for their beliefs and actions. Their
>  willingness to force their will on others, censor and silence
>  opponents and critics, and in some cases actively persecute certain
>  groups, is ordained by God! This is surprisingly effective because
>  many people, when confronted by this kind of claim, are reluctant to
>  challenge it because it represents "religious belief" or because of
>  the sacred cow status of some religions. Extremists traits tend to
>  have three things in common:
>
>  1. The represent some attempt to distort reality for themselves and
>  others.
>
>  2. They try to discourage critical examination of their beliefs,
>  either by false logic, rhetorical trickery or some kind of
>  intimidation.
>
>  3. They represent an attempt to act out private, personal grudges or
>  rationalize the pursuit of special interests in the name of public
>  welfare.
>
>  Remember, human beings are imperfect and fallible. Even a rational,
>  honest, well-intentioned person may resort to some of these traits
>  from time to time. Everyone has strong feelings about some issues and
>  anyone can get excited and "blow off" once in awhile. We still retain
>  our basic common sense, respect for facts and good will toward others.
>  The difference between most of us and the bonafide extremist is that
>  these traits are an habitual and established part of their repertoire.
>  Extremists believe they're doing the right thing when they act this
>  way in the service of their cause.
>
>  The truth of a proposition cannot be inferred merely from the manner
>  in which arguments in its behalf are presented, from the fact that its
>  advocates censor and harass their opponents, or because they commit
>  any other act or combination of acts suggested in this essay.
>  Ultimately, the truth of any proposition rests on the evidence for it.
>  To impeach a proposition merely because it is advocated by obvious
>  "extremists" is to dismiss it ad hominem, that is, because of who
>  proposes it. The fact is that extremists are sometimes right --
>  sometimes very right -- because they often deal with the gut issues,
>  the controversial issues many people choose to avoid. So, before you
>  perfunctorily write off somebody as an "extremist" and close your eyes
>  and ears to his message, take a look at his evidence. It just might be
>  that he's on to something!
>
>  From: http://members.aol.com/vlntryst/wn27.html#extreme



From: "Agent Smiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



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[Continued from Part 1]


7. Extremists Tend To Have A Manichean Worldview. That is, they tend
to see the world in terms of absolutes of good and evil, for them or
against them, with no middle ground or intermediate positions. All
issues are ultimately moral issues of right and wrong. Their slogan
tends to be "he who is not with me, is against me!"

8. Extremists Very Often Advocate Some Degree Of Censorship And
Repression Of Their Opponents And Critics. This may range from an
active campaign to keep them from media access and a public hearing,
as in the case of blacklisting, banning, or "quarantining" dissident
spokesmen, or actually lobbying for repressive legislation against
speaking, teaching or instructing the "forbidden" information. They
may attempt to keep certain books out of stores or off of library
shelves or card catalogs, discourage advertising with threats of
reprisals, keep spokesmen for offending views off the airwaves, or
certain columnists out of newspapers. In each instance the goal is
some kind of information control. Extremists would prefer that you
only listen to them.

9. Extremists Tend To Identify Themselves In Terms Of Who Their
Enemies Are, who they hate and who hates them! Accordingly, they often
become emotionally bound to their enemies, who are often competing
extremists on the opposite pole of the ideological spectrum. They tend
to emulate their enemies in certain respects, adopting the same style
and tactics to a certain degree. Even "anti-extremist" groups often
exhibit extremist behavior in this regard!

10. Extremists Are Given To Arguments By Intimidation. That is, they
frame th

[CTRL] Impending Canada-Palestine Deal

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  Original Message Follows
>  Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:32:50 -0600 (CST)
>  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Winkel)
>  Subject: POLITICS: Impending Canada-Palestine Deal Expected to Cause a
>  To: undisclosed-recipients:;
>
>  /** ips.english: 404.0 **/
>  ** Topic: POLITICS: Impending Canada-Palestine Deal Expected to Cause a
>  **
>  ** Written  2:38 PM  Jan 13, 1999 by newsdesk in cdp:ips.english **
> Copyright 1999 InterPress Service, all rights reserved.
>Worldwide distribution via the APC networks.
>
>*** 10-Jan-99 ***
>
>  Title: POLITICS: Impending Canada-Palestine Deal Expected to Cause a
>  Stir
>
>  by Mark Bourrie
>
>  OTTAWA, Jan 10 (IPS)- An impending free trade agreement between
>  Canada and the Palestinian Authority is expected to provoke the
>  ire of some sectors in Israel and other opponents of an
>  independent Palestinian state.
>
>  Canadian and Palestinian diplomats held secret negotiations
>  here through last autumn and an agreement is expected to be signed
>  in February or March, just as Israel heads into an election that
>  will likely centre on the issue of Palestinian autonomy.
>
>  Canadian Trade Minister Sergio Marchi, a vocal advocate of free
>  trade, is to visit the Middle East at the end of February.
>  Officials of his ministry say Marchi wants to sign the trade deal
>  during that visit.
>
>  Mideast trade is a minor part of Canada's international
>  business, although Canada and Israel did conclude a free trade
>  agreement two years ago. Canada want a similar deal with the
>  Palestinians.
>
>  Canada-Israel trade amounts annually to about 450 million U.S.
>  dollars, mainly high-tech products, diamonds and phosphates, but
>  only a small fraction involves areas now governed by the
>  Palestinian Authority.
>
>  Canada and the PLO have had good diplomatic relations since the
>  mid-1970s. An agreement signed between Yasser Arafat's government
>  and a Western power would give greater legitimacy to the
>  Palestinian claim to independence, drawing the ire of Israel.
>
>  Palestinian diplomats here said a trade agreement would have
>  political, rather than economic, significance.
>
>  "Economically it will not benefit much for the time being,"
>  said Bakr Abdul Minem, the PLO's diplomatic representative in
>  Canada and de-facto ambassador of the Palestinian Authority. "The
>  most important meaning is a political one."
>
>  Minen said the negotiators were not trying to create a
>  political problem with Israel. "We want to find a way to do this
>  and not embarrass anyone," he said.
>
>  Canadian officials tried to play down the importance of the
>  talks, but admitted they were more than just a simple extension of
>  the Canada-Israel agreement. "We recognize that we want to balance
>  our interests in the area," said Leslie Swartman, spokeswoman for
>  Marchi. "It's separate and apart from the Canada-Israel free trade
>  agreement."
>
>  Diplomats at Israel's embassy here said they had been given
>  assurances that a free trade agreement would not give a boost to
>  the Palestinian drive for full statehood.
>
>  However, Jewish groups in Canada, who learned of the
>  negotiations just over a week ago, said they would lobby against
>  any agreement that gives an aura of statehood to the Palestinian
>  Authority.
>
>  "It's not acceptable for them to pretend to be something
>  they're not," said Robert Ridder, executive director of the Canada-
>  Israel Committee.
>
>  "We wouldn't be happy and we'd make our position clear," he
>  added. (END/IPS/MB/KB/98)
>
>  Origin: Montevideo/POLITICS/
>
>
> [c] 1999, InterPress Third World News Agency (IPS)
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>
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>  ** End of text from cdp:ips.english **
>
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Fro

[CTRL] Bovine proteins and diabetes

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/
>
>  Bovine proteins and diabetes
>
>  Excerpted from article on: www.antidairycoalition.com/011099.html
>
>
>  In December of 1996 (LANCET, vol. 348, Dec 14, 1996) Simon Murch, MD,
>  of the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology of the Royal Free
>  Hospital in London wrote:
>
>  "Cow's milk proteins are unique in one respect: in industrialized
>  countries they are the first foreign proteins entering the infant gut,
>  since most formulations for babies are cow milk-based. The first pilot
>  stage of our IDD prevention study found that oral exposure to dairy
>  milk proteins in infancy resulted in both cellular and immune
>  response...this suggests the possible importance of the gut immune
>  system to the pathogenesis of IDD."
>
>  In that same issue, researchers from New Zealand (R. B. Elliot, MD,
>  et. al, Department of Pediatrics, University of Aukland) paralleled
>  earlier studies and investigated diabetics in three locations:
>  Auckland, New Zealand, Giessen, Germany and Sardinia, Italy. They
>  reported finding a higher level of antibodies to bovine proteins,
>  particularly CASEIN in diabetics than in healthy individuals.
>
>  Three mothers have recently contacted the ANTIDAIRY Coalition with
>  exciting news. Each took their newly diagnosed IDDM infants completely
>  off all milk and dairy products. Six months later their kids were
>  again producing insulin. Their physicians refer to each individual
>  recovery as a MIRACLE. I call the recoveries simple biology.
>
>
>  ELIMINATE THE POISON AND FIND THE CURE
>  New clinical studies are most certainly called for. If you read this
>  and have diabetes, become your own study of ONE. Your cure will become
>  "ANECDOTAL." Let the ANTIDAIRY Coalition know about your MIRACLE and
>  we'll relate your story to the world
>
>
>  For the rest of this exciting and informative article please go to:
>
>  http://www.antidairycoalition.com/011099.html
>
>
>
>  R.Hamilton
>
>
>  Wearing a "milk mustache?"
>  Do a reality check at: http://www.notmilk.com
>  *
>  Ask your Govt. (U.S. or Canada) for the data on the rats
>  treated with rBST/rBGH MILK.
>  Meet the GOOD BUNNIES: http://members.tripod.com/ronjh/
>  Anti Dairy Images FREE: http://members.tripod.com/ronjh/notmilk.htm
>  GET OFF ASPARTAME! http://www.dorway.com







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Bovine proteins and diabetes

Excerpted from article on: www.antidairycoalition.com/011099.html


In December of 1996 (LANCET, vol. 348, Dec 14, 1996) Simon Murch, MD,
of the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology of the Royal Free
Hospital in London wrote:

"Cow's milk proteins are unique in one respect: in industrialized
countries they are the first foreign proteins entering the infant gut,
since most formulations for babies are cow milk-based. The first pilot
stage of our IDD prevention study found that oral exposure to dairy
milk proteins in infancy resulted in both cellular and immune
response...this suggests the possible importance of the gut immune
system to the pathogenesis of IDD."

In that same issue, researchers from New Zealand (R. B. Elliot, MD,
et. al, Department of Pediatrics, University of Aukland) paralleled
earlier studies and investigated diabetics in three locations:
Auckland, New Zealand, Giessen, Germany and Sardinia, Italy. They
reported finding a higher level of antibodies to bovine proteins,
particularly CASEIN in diabetics than in healthy individuals.

Three mothers have recently contacted the ANTIDAIRY Coalition with
exciting news. Each took their newly diagnosed IDDM infants completely
off all milk and dairy products. Six months later their kids were
again producing insulin. Their physicians refer to each individual
recovery as a MIRACLE. I call the recoveries simple biology.


ELIMINATE THE POISON AND FIND THE CURE
New clinical studies are most certainly called for. If you read this
and have diabetes, become your own study of ONE. Your cure will become
"ANECDOTAL." Let the ANTIDAIRY Coalition know about your MIRACLE and
we'll relate your story to the world


For the rest of this exciting and informative article please go to:

http://www.antidairycoalition.com/011099.html



R.Hamilton


Wearing a "milk mustache?"
Do a reality check at: http://www.notmilk.com
*
Ask your Govt. (U.S. or Canada) for the data on the rats
treated with rBST/rBGH MILK.
Meet the GOOD BUNNIES: http://members.tripod.com/ronjh/
Anti Dairy Images FREE: http://members.tripod.com/ronjh/notmilk.htm
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[CTRL] Rachel #633: Carcinogens Everywhere

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>
>  ===Electronic Edition
>  .   .
>  .   RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY #633   .
>  .---January 14, 1999--- .
>  .  HEADLINES:   .
>  .CARCINOGENS EVERYWHERE .
>  .  ==   .
>  .LEAD IN CHILDREN: OLD STORY, NEW DATA  .
>  .  ==   .
>  .   Environmental Research Foundation   .
>  .  P.O. Box 5036, Annapolis, MD  21403  .
>  .  Fax (410) 263-8944; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   .
>  .  ==   .
>  .  Back issues available by E-mail; to get instructions, send   .
>  .   E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the single word HELP   .
>  .in the message; back issues also available from.
>  .   http://www.rachel.org .  To start your free subscriprion,   .
>  .   send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words   .
>  .   SUBSCRIBE RACHEL-WEEKLY YOUR NAME in the message.   .
>  =
>
>
>  CARCINOGENS EVERYWHERE
>
>  U.S. EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] published a report in
>  1998 saying that 100% of the outdoor air in the continental U.S.
>  is contaminated with eight cancer-causing industrial chemicals at
>  levels that exceed EPA's "benchmark" safety standards.[1] Alaska
>  and Hawaii were excluded from the analysis for lack of available
>  data.~
>
>  Using 1990 data on toxic industrial emissions, EPA applied
>  well-known mathematical models to estimate year-round average
>  outdoor air concentrations for 148 industrial poisons in each of
>  the nation's 60,803 census tracts.
>
>  For each of the 148 toxicants, EPA established a "benchmark"
>  level that the agency considers safe. Eight of the 148 industrial
>  poisons exceed EPA's benchmark safety levels all of the time in
>  all 60,803 census tracts. All eight are carcinogens, that is,
>  they are known to cause cancer: bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate;
>  benzene; carbon tetrachloride; chloroform; ethylene dibromide;
>  ethylene dichloride; formaldehyde; and methyl chloride.
>
>  In its report, EPA said that outdoor air concentrations provide a
>  reasonable estimate of toxic concentrations "that occur both
>  outdoors and indoors, given the high rates of penetration into
>  indoor environments for various HAPs [hazardous air pollutants]."
>  In other words, EPA believes that being inside your home or
>  workplace does not protect you from constant exposure to these
>  eight carcinogens.
>
>  EPA said its mathematical models probably underestimate the true
>  levels to which the population is exposed. Where actual
>  measurements of toxic contaminants were available, EPA found that
>  the measured levels exceeded the levels estimated by their
>  mathematical models.
>
>  In its report, EPA also acknowledged that it may have
>  underestimated the health effects because the eight chemicals,
>  combined, may have additive or multiplier effects since people
>  experience all of them simultaneously. However, the agency also
>  acknowledged that it has no way to take such combined effects
>  into account.
>
>  The agency also acknowledged that many of the chemicals may have
>  health effects for which the agency has established no
>  "benchmark" standards. For example, benzene and 1,3-butadiene
>  have both been associated with reproductive and developmental
>  effects, but EPA currently has set no benchmark safety levels for
>  such effects, and so those effects were ignored in this study.
>
>  And finally, most (if not all) individuals are exposed to far
>  more than just eight industrial poisons. These eight merely
>  provide a toxic background to which other toxicants are added,
>  depending upon a person's (or a community's) individual
>  situation: automobile and truck exhaust, second-hand cigarette
>  smoke, prescription drugs, emissions from power plants, smelters,
>  incinerators, and so on.
>
>  Several of the eight chemicals exceed EPA "benchmark" safety
>  levels by a wide margin. For example, the average
>  day-in-and-day-out concentration of carbon tetrachloride exceeds
>  EPA's benchmark level by a factor of 13, and bis(2-ethylhexyl)
>  phthalate exceeds EPA's benchmark by a factor of 6.4.
>
>
>
>  LEAD IN CHILDREN: OLD STORY, NEW DATA
>
>
>  In 1998, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
>  (CDCP) in Atlanta issued a report saying that only 4.4% of
>  American children between the ages of 1 and 5 have the toxic
>  metal lead in their blood at "levels of health concern," which
>  CDCP defines as concentrations of 10 micrograms of lead per
>  dec

[CTRL] Gulf Vets call for an End to Civilian Casualties in Iraq

[Agent Smiley]

>
>
>  /** mideast.gulf: 380.0 **/
>  ** Topic: IRAQ/USA: Gulf Vets call for an End to Civilian Casualties in
>  Iraq **
>  ** Written  7:06 AM  Jan 13, 1999 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] in
>  cdp:mideast.gulf **
>
>
>  'subscribe iac-list' in the body of the message
>
>
>   Erik K. Gustafson, Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC)
>   747  10th Street SE, Suite 2, Washington, DC 20003
>   202-543-6176; 202-546-5103 (fax); [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   
>   For IMMEDIATE Release
>
>   Gulf Vets call for an End to Civilian Casualties in Iraq
>
>   (Washington) The National Gulf War Resource Center (NGWRC), the
>   largest Gulf War veterans organization in the country, has come
>   out against economic sanctions which "prevent or otherwise hamper
>   nations from maintaining the public health of their people."
>   Comprising over 54 member groups from around the country, the NGWRC
>   works to be a resource for information, support, and referrals for
>   all those concerned with the complexities of Gulf War issues,
>   especially Gulf War illnesses. Already successful in passing a
>   comprehensive bill to ensure better health care for sick veterans,
>   the NGWRC is now focusing on Depleted Uranium (DU) and protecting
>   both U.S. troops and civilians from DU exposure. In a resolution
>   that was passed by the Board of Directors on December 20, 1998,
>   shortly after the December air strike, the NGWRC urges that further
>   civilian casualties in Iraq be avoided. "As soldiers, we were
>   trained to abide by international laws relating to the treatment
>   and protection of civilian populations. Economic sanctions which
>   prevent or otherwise hamper nations from maintaining the public
>   health of their citizens, are in violation of these international
>   laws, including Geneva Protocol 1, Article 54, which prohibits the
>   'starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.' The UN and the
>   U.S. must work toward an immediate end to the humanitarian crisis
>   in Iraq."
>
>   Full text of this precedent-setting resolution follows:
>   __
>   National Gulf War Resource Center Statement
>   Gulf War Veterans Express Concern About Recent Developments in the
>   8-Year War
>
>   The United States (U.S.) became involved in the Gulf War with the
>   passage of Public Law 102-1, still in effect, that allows the
>   President to use military force against Iraq in order to enforce
>   Iraqi compliance with United Nations (UN) resolutions.
>
>   The National Gulf War Resource Center (NGWRC) believes the following
>   important lessons must not be forgotten regarding the Gulf War, a
>   war that continues to impact millions of lives.
>
>   * Iraq possessed and deployed chemical warfare agents up to 1991.
>
>   * In 1991, with the U.S. military destruction of Iraq's chemical
> weapons (CW) facilities, tons of agents were released, possibly
> exposing up to 100,000 American servicemen and women, according
> to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
>
>   * The U.S. uses depleted uranium (DU) in anti-tank ammunition.
> Scientists have associated DU, a radioactive toxic waste, with
> many adverse health effects. Since 1990, thousands of American
> troops have been exposed to DU, as have millions of Iraqis. The
> World Health Organization plans to investigate the possible link
> between a reported sharp increase in cancer incidents in Southern
> Iraq and DU exposure.
>
>   * The U.S. DOD and Department of Veterans Affairs have estimated
> that 110,000 American Gulf War veterans are ill as a result of
> their wartime service, many from exposures to CW, DU, pollution
> from oil well fires, experimental vaccines, and anti-nerve agent
> pretreatment pills, among other toxins.
>
>   * The economic sanctions on Iraq now result in serious shortages of
> food, clean water, and medicine. Water and sanitation systems have
> collapsed, fueling an epidemic of diseases. Denis J. Halliday,
> the former UN head of the oil-for-food program, estimates that
> over 5,000 Iraqi children under five are dying each month from
> malnutrition and disease directly related to the sanctions.
> Meanwhile, the Iraqi government remains untouched and firmly
> entrenched.
>
>   Therefore, the National Gulf War Resource Center Board of Directors,
>   after careful and thorough deliberation, urges the following steps
>   be taken to ensure the protection of American forces and civilians
>   in the Persian Gulf region. No active duty service man or woman
>   should ever have to go through what so many Gulf War veterans and
>   their families have had to go through.
>
>   Due to the likely exposure to CW, DU, and other hazardous toxins,
>   the NGWRC demands that the best training and protective gear be
>   provided to American forces deployed in the Persian Gulf region, as
>   well as t

[CTRL] What Is Political Extremism (Pt. 1)

[Agent Smiley]

d, Commie, Nazi, Kook, etc.)
>  to label and condemn an opponent in order to divert attention from his
>  arguments and to discourage other from hearing him out.
>
>  3. Irresponsible Sweeping Generalizations. Extremists tend to make
>  sweeping claims or judgments on little or no evidence, and they have a
>  tendency to confuse similarity with sameness. That is, they assume
>  that because two (or more) things are alike in some respects they must
>  be alike in all or most respects! Analogy is a treacherous form of
>  logic and its potential for distortion and false conclusions even when
>  the premises are basically correct is enormous.
>
>  4. Inadequate Proof For Assertions. Extremists tend to be very fuzzy
>  on what constitutes proof for their assertions. They also tend to get
>  caught up in logical fallacies, such as post hoc ergo propter hoc
>  (assuming that a prior event explains a subsequent occurrence simply
>  because of their "before" and "after" relationship). They tend to
>  project "wished for" conclusions and to exaggerate the significance of
>  information which confirms their prejudices and to derogate or ignore
>  information which contradicts them.
>
>  5. Advocacy Of Double Standards. Extremists tend to judge themselves
>  in terms of their intentions, which they tend to view generously, and
>  others by their acts, which they tend to view very critically. They
>  would like you to accept their assertions on faith but they demand
>  proof for yours. They also tend to engage in "special pleading" on
>  behalf of their group, because of some special status, past
>  persecution or present disadvantage.
>
>  6. Extremists Tend To View Their Opponents And Critics As Essentially
>  Evil. Their enemies hold opposing views because they are bad people,
>  immoral, dishonest, unscrupulous, mean-spirited, cruel, etc., and not
>  merely because they simply disagree, see the matter differently, have
>  competing interests of are perhaps even mistaken!
>
>  [Continued in Part 2]



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What Is Political "Extremism"?
by Laird Wilcox

Roger Scruton, in the Dictionary Of Political Thought (Hill & Wang,
New York, 1982) defines "extremism" as:

"A vague term, which can mean: 1. Taking a political idea to its
limits, regardless of 'unfortunate' repercussions, impracticalities,
arguments and feelings to the contrary, and with the intention not
only to confront, but also to eliminate opposition. 2. Intolerance
towards all views other than one's own. 3. Adoption of means to
political ends which show disregard for the life, liberty, and human
rights of others."

This is a very fair definition and it reflects my experience that
"extremism" is essentially more an issue of style than of content. In
the twenty-five years that I have been investigating political groups
of the left and right, I have found that many people can hold very
radical or unorthodox political views and still present them in a
reasonable, rational and non-dogmatic manner. On the other hand, I
have met people whose views were shrill, uncompromising and distinctly
authoritarian. The latter demonstrated a starkly extremist mentality
while the former demonstrated only ideological unorthodoxy, which is
hardly to be feared in a free society such as our own.

I don't mean to imply that content is entirely irrelevant. People who
tend to adopt the extremist style most often champion causes and adopt
ideologies that are essentially "fringe" positions on the political
spectrum. Advocacy of "fringe" positions, however, gives our society
the variety and vitality it needs to function as an open democracy, to
discuss and debate all aspects of an issue and to deal with problems
we may otherwise have a tendency to ignore. I think this is the proper
role of radical movements, left and right, in our system. The
extremist style is another issue altogether, however, in that it
seriously hampers our understanding of important issues, it muddies
the waters of discourse with invective, fanaticism and hatred, and it
impairs our ability to make intelligent, well-informed choices.

Another, perhaps more popular, definition of "extremism" is that it
represents points of view we strongly disagree with, advocated by
someone we dislike whose interests are contrary to our own!

Political ideologues often attempt definitions of extremism which
specifically condemn the views of their opponents and critics while
leaving their own relatively untouched, or which are otherwise biased
toward certain views but not others. To be fair, a definition must be
equally applicable across the entire political spectrum.

In point of fact, 

Re: [CTRL] URGENT MESSAGE

[Agent Smiley]

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The link provided for verification on depleted uranium weaponry as it pertains
to Iraq does not work if clicked on but DOES if typed in dat little box.


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[CTRL] What Is Political Extremism (Pt. 2)

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>
>  Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/
>
>  [Continued from Part 1]
>
>
>  7. Extremists Tend To Have A Manichean Worldview. That is, they tend
>  to see the world in terms of absolutes of good and evil, for them or
>  against them, with no middle ground or intermediate positions. All
>  issues are ultimately moral issues of right and wrong. Their slogan
>  tends to be "he who is not with me, is against me!"
>
>  8. Extremists Very Often Advocate Some Degree Of Censorship And
>  Repression Of Their Opponents And Critics. This may range from an
>  active campaign to keep them from media access and a public hearing,
>  as in the case of blacklisting, banning, or "quarantining" dissident
>  spokesmen, or actually lobbying for repressive legislation against
>  speaking, teaching or instructing the "forbidden" information. They
>  may attempt to keep certain books out of stores or off of library
>  shelves or card catalogs, discourage advertising with threats of
>  reprisals, keep spokesmen for offending views off the airwaves, or
>  certain columnists out of newspapers. In each instance the goal is
>  some kind of information control. Extremists would prefer that you
>  only listen to them.
>
>  9. Extremists Tend To Identify Themselves In Terms Of Who Their
>  Enemies Are, who they hate and who hates them! Accordingly, they often
>  become emotionally bound to their enemies, who are often competing
>  extremists on the opposite pole of the ideological spectrum. They tend
>  to emulate their enemies in certain respects, adopting the same style
>  and tactics to a certain degree. Even "anti-extremist" groups often
>  exhibit extremist behavior in this regard!
>
>  10. Extremists Are Given To Arguments By Intimidation. That is, they
>  frame their arguments in such a way as to intimidate others into
>  accepting their premises and conclusions. To disagree with them, they
>  imply, is to ally oneself with the devil or give aid and comfort to
>  the "bad guys." This ploy allows them to define the parameters of
>  debate, cut off troublesome lines of argument, and keep their
>  opponents on the defensive.
>
>  11. Wide Use Of Slogans, Buzzwords And Thought-Stopping Cliches. For
>  many extremists simple slogans substitute for more complex
>  abstractions in spite of a high level of intelligence. Shortcuts in
>  thinking and reasoning matters out seems to be necessary in order to
>  appease their prejudices and to avoid troublesome facts and
>  counter-arguments.
>
>  12. Doomsday Thinking. Extremists often predict dire or catastrophic
>  consequences from a situation or from failure to follow a specific
>  course, and they exhibit a kind of "crisis-mindedness." It can be a
>  Communist takeover, a Nazi revival, nuclear war, currency collapse,
>  worldwide famine, drought, earthquakes, floods or the wrath of God.
>  Whatever it is, it's just around the corner unless we follow their
>  program and listen to their special insights or the wisdom that only
>  the enlightened have access to!
>
>  13. Extremists Often Claim Some Kind Of Moral Or Other Superiority
>  Over Others. Most obvious are claims of general racial superiority --
>  a master race, for example. Less obvious are claims of ennoblement
>  because of alleged victimhood, a special relationship with God,
>  membership in a special "elite" or revolutionary vanguard. They also
>  take great offense when one is "insensitive" enough to dispute these
>  claims or challenge their authority.
>
>  14. Extremists Tend To Believe That It's OK To Do Bad Things In The
>  Service Of A "Good" Cause. They may deliberately lie, distort,
>  misquote, slander or libel their opponents and critics, or advocate
>  censorship or repression in "special cases" involving their enemies.
>  This is done with no remorse as long as it's useful in defeating the
>  Commies or Fascists (or whoever). Defeating an "enemy" becomes an
>  all-encompassing goal to which other values are subordinate. With
>  extremists, the ends often justify the means.
>
>  15. Extremists Tend To Place Great Value On Emotional Responses. They
>  have a reverence for propaganda, which they may call education or
>  consciousness-raising. Consequently, they tend to drape themselves and
>  their cause in a flag of patriotism, a banner of righteousness or a
>  shroud of victimhood. Their crusades against "enemies" may invoke
>  images of the swastika, the hammer and sickle or some other symbol, as
>  the case may be. In each instance the symbol represents an extremely
>  odious concept in terms of their ideological premises. This ploy
>  attempts to invoke an uncritical gut-level sympathy and acceptance of
>  their position which discourages examination of their premises or the
>  conclusions which they claim necessarily derive from them.
>
>  16. Some Extremists, Particularly Those Involved In "Cults" Or
>  religious movements such as fundamental evangelical Christians,
>  Zionists, members o

[CTRL] What Is Political Extremism (Pt. 1)

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/
>
>  What Is Political "Extremism"?
>  by Laird Wilcox
>
>  Roger Scruton, in the Dictionary Of Political Thought (Hill & Wang,
>  New York, 1982) defines "extremism" as:
>
>  "A vague term, which can mean: 1. Taking a political idea to its
>  limits, regardless of 'unfortunate' repercussions, impracticalities,
>  arguments and feelings to the contrary, and with the intention not
>  only to confront, but also to eliminate opposition. 2. Intolerance
>  towards all views other than one's own. 3. Adoption of means to
>  political ends which show disregard for the life, liberty, and human
>  rights of others."
>
>  This is a very fair definition and it reflects my experience that
>  "extremism" is essentially more an issue of style than of content. In
>  the twenty-five years that I have been investigating political groups
>  of the left and right, I have found that many people can hold very
>  radical or unorthodox political views and still present them in a
>  reasonable, rational and non-dogmatic manner. On the other hand, I
>  have met people whose views were shrill, uncompromising and distinctly
>  authoritarian. The latter demonstrated a starkly extremist mentality
>  while the former demonstrated only ideological unorthodoxy, which is
>  hardly to be feared in a free society such as our own.
>
>  I don't mean to imply that content is entirely irrelevant. People who
>  tend to adopt the extremist style most often champion causes and adopt
>  ideologies that are essentially "fringe" positions on the political
>  spectrum. Advocacy of "fringe" positions, however, gives our society
>  the variety and vitality it needs to function as an open democracy, to
>  discuss and debate all aspects of an issue and to deal with problems
>  we may otherwise have a tendency to ignore. I think this is the proper
>  role of radical movements, left and right, in our system. The
>  extremist style is another issue altogether, however, in that it
>  seriously hampers our understanding of important issues, it muddies
>  the waters of discourse with invective, fanaticism and hatred, and it
>  impairs our ability to make intelligent, well-informed choices.
>
>  Another, perhaps more popular, definition of "extremism" is that it
>  represents points of view we strongly disagree with, advocated by
>  someone we dislike whose interests are contrary to our own!
>
>  Political ideologues often attempt definitions of extremism which
>  specifically condemn the views of their opponents and critics while
>  leaving their own relatively untouched, or which are otherwise biased
>  toward certain views but not others. To be fair, a definition must be
>  equally applicable across the entire political spectrum.
>
>  In point of fact, the terms "extremist" and "extremism" are often used
>  thoughtlessly an epithets, "devilwords" to curse or condemn opponents
>  and critics with! I find, however, that the extremist style is not the
>  monopoly of any sector of the political spectrum. It is just as common
>  on the "left" as it is on the "right," and sometimes it shows up in
>  the political "center" as well!
>
>  In analyzing the rhetoric and literature of several hundred "fringe"
>  and militant "special interest" groups I have identified several
>  specific traits that tend to represent the extremist style. I would
>  like to caution you with the admonition, however, that we are all
>  fallible and anyone, without bad intentions, may resort to some of
>  these devices from time to time. But with bonafide extremists these
>  lapses are not occasional and the following traits are an habitual and
>  established part of their repertoire. The late Robert Kennedy, in The
>  Pursuit Of Justice (1964), said; "What is objectionable, what is
>  dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they
>  are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but
>  what they say about their opponents."
>
>  1. Character Assassination. Extremists often attack the character of
>  an opponent or critic rather than deal with the facts and issues that
>  he raises or debate the points of his arguments. They will question
>  his motives, qualifications, past associations, values, personality,
>  mental health and so on as a diversion from the issues under
>  consideration.
>
>  2. Name Calling And Labeling. Extremists are quick to resort to
>  epithets (racist, subversive, pervert, hatemonger, nut, crackpot,
>  degenerate, Un-American, Anti-Semite, Red, Commie, Nazi, Kook, etc.)
>  to label and condemn an opponent in order to divert attention from his
>  arguments and to discourage other from hearing him out.
>
>  3. Irresponsible Sweeping Generalizations. Extremists tend to make
>  sweeping claims or judgments on little or no evidence, and they have a
>  tendency to confuse similarity with sameness. That is, they assume
>  that because two (or more) things are alike in som

Re: [CTRL] PJ lied under oath?

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

>
>  >Ah, facts, how nice. Pity this sort doesn't make the soundbytes. :-)
>
>  I didn't read any 'facts', just some more allegations, albeit from the
>  perspective of Klinton supporters...
>
>  If the timetable is indeed such a 'bombshell' which the Klintonistas
>  planned to 'drop at the trial', why then did Klinton lie under oath --
>  as he himself now admits he did -- to the Paula Jones grand jury?
>
>
>  June

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.  Isn't the only thing Clinton admitted to
lying about the fact that he had sex with Monica Lewinsky?

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Re: [CTRL] Understanding Republicans ///

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In a message dated 1/14/99 9:38:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> It is an effort to CONTROL behaviors based NOT upon freedom
>   and liberty.  [ALL non-property 'crimes' are revenue
>   generators :) ]

I really don't understand.  The illegality of murder is a revenue generator?
Is not ALL crime an OPPORTUNITY for revenue generation?  Do you mean to say
that the only legitimate illegality is that pertaining to belongings and that
those with real victims of violence are illegitemate?

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[CTRL] Sting Implicates Mafia in Nuclear Components Black Market

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>  >  4. Sting unravels stunning Mafia plot
>  http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Jan/12/front_page/NUKE12.htm
>  Third of four parts  By Jeffrey Fleishman
>   INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
>  ROME -At a little past noon last Feb. 10, an undercover agent with a
>  graying mustache entered the Cafe de Paris on Via Veneto, a block >
fromthe
>  American Embassy. Shaded by magnolias, the cafe is ideal for clandestine
>  criminal meetings; radio and satellite waves beaming from the
>  embassycreate>  static on police eavesdropping equipment.
> The police agent, posing as an Egyptian businessman, ordered
>  anespresso and
>  waited.A few minutes later, two mafiosi arrived at the cafe intent >
on
>  selling theagent a 28-inch-long cylinder containing a 190-gram bar of
>  enriched>  uranium.The Italian Mafia, infamous for money laundering and
>  drug-running, was>  branching into nuclear smuggling.
> A Sicilian dressed in a blazer did most of the talking. Soon theagent
>  was>  surrounded by several other men - including a known mob assassin -
>  allwith>  semiautomatic pistols inside their jackets.
> ``At the first meeting both sides are very alert, nervous,'' theagent
>  said>  later. ``You feel a moment of danger run through things. They study
>  you,trying>  to unmask identity. It is not like a movie. There are no
second
>  takes.You only>  have one chance to get it right.
> ``I had to convince them I was the kind of guy who would buy abomb.''
> This nuclear tale began unfolding months earlier, when a >
Mafiaturncoat
>  tipped an Italian prosecutor about a stockpile of uranium the mob
>  waspeddling.
>  The case - which officials first regarded as a hoax - turned seriouswhen
>  the>  Mafia boasted of possessing a laundry list of radioactive
>  materials,including
>  eight missiles from the former Soviet Union. Authorities quicklyfinessed >
a
>  sting called Operation Gamma, depositing millions of dollars in a
>  Swissbank
>  account and giving one detective a Geiger counter and a crash course
>  innuclear>  physics.What they uncovered stunned them: An organized-
crime
>  syndicate not
>  only hadmanaged to obtain nuclear material but also was boldly trying to
>  sell it>  toanyone willing to pay $112 million.
> The case opened a frightening new chapter in nuclear
>  proliferation.For the
>  first time, authorities documented a significant link between the moband
>  loose
>  nukes. Three powerful Mafia families had joined forces to smuggleuranium
>  through Europe and into the Middle East. The development added one
>  moreworry
>  for Western governments already concerned about professional thieves and
>  small-time opportunists seeking to trade in the nuclear black market.
> With terrorist groups and rogue states eager to build crude
>  nuclearweapons,
>  and with Russia's nuclear arsenal left vulnerable by economic chaos, the
>  Mafia's hawking of uranium further raises the nuclear stakes in
>  thepost-Cold
>  War era.``Uranium bars are weapons in psychological terrorism,''
>  said Enrico
>  Sgrilli, a nuclear physicist who trained police in nuclear physics. ``A
>  terrorist can hold one bar up and panic an entire city. This case
>  shakesthe
>  confidence in our system for controlling illegal nuclear materials.
>  Itshows>  there are dangerous loopholes.''
> Police confiscated the 190-gram uranium bar. But police >
andintelligence
>  officials acknowledge they failed to capture the mob's entire
>  stockpile.They
>  speculate that seven other bars - comprising 1,330 grams of uranium -are
>  most>  likely hidden in Italy.
> ``There are other bars out there,'' said Gen. Mario
>  Iannelli,commander of
>  the Finance Police unit on organized crime, which directed the
>  sting.``This is
>  very scary. . . . We don't exactly know what uranium the mob has >
becausewe
>  never saw all of what it was selling.''
> Intelligence officials say there is one more unnerving
>  possibility:The mob>  may actually be holding eight Russian missiles.
>  The Italian investigation netted 14 mobsters from three
>  crimefamilies. It
>  entailed dozens of hours of wiretaps and secret meetings,
>  hopscothingfrom Rome>  to Sicily and from Calbria to the Alps.
> Laced throughout the operation's danger were comical moments >
asmobsters
>  nicknamed ``the Mustache'' and ``the Other One'' haggled over trust
>  andmoney.>  One Mafia lieutenant brought his mother along to check a Swiss
>  bankaccount.
> During a wiretapped conversation, one mobster asked another how
>  theEgyptian>  businessman would pay for the uranium.
>  ``They move [money] through banks, right?''
> ``Yes, of course, you think they'd do it with a suitcase? We got
>  bignumbers
>  here.''As the investigation broadened, Italian authorities learned
>  that>  enricheduranium moves through a global network propelled as much by
>  political
>  instability as by criminal

[CTRL] The Black Market for Weapons Components

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

>  >  The black market in weapons components
>  http://www.phillynews.com/programs/aprint
>  Profiteers try to sell to anyone willing to pay -- terrorists or
>  roguestates.>  First of four parts.
>  http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Jan/10/front_page/NUKE10.htm
>  By Steve Goldstein PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
>   MOSCOW -- On Sept. 7, the Finance and Customs Department in
>  Istanbul,Turkey,
>  made an arrest that should have been reason for  rejoicing.
>   Turkish agents arrested eight men on charges of smuggling nuclear
>  material
>  from the former Soviet Union. Posing as buyers, the agents  seized >
about12
>  pounds of uranium 235 and one-quarter ounce of  plutonium powder.
>  Thematerial
>  was being peddled for $1 million by three men from Kazakstan, one from
>  Azerbaijan, and four from Turkey. One suspect was a colonel in the
>  Kazakarmy.
>  While the seizure kept nuclear material out of the hands of rogue >
statesor
>  terrorists, the incident was hardly reassuring news to the
>  worldwidefraternity
>  of nuclear-proliferation specialists. To them, the case suggested >
thatthe
>  world's "loose nukes" nightmare scenario of the early 1990s hadreturned.
>  The fact that thieves were able to smuggle uranium and plutonium out >
ofthe
>  former Soviet Union and offer it for sale to the highest bidder >
onceagain
>  raised the specter of terrorists -- or an outlaw nation -- detonating a
>  primitive nuclear device. Those fears had subsided in recent years asthe
>  United States spent more than $2.5 billion to contain the nuclear threat
>  unleashed by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
>  Now, after an apparent hiatus in confirmed diversions of nuclearmaterial
>  from>  the former Soviet Union, disturbing new incidents have surfaced.
From
>  small-time hustlers to organized-crime figures, there are
>  sustainedattempts by
>  profiteers to obtain and sell nuclear material to anyone willing to
>  payfor it.
>  Many nuclear experts say the proliferation threat is greater now than
>  inrecent
>  years. They say deepening economic and political upheaval in Russia has
>  increased the likelihood that financially desperate specialists
>  withaccess to
>  nuclear material will be tempted to sell it, or that security at
>  nuclearsites>  will continue to corrode as fast as the beleaguered economy.
>  In fact, Russia is perhaps more politically volatile now than in >
theearly
>  1990s, with troubling implications for nuclear security:
>  At least 3,000 unpaid and disillusioned Russian scientists withexpertise
>  in>  weapons of mass destruction have left the country in the last
>  sevenyears,
>  according to U.S. intelligence estimates. Some have gone to roguenations
>  trying to build nuclear-weapons programs, such as North Korea,
>  Libya,Iran and>  Iraq. The continuing exodus prompted Graham T. Allison, a
>  Harvardproliferation
>  expert, to conclude two years ago that the likelihood of a nucleardevice
>  exploding in the United States has actually increased since the end
>  ofthe Cold>  War.Security at many Russian nuclear facilities is porous,
>  despiteU.S.-supplied
>  equipment and expertise, according to some proliferation experts. U.S.
>  officials estimate that only a quarter of the uranium and plutonium >
atsuch
>  facilities is adequately secured. Eighty percent of the
>  facilitiescovered by a
>  U.S. security program do not even have portal monitors to detect nuclear
>  material carried through their gates.
>  There is evidence that Iraqi and Iranian purchase agents are
>  activelyseeking
>  nuclear technology and material inside Russia, according to MatthewBunn, >
a
>  proliferation expert at Harvard.
>  Some Russian nuclear-research institutes do not have heat or properly
>  functioning computers.
>  Russia's top customs official acknowledges that only about a quarter >
ofthe
>  country's 300 border crossings have adequate equipment to thwart nuclear
>  smuggling.
>  Moscow's central authority is dissipating, salaries are not being >
paid,and
>  official corruption is endemic -- creating conditions conducive
>  tosmuggling>  nuclear materials.
>  "The economic crisis in Russia is the world's No. 1 >
proliferationproblem,"
>  said William C. Potter, a leading expert on nuclear smuggling. "I
>  don'tbelieve
>  the United States fully appreciates the implications of this crisis
>  forcontrol>  of nuclear materials and technical know-how."
>  Potter, who heads the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, a
>  privateresearch
>  institute in Monterey, Calif., recently returned from an inspection >
tripof
>  five Russian nuclear sites. He said he found security equipment that
>  hadnever>  been installed, highly enriched uranium transported on a
>  canvas-toppedtruck,
>  and guards who disconnected security sensors after a series of
>  falsealarms.>  "The situation is desperate," Potter said.
>  In a report written Dec. 2, he added: "Not only are the guards
>  typi

[CTRL] Turkey Bashes US Iraq Policy

[Agent Smiley]

>  http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Turkey-Iraq.html
>  By The Associated Press, January 12, 1999
>  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Fearing renewed U.S.-Anglo attacks on
>  Iraq,Turkey's new
>  prime minister made it clear on Tuesday he would not allow Turkish
>  basesto be
>  used for any prolonged bombing of Iraq.
>  In rare critical statements on U.S. policy, leftist leader Bulent Ecevit
>  charged that Washington officials could not make up their minds on howto
>  deal
>  with Baghdad.   The United States and Britain have used their
>  planesstationed
>  at the Incirlik air base in south Turkey to enforce a ``no-fly'' zone in
>  northern Iraq since the end of the 1990-1991 Gulf War.
>  But the allies must seek Turkey's permission to use the planes for
>  anyother
>  sort of strikes against Iraq.
>  In the past Turkey has shown itself unwilling to grant permission --
>  butit has
>  never openly openly ruled out allowing such use of the base in order
>  notto
>  offend its allies.
>  But Ecevit, in an interview with private NTV television, came closerthan
>  his
>  predecessors ever have to doing so.
>  ``There will be no change in the Incirlik status'' as a base
>  forpatrolling the
>  ``no-fly'' zone, he said. He then launched into a vocal criticism ofU.S.
>  policy towards Iraq rarely heard from Turkish leaders.
>  ``I am worried that air raids will increase after the end of
>  Ramadan,''Ecevit
>  said, referring to the Muslim holy month which ends on the sighting
>  ofthe
>  crescent moon, due in a few days.
>  ``I think the United States does not have any decision regarding thekind
>  of
>  solution they want to see in Iraq,'' he said.
>  ``While I hope Iraq will be in more accordance with the world, I
>  alsohope that
>  the United States will produce peaceful solutions,'' he said.
>  Washington and London did not use the planes from Incirlik
>  duringairstrikes
>  last month. They avoided asking Turkey permission because they knew
>  theywould
>  be turned down, analysts say.
>  While patrolling the ``no-fly'' zone, U.S. fighters from the base fired
>  missiles at Iraqi radar sites three times this week. The United
>  Statessaid the
>  radar sites had targeted the planes.
>  ``This is the excuse they are using,'' Ecevit said, adding that
>  Turkeywas
>  trying to check the U.S. accounts of the confrontations.
>  Ecevit has in the past objected to U.S. attacks on Iraq and has
>  visitedBaghdad
>  to hold meetings with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
>  International policies on Iraq have become increasingly unpopular
>  inTurkey,
>  which says it has suffered politically and lost some $30 million intrade
>  due
>  to sanctions on Iraq.
>  Presenting his government program on Tuesday, the veteran leftist
>  Ecevitsaid
>  he would ``give importance to strengthening relations'' with Washington.
>  Ties to the United States were strained during Ecevit's first stint
>  asprime
>  minister in the 1970s. It was his administration that ordered the
>  1974invasion
>  of Cyprus, which led to a four-year U.S. embargo on military sales
>  andmilitary
>  aid. A strongly pro-secular politician, Ecevit returned to power Monday
>  afterthe
>  previous government collapsed in a corruption scandal.
>  He promised to uphold pro-secular policies against challenges
>  fromIslamic
>  political forces and ``accelerate'' economic integration with
>  thebreakaway
>  Turkish Cypriot state.
>  He also said that Turkey would pursue a goal for European
>  Unionmembership, but
>  would not yield to any pressures from the 15-nation group.
>  The European Union wants Turkey to improve its troubled human
>  rightsrecord and
>  improve its economy, hampered by chronic high inflation.
>  Ecevit's government is expected to remain in power only until
>  electionsApril18.



3. Turkey PM Bashes US Policy on Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Turkey-Iraq.html
By The Associated Press, January 12, 1999
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Fearing renewed U.S.-Anglo attacks on
Iraq,Turkey's new
prime minister made it clear on Tuesday he would not allow Turkish
basesto be
used for any prolonged bombing of Iraq.
In rare critical statements on U.S. policy, leftist leader Bulent Ecevit
charged that Washington officials could not make up their minds on howto
deal
with Baghdad.   The United States and Britain have used their
planesstationed
at the Incirlik air base in south Turkey to enforce a ``no-fly'' zone in
northern Iraq since the end of the 1990-1991 Gulf War.
But the allies must seek Turkey's permission to use the planes for
anyother
sort of strikes against Iraq.
In the past Turkey has shown itself unwilling to grant permission --
butit has
never openly openly ruled out allowing such use of the base in order
notto
offend its allies.
But Ecevit, in an interview with private NTV television, came closerthan
his
predecessors ever have to doing so.
``There will be no change in the Incirlik status'' as a base
forpatrolling the
``no-fly'' zone, he said.

[CTRL] Mao, Kissinger, and Nixon

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  1. Mao thought little of his own thoughts  ("Kissinger Transcripts"
>  renukes:
>  Mao / Nixon)http://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/4215205.htm
>  12jan99 - The Australian - By CAMERON STEWART in New York
>  IN their first meeting in 1972, the staunchly capitalist US
>  presidentRichard
>  Nixon lavished praise on Chinese leader Mao Zedong, describing him as a
>  professional philosopher whose writings had changed the world.
>  But Chairman Mao responded bluntly that his writings, which include The
>  Thoughts of Chairman Mao, had barely influenced China.
>  This strange exchange between the two leaders is one of many newinsights
>  into
>  the world of high diplomacy conducted during the Cold War, contained ina
>  forthcoming book The Kissinger Transcripts. Mao died in 1976 and Nixonin
>  1994.
>  The book contains newly released secret notes of meetings between thenUS
>  secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Soviet and Chinese leaders
>  duringthe
>  1970s. It reveals how, even in times of grave concern about
>  worldsecurity, US
>  and Communist leaders joked freely about liquor, women and
>  nuclearmissiles.
>  The Kissinger notes record the first nervous meeting between Nixon
>  andMao in
>  Beijing in February 1972, in which Nixon tells the Chinese leader:
>  "Ihave read
>  the Chairman's poems and speeches and I knew he was a
>  professionalphilosopher."
>  Mao replies: "Those writings of mine aren't anything. There is nothing
>  instructive in what I wrote."
>  Nixon: "The Chairman's writings moved a nation and have changed
>  theworld."
>  Mao: "I haven't been able to change it. I've only been able to change
>  afew
>  places in the vicinity of Beijing."
>  Later in the meeting, they engage in an equally odd exchange about
>  womenwhen
>  discussing Dr Kissinger's ability to conduct secret diplomacy.
>  Nixon: "He (Dr Kissinger) doesn't look like a secret agent. He is
>  theonly man
>  in captivity who could go to Paris 12 times and Peking (now known
>  asBeijing)
>  once and no one knew it, except possibly a couple of pretty
>  girls."(Prime
>  minister Zhou Enlai laughs.) . . .
>  Kissinger: "They didn't know it, I used it as a cover." Mao: "In Paris?"
>  Nixon: "Anyone who uses pretty girls as a cover must be the
>  greatestdiplomat
>  of all time." Mao: "So your girls are very often made use of?"
>  Nixon: "His girls, not mine. It would get me into great trouble if Iused
>  girls
>  as a cover." The book, extracts of which were published in The New York
>  Times,
>  reveals how
>  Mao, when he was near death in 1975, told Dr Kissinger that he
>  believedGod
>  preferred capitalists to communists.
>  Mao: "I am going to heaven soon . . . and when I see God, I'll tell
>  himit's
>  better to have Taiwan under the care of the US now."
>  Kissinger: "He'll be very astonished to hear that from the Chairman."
>  Mao: "No, because God blesses you, not us. God doesn't like us because
>  Iam a
>  militant warlord, also a communist. That's why he doesn't like me.
>  Helikesyou."
>  Kissinger: "I've never had the pleasure of meeting Him, so I don'tknow."
>  The book, based on records obtained by the US National Security
>  Archivein
>  Washington, shows how Dr Kissinger and then Soviet leader LeonidBrezhnev
>  joked
>  about nuclear missile warheads.
>  In 1974, as Dr Kissinger talked with Brezhnev, who died in 1982,
>  aboutMIRVs
>  (multiple independently targeted nuclear warheads), which were
>  newmissiles
>  capable of carrying 10 separate nuclear warheads ­ the Soviet
>  leaderfiddled
>  with a dome-shaped object, which he popped open to reveal six
>  brasscartridges
>  pointing upwards.
>  Kissinger: "Is that an MIRV?" (Laughter) Brezhnev: "No, it's
>  forcigarettes.
>  It's more peaceful than it looks."
>  Kissinger later jokes: "What are 3000 MIRVs between friends."
>  In 1974, at a New York dinner with Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping,Dr
>  Kissinger repeatedly toasts the vice-premier and then tells him: "Ithink
>  if we
>  drink enough mao tai (Chinese rice liquor), we can solve anything."Deng:
>  "Then
>  when I go back to China, I must increase production of it."
>  But despite the public jocularity, Dr Kissinger was scathing aboutSoviet
>  and
>  Chinese leaders in private. He called Soviet leaders "stupendous
>  liars"and "a
>  most unpleasant" group of people, while he described Chinese leaders
>  as"cold,
>  pragmatic bastards".




1. Mao thought little of his own thoughts  ("Kissinger Transcripts"
renukes:
Mao / Nixon)http://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/4215205.htm
12jan99 - The Australian - By CAMERON STEWART in New York
IN their first meeting in 1972, the staunchly capitalist US
presidentRichard
Nixon lavished praise on Chinese leader Mao Zedong, describing him as a
professional philosopher whose writings had changed the world.
But Chairman Mao responded bluntly that his writings, which include The
Thoughts of Chairman Mao, had barely influenced China.
This strange exchan

[CTRL] Fwd: UN politics

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  AS:
>  The UN seemed entirely capable of commisioning a team of experts to find
>  out what Iraq is up to (called UNSCOM) but when it comes to the US, they
>  say they are not Scotland Yard.  I don't think there there were not weapons
specialists >  in the UN before UNSCOM was contracted either.
>  --
>
>
>  /** ips.english: 414.0 **/
>  ** Topic: POLITICS-IRAQ: UN Lacks Expertise to Probe Spy Charges **
>  ** Written  3:03 PM  Jan 11, 1999 by newsdesk in cdp:ips.english **
> Copyright 1999 InterPress Service, all rights reserved.
>Worldwide distribution via the APC networks.
>
>*** 08-Jan-99 ***
>
>  Title: POLITICS-IRAQ: UN Lacks Expertise to Probe Spy Charges
>
>  By Thalif Deen and IPS Correspondents
>
>  UNITED NATIONS, Jan 8 (IPS) - The United Nations says it has no
>  plans to probe published reports that some of its arms inspectors
>  in Iraq were U.S. spies working undercover for U.S. intelligence
>  agencies.
>
>  ''The United Nations is not Scotland Yard,'' U.N. spokesman
>  Fred Eckhard told reporters Thursday. ''We have no professional
>  investigators on our staff. We don't have that capability.''
>
>  Eckhard said Secretary-General Kofi Annan had to accept at
>  face value assertions by chief arms inspector Richard Butler that
>  no member of his team spied for the United States. ''We sit and
>  wait for corroboration,'' Eckhard added.
>
>  Butler is the executive chairman of the U.N. Special
>  Commission (UNSCOM), which was mandated by the Security Council
>  after the 1991 Gulf War to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass
>  destruction and missiles that could be used to deliver them.
>
>  The reports about the alleged use by Washington of UNSCOM to
>  spy on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his security apparatus,
>  including new allegations that the United States deliberately
>  planted spies in UNSCOM teams, have created something of a
>  diplomatic sensation here and in the U.S. capital where officials
>  insist that Washington did nothing wrong.
>
>  On Wednesday, the Washington Post had quoted unnamed UN
>  officials - described as ''confidants'' of Annan - as saying the
>  Secretary General was convinced Washington used the UN operation
>  to penetrate the security apparatus protecting Iraqi president
>  Saddam Hussein.
>
>  But Annan strongly rejected ''the characterisation of his state
>  of mind attributed to so-called confidants'' and denied that he
>  had obtained any evidence that would support the article's major
>  contentions.
>
>  At the same time, however, he noted that if the charges proved
>  true, ''it would be damaging to the United Nations' disarmament
>  work in Iraq and elsewhere.''
>
>  On Thursday, however, the New York Times published an article
>  quoting unnamed U.S. officials as saying some U.S. intelligence
>  officers, using diplomatic cover or other professional identities,
>  served on UNSCOM teams ''to gather intelligence independently.''
>
>  Their aim reportedly was to collect information about possible
>  bombing targets for the kind of military strikes which U.S. and
>  British forces carried out in mid-December, which included alleged
>  missile-assembly plants, and the headquarters and barracks of
>  elite security forces which, according to Washington, control
>  Iraq's chemical and biological weapons and protect the regime's
>  top figures.
>
>  The Wall Street Journal also reported Thursday that the UNSCOM
>  team used sophisticated eavesdropping equipment, provided to it by
>  the United States, that automatically transmitted signals from
>  Saddam Hussein's presidential communications network to the U.S.
>  National Security Agency (NSA), which specialises in tapping and
>  decoding communications.
>
>  The NSA, which is in charge of U.S. spy satellites, then
>  relayed information relevant to the inspection team while
>  presumably keeping all the other material collected in this way.
>
>  Citing U.S. officials, the Journal further reported that
>  UNSCOM relied on Washington for about 90 percent of its
>  intelligence, while Israel provided much of the rest - a fact
>  which, these officials worry, could embarrass U.S.-supported Arab
>  leaders who have recently escalated their verbal attacks on Saddam
>  Hussein.
>
>  Washington has long insisted that UNSCOM, which has no
>  intelligence capabilities of its own, must work with foreign
>  agencies in order to obtain the information it needs to carry out
>  its mandate, particularly in the face of Iraq's alleged efforts to
>  hide its weapons programmes from UNSCOM.
>
>  And, because Washington's intelligence apparatus is the world's
>  largest by far, it is natural, U.S. officials say, that UNSCOM
>  would rely especially on the United States.
>
>  ''There is nothing new in (what) has emerged in the last two
>  days,'' State Department spokesman James Foley said Thursday. ''It

[CTRL] Fwd: Iraq: Changing the attack rules

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/
>
>  Iraq: Changing the attack rules
>
>  INDEPENDENT (London) January 13, 1999
>
>  American planes free to attack Iraqi radar sites
>
>  By Andrew Marshall in Washington
>
>  The United States has widened the rules of engagement for aircraft
>  flying over Iraq, allowing them to fire on Iraqi air defence sites
>  before they are targeted by them.
>
>  The decision represents another escalation in the conflict, with signs
>  growing that a fresh outbreak of violence is likely. Iraq continues to
>  criticise its neighbours for the backing it says they have given to
>  Washington and London, while American officials hint broadly that they
>  believe the regime is on its last legs.
>
>  The US Defense Department said yesterday that planes would be allowed
>  to fire at radar sites even if they were not locking on to allied
>  aircraft. To demonstrate the new tactics, a US aircraft fired a
>  missile at an Iraqi radar site in the no-fly zone over northern Iraq
>  yesterday, the fifth such episode in the past few weeks. The Pentagon
>  said that, unlike previous such attacks, this was on an early-warning
>  radar site, part of Iraq's integrated air defences. In the other
>  cases, the US and Britain have said that their aircraft were targeted
>  by surface-to-air missiles, and fired back.
>
>  "The radar was seen as posing a threat to coalition forces in the
>  area," said a Pentagon spokesman. Previously, early-warning radars
>  were not attacked, though American and British pilots were allowed to
>  fire at them if they felt they posed a threat.
>
>  The war of words between Iraq and its neighbours spread yesterday as
>  the Iraqi parliament accused Kuwait of backing insurgents against the
>  regime.
>
>  "The Iraqi National Assembly stressed that the governments of Kuwait
>  and Saudi Arabia are influential partners to the United States and
>  Britain through presenting facilities for aggression on Iraq," said
>  the official Iraqi News Agency.
>
>  In particular, Kuwait was accused of "financing and supporting acts of
>  killing and terrorism against the Iraqi people and its institutions
>  through receiving agents and betrayers and publishing leaflets that
>  incite conspiracies on Iraq."
>
>  The US Defense Secretary, William Cohen, said that Saddam "is lashing
>  out verbally, rhetorically, against the Saudis, against the Egyptians,
>  against the Kuwaitis". He said this "would seem to indicate that he is
>  certainly more agitated and frantic".
>
>  =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>  Tuesday January 12, 8:30 PM
>
>  Chemical and biological plants not targeted in Iraq raids: Jane's
>
>  LONDON, Jan 12 (AFP) - The US-British air strikes on Iraq were not
>  targeted at biological and chemical weapons for fear of releasing
>  toxic substances into the air, according to Jane's Defence Weekly
>  Tuesday.
>
>  The military analysts' magazine reported that the US Department of
>  Defense was developing munitions intended to incinerate such targets,
>  but field tests were still several months away.
>
>  The magazine also said London and Washington had proposed a strike
>  list of 250 targets for Operation Desert Fox, but this was reduced so
>  the strikes would not continue far into the holy Moslem month of
>  Ramadan.
>
>  In the end, said Jane's, US and British aircraft attacked 93 targets,
>  destroying 14 and severely damaging another 26.
>
>  Jane's also said that the withdrawal of UN weapons inspectors just
>  before the attacks gave sufficient warning to the elite Republican
>  Guards and military and security personnel to evacuate barracks and
>  disperse valuable equipment.
>
>  This contrasted with US-British claims of heavy damage to Iraq's
>  military machine.
>
>  Conflicting also with official British claim of taking part in 20
>  percent of all the strikes, Jane's said that of the 650 strike and
>  support aircraft sorties flown, 622 were made by the Americans and
>  just 28 by British Tornados.
>
>  Regarding claims that hospitals and schools were hit and strike
>  figures were inflated, Jane's declared: "Neither side offers solid
>  proof. All that appears certain is that Operation Desert Fox shows a
>  more concerted effort to make air strikes as surgically accurate as
>  possible."
>
>  The Iraqi response, said Jane's, was limited to short range
>  surface-to-air missiles and heavy anti-aircraft artillery fire. No
>  medium range missiles or fighters were launched.
>
>  The magazine said that on December 28 and 30, Iraq fired Soviet-made
>  SA-6 "Gainful" mobile surface-to-air missiles on American and British
>  aircraft patrolling no-fly zones.
>
>  It added that Baghdad appeared to have decided to conserve most of its
>  surface-to-air missiles for after Desert Fox, knowing that each wave
>  of strike aircraft would be protected by jammers, decoys and
>  anti-radar missiles.
>
>  Jane's predicted that in the future, rath

Re: [CTRL] Clinton's "Don't Look Down" Economy

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

The 'Don't Look Down' economy has also been referred to as voodoo economics in
that it is based soley on consumer confidence.  This has been going on far
longer than Clinton has been out of his diapers.

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Re: [CTRL] NSA Bans Furbies

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

In a message dated 1/14/99 12:12:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:

> Jesus Christ yourself, it is just a little fun.  I don't think anyone is
>  saying that the Furby's are an alien plot to overthrow us or anything . . .
>  then again maybe they are. . . Furry, Furry, Furry. . . .
>  Teo1000

Last night on Letterman, among the top stories to soon be shown on 60 Minutes,
was that the Furbies are a sinister alien race who have come to enslave
humanity.  I had to laugh heartily.

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Re: [CTRL] Land Grab Trust Fund!

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

In a message dated 1/13/99 10:06:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, lloyd@A-
ALBIONIC.COM writes:

> House Resources Chairman Don Young (R-AK) introduced a bill before Congress
>  adjourned that would make the present Land and Water Conservation Fund
>  (LWCF) into a  $1.5 billion land acquisition trust fund restarting the
>  massive private land acquisition offensive that occurred in the 70's and
>  80's.  A major target of the existing Clinton/Gore managed LWCF is removing
>  ranchers and other owners of private land in rural areas.  The Young bill
>  is a huge threat to private property ownership.

Public property is a myth.  An acquisition of land toward the end of making it
'public' inevitably puts it in the hands of the few.  This is the same as
instances in which a private company or individual uses dirty tactics to
'acquire' some one else's land.  It is wrong.  If it were to actually become
PUBLIC land, we would be talking about putting land in the hands of the people
but, of course, I'm sure that's not what they have in mind.

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[CTRL] The 10 Worst Corporations of 1998

[Agent Smiley]

>  What did we learn in 1998?
>
>  Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates' net wealth -- $51 billion -- is
>  greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40 percent of
>  Americans (106 million people).
>
>  Hundreds of hospitals are "dumping" patients who can't afford to pay.
>
>  The feds are criminally prosecuting big tobacco companies for smuggling
>  cigarettes into Canada. (Never mind addicting young kids to smoke and
>  thus condemning them to a certain, albeit, slow, death -- can't
>  criminally prosecute them for that.)
>
>  There's a bull market in stock fraud.
>
>  Prescription drugs may cause 100,000 deaths a year.
>
>  Two Fox-TV reporters in Florida are fired for trying to report on
>  adverse health effects associated with genetically engineered foods.
>
>  The U.S. Department of Agriculture proposes that genetically engineered
>  foods be labelled "organic."
>
>  Coal companies continue to cheat on air quality tests as hundreds of
>  coal miners continue to die each year from black lung disease.
>
>  The North American Securities Administrators Association estimates that
>  Americans lose about $1 million a hour to securities fraud.
>
>  Robert Reich says that megamergers threaten democracy. Corporate crime
>  explodes, but the academic study of corporate crime vanishes.
>
>  Three hundred trade unionists around the world were killed in 1997 for
>  defending their rights.
>
>  Corporate firms lobbying to cripple the Superfund law outnumber
>  environmental groups seeking to defend it by 30 to one.
>
>  Down on Nike? Chinese political prisoners allegedly make Adidas
>  products.
>
>  Blue Cross Blue Shield Illinois is a corporate criminal. Chemical
>  companies are testing pesticides on human beings.
>
>  Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, questions whether the Pentagon's
>  financial controls have suffered a "complete and utter breakdown."
>
>  Environmental crimes prosecution are down sharply under Clinton/Gore.
>  Bush/Quayle had a better record.
>
>  Bell Atlantic buys Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are
>  illustrations to sell telephone products.
>
>  Companies that have workers die on the job continue to be met with
>  fines. Criminal prosecutions still rare.
>
>  This is the price we pay for living in Corporate America. Wealth
>  disparity, megamergers and the resulting consolidation of corporate
>  power, commercialism run amok, rampant corporate crime, death without
>  justice, pollution, cancer and an unrelenting attack on democracy.
>
>  The 1998 market run-up might make plugged-in America feel good about
>  itself, but big business is eating out the democratic foundation of the
>  country, and when the empty shell crumbles, what kind of chaos might we
>  anticipate?
>
>  If you have justice on your mind, herewith for the tenth consecutive
>  year is Multinational Monitor's effort to pinpoint those responsible. It
>  is, admittedly, a short list -- the Ten Worst Corporations of 1998. But
>  it is a representative list, and as the damage becomes more apparent, as
>  the outrage at, and contempt for, our fearless leaders grows, surely the
>  list, too, will grow.
>
>  The Ten Worst Corporations of 1998 are:
>
>  * Chevron, for continuing to do business with a brutal dictatorship in
>  Nigeria and for alleged complicity in the killing of civilian
>  protesters.
>
>  * Coca-Cola, for hooking America's kids on sugar and soda water. Today,
>  teenage boys and girls drink twice as much soda pop as milk, whereas 20
>  years ago they drank nearly twice as much milk as soda.
>
>  * General Motors, for becoming an integral part of the Nazi war machine,
>  and then years later, when documented proof emerges, denying it.
>
>  * Loral and its chief executive Bernard Schwartz, for dumping $2.2
>  million into Clinton/Gore and Democratic Party coffers. The Clinton
>  administration responded by approving a human rights waiver to clear the
>  way for technology transfers to China.
>
>  * Mobil, for supporting the Indonesian military in crushing an
>  indigenous uprising in Aceh province and allegedly allowing the military
>  to use company machinery to dig mass graves.
>
>  * Monsanto, for introducing genetically engineered foods into the
>  foodstream without adequate safety testing and without labeling, thus
>  exposing consumers to unknown risks.
>
>  * Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, for pleading guilty to felony crimes for
>  dumping oil in the Atlantic Ocean and then lying to the Coast Guard
>  about it.
>
>  * Unocal, for engaging in numerous acts of pollution and law violations,
>  to such a degree that citizens in California petitioned the state's
>  attorney general to revoke the company's charter.
>
>  * Wal-Mart, for crushing small town America, for paying low, low wages
>  (a huge percentage of Wal-Mart workers are eligible for food stamps),
>  for using Asian child labor and for homogenizing the population; and
>  last, but not least,
>
>  * Warner-Lambert, for marketing

[CTRL] History of the Net url

[Agent Smiley]

 ftp://ftp.ocean.ic.net/pub/doc/nethist.html (yes, it's an HTML page






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Re: [CTRL] NSA Bans Furbies

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

>  To:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>   -Caveat Lector-
>
>  Jesus Christ people The NSA didn't ban it from the country or even stop its
>  employees from owning one. It just stopped its employees from bringing them
>  into the building due to the fact that classified material is discussed and
>  could be repeated by the Furby.

Assuming you're right(and that is not meant to dispute it), that is not at all
how it was put in the tv story I saw today in Detroit.  More irresponsible
reporting?

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[CTRL] 11 myths about Iraq situation

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  THE SANCTIONS
>   "From previous trips, we knew exactly where to find overwhelming
>   evidence of a weapon of mass destruction. Inspectors have only to
>   enter the wards of any hospital in Iraq to see that the sanctions
>   themselves are a lethal weapon, destroying the lives of Iraq's most
>   vulnerable people. In children's wards, tiny victims writhe in
>   pain, on blood-stained mats, bereft of anesthetics and antibiotics.
>   Thousands of children, poisoned by contaminated water, die from
>   dysentery, cholera, and diarrhea. Others succumb to respiratory
>   infections that become fatal full body infections. Five thousand
>   children, under age five, perish each month." - Kathy Kelly, March   9,
>  1998
>   ---
>   In the five years since the Persian Gulf War, "as many as 576,000
>   children have died as a result of sanctions imposed against Iraq by
>   the United Nations Security Council, according to a report by the
>   U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)." (New York Times,
>   12/1/95) If the blockade continues, UNICEF tells us, 1.5 million
>   more children will eventually suffer malnutrition or a variety of
>   unchecked illnesses because the sanctions make antibiotics and other
>   standard medicines impossible to get. Yet the U.N. Security Council
>   and the U.S. government continues to defend a blockade whose highest
>   casualty rate is among those under 5 years old. We can no longer
>   remain party to this slaughter in the desert. Myths and Realities
>   In numerous presentations, Voices in the Wilderness members have
>   heard the following myths. We think the discussion below will help
>   clarify our perspective on several important issues.
>   Myth 1 - The sanctions have produced temporary hardship for the
>Iraqi people but are an effective, nonviolent way to
>pressure the Iraqi government.
>   Surveys by UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, have found
>   that almost one-third of Iraqi children are suffering chronic
>   malnutrition. An April, 1997 UNICEF report says that 4,500 children
>   continue to die each month for lack of adequate food or medicine.
>   The UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs reports that "public health
>   services are near total collapse - basic medicines, life-saving drugs
>   and essential medical supplies are lacking throughout the country.
>   50% of rural people have no access to potable water and waste water
>   treatment facilities have stopped functioning in most urban areas."
>   The sanctions are an insidious form of warfare that have claimed
>   hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian lives.
>   Myth 2 - The US government wants to enforce UN Resolutions and
>uphold the rule of law.
>   The US has consistently employed a double standard when it comes to
>   UN Resolutions and international law. For decades, the US has vetoed
>   UN resolutions condemning Israel's occupation of Arab territories.
>   It is also relevant to the current situation that the US is in
>   technical violation of a global treaty to dismantle chemical
>   weapons (AP, 2/27/98). A Senate bill passed in 1997 allows the
>   president to deny international inspections of US weapons sites "on
>   grounds of national security." UN sanctions against Iraq, which
>   continue to be imposed at the insistence of the US (with the UK
>   following suit) are a gross violation of the Geneva Protocol 1,
>   Article 54; Starvation of Civilians as a Method of Warfare is
>   Prohibited. It's significant that the US, which has yet to ratify
>   the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, considered using nuclear weapons
>   against Iraq in February, 1998.
>   Myth 3 - The US Government is concerned about Iraq's weapons of
>mass destruction.
>   The US and other western European countries were the major suppliers
>   of chemical and biological weapons to Iraq in the 1980s during the
>   Iran-Iraq war. A report from the US Senate Committee on Banking,
>   Housing and Urban Affairs states that 9 out of 10 biological
>   materials used in Iraq's weapon components were bought from US
>   companies. The Los Angeles Times (2/19/98) reported that the US
>   supplied satellite intelligence to the Iraqis when they used
>   chemical weapons against Iran in 1988. During the Gulf War, the US
>   military used depleted uranium tipped shells, rockets and missiles,
>   spreading tons of highly toxic uranium oxide particles into the air.
>   A dramatic rise in congenital diseases and fetal deformities has
>   been found amongst both the children of Gulf War veterans and Iraqi
>   children under age five.
>   The US imposes genocidal sanctions which are themselves a weapon of
>   mass destruction, yet the US sells billions of dollars of weapons of
>   mass destruction to other Gulf states. Israel possesses over 200
>   thermonuclear weapons and has violated 69 UN mandates, yet the 

Re: [CTRL] NSA Bans Furbies

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

In a message dated 1/13/99 8:55:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:

> Now, the five-inch plush gremlin-like creatures are wanted again, this
> time by the nation's supersecret spy agency: Furbys could pose the
> latest threat to national security interests.
>

This is really sad.  I think national security is threatened when only the
elite have access to such things.  We might as well ban parrots.

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[CTRL] Fwd: Internet access charges

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  Thank you for requesting further information ref CNN article about
>  pending legislation.  You are not alone.
>
>  ...The issue has not been found on the CNN site so far.
>
>  ...The FCC site<
>  http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Factsheets/nominute.html>
>  denies the fee as a valid concern. However,  it does not mention any
>  congressional involvement, or interest in enacting access fees.





Thank you for requesting further information ref CNN article about
pending legislation.  You are not alone.

...The issue has not been found on the CNN site so far.

...The FCC site<
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Factsheets/nominute.html>
denies the fee as a valid concern. However,  it does not mention any
congressional involvement, or interest in enacting access fees.


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Re: [CTRL] Worst Newspaper in America

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

In a message dated 1/12/99 8:20:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:

> Listen, 90% of our news media is of the liberal, politically-correct
varitey.

Liberal is a dirty word in 99% of all media and is, therefore, erroneously
associated with politically correct.  Who do you think made it a dirty word in
99% of the media?

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[CTRL] With CBS News in Tow, AOL Runs Amuck

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  WITH CBS NEWS IN TOW, THE AOL JUGGERNAUT ROLLS ON
>
>  By Norman Solomon
>
>   There's no doubt that America Online has become one of the
>  most important media outlets in the country. At the end of last
>  year, AOL's membership topped 15 million. Now, AOL is joining
>  forces with CBS for an unprecedented alliance.
>
>   "CBS News will be guaranteed a major and ongoing presence
>  throughout AOL," a joint announcement said in early January.
>  "America Online has also committed to showcase the talents of CBS
>  News correspondents, producers and editors."
>
>   Meanwhile, CBS has pledged to boost AOL via "extensive
>  on-air promotion within each of its news broadcasts" -- including
>  "CBS Evening News," "Face the Nation," "48 Hours" and "60
>  Minutes."
>
>   Eager to spur enthusiasm among investors, the two media
>  firms are touting financial synergy: "CBS and AOL have agreed on
>  an exchange of value for CBS News products featured on AOL and
>  on-air promotion of AOL within CBS News programming."
>
>   It's all very cozy. Two huge media organizations are now
>  joined at the corporate hip after making a deal to ceaselessly
>  hype each other.
>
>   As the nation's overwhelmingly dominant Internet provider,
>  America Online is on a roll. No wonder AOL's chief executive,
>  Steve Case, sounded so cheery in a recent cyber-letter to AOL
>  subscribers:
>
>   * "The next century will be defined by the integration of
>  the Internet into people's lives, into society and into our
>  global economy," Case wrote. "So, as we start the new year, it
>  seems like a good time to take stock of our progress in building
>  something we can all be proud of."
>
>   The notion that a century could be "defined" by the use of
>  Internet technology makes for rhetoric that is interesting but
>  delusional. Likewise, the pretense that we're all involved in
>  developing the Internet on a remotely equal basis -- you, me and
>  Steve Case -- is comforting but absurd.
>
>   * "By almost any measure, the Internet truly came of age in
>  1998," Case reported. He added: "Interactive services like
>  personal finance and online shopping skyrocketed in popularity."
>
>   Apparently, the term "interactive" has become so debased
>  that it's now applied to actions such as paying bills, making
>  investments and shopping on the Internet.
>
>   * "Another great strength of the online medium -- and one
>  you know is a high priority for AOL -- is its ability to bring
>  people together Nearly 90 percent of online consumers say
>  they regularly or occasionally go online to communicate with
>  friends and family, and almost all say that the online medium
>  makes communicating with friends and family easier."
>
>   Commonly obscured is the fact that we don't need AOL or any
>  other hyper-commercialized online service in order to send and
>  receive e-mail.
>
>   * "Almost half of laptop owners say they take their machines
>  with them on vacation...and over one-quarter of online consumers
>  check their e-mail on vacation."
>
>   This is progress?
>
>   * "Of those who meet new people online, over 90 percent say
>  it is easier in cyberspace than the real world."
>
>   Now we're in deep waters: Connecting with a modem is so much
>  more gratifying than old-fashioned human contact. Why bother with
>  the "real world" when you can keep looking at a computer screen?
>
>   * "And, of course, the new online ways to research products
>  and shop online is also a significant driver of the medium's
>  success."
>
>   Of course. Despite Case's tangled grammar, the message is
>  clear: Big money is driving Internet development.
>
>   * "Nearly three-quarters of the online consumer population
>  say they go online to get information about products to buy."
>
>   At this rate, the Internet will mainly serve as an
>  amalgamation of every shopping mall and boutique in the universe.
>
>   * "And almost half think that being online has a more
>  positive influence on children than watching television."
>
>   Talk about low standards.
>
>   * "Only one-quarter of American households are online today
>  and, of those, nearly two-thirds got connected within the past
>  two years. As more people get connected, and people embed
>  interactive services even more in their lives, I'm sure we'll see
>  attitudes change even more dramatically over the years."
>
>   That will probably be gratifying for true believers in the
>  virtual world of America Online. But what about the rest of us?
>
>  ___
>
>  Norman Solomon is co-author of "Wizards of Media Oz." His new
>  book "The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media" will be published in
>  March.






Original Message Follows
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:06:37 -0600 (CST)
From: Norman Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FAIR: With CBS News in Tow, AOL Runs A

[CTRL] Fwd: Iceland Sells Its Own Genetic Code

[Agent Smiley]

>  URL:
>  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-
bin/article.cgi?file=3D/chronicle/archive/1999/01/=
>
>  12
>  /MN98155.DTL=20
>
>  Iceland has decided to become the first country in the world to sell
>  the rights to the entire population's genetic code to a biotechnology
>  company -- a move that is highlighting the promise and risks of the
>  genetic information age.
>
>  Roche Holding Ltd. has signed a $200 million, five-year deal to
>  develop new drugs and tests from the data.
>
>  The strikingly uniform DNA of Iceland's largely blue-eyed, blond-
>  haired populace is expected to provide an invaluable resource for
>  studying human genetics, leading to fundamental insights into many
>  diseases, proponents say.
>
>  But opponents fear that the database could make the most private
>  details of individuals' lives public. People with mental illness or
>  other health problems could be stigmatized, perhaps suffering job
>  discrimination. Patients may become less willing to divulge personal
>  information to their doctors. And in a country where some estimates say
>  that about 10 percent of the population may have been born out of
>  wedlock, long-held family secrets could leak out.
>
>  The plan is to pool detailed genetic, medical and genealogical
>  information about Iceland's 270,000 residents into linked databases that
>  companies will search for clues into the nature of disease.
>
>  Although a majority of Iceland's citizens support the plan, a vocal
>  minority of scientists and doctors -- with support from a worldwide
>  network of like-minded privacy advocates -- have stoked the controversy.
>
>  ``Most doctors and scientists here in Iceland are in favor of the basic
>  purpose of this project -- but find the proposed solution quite
>  unethical and unrealistic,'' said Jon Erlendsson, a Reykjavik-based
>  engineer and writer who believes the database network will eventually
>  fail because doctors and patients will refuse to cooperate once its
>  nature is better understood.
>
>  The fight in Iceland is focusing attention on the potential risks of
>  efforts to mine and refine personal data -- efforts that are also
>  increasingly common in the United States and around the world.
>
>  ``Turning the population into electronic guinea pigs'' should serve as
>  a warning to Americans, said David Banisar of the Washington-based
>  Electronic Privacy Information Center.
>
>  Despite the objections, Iceland could begin collecting blood to
>  obtain the DNA samples within six months, after a period in which
>  citizens may decline to participate. Precisely how the blood will be
>  collected has not been determined.
>
>  The plan was proposed by a Harvard-educated Icelandic scientist as a
>  way to develop a new natural resource for a country where unemployment
>  is a chronic problem. Iceland's parliament, the Althing, approved the
>  plan last month, passing a law authorizing the database and creating the
>  framework that will enable a local company, deCODE Genetics, to hold an
>  unusual 12- year monopoly on data marketing
>  rights.
>
>  Iceland's population presents a tantalizing opportunity for those
>  who study genetics because all of that blond hair and blue eyes reflects
>  one of the most remarkably homogeneous populations in the world. The
>  original blend of ninth- century Norse people and Celtic seamen has been
>  largely unchanged, and that gene pool was further
>  restricted by bouts of plague, famine and volcanic eruption.
>
>  =A91998 San Francisco Chronicle  Page A9=20
>
>
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Iceland Sells Its Own Genetic Code
Biotech firm buys data of islanders' DNA=20
John Schwartz
Tuesday, January 12, 1999=20
=A91998 San Francisco Chronicle=20

URL:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=3D/chronicle/archive/1999/01/=
12
/MN98155.DTL=20

Iceland has decided to become the first country in the world to sell
the rights to the entire population's genetic code to a biotechnology
company -- a move that is highlighting the promise and risks of the
genetic information age.

Roche Holding Ltd. has signed a $200 million, five-year deal to
develop new drugs and tests from the data.

The strikingly uniform DNA of Iceland's largely blue-eyed, blond-
haired populace is expected to provide an invaluable resource for
studying human genetics, leading to fundamental insights into many
diseases, proponents say.

But opponents fear that the database could make the most private
details of individuals' lives public. People with mental illness or
other health problems could be stigmatized, perhaps suffering job
discrimination. Patients may become less willing to

[CTRL] U.S. Says It Collected Iraq Intelligence Via UNSCOM

[Agent Smiley]

>  The Washington Post   Friday, January 8, 1999; Page A01
>
>  U.S. Says It Collected Iraq Intelligence Via UNSCOM
>
>   By Thomas W. Lippman and Barton Gellman
>
>   The United States for nearly three years intermittently
>  monitored the coded radio communications of President Saddam
>  Hussein's innermost security forces using equipment secretly
>  installed in Iraq by U.N. weapons inspectors, according to U.S.
>  and U.N. officials.
>   In 1996 and 1997, the Iraqi communications were captured by
>  off-the-shelf commercial equipment carried by inspectors from the
>  organization known as UNSCOM, then hand-delivered to analysis
>  centers in Britain, Israel, and the United States for
>  interpretation, officials said.
>   But early last year, when UNSCOM decided it was too
>  dangerous for its inspectors to carry the equipment, the United
>  States took control of the operation and replaced the store-
>  bought scanners and digital tape recorders with more
>  sophisticated automated monitors. The intercepted Iraqi
>  communications were sent by satellite relay in a nearby country
>  to the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, where they were
>  decoded and translated into English, the officials said.
>   Information relevant to the work of the U.N. weapons
>  inspection force, which was searching for Iraq's prohibited
>  weapons or the means to conceal them, was shared with UNSCOM's
>  chairman and his deputy, officials said. Other information,
>  including material that might be helpful to the United States in
>  destabilizing Saddam Hussein, was retained by Washington. The
>  U.S. officials said intelligence kept by Washington has proven to
>  be of scant value in its campaign against the Iraqi government.
>   U.S. officials confirmed the monitoring operation in an
>  effort to rebut allegations that the United States had
>  inappropriately used UNSCOM as a tool to penetrate Saddam
>  Hussein's security and promote his downfall. Until yesterday,
>  U.S. officials had denied using intelligence gathered in
>  connection with UNSCOM for U.S. purposes. Elements of the
>  operation were reported this week in The Washington Post and the
>  Boston Globe. The Wall Street Journal added further details in a
>  story published yesterday.
>   The Post assembled over several months an account of the
>  intelligence operation from U.N. and U.S. officials, but agreed
>  last fall not to publish details about sources and methods used
>  to gather the information after U.S. officials said the
>  disclosure would damage national security. This week, U.S.
>  officials have themselves disclosed many of the same details.
>   U.S. officials have said the purpose of the radio intercepts
>  was to help UNSCOM do the job assigned to it by the U.N.
>  Security Council. To the extent the operation provided
>  additional information was a bonus that did not deviate from
>  UNSCOM's mandate, the officials said.
>   UNSCOM has had no staff or operations in Iraq since the U.S.
>  and British missile strikes last month, but there are indications
>  that the monitoring has continued. White House national security
>  adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger said after the airstrikes that
>  "with or without UNSCOM, we have formidable intelligence
>  capabilities" in Iraq.
>   "We try to monitor as best we can the internal situation in
>  Iraq," Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, commander of U.S. forces in
>  the Persian Gulf region, said at a Washington news conference
>  yesterday.
>   As recounted to The Post by U.S. and U.N. officials, the
>  UNSCOM effort to get inside Saddam Hussein's security apparatus
>  began early in this decade, after UNSCOM concluded that Iraq did
>  not intend to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions
>  requiring it to destroy its nuclear, chemical, and biological
>  weapons.
>   While officials said that intelligence agents from several
>  countries, including the United States, were assigned to work on
>  UNSCOM inspection teams, U.S. officials insisted that no
>  Americans report to Washington outside UNSCOM channels.
>   Instead, U.S. officials and others said, it became apparent
>  over time that Iraq was bent on concealing its banned weapons,
>  and that the security forces assigned to that task were the same
>  as those assigned to Saddam Hussein's security. Penetration of
>  one was tantamount to penetration of the other, officials said,
>  especially because they used the same encrypted radio
>  frequencies.
>   Rolf Ekeus, then UNSCOM's chairman and now Sweden's
>  ambassador to the United States, said he briefed members of the
>  Security Council in early 1997 on this discovery and on the
>  possibility that tracking weapons could also end up gathering
>  information that might be helpful in tracking Saddam Hussein.
>   The idea of taking scanners into Iraq originated with Scott
>  Ritter, a former U.S. Marine officer who was wor

[CTRL] Butler wants answers from U$ on spy-data-sharing

[Agent Smiley]

>  U.N. arms chief wants answers from U.S. about reports of spying
>
>  Boston Globe January 8:
>
> UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The head of a U.N. commission charged with
>  disarming Iraq is demanding to know whether the United States used the
>  weapons inspectors' work to gather intelligence.
>
> Richard Butler said he brought the matter up with U.S. officials
>  Thursday, asking them what Washington "might have done unbeknownst to
>  us," in reportedly using U.N. weapons searches to undermine the Iraqi
>  regime.
>
> Butler also discussed his concerns with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
>  Annan, who later spoke with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
>
> Annan and Albright discussed allegations that the United States had
>  "piggybacked" on the inspectors' work for its own foreign policy
>  goals, U.N. officials said.
>
> Albright assured Annan that Americans in or connected with UNSCOM,
>  the U.N. weapons commission, strictly supported Security Council
>  resolutions.
>
> In an interview with The Associated Press, Butler said he expected to
>  have a "relevant conversation about it" today with U.S. officials
>  and that he "wanted real answers".
>
> "We don't want our system misused in that way", Butler said.
>
> Butler came under fire following newspaper reports this week that
>  detailed a surveillance operation that allowed Washington to eavesdrop
>  on Iraqi military communications network, reportedly through U.N.
>  weapons inspections.
>
> The New York Times today quoted unidentified U.S. officials as saying
>  that the United States used the U.N. team to eavesdrop, and that the
>  operation had Butler's blessing.
>
> Butler on Thursday denied he ever authorized any surveillance of
>  Saddam Hussein's communications - only messages that related to the
>  National Monitoring Directorate, which works with U.N. inspectors in
>  carrying out arms searches.
>
> Iraq has long called for Butler's replacement, accusing him and his
>  inspectors of being spies. Butler denied his staff had ever spied, but
>  said he wanted Washington to clarify whether some other collection
>  efforts or piggybacking on us may have been taking place".
>
> U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said Thursday that the United Nations
>  wasn't in a position to investigate such allegations itself, and said
>  it would have to wait to see if any of the charges were corroborated.
>
> Butler stressed that he had never directed inspectors' surveillance
>  go anywhere near the Iraqi government.
>
> Emphasizing the point, Butler said just before inspectors evacuated
>  Iraq before the Dec. 16-19 airstrikes, they had established in the
>  desert a system to check television waves to monitor the flight paths
>  of missiles.
>
> "I directed quite specifically, that there be limitation to that
>  work, that Iraq be accompanied with us and see what we were doing, and
>  that they (inspectors) in no way - in any way - lock on to any Iraqi
>  military or government communications because I didn't want to be
>  accused of exactly this sort of stuff.
>
> "And that has been our policy", he said.
>
> Butler has chaired UNSCOM for two years, heading the body responsible
>  for overseeing the destruction of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction as
>  called for by the cease-fire resolutions that ended the Persian Gulf
>  War. An oil embargo imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 cannot be
>  lifted until the inspectors report Iraq is weapons-free.
>
> Butler said Thursday he hadn't decided whether he would stay on the
>  job after his term ends June 30. But he rejected the suggestion that
>  the newspaper stories were leaked by Annan's office to undercut him
>  and thus allow for a less controversial inspection regime to return to
>  Baghdad.
>
> "The idea that somehow that this whole mega-crisis with Iraq could be
>  solved by giving my head on the plate to the Iraqis is just not
>  serious", Butler said.





U.N. arms chief wants answers from U.S. about reports of spying

Boston Globe January 8:

   UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The head of a U.N. commission charged with
disarming Iraq is demanding to know whether the United States used the
weapons inspectors' work to gather intelligence.

   Richard Butler said he brought the matter up with U.S. officials
Thursday, asking them what Washington "might have done unbeknownst to
us," in reportedly using U.N. weapons searches to undermine the Iraqi
regime.

   Butler also discussed his concerns with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan, who later spoke with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

   Annan and Albright discussed allegations that the United States had
"piggybacked" on the inspectors' work for its own foreign policy
goals, U.N. officials said.

   Albright assured Annan that Americans in or connected with UNSCOM,
the U.N. weapons commission, strictly supported Security Council
resolutions.

   In an interview with The Associated P

Re: [CTRL] Bigfoot Controversy Erupts

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

Most literature on the Sasquatch does not bank on the film.

The article states that if this film is shown to be a hoax then the thousands
of plaster molds of footprints are then invaldated.  This is far from logic.
It would seem that the author is capable of a modicum of reason, yet sites
'experts' who are not.  Bologna.

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[CTRL] Fwd: LP Press Release: anti-drug killer fungus

[Agent Smiley]

>  [Forwared via Dawn Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
>
>  ===
>  NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY
>  2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100
>  Washington DC 20037
>  World Wide Web: http://www.lp.org/
>  ===
>  For release: January 11, 1999
>  ===
>  For additional information:
>  George Getz, Press Secretary
>  Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222
>  E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  ===
>
>
>  Libertarians blast Congress for spending
>  $23 million to develop anti-drug killer fungus
>
>  WASHINGTON, DC -- The United States government is spending $23
>  million to develop a killer fungus to wipe out marijuana plants -- a
>  dangerous plan that could cause an environmental catastrophe, said the
>  Libertarian Party today.
>
>  "This project is the political equivalent of athlete's foot
>  fungus: It's nasty, it's dangerous, and it needs to be stopped before
>  it spreads," said LP National Director Steve Dasbach. "The last thing
>  we need is a bio-engineered killer fungus turned loose on the world."
>
>  Late last year, Congress passed legislation that authorized $23
>  million for research into soil-borne fungi called "mycoherbicides,"
>  which will attack and kill marijuana plants, poppy plants, and coca
>  plants.
>
>  When developed, the fungus could be released in such South
>  American countries as Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia, said U.S. officials.
>
>  The legislation was guided through Congress by U.S.
>  Representatives Bill McCollum (R-FL) and Mike DeWine (R-OH), who said
>  the killer fungus was potentially a "silver bullet" in the War on
>  Drugs.
>
>  But Libertarians say the tax-subsidized fungus is a "biohazard"
>  that could have a disastrous impact on the ecosystems of the target
>  nations -- and, potentially, the whole world.
>
>  "In the government's irresponsible search for a quick-fix in
>  the War on Drugs, politicians could cause terrifying long-term
>  ecological problems," warned Dasbach. According to scientists, the
>  killer fungus could...
>
>  * Attack other plants, wiping out valuable cash crops.
>
>  "For example, a chemical alkaloid similar to the one that
>  produces cocaine is present in many legal plants -- including tobacco
>  and coffee beans," said Dasbach. "In an effort to wipe out drugs, this
>  killer fungus could wipe out the livelihood of millions of farmers."
>
>  * Cause many plants to develop stronger chemical defenses
>  against the fungus, which could then mutate and spread to other,
>  harmful plants.
>
>  "According to scientists, mutated plants could pass on these
>  resistant genes and create herbicide-resistant weeds, which could have
>  a ruinous effect on farm yields," he said. "With world hunger already a
>  problem, why risk making it worse?"
>
>  * Wipe out industrial hemp plants, which are legal in every
>  major industrialized country outside the United States.
>
>  "No fungus is smart enough to tell the difference between legal
>  hemp and illegal marijuana," noted Dasbach. "This fungus could be the
>  biological warfare equivalent of carpet bombing -- killing whatever is
>  in its path."
>
>  What should Americans do about this dangerous program? Tell
>  their Congressional representatives to apply a strong dose of political
>  fungicide to "cure" it, said Dasbach.
>
>  "This tax-funded fungus should be treated like any dangerous
>  mold or mildew -- exposed to sunlight and wiped clean. Congress should
>  just say no to biological warfare."
>
>  Dasbach also said Libertarians have a better way to reduce the
>  consumption of marijuana, with no environmental risks: Legalize it.
>
>  In the Netherlands, he noted, where marijuana is
>  decriminalized, drug use is half that of the United States. In fact, a
>  new study revealed that while 32.9% of Americans have tried marijuana,
>  only 15.6% of Dutch adults have done so.
>
>  "Treating adults like adults -- and letting them make decisions
>  about how to live their lives -- seems to have a stronger anti-drug
>  effect than any killer fungus," said Dasbach. "Wouldn't it be ironic if
>  liberty was a more effective anti-drug program than deadly
>  mycoherbicides?"
>
>
>  The Libertarian Party
>  http://www.lp.org/
>  2600 Virginia Ave. NW, Suite 100  voice:
>  202-333-0008
>  Washington DC 20037 fax:
>  202-333-0072




[Forwared via Dawn Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

===
NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY
2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100
Washington DC 20037
World Wide Web: http://www.lp.org/
===
For release: January 11, 1999
===
For additional information:
George Getz

[CTRL] (no subject)

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

FCC to Examine Internet Pricing Issues

by Sari Kalin, IDG News Service


 (December 30, 1996) -- The U.S. Federal Communications Commission wants to
let Internet service providers off the hook for now. The agency tentatively
recommended that ISPs not pay current interstate access charges to local
telephone exchange carriers.

Despite that position, the FCC opened the door to examining Internet traffic
more carefully in the future. It has issued a notice of inquiry (NOI)
requesting comment on whether it should consider interstate information
services and the Internet separately from access charge reform.

While long-distance companies must pay local exchange carriers a fee for
completing a voice or data call on either end--fees estimated by the FCC to
total $13 billion a year--ISPs have been exempt for more than a decade. Long-
distance companies have long complained that the access charges are far above
costs, while the local exchange carriers have said they need the funds to
subsidize universal phone service. Some local exchange carriers, of late, have
also complained to the FCC that Internet traffic is clogging the public
telephone network.

Given concerns that Internet traffic is taxing the public phone system, the
FCC wants comments on how it can "create incentives for the deployment of
services and facilities to allow more efficient transport of data traffic,"
according to an FCC statement.

The FCC says that Internet issues are beyond the scope of the current
interstate access charge debate. For now, that is a victory for ISPs and
consumers, since the longer that ISPs can go without paying access charges,
the longer consumers can enjoy cheap Internet access, said Neal Friedman, an
attorney specializing in communications and online services at Pepper &
Corazzini in Washington, D.C. But the battle is far from over, he said.

Under last week’s notice of proposed rule making, which opens the debate on
interstate access charges, the FCC said it will look at ways to change rate
levels and structure to bring them more in line, the official said. Rate
structure could be modified by market forces, as competition increases, or by
the FCC, which could spell out a new rate plan if it believes that competition
alone won't be enough.

Comments on the notice of proposed rule making are due Jan. 27, and replies
are due Feb. 13, according to the FCC official. Comments on the notice of
inquiry are due Feb. 21 and replies are due March 24.




Baby Bell Legal Victory Could Slow Down Local Phone Competition

FCC to Lower International Interconnection Rates

Hundt's Law


Infoseek Targets Corporate Customers


AGP: The X2 of Accelerators


•  Billions Sold

•  Free Net Access

•  What Price Microsoft?

•  Microsoft: My Turn

•  More Mobile CPUs




FCC








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[CTRL] Iraq rejects Saudi plan to ease sanctions

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

 Plan or ploy?


--
--

Iraq rejects Saudi plan to ease sanctions



Kuwaiti military on alert
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq on Monday rejected Saudi Arabia's proposal to ease
sanctions against Iraq, reiterating Baghdad's stance that the U.N. embargo
must be lifted completely.

Tension among Arab Gulf nations was also underlined Monday when Kuwait
announced that part of its military was put on full combat alert, following a
threat by the Iraqi parliament to withdraw recognition of Kuwait.

 ALSO:
U.S. jets fire missiles in northern Iraq

Saudi newspapers reported an initiative on Sunday to ease U.N. sanctions on
Iraq to ease the plight of the Iraqi people. The sanctions were imposed after
Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Saudi Arabia reportedly recommended that Iraq
be allowed to buy and sell all goods -- except military equipment or material
that could be used for military purposes.

But Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz rejected the idea of a partial
lifting of sanctions.

"Iraq totally rejects the so-called Saudi initiative reported by Saudi
newspapers based in London," Aziz said in a statement carried by the official
Iraqi news agency.

He accused Saudi Arabia of having supported the recent bombing raids of Iraq
by the United States and Britain, meant as punishment for Iraq's non-
cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors.

"Therefore, it is not expected that Saudi Arabia comes up with a sincere and
positive proposal in favor of Iraq," Aziz said, referring to the country as
"party to the recent aggression against Iraq."

Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf also accused both Saudi Arabia
and Kuwait of conspiring to destroy Iraq.


Tariq Aziz

"They are participating in an American and British conspiracy to divide Iraq.
They are doing their utmost and (are) spending limitless amounts of money in
order to continue keeping sanctions against Iraq," Aziz said.


Kuwaiti military on alert

In a tangible sign of mounting tension in the region, Kuwait said on Monday
that it had put part of its armed forces on full, combat ready alert in
response to Iraqi "threats" to Gulf Arab states.


Iraqi parliament

In a special two-day session on the U.N. sanctions issue, members of Iraq's
parliament had raised the specter of rejecting all U.N. Security Council
resolutions and withdrawing recognition of Kuwait.

However, the chamber eventually backed off from such a resolution on Kuwait.

U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen repeated on Monday that Washington was
ready to act militarily if Baghdad threatened Kuwait.

Iraqi newspapers reported Monday that Hussein, chairing his second Cabinet
meeting this year, asked his ministers to outline measures they had taken in
anticipation of further airstrikes.


Arab world divided

The Saudi sanctions initiative apparently is aimed at calming the Arab public,
which has become increasingly concerned about the suffering of Iraq's 22
million people under the sanctions, according to observers.

But the Saudis and their allies also are becoming increasingly irritated at
Hussein, who has called on Arabs in other nations to rise up and overthrow
leaders who do not support Iraq.

On Sunday, the official Saudi Press Agency urged Iraqis to oust Hussein.

The call was echoed by Egypt's Foreign Minister, Amr Moussa, in comments
published Monday in a Berlin newspaper.

"Iraq is a rich country that has become poor under Saddam Hussein's regime. We
are of the opinion that he is no longer capable of being responsible for his
country's politics ... Iraq needs a new government," Moussa was quoted as
saying by the Berliner Kurier newspaper.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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Re: [CTRL] Ramsey Clark letter to Security Council (fwd)

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 -Caveat Lector-

In a message dated 1/10/99 8:51:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:

>
>  Ramsey Clark's a flake.

We might want to debate the text.  Character assassination reeks of media
propagandism.

If the text is legitimate, then our personal opinions of his supposed
flakiness are moot.

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[CTRL] Massive International Electronic Spy Web Planned

[Agent Smiley]

>
>
>  Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/
>
>  Europe plans huge spy web
>  By Simon Davies
>
>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000231145059143&rtmo=LKlGGdyd&atmo=
>  &P4_FOLLOW_ON=/99/1/7/ecnspy07.html&pg=/et/99/1/7/ecnspy07.html
>
>  LAW enforcement agencies have laid the foundations for a massive
>  eavesdropping system capable of intercepting all mobile phone calls,
>  Internet communications, and fax and pager messages in Europe. The plan,
>  known as Enfopol 98, has been drawn up in secret by police and justice
>  officials as part of a Europe-wide strategy to create a
>  seamless web of telecommunications surveillance across national
>  boundaries.
>
>  The strategy, which has received widespread support in the EU Justice
>  and Home Affairs Council, will oblige all ISPs and telephone exchanges
>  to provide agencies with "real time, full time" access to all
>  communications, regardless of the country of origin.
>
>  Current eavesdropping techniques require specific authority to be
>  granted within each individual country so that agencies can monitor
>  pre-designated communications within each jurisdiction. Under the
>  proposed system, Europe will create a "one-stop shop" for snooping on
>  communications.  Satellite systems such as Iridium will be forced to
>  create "wiretap-friendly" technology, while ISPs must submit to
>  requirements for interception of content.
>
>  The plan was revealed by the German Internetmagazine Telepolis, which
>  recently published details of the strategy.  The EU has refused to
>  acknowledge the status of the proposal, but it is now known that Enfopol
>  has passed through the Justice and Home Affairs Council to the stage of
>  draft resolution. So far, national parliaments have scarcely been
>  involved.
>
>  To the dismay of advocates of strong encryption, Enfopol will function
>  on the principle that all code must be capable of being broken. The
>  Enfopol system will be aided by a "subject tagging" system capable of
>  tracking targets wherever they travel. Known as the "International User
>  Requirements for Interception" (IUR), the tagging system will create a
>  data processing and transmission network that involves not only the
>  names, addresses and phone numbers of targets and associates, but email
>  addresses, credit card details, PINs and passwords.
>
>  The move to establish Enfopol follows a five-year lobbying exercise by
>  American agencies such as the FBI.  When completed, the system will
>  provide a global interception regime.
>
>  But the proposal has infuriated civil liberties and Internet rights
>  organisations. Ian Brown, technology policy director of Privacy
>  International calls, it a "sniper's
>  bullet to the heart of privacy".




Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/

Europe plans huge spy web
By Simon Davies

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000231145059143&rtmo=LKlGGdyd&atmo=
&P4_FOLLOW_ON=/99/1/7/ecnspy07.html&pg=/et/99/1/7/ecnspy07.html

LAW enforcement agencies have laid the foundations for a massive
eavesdropping system capable of intercepting all mobile phone calls,
Internet communications, and fax and pager messages in Europe. The plan,
known as Enfopol 98, has been drawn up in secret by police and justice
officials as part of a Europe-wide strategy to create a
seamless web of telecommunications surveillance across national
boundaries.

The strategy, which has received widespread support in the EU Justice
and Home Affairs Council, will oblige all ISPs and telephone exchanges
to provide agencies with "real time, full time" access to all
communications, regardless of the country of origin.

Current eavesdropping techniques require specific authority to be
granted within each individual country so that agencies can monitor
pre-designated communications within each jurisdiction. Under the
proposed system, Europe will create a "one-stop shop" for snooping on
communications.  Satellite systems such as Iridium will be forced to
create "wiretap-friendly" technology, while ISPs must submit to
requirements for interception of content.

The plan was revealed by the German Internetmagazine Telepolis, which
recently published details of the strategy.  The EU has refused to
acknowledge the status of the proposal, but it is now known that Enfopol
has passed through the Justice and Home Affairs Council to the stage of
draft resolution. So far, national parliaments have scarcely been
involved.

To the dismay of advocates of strong encryption, Enfopol will function
on the principle that all code must be capable of being broken. The
Enfopol system will be aided by a "subject tagging" system capable of
tracking targets wherever they travel. Known as the "International User
Requirements for Interception" (IUR), the tagging system will create a
data processing and transmission network that involves not only the
names, addresses and phone numbers of targets and associates, but email
addr

[CTRL] China still considers US a nuclear threat

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9901/08/BC-China-Military.ap/index.html
>  4. Chinese president tells military to be prepared for threatsJanuary 8,
>  1999
>  BEIJING (AP) -- Despite the end of the Cold War, China still
>  considersthe
>  United States a threat, President Jiang Zemin indicated in a
>  speechlaying
>  out the mission of the world's largest military, state media
>  reportedFriday.
>  "Hegemonism and power politics still exist," Jiang said, using communist
>  code words for U.S. dominance. "We must resolutely safeguard the unityof
>  the motherland and the nation's territorial integrity."
>  Jiang also urged the military to be prepared to protect China
>  fromnuclear
>  attacks from without and separatism from within.
>  Jiang's remarks were made to a meeting of senior military commanders on
>  Dec. 25. No explanation was given for the delay, but state
>  televisionsaid
>  only part of the speech was made public.
>  The speech came amid celebrations marking 20 years of successfuleconomic
>  reforms, and Jiang reviewed the military's progress over the period. It
>  also occurred as authorities imprisoned dissidents and Jiang promised in
>  other public speeches that the Communist Party would crush challenges to
>  its rule. Jiang, who heads the party and its commission that oversees
>  the
>  military,reminded the commanders that the 2.9 million-member People's
>  Liberation
>  Army was "under the absolute leadership" of the party.
>  Jiang committed the party to backing the military's modernization sothat
>  it would be prepared to "ward off preemptive strikes as well
>  aslarge-scale
>  wars and nuclear war."
>  China, a nuclear power since 1964, was startled last year when regional
>  rival India exploded several nuclear bombs, announcing itslong-suspected
>  nuclear capability. 



http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9901/08/BC-China-Military.ap/index.html
4. Chinese president tells military to be prepared for threatsJanuary 8,
1999
BEIJING (AP) -- Despite the end of the Cold War, China still
considersthe
United States a threat, President Jiang Zemin indicated in a
speechlaying
out the mission of the world's largest military, state media
reportedFriday.
"Hegemonism and power politics still exist," Jiang said, using communist
code words for U.S. dominance. "We must resolutely safeguard the unityof
the motherland and the nation's territorial integrity."
Jiang also urged the military to be prepared to protect China
fromnuclear
attacks from without and separatism from within.
Jiang's remarks were made to a meeting of senior military commanders on
Dec. 25. No explanation was given for the delay, but state
televisionsaid
only part of the speech was made public.
The speech came amid celebrations marking 20 years of successfuleconomic
reforms, and Jiang reviewed the military's progress over the period. It
also occurred as authorities imprisoned dissidents and Jiang promised in
other public speeches that the Communist Party would crush challenges to
its rule. Jiang, who heads the party and its commission that oversees
the
military,reminded the commanders that the 2.9 million-member People's
Liberation
Army was "under the absolute leadership" of the party.
Jiang committed the party to backing the military's modernization sothat
it would be prepared to "ward off preemptive strikes as well
aslarge-scale
wars and nuclear war."
China, a nuclear power since 1964, was startled last year when regional
rival India exploded several nuclear bombs, announcing itslong-suspected
nuclear capability. 

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[CTRL] U.N. Agencies Tell Of Damage in Iraq -New York Times

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>
>  Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/
>
>  "U.N. Agencies Tell Of Damage in Iraq." New York Times, 7 January
>  99, A6.
>   Unicef and the World Food Program, two United Nations
>   agencies that have surveyed damage done to health and
>   educational facilities by last month's American and British
>   strikes in Iraq, reported that a water system in Baghdad
>   that supplied 300,000 people had been hit and disabled.
>   Unicef has asked for the immediate approval of water
>   treatment materials from the Security council's sanctions
>   committee, claiming that the city is facing a shortage of
>   clean water.  The agencies also reported that the strikes
>   destroyed a rice storage facility, an agricultural school
>   and several other schools and hospitals.







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"U.N. Agencies Tell Of Damage in Iraq." New York Times, 7 January
99, A6.
 Unicef and the World Food Program, two United Nations
 agencies that have surveyed damage done to health and
 educational facilities by last month's American and British
 strikes in Iraq, reported that a water system in Baghdad
 that supplied 300,000 people had been hit and disabled.
 Unicef has asked for the immediate approval of water
 treatment materials from the Security council's sanctions
 committee, claiming that the city is facing a shortage of
 clean water.  The agencies also reported that the strikes
 destroyed a rice storage facility, an agricultural school
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[CTRL] * Attack Against Iraq Violates International Law

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>
>
>  Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/
>
>  * Attack Against Iraq Violates International Law
>  =
>  No matter how one views Saddam Hussein and his lack of compliance with
>  UN Resolutions, his country is not subject to military attack without
>  specific authorization by the UN Security Council. Absent a situation of
>  self-defense (Art. 51 UN Charter) authority for the use of force to
>  preserve the peace can only come from the UN Security Council. Neither
>  the U.S. nor Britain sought this grant of authority from the Security
>  Council, and they would not have attained it if they had asked. Russian
>  President Yeltsin commented, "This can essentially be regarded as a step
>  that undermines the entire system of international security, of which
>  the UN and its Security Council are the linchpins." The Russian Duma
>  voted 394 to one that "[t]hese activities [the attack by the US and UK
>  against Iraq] constitute international terrorism." No leader, no matter
>  how powerful, and
>  no country, no matter how strongly armed, is above international law.
>  Until we learn this lesson, force will remain the predominant currency
>  of international relations and bullyism will continue to prevail.
>  http://www.napf.org/articles/iraq.html
>  http://www.napf.org/articles/bully.html
>  http://www.napf.org/news/iraqlinks.html





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* Attack Against Iraq Violates International Law
=
No matter how one views Saddam Hussein and his lack of compliance with
UN Resolutions, his country is not subject to military attack without
specific authorization by the UN Security Council. Absent a situation of
self-defense (Art. 51 UN Charter) authority for the use of force to
preserve the peace can only come from the UN Security Council. Neither
the U.S. nor Britain sought this grant of authority from the Security
Council, and they would not have attained it if they had asked. Russian
President Yeltsin commented, "This can essentially be regarded as a step
that undermines the entire system of international security, of which
the UN and its Security Council are the linchpins." The Russian Duma
voted 394 to one that "[t]hese activities [the attack by the US and UK
against Iraq] constitute international terrorism." No leader, no matter
how powerful, and
no country, no matter how strongly armed, is above international law.
Until we learn this lesson, force will remain the predominant currency
of international relations and bullyism will continue to prevail.
http://www.napf.org/articles/iraq.html
http://www.napf.org/articles/bully.html
http://www.napf.org/news/iraqlinks.html


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Re: [CTRL] Iraq inspectors seem guilty of spying

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 -Caveat Lector-

> There was misunderstanding.

I guess our renowned intelligence system was asleep.

> There is no reason to believe
>  that Bush "suckered" Saddam into anything.

Other than the fact that it's how US foreign policy often works.

>  Let's not forget that the
> foolish
>  Saddam had blithely launched an eight year war against Iran.

I never understood that war to be soley Iraq's doing.

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: They are trying to stop free speech on the NET

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 -Caveat Lector-

In a message dated 1/9/99 10:58:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:

>  If this is true... what is the number on this bill...House or  Senate.
>  Our Representatives are so stupid they cannot keep up with bills unless you
>  have a number... even though they have their minions to keep up with the
> mail.
I am hearing much debate on whether or not this is true at all.  If it turns
out to be valid, we'll just have to call it the LAST straw. 

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Re: [CTRL] Hawk et al

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In a message dated 1/9/99 7:31:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:

> Hawk had nothing coming to him for defending his position in the debate.  As
> far as I could see, he received nothing he did not respond to honestly and
>  effectively.  He also won the pissing contest.
>  Jim Norman
>
Where's the scoresheet?

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[CTRL] Fwd: FREE THE AIRWAVES

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  Source:  Investors Business Daily
>
>  FREE THE AIRWAVES
>
>  By SCOTT G. BULLOCK
>
>  What do a North Dakota farmer, a Berkeley political radical and a
>  Connecticut gospel radio-station owner have in common? They're all
>  considered outlaws in the Federal Communications Commission's
>  misguided campaign to get rid of low-power radio.
>
>  Roy Neset's Tioga, N.D., farm isn't quite in the middle of nowhere,
>  but it's close. Neset wanted to listen to talk radio while cultivating
>  his fields on his tractor. But the only radio station in the area
>  plays country music and refused to change its programming.
>
>  So Neset bought a low-power radio transmitter, got written permission
>  from a Colorado station to carry its signal and began transmitting
>  that station via satellite. Neset's station extends only about five
>  miles in each direction, most of which consists of his farm. His
>  station is also listened to by a handful of people in the area.
>
>  When the local radio station manager learned of Neset's broadcasts, he
>  complained to the FCC's field office in Minneapolis. The FCC sent an
>  agent to Tioga on at least two occasions to monitor the station. On
>  learning that Neset was broadcasting on 88.3 FM without a license, the
>  FCC convinced the U.S. Attorney in North Dakota to file a lawsuit.
>
>  During a hearing, the FCC admitted that Neset wasn't interfering with
>  any existing station. In fact, no FM stations broadcast in the area.
>  But the agency stuck with its argument that it's illegal to broadcast
>  without a license.
>
>  So why doesn't Neset simply get a license from the FCC? He can't.
>
>  The FCC allowed small broadcasters to acquire Class D licenses until
>  '80. That gave them the right to broadcast at 10 watts. But the
>  Corporation for Public Broadcasting, among others, convinced the FCC
>  that 10-watt stations would clutter the lower end of the radio
>  spectrum that might otherwise carry National Public Radio.
>
>  The result? The FCC stopped issuing Class D licenses, and small
>  stations were squeezed off the air. This regime left pockets of unused
>  parts of the airwaves - too small for full-power stations, but perfect
>  for small ones.
>
>  But listeners' growing displeasure with homogeneous radio, along with
>  affordable transmission gear, has led to an upswing in microradio
>  stations - and FCC crackdowns.
>
>  It's estimated that as many as 1,000 ''pirate'' stations are on the
>  air today. The FCC took more than 100 actions against micro-
>  broadcasters in '98 alone.
>
>  Although people often associate low-power broadcasting with the
>  political left, microradio has received support from free-market
>  economists and libertarians for decades.
>
>  Economists such as Thomas Hazlett and Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase
>  argue that orderly allocation of the broadcast spectrum would be much
>  better served by recognizing private property rights in the spectrum.
>  Any interference with those rights, they say, should be treated as a
>  tort. The current FCC system of licensing, regulation and control
>  would be unnecessary.
>
>  Other economists have undermined the FCC's rationale for banning
>  microradio - the supposed ''scarcity'' of broadcast frequencies.
>  Scarcity of valuable goods is a universal fact and can't serve as
>  justification for regulating one activity and not another.
>
>  But the explosion of new communications technologies in the past 30
>  years shows the obsolescence of the scarcity doctrine.
>
>  Creating a system for the limited regulation of microradio could
>  fulfill the FCC's interest in regulating the spectrum without
>  trampling on the First Amendment.
>
>  The FCC could create a similar system of licensing micro-broadcasters,
>  assigning frequencies and monitoring technical and safety requirements
>  that exist for full-power broadcasters.
>
>  Better still, instead of licensing, the government could merely set up
>  rules for microradio broadcasters that would bar interference with
>  existing stations.
>
>  The one thing the FCC may not do, though, is completely ban
>  microradio. Such a prohibition sweeps far beyond what's necessary or
>  justified and is not ''narrowly tailored'' as required under the First
>  Amendment.
>
>  Until the legal issues are resolved, the FCC should take a ''do no
>  harm'' approach. If the agency can show that an unlicensed station is
>  interfering, then it can take action. But until the FCC permits
>  micro-broadcasting, it should allow farmer Neset and hundreds like him
>  to exercise their free speech rights on the airwaves.
>
>  Scott G. Bullock is an attorney at the Washington-based Institute for
>  Justice, which represents Roy Neset in his prosecution by the FCC.
>
>  
>  Copyright (c)  1999 Investors Business Daily, All rights reserved.
>  Investor's Business Daily - Viewpoint (01/05/99)
>  Free The Airwaves01/04/9

[CTRL] Fwd: They are trying to stop free speech on the NET

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  Original Message Follows
>  Date: Thu,  7 Jan 1999 21:04:27 EST
>  Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A H Clements)
>  To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  Subject: fwd: They are trying to stop free speech on the NET
>
>  [Forwarded from Scott Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
>
>  This is going out to many lists.  If it is double posted, my apologies.
>  If
>  you don't want to read it, then hit the delete key.  If you want to stop
>  the attempt at forcing you to pay long distance phone charges just to
>  dial
>  up the internet locally, then read on.
>
>  When there's too much "free thought" and "free association" with regards
>  to the "knowledge" of current events, well, then, you know the next
>  step.
>  It's so predictable, I don't even have to think about it.  It's all too
>  obvious that too many people are being educated.The correct way.
>
>  And this makes governments nervous.  Understandibly so.   Keeping the
>  people hopped up on beer and sports all day on Sundays is just what
>  they'd
>  like all of us to doand this is there answer for it(Make the
>  internet only available to the rich..raise the price so
>  high, poor people cannot have access to knowledge and history.)  Rich
>  get
>  smarter and the under class get denied
>
>  knowlege..
>
>  Brilliant.
>
>  My apologies to the lists.  Invasion of email privacy isn't my bag, but
>  then again, warning of this type of "power" grab is my bag.  It's my
>  duty
>  as an American.
>
>  --
>  CNN stated that the Government would in two weeks time decide to allow
>  or
>  not allow a Charge to your phone bill equal to a Long Distance call EACH
>  time you access the Internet.
>
>  The address is http://www.house.gov/writerep/
>
>  If you choose, visit the address above and fill out the necessary form!
>
>  If EACH one of us, forward this message on to others in a hurry, we may
>  be
>  able to prevent this injustice from happening!
>
>  A couple of weeks ago I sent out an email advising each of you that a
>  move
>  was under foot to allow the Bell System to assess a charge, equal to the
>  rate charged for a long distance access link (local access charge) to
>  each
>  and every Internet user every time they sign on to the Internet.  A few
>  of
>  you emailed your local Congressmen/women and were told they didn't know
>  anything about it.  A few of you called the FCC who likewise said they
>  didn't know anything about it, either.  Since my sources are usually
>  pretty
>  reliable I was certain it was going to pop again up as Congress prepared
>  to
>  debate the issue. Here it is according to CNN.
>
>  It is important to understand why this is a hot issue, and why
>  Congress will approve the charge.
>
>  As each of you know the subject of allowing the government to
>  "tax"
>  sales generated over the Internet is shot down every time it is
>  approached.
>  The reason that idea is shot down is that the government wants American
>  businesses on the Internet.  This provides the government with the
>  easiest
>  access to those businesses records and accounting files (the same way
>  AOL
>  comes into our computers during the night and reads our mail.)  Uncle
>  Sam
>  has backdoor access into every Internet linked computer in the world at
>  this time.  The only files currently safe from scrutiny are those that
>  are
>  encrypted..which is why Oxley-Manton surfaced in Congress (the
>  Encryption Act that mandates that all hardware and software
>  manufacturers
>  provide the government with the "keys" to access any encrypted file on
>  any
>  Internet linked computer.
>
>  However, that "desire" does not extend to the right-winger who
>  is
>  using the Internet as a newsletter distribution system.  Those are
>  people
>  that the
>
>  government does not want on the Internet.  However, assessing a tax on
>  "right- wingers" is a little too obvious.  To get many of us off line,
>  they
>  will
>
>  simply allow the Bell System to get rid of us.
>
>  In the mind of Big Brother the typical "rightwing extremist" is
>  a
>  redneck with a truckload of illegal firearms, a limited income and not
>  much
>  sense. Logic suggests the thinking is that by charging an access charge
>  equal to the cost of a long distance call fewer rightwingers will be
>  online.  That will cut down the "rightwing conspiracy" emails...and the
>  mainstream media will be free to define the news again.
>
>  I strongly suggest that every conservative online begin, very
>  seriously, to hammer your Congressmen/women and Senators about
>  this...and
>  don't take the "I don't know anything about this..." rhetoric to deter
>  your
>  efforts.
>
>  Just remember, none of our Congressmen/women and Senators knew
>  anything about the National ID Card, either.  On Oct. 

[CTRL] Fwd: SOLDIERS ATTACK NIGERIAN COMMUNITIES

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ACTION (ERA)
>
> ERA ALERT
>  SOLDIERS ATTACK OIL COMMUNITIES
>  ? TRADITIONAL RULER, OTHERS FEARED KILLED
>  [By Olu Owolabi, Reporting from WARRI. Punch, Lagos, January 7, 1999,
>  Back page]
>
>  Armed men attacked on Monday, two villages in Warri North Local
>  Government in Delta State: Opia and Ikiyan, during which some of the
>  villagers, including a traditional ruler, were killed.
>
>  Narrating their experiences in Warri on Wednesday, some of the survivors
>  of the attacks, told newsmen that attack was in two batches, one by an
>  unspecified number of men who raided the villages in an aircraft.
>
>  Shortly after the departure of the aircraft, another group of armed men
>  came in four speedboats to launch their attack.
>
>  They said the aircraft, owned by an oil company, was occupied by people
>  in Army uniform, who stormed the villages around 2.00 p.m. on Monday, to
>  unleash the attack.
>
>  They said that just a few minutes after the aircraft took off, four
>  speedboats with fully armed soldiers arrived the shore and fired
>  sporadically at the villagers. They also razed down the villages.
>
>  According to them, after the burning down of Opia village, the invaders
>  moved to Ikiyan, about four kilometers to Opia, where a woman, who was
>  fishing, was attacked and her whereabouts still unknown.
>
>  Spokesmen for the communities: Messrs Tony Lawurn, Andrew Lelekumo,
>  Solomon Sode and Sule Akpasubowei, stated that during the shootings, one
>  of the villagers, Mr. Bright Pablobuagha, waived his hands to indicate
>  that the communities are at peace, but the armed soldiers continued
>  their indiscriminate shooting.
>
>  Sode, who looked disturbed, said that just as Mr. Pablobuagha waived,
>  the aircraft slowed down and the armed soldiers started to shoot
>  indiscriminately, leading to the death of Chief Agbagbadi of Ikiyan
>  village.
>
>  For more information contact:
>  ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ACTION/ FRIENDS OF THE EARTH (FoE, Nigeria) +
>  OILWATCH
>  AFRICA
>  #214, Uselu-Lagos Road, P. O. Box 10577, Benin City, Nigeria
>  Tel/Fax: + 234 52 600165 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  Port Harcourt:
>  # 13 Agudama Street, D-Line, Port Harcourt
>  Tel: + 234 84 236365 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  Lagos:
>  # 1 Balogun Street, Ikeja Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  Owerri:
>  E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  London:
>  Tel/Fax: + 44 181 7800574Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]







ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ACTION (ERA)

   ERA ALERT
SOLDIERS ATTACK OIL COMMUNITIES
? TRADITIONAL RULER, OTHERS FEARED KILLED
[By Olu Owolabi, Reporting from WARRI. Punch, Lagos, January 7, 1999,
Back page]

Armed men attacked on Monday, two villages in Warri North Local
Government in Delta State: Opia and Ikiyan, during which some of the
villagers, including a traditional ruler, were killed.

Narrating their experiences in Warri on Wednesday, some of the survivors
of the attacks, told newsmen that attack was in two batches, one by an
unspecified number of men who raided the villages in an aircraft.

Shortly after the departure of the aircraft, another group of armed men
came in four speedboats to launch their attack.

They said the aircraft, owned by an oil company, was occupied by people
in Army uniform, who stormed the villages around 2.00 p.m. on Monday, to
unleash the attack.

They said that just a few minutes after the aircraft took off, four
speedboats with fully armed soldiers arrived the shore and fired
sporadically at the villagers. They also razed down the villages.

According to them, after the burning down of Opia village, the invaders
moved to Ikiyan, about four kilometers to Opia, where a woman, who was
fishing, was attacked and her whereabouts still unknown.

Spokesmen for the communities: Messrs Tony Lawurn, Andrew Lelekumo,
Solomon Sode and Sule Akpasubowei, stated that during the shootings, one
of the villagers, Mr. Bright Pablobuagha, waived his hands to indicate
that the communities are at peace, but the armed soldiers continued
their indiscriminate shooting.

Sode, who looked disturbed, said that just as Mr. Pablobuagha waived,
the aircraft slowed down and the armed soldiers started to shoot
indiscriminately, leading to the death of Chief Agbagbadi of Ikiyan
village.

For more information contact:
ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ACTION/ FRIENDS OF THE EARTH (FoE, Nigeria) +
OILWATCH
AFRICA
#214, Uselu-Lagos Road, P. O. Box 10577, Benin City, Nigeria
Tel/Fax: + 234 52 600165 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Port Harcourt:
# 13 Agudama Street, D-Line, Port Harcourt
Tel: + 234 84 236365 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lagos:
# 1 Balogun Street, Ikeja Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Owerri:
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
London:
Tel/Fax: + 44 181 7800574Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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[CTRL] Fwd: Prison struggle in Turkey: How to mask a murder attempt...

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>
>  Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/
>
>  Prison struggle in Turkey: How to mask a murder attempt...
>
>  The police lie when they they say "he wanted to commit suicide",
>  because they want to present a murder attempt as a suicide attempt
>
>  My name is Riza Poyraz. I am the one who according to the statement
>  published by the Istanbul Police Headquarters in the newspapers and
>  television, "in an attempt to commit suicide, jumped" from the fourth
>  floor of the Police Headquarters on Vatan Avenue. THIS STATEMENT BY
>  THE ISTANBUL POLICE HEADQUARTERS IS A COMPLETE LIE!  During my
>  detention in the Istanbul Police Headquarters I was thrown from the
>  window by policemen who were trying to murder me. The Istanbul police
>  want to cover up their guilt by announcing that this incident, which
>  became known to the public, was a suicide attempt. THE ISTANBUL POLICE
>  HEADQUARTERS IS LYING! I DID NOT JUMP FROM THE FOURTH FLOOR OF THE
>  POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN VATAN AVENUE "TO KILL MYSELF", I WAS PERSONALLY
>  THROWN BY THE TORTURERS FROM THE WINDOW ON THE FOURTH FLOOR... The
>  fact that I am still alive is pure good fortune. If I had been killed
>  I would not be able to make this declaration. I see it as a human
>  obligation to expose the guilty parties and bring about their
>  punishment by exposing the truth, and I believe that public
>  sensitivity can be created thereby to prevent future incidents like
>  this from happening.
>
>  On Monday, December 21, 1998, I was arrested as a "suspicious" person
>  by the police in Pangalti. They asked to see my identity card. I gave
>  it to them.  Although my address, identity and work place are known, I
>  was brought to Mecidiyek=F6y police station. Here I was held, illegally
>  and arbitrarily, despite giving my home address and work place. I live
>  with my family in the Gazi Neighbourhood (translator's note: a large
>  slum area on the northern edge of Istanbul, the scene of a people's
>  uprising triggered off by a fascist attack in March 1995), and Zeynep
>  Poyraz who was murdered by the police during the massacre in Gazi is
>  the daughter of my uncle. This must be where my "guilt" lies. After a
>  while I was brought to the Police Headquarters in Istanbul. From my
>  first moment in the Police Headquarters I experienced everything: I
>  was cursed, insulted, subject to repression, torture and threats...
>
>  I was arrested on suspicion, but I did not know why I had been
>  arrested, nor what their plans were for arresting me. The next day,
>  December 22, things began to be clearer. The police must have been in
>  need of a new success because they tried to implicate me in actions
>  whose perpetrators had not been identified. They also wanted me to
>  confess to carrying out an action and to tell them about it. I cannot
>  confess to an action or talk about an action when I did not do it nor
>  have anything to do with it. I said I had nothing to do with it. I
>  could not understand why these accusations were made, for which there
>  was no proof, and this is what I told them. But they persisted in
>  trying to get me to confess. To do this they practised every kind of
>  physical and psychological torture. On several occasions I was
>  suspended by the arms, and torture methods were used on me like
>  crushing my testicles, spraying me with high pressure water, shoving
>  my head in a bucket of water to drown me, obscenities, humiliation and
>  beating. Besides, they told me that they had smeared excrement on me,
>  even though I could not see it because my eyes were tied. During the
>  torture my eyes and arms were bound . Despite the torture, I did not
>  confess to the "accusations". At this point they began to threaten
>  that they would kill my family. Quite openly they threatened to kill
>  me. At one point they said to me: "YOU WILL CONFESS, IF NOT WE WILL
>  THROW YOU FROM THE WINDOW AND STATE LATER ON THAT YOU HAVE COMMITTED
>  SUICIDE. NOBODY WILL CALL US TO ACCOUNT FOR IT." At the close of
>  torture which had lasted an entire day, about midnight I was brought
>  out of the torture chamber, with my eyes blindfolded. They took me
>  somewhere and said, "You're just about to experience something." I
>  felt I was being brought to a window. The window was open. They took
>  off the blindfold and said: "CONFESS OR WE'LL THROW YOU OUT."
>  Immediately afterwards they put the blindfold back on and threw me out
>  of the fourth floor.
>
>  When I came round the next day and opened my eyes, I noticed I was in
>  hospital. My legs were broken and I hurt all over. Despite this the
>  police ruthlessness continued. "Listen, you won't get off so easily.
>  You will confess to the actions we have mentioned. Even if you get out
>  of here you will not be able to save yourself. Do you think you will
>  survive if you fall from the 10th floor?" They continued their threats
>  with these words. I was brought into the Gure

[CTRL] Iraq inspectors seem guilty of spying

[Agent Smiley]

nce and asked the Australian
>  diplomat if the reports were true. Butler, according to two accounts,
>  denied them.
>
>  In a phone interview last night, Butler said, "A number of member
>  states have assisted UNSCOM in various aspects of its work, and one of
>  those is the United States, but as far as I am concerned I have always
>  been assiduous in insisting that any assistance given to us be
>  strictly related to our disarmament mandate. I have never approved of
>  any assistance to any member state which would serve their unilateral
>  purposes."
>
>  The latest controversy illustrates the perils inherent in UNSCOM's
>  attempt to create the first United Nations intelligence operation.
>  Mutually escalating efforts by Iraq to obstruct UNSCOM and by UNSCOM
>  to pierce the obstruction entangled the arms inspectors in the
>  separate and sometimes competing agendas of contributing governments.
>  The use of increasingly sophisticated intelligence techniques
>  embroiled UNSCOM in struggles for control over which countries would
>  conduct the most sensitive work and how the information would be used.
>
>  "We've already established that Saddam's personal security apparatus
>  and the apparatus that conceals weapons of mass destruction are one
>  and the same," said one Clinton administration official, adding that
>  it is therefore impossible to distinguish them for purposes of
>  intelligence gathering.
>
>  The Post reported on Oct. 12 that an UNSCOM operation code-named Shake
>  the Tree involved synchronizing arms inspections with a new synthesis
>  of intelligence techniques allowing Washington to look and listen as
>  Iraq moved contraband. At the request of the U.S. government, The Post
>  agreed to withhold from that report operational details on national
>  security grounds.
>
>  What is new is the open discussion of evidence that UNSCOM not only
>  benefited from U.S. intelligence but also participated directly in
>  gathering data as part of what its first chairman, Rolf Ekeus, called
>  "special collection missions." In a September 1996 meeting with
>  then-Director of Central Intelligence John M. Deutch, eight months
>  after the eavesdropping work began, Ekeus delivered a memo complaining
>  that U.S. intelligence agencies had declined to share the full fruits
>  of their joint work with UNSCOM.
>
>  "Since January of this year the commission has undertaken three
>  special collection missions," Ekeus wrote then, in a memo quoted more
>  briefly in The Post last October. "To date the commission has been
>  denied access to the data collected by these missions."
>
>  The CIA, State Department and White House declined requests yesterday
>  for formal comment.
>
>  Some members of the U.N. Secretariat have urged Annan to press his
>  concerns directly with the Clinton administration, but the secretary
>  general has resisted. "He is a risk-taker, but he is not
>  self-destructive," said one adviser. Rather than risk a frontal
>  dispute with the U.N.'s most important member, another adviser to
>  Annan said the secretary general "would like to see the news media
>  report this, and let the chips fall where they may."
>
>  In recent weeks, at least two senior members of Annan's inner circle
>  -- Ruggie and strategic planning director Andrew Mack -- have probed
>  the allegations informally with senior officials of UNSCOM and the
>  Clinton administration. According to U.N. accounts, Butler and
>  Assistant Secretary of State Martin S. Indyk told the men separately
>  that they had no knowledge of eavesdropping under cover of UNSCOM
>  inspections.
>
>  In an interview on condition of anonymity, a high-ranking policymaker
>  on Iraq defended UNSCOM's work and U.S. intelligence support for the
>  disarmament panel, but also distanced the Clinton administration from
>  its previous insistence that only UNSCOM could judge Iraq's compliance
>  with eight-year-old Security Council demands.
>
>  "Going after UNSCOM is shooting the messenger," the official said.
>  "The fundamental problem here is not UNSCOM, and to fall into the trap
>  of saying that UNSCOM may or may not have done something appropriate
>  or inappropriate is to divert attention from compliance by Saddam
>  Hussein."
>
>  As for the future of Iraqi disarmament, backed by a U.N. oil embargo
>  and other sanctions, the official said "that is something we're going
>  to have to deal with in the Security Council.
>
>  "One has to have some kind of an entity that verifies compliance, and
>  our judgment is it has to be an entity that has integri

[CTRL] Fwd: Press release

[Agent Smiley]

>
>
>  Kent Communications
>  Route 1 Box 9A
>  mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>  BROADCAST MEDIA ALERT 1/6/99   Contact: Steve Kent
>  914/424-8382
>
>
>  DELTA KILLINGS ARE NIGERIA'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET
>  Hundreds Shot in Severe, Underreported Niger Delta Environmental
>  Struggle
>
>
>  Shell, Chevron, etc. Accused of Complicity with Military Regime on
>  Crackdown Affects Sierra Leone Pullout, Prospect for February Elections,
>  Big Oil Earnings TV Footage of Delta Unrest Uploaded Tonight 9:30pm EST
>  on Reuters Satellite
>  [Kaiama, Niger Delta, Nigeria -- January 6]
>
>  Somewhere between Iraq, impeachment, Sierra Leone, the Congo and the
>  record Dow, the worst unrest in Nigeria since the Biafran civil war has
>  so far slipped through the cracks in US news outlets other than wire
>  service reports and Pacifica Radio.  Yet this is an easily coverable
>  story involving hundreds of killings and egregious human rights abuses
>  with important context for Nigerian troops pulling out of Sierra Leone,
>  profound implications for multinational oil company earnings and for the
>  prospects for Nigeria's scheduled democratic elections in February.
> On New Year's eve, the military government imposed a state of
>  emergency on the oil-rich Niger Delta and government troops fired on
>  non-violent demonstrators complaining of severe environmental and health
>  damage from the Chevron, Shell and other oil transnationals operating
>  there.  Life expectancy and per capita income is very low amid the
>  Delta's severely polluted land, water and air, and oil revenues do not
>  benefit the local economy.  The troops killed 26, wounded scores,
>  incarcerated youths and leaders in the Bori Camp prison where the
>  martyrred Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa was imprisoned.
>  Thousands of troops, two warships and helicopter gunships (weapons
>  purchased by the military regime with Delta oil revenues) were deployed
>  against the Delta's civilians.  The state of emergency was
>  lifted Monday night, January 4, according to AP, but not before over 200
>  Ijaws, the main ethnic group represented among the environmental
>  protestors, were pulled from their houses and cars and summarily shot,
>  according to local sources.
> Some wire services as well as US National Security Council and
>  CIA briefings today indicated that Olusegun Obasanjo, one-time military
>  ruler of Nigeria (1976-79), rumored to be the US's preferred
>  presidential candidate, brokered a deal with Delta students' groups to
>  cease action until after February's elections.  The report is doubtful:
>  Obasanjo has his own agenda as well as US backing and does not represent
>  the Ijaw or the Delta groups, and the Delta
>  -more-
>  NIGERIAN KILLINGS / 2
>  students' group in any case have vowed to continue their actions through
>  January 10, so the crisis is very far from defused. Tensions in the area
>  remain extreme, with many attempting to flee the crackdown harried by
>  soldiers at highway checkpoints, and Human Rights Watch's Bronwen Manby
>  says it could deteriorate seriously. Last night four soldiers in the
>  Delta were reportedly killed in the Delta town of Kaiama, and threats
>  and fears of severe government reprisals are running high.  Pacifica
>  Radio's "Democracy Now" investigated the Ijaw citzens' groups accusation
>  of complicity by
>  Chevron, Shell and others in countenancing or ordering government
>  crackdowns, and found they checked out.  Shell for example,
>  brought 26 troops armed with machine guns and bombs to its gas plant in
>  Komo Creek. "Democracy Now" interviewed Bronwen Manby yesterday, who
>  revealed that Chevron severed all communications with human rights
>  groups just days before the government crackdown.
> Wire stories on Nigeria today sport optimistic business reports
>  about oil and gas exploration in the Niger Delta, notably that Texaco
>  January 5 announced it found a gusher off the Delta coast, and that
>  prospects for high earnings are bright, provided production in the
>  region remains high.  Texaco makes no mention of troubles in the Delta,
>  or of the fact that the Ijaw groups have already non-violently shut down
>  40% of oil and gas capacity in
>  their part of the Delta, and vow to continue shutting it down through
>  January 10.  The December 28-January 4 issue of Business Week carries a
>  report that Mobil (a.k.a. Exxon-Mobil) also knew about environmental
>  justice and human rights abuses arising from its
>  operations in Indonesia, further opening an investigative path some
>  reporters are following into what the transnational oil companies knew
>  and when they knew it.  The current pattern is that very low oil prices
>  drive transnationals to exploit cheap oil as fast as they can regardless
>  of local consequences. The Niger Delta's oil is some of the world's
>  cheapest to exploit, hence

[CTRL] Ramsey Clark letter to Security Council (fwd)

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  Ramsey Clark letter to Security Council
>
>  The following letter was sent from Ramsey Clark to the five new
>  members of the United Nations Security Council--The Netherlands (the
>  chair of the Sanctions Committee), Argentina, Canada, Malaysia, and
>  Namibia.  Along with the five permanent members who have the
>  veto--U.S., UK, China, France, and Russia--there are ten
>  non-permanent members who sit on the council for two years.
>
>  International Action Center
>  1247 'E' Street SE,
>  Washington, DC 20003
>  Phone: 202-544-5752 Fax: 202-544-9359
>  email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>  39 West 14th St., #206   New York, NY  10011
>  212-633-6646   fax:  212-633-2889
>  http://www.iacenter.org   e-mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>  January 5, 1999
>
>  Dear Ambassador,
>
>  You and your government take seats on the Security Council at a
>  critical time.  The next two years will determine whether tens of
>  thousands of people in Iraq live, or die, and millions sustain
>  painful, crippling permanent injuries from further malnutrition and
>  sickness which could have been avoided altogether, or quickly cured if
>  medicines and clean water had not been denied by Security Council
>  sanctions.  The independence and sovereignty of every nation and the
>  integrity and viability of the United Nations depends on Security
>  Council action now to end these sanctions, acknowledge their harm and
>  prohibit future imposition of sanctions designed to kill, injure and
>  degrade an entire population.  Your action in this moment of moral
>  crisis will be judged in history. =20
>
>  These facts are undeniable:
>
>  1.  Since August 6, 1990, the forty-fifth anniversary of the
>  incineration of Hiroshima by an atomic blast, Security Council
>  sanctions have killed more than a million and a half people in Iraq,
>  mostly infants, children, elderly and chronically ill and left
>  millions more stunted, with crippled bodies, shortened lives, and
>  minds scarred by the realization that rich nations forced this
>  devastating impoverishment and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
>  on their entire people.
>
>  2.  The Security Council sanctions against Iraq are a genocidal act.
>  The sanctions were imposed with the "intent to destroy in whole or in
>  part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such."
>  They have caused "serious bodily and mental harm" and inflicted
>  "conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical
>  destruction" of the people of Iraq.  (Article II, Convention on the
>  Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 78 U.N.T.S. 277.)
>
>  3.  No fear or hatred of Saddam Hussein, and no threat to peace or
>  life that the present government of Iraq might pose can justify the
>  imposition or continuation of these sanctions.  No failure to comply
>  with a Security Council resolution can justify the imposition of
>  genocidal sanctions against the people within a nation or criminal
>  military assaults against a defenseless population.  The Security
>  Council must find morally acceptable means for the prevention of war
>  and international violence.  It must meet the highest standards for
>  international conduct, not the most deadly and violent.  Other nations
>  have defied Security Council resolutions for decades, developing and
>  stockpiling weapons of mass destruction including nuclear bombs all
>  the while, without any Security Council penalty.
>
>  4.  The Security Council has been coerced, deceived, misled and
>  manipulated for eight years by the United States to cause it to
>  maintain economic sanctions against Iraq as a justification for the
>  United States military domination in the region through the presence
>  of the largest naval armada since World War II in order to control the
>  natural resources located there and the economies of the nations
>  worldwide who are dependent on them.
>
>  The poor and powerless of the world and the future viability of the
>  United Nations depend on you to act now to end the sanctions against
>  Iraq.  Dante found the hottest places in the Inferno were reserved for
>  those who in time of moral crisis did nothing.  History will long
>  celebrate courageous action by you to end these sanctions in this
>  moment of maximum peril.
>
>  I am enclosing a copy of Challenge To Genocide, the latest in a=20
>  series of six books by the International Action Center documenting=20
>  the criminal military assaults on Iraq by the United States with the
>  approval or acquiescence of the U.N. and the genocidal eight years of
>  sanctions.  Enclosed is an article by Stephen Kinzer in Sunday's New
>  York Times attesting again to the fact that informed people everywhere
>  know the U.N. sanctions are a crime against humanity.
>
>  With deep love for your people, hope for their government and a
>  passionate desire to see the United Nations fulfill its mandate, end
>  the scourge of war, prohibit economic sanctions which impove

[CTRL] On Criticizing Technology: David Noble

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  -- Forwarded message --
>  Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:58:39 -0500
>  From: Robert Weissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  Subject: "Progress" Without People
>
>  MIT Professor Noam Chomsky makes the point that if you serve power,
>  power rewards you with respectability. If you work to undermine power,
>  whether by political analysis or moral critique, you are "reviled,
>  imprisoned, driven into the desert."
>
>  "It's as close to a historical truism as you can find," Chomsky says.
>
>  Let's test Chomsky's theory of power and respectability with the case of
>  David Noble.
>
>  Noble is a historian of corporate control over our lives and
>  institutions -- from technology to universities.
>
>  Forces of Production (Knopf, 1984), for example, is a detailed history
>  of the automation of the metalworking industry. In that book, Noble
>  shows how technology, in its design and deployment, reflects class and
>  power relations between workers and owners.
>
>  Noble started out his academic career in 1978 at MIT. His first book,
>  America by Design (Knopf, 1977), focused on the rise of the
>  science-based industries, the electrical and chemical industry, and how
>  universities essentially became corporate research centers for these new
>  industries.
>
>  Noble believed that corporations should be kept off of university
>  campuses. In the late 1970s, he wrote a series of articles for the
>  Nation magazine, including two classics, "Ivory Tower Goes Plastic" and
>  "Business Goes Back to College."
>
>  Then in the early 1980s, Noble wrote a series of articles in praise of
>  Luddism for the now defunct journal Democracy. (That series has since
>  been pulled together in book form (Progress Without People, Between the
>  Lines Press, Toronto, 1995).
>
>  In addition, while at MIT, he teamed up with Ralph Nader and Al
>  Meyerhoff and started an organization called the National Coalition for
>  Universities in the Public Interest.
>
>  MIT, a model of education in the corporate interest, was not pleased. In
>  1983, MIT fired Noble.
>
>  "It was a political firing," Noble told us. "I sued MIT in 1986." After
>  five years of litigation, Noble forced MIT to make public the documents
>  shedding light on the firing.
>
>  "I got all of the documents and turned them over to the American
>  Historical Association, which then reviewed them for a year and then
>  condemned MIT for the firing," Noble said.
>
>  Next stop: Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian wanted Noble to be a
>  curator for an exhibit on automated technology. Noble went to Washington
>  for two years and produced an exhibit highly critical of technology. He
>  includes a hammer used by the Luddites in the 1800s to smash machines in
>  England. George Lucas donates robots R2D2 and C3PO from the first Star
>  Wars movie. Noble calls the exhibit "Automation Madness: Boys and Their
>  Toys," in which he documents a history of resistance to automation
>  beginning in the 1800s. Not what the Smithsonian had in mind. They too
>  fired Noble.
>
>  Most people think that the Smithsonian is a public institution. It
>  started out that way, but has slowly been taken over by big corporate
>  interests.
>
>  When Noble arrived at the Smithsonian in 1983, he figured he would have
>  a budget to work on projects. No such luck.
>
>  "What I had to do was go out and hustle -- to the National Association
>  of Manufacturers, to the Chamber of Commerce, to various companies, to
>  get money to put on exhibits," Noble said. "At that time, the fundraiser
>  for the National Museum of American History was the wife of the
>  president of the National Association of Manufacturers."
>
>  Noble then spent five years at Drexel -- protected with tenure -- and
>  then headed North to the University of York at Toronto, where he is also
>  protected by tenure.
>
>  Noble doesn't use e-mail or the Internet, but last year after The Nation
>  magazine turned down an article he wrote called "Digital Diploma Mills,"
>  he published it and two subsequent pieces on the Internet
>  . The articles describe how corporations are
>  using digital technologies to gain control over university course
>  content.
>
>  He believes that the Internet can be a useful way to disseminate
>  information, but not to teach students.
>
>  "You can't educate over the Internet, because education is an
>  interpersonal process," he says.
>
>  And he laughs when asked whether the Internet will level the playing
>  field between activists and their corporate adversaries.
>
>  "Have you noticed that -- any leveling the playing field?" he asked
>  incredulously "Wake me when it is over. It is a joke."
>
>  "The key thing about organizing is trust," he says. "You have to have
>  relations with people, especially if you are asking people to put
>  themselves on the line in any way. There is no real way of establishing
>  that o

Re: [CTRL] JFK MURDER SOLVED - The truth after 35 years . . .

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

Sorry but this website is either misinformed or more disinformation.  In the
UNEDITED version of the Zapruder film it is CLEAR who fired the second shot,
the one that took his face off.  His name is William Harris and he was driving
the limo at the time.  He was a member of the Secret Service.  How does one
expose the highest police body in the nation.  This is why this murder is
still 'unsolved.'

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Criminalizing Homelessness

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Kick up dust in my face with your status symbol and I'll have your ass.

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Re: [CTRL] Hawk

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Ditto, or, ruff-ruff.

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Re: [CTRL] U.S. Military Non-Lethal Weapons

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I downloaded these files from the web and they created no problems for me.  I
can assure you that they are safe as my system has been fine.

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Re: [CTRL] Indians

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 -Caveat Lector-

>
>  > and didn't farm...when that fallacy was pointed out, you now decide
>  that
>  > 'manufacturing' is to be the new standard...
>
>  Look.. My point was not to criticize the Indians... The point was that
>  they were at
>  best poor entrepreneurs nor producers of excess "whatever they produced"
>  in order to
>  amass any capital.  I should have prefaced my remarks with "In general,"
>  or "To a large
>  extent," etc etc... It was my mistake.
---
So what of the fact that they avoided excess?  Are you championing waste?
Excess is useful if you wish to have leverage AGAINST someone, else it is
given away.
---
>
>  > The Inca, Mayans, and Toltecs seem to have been able to 'manufacture'
>  > some pretty sophisticated objects...
>
>  I don't think the "founding fathers" of the USA had much contact with
>  them, and did not
>  intend that they be included in the discussion.
---
What has this to do with whether or not they were capable of such?
---
>
>  > >Oh, so our concept of govm't was derived from the Iroquois
>  Confederacy?
>  >
>  > Again, it's a MATTER OF RECORD.
>
>  Whatever  If you want to believe that our system of government was
>  derived from the
>  Iroquois, go ahead... It probably is a harmless enough thing to
>  believe... about the
>  same as the "fact" that Africans invented the airplane and telegraph.
---
You sound like Clinton's press secretary - changing subjects in hopes of
preying on the slow minded.  There are few of those here.
---
>
>  > I never said any such thing...I said the INDIANS were farmers and
>  > fishers...
>
>  No... You were speaking of the Europeans...
>
>  > the Europeans who first came here in the 1600s were for the most part
>  pretty
>  > middleclass, more merchants than farmers...
>
>  Middleclass has nothing to do with farming ability..
>
>  Hawk

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Re: [CTRL] Criminalizing Homelessness

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>
>  MJ:
> For the Government to 'care for' or 'provide for' these
> urban outdoorsmen (who are reaping the net result of the
> CHOICES they made) it must first TAKE from others.  How
> is this 'fair' to those 'gripers' you describe above?

People are left with little when a government, or anyone else, steals,
'legally' or not.  Such 'taking' as you call it is no more wrong than 'murder'
of someone who intends to murder YOU.  I'm guessing you talk little with such
'urban outdoorsmen.'

>

>
>  MJ:
>   Throwing around emotives like 'Social Darwinists' ... if one
>   has the RIGHT to survival ... he has the RIGHT to enslave
>   another for such a purpose.
>  Edward Britton wrote:
>"Social Darwinism" is hardly an emotive and hardly a term that
> I coined.  It refers to a general belief in the social equivalent
> of survival of the fittest. Such a doctrine is fine in feudal
> systems, but once a social system has been formed for the mutual
> benefit of all (civilization), such doctrines become
> antiquated--or would if not revived by those of rightist bent.
> Choose one: feudal system or civilization (representative
> democracy or otherwise) and be willing to pay the price for
> your decision.
>
>  MJ:
>  How exactly does one with a desire for treating every person
>  to the SAME standard equate to 'social darwinism'?
>
>  I do not subscribe to the 'strawman' attempts you assert above ...
>  I merely believe EACH and EVERY individual has a RIGHT to their
>  OWN life with Government serving its legitimate function by
>  subjagating FORCE to this standard.

Yet you seem in favor of government using it's force to protect those that use
force.

>
>  [note I have ONLY addressed someone FORCING another to aid in THEIR
>  cause -- the ideal of charity has NOT been broached.]

Granted, such forced charity serves few, in the long run.  However, don't you
think the government is 'up to' things that require addressing more than
forced equity?

>
>
>
>
>  MJ:
>   Yes, this is typical ... blame *ANYONE* but one's self.
>   Who -- exactly --made those choices which placed you in
>   the predicament?
>  Edward Britton wrote:
> In this/my case, you are partially correct. I was to blame for
> not having adequately prepared myself financially (at nineteen,
> such concepts were sort of abstract :-)). My employer took it
> from there by downsizing me during the initial stages of
> Reagan's "trickle-down" economy.
>
>  MJ:
>  More emotive chichés ... which are truly meaningless.
>  Need I LIST the various choices you made which placed you in your
>  dilemma?  Do you believe one has the RIGHT to a job?

One has the right to the opportunity.  Such opportunities are killed when a
government works in collusion to create certain negative images of a people or
subculture.  Such opportunities are killed when the government uses our tax
dollars to import cocaine, sell it to street gangs to fund a political and
military agenda that, again, serves THEM(AND provides yet another opportunity
to propagate the image of certain peoples as negative).

>
>
>
>
>  MJ:
>   When one is free to make his own decisions, how is it another's
>   fault when the results prove deficient?
>  Edward Britton wrote:
> This is the key deficiency in the understanding of those of
> rightist affiliation: a great many people fall prey to
> circumstances beyond their control, and well outside the realm
> of choice. One can stretch the philosophy of "blame the victim"
> only so far before the argument becomes rediculous.
>
>  MJ:
>  'Blame the victim' ... ???
>
>There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as
>instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from
>the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own
>questionable inclinations and impulses.
True.

>Both the strong and
>the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence
>under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because
>they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by
>proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher
>power -- God, history, fate, nation or humanity.  -- Eric Hoffer
>
>
>
>  MJ:
>   Are you fearful of freedom?
>  Edward Britton wrote:
> I am fearful of being run over by a system in which I have
> no representation. I guess it's a matter of choosing who
> and by what means should I be run over.
>
>  MJ:
>  If one is treated the SAME as all others ... how is this possible?

Are we all treated the same?  If so, no need to be on this list and be
concerned with conspiracies.  If not, your argument is baseless.

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Re: [CTRL] Indians

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

>
>  > but they just should have understood that grabbing the most of
>  everything is the
>  > mark of true civilization.
>
>  Maybe they were smarter than that, but dumb enough not to understand
>  that
>  producing wealth is preferable to plundering and scavaging.

Wealth is not produced but is harnessed from what belongs to everyone.  Of
course, if you have the appropriate firepower, you can claim it is yours and
even force people to agree.

>
>  > Maybe they already understood the words I saw on an announcement board
>  outside a
>  > local church.  "When we die, we leave what we have and take what we
>  are."
>
>  Yep... They were a bunch of sweethearts all right.  Kind and gentle...
>  noble
>  savages all.
>
>  Hawk

I see this is just about keeping the fire going.

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Re: [CTRL] Settlers

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>
>  > before, and the Iroquois system was the only thing they had to go
>  by...
>
>  If you say so... I'm not in the mood to speculate with you.  However, I
>  will point out
>  that those fellows (the FF's) were capable of "Conceptual Thought," and
>  I find it
>  difficult to believe that they were so limited in "Perceptual Thought"
>  that a
>  "confederation" was inconceivable until they saw one.

You DO seem to think the natives were so incapable of 'conceptual thought that
they could not have possibly inspired anyone.  I'll bet you're a big fan of
the 'Bell Curve.'

>
>  > The initial immigrants in the 1600s either came here to plunder, with
>  > plans to return to England in a few years with a vast bank
>  account...or
>  > they were religious fanatics looking to build their own version/vision
>  of
>  > 'heaven on earth' in a new land...
>
>  You learned that in school... right?
>
>  Hawk

In school, no such arguments that the pilgrims were anything but mighty,
visionary adventurers was allowed.

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Re: [CTRL] Nurev: Criminalizing Homelessness

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Joshua2, will you email me privately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ???

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[CTRL] Fwd: Check out Maize in Pre-Columbian India

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In a message dated 1/4/99 5:25:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, SonSun1770 writes:

> Subj: Check out Maize in Pre-Columbian India
>  Date:1/4/99 5:25:55 PM Eastern Standard Time
>  From:mailto:SonSun1770">SonSun1770
>  To:  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>   http://economics.sbs.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/maize.html">Click
here: Maize in Pre-Columbian India   




 http://economics.sbs.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/maize.html">Click here:
Maize in Pre-Columbian India   

Re: [CTRL] Michael: Criminalizing Homelessness

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

>
>  Edward Britton wrote:
>
>  >  This would be fine, but how would the government "know" whom to protect
>  > inasmuch as there is a significant portion of our population with no
>  > political voice.
>
>  You actually believe this stuff you say?  I don't have a "political voice,"
> but
>  the cops seem to respond when I've called them.
--
Translated: the cops in my area come running for SOME reason, therefore
everyone has some political voice.  How far from reason can you get?
--
>
>  > Therefore this governmental attribute you hold so dear becomes a defense
>  > mechanism for the elite.
>
>  Let me ask... Are you a student or graduate of Patrice LaMumba University
in
>  Moscow?
-
An avoidance of the issue in favor of McCarthyism - an attempt at character
assassination, the default of a faulty metaprogram.
-
>
>  > Hence the present chasm, in this nation, between the have's and the have-
> not's.
>
>  And in other nations, there is no such chasm, right?  Am I catching on?
--
No one said that, did they?  Shall we ignore our own problems in favor of
addressing the problems of others?
--
>
>  > A) How do the mentally impaired fall under your rubric of "reaping the
>  > net result of the choices they make"? How do those families--specifically
>  > children-- displaced by economic down-turns fall under the rubric of "net
>  > result of choice"?
>
>  Maybe they fall under the "rubric" of "chance."  We all have risks in our
> lives,
>  and sometimes things happen to us that we didn't choose... The application
> is the
>  same, however... Your bad luck is not my responsibility.
---
There seems to be very little for which you ARE  responsible.
--
>
>  > B) It is fair by nature of the fact that the aforementioned gripers reap
>  > a disproportionately large benefit from life in this society.
>
>  Oh? And I suppose wise men (and women, just to be politically correct) will
> have
>  meetings and decide what a "proportional benefit" would be?  As a matter of
> fact,
>  I think they already do... something called a graduated income tax.
>
>  > "Social Darwinism" is hardly an emotive and hardly a term that I coined.
>  > It refers to a general belief in the social equivalent of survival of the
>  > fittest. Such a doctrine is fine in feudal systems, but once a social
>  > system has been formed for the mutual benefit of all (civilization),
such
>  > doctrines become antiquated--or would if not revived by those of rightist
> bent.
>  > Choose one: feudal system or civilization (representative democracy or
>  > otherwise) and be willing to pay the price for your decision.
>
>  How about freedom?  Has that ceased to be a choice?
--
If you value your freedom at any happenstance expense of others, don't be
surprised when they come a knockin'.
--
>
>  > In this/my case, you are partially correct. I was to blame for not having
>  > adequately prepared myself financially (at nineteen, such concepts were
>  > sort of abstract :-)). My employer took it from there by downsizing me
>  > during the initial stages of Reagan's "trickle-down" economy.
>
>  Probl'y the smartest business decision he ever made...

Like many right-wingers, you love a fight more than is good for you, or us.
---
>
>  > Forgive me, Michael (actually this serves as partial re-inforcement of my
>  > point about the compassionlessness and naivete'of the right), but, again,
>  > at nineteen, I was oblivious of the need to prepare for the malevolent
>  > economics of an equally malevolent president.
>
>  and don't forget your malevolent boss... and his malevolent board of
> directors..
>  and perhaps the malevolent bankers who advised him to keep his expenses
less
> than
>  his income... Don't leave anyone out of your "victim" diatribe.
---
If there are no victims, then there are no perpetrators, right?  So why be
concerned with conspiracies at all?
--
>
>  > This is the key deficiency in the understanding of those of rightist
>  > affiliation: a great many people fall prey to circumstances beyond their
>  > control, and well outside the realm of choice. One can stretch the
>  > philosophy of "blame the victim" only so far before the argument becomes
>  > rediculous.
>
>  What if we don't "blame anybody," and just let the chips fall where they
may?
>   My
>  bad luck doesn't constitute a claim on your bank account.
>
>  > I am fearful of being run over by a system in which I have no
> representation. I
>  > guess it's a matter of choosing who and by what means should I be run
over.
--

Re: [CTRL] Nurev: Criminalizing Homelessness

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

>
>  Edward Britton wrote:
>
>  >
>  > But Nurev, this is entirely too pessimistic. One person's failed society
>  > is another's new beginning. A little barbequed pig is a good thing, now
>  > and then :-)
>
>  You know, I didn't think this kind of pathetic musing took place outside of
>  Academia
>
>  Hawk

Should we be talking down to you?

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[CTRL] Amnesty International Faults U.S. on Human Rights

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>
>  Edited/Distributed by HURINet - The Human Rights Information Network
>
>  [This article has been excerpted.]
>
>   Amnesty International Faults U.S. on Human Rights=20
>  By KALPANA SRINIVASAN
>
>  WASHINGTON, 5.10.98 (AP): The United States measures other countries
>  against a lofty ideal when it comes to human rights, but it frequently
>  violates these standards within its own borders, Amnesty International
>  contends.
>
>  From prisoners forced to wear shock-emitting stun belts to police who
>  beat suspects without cause, the 153-page report provides the group's
>  first comprehensive look at human rights violations in the United
>  States.
>
>  Amnesty International accuses the United States of maintaining a
>  double standard: criticizing other countries while not abiding by
>  international treaties and principles of human rights itself. The
>  United States...has failed to sign the U.N. Convention on the Rights
>  of the Child, which seeks to promote human rights for children.
>
>  ``When the U.S. house is not in order, it makes it far harder for the
>  U.S. to take the kind of leadership role in international human rights
>  that many of us in Amnesty would like to see it take,'' says William
>  Schulz, executive director of the American chapter of the London-based
>  organization.
>
>  Amnesty, a longtime vocal opponent of capital punishment, admonished
>  the United States for its continued use of the death penalty. The
>  country should move to abolish the system, which is ``racist,
>  arbitrary and unfair,'' the group said.
>
>  U.S. authorities have executed more than 350 prisoners since 1990, and
>  another 3,300 prisoners await execution on death row, the report
>  noted, and some states execute juveniles and persons with mental
>  retardation.
>
>  International standards dictate...law enforcement officers should use
>  force only as a last resort and in proportion to the threat they
>  encounter. But the report accuses police of frequently disregarding
>  these standards, beating and abusing suspects unnecessarily.
>
>  The 1997 case of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant allegedly tortured
>  by New York City police, recently propelled the problem into the
>  public spotlight. ...the report also points to abuses in other cities
>  such as Philadelphia _ where police allegedly conducted unjustified
>  traffic stops and searches, particularly on minorities _ and
>  Pittsburgh _ where drug squad officers allegedly planted evidence on
>  suspects and falsified reports.
>
>  The report criticizes officers who use stun guns _ a handheld device
>  with two metal prongs that emits an electric shot _ or who ``hogtie''
>  suspects by binding their wrists and ankles together.
>
>  Stun guns, like any tool, can be misused, said a spokesman for the
>  National Association of Chiefs of Police. But ``it's actually one of
>  the better devices, if used properly,'' said Gerald Arenberg.
>
>  Arenberg also acknowledged...police can benefit from oversight, urging
>  those who believe they have been victimized to contact such
>  authorities as the FBI or state attorney.
>
>  ``I think we do need someone watching over our shoulders,'' Arenberg
>  said.
>
>  Prison facilities are another site of frequent human rights
>  violations, the report alleges, saying inmates fall victim to
>  excessive force by guards, sexual abuse by fellow inmates and cruel
>  use of restraints, such as leg-irons and restraint chairs.
>
>  Some prisoners are forced to wear remote control stun belts, which
>  emit a shock when activated by guards. The stun belts, used by the
>  U.S. Bureau of Prisons, 100 county agencies and at least 16 state
>  correctional facilities, cause severe pain and incapacitation, says
>  the report.
>
>  ``Amnesty International believes...such devices are inherently subject
>  to, and even invite, abuse,'' the report says.
>
>  While the United States prides itself as a haven for the persecuted,
>  asylum seekers often end up thrown in jail, detained indefinitely and
>  treated as criminals, says the report.
>
>  Immigration and Naturalization Service officials stressed ...people
>  are not detained simply for seeking asylum and denied...they are
>  detained for prolonged periods.
>
>  ``The seeking of asylum is not what gets you in detention,'' said INS
>  spokesman Andrew Lluberes. Those who enter the country without proper
>  documents or who falsify their identity can be placed in the expedited
>  removal process, but can be granted asylum by an immigration judge, he
>  said.
>
>  He added...from October 1997 to October 1998, the 523 people who were
>  eventually ordered removed by an immigration judge stayed an average
>  of 59 days. Another 709 spent 34 days in detention while their claims
>  were heard and 640 spent 93 days in detention before appearing before
>  an immigration judge.
>
>  Part of a yearlong campaign focusing on hum

[CTRL] New CIA Documents On Clinton Crypto

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>  /* -- "New CIA Documents On Clinton Crypto" -- */
>  http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_smith/19981215_xcsof_give_it_to.shtml
>
>  The CIA has released new documents written in 1996 showing Vice
>  President Al Gore ordered the CIA to enforce strict controls on mass
>  market security software for personal computers.
>
>  The documents were discovered at the Department of Commerce and were
>  released by the CIA in response to a Freedom of Information (FOIA)
>  request.  The CIA documents are two memos written by CIA Director John
>  Deutch to President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore.
>
>  The CIA reports detail Federal government efforts to monitor computer
>  communications such as email, using a technique to secretly intercept
>  and decode any messages.  According to the CIA Director, the back-door
>  keys were to be held by "key recovery agents" licensed by the Commerce
>  Department.
>
>  According to one document, a memo written by CIA Director Deutch, Gore
>  ordered the CIA to tell the Commerce Department to take a "tougher
>  approach to licensing."  The memo states Gore ordered the CIA to
>  "tighten the control regime for encryption products that do not
>  support key recovery."
>
>  Janet Reno, according to Deutch, took a much harder line, supporting
>  an all out Federal take-over of the industry.  The Justice Department,
>  proposed "legislation that would ... ban the import and domestic
>  manufacture, sale or distribution of encryption that does not have key
>  recovery."
>
>  The CIA Director, backed by the Commerce Department, rejected the Reno
>  proposals in favor of a so called "middle of the road approach."
>  According to the CIA, "We have rejected the policy option of mandatory
>  control because we believe legislation to ban use of encryption in
>  private communications will not be adopted here or abroad, notably in
>  Germany and Japan."
>
>  The memos include the CIA Director's blank copy of a Presidential
>  executive order that was later signed by President Clinton in
>  November, 1996.  The CIA written executive order transferred control
>  of encryption technology to the Commerce Department.  The order
>  transferred authority for both mass media software and formerly
>  military items such as radios, and satellite telemetry systems
>  hardened against atomic warfare.
>
>  Mass media encryption software is freely available over the Internet
>  and sold in retail outlets.  There are currently NO domestic
>  regulations covering the private or business use of security software
>  in the United States.  The software is used to protect medical,
>  financial and personal information.
>
>  The Clinton administration considers such PC software to be a threat.
>  Law enforcement claims encryption technology could be used by
>  criminals and terrorists.  The Clinton administration considers mass
>  market software a "munition" and strictly controls exports with felony
>  charges backed by the Department of Justice.
>
>  Clinton's plan was to force U.S. computer makers to build back-doors
>  into their products in order to obtain an export license.  The CIA
>  Director wrote to Clinton, "Our principle lever is exports controls,
>  which can influence industry because it seeks to develop products that
>  work worldwide.  Thus, our proposal would ease export controls in
>  exchange for industry commitment to build key recovery products and
>  supporting infrastructure."
>
>  Clearly, the Clinton administration was aware of the futile operation
>  to control PC software available in the retail market. The CIA report
>  detailing the imposition of strict controls contradicts an earlier
>  May, 1996, Commerce Department document.
>
>  The May 1996 Commerce document details a meeting with the CIA, FBI and
>  Department of Justice.  The document states "Efforts to maintain tight
>  controls on encryption in the 'Internet age' lack credibility,
>  threaten to impose real costs on U.S. industry and, its
>  competitiveness, and are becoming a political embarrassment for the
>  Administration."
>
>  According to the 1996 Commerce document, "Lost in the debate, but not
>  irrelevant, is the fact that it is virtually impossible to enforce
>  export control's against them when they can be exported by phone and
>  modem or/in someone's pocket."
>
>  Clearly, it is far easier to control multi-million dollar military
>  grade items than low cost PC software.  Rare or hard to build
>  electronics such as radiation hardened, encrypted, telemetry control
>  for satellites, are not available to the general public nor would they
>  be of much use.  Military communications, such as secure satellite
>  control systems, are built to withstand the intense radiation of space
>  or nuclear warfare.
>
>  There is no doubt that the Chinese military sought such items for
>  their strategic nuclear forces.  For example, in Febr

Re: [CTRL] Communicating Via Microwave Auditory Effect

[Agent Smiley]

 -Caveat Lector-

Wasn't Nikolai Tesla working on this stuff a hundred years ago?

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Re: [CTRL] Mind Control and Psyops

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To find out more about these things, try the University of Colorado in
Boulder.  Just don't let anyone know what you are about, eh?

MIT's not bad either.

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Re: [CTRL] Criminalizing Homelessness

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In San Francisco last year, in November, Mayor Willie Brown came under heated
media pressure when an editorial was published in the Chronicle detailing one
person's issue with the houseless in Golden Gate Park. Firstly, it's too bad
that the mass mindset is such that when one becomes houseless one is filled
with such shame that one feels the need to hide.  Would you rather hide behind
a dumpster in an alley or in some beautiful trees.

Secondly, the editorial that I've mentioned spoke of someone's fear that they
would be walking through the park and come across a needle or 'bump into some
hooker.'  This is obviously someone who has spend little time there.  At this
period of time, I was involved in a project that provided a daily meal to
about two hundred houseless people per day and spent a good deal of time in
the park DAILY.  Never once did I ever see a hypodermic needle there, though
addiction was rampant(maybe even a junkie has the consideration that many
industrial polluters do not).  As well, if you were a prostitute looking for a
quick buck, the last place you are going to look for it is Golden Gate Park.

The fact that the editorial seems to been more of a narration of someone's
paranoid nightmare was lost and never addressed in the media.  To save his
public image with those who suck their reality from the media nipple, he had
to act.  If what Clinton has done warrants impeachment, then what ensued
warrants sending Brown to the guillotine.

For the following two weeks hundreds of houseless folks, if not thousands,
were accosted by police , usually for doing nothing more than sitting in the
park, and were manhandled, abused, and STOLEN FROM BY OUR 'PEACE OFFICERS!'
Literally hundreds of houseless people with enough problems already wound up
with NO BLANKETS.  I personally witnessed dozens of occasions of houseless
people having what little they owned STOLEN by police(Golf&Martinez for
instance), thrown into the trunks of publicly funded vehicles and carted off.
These folks were left with little option and if I had been in their shoes I
would have felt entirely justified stealing blankets from a household(if not
slugging one of these pigs); those were chilly nights.  Ethics such as 'thou
shalt not steal' go right out the window when in a survival situation, as do
many other ethics - ask any Vietnam veteran.

What better scapegoat for society's ills than the defenseless.

This shit goes on all over the country.

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[CTRL] Update on London Shell Office occupation

[Agent Smiley]

>
>  Update on yesterday's Ogoni Day Occupation of Shell's London offices.
>
>  Contents:
>  1. News Release from London Activists
>  2. Article from Environmental News Services
>  3. Update from NoMoreShell UK webpage
>
>  -
>  1. News Release from London Activists
>  -
>  UKOOA
>  News release Tuesday, January 5, 1999
>  Shell protest activists pledge to step up campaigns through 1999
>
>  Yesterday's protest at Shell-Mex House in the Strand, London, ended with
>  the environmental and human rights activists released without charge and
>  pledging to continue challenging corporate hegemony. Police ejected the
>  protesters from the building for a second time today as they leafleted
>  Shell workers in the building's foyer.
>
>  The action on January 4 involved a dozen smartly dressed anti-corporate
>  executives breaching security to enter the building. They then
>  barricaded themselves into top management offices including those of the
>  new Shell-UK boss Malcolm Brinded and outgoing boss Chris Fay. From the
>  offices the protesters used a lap-top computer and mobile phone to relay
>  live pictures and updates of the protest to a Shell-style website at
>  
>  After 6 hours, riot police smashed through the office walls and arrested
>  all the protesters.
>
>  The activists described the protest as an act of solidarity with
>  indigenous resistance to Shell in Nigeria. The protesters in London
>  demanded compliance with the demands of the Ijaw ethnic group for Shell
>  to leave their traditional lands and for an end to corporate-backed
>  military repression. Chris Fay refused to negotiate with the activists
>  and called the Ijaw demands 'irrational.'
>
>  Killings of Niger Delta activists by soldiers were reported yesterday by
>  Nigerian based groups Environmental Rights Action and ND-HERO as having
>  reached 240 since the New Year. The killings follow an increase of
>  direct action in the Niger Delta over the last 2 years by youths angry
>  at the continuing poverty of the oil-rich areas and the pollution caused
>  by oil companies's outdated equipment and negligent performance.
>
>  500 Ijaw communities from across the Niger Delta had issued the Kaiama
>  Declaration on 11 December 1998 giving Shell, Chevron and other
>  transnationals until 30 December 1998 to leave their land - or face
>  eviction. Military Administrator of Bayelsa State, Lt. Col Paul Obi,
>  declared a State of Emergency, suspending all civil liberties and
>  imposing a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the entire state, the first such
>  declaration since the Biafra-Nigeria civil war.
>
>  They Ijaws launched Operation Climate Change on January 1, 1999, saying
>  that activists would shut down oil flow stations and their polluting gas
>  flares between January 1 and 10. Thousands of troops have now been sent
>  to smash occupations of oil installations, disperse rallies and provide
>  a military shield for continued oil production across the Delta.
>
>  The activists in London chose the first day of work in the last year
>  before the new Millenium to send a message to corporations that 1999
>  will be a year of increased globalisation of protest. Activists said
>  that the Shell protest gave a foretaste of direct action to come. A
>  spokesperson said yesterday, "We mean business. This is the turning
>  point that will see the end of corporate dominance."
>  For further information, contact (+44) (0) 958 795198, or DELTA on (+44)
>  (0) 116 270 9616 or (+44) (0) 181 806 2253. Visit
>  www.kemptown.org/shell for more details
>  and images of the protest.
>
>  ends




Update on yesterday's Ogoni Day Occupation of Shell's London offices.

Contents:
1. News Release from London Activists
2. Article from Environmental News Services
3. Update from NoMoreShell UK webpage

-
1. News Release from London Activists
-
UKOOA
News release Tuesday, January 5, 1999
Shell protest activists pledge to step up campaigns through 1999

Yesterday's protest at Shell-Mex House in the Strand, London, ended with
the environmental and human rights activists released without charge and
pledging to continue challenging corporate hegemony. Police ejected the
protesters from the building for a second time today as they leafleted
Shell workers in the building's foyer.

The action on January 4 involved a dozen smartly dressed anti-corporate
executives breaching security to enter the building. They then
barricaded themselves into top management offices including those of the
new Shell-UK boss Malcolm Brinded and outgoing boss Chris Fay. From the
offices the protesters used a lap-top computer and mobile phone to relay
live pictures and updates of the protest to a Shell-style website at

A