[CTRL] Memo on the Margin

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>From www.polyconomics.com


> June 18, 1999
>
> Compassionate Conservatives
>
> Memo To: Dan Quayle
> From: Jude Wanniski
> Re: Good For You
>
> Now that Texas Governor George W. Bush has decided officially to
> proclaim himself a "compassionate conservative," I’m finding myself
> somewhat surprised that the idea is spreading. Other Republicans want
> to be compassionate too. As far as I can tell, you are the only
> candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2000 who has barred
> the use of the term "compassionate conservative" in association with
> your campaign. Good for you. This kind of mush is exactly what one
> expects from the third and fourth generation of Old Money, noblesse
> oblige. W’s dad, the former President, may have some vague memory of
> what it was like for his grandfather to be near the bottom looking up.
> Steve Forbes of course was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but
> is still within shouting distance of a grandfather who started from
> scratch. W never is going to make it if he persists in pushing
> conservative compassion toward the Oval Office. Really rich Old Money
> can get there in the Democratic Party, which is the bona fide
> Compassion Party. I’ve been calling it the "Mommy Party since 1995.
> Franklin Roosevelt was Old Money and had plenty of compassion for the
> poor folks, but he was a Democrat and there was a Depression. Who
> started the Depression? President Herbert Hoover, a really rich
> Republican who got to be President by promising to follow in the
> footsteps of Calvin Coolidge (who had zero compassion, but cut taxes
> to the bone and produced the Roaring Twenties).
>
> Sadly, Hoover got to feeling sorry for all the vested interests that
> began showing up at the White House, weeping and wailing that they
> were not getting rich as fast as their neighbors, but could do so if
> only he signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. That would shut off
> foreign competition and the good times really would roll. Hoover never
> had run for public office, but became known for his generosity with
> the taxpayer’s money when he was Commerce Secretary, providing relief
> to victims of one natural disaster or another. He could not bear to
> see grown industrialists cry, so he signed the tariff act, which
> almost immediately brought on the Great Depression, here and around
> the world. People became unemployed and Hoover started the first Great
> Society programs. When Democrats complained that the poor were
> suffering more than those who were still rich, Hoover wept and signed
> a tax bill that raised the income tax rate to 46% from 24%. His
> compassion knew no bounds.
>
> There have been other compassionate Republicans, some in my own day.
> There of course was Nelson Rockefeller, governor of New York for four
> terms, a fellow who raised taxes as high as he could to finance one
> grandiose program after another, then borrowed to the state’s limits
> to finance more, then borrowed beyond legal limits, by bending the
> law. What compassion! He got to be Vice President of the United
> States, by appointment, when President Nixon resigned and Gerald R.
> Ford became President. Ford was always a weepy kind of guy, and still
> is, and so he asked Rocky to be his Veep. Rocky’s chief contribution
> to the nation in his few years as Vice President was to preside over
> the "energy crisis" at the White House. It was Rocky’s idea to solve
> the energy problem by turning coal into petroleum. Inasmuch as his
> brother David Rockefeller, who ran Chase Manhattan Bank, had invested
> in lots of coal fields when he became persuaded the world was running
> out of the stuff on which his grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, had
> built the family fortune, he was happy to sell that coal to the
> federal government at reasonable prices. Rocky had corporate
> compassion.
>
> You know, Dan, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. You
> also might say the road to hell is paved with political compassion.
> Whenever I get near a compassionate politician, I reach for my wallet,
> knowing he or she is looking for a way to buy some votes at my
> expense. There are always plenty of people who have more wealth than
> they can ever spend, who are willing to tax the incomes of people who
> have no wealth in order to finance programs for the poor and
> downtrodden. They hated Ronald Reagan because he got elected twice
> without shedding a single tear for the needy, instead concentrating on
> making it possible for people to do business with each other again
> without having their incomes confiscated by government taxation. If
> the road to hell is paved with compassion, the road to heaven is a
> ladder of hope, growth and opportunity. Yes, the phrase was coined by
> Steve Forbes, but it is available to all Republicans -- the "Daddy
> Party."
>
> In the June 14 issue of the Weekly Standard there is an arcticle about
> the man who will "define" compassionate conservatism for G

[CTRL] Security-Policy & Links

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>From www.security-policy.org


> Publications of the Center for Security Policy
> No. 99-D 64
>
> --
> --
>
>
>
> DECISION BRIEF
>   1 June 1999
>
>
> Saving Lieutenant Colonel McCallum
>
> (Washington, D.C.): The good news on the ominous Chinese
> technology-acquisition front(1) is that Energy Secretary Bill
> Richardson has promised that heads will roll this week in the
> Department of Energy. The bad news is that it looks as though those
> really responsible may be spared.(2) Worse yet, one of the heads on
> the chopping block belongs to Ed McCallum -- an individual who has
> done more than practically anyone else at the Department of Energy to
> raise alarms about an environment that Richardson now acknowledges to
> be replete with "communications breakdowns...incompetent
> acts...[where] security was not considered important."
>
> Gottemoeller vs. McCallum
>
> Indeed, with Secretary Richardson's blessing, a senior official deeply
> implicated in the aforementioned insecurity practices -- Assistant
> Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation and National Security Rose
> Gottemoeller(3) -- has already put McCallum, the Director of DOE's
> Office of Safeguards and Security, in bureaucratic limbo. On 19 April,
> she placed the retired Army lieutenant colonel on indefinite
> administrative leave (with pay) on the basis of what ten Members of
> Congress have described in a letter to Richardson as "trumped up and
> insupportable accusations that he has violated rules for handling
> classified information."
>
> On 26 May, these Congressmen -- among them, the Number 3 man in the
> House Republican leadership, Majority Whip Tom Delay -- correctly
> described Mr. McCallum as "one of the few high-ranking DOE employees
> who has vigorously striven to implement and enforce a safeguards
> policy for DOE and the National Laboratories." They declare that this
> conscientious public servant is being harshly "repaid for his
> unfashionable commitment and inconvenient effectiveness in doing his
> job" in exposing and counteracting "the systematic and flagrant
> disregard for security issues that has thrived in the highest levels
> of [DOE] for several years."
>
> Richardson's Contempt for Congress
>
> Richardson's response to this letter was astoundingly contemptuous.
> According to the Chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight
> Committee, Rep. Dan Burton, the Secretary of Energy declared in a
> meeting with McCallum that the letter "doesn't intimidate me, this
> isn't [expletive deleted]. These guys are my basketball buddies." In a
> letter to Richardson dated May 28, Congressman Burton said the
> Secretary seemed to be suggesting that "you had the ability to
> dissuade Members of Congress who might be inclined to pursue matters
> brought to our attention by Mr. McCallum."
>
> Regrettably, ex-Congressman Richardson has grounds for believing he
> can work his will with his former colleagues. Chairman Burton's
> missive describes how "when we met earlier this week [Richardson]
> asked me not to hold a hearing regarding the Department of Energy
> which would include as a witness Mr. Edward McCallum." Rep. Burton
> reluctantly acceded to the request, despite the fact that "[McCallum]
> appears to be uniquely qualified to address the many current oversight
> concerns facing Congress in light of the Cox Report's revelations."
> Earlier on, another personal intervention by Secretary Richardson had
> a similar result with Rep. Thomas Bliley, chairman of the House
> Commerce Committee, resulting in the abrupt cancellation of a Commerce
> subcommittee hearing at which Mr. McCallum had been invited to
> testify.
>
> The Trulock Precedent
>
> Secretary Richardson is evidently determined to prevent Mr. McCallum
> from achieving the sort of transformation Notra Trulock has recently
> undergone. Mr. Trulock, it will be recalled, is the man who -- as
> Director of Intelligence for the Department of Energy -- first blew
> the whistle on the apparent Chinese penetration of the U.S. nuclear
> weapons laboratories.
>
> Unfortunately for him, Mr. Trulock's warnings conflicted with the
> Clinton Administration's policy of "engaging" Beijing and were
> repeatedly suppressed. Like Ed McCallum, a job action was taken
> against him by Ms. Gottemoeller, in this case demotion to the
> temporary position of Acting Deputy Director of Intelligence. His
> career would have been permanently blighted but for the opportunity
> afforded Mr. Trulock by the Congress publicly to illuminate the
> penetration made easier by Clinton policies, and the cover-up mounted
> to keep it from coming to light. Last week, Secretary Richardson gave
> him a performance bonus and professed his desire to keep Mr. Trulock
> on his "team" (a sentiment that appears, however, not to extend to
> giving him his old job back!)
>
> Will Lt. Col. McCallum Get His Day in Court?
>
> In t

[CTRL] 14 "Questions"

[Anonymous]

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>From www.cmrlink.org


>
>
> UNRESOLVED ISSUES AND QUESTIONS FOR INVESTIGATION
>
>
>
> The following is a partial list of questions associated with Navy
> decisions made from 1993 to the present, relating to the assimilation
> of female pilots into tactical aviation. Previous official probes,
> which focused primarily on charges of sex discrimination in naval
> aviation, failed to investigate specific information revealed by Lt.
> Patrick J. Burns, USN, or to pursue questions regarding safety and
> preferential treatment that were raised by Lt. Burns and others in the
> aviation community.
>
> These questions cannot be answered fully and credibly at the present
> time. Principle figures who are in a position to provide answers have
> yet to be interviewed. In the case of Lt. Burns, certain answers were
> disregarded or misrepresented in reports to higher authorities.
> Official inquiries regarding the following issues may provide insight
> into what is causing serious morale and retention problems in the
> aviation community, and possible ways to resolve them.
>
> 1) During the days and weeks immediately following Lt. Hultgreen’s
> death in October of 1994, several COMNAVAIRPAC officials and spokesmen
> for the Navy in Washington began making statements that misled the
> public about the primary cause of her fatal crash, and the training
> that preceded it. These statements were wholly inconsistent with
> normal procedures discouraging premature public comment about an
> aircraft mishap. As a result, journalists and commentators nationwide
> reported conflicting information; i.e., that Lt. Hultgreen was an
> above average pilot, and that her death was primarily caused by an
> engine malfunction.
>
>
>
> •Where and how did this cover story start, and why did Navy spokesmen
> do nothing to correct the misinformation?
>
>
>
> 2) During the nationally-publicized news conference on February 28,
> 1995, and a subsequent appearance on ABC "Nightline," Navy officials
> showed the videotape of Lt. Hultgreen’s accident, claimed that she had
> not received preferential treatment in aviation training, and
> continued to mislead the public by suggesting that the mishap was
> primarily due to engine failure. This was done even though a) Rear
> Adm. Lyle G. Bien had already confirmed that Lt. Hultgreen had
> received low scores and four pink sheets during her training, two of
> which were for landing approach errors similar to those that caused
> her death; and b) the Navy’s own JAGMAN report, released the same day,
> was full of technical information that contradicted the cover story.
>
>
>
> •Why was the Office of Naval Information not held accountable for
> issuing statements that were at variance with evidence to the
> contrary, as compiled in official Navy reports?
>
>
>
> 3) Shortly after Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness
> wrote a detailed letter to Sen. Strom Thurmond, concerning the request
> of Navy Lt. Patrick J. Burns, Adm. Bien was dispatched to conduct a
> field investigation. Adm. Bien, who was accompanied by JAG Cmdr.
> Maxwell Jenkins, conducted individual interviews with 27 officers
> assigned to the training squadron. Lt. Burns specifically told Adm.
> Bien that the women were unprepared, unsafe, and dangerous to pilot
> the F-14 in carrier operations. He has reason to believe that others
> made similar comments. Not only did Adm. Bien fail to convey the
> instructors’ warnings to superiors who charged him to find the truth,
> he falsely wrote in his January 31, 1995 report to COMNAVAIRPAC that
> "...no interviewee claimed that any of the women were unsafe or
> unqualified to fly the aircraft."
>
>
>
> •Was Rear Adm. Bien, since promoted to Vice Admiral, questioned or
> held accountable for the difference in facts presented in an official
> report, especially one that dealt with questions of safety?
>
>
>
> 4) Adm. Bien confirmed that information contained in Elaine Donnelly’s
> January 16, 1995, letter was "largely accurate," while simultaneously
> denying its importance. Despite considerable documentary and
> testimonial evidence to the contrary, plus the death of Lt. Hultgreen
> and subsequent performance by Lt. Lohrenz that was described by her
> peers to be "unsafe, undisciplined, and unpredictable," Adm. Bien
> concluded that the training squadron did "what was right."
>
>
>
> •Does the Navy consider the record of this training squadron, since
> disbanded, to be an example of acceptable procedures that may be
> repeated elsewhere, regardless of the costs and elevated risks? •If
> the Navy considers Lt. Lohrenz’ record of performance to have been
> acceptable for graduation to the fleet, what sort of record would have
> rendered it unacceptable? Would low scores and 10 pink sheets have
> been sufficient to wash her out? What about 15? Or 20? •Will future
> aspiring aviators with similar records be accorded similar concessions
> to ensure that they will not fa

[CTRL] (Fwd) [ma] PRESS RELEASE - Project 1984 Mark II

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Project 1984 Mark II

Media Release  Wednesday June 16th


   AUSTRALIA'S THOUGHT POLICE - THE GOVERNMENT


In a continuing protest against the impending Internet censorship
legislation, Project 1984 this week shipped copies of George Orwell's
_Nineteen Eighty-Four_ to every Federal Member of Parliament.

The Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Bill 1999
is scheduled for its final debate in Parliament next week.

"Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to haunt the imagination with its
startling images of totalitarian terror. A powerful cry for freedom of
thought and expression. In Orwell's frightening vision of the future,
society is under the control of Big Brother. Every aspect of life is
closely monitored, while any hint of unorthodoxy is ruthlessly suppressed
by the Thought Police." - Penguin Books.

"Orwell's depiction of totalitarianism, of state intrusion into private
life and control of language and even thought, is justifiably famous",
said Mark Reynolds, coordinator of the project.  "So _Nineteen
Eighty-Four_ is the obvious symbol for expressing opposition to this Bill,
which is a totally unwarranted extension of government powers".

When asked "Could it really happen in Australia?", Mark Reynolds
responded. "The Coalition Parties have already shown their 'Big Brother
Knows Best' censorship tendencies in other media. 'Lolita' comes to mind.
The Government is already controlling its Members and Senators. They are
all responding to criticism of the Bill with little more than Government
sanctioned form letters.

This legislation will achieve no positive outcomes. It will damage
our economy, forcing many businesses off-shore, to countries with
more supportive governments. The US, Canadian, Malaysian and
New Zealand governments have all recently announced 'hands-off'
policies in relation to content regulation.

I hope the Australian Government comes to its senses and stops this
Bill. They are way out-of-step with world opinion on this issue."

ENDS

Please see this Web site for full details.
Project 1984 - http://www.rts.com.au/1984/

Media Contact:
Mark Reynolds
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Office +61 8 9474 1211
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BACKGROUND

"Key Legal and Technical Problems ..." paper by Anna Johnson
http://www.securitysearch.net/search/papers/bsaprobs.htm

"Blinded by Smoke" - The Hidden Agenda of the Online Services Bill
http://rene.efa.org.au/liberty/blinded.html

"A New Dark Age" - a lawyer looks at the Online Services Bill
http://www.gtlaw.com.au/pubs/newdarkage.html

West Australian Internet Association
http://www.waia.asn.au/Issues/Regulation/DCITA/index.html

Other analysis of and commentary on the Bill
http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/99.html

Comparison of this bill with another [satire]
http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/stoprain.html

The text of the letter accompanying the books

  Monday June 14, 1999.

  Dear Federal Member of Parliament,

  We enclose for your appreciation a copy of
  George Orwell's "1984".

  This classic depicts life in a world where the
  state attempts to control the private
  communications and even thoughts of its
  citizens. It has become a symbol of
  totalitarianism, with the term "Orwellian" being
  used to describe attempts to control or eliminate
  ideas.

  The Online Services Bill is Orwellian in its
  implications. It has no place in a free society. It
  puts Australia out of step with other
  democracies and in the league of countries
  such as China and Saudi Arabia.

  Your opposition to this Bill will enable a proper
  debate to take place. Proper debate will produce
  a Bill that will actually achieve something
  positive.

  Your support of this Bill is a direct attack on the
  fundamental freedoms of all Australians.

  Australians fear the thought of 'Big Brother'
  watching over them. Jobs will be lost as
  E-commerce and Internet businesses move
  offshore.

[CTRL] Chile: Fresh Proof of "Operation Condor" Surfaces

[Anonymous]

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Chile: Fresh Proof of "Operation Condor" Surfaces


Inter Press Service
17-JUN-99

SANTIAGO, (Jun. 16) IPS - Fresh evidence of the existence of "Operation
Condor," the repressive network of the dictatorships that ruled much of South
America in the 1970s, surfaced this week in Chile.

The mayor of one of the poshest municipalities of Santiago, retired colonel
Cristian Labbe, admitted to having belonged to the notorious secret police of
the de facto regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet (1973-90), following the
publication of official documents lending further credence to the existence of
Operation Condor.

Labbe, the right-wing mayor of the Santiago municipality of Providencia, told
the Chilean daily "La Hora" from his vacation spot in California yesterday
that he had "indeed" been a member of the "Direccion de Inteligencia Nacional"
(DINA) as the head of Pinochet's escort.

The mayor's ties to the regime's secret police were contained in classified
official documents dating back to the time of the military government,
unearthed in the foreign ministry and published in yesterday's edition of the
daily "La Nacion," a state- run enterprise that adheres closely to the
prevailing political winds.

The documents demonstrate that the head of DINA, now-retired Gen. Manuel
Contreras, created Operation Condor to coordinate operations against the
respective opponents -- real or imagined -- of the military regimes ruling the
nations of Latin America's Southern Cone in the 1970s and 1980s.

"The documents survived the destruction of files carried out by the foreign
ministry shortly after President Patricio Aylwin took office" in March 1990,
stated "La Nacion."

Participation in Operation Condor by the security forces of Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay had long been denounced by opponents of the
military regimes, and was substantiated by the discovery of literally tons of
documents and files in Asuncion in 1992, when Paraguayan dictator Alfredo
Stroessner was toppled.

Legal proceedings are underway in Spain for crimes against humanity committed
by the dictatorships of Argentina (1976-83) and Chile within the framework of
Operation Condor.

The cases, concentrated in the hands of Judge Baltasar Garzon since 1998, gave
rise to the Oct. 16 arrest of Pinochet in London, where the ex-dictator is
facing trial -- set to begin Sept. 27 -- to determine his possible extradition
to Spain.

Twenty years ago, Chileans in exile revealed a letter with a 1976 dateline,
signed by Contreras, inviting high-ranking officers from nearby countries to
the "First Inter-American Meeting on National Intelligence" -- which gave
birth to Operation Condor.

Since October 1996, Contreras has been serving a seven-year sentence for
planning the 1976 assassination of former Chilean foreign minister Orlando
Letelier in Washington, committed by DINA agents and anti-Castro Cuban exiles.


The minutes of the 1976 meeting are frequently mentioned in the documents
revealed yesterday by "La Nacion," which basically consist of classified DINA
letters to the foreign ministry seeking to facilitate the movements of
repressive agents from other countries.

Among the documents figures a December 2, 1974 missive in which Contreras
requested a diplomatic passport for Labbe and other members of the military as
"DINA personnel," for the purposes of "an urgent mission in Peru."

In his declarations to "La Hora," Labbe maintained that the documents
published by "La Nacion" did not "demonstrate the existence of Plan Condor,"
but were part of a campaign conducted by the governing center-left coalition
that is inspired by "a vengeful intent to polarize the country."

The right-wing mayor added that the report by the state-owned daily "could
even hurt national security," due to the publication of "secret documents"
referring to Peru, which borders Chile.

Labbe, who served as deputy minister of the General Secretariat of the
Government toward the end of the dictatorship, was elected mayor of
Providencia, one of the richest municipalities of Santiago, with the backing
of the rightist Independent Democratic Union party.

Labbe is a close friend of Pinochet, and has visited the former de facto ruler
twice in the rented mansion where he is under house arrest in London. The
retired colonel is also one of the most active supporters of the ex-dictator.

After Pinochet's arrest, Labbe took reprisals in Providencia against the
consulates of Great Britain and Spain and other bodies with links to those two
countries by stopping garbage collection and meting out fines for supposed
infringements of municipal ordinances.








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[CTRL] OEN 6/18/99

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from:
http://www.aci.net/kalliste/
http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe
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Today's Lesson From From My Life: Poetry and Truth

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


It was on the 28th of August, 1749, at the stroke of twelve noon, that I
came into the world in Frankfurt on the Main. The constellation was
auspicious: the Sun was in Virgo and at its culmination for the day.
Jupiter and Venus looked amicably on it, and Mercury was not hostile.
Saturn and Mars maintained indifference. Only the Moon, just then
becoming full, was in a position to exert adverse force, because its
planetary hour had begun. It did, indeed, resist my birth, which did not
take place until this hour had passed.

These good aspects, which astrologers in later years taught me to value
very highly, were probably responsible for my survival, for the midwife
was so unskilled that I was brought into the world as good as dead, and
only with great difficulty could I be made to open my eyes and see the
light. It was a harrowing experience for my family, but at least the
townspeople had some benefit from it, inasmuch as my grandfather, Johann
Wolfgang Textor, who was the chief magistrate, was moved by this to
appoint an official birth-assistant and to introduce, or reintroduce,
the instruction of midwives. That was probably a fortunate thing for
many a child thereafter.
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Federal Reserve

Fed Signals Coming Hike in Rates

Long bond rallies


Alan Greenspan, the US Federal Reserve chairman, yesterday said he saw
no signs of gathering inflation in the US, but strongly suggested that a
pre-emptive rise in interest rates was likely for the end of the month.


By sending a signal that the Fed intended to take no risks with
inflation, the chairman's remarks provoked a powerful rally on the US
bond markets, pushing yields on the benchmark 30-year US Treasury bond
below 6 per cent.


Stock prices showed modest gains, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average
up 40.53 at 10,825.48 in early afternoon trading on Wall Street.


Mr Greenspan said he saw no sign of inflation and emphasised the Fed
would not act to curb the strong rally in US stock prices - unless it
started to affect the price of products.


But he told the Joint Economic Committee of Congress that some
imbalances - in particular the ever-decreasing pool of job seekers -
posed risks to a sustained economic expansion.


He said wage levels were being held down by falling inflation and
continued fears over job security, but if labour markets continued to
tighten, sharp increases in wages beyond productivity growth would
emerge. "Because monetary policy operates with a significant lag, we
have to make judgments not only about the current degree of balance in
the economy, but about how the economy is likely to fare a year or more
in the future under our current policy stance," Mr Greenspan said.


"For monetary policy to foster maximum sustainable economic growth, it
is useful to pre-empt forces of imbalance before they threaten economic
stability .. When we can be pre-emptive we should be, because modest
pre-emptive actions can obviate the need for more drastic actions at a
later date that could destabilise the economy."


Analysts inferred that the reference to "modest pre-emptive actions"
suggested an increase in interest rates of only a quarter of a point at
the next meeting of the Fed's policy-setting committee on June 29-30,
rather than a larger rise.


Mr Greenspan's only explicit comment was that the central bank would not
reduce rates - but that was not anticipated after the committee adopted
a bias in favour of a monetary tightening at its last meeting in May.


Mr Greenspan questioned whether three quarter-point cuts in interest
rates - announced last autumn in a bid to pre-empt a deepening financial
crisis - were still needed.


"What is on the table at this particular stage is whether, having
injected a significant amount of liquidity as a consequence of the
seizing up of markets, do we need all of it still in place? It is not a
judgment [of whether] there is, at the moment, any evidence of
accelerating inflation? In my view, you'd be hard-pressed to find it."


The Fed chairman also hinted that Wednesday's report showing consumer
price inflation dropping to zero in May would not influence the Fed's
decision at the end of the month. He said the consumer price index had
many flaws as a monetary policy target.


Richard Yamarone, senior economist at Argus Research in New York, said
the Fed chairman had no choice but to raise interest rates by a quarter
of a point.


"The rate hike that comes at the end of June will be entirely about
credibility," Mr Yamarone said. "Mr Greenspan has painted himself into a
corner, whereby the Fed's failure to act would compromise its ability to
combat inflation."

The Financial Times, June 18, 1999


Der Fuhrer Invades Yugoslavia

Chinese 

[CTRL] Tanzania: Progress Means Full Shops, Empty Pockets

[Anonymous]

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Progress Means Full Shops, Empty Pockets


Africa News Service
17-JUN-99

Dar-es-Salaam (The East African, June 17, 1999) - Talk of Musoma town and
people automatically know you are referring to Mwalimu Julius Nyerere's native
district. The town is itself no more than a small fishing port on the shores
of Lake Victoria.

Last week, Mwalimu decided to bring some national activity to Musoma. Through
the Nyerere Foundation, of which he is chairman, he hosted a workshop there.
Participants from academia, religious institutions and NGOs were asked to
share thoughts on devel opment in Tanzania. More specifically, they were
expected to brainstorm on "the way forward".

With each passing day, I get more confused about Tanzania's development. Food
rationing is now so rare that the word kaya, which signified that system, has
vanished from everyday speech. Small-time racketeering in foreign currency is
today unthinkable; it's the big "mafia style" operations which continue to
prevail. Almost all schoolchildren, at least in Dar-es-Salaam, wear shoes. In
general, more goods and services are available today than they were a decade
ago.

The flip side of this coin is that while in the past there was liquidity
without goods, today goods are available but there is no liquidity.
Retrenchment has led to a high level of unemployment. Officialdom has
assiduously avoided publishing employment figures over the past few years.

Pupils may be better dressed but estimates have it that about 50 per cent of
schooling children stay at home. Those who do attend school do not get any
education worth talking about. Teachers meanwhile augment their salaries
through private tuition. In effect, parents now pay two separate sets of fees
for the same child. The first is paid officially to the school and the second
directly to the teacher.

More often than not, the same teacher doubles up as the private tutor. This is
recommended by the teachers themselves - they claim to know their pupils
better. What happens is that the pupils are allowed to play around during
official classes, then at the end of the day the teacher delivers the
"tuition" in the same classroom.

Mwalimu and his workshop will have a tough task defining Tanzania's
development. Is the country moving forward - with these problems being mere
side-effects? Or is it breaking in two down the middle, with the pieces
floating away in opposite directions : one to prosperity, the other to
disaster?

Perhaps the best place to begin would be with the concept of development
itself and the terms it can be measured in. The indices would include national
income per capita, average calorie consumption per day, percentage of
households with a television s et, electricity or running water.

On such a basis, it would be easy to show that Tanzania has made impressive
strides. Liberalisation of the economy has flooded the market with goods of
all kinds. Sharp competition has meant cheaper goods of a high quality.

Another way of looking at development is through the lives of the people.
Here, the indices are the manner in which the "needs of life" are produced;
the kinds of activities people can afford - reading books/newspapers, going on
holiday; infant mortali ty rates, life expectancy and how widely available
social services such as education, health and so on are.

Should Tanzanians choose the way of "things", they will be like the oil
sheikhdoms which, though rich in money, to this day are yet to be described as
developed countries.

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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #2

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 -Caveat Lector-

SkeptiNews 990618b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

: Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
: Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning.
: No theoretical physicists were harmed greatly to produce this bulletin.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Astronomers Pinpoint Birth And History Of Comet Hale-Bopp. The most prec-
  ise measurement to date of the carbon monoxide to water ratio in a comet
  is reported by astrophysicists, who suggest that the comet Hale-Bopp was
  likely formed in the region between Jupiter and Neptune some 4 billion
  years ago. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990618063953.htm

@ Track Comet Lee Here: http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/
# New 'C/Lee' Comet Enters Solar System - Orbit Unknown
  http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/lee.htm
@ Is The Comet C/Lee Nostradamus' Comet?
  http://www.jeffrense.com/ufo3/nostcom1.htm

: Was Hale-Bopp's chemistry affected/altered by the Mothership? Do the Space
Brothers want us to know he truth of cometary origins? What are they hiding?
Who sent Comet C/Lee to obliterate earth? Have you prepared for devastation?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Y2K - 200 Days and Counting: www.jeffrense.com/ufo3/y2k200days.htm
# Y2K- Test Causes Massive Raw Sewage Spill In LA:
  http://www.jeffrense.com/politics4/y2kspill.htm
# Y2K - Inconvenience Rather Than Chaos?
  http://www.jeffrense.com/politics4/y2kincon.htm
# Y2K - US Says Prescription Drug Supply Safe:
  http://www.jeffrense.com/politics4/y2kussays.htm
# U.S.GOV'T Y2K GRADE IMPROVES TO 'B-' - Up from a 'D':
  http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/17/gov.y2k.idg/
# Y2K - Not Much Worry Down On The Farm:
  http://www.jeffrense.com/politics2/y2knotm.htm
# Y2K - Programmers 11 Times More Likely To Buy Food Supplies Than General
  Public: www.jeffrense.com/politics2/y2kprog.htm

: Have you come to grips with Y2K yet? Have you stocked up? Are you resigned
to chaos, armageddon, obliteration? Will you eat, drink, be merry, suicide?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Buddha Maitreya on Crop Circles. What you see as a mystery about crop cir-
  cles, in the Himalayas is nothing more than psychic phenomenon manifested
  by the transcendental communication taking place when an Avatar appears.
  Heavenly angelic communication: http://www.bogo.co.uk/etheric/home.html

@ Crop Circle Hoaxing. There seems to be increasing friction between crop
  circle researchers and crop circle hoaxers. Indeed, it seems that resear-
  chers and hoaxers are even squabbling amongst themselves - Why have some
  people done U-turns from being enthusiastic circle followers to avid and,
  almost paranoid, crop circle rubbishers? http://indigo.ie/~dcd/haox.htm

: Do the angels that communicate with crop circles really mean to engender
paranoia in their communicants? Are these *good* angels? Do you trust them?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# U.K. officials say Serbs killed 10,000-100,000, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559974771-975
# Also: With Serbs gone, horrors discovered, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559978617-4fe
# And: List of reported Kosovo massacres, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559973140-994

@ "One war too many - a personal account of the Kosovo War":
  http://www.jafi.org.il/arts/1999/june/3.htm
# Yugoslavian Jewish leader worried about intra-Serb conflict -
  "Formally, the war is over, but the crisis is only beginning now":
  http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/18.Jun.1999/News/Article-8.html

: Have you come to grips with Kosova yet? What's your favorite NATO-vs-Serb
conspiracy theory? Have we been misled? By who? Is the truth out there? Ya?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# A HEALTH WARNING FOR HEROIN USERS. A warning went out from city health
  officials in San Francisco, telling IV drug users there is a flesh-eating
  bacteria that could infect them. Do they really think someone who is
  shooting up heroin or methamphetamine will worry about bacteria? Really?
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13389

: Do/should you worry about infectious agents in your drugs? Would you like
to infect other drugs? Do the voices in your head tell you who to infect???
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

SkeptiLinks:

@ Sinn Fein / IRA News Updates: http://irlnet.com/rmlist/
@ New series of MJ-12 documents:
  http://www.pufori.org/articles/mj12_cooper_mj12_report.htm
@ PUFORI's main MJ-12 web site:
  http://www.pufori.org/non_frames/mj12_nf.htm

# Woman Fails To Incubate Egg In Breasts - "There was no bird in the egg":
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990618/10/odd-egg-breast
# TANNING DRUG MAY FIND NEW LIFE AS ERECTILE AID:
  http://cnn.com/HEALTH/men/9906/17/viagra.alternative/index.html
# Painting Reveals 15th Century Authentication Of The Shroud Of Turin:
  http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.johnson13/ts.html
# HEAD OF CHURCH GROUP FACES FEDERAL SENTENCE - pray for 75 years:
  http://cnn.co

[CTRL] De Beers Says Complying with Diamond Embargo

[Anonymous]

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De Beers Says Complying with Diamond Embargo
[...and if you believe that, I've got a *lovely* bridge you might be
interested in... -- Bob]

Africa News Service
17-JUN-99

JOHANNESBURG (UN Integrated Regional Information Network, June 17, 1999) - The
rights group Global Witness has challenged the diamond transnational De Beers
and its London-based Central Selling Organisation to publicly clarify how they
have changed their purchasing operations to ensure they no longer buy UN
embargoed Angolan diamonds.

"Up until the embargo it was no secret that they were buying up Angolan
diamonds," Charmian Gooch of Global Witness told IRIN on Thursday. "What they
are not telling anybody now is how they are altering their buying structures.
If they are serious about this, in part they must recognise they have to
become more transparent."

An estimated 70 percent of all rough diamonds are sold through the Central
Selling Organisation. Angolan diamonds are of a particularly high quality and
easily distinguishable. But De Beers policy in the past had been to buy up
gems on the open market to prop up diamond values, and among those were
alluvial diamonds from mines controlled by the UNITA rebel group.

In an attempt to end UNITA's main source of revenue, a UN Security Council
resolution in July last year embargoed unofficial Angolan diamond sales. De
Beers insist they have complied "with both the spirit and the letter" of the
resolution. Senior De Beers officials met the chairmain of the UN Angola
Sanctions Committee, Robert Fowler, during a fact-finding tour in May to
examine the loopholes to the sanctions policy and offered reassurance of their
collaboration.

"We are absolutely committed to cooperating fully with the UN. We are not in
the business of responding to the allegations of Global Witness," De Beers
spokesman Andrew Lamont told IRIN on Thursday. "Our priority is to address the
concerns and offer full cooperation to the UN."

Lamont said that Fowler had welcomed De Beer's cooperation, "and we have given
concrete support to what he is doing." He added: "Certainly there are
significant problems in controlling the flow of Angolan diamonds," but, "in
Angola we are working with the Angolan government and we don't buy diamonds
from UNITA."

Fowler ended his tour with a list of recommendations to tighten sanctions
implementation, extending responsibility to governments and the trade
industry. "Global Witness welcomes the overall aim of the recommendations,"
Gooch said. "The routes (for smuggled diamonds) are endless, trying to control
that is not really useful. But when the diamonds enter the market place they
are distinguishable. Putting the emphasis on the trade is a very good step
forward."

This item is delivered by the UN's IRIN humanitarian information unit (e-
mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; fax: +254 2 622129; Web:
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the United Nations. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this item,
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[CTRL] KLA rebels accused of vandalizing Serb monastery

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KLA rebels accused of vandalizing Serb monastery
KFOR tries to stem Serb civilian exodus

June 17, 1999
Web posted at: 2:35 p.m. EDT (1835 GMT)



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PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- KFOR peacekeepers in Kosovo found themselves
trying to deter reprisals against Serbs Thursday, as ethnic Albanian rebels
were accused of desecrating a Serbian Orthodox monastery and assaulting a nun.


Despite the incidents reported by French troops, the peacekeepers sought to
reassure nervous Serbs they could protect them. The monastery is in Srbica,
about 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Pristina.

KFOR spokesmen said Thursday the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from the
Serbian province was proceeding ahead of schedule. But the shrine's
desecration could hurt KFOR's attempt to prevent a second flood of refugees
from Kosovo -- this time, from Serb neighborhoods.

French peacekeepers put the Devic monastery under guard after they said Kosovo
Liberation Army fighters terrorized a priest and several nuns for four days,
from Sunday to Wednesday.

The KFOR troops said KLA rebels vandalized centuries-old murals and paintings
in the chapel and stole two cars and all the monastery's food.

In addition, a French soldier said, the KLA stripped the clothes from a young
nun and took her into a back room. The soldier said she was hysterical and
appeared to be traumatized when she was found.

When asked if the woman had been raped, the French soldier responded to CNN,
"What do you think?"

The 15th-century monastery is one of the shrines from which the Serbian nation
draws its cultural identity. Part of the agreement that ended NATO's 11-week
bombing campaign provides for a handful of Yugoslav troops to return to the
province later to protect sites like Devic.


Yugoslav troop withdrawal ahead of schedule

About 15,000 troops from NATO countries have gone into Kosovo since the end of
fighting a week ago, said Lt. Col. Robin Clifford, KFOR's spokesman in
Pristina. At the same time, 35,000 Yugoslav army and Serb special police
troops have left.

That puts them ahead of the schedule set by the cease-fire agreement, which
demands that all Yugoslav troops leave Kosovo by midnight Sunday.

Fearing reprisals from the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians driven
out during NATO's air war against Yugoslavia, about 50,000 Serbs already have
fled the province as their former neighbors return.

KFOR commander Lt. Gen. Mike Jackson and Serbian Orthodox leader Patriarch
Pavle have urged them to stay, and Clifford said the Serb exodus had slowed.

KFOR will protect "all the ordinary, decent citizens of Kosovo, regardless of
their ethnic background or religious persuasion," Clifford said.

"I have also spoken to those who say they are perfectly content to say here,
certainly those here in Pristina, as long as KFOR troops are here to protect
them," he said.

KFOR troops have had several encounters with the KLA, including one Wednesday
in which U.S. Marines disarmed a group of 16 guerrillas. The newest reports of
KLA anti-Serb activities came as reports surfaced of a possible agreement
among rebel leaders to lay down their arms.

Clifford said he could not comment on any possible agreement with the KLA, but
said, "We view any actions by the KLA -- or any other armed bands of
paramilitaries or armed groups that cause friction or raise tensions -- as
being entirely unacceptable."


Possible mass grave revealed near Pec

Pavle planned to stay in Pec, in southern Kosovo, in an effort to reassure
Serbs and convince them to remain in the region Serbs consider the cradle of
their society. But Pec was largely a ghost town Thursday, with only about 200
of its prewar population of 90,000 remaining.

During the war, NATO accused Serb-led troops of carrying out a campaign of
terror against ethnic Albanian civilians, and Kosovo Albanians are now
bringing numerous graves to the attention of NATO troops and news
organizations.

In a village near Pec, residents showed CNN a site where they said 35 people
were killed by Serb forces.

The villagers said that on May 14, Yugoslav troops herded the men into four
houses and set them on fire. Three men lived to tell the story, and Italian
troops secured the grave sites for international investigators.

British officials said as many as 10,000 ethnic Albanians may have been killed
in Kosovo, their remains buried at more than 100 sites. Clifford acknowledged
the discoveries, but stopped short of attributing them entirely to massacres.

"Let's not forget there has been a war here, and people die in wars and people
are buried in wars," he said.

In addition to grave sites, British troops participating in the KFOR
peacekeeping mission have discovered what Foreign Office Minister Geoff Hoon
called a torture center in the cellar of Serbia's special police headquarters
in Pristina, Kosovo's provincial capital.

And as Yugoslav troops leave Kosovo

[CTRL] SNOW JOB: THE CIA, COCAINE, AND BILL CLINTON Part 2: The Money Trail

[Anonymous]

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How the CIA laundered millions in drug profits from Mena and paid for
Clinton's 1992 election campaign.

http://www.esotericworldnews.com/snowjob1.htm

Bard

Federal Government defined:
a benefit/subsidy protection racket!

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[CTRL] Daghestan Tightens Security in Wake of Chechen Attacks

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Daghestan Tightens Security in Wake of Chechen Attacks.


Itar-Tass
18-JUN-99

MAKHACHKALA, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - The last night's fire attacks from
Chechnya's territory on interior troops in Daghestan caused tightened security
at outposts in border areas.

A spokesman at Daghestan's Security Council told Itar-Tass on Friday that the
attacks prompted measures of an operational and political character.

More check-posts, pickets and ambushes have been set up. Security has been
beefed at administrative buildings of the interior and at vital sites and
facilities.

The police personnel in Chechnya-bordering areas is on alert. The Daghestani
government's press service said normalisation measures are being taken jointly
with Chechen authorities.

Guerrillas last night mounted fire attacks from Chechnya's territory on
check-posts of interior troops in neighbouring Daghestan, killing three
servicemen and leaving 14 wounded.

Mortar shells were fired on a checkpoint near Pervomaiskoye village in
Khasavyurt district after 9 p.m. and on another in the same area.

At about 2 a.m. on Friday, a mortar shell hit an interior troops' picket post
near the Kopaisky hydroelectric station near the city of Kizlyar.

According to the headquarters of the interior ministry troops, the servicemen
returned the fire with all available weapons.

An officer in the Kizlyar District police department told Itar-Tass that fire
encampments in Chechnya were neutralised but exchanges of fire continued
intermittently until Friday morning. At about 7 a.m., Russian helicopters
delivered a missile strike at a guerrilla base on the Chechen territory.

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[CTRL] A JOURNALIST'S INTRODUCTION TO SKULL AND BONES

[Anonymous]

ions. Communist revolutionary cells are an obvious
example. In fact, such revolutionary organizations can only function if
their existence was secret."(9) Further, said Sutton: "In brief, secrecy
in matters political is historically associated with coercion.
Furthermore, the existence of secrecy in organizations with political
ambitions or with a history of political actions is always suspect.
Freedom is always associated with open political action and discussion
while coercion is always associated with secrecy."(10)

A pamphlet on Bones described the walls of the tomb as "adorned with
pictures of the founders of Bones at Yale and of the members of the
Society in Germany when the Chapter was established here in 1832."(11)
 Sutton asked: "Think about this: Skull and Bones is not American at
all. It is a branch of a FOREIGN secret society."(12) Sutton concluded
that Skull and Bones "is a clear and obvious threat to constitutional
freedom in the United States. Its secrecy, power and use of influence is
greater by far than the masons, or any other semi-secret mutual or
fraternal organization."(13)

SUTTON COMPARED BONES TO THE BAVARIAN ILLUMINATI

While critics concede that the Illuminati "was an actual group that
existed from 1776 until 1785..." it is also explained that: "Given the
fact that Weishaupt's ideas ran counter to the authoritarian,
church-intertwined-with-state power structure, he was forced to keep his
Illuminati secret and work through Masonic lodges. He was not
successful."(14)

Sutton made numerous tentative comparisons between the Illuminati and
Bones. Each member, according to a 1876 anonymous satire, has an "inside
name" and "these names bear a remarkable resemblance to those used by
the Illuminati, e.g., Chilo, Eumenes, Glaucus, Pristicus and Arbaces."
(15) He added: "During its time, the Illuminati had widespread and
influential membership. After suppression by the Bavarian Government in
1788 it was quiet for some years and then reportedly revived."(16)
 Sutton promised that "in a subsequent book, we will trace the order to
the Illuminati..."(17) Also, Sutton stated: "The significance of this
study is that the methods and objectives (of the Illuminati) parallel
those of the Order. In fact, infiltration of the Illuminati into New
England is known and will be the topic of a forthcoming volume."(18) He
later wrote: "At this point we want to draw a comparison between the
Order known as Skull and Bones and The Order known as Illuminati in 18th
 century Bavaria. This is not the time and place to draw final
conclusions."(19) Sutton noted that "It (Bones) was introduced into the
United States by William Russell, later General William Russell, who
brought a charter back from his student days in Germany."(20) [So far a
check of Russell's biographies has revealed no hint of a German
education]. When the Skull and Bones "Temple" was raided in 1876 a card
was found that read: "From the German Chapter. Presented by Patriarch
D.C. Gilman of D. 50."(21) The Yale Bones catalogs indicate that Skull
and Bones began in the U.S. in the 3rd decade of the second period of
the organization. The first decade of the second period would be 1800
with the first period being 1790-1800: "That places us in the time frame
of the elimination of Illuminati by the Bavarian Elector."(22)

Two years later Sutton, in 1988, wrote The Two Faces of George Bush. In
this work he identified George W. Bush as a Bonesman like his soon-to-be
President father. Sutton has not written further on the Order. At least
one close associate claimed that Sutton became and remains "a fugitive
in his own adopted country."

EDITOR OF TEXAS OBSERVER, DAVID ARMSTRONG, LASTS EIGHT MONTHS

On March 22, 1991, a crusading journalist named David Armstrong became
the editor of the Texas Observer. His career at the most liberal and
outspoken Texas magazine lasted just over eight months. On April 5,
1991, he wrote an article entitled "The Great S&L Robbery: Spookbuster
Pete Brewton Tells All." On July 26, 1991 another article by Armstrong
was entitled: "Oil in the Family." On September 20, 1991, Armstrong wrot
another piece entitled: "Global Entanglements." The cover featured a
cartoon of George "W" Bush with "Harken" on his head and CIA agents
(spies) all around him.

On November 29, 1991 David Armstrong's name appeared on the masthead of
the Texas Observer for the last time. Armstrong deplored and described
what he termed a trend of preemptive journalism: "Mainstream media have
never demonstrated a keen interest in challenging the status quo.
Contrary to the popular image of an independent and adversarial press,
U.S. corporate media are, in fact, little more than lackeys for elite
interests."

Armstrong also bla

[CTRL] Relief from debt may be in sight for world's poorest countries

[Anonymous]

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The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 18, 1999
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Jun/18/international/DEBT18.htm


--

Relief from debt may be in sight for world's poorest countries

By Susan Warner

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Leaders of the world's richest nations, meeting in Cologne, Germany, this
weekend, are expected to unveil a new package of reforms that would forgive
some of the crushing debt held by the developing world.

This pardon comes, in part, because of pressure from a global, grass-roots
campaign called Jubilee 2000. The London-based coalition takes its name from
commandments in Leviticus to proclaim a "jubilee" every 50 years, marked by
the forgiveness of debt and the freeing of slaves.

The movement has attracted supporters ranging from Pope John Paul II and the
Archbishop of Canterbury to rock star Bono of U2 and Muhammad Ali.

And it has set the year 2000 as the date for this modern-day Jubilee.

"That's what makes it sexy and exciting. We've got a short burst of brilliant
life to achieve something extraordinary," said Jamie Drummond, a spokesman at
Jubilee 2000's London headquarters.

The world's 40 poorest countries owe an estimated $105 billion - $200 billion
with interest, according to World Bank figures. The debt includes an estimated
$57 billion in loans from other governments and $48 billion from international
agencies such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

There is little, if any, private debt in these countries, because the credit
risk is so high.

Jubilee 2000 argues it makes no sense to saddle developing nations with this
debt, much of which will probably never be paid off anyway.

Take Angola, whose total economic output, or gross national product, is $3
billion a year. Its foreign debt is double that, and interest on the debt is
about 20 percent of Angola's annual gross national product, according to the
World Bank.

While the Pope and other religious leaders raised the idea of debt forgiveness
in the early 1980s, the formal Jubilee 2000 campaign began in 1993 in the
United Kingdom.

Since then, the campaign has spread to 60 countries. At last year's world
leaders' summit in Birmingham, England, Jubilee organized a chain of 70,000
people holding hands, representing the chains of developing nations'
indebtedness. A similar chain is planned for tomorrow in Cologne, to surround
the meeting place of the world leaders.

Jubilee 2000 combines religious determination and show biz. The movement has
spread through parishes, Jewish congregations and Muslim communities, and has
been celebrated at rock concerts, Comic Relief benefits, and through a
cyber-petition drive on the Internet.

"They have put together an incredibly useful grass-roots global machine to get
the world concerned about this," said Anthony Gaeta, a spokesman for the World
Bank.

The use of Scripture gave the movement an extra kick, said Angela Berryman,
coordinator of Latin American and Caribbean programs for the American Friends
Service Committee in Philadelphia.

"As we approach the millennium, that gave it a new twist," she said. "Many
people have been talking about debt cancellation since the 1970s, but it has
come together now."

The debt-forgiveness movement lost an important enemy when German Chancellor
Helmut Kohl was defeated last fall. In January, his successor, Gerhard
Schroeder, surprised international finance ministers with support for debt
relief.

"That set off a political show of who can outdo the other," said Gaeta.
Britain and Canada signed on, along with France, which had already been
offering debt forgiveness to many of its former colonies in Africa.

In March, President Clinton announced that the United States would support a
new debt-forgiveness plan that would include about $120 million in new funding
for debt relief. The Clinton administration has also endorsed a plan for the
IMF to sell up to 10 percent of its gold reserves, valued at about $3 billion,
for debt relief.

Three years ago, the IMF and the World Bank started a debt-reduction plan
aimed at the world's 40 poorest countries, known as the Heavily Indebted Poor
Countries (HIPC).

The HIPC plan was aimed at bringing countries' debt down to twice the size of
their foreign export earnings. It also required them to maintain other
economic reforms for at least three years.

So far, only 10 countries have qualified for $8.5 billion in debt relief;
three countries - Guyana, Uganda and Bolivia - have actually received some
forgiveness.

"In many of these countries the debt levels were five and six times their
export revenues," said Gaeta. "They were so poor, they were essentially basket
cases."

But many argue the HIPC program was too tough.

"It is clear the HIPC initiative has not yielded the results anticipated,"
said Abdessatar Ouanes, director of African and Middle East affairs at the
International Institute of Finance in Washington

[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Who Are 'the Boys?'

[Anonymous]

From: Daniel Hopsicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

By request (I heard the sound of one hand clapping)
another chapter from Barry and the "Boys"...


Who Are 'the Boys?'

There came a moment in our investigation into the CIA drug smuggling
through Mena Arkansas when we asked Russell Welch--the criminal
investigator for the Arkansas State Police who kept pestering his
superiors to do something about the massive criminal activity taking
place under his nose--what difference it would have made to him if had
known that Barry Seal's intelligence connections stretched as far and
wide as the eye could see.

"I was concerned about the Mena airport," he told us calmly. "That was
my sole focus. When journalists come up here to Mena and start poking
too far into who Seal knew they end up going off the deep end."

Today we understand what he means. Because probing into Barry Seal's
connections into the 'Dark Side' world of clandestine services led us
into a bewildering fog-shrouded Okefenochee swamp teeming with
gangsters, arms dealers, corrupt politicians, and current and former CIA
and military officers, all of whom, collectively make up the secret
government, the organization with no name, that we have chosen to
characterize as "the Boys."

At first it looked as if the Bay of Pigs might be the place to wade into
that swamp, to begin to untangle the various alliances and Barry's
Seal's role in them, since many of the  principals in this action will
later become involved in the major incidents of what Professor William
Chambliss calls "state-organized crime."  Every member of the Watergate
break-in, for example, had been involved in the Bay of Pigs Invasion,
and at least one, the infamous Frank Sturgis, had known Lee Harvey
Oswald.

But there had been an even earlier event, we learned, which served as a
model and a blueprint for the Bay of Pigs, and that had brought many of
the major characters we will see later together for the first time. As
we interviewed the remaining witnesses to Big Jim Garrison's probe into
the colorful New Orleans milieu of the Kennedy Assassination, we learned
that many of the actors had their bow in history at the coup the CIA
staged in 1954 in tiny far-off Guatemala, just as others of us were
settling down to watch our first episodes of Captain Kangaroo.

When, seven years later, the emotional anti-Castro Cubans took to heart
the CIA's gung-ho "contractual specialists," known affectionately as
the "cowboys," (while spurning their CIA cases officers) the men they
admired were already veterans of the coup in  Guatemala. It served as an
out-of-town tryout for the stunts the Boys will later pull State-side.

It is amazing how many of the players in the defining events of our
lifetime  played Triple A ball together in the tiny Central American
country which is the very definition of the term "banana republic," a
term which has its roots in the domination by United Fruit of Central
and South American governments.



"The Starting Lineups"

Allen Dulles selected Richard Bissell as a special assistant -"an
apprentice," as Bissell described it--and he immediately went to work on
the coup plan, code-named PBSUCCESS. Bissell will later run the CIA's
Bay of Pigs. The CIA chain of command in the Arbenz operation includes,
at the top, Bissell, Deputy Director Frank Wisner, Tracy Barnes,  and
Colonel J.C. King. And somewhere in there is Nelson Rockefeller, whose
Latin American interests seemed endangered by Arbenz. Rockefeller joins
the Eisenhower Administration as something called an Assistant for Cold
War Strategy.

David Atlee Phillips, a spook who was born on Halloween in 1922, was
selected to set up a clandestine radio station in Mexico -- the Voice of
Liberation --which  pretended to be broadcasting from within Guatemala
and orchestrated a crescendo of false reports about legions of rebels
which didn't exist and major battles which never took place. Phillips
would later term the technique, which he would use again and again, as
"the big lie."

E. Howard Hunt, later anointed the Propaganda Chief of the CIA's
anti-Castro operations, was  "an officer who had worked brilliantly on
the Guatemala Project," according to one pipe-smoking CIA man.

Among the New Orleans contingent was Guy Banister. A close friend and
adviser of Bannister's told the New Orleans States-Item that the veteran
FBI agent was a key liaison man for U.S. Government-sponsored
anti-Communist activities in Latin America, through the Anti-Communism
League of the Caribbean. The League was said by the aide "to have been
used by the CIA in its engineering of the 1954 overthrow of the leftist
Arbenz regime in Guatemala."

Another from the Crescent City is Seymour Weiss,  Director of Standard
Fruit and connected with Carlos Marcello, and the equally-interesting
Banister associate Maurice Gatlin, who is visited in New Orleans before
the coup by a certain Guatemalan Colonel Barrios, who has four trigger
men with him as bodyguards and is about to

[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1

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: Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning.
: No fundamentalist legislators were consulted to produce this bulletin.
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# Xian biker clubs duke it out over Jesus logo & name. DAYTON, Oh.(AP)  Two
  bands of bikers are duking it out in court - over Jesus. The self-proclai-
  med Christian bikers are fighting over the name "Sons of God" & a Christ-
  head logo. http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3868873

: Have you copyrighted any symbols of your belief system? Do heretics try to
infringe on your commercial/religious turf? Are they damned to hell forever?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Hasidic movement split over Messiah. KFAR CHABAD, Israel (AP) - When the
  leader of the Orthodox Chabad movement told followers that the Messiah was
  coming soon, Michael Moyad slept with his best clothes laid out by the bed
  to be ready. Moyad & many others thought Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  was hinting that he himself was the redeemer. On the 5th anniversary of
  Schneerson's death, many are still clinging to the belief that he'll be
  resurrected any day now, despite official Chabad teaching to the contrary.
  Anticipation: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559974752-8f5

: Do you have/expect/need one or more messiahs? Can messiahs be trusted? Are
messiahs human, divine, alien, unknowable? Do messiahs need charisma? Why??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Flesh Eating Bacteria Hits Drug Users. (SAN FRANCISCO)  The San Francisco
  Health Dept. is warning I-V drug users they could fall victim to flesh-
  eating bacteria. In the past 2 weeks, 3 people have been diagnosed with
  the disease... and one of them has died. Two of the patients had injected
  black tar heroin and shared needles. The third injected meth or speed.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/local/state/california/story.html?s=v/r
s/19990617/ca/index_2.html#18
# UPDATE: At least one other patient has died of the disease.

# Scientists discover bacteria that destroys toxic explosives. JERUSALEM - A
  bacteria capable of "eating" explosive material has been discovered by an
  Israeli research team. The bacteria, belonging to the Rhodococcus strain,
  destroys a common but highly toxic form of military explosive called RDX.
  http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/18.Jun.1999/News/Article-9.html

: Who's mixing these microbes into illegal drugs? Will all drug supplies be
infected soon? Will gun-control freaks develop gunpowder-eating bacteria to
devour your ammunition? Will microbes be developed to eat criminals fast?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Global warming disease warning. (BBC) The World Health Organisation says
  global warming could cause a major increase in insect-borne diseases such
  as malaria throughout Britain and Europe. It has called for urgent gov't
  action to prepare for the spread of diseases like malaria & encephalitis.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_372000/372219.stm

# Bacteria Thrives In Simulated Mars Conditions. An exotic Earth bacteria
  that thrives in a lab mimicking the environment of Mars shows that planet
  may have once harbored life. A methane-making, oxygen-hating microbe
  "grows just fine and dandy" in a simulated Martian environment that could
  not support most forms of life on Earth. www.jeffrense.com/ufo4/bac.htm

: Do your prefer Terran or Martian microorganisms? Can we spread microbes in
space to colonize the galaxy? Can we fine-tune planets to aid their growth?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Lava Tubes May Make Lunar And Martian Homes. Giant lava tubes on the moon
  and Mars could provide low cost, ready-built enclosures for future lunar
  bases, say NASA researchers: http://www.jeffrense.com/ufo4/tubes.htm

: Do your alien masters have bases set up inside Terran lava tubes? Have you
looked? Do lava tubes make good condos? What's the rental market like here?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# First pictures from Gemini. (BBC) The first picture taken by the new
  Gemini telescope in Hawaii is of the distant planet Pluto. The quality
  of the image is as good as that obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_372000/372276.stm
@ Link: The Gemini telescopes: http://www.gemini.edu/

# Looking for the 'relics' of the Big Bang. (BBC) A new satellite to study
  the 'relics' of the Big Bang is about to be launched. NASA's Far Ultra-
  violet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) spacecraft will observe nearby
  planets as well as the farthest reaches of the universe. Maps energy:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_372000/372363.stm
@ Link: FUSE homepage: http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/

# HUBBLE COMPLETES MAJESTIC GALAXY PORTRAIT. (CNN) NASA this week released a
  portrait of a majestic spiral galaxy begun by the Hubble Space Telescope
  four years ago

[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Fwd: Rodney Matthews: Comments

[Anonymous]

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An entire chapter in the new book, Drugging America--A Trojan Horse, is devoted
to Rodney Matthews (The book will be out by July 31.) There are some interesting
aspects to the Matthews story, involving Montana, Escobar, the usual Justice
Department corruption, and much more. He was working for U.S. Customs in San
Antonio, about to ensnare major drug cartels--with CIA connections--and had
discovered drug money going to a political party in Midland, Texas. Justice
Department prosecutors then stepped in and charged Matthews for drug
smuggling--which was part of the Customs undercover operation--which effectively
protected the drug cartels, the CIA, and blocked exposure of the drug money to a
major political party. It is an interesting safa, with the uusual Justice
Department crud involved.

Rodney Stich

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> ABC News "PrimeTime Live," on July 8, 1998 reported on Rodney Matthews, a pot
> smuggler turned informant, who became an informant for the U.S. Customs
> Service and was allowed to legally smuggle billions of dollars of cocaine
> into America.
> The Clinton Administration allowed the Sentencing Commission to reduce
> sentences for federal drug trafficking crimes. In addition to ignoring the
> country's worsening drug problems for three years, Bill Clinton has a record
> of appointing soft-on-crime judges and U.S. attorneys. For example, the Los
> Angeles Times revealed that one Clinton appointee, U.S. Attorney Alan Bersin
> of San Diego, has allowed suspected drug smugglers to escape prosecution for
> their crimes and return to Mexico -- free to smuggle drugs again. Government
> figures show that since 1994, Bersin's program has released more than 1,000
> smugglers without prosecution, some found smuggling as much as 37,000
> Quaalude tablets, 158 pounds of cocaine and 32 pounds of methamphetamines.

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[CTRL] Fwd: [EWAR] The Puzzle Palace - Lucifer

[Anonymous]

Puzzle Palace, by James Bamford, page 433 - 435
With the ending of Project Lightning in 1962, so too ended NSA's support of
unclassified public research.  Lightning had helped prime the scientific
pump, and competition within private industry, it was felt, would ensure
that the flow of technological advances in the computer and associated
fields would continue to pour out.  The Puzzle Palace, through CRD,
SCAMP-ALP, and a select number of key consultants and contractors, could now
focus its full attention, as well as its dollars, on a science where there
was no competition, where NSA alone controlled a monopoly: cryptology.

But along came Lucifer.

(snips - discussing how easy it was to trick remote automatic tellers in the
early days of e-banking)

To counter such possibilities, and realizing that data communications held
enormous market potential, IBM board chairman Thomas Watson, Jr., during the
late 1960s set up a cryptology research group at IBM's research laboratory
in Yorktown Heights, New York.  Led by Horst Feistel, the research group
concluded its work in 1971 with the development of a cipher code-named
Lucifer, which it promptly sold to Lloyd's of London for use in a
cash-dispensing system that IBM had developed.

Spurred by the success of Lucifer, IBM turned to Walter Tuchman, a
thirty-eight-year-old engineer with a doctorate in information theory, then
working at the company's Kingston development lab.  A sixteen-year veteran
of IBM, Tuchman was asked to head up a data security products group that
would transform Lucifer into a highly marketable commodity.

(snips - discussing Carl Meyer's contribution to strengthening the cipher
called Lucifer)

At about the same time that IBM was turning its attention to cryptography,
another group was beginning to study the subject with great interest.  In
1968 the National Bureau of Standards, charged since 1965 with developing
standards for the federal government's purchase and use of computers,
initiated a series of studies to determine the government's need for
computer security.  As a result of the studies, the NBS decided to search
for an encryption method, or algorithm, that could serve as a governmentwide
standard for the storage and transmission of unclassified data.
Solicitation for such an encryption algorithm took place in May 1973 and
August 1974.

The timing could not have been better for IBM, which submitted for
consideration its Lucifer cipher.  Labeled by David Kahn "the tiniest known
'cipher machine' ever produced," Lucifer actually consisted of a
thumbnail-sized silicon "chip" containing an extremely complex integrated
circuit.  The "key" to the cipher was a long string of "bits" - 0's and 1's
- the combination of which would vary from user to user just as the grooves
in front-door key will vary from neighbor to neighbor.

(snips - discussion of cipher codes and how they work including the
S-boxes.)

Just as more grooves on the key usually mean a more difficult lock to pick,
more bits in the cipher key will decrease the chances of successful
cryptanalysis.  For this reason IBM developed Lucifer with a key 128 bits
long. But before it submitted the cipher to the NBS, it mysteriously
broke off more than half the key. (KK's comments: is there in any
sense as to why IBM would do that?  So, they could control some of the keys
to their cipher?)

>From the very beginning, the NSA had taken an enormous interest in Project
Lucifer.  It had even indirectly lent a had in the development of the S-box
structures.  "IBM was involved with the NSA on an ongoing bases," admitted
Alan Konheim, a senior employee at IBM's Yorktown Heights lab.  "They (NSA
employees) came up every couple of months to find out what IBM was doing."

For the first time in its long history, NSA was facing competition from
within its own country.  The outsiders were no longer mere hobbyists but
highly skilled professionals, supported by unlimited funds and interested
more in perfection than in speed.
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James Bamford- - - - - - -
I can't imagine why IBM called the code "Lucifer."
KK
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"Jim Condit Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>Sorry to reply through this email, but I couldn't get the relevant e-mail
from "books" to let me reply. There is no question that all big money in the
conservative movement goes to phony operations like the Heritage Foundation.
If anyone has any information on who underwrite the basic budgets of these
False Opposition operations, I would like to know it. I know on informed
researcher who says that Richard Mellon Scaife is a
bagman for much of the money. Does anyone have any solid info on this vital
subject? Jim Condit Jr.<<

The Heritage Foundation largely funded, IIRC, by the Coors family. I haven't
seen anything on Richard Mellon Scaife being a pass-through but it wouldn't
surprise me; the guy is a bundle of contradictions, and seems to have few real
political convictions of his own.

Anyone have any info on who funds the Cato Institute?

Bob

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[CTRL] California thugs Senate Bill 365 a "third party killer"

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Just another attempt by the DemocRats and Repubs to ensure that the "keys"
to freedom are not duplicated, and to maintain the security of the locks to
our shackles.

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Libertarians fight 'third party killer'
ballot access bill

SACRAMENTO -- A ballot access bill winding through
the Legislature would damage the third party movement
in California, increase the competitive advantage held
by Democrats and Republicans, and eliminate alternative
choices for voters at the polls, the Libertarian Party
of California announced today.

The bill, SB 365 by Senator John Lewis (R-Orange),
would create a burden for third parties by complicating
the signature gathering procedure for candidates.  The
bill passed the Senate on May 25 and is scheduled in
the Assembly Elections Committee on Monday, June 21,
at 4PM.

"This bill is a true 'third party killer,'" charged
Libertarian state executive director Juan Ros.  "Third
party candidates will have a much tougher time getting
on the ballot, unlike Democrats and Republicans.  SB 365
would set the third party movement back years while
giving voters fewer options on the ballot."

Under current law, candidates may collect signatures
in lieu of paying a fee when filing a declaration of
candidacy.  In addition, all candidates are required to
collect a certain number of nominating signatures.
Signatures collected in lieu of the filing fee also
count towards the nominating signature requirement.

Under SB 365, that "dual-use" of signatures would be
eliminated.  Candidates would be forced to collect
signatures twice, during two separate time periods, and
the signatures would be counted independently of each
other for purposes of meeting the required amounts.

"Collecting signatures from voters is difficult enough
once, let alone having to do it twice," Ros noted.

"Since most third party candidates avoid paying the
filing fee, eliminating the dual-use of signatures is
tantamount to political and electoral murder," Ros added.

The Green and Reform Parties have also stepped
forward to oppose SB 365.  "We welcome the help of other
third parties in defeating this terrible piece of
legislation," Ros said.

The California Association of Clerks and Election
Officials, which is sponsoring the bill, wants to simplify
the filing process and avoid confusion for candidates.
"Unfortunately, this bill will only increase confusion by
requiring more paperwork, more signatures, and more
filing," Ros pointed out.

 "Libertarians will be at the committee hearing
Monday to oppose this bill," Ros announced.  "We're
fighting not only for our own sakes but for the sakes
of every voter in California."


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Re: [CTRL] Did NATO ever produce that Pilot? RE: [CTRL] Warp Speed

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> Speaking about disinformation, am I mistaken, or has NATO and the US
> still failed to produce the pilot who was "rescued" from that plane
> that was shot down in the first days of the NATO offensive against
> Serbia? If they have not, does it not suggest that the pilot was
> killed and that NATO and traitors Cohen, Clinton, et al just lied
> to keep up the myth of the casualty-less war? Does anyone know
> anything about that pilot?
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Alamaine Ratliff
> >
> > > Media group charges NATO "distorted the truth" in Kosovo
> > >
> > > PARIS, June 15 (AFP) - The media organisation Reporters sans
> > > Frontieres (Reporters without Borders, RSF) Tuesday criticized
> > > NATO for "distorting the truth," and giving "false information
> > > and impossible-to-check figures," about the war in Yugoslavia.

Treason consists of giving aid and comfort to the enemy.  How does
an alleged lie about the survival of a NATO pilot give aid and
comfort to Serbia?  And one must be very naive to think that any
military organization will provide truthful information during or
after a conflict.  If lies advance a war effort, they'll lie their
asses off, grimly.  Wars are not waged and won by honorable gentle-
folk, but by the meanest & trickiest & toughest bastards around.

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[CTRL] Fwd: Legislative Watch, 6/17/99

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In a message dated 06/17/1999 8:21:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<< = N O T E ! =
 Both the House and Senate are expected to take action the week of 6/14 on a
bill
 (H.R. 1790/S. 880) that could block the scheduled release of worst-case
possible
 accident scenarios at over 60,000 chemical sites across the country. The
release
 of such information was required under the Clean Air Act, in order to inform
the
 public about potential risks from chemical explosions and leaks in their
 neighborhoods. The FBI, however, has raised concerns that the information
would
 aid terrorists in selecting targets. The Clinton administration has offered
an
 amendment to delay release of the information for a year so that procedures
to
 address security concerns can be established. Environmentalists oppose both
the
 bill and the proposed amendment, arguing that it is the use of dangerous
 chemicals, rather than information about those chemicals, that should be
 limited. >>

This is a rather "nice" description of the bill that will open the door to
turn us into total mushrooms.  It was introduced by Representative Bliley of
Virginia, probably as a favor to those lovely chemical companies along the
James River.  What was it that man said, "They are producing chemicals so
toxic that if they stay on your skin for three seconds, they eat completely
through it."  This is probably the most dangerous attempt to destroy our
Democracy yet to come forth from this Congress of cuckoos.  It contains
language that would criminalize requesting, giving or receiving the
information that our industrial lords do not feel we peons should have.
After all, who are we to think we should be protected from industrial horror.
 Prudy



Natural Resources Defense Council's

LEGISLATIVE WATCH

June 17, 1999

**
Contents:

1)LEGISLATIVE WATCH
2)ABOUT OUR BULLETINS

The information in this bulletin -- and more -- is also available at our World
Wide Web site -- http://www.nrdc.org. The web version links to the text of bills
and Congressional web pages.


1)LEGISLATIVE WATCH

This is a status report on Congressional action on the environment. To make the
changes from week to week easy to find, we've highlighted them with:
= N O T E ! =

6/17/99

With Congress focusing most of its time on gun control legislation, little new
action has occurred on pending environmental bills. Once again, the main
environmental threats are expected to appear as riders to the various
appropriation bills Congress will consider over the summer.


Budget

On 5/21, President Clinton signed into law the 1999 Emergency Supplemental
Appropriations bill (Public Law 106-31), providing funds for the conflict in
Kosovo and relief to victims of Hurricane Mitch.  Once again, must-pass budget
legislation has been used to enact controversial anti-environment provisions.
The law will:

**Override environmental objections to the Crown Jewel mine in Washington state.
Authored by Sen. Slade Gorton (R-WA), this rider exempts the controversial
proposed gold mine at Buckhorn Mountain in north central Washington from key
provisions of the 1872 Mining Law.  The Crown Jewel Gold Mine is therefore
allowed to move forward despite a recent Interior Department ruling denying a
permit to the facility because of serious concerns regarding the disposal of
mining waste.  This provision would also block the enforcement of mining waste
limitations under the 1872 Mining Law for all existing mines and mine proposals,
until the end of this fiscal year.

**Delay pending Bureau of Land Management mining regulations.  Originating in
the Senate version of this bill and sponsored by Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), this
provision would once again block reform of outdated hardrock mining regulations
that annually provide millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for destructive
mining operations.

**Block a new Oil Royalties Valuation Rule.  This rider would further delay the
long awaited oil valuation rule from going into effect, thus allowing oil and
gas industries to dodge millions of dollars in oil royalties fairly owed to
American taxpayers.  The rule, which has been subject to more than two years of
comments and discussion, was scheduled to take effect last summer.

Congressional leaders remain divided over allocations for the 13 appropriations
committees that fund the various government agencies.  House Appropriations
Committee Chairman Bill Young (R-FL) and Senate counterpart Ted Stevens (R-AK)
have proposed deep cuts in what are known as "302(b) allocations," which each
committee must split up among the agencies it funds. Such deep cuts are based on
the spending caps contained in the 1997 balanced budget agreement.  The budget
deal allowed discretionary spending to creep up during the first two years, but
provides for dramatic cuts over the next three.  Many in Congress, together with
the Clinton administration, oppose such drastic reductions in important social
program

[CTRL] (3/3) PROMIS, NSA, CIA-Bush/Clinton, CHINAGATE

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

 [Resent, with its correct numbering as {3/3)]

FAQ: Lippo and the Riadys
by Les Freeman

 Indonesia's Mochtar Riady and his son James, whose cascades
of money ensured victory for Clinton and Gore in 1992.
 The CIA has confirmed that the Riadys have long been
connected to Chinese Intelligence.

 The biggest contributer to the Clinton-Gore ticket in 1992
was Indonesian businessman James Riady and his wife, who gave
$450,000.00 to elect Bill Clinton.
 During the final weeks of the campaign, the Riady family,
its associates, and executives at Riady companies gave an
additional $600,000.00 to the DNC and Democratic state parties.
   (Source: Analysis by Lisa Myers and Bob Windrem of MSNBC,
December 18, 1997.)

 The patriarch of the business empire is Mochtar Riady, a
frequent visitor to the United States. Of his 3 sons, James was a
permanent resident of the United States, Stephen was educated
here, and Andrew worked in California in the early 1980's. All,
however, have fled the United States. Any Riady employee with
detailed knowledge of the family's activities in the United
States has likewise disappeared, even James Riady's secretary has
vanished.
 Only John Huang, the family's former U.S. operative, remains
in the United States- he has pleaded the 5th Amendment,
maintaining that telling what he knows might incriminate him.
 (Sources: Senate Report 105-167, "Investigation of Illegal
or Improper Activities in Connection with 1996 Federal Election
Campaigns,"; Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by
Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) [Henceforth Thompson Report "Volume
1, page 1122.")  [House Report 105-829 Volume 2].

 The Riady empire, centered on its Lippo Group, is, as one
financial analyst in Jakarta describes it, "a carefully balanced
house of cards."
 Newsweek has noted, "Moving cash around the globe in tangled
webs of transactions has always been the Riady way," and the
Asian Wall Street Journal accuses the Riady's of "RAMPING" --
buying large numbers of shares in their own companies in order to
support prices.
 (Sources: Washington Post, reprinted in the International
Herald Tribune, May 29, 1997 , Asian Wall Street Journal
March 10, 1997.)

 The Riadys' corporate flagship is the Lippo Group. In
Indonesia, the company has its fingers in many pies, making
textiles and electronics, mining coal, selling insurance, and
building shopping centers, housing developments, and hospitals.
   (Source: International Herald Tribune May 29, 1997.)

 In 1977 Mochtar Riady tried to buy the National Bank of
Georgia. He failed, but one of the brokers in the deal was
Jackson Stephens of Little Rock, Arkansas, who tried to interest
a disappointed Riady in joining Stephens, Inc., one of America's
largest private investment banks outside of Wall Street-and one
with which the Riadys would have an extended relationship.
Mochtar Riady agreed, and his son James, then aged 20, arrived to
intern at Stephens, Inc.
 Through Jackson Stephens, James Riady met a rising
politician, Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton.
 Thus began a friendship that has lasted 20 years, and has
spread a web of intrigue, financial corruption, and foreign
influence into American government.
 In early 1984 James Riady and Jackson Stephens became
co-owners of Arkansas's largest bank, the Worthen Bank. James
was installed as the bank's chief operating officer, and a whole
team of ethnic Chinese from Indonesia came to work in Little
Rock.
 (Sources: New York Times October 11, 1996, Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette April 25, 1986, The American Spectator
September, 1995)

 In the 1st year under Riady's/Stephens management, the bank
lost tens of millions of dollars in Arkansas State pension funds
through a risky out-of-state investment scheme. Legally, Worthen
could have passed the loss to the state. But that disaster would
have ended then Governor Clinton's political career by
demonstrating his professional incompetence. Instead, Jackson
Stephens wrote a personal check for $32,000,000.00 to bail out
the bank-and Clinton.
 In the Spring of 1992 Clinton was facing a crucial primary
in New York, and was out of money. According to one ex-Worthen
executive, James Riady "persuaded" the bank to issue the Clinton
campaign $3.5 million worth of letters of credit. This was the
first of 2 interventions in the American political system that
the Riadys would make in 1992 to help elect the Clinton-Gore
ticket.
 (Sources: IBID, Business Week November 4, 1996)

 James Riady has met and often hired many of Bill Clinton's
closest Arkansas cronies. Joseph Grioir and Webster Hubbell, both
former law partners of Hillary Clinton, are or have been on the
Riady payroll, as have Clinton golfing buddy Mark Grobmyer and
ex-White House aide Mark Middleton. It was Clinton's golfing
partner Paul Berry who helped the young Arkansas governor obtain
an unsecured loan of $20,000 for the Whitewa

[CTRL] (2/3) PROMIS, NSA, CIA-Bush/Clinton, CHINAGATE

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

FAQ: Lippo and the Riadys
by Les Freeman

 Indonesia's Mochtar Riady and his son James, whose cascades
of money ensured victory for Clinton and Gore in 1992.
 The CIA has confirmed that the Riadys have long been
connected to Chinese Intelligence.

 The biggest contributer to the Clinton-Gore ticket in 1992
was Indonesian businessman James Riady and his wife, who gave
$450,000.00 to elect Bill Clinton.
 During the final weeks of the campaign, the Riady family,
its associates, and executives at Riady companies gave an
additional $600,000.00 to the DNC and Democratic state parties.
   (Source: Analysis by Lisa Myers and Bob Windrem of MSNBC,
December 18, 1997.)

 The patriarch of the business empire is Mochtar Riady, a
frequent visitor to the United States. Of his 3 sons, James was a
permanent resident of the United States, Stephen was educated
here, and Andrew worked in California in the early 1980's. All,
however, have fled the United States. Any Riady employee with
detailed knowledge of the family's activities in the United
States has likewise disappeared, even James Riady's secretary has
vanished.
 Only John Huang, the family's former U.S. operative, remains
in the United States- he has pleaded the 5th Amendment,
maintaining that telling what he knows might incriminate him.
 (Sources: Senate Report 105-167, "Investigation of Illegal
or Improper Activities in Connection with 1996 Federal Election
Campaigns,"; Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by
Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) [Henceforth Thompson Report "Volume
1, page 1122.")  [House Report 105-829 Volume 2].

 The Riady empire, centered on its Lippo Group, is, as one
financial analyst in Jakarta describes it, "a carefully balanced
house of cards."
 Newsweek has noted, "Moving cash around the globe in tangled
webs of transactions has always been the Riady way," and the
Asian Wall Street Journal accuses the Riady's of "RAMPING" --
buying large numbers of shares in their own companies in order to
support prices.
 (Sources: Washington Post, reprinted in the International
Herald Tribune, May 29, 1997 , Asian Wall Street Journal
March 10, 1997.)

 The Riadys' corporate flagship is the Lippo Group. In
Indonesia, the company has its fingers in many pies, making
textiles and electronics, mining coal, selling insurance, and
building shopping centers, housing developments, and hospitals.
   (Source: International Herald Tribune May 29, 1997.)

 In 1977 Mochtar Riady tried to buy the National Bank of
Georgia. He failed, but one of the brokers in the deal was
Jackson Stephens of Little Rock, Arkansas, who tried to interest
a disappointed Riady in joining Stephens, Inc., one of America's
largest private investment banks outside of Wall Street-and one
with which the Riadys would have an extended relationship.
Mochtar Riady agreed, and his son James, then aged 20, arrived to
intern at Stephens, Inc.
 Through Jackson Stephens, James Riady met a rising
politician, Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton.
 Thus began a friendship that has lasted 20 years, and has
spread a web of intrigue, financial corruption, and foreign
influence into American government.
 In early 1984 James Riady and Jackson Stephens became
co-owners of Arkansas's largest bank, the Worthen Bank. James
was installed as the bank's chief operating officer, and a whole
team of ethnic Chinese from Indonesia came to work in Little
Rock.
 (Sources: New York Times October 11, 1996, Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette April 25, 1986, The American Spectator
September, 1995)

 In the 1st year under Riady's/Stephens management, the bank
lost tens of millions of dollars in Arkansas State pension funds
through a risky out-of-state investment scheme. Legally, Worthen
could have passed the loss to the state. But that disaster would
have ended then Governor Clinton's political career by
demonstrating his professional incompetence. Instead, Jackson
Stephens wrote a personal check for $32,000,000.00 to bail out
the bank-and Clinton.
 In the Spring of 1992 Clinton was facing a crucial primary
in New York, and was out of money. According to one ex-Worthen
executive, James Riady "persuaded" the bank to issue the Clinton
campaign $3.5 million worth of letters of credit. This was the
first of 2 interventions in the American political system that
the Riadys would make in 1992 to help elect the Clinton-Gore
ticket.
 (Sources: IBID, Business Week November 4, 1996)

 James Riady has met and often hired many of Bill Clinton's
closest Arkansas cronies. Joseph Grioir and Webster Hubbell, both
former law partners of Hillary Clinton, are or have been on the
Riady payroll, as have Clinton golfing buddy Mark Grobmyer and
ex-White House aide Mark Middleton. It was Clinton's golfing
partner Paul Berry who helped the young Arkansas governor obtain
an unsecured loan of $20,000 for the Whitewater development
project. After the election, Berry j

[CTRL] (2/3) PROMIS, NSA, CIA-Bush/Clinton, CHINAGATE

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

1996 [!] SENATE REPORT CONFIRMS
WORST FEARS OF CHINESE INFILTRATION

 The redacted and sanitized  version  of  the  Thompson
Committee report  that  is now being leaked to the press confirms
the long-held suspicion that James and Mochtar Riady of the
Lippo  empire "have  had  a  long-term relationship with a
Chinese intelligence agency."
 This confirmation, although  the  supporting  evidence  has
been excised  from the report, adds additional pieces to puzzle
of how the  Chinese  intelligence   penetration   of   U.S.
government succeeded,  and  shows how the seeds were planted well
before the 1996 election, even well before the 1992 election.
 For it was  in 1984 that Mochtar Riady entered Arkansas and
joined a partnership with Jackson Stephens to buy Worthen Bank
and installed  his  son James  Riady as director of the bank.
Worthen bank quickly became the epicenter of Arkansas politics,
hiring as its  prime  outside counsel the Rose Law Firm where
Hillary Clinton, Webster Hubbell, and Vince  Foster  worked,  and
becoming  the  primary  bank  of Systematics Inc., the
Stephens-owned national security contractor and banking software
firm which also  retained  Rose  as  outside counsel.
 Worthen was the beneficiary of several legislative acts
promoted by   then-Governor   Clinton,   and   reciprocated
financially, culminating with a $3.5  million  bailout  of  the
1992  Clinton Campaign at a crucial juncture.
 After the death of Ron Brown,  Lippo  lawyer  Mickey  Kantor
was named   Commerce   Secretary  by  Bill  Clinton.  Kantor
quickly appointed Lippo executive Charles De Queljoe to a
position in the Commerce department on the request of John Huang.
 And who paid hush money to former Worthen lawyer Webster
Hubbell when Kenneth Starr tried to get him to spill the beans?
Lippo and Mickey Kantor, among others.
 John Huang, now identified as a Chinese spy, was a vice
president of  Worthen  Bank  and  raised campaign money for Bill
Clinton in 1992.  When he later infiltrated the Commerce
Department, he used a  Washington Office of Stephens Inc. to stay
in contact with his Chinese handlers.
 Now  that  the  Thompson  Committee  has  washed  its  hands
and delivered  its  final  report,  the  only hope for justice in
the prosecution of Chinese spies is the Justice Department. As of
the last  check, the Justice Department had not even interviewed
John Huang.


(Published in the Feb. 16, 1998 issue of The Washington Weekly
  Copyright 1998 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
  Reposting permitted with this message intact


___

The White House "BIG BROTHER" Database, and
How Jackson Stephens Precipitated a Banking Crisis

by J. Orlin Grabbe

 Score another coup for Jackson Stephens' Systematics (Alltel
Information Services).
 It provided the software for the White House's "Big Brother"
data base system, and now the White House is in a panic that
there may be secret methods of accessing its own computer.
 The existence of the White House computer system and data
base--known as WHODB, White House Office Data Base, and
containing as many as 200,000 names--was revealed by Paul
Rodriguez in the Washington Times.  Some of the information was
developed by "Insight"'s Anthony Kimery, soon to be managing
editor of the electronic publication SOURCES eJournal.  Kimery is
a writer whose articles in The American Banker and Wired were
among the first to report U.S. government spying on domestic
banking transactions.  (Kimery was also fired from one magazine
for looking into the death of Vince Foster.)
 Now things have come full circle.  The chief government
effort to spy on U.S. domestic banking transactions was directed
by the electronic spy agency, the National Security Agency (NSA),
working in connection with the Little Rock software firm
Systematics.
 Systematics, half-owned by billionaire Jackson Stephens (of
Stephens Inc. fame), has been a major supplier of software for
back office clearing and wire transfers.  It was Stephens'
attempt to get Systematics the job of handling the data
processing for the Washington-D.C. bank First American that lead
to the BCCI takeover of that institution.
 Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster represented Systematics in
that endeavor, and later Foster became an overseer of the NSA
project with respect to Systematics.
 Working together, the NSA and Jackson Stephens'
Systematics developed security holes in much of the banking
software Systematics sold.  Now we face a crisis in banking and
financial institution security, according to John Deutch,
Director of the CIA.  "One obstacle is that banks and other
private institutions have been reluctant to divulge any evidence
of computer intrusions for fear that it will leak and erode the
confidence of their customers.
 Deutch said 'the situation is improving' but that more
coope

[CTRL] (1/3) PROMIS, NSA, CIA-Bush/Clinton, CHINAGATE

[Anonymous]

sel Michael
Cardozo and his wife. Hubbell joined the group in Maryland after
leaving the meeting that informed William Sessions of his
dismissal as FBI Director. After returning from a Hawaiian
vacation, Bill Clinton spent that weekend in Arkansas dining with
David Edwards, a former Stephens Inc. employee and conduit for
$23 million from the king of Saudi Arabia for the Middle Eastern
studies program at the University of Arkansas. Clinton had one
last twenty minute conversation with Foster the Monday night
before his death. Oddly, one of Foster's last phone conversations
on the morning of his death was with Brantley Buck, the Rose Law
Firm partner assigned to investigate Webster Hubbell and POM.
In 1995, new suspicions arose concerning the use of PROMIS in
the world banking system. One post on the internet charged (or,
rather, sarcastically reported the "false" charge) that
Systematics, a subsidiary of Alltech Corporation comprised of
Systematics Financial Services Inc., Systematics Information
Services Inc. of Little Rock, Arkansas, and Systematics
Telecommunications Services Inc. of Dallas, Pennsylvania, had
modified the PROMIS software for sale to private banks, with the
attendant back doors to allow the NSA to spy on banking
operations. The post went on to charge that Webster Hubbell had
"helped work out strategies to use Systematics software to spy on
commercial and central banks." The anonymous source encouraged
Internet readers to verify the charge (or, "the utter falsehood
of these malicious lies"), and attached a long list of bank and
financial service addresses, executive names and capsule
histories of their conversion to Systematics software, replete
with citations in American Banker.
 The Systematics information and Vince Foster's last weekend
with Webster Hubbell and Michael Cordozacame together to float
the last odd rumors about the PROMIS program. Instead of the
recreational affair it was described as during the Congressional
Whitewater hearings, the source of this new speculation suggested
that the Clinton cronies met to plot damage control over a
burgeoning scandal involving PROMIS.
 Nearly $3 billion had been emptied out of Swiss bank
accounts belonging to dozens of high-powered political
types--both Democrats and Republicans--by a CIA faction known
during this period as "the Fifth Column", but obvious Octopus
clones.
 The Fifth Columnists served as expert hackers, collecting
routine foreign intelligence data presumably through the PROMIS
back door, when they encountered Vince Foster's name in the
Mossad system. From there, they tracked Foster's bank trail to
the Banca Della Svizzera Italiana, a small Italian border bank,
where the Israelis deposited $2.73 million. The rumors only
speculated about what Foster gave the Israelis: high level
intelligence information; encryption codes; data on black
operations subcontractors--he was dead before it could be figured
out. Whatever it was, the Fifth Column tipped its hand to Foster
that he was under investigation by removing the money, although
according to the story his was not the only account raided.
Making another in apparently regular one-day trips to Geneva,
Foster discovered the missing money, and later perhaps someone
mentioned to him that he was under investigation for espionage,
and thereafter he became "suicidal."

THE DEAD (PROMIS/Octopus related)

Danny Casolaro
Frank Nugan
Fred Alvarez, his girlfriend and friend
Paul Morasca
Mary Quick
Larry Guerrin
Abbie Hoffman
Jonathan Moyle
Alan Standorf
Dennis Eisman
Anson Ng
Ian Spiro, His wife, and three daughters
Robert Maxwell
Paul Wilcher
Pete Sandvigen
Alan Michael May
Jonathan Myle
JohnCrawford
Vali Delahanty
Barry Kusnick

 Sherman Skolnick, a long-time chairman of Chicago's
Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, charged that nearly
forty witnesses in the Inslaw case had been murdered and
complained that a federal judge appointed to review the case
failed to show concern over the safety of other witnesses.
 The body of Alfred Alvarez, shot in the head with a .38
caliber bullet, burned in the desert heat for a day. It sat in a
wooden chair behind Alvarez's house in a yard on Bob Hope Drive
in Rancho Mirage, located in Riverside County. Police discovered
the body along with those of two others, friends of Alvarez. Six
months later, police broke open a door to a condo on Kearny
street and discovered the dead body of Paul Morasca, hog-tied by
a telephone cord strangled slowly as his legs uncurled. Three
days later, Mary Quick, a 63 year old school-teacher and head of
the Women's Auxiliary of American Legion Post 509 in Fresno, was
killed by a shot to the head as she approached the Legion Hall.
Investigators came to believe that all three murders were
connected.
 "In the middle of the journey of life, I found myself in a
dark wood, having lost the straight path." - Qu

[CTRL] Queen Honors UK's Catholic Prelate

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

British Catholic Leader Gravely Ill

LONDON (AP) - Cardinal Basil Hume, spiritual leader of the 4.6 million Roman
Catholics of England and Wales, is hospitalized in the final stages of
cancer.

Hume, who made his illness known in April, is ``gravely ill'' and asked for
renewed prayers for him this weekend, according to a statement issued
Thursday.

The abdominal cancer is in an advanced stage, and doctors have said the
76-year-old cardinal does not have much time left, the statement said.

Hume became one of the most influential figures in British public life after
his appointment as Archbishop of Westminster in 1976.

He was admitted to London's Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth at the end
of May, but was able to go to Buckingham Palace on June 2 for a private
meeting with Queen Elizabeth II.

She gave him the high honor of the Order of Merit, one of the few awards she
bestows by her own choice, rather than the government's. It is given to
people of ``exceptional distinction.''

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[CTRL] Y2K Test -- Sewer Backs Up

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Y2K Test Spills Sewage in Calif.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A water reclamation plant malfunctioned during a Y2K test
and spilled 4 million gallons of sewage into a San Fernando Valley park.

The sewage welled up out of a manhole near the plant in Van Nuys on Wednesday
night and flowed about 100 yards into the park, said Linda Aparicio, a
spokeswoman for the city Public Works Department

Crews worked to vacuum up the spill, but health officials recommended a
portion of the park remain closed for two days as a precaution.

The spill happened while the plant was testing a Year 2000 scenario in which
the power failed. The emergency generator kicked in as expected, but a gate
failed to reopen, Ms. Aparicio said.

``Our computers did not tell us that gate was closed,'' she said. ``No one
knew that sewage was backing up.''

She said it was unclear whether the problem was related to the test or was
coincidental.

The sewage system was back in operation by Thursday morning.

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[CTRL] : Re: Further Disclosures By NSC's Dr. Michael Wolf

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>
>>UFOTruth - http://UFOTruth.listbot.com
>>
>>More questions and rantings about the info in this article:
>>
>>
>>>FURTHER DISCLOSURES BY CONSULTANT TO NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL'S
>>>SPECIAL [UFO/ET] STUDIES GROUP, DR. MICHAEL WOLF
>>>by Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
>>>
>>>(c)1999
>>
>>(snip)
>>
>>
>>> The UN maintains an unacknowledged Special Intelligence Branch,
>which
>>>is involved in working with all countries and their intelligence
>>>services around extraterrestrial matters. Dr. Wolf revealed that he
>is
>>>negotiating with an official within the UN's Security Council staff
>to
>>>have the UN release UFO information it possesses in 1999. This
>>>official has advanced degrees, and has been given "incredible
>powers"
>>>during her ET encounters. He says, "The UN people know everything
>>>(about the visiting ETS). And (Apollo astronauts) Edgar Mitchell and
>>>Gordon Cooper have made appeals to the UN to let the truth be
>known."
>>> He added that a "Cabal" is a significant part of the problem. The
>>>Cabal is a rogue group of private industry, intelligence and
>military
>>>officials who have aggressively misused national security secrecy to
>>>achieve illegal monopoly over extraterrestrial technology. The Cabal
>>>is so entrenched, that it is hard for official government to remove
>>>them. Some of the Cabalistas are very high military officers, while
>>>others hold leadership positions as Senators and Congressmen,
>>>predominantly but not exclusively of Republican party membership.
>>>"They want Clinton out of the loop [of detailed UFO/ET
>information],"
>>>Wolf said, because the President has given private indication of
>being
>>>prepared to make public announcement of UFO reality as his departing
>>>message, if he is forced out of office.
>>
>>Rich, when was this interview by Wolf given?  Before of after the
>impeachment?  Is this why the Pres. wasn't removed from office because
>the
>>Coverup didn't want to be exposed?
>>
>Lucia,
>
>The interview occurred during the Lewinski Scandal, but before the
>Final Vote on Impeachment.
>
>>> Dr. Wolf became quite excited as he shared with me signals he has
>>>been receiving recently, that "Something is coming, so big that the
>>>government will have to announce UFO reality."  When I pressed him
>for
>>>a timeline for the big event, he replied, "six months to 1-1/2
>years."
>>
>>Again, when did he say this?  Where are we in this "big event"
>timeline?
>
>
>I would say that we are several (4-5 months) into this rough
>timeline.
>
>>> He added that besides adequate public psychological preparation
>about
>>>ET presence, there is another condition: that any such public
>>>announcement of ET presence "has to be in agreement with the
>>>(extraterrestrial) Council of the (ET) Elders." The Council is the
>>>ruling body of the Federation of benign extraterrestrial races that
>in
>>>contact with Earth, sort of like a galactic UN Security Council. The
>>>Council is in ongoing communication with the governments of Earth
>>>through our UN's designated emissaries.
>>
>>Who?  Which UN designated emissaries?  Who designated them?
>
>
>Tavarisch Lucia,
>You are not cleared for that level of information.
>Neither am I.
>
>>> The extraterrestrial Federation is working collaboratively with
>world
>>>governments to gradually prepare the general population to accept
>the
>>>reality of, and presence of, extraterrestrial races on Earth. The
>>>Federation has wished to avoid any mass panic or major disruption of
>>>society that could have come from a premature announcement. And the
>>>time is now near, if not already arrived, for the world public to
>>accept contact with races from the stars.
>>> The ET Federation has another precondition before they are willing
>to
>>>present themselves openly: Peace on Earth.
>>
>>Pardon me, (I'm still in my raging mood here) but that is just so
>much BS.
>>I don't think that's going to happen in the near forseeable future.
>And I
>>don't think it's going to happen BEFORE they reveal themselves.
>Obviously
>>this interview occurred before NATO started the bombing of Kosovo.  I
>>personally don't think that the war makers are going to give it up
>just
>>because some ETs tell them to.   "Business as usual" has to be
>interrupted
>>by a significant ET presence so that the Shift towards the Light can
>have an opportunity to take place.
>
>The ETs, being exquisitely spiritually advanced, take very
>seriously the matter of moral responsibility -- precisely, that humans
>exercise our moral responsibility and not just let the motherships
>come in and do the right thing for us. Such would be ACOA "enabling",
>capisce?
>
>>> They are unwilling, short
>>>of a global cataclysm, to show themselves publicly, until all major
>>>conflicts on Earth have been peacefully resolved.
>>
>>What, do we need to be on the brink of total destruction before
>they'll come
>>forward and say, "oh, by the way, we've had dealings with

Re: [CTRL] Lying

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

The question of whether it is ever right to lie
is TOTALLY and DIRECTLY related to the
(passive and/or active) LIAR(s)'  belief or lack of belief in
'GOD'
 ..and whether or not the 'GOD' the
LIAR claims to 'believe in' is an
ALMIGHTY GOD   or
a
CONTINGENT GOD or GOD OF CONTINGENCY

I see no reason why any Human (and therefore
totally contingent) Being  should NOT lie

unless  the  LIAR claims to 'believe in GOD'

Then,  the next  question is, is the 'GOD'
the liar claims to 'believe in'  CONTINGENT,
and if so, then I guess a  CONTINGENT GOD
has the same right to lie as a/any other
CONTINGENT/HUMAN Being - (Basically
the 'doing a lesser evil to forstall a greater
evil' arguement)

But if the LIAR Claims that the GOD he
claims to 'believe in' is ALMIGHTY...
then no CONTINGENCY/'LESSER EVIL'
Arguement is valid  and

That LIAR Deserves to burn in HELL FOR ALL
ETERNITY and the
 'GOD' he worships also DESERVES TO BURN IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY for
the INFINITE/UNFORGIVABLE CRIME of
Creating the Filthy Lying Human Race in
the First Place..

I do not believe in God - either Contingent or
Almighty - but I do believe that every Human Being on Earth who
will/does not openly and
publicly confess that MARK TOWNLEY, son
of DR. CHARLES ORLEFF TOWNLEY OF
PORT HURON< MICHIGAN is the TRUE
ASSASSIN OF DR> MARTIN LUTHER KING!!!
(Acting of course on the orders of Lyndon Johnson/Hoover/McNamara/33rd
Degree
Freemasonry, etc)

deserves to burn in Hell for ALL ETERNITY!!!

Why??? Because I'm SPITEFUL and my
NATTALSNAKE WON'T MAKE LOVE TO ME!!!

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Re: [CTRL] False Opposition of Conservative Organizations

[Anonymous]

Sorry 
to reply through this email, but I couldn't get the relevant e-mail from 
"books" to let me reply. There is no question that all big money in 
the conservative movement goes to phony operations like the Heritage Foundation. 
If anyone has any information on who underwrite the basic budgets of these False 
Opposition operations, I would like to know it. I know on informed researcher 
who says that Richard Mellon Scaife is a bagman for much of the money. Does 
anyone have any solid info on this vital subject? Jim Condit 
Jr.

-Original Message-From: Conspiracy Theory Research 
List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of booksSent: 
Monday, June 14, 1999 6:43 PMTo: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [CTRL] GLOBAL CONSPIRACY - THE 
FREEDOM TO MAKE SLAVES


PLEASE SEND THIS MESSAGE TO THE WORLD:GLOBAL CONSPIRACY - THE 
FREEDOM TO MAKE 
SLAVES--ON THE 
SURFACE, EVERYTHING SEEMS PRETTY GOOD RIGHT NOW EASTERN EUROPE, RUSSIA 
AND CHINA ARE FIRMLY UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE IMF/WORLD BANK AND THE 
INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS, REBELLIOUS YUGOSLAVIA HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO 
HEEL,  MOST ECONOMIES ARE FUNCTIONING FAIRLY WELL AND SO ON.  BUT 
DARE TO SCRATCH THE SURFACE AND IT DOESN'T TAKE A GENIOUS TO SEE THAT THE 
MASSES OF THE PEOPLE ARE VIRTUAL SLAVES, PAYING THE VAST BULK OF THEIR 
MEAGER WAGES ONE WAY OR ANOTHER TO THEIR RICH AND SUPER-RICH SLAVE MASTERS, 
IF NOT IN TAXES, THEN IN INTEREST AND DEBT CAUSED BY MONEY PRINTING PRIVATE 
BANKERS.  AT THE ROOT OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS IS WHAT KARL MARX CALLED 
"THE PROPERTY QUESTION" BUT NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE ROOT 
CAUSE OF POVERTY AND PROPERTYLESSNESS, AND ANY MENTION OF BIBLE SLAVE LAW, 
OR THE JEWS AND THEIR JUDEO-CHRISTIAN PROSELYTES, OR THE MUSLIMS, IS 
TABOO... OR WORSE.  THERE IS NOTHING RACIAL OR HATEFUL ABOUT SCHOLARLY 
TRUTH.  THERE IS NOTHING RACIST ABOUT NATIONALISM - AT LEAST THERE DOES 
NOT NEED TO BE.  ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL SLAVERY IS AT THE HEART OF THE 
GLOBAL CRISIS.  KARL MARX CALLED ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL SLAVERY 
"THE EXPLOITATION OF LABOUR".  THOSE OF YOU INTERESTED IN 
TRUTH AND IN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS REALLY CAUSING THE MESS THE WORLD 
IS IN, AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO STOP THE EVER ONWARD MARCH OF WHAT 
ADOLPH HITLER CALLED "THE SLAVE'S YOKE OF INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL AND ITS 
MASTERS, THE JEWS", READ ON.   UNTIL THE ADVOCATES OF THE 
FREEDOM OF RELIGION  ARE WILLING TO FACE THE TRUTH ABOUT BIBLE SLAVE 
LAW THERE WILL BE NO SOLUTION TO THE GLOBAL CRISIS.AMERICA IS 
BANKRUPT - SO... WHO CARES?AS AMERICA GOES, SO GOES THE WORLD.  
IN ORDER TO CHANGE THE WORLD YOU MUST FIRST CHANGE AMERICA.AMERICA 
IS BANKRUPT.  >From the lowest courts to the Supreme Court, to the 
Federal Reserve interest/debt/tax slavery banking system, America has been 
taken over by the Jews and their Judeo-christian proselytes.  To 
understand how this could happen you must understand Bible Slave 
Law.   It is common knowledge that it was WWII that bailed America 
out of the great depression of the1930's but in order to get a deeper 
understanding of the IMF/World Bank economic and financial necessity of war 
one must understand the religious roots behind the global 
"military/industrial complex" and the IMF/World Bank economic and 
financial dependence upon war for its survival and what is really behind the 
conflict between nationalism and internationalsim.  The American Civil 
War, WWI and WWII, the Korean war, the Viet Nam war, and recent the Balkans 
war were all fundamentally faught for the same economic and financial 
reasons, behind which are deeply rooted religious conflicts.  President 
Eisenhower warned America not to become dependent upon the "the 
military-industrial complex" but how could Zionist America do 
otherwise?  Without constant expansion of the Zionist inspired 
IMF/World Bank interest/debt/tax slavery money system, the 
military-industrial economic system will collapse. There is, however, a 
solution (see The Debt Free and Tax Free Amendment and The Debt Free Money 
System Chart below).  THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE, BY LEE CHENEY, 
APPEARED IN "BRITAIN & OVERSEAS", THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE 
ECONOMIC RESEARCH COUNCIL, LONDON, ON PAGE 19-21 OF THE SPRING 1999 ISSUE 
(VOL.29, NO.1):    There is an old saying that if 
people are told a lie often enough they will come to believe that lie to be 
true.  The truth is that it is an outright lie to tell people that 
banks do not print money when banks make loans.    Every even 
half educated person in economics and finance understands the accounting 
process of "loan created deposits" (bank printed money in the 
context of M1, M2, M3, C, L, etc.).   Some people try to tell us 
that "the no

[CTRL] Did NATO ever produce that Pilot? RE: [CTRL] Warp Speed

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

Speaking about disinformation, am I mistaken, or has NATO and the US still
failed to produce the pilot who was "rescued" from that plane that was shot
down in the first days of the NATO offensive against Serbia? If they have
not, does it not suggest that the pilot was killed and that NATO and
traitors Cohen, Clinton, et al just lied to keep up the myth of the
casualty-less war? Does anyone know anything about that pilot?

> -Original Message-
> From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Alamaine Ratliff
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 8:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [CTRL] Warp Speed
>
>
>  -Caveat Lector-
>
> >From AFP via Yahoo!
>
> <>
>
>
> > Media group charges NATO "distorted the truth" in Kosovo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > PARIS, June 15 (AFP) - The media organisation Reporters sans
> > Frontieres (Reporters without Borders, RSF) Tuesday criticized NATO
> > for "distorting the truth," and giving "false information and
> > impossible-to-check figures," about the war in Yugoslavia.
> >
> > In a report called "War in Yugoslavia, NATO's media blunders," the
> > group, which is based in Paris, questioned whether it was a matter of
> > "mistakes" or if the alliance made "deliberate attempts at
> > disinformation."
> >
> > "False information, exorbitant and impossible-to-check figures and the
> > use of debatable historical references have strengthened doubts about
> > the goodwill of certain western political and military leaders," RSF
> > said in a communique.
> >
> > In one example, the group cites NATO confirmation concerning the death
> > of ethnic Albanian leader Fehmi Agani along with five others.
> >
> > British General David Wilby had said at NATO headquarters in Brussels
> > the report came from a "very reliable source" in Kosovo, which his
> > department had checked carefully.
> >
> > "Wilby's source turned out to be the London-based Kosovo Information
> > Centre, which is run by Kosovar exiles," the report said, adding that
> > "one of them, Hafiz Gagica, had said the same day that Ibrahim Rugova
> > had been wounded and his whereabouts were not known."
> >
> > Agani was in fact killed, but some days later, while Rugova
> > subsequently met with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, bringing
> > blanket media coverage the Yugoslav leader was able to capitalize on.
> >
> > "Making a rumor official in this way, during the first week of
> > bombing, would appear to be less the result of a mistake than of a
> > deliberate decision; to tip the balance in favor of NATO air strikes
> > on Yugoslavia at a time when public opinion was still very sceptical
> > about their effectiveness," the report said.
> >
> > Another example cited was the April 14 air strike on a convoy which
> > killed 75 people according to Serb sources.
> >
> > After German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping initially accused Serb
> > planes of the attack, NATO acknowledged the strike, saying "that
> > apparently one of its planes dropped a bomb on a civilian vehicle
> > travelling with a convoy."
> >
> > On April 19, NATO admitted "it had hit two convoys with the help of
> > about a dozen planes that dropped a total of nine bombs," RSF said,
> > adding that the alliance made public a recording of a pilot
> > responsible for hitting the first.
> >
> > He said the vehicles in question were "of a military type," but two
> > days later NATO admitted the recording had no connection with the
> > bombing of the convoys.
> >
> > RSF says "other features of western communication are approximate
> > figures, debatable historic references and the use of vocabulary that
> > has the aim of making the adversary appear monstrous."
> >
> > "The term 'genocide' has been used systematically by British Prime
> > Minister Tony Blair, and in Germany officials have compared the
> > Milosevic government to that of Hitler," the report adds.
> >
> > "These historical references have led to protests from experts," RSF
> > said.
> >
> > "On April 27, NATO officials themselves admitted - although not in so
> > many words - that their communication strategy had failed," it added,
> > while also noting that "the workings of the propaganda machine hold no
> > secrets for the Serbs."
> >
> > "While remaining the defender of a 'just cause' in the eyes of western
> > public opinion, NATO has not shown goodwill in its relations with the
> > media, and has distorted the truth on several occasions," RSF charged.
> >
> > "It is obvious that in time of war, the information provided by one
> > side or the other may be liable to be used as a propaganda tool," it
> > said.
> >
> > "But it could still be hoped that a coalition of democracies, which
> > claims to have right on its side, would behave with more integrity
> > than the dictatorship it is fighting against," the group concluded.
>
>
> A<>E<>R
> ~~~
> The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking
> new landscapes but in havin

[CTRL] Lying

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

from www.philosophynews.com/philosopheye


> June 15, 1999
>
> Is it ever right to lie? The philosophy of deception
>
> by ROBERT C. SOLOMON
>
>
>
> RELATED LINKS
> * Love : Emotion, Myth, and Metaphor, by Robert C. Solomon
> * Morality and the Good Life, by Robert C. Solomon, et al
>
>
>
> Is it ever right to lie? Is a lie told to embellish an otherwise
> tedious narrative just as wrong as a lie told to cover up a misdeed
> and avoid punishment? Is a lie told in desperation any less wrong than
> a calculated, merely convenient lie? Is a lie told out of
> self-deception more or less wrong than a clear-headed, tactical lie?
> (Is the former even a lie?) Are all lies wrong? Or does deception
> serve such important functions as protecting us from harm, especially
> emotional harm?
>
> Let's start with the basics: Is it ever right to lie? Common sense
> surely says "Yes, sometimes." But legions of philosophers and other
> moralists have answered "No," and then tried to make sense of this
> indefensible position. Insisting that lying is always wrong -- as
> Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant did, for example -- appeals to our
> desire for absolutes. But then, of course, what about the example from
> freshman philosophy: The Nazis come to your door asking if your are
> hiding a Jewish family. Your are. Should you say "No"? Or, on a
> mundane level, your spouse or lover walks in with an utterly silly new
> hairdo and asks, "Do you like it?" Does morality dictate that you ruin
> the evening? Or can you, in both cases, finesse the answer, not lying
> but not telling the truth, either, perhaps by avoiding an answer to
> the question?
>
> If a person would lie about one thing, does it follow that he or she
> would lie about another? That depends. The demand for honesty is
> contextual. It depends on what the truth concerns. The Bible tells us
> not to bear false witness against our neighbor. Perjury, we can agree,
> is wrong: The consequences can be awful. In a trial, a jury's
> assumption that a person who lies about one thing will lie about
> another is perfectly justified.
>
> But it seems to me absolutely crucial to distinguish here between
> public and private life. Perjury, by it very nature, is public, as is
> politics. Sex, with a few obvious exceptions, is part of our private
> life. And just about everyone is less than forthright about sex. Lying
> about sex, while it may have grave significance for people in an
> intimate relationship, has nothing to do with one's public
> credibility. Indeed, when publicly asked a rudely inappropriate
> question about one's private (adult, consensual) sex life, it seems to
> me not only natural but even obligatory to lie, finesse, or refuse to
> answer.
>
> Friedrich Nietzsche once asked, "Why must we have truth at any cost,
> anyway?" It was an odd question, coming from the philosopher who
> prided himself, above all, on his brutal honesty, and it is an obscene
> question, in any case, for a profession that sees itself as seeking
> solely the truth. Even philosophers who challenge the very idea of
> truth -- not just Nietzsche and the Buddhist Nagarjuna, but also
> Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty -- are unforgiving when it comes to
> deception, misrepresentation, and "creative misreadings," at least of
> their own work. Philosophers in general insist on the truth even if
> they do not believe in "the Truth." They despise deception and
> ridicule self-deception.
>
> The Australian philosopher Tony Coady probably speaks for most
> philosophers when he writes, "Dishonesty has always been perceived in
> our culture, and in all cultures but the most bizarre, as a central
> human vice." But, he adds, "we should note that this perception is
> consistent with a certain hesitancy about what constitutes a lie and
> with the more than sneaking suspicion that there might be a number of
> contexts in which lying is actually justified." Plato defended "the
> noble lie," and the English ethicist Henry Sidgwick suggested that a
> "high-minded lie" in the direction of humility might do us all a great
> deal of good.
>
> Not all untruths are malicious. Telling the truth can complicate or
> destroy social relationships. It can undermine precious collective
> myths. Honesty can be cruel. Sometimes, deception is not a vice but a
> social virtue, and systematic deception is an essential part of the
> order of the (social) world. In many countries -- Japan and Western
> Samoa, for example -- social harmony is valued far more than
> truthfulness as such. To tell another person what he or she wants to
> hear, rather than what one might actually feel or believe, is not only
> permitted but expected.
>
> Could we not begin to see our own enlightened emphasis on "seeking the
> truth at all costs" (as Ernst Jones wrote admiringly of Sigmund Freud)
> as one more ethnocentric peculiarity, another curious product of our
> strong sense of individualism, and a dangerously unsociable
> 

[CTRL] (Fwd) ZNet Commentary, June 18 Mokhiber and Weissman

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

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ZNet Commentary, June 18, 1999
Laurence Summers, The World Bank and Us.

Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

"Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging
more
migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [least developed
countries]?"

So wrote Treasury Secretary-designee Lawrence Summers, then the chief
economist at the World Bank, in a 1991 World Bank internal memorandum
arguing for the transfer of waste and dirty industries from
industrialized
to developing countries.

There's more: "I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of
toxic
waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to
that. ... I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are
vastly underpolluted; their air quality is vastly inefficiently low
compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City."

After the memo was leaked, Summers apologized, saying it was intended to
be ironic and that it was offered as a thought experiment. Later reports
suggest that someone else actually wrote the memo, although Summers' name
appeared on it.

But here is the question that remains unanswered, and that should be atop
the list of questions posed by the senators who have to confirm Summers'
appointment to replace outgoing Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin: "Ironic
or not, from your point of view, what was wrong with the logic of the
memo?"

The notion that poor countries should import pollution and waste is just
an unsavory application of the economic theory of the U.S. Treasury
Department, shared also by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and, to a
lesser extent, the World Bank. In this worldview, poor countries should
exploit their "comparative advantage" of low wages, or access to natural
resources, or lower environmental standards.

While few countries have "developed" with this approach, it has proved
very effective for companies like Nike, which has taken advantage of low
wages throughout Asia, or even GM, which produces cars and trucks in
Mexico with the same technology as in Michigan but with lower-wage
workers. Makers of polluting technologies such as incinerators that are
being phased out in industrialized countries have also benefited, because
they are able to stay in business by selling to Third World countries.
U.S. manufacturers that wanted to escape environmental regulations (like
furniture makers who use toxic glues, solvents and paints) have
capitalized by shifting from places like Los Angeles to Mexico. For a
time, per Summers' suggestion, there was a thriving international trade in
toxic waste, but that has largely been eradicated, thanks to environmental
activists who helped get enacted a global treaty to ban hazardous waste
exports from rich to poor countries (the United States has not signed).

At the heart of the Treasury-IMF-Bank approach is the idea that developing
countries should concentrate their effort on exports, rather than
production for local needs. A related core idea is that countries should
allow foreign capital to move into and out of the country without
restraint. Those two policy prescriptions contributed in significant
measure to the Asian economic crisis, which was precipitated by a sudden
withdrawal of foreign capital from Asian markets, itself a result in part
of over-investment in production for export.

The solution of Summers, Rubin and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan
(anointed the "Committee to Save the World" by Time Magazine) was for
Asian countries to do more of the same (while making some internal
financial reforms and shutting down or selling off bankrupt enterprises).
Again, multinational corporations and foreign investors are doing well.
U.S. firms like Fairchild Semiconductors, Hartford Life and GE Capital,
for example, have made unprecedented purchases of Korean assets.

The overall result of the Committee's global financial crisis management,
according to most news accounts including the many beatifying Rubin
following his retirement announcement, has been a steadying of the
economic crisis. In fact, while stock prices are now rising in the Asian
countries, so is unemployment and 

[CTRL] After Math

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

>From www.iwpr.net

> Seselj At The Gates
>
> Having resigned from the Serbian government and disassociated himself
> from the peace agreement, Vojislav Seselj is now poised to bid for
> power.
>
> By a journalist in Novi Sad
> (Published on July 16, 1999)
>
> The resignation of Serbia's deputy Prime Minister Vojislav Seselj and
> the withdrawal of his ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS)
> from the government is subject of much speculation among what remains
> of Yugoslavia's chattering classes.
>
> Is this, political analysts wonder, a step towards the oft-predicted
> civil war in Serbia? Or is it yet another cynical ploy by Yugoslav
> President Slobodan Milosevic to retain power by presenting himself as
> the moderate alternative to Seselj?
>
> The SRS--which has the second largest political presence in the
> Serbian parliament with 75 deputies and held 15 out of 35 ministerial
> posts in government--pulled out of the ruling coalition because it
> could not accept the terms of the peace agreement ending the war in
> Kosovo.
>
> In explaining his resignation, Seselj claimed the peace accord was a
> total capitulation to NATO's demands and while he did not mention
> Milosevic by name, he made it clear that he held the President
> personally responsible.
>
> In an interview for the biggest-selling Belgrade daily Glas Javnosti,
> Seselj forecast a stormy period ahead for Serbia, saying that after
> Kosovo there will come similar temptations in Montenegro, Sandzak and
> Vojvodina. And he warned darkly that the greatest risk to Serbia would
> now come from "traitors" who would be working against the interests of
> the country with American encouragement. Seselj also predicted
> instances of food rationing and social unrest.
>
> In contrast, Milosevic has been travelling the length and breadth of
> Serbia, extolling the virtues of the peace agreement, promising
> economic rebirth and seemingly presenting himself as the one man who
> can keep Seselj's extremism at bay.
>
> A number of analysts see the apparent conflict between the two men as
> nothing more than a co-ordinated ploy designed to bolster Milosevic's
> position. However, although Seselj has in the past served Milosevic in
> this way, others believe that the radical is now positioning himself
> ready for the day when Milosevic can no longer control Serbian
> society.
>
> In the working class suburbs of the largest Serbian cities, the
> electoral bedrock of the ruling parties, the population is already on
> the verge of hunger. Moreover, the prospects are worse since,
> according to official statistics, some 500,000 workers lost their jobs
> during the war. An estimated 50 per cent of the population are now out
> of work.
>
> In these circumstances, it is difficult to see how the employment and
> reconstruction programme drawn up by the Serbian parliament can have
> much impact. If, therefore, Milosevic's promises prove hollow and
> conditions deteriorate as predicted, Seselj may well make a bid for
> power. In such a case, the threat of civil war becomes real.
>
> Some people here are already comparing the situation in Serbia today
> to the Weimar years in Germany at the end of the First World War. Like
> Germany, Serbia has been defeated militarily and humiliated, its
> economy is in tatters and it faces massive social dislocation.
>
> At the same time, like Germans in the aftermath of the First World
> War, Serbs have not understood the real causes of their defeat and are
> convinced that they have suffered an injustice which they did not
> deserve.
>
> In the absence of any objective reporting, Seselj stands to be the
> ultimate beneficiary of the frustration felt by ordinary Serbs.
> Indeed, the greater Serbia's social and political disintegration, the
> better his chances of gaining power.
>
> In this respect, his appeal does indeed resemble that of Hitler who
> managed to win over Germany's defeated and humiliated population with
> his demagogic populism. Moreover, like Hitler, Seselj could achieve
> his goals via the democratic process.
>
> In Serbia's last presidential elections in 1996, Seselj was narrowly
> defeated by Milosevic's candidate Milan Milutinovic in a poll which
> observers believe was marred by widespread fraud in the latter's
> favour. Moreover, since then, Seselj's popularity has risen among the
> electorate and he has acquired key allies in the upper echelons of the
> police and army.
>
> The author is an independent journalist from Novi Sad whose identity
> has been concealed.
>
>
>
> 
>
> © Institute of War & Peace Reporting


A<>E<>R
~~~
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking
new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled
one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller,
   German Writer (1759-1805)
+ + + + 

[CTRL] (Fwd) [FAIR-L] ACTION ALERT: THE NEW YORK TIMES' YAWNING GAP

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ACTION ALERT: THE NEW YORK TIMES' YAWNING GAP:
 Between Glowing Portrait of Western Idealism and Reality of U.S.
 Policy

 June 17, 1999

 In the June 13 New York Times "Week in Review," Michael Wines
 cautioned that despite America's "victory over Communism and
 inhumanity" in Kosovo, all is not well in the world. Americans often
 perceive their morals as universal, Wines says, but in fact there is "a
 yawning gap between the West and much of the world on the value of a
 single human life."

 According to Wines, the war in Yugoslavia "only underscored the deep
 ideological divide between an idealistic New World bent on ending
 inhumanity and an Old World equally fatalistic about unending conflict."

 Amongst the "anti-West club" of Syria, Libya, Iraq, China and India,
 Russians stand out "by temperament, history and current attitudes" as a
 particularly amoral people, says Wines. As evidence of this, Wines cites
 the anti-Jewish pogroms of the early 1900s, the Soviet policy of ethnic
 gerrymandering and forced migration, and the large-scale ethnic conflicts
 that spread through the Soviet Union as it collapsed.

 Yet Wines ignores examples from U.S. history that would have
 questioned the U.S.'s commitment to "ending brutality" and the actual
 "value of a single human life" for U.S. policymakers.

 Earlier this year, the New York Times ran several stories and
 editorials on the release of a report by the Guatemalan Historical
 Clarification Commission, a report that, in the words of a front-page
 Times story (2/26/99):

 "concluded that the United States gave money and training to a
 Guatemalan military that committed 'acts of genocide' against the
 Mayans during the most brutal armed conflict in Central America,
 Guatemala's 36-year civil war The panel also found evidence that the
 United States had knowledge of genocide and still supported the
 Guatemalan military."

 There is ample evidence to suggest that the U.S. is selective in its
 objection to governments that orchestrate violence against internal
 minorities. In 1992, at the height of Turkey's repression of its Kurdish
 minority, a State Department spokesperson summarized U.S. policy
 (National Journal, 4/15/95):

 "There is no question of halting U.S. military assistance to Turkey. The
 U.S. sees nothing objectionable in a friendly or allied country using
 American weapons to secure internal order or to repel an attack against
 its territorial unity."

 Wines could have calculated the value the U.S. places on "a single
 human life" by examining the U.S.'s policy of imposing sanctions on
 Iraq. While malnutrition was almost unknown in Iraq before the Gulf
 War, "from 1991 to 1998, children under 5 were dying from
 malnutrition-related diseases in numbers ranging from a conservative
 2,690 per month to a more realistic 5,357 per month," according to U.N.
 figures (Seattle Post Intelligencer, 5/11/99). When 60 Minutes (5/12/96)
 asked Secretary of State Madeline Albright whether sanctions that left
 half a million Iraqi children dead were "worth it," Albright replied, "I
 think this is a very hard choice. But the price--we think the price is
 worth it."

 A graphic demonstration of the Western attitude toward human life came in
 the closing days of the war in Yugoslavia--after Belgrade had already
 agreed to withdraw its forces from Kosovo, and all that remained to be
 worked out were the technical details of an international
 occupation--when the U.S. carpet-bombed two battalions of Yugoslavian
 soldiers gathered in an open field near the Albanian border, who were
 skirmishing with KLA fighters. News reports indicated that the number of
 soldiers killed as a result in this meaningless battle was in the
 hundreds (AP, 6/9/99).

 ( You can read the Week in Review article in its entirety at:
  http://www.nytimes.com/library/review/061399rights-review.html )


ACTION: Please write to the New York Times and let it know that its
readers deserve better than simplistic, self-congratulatory analysis.
Encourage the Times to provide more thorough and accurate analysis of the
U.S.'s role in ethnic conflicts around the world. 

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R >>


>
>
> World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
>
> --
> --
>
>
> WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : Germany
>
> German trade unions vote for job cuts
>
> New Opel (GM) plant in Rüsselsheim means 4,000 fewer jobs
>
> By Helmut Arens
> 18 June 1999
>
> Back to screen version
>
> In a press statement on May 26, Robert Hendry, the head of the board
> of directors for General Motors Germany, announced that the new Opel
> plant to be located in Rüsselsheim, Germany, would cost 820 million DM
> and employ 4,000 fewer workers and white-collar employees than the
> existing plant.
>
> This year parent company General Motors plans to start construction of
> one of the world's most modern auto plants on the present Rüsselsheim
> site with its century-long Opel tradition. Production will be based on
> the latest model of "streamlined production”, flexible, multi-skilled
> staff, constant quality control and "just in time” production methods
> in existence, up to now, only in the east German Eisenach factory. The
> old Rüsselsheim plant, which 20 years ago employed 43,000 workers, is
> no longer viable and will be totally demolished.
>
> The new fabrication line will be erected in close proximity to the old
> site; the installation for the body works and the finishing assembly
> line are to be finished by 2002, the new paint works some time later.
>
> Wolfgang Strinz from the Opel board of directors told the Frankfurter
> Rundschau that per vehicle production costs in the old factory at
> Rüsselsheim were 35 percent higher than in Eisenach. The "Eisenach
> model” was developed when General Motors took over the Wartburg works
> following the collapse of East Germany, closed it down, and set up the
> world's most modern manufacturing vehicle plant employing fewer than
> one-third of the 10,000 original Wartburg work force.
>
> Workers in the new Opel plant will face completely transformed
> conditions. Although group work has already been implemented, the
> management also wants to retain three-shift operations. Where
> previously two separate assembly lines were in place for the Vectra
> and Omega auto models, future operations will be constructed on a
> single line in which a 40 percent productivity increase is to be
> reached producing the same annual total of 275,000 vehicles. The
> 10,500 workers at present employed in the fabrication plant will be
> cut to 6,500, and more and more pressure will be placed upon them.
>
> Rudolf Müller, works council president, spoke positively about the
> decision, telling the press it had long been awaited. The
> representatives of the work force had been demanding a complete
> overhaul of production methods. To be sure, he "regretted” that 4,000
> fewer workers would be employed in 2002, but the new plant was the
> only correct option and the old works had no future. He maintained
> that job cuts would not entail direct redundancies, but would be
> carried through by the more socially acceptable methods of not
> replacing workers who retired or encouraging older workers to leave
> through early retirement. But even if this is the case, it means that
> ever-fewer workers will be producing under increasingly stressful
> conditions, while a growing army of unemployed is put on the street.
>
> In a recent agreement on maintaining the site, management and the
> works council expanded the early retirement scheme and pension rules
> for employees of the original Opel plant. Fifty-eight-year-old workers
> can volunteer for the pension and 57-year-old workers as well as
> 60-year-old white collar employees are eligible for a part-time
> pension.
>
> Opel trade union works council members and representatives of IG
> Metall (the metal workers union) took part in an international works
> council convention in Detroit on the last weekend in May. Opel was
> represented by Müller, his deputy Klaus Franz and
> IG-Metall-functionary Thomas Klebe. (All three are members of the
> board of directors.) At present General Motors has plans to set up
> rationalised production methods in Canada and in the US, where
> downsizing will occur.
>
> The German works council members concluded that General Motors should
> be urged to develop a method to secure jobs over a longer period of
> time. They argued that with the help of modern technical innovation,
> quality work and a highly motivated staff it must be possible to win
> back a greater share of the world market. To effect this it was
> necessary to tie the interests of the firm to national commercial
> considerations. Müller said an all-round strategy was not only in the
> interests of defending jobs but also of capital because, in an
> international game of global players, only those who took into account
> the peculiarities of the national market could survive.
>
> For this reason the Rüsselsheim works committee had supported the
> appointment of Robert Hendry t

[CTRL] Only Just Begun ?

[Anonymous]

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>From wsws.org


>
>
> World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
>
> --
> --
>
>
> WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : The Balkan Crisis
>
> Kosovan "mass graves" agitation: US media seeks to justify NATO war
>
> By the Editorial Board
> 18 June 1999
>
> Back to screen version
>
> As NATO forces extend their reach throughout Kosovo, the American and
> British media are seeking to bludgeon public opinion and justify the
> war against Yugoslavia after the fact. At the center of this
> propaganda effort is a series of reports on alleged mass grave sites
> found by NATO soldiers and Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas.
>
> The two most important American daily newspapers, the New York Times
> and the Washington Post, each published lengthy and lurid reports
> Wednesday about the extent of the carnage wrought in Kosovo during the
> ten weeks between the onset of the NATO bombing and the Yugoslav
> capitulation. Similar reports appeared on the American television
> networks.
>
> In addition to reinforcing the Clinton administration's claims that
> American warplanes dropped tens of thousands of tons of bombs on
> Yugoslavia for "humanitarian" reasons, the press campaign over alleged
> Serb atrocities provides a pretext to justify the expulsion of the
> 200,000 Kosovan Serbs from the province. This process has already
> begun, with tens of thousands of Serb civilians fleeing as KLA forces
> take over towns in the south and east of Kosovo.
>
> There has been little coverage of the flight of the Serbs, which will
> escalate as NATO and KLA forces enter the more heavily Serb-populated
> areas in northeastern Kosovo and along the northern border with
> Montenegro and Serbia proper.
>
> Equally significant is the abandonment of any media reporting from
> within Serbia on the casualties of the US-NATO bombing campaign. For
> every heart-rending article about the deaths of Albanian civilians in
> the ethnic civil war in Kosova, an equally moving account could be
> provided of the deaths of Serbian civilians under NATO bombing.
>
> Moreover, the suffering and death in Serbia will continue, as the
> long-term impact of the destruction of electricity, water supplies,
> roads, bridges, hospitals and the basic infrastructure of modern life
> is felt. It is all but impossible to estimate the ultimate effect of
> environmental contamination caused by the destruction of oil
> refineries and storage depots and the radiation released by US
> missiles containing depleted uranium.
>
> The current US-NATO propaganda campaign makes no attempt to square
> today's atrocity stories with yesterday's. A case in point is
> Thursday's release by the British foreign office of an estimate that
> 10,000 Albanian Kosovars had been killed in 130 separate massacres, a
> figure that was given enormous international publicity.
>
> David Gowan, a British government spokesman on the investigation into
> war crimes charges in Kosovo, said, "It's very difficult to give an
> overall number but what's clear is that the picture is far worse than
> we thought." This comment is inexplicable except as an attempt to
> extract the maximum propaganda value from the pictures now coming out
> of Kosovo. The British estimate actually represents a lowering, by at
> least a factor of ten, of the most farfetched claims made during the
> war, when US and NATO officials declared that between 100,000 and
> 225,000 Albanian men were missing and potentially murdered.
>
> Nor is there any reason to believe that the figure of 10,000 is
> accurate. The press accounts of the British claim conceal the fact
> that Whitehall prepared this estimate several weeks ago, based on
> "military and media reports as well as interviews with refugees in
> Albania and Macedonia." In other words, the figure of 10,000 is not
> based on any tabulation of graves or bodies actually found in Kosovo,
> although media reports give that impression.
>
> Official US statements on the alleged death toll in Kosovo are equally
> suspect. Pentagon spokesman Mike Doubleday said NATO soldiers had
> "come upon or heard about 90 suspected mass grave sites since entering
> Kosovo on Saturday." There are a sufficient number of qualifiers in
> that sentence to send up many warning flags. What initially appears to
> be significant evidence of several thousand deaths turns out to be
> more rumor and speculation than fact: these are "suspected" sites,
> some only "heard about," which troops have "come upon"—i.e., not
> investigated.
>
> What becomes a "suspected" mass grave site, more often than not, is a
> claim or suspicion voiced by someone from the KLA—officer, soldier,
> interpreter—to a NATO military commander, who in turn communicates it
> to an American or British reporter. No one in this chain is an
> objective observer. All have a vested interest in depicting the
> conditions in Kosovo in as dark and incriminating a fashion as

[CTRL] Fw: SNET: [piml] Not My War

[Anonymous]

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- Original Message -
From: Ed Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 8:14 PM
Subject: SNET: [piml] Not My War


>
> ->  SNETNEWS  Mailing List
>
> "The contrast between truth and propaganda was so dramatic that we all
> received an education in how war disinformation works."
>
>  THURSDAY JUNE 17 1999
>
>   Not my war
> by Llewellyn Rockwell
>
>   The aftermath of the war on Yugoslavia is not
>   following the typical pattern. Usually, the
>   commander in chief basks in the glow of
>   victory. Medals are handed out, parades
>   organized, speeches given to the masses.
>   Veterans are heralded as preservers of
>   freedom. The national soul swells in patriotic
>   fervor. The merchants of death gain a new lease
>   on life.
>
>   Not this time. This is no victory glow, no
>   parades, no flag waving. Outside the
>   mainstream media, there is a curious lack of
>   any bragging at all. There are no yellow
>   ribbons adorning trees. Indeed, veterans of this
>   war are more pitied than praised. Veterans of
>   past wars are rushing to repudiate the whole
>   mess.
>
>   As regards the "national soul," it is pretty much
>   what it was before and during the war:
>   skeptical of any pronouncement from D.C.
>   Meanwhile, Congress has moved on to the
>   usual civic pieties: promising to reform a
>   smattering of failed programs, dreaming up
>   new ways to regulate our lives, and celebrating
>   Rosa Parks. Even Clinton seems to be backing
>   away from the topic of the war.
>
>   What gives?
>
>   This war never enjoyed wide or deep public
>   support, and for good reason. It was an attack
>   on a far-away sovereign country that never did
>   anything to any American. No interests of this
>   country were threatened, or even affected, by
>   the 600-year-long struggle between Christians
>   and Muslims over Kosovo. The U.S. bombing
>   was simply an aggression of the sort the
>   Russians used to accuse us of.
>
>   Even now, it is difficult to know the real reason
>   for intervention, since no one believes that the
>   Clinton administration cares about
>   human-rights violations. You can't take
>   anti-brutality sermons seriously when the
>   preacher is simultaneously bombing hospitals,
>   schools, and water systems, and killing
>   innocents as a war tactic. Far from giving rise to
>   nationalist pride, U.S. behavior forms a pit in
>   your stomach.
>
>   Clinton tried to draw on antique war myths
>   and accuse his opponents of appeasement in
>   the face of evil. But it didn't fly. His poll ratings
>   actually declined during the war, an
>   astounding fact in light of the tendency of war
>   to unite a country behind the ruling regime.
>   And these numbers are from phone polls that
>   dramatically under-assess the level of
>   dissatisfaction with existing government
>   policy. The war was supported with intensity
>   by very few, mostly those who had something
>   to gain from it.
>
>   Even according to NATO's own stated aims,
>   the war was not a success. The final treaty steps
>   away from the absurd demands made in the
>   Rambouilett talks. And from a humane point of
>   view, the war was catastrophic, with thousands
>   dead and an entire society in ruins. The lack of
>   public celebration of victory reflects a
>   widespread acknowledgment of this.
>
>   The truth about this war was not being spread
>   by mainstream organs of opinion, of course.
>   But thanks to the Internet, this was the first war
>   in which a sizeable number of Americans had
>   access to alternative media. News from
>   anti-war sites was just as accessible as that
>   from pro-war sites (again, the mainstream
>   media). So there was no need to rely on the
> 

Re: [CTRL] Milocevic, take a bow.

[Anonymous]

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>Milocevic has presided over the dismemberment of Yugoslavia, the
emasculation of Serbia, and
he's done so with great effort.


Milosevic has resisted the dismemberment of Yugolavia and the emasculation
of Serbia. He's done so with great ineptness.


>Why?

He's no Tito. On the other hand, he could be as ept as Geronimo and still
be at a serious disadvantage, so maybe it doesn't matter.

As to whether he was on the take this whole time and is really just a
hired boogyman a la Saddam or Khadaffi, who knows? Could be. Things like
that do happen. NATO does need a boogyman of his description just to
justify its existance. On the other hand, why pay when he'll work for free
and there's a dozen guys waiting to take his place.

The important thing to remember, though, is that he's no more a dictator
than is Clinton or Blair. Yugoslavia, like the US and UK, is ruled by an
oligarchy not an individual.


>Who benefits?

The Western military-industrial complex (particularly the producers of
"smart" weapons), the IMF, the WB, various wholesalers of heroin, the
police who work for them, and whoever ends up hiring the now impoverished
Yugoslavs at Indonesian level wages.

Oh yeah, and the Russian general who took the Pristina air base without a
shot and only two hundred guys. He's winner, that one. His star is on the
rise. What a move! Trust the Russians to pass a pawn just as end game
begins. These guys are formidable players, always thinking ahead.

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Re: [CTRL] Fw: AANEWS for Thursday, June 17, 1999

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>HOUSE APPROVES TEN COMMANDMENTS DISPLAY IN STATES
<...>
> Legislators divided sharply over Aderholt's proposal.  Ten
> Commandments supporter Rep.  Bob Barr (R-GA) said recently that had
> the Decalogue been displayed at Columbine High School, the shootings
> there in April would not have occurred.

Is Barr a total moron?  If the Constitution is posted in schools,
does that prevent treason?  Does the decalogue prevent sin?  If
politicians can lie and steal and adulterize and bring death down
on humanity, why can't schoolkids?  Should Barr ad Hyde, those
adulterous hypocrites, be stoned to death by angry mobs?

> Democrats like Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, though, warned that
> the proposal excluded millions of Americans, and asked, "Whose Ten
> Commandments?  The Christian version, the Protestant version or the
> Jewish version?  They're different, you know."

Don't the Adventists and Discordians have their own versions too?
Do Orthodox and Catholic versions differ?  What about the Klingon
version?  Will schools get to choose which versions to post?  Will
factional fights erupt over decalogue versions?  Is this an excuse
for holy wars in public schools?  Will the death count rise?

"Prevent violence - SUBMIT!!"

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Re: [CTRL] Thank goodness for the Line-Item Veto!

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William Shannon wrote:
 House approves school display of Ten Commandments
 By DAVID ESPO
 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Searching for a way to curb youth violence,
 the House approved legislation Thursday night permitting the
 Ten Commandments to be posted in schools and other state and
 local facilities and moved toward a showdown over gun control.



The line-item veto is unconstitutional.
Why would you imply ITS use anyhow?  This entire exercise is
UNCONSTITUTIONAL, but then few truly give a shit about the
Constitution and its plainly written limitations.

Regard$,
--MJ

An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; it
imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it creates no
office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though
it had never been passed. -- Norton v. Shelby, 118 US 425, 442 (1886).

Congress cannot, under pretext of executing delegated power, pass
laws for the accomplishment of objects not entrusted to the Federal
Government. -- Linder v. US, 268 US 5, 17 (1925).

No doctrine can be sound that releases a legislature from the
control of a constitution. ...although always liable to be
altered by the people who formed it, [it] is not alterable
by any other authority; certainly not by those chosen by the
people to carry it into effect. This is so vital a principle,
and has been so justly the pride of our popular government,
that a denial of it cannot possibly last long or spread far.
-- James Madison (1825)

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[CTRL] SNOW JOB: THE CIA, COCAINE, AND BILL CLINTON Part 2: The Money Trail

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How the CIA laundered millions in drug profits from Mena and paid for
Clinton's 1992 election campaign.

http://www.esotericworldnews.com/snowjob1.htm

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Re: [CTRL] Milocevic, take a bow.

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> >Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosova.  Yugoslav/Serb troops
> >and paramilitaries attack, and eventually lose.  Slobby controls those
> >troops, ergo, Slobby started and lost the wars.
>
> Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Alabama.   Union/Yankee
> troops and paramilitaries attack, and eventually win. Lincoln controls
> those troops, ergo, Lincoln started and won the war.

Who's Milocevic working for?  Who pays him to lose?
Who was Lincoln working for?  Who paid him to win?

Nobody here faces the point:  Milocevic has presided over the
dismemberment of Yugoslavia, the emasculation of Serbia, and
he's done so with great effort.  Why?  Who benefits?

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House approves school display of Ten Commandments



By DAVID ESPO
The Associated Press
06/17/99 10:13 PM Eastern

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Searching for a way to curb youth violence, the House
approved legislation Thursday night permitting the Ten Commandments to be
posted in schools and other state and local facilities and moved toward a
showdown over gun control.

The vote was 287-139 for the anti-violence measure, which includes a variety
of get-tough provisions related to juvenile crime as well as the declaration
permitting states to display the Biblical commandments.

Critics said that measure was unconstitutional, but its sponsor, Rep. Robert
Aderholt, R-Ala., countered that it would "promote morality and work toward
an end of children killing children."

Earlier, in a second victory for the entertainment industry in as many days,
the House rejected a proposal to require labeling of violent content in
entertainment products such as video games.

For the second night in a row, lawmakers worked late into the evening
fashioning their response to shootings at a Colorado high school and
elsewhere. Repeatedly, lawmakers in both parties lamented cases of "children
killing children."

Other provisions in the bill would toughen penalties for juvenile offenders,
make it easier to try some juveniles as adults and require federal
prosecutors to devote increased time and money to pursuing gun-related
crimes. The legislation envisions the federal government spending $1.5
billion over the next three years in grants to states to help combat juvenile
crime.

In addition, the measure explicitly permits religious symbols to be included
in the design of a memorial on any public school campus to commemorate anyone
slain there. That provision was offered by Rep. Thomas Tancredo, a Colorado
Republican who represents the area where this spring's shootings occurred.

Passage led immediately to debate of a companion bill on gun control, the
focus of a pitched political battle between the forces of the White House and
gun control on one side and the National Rifle Association on the other.

"We lost more kids yesterday because of school violence than we lost in
Kosovo and Bosnia put together the last three years," said Democratic Leader
Dick Gephardt of Missouri, citing statistics that show 13 children die each
day because of youth violence. Earlier, Gephardt paid grudging respect to the
work of the NRA.

"I'm in admiration of what they're able to do," he said at a news conference,
referring to an organization that has poured an estimated $14 million into
political campaigns in the past decade.

"You've got members (of Congress) who are looking at a big independent
expenditure that can be run against them, at votes that can be implemented
against them" if they defy the organization's wishes, he added.

For its part, the NRA issued a letter to members of the House detailing its
position on a variety of proposed amendments. It said it "very strongly
supports" a provision advanced by Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., which it said
"does not include any gun control provisions."

Dingell's proposal would curtail existing requirements for sales at gun
shows, partly by redefining a gun show, and partly by giving the government
only 24 hours to complete a background check, rather than the current three
business days.

An alternative, backed by the White House, would retain the provisions
approved by the Senate last month. They would require mandatory background
checks for all purchases at gun shows, closing what supporters said was a
loophole left in the 1993 Brady Bill.

In addition, votes were expected on proposals to require that a safety device
be sold with all handguns, to raise the minimum age for purchase of a handgun
from 18 to 21 and to ban the importation of high capacity ammunition clips.

Lawmakers and aides in both parties agreed the outcome was virtually
impossible to predict, and that in the end, it was possible that nothing
would command a majority on final passage.

As an indication of the uncertainty, Dingell told reporters that even if his
NRA-backed gun show proposal passed, he would probably oppose final passage
of the measure if it contained any other gun control provision.

Even if those additional provisions fail in the House, he said "I might" vote
against his own bill on final passage.

The vote on the Ten Commandments was largely along party lines, with 203
Republicans and 45 Democrats in favor and 164 Democrats, one independent and
15 Republicans against.

Aderholt said the commandments "represent the very cornerstone of Western
civilization and the basis of our legal system here in America."

But Rep. Robert Scott, D-Va., countered that the proposal sought "to elevate
one particular religion over all others," an effort that he said was
"blatantly unconstitutional."

The Supreme Court struck down a Kentucky state law that required posting the
Ten Commandments in every public school classroom, ruling

[CTRL] Fwd: (en) 'WE WON'T GO TO KOSOVO' - The Movement of Draft Refusal and Desertion i

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  A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
http://www.ainfos.ca/
 

Introduction
The sudden appearance of working class resistance to the war effort in
central Serbia in late May should be an inspiration to proletarians in
all the war-affected countries. In the immediate term it probably wonit
be, but we owe it to our class brothers and sisters in this region to
spread the spirit of their struggle as best we can. The conscript
soldiers who deserted, their relatives and other proletarians who have
physically attacked the media and local government (and even the
occasional general!) showed an admirable lack of patriotism, a real
spirit of defeatism - they  showed that they literally didnit care if
itheiri country was invaded by foreign troops. They didn't merely
quibble about the rate of killings but stated loudly and clearly that
they wanted the war to end and for all conscripts to return from the
front.

The following chronology takes its information from two main sources.
The first is the Montenegrin daily newspaper Vijesti (iNewsi). This is
the original source of almost all the news stories which have appeared
in the Western press. Like most newspapers these days it has a web site:
http://www.vijesti.cg.yu which contains all the main stories. Itis only
in Serbo-Croat. The second is the web site iFree Serbia - other voices
from Serbiai (http://www.xs4all.nl/cfreeserb/eyewitness/e-30031999.html)
which is produced by Serbian democratic oppositionists. They claim to
have a Krusevac correspondent. Their accounts seem to tally pretty well
with the accounts in Vijesti. The articles are available in Serbo-Croat
and English. Bits of information have also been gleaned from Serbian
newspapers which have web sites, notably Vreme (the well-known
oppositionist weekly magazine from Belgrade) and Nezavisna Svetlost from
Kragujevac. The media record of this movement seems to cease on 25 May.
Does this mean it was completely crushed by state repression? PossiblyO
If anyone has any further information, please let us know. At the moment
there is only information about the repression following the movement.
Three reservists have been sentenced to four years in jail by a military
tribunal in Nis. A further 24 are under investigation.

The movement seemed to be centred on two towns in central Serbia:
Krusevac and the much smaller Aleksandrovac, which are only about 20km
apart. To a lesser extent it seems to have spread over a much wider
region. The other towns definitely affected were: Raska, Prokuplje,
Kraljevo, Baljevac, Vranje, Vrnjacka Banja. We can be sure there were
others. It is hard to say if it had much of an impact on the working
class in the rest of Serbia. Naturally, the official national Serbian
media said very little about the main events of the movement, but could
not avoid mentioning that desertion and anti-war demos had happened. The
main political parties even made press statements about it. Itis certain
that some people in Belgrade heard about it directly - from telephone
calls from relatives and, more importantly, from soldiers returning from
leave - but they were only a small minority of the population.

It must not be forgotten that when the cycle of war began in Yugoslavia
in 1991 central Serbia was a region where there were many collective
revolts by conscript soldiers. The biggest, which involved 7000
reservists refusing to move from their army base, was in Kragujevac
which is about 50km North West of Krusevac. It is also a region where
there have been numerous strikes by industrial workers against the
conditions of austerity brought about by war, including in munitions
factories and other sectors of industry directly involved in war
production.

Throughout the almost continuous state of war which has existed in
Serbia since 1991 there has always been a high level of draft-dodging
and insubordination on the part of conscripts. This partly explains why
Milosevic has had to make so much use of mercenaries, local nationalist
militias and gangster warlords (such as Arkan) for his military
adventures, rather than the regular Yugoslav Army (VJ). It is also a
major reason for the "neutral" position taken by the Montenegrin
government during the NATO assault - according to a parliamentary
resolution of June 1998, the Montenegrin state is obliged to prevent the
use of Montenegrin territory by the VJ in the event of "military actions
by the international community". The level of draft dodging in
Montenegro has been even higher than in Serbia. In Niksic in February
1999 around 600 men were called up over a few days , only 5 or 6
responded! Opposition to the VJ has often taken a very public form. In
February 1999 the family of a soldier killed in Kosovo placed an
announcement in Montenegro's largest circulation daily newspaper Pobjeda
denouncing "failed politics" as "the reason that the

[CTRL] Covert White House Operation in Northern Ireland

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

 L.D. Brown:
Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation
In this memoir, the former Clinton employee for the first time tells the
full story of what really happened in Arkansas, how it was covered up, and
why the Office of Independent Counsel has done nothing about it. He also
reveals the efforts of the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" to enlist him for
their cause. (296 pages. Published April 1999)
Order your copy today! | See other books/videos for sale.


Covert White House Operation in Northern Ireland
Former Intelligence Operative Reveals Airplanes-for-Food Scheme



By MARVIN LEE



While in public mediating as a neutral arbitrator between the two sides of
the conflict in Northern Ireland, the White House has run a covert operation
aimed at supporting one side financially.

That revelation was made last week by a former intelligence operative who
was asked to join the operation in 1997. L.D. Brown in his new book
"Crossfire," released last week, recounts how that offer was made to him at
2 a.m. on a bus in the English countryside by an intelligence operative by
the name of T. John McBrearty.

"He would fly in food to the former Soviet states and in return he would
receive airplane parts. At times, he said, he would receive entire airplanes
like an intact Sukhoi-29 fighter which he said he had flown to Ireland where
he maintained an office," Brown writes of McBrearty, who proceeded to
outline who was behind the operation:



"You know L. D., we could use a man like you in this operation," he said, as
I was now leaning toward him to catch every word. Going deeper, he asked me,
"You know what a proprietary is don't you?" I knew that after I had flown on
the airplane trips with [Barry] Seal and the subsequent Iran-Contra hearings
that proprietaries were the cutout fake airline companies C. I. A. set up to
facilitate their business. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, or
maybe the gun to go off. Here I was in the middle of the English
countryside, alone with a guy who had obviously been sent by the C. I. A. to
get me involved in another operation--and Bill Clinton was involved in some
way.
The connection to Bill Clinton and the White House would become more obvious
to Brown through the names of some involved in the operation, including
Clinton financial backer Jackson Stephens:


I would soon learn that it would also be an attempt to keep me out of the
country. John said I would accompany him on airplane trips out of the
country as well. He told me he would soon be flying to Brazzaville, Congo
with a load of food for example. "You've heard of Southern Air Transport?"
he asked, again knowing my answer. "Sure, in Florida," I answered, familiar
with S. A. T. having been a C. I. A. proprietary. "Well, I fly some of these
airplane parts to Florida. You know, Jack Stephens buys some of them, and we
go on from there." He was referring to Jackson Stephens the billionaire
Clinton supporter at whose house I had met John Glenn. But there was more.
"L. D., a lady by the name of Nancy Soderberg is involved in this. She works
for Clinton as an adviser on Northern Ireland," he explained, as the
machinations of how the operation worked began to unfold. John told me of a
plant that makes electronic equipment in Ireland near the border with
Northern Ireland. Being familiar with the 'troubles' between the Northern
Protestants and the Catholic Irish Republicans, I realized what he was
saying. The goal was to provide employment to the Irish near the border who
were sympathetic to the Irish Republicans. The money made from the airplane
trips would fund these activities. He told me Soderberg would soon be
leaving her position and would be focusing on the operation.

Nancy Soderberg was at the time deputy staff director at the White House
National Security Council.

But McBrearty had a more immediate role for Brown: "I want you to call James
 Carville and work with him to get the intelligence agencies off our ass."

L.D. Brown, who at the time was studying for a Ph.D. in England and was
looking for a job, considered the offer for a while and stayed in contact
with McBrearty. Brown consulted friends, some knowledgeable in the field of
intelligence, for advice. They warned him of potential hidden motives for
getting him involved in the operation. Through those consultations, however,
part of the story leaked to the press causing Brown to fear potential
consequences to him and his family. R. Emmett Tyrrell, editor of the
American Spectator, wrote of a $300,000 offer to L. D. Brown from the
Clinton administration, without revealing details of the offer.

Those details have not been revealed until the release of Brown's book last
week.




[L. D. Brown's book "Crossfire," released Friday of last week, is available
from http://crossfirebook.com (not ava

[CTRL] "CROSSFIRE" by L. D. Brown [former klintoon bodyguard] gotta read this!

[Anonymous]

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(Note:  L.D. Brown was the guest of Ray Briem Talk Show tonight, 5-7PM
Pacific, 870AM KIEV, Glendale-Los Angeles, and listened, on my way home from
work, to Mr. Brown being interviewed by Mr. Briem.)  WOW! What a show!

Witness in the Clinton Investigation
BY L.D. BROWN

Now subject to news coverage in the London Sunday Times with its revelation
of a covert White House operation in Northern Ireland. GO TO:
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/05/02/stiireire02003.html?99
9




L.D. Brown has been a witness to almost all the alleged offenses circling
around Bill Clinton in Arkansas: misuse of state funds for sexual liaisons,
Whitewater, illegal campaign fundraising and bribery, as well as cocaine use
and cocaine smuggling. And through his ultimate cooperation with prosecutors
and congressional investigators, Brown has learned the inside story on
Robert Fiske's and Kenneth Starr's operations and on congressional hearings.
But most of all, L.D. Brown can tell the story of the methods used by the
Clinton White House to control potentially damaging witnesses. Most of what
is written in this book has been told under penalty of perjury to
investigators for Congress and the Office of Independent Counsel.
Documentation for many events has been included in an appendix. However
incredible some details may seem, they are backed up by evidence. When the
investigation of President Clinton started, Brown came under fire from both
sides: from the Clintonistas who wanted him to keep his mouth shut and from
the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" who wanted him to say what they wanted to
hear. With this book he returns the fire--in both directions.


This book will answer the questions:
What did the C. I. A. know about cocaine smuggling at Mena, Arkansas, and
when did it know it?
What did Bill Clinton know about cocaine smuggling at Mena, Arkansas?
Who was Brown sent to assassinate in Mexico?
What is the secret relationship between Bill Clinton and George Bush?
What is the relationship between Mike Wallace and the C. I. A.?
What Democrat U.S. Senator overheard the President threatening to "sick the
I.R.S." on L.D. Brown?
What Republican U.S. Senator promised L.D. Brown a job in return for
cooperation?
What clandestine operation of the White House National Security Council was
aimed at diverting revenues from food aid to support the Irish Republican
Army?
What two specific intelligence jobs was L.D. Brown offered by the White
House in return for his silence?
Who asked Brown to collaborate with James Carville and for what purpose?
>From whom did Brown collect money as Bill Clinton's "bag man"?
How did Brown end up receiving money from the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy"?
What White House employee, other than Monica Lewinsky, was transferred to
the Pentagon when her affair with the President was revealed in court?

Excerpts from Crossfire:
* * *
"The Boca Raton Resort had several bars which were first class and full of
patrons. With the conference being over, Bill felt a little more at ease in
the hotel, not fearing being seen drunk or womanizing by any of the other
governors. We met a couple of people in the bar and Bill stepped out for a
few minutes, long enough for me to become concerned. As I went to look for
him, I first checked the bathroom. I called his name but got no answer. Just
as I was about to leave, I saw his number 13s protruding from under one of
the stalls. 'Bill, are you okay?' I asked, knowing there couldn't be another
foot that big in Boca Raton. 'Yeah, yeah L. D., these damned sinuses are
killing me!' As I retreated to the bar, I realized what was going on. Bill
knew that with my prior experiences in drug enforcement I didn't tolerate
illicit drug use--particularly 'nose candy.'"

* * *
"'C'mon, L. D., let's go take a leak,' the Senator commanded as Justin and I
got up from the table. An aide of the Senator also got up. He apparently
never went anywhere without a staff person. We walked to the rest room while
the Senator had his arm around my neck. I was beginning to think that he
liked me a little too much and was wondering if I might have to tell him
that I peed alone when we got inside. What happened next I have never told
for the public record before this. I am glad my lawyer was there as I'm sure
he'll be by my side when I tell it again."


* * *
Publication of the book has taken more than a year because several
publishers, who started negotiations on publication, later withdrew from the
project. The charges made in the book against members of both sides of the
political aisle are explosive.

To get the book out despite its allegations against prominent political
figures, L. D. Brown has had to contract its publication himself.
Publication date: April 23, 1999. Now shipping.


Orders Accepted Now:
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[CTRL] *NEW*revelation by klintoon former bodyguard, L.D.Brown [London Times]

[Anonymous]

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CIA 'tried to buy IRA ceasefire'
by Phelim AcAleer and Kevin Dowling

A FORMER member of Bill Clinton's security staff has alleged that the
American government backed a Central Intelligence Agency scheme to buy off
the IRA to encourage a ceasefire in Northern Ireland.
L Douglas Brown, a former Arkansas state trooper and CIA contractor, claims
in his new book Crossfire
http://209.207.145.74/crossfire/
that the plan involved the establishment of electronics factories near the
border to provide jobs for nationalists and channel money to the terrorist
organisation. Brown also claims he was offered a well-paid job in the
project as an inducement not to give evidence against Clinton in the
investigation being conducted by Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor.

The illicit funding claim was denied yesterday by Ken Livingstone, the
Labour MP, who was a consultant to the scheme. But the left-wing MP for
Brent East in London did corroborate key parts of Brown's story about the
project, which was to use Russian satellite technology to develop mobile
telephones. The plan was abandoned in 1996, after five years of secret
planning and research, because of technical difficulties.

Nancy Soderberg, formerly Clinton's key adviser on Ireland, was also
involved.

According to Brown's account, he was approached in 1996 by John McBrearty, a
wealthy businessman who has close links to the American government and its
agencies. Brown claims he was offered $300,000 to join Geosys, a firm
controlled by McBrearty. He says he refused, because he believed it was a
bid to dissuade him from giving evidence on Clinton's womanising.

In the book he reproduces a written job offer from McBrearty, which said
that Geosys would build a number of large factories south of the border. It
added: "What we are looking at here is jobs for the boys in exchange for a
ceasefire, the peace process and a diplomatic triumph for the US."

Brown says McBrearty had made it clear the plan was a two-edged sword - to
provide jobs for nationalists and secretly fund the IRA. He declined the
offer and subsequently made a number of accusations against Clinton, for
whom he worked until 1992.

Livingstone said this weekend that Brown's account distorted the Geosys
project and denied that it was an attempt to channel funds to the IRA. The
MP said he was approached by McBrearty because he had contacts in Ireland
and in Russia. He said the plan was to build seven 60,000 sq ft factories,

so as to create jobs in areas of high unemployment and remove one of the
causes of conflict.

McBrearty, who had an office at Pembroke Road, Dublin, wanted to create a
mobile phone which would rely entirely on redundant Russian satellites to
process calls. This would reduce the cost of phone calls as they would not
be reliant on terrestrial lines. It would also make them immune from
interference by governments.

According to Livingstone, the scheme was in an advanced stage before it was
shelved. The Russian defence ministry had given permission for its redundant
satellites to be used. He said the project had huge potential. "They would
have sold millions and the business was to be set up as a non-profit
corporation with me as chairman. All the profits were to be ploughed into
projects such as UN disaster relief and to alleviate famines," he said.

"It was a peace phone. It means you can phone anybody in the world who has a
similar phone without the state interfering or blocking it."

The software was to have been created in Russia and the equipment assembled
in Ireland. Livingstone said the American government offered to provide the
necessary start-up capital.

"The Clinton White House had agreed to put up between $100m and $150m. The
link with them was Soderberg. It was made clear there would be no problem
getting money from the White House," he said. Soderberg, now an American
ambassador at the United Nations, was Clinton's main adviser on Ireland at
the time.

"Initially there would have been tens of thousands of jobs and then hundreds
of thousands and these would all be people with good jobs who would then, it
was hoped, put the war behind them. In the end the technology wasn't
advanced enough," Livingstone said.

McBrearty put a deposit on planes he would need to transport the material
from Russia before the project collapsed.

The American brought a prototype of the phone to Britain. Livingstone said:
"He came to my house in north London and we set it up in my back garden and
pointed it towards the Russian satellite, which is due south. I phoned Tony
Benn and got through. Then I phoned a friend in Canada and it blew every
electrical gadget in my house."

Soderberg declined to comment on the claims but a senior White House source
said the project would have been exactly the kind of initiative the Clinton
administration would have wanted to promote.

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/05/02/stiireire02003.html?99
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Re: [CTRL] [Re: [CTRL] Milocevic, take a bow.]

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>hunt up *Gladiator at Law* by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth--long out
of print, but VERY relevant to our discussions. Note especially the role
of the Struldbrugs in manipulating the market...

Check out  by Hakim Bey. It's in print. It's the definitive study of
the Temporary Autonomous Zone, in history and today. Most relevant. Very
inspirational.

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>Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosova.  Yugoslav/Serb troops and
paramilitaries attack, and eventually lose.  Slobby controls those troops,
ergo, Slobby started and lost the wars.

Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Alabama.   Union/Yankee
troops and paramilitaries attack, and eventually win. Lincoln controls
those troops, ergo, Lincoln started and won the war.

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>   I don't think that Milocevic wishes to start any wars. Why would you
suggest that he wished to start them? Do you have evidence that it was he
that started these wars?


In one sense, NATO started this war in '91 when it recognized Slovenia and
Croatia, thereby touching off the Yugolavian Civil War.

In another sense, the IMF started this war when they crashed the Yugoslav
economy. Before the IMF yanked the rug out, Yugoslavs got along with each
other just fine, even with the ones who raped grandma and burned her
alive, because it was of direct economic advantage of each and every one
of them to do so. They were all living better that they did when they
fought, some very much better.

But in yet another sense, Milosovic started this war because before the
IMF yanked the rug out, long before he was president, he was chief among
the FRY bureaucrats who made the deal that let the IMF get its grip on the
edge of the rug in the first place.

But to hear network news tell it, the war was started three months ago by
"the Serbs," by which they mean "Milosovic" and not "the Serbian people"
who NATO has been murdering wholesale but "has nothing against" because
their beef is "with Milosovic," whom they are distinctly not murdering.

The Serbian people, BTW, are only about 60% ethnic Serb.

"War," as the man said, "is peace."

"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth."

"Ignorance is strength."

"Freedom is slavery."

Oh yeah, and (I almost forgot), "Work makes you free."

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[CTRL] Billionaires

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-- Forwarded message -

  Citation: Forbes Oct 13 1997, v160, n8, p148(2)
Author:  Conlin, Michelle
 Title: When billionaires become a dime a dozen. (includes related
article on criteria used to determine the Forbes
   400)(Forbes 400) by Michelle Conlin

COPYRIGHT 1997 Forbes Inc.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO we started compiling these lists of the 400 richest
Americans. In 1982 we identified 13 Americans as billionaires. This year we
count 170 billionaires. Over the same period the price of admission  to The
Forbes Four Hundred has quintupled, to $475 million.
It would seem that wealth is following a sort of Moore's Law of its own.
Intel's Gordon Moore predicted that silicon power would double every 18
months. If wealth isn't compounding at that rate, it certainly is growing at a
faster clip than at any other time in history. Last year, on average, Bill
Gates' net worth grew by an astounding $400 million every week. Michael Dell's
net worth increased fivefold, to $5.5 billion.
But computer magnates aren't the only people benefiting from the Silicon
Revolution. As we report elsewhere (see p. 98) people in businesses far
removed from computer making and designing are building success by applying
computers to mundane businesses.
Financial services entrepreneurs also made big gains, backing up Peter
Drucker's claim that the retail end of finance will become increasingly
important. This year we add three newcomers from that field: Sanford Weill of
the Travelers Group, Richard Strong of Strong Capital Management and Julian
Robertson of Tiger Management.
Irene Pennington, at 97, becomes the oldest new member in the history  of The
Four Hundred. And one of the feistiest, too. Nine months before  the death of
her husband, oil baron Doc Pennington, the nonagenarian  took control of the
family fortune, promptly fired his cronies and smartly reinvested his $600
million, much of which was thought to have been languishing in local checking
accounts.
Though the stock market boomed and technology soared, economist Joseph
Schumpeter's rule of creative destruction still prevailed. The very factors
that made new enterpreneurs rich swept older entrepreneurs from their perches.
"Some of the wealthy can't stand success," says original Silicon Valley
seed-money man Arthur Rock. "They squander away their assets with bad
investments." Thus 43 of last year's 400 were put out of the club this year.
Of 1982's original 400, only 106 remain on  the list.
Membership seesaws, too. Rock himself fell off the 400 in 1987 but returns
this year, largely on the strength of his Intel holdings. Also returning,
thanks to Walt Disney Co.'s compensation committee: option- supercharged
Michael Eisner.
When he announced that he planned to give $1 billion to United Nations
programs, media magnate Ted Turner said he was deliberately demoting himself
on the list. Until we see the exact color of Ted's money, however, we are
leaving our estimate of his wealth at $3.5 billion and leaving him in 28th
place. If he really does fork over $1 billion in cash or stock, he'll drop
down to the 55th spot.

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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #3

[Anonymous]

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SkeptiNews 990617c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

: Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
: Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning.
: No envenomed reptiles were utilized during production of this bulletin.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# BRAIN SURGERY SANS SCALPEL. New imaging technology and gamma-radiation
  treatments could make the surgical skull saw as obsolete as leeches.
  www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20273.html

# Why size mattered for Einstein. (BBC) The secret of Einstein's immense
  intellect may finally have been found - his brain was wider than average.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_371000/371698.stm

: Would you have liked to have operated on Einstein's brain? Would you use a
scalpel, laser, raygun? Why are they squelching news of his alien implant?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ THE ORGANIZATION PLAN. "One can still ask, all other things being equal,
or else in the long run, or else on the average, what form of organization
of human groups is best? ...I propose to try to learn from human history.
Human history over the last 13,000 years comprises tens of thousands of dif-
ferent experiments. Each human society represents a different natural exper-
iment in organizing human groups. Human societies have been organized very
differently, and the outcomes have been very different. Some societies have
been much more productive and innovative than others. What can we learn from
these natural experiments of history that will help us all get rich? I prop-
ose to go over two batches of natural experiments that will give you ins-
ights into how to get rich." www.feedmag.com/essay/es227_master.html?alert

: Would you rather be judged for success on your wealth, power, technology,
lack of alien interventions, spiritual achievements, sex appeal, meanness?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# US House OKs posting of Ten Commandments. WASHINGTON (AP) Congress, trying
  to deter juvenile crime, voted to permit display of the Ten Commandments
  in schools as lawmakers headed toward a showdown on gun control. One law-
  maker, Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., said recently that if the Ten Commandments
  had been posted at Columbine High School, the April 20 massacre there
  would never have happened. The amendment's sponsor didn't go that far.
  See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559972451-987

: Is Barr a moron? If politicos can lie, steal, adulterize, kill, why can't
kids? Do your belief system's rules affect your behavior? Always? Are alien
implants or HAARP more effective than the various versions of commandments?
Do you prefer Jewish, Christian, Protestant, Adventist, Discordian versions?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Free To Duel, Drink, Beg & Blaspheme. ROME (Reuters) Italians are finally
  free to duel, insult the flag, get drunk or beg nastily without fear of
  criminal conviction. The parliament of this bureaucratic Roman Catholic
  country passed a law decriminalizing some 100 minor offenses, including
  blasphemy and insulting a public official. Drunkenness and "insulting
  behaviour" toward the deceased are no longer crimes, while offering to
  ghost-write a student's thesis and "incitement to libertinism" no longer
  carry prison terms. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990617/10/odd-crimes

: Does your belief system ban these behaviours? Do you follow the rules? Do
you pay more attention to secular, holy or moral laws? What do the voices in
your head tell you? Are they louder when you're drunk? What public official
will you insult, now that it's no longer illegal? Will you duel, beg, fart?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Bigfoot Community Living In Ohio Forest, Say Locals. "I have seen the
  creature nine times," Gilbert said. "I have been in situations that have
  nearly scared me to death." http://www.jeffrense.com/ufo4/bigfootcom.htm

# Dead-Looking Snakes Can Strike Back. BOSTON (Reuters) - Rattlesnakes can
  take revenge on those who attack'em even if their heads have been chopped
  off and they appear to be dead. www.jeffrense.com/ufo4/snakeback.htm

: Would you rather deal with a live Yeti or a dead rattlesnake? Do rattlers
or bigfeet live in your community? Which're more bothersome? Are you biased?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Protestants arrested in Mexico. SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AP) -
  13 Protestants who angered residents of an Indian village in south Mexico
  by trying to build a new church have been arrested. The arrests were yet
  another episode in a long history of religious conflict in the Chiapas
  region. Many residents see their unique mixture of Catholicism and
  traditional Maya Indian beliefs as crucial to cultural survival. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559963470-1c6

: Does your belief system promote cultural genocide? Which cultures would
you like to destroy? Do you need help from Reptoids, Bilderbergers, CIA, m

[CTRL] Ohio OBM '97 CAFR Page

[Anonymous]

http://www.state.oh.us/obm/finfiles/cafr97.htm

Title: Ohio OBM '97 CAFR Page







Ohio Comprehensive Annual Financial Report -
1997 

Complete Ohio 1997 CAFR (1770832 bytes)*
This file contains all sections of the published CAFR for 1997. 

Introductory Section (621332 bytes)*
The introductory section of the CAFR contains the letter of transmittal, pie charts of
expenditures and revenues, certificate of achievement, a listing of state officials, and
an organization chart for Ohio. 

Financial Section 


  Independent Auditors' Report (573672 bytes)* 
  General Purpose Financial Statements (303238 bytes)* 
  Combining Financial Statements and Schedules ( 397725 bytes)* 


Statistical Section (121718 bytes)*
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revenues by source, expenditures by function, bonded debt, personal income, population,
unemployment, etc.

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Re: [CTRL] WHY WHITES ARE LEADERLESS [media lords] get educated b4 it's too late!

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

I think that you have a serious problem sir.
You confuse deliberate machinations of government with its victims.
Keep your prejudice.
Looking for Scapegoats is the Classic occupation of the impotent.

Andrew Hennessey

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[CTRL] Hack-tivism

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>From Christian Science Monitor


> FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1999
>
> e-mail this story to a friend
>
>
> USA
>
> Newest tool for social protest: the Internet
>
> Crashing Web sites, known as 'hactivism,' gains popularity, angers
> traditional activists
>
> Paul Van Slambrouck
> Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
>
> SAN FRANCISCO
>
> 
>
> When the industrial powers and Russia start their annual summit in
> Cologne, Germany, today, protesters will ride bikes in London, perform
> street theater in Chile, and manipulate a giant puppet in San
> Francisco.
>
> Pretty much the usual stuff when the G-8 gathers. But on the fringes
> of this worldwide protest against the forces of "corporate
> globalization" is something new.
>
> It's the fledgling field of "hactivism," which blends Internet
> technology with the social protest producing new tools and methods
> that are not only annoying their targets - usually government and
> institutional Web sites - but also the ranks of traditional activists.
>
> Ricardo Dominguez is a leading proponent of hactivism and his New
> York-based Electronic Disturbance Theater plans to conduct what he
> calls a "virtual sit-in" today at the same as the global protests
> against the G-8.
>
> Mr. Dominguez's target is the Mexican government and its treatment of
> the people of Chiapas. Those who want to join the sit-in are
> encouraged to download free software that allows computers to
> repeatedly call up a Mexican government Web site, thus overloading its
> server and impairing its ability to function.
>
> CHIAPAS: Hactivists, protesting Mexico's treatment of
> Zapatistas (shown), are overloading the government Web site. SCOTT
> SADY/AP/FILE
> --
> --
>
>
> In addition, the theater's "electronic civil disobedience" will
> include a function so participants can ask the government Web site to
> do a search for "truth," presumably to tie it up further and make the
> symbolic point that the government is lying about the Zapatistas.
>
> "Our intent is disturbance. We want to slow [the Web site] down and
> make them aware that there is a large community worldwide that knows
> what they're doing," says Dominguez.
>
> Hactivists are a different breed from pure hackers, who invade
> computer systems usually out of mischief or to demonstrate
> vulnerabilities. But as the tools of hackers become more widely
> available, people with political objectives are increasingly using
> them and the Internet to attack their enemies.
>
> The backdrop to this activism is an exploding use of the Internet by
> social movements. Because it can reach more people, more rapidly and
> less expensively than other forms of communication, the Internet is
> revolutionizing the way activists organize campaigns.
>
> But hactivists like Dominguez are continually searching for more
> potent uses of today's technology to make a statement. He's an actor
> and artist and sees his form of electronic civil disobedience as akin
> to traditional uses of street theater to call attention to social
> problems.
>
> However, many social activists are either ambivalent or downright
> hostile toward this new form of protest.
>
> "I think it's idiotic," says Ted Lewis, director of the Mexico program
> at the Global Exchange, a social-justice group based in San Francisco.
> "The problem with this tool, this use of the Internet, is that it's
> not constructive. To simply close down a Web site is not good Internet
> etiquette and if it gets turned around, it'll hurt free speech on the
> Internet."
>
> The Electronic Disturbance Theater is not alone in disrupting Web
> sites. During the height of NATO's attacks on Yugoslavia, for
> instance, the official NATO Web site was bombarded with requests meant
> to overload it. Dominguez says a group of Serbs and Albanians used EDT
> software for attacks on the NATO site.
>
> David Ronfeldt, a Rand specialist in the use of technology to support
> the Zapatistas in Mexico, says the flooding and defacing of Web sites
> is clearly on the rise. But it is difficult to know which are truly
> organized political acts and which are just lone acts of vandalism.
>
> Further, he says, "it remains to be seen whether they become an
> effective or divisive force" within leftist protest circles.
>
> Harry Cleaver at the University of Texas in Austin has studied the use
> of the Internet and social movements and concludes that the kind of
> actions espoused by EDT have been widely shunned by social activists
> of all stripes. Though it has gained some favor in Italy, attacking
> Web sites is not generally being embraced as a legitimate protest
> tactic, he says.
>
> Some activists see room for attacks on Web sites, but only when it's
> part of a strategy with a clear purpose. "Who does it support? That's
> the key question," says Bob Schmitt, a manager of the Technology
> Project in Helena, Mont.
>
> Dominguez says his grou

[CTRL] Mirror, Mirror

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

>From www.theatlantic.com/issues/99jun/9906mirror.htm

The Mirror of Dorian Gray
> Mirrors never lie, they say. But how much truth do we really want?
>
> by Cullen Murphy
>
> FREUD. Durkheim. Levi-Strauss. Mead. Lorenz. Bettelheim. Spock.
> Skinner. And now the Walter siblings, of Manhattan, whose names may
> one day join these others on the edifice of self-understanding. John
> Walter, whose background is in physics and computer science, and
> Catherine Walter, whose background is in cultural anthropology, are
> the progenitors of the Hair Part Theory, an exploration of
> psycho-behavioral dynamics to which a friend recently drew my
> attention. The Hair Part Theory states,
>
>
>
> The way a person parts [his or her] hair is related to many
> subconscious associations when assessed by others. Each hair part type
> initiates cycles of behavior toward, and response from, the
> individual. Over time, these cycles affect personality development.
>
>
>
> The underlying premise of the Hair Part Theory is that parting one's
> hair on the left calls subliminal attention to left-hemisphere brain
> processes -- associated with logic, verbal acuity, and "activities
> traditionally attributed to masculinity in our culture" -- and tends
> to be regarded as natural for men. Similarly, parting one's hair on
> the right evokes right-hemisphere processes -- associated with visual,
> artistic, and musical skills, and "nonlinear tasks traditionally
> attributed to femininity in our culture" -- and tends to be regarded
> as natural for women.
>
> Discuss this article in Post & Riposte.
>
> More on arts & culture in The Atlantic Monthly and Atlantic Unbound.
>
>
> Related links:
>
> "Hair Part Theory: What Is Your Hair Part Saying About You?", by John
> Walter and Catherine Walter (1998) "The Effects of Hair Parting on
> Social Appraisal and Personal Development."
>
> True Mirror
> The official Web site of the True Mirror, hosted by John and Catherine
> Walter. Features customer testimonials, press releases, the "Hair Part
> Theory," and an order form.
>
>
> I don't intend to get drawn into a debate on differences between the
> sexes; the Hair Part Theory has to do with cultural perceptions, not
> biological realities. The Walters' point is merely that the "wrong"
> hair part can play against type, sometimes in a way that proves subtly
> advantageous but more often in a way that creates vague discomfort in
> onlookers and may lead to being shunned. Being shunned, in turn, may
> reinforce eccentricity and other abnormal behavior.
>
> Margaret Thatcher's left-side part supposedly enhanced her aura of
> strength and will; Hillary Clinton's left-side part seems to produce a
> more brittle version of the same effect. The right-side parts of
> Robert Kennedy, Laurence Olivier, Gary Cooper, and Lou Gehrig added an
> intriguingly soft dimension to otherwise solid, confident personas.
> But Jimmy Carter's right-side part may have reinforced perceptions of
> inadequacy; he didn't switch hair-part side to the left until halfway
> through his presidency -- too late. Overall, six American Presidents
> maintained right-side parts throughout their term in office; three of
> them (James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Warren G. Harding) are
> deemed by historians to be among our worst, and two others (John Tyler
> and Chester Arthur) are deemed to be inconsequential. (The sixth was
> Ronald Reagan.) Bill Clinton's brushed-back coiffure defies rigid
> analysis, but manifests a "right emphasis." Other well-known
> right-parters: Major Frank Burns, of M*A*S*H; John Tesh; MAD
> magazine's Alfred E. Neuman; Al Gore; Macaulay Culkin; Regis Philbin.
> In the movies Clark Kent parts his hair on the right. Appropriately,
> Superman parts his hair on the left.
>
> The origins of the Hair Part Theory lie in John Walter's adolescence,
> when he remedied a seemingly intractable deficiency in social standing
> by the simple expedient of changing his hair part from right to left.
> Simultaneously, Walter experienced an epiphany regarding the insidious
> role played by the common household mirror, which had shown him in
> reverse all those years.
>
> Moved by his experience, Walter embarked on a crusade to create a
> mirror that would show objects not in reverse but as they actually
> appear to observers -- an effect one sometimes encounters accidentally
> through a freak alignment of mirrors in a hotel bathroom. A patent for
> a nonreversing mirror had in fact been issued in England, in 1887; an
> actual prototype has never been found and may never have been made.
> Walter tackled the problem anew. The result is the True Mirror, which
> "shows you what you look like to others" and thus "allows you to gain
> an accurate sense of yourself."
>
> *  *  *
>
>
> Not long ago, finding myself in New York City, where the Walter
> siblings have set up a workshop, I decided to buy a True Mirror. The
> workshop fronted on a dark alley a block or so of

[CTRL] Deja Vu, Deja vu?

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

>From http://www.centraleurope.com/

> Budapest Backs Autonomy Plan For Serbia's Ethnic Hungarians
>
> BUDAPEST, Jun 17, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) Hungarian Prime
> Minister Viktor Orban said Wednesday he backs an autonomy plan
> proposed by a 300,000-member ethnic Hungarian minority in Serbia,
> following the Kosovo crisis.
>
> He called for agreement on the status of the Hungarian community in
> the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina.
>
> "I can see a realistic chance for an accord on the situation of the
> Vojvodina Hungarians as well, in the framework of the Kosovo
> settlement," Orban told state radio.
>
> He welcomed the fact that Vojvodina Hungarians had worked out a
> concrete autonomy plan. "To win the support of Western decision-makers
> for these ideas is the duty and responsibility of the Hungarian
> government," he said.
>
> Budapest has been seriously concerned about the impact of the Kosovo
> crisis on the Vojvodina Hungarians. Hungary joined NATO shortly before
> Operation Allied Force began on March 24.
>
> Vojvodina Hungrian community leader Jozsef Kasza said in Budapest last
> week that the autonomy plan was jointly worked out by Vojvodina ethnic
> Hungarian and Hungarian government experts.
>
> Orban warned that large numbers of Serb settlers could flood into the
> Vojvodina after the Kosovo conflict, citing a similar effect following
> the 1991-95 Bosnian war.
>
> "The 250,000 Serb refugees who settled there considerably spoilt the
> interest-safeguarding capacity of the Vojvodina Hungarians."
>
> "It is a realistic danger that the events of three years ago (after
> the Bosnian war) could be repeated in the Vojvodina, although in a
> less dramatic form," he added.
>
> Ethnic Hungarians currently represent some 18 percent of the
> population of the Vojvodina, a province which enjoyed considerable
> autonomy before Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic scrapped it in
> 1991. ((c) 1999 Agence France Presse)



<>

> U.S. Military Data Cartridge Found On Hungarian Trash Heap
>
> BUDAPEST, Jun 17, 1999 -- (Reuters) A classified U.S. military data
> cartridge has been found in a scrapyard in Budapest, the U.S. embassy
> in Budapest confirmed Wednesday.
>
> The cartridge, labeled "Secret, U.S. Government Property", was found
> in a metal case closed with a digital lock, and was wrapped in a
> mailbag of the U.S. Defense Department, according to news reports.
>
> "U.S. government property marked secret has been found," an embassy
> official confirmed to AFP, declining to give further details.
>
> The cartridge was found by a worker in a scrapyard that collects metal
> from around the Taszar airbase in southern Hungary, used by U.S.
> troops. He took it to a Hungarian TV station, which passed it on to
> the U.S. embassy.
>
> The station broadcast a report on the find, showing the Walkman-sized
> silver and black cartridge, on which could also be read the
> inscription "This medium is classified protected from unauthorized
> disclosure in compliance with applicable executive orders, statutes
> and regulations."
>
> The bag also contained two keys and the password necessary for
> decoding the message on the Colorado DT-1000 type data cartridge,
> according to the TV2 private television station.
>
> But experts, who estimated that the cartridge had been discarded 12-18
> months ago, said it was unlikely non-experts could retrieve the
> information stored in the cartridge.
>
> "The person who stored the keys and the password alongside the
> cartridge failed to respect the most basic rules of secrecy," expert
> Janos Kis told AFP.
>
> The keys, which must be inserted into a special decoder, and the
> secret password which must be typed in to decode the information on
> the cartridge, should not be stored together, he explained.
>
> "But it is highly unlikely that any device used by civilians in
> Hungary could decode or read the data cartridge," Kis said.
>
> The Taszar base has operated since 1995 as a supply base for US troops
> in the International Forces (IFOR), then Stabilization Forces (SFOR)
> peacekeeping forces in Bosnia. From May this year, U.S. marines used
> it for bombing mission in neighboring Yugoslavia.
>
> The TV station involved blacked out the faces of all U.S. officials
> involved, in its report on the find. ((c) 1999 Reuters)


A<>E<>R
~~~
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new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust
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one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller,
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"Everyone has the right...to

Re: [CTRL] UKs imminent slaughter ??

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

hi,

I am always ready to listen to sanity in this mad world, but I do have a
horrible suspicion that I'm right somewhere there - and thanks for the
support there  maybe I'm one of the lost Benjamite Tribe ???
The Columbine High school massacre gun control equivalent was the Dunblane
primary school massacre in Scotland 2-3 years ago ... by a 'loner' with
masonic connections. The immediate effect was to eradicate all guns from
the people of the UK.
I used to think that the UK was always several years behind the USA in terms
of culture, entertainment, social trends, but you've got to hand it to
Death Star UK - its ALL tightly sewn up now.
In keeping with the UNESCO and WHO healthy START, healthy CITIZEN programme,
social devaints a la Global 2000 will be allocated a social worker come
policeman to help them determine their re-education and health needs.
Homeless Bills are on the agenda at the moment, as well as a general trend
in UK TV, Commercial UK MUSIC/POP  to portray Mental Illness in the most
biased and horrific way.
The local mental Hospital has a 'patient tracking unit' - lets put it this
way, it wasn't called 'out patient follow up'
I would not be surprised under those circumstances to hear of someone going
berserk real soon - in fact the UK introduced the new diagnosis of
'Dangerous Personality Disorder' for which diagnosis you can be locked up
indefinitely.
If some 'Dangerous Personality' driven to the brink of madness because of
social injustice to his 'mental' disability, his benefits cut, his pension
stripped under the new legislation, his mental health - perhaps manipulated
by suggestions, programming and other MONARCH stuff - does snap and run amok,
then the quick response will literally be LEGISLATION, TAGGING, TRACKING, and
New Filing Systems - operated from some central facility considered
benevolent.
And unfortunately - the place I fingered Fits the Bill exactly .. :)

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[CTRL] Fwd: RM990617 Irish news - Thursday 17 June

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Sinn Fein News for anyone interested in what is going on in Ireland

Colleen




IRISH NEWS ROUND-UP
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Thursday, 17 June, 1999


1.  BLOODY SUNDAY TRIBUNAL URGED TO APPEAL COURT RULING
2.  Long march
3.  Loyalist supremacy complex
4.  Sinn Fein doubles its vote in 26-County EU elections
5.  O Caolain praise for supporters
6.  Fresh wave of military assaults on Chiapas villages
7.  Analysis: A formidable force


---


>>>>>> BLOODY SUNDAY TRIBUNAL URGED TO APPEAL COURT RULING


 In a ruling which has eroded public confidence in the second inquiry into
 the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, a High Court in London today ruled that 17
 former soldiers should be allowed to remain anonymous when they give
 evidence.

 The soldiers are due to appear before the new Bloody Sunday Inquiry to
 explain their actions on the day in Derry when they shot and killed 14
 peaceful nationalist protestors. The chairman of the new inquiry, Lord
 Saville, had previously ruled that their identities should be disclosed.

 The High Court ruling has been strongly criticised by the families of those
 killed and wounded; they said that the interest of justice had not been
 served.

 The Sinn Fein chairman described the ruling as "a significant blow".
 Mitchel McLaughlin said that he very much hoped that the enquiry would
 challenge the decision.

 The court ruled that the Saville Tribunal's decision was legally flawed,
 when it said that the ex-soldiers, mainly from the Parachute Regiment, must
 reveal their names when they give evidence.

 Last month, Lord Saville, who is chairing the three-man Tribunal of Inquiry
 into Bloody Sunday, ruled that the men should be named, unless there were
 special reasons to justify their anonymity.  The British Ministry of
 Defence challenged Saville's ruling at a cost of over #1 million.

 The families of those killed and wounded on Bloody Sunday said the interest
 of justice had not been served. In a statement, they said that they were
 very disappointed that the High Court in England saw fit to intervene. They
 said that they would make strong representations to the enquiry to appeal
 the decision immediately.

 SMEAR CAMPAIGN

 In another development, families are to take legal action against a second
 English newspaper, which is backing the soldiers in their fight. The
 families have already been granted a temporary injunction against the Daily
 Telegraph prohibiting it from publishing libellous material about the
 relatives of the Bloody Sunday dead.

 They are also applying for a similar injunction against the Daily Mail. In
 the High Court in Belfast today, a lawyer for three relatives applied for
 the injunction against the Daily Telegraph to be made permanent.

 Michael Lavery, QC, said that the British Army was resisting the Saville
 inquiry and was being supported by the Daily Telegraph, which claimed the
 inquiry was a sop to the IRA. He said that the revelation that the names of
 five former soldiers had been given to the families was followed by the
 Daily Telegraph claiming that the names had been passed to the IRA and the
 former soldiers "were as good as dead."

 Their prominent involvement with the Saville inquiry was not out of
 vindictiveness, he said. "It is simply to get at the truth of what happened
 in 1972," said Mr Lavery. "Far from wishing any harm to these former
 soldiers, they are very anxious that no harm should come to them because
 that might frustrate the purpose of the inquiry."


---


>>>>>> Loyalist walk to supremacy


 Loyalists are attempting to up the ante in the run up to Drumcree by
 planning a "long walk" throughout the Six Counties.

 Members of the Protestant Orange Order based at Drumcree have laid siege to
 the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown since their parade was rerouted
 down a parallel road by the independent Parades Commission last July.

 Now loyalists are planning the long walk from Derry on Thursday 24 June
 and after making its way through Limavady, Coleraine, Ballymoney,
 Ballymena, Antrim, Lisburn and Lurgan arrive in Portadown in time for the
 participants to take part in Drumcree march on 4 July.

 Announcing plans for the long march at a press conference yesterday, DUP
 assembly member said "This is only the first stage. There will be another
 in September and a third sometime in the millennium." Spokesperson Jonathan
 Bell added: "No one should be offended if the march passes through
 nationalist areas".

 Berry recently threatened that Orangemen would walk the Garvaghy Road no
 matter what in a clear message that this march has more to do with unionist
 supremacy than civil rights.

 The proposed route for the march, which will also

[CTRL] Cuckoo Over Kosovo

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

Dear Brigade,

"There is, strange to say, an anti-nationalist element on the right,
epitomized
by The Wall Street Journal, that views nation-states as obsolete and
envisions a world without borders governed by free trade and market
principles   Whenever a group like the Serbs threatens this emerging
order
by putting love of country and attachment to the land above the globalist
vision, it becomes necessary to bomb them to an appreciation of
international harmony"...

GO PAT GO
Linda

--

The Boston Herald

June 14, 1999

Why the right went cuckoo over Kosovo

By Don Feder

Now that the war is over, it must be asked why so many conservatives went
cuckoo over Kosovo.

While such stalwarts as Pat Buchanan and House Majority Leader Tom
DeLay were allied with the angels, Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly
Standard, The National Review's John O'Sullivan and the editorial pages of
The Wall Street Journal enlisted in Bill Clinton's cluster-bomb crusade and
clamored for a ground war.

A May 13 ad in The New York Times ("Only Ground Troops Will End Ethnic
Cleansing in Kosovo") saw Kristol and O'Sullivan in bed with such notorious
non-thinkers as Bianca Jagger, Susan Sontag, Michael Lerner and former
U.S. Rep. Stephen Solarz.

The left knew exactly what it was doing. Because America has no security
interests in the Balkans (making our involvement purely philanthropic), the
establishment left embraced it with gusto. At the same time, the anti-war
left
- always suspicious of projections of American power - remained true to its
1960s roots and opposed intervention.

The reaction of many on the right can only be explained as miscalculation, a
tendency to see everything from a Munich-Cold War perspective and a desire
to validate their humanity.

They fail to understand that every tyrant isn't about to plunge the world
into
an inferno.

"This century has taught us where unchecked aggression leads," they
intoned. And if we hadn't stopped Slobo in Kosovo (his own country, lest we
forget), he would have what? Gotten sassy with Montenegro? Menaced
Macedonia?

Intervention was the correct response to communism. Marxism had declared
war on the West. Moscow, which incited and supported Third World
insurgencies, had nuclear weapons and missiles.

In the postwar era, the red tide surged higher and higher. While often
mishandled, our involvement in Korea, Vietnam and Central America were
justified in terms of national survival.

Whatever else he may be, Milosevic is no threat to the West. However
objectionable his methods, in trying to thwart the establishment of another
Islamic republic in Europe, he was doing us a favor.

When the Cold War ended, some conservatives forgot how to think
strategically. Firepower should be saved for real threats (China, for
instance),
not wasted on conflicts that don't concern us.

There is, strange to say, an anti-nationalist element on the right,
epitomized
by The Wall Street Journal, that views nation-states as obsolete and
envisions a world without borders governed by free trade and market
principles.

Whenever a group like the Serbs threatens this emerging order by putting
love of country and attachment to the land above the globalist vision, it
becomes necessary to bomb them to an appreciation of international
harmony.

Finally, many conservatives are driven to prove their virtue.

By supporting the bombing of Yugoslavia, they were in effect saying, "We're
not heartless reactionaries, we care about suffering Albanians and are
willing
to commit America's military might to their succor."

Throughout the Cold War, the left taunted conservatives with the accusation
that they didn't really care about freedom, they just hated communism.
During the Gulf War, it was said the right was willing to trade blood for
oil.

Kosovo gave guilty conservatives a chance to refute these charges.

America doesn't rely on Kosovo's coal mines for energy. The Serbs aren't
part of an international conspiracy. Other than the balderdash about the
Balkans being part of Europe, which interventionists waved feebly from time
to time, it was clear that Kosovo was a charity case. This appealed to
conservatives desperate to prove their altruism.

Some conservatives attempt to establish humanitarian credentials by
supporting open borders. ("Sure we're opposed to affirmative action. But it's
not because we're racists. We favor increased immigration. There's no
reason for America to remain an ethnically European nation.")

The same urge led others to embrace American intervention in a conflict that
could not conceivably be further removed from our vital interests.

Kosovo revealed a fault line on the right. On one side stand the
internationalists and those who share Clinton's conviction that our armed
forces are a social service agency and America must transform the world
into a multicultural college campus. On the other are the nationalists who
believe empir

[CTRL] Nazi Slaves Demand Fair Payment from German Firms

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

Nazi Slaves Demand Fair Payment from German Firms


Reuters
17-JUN-99

BONN, June 17 (Reuters) - Nazi-era slave workers demanded on Thursday that
German firms speed up compensation negotiations and pay all former forced
labourers equally rather than discriminate between those living in the West
and the East.

Former slave workers told a news conference that continuing delays were
hurtful.

"It is making me relive the terror of living in a camp," Salvtore Bertorelli,
who was forced to work for a German chemical firm.

The news conference was held as German Chancellery Minister Bodo Hombach,
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's right-hand man, sat down with industry and
claimants' lawyers in Bonn.

The working group meeting was to discuss how to share out a compensation fund
set up by 16 of Germany's biggest firms.

Last week, the firms announced plans to pay work camp survivors according to
whether they were slaves -- whom the Nazis intended to work to death -- or
forced labourers.

Earlier payments would be deducted and the final amount adjusted for cost of
living differences between eastern Europe and the West.

"This three-way distinction reminds me of the Nazis' separation of people into
categories, sub-human and super-human," said Eduard Szobski, a Pole forced to
work for Daimler-Benz AG, now DaimlerChrysler AG (DCXGn.F).

The German companies also said only survivors imprisoned for more than six
months would be compensated.

The German support group for Nazi-era slave labourers said this plan would not
give the companies immunity from new claims, which is one of the firms' and
German government's main demands.

Lothar Evers, head of the group, said the German government had lost sight of
the key need to compensate the survivors.

"Hombach is only intent on... protecting German industry against U.S. claims,"
Evers said.

Some of Germany biggest firms, such as carmakers BMW AG (BMWG.F) and
DaimlerChrysler and electronics giant Siemens AG (SIEG.F), have pledged to
participate in the fund.

Since the war, the German state has paid substantial sums in compensation to
survivors of Nazi concentration camps, most recently those living in Eastern
Europe, who until the fall of communism had not been recompensed.

U.S. lawyers have submitted their own plan for how the firms' fund should be
distributed. Under this plan, around 1.5 million survivors of Nazi camps would
receive a quick and equal initial minimum payment, with additional
compensation paid to those who suffered particular hardships.

Evers said there could be no final deal until survivors without a U.S. lawyer
were also represented at the talks.

The working group meeting in Bonn on Thursday was the first time the sides had
returned to the negotiating table since U.S. lawyers marched out of talks in
Washington last week in protest against the German plan. A summit is planned
for June 22.

No news conference was planned for after Thursday's meeting.


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Re: [CTRL] WHAT DOES COLUMBINE SAY ABOUT US?

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>   WHAT DOES COLUMBINE SAY ABOUT US?

I once heard that there were 'mad-dog' murderers around even before
there were videogames, movies, TV, cultural corruption? Is this true?

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Re: [CTRL] Milocevic, take a bow.

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- Original Message -
From: Robert Tatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Ric Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > You forgot the partition of Friesland [Frisian language zone] from
> > Holland and Germany; breaking Germany into its old North/Central
> > (Protestant) and South (Catholic) dialect areas; splitting Provence
> > from northern France, Galicia from Spain, Scandia from Sweden, the
> > North Caucasus hodge-podge from Russia; with Corsica and Sardinia
> > set adrift, er granted freedom too; and don't forget the Kurds.
> > And Circassians.  Why, just considering the total fragmentation
> > of Russia into language areas should set cartographers salivating.
>
> Umm. Frisia and Provence actually had occurred to me, but somehow the
> others slipped my mind. BTW, as long as we're adding in the Caucasus,
> I have a feeling that the Kuban will spin off as an autonomous or
> independent Cossack homeland.

There's LOTS of 'homelands' in Russia that'd rather not be run from
Moscow.  The sooner and deeper they're online, the faster they'll be
'free'.  I cooked up a method to destroy the USSR about 20 years ago
but nobody listened: CB radio.  Airdrop tens of thousands of cheap CBs
across the rural regions.  People would grab'em, set up ad-hoc nets
to coordinate their economic and other activities, leapfrogging past
the major development block: lousy communications [roads, phones,
etc].  Moscow only 'controls' that vast landmass by being able to
direct troops & food & fuel & materials from place to place - and
that's never been done well.  Provide people with tools to coordinate
movement, and Moscow is instantly redundant.  Install wireless Net
hookups in all those 'homelands', and the Kremlin loses, big-time.

> > How much will the Reptilioids and Republicans let us get away with?
>
> The prime question here, ISTM, is which of the new microstates will
> become offshore tax and data havens? I can definitely see Padania
> going this way--it already has the bulk of Italy's financial and
> information industry. Slovenia seems to be edging in that direction
> as well.

I don't know if data-sheltering is a good long-term strategy for a
ministate; piss off enough maxistates that way, and they'll exert
pressure [bombs].  Reagan didn't invade Panama JUST to get Noriega.

> But above and beyond such mental maunderings, "virtual states" are a
> reality *now*, becoming more real every time we log onto the Internet.
> The old order is struggling to make its medieval laws adjust to the
> new model, with only mixed success. ...And what happens when the first
> commercial space stations (which are only about ten years away) go
> independent? "Indeed do many things come to pass."

Yup.

> PS: As for the Reptilioids/Republicans, hunt up *Gladiator at Law*
> by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth--long out of print, but VERY
> relevant to our discussions. Note especially the role of the Struld-
> brugs in manipulating the market...

Hmm, I seem to recall that - don't have a copy on hand, but my SF-
writer-inlaws might have it stashed in their massive library.  As for
the "virtual vs physical state" thang, see Heinlein's FRIDAY, eh?

  Ric "my mother was a test-tube, my father was a knife" Carter

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[CTRL] Two Weeks in Rebel Hands Prompts a New View of Colombian Conflict

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Two Weeks in Rebel Hands Prompts a New View of Colombian Conflict


AP
17-JUN-99


CALI, Colombia (AP) -- Two weeks of scaling mountains in the cold and rain,
herded around by leftist insurgents intent on teaching their captives a
lesson, gave Rafael Posada a new view of the Western hemisphere's
longest-running civil conflict.


The rebel National Liberation Army, or ELN, released Posada and 32 other wet,
haggard hostages late Tuesday in mountains south of Cali.


The freed hostages had been among 160 parishioners hustled out of the La Maria
church on Cali's southern edge on May 30 by the country's second-largest rebel
group and trucked into the mountains.


Most of those seized were freed that same day. But at least 20 remain captive.



Posada, a 50-year-old administrator at the CIAT agricultural research
institute in Cali, said the experience gave him a new perspective on
Colombia's nearly four decades of class-based war.


"I always thought that paying my taxes, working hard, being a good father,
that this war wasn't mine. Now I see that this violence is the consequence of
an economic model that doesn't work," said Posada, his face was chafed by sun
and wind.


Introduced to the life of Colombia's rural poor -- with little to eat, not
enough good blankets, sleeping on the floor -- helped him understand what
draws young peasants to the rebels, Posada said.


"When we asked for more blankets they told us 'Thousands of our comrades are
in jails, sleeping on the floor awaiting trial.' When we asked, 'Why are we
here?' they said that theirs was a social movement to do away with injustice
and poverty and that our abduction was part of that," said Posada, who lost
nine pounds during the ordeal.


The ELN also is holding 24 people from an Avianca domestic flight it hijacked
April 12.


The rebels claim the mass abductions are to force President Andres Pastrana's
government to seriously engage it in peace talks. But Roman Catholic officials
on Wednesday accused the ELN of seeking ransoms for some captives.


"They want to make money at the expense of the pain and suffering of the
hostages," said Isaias Duarte Cancino, the archbishop of Cali.


Although admitting privately that ransoms have been sought, no relative of a
hostage still being held has confirmed the ransom requests publicly. No known
ransoms were paid for the hostages that were freed.


"We who were freed think that those who remain captive are going to have to
pay ransoms -- although the guerrillas never told us as much," Posada said,
adding that those still held were "people of means."


The rebels have vowed to release the Avianca hostages later this week,
according to the Colombian and international commission that received the
freed churchgoers.


Cecilia Ruiz, 47, was among those freed Tuesday. Her 20-year-old son Patrick
is still being held.


"Most Colombians who have the means are leaving the country. After this, I
think I would too, if I could," she said. "What future is there for my
children, or grandchildren, growing up in such chaos?"


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[CTRL] WHAT DOES COLUMBINE SAY ABOUT US?

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  WHAT DOES COLUMBINE SAY ABOUT US?

  The president said yesterday that the tragedy at Columbine should make us
look critically at ourselves as a society and as a culture.

  The president saw Tuesday as a day of national shame.  I don't see it
  That way at all.

  I look at Columbine and I am proud to be an American.  I am touched and
  inspired by the goodness and courage of average people, and the extent to
  which decency and faith spring from the American breast.

  I mean no disrespect, and I am not overlooking the great pain Tuesday's
  carnage wrought on so many lives and families, but as I look at what
  happened in Littleton I see proof not that things are going wrong in
  America, but that things are going right.

  Countless people, from Joe and Betty America to their politicians and
  commentators, have waxed gravely about what the Columbine murders "say
about us."  A Utah state legislator said it all started when "they took
prayer out of schools."  Rosie O'Donnell ranted angrily that we must "stand
up to the NRA."  A minister at a Denver memorial service said "gun
manufacturers must be held accountable for this tragedy."

  For two days on my radio show I have heard from people who blame
  abortion, poor parenting, a lack of personal responsibility, Bill Clinton,
liberals in general and a growing lack of spirituality in our society.  Each
of them has seen some great flaw in the American heart that gave rise to the
butchers of Columbine.  And each of them has been wrong.  Because to see the
two murderers and the evil they did as a Product of our national soul, and
then to simultaneously ignore the hundreds of heroes and the goodness they
did is to misrepresent the truth.  If the tiny evil minority is a product of
this society, so too is the overwhelming good majority.

  If you look at our failures, you must also look at our successes.  I'm
  humbled to belong to a society which produced a hero teacher who, shot
  through the chest, his lifeblood glugging away, led a group of students
  to the barricaded safety of a classroom.  For three and a half hours, as he
  knew he was dying, he calmed the students, and gave them direction.

  I am proud to know that my country raised the youngsters who clustered
  around that teacher, tending his wounds as best they could, keeping him
  conscious, using a cellular phone to call paramedics for advice.  I am
  honored to share citizenship with the boy who thought to pull out the
  teacher's wallet so that he might look upon pictures of his family as he
  fought to stay alive.

  It was this culture which produced another teacher, his charges hiding in
  A room, brave enough to stand with nothing more than a fire extinguisher t
to drive away a threat to his students' safety.

  The teen-agers who knelt to shield and comfort their wounded classmates
  Grew up in this society.  As they carried the injured to safety and stopped
to pray with the frightened, they were acting out of a set of values they
  learned as Americans.

  One boy in the library threw themself on top of a fellow student,
  Whispering to her to be calm, saying he would protect her body with his
own.  That boy, that hero, grew up in a world with legal guns, violent video
games, hateful rock'n'roll, no prayer in schools, countless abortions,
grizzly movies, Bill Clinton in the White House and record divorce rates.

  Yet he, and hundreds of others, acted with the purest of human virtues
  And in a noble and selfless fashion.  What does that "say about us?"  It
says We are a good people.  And while we have weaknesses and
challenges, we are fundamentally strong.  Our heart is essentially good, our
children are raised with natural decency.

  Lunch ladies shouted directions for students to flee, ninth graders
  organized into groups for protection, children's cell phones told cops
  where the shooting was and when it had died down.

  And in the wake of it all, children with shattered lives stood before
  cameras and politely and clearly told a nation what they had seen.
  Strong enough to endure, strong enough to witness.  As the tears are wiped
away And the shock and grief begin to fade, Columbine will leave me with
pride. Pride in the students and teachers of that suburban school, one little
  community that represents us all.

  With dignity, compassion and courage.  The America those kids grew up in
helped them to be some of the best and strongest people in the world.
  They are not the product of a failed society, they are the offspring of the
  greatest culture and nation on earth.

  The President who saw no flaw in himself is too quick to see a flaw in
  us.Those who hate our way of life, or who seek to use tragedy to advance
  their political causes, will see deep trouble in the American soul.  But
their
  perception is not true.   It doesn't reflect us, it reflects them.

  This is a good land.  We are a good people.  The children we raise are
  overwhelmingly de

Re: [CTRL] Bush's genealogical chart (from 350 BC)

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- Original Message -
From: Ric Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: Das GOAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > > from:  http://www.totse.com/files/FA020/histchr2.htm
> >
> > What a crock. <...> Posted to any genealogy newsgroup, this would
> > raise gales of disdainful laughter.
>
> tracing back 'n' generations, you have '2^n' ancestors.  Let's say that
> the total number of human beings who've ever lived is roughly 10 billion
> [1^10], and that one generation equals 20 years. Punch the calculator
> and you'll see that 2^33= 0.86^10 and 2^34= 1.72^10 -- thus, somewhere
> between 33 and 34 generations (660-680 years) back, you've most likely
> shared an ancestor with every other human on the planet.

I must correct meself here - I munged the notation.  10 billion is
1E10 not 1^10.  This portion of text, corrected, should read:

: tracing back 'n' generations, you have '2^n' ancestors. Let's say that
: the total number of human beings who've ever lived is roughly 10 billion
: [1E10], and that one generation equals 20 years. Punch the calculator
: and you'll see that 2^33= 0.86E10 and 2^34= 1.72E10 -- thus, somewhere
: between 33 and 34 generations (660-680 years) back, you've most likely
: shared an ancestor with every other human on the planet.

My conclusion stands, even if my memory sucks.

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Re: [CTRL] Milocevic, take a bow.

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> >From: Ric Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> > What hath Milocevic wrought?  Since taking power 12 years ago,
> > he's accomplished a great deal for his people.  He's started
> > and lost four wars.  He's overseen the total breakup of the
> > old Republic of the Southern Slavs, 'balkanized' into its
> > constituent components.
>
> I don't think that Milocevic wishes to start any wars. Why would you
> suggest that he wished to start them? Do you have evidence that it
> was he that started these wars?

Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosova.  Yugoslav/Serb
troops and paramilitaries attack, and eventually lose.  Slobby
controls those troops, ergo, Slobby started and lost the wars.
Give him enough time, and pretty soon, there's no 'there' there.

The question remains: who was/is Milocevic working for?

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[CTRL] Comet Lee on Art Bell's Coast to Coast Last Night

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6/16/99 Wed/Thu: Stewart Best
Website: http://www.truinsight.com

This is a fascinating show about the Comet Lee and it's possible effects on
the Earth later this year.

http://ww2.broadcast.com/artbell/abell/9906/ab0616.ram

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Re: [CTRL] [Re: [CTRL] Milocevic, take a bow.]

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Ric Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You forgot the partition of Friesland [Frisian language zone] from
> Holland and Germany; breaking Germany into its old North/Central
> (Protestant) and South (Catholic) dialect areas; splitting Provence
> from northern France, Galicia from Spain, Scandia from Sweden, the
> North Caucasus hodge-podge from Russia; with Corsica and Sardinia
> set adrift, er granted freedom too; and don't forget the Kurds.
> And Circassians.  Why, just considering the total fragmentation
> of Russia into language areas should set cartographers salivating.
>

Umm. Frisia and Provence actually had occurred to me, but somehow the others
slipped my mind. BTW, as long as we're adding in the Caucasus, I have a
feeling that the Kuban will spin off as an autonomous or independent Cossack
homeland.

> Hmmm, CoEvolution Quarterly / Whole Earth Review devoted an issue
> to Euro.breakup some years back, but I can't locate that just now...
>
> So.  How much self-determination is enough?  How much can you handle?
> Who determines just what "self" is doing the self-determining?  Is
> the age of empires & nations past?  Will a viable New World Order
> consist of zillions of small, homogenous states, within regional
> and global organizations?  Will those statelets be organized as
> cultural regions, bio-regions, virtual regions, industrial zones?
> Will such statelets be truly self-determined, or will they be easy
> pickings for Corporate States that aren't constrained by physical
> boundaries?  Are physical states themselves bound for extinction,
> replaced by virtual states?  How can/do/will humans organize into
> groupings that do things impossible for individuals?
>
> How much will the Reptilioids and Republicans let us get away with?

The prime question here, ISTM, is which of the new microstates will become
offshore tax and data havens? I can definitely see Padania going this way--it
already has the bulk of Italy's financial and information industry. Slovenia
seems to be edging in that direction as well.

But above and beyond such mental maunderings, "virtual states" are a reality
*now*, becoming more real every time we log onto the Internet. The old order
is struggling to make its medieval laws adjust to the new model, with only
mixed success. ...And what happens when the first commercial space stations
(which are only about ten years away) go independent? "Indeed do many things
come to pass."

Bob

PS: As for the Reptilioids/Republicans, hunt up *Gladiator at Law* by Frederik
Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth--long out of print, but VERY relevant to our
discussions. Note especially the role of the Struldbrugs in manipulating the
market...


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> >When finished, the map of Europe will be a patchwork bearing little
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> Divide and conquer.  No rival "superstates" possible if they're all
> "ministates."

In a wired world, territorial entities are at a terrible disadvantage
compared to virtual/corporate entities.  The 'state', mini or maxi,
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anywhere soon."  A virtual entity can relocate quickly.  Territorial
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>When finished, the map of Europe will be a patchwork bearing little
>resemblance to the national borders we've become used to

Divide and conquer.  No rival "superstates" possible if they're all
"ministates."

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>From: Ric Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


> What hath Milocevic wrought?  Since taking power 12 years ago,
> he's accomplished a great deal for his people.  He's started
> and lost four wars.  He's overseen the total breakup of the
> old Republic of the Southern Slavs, 'balkanized' into its
> constituent components.

   I don't think that Milocevic wishes to start any wars. Why would you
suggest that he wished to start them? Do you have evidence that it was he
that started these wars?

Howard Davis

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[CTRL] Tanzania: Sex Workers Swarm Refugee Camps, Says UNDP

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Tanzania: Sex Workers Swarm Refugee Camps, Says UNDP


Inter Press Service
16-JUN-99

DAR ES SALAAM, (Jun. 16) IPS - A new study by the U.N. Development Program
(UNDP) shows an increase in the number of commercial sex workers in refugee
camps in Tanzania.

Hundreds of women from rural and urban Tanzania are streaming into refugee
camps in western Kigoma, a province on the border with Burundi and the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to practice commercial sex.

The camps host more than 70,000 refugees from Burundi and the DRC.

"Women craving for wealth are driven by the huge salaries paid to workers of
the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other international and
local Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working in the camps," says the
study, made available to IPS.

"The big salaries paid to UNHCR and NGOs workers have stirred an influx of
women dreaming to become rich over night through commercial sex," says the
study, conducted by a team of UNDP officials.

The trade has attracted women of all social classes, from bar maids,
housewives to clerks who turn into hookers at night to supplement their meager
incomes, in a country where the minimum wage of 30,000 shillings is hardly
enough to feed a family of four.

One US Dollar is equal to 1,260 Tanzania shillings.

The influx has sparked fears about the spread of AIDs in the refugee camps.

Kigoma has been ravaged by the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
since the first case of the disease was diagnosed in the East African country
in 1983. As of January this year, the Lake Tanganyika province had 2,287
cumulative hospital reported cases of AIDS, according to the UNDP survey.

The study shows that during the day Kigoma's fishing, mining and commercial
centres conduct normal trading activities "but become hot spots for commercial
sex at night."

"Interaction of Kigoma people with refugees and the migration of youths from
rural to urban centres has fuelled the vulnerability of people to HIV/AIDS
infection as guest houses are mostly used for commercial sex," says Elly
Ndyetabura, a UNDP program officer.

The booming sex industry has its roots on grinding poverty -- up to 50 percent
of Tanzania's 32 million population live below the poverty line.

The situation has further been compounded by the fact that thousands of
youths, unable to obtain jobs in the tight labor market, dodge economic
hardships in the rural areas and flock to urban centres hoping to lead better
lives.

While in the city, they turn to crime and prostitution in order to earn a
living.

"The uncontrollable rural-urban movement of youths is not only a headache to
economic planners but also an obstacle to health-care delivery, particularly
the struggle to contain the spread of HIV/AIDS infection in a country with a
crippling eight-billion-US-dollar foreign debt," says Ndyetabura.

His colleague, Walter Mazzuki, a UNDP program officer, says moral decay and
illiteracy have also contributed to the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS
infection in Kigoma as girls begin practicing sex at the tender age of 13 or
14 years.

He says the practice has resulted into a sharp increase in the number of
diagnosed AIDS cases in the age group 15 for women and between 25 and 34 for
men.

"Sex at a tender age has contributed to increased school drops-outs among
girls due to pregnancies and an increasing number of deliveries outside
marriages," he explains.

Kigoma provincial medical officer, Godfrey Mbaruku, says poor coordination and
a lack of commitment by policy makers and government officials have hampered
the fight to contain the spread of HIV/AIDS in the region.

"Knowledge and understanding of HIV/AIDS is very limited among community
members and the leaders at all levels," he says.

Tanzania, which hosts up to 800,000 refugees from neighboring countries, has
1.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS.








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From: Robert Tatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Ric Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > What hath Milocevic wrought?  Since taking power 12 years ago,
> > he's accomplished a great deal for his people.  He's started
> > and lost four wars.  He's overseen the total breakup of the
> > old Republic of the Southern Slavs, 'balkanized' into its
> > constituent components.  He's seen Serbs expelled from those
> > breakaway states by the hundreds of thousands, seen thousands
> > more suffer from atrocities at the hands of vengeful non-Serbs
> > in retribution for the atrocities of Serb soldiers and militias.
> > He's given the remaining Serbs a land that's shrunken, shattered,
> > impoverished, emasculated, isolated, reviled; its infrastructure
> > destroyed; its fields and waters poisoned; its literati purged;
> > its role as a regional power minimized.  He's fucked the Serbs.
> >
> > Could one man be this incompetent, all on his own?  Was he
> > driven only by a greed for power, to transform himself from a
> > communist aparatchik into a suicidal nationalist?  Or has he
> > achieved his goal: the denaturing of Serbia?  Who does he work
> > for, really?  Whose interests are served by turning the Balkans
> > into a swarm of microstates; by inserting Mujahadin activists
> > and NATO soldiers into Southeast Europe; by demonstrating that
> > Russia is defanged, impotent, irrelevant to European affairs?
> >
> > For two millennia, the former Yugoslavia was the fault line
> > between Western and Eastern Europe; for 3/4 of that time, the
> > knife-edge between Catholic & Orthodox Xianity; for 2/3 of that
> > time, the spear-point where Islam prods Xianity.  Like Palestine
> > where the 3 continents of Europe, Asia and Africa converge, the
> > Balkans are deceptively complex - often a neglected backwater,
> > sometime the strategic bone of contention between multiple
> > forces.  Events there are not just of local concern, they echo
> > and reverberate around the world.  Players there become global
> > actors.  Who fed Milocevic his script?  Who directed the play?
> >
> > Milocevic, take a bow.  You've played your part superbly.
> >
> I sense, as others have, a scheme to complete the work begun at
> Versailles in 1919--the concentration of each ethnic, linguistic,
> and/or cultural group in Europe into its own ministate. It was
> this notion of Wilson that provoked Clemenceau's famous *mot*,
> "What! Must every little language have its own country?"
>
> When finished, the map of Europe will be a patchwork bearing
> little resemblance to the national borders we've become used to:
> the "United Kingdom" will be splintered into separate English,
> Welsh, Scottish, and Northern Irish states; Northwest Spain and
> Southwest France will become an independent Basque state; Cata-
> lonia will be independent; Italy will be split into at least
> two new states, Padania in the north and a rump state approxi-
> mating the ancient Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in the south; the
> German-speaking South Tyrol may reunite with Austria. Belgium
> will divide into at least two new states, one Flemish (Dutch)
> speaking and one French. In Eastern Europe, in addition to the
> dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Hungarian-speaking regions of
> Romania (Transylvania), Slovakia, and Serbia (Vojvodina) will be
> merged with Hungary. Greater Albania will be reconstituted by
> adding Kosova and the parts of Macedonia and Greece that were
> stripped away in the 19th century. In Northern Europe, the Sami
> (Lapp) territories in the north of Finland, Sweden, and Norway
> will be at least autonomous, possibly independent. Karelia (the
> historic Finnish homeland, since 1940 part of Russia) will prob-
> ably be returned to Finland. Of Europe's multilingual states,
> only Switzerland will survive intact.
>
> Any comments?

You forgot the partition of Friesland [Frisian language zone] from
Holland and Germany; breaking Germany into its old North/Central
(Protestant) and South (Catholic) dialect areas; splitting Provence
from northern France, Galicia from Spain, Scandia from Sweden, the
North Caucasus hodge-podge from Russia; with Corsica and Sardinia
set adrift, er granted freedom too; and don't forget the Kurds.
And Circassians.  Why, just considering the total fragmentation
of Russia into language areas should set cartographers salivating.

Hmmm, CoEvolution Quarterly / Whole Earth Review devoted an issue
to Euro.breakup some years back, but I can't locate that just now...

So.  How much self-determination is enough?  How much can you handle?
Who determines just what "self" is doing the self-determining?  Is
the age of empires & nations past?  Will a viable New World Order
consist of zillions of small, homogenous states, within regional
and global organizations?  Will those statelets be organized as
cultural regions, bio-regions, virtual regions, industrial zones?
Will such statelets be truly self-determined, o

[CTRL] Africans Want World Bank, IMF Refrormed

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Africans Want Bretton Woods Institutions Refrormed


Africa News Service
14-JUN-99

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (PANA) (Panafrican News Agency, June 13, 1999) -
African researchers have ended a symposium in Ouagadougou on international
monetay policy by calling for the need and urgency for reform of the Bretton
Woods institutions and curre nt economic order.

Convinced that the current world economy is based on competition, the
participants recommended that debts owed by African countries be cancelled or
suspended until their economies reach a level of efficiency that can make
these states solvent.

The symposium, on the theme: Rethinking the Bretton Woods Institutions from
Africa, was held 9-11 June under the auspices of the Dakar-based Council for
the Development of Social Science Research in Africa known as CODESRIA.

(The Bretton Woods institutions are IMF and the World Bank).

It urged member states to actively participate in the drawing up of a new
world economic system.

To achieve that goal, the symposium called for the strengthening of the
capacities of African financial institutions to prepare them to negotiate with
the Bretton Woods institutions.

The experts, therefore, urged decision-makers in Africa to establish a
research group to chart the continent's future.

They also recommended the creation of a "world economic security system" that
would have the task of preventing Africa against the risks it is particularly
exposed to.

The researchers suggested that African nations move "irreversibly" toward
economic and monetary integration as they enter the 21st century.

Established in Dakar in 1973, CODESRIA is an independent body grouping African
researchers in social sciences.

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[CTRL] ACTION PLAN: Executive Orders -- Please Read Very important

[Anonymous]

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Independent  American Party of the U.S.  ACTION PLAN: Executive Orders
http://www.usiap.org/actionitems/executiveorders.html
By Elizabeth Christman (MARYLAND)


ACTION PLAN

Recently Congressman Jack Metcalf (R-2-WA) introduced H.Con.Res 30.
This vital legislation reasserts the role and responsibility of Congress to
enact laws and appropriate federal dollars. It would curb the
infringement of executive power on legislative authority. Furthermore,
H.Con.Res 30 will clarify any confusion regarding EOs, by emphasizing
Congressional authority granted under Article I, sec 8 of the Constitution.

EOs are not authorized by the Constitution. It is time for Congress to
address this issue of balance among the three branches of the
government.

Currently, 46 Congressman have co-sponsored this bill and need more if
we hope to have the Speaker take it to a floor vote. It is currently in
the Judiciary Committee, Constitution Sub-Committee.

If you are concerned about Executive Orders, please do the following:
1. Contact your congressperson and urge them to co-sponsor this bill.
2. Contact Congressman Charles Canady
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chairman of the Constitution
Sub-Committee and urge him to co-sponsor, bring it up for a vote
with the full committee and report out of sub-committee for a vote
to the House floor.
3. Contact Speaker Hastert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and urge him
to bring the resolution to the floor for a vote.


Clinton's Executive Orders  [Excellent Overview, well-written -- Tam]

Is Congressional Authority Slipping? Unfortunately the answer is yes.
Faced with a Congress unwilling to grant him super legislative powers
the President has unleashed a barrage of Executive Orders (EOs). In
fact, he has issued more than 281 of them since taking office. Many of
these infringe on the powers and duties reserved exclusively for
Congress as dictated by the U.S. Constitution. In fact one EO was
rescinded last year due to its disregard for Congressional Authority.

Our founding fathers divided the government into three separate but
coequal branches. It was their intention that all legislative powers be
vested in the Congress. Furthermore, the framers specifically gave the
responsibility of spending taxpayer dollars to the people’s
representatives. The President is overstepping the constitutional power
of his office, by issuing EOs which require the expenditure of federal
funds.

The American Heritage Rivers Initiative (AHRI) is a great example of our
current President usurping the legislative power of the Congress. AHRI
was born when President Clinton signed EO 13061. It is a fact that the
Constitution requires Congress to first approve all revenue spending. EO
13061 also gives the President the power to reprogram government funds
and spend taxpayer money for a project (AHRI) without Congress even
having the chance to debate the initiative. I am disturbed that the
President continues to try to supersede the Constitution by instituting
broad policy initiatives like AHRI.

By EO 13061, Clinton purported to give himself the power to take over 10
rivers a year (later extended to 14), whose adjacent lands of
indeterminate size would be put under the control of Clinton-appointed
River Navigators, each with a salary of $100,000. Congress never
authorized this land grab or appropriated any money for it, so Clinton
says he will divert funds from 12 departments.

This Rivers EO takes governing authority away from states and
localities. It threatens private property rights guaranteed by the
Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

Clinton's surprise grab of 1.7 million acres of Utah land for a national
park in 1996 just happened to include a trillion dollars worth of
clean-burning, low-sulfur hard coal. Clinton's removal of this huge
natural resource from commercial availability tremendously enhanced the
value of the second largest source of environmentally-safe coal, which
just happens to be owned by Clinton's Indonesian friends the Riadys, who
gave millions of dollars to Clinton's presidential campaigns in 1992 and
1996.

For the Mexican and Brazilian bailouts, Clinton used executive authority
to raid a U.S. Treasury Department fund set up in the 1930s for the
specific purpose of being available to stabilize the U.S. dollar. The
President certainly was not authorized to give this money to foreign
governments so they could make their loan payments due to Treasury
Secretary Robert Rubin's old firm, Goldman Sachs.

Clinton's EO 12919 of June 3, 1994, entitled National Defense Industrial
Resources Preparedness, asserts plenary and dictatorial authority over
citizens, food, transportation, energy, health, contracts, materials and
resources, to be exercised by the National Security Council and FEMA
(Federal Emergency Management Agency). Many wonder if this EO's real
purpose is to grab emergency powers if we are bitten by the Y2K bug.

BACKGROUND OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS

Many citizens may wonder, what are Executive Orders and where d

[CTRL] Fw: AANEWS for Thursday, June 17, 1999

[Anonymous]

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from: AMERICAN ATHEISTS
subject: AANEWS for June 17, 1999

 A M E R I C A N   A T H E I S T S
 AANEWS
  #591 ~~ 6/17/99
http://www.atheists.org
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 http://www.americanatheist.org

-
   A Service of AMERICAN ATHEISTS
   "Leading The Way For Atheist Civil Rights
And The Separation Of State and Church"
--

   In This Issue...
   * Aderholt Commandments Act passes in House
   * Picket the Promise Keepers, June 26 in Detroit!
   * Government aid to religious schools -- what's your opinion?
   * Resources
   * About this list...

   HOUSE APPROVES TEN COMMANDMENTS DISPLAY IN STATES

The House of Representatives today voted to pass legislation which
allows states to display the Ten Commandments in public school
classrooms and other official government venues.  Introduced as the
Ten Commandments Defense Act by Rep.  Robert Aderholt of Alabama, the
measure was approved 248-180, and was an amendment on a larger package
of juvenile justice and gun control legislation still being debated.

On Wednesday night, Aderholt told the House that the nation "was
founded upon Judeo Christian principles," and that his proposal --
which would legalize the display by states of the Decalogue on public
property -- did not favor one religion over another.  "We have freedom
of religion," declared the combative Alabama congressman, "not freedom
from religion."  Rep.  Bobby Scott (D-Va.) then rose, and pointed out
that the act would have little or no impact on juvenile crime, and
clearly violated the separation of church and state.  "I understand
that simply posting the Ten Commandments will not instantly change the
moral character of our nation," replied Aderholt.  "However, it is an
important step to promote morality, and an end of children killing
children."

The Ten Commandments Defense Act was bogged down last year as
legislators took up the matter of the Starr report and the Clinton
impeachment fiasco.  Aderholt had succeeded in persuading
representatives and senators, though, to pass a measure recommending
that the Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms, government
buildings and other official venues.  That non-binding resolution was
in support of Alabama county judge Roy Moore, who has attracted
national coverage for displaying a copy of the Commandments in his
courtroom, and opening judicial proceedings with a Baptist invocation.

In the wake of the Columbine High School shootings in April, Aderholt
persuaded key Republicans, including members of the "Values and Action
Team" (VAT) to fast-track the Decalogue proposal.  Unlike the
non-binding capitol resolution which simply supported and
"recommended" the display of the Commandments, the Ten Commandments
Defense Act would have given the states power to erect such monuments.

Dan Carney, an analyst with Congressional Quarterly, told CSPAN that
the Aderholt act was attached as an amendment to the juvenile justice
crime bill, with the latter becoming "a catchall for everyone's
personal agenda."  A slew of other amendments attempted to condemn the
entertainment industry, or propose rating controls on movies, videos
and even musical lyrics.

Legislators divided sharply over Aderholt's proposal.  Ten
Commandments supporter Rep.  Bob Barr (R-GA) said recently that had
the Decalogue been displayed at Columbine High School, the shootings
there in April would not have occurred.  Democrats like Rep.  Jerrold
Nadler of New York, though, warned that the proposal excluded millions
of Americans, and asked, "Whose Ten Commandments?  The Christian
version, the Protestant version or the Jewish version?  They're
different, you know."

Even if the measure wins support in the Senate and becomes law, it is
sure to be challenged in the courts.  In 1980, the U.S.  Supreme Court
struck down as unconstitutional a Kentucky law which required schools
to post a copy of the Decalogue in all classrooms.  Courts have ruled,
however, that in courthouses or other settings the Commandments may be
displayed if they are "secularized" as part of a setting with other
documents such as state constitutions or the Bill of Rights.

 **

  AMERICAN ATHEISTS TO PROTEST PROMISE KEEPERS "SOLEMN
  ASSEMBLY," SATURDAY, JUNE 26 IN DETROIT

American Atheists will hold a peaceful protest at the Promise Keepers
rally in Detroit, Michigan on Saturday, June 26, 1999.  The
demonstration will take place outside the Joe Louis Arena, from 10:00
a.m.  to 1:00 p.m.  Appropriate signs and banners will be provided in
keeping with the theme of this demonstration, and members and
supporters of American Atheists are cordially invited.

We'll meet on the ground level sidewalk across the street from the
main entrance ticket office, ground level.  This is a peaceful
demonstrat

Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] Milocevic, take a bow.]

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

Ric Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  -Caveat Lector-
>
> What hath Milocevic wrought?  Since taking power 12 years ago,
> he's accomplished a great deal for his people.  He's started
> and lost four wars.  He's overseen the total breakup of the
> old Republic of the Southern Slavs, 'balkanized' into its
> constituent components.  He's seen Serbs expelled from those
> breakaway states by the hundreds of thousands, seen thousands
> more suffer from atrocities at the hands of vengeful non-Serbs
> in retribution for the atrocities of Serb soldiers and militias.
> He's given the remaining Serbs a land that's shrunken, shattered,
> impoverished, emasculated, isolated, reviled; its infrastructure
> destroyed; its fields and waters poisoned; its literati purged;
> its role as a regional power minimized.  He's fucked the Serbs.
>
> Could one man be this incompetent, all on his own?  Was he
> driven only by a greed for power, to transform himself from a
> communist aparatchik into a suicidal nationalist?  Or has he
> achieved his goal: the denaturing of Serbia?  Who does he work
> for, really?  Whose interests are served by turning the Balkans
> into a swarm of microstates; by inserting Mujahadin activists
> and NATO soldiers into Southeast Europe; by demonstrating that
> Russia is defanged, impotent, irrelevant to European affairs?
>
> For two millennia, the former Yugoslavia was the fault line
> between Western and Eastern Europe; for 3/4 of that time, the
> knife-edge between Catholic & Orthodox Xianity; for 2/3 of that
> time, the spear-point where Islam prods Xianity.  Like Palestine
> where the 3 continents of Europe, Asia and Africa converge, the
> Balkans are deceptively complex - often a neglected backwater,
> sometime the strategic bone of contention between multiple
> forces.  Events there are not just of local concern, they echo
> and reverberate around the world.  Players there become global
> actors.  Who fed Milocevic his script?  Who directed the play?
>
> Milocevic, take a bow.  You've played your part superbly.
>
I sense, as others have, a scheme to complete the work begun at Versailles in
1919--the concentration of each ethnic, linguistic, and/or cultural group in
Europe into its own ministate. It was this notion of Wilson that provoked
Clemenceau's famous *mot*, "What! Must every little language have its own
country?"

When finished, the map of Europe will be a patchwork bearing little
resemblance to the national borders we've become used to: the "United Kingdom"
will be splintered into separate English, Welsh, Scottish, and Northern Irish
states; Northwest Spain and Southwest France will become an independent Basque
state; Catalonia will be independent; Italy will be split into at least two
new states, Padania in the north and a rump state approximating the ancient
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in the south; the German-speaking South Tyrol may
reunite with Austria. Belgium will divide into at least two new states, one
Flemish (Dutch) speaking and one French. In Eastern Europe, in addition to the
dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Hungarian-speaking regions of Romania
(Transylvania), Slovakia, and Serbia (Vojvodina) will be merged with Hungary.
Greater Albania will be reconstituted by adding Kosova and the parts of
Macedonia and Greece that were stripped away in the 19th century. In Northern
Europe, the Sami (Lapp) territories in the north of Finland, Sweden, and
Norway will be at least autonomous, possibly independent. Karelia (the
historic Finnish homeland, since 1940 part of Russia) will probably be
returned to Finland. Of Europe's multilingual states, only Switzerland will
survive intact.

Any comments?

Bob

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Re: [CTRL] Fw: Food for thought

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

- Original Message -
From: day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> > The Balkanization of America
<...>
> > There it is. There is the glue that made us The United States of
> > America. Our Christian faith and heritage is the cement that united
> > people of different ethnicity and culture. Past immigrants assimilated
> > themselves into a common American culture. Our grandparents were free
> > to worship God in their own way but they understood that faith in God
> > and the Christian value system were at the heart of this country's
> > existence. All that is lost to us today. There is no Christian culture
> > in the mainstream of American society today. The departure of our
> > common heritage is turning our nation into the western Balkans.

And here we have it: The Big Lie.  "Murka wuz a xian cuntry but now
all the spiks'n'spooks'n'raggys'n'qweerz are tearing out our gutz."
[Slightly paraphrased]  A lightly-disguised call for a State Church,'
which of course is unconstitutional; so if the author of the above
ever took an oath to Protect and Defend the US Constitution, that
oath was shredded with the expression of that sentiment.

The Big Lie.  And the truth?  America has never been a 'christian'
nation.  Pre-independence, the British North American colonies were
primarily Protestant - but not monolithically.  Scads of competing
sects, all denouncing each other, purging themselves of dissenters,
provoked fierce conflict between High-Churchers & Low-Churchers &
Non-Conformists.  The Founders were a loose collection of theists,
deists and atheists.  Around the time of the US Civil War, increasing
numbers of Catholics immigrated - and were often portrayed by their
Prod brethren as pagan, polytheistic, even subhuman [see the images
of the Irish as apes in newspaper cartoons of the day.]  Pre-TV,
there was no "common American culture" - the various regions kept
distinct dialects, values, politics, preferences.  Even now, with
the nation wired up the yazoo, commonality of culture exists mainly
in shopping malls and cinemaplexes - see THE NINE NATIONS OF NORTH
AMERICA for an explication of the diversity.

What's the main factor common to most Americans?  FLIGHT!  We or our
ancestors fled from somewhere, 'escaping' from the draft, bad debts,
bad marriages, bad weather, bad faith, bad something-or-other.  And
of course many were brought here involuntarily, and have/had nowhere
to return.  So we're looking over our shoulders at a grim past.  THAT
is what binds us together - not an agreement as to the number, nature
and intentions of whatever deities we can imagine.

The Big Lie.  It's the shout of conspirators, demagogues, power-heads.

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Re: [CTRL] Feds Selling Armor-Piercing Bullets

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

Nothing is done by accident; for instance years ago, the US government
sold old paper money to a man from Texas.rather than burn the stuff
it was shredded and sold Why?  The environment and smoke pollution.

I called the Secret Service after my sister gave me a jar of paper
supposedly consisting of the remains of a million dollars, and asked
what the biggest secret was, in making money.

Why the paper, of course.so this paper could be recycledand of
course this was in a time frame when the CIA was making phoney money,
maybe not phoney money, but real money using old plates, which they used
overseas.

Now all this stuff is illegal; and there is not a law on the books that
protects any government agent and that is why when  an agent is caught
breaking the law, they don't know you now.

I wonder if the Feds still sell that guy in Dallas the paper
money.and as for the Talon Company - did they buy the brass bullets
on a bid, or is this just another front organization for the MAFIA/CIA
organization...

Frankly, it seems to me our government is getting a little lax when it
permits neutron bomb secrets to lie around where the Chinese can "steal"
them; and when they sell old ammunition which is supposed to be
"recycled" and is not, and when they permit their troops to be used to
protect what at the US Open.may
be it is Tiger Woodsdid you go to Muirfield where from his last game
at Muirfield, he went from 60th place to number one this daybut a
lot of people wondered about his being spoon fed informationwell it
was a good course, but when VJ Singh insisted they pull up a flag, and
something was wrongwell let us say Woods is not that good  - depends
on which way the wind is blowing...but one wonder why VJ Singh had them
pull a flag, only to find something was wrongwhat was it, I
wonder.and now troops at the US Open?   Does this mean Tiger Woods
is just another political pawn who was let in to spice up the game of
golf and the next step is the riots?

The game of Golf now needs protection; the game meant for
gentlemanwhat happened - if you had seen Tiger's display at the end
of the game, well - golf thanks to Tiger's PR men, is turning into World
Wide Wrestlingbut some of the old pros, I believe, have withheld
their talents long enough.  And now is a war to begin at the US Open?
Will they send in Black Panzers - to protect the game of golf?  Too late
I am afraidit is no longer a gentlemans game...Fuzzy Zoeller in his
own way was rightGolf is now going to be used to promote race
relations - forget class and watch now for Tiger's club throwing
everytime he meets defeatand check those balls for magnetswonder
what made all those poles stick.

So, Golfersthe Yankees are comingthe men in black and the black
helicopters, at the game where Eisenhower once said "I hope golf is
always a gentleman's game".

Well thanks to Tiger Woods, it is not - look for more club throwing,
fist shakingbut do not look anymore for the good ones to hold
backwhy the troops at the US Open?   Just getting ready for golf to
turn into soccerthe hucksters have arrived - or perhaps someone else
realized what happened at Muirfield.

Colleen

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[CTRL] Fwd: S&B #2 (1833-1985)

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YALE SKULL AND BONES MEMBERSHIP LIST (1833-1985)

Name  YEAR INITIATED

James Kittredge Lombard  S&B 1854
Cornelius Ennis Lombardi S&B 1911
George B. Longstreth S&B 1930
David B. LonsdorfS&B 1973
Allen M. LookS&B 1927
Frank Byron Look S&B 1930
Charles Edwin Lord   BB/S&B 1949
Franklin Atkins Lord S&B 1898
George DeForest Lord S&B 1854
Oswald B. Lord   FR/S&B 1926
William Galey Lord   S&B 1922
Winston Bao Lord BB/S&B 1959/TC
David Harold LorensonS&B 1979
Vernon R. Loucks, Jr.S&B 1957
Anthony Hookey Loughran  S&B 1957
Ralph Frank Love S&B 1951
Winslow Meston Lovejoy   S&B 1925
Joseph LovellS&B 1844
August Sidney Lovett S&B 1913
Robert Ambercrombie Lovett   CFR/S&B 1918
Sidney LovettS&B 1950
Henry Robinson Luce  BB/CFR/S&B 1920
Charles Pinckeny Luckey  S&B 1950
Charles Pinckney Luckey  S&B 1923
William Ludden   S&B 1850
Chauncey F. Lufkin   S&B 1951
Dan Wende Lufkin S&B 1953
Elgood Moulton LufkinS&B 1925
Peter Wende Lufkin, Sr.  S&B 1949
Richard John Luman   S&B 1925
Richard Anthony Lumpkin  S&B 1957
Stover Boardman Lunt S&B 1921
Peter A. LuskS&B 1960
William Thompson LuskS&B 1924
Karl Evan Lutz   S&B 1972
William A. Lydgate   S&B 1931
Chester Smith Lyman  S&B 1837
Chester Wolcott LymanS&B 1882
Dennis Patrick Lynch S&B 1964
R. Vincent Lynch S&B 1945
Charles James Lynde  S&B 1838
George Armstrong LyonS&B 1900
Ranald MacDonald II  S&B 1915
Richard J. MacDonald S&B 1972
Richard Gesrtle Mack S&B 1948
Kenneth Malcolm MacKenzieS&B 1975
Kenneth MacLean, Jr. S&B 1961
Archibald MacLeish   S&B 1915
William H. MacLeish  S&B 1950
George Boardman MacLellanS&B 1835
George Boardman MacLellanS&B 1858
Alexander MacWhorter S&B 1842
B. Patrick MaddenS&B 1969
John Beckwith Madden S&B 1941
P. Patrick MaddenS&B 1969
Thomas Skinner Maffitt   S&B 1899
James McDevitt Magee S&B 1899
John Gillespie Magee S&B 1906
Benjamin Drake Magruder  S&B 1856
Guy Ward Mallon  S&B 1885
Henry Neil MallonS&B 1917
John Howard Mallon   S&B 1919
Thomas Ridgway MallonS&B 1945W
Barton Lee Mallory, Jr.  S&B 1928
William Neely MalloryS&B 1924
Terence R. MalloyS&B 1956
William DeForest Manice  S&B 1851
Newton Spaulding Manross S&B 1850
Howard Mansfield S&B 1871
Hirman Edward Manville, Jr.  S&B 1929
Daniel March S&B 1840
David Leonard Marinelli  S&B 1978
Vicent Marmaduke S&B 1852
William Lee MarshS&B 1963
John Birnie Marshall S&B 1953
Samuel Davies Marshall   S&B 1833
George Greene Martin S&B 1893
George Lockwood Martin   S&B 1836
Joseph Howard Marvin S&B 1876
Joseph Howard Marvin S&B 1836
Alfred Bishop Mason  S&B 1871
Henry Burratt Mason  S&B 1870
Frederick Ellsworth Mather   S&B 1833
Craig MathewsS&B 1951
Philip Mathias IIS&B 1955
Francis Otto Matthessen  S&B 1923
Albert Matthews  S&B 1842
Fred W. Mattlin  S&B 1973
Charles Theodore Mayer   S&B 1951
Michael B. Mayor S&B 1959
William Andrew McAfeeS&B 1982
Alexander McAndrew   S&B 1913
Wilber McBride   S&B 1882
Jonathan Evans McBridge  S&B 1964
Henry McCall S&B 1840
Revell McCallum  S&B 1924
Robert Davis McCallum, Jr.   S&B 1968
C

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[Anonymous]

Title: 








YALE SKULL AND BONES MEMBERSHIP LIST (1833-1985)

Name  YEAR INITIATED

William M. Bolos (Bouliaratis)   S&B 1947
Frederick Randolph Abbe  S&B 1848
Donlan Vincent Aberg, Jr.S&B 1952
Peter Mark AbramsS&B 1983
David Campion AchesonS&B 1943
Stephen H. Ackerman  S&B 1957
John Sidney Acosta   S&B 1921
Charles Edward Adams S&B 1904
Charles Hemmenway Adams  S&B 1866
Frederick Baldwin Adams  S&B 1862
Frederick Baldwin Adams  S&B 1900
Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. S&B 1932
George Webster Adams S&B 1904
Lewis G. Adams   S&B 1920
Mason Tyler AdamsS&B 1899
Stephen AdamsS&B 1959
Bernard I. AfoijuS&B 1967
Roger S. Ahlbrandt, Jr.  S&B 1963
William Aichison S&B 1848
Edwin Edgerton Aiken S&B 1881
William Pope Aiken   S&B 1853
Paul Berer Albritton S&B 1978
Owen Franklin Aldis  S&B 1874
Malcolm Pratt AldrichS&B 1922
Eben Alexander   S&B 1873
James Strange Alexander  CFR21/S&B 1882
William DeWitt Alexander S&B 1855
William Felix Alexander  S&B 1851
Mehdi Raza Ali   S&B 1965
Archibald J. Allen, Jr.  S&B 1945
Arthur Dwight Allen  S&B 1901
Arthur Huntington Allen  S&B 1873
Calvin Durand Allen  S&B 1913
Charles Edward Allen II  S&B 1958/CFR
Clarence Emir Allen, Jr. S&B 1913
Daniel Allen S&B 1926
Frederick Wintrop Allen  S&B 1900
Henry Elisha Allen   S&B 1924
John DeWitt Hamilton Allen   S&B 1876
Parker Breese Allen  S&B 1919
Walter Allen S&B 1863
William Palmer Allen S&B 1880
Charles Booth Alling, Jr.S&B 1947
Robert Seaman Allison, Jr.   S&B 1930
Samuel Perkins Allison   S&B 1847
Allan Wallace Ames   S&B 1918
Sullivan Dobb Ames   S&B 1899
John Arnold Amundson S&B 1880
Edwin Alexander Anderson S&B 1835
Thomas Hill Anderson S&B 1951
Edward W. Andrews, Jr.   S&B 1945W
John Wallingford Andrews, Jr.S&B 1870
John Wolcott Andrews S&B 1876
Paul James AndrieS&B 1984
Benjamin Harris Anthony  S&B 1886
George Frederick Baer Appel  S&B 1924
Rushton L. ArdreyS&B 1925
Charles Jesup Arms   S&B 1863
John Hulett ArnotS&B 1885
Matthias Hollenback ArnotS&B 1856
Robert E. Arras, Jr. S&B 1969
Frank Davis Asburn   S&B 1925
Victor Henderson AsheS&B 1967
Alan Thompson AshenfelterS&B 1975
Albert Blackhurst Ashforth   S&B 1929
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley S&B 1948
David E. Austen  S&B 1931
Roy Leslie AustinS&B 1968
Samuel Monroe Austin S&B 1980
Frederick Charles AveroffS&B 1974
Benjamin F. AveryS&B 1914
Charles Hammond AveryS&B 1875
William Anderson Aycrigg III S&B 1942
Henry Harper Babcock S&B 1853
James Anthony Babst  S&B 1971
Samuel H. Back   S&B 1962
Joseph Willes Backus S&B 1846
Paul Bradford Badger S&B 1911
Walter Irving Badger S&B 1882
Philip Horton Bailey S&B 1897
Richard Wheeler BakerS&B 1913
Howard Malcolm Baldridge S&B 1918
George William Baldwin   S&B 1853
Henry DeForest Baldwin   S&B 1885
Roger Sherman BaldwinS&B 1847
Sherman Baldwin  S&B 1919
Simeon Eren Baldwin  S&B 1861
David George BallS&B 1960/CFR
Howard D. Banks  S&B 1956
Henry Clay Bannard   S&B 1869
Otto Tremont Bannard S&B 1876
Mark R. BaranS&B 1978
Alan Sidney Barasch  S&B 1973
Julius Adolphus Baratte  S&B 1843
Richard Mason Barge  S&B 1974
Richard P. Baribault S&B 1949
George Payson Barker S&B 1856
Philip Gol

[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #2

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

SkeptiNews 990617b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

: Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
: Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning.
: No entranced mediums were awakened during the production of this bulletin.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Serbian Orthodox Patriarch To Settle In Kosovo. The head of Serbia's
  Orthodox Church said he is moving to western Kosovo and appealed to Serbs
  not to flee the province. Patriarch Pavle made his announcement amid an
  exodus from Kosovo of Serbs fearing reprisals by ethnic Albanians expelled
  en masse from the province by Serb security forces. Kosovo's only Serbian
  Orthodox bishop was among those fleeing for his safety. Out of the frying
  pan: http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9906/16/BC-YUGOSLAVIA-PATRIARCH.reut/

: Does your belief system encourage self-sacrifice, martyrdom? Is Patriarch
Pavle angling for sainthood? Should all religious leaders be martyred? When?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Meningitis milestone reached. (BBC) Scientists have completed a DNA map
  of the deadliest meningitis bacterium, preparing the way for new vaccines.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_371000/371547.stm
@ Links - Sanger Centre: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/
@ Meningitis Research Foundation: http://www.meningitis.org.uk/

: Would you rather make a meningitis vaccine, or build a better bacterium?
Does DNA mapping of pathogens let you grow stronger, faster, deadlier bugs?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Dusty Jupiter moon gives clues to interplanetary rings. Jupiter's moon
  Ganymede is covered by thin clouds of fine dust knocked from its surface
  by interplanetary meteors, scientists with NASA's Galileo spacecraft say.
  The finding could explain the formation of dust rings throughout the solar
  system, including some of the more obscure rings around Saturn, as well as
  dust structures visible around Jupiter and its moons. Dust pervades the
  solar system: www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9906/16/dust.on.ganymede/index.html

: Is interplanetary dust the debris left behind by highly-polluting UFOs; a
sign that a deity was too sloppy/lazy to clean up after itself; unhealthy?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Physics from UFO Data. Research on the UFO phenomenon is proposed in which
  UFO targets are treated on a par with astronomical objects having no fixed
  coordinates. Specifically oriented monitoring techniques/strategies invol-
  ving small telescopes connected to CCD detectors, spectrographs & photon-
  counting photometers are presented. Expected exposure-times for acquiring
  a good S/N ratio of the target using all the proposed instruments is also
  evaluated. Finally, information expected to come from data analysis are
  presented & discussed in detail. www.ufodatanet.org/report/ufophys_e.htm

: Have you ever engaged in rigorous UFO research? Have you ever suppressed
such research; disseminated disinformation; used coercive tactics; killed?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ What Are UFOs Really? Discussion of the true nature of ufos as exterior-
  ised projections from the collective unconscious - within the Berkeleian
  metaverse, of course. http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ursa/philos/ufo1.htm
@ Psi Informatics - emerging field of studying psi phenomena from an infor-
  matic perspective. http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ursa/philos/psi-inf.htm

: Is a coherent philosophy all that's necessary to grok the paranormal? Can
you grow mental structures to contain the otherwise inexplicable? Is it fun?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ The Truth About Comet Lee. There have been some wild statements made about
  Comet Lee [officially known as C/1999H1 (Lee)]. These are simply bogus,
  false statements by people who must have some agenda other than the truth.
  Truth: Comet Lee's orbit is not erratic; it is well-known. The comet will
  not hit the Earth or come any place close to it. Comet Lee (or any comet)
  won't cause coronal mass ejections. And Comet Lee's orbit is not affected
  by them. The comet is not expected to brighten. http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/
@ Also: Frantic BS: http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/lee.htm

: Would you rather that Comet Lee did or didn't destroy life on Earth? Would
you prefer another disaster? When? Are you trying to invoke a disaster? Why?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

SkeptiLinks:

@ Therapy for Adults Molested as Children: Beyond Survival
  http://www.sidran.org/digicart/products/brta.html
@ A New Paradigm for Evolutionary Psychology: The Centrality of
  Domain-General Mechanisms for Conceptualizing Human Adaptation:
  http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/gearyrev.html

# Cypherpunk breaks CIA's crypto code in statue:
  http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/06/biztech/articles/16code.html
# 'Thousands' massacred in Kosovo by Serbs:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_371000/371336.stm
# China rejects US apology - bombing of Beograd embassy 'not OK':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/en

[CTRL] Science At Its Best, Security At Its Worst: A Report on Security Problems at the U.S. Department of Energy,"

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

from:
http://jya.com/pfiab-doe.htm
http://jya.com/pfiab-doe.htm">PFIAB Report: Science At Its Best,
Security At

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15 June 1999. Thanks to the White House Office of the PFIAB (202)
456-2352.





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Subject: PFIAB RPT

See attached file: Report of Presidents Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board, "Science At Its Best, Security At Its Worst: A Report on Security
Problems at the U.S. Department of Energy," June, 1999:
http://jya.com/pfiab-doe.pdf (72 pages; 420K)

See attached file: Unclassified Appendix to PFIAB Report:
http://jya.com/pfiab-appx.pdf (34 pages; 191K)

Or, both the Report and Annex in a Zipped file:
http://jya.com/pfiab-doe.zip (432K)





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SCIENCE AT ITS BEST
__

SECURITY AT ITS WORST


A Report on Security Problems at the
U.S. Department of Energy



[Presidential Seal]






A Special Investigative Panel


President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board



JUNE 1999








ABSTRACT


On March 18, 1999, President William J. Clinton requested that the
President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) undertake an
inquiry and issue a report on “the security threat at the Department of
Energy’s weapons labs and the adequacy of the measures that have been
taken to address it.”

Specifically, the President asked the PFIAB to “address the nature of
the present counterintelligence security threat, the way in which it has
evolved over the last two decades and the steps we have taken to counter
it, as well as to recommend any additional steps that may be needed.” He
also asked the PFIAB “to deliver its completed report to the Congress,
and to the fullest extent possible consistent with our national
security, release an unclassified version to the public.”

In response, the Honorable Warren B. Rudman, Chairman of PFIAB,
appointed board members Ms. Ann Z. Caracristi, Dr. Sidney Drell, and Mr.
Stephen Friedman to form the Special Investigative Panel and obtained
detailees from several federal agencies (CIA, DOD, FBI) to augment the
work of the PFIAB staff. Over the past three months, the panel and staff
interviewed more than 100 witnesses, reviewed more than 700 documents
encompassing thousands of pages, and conducted onsite research and
interviews at five of the Department of Energy’s national laboratories
and plants: Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Pantex, and Sandia.

The panel has produced a report and an appendix of supporting documents,
both of which are unclassified to the fullest extent possible. A large
volume of classified material, which was also reviewed and distilled for
this report, has been relegated to a second appendix that is available
only to authorized recipients. This report examines:
The 20–year history of security and counterintelligence issues at the
DOE national laboratories, with an emphasis on the five labs that focus
on weapons–related research;

The inherent tension between security concerns and scientific freedom at
the labs and its effect on the institutional culture and efficacy of the
Department;

The growth and evolution of the foreign intelligence threat to the
national labs, particularly in connection with the Foreign Visitor’s
Program of the labs;

The implementation and effectiveness of Presidential Decision Directive
No. 61, the reforms instituted by Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson,
and other related initiatives; and,

Additional measures that should be taken to improve security and
counterintelligence at the labs.




PANEL MEMBERS


The Honorable Warren B. Rudman, Chairman of the President’s Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board. Senator Rudman is a partner in the law firm
of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison. From 1980 to 1992, he
served in the U.S. Senate, where he was a member of the Select Committee
on Intelligence. Previously, he was Attorney General of New Hampshire.

Ms. Ann Z. Caracristi, board member. Ms. Caracristi, of Washington, DC,
is a former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency, where she
served in a variety of senior management positions over a 40–year
career. She is currently a member of the DCI/Secretary of Defense Joint
Security Commission and recently chaired a DCI Task Force on
intelligence training. She was a member of the Aspin/Brown Commission on
the Roles and Capabilities of the Intelligence Community.

Dr. Sidney D. Drell, board member. Dr. Drell, of Stanford, California is
an Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics and a Senior Fellow a

[CTRL] The Carlyle Group

[Anonymous]

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from:
http://www.thecarlylegroup.com/
http://www.thecarlylegroup.com/">The Carlyle Group
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R. K. Mellon Family

In addition to its own unique network of relationships, Carlyle directly
benefits from the equally unique network of its minority owner, the
Richard King Mellon Family. The R. K. Mellon Family is one of the
nation's oldest and most respected investors and allows Carlyle to share
in its substantial deal generating capacity. Among the companies which
the R. K. Mellon Family helped found are The Mellon Bank, Gulf Oil,
Alcoa, and First Boston. Currently the R. K. Mellon Family has extensive
investments throughout the U.S. and international markets, as does the
Richard King Mellon Foundation.
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WASHINGTON, DC
HONG KONG • LONDON • MILAN • MOSCOW • MUNICH
NEW YORK • NEWPORT BEACH • PARIS • RIYADH • SEOUL


The Carlyle Group is a private global investment firm, based in
Washington, D.C., which originates, structures and acts as lead equity
investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity
investments, equity private placements, consolidations and build-ups,
and growth capital financings. Formed in 1987, The Carlyle Group has
invested over $2.4 billion of equity in 92 transactions. These
transactions have an aggregate acquisition value of over $9.3
billion. The annualized return on these investments is in excess of 32%.
The firm currently has more than $3.5 billion of capital under
management by separate teams dedicated to management-led buyouts and
strategic minority investments, venture capital, real estate and
European investment opportunities. The firm conducts its investment
activities through focused industry groups which leverage the extensive
operating, corporate and governmental experience of its partners.
Carlyle's extensive transaction experience and network of global
partners is a source of corporate opportunities unparalleled in the
private equity investment community. Our goal is a simple one -- to
generate extraordinary investment returns, while maintaining our good
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Amen.
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[CTRL] OEN 6/17/99

[Anonymous]

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from:
http://www.aci.net/kalliste/
http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe
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Today's Lesson From The Rosetta Stone

by E. A. Wallis Budge


In the ninth year of the reign of Ptolemy V. Epiphanes, who reigned from
203-181 B.C., the priests of all the gods of Upper and Lower Egypt
assembled at Memphis, presumably in the great temple of Ptah, the
Blacksmith-god of that city, the capital of the northern half of the
kingdom. By whose wish or order they assembled it is not known, but the
definite object of this great Council of Priests was the commemoration,
for the first time, of the accession of Ptolemy V to the throne of
Egypt. The King was then only about twelve years of age, but during the
six years of his reign under the direction of Agathocles, Sosibus,
Tlepolemus, Aristomenes, Scopas and others, the affairs of the kingdom
had on the whole prospered. The abuses of the government of Ptolemy IV
had been corrected, revolts had been crushed, and important reforms in
the administration of the Army and Navy had taken place. The King had
spent his royal revenues lavishly on behalf of the State and his people,
he had abolished many taxes and substantially reduced others, he had
given bounties to every grade in the Army, he had restored law and order
in the country, and had restored all the ancient rites and privileges
and revenues of the priests, and had shown himself to be pious and a
devout worshipper of all the gods of his country. All these facts were
universally admitted.

One of the first acts of the priests was to celebrate the ancient Set
Festival, i.e., the "Festival of the Tail." This Festival was celebrated
every thirty years, or after any very great event, or whenever the King
wished to obtain a renewal of his life from the gods, and the physical
and spiritual power to rule with justice and righteousness, the highly
symbolic ceremonies of this Festival being duly performed according to
ancient use and wont. This solemn Office having been performed, the
Council of Priests proceeded to review the good works which the boy King
had performed, and they decided that the services which he had rendered
to Egypt and to the clergy and laity were so valuable that additional
honours should be paid to him in all the principal temples of the
country. They then drafted in Greek a Decree in which the good deeds of
the King and the honours which they proposed to pay him were carefully
enumerated. They further ordered that a copy of it, together with
translations, written both in the modern language and script of Egypt
(i.e. in Demotic or, New Egyptian), and in the ancient language and
script (i.e. the hieroglyphs or, Old Egyptian) should be engraved upon a
tablet of hard stone, and set up in every temple of the first, second
and third class in Egypt. This Decree, as found on the Rosetta Stone, is
dated on the fourth day of the Greek month Xandikos = the eighteenth day
of the second month (Mechis) of the Egyptian season of Per-T = March 27,
196 B.C.
=

Year 2000

APL Singapore Simulates Y2K Emergency

However, Los Angeles survived

ABOARD THE APL SINGAPORE - At 4:58 Tuesday morning, in the foggy
solitude of San Pedro Bay off the Southern California coast, a two-way
radio started squawking in the engine control room of this 64,000-ton
cargo ship with an alarming message from the captain: ''Ron, the engine
is not responding.''
That same instant, a piercing klaxon and a series of flashing lights
alerted Chief Engineer Ron Gerde to the crisis at hand: The Singapore,
hauling 1,109 massive steel containers stuffed with everything from
tennis shoes made in Malaysia to stereo equipment from Taiwan, had hit a
digital iceberg.

A Year 2000 computer glitch had crashed a critical electronic system
that controls engine thrust, causing the vessel, whose bow-to-stern
measurement exceeds the length of three football fields, to head
uncontrollably toward the Port of Los Angeles.

This time, though, the computer failure was only a simulation. The
Singapore's owner, APL Ltd., was staging this emergency at the behest of
the U.S. Coast Guard. The drill, the first in a series of port
inspections across the United States, illustrates a new focus in Year
2000 mobilization.

Many businesses and government agencies are in the home stretch in
repairing and testing their computer systems. They have done everything
they can to become ''Y2K-compliant.'' But suppose that is not enough?
Facing the prospect of computer crashes despite all of their
preparation, they are staging elaborate simulations to get ready for the
worst.

On Tuesday, Mr. Gerde and his staff faced the daunting task of
demonstrating that the Singapore, which has computer systems rivaling
those of an airplane, could hastily operate the old-fashioned way.

They would have to communicate with the captain, standing six decks
above on the bridge, with a nonelectric telephone. They would have to
descend into the depths of the engine bay a

[CTRL] John McCain-Manchurian Candidate?

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

This from http://www.harvest-trust.org/mccain.htm">www.harvest-trust.com


>The Manchurian Candidate

I knew Senator John McCain's father when Admiral John S. McCain Jr. was the
Commander in Chief of the Pacific (CINCPAC). I sincerely believe that Admiral
McCain, if he were alive, would tell you exactly what I am about to tell you.
Admiral McCain always put his country first and foremost above all other
issues.

The fact that Senator John McCain was shot down and captured over North
Vietnam does not make him a hero. The goal of any pilot is to not get shot
down. The fact that he was a Prisoner of War does not make him a hero. The
goal of all military personnel is to not become a POW. The fact that he
endured prison, torture, and brainwashing for all that time makes him a
survival hero in my humble opinion. I am very happy that he survived and that
he was able to return home.

However, Senator John McCain was tortured and brainwashed by the communists
for over 5 years. Regardless of what you may have been told, or what you may
believe, no one, not anyone on this earth can withstand torture and
brainwashing without breaking down, giving up information, and permanent
damage to the mind... usually to traditional belief systems and thought
processes in the areas of religion, philosophy, and politics.

By his own admission Senator John McCain, while a POW, traded information for
special medical treatment which no other POW received. He made public
statements while a POW detrimental to the United States Navy and the United
States of America.

Many brainwashing victims become fractured personalities programmed to
perform some task or tasks in the future. Their programming can be activated
by audio, visual, or other types of stimulation. These are facts not
conjecture. Anyone can confirm these facts with a little research.

Remember, what is known about torture and brainwashing is old information,
and it is terrifying. I have no access to what is still kept secret. I have
no knowledge of what can be done to a victim using the state of the art
techniques which are held in the strictest secrecy by all nations.

I doubt that Senator McCain knows the extent of the damage done to his
mind... and according to all the studies and facts available concerning
torture and brainwashing he could not have anything other than a damaged
mind. The movie may have been fiction... but Senator John McCain is without
any doubt the real Manchurian Candidate.

When I look at his voting record in the United States Senate I do not see a
conservative Republican. I see a record that reveals a closet socialist, a
proponent of the New World Order.

Love him if you must, honor him if you can, respect him in his office, but
don't ever vote for him again. It was a mistake to put him in the Senate. It
would be a much bigger mistake to put a man who has been tortured and
brainwashed for over 5 years in the White House.

William Cooper


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I believe, I believe, I believe that man did shoot Martin Luther
King.take me off your list.

Colleen Jones..

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Re:  Rattlesnake Slang/John Wright:

In this letter he wrote, Mr. Wright  has committed one crime in the
state of Ohio, presuming the law is still on the books

Years ago when I was a Clerk of Court in a small town, an arrest order
came across my desk (I wore 5 hats almost)whereby the officer wanted
to arrest a man for calling him "Chicken Shit" cop - and this man was a
local insurance broker who had only received a $2.00 parking ticket, on
which he wrote the message, signed his name, but refused to pay the
$2.00.
He had not paid his fine, nor did he come to courtso

The case escalated:  He now wanted the guy arrested for using
profanity..and I thought profanity, that is using God's name in
vainhow is "Chicken Shit Cop" profanity - does this Officer believe
he has attained a God like status?

Well, this was in 1960and my boss, an attorney during the daytime
called to see what was newand I told him I had a profanity
warrant.he said "pay the two dollars, and I will pay you
back"...which I did.   But the officer wanted to with a passion, pursue
the profanity charge, and of course, the Mayor/Judge refused to permit
this to happen.

Years later, inbetween tours in the Mayors Office,  I pulled my car out
of the garage to sell where it had been sitting for 10 years...but the
tags expiredsuddenly at my door was an officer with a ticket.he
was very flattering saying "are you sure that is your birthdate" -
he thought I was so much youngerwell, who could get angry at him.

Instead, I called the Police and said I would not pay any fine, I would
not come to Court, and they threatened to take my car and tow it
awayand it was then, I had my greatest moment.I said "I am going
to sit shotgun on my car and you will never take me alive, coppers"

Well, that night the City Council President and the husband of another
City Council Member, came to my home and pushed m car back into the
garageand the newly elected Mayor, paid my ticketand you can be
sure the first arrest warrant for not appearing in Court, was mine...my
old political enemies saw to that.instead, I was told the Mayor said
I will take care of that, and out of his own pocket paid a bond
forfeiture.the charge, my license plate was expired sitting in my
own driveway.  Later that day, though, several people dropped to buy it
- and it was not for salehad only been driven a year, but the
traffic was just too intolerable and I had been rearended three days
straight, just waiting for a light to change.

Though I have never even held a gun but once in my life, and would not
have one in my home (I have a friendly pit bull, strictly defensive of
course).the happiest day of my life was when I said "You;'ll never
take me alive coppers"and hung up.

I laffed all daynobody took me serious, however.

When I read Mr. Wrights letter, and he says "God Damn" over, and
over again, now that, is profanity and you know, he could be put in the
slammer too, for that one.

But why is this man, that upset and disturbed.I hope he does not
live in Ohio, because one of these "Chicken Shit" cops might arrest him
for using profanity, inasmuch as some of them seem to be playing God in
the many roles they play in daily living

Now too, how is that for a separtion of Church and State.   Mr. Wright,
God Loves Americans, well maybe with a few exceptions - and I am waiting
for that lightning bolt to hit one of them in the arse.   Praise, the
Lord.

Colleen

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[CTRL] Feds Selling Armor-Piercing Bullets

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Feds Selling Armor-Piercing Bullets


UPI
16-JUN-99

CHICAGO, June 16 (UPI) _ The United States military is inadvertently selling
.50-caliber armor-piercing ammunition to the public, providing at least
100,000 rounds of surplus military supplies in the past year alone.

A report by the General Accounting Office contends the Pentagon is selling
excess and obsolete stocks of the brass-covered shells for $1 per ton to West
Virginia-based Talon Manufacturing Co.

The Chicago Tribune obtained a summary of the report, which notes that Talon
is supposed to dismantle the shells and sell them for scrap. Instead, some of
the shells were reassembled and sold to groups ranging from armies in Brazil
and Columbia to civilian weapons dealers.

Some of the latter ammunition wound up being sold to gun owners through the
Internet. Ammunition also was purchased by federal agents posing as potential
buyers of .50-caliber shells who contacted gun dealers across the U.S.

``Fifty-caliber armor-piercing ammunition has little, if any, legitimate
sporting or recreational use,'' the report said.

Another 35,000 rounds of refurbished ammunition was sold back to the U.S.
Army.

``The investigation showed that the U.S. military is indirectly arming
civilians with some of the most powerful and destructive ammunition currently
available,'' reads the report, which was requested by Reps. Rod Blagojevich,
D-Ill., and Henry Waxman, D-Calif.

Blagojevich, who in the past has tried to pass laws banning the civilian sale
of surplus M-1 rifles and other military weapons, says he hopes the report
puts pressure on the Pentagon to crack down on their surplus sales.

``It is my personal view that the purpose of the United States military is to
provide for the national security,'' Blagojevich said. ``It is not to augment
the use of weapons on the street.'' _-

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[CTRL] Fw: Food for thought

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> The Balkanization of America
>
> June 16, 1999
>
>
> Whoever it was who first said, "Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and
> people will believe it" sure had it right. For at least the last decade we
> have been constantly told, "America's strength is in its diversity." We
> have heard that lie for so long we have come to believe it. Believing it
> will be our undoing.
>
> America's strength is not in diversity, but in unity. We are not called The
> Diverse States of America, but the United States of America. The things
> that used to unite us have been uprooted, however. In the name of
> multiculturalism the glue that held us together is cracking. The result
> will be a fractured America. It has already begun.
>
> According to informed estimates, by the year 2025 there will be at least 12
> states with less than 60 percent Caucasian population while other states
> will have in excess of 85 percent. In cities like Las Vegas, Los Angeles
> and others the great divide is already taking shape. More than 25% of
> California's population is now foreign-born. Ten of its cities are so
> diverse that no ethnic group comprises a majority. The trend will continue.
>
> America has always been a nation of immigrants. That is not the problem.
> The problem is that now the value system that had united us has been
> stripped away. The American heritage is no more. We have lost our identity.
> And, a nation without an identity has lost its moorings. We are rudderless,
> without direction.
>
> When our country was young and full of promise, the famous French
> philosopher, Alexis de Tocqueville said, " I do not know whether all the
> Americans have sincere faith in their religion, for who can search the
> human heart? But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the
> maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a
> class of citizens or to a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to
> every rank of society."
>
> There it is. There is the glue that made us The United States of America.
> Our Christian faith and heritage is the cement that united people of
> different ethnicity and culture. Past immigrants assimilated themselves
> into a common American culture. Our grandparents were free to worship God
> in their own way but they understood that faith in God and the Christian
> value system were at the heart of this country's existence. All that is
> lost to us today. There is no Christian culture in the mainstream of
> American society today. The departure of our common heritage is turning our
> nation into the western Balkans.
>
> The December 1994 issue of The Marine Corps Gazette carried a commentary by
> William Lind, Major John Schmitt, USMCR, and Col. Gary Wilson, USMCR. The
> article is titled, "Fourth Generation Warfare: Another Look."
>
> In their commentary they say:
>
> "In the United States of America, our traditional, Western, Judeo-Christian
> culture is collapsing. It is not collapsing because it failed. On the
> contrary, it has given us the freest and most prosperous society in human
> history. Rather, it is collapsing because we are abandoning it.
>
> "Starting in the mid-1960's, we have thrown away the values, morals, and
> standards that define traditional Western culture. In part, this has been
> driven by cultural radicals, people who hate our Judeo-Christian culture.
> Dominant in the elite, especially in the universities, the media, and the
> entertainment industry? the cultural radicals have successfully pushed an
> agenda of moral relativism, militant secularism, and sexual and social
> 'liberation.' This agenda has slowly codified into a new ideology, usually
> known as 'multiculturalism' or 'political correctness,' that is in essence
> Marxism translated from economic in social and cultural terms.
>
> "This new, cultural Marxism has had remarkable success in discrediting
> America's common culture and substituting for it cultural fragmentation
> based on ethnic groups, gender, sexual identity, and class. If this trend
> continues, Americans will increasingly find they have less in common with
> each other as Americans. National identity will weaken. Other, mutually
> hostile identities will strengthen until the nation comes apart: region vs.
> region, minority vs. minority, and gang vs. gang. When a nation comes apart
> at its cultural seams, eventually it turns on itself and fights."
>
> These men conclude their remarks by warning, "The next real war we fight is
> likely to be on American soil."
>
> I hope and pray that these men are wrong. Without a dramatic reversal of
> our current plunge into secularism and multiculturalism, however, I fear
> that they aren't.
>
> Wouldn't it be nice to hear some political leaders call our nation back to
> our common heritage? Instead, they brag about our prosperous economy as if
> that were the foundation of our survival. It isn't. It took a massacre to
> bring prayer back into a scho

[CTRL] Fwd: Every UM student/employee and /

[Anonymous]

or Alumni on earth who does not agree and
PUBLICLY CONFESS that

MARK TOWNLEY, son of DR. CHARLES ORLEFF TOWNLEY of Port Huron, Michigan,

shot and killed DR. MARTIN L. KING,

 together
with all his/her friends/family

DESERVES the DEATH PENALTY and to
BURN IN THE FIRES OF HELL FOR ALL
ETERNITY!

God Damn AMERICA!!
God Damn MICHIGAN
God Damn PORT HURON, MICHIGAN!!
God Damn the UNIVERSITY of MICHIGAN!!
God Damn the UNITED NATIONS!!!
God Damn every JEW/CHRISTIAN/MUSLIM
and/or FREEMASON ON EARTH

Every Person on Earth who 'Worships God'
deserves the SAME

Because 'GOD' does not instantly strike dead
every human being who tells any LIE as soon
as he tells that LIE!

God Damn Your Souls For ALL ETERNITY!!!

[CTRL] "Sit down and shut up, and be glad that your free."

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  'Bloodless battles are raging, in the arena of our minds, crimes of
deceit perpetrating, forcefeeding poisonous lies. Misinformation is a virus,
infecting the following herd. The age of control is upon us, caged with
ideas, and chained by words. This has been a test, do not adjust your set,
believers have a choice, to follow or be lead... In television we're
trusting, the power to teach wrong and right, you need not share your
oppinion, one will be given to you, sit down and shut up, and wait
instructions, you will be told what to do. Please disregard all the vermin,
those who speak not the good word, Media Lords will determine, all that is
fit to be heard, now we return to our program, already in progress you see,
listen and pay close. Sit down and shut up, and be glad that your
free.-Believers have a Choice from Faith is in Season'

http://www.mourningtheancient.com/master.htm

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Re: [CTRL] UKs imminent slaughter ??

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No way! you are right-on Andrew, do not retract or second guess yourself!!

I like the way you think and see things, say, are you a crypto-jew?!
Everyone is!! I think, therefore I'm jewish... [can we say humor(?)] If
nothing stops them, this IS the natural way for things to progress!

The False Prophet does play an integral part in ushering in the NWO. hey,
NWO = NOW. what is next? WHO? I'm sure that a ministry will surface with
these letters, some sort of Ministry Office building complex called the
World Homeless Organization, a sorting place for relocating homeless people
and those without adequate retirement money. WHO centers. WHOnder where
they'll go?

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>
>Just a LITTLE paranoid there
>The catholic church is mega-wealthy, let 'em build a new soup kitchen...
>
>Bill

yeah, maybe you're right

Andrew

>

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Re: [CTRL] 666 ? the Mark of the Beast or just another wrong numb er?

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Hello all! First time caller here...

This is perhaps Prophecy 101 to some, but if you put the American States
(which is now under jewish control in three main areas- banking, industry
and goverment [tv and media functioning as propaganda ministry under the
government] along with the European Union, then you have the Beast rising
out of the seas [people of the world] and the False Prophet under the guise
of the false Roman Catholic Church under John Paul II's leadership, then you
have somewhat of a fulfillment of the prophecies. Tony Blair and his ilk,
including Clinton, are puppets. I think I'd take Tony any day over ole'
country boy, Clinton.

Yes, Catholics out here [those who know] know that this 'Church' under JPII
is false, and therefore Antichrist.
Protestants can't quite understand it because they have been out of the
'fold' so to speak and can't see the forest for the trees.

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numb er?


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>The Beast is not an individual, it is a political/military/economic system.
> The Anti-Christ rises up and takes control of the Beast with the help of
>the False Prophet, who leads a world-wide pagan/apostatic Christian
>religious system.
>The Anti-Christ will be possessed by Satan himself, who's goal has always
>been to "be like the Most High" and to be worshipped by all.

well thats Tony Blair then ... his ears and eyes have changed shape since
the general election a last year - his pre-election photos show him having
normal shaped eyes: after the election, he is seen with his right eye
substantially more open and rounded.
His ears stick out more now for some reason.
Before the election Tory posters portrayed Blair as a demon with red eyes
and I know that some CIA field operative [but this is another story :)]
decribed the UK as being 666 egyptian royal miles in length.

Andrew Hennessey

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[CTRL] WHY WHITES ARE LEADERLESS [media lords] get educated b4 it's too late!

[Anonymous]

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WHY WHITES ARE LEADERLESS






In 1950 no normal white American could have seen the storm clouds that were
just over the horizon. They lived in a world that was as close to perfect as
any society has ever been. The streets of most cities and towns in the US
were fairly safe. Women could walk their streets from one place to another,
even at night, and feel quite safe. Most people left their keys in the
ignitions of their cars when they were not driving. Many houses never had a
locked front door. Our kids went to schools that were second to none in the
world, and the most hazardous things which would be flying around in those
schools were spitballs.

The population was 90% white and so were the movies and television shows.
Hitchhikers found it easy and fairly safe to travel, and drivers felt
comfortable picking them up because there was very little likelihood of the
hitchhiker being violent. Americans gave more per capita charity dollars
than any other people on earth. No one starved in the US unless they chose
to. There were no "Will Work For Food" signs on the street corners with some
slug attached to it who flips you off if you actually offer him work.
Financially most Americans were the envy of the rest of the world. The
number of interracial crimes were very small compared with today. In fact,
one would have to look very long and hard to find even one area where white
Americans were worse off than they are today!

Things looked rosy, for as far as anyone could see into the future. Medicine
was improving almost daily. Cars were getting fancier and housework was
getting easier as invention after invention was brought out, or improved for
that task. There was no way that the chaos that was to be unleashed upon
white America could have been predicted, or if predicted, believed in 1950.

Imagine where we would be if the liberal insanity had not set in. What if
there never had been integration? What if feminism had not destroyed the
American family? What if we had not borrowed 3 trillion dollars to throw
away on welfare? What if we had spent our money on space exploration and
colonization instead of using it to destroy our inner cities? What if we had
continued following the procedure which created our superb interstate
highway system, i.e. to spend highway money on our highways instead of
dysfunctional social programs? Think of the near utopia of having great
schools, exceptional infrastructure, a nearly all white nation, low crime,
safe and clean neighborhoods, and a people who would kill rather than stand
and watch while their flag was being burned. What if?

But alas, instead we must face the massive decay of our society. We must
face the reality of rot overcoming the once near-utopia, to where today our
schools have metal detectors and more drugs than a pharmacy, and illiterate
kids show up with guns to shoot their classmates. Thanks to liberalism we
have highways that are in disrepair, chuck-holed, and far less dependable
than they once were. Our rail system is a joke compared with what it should
be. The percentage of whites has decreased from nine tenths, to less than
three quarters and is now just over two thirds of the population. We have a
president which celebrates in glee at the thought that we whites will be
less than half of the population in just a few short decades. As the number
of nonwhites in our country has increased, the crime rate has gone up right
along with it. Drive-by shootings are commonplace in many nonwhite
neighborhoods. Far from the days when the killing of a "mere" 7 men was
called the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre," today we have hundreds of murders
every week in our country. Our "Supreme Court" has ruled that burning the
flag is not an act but rather "speech" while real speech is under attack by
groups like the ADL.

If that were not bad enough, today the clouds on the horizon are even more
menacing than the hurricane which is upon us this very minute! We are
destined to see our land overwhelmed with the nonwhite hordes, which will
completely wash away the greatness of this land. The near utopia which was
so bright in 1950, will be no more than a dying memory in the minds of the
members of the dying white race. That is our future. That is what we and our
children, if we have any, have to look forward to. Do you have that picture
clear in your mind? Do you see your house and your family being attacked by
nonwhite gang members in another few decades? You will be older then.
Perhaps you will no longer be living, but if you are, you will not be able
to defend yourself as well as today. An old man being beaten by thugs who
hate your whiteness. This is your future as envisioned by the Media Lords
and your president.

I received an email today which asked, "Where are the Conservative leaders?
What are people like Trent Lott, Bob Barr and others, doing?" Have you
wondered the same thin

Re: [CTRL] Bush's genealogical chart (from 350 BC)

[Anonymous]

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- Original Message -
From: Das GOAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > from:  http://www.totse.com/files/FA020/histchr2.htm
> >(15 other charts omitted from this excerpt -
> > see the footnote, below, for a summary)
>
> What a crock.  This "genealogy" combines a phony Piso/Herodian link
> (courtesy of "Reuchlin"'s anti-Christian argument) with a totally
> unsupportable Claudian-Merovingian link (courtesy of PoS propagandists)
> and then weaves in elements from Settipani's speculative and highly
> debatable B.C. genealogy.  Two frauds + a wild guess.
> Nearer to home, if there IS a Roosevelt-Bush link, I'd like to see any
> evidence for it.
> Posted to any genealogy newsgroup, this would raise gales of disdainful
> laughter.

While this charting is bogus, there's a germ of truth: all humans are
related to all other humans, if you go back far enough.  Mathematically,
tracing back 'n' generations, you have '2^n' ancestors.  Let's say that
the total number of human beings who've ever lived is roughly 10 billion
[1^10], and that one generation equals 20 years. Punch the calculator
and you'll see that 2^33= 0.86^10 and 2^34= 1.72^10 -- thus, somewhere
between 33 and 34 generations (660-680 years) back, you've most likely
shared an ancestor with every other human on the planet.

This math obviously breaks down when we consider population isolates,
small groups that have had NO contact with other humans for a longer
period.  But in general, especially with mainstream Eurasian populations,
we can safely say that EVERYONE who reproduced over 1000 years ago is
an ancestor of yours, and EVERYONE now alive is your cousin.  Now, if
you're the kind of guy who goes to family reunions to pick up chicks,
this ain't no big thang, eh?

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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #1

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SkeptiNews 990617a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

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# Virtual L.A.: A traffic-less trip - A virtual city could be valuable for
  police and firefighters, quickly mapping the best route to an emergency:
  http://cnn.com/TECH/ptech/9906/13/virtual.la/index.html

: Is Los Angeles or any other major city better visited in person or in VR?
For realism, should a sim include virtual smog, virtual drive-by shootings,
virtual street people, virtual random police actions, virtual earthquakes?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Researchers, mediums study communication with the dead. (U-WIRE) TUCSON,
AZ. A team of U.Arizona scientists & students conducted a unique experiment,
probing the possibility of an afterlife by studying how mediums commune with
the dead. Researchers at the U.Az. Human Energy Systems Lab invited a panel
of mediums to meet 10 people whose loved ones recently died. The mediums
tried to receive info from the deceased without prior knowledge of them
and while under observation. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990616/odd-85

: Do you want to talk to your deceased relatives? Would you prefer they stay
quiet? Can you squeeze any secrets out of them? Do you trust mediums? Why?
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# NEW BIOTECH CANCER WEAPON NEEDS KICK-START. Imagine if we could send an
  agent shooting through the bloodstream to find cancer cells and target
  them for destruction, leaving healthy tissue intact. That is an overly
  simplified explanation of an exciting new biotech approach to fighting
  cancer: www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13341

# Surgery continues into robot age. (BBC) A robot is being used to help
  surgeons perform tricky heart bypasses more accurately - just the latest
  in a series of innovations bringing such technology into the operating
  theatre. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_37/370836.stm

: Would you rather be operated on by nano-robots, macro-robots, humans, ETs,
teams of the above? Does your HMO or health insurer pay for robotic surgery?
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# NOT THE REAL THING: THE NOCEBO EFFECT IN EUROPE. The "nocebo" effect can
be seen in a recent panic about Coca-Cola products in Europe. No real health
problems have been found, yet several countries have restricted the sale of
the products after some teenagers got sick. I think once they heard about
the symptoms, they started thinking they were ill - the "nocebo" effect in
action. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13346

# ASPIRIN-LIKE DRUGS ARE 15TH LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN U.S.  Aspirin and
  related drugs kill almost as many people every year as AIDS and are resp-
  onsible for a "silent epidemic." Ulcers caused by such drugs kill about
  16,500 people in the United States each year. Includes ibuprofen, aspirin
  and competitors: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9906/16/health.aspirin.reut/

: Would you rather be sickened/offed by a placebo, nocebo, painkiller, pain,
dread, hired assassin, careless medico, gov't agent, deity, demon, elf, me?
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# GM crops a 'risk' to organic plants. (BBC) There is a "real risk" that GM
  crops can contaminate organic crops, according to UK govt backed research.
  See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_371000/371353.stm

# Organic pesticide may aid GM crops. (BBC) A new, super-deadly pesticide
  used by organic farmers may be of great use in the genetic modification of
  crops. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_37/370682.stm

: Would you like to see all lifeforms on Earth contaminated by genetic mods?
Would evolution accelerate? Would new, stronger, smarter entities emerge?
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# Country To Scrap Booze-Free "Holy Hour". DUBLIN (Reuters)  Ireland, better
known for alcoholism than abstinence, looks ready to scrap its traditionally
dry "Holy Hour" with the announcement of a gov't-backed Intoxicating Liquor
Bill. The bill scraps Sunday afternoon closing, permits extended Saturday
night drinking hours and allow once-off all-night opening for New Year's Eve
to mark the year 2000. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990617/07/odd-alcohol

: Does your belief system prescribe or proscribe intoxication? Are certain
chemicals specified? Are your chemical-usage doctrines contradictory? Fun?
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# First cloned human embryo revealed. (BBC) Details of 1st human embryo to
  be cloned are released - made using a cell from a man's leg and a cow's
  egg. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_371000/371378.stm

# Chimps are cultured creatures. (BBC) Chimpanzees are shown for the first
  time to have a culture as rich & as varied as humans. I'll be a monkey's
  uncle: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/e