[CTRL] Totalism & Group Dynamics [Mind Control]

[Sean McDougal]

This will be my last post for quite some time.  I will be back, I am sure,
when I have more time.  Right now, more important things beckon.

Keep diggin' in the dirt folks.  Remember it is more accurate to say that
every skeleton you dig up can have a story told about it than to say that
every skeleton tells a story.

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
- Anterro Alli

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[CTRL] Primitives & Extropians - Hakim Bey

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[CTRL] On the Transition

[Sean McDougal]

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On the Transition

Postscript to Future Primitve
by John Zerzan

"Yeah, the critique is impressive and everything, but just how might we
actually get from this ghastly world to some healed, whole existence?''
I think we should not doubt that such a journey is possible, nor that the
explosion necessary to begin it may be approaching.

The thought of the dominant culture has, of course, always told us that
alienated life is inescapable. In fact, culture or civilization itself
expresses this essential dogma: the civilizing process, as Freud noted, is
the forcible trading of a free, natural life for one of unceasing
repression.

Today culture is in a dispirited, used-up state wherever one looks. More
important than the entropy afflicting the logic of culture, however, is what
seems to be the active, if inchoate resistance to it. This is the ray of
hope that disturbs the otherwise all-too-depressing race we witness to
determine whether total alienation or the destruction of the biomass will
happen first.

People are being stretched and beaten on the rack of everyday emptiness, and
the spell of civilization is fading. Lasch referred to a near-universal rage
abroad in society, just under the surface. It is growing and its symptoms
are legion, amounting to a refusal to leave this earth unsatisfied.

Adorno asked, ``What would happiness be that was not measured by the
immeasurable grief at what is?'' Certainly, the condition of life has become
nightmarish enough to justify such a question, and perhaps also to suggest
that something started to go deeply wrong a very long time back. At least it
ought to be demonstrating, moving on toward specifics, that the means of
reproducing the prevailing Death Ship (e.g. its technology) cannot be used
to fashion a liberated world.

Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler wondered, ``What is `common' about the common
life? What if some genius were to do with `common life' what Einstein did
with `matter'? Finding its energetics, uncovering its radiance.'' Of course,
we must all be that `Einstein', which is exactly what will unleash a
creative energy sufficient to utterly refashion the conditions of human
existence. Ten thousand years of captivity and darkness, to paraphrase
Vaneigem, will not withstand ten days of full-out revolution, which will
include the simultaneous reconstruction of our inner selves. Who doesn't
hate modern life? Can what conditioning that remains survive such an
explosion of life, one that ruthlessly removes the sources of such
conditioning?

We are obviously being held hostage by capital and its technology, made to
feel dependent, even helpless, by the sheer weight of it all, the massive
inertia of centuries of alienated categories, patterns, values. What could
be dispensed with immediately? Borders, governments, hierarchyWhat else?
How fast could more deep-seated forms of authority and separation be
dissolved, such as that of division of labor? I assert, and not, I hope, in
the spirit of wishing to derive blueprints from abstract principle, that I
can see no ultimate freedom or wholeness without the dissolution of the
inherent power of specialists of every kind.

Many say that millions would die if the present techno-global fealty to work
and the commodity were scrapped. But this overlooks many potentialities. For
example, consider the vast numbers of people who would be freed from
manipulative, parasitic, destructive pursuits for those of creativity,
health, and liberty. At present, in fact, very few contribute in any way to
satisfying authentic needs.

Transporting food thousands of miles, not an atypical pursuit today, is an
instance of pointless activity, as is producing countless tons of herbicide
and pesticide poisons. The picture of humanity starving if a transformation
were attempted may be brought into perspective by reference to a few other
agricultural specifics, of a more positive nature. It is perfectly feasible,
generally speaking, that we grow our own food. There are simple approaches,
involving no division of labor, to large yields in small spaces.

Agriculture itself must be overcome, as domestication, and because it
removes more organic matter from the soil than it puts back. Permaculture is
a technique that seems to attempt an agriculture that develops or reproduces
itself and thus tends toward nature and away from domestication. It is one
example of promising interim ways to survive while moving away from
civilization. Cultivation within the cities is another aspect of practical
transition, and a further step toward superseding domestication would be a
more or less random propagation of plants, a la Johnny Appleseed.

Regarding urban life, any steps toward autonomy and self-help should be
realized, beginning now, so that cities may be all the more quickly
abandoned later. Created out of capital's need to centralize control of
property transactions, religion, and political domination, cities remain as
extended

[CTRL] COMIN' HOME

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[CTRL] Hierarchy

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Hierarchy
AShtoN<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
17 Dec 1994

In The Beginning

In the Beginning was The Plan.

And then came the Assumptions.

And the Assumptions were without form.

And the Plan was completely without substance.

And the darkness was upon the face of the faithful.

And they spoke among themselves, saying
"It is a crock of shit, and it stinketh."

And the faithful went unto their Pastors and sayeth,
"It is a pail of dung and none may abide the odor thereof."

And the Pastors went unto their Vicars and sayeth unto them,
"It is a container of excrement and it is very strong.
Such that none may abide by it."

And the Vicars went unto their Secretariats and sayeth,
"It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide its strength."

And the Secretariats spoke amongst themselves, saying to one another,
"It contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very strong."

And the Secretariats went unto the Vicar for Administration and sayeth unto
him, "It promotes growth and is very powerful."

And the Vicar for Administration went unto the Archbishop and sayeth unto
him, "This new plan will actively promote the growth and efficiency Of this
Archdiocese, and in these Areas in particular."

And the Archbishop looked upon The Plan,
And saw that it was good, and The Plan became Policy.

This is How Shit Happens.

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[CTRL] Back to Basics

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[CTRL] Anarchism: What It Is and What It Is Not

[Sean McDougal]

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[CTRL] The Information War

[Sean McDougal]

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The Information War

Humanity has always invested heavily in any scheme that offers escape from
the body. And why not? Material reality is such a mess. Some of the earliest
"religious" artefacts, such as Neanderthal ochre burials, already suggest a
belief in immortality. All modern (i.e. post-paleolithic) religions contain
the "Gnostic trace" of distrust or even outright hostility to the body and
the "created" world. Contemporary "primitive" tribes and even peasant-pagans
have a concept of immortality and of going-outside-the-body (ec-stasy)
without necessarily exhibiting any excessive body-hatred. The Gnostic Trace
accumulates very gradually (like mercury poisoning) till eventually it turns
pathological. Gnostic dualism exemplifies the extreme position of this
disgust by shifting all value from body to "spirit". This idea characterizes
what we call "civilization". A similar trajectory can be traced through the
phenomenon of "war". Hunter/gatherers practised (and still practise, as
amongst the Yanomamo) a kind of ritualized brawl (think of the Plains Indian
custom of "counting coup"). "Real" war is a continuation of religion and
economics (i.e. politics) by other means, and thus only begins historically
with the priestly invention of "scarcity" in the Neolithic, and the
emergence of a "warrior caste". (I categorically reject the theory that
"war" is a prolongation of "hunting".) WWII seems to have been the last
"real" war. Hyperreal war began in Vietnam, with the involvement of
television, and recently reached full obscene revelation in the "Gulf War"
of 1991. Hyperreal war is no longer "economic", no longer "the health of the
state". The Ritual Brawl is voluntary and hon-hierarchic (war chiefs are
always temporary); real war is compulsory and hierarchic; hyperreal war is
imagistic and psychologically interiorized ("Pure War"). In the first the
body is risked; in the second, the body is sacrificed; in the third, the
body has disappeared. (See P. Clastres on War, in Archaeology of Violence.)
Modern science also incorporates an anti-materialist bias, the dialectical
outcome of its war against Religion - it has in some sense become Religion.
Science as knowledge of material reality paradoxically decomposes the
materiality of the real. Science has always been a species of priestcraft, a
branch of cosmology; and an ideology, a justification of "the way things
are." The deconstruction of the "real" in post-classical physics mirrors the
vacuum of irreality which constitutes "the state". Once the image of Heaven
on Earth, the state now consists of no more than the management of images.
It is no longer a "force" but a disembodied patterning of information. But
just as Babylonian cosmology justified Babylonian power, so too does the
"finality" of modern science serve the ends of the Terminal State, the
post-nuclear state, the "information state". Or so the New Paradigm would
have it. And "everyone" accepts the axiomatic premises of the new paradigm.
The new paradigm is very spiritual.

Even the New Age with its gnostic tendencies embraces the New Science and
its increasing etherealization as a source of proof-texts for its
spiritualist world view. Meditation and cybernetics go hand in hand. Of
course the "information state" somehow requires the support of a police
force and prison system that would have stunned Nebuchadnezzar and reduced
all the priests of Moloch to paroxysms of awe. And "modern science" still
can't weasel out of its complicity in the very-nearly-successful "conquest
of Nature". Civilization's greatest triumph over the body.

But who cares? It's all "relative" isn't it? I guess we'll just have to
"evolve" beyond the body. Maybe we can do it in a "quantum leap." Meanwhile
the excessive mediation of the Social, which is carried out through the
machinery of the Media, increases the intensity of our alienation from the
body by fixating the flow of attention on information rather than direct
experience. In this sense the Media serves a religious or priestly role,
appearing to offer us a way out of the body by re-defining spirit as
information. The essence of information is the Image, the sacral and iconic
data-complex which usurps the primacy of the "material bodily principle" as
the vehicle of incarnation, replacing it with a fleshless ecstasis beyond
corruption. Consciousness becomes something which can be "down-loaded",
excized from the matrix of animality and immortalized as information. No
longer "ghost-in-the-machine", but machine-as-ghost, machine as Holy Ghost,
ultimate mediator, which will translate us from our mayfly-corpses to a
pleroma of Light. Virtual Reality as CyberGnosis. Jack in, leave Mother
Earth behind forever. All science proposes a paradigmatic universalism - as
in science, so in the social. Classical physics played midwife to
Capitalism, Communism, Fascism and other Modern ideologies.

Post-classical science also proposes a set of ideas meant to be applied to
th

Re: [CTRL] "The Law" is...[a bit of a spew]

[Sean McDougal]

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 Natural justice is either law, or it is not.
 If it be law, it is always law, and nothing
 inconsistent with it can ever be made law.

==
The law is a set of "rules" that when followed lead inevitably to peace,
harmony, abundance, joy, etc.  So to say something is against the law is to
say that it works contrary to the flow of free and abundant expression of
the "force."

..
Man follows the laws of the earth.
Earth follows the laws of the universe.
The universe follows the laws of the Tao.
The Tao follows nothing.

-Tao Te Ching [verse 25]
..

Modern physics has shown that laws of the universe are in flux.  So the
law's definition will always be to do that which is in the flow of divinity
but this can be tricky because divinity has been known to change its mind.
Thanks to physicists, mystics, metaphysicians, and magicians, we have people
that spend a great deal of their time observing the universe in flux,
closely.  Let us pay heed to them so we will always know the law.

As you can see from this premise, the people who are our legislators would
necessarily not be free to observe the law in change.  Mired down in
ceaselessly working out the details of what has already been established as
the law, they miss the fact that the law has changed, much like champions of
ancient scriptural law, where those who in choosing to be religious by
studying the laws laid down for an archaic world no longer in existence
thereby miss the fact that their head is filled with so much legislative
detail that they have no room in their heads for the word of god as he
speaks now.

pssst..he is speaking to you now.  he has a new message.  let go of what
was applicable before and listen for what is applicable now.  i am smart
enough to see that the universe is in flux so i am sure that the comlex
gaian cognitive entelechy is as well.  don't assume that if some
super-intelligent force [jehovah, pan, allah, the force] speaks to you that
you must be crazy.  we assume that we can talk to god but somehow, he cannot
do the same.  that is unreasonable.  if we are merely assuming that he
WOULDN'T, we claim to know a mind that dwarfs us as a sun would a tennis
ball.

think of prayer as connecting with what is on high, not as an opportunity
for millions of people to make requests to the great DJ god on sunday, his
day off.


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[CTRL] Complex CIA-Industrial compact

[Sean McDougal]

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Original Message Follows
From: MichaelP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Complex CIA-Industrial compact
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:09:56 -0500 (CDT)

Tuesday September 28 10:03 PM ET

Report: Germany Expels 3 CIA Agents

MUNICH, Germany (AP) - Public television reported Tuesday that three CIA
spies had been uncovered in Munich and forced to leave the country.

The German government promised Washington it would keep the affair quiet,
even agreeing not to officially expel the three, but allowing them to be
ordered home by the U.S. government, ZDF public television said in a news
release about its report, which is to air Wednesday night.

The U.S. Embassy in Berlin declined to comment on the report. Domestic
intelligence officials in Munich also refused to comment. In Washington,
CIA officials could not be reached, and a State Department official said
he had heard nothing about it.

ZDF did not say what the three were allegedly working on in Germany.

This was the second time that a CIA agent had been uncovered and expelled
from postwar Germany, the report said.

In March 1997, the German Economics Ministry confirmed that a U.S.
diplomat tried to recruit one of its department chiefs to spy for
Washington. Media reports at the time said the Americans were chiefly
interested in getting a list of German companies that delivered
high-technology supplies to Iran.

A newsmagazine, Der Spiegel, estimated then that 100 U.S. intelligence
agents were operating undercover in Germany.



By TOM RAUM

WASHINGTON (September 29, 1999 12:09 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) -
The CIA, not wanting to miss the boat on the Internet age or be outsmarted
by tech-savvy adversaries, is teaming up with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs
to invest in companies developing computer technologies that could help
with intelligence gathering.

Forgoing its usual clandestine ways, the agency has set up its own venture
capital firm - with money appropriated by Congress - with offices in
Washington and Palo Alto, Calif. It will invest in promising new start-up
hi-tech companies.

The CIA picked a fanciful name for the new company: In-Q-It. The "In"
stands for intelligence. The "It" stands for information technology. And
the Q? That's the code name of the James Bond character who comes up with
all the gadgets that the fictional British spy uses.

"We do have a sense of humor," Central Intelligence Agency spokesman Bill
Harlow said Wednesday, confirming the existence of the new company.

Harlow said the venture capital company "is clearly tied to us, but they
make a big point of being independent."

The venture, first reported by The Washington Post and The New York Times
in Wednesday's editions, was actually set up last February as a nonprofit
organization.

But it is just now getting organized, with its own board of directors,
according to the new chief executive officer, Gilman Louie.

Louie said in an interview that the company would be small, with about 20
to 25 employees, and is being started with $28 million appropriated by
Congress last year as part of the classified budget for the agency.

Both Louie and the CIA said the venture capital company would only work on
unclassified projects.

Mainly, In-Q-It will invest in some high-tech companies and form joint
ventures with other ones where the companies are working on promising
technological projects that could benefit the CIA.

This includes ways of helping the CIA to use the Internet more effectively
and securely.

It also will try to find promising technologies that will help the CIA
better use the information it already possesses in a variety of forms,
from paper to computer files.

He cited the May 7 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia - a target
picked by the CIA - as "the manifestation of the worst result that could
happen if you don't have all your information lined up."

Louie, 39, founded his own electronic game company - MicroProse Inc. -
that was later bought by Hasbro. At Hasbro, Louie has been an executive
with the toy company's online business group.

He said he has no experience in espionage "and I want to keep it that
way."

The company's board of directors includes John Seely Brown, director of
the Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center; Norm Augustine,
chairman of Lockheed Martin; William Perry, the former defense secretary;
and Jeong Kim of Lucent.



NewYork Times September 29, 1999

C.I.A. to Nurture Companies Dealing in High Technology

By JOHN MARKOFF

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Hoping to insure that the nation's spies have the
latest information technology in the rapidly changing Internet age, the
Central Intelligence Agency has established a venture capital company to
nurture high-tech companies, company executives and former C.I.A.
officials said.

The C.I.A. has chosen a veteran Silicon Valley software executive to head
the effort, which has an office in Washington with eight employees and
will have a sec

[CTRL] (wto) Articles on the Free Logging Agreement & Day of Action

[Sean McDougal]

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Original Message Follows
From: "Margrete Strand-Rangnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: (wto) Articles on the Free Logging Agreement & Day of Action
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:10:12 -0500 (CDT)

There has been a flurry of media recently between the release of "Our
Forests at Risk: The World Trade Organization's Threat to Forest
Protection," the September 15 International Day of Action and the Ruckus
Camp in Washington. Below are three articles that highlight the issues. For
more information on the Free Logging Agreement, contact Antonia Juhaz at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Articles Found Below:
9/14/99
Press Release for Our Forests at Risk

9/14/99
Inter Press Service
WTO Rules Threaten Forests

9/15/99
Inter Press Service
Big Business and Democracy on Collision Course at WTO



Earthjustice: U.S.-Backed Trade Plan Puts World's Forests on the
Chopping Block

CONTACT: Ann Hedreen, 206-723-8228, for Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund;
Website: http://www.earthjustice.org

DATELINE: SEATTLE, Sept. 14
At a press conference today, top forest advocates in the Northwest
called on the Clinton Administration's  trade  negotiators to uphold
United States environmental standards by immediately withdrawing one of
their key agenda items for the upcoming World Trade Organization summit
in Seattle.

According to a new report released with a statement signed by more than
100 conservation groups around the world, forests should not be
sacrificed blindly to the goal of free  trade.  The so-called "Global
Free-Logging Agreement" should not be pursued until the environmental
effects of existing  trade  rules and the new proposals have been fully
reviewed and modified to protect forests.

"Our Forests at Risk: The World Trade Organization's Threat to Forest
Protection" spells out in  sobering detail the likely consequences of
what forest advocates call the "Global Free- Logging Agreement." The
32-page report was co-authored by Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund and
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance, in collaboration with American Lands
Alliance, Asia Pacific Environmental Exchange, International Forum on
Globalization, Pacific Crest Biodiversity, and Pacific Environment  and
Resource Center.

Environmental groups say that as a member of the World Trade
Organization (WTO) , and a key proponent of the "Global Free-Logging
Agreement, " the U.S. has the ability to affect trade policy and  trade
rules, and that our negotiators must do a better job of maintaining U.S.
environmental standards.

"Our trade negotiators are pushing a plan that would undermine the
forest protections that U.S. citizens fought so hard to obtain," said
Patti Goldman, managing attorney for EarthJustice Legal Defense Fund and
a principal author of the report. "We are urging our government to look
before we leap into loosening regulations designed to protect our
environment  and U. S. jobs. Our government should insist on a full
review and modification of the  WTO  rules to ensure protection of our
forests before pushing forward with new proposals."

According to the report released today, the "Global Free-Logging
Agreement" jeopardizes forests under the cloak of free trade and
exemplifies a disturbing trend in the formulation of trade rules. It
would wipe out important forest protections and accelerate the
destruction of forests worldwide. Some of the key threats to Northwest,
and the world's, forests include:

Invasive Species Safeguards: Invasive species, such as the Asian Gypsy
Moth, the Asian long-horned beetle and others, are the second leading
threat to forest biodiversity. The best way to prevent these
bio-invasions is to stop them at the border. But  trade  rules have made
it difficult, if not impossible, to stop deadly infestations before they
spread.
Raw Log Export Bans: Washington State and the U.S. have banned the
export of raw logs from public lands in the Western U.S. The goal is to
reduce the overall demand for logging and to enable domestic mills to
benefit from the logging that is done.  Trade  rules prohibit such bans,
and Japan is already threatening to challenge the U.S. ban.

Green Procurement: Through green procurement, governments use their
purchasing power to increase demand for recycled paper and decrease
consumption of products from native and unsustainably managed forests.
Recycled content requirements are firmly in place for federal, state and
local  government procurement throughout the U.S. But under WTO trade
rules, such regulations can be  challenged on the grounds that they
discriminate against countries that log native forests.

Eco-labeling and Forest Certification: Eco-labeling enables consumers
to find and buy environmentally friendly products. Forest certification
reveals whether forest products have been produced in a  sustainable and
environmentally sound manner. Under  WTO  rules, eco- labeling and
forest certification can be challenged because they disti

[CTRL] Indon, begging for funds, expresses "deep regret" over E Timor

[Sean McDougal]

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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:28:10 -0500 (CDT)

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** Topic: Indon, begging for funds, expresses "deep regret" over E Timor
death **
** Written  6:36 PM  Sep 28, 1999 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] in cdp:reg.easttimor **
Subject: Indon, begging for funds, expresses "deep regret" over E Timor
deaths

Indonesia expresses "deep regret" over East Timor deaths

WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (AFP) - Indonesia on Tuesday expressed its "deep regret"
for loss of life in East Timor and reaffirmed a pledge to respect a
pro-independence referendum there.

"I would like to express the deep regret of the people of Indonesia for the
loss of life caused by events in East Timor," Minister of State for finance
Boediono (eds: one name) told ministers and central bank governors at the
annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank.

"Let me reaffirm that the government of Indonesia is committed to taking the
steps necessary to enable the fulfillment of the newly-expressed will of the
majority of East Timorese to seek a new destiny outside Indonesia."

Boediono also said that Indonesia's economic restructuring had been
"paralysed" by a banking scandal but that "given half a chance" the economic
recovery could get back on track.

The IMF is currently holding back funds to cash-strapped Indonesia, but
managing director Michel Camdessus said earlier Tuesday that "we stand ready
to resume our assistance as soon as the shadows hanging over the programme
are lifted."

The finance minister of Portugal, East Timor's former colonial power, issued
an impassioned plea Tuesday for the international community to "take firm
action to restore peace, provide emergency aid and contribute to the
reconstruction needs of this devastated territory and people."

If this was not forthcoming in the wake of the "genocide" in East Timor,
"words like democracy, human rights, law and order, social and economic
development, would become quite empty," Antonio de Sousa Franco told the
IMF/World Bank meeting.

Camdessus said last week that resumption of aid depended on developments in
East Timor and resolution of the Bank Bali scandal.

The scandal centers on the payment of an 80 million dollar commission by the
bank to a company owned by a ruling Golkar party executive.

The bank paid the commission to recover money owed by three banks that had
been closed down by the government.

Boediono said that the Indonesian economy is now "in far better shape" than
it was a year ago, but "uncertainties remain" because of the bank scandal,
the East Timor situation and "rising political temperature" ahead of
presidential elections in November.

He said the government regarded the bank scandal as a "very serious matter"
that would be resolved in a complete and transparent manner "which will meet
the public's expectations."

After the presidential elections Boediono said he hoped Indonesia's
restructuring and economic recovery would "regain momentum."

Camdessus said that the IMF "expect(s) to continue working with the next
government of Indonesia to do our part in helping the country achieve its
great potential," and "look forward to contributing, when the day comes, to
the rebuilding and sustainable development of East Timor."

The international community is already looking ahead to the reconstruction
of
East Timor once peace has been restored, and potential donors will meet
informally here on Wednesday with East Timor independence leaders Xanana
Gusmao and Jose Ramos Horta to discuss likely future aid needs and
priorities, World Bank officials said.

The meeting will be attended by representatives of Asian countries,
industrial nations and international financial institutions.

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[CTRL] IRAQ: Sanctions Kill Over 10,000 Iraqis in August

[Sean McDougal]

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  Sanctions Kill Over 10,000 Iraqis in August

BAGHDAD, September 19 (Xinhua) -- More than 10,000 Iraqi
children and elderly people died last August of different curable
diseases and malnutrition due to the continuation of the
U.N. sanctions, statistics indicate.
The figures released on Sunday by Iraqi Health Ministry showed
that 7,632 Iraqi children aged below five died of diarrhea,
pneumonia and respiratory infections and malnutrition last month,
while only 302 children died in the same month in 1989.
And 2,555 elderly people died of heart disease, diabetes,
hypertension and malignant neoplasms last month, compared to 480
deaths registered in August 1989.
The U.N. imposed harsh economic sanctions on Iraq in August
1990 following its invasion of Kuwait, which touched off the 1991
Gulf War.
The figures show that a total of over 1.18 million Iraqis,
most of them children, have died of various curable diseases and
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[CTRL] Noam Chomsky: East Timor Retrospective: An overview and lessons

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Sept 27, 1999

East Timor Retrospective

An overview and lessons

By Noam Chomsky

It is not easy to write with feigned calm and dispassion about the events
that have been unfolding in East Timor. Horror and shame are compounded by
the fact that the crimes are so familiar and could so easily have been
terminated. That has been true ever since Indonesia invaded in December
1975,
relying on U.S. diplomatic support and arms -- used illegally, but with
secret authorization, even new arms shipments sent under the cover of an
official "embargo." There has been no need to threaten bombing or even
sanctions. It would have sufficed for the U.S. and its allies to withdraw
their active participation, and to inform their close associates in the
Indonesian military command that the atrocities must be terminated and the
territory granted the right of self-determination that has been upheld by
the
United Nations and the International Court of Justice. We cannot undo the
past, but should at least be willing to recognize what we have done, and to
face the moral responsibility of saving the remnants and providing ample
reparations, a pathetic gesture of compensation for terrible crimes.

The latest chapter in this painful story of betrayal and complicity opened
right after the referendum of Aug. 30, 1999, when the population voted
overwhelmingly for independence. At once, atrocities mounted sharply,
organized and directed by the Indonesian military (TNI). The UN Mission
(UNAMET) gave its appraisal on September 11:

The evidence for a direct link between the militia and the military is
beyond
any dispute and has been overwhelmingly documented by UNAMET over the last
four months. But the scale and thoroughness of the destruction of East Timor
in the past week has demonstrated a new level of open participation of the
military in the implementation of what was previously a more veiled
operation.

The Mission warned that "the worst may be yet to come It cannot be ruled
out that these are the first stages of a genocidal campaign to stamp out the
East Timorese problem by force."

Indonesia historian John Roosa, an official observer of the vote, described
the situation starkly: "Given that the pogrom was so predictable, it was
easily preventable... But in the weeks before the ballot, the Clinton
Administration refused to discuss with Australia and other countries the
formation of [an international force]. Even after the violence erupted, the
Administration dithered for days," until compelled by international
(primarily Australian) and domestic pressure to make some timid gestures.
Even these ambiguous messages sufficed to induce the Indonesian generals to
reverse course and to accept an international presence, illustrating the
latent power that has always been at hand.

The same power relations ensure that the UN can do nothing without
Washington
consent and initiative. While Clinton "dithers," almost half the population
has been expelled from their homes according to UN estimates, and thousands
murdered. The Air Force that was able to carry out pin-point destruction of
civilian targets in Novi Sad, Belgrade, and Ponceva lacks the capacity to
drop food to people facing starvation in the mountains to which they have
been driven by the terror of the TNI forces armed and trained by the United
States, and its no less cynical allies.

The recent events will evoke bitter memories among those who do not prefer
"intentional ignorance." We are witnessing a shameful replay of events of 20
years ago. After carrying out a huge slaughter in 1977-78 with the decisive
support of the Carter Administration, Indonesia felt confident enough to
permit a brief visit by members of the Jakarta diplomatic corps, among them
U.S. Ambassador Edward Masters. They recognized that an enormous
humanitarian
catastrophe had been created. The aftermath was described by Benedict
Anderson, one of the most distinguished Indonesia scholars. "For nine long
months" of starvation and terror, Anderson testified at the United Nations,
"Ambassador Masters deliberately refrained, even within the walls of the
State Department, from proposing humanitarian aid to East Timor," waiting
"until the generals in Jakarta gave him the green light" -- until they felt
"secure enough to permit foreign visitors," as an internal State Department
document recorded. Only then did Washington consider taking some steps to
deal with the consequences of its actions.

As TNI forces and their paramilitaries 

[CTRL] Pat Buchanan: Equal Opportunity Maligner

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FAIR Report: Pat Buchanan-Equal Opportunity Maligner


In recent days, Patrick Buchanan has been blaming the news media for
dishonest reporting on his new book "A Republic, Not An Empire," which
raises questions about U.S. intervention in World War II.

Since Buchanan is vehemently denying that he is bigoted toward Jews or
anyone else, FAIR thought it was an appropriate time to reprint our 1996
compendium of Buchanan quotes documenting the presidential candidate's
broad-ranging bigotry.


==
FAIR Report: Pat Buchanan In His Own Words


February 26, 1996

Here is a sampling of Buchanan's views:


On African-Americans

After Sen. Carol Moseley Braun blocked a federal patent for a Confederate
flag insignia, Buchanan wrote that she was "putting on an act" by
associating the Confederacy with slavery: "The War Between the States was
about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to
break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance,"
Buchanan asserted. "How long is this endless groveling before every cry of
'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?"
(syndicated column, 7/28/93)

On race relations in the late 1940s and early 1950s: "There were no politics
to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The 'negroes' of Washington
had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and
churches; and we had ours." ("Right from the Beginning," Buchanan's 1988
autobiography, p. 131)

Buchanan, who opposed virtually every civil rights law and court decision of
the last 30 years, published FBI smears of Martin Luther King Jr. as his own
editorials in the St. Louis Globe Democrat in the mid-1960s. "We were among
Hoover's conduits to the American people," he boasted ("Right from the
Beginning," p. 283).

White House advisor Buchanan urged President Nixon in an April 1969 memo not
to visit "the Widow King" on the first anniversary of Martin Luther King's
assassination, warning that a visit would "outrage many, many people who
believe Dr. King was a fraud and a demagogue and perhaps worse Others
consider him the Devil incarnate. Dr. King is one of the most divisive men
in contemporary history." (New York Daily News, 10/1/90)

In a memo to President Nixon, Buchanan suggested that "integration of blacks
and whites -- but even more so, poor and well-to-do -- is less likely to
result in accommodation than it is in perpetual friction, as the incapable
are placed consciously by government side by side with the capable."
(Washington Post, 1/5/92)

In another memo from Buchanan to Nixon: "There is a legitimate grievance in
my view of white working-class people that every time, on every issue, that
the black militants loud-mouth it, we come up with more money If we can
give 50 Phantoms [jet fighters] to the Jews, and a multi-billion dollar
welfare program for the blacks...why not help the Catholics save their
collapsing school system." (Boston Globe, 1/4/92)

Buchanan has repeatedly insisted that President Reagan did so much for
African-Americans that civil rights groups have no reason to exist: "George
Bush should have told the [NAACP convention] that black America has grown
up; that the NAACP should close up shop, that its members should go home and
reflect on JFK's admonition: 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but
rather ask what you can do for your country.'" (syndicated column, 7/26/88)

In a column sympathetic to ex-Klansman David Duke, Buchanan chided the
Republican Party for overreacting to Duke and his Nazi "costume": "Take a
hard look at Duke's portfolio of winning issues and expropriate those not in
conflict with GOP principles, [such as] reverse discrimination against white
folks." (syndicated column, 2/25/89)

Trying to justify apartheid in South Africa, he denounced the notion that
"white rule of a black majority is inherently wrong. Where did we get that
idea? The Founding Fathers did not believe this." (syndicated column,
2/7/90) He referred admiringly to the apartheid regime as the "Boer
Republic": "Why are Americans collaborating in a U.N. conspiracy to ruin her
wit

[CTRL] Colombia & the "Drug War": Reconsidering Prohibition

[Sean McDougal]

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Subject: Colombia & the "Drug War": Reconsidering Prohibition
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:40:32 -0500 (CDT)

[NOTE: Stanley Crouch is a right-wing commentator
that, while ill-informed on Colombia, has some
interesting arguments and colorful images in his
commentary. -DG]

Monday, 27 September 1999

**
* COMMENTARY *
**

The drug war is being lost
--

By Stanley Crouch

THERE is a very big story brewing concerning the nation of Colombia and
the need for this nation to reconsider the legalization of drugs.

Because of what is happening in Colombia, we have a chance to rethink our
drug policies and make some brave national decisions that could bring the
nation out of the hole illegal drugs has pulled it into.

We are edging closer and closer to military involvement in Colombia. That is
happening because the drug dealers there have made so many billions of
dollars that they are able to finance armies on both the right and the
left to protect their product.

The product constitutes somewhere between a quarter and half the cocaine
sold in the shadow world of U.S. crime.

This is something that has no precedent in modern society. What does have
a precedent is America's stumbling and bumbling its way into a situation
that
cannot be settled easily.

The situation is the result of a long history of troubles that have
embittered the people of Colombia to such an extent that all the
corruption works in favor of the drug dealers, men who have shown they
are willing to murder anyone who threatens them.

White House drug policy adviser Barry McCaffrey adamantly opposes drug
legalization. He thinks we can win the war on drugs. But he does not
understand that our propping up the government of Colombia with $ 550
million in military aid will not do the job at all because the drug
dealers will outspend us.

In fact, they probably have already. Leftist rebels control half the
nation. Now the rebels have cut a deal with the dope dealers just as
members of Colombia's right wing did earlier and are being paid to guard
the dealers while battling the government.

If we get into this mess, somebody's bird is going to be cooked, and I don't
doubt that the American eagle will be on the menu, with Vietnamese spices
and dressing.

The war on drugs cannot be won on the U.S. end of the traffic, either.
There is just too much money out there. When one person goes down, others
immediately rush to take his or her place.

Police departments have to fight the internal corruption wrought by
drug-money bribes. Lower-income communities have to suffer the dangers
that go with young people seeking out swift riches in a business where
life is cheap and terror expansive.

Drugs need to be legalized, privatized and taxed. That would bring plenty of
legal money into society and provide enough funding for rehabilitation.

What happened with liquor should happen with dope. Just as the nation didn't
become a land of hopeless alcoholics with the end of Prohibition, it will
not
become one of helpless drug addicts. That goes against human nature.

It will take substantial courage on the part of Bill Clinton or George W.
Bush
or Bill Bradley or Al Gore or whoever finally steps before the microphone to
talk about all this. But there has never been a better opportunity than now,
because we can so easily see that continuing the war on drugs by trying to
stop imports just isn't working.

Of course, if drugs were legalized in order to destroy their business, those
Colombian drug billionaires would know what to do. First, they would finance
lobbyists to oppose the legalization.

After they lost, they would go on to do what all robber barons have done. In
their case, they could buy plenty of stock in pharmaceutical companies.

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[CTRL] WHERE I STAND - by Michael Bakunin

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WHERE I STAND
By Michael Bakunin

I am a passionate seeker after truth (and no less embittered enemy of evil
doing fictions) which the party of order, this official, privileged and
interested representative of all the past and present religions,
metaphysical, political, juridical and "social" atrociousness claim to
employ even today only to make the world stupid and enslave it, I am a
fanatical lover of truth and freedom which I consider the only surroundings
in which intelligence, consciousness and happiness develop and increase.

I do not mean the completely formal freedom which the State imposes, judges
and regulates, this eternal lie which in reality consists always of the
privileges of a few based upon the slavery of all-not even the
individualists, egotistical, narrow and fictitious freedom which the school
of J. J. Rousseau and all other system of property moralists, middle class
bourgeoisism and liberalism recommend-according to which the socalled rights
of individuals which the State "represents" has the limit in the right of
all, whereby the rights of every individual are necessarily, always reduced
to nil. No, I consider only that as freedom worthy and real as its name
should imply, which consists in the complete development of all material,
intellectual and spiritual powers which are in a potential state in
everyone, the freedom which knows no other limits than those prescribed by
the laws of our own nature,so that there be really no limits-for these laws
are not enforced upon us by external legislators who are around and over us,
these laws are innate in us, clinging to us and form the real basis of our
material, intellectual and moral being; instead of therefore seeing in them
a limitation, we must look upon them as the real condition and the actual
cause
of our freedom.

Unconditional Freedom
I mean that freedom of the individual which, instead of stopping far from
the freedom of others as before a frontier, sees on the contrary the
,menting and the expansion into the infinity of its own free will,the
unilmited freedom of the individual through the, freedom of all;freedom
through solidarity, freedom in equality; the freedom which triumphs over
brute force and over the principle of authoritarianism, the ideal expression
of that force which, after the destruction of all terrestrial and heavenly
idols, will find and
organize a new world of undivided mankind upon the ruins of all churches and
States. I am a convinced partisan of economic and social equality, for I
know that outside this equality, freedom, justice, human dignity and moral
and spiritual well-being of mankind and the prosperity of nation, and
individuals will always remain a lie only. But as an unconditional partisan
of freedom, this first condition of humanity, I believe the equality must be
established through the spontaneous organization of voluntary cooperation of
work freely
organized, and into communes federated, by productive associations and
through the equally spontaneous federation of communes-not through and by
supreme supervisng action of the State. This point separates above all
others the revolutionary socialists or collectivists from the authoritarian
"comunists", the adherents of the absolute initivaitve necessity of and by
the State. The communists imagine that condition of freedom and socialism
(i.e., the administration of the society's affairs by the self-goverment of
the society itself without the medium and pressure of the State) can be
achieved by the development and organization of the political power of the
working class, chiefly of the proletariat of the towns with the help of
bourgeois radicalism, while the revolutionary (who are otherwise, known as
libertarian) socialists, enemies of every double-edged allies and alliance
believe, on the very contrary that the aim can be realised and materialized
only through the development and organization not of the political but of
the social and economic, and therefore antipolitical forces of the working
masses of the town and country, including all well disposed people of the
upper classes who are ready to break away from their past and join them
openly and
accept their programme unconditionally.

Two Methods
>From the difference named, there arise two different methods. The
"Communists" pretend to organize the working classes in order to "capture
the political power of the State". The revolutionary socialists organize
people with the object of the liquidation of the States altogether whatever
be their form. The first are the partisans of authoritiveness in theory and
practice, the socialists have confidence only in freedom to develop the
initiative of peoples in order to liberate themselves. The communist
authoritarians wish to
force class "science" upon others, the social libertarians propagate
emporicle science among them so that human groups and aggregations infus

[CTRL] Culture Activists Defend Cyber Disobedience

[Sean McDougal]

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Culture Activists Defend Cyber Disobedience

  Dressed in black and armed with an audio-video
presentation reminiscent of the cyberpunk film "Blade Runner,"
two "hacktivists" from the Electronic Disturbance Theater
cut an unusual swath at a gathering this week of information
warfare professionals heavily populated by men in military
uniforms.

  Stefan Wray and Ricardo Dominguez — two
self-styled electronic artists and political activists from EDT
— kicked off their presentation of "The Politics of Infowar"
by comparing themselves to Daniel appearing in the lion's den.

  Denying that their actions constituted "hacking" or were
in any way illegal, the duo nevertheless mounted a defense
of "cyber civil disobedience." They recounted some of their
previous actions, including a denial-of-service program
called FloodNet, which they launched against Mexican government
computer servers as a means of expressing support for the
Zapatistas.

  "We don't consider ourselves hackers," said Dominguez,
who said he defined the term as an attempt to infiltrate a
Web site, rearrange, or deliberately crash a computer.

  "As politics becomes technologized, and technology
becomes more politicized, we can expect more hacktivism,"
said Wray.

  They sees themselves as "digital Zapatistas" who are happy
to use the notoriety they have gained from electronic disturbances
to spread propaganda against the Mexican government to
a "military-entertainment" complex that would not otherwise
hear this point of view.

  EDT's most notorious action, a FloodNet attack against
a Pentagon Web site on September 9, 1998, was thwarted
when the Department of Defense retaliated with a Java
applet called "hostileapplet," which caused the digital protesters'
computers to crash.

  Dominguez and Wray said they had talked with
lawyers at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet
and Society about the possibility of suing the government
for violating the 1878 Posse Comitatus law that bans the use of
the military in domestic law enforcement.

  "In the same way that the Pentagon is not allowed
to use B-52s against New York City, they may also
not be allowed to use offensive information war
tactics against civilians," said Dominguez.

  But judging by the stream of attendees who deserted
the presentation midstream, the duo's thoughts weren't
too well received.

  "I need some toilet paper to clean out my ears
after listening to that propaganda," said Michel Kabay,
director of research and development for the ICSA labs
— and who is not known for his kind words for hackers —
to Winn Schwartau, director of consulting firm Interpact
and a conference organizer. Schwartau said he found
Dominguez and Wray's willingness to publicly take
responsibility for their actions provided an important
perspective on information warfare.

  - by Drew Clark

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[CTRL] The Bush Family's Nazi Legacy

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The Bush Nazi Coke Moonie Connection
This past April, Texas Governor George W. Bush proclaimed a week of
remembrance for the Holocaust. He said, I urge Texans to never forget
the inhumanity of those who perpetrated the Holocaust, and reflect upon our
own humanity and our responsibility to respect all peoples. Good advice.

He should reflect upon his own family, if he is interested in reflecting on
inhumanity.

G. W.s grandfather and great-grandfather, Prescott Bush and George
Herbert Walker, were among the chief American fundraisers for Germanys Nazi
Party. Through industrialist Fritz Thyssen, the Bush-run Union Banking
Company and W. A. Harriman & Company, the Bushes sold over $50 million in
German bonds to American investors, starting in 1924. Thyssen in turn pumped
money into the infant Nazi Party, which had proved its desire to rule and
its willingness to use brute force in 1923s Munich Beer Hall Putsch.

George Walker, GWs great-grandfather, also set up the takeover of the
Hamburg-America Line, a cover for I.G. Farbens Nazi espionage unit in
the United States. In Germany, I. G. Farben was most famous for putting the
gas in gas chambers; it was the producer of Zyklon B and other gasses used
on victims of the Holocaust. The Bush family was not unaware of the nature
of their investment partners. They hired Allen Dulles, the future head of
the CIA, to hide the funds they were making from Nazi investments and the
funds they were sending to Nazi Germany, rather than divest. It was only in
1942, when the government seized Union Banking Company assets under the
Trading With The Enemy Act, that George Walker and Prescott Bush stopped
pumping money into Hitlers regime.

George Bush, then an eighteen year-old man, held off entering Yale (a
long-time Bush family destination, Prescott had graduated in 1917) to
enter the military, perhaps to remove some of the tarnish from his
familys honor. After the war, however, Bush joined the intelligence
community and utilized his own connections to help fund drug runners from
Laos to Panama. Most shocking was the so-called cocaine coup in Bolivia in
June 1980, masterminded by fugitive Nazi Klaus Barbie, The Butcher Of Lyons.

Bush, as director of the CIA, had funneled enormous amounts of cash to
drug runners including Manuel Noriega and helped in the destabilization of
Argentina. Barbie, who had been previously secreted in Latin America by the
CIA, began working closely with the Argentines and used drug money to
finance a neo-Nazi cabal, one that succeeded in overthrowing the government.
The troops swept through the capital wearing Nazi armbands, according to
former DEA agent Mike Levine. They may as well have been wearing armbands
portraying syringes, dollar bills and Bush For President buttons.

After the cocaine coup, the notorious Unification Church, the Moonie
cult, began making inroads across Latin America. Among the first to arrive
in La Paz after the Nazi/coke coup was Bo Hi Pak, Rev. Sun Myung Moons right
hand man. Moon had invested $4 million in the coup, it so turns out, and
still had plenty of money left over to help finance George Bush's campaign
for president in 1988. Moonie lieutenant Thomas Ward also acted as the
go-between between Barbie and his CIA payrollers. The Moonies were also
large funders of the Contras and heavy investors in Latin America generally.
Bush is still in Moons pocket: as recently as 1996, former President Bush
flew to Argentina to appeal to Argentine president Carlos Menem to attend
the gala celebration for Moons latest right-wing newspaper. Bush has made
hundreds of thousands of dollars stumping for Moon groups since leaving the
Oval Office, and has been working to make sure GW Bush gets his share of
drug-tainted, Nazi managed cult money for the latest Presidential campaign.
That is something we should all reflect
on.

By Nick Mamatas

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[CTRL] Rachel #669: Scientists Say Future is in the Balance

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SCIENTISTS SAY FUTURE IS IN THE BALANCE

In 1992, Sir Michael Atiyah, president of the Royal Society of
London, and Dr. Frank Press, president of the U.S. National
Academy of Sciences, issued a joint statement under the title,
"Population Growth, Resource Consumption and a Sustainable
World."[1] The Royal Society, founded in 1660, is sometimes
called the United Kingdom's Academy of Science.

This joint statement, issued by two of the world's leading
scientific organizations, was unprecedented. The Royal Society,
in particular, had in the past been very reluctant to issue
pronouncements on matters of public policy that might stir
controversy.

Unfortunately, this important joint statement was almost entirely
ignored by the world's media. Therefore, we are reprinting it
verbatim as part of our series on "the meaning of
sustainability."

The statement says that if population growth continues and
patterns of human activity remain unchanged, "science and
technology may not be able to prevent either irreversible
degradation of the environment or continued poverty for much of
the world."

"The future of our planet is in the balance" the statement says.
"Sustainable development can be achieved, but only if
irreversible degradation of the environment can be halted in
time. The next 30 years may be crucial."

The joint statement:

WORLD POPULATION

In its 1991 report on world population, the United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA) states that population growth is even
faster than forecast in its report of 1984. Assuming nevertheless
that there will in the future be substantial and sustained falls
in fertility rates, the global population is expected in the UN's
mid-range projection to rise from 5.4 billion in 1991 to 10
billion in 2050. This rapid rise may be unavoidable; considerably
larger rises must be expected if fertility rates do not stabilize
at the replacement level of about 2.1 children per woman. At
present, about 95 percent of this growth is in the less developed
countries (LDCs); the percentage of global population that live
in the LDCs is projected to increase from 77 percent in 1990 to
84 percent in 2020.

THE ENVIRONMENT

Although there is a relationship between population, economic
activity, and the environment, it is not simple. Most of the
environmental changes during the twentieth century have been a
product of the efforts of humans to secure improved standards of
food, clothing, shelter, comfort, and recreation. Both developed
and developing countries have contributed to environmental
degradation. Developed countries, with 85 percent of the world's
gross national product and 23 percent of its population, account
for the majority of mineral and fossil-fuel consumption. One
issue alone, the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, has the
potential for altering global climate with significant
consequences for all countries. The prosperity and technology of
the developed countries, however, give them the greater
possibilities and the greater responsibility for addressing
environmental problems.

In the developing countries the resource consumption per capita
is lower, but the rapidly growing population and the pressure to
develop their economies are leading to substantial and increasing
damage to the local environment. This damage comes by direct
pollution from energy use and other industrial activities, as

[CTRL] UNDERGROUND GROUP MAKES FIFTH RAID ON GENETIC ENGINEERING SITES: Sixth Anti-GE Action in US This Month

[Sean McDougal]

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From: whispered media <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Jeffrey Francis Tufenkian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Genetix Alert: UNDERGROUND GROUP MAKES FIFTH RAID ON GENETIC
ENGINEERING SITES: Sixth Anti-GE Action in US This Month
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:57:22 -0700

GENETIX ALERT

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: September 29, 1999Contact:
Jeffrey Tufenkian 619-584-6462


UNDERGROUND GROUP MAKES FIFTH RAID ON GENETIC ENGINEERING SITES:
Sixth Anti-GE Action in US This Month

[US]-The anti-genetic engineering (GE) group, "Reclaim the Seeds," conducted
its fifth action against GE crops at a University of California (UC) campus
early yesterday morning according to an anonymous communique released today.

The group destroyed five rows of transgenic melons, sixteen rows of
transgenic walnut trees, sixty rows of pesticide-ridden tomatoes as well as
removed two pieces of research equipment at two UC-Davis GE facilities. The
incident-which targeted the Department of Plant Pathology (DPP) and the
Center for Engineering Plants for Resistance Against Pathogens (CEPRAP)-was
the sixth anti-GE action this month by two different groups, following three
previous events in California and two in Minnesota.

"The University of California at Davis has one of the largest transgenic
research programs in the world," said conservative organic farmer Johnna
Appleseed.  "From tomatoes and trees to primates and mice, UC provides the
biotech industry with lucrative data at public expense.  Reclaim the Seeds
says enough is enough, and our actions speak louder than words.  Nonviolent
direct action is a most powerful force.  Resistance to genetic engineering
is as transnational as capital."

The action by Reclaim the Seeds is part of a growing worldwide rejection of
genetically engineered (GE) crops and of the handful of transnational
corporations like Monsanto, Novartis and DuPont which are attempting to
manipulate the future of the world's agriculture and food supply in order to
bolster their own profits.  In the last year there have been over forty acts
of crop destruction in Great Britain, others in India and at least eleven
such actions in the US since the spring-two in California in late July and
one each in Vermont, California and Maine in August, two in Minnesota and
four in California this month.

Details of past anti-GE actions are available at www.tao.ca/~ban/ar.htm.

Genetix Alert is an independent news center which works with other
above-ground, anti-genetic engineering organizations.  GA has no knowledge
of the person(s) who carryout any underground actions.  GA does not advocate
illegal acts, but seeks to explain why people destroy genetically engineered
crops and undertake other nonviolent actions aimed at resisting genetic
engineering and increasing the difficulty for entities which seek to advance
genetic engineering or its products.  GA spokespeople are available for
media interviews.

Reporters and other interested parties may contact Genetix Alert at:
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(communique follows)


Reclaim the Seeds Communique: September 28, 1999

For Immediate Release-September 28, 1999
Reclaim the Seeds Carries Out Fifth Raid on GE Crops
Davis, CA-
The anti-genetic engineering (GE) group Reclaim the Seeds
conducted its fifth action against GE crops at a University of California
(UC) campus early this morning. Five rows of transgenic melons, 16 rows of
transgenic walnut trees, 60 rows of pesticide-ridden tomatoes, and two
pieces of research equipment were removed from the biotech agenda of
UC-Davis's Department of Plant Pathology (DPP) and the Center for
Engineering Plants for Resistance Against Pathogens (CEPRAP). The incident
was the fifth in as many weeks, following three previous events in Davis and
one in Berkeley.

"The University of California at Davis has one of the largest transgenic
research programs in the world. From tomatoes and trees to primates and
mice, UC provides the biotech industry with lucrative data at public
expense. Reclaim the Seeds says enough is enough, and our actions speak
louder than words," said conservative organic farmer Johnna Appleseed.

"Nonviolent direct action is a most powerful force."

The DPP and CEPRAP share the same address, field facilities, and at least
one similar research focus: to manipulate the genetic code of plants in
order to repel pests and disease, and/or to tolerate specific pesticides.

However, substantial scientific evidence points out the dangers of this
agenda: the creation of 'super-pests' which are resistant to ever-increasing
levels of pesticides; the cross-pollination of organic plants with mutant
genes; the negative impact on wildlife and human health; and the instability
of GE crops, a serious threat to the world's food security.

Of particular con

[CTRL] Fwd: Rebuilding the Branch Davidian Sanctuary

[Sean McDougal]

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From: "George Pulliam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Waco
Date: 28 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT

We are rebuilding the Branch Davidian Sanctuary at Waco. All the
concrete footings have been poured and the wood frame floor system
starts in this coming Sunday (Oct 3). We need volunteers, building
materials and donations. You can visit our Web site at
http://www.rebuildthechurch.com for a list of materials needed.
Also, we have current photos of the work in progress.

An account has been set up at Bank of America for any cash
donations. 100% of the donations will go to buy building materials
for the church. NO money will be used for any salaries, wages,
bonuses, etc. The account number will be posted on the above web
site in the next day or so. Deposits of as little as a dollar or as
much as you can give will be greatly appreciated.

We estimate that it will take at least $60,000 to $100,000 of
materials to build the new church and hope to have first services
in the new sanctuary building on Saturday, December 4, 1999.
--

Thank all of you who have concerns about what happened at Waco. I
have personally talked with six of the survivors and believe what
the Feds did at Waco is tantamount to execution of the BranchDavidian's.

I don't believe that they deserved the death penalty for their
religious views. If the ATF and all the other alphabet agencies can
kill the Branch Davidian's for their "strange" beliefs, they can do
the same for the Baptists, the Catholics, The Episcopalians, The
Presbyterians, The Pentecost, The Muslin's, Buddhists or any other
religion determined by the government as "strange".

A good read is "Guns & Courage" by Boston T. Party. In it he/she
defines a "compound" (As in the Branch Davidian Compound, Randy
Weaver's Compound, etc. ) as "The wood home of a dissident underfederal
siege."
How true.How sad.

Anyway, please visit our web site for updated photos and other
information on the rebuilding project we call PHOENIX.

I found this doing a search at Deja.com under Waco. I have
read that this re-building was going on but I didn't get
the information about being able to contribute. These people
are really doing something worthwhile. Thought I would try
to spread the message to people who may not know that they
can actually contribute to the
rebuilding.Juanhttp://members.tripod.com/~pc93
P.S. If each who cares tries to spread this message to others
who may care we can really make a difference for the better!


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[CTRL] Cops in your computer

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Subject: (en) Cops in your computer
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:38:41 -0500 (CDT)

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

BY DANNY PENMAN
When the Internet first erupted into the mainstream a few years ago, it as
hailed as one of the greatest liberating forces of all time. Dewy-eyed
commentators claimed it would be as important as the printing pess. People
would be free - wherever they lived in the world - to say what they
thought, whenever they liked. We would all become the online press barons
for an emerging global village.

Along with the freedom of the Internet came unparalleled business
opportunities. Britain, which largely missed out on the new industries of
the late twentieth century, could be a leader in the twenty first.
Britain¹s greatest strengths - the media, software, finance and
international trade - could all be welded together to establish the country
as the dominant commercial centre for the twenty first century.

But now the Government is in the process of destroying these dreams so that
the police and secret services can keep a closer watch on all of us. Buried
deep inside the draft Electronic Communications Bill, which is designed to
prepare Britain for a future based on electronic commerce, are a series of
clauses that many experts say are the biggest single assault on our rights
in fifty years.

If the Bill is passed, the police and secret services will be free to tap
people¹s emails with virtually no judicial oversight. They will be able to
- in effect - write their own warrants and search home computers for
anything interesting or useful. If, for example, you have encrypted data or
email on your computer, then the police will have the right to demand the
password unlocking them. If you refuse, or have forgotten it (and who
hasn¹t forgotten a password or bank PIN number!) then you face
two years in jail. To be imprisoned, the police have to do nothing. It is
up to you to prove your innocence - reversing the usual ³innocent until
proven guilty² principle of law.

The police will also be able to issue gagging orders - preventing you from
telling a soul that your home has been raided. Again, there is virtually no
judicial oversight. If you do let on, then you face five years in jail.
This gagging order also extends to any complaint which you may make about
abuses of power by the police or security services.If you do have a
complaint, then your concerns will be heard by a secret tribunal - sitting
without a jury - and the evidence can be submitted behind your back.
Cross-examination, and therefore a fair defence, will be impossible.

Nor are the new powers limited to suspected criminals: they apply to all of
us. The police will be allowed to raid the homes and workplaces of a
suspects¹ friends, family and business associates. If they are unable to
co-operate and prove their innocence, then prison beckons. Any specific
complaint about the police will be dealt with by a secret tribunal.
Gagging orders could well be used to stifle any unwelcome press
attention.

The new powers will dovetail nicely with the Echelon Project, which
scoops-up and analyses every satellite borne e-mail, fax and telephone
conversation in Europe. Run jointly by the US and British security forces,
Echelon has become so omnipresent that it has begun to rattle the European
Parliament¹s civil liberties committee. It fears that the Echelon Project
is starting to erode our most basic rights. Civil liberties groups fear
that Echelon could be used to identify people sending coded  (or encrypted)
emails. The new police powers would then be used to investigate these
people further. In effect, they claim, it could be a building block for a
police state.

It could be argued that anyone sending encrypted emails was up to no good
and that the police should keep an eye on them. It is no different,it could
be argued, than the police taking an interest in someone wandering the dark
alleys of Brixton wearing a balaclava.

But with the Internet, things are different. Business routinely uses
encryption to protect its secrets and commercial transactions. If you have
ever bought anything over the Internet, the chances are, your credit card
details were encrypted too. The trouble is, once encrypted,the blueprints
for an atom bomb are indistinguishable from an online order for War and
Peace through Amazon.com.

These worries have set alarm bells ringing across British
industry.Unwittingly, the companies at the forefront of Britain¹s
e-commerce revolution could find themselves the focus of a major criminal
investigation with no way of defending themselves. They could be forced to
reveal commercial secrets to people they may not trust. As a consequence,
many are threatening to site their compa

[CTRL] Fwd: EPIC Alert 6.15

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Subject: EPIC Alert 6.15
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:14:07 -0500 (CDT)

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Volume 6.15 September 24, 1999
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  Published by the
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
  Washington, D.C.

http://www.epic.org

Table of Contents

[1] Impact of New Encryption Policy Remains Unclear
[2] Privacy Agenda for the 21st Century Announced
[3] Report Slams Privacy Policies; Poll Finds Privacy is Top Concern
[4] Internet Filtering Debate Resumes in Congress
[5] "Public Voice in Electronic Commerce" Conference
[6] Provision Repealing National Driver's Licenses In Final Stages
[7] EPIC Bookstore -  The Code Book and More
[8] Upcoming Conferences and Events

NOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS: A listserv problem has resulted in duplicate
 copies of recent Alerts being sent to some recipients.  We are
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 patience is appreciated as we continue to diagnose the listserv.

[1] Impact of New Encryption Policy Remains Unclear

On September 16, the Clinton Administration unveiled a new encryption
policy initiative.  The White House's revised approach seems to
recognize the futility of seeking to prevent the spread of privacy-
enhancing technologies, and shifts the emphasis to monitoring the
exports of encryption products and developing "new tools" to counter
their use.  It remains unclear whether the revised policy will
actually enhance the privacy of most computer users.

On the export control front, the Administration will draft new
encryption export regulations that will "strike a balance" between the
needs of industry and law enforcement.  According to the White House,
the new rules -- due to be released by December 15 -- will constitute
a significant liberalization of the export process.  Any "retail"
encryption commodity or software reportedly will be exportable without
a license (after a "technical review") to commercial firms and other
nongovernment end users in any country except for seven states
designated as supporters of terrorism.  The standards governing the
required technical review have not yet been announced.  The
Administration's policy on export of encryption source code apparently
has not changed, so that academic exchanges such as those at issue in
the pending Bernstein v. Department of Justice litigation (see EPIC
Alert 6.07) would still be subject to government approval prior to
export.

Coupled with the export revisions is new legislation that would
provide a legal framework for law enforcement access to decryption
keys; provide $80 million in funding for an FBI Technical Support
Center; and protect the confidentiality of decryption techniques
developed cooperatively by government and industry.  Under the latter
provision, law enforcement agents presenting "plaintext" evidence
would be exempted from routine requirements of criminal procedure that
permit a defendant to explore the means by which evidence was
obtained.  The proposal would also prohibit the government from
disclosing "trade secrets disclosed to it [presumably by encryption
manufacturers] to assist it in obtaining access to information
protected by encryption."  The legislative vehicle for these
initiatives -- the Cyberspace Electronic Security Act -- will soon be
transmitted to Congress.  It does not include a highly controversial
provision contained in an earlier White House draft that would have
authorized secret police break-ins to alter computer equipment.

EPIC believes that more details of the new encryption policy must be
released before its impact on user privacy can be fully assessed. EPIC
will closely monitor the process of implementing the newly- announced
initiative, particularly the promulgation of the revised export
control regulations and the development of special sensitive
techniques to be used to extract plaintext from encryption products
and services.

The details of the White House announcement, including the text of the
Cyberspace Electronic Security Act and other documents released by the
Administration, are available at:

   http://www.epic.org/crypto/announce_9_16.html

[2] Privacy Agenda for the 21st Century Announced

Supporters of privacy from around the world recently gathered in Hong
Kong for the 1999 Privacy Agenda Conference.  At the conference,
representatives from an international group of non-government

[CTRL] Fwd: Re: Government Terrorism - From Ruby Ridge To Waco And Beyond

[Sean McDougal]

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Anyone have the means of getting pictures of this Houruchi (sic) guy? What
about any other psycho killers killers connected to Ruby Ridge, Waco, etc.?

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[CTRL] Opposition to Toxic Spraying Grows 9/27/99 NYC/Giuliani

[Sean McDougal]

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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:10:10 -0500 (CDT)

Public Opposition to Toxic Spraying Grows 9/27/99

Today the New York City Council Committee on Public Health
canceled a much anticipated hearing on the spraying of
Malathion, Resmethrin and Sumethrin, claiming that they want
more information on the West Nile Virus before proceeding.
This is the same compromised, intimidated and ineffective City
Council that has said and done nothing about the spraying for
weeks.

Now that the City has revised it’s diagnosis, claiming that it
wasn’t actually St. Louis Encephalitis [SLE] but a much milder
disease, West Nile Virus, the justification for repeatedly
spraying the entire population of New York City with toxic
chemical gasses is even more in doubt. The mystery of why in
1999 SLE would only crop up in NYC out of the entire United
States is now even more puzzling, as public health officials admit
that what they now claim to be West Nile Virus has never before
been reported in North America.

During the past two weeks of this crisis five major news articles
and editorials appeared in the NY Times, the Daily News and
Newsday concerning the Plum Island Biological Warfare/Animal
Disease lab off the Long Island coast. These articles all followed
within a few days of two essays that I sent to the media
suggesting a theory that Plum Island might be a possible source
for the so far unexplained appearance of the virus.

Among the possible connections I’d suggested is that birds
routinely fly to and from Plum Island and that birds, which are
the alleged source of both viruses, are a significant part of the
research and testing done at the high security government lab.
None of the articles attempted to make any connection between
the lab and the virus outbreak, however.

If the virus was in fact accidentally or deliberately released from
the lab, it’s certain that the Federal agencies in charge would do
whatever they could to suppress that fact in order to avoid public
panic, lawsuits, political fallout for elected officials and obvious
questions about why the government would choose to locate a
biological warfare and infectious disease lab right next to the
most populated City in the U.S. None of the recent articles on
the lab raised any of these issues.

Could the media’s reluctance to publish the scientifically
established facts about the toxicity of the chemicals being used
in the spraying, to question the locating of this dangerous facility
off the NY coast or to report on the immediate and widespread
health effects of the spraying be part of a government cover-up?
Could the media, the City’s hospitals and elected officials have
been told that this was a high priority national security issue and
that they were not to reveal certain facts or even question what
was going on? Can the public now be confident that the Mayor,
his OEM {Office of Emergency Management) and the Center for
Disease Control (CDC) are telling us the truth about any of this?

On November 9, 1997 the City held a military style exercise for
the OEM to practice responding to a massive chemical attack on
NYC
[See: http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/oem/html/icebrief.html].
A so far unconfirmed report I received states that in April of
1999 Jerome Hauer, the head of Mayor Giuliani’s OEM, placed
an order for more than 160,000 body bags. If that report is true,
was the Mayor’s OEM saving money by getting a bulk price on
body bags or were they anticipating the sudden death of tens of
thousands of New Yorkers?

At many of his recent press conferences Mayor Giuliani has
criticized activists like myself who are publishing and
distributing information on the toxicity of the chemicals being
used and questioning the necessity of the spraying. He claims we
are trying to spread hysteria and panic and are doing so primarily
because we like to see ourselves on TV. “The mayor dismissed
complaints from environmental advocates about the spraying,
referring to them as hysterical "environmental terrorists" who
"like to get you angry because it gets them on television." The
spraying is harmless, he insisted”. -Daily News 9/18/99

As the Mayor continued to make these now routine allegations
he launched a very public campaign of personal attacks,
censorship and threats to fire the entire board of directors of the
Brooklyn Museum. The entire NY media has described the
Mayor’s statements as a political effort designed to knock the
spraying and Parks permit controversies out of the headlines.
Giuliani, who may be the nation’s top practitioner of
disinformation and propaganda, has succeeded admirably in
diverting attention from his very questionable spraying initiative
and his efforts to eliminate freedom of assembly back to the now
familiar waters of his attacks on artists’ rights and freedom of
speech.

On 9/25/99 the syndic

[CTRL] Fwd: Global JAM ECHELON Day [Oct. 21]

[Sean McDougal]

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http://www.wodip.opole.pl/~laslo/Echelon-links.html

STAND UP FOR THE FREEDOM TO EXCHANGE INFORMATION!

We the monitored have decided to stand up against the very real, very
intrusive, and ultimately oppressive global surveillance system known as
Echelon. Echelon is a vast mainframe set up by the New World Disorder in
order to monitor the world's electronic communications for subversive
keywords. Every time you send someone an email with keywords like
"revolution" and "hacktivism" [for instance], Echelon's computers make a
note of it. If you forward emails with regularity with words on Echelon's
extensive keyword list, you may be marked for human "hands-on" monitoring.

On October 21, 1999 , netizens around the globe are implored to send out at
least one email with at least 50 keyword words. You need not be privy to
knowing exactly what words Echelon uses. It is safe to assume that words
such as "revolution" and "manifesto" and "revolt" [etc.] will work. Just be
sure to sound as subversive as possible. There isn't even any need to write
a cohesive paragraph or sentence. Echelon's computers does not understand
the language anyway. It only knows to look for certain words. By doing this
we can at least temporarily jam the global surveillance system.

This day of action will be timed to preceed Stop Police Brutality Day by one
day so that emails about actions can be sent out with little scrutiny due to
what will already be an enormous workload for Echelon.

Now is a chance for anyone, regardless of computer expertise, to become an
instant hacktivist - best of all, no software is needed [other than your
regular email program].

Of course, feel free to conduct such subversiveness any time. The larger
Echelon's workload, the more free our speech.

After October 1, we ask global netizens to merely stop censoring themselves
for fear of spooky scrutiny. By merely deciding to speak in the spirit of
unabashedly subverting the DOMINANCE paradigm, we will make it quite
difficult for Echelon to do its job.


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[CTRL] Tax Resister Beats IRS

[Sean McDougal]

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http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/revolution/commerce/taxes/long.html


Tax Resister Beats IRS

Lloyd L. Long believes that the income tax is voluntary and refuses to pay
it. The IRS took him to court and lost.

As reported by Bill Keller in January 1994 in the Chattanooga, Tennessee
Independence News Opinion, and by Lamarr Hardy in the Boise, Idaho-based
Alert, Long was defended by attorneys Lowell Becraft of Huntsville, Alabama
and Russell J. Leonard of Sewanee, Tennesee.

Long testified that, based on his study of the Internal Revenue Code (Title
26), he believes the income tax is an excise tax applicable only to certain
persons, and not the majority of citizens (including himself). Long says
Internal Revenue Code Sections 1441-1443 applies the income tax only to
nonresident aliens and U.S. citizens living abroad in a country where a tax
treaty exists with the United States.

U.S. Attorney Curtis Collier, representing the Internal Revenue Service,
took a different view. The IRS prosecuted Long for willfully failing to file
tax returns for 1989 and 1990 as "required by law."

Long admitted he had income in excess of $49,000 in each of those years and
that he did not file a return. Alert described the defense's evidence that
he was not required to do so:
Defense testimony showed a case titled Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad
wherein it was the unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that the
Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution did not give Congress any new power
to tax any new subjects; it merely tried to simplify the way in which the
tax was imposed. The ruling also showed that the income tax was, in fact, an
excise tax on corporate privileges and privileged occupations.

The defense then brought out a case entitled Flint v. Stone Tracy Co.
wherein an excise tax was defined as being a tax laid upon the manufacture,
sale and consumption of commodities within the country; upon licenses to
pursue certain occupations; and upon corporate privileges.

Long's attorneys also brought out a case entitled Simins v. Arehns wherein
the court ruled that the income tax was neither a property tax nor a tax
upon occupations of common right, but was an excise tax.

Next the defense turned to the case of Redfield v. Fisher. In this instance,
the court ruled that an individual, unlike the corporation, cannot be taxed
for the mere privilege of existing, but that the individual's right to live
and own property was a natural right upon which an excise cannot be imposed.
Defense also pointed to several studies done by the Congressional Research
Service showing the income tax is an excise.

A Tennessee Supreme Court case, Jack Cole v. Commissioner, provided the
fifth defense argument. Here, the court ruled that citizens are entitled by
right to income or earnings and that right could not be taxed as a
privilege.
Finally, Long's legal team pointed to another Tennessee Supreme Court case,
Corn v. Fort, in which the court ruled that individuals have a right to
combine their activities as partnerships; and that this is a natural right,
independent and antecedent of government.

The defense presented additional arguments that the IRS knew no one was
liable for the income tax. Other IRS-administered taxes, such as the alcohol
tax, are very clearly worded as to who is liable. The IRS' Mission Statement
states that the income tax relies on "voluntary compliance."

Long had built a paper trail in his defense before the trial. He had written
letters asking the IRS direct questions such as, "Am I required to file
federal income tax returns?" and "Am I liable for federal income taxes?" The
IRS never directly answered Long's questions, at which point Long stopped
filing tax returns.

The jury found Long not guilty on all counts.

The Research Foundation provides information to individuals who want to
challenge the IRS. Write to Lamarr Hardy, Executive Director, The Research
Foundation, POB 29265, Honolulu, HI 96720.

This was Case Number CR-1-03-91, U.S. v. Lloyd Long, filed in U.S. District
Court, Eastern District of Tennessee, October 15, 1993.



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[CTRL] Seed Companies Hauled Into Court

[Sean McDougal]

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Original Message Follows
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Winkel)
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Subject: TRADE: Seed Companies Hauled Into Court
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 01:00:16 -0500 (CDT)

/** ips.english: 472.0 **/
** Topic: TRADE: Seed Companies Hauled Into Court **
** Written  9:07 PM  Sep 24, 1999 by newsdesk in cdp:ips.english **
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Title: TRADE: Seed Companies Hauled Into Court

By Mario Osava and Gumisai Mutume

MEXICO CITY (IPS), Sep 24 - Activists from 30 countries have taken
action against the world's biggest life science companies by
taking them to court over the question of genetically-modified
food which, they say, represents an attempt to free agriculture
from the control of a few.

"The action reflects humanity's growing pre-occupation with its
future," says professor Sebastian Pinheiro of the Federal
University of Rio Grande in Brazil. "Genetically-modified crops
represent an economic threat to agriculture and put humanity's
survival at risk."

Spearheading the drive against big business is US biotechnology
activist and head of the Foundation on Economic Trends, Jeremy
Rifkin.  He is leading a campaign that will see activists and
farmers from Asia, Europe, North America and Latin America
challenge the power of the world's most dominant genetic food
engines later this year.

"Transnational companies such as Monsanto and Dupont are not
worried by world hunger or the quality of life of the rest of
humanity. They want power, to dominate the politics of food and
are merely driven by commercial interests," says Pinheiro.

"When the lawsuit gets underway either in the United States or a
foreign court it is billed to become the biggest anti-trust action
in the world with the exception of the Microsoft case."

The activists claim that the likes of Monsanto, DuPont, Pioneer
Hi-Bred, and Novartis are exploiting bio-technology unfairly and
in such a way that they gain control of global agricultural
markets.

Modified crops are protected by patents and contracts. Farmers
who plant them must promise not to keep seeds for future use.

Using new bio-technologies the big corporations are attempting to
extend control to the 45 percent of the world economy that is
based on biological products by using a patent system designed for
machines and making it work with plants and animals, activists
say.

Monsanto, dubbed the "Microsoft of micro-biology", together with
other seed companies also is developing ways to genetically alter
plants so they do not produce usable seeds. This could force
farmers to buy seeds year after year and give these companies
power to dictate the future of plant breeding, activists say.

"A central concern will be that, throughout the history of
civilization, farmers have been able to grow food and sow their
own fields with their own seeds. These companies are trying to
change that," declared US attorney Rich Lewis, one of the many
lawyers involved in the case.

Law firms, operating on a no-win-no-fee basis, are looking for
some provision of anti-trust or contract law that would let Rifkin
challenge the seed restrictions in a state, federal or foreign
court.

Agricultural analysts say that a few big corporations now own 30
percent of the global trade in seed, valued at 23 billion dollars
annually - roughly the gross domestic product of Vietnam.

Five of these companies Monsanto, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Aventis
and DuPont virtually control the entire genetically modified crops
sector, analysts say.

When Monsanto last year bought the seed operations of Cargill in
Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe for 1.4 billion dollars it
gained control of seed research and production centres in 24
countries and distribution systems in more than 50 others.

The law-suit comes at a time when there is growing concern over
the implications of genetically modified crops and resistance from
certain economic blocs such as the European Union towards the
consumption and import of such crops.

Developing countries have adopted differing positions to genetic
crops, some such as Argentina and Mexico embracing the technology
while others especially in Africa hesitant about the safety of the
science.

In India, Vandana Shiva of the Research Foundation for Science
Technology and Ecology (RFSTE) says the anti-trust action would be
a useful addition to local campaigns like the "Monsanto Quit
India" movement which is over a year old. However, by itself the
action would not be able to do more than create awareness among
farmers who are targets of Monsanto and Cargill.

RFTSE is one of several pressure groups that challenged India's
new patent act in the country's supreme court earlier this year.
The act grants monopolies and marketing rights to drug and agro-
chemical transnationals.

Hundreds of cotton farmers in India's southern Andhra 

[CTRL] Seizing The Media

[Sean McDougal]

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http://www.deoxy.org/seize_it.htm


Seizing The Media
The Immediast Underground Pamphlet Series
Spring 1992
Immediast International - New York City / Amsterdam / Seattle
Version 1.1 N © Copyright; 1992. Public Domain.
SEIZING THE MEDIA is a work in progress. The version that you are holding is
the second to circulate. As Immediast thinking and strategy develops, this
leaflet will grow and change, and new versions will circulate.
IMMEDIAST projects are against all forms of coercive communication, cultural
monologue and media control. We acknowledge non-violent public insurgence as
a legitimate response to sustained violations by media and state. We
recognize the air as public property, and the signals that travel through it
to be the domain of the public.
Version 1.1 was first released in New York City March 1992 - 320 Copies
Version 1.0 was first released in Amsterdam January 1992 - 250 Copies
2nd print Run of Version 1.1 April 1992 - 1000 Copies

Open Media PO Box 2726 Westfield NJ 07091
Hypertexture by dimitri
Seizing the Media
Asian philosophy instructs enlightenment. But given our daily exposure to a
barrage of persuasive messages, monologues, sales pitches, come-ons, and
uninformative hyper-sensational news, common sense and intimacy are tough
enough a struggle to maintain.
We can each see how extended exposure to television and mass media dulls
people with a sense of numbness and nausea. From every public space a
monologue of coercion penetrates our senses and rapes our attention.
Wherever we look, wherever we listen, wherever we go: the pornography of
billboards, bus side placards, subway cards, glaring storefront signs and
displays, the glut of junk mail, stupid fly-by beach planes and blimps,
coupons, obnoxious bumper stickers and breast pins, embarrassing service
forms, plastic banners and ribbons, absurd parades, street-corner handouts,
windsheild wiper flyers, matchbook ads, business cards, screaming radios,
the daily papers, every nanosecond of television, the package wrapped around
everything we buy - from the label in our underwear to the robot computer
that calls us in our homes - only the upper atmosphere and the ocean floor
offer any sanctuary from America's ecology of coercion. At every turn the
monologues drone on, imbedding the psychological mutagens that coax us to
become pathetic customers and unquestioning flag wavers. At every turn we
are under subtle attack.
The media serve the interests of the State and other corporations, but never
the interests of the public. The media's screen of agression and seduction
is designed to mesmerize and captivate the largest possible sector of
population whose attention is then sold like scrap metal to advertisers and
gang raped by their slogans, jingles, and manic images. Protected by an
uncrossable media moat, agents of the State profit from war and relax behind
a web of information laws, censorship powers, and vapid explanations that
swat the public of detailed intelligence and mass resistance.
So long as we do not control our own government, our own state, and our own
broadcast media - the mirror with which we reflect on the reality of lives -
we will continue to be forced to see fun-house mirror distortions of
ourselves projected onto a dumpster of products that promise to make us each
desirable, sophisticated, and correct. At every turn we are under attack.
Incest Of Corporations And The State
The State controls information, debt, and violence and targets collective
identity. Corporations control commodification, work, and media and target
individual identity. Both deploy the same psychological strategies for
imbedding the public with their messages and directives. Never were their
common strategies more transparent than when US disinformation and
propaganga service, the infamous USIA, decided to step-up its psy-warfare
campaign against the people of Cuba in the Spring of 1989. Until then,
attempts to psychologically destabalize the Cuban people were comcentrated
in the broadcasts of Radio Marti, the Florida based, Government owned pirate
radio station that to this day illegally transmits propaganda and
disinformation into domestic Cuban radios. In the Spring of 1989, the USIA
added images to their psy-war arsenal and began transmitting tele-broadcasts
from a hot air balloon controlled from the Key West signals station. Sibling
of Radio Marti, the project was dubbed TV Marti.
A few things are to be held in mind here. First, after the Creel Commission
saturated Americans with pro-war propaganda during WWI, the level of public
disgust was so intense that laws were enacted forbidding the State from ever
subjecting the public to its propaganda again. Thus, the USIA's Voice of
America propaganda broadcasts that we can hear today in Amsterdam, Berlin,
and Prague, we are protected against hearing here on our own turf.
Propaganda is so disorienting and confusing that Americans have actually
passed laws forbidding it here in its cru

[CTRL] Jurors' Handbook

[Sean McDougal]

 -Caveat Lector-

http://www.deoxy.org/juryrite.htm


Jurors' Handbook
A Citizens Guide to Jury Duty
Did you know that you qualify for another, much more powerful vote than the
one which you cast on election day? This opportunity comes when you are
selected for jury duty, a position of honor for over 700 years.
The principle of a Common Law Jury or Jury of your Peers was first
established on June 15, 1215 at Runnymede, England when King John signed the
Magna Carta, or Great Charter of our Liberties. It created the basis for our
Constitutional, system of Justice.
Jury Power in the System of Checks and Balances
In a Constitutional system of justice, such as ours, there is a judicial
body with more power than Congress, the President, or even the Supreme
Court. Yes, the jury of your peers protected under our Constitution has more
power than all these government officials. This is because they have the
final veto power over all "acts of the legislature" that may come to be
called "laws."
In fact, the power of jury nullification predates our Constitution. In
November of 1734, a printer named John Peter Zenger was arrested for
seditious libel against his Majesty's government. At that time, a law of the
Colony of New York forbid any publication without prior government approval.
Freedom of the press was not enjoyed by the early colonialists! Zenger,
however, defied this censorship and published articles strongly critical of
New York colonial rule.
When brought to trial in August of 1735, Zenger admitted publishing the
offending articles, but argued that the truth of the facts stated justified
their publication. The judge instructed the jury that truth is not
justification for libel. Rather, truth makes the libel more vicious, for
public unrest is more likely to follow true, rather than false claims of bad
governance. And since the defendant had admitted to the "fact" of
publication, only a question of "law" remained.
Then, as now, the judge said the "issue of law" was for the court to
determine, and he instructed the jury to find the defendant guilty. It took
only ten minutes for the jury to disregard the judge's instructions on the
law and find Zenger NOT GUILTY.
That is the power of the jury at work; the power to decide the issues of law
under which the defendant is charged, as well as the facts. In our system of
checks and balances, the jury is our final check, the people's last safegard
against unjust law and tyranny.
A Jury's Rights, Powers, and Duties
But does the jury's power to veto bad laws exist under our Constitution?
It certainly does! In the February term of 1794, the Supreme Court conducted
a jury trial in the case of the State of Georgia vs. Brailsford (3 Dall 1).
The instructions to the jury in the first jury trial before the Supreme
Court of the United States illustrate the true power of the jury. Chief
Justice John Jay said: "It is presumed, that juries are the best judges of
facts; it is, on the other hand, presumed that courts are the best judges of
law. But still both objects are within your power of decision." (emphasis
added) "...you have a right to take it upon yourselves to judge of both, and
to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy".
So you see, in an American courtroom there are in a sense twelve judges in
attendance, not just one. And they are there with the power to review the
"law" as well as the "facts!" Actually, the "judge" is there to conduct the
proceedings in an orderly fashion and maintain the safety of all parties
involved.
As recently as 1972, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
said that the jury has an "unreviewable and unreversible power... to acquit
in disregard of the instructions on the law given by the trial judge..." (US
vs Dougherty, 473 F 2d 1113, 1139 (1972))
Or as this same truth was stated in a earlier decision by the United States
Court of Appeals for the District of Maryland: "We recognize, as appellants
urge, the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is
contrary to the law as given by the judge, and contrary to the evidence.
This is a power that must exist as long as we adhere to the general verdict
in criminal cases, for the courts cannot search the minds of the jurors to
find the basis upon which they judge. If the jury feels that the law under
which the defendant is accused, is unjust, or that exigent circumstances
justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to
their logic of passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts
must abide by that decision." (US vs Moylan, 417 F 2d 1002, 1006 (1969)).
YOU, as a juror armed with the knowledge of the purpose of a jury trial, and
the knowledge of what your Rights, powers, and duties really are, can with
your single vote of not guilty nullify or invalidate any law involved in
that case. Because a jury's guilty decision must be unanimous, it takes only
one vote to effectively nullify a bad "act of the legislature." Your one
vo

[CTRL] Police Can't Require ID [1979 Supreme Court Decision]

[Sean McDougal]

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http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/revolution/legal/police/brownvtx.html

Police Can't Require ID

>From Schirado ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
In response to Jeff Chan's horror about the California Supreme Court's
recent idiocy regarding identification, I offer the following federal
Supreme Court case. Federal beats State every time, when the subject matter
is the derogation of rights secured by the Constitution.

Brown v. Texas,443 U.S. 47 (1979): "Two police officers, while cruising near
noon in a patrol car, observed appellant and another man walking away from
one another in an alley in an area that had a high incidence of drug
traffic. They stopped and asked appellant to identify himself and explain
what he was doing. One officer testified that he stopped appellant because
the situation 'looked suspicious and we had never seen that subject in that
area before.' The officers did not claim to suspect appellant of any
specific misconduct, nor did they have any reason to believe that he was
armed. When appellant refused to identify himself, he was arrested for
violation of a Texas statute which makes it a criminal act for a person to
refuse to give his name and address to an officer 'who has lawfully stopped
him and requested the information.' Appellant's motion to set aside
information charging him with violation of the statute on the ground that
the statute violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth amendments was
denied, and he was convicted and fined."

"HELD: The application of the Texas statute to detain appellant and require
him to identify himself violated the Fourth Amendment because the officers
lacked any reasonable suspicion to believe that appellant was engaged or had
engaged in criminal conduct. Detaining appellant to require him to identify
himself constituted a seizure of his person subject to the requirement of
the Fourth Amendment that the seizure be 'reasonable.' Cf. Terry v. Ohio,
392 U.S. 1; ... Delaware v. Prouse, 440 U.S. 648. Here, the state does not
contend that appellant was stopped pursuant to a practice embodying neutral
criteria, and the officer's actions were not justified on the ground that
they had a reasonable suspicion, based on objective facts, that he was
involved in criminal activity. Absent any basis for suspecting appellant of
misconduct, the balance between the public interest in crime prevention and
appellant's right to personal security and privacy tilts in favor of freedom
from police interference.

Pp. 50-53. - Mr. Chief Justice Burger delivered the opinion of the court. -
"This appeal presents the question whether appellant was validly convicted
for refusing to comply with a policeman's demand that he identify himself
pursuant to a provision of the Texas Penal Code which makes it a crime to
refuse such identification on request." - "Appellant refused to identify
himself and angrily asserted that the officers had no right to stop him." -
"The Fourth Amendment, of course, 'applies to all seizures of the person,
including seizures that involve only a brief detention short of traditional
arrest. Davis v. Mississippi, 394 U.S. 721 (1969); Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S.
1, 16-19 (1968). '[W]henever a police officer accosts an individual and
restrains his freedom to walk away, he has 'seized' that person...and the
fourth Amendment requires that the seizure be 'reasonable' U.S. v.
Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873, 878 (1975)" - "We need not decide whether an
individual may be punished for refusing to identify himself in the context
of a lawful investigatory stop which satisfies Fourth Amendment
requirements. See Dunaway v. New York, 442 U.S. 200,210 n.12 (1979); Terry
v. Ohio ... the county judge who convicted appellant was troubled by this
question, as shown by the colloquy set out in the appendix to this opinion."
- "Accordingly, appellant may not be punished for refusing to identify
himself, and the conviction is Reversed."

"APPENDIX TO THE OPINION OF THE COURT

"THE COURT:...What do you think about if you stop a person lawfully, and
then if he doesn't want to talk to you, you put him in jail for committing a
crime?"

"MR. PATTON [prosecutor]: Well first of all, I would question the
defendant's statement in his motion that the first amendment gives an
individual the right to silence."

"THE COURT:...I'm asking you why should the State put you in jail because
you don't want to say anything?"

"MR. PATTON: Well, I think there's certain interests that have to be
viewed."

"THE COURT: Okay, I'd like you to tell me what those are."

"MR. PATTON: Well, the Governmental interest to maintain the safety and
security of the society and the citizens to live in the society, and there
are certainly strong Governmental interests in that direction and because of
that, these interests outweigh the interests of an individual for a certain
amount of intrusion upon his personal liberty. I think these Governmental
interests outweigh the individual's interests in this respect, as

[CTRL] police tactics...... (humor?)

[Sean McDougal]

 -Caveat Lector-

The LAPD, the FBI, & the CIA are all trying to
prove that they are the best at apprehending criminals. The
President decides to give them a test. He releases a rabbit
into a forest and each of them has to catch it.

The CIA goes in. They place animal informants
throughout the forest. They question all plant and mineral
witnesses. After three months of extensive investigations, they
conclude that rabbits do not exist.

The FBI goes in. After two weeks with no leads they
burn the forest, killing everything in it, including the
rabbit and they make no apologies. The rabbit had it coming.

The LAPD goes in. They come out two hours later
with a badly beaten bear. The bear is crying, "Okay, okay! I'm a
rabbit, I'm a rabbit."



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[CTRL] Religion and Revolution - Hakim Bey

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[CTRL] The Law Enforcement Growth Industry

[Sean McDougal]

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http://www.deoxy.org/lawenfor.htm

The Law Enforcement Growth Industry
by George Gordon

In trying to appraise this issue of law enforcement, much has been written
and much more will be written. One point that everyone seems to agree on is
that crime is out of control, and something must be done about it.

We call America the land of the free, and refer to the Soviet Union as a
police state. But the facts tell us another story: they show that this
country holds more people per capita in jail than any other country,
including the Soviet Union and South Africa.

In reality, most people in America live in a police state, and are
completely unaware of it. There is little difference between tyranny in
governments, no matter where it may be. For example, the people of Poland:

have national identity cards
cannot drive without licenses
cannot work where they choose
are required to register firearms and cars
cannot build on their land without government approval
are compelled to buy insurance
must show identification papers upon demand
have a portion of their wages stolen
are incarcerated without trial or due process
have ports of entry which compel them to stop, clear and pay duties
are subject to searches on their highways
may be arbitrarily taken into custody and fingerprinted without court order

The list goes on. It makes no difference where you may be located; citizens
of any country who are so constrained are not free, but living under
tyranny. It matters not whether we think we have it somehow "better" than
the Poles. Both systems are tyrannical in nature, the only difference being
the degree of tyranny applied and the understanding of the system by the
citizens. The Poles understand that they live in tyranny, while Americans
have been convinced that it can't happen here, even though it has already
come to pass. We recognize tyranny in foreign countries, but in our own, we
refer to it as "law and order." But a police state by any other name is
still a police state.

There must be a simple solution; one which will free us from this morass of
crime and punishment. Any solution must conform to our Constitution (if we
wish to avoid armed revolution), refrain from punishing the innocent, and
punish those who are guilty. The current system does nothing but spawn an
endless circle of recidivism and contempt for law in general. Our prisons,
rather than being rehabilitative, are merely schools, which teach further
crime.

If a victim loses their property, the criminals lose their freedom, but
never make restitution to the damaged party. And the taxpayers are fleeced
out of their money to fund these human warehouses. The beneficiaries of this
system are not the victims -- they are the public defenders, lawyers,
judges, jailers, prison guards, policemen and political administrations, and
they quite literally thrive off the system.

Crime does pay, and quite handsomely. What is worse is that the victim not
only loses by having his original property stolen, but by a continual drain
of his resources to provide food and shelter for the thief.

Solutions to the crime problem must provide restitution for the victim,
punish the criminal, decrease the prison population, eliminate over-
crowding of prisons which cannot be emptied, eliminate capital punishment,
and make the entire criminal justice system self-supporting by paying for
itself in productive accomplishment.

How many broken homes, welfare payments, divorces, fines, jail terms and
shattered lives must there be in the name of law and order, merely for the
benefit of the law enforcement growth industry? How many people derive their
livelihood from this industry? How many agencies are created by
legislatures, city councils and Congress?
In the state of Idaho, it would probably be conservative to estimate that
there are over 2,500 persons employed in this industry. That sounds like a
lot, but consider the following:

There must be over 100 policemen in the city of Boise alone. There must also
be 50 or more cities in the state which maintain a city police department
and employ from 3 to 100+ persons.

There are 44 counties, all employing a sheriff, deputies and support
personnel from 5 to 100+.

The state police employ several hundred officers and support personnel. In
addition, the state employs many varied special agents. Then we must
consider the administrative agencies which bring actions against citizens,
such as building, electrical, health, fire, welfare and plumbing departments
and the like.

There is no way to estimate the number of federal agents swarming over the
state, from such agencies as OSHA, EPA, FCC, BLM, BATF, etc.
There are the jail and prison staffs, and their supporting personnel.
There is the judicial system at the county, state and federal levels, their
marshalls and support personnel.

And there is the lawyer workforce.

It should be quite clear that we have no idea how many persons are employed
by this industry. And each and 

[CTRL] Imprisoned Davidian Tells of Abuse

[Sean McDougal]

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This is certainly not recent but it deals with something I feel we should
have all had the chance to scrutinize a long time ago.
..


http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/revolution/firearms/enforce/waco/reaction/prison.html

Imprisoned Davidian Tells of Abuse

Carol Valentine ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]) posted to Libernet excerpts from a May
1995 letter sent by Davidian prisoner Livingstone Fagan:
"The abuse we have received at the hands of officials of government and
others since February 1993 continues. But in recent times, never more so
than following events in Oklahoma. You are probably aware that since the
above event both myself and Renos have been re-located. I had come on the
compound, having been in in solitary for 135 days (a total of 240+ days
since being at El Reno) on April 19th, in lieu of our memorial of events in
Waco. Two days later while in the compound library communing with Renos, we
were both set upon, cuffed and placed in solitary. Subsequently notified of
an investigation (the reasons or conclusion we were never notified of) we
were held in solitary for several days. Finally and without notice we were
moved.

"I understand that Renos is now housed in a facility in Atlanta. I arrived
here in Oxford, Wisconsin on May 8. It is located in a rural setting. From
my observations a significant distance from the main cities. The officers
appear more personable. This is in contrast to El Reno. An even greater
contrast to Terre Haute, Indiana, where I stayed for a few days during the
transit process. it was there I was to experience the must physical abuse of
my entire experience in the prison system.

"When I arrived and without provocation I made it clear I was unprepared to
voluntarily subject myself to the B.O.P.'s policy of disrespecting its
inmates by having them bear and spread their buttock cheeks and the rest. I
was subsequently set upon by several officers who took the opportunity for
sport. Stripping me of my clothing, I was hoisted in the air by one officer
whilst the others in jest went through the process. When I did not cower,
their jest turned to rage. Refusing to put on oversized clothing (a part of
their jest), I was to tightly cuffed I could not move my hands without
painfully pulling on my skin. I coundn't even sign my name on the forms
presented before me. I was then hurriedly taken to lockdown where I remained
until my departure.

"On my departure I was again to be subject to the process only this time a
lot worse. Several officers were similarly involved. My feet were kicked
from under me whilst being slammed to the floor and my clothing virtually
ripped from me. Again I would not cower, remaining unmoved in my demeanor
throughout the ordeal. Their jest again turned to threatenings and
profanity. Having dressed I was chained and again thrown to the floor.
Manipulating the chains so that I was forced in a crouching position, but
lying on my back, one officer was on my chest mouthing in my face words to
the effect, 'I'm going to treat you like a bitch' -- the extent of his
perception of femininity. Remaining unmoved I was allowed on my feet, then
forcibly dragged hands and feet chained to the bus. It make walking very
difficult.
"What I found most intriguing is, of the 2 years I have been in the prison
system I have been knocked on my back twice. On both occasions it was done
by officers. The inmates I have found to be much more civil."

Carol Moore reported the contents of a September 1996 letter from Fagan. In
June 1996 Fagan was transferred to Leavenworth where he was put in solitary
confinement (kept in a 4x8 cell 24 hours a day with one other prisoner).
Fagan wrote:

"My salvation remains precarious at best. I still retain the scars and
bruises from threats and physical assaults sustained since my arrival June
20th '96. All of which I received at the hands of prison officers. Last
Thursday was the worst yet. After continuously slamming my head against a
concrete, then metal structure, followed by my body against a concrete floor
(the stated purpose being to get me to fear him), this 300 lb officer then
verbalized his intent to kill me for my not cowering to his will.

"Ordinarily the above would be considered attempted murder. In here it seems
to be the norm."

Source: May 18, 1995 posting to Libernet by Carol Valentine, and October 5,
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[CTRL] The war on (certain) drugs

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http://www.deoxy.org/usdrugs.htm

The war on (certain) drugs
Noam Chomsky in What Uncle Sam Really Wants

One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire has been the threat of drug
traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major
government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP
wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the
Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news
program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming
the greatest threat to our existence, etc.

The effect on public opinion was immediate. When Bush won the 1988 election,
people said the budget deficit was the biggest problem facing the country.
Only about 3% named drugs. After the media blitz, concern over the budget
was way down and drugs had soared to about 40% to 45%, which is highly
unusual for an open question (where no specific answers are suggested).

Now, when some client state complains that the US government isn't sending
it enough money, they no longer say, "we need it to stop the Russians" -
rather, "we need it to stop drug trafficking." Like the Soviet threat, this
enemy provides a good excuse for a US military presence where there's rebel
activity or other unrest.

So internationally, "the war on drugs" provides a cover for intervention.
Domestically, it has little to do with drugs but a lot to do with
distracting the population, increasing repression in the inner cities, and
building support for the attack on civil liberties.
That's not to say that "substance abuse" isn't a serious problem. At the
time the drug war was launched, deaths from tobacco were estimated at about
300,000 a year, with perhaps another 100,000 from alcohol. But these aren't
the drugs the Bush administration targeted. It went after illegal drugs,
which had caused many fewer deaths - over 3500 a year - according to
official figures. One reason for going after these drugs was that their use
had been declining for some years, so the Bush administration could safely
predict that its drug war would "succeed" in lowering drug use.

The Administration also targeted marijuana, which hadn't caused any known
deaths among some 60 million users. In fact, the crackdown has exacerbated
the drug problem - many marijuana users have turned from this relatively
harmless drug to more dangerous drugs like cocaine, which are easier to
conceal.

Just as the drug war was launched with great fanfare in September 1989, the
US Trade Representative (USTR) panel held a hearing in Washington to
consider a tobacco industry request that the US impose sanctions on Thailand
in retaliation for its efforts to restrict US tobacco imports and
advertising. Such US government actions had already rammed this lethal
addictive narcotic down the throats of consumers in Japan, South Korea and
Taiwan, with human costs of the kind already indicated.

The US Surgeon General, Everett Koop, testified at the USTR panel that "when
we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the flow of cocaine, it is
the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco." He added,
"years from now, our nation will look back on this application of free trade
policy and find it scandalous."
Thai witnesses also protested, predicting that the consequence of US
sanctions would be to reverse a decline in smoking achieved by their
government's campaign against tobacco use. Responding to the US tobacco
companies' claim that their product is the best in the world, a Thai witness
said, "Certainly in the Golden Triangle we have some of the best products,
but we never ask the principle of free trade to govern such products. In
fact we suppressed [them]." Critics recalled the Opium War 150 years
earlier, when the British government compelled China to open its doors to
opium from British India, sanctimoniously pleading the virtues of free trade
as they forcefully imposed large-scale drug addiction on China.

Here we have the biggest drug story of the day. Imagine the screaming
headlines: "U.S. Government The World's Leading Drug Peddler." It would
surely sell papers. But the story passed virtually unreported, and with not
a hint of the obvious conclusions.

Another aspect of the drug problem, which also received little attention, is
the leading role of the US government in stimulating drug trafficking since
World War II. This happened in part when the US began its postwar task of
undermining the anti-fascist resistance and the labor movement became an
important target.

In France, the threat of political power and influence of the labor movement
was enhanced by its steps to impede the flow of arms to French forces
seeking to reconquer their former colony of Vietnam with US aid. So the CIA
undertook to weaken and split the French labor movement - with the aid of
top American labor leaders, who were quite proud of their role.

The task required strikebreakers and goons. There was an 

Re: [CTRL] Foolishness of Legalisms vs the IRS

[Sean McDougal]

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Original Message Follows
From: Lloyd Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Finally!  Someone defines the foolishness of challenging
the IRS in court.
..
SM:
So foolish that some succeed.  So foolish that we will ignore the fact that
if more did it, it would gain some momentum.

The entire legals system is often based on conflicting interpretations of
WORDS.  We can either let the system as is go on and let it take us where it
wishes or we can fight to define things according to the people. [a good
example is "national security" - few actually feel more secure by following
the policies of those that are in charge of "national security"]

If we do not challenge institutions like the IRS on legal grounds and
encourage people to take actions like this against those that prey on the
apathetic, on those that refuse to defend themselves, we are complicit with
the beast.  We know what the IRS does is wrong and I hear some saying "We
can do nothing."

Friends, it seems to me that the only reason beyond entertainment to attempt
to uncover conspiracies is so that the PEOPLE will have an idea of who their
oppressors are.  These oppressors succeed largely because they are unknown
to people and because they use massive amounts of media hype to convince
people that they actually have the resources to fight every individual
and/or group that decides to fight for freedom.

99% of "law and order" is maintained by convincing people who can do
something that they can do nothing.

Let's not help the man to maintain a threat.

Are we here to eloquently bitch or to share EMPOWERING information?

I say if you are not willing to stand your ground on what is right then you
are merely compost for natural selection, perhaps rightfully so.

Rights, as we know them, are an abstract head game.  Real rights, rights
that are fair to everyone concerned, are implemented by united communities
that have said to hell with doubt.  I guess you have 3 choices: accept
things as they are and stop bitching about corruption or try to reach out
and heal corporate CEO's that are out of touch with the land they rape or
let the man know you ain't takin' no more shit.

In other words, either acknowledge your master or befriend your adversary or
kick the schoolyard bully in the nuts.

p.s. according to some information that circulates through the army special
forces [saying no more about that], the american people have the american
military outgunned 6 to 1.

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[CTRL] Fwd: a little humor

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Subject: TOP 20 THINGS WE'D LIKE TO SEE ON THOSE OFFICE INSPIRATIONAL
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From: "J. Federico Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Friday, 17 September 1999

TOP 20 SAYINGS WE'D LIKE TO SEE ON THOSE OFFICE INSPIRATIONAL POSTERS

1.   Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it
   by killing all those who opposed them.

2.   If you can stay calm, while all around you there is chaos ...
   the nyou probably haven't completely understood the seriousness
   of the situation.

3.   Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job
   WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

4.   Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

5.   Artificial intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.

6.   A person who smiles in the face of adversity ... probably has a
   scapegoat.

7.   Plagiarism saves time.

8.   If at first you don't succeed, try management.

9.   Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.

10.  TEAMWORK  means never having to take all the blame yourself.

11.  The beatings will continue until morale improves.

12.  Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large
   groups.

13.  We waste time, so you don't have to.

14.  Hang in there, retirement is only 50 years away!

15.  Never criticize someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes;
   that way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away AND you have
   their shoes!

16.  A snooze button is a poor excuse for no alarm clock at all.

17.  When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.

18.  INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.

19.  Succeed in spite of management.

20.. Aim Low, Reach your Goals, Avoid Disappointment.


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Re: [CTRL] Chaos Magick & Paradigmal Piracy

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Original Message Follows
From: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Chaos magicians may practice the techniques of chaos magick but they must do
so within a specific paradigm, which roughly means that a chaos magician
must believe in something in order to obtain resultsChaos magicians
are Setians, Satanists, Santeros, Sorcerers, Kitchen Witches, Thelemites,
Cabalists, etc. etc.
..
SM:
Magick is defined as manifesting situations in accordance with the will.

This is the most popular definition among actual magicians and as a result
you can see that there are millions of people that fit into the definition
of magicians, according to magicians.

For instance, the US goverment does not get its way in the world by kicking
everyone's ass that disobeys.  It gets its way from most people and this
happens because when the US DOES kick someone's ass, it is highly publicized
and very dramatic.  This scares most into obeying even though,
theoretically, the US does not have the capability of truly ENFORCING its
will in all the places that it counts on as its puppets.  It is no different
than seeing how many people are afraid of the dark.  Most of these people
will NEVER experience something menacing and evil coming out of the dark but
because it has been drilled into their heads by media magicians [producers
and directors]they will always have something to fear.  There will always be
darkness and as a result, people will always be afraid [as long as this
brainwashing continues], therefore people will always be easily manipulated.

This situation is called by policing bodies "maintaining a threat."  It is
the THREAT of reprisal that keeps most in line, not incessant reprisal
itself.  This is a psychological head game and most psychological head games
are forms of magick.  In this case the magicians are media spin doctors.


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Re: [CTRL] "..standing up to [Marxist] teacher unions."

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It seems that those that fear that Karl Marx's legacy lurks around the
corner in the shadows usually portray ANY union as Marxist.  In fact, one
common pattern I have found in those that rail against socialist ideas [even
though most don't even understand them] is that they usually are threatened
by ANY group that holds things in common and/or strives to achieve any kind
of group consciousness.  Such things are far too social for the anti-social
mindsets of the rugged individual, the hero that stands alone in a field of
vanquished foes, the deluded person that is convinced, at least on a
subconscious level, that he/she is going to be the hero somehow; this is the
same person that is firmly under the grip of the media because his/her ego
has grown to the point that a red cape waved in front of him/her can lead
such a bull straight into a pit filled with snakes.

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Re: [CTRL] The UN can help save the world

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This earth could sustain 20 times the current population if managed
properly.
''
SM:
Should we press those limits?

What makes you think that if we can't curb our population voluntarily now
that we could do it after a few more centuries' momentum of baby booming?

You seem to be saying that we should max out and push the evelope as far as
it will go.  That IS flirting with our own doom and that is precisely my
point.
..
The problem is not overpopulation, it's greed, envy, poor management,
worldwide socialism, multi-national corporations, globalists, and corrupt
governments and people that is the problem.
..
SM:
There is not ONE problem.  I get tired of hearing "THE problem is..."

Greed is a problem, yes.  Perhaps we can do something about it.

Poor management is a problem, yes.  Perhaps we can do something about that.

Multi-national corporations would not be a problem if we subjected them to
sane rules.

As far as globalism is concerned, it is the globalization of power, as it is
now wielded [in the hands of the few] that is the problem, not globalization
itself.  Everything we do has an affect on things around us.  If we are
going to abide by rules based on REALITY, we are going to have to admit that
having clean air laws in one place does little good if we do not have clean
air rules in all places.  All of the things that we attempt to hold in check
with laws [violence, pollution, slavery] do not adhere to national
boundaries so we can do little to curb them by saying that such things are
up to the individual jurisdictions of power mongers.  Freedom to be happy
and safe can be violated by freedoms of sovereignty.  We must define what
kinds of freedom we will champion because the word "freedom" is too vague.
Am I a champion of freedom if I say that China or Nike should be "free" to
do whatever it likes to the lowly person or the lowly community, free to
dump its wastes in whatever low-income village it can find that is
defenseless?  Fair trade, right?

As far as socialism is concerned [i.e. vs. capitalism], should everyone have
a say in how resources are used or should it be only up to those with enough
capital, and enough bloodthirstiness to amass such?  Only those that hoard
[or those that repeat words that have not thought through thoroughly] seem
to be in favor of holding the earth in common.
..
But for discussion sake, let's say overpopulation is fact.  The only humane
way to reduce the population in the numbers the psycho-pseudo-science
sociopath elitists are calling for is an all volunteer system.
One must of their own free will volunteer to be put to death.
..
SM:
So if one village decides to take far more than it can use, leaving another
village to die, the latter is overstepping its bounds to demand to use what
the other cannot?
..
No one can be forced to surrender their lives for population control.
However,  it should be law that all Population Control Advocates MUST
volunteer to be put to death.
..
SM:
No need to be so dramatic.  No one is saying put everyone to death.  I, on
the other hand, AM for making having a lot of children a legal issue.  Not
very Catholic of me, I'm sure.

On the other hand, a child born in the United States consumes as much as 800
times as much as a child born in some other parts of the world.  I'll bet we
can make a big dent in the rapidity of resource diminishment by merely
stressing simplicity over novelty.  The more hooked we are on the novel, the
more new and better and bigger things must be produced.
..
And they MUST die first.  Then all others that would volunteer.
This would show leadership by example, and would also save the Population
Control Advocates from being the hypocrites that they would be if they
refused to volunteer. Anything else would be unfair.
..
SM:
So is it fair that those who choose to have many children or to use vast
amounts of resources should endanger the livelihood or everyone else?  Is it
unfair to put a stop to unfairness?

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[CTRL] BARI case reinstated

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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 18:57:11 -0700

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Bari's case vs. police reinstated
via Press Democrat  http://www.pressdemo.com/


Sep. 25, 1999

By MIKE GENIELLA
Press Democrat Staff Writer

Breathing new life into a 1991 civil rights lawsuit filed by the late Earth
First! organizer Judi Bari, a federal appeals court on Friday reinstated
claims that Oakland police and the FBI conspired to falsely accuse the
North Coast activist of responsibility for her own car bombing.

A three-judge panel ruled that three Oakland police investigators along
with several FBI agents aren't entitled to "qualified immunity," a
liability exemption generally granted to law enforcement authorities in
their routine handling of criminal investigations.

In a 25-page opinion, justices agreed that an appeal filed in April by a
legal team representing Bari and her co-defendant, Darryl Cherney, raises
"a genuine issue of fact" as to whether police investigators Michael Sims,
Robert Chenault and Michael Sitterud conspired to assist the FBI in
interferring with the activists' political activities during a 1990
"Redwood Summer" of logging protests.

The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower
court ruling granting law enforcement authorities the immunity.

The judges said there's merit to the lawsuit's contentions that police
investigators and FBI agents acted in concert to falsely portray Bari and
Cherney as being responsible for the May 24, 1990, explosion in an Oakland
neighborhood that blew up their car. Cherney was slightly injured, but Bari
was left permanently disabled.

Neither Oakland police representatives nor Karen Rodrigue, deputy city
attorney for Oakland, could be reached Friday for comment on the ruling.

Dennis Cunningham, Bari's and Cherney's San Francisco lawyer, said Friday's
ruling could finally allow the Bari lawsuit to go to trial after eight
years of skirmishing.

"It was a major hurdle that we needed to clear, and we did," said
Cunningham.

Bari died in March 1997 from breast cancer.

Cunningham said he believes the circuit court's swift review of the Bari
appeal -- the case was argued and submitted on April 15 -- "suggests that
the justices understand what's behind eight years of trial delay and
stonewalling by police and the FBI."

Cherney said Friday that the court ruling "is as significant for activists
as recent revelations about the FBI and Waco."

Justices said that, contrary to the lower court's opinion, sufficient
circumstantial evidence exists to bolster Bari's claims that the police
intended to inhibit Earth First! recruitment of college students and others
for a summerlong series of logging demonstrations, and that police entered
into a conspiracy with FBI agents "to further this goal."

Among the specifics judges cited were "misinformation" and "omissions" from
search warrant affidavits prepared by Oakland police after the bombing, and
officers' apparent willingness to provide inaccurate information to the
news media, "an act which is consistent with the desire to create a
negative impression of Earth First! among the public."

The court also said that after the car bombing, police insisted that they
had relied on the FBI for an assessment of the crime scene, and
identification of Bari and Cherney as "terrorists" who were responsible for
their own bombing. But justices said Oakland police at the time in fact had
a division responsible for monitoring Earth First!, and that the agency had
cooperated with the FBI in looking into the group's activities prior to the
bombing incident.

Because police investigators acted in close cooperation with the FBI in
planning and conducting their investigation into the car bombing, and
publicly contributed misinformation about Bari and Cherney, the court found
that it is likely the plaintiffs could show the existence of a conspiracy
"implicit or explicit" between the police and FBI agents.

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[CTRL] CWD--Save the Nation; Eat a hacker

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Subject:CWD--Save the Nation; Eat a hacker
Date sent:  Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:25:39 -0700

CyberWire Dispatch // Copyright © 1999 // September 24, 1999

Jacking in from the "Snake in the Grass" Port:

Save the Nation; Eat a Hacker
By George Smith
CWD special correspondent

Richard Clarke, President Clinton's baleful counter-terrorism
guru on the National Security Council, has a plan to save us from
computerized terrorists. Actually, he appears to have lots of
plans but we're only going to talk about one today. And while
it's not particularly original, it's a real viper.

To save the nation from "electronic Pearl Harbor" -- you
know, that nebulous electronic doom that's supposed to be
creeping toward us from out of the gibbering dark of the
Internet -- Clarke democratically "suggested" recently that
the U.S. government could change laws that are impediments to
information assurance and security.

And these impediment laws would be?

Why, just the Freedom of Information Act, as well as antitrust
regulations and liability law.

Clarke was speaking for an extended interview published in the
August edition of Signal magazine, a quasi-military trade
publication whose editors get hard-ons over Pentagon electronic
technology and anything that would aid in the smiting of the
Department of Defense's alleged manifold computer enemies. Signal
is best known for an utterly weird April 1998 howler on an
alleged piece of attack software, called "Blitzkrieg," which was,
the magazine seriously told a readership of easily-gulled Pentagon
contractors, "more dangerous than nuclear weapons."

In one form or another the venomous idea to tamper with FOIA
has been bandied around in documents and studies on information
warfare since at least 1996, well before the appearance of
Clarke on the cyberscene. It is generally coupled to the linking of
the military and law enforcement to select industry "groups." The
intelligence agencies, Department of Defense and law enforcement
would then share classified or supposedly sensitive materials with
these ill-defined industrial groups so they could pool resources
to quickly thwart potential "electronic Pearl Harbors."

The head of the Federation of American Scientists' Secrecy and
Government Project, Steven Aftergood, explained the rationale,
or rather the lack of it, behind screwing with the FOIA.

"Modifying FOIA is the first thing everyone thinks of," said
Aftergood. "It's the one thing everyone can agree upon."

Whenever someone in the government or military writes something
on "electronic Pearl Harbor," they have to come up with a set
of recommendations, added Aftergood.  The no-brainer is to rip up
FOIA, one of the final ramparts used by citizens, as well as
journalists, in the preservation of open government.

The belief driving this, said Aftergood, is that, (1), industry
won't share any information on computer security problems with
government if it isn't shielded from FOIA because of the
potential for misuse by competitors, and, (2); "It's already
too easy to obtain information through FOIA . . . which is
ridiculous."

How ridiculous?

Rob Rosenberger, a well-known independent computer
security analyst and one of the U.S. military's first information
warriors, recently tried to use FOIA to dig up some simple
information about how the Air Force reacted to the Melissa
virus.

The Department of Defense has a rating system known as INFOCON.
It tries, emphasis on the word tries, to emulate the old DEFCON
system in that it is a way the military rates a threat and its
posture regarding the threat.

The conditions range from NORMAL, notes Rosenberger, which
means "no significant activity ("a theoretical optimum," he
notes dryly on his website, "[that] we cannot achieve if
we accept 14-yr-old hackers as a national security threat") to
ALPHA, an "increased risk of attack," -- all the way up
to  DELTA, signifying a "general attack. "

INFOCON DELTA computer incidents would "undermine [DoD's]
ability to function effectively [and would create a]
significant risk of mission failure," Rosenberger explains
on his website.

"INFOCON DELTA means the military treats the Internet as a
battlefield, complete with damaged PCs and smoldering
mousepads," added Rosenberger.

Rosenberger's FOIA request was simple. He asked a number of Air
Force agencies what their INFOCON status was from March 15 to
April 15, a window that covered the incidence of the Melissa
virus.

U.S. Air Force HQ in Europe was the only agency that answered
with its status -- INFOCON ALPHA.

The HQ Air Intelligence Agency "refused to disclose their
INFOCON status" on the grounds that "Unauthorized disclosure of
such information could reasonably be expected to cause serious
damage to national security. The document is currently
class

[CTRL] keywords used by echelon

[Sean McDougal]

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from another list
''


 > what are the keywords?

"Keyword" is certainly a key word. There is a database of hundreds and
hundreds of key words, ranging from certain dodgy terms (weapons, drugs,
crimes
in every slang imaginable) to political words (anarchy, insurrection, etc)
to names and places (heads of state, ?heads of corporations?, organisations,
important places from NATO headquarters to ECHELON sites across the world).
I once tried compiling a list but gave up when it reached more than 500
words. You have to remember that it would also take nearly every language
into
account. Naturally this means that millions of messages (voice, fax, data)
are netted by the systems every day. They then sift through them in a
probably very very refined way passing on the REALLY suspicious ones to
human
evaluators. Of course a lot of logging also goes on, meaning that if a
certain
phone line/email address starts to display a very large amount of suspicious
info this is recorded. The system has three weaknesses:

1. Strong encryption is a problem as Echelon and the computer systems
around it don't have the resources to crack every PGP coded message. This
takes
a long time and can, as far as I know, only be done in extreme cases.
Luckily for Echelon, not many people use strong encryption.

2. Storage capacity: The amount of data flowing through the systems is
growing exponentially. Echelon can't record too much information or it would
simply burst. This means that not everybody who uses the word "hacker" is
recorded.

3. Humans. In the end all highly suspicious message have to reach a human
evaluator. There aren't that many of them that they can deal with too much
information in one day, especially if the subject is highly technical or in
a
language other than English. This is where the whole idea of jamming the
works comes in , I expect. Create so much suspicious material that the human
evaluators cannot cope anymore. I think this is a very good idea, sort of
like the street theatre in front of CCTVs. A little bit of programming and
widespread participation should do quite a bit of damage, I can imagine :-)
Not
that anybody would want to do anything like that. You know, fool around with
the Men in Black.

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[CTRL] DC Med Mj Vote Passes, Congress May Overturn

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Subject: ALERT: DC Med Mj Vote Passes, Congress May Overturn
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:53:31 -0500 (CDT)

 VISIT:  http://www.drcnet.org/medmjaction/
9/22/99
Dear friend:

 On a cold November day last year -- Election Day -- I
stood outside a downtown polling station, leafleting and
speaking with fellow Washington, D.C. residents about I-59,
a ballot initiative to legalize medical use of marijuana in
the District of Columbia and prevent medical marijuana
patients from being sent to prison.  That night, I waited
with my fellow activists for results of similar initiatives
taking place in several states across the nation.

 The news was good -- medical marijuana passed
everywhere, and comfortably.  But the results of D.C.'s own
medical marijuana initiative -- the one I had volunteered
and voted for myself -- were kept secret, and would be kept
secret for more than ten months.  Congress had passed a law,
introduced by Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA), that prohibited the D.C.
government from spending any funds to count or certify the
results of the medical marijuana vote -- not even the
estimated $1.74 of staff time it would have taken to push
the button and have the computer print them out.

 Last week, a federal judge ruled that the Barr amendment
is unconstitutional, and ordered D.C. election officials to
count and certify the vote, an order with which they happily
complied.  The results were overwhelming, though not
unexpected -- 69% of D.C. voters voted yes for medical
marijuana, the same percentage found in an exit poll
commissioned by Americans for Medical Rights.

 But Barr and his fellow hard-liners haven't given up,
and even now are plotting to overturn D.C.'s long-awaited
medical marijuana law -- and the U.S. Constitution gives
them that power, if they act within 30 working days.  That's
why we need you to take action, and tell your U.S.
Representative and your two Senators to respect the will of
the voters and let D.C.'s medical marijuana law stand!

 Please visit http://www.drcnet.org/medmjaction/ to send
an e-mail or fax to Congress.  You can also use our site to
find out your reps' phone numbers, to call them, for even
more impact.  And please forward this alert, or use the
"tell-a-friend" page on the web site, to let as many people
know about this important issue and how they can help.  And
please take action now -- though Congress has 30 working
days, they could vote on this at any time, so please write
Congress today!

 Sincerely,

 David Borden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
 Executive Director
 Drug Reform Coordination Network
 http://www.drcnet.org

P.S.  For further information, please visit the web sites of
two organizations that worked hard to pass I-59 by a wide
margin:  ACTUP DC, the initiative's sponsors, online at
, and the Marijuana Policy Project,
online at .  For extensive information
on the evidence relating to medical marijuana, visit the AMR-
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Re: [CTRL] Deceptive IRS Code Words

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The courts are ultimately the ones who would decide any issue involved and
they always side with the IRS in all matters of "interpretation."

==
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The IRS HAS an interpretation of what someone who decides he/she is not
obligated to pay an income tax, for instance.  The IRS calls such "tax
protestors."

People HAVE won such cases.

An elderly couple in Michigan is taken to court every year by the IRS and
every year charges against them are dropped.

see:
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[CTRL] Why Giuliani is Gassing NY

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Subject: Mosquito as Metaphor: Why Giuliani is Gassing NY
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:20:36 -0500 (CDT)

Mosquito As Metaphor: Giuliani Gasses NY

There’s nothing uncharacteristic about Mayor Giuliani’s decision
to turn NYC into a poison gas ghetto. Dousing eight million
men, women and children with poison gas in order to eradicate
encephalitis mosquitoes that so far are unproven to even exist
shows the low regard our Mayor has for human life. Six years of
previous Giuliani initiatives have been characterized by his
enthusiasm for resorting to the most drastic measures available
by law, and many that clearly violate the law, in order to
eliminate what he considers pests.

For Giuliani an emergency situation occurs when a wealthy
contributor whispers a complaint about something during a
fundraiser or his staff comes up with the possibility of a
lightening quick response to an issue that will give him the
chance to appear decisive on TV. His thirteen million dollar gas
proof bunker in the World Trade Center was built to function as
a stage from which to broadcast weekly episodes of Action Rudy,
Superhero Savior of New York!

Superheros need easily recognizable villains to fight, preferably
ones who are hated or feared by the community. Mosquitoes are
an even better enemy for Giuliani than the homeless or street
artists. Mosquitoes have no friends in high places.

Ultimately however, we are all mosquitoes to Rudy Giuliani.
When the Mayor’s Manhattan Institute inspired eradication
campaigns were previously focused on squeegee guys, street
artists, homeless people and vendors, all of whom were also
described as plagues destroying New York’s quality of life, few
people saw any need for alarm.

As the Mayor gradually trained his sights on CUNY students,
community gardeners and welfare recipients more people became
concerned but allowed themselves to be lulled into complacency
by the Republican logic of cutting spending and putting people
to work. By the time the Mayor was privatizing public hospitals,
schools and parks, giving the wealthiest corporations in the City
massive tax write offs and denying any groups he disliked the
right to freedom of speech and assembly we’d all become so used
to the arbitrary elimination of rights that, for most New Yorkers,
resistance seemed futile.

Like the proverbial frogs placed in a pot of cold water that is
gradually brought to a boil we’ve found ourselves unable to jump
out of the Mayor’s police state before it was too late.

Just think of the perceptual alterations Giuliani has brought to
once liberal New York. The public and the supposedly liberal
media have come to accept that police shootings of unarmed and
in many cases, completely innocent people, are justified. Daily
aerial gassings of the entire City are now routine. We no longer
seriously question the hundreds of thousands of illegal searches
in minority communities and additional hundreds of thousands
of so-called quality of life arrests for non criminal activity that
are never brought to trial. The seizing and selling at auction of
personal property without the need for a trial or conviction of
any crime has become commonplace.

Despite a billion dollar surplus and the existence of numerous
genuine public health crises in New York no one is seriously
questioning the dismantling of what was once the nation’s best
system of public hospitals. Cuts in funding for the most essential
public resources including libraries, ambulances, building
inspections, public health and even mosquito abatement go
totally unchallenged. Like a prison warden gradually cutting
rations and privileges in order to psychologically intimidate, the
Mayor rules over us the convicts under his charge with an iron
hand.

In response to those who dare to take a public stand against this
bully Rudy’s retribution is swift and certain. For an elected
official like City Council Member Steven DiBrienza the Mayor
can place homeless shelters in your district if you get out of line.
Federal judges that rule against him find their names in the next
day’s newspaper alongside words like crazy, stupid and insane.
Reporters that dare to ask him an embarrassing question or write
a story that puts the Mayor in a bad light often find their jobs are
in jeopardy. For City-funded agencies such as Housing Works or
Legal Aid, massive funding cuts can be implemented to teach
them to mind their manners. And for outspoken critics like
myself and Christopher Brodeur who can’t be fired or have their
benefits cut, false arrests and malicious prosecutions follow like
the days of the week.

Now that the Malathion Madman has intimidated the media, his
political opposition and the general public into passively
accepting being covered with organophosphate nerve gasses on a
daily basis, new frontiers are opening for Giuliani’s quality of
life police state. Forced inoculations can 

[CTRL] Is NYC being used for bio-warfare experiments? 9/22/99 NY Times

[Sean McDougal]

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Subject: Is NYC being used for bio-warfare experiments? 9/22/99 NY Times
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 20:25:50 -0500 (CDT)

Why does the Federal government want to expand an existing
bio-warfare research lab right off the coast of NYC, the most
populated area in the U.S.? Have 8 million New Yorkers been
chosen as the lab rats in an ongoing bio-medical research
project? Is Mayor Giuliani’s bizarre mass daily spraying of toxic
pesticides on NYC part of an experiment or a response to a virus
that already escaped from the lab? Is the mosquito epidemic
merely an excuse to  get people used to being sprayed with
chemicals from the air? Is the timing of today’s NY Times and
yesterday’s Daily News articles on this lab setting us up for some
bad news about what is really behind the encephalitis scare?
Please note: birds are a major part of the experimenting that goes
on at the lab right now. Birds are also exactly where mosquitoes
get the encephalitis virus. While a mosquito may not easily fly
from Plum Island to Queens a bird can do it without any
problem. Do the people of NY deserve answers before any more
spraying is undertaken? The NYC Dept. of Health, the Dept. of
Environmental Protection and the Mayor’s Emergency
Management Services team are unable to explain their total lack
of air sampling on the distribution of Malathion and the other
two poison gasses being used. They claim they are using three
ounces of Malathion per acre yet the planes make repeated
passes over the same area meaning they have no idea how much
of the chemical is being dropped per City block. Last Saturday
my home in Park Slope was sprayed nine times by the same
helicopter. Is Mayor Giuliani bravely trying to protect public
health or is he the Mengele for the New World Order?
-Robert Lederman

NY Times 9/22/99
U.S. Would Use Long Island Lab to Study Food Terrorism

Related Article
• At Bleak Asian Site, Killer Germs Survive (June 2, 1999)

By JUDITH MILLER

  PLUM ISLAND, N.Y. -- Alarmed at what the Clinton
Administration views as the growing threat of biological
terrorism to America's food supply, the Agriculture Department
is seeking money to turn the Plum Island Animal Disease Center,
one mile off Long Island, into a top security laboratory where
some of the most dangerous diseases known to man or beast can
be studied.

The Agriculture Department already operates here at Plum Island,
just across Gardiners Bay from the wealthy Hamptons, a
laboratory where such dreaded foreign animal diseases as
foot-and-mouth and African swine fever are examined. But the
department is seeking $75 million this year and $140 million
over the next two years to upgrade the center to handle even more
dangerous animal diseases that can affect humans.

While there are four civilian and military laboratories in America
equipped to study such diseases -- technically known as
Biosafety Level Four facilities -- their work is focused on germs
that primarily affect humans, not domestic animals or plants.

Officials say the proposed expansion and upgrading of Plum
Island is part of a new effort by the Clinton Administration to
deter terrorists who might spread germs to destroy American
crops or livestock for political purposes or financial gain, a threat
they now see as equal to that of terrorist attacks aimed at people.

"Given the contribution of crop and animal exports to the
nation's prosperity, we must do far more to protect our plant and
animal resources," said Senator Richard G. Lugar, the Indiana
Republican and co-author of legislation in 1991 and 1996 that
provided money to bolster defenses against unconventional
terrorism and stop the proliferation of such weapons.

"This is not about food per se; Americans would not go hungry if
we were attacked," said Floyd P. Horn, the administrator of the
Agricultural Research Service, who helped persuade the
Administration to include his agency in January in its
counter-terrorism plans and programs. "But such an attack, or
even a credible threat, would severely disrupt America's
economic and social infrastructure for weeks, if not months or
years."

Plum Island, which was once operated by the United States Army
Chemical Corps, was designated as an animal-disease research
center and transferred to the Agriculture Department in the early
1950's. It is already what scientists call an agricultural "Biosafety
Level Three" center, which means that its containment areas,
which hold germs dangerous to animals, have filtered air, sealed
doors and negative air pressure that prevents germs from leaking
out of the labs. Liquid waste is decontaminated.

All who enter the labs wear white lab coats and slippers. After
leaving the containment areas, they are required to shower,
shampoo their hair, scrub their nails and rinse their mouths, since
lethal germs can live i

[CTRL] Kosovo/NATO items

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Subject: Kosovo/NATO items
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 20:31:04 -0500 (CDT)

From: Karl Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Gracanica, September 22

Today on Sep 22 on the session of the Kosovo Transitional Council the
representatives of the Serbian national commuity, Bishop Artemije and Mr.
Trajkovic officially resigned from their positions within the KTC. They
explained their leaving of the Council with the fact that after three
months of KFOR and UNMIK presence in Kosovo the multiethnic concept in
Kosovo has failed.

This failure was crowned by the transformation of the KLA into a
monoethnic and armed Kosovo Protection Corps which is directly violating
the UN Security Council Resolution 1244. After three months of peace the
results are catastrophic for the Serbs in the province: about 200.000
expelled, more than 350 killed, 450 abducted, thousands of burned and
looted Serb houses as well as 70 destroyed churches and monasteries in the
presence of almost 50.000 international peace forces. In Kosovo there is
not a single multiethnic institution. Serbs have been practically expelled
from all multiethnic areas and forced into reservations and ghettoes. They
are denied the basic human rights and freedom of movement, education, work
and medical protection. Nothing is done to enable the expelled Serb to go
back to their homes while the remaining Serbs and other non-Albanians are
still being persecuted, killed, raped and beaten. According to the  words
of Mr. Trajkovic the winners in the so far process in Kosovo are Mr. Thaci
and Mr. Milosevic while the loosers are Kosovo Serbs, Serb and Albanian
moderate and democratic forces and especially the international community
(KFOR and UNMIK).

The Serb representatives in the KTC said that their participation in the
Council was motivated with the idea to constantly point out to the
difficult security situation for the Serbs in Kosovo and make efforts to
contribute to the better conditions for life and survival of our people.
But Bishop Artemije and Mr. Trajkovic have clearly explained that they are
not ready to take upon themselves the political responsibility for the
decisions which are made in Kosovo without the consultation with the
Kosovo Serbs and against their interests. The international community is
working more and more in direction of creating the independent Kosovo for
which no one from the Kosovo Serb community can and should take
responsibility. Kosovo Protection Corps which is already translated into
Albanian as KOSOVO DEFENSIVE TROOPS is the continuation of the KLA with
full continuity of its millitary structure with the General Agim Ceku as
its head. The fact that KLA have given over only one part of mostly
outdated weapons and have hidden the majority of the modern wapons in
their secret depots is only an attempt to show that UNMIK and KFOR have
managed to demilitarize KLA, what was envisaged by the UN Resolution 1244.
In reality this is a tacit legalization of a monoethnic army built on the
foundations of an organization which is considered by many as a terrorist
organization directly responsible for many crimes against the Serb and
other non-Albanian population. The New Corps is nothing but a nucleus of
the future ethnic Albanian army of Kosovo.

Since the international community has completely denied the multiethnic
approach to the resolution of the Kosovo issue and focused on attempts to
resolve Albanian question only, the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija with full
right might ask for resolution of the Serbian ethnic question in direction
of cantonization and the establishment of the Serbian Protection Corps.

Bishop Artemije and Mr. Trajkovic have clearly manifested that in the
present situation they have not the mandate to represent the Serbian
people in Kosovo and they proposed to Mr. Kouchner to find other
representatives for the Council among those who seek the ethnic approach
to the Kosovo issue or to build Kosovo future with Albanians only. The
Serb representativTOP cannot be any longer a decoration of the inexistent
multiethnicity.

Despite leaving of the Council, Bishop Artemije and Mr. Trajkovic said
that they remain open for the further cooperation with the international
community in order to better protect the human rights and freedoms of the
Serbian national community in the southern Serbian province.

Information Service of the Church and National Committee
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Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren
Gracanica Monastery, Pristina,
Kosovo and Metohija

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Reuters:

Solana declares Kosovo force dead, others disagree

By Douglas Hamilton

TORONTO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Outgoing NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana
asserted on Tuesday that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was dead but
Yugoslavia and some of the guerrillas themselves disagreed.

"The UCK (KLA) doesn't exist anymore," S

Re: [CTRL] San Francisco, Electrified and Quaking

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  First, really unparallelled thunder and lightning (I watched a massive
lightning bolt travel HORIZONTALLY from horizon to horizon, SLOWLY) twice in
two weeks, each time "explained" as a byproduct of a dying Pacific hurricane
-- two different ones.
==
SM:
Until last year, scientists had never recorded a hurricane in the Pacific
Ocean, apparently defined by the storm's strength.  Until then there had
been many typhoons of course.  If you lived in the bay area in December of
1996 then you will remember a vicious storm that downed trees en masse.
Just a little north of SF, in western Sonoma county, winds approached 100
mph, typhoon strength.  Granted it is rare for the area but seems to
becoming more frequent.  That storm rivaled many I have seen in the tornado
belt.
..

  Second, COINCIDING with a thunder-and-lightning display, an EARTHQUAKE
of exactly the rare type that struck Taiwan -- arising near the SURFACE of
the earth.
--
SM:
What was rare about the Taiwan quake is that it happened in a spot that is
usually not active, i.e. inland.  MOST of San Francisco's quakes originate
inland; it's not unusual.

An epicenter as far north as Santa Rosa, however, IS unusual but it makes
some sense.  The San Andreas fault has fragments, tributary-like, that run
all the way into Lake County, including Calistoga and Middletown, home to
many of the original Jonestown inhabitants [more on that some other
time...that is a rather large can of worms].  From Calistoga to much further
inland than even that is an immense amount of geothermal activity.  There is
even a geothermal powerstation near Cobb Mountain, about 45 miles north of
Calistoga, 80 or so from Santa Rosa [boy, FBI filekeepers could have a filed
day with the info I have provided about myself here...he he], not to mention
many hot springs.

In fact, though the immediate bay area has much larger quakes than it, Lake
County has a vast amount of small quakes.  On the average, I could feel one
at least weekly when I lived there.  A quick look at the Press Democrat and
its section covering daily seismic activity will show Cobb Mountain to have
several per day.

SOan hour to the southwest of Santa Rosa is San Francisco, famous for
big quakes and an hour to the northeast of it is a region that has several
per day.  Santa Rosa was probably due for one.

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Re: [CTRL] The UN can help save the world

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Original Message Follows
From: Tenorlove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


ENFORCED population control infringes on human freedom and human
dignity as much as restrictions on freedoms of worship, association,
and exchange of ideas.
--
SM:
When this earth is all said and done I hope it is not said that the human
race killed itself because it did not want to feel infringed upon by the
reality of its situation.


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Re: [CTRL] Nicaraguan Contras and Cocaine

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I once knew an individual that served in the Sandanista army.  He says they
used to find a group of contras now and then and often they carried large
amounts of cocaine.  He said they would overcome the bands, since they were
often small [for stealth I guess], and stand in a big circle and set the
drugs on fire.  He said they would "be high for days" afterwards.

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Re: [CTRL] Our Presidential Choices

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George Dubya- Elitist.


Gore-  Follows in Clintons camp as a China led NWO supporter..


Buchanan-  Fascism of the Nationalist variety...

..
Do you need to be led?  I don't.  Does anyone here not know how to treat
their neighbor as they wish to be treated?  Does anyone here not know how to
trade fairly?  If we can do this, then to HELL with leaders.


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[CTRL] Deceptive IRS Code Words

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http://www.deoxy.org/fz/deception.htm

Deceptive IRS Code Words

"Income," "Person," "Taxpayer," "Shall," and "Must."

Learn to Decipher the Internal Revenue Code and IRS Publications
The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) is a masterpiece of deception designed to
mislead Citizens into believing that individuals are subject to federal
income tax. The Code was written by attorneys for the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS), and contains a series of directory statutes using the word
"shall", with provisions that are requirements for corporations, but not for
individuals. Even members of Congress are generally unaware of the deceptive
legal meanings of certain terms that are consistently used in the IRC. These
terms have legal definitions for use in the IRC that are very different from
the general understanding of the meaning of the words.

Lack of knowledge of these legal definitions causes misunderstanding by
uninformed Citizens who are confused as to the correct interpretation of
both the IRC and the true meaning of the tricky wording in IRS instructional
publications and news articles. However, when you understand the legal
definitions of these terms, the deception is easily recognized and the
limited application of the Code becomes clear. This understanding will help
you to see that filing income tax forms and paying income taxes must be
voluntary acts for most Americans because the United States Constitution
forbids the federal government to impose any tax directly upon individuals.

INCOME
-

Most people mistakenly believe all moneys they receive, such as wages,
salaries, and tips, are "income". However, for years, IRS publication #525,
entitled "Taxable and Nontaxable Income", has acknowledged that wages and
salaries are not "income". Publication #525 states: "Wages and salaries are
the main source of income for most people." In the court decision of Graves
vs People of the State of New York ex rel O'Keefe, 59 S.Ct. 595 (1939), the
United States Supreme Court ruled that a source of income is not income, and
the source is not subject to income tax. In that decision, the Court stated:
"A tax on income is not economically or legally a tax on its source."
However, wages, salaries, commissions, and tips (sources) are considered to
be "income" for an individual when he lists them as "income" on an IRS tax
return form. When he signs the tax form under penalty of perjury, he has
made a voluntary oath that his wages, salary, commissions, and tips listed
on the return are "income" and that he is subject to the tax.

In the still standing decision of Brushaber vs Union Pacific Railroad
Company, 240 U.S. 1, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the federal
income tax is an excise tax under the Sixteenth Amendment (the income tax
amendment). The Court explained that the income tax cannot be imposed as a
direct tax (a tax on individuals or on property) because the United States
Constitution still requires that all direct taxes must be apportioned among
the States. "Apportioned" means that a direct tax is laid upon the State
governments in proportion to each State's population. The Court ruled that
income tax can be constitutional only as an indirect (excise) tax -- that
is, a tax on profits earned by corporations or privileges granted by
government. In other words, said the Supreme Court, in order for there to be
"income", there must be profits or gains received in the exercise of a
privilege granted by government. As an example, a lawyer is granted the
government privilege of being an officer of the government court when he
represents clients in litigation.

At law, labor is property. In fact, the Supreme Court has identified labor
as man's most precious property. Therefore, the exchange of one's labor for
wages or salary (which are also property) is considered by law to be an
exchange of properties of equal value in which there is no gain or profit.
Such a property exchange of equal value cannot be taxed because there is no
profit or gain. Also, one who works in an ordinary occupation is not a
recipient of any privilege granted by government, because he is merely
exercising his constitutionally guaranteed right to work and earn an living.
Courts have repeatedly ruled that no tax may be placed upon the exercise of
rights. Their reasoning was sensible. If the exercise of rights could be
taxed, government could destroy them by excessive rates of taxation.

Items that the law includes in "income" are described in Code sections
listed under the title of "Items Specifically Included in Gross Income",
which covers Sections 71 through 86. Nowhere in these sections and nowhere
else in the Code is there any mention of wages, salaries, commissions, or
tips as being "income". For example, to deceive and intimidate waitresses
into declaring their tips to be income is a double fraud. First, tips are
gifts, not wages. According to the IRC, gifts are not subject to income tax.
In fact, even if tips were 

Re: [CTRL] The UN can help save the world

[Sean McDougal]

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Original Message Follows
From: Tenorlove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

One thing I've noticed about the population control/reduction
advocates: They never volunteer themselves or their own families for
reduction, only other people's.
..
I am going to guess that your despisal of eco-minded individuals has lead
you to not know many of them first hand.  I have known thousands [yes i did
say thousands] of such people that PRACTICE it.

Let's be clear on the topic; is it population control or population control
advocates?  If ALL of the population control advocates were serial killers,
it would say absolutely nothing about population control's merits as a
philosophy.  This, folks, is called critical thinking.

You aim at the messenger because you find the message disturbing.


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Re: [CTRL] miscellany

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Original Message Follows
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So, you're still a liberal after seven years of Bill Clinton and
decades of liberal activists making your life miserable from the
bully pulpits of the bureaucratic agencies.
..

Clinton is just a sexed up version of George Bush; he is no liberal.

The policies of the presidency has not changed since Ford.

Take the blinders off.

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[CTRL] Propaganda in a Democratic Society

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http://www.deoxy.org/huxley1.htm

Propaganda in a Democratic Society
by Aldous Huxley

"The doctrines of Europe," Jefferson wrote, "were that men in numerous
associations cannot be restrained within the limits of order and justice,
except by forces physical and moral wielded over them by authorities
independent of their will. . . . We (the founders of the new American
democracy) believe that man was a rational animal, endowed by nature with
rights, and with an innate sense of justice, and that he could be restrained
from wrong, and protected in right, by moderate powers, confided to persons
of his own choice and held to their duties by dependence on his own will."
To post-Freudian ears, this kind of language seems touchingly quaint and
ingenuous. Human beings are a good deal less rational and innately just than
the optimists of the eighteenth century supposed. On the other hand they are
neither so morally blind nor so hopelessly unreasonable as the pessimists of
the twentienth would have us believe. In spite of the Id and the
Unconscious, in spite of endemic neurosis and the prevalence of low IQ's,
most men and women are probably decent enough and sensible enough to be
trusted with the direction of their own destinies.

Democratic institutions are devices for reconciling social order with
individual freedom and initiative, and for making the immediate power of a
country's rulers subject to the ultimate power of the ruled. The fact that,
in Western Europe and America, these devices have worked, all things
considered, not too badly is proof enough that the eighteenth century
optimists were not entirely wrong. Given a fair chance, I repeat; for the
fair chance is an indispensible prerequisite. No people that passes abruptly
from a state of subservience under the rule of a despot to the completely
unfamiliar state of political independence can be said to have a fair chance
of being able to govern itself democratically. Liberalism flourishes in an
atmosphere of prosperity and declines as declining prosperity makes it
necessary for the government to intervene ever more frequently and
drastically in the affairs of its subjects. Over-population and
over-organization are two conditions which ... deprive a society of a fair
chance of making democratic institutions work effectively. We see, then,
that there are certain historical, economic, demographic and technological
conditions which make it very hard for Jefferson's rational animals, endowed
by nature with inalienable rights and an innate sense of justice, to
exercise their reason, claim their rights and act justly within a
democratically organized society. We in the West have been supremely
fortunate in having been given a fair chance of making the great experiment
in self-government.

Unfortunately, it now looks as though , owing to recent changes in our
circumstances, this infinitely precious fair chance were being, little by
little, taken away from us. And this, of course, is not the whole story.
These blind impersonal forces are not the only enemies of individual liberty
and democratic institutions. There are also forces of another, less abstract
character, forces that can be deliberately used by power-seeking individuals
whose aim is to establish partial or complete control over their fellows.
Fifty years ago, when I was a boy, it seemed completely self-evident that
the bad old days were over, that torture and massacre, slavery, and the
persecution of heretics, were things of the past. Among people who wore top
hats, traveled in trains, and took a bath every morning such horrors were
simply out of the question. After all, we were living in the twentieth
century. A few years later these people who took daily baths and went to
church in top hats were committing atrocities on a scale undreamed of by the
benighted Africans and Asiatics. In the light of recent history it would be
foolish to suppose that this sort of thing cannot happen again. It can and,
no doubt, it will. But in the immediate future there is some reason to
believe that the punitive measures of 1984 will give place to the
reinforcements and manipulations of Brave New World.

There are two kinds of propaganda - rational propaganda in favor of action
that is consonant with the enlightened self-interest of those who make it
and those to whom it is addressed, and non-rational propaganda that is not
consonant with anybody's enlightened self-interest, but is dictated by, and
appeals to, passion. Were the actions of individuals are concerned there are
motives more exhalted than enlightened self-interest, but where collective
action has to be taken in the fields of politics and economics, enlightened
self-interest is probably the highest of effective motives. If politicians
and their constituents always acted to promote their own or their country's
long-range self-interest, this world would be an earthly paradise. As it is,
they often act against their own interests, merely to gratify

[CTRL] If an Agent Knocks

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http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/students/pjaques/etext/ifanagentknocks.html


If an Agent Knocks
Federal Investigators and Your Rights
Center for Constitutional Rights

Background
What is Political Intelligence?

Do I have to talk to the FBI?

Under what laws do the agents operate?

What federal agencies are likely to be interested in a citizen's political
activities and affiliations?

How does the FBI learn about citizens and organizations?
What if I suspect surveillance?

How should I respond to threatening letters or calls?
What rights do I have?

What should I do if police, FBI, or other agents appear with an arrest or
search warrant?

What should I do if agents come to question me?

If I don't cooperate, doesn't it look like I have something to hide?

Are there any circumstances under which it is advisable to cooperate with an
FBI investigation?

How can grand juries make people go to jail?

Is there any way to prevent grand jury witnesses from going to jail?

What can lawyers do?

Errata
Notes

People opposing U.S. policies in Central America, giving sanctuary to
refugees from Guatemala and El Salvador, struggling for Black liberation,
and against nuclear weapons, are today more than ever likely to receive
visits from FBI agents or other federal investigators. Increasingly, agents
are also visiting the familist, friends, and employers of these activists.

This pamphlet is designed to answer the most frequent questions asked by
people and groups experiencing government scrutiny, and to help them develop
practical responses.

What is Political Intelligence?
Political intelligence is information collected by the government about
individuals and groups. Files secure under the Freedom of Information Act
disclose that government officials have long been interested in all forms of
data. Information gathered by government agents ranges from the most
personal data about sexual liaisons and preferences to estimates of the
strength of groups opposing U.S. policies. Over the years, groups and
individuals have developed various ways of limiting the collection of
information and preventing such intelligence gathering from harming their
work.

Do I have to talk to the FBI?
No. The FBI does not have the authority to make anyone answer questions
(other than name and address [see errata]), to permit a search without a
warrant, or to otherwise cooperate with an investigation. Agents are usually
lawyers, and they are always trained as investigators; they have learned the
power of persuasion, the ability to make a person feel scared, guilty, or
impolite for refusing their requests for information. So remember, they have
no legal authority to force people to do anything -- unless they have
obtained an arrest or search warrant. Even when agents do have warrants, you
still don't have to answer their question.

Under what laws do the agents operate?
In 1976, FBI guidelines regulating the investigation of political activities
were issued by Attorney General Edward H. Levi. Criticized by liberals and
conservatives alike, the guidelines were issued in the wake of a
Congressional committee's report of highly questionable activities by the
FBI: monitoring the activities of domestic political groups seeking to
effect change. The report exposed the FBI's counter-intelligence program
(COINTELPRO) under which the agency infiltrated groups, compiled dossiers
on, and directly interfered with individuals engaged in activities protected
by the First Amendment rights to freedom of expression and association.

The FBI COINTELPRO program was initiated in 1956. Its purpose, as described
later by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, was "to expose, disrupt, misdirect,
discredit, or otherwise neutralize activities" of those individuals and
organizations whose ideas or goals he opposed. Tactics included: falsely
labelling individuals as informants; infiltrating groups with persons
instructed to disrupt the group; sending anonymous or forged letters
designed to promote strife between groups; initiating politically motivated
IRS investigations; carrying out burglaries of offices and unlawful
wiretaps; and disseminating to other government agencies and to the media
unlawfully obtained derogatory information on individuals and groups.

In 1983, Attorney General William French Smith issued superseding guidelines
that authorized "domestic security/ terrorism" investigations against
political organizations whenever the FBI had a reasonable belief that these
groups might violate a law. The new guidelines permitted the same intrusive
techniques the FBI used against organized crime.

The Smith guidelines were justified by the Attorney General's observation
that "our citizens are no less threatened by groups which engage in criminal
violence for political... purposes that by those which operate lawlessly for
financial gain." He concluded: "we must ensure that criminal intelligence
resources that have been brought to bear so effectively in organized 

[CTRL] AD 2100: miserable life on overcrowded Earth

[Sean McDougal]

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Original Message Follows
From: Mark Graffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: AD 2100: miserable life on overcrowded Earth
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 21:19:12 -0500 (CDT)

   A.D. 2100: Cornell study warns of a miserable life on overcrowded Earth
if
   population and resources are not controlled

FOR RELEASE: Sept. 20, 1999

Contact: Roger Segelken
Office: (607) 255-9736
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ITHACA, N.Y. -- One hundred years from now, democratically determined
population-control practices and sound resource-management policies
could have the planet's 2 billion people thriving in harmony with the
environment. Lacking these approaches, a new Cornell University study
suggests, 12 billon miserable humans will suffer a difficult life on
Earth by the year 2100.

"Of course, reducing population and using resources wisely will be a
challenging task in the coming decades," says David Pimentel, lead
author of the report titled "Will Limits of the Earth's Resources
Control Human Numbers?" in the first issue of the journal Environment,
Development and Sustainability.

"It will be much more difficult," Pimentel says, "to survive in a
world without voluntary controls on population growth and ever
diminishing supplies of the Earth's resources."

Even at a reduced world population of 2 billion in A.D. 2100, life for
the average Earth dweller will not be as luxurious as it is for many
Americans today. But the lifestyle won't be as wasteful of resources,
either, the Cornell ecologist predicts. Some observers are seeing
early signs that nature is taking a hand at reducing human populations
through malnutrition and disease. According to the report, global
climate change is beginning to contribute to the food and disease
problems.

"With a democratically determined population policy that respects
basic individual rights, with sound resource-use policies, plus the
support of science and technology to enhance energy supplies and
protect the integrity of the environment," the report concludes, "an
optimum population of 2 billion for the Earth can be achieved."

Then the fortunate 2 billion will be free from poverty and starvation,
living in an environment capable of sustaining human life with
dignity, the report suggests, adding a cautionary note:

"We must avoid letting human numbers continue to increase and surpass
the limit of Earth's natural resources and forcing natural forces to
control our number by disease, malnutrition and violent conflicts over
resources," the report says.

Among the key points in the report:

-- The world population is projected to double in about 50 years.

-- Even if a worldwide limit of 2.1 children per couple were adopted
tomorrow, Earth's human population would continue to increase before
stabilizing at around 12 billion in more than 60 years. The major
reason for continued growth is "population momentum," due to the
predominantly young age structure of the world population.

-- The U.S. population has doubled during the past 60 years to 270
million and, at the current growth rate, is projected to double again,
to 540 million, in the next 75 years. Each year our nation adds 3
million people (including legal immigrants) to its population, plus an
estimated 400,000 illegal immigrants.

-- Increasing U.S. and global population will place restrictions on
certain freedoms: freedom to travel and commute to work quickly and
efficiently, freedom to visit and enjoy natural areas, freedom to
select desired foods and freedom to be effectively represented by
government

-- Today, more than 3 billion people suffer from malnutrition, the
largest number and proportion of the world population in history,
according to the World Health Organization. Malnutrition increases the
susceptibility to diseases such as diarrhea and malaria.

-- One reason for the increase in malnutrition is that production of
grains per capita has been declining since 1983. Grains provide 80
percent to 90 percent of the world's food. Each additional human
further reduces available food per capita.

-- The reasons for this per capita decrease in food production are a
20 percent decline in cropland per capita, a 15 percent decrease in
water for irrigation and a 23 percent drop in the use of fertilizers.

-- Biotechnology and other technologies apparently have not been
implemented fast enough to prevent declines in per capita food
production during the past 17 years.

-- Considering the resources likely to be available in A.D. 2100, the
optimal world population would be about 2 billion, with a standard of
living about half that of the United States in the 1990s, or at the
standard experienced by the ave

[CTRL] TURKEY: Prisoners Released, Conscience Still Locked

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Subject: RIGHTS-TURKEY: Prisoners Released, Conscience Still Locked
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 23:17:28 -0500 (CDT)

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Title: RIGHTS-TURKEY: Prisoners Released, Conscience Still Locked

By Ertugrul Kurkcu

ISTANBUL, Sep 20 (IPS) - In leaving the jail where he spent the last
six years for 'press crimes,' 59 year-old sociologist Ismail Besikci
showed last week no thankfulness to the Turkish parliament that
'pardoned' him - ''I have been released, yet I'm not free,'' he said.

Besikci is one of the first dissidents to benefit from a Turkish
Parliament's decision ordering the release of journalists and writers
convicted for their work. The bill was ratified by president Suleyman
Demirel more than two weeks ago.

Cheered by Turkish and Kurdish admirers who gathered in front of the
northwestern Bursa province prison, Besicki left with a van-load of
books, court files and documents, towards his home in Ankara, which he
had last seen in November 1993.

He will have to watch his words, though, because the amnesty is
half-hearted. All those 'pardoned' are legally bound not to commit the
same 'offence' in the next three years or else go back to prison and
serve the rest of their sentences.

The exact number of journalists and writers to be released is yet
uncertain. The government says 32 convicted journalists will be freed
in the following weeks, but the process seems has been slowed-down by
bureaucratic hurdles.

The law excludes those sentenced for delivering speeches. Thus, human
rights activist Akin Birdal and lawyer Esber Yagmurdereli will remain
serving their nine-month jail terms for demanding peace between the
Turkish state and Kurdish rebels.

''This is a sin committed against freedom of conscience,'' says
Besikci, who was sentenced to 79 years and a 20,000 US dollars fine.
for 52 offenses, all related to his writings. He is still awaiting
trial for another 55 accusations.

''Lawmakers expect us to suspend our consciousness for three years in
order to be fully free. You are released but your conscience is still
under arrest. What a pity,'' he said.

''This is cosmetics,'' says Osman Ergin deputy chair of the Istanbul
Bar Association. '

'' With this amnesty, the Turkish government just expects to have a
broader margin in the forthcoming negotiations with the European Union
and the United States, who have been critical of Turkey's poor human
rights records and restrictions on freedom of expression,'' he said.

''Adding insult to injury, the amnesty is being slowed down by local
officials'' - Ergin says . ''Local prosecutors are the least willing to
enforce the law. They transfer the files out of their jurisdiction.''

Cartoonist Dogan Guzel was one of those whose release was delayed by
bureaucratic manoeuvres until Saturday, 18 september.

Sentenced to 50 months for five separate cases under charges of
''diminishing the spiritual identity of the State'', Guzel watched for
two weeks how his file was being moved from the district prosecutor's
office to his superiors' and back.

''According to the Turkish law, holding a person even for one extra
minute is a serious crime, yet I have been staying here for two extra
weeks,'' he angrily said in a telephone interview.

''The prosecutors themselves are committing crimes,'' deputy bar chair
Ergin claims. ''This can not be explained with ordinary bureaucratic
sluggishness.''

''This is the eighth time that I have been released from prison,''
Besicki recalled - ''not counting another four times I had been under
police custody. Yet, none led me to proper freedom.''

He was last imprisoned under charges of separatism for an article
titled ''The Meaning of Kurdish Women's Participation in the Guerrilla
War.'' As his trial proceeded, his was further sentenced for other
articles.

Author of 36 books and  numerous articles on the taboo issue of the
Kurdistan, Ismail Besikci has been harassed from the very start of his
academic career.

He was first sentenced to a 13-year term by a military court in 1971 -
under martial-law regulations - for a book ('The Order in East
Anatolia'), an article ('The Origins of Underdevelopment') and for
several lectures at Erzurum University, where he was teaching
sociology.

Released three years later, Besikci was stripped from his teaching post
and expelled from the university. A later work  - 'The Official Turkish
Doctrine of History and The Kurdish Question' - once again led him to
jail in 1979.

He has spent a total of 18 years in prison, paying for almost every
line he has published.

Known among Kurds as

[CTRL] a little humor

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Subject: TOP 20 THINGS WE'D LIKE TO SEE ON THOSE OFFICE INSPIRATIONAL
POSTERS
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 23:10:46 -0500 (CDT)

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From: "J. Federico Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Friday, 17 September 1999

TOP 20 SAYINGS WE'D LIKE TO SEE ON THOSE OFFICE INSPIRATIONAL POSTERS

1.   Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it
   by killing all those who opposed them.

2.   If you can stay calm, while all around you there is chaos ...
   the nyou probably haven't completely understood the seriousness
   of the situation.

3.   Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job
   WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

4.   Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

5.   Artificial intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.

6.   A person who smiles in the face of adversity ... probably has a
   scapegoat.

7.   Plagiarism saves time.

8.   If at first you don't succeed, try management.

9.   Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.

10.  TEAMWORK  means never having to take all the blame yourself.

11.  The beatings will continue until morale improves.

12.  Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large
   groups.

13.  We waste time, so you don't have to.

14.  Hang in there, retirement is only 50 years away!

15.  Never criticize someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes;
   that way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away AND you have
   their shoes!

16.  A snooze button is a poor excuse for no alarm clock at all.

17.  When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.

18.  INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.

19.  Succeed in spite of management.

20.. Aim Low, Reach your Goals, Avoid Disappointment.



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[CTRL] Albright lobbies for Iraq human shield at UN

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Subject: Albright lobbies for Iraq human shield at UN
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 23:10:05 -0500 (CDT)

Albright lobbies for Iraq human shield at UN

United Nations: Sept 21 (South News) US Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright insisted Monday that any easing of the devastating sanctions
against Iraq must not enrich Saddam Hussein "for palaces and poison
gas"  on the eve of expected talks about Iraq at the United Nations.

"The Baghdad regime has tried hard to silence the Iraqi people and to
hide the evidence of its crimes against them," Albright said in a
statement. Her comments seem to come in reply to the senior United
Nations official in Baghdad who called on Sunday for an immediate and
unconditional lifting of many sanctions that would open the way to
bigger flows of food, medicine and most other Iraqi imports.

In an impassioned call about the dangers of "using the human shield" in
hopes of coaxing Iraqi concessions on arms issues Hans von Sponek,
United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq said on Sunday,
"Please remove the humanitarian discussions from the rest in order to
really end a silent human tragedy."

On the opening day of the annual U.N. General Assembly session,
Albright met in her hotel room with a group of Iraqi opposition
leaders, financed to lobby other countries about the Iraq sanctions as
part of President Clinton $97 million that Congress earmarked for
supporting efforts within Iraq to topple the current government

"This courageous group, visiting New York for the opening of the
General Assembly, has shown that Saddam has failed." She said the
dissidents "told me of the regime's continuing daily oppression against
all those Iraqis still subject to Baghdad's control. ."

Foreign ministers of the five Security Council permanent members,
meanwhile, are to meet for talks on a possible suspension of the
embargo on the sidelines of the General Assembly.

France, Russia and China, among the five permanent Security Council
members, have been sympathetic to Iraq's contention that its Government
has essentially carried out its obligations to the weapons inspectors.
Those Governments now appear to support a plan that would allow an
immediate end to the sanctions in return for Iraq's agreement to a new
and less intrusive system of weapons inspection.

But the United States and Britain, which believe that Iraq may still be
concealing an illicit weapons program, have argued for tougher terms.
Together with the Netherlands, Britain has called for a plan that would
allow only a moderate easing of the sanctions -- and only after a test
period of several months that would be intended to gauge Iraq's
cooperation with a new inspection regime.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf travelled to New York on
Sunday to argue Iraq's case at the UN General Assembly for a lifting of
the sanctions which Baghdad says have cost more than one million
lives.

Last week Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf presided over
the Arab League meeting, marking the first time Iraq had taken the
chair since the Gulf war. Speaking at the close of the league's two-day
meeting here, Esmat Abdel-Meguid, the Arab League's secretary general,
said Arab states would like to see the lifting of U.N. sanctions.

Hans von Sponek, said a dispute over plans to revive international
weapons inspections in Iraq now posed increasing risks to the social
fabric in a country that has already borne more than nine years of
United Nations sanctions.

"Don't play the battle on the backs of the civilian population by
letting them wait until the more complex issues are resolved," Sponek,
a German who is the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq,
said in an interview.

Sponek and his predecessor, Denis Halliday, have long tried to turn
international attention toward the suffering of ordinary Iraqis, even
as the United States and Britain have focused on the intransigence of
the Iraqi Government, and blamed that Government for the travails of
its citizens.

Sponek, the United Nations representative, has responsibility only for
humanitarian issues, and not the arms inspections. But even among those
who disagree about weapons inspection, he noted, there is a consensus
that ordinary Iraqis have suffered under the embargo; all, he argued,
should move now to halt what he called their "continuing deprivation."

Pointing to increases in crime, including prostitution, and the
deteriorating quality of education, Sponek said he believed that Iraq
should be given broad latitude to import any goods that did not also
have military use.

Iraq's health authorities said Sunday that 7,632 children under the age
of five died in August as a result of shortages of food and medicines
caused by the sanctions, the Iraqi News Agency said.

It said the children died of diarrhea, pneumonia, breathing problems
and malnutrition, compared

[CTRL] KLA reborn after "dissolution"

[Sean McDougal]

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Subject: KLA reborn after "dissolution"
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 21:22:42 -0500 (CDT)

BBC:Tuesday, September 21, 1999 Published at 10:35 GMT 11:35 UK

KLA deal a 'milestone' for peace

Nato Secretary-General Javier Solana has hailed an agreement on the
disarming and demilitarisation of the Kosovo Liberation Army as a
"milestone for the ongoing peace implementation efforts" by the
international community in Kosovo.

The deal, signed by the Nato-led peacekeeping force and the KLA on Monday,
ended several days of deadlock over the KLA's future role in Kosovo.

The pact provides for the transformation of the KLA into a 5,000-member
Kosovo Protection Corps, under the command of the former rebel army's
leader, General Agim Ceku.

The corps will be restricted to no more than 200 weapons for guard duties.

Speaking at Nato headquarters in Brussels, Mr Solana said all the weapons
the KLA was required to hand over were now in storage sites under the
control of the K-For peacekeepers.  He warned that anyone violating
weapons bans in the province would be "dealt with severely".

The KLA was to have been disbanded at midnight on Sunday, but discussions
became deadlocked over the structure and role of the new civilian body.

KLA leaders wanted the force to be the nucleus for a new national army of
an independent Kosovo and were demanding the right for more members to be
allowed to bear arms.

But Nato insisted the corps should be a lightly-armed civil defence body
restricted to humanitarian work and disaster relief.

There were also differences over the leadership, name and insignia of the
corps.

LIMITED WEAPONS

The signing followed a day of intensive negotiations led by Nato Supreme
Commander General Wesley Clark, who flew in after the talks became
deadlocked.

The Kosovo Protection Corps will operate under the supervision of the
commander of K-For.

"KLA personnel will cease wearing uniforms and KLA insignia from midnight
on 21 September," a K-For statement said.

"A limited number of weapons will be available for personal protection and
the number of weapons available to KPC personnel responsible for guarding
and protection duties has been agreed at 200.''

The pact was signed by the KLA's political leader Hashim Thaci, Gen Ceku,
UN special representative Bernard Kouchner and K-For leader General
Michael Jackson.

During the deadlock, Gen Jackson had warned that the KLA's refusal to
accept the civilian corps plan could threaten Kosovo's future.

'VIRTUAL ANTIQUES'

Under a phased 90-day disarmament process signed in June, it was agreed
that the majority of KLA troops would return to civilian life, that
uniforms would be removed and weapons handed in.

Gen Jackson said the disarmament of the KLA was complete, with more than
10,000 weapons turned in to peacekeepers.

However, it is unclear whether this constitutes the total number held by
the rebels. Many of the weapons which reporters have seen at collection
centres are in poor condition or virtual antiques.

A BBC correspondent in Kosovo says what remains to be seen is how well the
deal will be received by Serbia and Russia.



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[CTRL] UN forces in E Timor dig in as militias refuse to give up

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Subject: UN forces in E Timor dig in as militias refuse to give up
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 23:15:51 -0500 (CDT)

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Subject: AFP: UN forces in E Timor dig in, as militias refuse to give up

Peacekeepers in East Timor dig in, as militias refuse to give up

DILI, East Timor, Sept 20 (AFP) - Hundreds of multinational peacekeepers
Monday dug in for their first night in the East Timor capital of Dili, as
the
militias which laid waste to the city signalled they had not given up the
fight against independence.

More than 1,000 heavily-armed troops, most from Australia and New Zealand,
with a cutting edge of combat-honed Gurkhas, took up positions at key points
in the city, its port and airport, with night-goggles and rifles at the
ready.

Their unopposed dawn arrival, with the troops chatting with Indonesian army
soldiers at Dili's Comoro airport, appeared to signal the beginning of the
end of Indonesia's brutal quarter-century occupation of the territory, which
has left an estimated 200,000 dead.

In a briefing at the end of the day, the spokesman for the Indonesian East
Timor Martial Law Command, Lieutenant Colonel Willem Rampangilei, said a
total of 1,190 soldiers from at least six countries had arrived by dusk.

The number would rise to 2,500 in the next few days, he said.

But the militia, apparently all but bannished from the capital they
ransacked, said in messages through Indonesian media that they had regrouped
just inside the border to defend the unity of Indonesia.

"We will not attack the UN peacekeeping troops," the deputy chairman of the
newly-named National Unity Front (FPB), Joao da Silva Tavares, told the SCTV
private Indonesian television from the town of Balibo.

However, Tavares said the group sought to defend "our territory," and the
official FPB declaration swore to "defend the wholeness of the Unitary State
of the Republic of Indonesia and free East Timor from the chains of
neo-colonialism and the grips of new colonialists."

But in Dili for the new arrivals, sweating in full combat gear, it was a
city
with, in the words of one United Nations officer: "No food, no water, no
nothing," but the charred remains of the miltia rampage which avenged the
78.5 percent vote for independence on August 30.

Major General Peter Cosgrove, the Australian commander of the International
Force for East Timor (Interfet), said his troops met no resistance.

"This can be seen as an arrival rather than some sort of aggressive military
deployment." But he added the city was "still, from my point of view, a
pretty risky environment."

In the only reported encounter as they patrolled the streets on foot and in
armoured personnel carriers, soldiers from New Zealand stopped a man riding
a
motorbike and confiscated his home-made rifle without any fuss.

Interfet is charged with restoring security in East Timor, bringing aid to
hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees driven out of its towns and
cities by the militias, and upholding the independence vote.

Indonesia's martial law commander, Major General Kiki Syahnakri, sent by
Jakarta after some troops here openly collaborated with the militia in their
two-week spree of murder and destruction, has said he will hand over control
to Cosgrove by the end of the week.

"The withdrawal of troops is proceeding," Syahnakri said.

Monday's air deployment was expected to be followed at dawn Tuesday by the
arrival of warships in Dili to unload bulky equipment including more
armoured
vehicles.

While the militia gangs seemed to have virtually disappeared from Dili,
several hundred of the thousands of refugees they chased out of their homes
were still living in squalor among ruined buildings and along the harbour.

Barefoot children wandered along the bay as Indonesian naval vessels
prepared
to ship them and their families to Kupang, in neighbouring West Timor
clearing the area for the arriving troops.

A small contingent of US marines travelled with Cosgrove's approval to
explore the possibility of moving some of the troops to Baucau, 115
kilometres (70 miles) east of here, to ease congestion at Dili's airport.

However, there was no indication how soon the peacekeepers would spread out
through the rest of the territory, where up to 190,000 refugees, many sick
and starving, were believed to have fled.

About 200,000 others had crossed the border to Indonesian West Timor to
escape the violence.

In Darwin, a spokesman for East Timorese resistance leader Xanana Gusmao
said
he had begun steps to set up a government in exile in Australia and intended
to appeal to the World Bank for help for the impoverished territory.

And in Jakarta, the Australian embassy continued to pay the price o

[CTRL] Colombia's Pastrana against foreign intervention, trusts FARC leader

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Subject: Colombia's Pastrana against foreign intervention, trusts FARC
leader
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 23:09:46 -0500 (CDT)

Tuesday, 21 September 1999

Colombia's Pastrana against foreign
 intervention, trusts FARC leader
---

By Ana Maria Echeverria

UNITED NATIONS -- Colombian President Andres Pastrana told the United
Nations that he vehemently opposes foreign intervention in his country
regardless of the pretext, an allusion to talk about foreign soldiers
going in to quell ongoing violence.

Talk has swirled in the region about a multinational military force of
Latin nations, coordinated by the United States, entering Colombia to
stop the seemingly endless violence between the government, the three
Marxist rebel groups, right-wing paramilitaries and drug lords.

Citing an increase in the drug trade, the United States has increased its
assistance to the Colombian military over the past months.

Yet Pastrana, speaking to the 54th UN General Assembly on Monday, even
reaffirmed his trust in Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, the leader of the
largest and best-armed rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC).

The violence in Colombia took a turn for the worse when peace talks
between Pastrana's government and the FARC broke down when the rebels
refused a government demand for an international force to monitor
activity in the Switzerland-sized demilitarized zone under FARC control.

Pastrana reminded the General Assembly that "one of the sacred bases" of
the UN charter is the obligation of states "to not intervene directly or
indirectly in affairs of other nations."

At times Pastrana seemed to be reacting to Secretary General Kofi Annan's
speech earlier in the day, in which Annan said the United Nations must
intervene over the rights of sovereign states when necessary to protect
civilians from war and mass slaughter.

Annan, drawing on lessons in Rwanda and Kosovo, told the Assembly that
its "core challenge" in the 21st century is "to forge unity behind the
principle that massive and systematic violations of human rights --
wherever they occur -- should not be allowed to stand."

Pastrana was not swayed, at least when it came to Colombia.

"International peace is based on the sovereignty of the member countries,"
he told the General Assembly.

In a press conference after his speech, Pastrana said he continued to
believe that FARC leader Marulanda was still committed to peace.

"I believe in Marulanda's word, and I expect it to be fulfilled,"
Pastrana said. Despite the setbacks "we have advanced more in the past
months (towards peace) than in the previous 15 years," he said.

The FARC said in a statement Sunday that an alleged alliance between
Pastrana and the US government to fight the rebels casts doubt on
Colombia's peace efforts.

Pastrana's alliance with the United States to intensify the war  against
the FARC, "which has been disguised as an attempt to fight drug
trafficking ... casts doubt on the government's intentions for peace,"
the rebel group said in the statement.

Pastrana, however, insisted that he wanted to talk peace, and  that he
was against any kind of foreign intervention regardless of the pretext.

"Colombia will accept no type of foreign intervention," Pastrana bluntly
told reporters.

Top US officials have also repeatedly denied plans to militarily
intervene in Colombia.

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[CTRL] FARC criticizes suspected alliance of US, Colombian governments

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Original Message Follows
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Subject: FARC criticizes suspected alliance of US, Colombian governments
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:36:10 -0500 (CDT)

Monday, 20 September 1999

FARC criticizes suspected alliance
   of US, Colombian governments
--

BOGOTA -- The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have
criticized an alleged alliance between President Andres Pastrana and the US
government to fight the rebels, saying it casts doubt on Colombia's peace
efforts to end the country's decades-old conflict.

"Pastrana's alliance with the United States of America to intensify the war
in Colombia against FARC, which has been disguised as an attempt to fight
drug trafficking together, casts doubt on the government's intentions for
peace," the rebel group said in a statement Sunday obtained by AFP.

FARC said the US and Colombian governments were applying "pressure to
close us into a political position where we are forced through
intimidation to accept conditions for coming to the negotiating table."

Peace talks between the guerrillas and Andres Pastrana's government
collapsed after the FARC threw out a government demand for an
international force to monitor rebel activity in a
42,000-square-kilometer (16,000-square-mile) demilitarized zone
under FARC control.

The zone has been under rebel control since last November when Pastrana
handed it over to the rebels in a bid to advance the peace process.

Both sides resumed direct talks on September 10, but the issue remains
unresolved.

Peace commissioner Victor Ricardo said Saturday that the government was
trying to bridge the gap over the zone.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Colombian army deployed a US-trained anti-drug
unit to cut the ties between rebels and drug trafficking in the southern
part of the country.

Many believe the army's greater involvement in the drug trafficking fight
marks the start of larger military action against the rebels with
participation of Washington.

Copyright 1999 Agence France Presse


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[CTRL] NYC: Updated Spraying Schedule as of 9/20/99 & responses to spraying

[Sean McDougal]

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Original Message Follows
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To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: NYC: Updated Spraying Schedule as of 9/20/99 & responses to
spraying
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:26:41 -0500 (CDT)

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Malathion Marathon continuing.

Most Current Spraying Schedule Provided by
Mayor's Office of Emergency Management
FROM:
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/oem/html/spraying_sched.html

See the Department of Health's information regarding Encephalitis (St.
Louis)
Outbreak.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Sunday, September 19, 1999

Contact: Sunny Mindel/Matt Higgins 212-788-2958 Matt Furman-OEM 212-442-2031

REVISED SCHEDULE

MAYOR’S OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ANNOUNCES FULL SCHEDULE FOR MOSQUITO
SPRAYING

Please note that this schedule is weather dependent.  High winds, fog or
rain
can force the City to postpone spraying.  Additionally, the only insecticide
being used during ground application is Resmithrin and the two being used by
helicopter are Sumithrin and Malathion.

The City has modified its spraying schedule for logistical reasons in an
effort to maximize its resources.  Please note that some communities have
been moved up from Tuesday to Monday and others moved from Sunday or Monday
to Tuesday and the method of distribution has changed for some.

SATURDAY – SEPTEMBER 18, 1999

AIR APPLICATION

5:00 P.M. TO 9:30P.M.

BROOKLYN

Greenpoint, Northside, Southside, Ridgewood, Bushwick, Vinegar Hill, Fulton
Ferry, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, Fort Green, Clinton Hill, Cobble
Hill, Boerum Hill, Bedford Stuyvesant , Stuyvesant Heights, Ocean Hill,
Prospect Heights, Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Park Slope,
Weeksville,
Wingate, Rugby, Prospect Park, Prospect Lefferts Garden, Glenwood Heights,
Windsor Terrace, Sunset Park, Mapleton, Ditmas Park, Parkville, Flatbush,
Prospect Park South, Kensington.

QUEENS

Fort Totten, Bay Terrace, Auburndale, Bayside, Douglas Manor, Douglaston,
Little Neck, Fresh Meadow, Oakland Garden, Hollis Hill, Queensborough Hill,
Pomonok, Kew Gardens Hills, Hillcrest

GROUND APPLICATION



QUEENS

Sunnyside, Woodside, Steinway, East Elmhurst, Corona, Elmhurst, College
Point, Malba, Whitestone, Beechurst, Linden Hill, Murray Hill, Flushing,
Lindenwood, Howard Beach, South Ozone Park, Springfield Gardens, Laurelton,
Brookville, Rosedale, Cambria Heights, Jackson Heights

SUNDAY – SEPTEMBER 19, 1999

AIR APPLICATION

5:00 P.M. TO 9:30 P.M.

BRONX

Throgs Neck, Edgewater Park, Schuylerville, Eastchester Bay, Country Club,
Spencer Estates, Middletown, Pelham Bay, Unionport, Bruckner, Bronx River,
Parkchester, West Farms, Van Nest, Morris Park, Westchester Square,
Bronxdale, Pelham Parkway, Allerton, Pelham Gardens, Soundview Park,
Baychester, Olinville, Co-Op City, Williamsbridge, Pelham Bay Park,
Edenwald,
Wakefield, Eastchester, City Island

BROOKLYN

Marine Park, Mill Island, Bergen Beach, Georgetown, Paedergat, Canarsie,
Remsen Village, Brownsville, Starrett City, Spring Creek, New Lots, East New
York, Highland Park, Cypress Hills, City Line, Flatlands

SUNDAY - GROUND APPLICATION:

10:00  P.M. to 6:00 A.M.



BRONX

Port Morris, Huntspoint, Soundview, Harding Park, Closson Point, Castle
Hill.

MANHATTAN:  ALL

MONDAY – SEPTEMBER 20, 1999

AIR APPLICATION

5:00 P.M. to 9:30 P.M

BRONX

University Heights, Fordham, Morris Heights, Tremont, Belmont, East Tremont,
Mount Hope, Mount Eden, Bathgate, Bronx Park South, Highbridge, Concourse,
Clairmont Village, Crotona Park East, Morrisana, Concourse Village, Melrose,
The Hub, Longwood, Motthaven

QUEENS

West Maspeth, Maspeth, Middle Village, Glendale, Rego Park, Woodhaven, Ozone
Park, Briarwood, Jamaica Hills, Jamaica Estates, Holliswood, Jamaica, South
Jamaica, Hollis, Bellaire, Queens Village, Bellrose, Glen Oaks, Floral Park

MONDAY - GROUND APPLICATION

10:00  P.M. to 6:00 A.M.

QUEENS

Ditmars, Astoria, Ravenswood, Queensbridge, Dutch Kills, Long Island City,
Hunters Point, Blissville, Forrest Hills, Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill

BRONX

North Riverdale, South Riverdale, Riverdale, Fieldstone, South Riverdale,
Kingsbridge, Marble Hill, Spuyten Duyvil, Van Cortlandt Village, Kingsbridge
Heights, Bedford Park, Norwood, Woodlawn, Van Cortlandt Park

TUESDAY – SEPTEMBER 21, 1999

AIR APPLICATION

5:00 P.M. TO 9:30 P.M.

BROOKLYN

Sheephshead Bay, Manhattan Beach, Brighton Beach, Seagate, Gravesend, Ocean
Parkway, Mill Basin, Midwood, Williamsburg, East Williamsburg, Borough Park,
Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, Dyker Heights, Bath Beach, Bensonhurst,
Homecrest,
New Utrecht, Coney Island, Gerritsen Beach

QUEENS  (The Rockaways)

Breezy Point, Roxbury, Neponsit, Belleharbor, Rockaway Park, Seaside,
Hammels, Arverne, Sommerville, Edgem

[CTRL] BRITAIN SELLS MILITARY JETS TO JAKARTA ANYWAY

[Sean McDougal]

 -Caveat Lector-

Original Message Follows
From: Michael Eisenscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: BRITAIN SELLS MILITARY JETS TO JAKARTA
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 20:05:21 -0500 (CDT)

The Globe and Mail  Monday, September 20, 1999

BRITAIN SENDS MILITARY JETS TO JAKARTA

Labour government says deal was done before European
Union imposed arms embargo on Indonesia

London -- The government of Prime Minister Tony Blair came under a
hail of criticism yesterday over the imminent delivery of British military
planes to Indonesia despite an EU embargo resulting from the East
Timor crisis.

Three Hawk ground-attack aircraft at the centre of the upset, bound for
Indonesia, were grounded in Thailand, officially because one of the
transit pilots was ill.

The government said it was powerless to stop delivery of the Hawks to
Indonesia because the contract was signed before the European Union
decreed an arms embargo last week.

The Conservative opposition used the occasion to attack the Labour
cabinet for not living up to its promises of "ethical diplomacy."

But "delivery was taken by the Indonesians before the embargo, indeed
before the current crisis" in East Timor, the Labour junior defence
minister John Spellar said in a televised interview.

"Obviously, in the spirit of the embargo, we would prefer that they did
not go to Indonesia," he said. Mr. Spellar noted that the three Hawk jets
currently are in Thailand and that Britain no longer was responsible for
them.

"Delivery has already been taken by the Indonesian government and they
are in Thailand, which is a sovereign independent country, and they are
owned by another sovereign independent country," he explained.

The EU issued the arms embargo against Indonesia on Sept. 13, in
response to attacks by militias backed by Jakarta's forces against East
Timorese who voted overwhelmingly for independence on Aug. 30.

Mr. Spellar noted that the original contract had been signed by the
previous Conservative government.

Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs and defence
spokesman, said: "The Indonesians have broken the conditions upon
which these aircraft were to be supplied. There is no legal or moral
obligation for Britain to continue to fulfill the contract."

He said the British government was responsible for the confusion, leaving
"itself open to accusations of complicity in the genocide in East Timor,
both by arming the Indonesian generals and its refusal to revoke the
licenses for the Hawks."

The affair was revealed by The Sunday Times newspaper, which said the
planes were grounded in Thailand after an intervention by Foreign
Secretary Robin Cook, and not due to the ill health of one of the pilots.

A total of nine Hawks were granted export licences by the former
government. They are among a batch of 16 ordered in 1996, the key
component of an estimated $715-million arms deal.

There has been concern that Indonesia has flown some of the already
delivered Hawks over East Timor despite assurances that it would not.

Far closer to the distressed territory, East Timorese rebel leader Jose
Alexandre (Xanana) Gusmao has left Indonesia for Darwin, Australia,
officials in Jakarta said yesterday, raising speculation he would soon
return to his homeland.

Mr. Gusmao, widely expected to become the first president of
independent East Timor, had been staying at the embassy since the
Indonesian government released him from house arrest earlier this month.
He had served nearly seven years in prison.

Mr. Gusmao will lead a meeting in Darwin next week on East Timor's
transition from an Indonesian province to a sovereign nation, Indonesia's
Antara news agency reported.

His Indonesian lawyer said he left his British sanctuary because he was
worried about his security if he remained in Jakarta.

"It could endanger his life if he stayed longer in the British embassy
compound. The compound is inside Indonesian territory," said Hendardi,
who, like many Indonesians, uses only one name.

Protest marchers in Jakarta in the past week have angrily denounced
Mr. Gusmao, calling for him to be hanged and pasting the front of the
British embassy with anti-Gusmao posters.

Hendardi said Mr. Gusmao is unlikely to go to East Timor until
peacekeeping forces had quelled violence there. "It would be good if
[Mr. Gusmao] can finally go to East Timor to help with reconciliation,"
he added.

Before his arrest, Mr. Gusmao led a two-decade guerrilla war against
the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. Indonesia invaded the former
Portuguese colony in 1975 and annexed it in 1976.

In Fatima, Portugal, East Timor's Nobel Peace Prize winner, Bishop
Carlos Belo, said yesterday he would return to Dili when the city was
calm and a multinational peacekeeping force had been deployed across
the territory.

AFP, AP and Reuters



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[Sean McDougal]

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Imagine if we decided to run ourselves into the ground because we didn't
like the fact that someone was going to profit from our purchases of solar
panels, etc.

Would that be principle or natural selection?

If we decide to be that stupid then I am all for making more room for
cockroaches.

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[CTRL] Temporary Autonomous Zones

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[CTRL] Military says 8,000 Indon troops pull out of East Timor

[Sean McDougal]

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Original Message Follows
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Winkel)
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Military says 8,000 Indon troops pull out of East Timor
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:06:23 -0500 (CDT)

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Subject: Military says 8,000 Indon troops pull out of East Timor

Military says 8,000 Indonesian troops pull out of East Timor

JAKARTA, Sept 17 (AFP) - Some 8,000 Indonesian troops in East Timor have
left
or are on their way out of the territory and into the border town of Atambua
in West Timor, Indonesian military headquarters said Friday.

"The personnel of the Wiradarma military command in East Timor, who total
8,000 people, joined by the civil servants, have to immediately leave East
Timor and head for the Atambua border," it said in a statement.

Military officials said earlier that 5,000 locally-raised East Timorese
troops had been withdrawn. It was believed the remaining 3,000 were regular
Indonesian troops.

"The whole of East Timor now is under the control of the Martial Law
Military
Command in East Timor which has a strength of three brigades," the statement
said.

The brigades, each of about 2,000 soldiers, were identified as coming from
the marines and the airforce's special forces.

The statement said police officers still in East Timor would also be
withdrawn from the territory, although it did not say when.

Captain Gig Sipasulta from the East Timor Martial Law Military Command
spokesman's office said Friday that 5,000 locally-raised East Timorese
security forces had been withdrawn.

"We pulled them out in order to minimize the possibility of conflict," he
told AFP. "The withdrawal still continues today and is expected to continue
until the arrival of the peacekeeping force."

The Military Command has said the Indonesian armed forces will coordinate
with the UN multinational force over their withdrawal.

The commander of the peacekeeping force for East Timor, Major General Peter
Cosgrove, will fly to Dili Saturday to consult with the Indonesian army,
spokesmen from both nations' militaries said Friday.

The first batch of soldiers under the multinational force was expected to
arrive in East Timor on Monday.

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[CTRL] On Shell and the current situation in the Niger Delta

[Sean McDougal]

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Original Message Follows
From: "Cop Watch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: (en) On Shell and the current situation in the Niger Delta
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:22:52 -0500 (CDT)

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

Shell fights fires as strife flares in delta The first of a two-part
series looks at the rapidly growing fight for Nigeria's oil wealth

John Vidal in Port Harcourt Wednesday September 15, 1999

The Niger delta, which provides more than 80% of Nigeria's income, 8%
of US oil imports and 22m tons of oil a year to the EU, faces a new
crisis as violence flares and resentment builds up against Shell and
other western oil companies, which extract oil worth an estimated 94bn
a year from below the villages of some of the world's poorest people.

The oil companies, rights activists and environmental organisations
report a rapidly disintegrating society plagued by summary executions,
shootouts, inter-ethnic violence, pollution, riots, occupations of oil
facilities and demonstrations.

The companies warn that unless the new civilian government acts quickly
the industry will be hit hard, and some campaigners warn that chaos in
the delta could lead to the break-up of Nigeria.

President Olusegun Obasanjo admits that the unfair distribution of oil
wealth has led to "grave injustice". He is sending troops to control
hotspots, but this is only exacerbating the tension: the armed forces
are accused of human rights abuses, extortion and torture.

Shell, by far the largest oil operator in the region, says the
situation is tense and the company is "firefighting in all
directions".  "What is happening is alarming," said a senior executive
in Port Harcourt, Bobo Brown. "Social disintegration is taking place.

"Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni [the author hanged by the military regime
in 1996 for opposing Shell, and his people] served a warning shot to
the region and the rest of Nigeria. They were the tracer bullet ahead
of a night of battle which is starting to take place now and is centred
on environmental and human rights. The momentum is building."

Palpable tension

Travelling through the delta is a depressing and eerie experience: in
devastated communities with next to no work and no access to
electricity or hospitals the tension is palpable. Oil spills, due to
either sabotage or neglect, are being reported at least twice a week
and giant flares light the night sky as oil company helicopters fly
overhead. In Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa state, the army patrols
the streets as gangs of youths congregate.

The scale of the chaos is only now becoming clear. In the past year
more than 200 people have been killed in oil-related riots or in
largely unreported clashes with the state police and the military.
Shell says there have been 50 kidnappings of its workers or contractors
in the past six months, and its operations are disrupted at least once
a day.

In the same period 150 Shell installations, depots and pumping stations
have been occupied, closed down or halted, mostly by youth movements
demanding aid, compensation for oil spills, or work.

Chevron, Mobil, Texaco and Agip are less affected by the civil
commotion because they work mainly off shore, but they all admit there
has been an escalation of kidnappings and disruptions.

Ethnic unrest

Much of the trouble centres on the 11m Ijaw, the largest ethnic group
in the region. Inspired by the Ogoni, its youth groups are leading a
non-violent struggle for the right to share their land's oil wealth.
All the oil companies have been banned from operating in Ijaw
territories. But several splinter groups have turned to extortion,
hijacking, sabotage and kidnapping for private gain.

"Many live in the maze of creeks in the delta, armed with everything
from guns to machetes and bows and arrows. Others are disaffected
university graduates," said Azibaola Robert of the Human and
Environmental Rescue Organisation in Port Harcourt.

After a lull this year when democracy was restored to Nigeria, the
trouble is now spreading to all the minority ethnic groups in the
delta. "The Ijaw, Itsekari, Ogba, Ikwerre, Urhobo and Andoni are now
all opposed to the oil companies and demanding change," Mr Robert
said.  "They have had enough of pollution, grinding poverty and
promises. They see they have no tomorrow. They are entering a new stage
in their struggle for self-determination."

Meanwhile the police and the security services, who are working with
the oil companies to clamp down on the youth groups, fear that the
unrest will continue to grow. A Rivers state police document obtained
by the Guardian says the police are preparing for a big conflict.

Calling rights activists and environmental and community groups "the
enemy", it says the safety of oil workers cannot be guaranteed. State
int

[CTRL] N.Y. spraying raises health concerns

[Sean McDougal]

 -Caveat Lector-

Original Message Follows
From: Mark Graffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: N.Y. spraying raises health concerns
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 23:22:06 -0500 (CDT)

Friday, September 17, 1999

By Margot Higgins

As New York City concluded its first-round assault Wednesday on
mosquitoes carrying the St. Louis encephalitis virus, many people were
raising concerns about possible health risks associated with
blanketing the city in Malathion, sprayed from trucks and helicopters.

In 1997-98, similar spraying operations took place in Florida to
combat Mediterranean fruit flies and the procedure was blamed for
hundreds of health complaints in Hillsborough and neighboring
counties.

Federal and city officials have assured the public that the pesticide
is harmless, noting that Malathion has been used for more than four
decades to kill mosquitoes and other insects around the world. The
operations were approved by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

At a news conference Sept. 9, commissioner of the New York City
Department of Health, Neal Cohen said, "the substance to be sprayed
this evening, Malathion, is the most widely used insecticide for
aerial mosquito control in the United States. It poses virtually no
risk to humans and pets."

St. Louis encephalitis is transmitted from mosquitoes to humans. But
Cohen also warned, "New York City residents who live in the areas
being sprayed are advised to be inside this evening during spraying
activities, with air conditioners turned off or with the exhaust set
so that air exits the homes. Although adverse health effects are
remote, avoiding exposure will lessen the risk of any reactions, which
may include eye irritation, rash and respiratory problems. "

If treated, encephalitis isn't usually fatal, but it can be deadly to
people with weakened immune systems. The virus enters the bloodstream
when the victim is bitten by a mosquito and causes inflammation of the
brain. Between 1964 and 1998, only 4,478 cases of the rare virus have
been reported in the United States.

While 11 encephalitis cases had been confirmed by the New York Health
Department through Wednesday, many groups have indicated that the
risks associated with the insecticide are far greater than the threat
of contracting the virus.

"We think it is a knee-jerk reaction and it's definitely not safe. The
procedure is too radical and not well thought out," said Becky Crouse,
information coordinator for the New York Coalition for Alternatives to
Pesticides. "Telling anybody that a pesticide is safe is
misinformation and against the law. People are not getting the warning
they should be getting."

Crouse said Malathion is very readily absorbed through ingestion and
absorption through the skin. The immediate effects, she noted, are
dizziness, nausea, and respiratory problems, but could lead to "severe
immune dysfunction or other serious health problems." Crouse said her
office has been "receiving many phone calls from panicked people."

An alternative, Crouse said, would be for "the city to investigate
where the mosquitoes are coming from, and not just treat the adults."
She suggested treating standing water with the natural insecticide BT
for mosquito larvae in order to prevent the mosquitoes from
reproducing.

The Sierra Club has also been flooded with a large number of phone
calls since the spraying began. "People are not getting the proper
information," said one spokesperson. The Sierra Club is in the process
of investigating the potential dangers of the pesticide as well as how
this and other epidemics might fit into larger environmental problems
such as global warming.

The Malathion spraying is expected to last until the first frost
according to the Department of Emergency Operations.

Copyright 1999, Environmental News Network, All Rights Reserved

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   34. http://www.epa.gov/internet/opptscon.htm
   35. http://yates.coph.usf.edu/~lbiasci/
   36. http://ace.orst.edu/info/nptn/
   37. http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/cd/encalert.html
   38. http://www.pesticide.org/default.htm
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[CTRL] Timor: US officials plead ignorance

[Sean McDougal]

 -Caveat Lector-

Many of us who have been following this situation on the internet for the
last few months could see this bloodbath coming.  How is it that the US
itelligence agencies could not?  Perhaps we online buffoons are the new and
best intelligencia to be found in the globe.

In that case, I hereby let all people on the planet know that if you want to
email me for information on what is going on in the world please do so.  I
seem to have more information than the Pentagon [yeah right].



Original Message Follows
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Winkel)
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Timor: US officials plead ignorance (not likely!)
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 01:24:10 -0500 (CDT)

/** reg.easttimor: 3837.0 **/
** Topic: Senior US officials blame Australia for lack of warning -report **
** Written 10:23 AM  Sep 16, 1999 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] in cdp:reg.easttimor **
Subject: Senior US officials blame Australia for lack of warning -report

The Australian
17 Sept 99

US fury at 'our' failings

By DENNIS SHANAHAN

SENIOR US officials blame the Australian Government's lack of warning about
the potential violence in East Timor for Washington's slowness to intervene
in the conflict.

There are claims that until as late as last night confusion continued over
Australia's exact logistical demands for US forces, particularly the use of
helicopters and engineers.

Some US officials say Australia did not pass on full intelligence
information, specifically on the setting up of areas for refugees in West
Timor, and did not formally raise the dangers of the East Timor referendum
during a Prime Minister-to-President meeting in Washington in May.

US diplomatic messages point to an even higher level of "internally
displaced
persons" than Australian estimates, preparing for daily US-sponsored
humanitarian food drops in East Timor for an estimated 350,000 people forced
out of their homes.

Criticism was directed at Defence Minister John Moore's management of the
logistics of the peace force and the Australian Government's inability to
take full advantage of the meeting with President Bill Clinton.

Government sources rejected the claims last night, although they confirmed
some information might have been withheld and that East Timor was not
discussed during the "formal" talks the US President.

Despite Mr Clinton's public support and endorsement for John Howard and
Australia's lead in the UN peace force, there is simmering resentment at the
Prime Minister's public call for US Army "boots on the ground" in East
Timor.

Feeling the sting of Australia's "hectoring" over East Timor, particularly
the Howard Government's public calling on previous alliances, some US
officials are accusing Canberra of lack of foresight and contingency
planning.

Exactly what Australia wants the US to provide in logistic support such as
intelligence, troop transport, engineers and humanitarian support, and what
the US will supply, is still not decided.

US accusations include the charge that Canberra did not fully realise the
depth of the East Timor crisis until early last week, when the Government
decided to more than double Australia's troop commitment to 4500.

US sources are "not taking seriously" a report that Australia's intelligence
briefings to Washington were limited because of the presence of a suspected
Indonesian spy.

US irritation over the East Timor peace force and pressure on Indonesia is
the culmination of weeks of tension in the Australia-US relationship, which
senior ministers have described as "a bit of static".

Last night government sources rejected the US complaints, describing them as
a reaction to Australia's successful demands that Washington pressure
Jakarta
over East Timor.

But the sources did not deny that Australia knew in advance of the East
Timor
vote two weeks ago that areas of West Timor were being organised by the
Indonesian authorities to take refugees.

It was also confirmed that during the official meeting between Mr Howard and
Mr Clinton in Washington that the main topic of discussion was US trade
embargoes on Australian lamb imports and that no discussion of East Timor
was
recorded in the official notes of the meeting.

But senior government sources said there had been a wide-ranging discussion
about Indonesia and East Timor between Mr Clinton and Mr Howard during the
lunch which followed the talks.

The sources denied there had been any significant reduction in
intelligence-sharing between the two nations.

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[CTRL] U.S. can't plead innocent in East Timor repression

[Sean McDougal]

 -Caveat Lector-

Original Message Follows
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Winkel)
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: U.S. can't plead innocent in East Timor repression
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 01:24:05 -0500 (CDT)

/** reg.easttimor: 3819.0 **/
** Topic: RMN-U.S. can't plead innocent in East Timor repression **
** Written  8:06 AM  Sep 16, 1999 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] in
cdp:reg.easttimor **
From: Donald L Ferry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RMN-U.S. can't plead innocent in East Timor repression

http://insidedenver.com/jensen/0916holge.shtml

Holger Jensen
U.S. can't plead innocent in East Timor repression
9/16/99

The U.N. Security Council has finally authorized a multinational force to
end the military-backed wave of butchery and destruction that followed East
Timor's vote for independence two weeks ago.

Troops from Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, Britain and a number of Asian
nations will be airlifted in by American planes as early as this weekend.

This does not atone for the council's inexcusable delay in waiting for
Indonesian permission to deploy such a force -- a delay that East Timor's
Catholic leader, Bishop Carlos Belo, believes may have cost more than 10,000
lives.

Nor does it excuse the Clinton administration's asinine insistence that the
Indonesian army help contain the violence, while at the same time
acknowledging it to be one of the principal perpetrators. That folly will be
compounded if Indonesian troops are allowed to remain on the island in "an
advisory and liaison role."

The Indonesian army has had a long and bloody reign, helping two dictators
-- Sukarno and Suharto -- keep the vast archipelago of 17,508 islands, 210
million people and 27 ethnic groups stitched together.

An anti-communist witchhunt in 1965 left 500,000 dead, not all of them
communists. The 1975 invasion of East Timor and its subsequent annexation
killed 200,000 more, many of them in internment camps.

Indonesian generals, who lost thousands of their own men in a war to control
the former Portuguese colony, opposed President Jusuf Habibie's sudden offer
of independence to East Timor last January. They armed and funded the
militias that tried to intimidate islanders into voting for continued rule
by Jakarta. And when that failed, Indonesian troops participated in the
militia rampages that followed the Aug. 30 vote.

Damien Kingsbury, an Australian academic who helped monitor the referendum,
said the United Nations knew well in advance that a vote for independence
would be followed by brutal and organized retribution. U.N. monitors had
documents proving the militias were acting on orders from the Indonesian
military. They even had letter exchanges between militia commanders and
Indonesia's armed forces chief, Gen. Wiranto.

"We knew about this weeks ago. We had information that it was going to
happen, at the beginning of August," Kingsbury told Reuters. "Prior to the
ballot we were actually getting leaked documents outlining the strategies,
the funding processes and everything."

But nothing was done about it.

The U.S. role in all this is less than heroic. Although the White House
tried to portray itself as an innocent bystander to the Timor crisis, with
little or no leverage over the Indonesian military, William Hartung of the
World Policy Institute says: "Nothing could be further from the truth."

"Since Indonesia illegally occupied East Timor in 1975," he points out, "the
U.S. government has approved sales of over $1 billion in U.S. weaponry to
the regime in Jakarta, including everything from F-16 fighter planes to
military helicopters to M-16 combat rifles." Those selfsame rifles are now
being used by the militias in East Timor to slaughter those who voted for
independence.

Hartung notes that under the Clinton administration, Indonesia received $148
million worth of weapons, ammunition and spare parts. Commercial sales of
U.S. military equipment licensed by the State Department increased
substantially over the past three years, from $3.3 million in 1997 to $16.3
million last year.

"To make matters worse," he says, "as recently as 1997 the Pentagon violated
the spirit of a Congressional prohibition on U.S. military training to
Indonesia by providing assistance to the notorious Kopassus
counterinsurgency units under the Joint Combined Exercise and Training
program. Kopassus has long been implicated in acts of repression within East
Timor, and its members are suspected of involvement in the recent campaign
of murder and harassment of pro-independence figures."

President Clinton halted all arms sales to Indonesia last week. The
International Monetary Fund and World Bank also stopped disbursing loans
that were part of a bailout package granted Indonesia after its economy
crashed last year.

It still smacks of doing too little too late.

Holger Jensen is international editor of the Rocky Mountain News (e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]). His column also appears on the Internet at
http://InsideDenver.com/jensen/

*

[CTRL] Clinton Sending 200 US Troops to East Timor

[Sean McDougal]

 -Caveat Lector-

TWO HUNDRED ?!?!



Original Message Follows
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Winkel)
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: RIGHTS: Clinton Sending 200 US Troops to East Timor
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 01:02:43 -0500 (CDT)

/** ips.english: 472.0 **/
** Topic: RIGHTS: Clinton Sending 200 US Troops to East Timor **
** Written  9:09 PM  Sep 16, 1999 by newsdesk in cdp:ips.english **
Copyright 1999 InterPress Service, all rights reserved.
   Worldwide distribution via the APC networks.

   *** 16-Sep-99 ***

Title: RIGHTS: Clinton Sending 200 US Troops to East Timor

By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON, Sep 16 (IPS) - US President Bill Clinton, insisting
that ''fundamental (US) values'' were at stake in East Timor,
Thursday ordered 200 US troops to take part in the UN peacekeeping
force to restore order to the devastated territory.

''Our fundamental values are at stake in East Timor,'' he said in
a brief TV address, adding that about half of the US force would
help co-ordinate communications, logistics, intelligence, and
airlifts of troops and supplies from other countries participating
in the East Timor operation.

The rest would be based in Darwin, Australia, according to
Pentagon officials.  Australias troops are leading the operation
in East Timor.

''Of course, on any mission like this, there are dangers and
risks of casualties,'' Clinton said. ''But this force is well-
equipped for the job, and it is a job that is in the interests of
peace and stability.''

Clinton's announcement came amid reports from Dili, East
Timor's capital, that the Indonesian army had begun to clear out
pro-Indonesian militia units which had terrorised the former
Portuguese colony since voters opted for independence Aug 30.

Reports from a variety of sources indicated that many militias
members, who were organised and supported by the Indonesian army,
were leaving the territory for West Timor.

Still, some militia leaders issued threats against the
peacekeeping force, which would comprise about 7,500 troops, the
majority of them Australian.

Despite the small number of troops contributed by Washington,
the US military is expected to play major role in transporting
soldiers and supplies from other nations to East Timor and Darwin,
which would be the main supply base for the peacekeeping force.

More than a dozen nations were expected to contribute troops,
who will be under the command of Australian Maj. Gen. Peter
Cosgrove. The deputy commander will be a Thai general, according
to the United Nations.

Australia ironically was the only country to recognise
Indonesian sovereignty over East Timor after Indonesian troops
imnvaded the territory in 1975. But it is sending 4,500 troops to
lead the UN force, the advance party expected to arrive in Dili
Saturday, to be followed by 2,500 Australian soldiers Monday.

Other major contributors of troops include Thailand, the
Philippines, New Zealand, Malaysia, South Korea, France, Italy,
Britain, and Canada. In addition, Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil,
China, Fiji, Pakistan, Norway, Singapore, and Sweden have offered
to provide soldiers, police or medical personnel for the
operation, according to the United Nations.

It remained unclear precisely how the peacekeeping force would
work with Indonesian forces that stayed in East Timor although the
Indonesian army commander in the territory, Gen. Kiki Syahnakri,
was reported as saying that Jakarta would begin withdrawing its
troops as early as this weekend.

Senior Australian and Indonesian military officers have began
meetings in New York about how the two forces will co-ordinate.

But the government of Indonesian President B.J. Habibie announced
Thursday that it was abrogating a four-year-old security treaty
with Canberra to protest Australia's role in pushing for a
peacekeeping force to be sent to the island.

The early dispatch of the peacekeepers was deemed essential to
saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of East Timorese who
were forced by the militias to flee their homes into the remote
hills and mountains of the territory after the vote.

Without adequate supplies of water or food, many of these
people were at risk of starvation and disease, according to
humanitarian agencies. There is also growing concern about the
fate of more than 120,000 other Timorese who were forcibly
transported across the border to West Timor where most are living
in camps reportedly controlled by the militias.

The US branch of Amnesty International Thursday called for
Washington to demand that Indonesia permit independent human
rights monitors to gain access to the those camps and ensure that
monitors also enter East Timor with the peacekeeping force to
document the abuses that have taken place in the past two weeks.

Thousands of people are believed to have been killed by the
militias and the army in the aftermath of the vote. Many of the
victims were students, pro-independence activists, and residents
of neighb

[CTRL] Giuliani says the spraying will continue 9/18/99

[Sean McDougal]

 -Caveat Lector-

Original Message Follows
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Giuliani says the spraying will continue 9/18/99
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 23:21:11 -0500 (CDT)

Giuliani Says Don’t Worry, The Spraying of Poison Gas Will
Continue 9/18/99

[Quotations that support each of the claims in this report are
included at the end]

On Friday Mayor Giuliani announced that the mass spraying of
three insecticides on New York City by helicopters, small planes
and mobile trucks will resume starting this weekend. According
to a careful reading of the Mayor’s press releases the following
three undisputed facts are the basis for continuing to spray the
City as a response to a possible outbreak of St. Louis
Encephalitis [SLE].

1. The NYC Department of Health, The Emergency
Management Services and the Center For Disease Control have
yet to find a single mosquito infected with the SLE virus.

2. To date, a total of three people are alleged to have died from
SLE since it was first diagnosed in NYC.

3. Only 11 cases of what is being officially called SLE are
confirmed out of the 80 previously reported and most of those
who were affected are already better or are expected to fully
recover.

In response to these undisputed facts, the mass spraying of the
City’s eight million human beings with Malathion and two other
toxic gases, Resmethrin and Sumethrin, is scheduled to resume
starting this weekend.

The Mayor continues to insist these chemicals are completely
safe, a claim not even their manufacturers make. The NY State
Attorney General’s office has specifically warned the Giuliani
administration to stop making unjustified claims of complete
safety for these chemicals.

On 9/16/99 the Green Party of NY along with a variety of
community groups and individuals announced the preparation of
a class action lawsuit to stop the indiscriminate spraying. In
addition to the thousands of New Yorkers that have been
directly sprayed by helicopters and trucks virtually every person
residing, working or visiting in NYC during the past two weeks
has been repeatedly exposed either directly or indirectly to these
chemicals.

Although the announcement about the press conference was
listed on the AP daybook only one reporter, from WBAI,
showed up to cover the story. While coverage of the spraying
has been extensive, there has been virtually no mention in the
mainstream media of the health risks these chemicals pose. The
closest thing to airing a different view than the Mayor’s on this
issue has been the occasional mention in a newspaper article or
TV news piece that some New Yorkers irrationally fear the
spraying. There’s been no coverage of the fact that aerial
Malathion spraying is very controversial and has led to lawsuits
in a number of states, or that it is banned in some altogether.
Despite the total exclusion of dissenting voices on this issue the
Mayor continues in his paranoid fashion to accuse the media of
spreading fear of the chemicals. Presumably, reporters did this
by daring to ask him any questions at all about safety. Based on
mainstream media reports alone, one might reasonably believe
Malathion deserves a place on our dinner tables right next to the
salt and pepper or that our kids do poorly in school due to a
Malthion deficiency.

While we citizens enjoy the right to wander the City’s
Malathion soaked streets the Mayor huddles with his staff inside
a gas-proof 13 million dollar fortified bunker in downtown
Manhattan planning out our futures. Broadcasting live from the
bunker Giuliani stands before a wall of closed circuit tv
monitors and issues Orwellian radio and television
announcements directing everyone to remain calm and to act as
if nothing unusual is happening. Additionally we are advised to
seal our windows and to stay indoors.

The so called scientifically proven safety of these chemicals is
based on their not causing immediate death or critical illness in
humans if carefully applied in small doses. All of these chemicals
will kill humans if applied to the skin, inhaled or consumed in
larger doses. At the low dosages of Malathion, Resmethrin and
Sumethrin that the Mayor claims we’re receiving, harmful
effects would not be immediately discernible in healthy people.
Those with asthma, AIDs, allergies, chemical sensitivities or
other illnesses may have more immediate reactions even at a
very low or indirect exposure.

Chemical poisoning, unlike food poisoning or the venom of a
snake bite, doesn’t necessarily produce immediate symptoms
but can nonetheless be deadly. Exposing children to lead from
ordinary house paint causes multiple disorders and diseases but
the effects take years to show up. The veterans suffering from
Gulf War Syndrome only began to feel ill after retuning to the
United States. Exposure to asbestos, tobacco, or low level
radiation, like exposure to these toxic chemicals, may go
unnoticed for decades before illness develops. Possibly the most
disturbing aspect

Re: [CTRL] SWAT Nation [rant]

[Sean McDougal]

 -Caveat Lector-

Original Message Follows
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


2.  the situation is now the individual vs the State. and  is being carried
by events.
..
I must disagree.  The "state" keeps us subservient by making us into
individuals, by dividing to conquer.  I think it is more a case of the state
vs. any real community.  The individual is no threat to the state; the
individual is easily manipulated.  United communities independent from the
state are the threat.

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[CTRL] Trent Lott wants broad investigation of the FBI

[Sean McDougal]

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Dear Peltier supporters,

Please address the following to your Senators and Congressional Reps along
with a short, personal note from yourself.  Please send it and fax it to
them right away.  Please cc copies to Janet Reno, the media and all other
relevant government officials and agencies. You might want to down load the
"statement of FAQ" from our website to send along with it.  Let's jump on
this while it's hot!!!  Thank you!

LPDC

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said that renewed congressional
inquiries into Waco should expand to other instances in which Justice
Department officials may have withheld information about government conduct.
“I think it’s going to have to be broader than just Waco itself,” said Lott,
a Mississippi Republican.  “There are a number of investigations that they
are basically either not doing or they have stiffed us on.  So we need to
find out what’s going on.”  ---AP press

RESPOND!!!

Dear members of congress,

We are very encouraged that Senator Trent Lott recognizes the need for
congressional inquiries to expand beyond FBI misconduct in regard to Waco
and we agree that there have been numerous incidences and patterns of FBI
misconduct that have remained unanswered, uninvestigated, and unaccounted
for.  Meanwhile, victims of such continue to await justice and we, the
American public, are asking you to take immediate action.

We wish to bring to your attention to a particularly urgent and disturbing
example, that being the ongoing incarceration of Native American activist,
Leonard Peltier who has been in prison for some twenty-three years.  Mr.
Peltier, convicted for the shooting deaths of two FBI agents on the Pine
Ridge Reservation, has been declared a political prisoner by Amnesty
International who is demanding his immediate and unconditional release.

The pattern of FBI misconduct involved with the investigation, extradition
from Canada, and trial of Leonard Peltier is well documented.  Senior court
judges, members of congress, and human rights watch groups alike have
repeatedly admonished the FBI for their handling of the Peltier case.
However, no action by the justice department or congress has ever been taken
to remedy or hold the FBI accountable for their shocking abuse of power and
secrecy which has cost several Native Americans their lives , and has left
the life of Leonard Peltier in the balance.

>From the beginning, the FBI has withheld information that both documents
their misconduct and establishes Mr. Peltier’s innocence.  Today the FBI
continues this pattern by withholding 6000 documents relating to the Peltier
case for reasons of “National Security.”

.Mr. Leonard Peltier was extradited from Canada on the basis of an affidavit
signed by a Myrtle Poor Bear, a local Native American woman known to have
serious mental problems. She claimed to have been Mr. Peltier’s girl friend
at the time, and to have been present during the shoot out, and to have
witnessed the murders. In fact she did not know Mr. Peltier, nor was she
present at the time of the shooting. She later confessed she had given the
false statement after being pressured and terrorized by FBI agents.  A third
Poor Bear affidavit which had clearly contradicted the two used to extradite
Leonard Peltier had been withheld by the FBI.  Upon hearing this issue on
appeal, the 8th circuit court stated, “the use of the affidavits of Myrtle
Poor Bear in the extradition proceedings was, to say the least, a clear
abuse of the investigative process by the F.B.I.”  No action has ever been
taken to hold the FBI accountable for this illegal conduct.

Freedom of Information Act documents which were released, revealed that the
main evidence used to convict Mr. Peltier had in fact been manufactured and
exculpatory evidence relating to it, withheld.  On appeal, the 8th circuit
stated “there is a possibility that the jury would have acquitted Leonard
Peltier had the records and data improperly withheld from the defense been
available to him in order to better exploit and reinforce the
inconsistencies casting strong doubts upon the government's case.” Yet, the
appeal was denied and Mr. Peltier remains in prison.  (When faced with the
above, U.S. prosecutor, Lynn Crooks admitted and later established that they
could not prove who killed the agents.)

Prior to the shoot-out which led up to Mr. Peltier’s conviction, the Senate
Select

[CTRL] Advocacy Group Puts Toxic Disaster Information on Internet

[Sean McDougal]

 -Caveat Lector-

Original Message Follows
From: Mark Graffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Advocacy Group Puts Toxic Disaster Information on Internet
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 23:48:28 -0500 (CDT)

EarthVision Reports
09/14/99

WASHINGTON, September 14, 1999 - A coalition of environmental
advocates has decided not to wait for the government to publish
information on toxic materials stored throughout the United States.
Instead, the groups have taken the initiative to put it on the
Internet themselves. The New York Times reported that the public
disclosure of information on the risks of chemical accidents,
outflanks a new law that suppresses this kind of information on the
ground that the details could help terrorists. Now, anyone visiting
the site can see a published list of state-by-state summaries of
"worst-case scenarios" presented by thousands of companies in the US
to the US EPA. The companies originally provided the information as
part of an effort to help government agencies and people who live near
factories prepare for toxic catastrophes like explosions at chemical
plants.

The article points out that EPA originally intended to make the
information available online. The US Congress, however, intervened and
vetoed the initiative in response to warnings by security specialists
that electronic dissemination of the information could provide
terrorists with a road map to sensitive domestic targets. Because the
information was not classified, it was made available through
legislated right-to-know policies.

The website where the information is posted is called the
Right-to-Know Network. It claims to provide free access to numerous
databases, text files, and conferences on the environment, housing,
and sustainable development.

Associated Link:

[1]The Right-to-Know Network
1. http://www.rtk.net/

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[CTRL] New Discovery

[Sean McDougal]

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This is exciting.  Rational thinkers everywhere are
learning that anarchy is NOT synonymous with chaos.
More below:
...

http://www.spunk.org/library/intro/sp001639.html


Anarchism

as defined by Grolier's Electronic Encyclopedia
Anarchism is an ideology that regards abolition of
government as the necessary precondition for a free
and just society. The term itself comes from the Greek
words meaning "without a ruler." Anarchism rejects all
forms of hierarchical authority, social and economic
as well as political. What distinguishes it from other
ideologies, however, is the central importance it
attaches to the state. To anarchists, the state is a
wholly artificial and illegitimate institution, the
bastion of privilege and exploitation in the modern
world.

Anarchist Thought
Although the roots of anarchist thought can be traced
at least as far back as the 18th-century English
writer William GODWIN, anarchism as a revolutionary
movement arose in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. Its immediate objective was annihilation of
the state and of all authority imposed "from above
downward." Once liberated from political oppression,
society would spontaneously rebuild itself "from below
upward." A multitude of grass-roots organizations
would spring up to produce and distribute economic
goods and to satisfy other social needs. Where
necessary, these primary associations would form
regional and even nation-wide federations. The state,
with its impersonal laws and coercive bureaucracies,
would be supplanted by a dense web of self-governing
associations and free federations.

Like other radical ideologies of its time, anarchism
intended to complete the "unfinished business" of the
French Revolution. It placed special emphasis on the
third of the values expressed in the rallying cry
"liberty, equality, and fraternity." Anarchists had an
enduring faith in the natural solidarity and social
harmony of human beings. They believed that the
creation of the future society should be entrusted to
the free play of popular instincts, and any attempt by
anarchists themselves to offer more than technical
assistance would impose a new form of authority. They
tended to concentrate, therefore, on the task of
demolishing the existing state order rather than on
social blueprints of the future.

While battling the established order, anarchists also
battled the alternatives proposed by liberalism and
socialism. Like Marxism, anarchism was anticapitalist
and scorned liberalism's dedication to political
liberty on the grounds that only the propertied
classes could afford to enjoy it. They rejected with
equal vehemence, however, the Marxist "dictatorship of
the proletariat," the idea of capturing and using the
capitalist state to achieve a classless society.
Political institutions were seen as inherently
corrupting, and even the most selfless revolutionaries
would inevitably succumb to the joys of power and
privilege. Instead of the state "withering away," as
the Marxists anticipated, it would simply perpetuate a
new bureaucratic elite. This disagreement led to a
bitter conflict between Marx and the Russian anarchist
Michael BAKUNIN in the early 1870s, after which
Marxism and anarchism went their separate ways.

Anarchism in Practice
Anarchism attracted a following mainly in the
countries of eastern and southern Europe, where the
state's repressiveness was especially pronounced and
communal traditions remained strong. There were some
exceptions: the ideas of the French anarchist
Pierre-Joseph PROUDHON left a permanent mark on the
French industrial labor movement, and Bakunin's views
found adherents among the watchmakers of Switzerland's
Jura region. Anarchism had its greatest impact in
Russia, where numerous anarchist groups participated
in the revolutionary movement both before and during
1917. The two outstanding anarchist theorists also
were Russians: Bakunin, whose advocacy of popular
revolution had considerable influence, and Prince
Peter KROPOTKIN, whose writing spelled out some of the
constructive sides of the anarchist social vision.
Spain and Italy also had vigorous anarchist movements.
In only two instances did anarchists have a real
opportunity to put their social ideals into practice.
During the Russian civil war of 1917-21, (see RUSSIAN
REVOLUTIONS OF 1917), the peasant partisan movement
led by Nestor Makhno in the Ukraine tried to implement
anarchist principles, and in the SPANISH CIVIL WAR of
1936-39 anarchism was a significant force in the
regions of Catalonia and Andalusia. The results of
these experiments were limited and inconclusive. In
the United States, anarchism's influence was confined
largely to some of the European immigrant communities,
but it did produce a striking representative of
American radicalism in the person of Emma GOLDMAN.

Because anarchism regarded doctrinal and
organizational discipline as contradictions of its
principles, it ga

[CTRL] A Plan To Reform Earth Day

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SUMMARY: Because of the near total corporate control over Earth Day,
it has deteriorated into the kind of corporate greenwashing that gives
a polluting pulpmill a plaque for printing their annual report on
recycled paper. But, instead of being the one day of the year
polluters can depend on to be "criticism-free", it could be an
occasion for community groups and students to do practical, hands-on
projects that give people the tools, resources and motivation to solve
the most important environmental problems facing their communities -
instead of just gumming them.


A PLAN TO REFORM EARTH DAY by Jim Britell, 9/11/99

For many years Kalmiopsis Audubon has observed Earth Day by totally
ignoring it. Many grassroots, environmental-activist groups do nothing
to observe this event and the area of Southern Oregon and Northern
California has become known as an "Earth Day Free Zone."

The Southwest Environmental Center in Arizona boycotted Tucson's 1999
Earth Day celebration after being told that participants were not
permitted to criticize the event's sponsors: Raytheon Missile Systems,
Waste Management, and HBP Copper. Earth First! actually crashed the
downtown parade with a banner proclaiming: "Raytheon Presents: Kill
The Earth Day."

The reason many activists avoid Earth Day is that in most cities in
the United States, corporations have gained control of local Earth Day
planning committees through contributions of time and money. They use
their influence to make sure local groups don't do anything to
embarrass local polluters or corporate "bad guys". The entire event
has become safely diffused, suitably vague, uncontroversial and
solidly focused on promoting green consumerism. Earth Day is the one
day of the year corporate polluters know they will be practically
"criticism-free."

Earth Day has become an embodiment of the mindset which watches a
local watershed clear-cut and destroyed, devotes volunteer weekends to
replanting trees donated by the clear-cutter, then gives everybody
awards for "working together". Or has groups of school children taking
water samples in a damaged stream channel to collect "monitoring
data," while another clear-cut begins on the ridge above them. Or
gives an award to a local polluting pulpmill for printing its annual
report on recycled paper. A "real" Earth Day would give people the
tools, resources, and motivation to stop clear-cuts and clean up
pulpmills in the first place.

Through a clever exploitation of "what YOU can do," Earth Day
displaces citizens' concerns about pollution, environmental
degradation, and over-development into a focus on personal behavior
and personal consumption patterns. Of course all of us have to improve
our personal habits, and recycle more, promote solar energy, use
bicycles, and "work together." But "all of us" are not responsible for
the clear-cutting of Oregon's forests, the pollution run-off from
industrial pig and chicken farms in Virginia, and the pervasive
non-enforcement of our environmental laws everywhere. "A few of us"
are responsible for really horrific environmental problems and Earth
Day could and should be the one day where "bad actors" are called out
and named and shamed into cleaning up their acts; instead of the day
they get environmental awards.

"Acceptable" environmental education, financed by corporations and
implemented by local governments and schools (of which Earth Day is
merely the most prominent example) is now dedicated almost entirely to
insuring the widespread and growing concerns about the environment,
pollution, over-development, and sprawl are channeled into harmless
activities and dissipated.

Corporate sponsors' goals for Earth Day and all environmental
education are simple: an individual company's behavior must never be
singled out for scrutiny and environmental concern must never be
expressed as environmental activism. If they can accomplish this, they
are willing to furnish unlimited seedlings, paper bags with green
writing, and funds to print brochures on how to recycle product
containers that shouldn't have been produced or purchased in the first
place.

Of course grassroots activists should never discourage activities just
because they are non-controversial. It is necessary to find wa

[CTRL] Horror in Moscow Makes Worst Fears True

[Sean McDougal]

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Subject: RUSSIA: Horror in Moscow Makes Worst Fears True
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:56:14 -0500 (CDT)

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Title: POLITICS-RUSSIA: Horror in Moscow Makes Worst Fears True

By Sergei Blagov

MOSCOW, Sep 13 (IPS) - The horror pictures of destroyed apartment
buildings in Moscow made gloom mongers' most pessimistic scenarios
suddenly look increasingly realistic Monday, in the wake of an
indiscriminate terrorist campaign.

Now the horrors can be found not only on Russia's southern fringe,
where bandits and militants from neighbouring breakaway Chechnya are a
constant threat, but also in the Russian capital.

Together with the images of a destroyed residential block in southern
Moscow - where 140 people lived and at least 50 were killed by a
powerful explosion -, Russian television announced the city's morgues'
phone numbers.

Nikolai Kovalyov, chief of Moscow's police department said the attack
was carried out by the same group that had destroyed another apartment
building on 9 september, killing 94 people.

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin urgently returned from the
Asia-Pacific Economic summit in New Zealand. He announced a tough
response, but rejected the imposition of the state of emergency.

The second deadly blast in five days fuelled rumours that president
Boris Yeltsin was going to decree the state of emergency, which would
automatically suspend parliamentary elections due in December.

Yeltsin introduced tough security measures, but promised that ''all
actions will be in accordance with the Constitution,'' apparently
clearing up doubts about the issue.

The President chaired Monday an emergency meeting with Interior
minister Vladimir Rushailo, Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov and the head of
the Federal Security Service (FSB), Nikolai Patrushev.

Yeltsin ordered Luzhkov - one of his main political foes - to have all
of Moscow's estimated 30,000 apartment blocks checked by police to
prevent further bombings. The Mayor had already linked both blasts to
Chechen terrorists, and promised tough action against their supporters
in Moscow.

Yeltsin also ordered to tighten security measures at nuclear power
stations, oil depots and other sensitive sites across Russia. ''We have
to join efforts when facing a common enemy,'' Yeltsin said in televised
remarks, apparently sending a conciliatory message to his political
opponents.

However, the message apparently fell on deaf ears. For instance, the
leaders of the Federation Council and the State Duma - upper and lower
chambers of Russian parliament - made it clear Monday that even in the
aftermath of the bombings in Moscow they would not back a  decree on
emergency rule.

Members of the Russian parliament argue that a law on the state of
emergency is yet to be approved, and under the circumstances the
emergency rule by decree could throw Russia into lawlessness.

The state of emergency requires a strong national leader, and none is
available at the moment, argued Guennady Zyuganov, chairman of Russian
Communist party.

Russian former prime minister and presidential hopeful Yevgeny Primakov
has also opposed emergency rule in Russia, because it could be used not
to combat terrorism but ''to achieve political goals.''

''We have been pressed into a terrorist war, and we have turned out to
be unprepared to this war,'' he said.

Only Vladimir Ryzhkov, leader of a pro-Kremlin ''Our Home Russia''
faction in Parliament has said he would probably support emergency
rule. A ''de-facto state of emergency has been introduced in combat
zones of Dagestan,'' he argued.

Russian officials speculated that the latest bombing was in fact the
militant's retaliation for the seizure of rebel strongholds in Dagestan
by the Russian army.

On 12 September Russian troops dislodged the rebels from the villages
of Karamakhi and Chabanmakhi, the main stronghold of Islamic
fundamentalism in Dagestan, where local leaders announced in September
1998 that they would no longer recognize Russian authorities and
pledged to live by the Islamic Sharia law.

The two villages had come under intense bombing and shelling over the
past three weeks. In a bid to support Karamakhi and Chabanmakhi
enclave, hundreds of Chechen rebels crossed last week over into Novo
Lak, another Dagestani district, vowing to set up an independent
Islamic state.

A rebel leader, a Jordanian militant known as Khattab, reportedly
threatened Moscow to unleash a terrorist campaign in all Russian
cities.

Furthermore, the blasts seem to have revived the Kremlin's
international support, which had been shat

[CTRL] Toxic Mercury Rains on U.S. Midwest

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Subject: [DOEWatch] Toxic Mercury Rains on U.S. Midwest
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 07:17:36 EDT

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Toxic Mercury Rains on U.S. Midwest

CHICAGO, Illinois, September 14, 1999 (ENS) - A new report reveals that the
rain and snow falling on cities in the American Midwest contains levels of
mercury that far exceed what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
considers safe. The National Wildlife Federation and 21 state and local
partner organizations are launching a Clean the Rain Campaign today to help
reduce the health risks from toxic mercury.

The report by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) compares mercury
contamination levels in rain to EPA safe levels for human health in 20
Midwestern cities and towns. Among the report's findings are mercury levels
in rain over Chicago, Illinois that are as high as 42 times EPA safe levels;
Detroit, Michigan rain with 65 times safe levels; and rain along the
Illinois/Wisconsin border as high as 56 times safe levels.


Though emissions from factories and power plants have been cut significantly
since this photo of Indiana Harbor was taken around 1960, emissions are
still a major source of mercury pollution.

"We usually think of rain as pure and clean, and that's the way it should
be," said Mark Van Putten, president & CEO of the National Wildlife
Federation. "But this report reveals that rain falling over Midwestern
cities such as Detroit, Chicago and Duluth contains as much as 65 times the
EPA ‘safe' level of mercury, which holds out extremely serious health
implications for both humans and wildlife."

Mercury is a potent toxin. When ingested in even tiny amounts can cause
devastating effects on the human nervous system, especially for children and
the unborn. Associated illnesses include brain, lung and kidney damage and
even death in humans. In wildlife, mercury is a reproductive hazard that can
cause harmful effects on species such as frogs, rainbow trout, zebra fish,
mallard and American black ducks, loons and terns.

"With so much at stake for both people and wildlife, decisive action is
needed right now to limit mercury emissions, because once mercury pollution
goes up into the atmosphere, rain carries it right back down into the very
water humans and wildlife depend on," said Peter Morman, of the
Environmental Law and Policy Center.

The report is based on scattered monitoring of rain from various Midwestern
sources. In Chicago, the University of Michigan Air Quality Laboratory
collected 65 samples of rainwater from the Illinois Institute of Technology
campus and measured mercury levels ranging from 5.4 parts per trillion to
74.5 parts per trillion. Average mercury levels were 12 times higher than
EPA’s standard, and even the lowest level measured was more than four times
higher than EPA safe levels.

"Nationally, more than a third of mercury emissions come from coal fired
power plants, with the remainder coming from municipal waste incinerators
and medical waste incinerators," said Morman. "In the Great Lakes region,
coal combustion causes over half the mercury emissions."

Coal contains trace amounts of mercury that are released into the air as it
is burned for energy. Rain droplets can form around tiny particles of smog
and soot, including mercury contaminants, and carry them back to the earth.

The technology to measure the traces of mercury captured by raindrops has
only existed since the mid-1990s.

There are currently no limits on how much mercury coal burning power plants
can emit, but the EPA is studying mercury pollution from the plants with an
eye to setting limits.

When medical devices such as thermometers and blood pressure cuffs or
household items like fluorescent lights, lamps and thermostats are discarded
and burned, the residual mercury is emitted into the atmosphere.

"A drop of mercury as small as 1/70th of a teaspoon can contaminate a 25
acre lake to the point that the fish in it are unsafe to eat," said Beverly
McClellan of the Lake Michigan Federation. "When you consider a typical 100
megawatt power plant emits about 25 pounds of mercury a year, the potential
for tremendous ecological and human health problems becomes alarmingly
clear."

The Clean the Rain Campaign calls on major industry to drastically reduce
emissions and asks citizens to help cut mercury pollution by conserving
energy, not purchasing consumer products that contain mercury, or if they do
purchase them, disposing of them properly at EPA approved recycling centers.

The Campaign also calls on federal and state governments to more closely
monitor mercury levels in rainfall. In several key locations, the National
Wildlife Federation has pledg

[CTRL] Reforms Reach Nigeria's Gas Pumps

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Subject: Reforms Reach Nigeria's Gas Pumps
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September 9, 1999

Reforms Reach Nigeria's Gas Pumps

By NORIMITSU ONISHI

LAGOS, Nigeria -- The humble gas station, once the defining image of
Nigeria's seemingly willful collapse, has undergone a striking
transformation since the military rulers handed over power to civilians
three months ago.

Gone are the mile-long lines that choked roads, made fistfights part of the
Nigerian streetscape and turned gas stations into high-security zones
swarming with soldiers, police officers, thugs and the long-suffering
ordinary Nigerians, citizens of the world's sixth-largest producer of oil.

Now most gas stations operate the way an Agip station on Iju Road here does:
motorists pull up to a pump and drive away a minute later.

"There is fundamental change in things," said Abiodun Akinloye, 34, an
attendant at the station for six years. "Before, the tension was too high.
People were begging to buy fuel and sometimes had to wait for days. Now you
buy fuel at the actual price and at your own convenience. Everything has
become fine. Everybody is feeling fine."

Three months after Africa's most populous nation inaugurated its first
civilian Government in 16 years, gas stations offer perhaps the clearest
promise of what could become one of the most remarkable political
transformations on the continent.

Only 15 months ago, Nigeria was in the grip of a rapacious military regime
that had turned the country into an international pariah and manipulated oil
supplies so that Nigerians often had to pay several times what Americans do
for a gallon of gasoline.

Today, after a year of traumatic events that pushed this fragile nation to
the brink of civil war, Nigeria is intact, but its President, Olusegun
Obasanjo, has quickly pushed reforms that are altering its face. Nigerians,
an industrious people paralyzed until last year by the brutally repressive
military under Gen. Sani Abacha, are now even talking of freedom.

"It is like Joseph getting out of the pit to get to the palace in Egypt,"
said Baba Adi, a lawyer and prominent member of the governing People's
Democratic Party.

Even the Government's fiercest critics, who argue that it has yet to make
lasting changes, acknowledge that there is greater individual freedom.

"Even if it's temporary," said Beko Ransome-Kuti, a well-known human rights
campaigner who spent three years in jail under General Abacha, "it's a nice
holiday."

While it may be too soon to talk of democracy, the end of the military state
has visibly affected daily lives here. President Obasanjo forbade
politicians to drive in convoys with sirens blaring, once a common practice.
Several streets in Lagos were renamed for slain prodemocracy activists.

The notorious security forces that patrolled cities with unchallenged
authority -- known here as Operation Sweep -- have grown tamer. In Lagos,
the forces now go by the less sinister title of Rapid Response Squad.

On Iju Road, once frequently impassable because of motorists waiting at its
many gas stations, the soldiers and policemen once posted at checkpoints
every two miles have disappeared. Now, no one shakes down Isaac Bodunrin,
45, and his fellow cab drivers for the equivalent of 20 cents every two
miles.

"If we can continue like this, there will be progress in this country," said
Bodunrin, who often used to end the day with nothing but now makes about
$10. "If we can drive free, I can do my job."

President Obasanjo has already made changes in many of Nigeria's vital
sectors. He established a panel to investigate human rights violations since
the mid-1980's and another to look into Government contracts awarded since
1976. He has sent an anticorruption bill to the National Assembly, though
many say the proposal goes too far in potentially invading people's privacy.

On the burning issue of the Niger Delta, the source of Nigeria's oil wealth
but still profoundly poor, President Obasanjo proposed legislation toward
its development. In addition, in a highly symbolic act, he permitted the
family of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the writer who was hanged in 1995 for criticizing
the Government's oil policies, to claim his body.

In the oil industry, the source of almost all of Nigeria's hard currency, he
has cut out shadowy middlemen from sales of crude oil and rescinded
prospecting contracts awarded to cronies of the military regime.

The President, a retired general who was Nigeria's military ruler from 1976
to 1979, shook up the military by forcing about 100 top officers to retire.
Most were northerners who dominated the military and ruled the country for
all but 10 years since independence from Britain in 1960, and their
successors were chosen from diverse regions. His Government also announced
plans to c

[CTRL] State, UW apologize for radiation tests---testicles were bombarded with rad.

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State, UW apologize for radiation tests

By The Associated Press and the Herald staff

The state and the University of Washington have apologized for any harm that
may have been done to Walla Walla prison inmates whose testicles were
bombarded with radiation in a Cold War experiment.

The apology is part of a settlement of a $5 million class-action lawsuit
filed in 1996.

Details of the settlement are confidential until it is approved by U.S.
District Judge Robert Whaley later this month, lawyers for both sides said
in
a joint statement to a Spokane newspaper.

The experiments were conducted in the 1960s on 63 Washington State
Penitentiary inmates by Dr. C. Alvin Paulsen of UW.

Paulsen did the research under an Atomic Energy Commission contract to study
radiation's effects on fertility.

Hanford was one factor in prompting the experiments.

A 1962 Hanford radiation flash led to testicular problems in three workers.
That highlighted that little knowledge existed then on radiation's effects
on
sperm generation.

The state Department of Corrections allowed Paulsen to use prisoners for the
experiments until March 1970, when the tests were ordered stopped by the
head
of the department's research division.

"The plaintiffs allege that the research involved improper human radiation
experimentation," the statement says. "The University of Washington and the
Department of Corrections deny all liability but nevertheless regret that
the
research may have caused the alleged harm and concerns that the prisoners
have expressed in their lawsuit."

The settlement will include cash payments to a number of prisoners or their
estates, depending on how many make valid claims, said lawyer Bradley Keller
of Seattle, who worked on the plaintiffs' case.

Several prisoners, including lead plaintiff Robert White of Spokane, said
they developed severe health problems from the experiments, including
infertility.

The experiments, which included a similar program at the Oregon State
Penitentiary in Salem, were condemned in 1995 by a Clinton administration
review panel.

Of the 63 original participants, some 23 had died by the time the defendants
were ordered in 1997 to release a list of men who were subjects of the
experiments.

Whaley earlier dismissed two Hanford contractors - General Electric Co. and
Battelle - plus the federal government, which paid for and administered the
experiments, from the lawsuit.

General Electric used to be Hanford's lead contractor. And Battelle took
over
operating Pacific Northwest Laboratory in 1965 from General Electric
- inheriting a technical support role in those experiments.

Hanford documents from that time indicated Battelle was uncomfortable with
the experiments.

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[CTRL] [incl. text of resolution] UN approves Timor force

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also: Text of the Security Council resolution on East Timor

UN Security Council approves Timor force

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 15 (AFP) - The Security Council adopted a resolution
early on Wednesday authorising a multinational force to restore peace and
security to East Timor and to use military force to do so.

The resolution was passed unanimously by the 15 members of the Council.

The resolution did not specify the composition of the force, but senior
diplomats said Australia would be invited to lead it a contingent of between
5,000 and 7,000 soldiers.

The force will be deployed alongside Indonesian troops in East Timor.

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said in the United Nations headquarters on
Tuesday that Australia could start deploying troops by the end of the week.

Text of the Security Council resolution on East Timor

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 15 (AFP) - These are the operative parts of the UN
Security Council resolution on East Timor, without the preamble.

The Security Council,

Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,

1. Condemns all acts of violence in East Timor, calls for their immediate
end, and demands that those responsible for such acts be brought to justice;

2. Emphasizes the urgent need for coordinated humanitarian assistance and
the
importance of allowing full, safe and unimpeded access by humanitarian
organisations and calls upon all parties to cooperate with such
organisations
so as to ensure the protection of civilians at risk, the safe return of
refugees and displaced persons and the effective delivery of humanitarian
aid;

3. Authorises the establishment of a multinational force under a unified
command structure, pursuant to the request of the Government of Indonesia
conveyed to the Secretary-General on 12 September 1999, with the following
tasks: to restore peace and security in East Timor, to protect and support
UNAMET in carrying out its tasks and, within force capabilities, to
facilitate humanitarian assistance operations, and authorises the States
participating in the multinational force to take all necessary measures to
fulfil this mandate;

4. Welcomes the expressed commitment of the Government of Indonesia to
cooperate with the multinational force in all aspects of the implementation
of its mandate, and looks forward to close coordination between the
multinational force and the Government of Indonesia;

5. Underlines the Government of Indonesia's continuing responsibility under
the Agreements of 5 May 1999, taking into account the mandate of the
multinational force set out in paragraph 3 above, to maintain peace and
security in East Timor in the interim phase between the conclusion of the
popular consultation and the start of the implementation of its result and
to
guarantee the security of the personnel and premises of UNAMET;

6. Welcomes the offers by Member States to organise, lead and contribute to
the multinational force in East Timor, calls on Member States to make
further
contributions of personnel, equipment and other resources and invites Member
States in a position to contribute to inform the leadership of the
multinational force and the Secretary-General;

7. Stresses that it is the responsibility of the Indonesian authorities to
take immediate and effective measures to ensure the safe return of refugees
to East Timor;

8. Notes that Article 6 of the Agreement of 5 May 1999 states that the
Governments of Indonesia and Portugal and the Secretary-General shall agree
on arrangements for a peaceful and orderly transfer of authority in East
Timor to the United Nations and requests the leadership of the multinational
force to cooperate closely with the United Nations to assist and support
those arrangements;

9. Stresses that the expenses for the force will be borne by the
participating Member States concerned and requests the Secretary-General to
establish a trust fund through which contributions could be channeled to the
States or operations concerned;

10. Agrees that the multinational force should collectively be deployed in
East Timor until replaced as soon as possible by a United Nations
peacekeeping operation, and invites the Secretary-General to make prompt
recommendations on a peacekeeping operation to the Security Council;

11. Invites the Secretary-General to plan and prepare for a United Nations
transitional administration in East Timor, incorporating a United Nations
peacekeeping operation, to be deployed in the implementation phase of the
popular consultation (ph

[CTRL] Indonesian Military makes a power play

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Subject: Indonesian Military makes a power play
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 23:45:27 -0500 (CDT)

/** reg.easttimor: 3639.0 **/
** Topic: AFR in Jkt: Military makes a power play in political vacuum **
** Written  2:33 PM  Sep 14, 1999 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] in cdp:reg.easttimor **
Subject: AFR in Jkt: Military makes a power play in political vacuum

Australian Financial Review
Wednesday, September 15, 1999

Military makes a power play in political vacuum

By Tim Dodd, Jakarta

With Indonesia in the grip of political paralysis, a top military leader
publicly moved to stake the army's claim to power, warning of increasing
turmoil in the country and calling on members of the armed forces to take a
stronger political role to safeguard national interests.

The deputy commander of the armed forces, Admiral Widodo, told a meeting of
all regional commanders at the military's Jakarta headquarters on Monday
that
Indonesia's political leaders and national elite were not working for
consensus or building national goals.

He warned that conditions were not "conducive" to the special session of
Indonesia's supreme parliament, the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR),
which convenes next month and will elect the new president as well as make
the final decision about giving independence to East Timor.

The military's political muscle flexing came as fears increase that the
Indonesian army will not accept the presence of Australian troops in the
UN's
East Timor peacekeeping force and may not respond to presidential direction
to accept an Australian-led force.

Although Admiral Widodo did not suggest the MPR session should be cancelled,
his comments are a further indication that the armed forces have moved to
fill the power vacuum in Jakarta.

On one side there is President Habibie's paralysed administration and on the
other there is an opposition that has been unable to form an effective
alliance to take power when the MPR meets.

President Habibie's position was weakened even further yesterday when it was
revealed that one his closest political cronies, the president of the
Supreme
Advisory Council, Mr Arnold Baramuli, had warned privately that the Bank
Bali
scandal would implicate the president if it was not covered up.

Both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have put further
assistance to Indonesia on hold until the scandal, which destroyed the
integrity of the country's $140 billion bank rescue plan, is resolved.

Yesterday the World Bank set off more alarm bells, suggesting there could be
other cases similar to Bank Bali which have corrupted the bank restructuring
effort.

The deterioration of President Habibie's position came as the United Nations
yesterday finally abandoned its compound in Dili.

Witnesses said militia torched the compound soon after the last of the 110
UN
staff and 1,300 refugees were flown to Australia.

In his Monday speech, reported in the Media Indonesia newspaper yesterday,
Admiral Widodo said large numbers of Indonesians were disappointed, restless
and confused with the economic situation. "The potential for conflict among
the people is still high," he said. "If it accelerates there will be a lot
of
disturbance and turmoil in Jakarta and several regions.

"The conditions are not a good situation and not conducive for the (MPR)
special session that has to be democratic and stable."

As a naval officer, Admiral Widodo is not a rival to General Wiranto, who
heads the army-dominated armed forces, and is regarded as speaking for his
chief.

There were conflicting signals yesterday over whether Indonesia would put
obstacles in the way of accepting Australian troops in the UN peacekeeping
force that is to restore order in East Timor.

President Habibie told a European Union delegation there were no conditions
attached to his invitation to the UN to send a force and that the
composition
was up to the UN.

However, the Home Affairs Minister, Mr Syarwan Hamid, said the UN should
consider Indonesia's "objections".

On Monday, the armed forces official spokesman, Major-General Sudrajat, said
Indonesia could not "simply accept" Australian troops. And key
parliamentarians also raised objections to Australian participation, with
the
chairman of the foreign affairs committee saying troops from Australia, New
Zealand and Portugal should be rejected.

In New York yesterday, a meeting between UN Secretary-General Mr Kofi Annan
and the Indonesian Foreign Minister, Mr Ali Alatas, did not resolve the
conditions for the entry of the UN force into East Timor.

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[CTRL] Environmental groups shuns Gore, endorses Bradley

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Original Message Follows
From: Mark Graffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: U.S. Environmental groups shuns Gore, endorses Bradley
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 22:07:57 -0500 (CDT)

USA: September 15, 1999

WASHINGTON - U.S. environmental group Friends of the Earth yesterday
endorsed former Senator Bill Bradley for the Democratic presidential
nomination, denting Vice President Al Gore's claim as the greenest
candidate running for the White House in 2000.

"Examination of the track record of both Gore and Bradley leads us to
the conclusion that Bradley's record is superior and one of
achievement more than rhetoric," read a statement by Friends of the
Earth political action committee.

It cited Bradley's 18-year record as a New Jersey senator where he
built a consensus for strong clean water programmes, and supported
saving forests by authorising measures to curb timber cutting.

"Bill Bradley has proven himself an effective legislator, not afraid
to take on tough issues and savvy enough to create coalitions to get
results, " said Friends of the Earth PAC President Dr. Brent
Blackwelder.

Gore has for the past seven years been known as the White House point
man for environmental issues, a performance the activist group called
disappointing.

"Friends of the Earth PAC contends that Gore's record on the
environment - from his weakening of ozone layer protections to his
failure to protect forests here and abroad - is a big disappointment,"
the statement said.

Ironically, Republicans often decry Gore as being an "out-of-touch
liberal" in his environmental thinking, sometimes quoting from his
1992 book "Earth in the Balance" as fodder for mocking the vice
president's support for renewable fuels and an international treaty
for limiting carbon emissions.

The Gore campaign stood by the vice president's record.

"Al Gore will continue to work and believe in a balanced approach to
making sure our children and families have a clean and healthy
environment," a campaign spokesman said.

Officials with other environmental groups wondered why Friends of the
Earth came out so early with their endorsement, and noted the group's
small 20,000 membership.

"We honestly haven't even begun our endorsement process. It is
premature at this time," said Daniel Weiss, political director for the
Sierra Club, an environmentalist group that has 600,000 members and
endorsed the Clinton/Gore ticket in both 1992 and 1996.

Weiss said the real differences are not between Democrats Bradley and
Gore on the environment, but with the Republican presidential
candidate front-runner, Texas Gov. George W. Bush.

"George W. Bush has a terrible record on the environment."

Although national polls show Gore leading Bradley for the Democratic
nomination by around a two-to-one margin, Bradley has proven he can
raise money and recently made large gains in polls in New Hampshire,
which will hold the first presidential primary in February.

Story by Patrick Connole

REUTERS NEWS SERVICE



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[CTRL] IRAQ still being bombed

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Original Message Follows
From: MichaelPwsort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: IRAQ still being bombed
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 22:02:16 -0500 (CDT)

AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE

Iraqi warplanes engage US and British bombers: Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Sept 14 (AFP) - Iraqi warplanes and anti-aircraft guns swung into
action Tuesday to force US and British flying over the south of the
country to flee Iraqi airspace, a military spokesman in Baghdad said.

"The falcons of the sky (Iraqi warplanes) and anti-aircraft defences
challenged the enemy and forced them to flee to their bases in Saudi
Arabia and Kuwait," he said, quoted by the official INA agency.

He said the allied planes "attacked a civilian installation in the
province of Basra and overflew Zhi-Qar, Muthanna, Nejaf and Qadisiya."

He said the latest missions brought the total of sorties by US and British
planes to 12,561 since December's intensive bombing campaign after Baghdad
refused to cooperate with international weapons inspectors.

Clashes pitting Iraqi air defences against US and British planes have
taken place on an almost daily basis since the two Western allies waged
their December 17-19 air war on Iraq.

It is rare for Iraqi planes to engage in defensive manoeuvres, however,
with most Iraqi challenges carried out by ground defences.

The US military announced earlier Tuesday that US warplanes had bombed two
military radar sites in southern Iraq in retaliation for Iraqi violations
of a no-fly zone.

The US Central Command in Macdill, Florida said land-based F-16s and
carrier-based F-14 and F-18 fighters fired precision-guided munitions to
strike the sites near the town of Qalat Salih and on the Faw peninsula.

"The strikes were in response to three incidents earlier today of Iraqi
aircraft violating the southern no-fly zone," it said in a statement
received in Dubai.

"Each of these radar sites was targeted to further degrade Iraq's ability
to jeopardise" US and British warplanes patrolling the southern exclusion
zone which stretches to the outskirts of the Iraqi capital.

Two Iraqi fighters violated the zone again during the strikes but
"coalition aircraft engaged the aircraft," the US military said. "However
they turned and flew out of the no-fly zone."

The US and British aircraft returned safely to their bases, it said,
stressing that "coalition planes do not target civilian populations or
infrastructure."

The latest strikes were "an appropriate response to the continued pattern
of Iraqi provocation," the Central Command said.

There was no immediate word from Baghdad on the latest attacks. Nineteen
Iraqis were killed in air strikes on August 17, the Iraqi military said.

Baghdad does not recognise the southern no-fly zone nor a similar
exclusion zone in northern Iraq, both of which were set up after the 1991
Gulf War to protect Iraqi Kurds and Shiites.

The United States on Monday accused Baghdad of continuing a repressive
campaign against both groups and said it was pushing for the indictment of
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Re: [CTRL] Waco: Who Watches The Watchers?

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I have no idea why Janet Reno, Louis Freeh and the FBI didn't learn those
lessons in Waco.
..
That's an easy one.  The lesson they have learned is that such things are
gotten away with quite often.  Consider all of the scandals these people
have been involved in and then count how many times they have actually been
taken to task.  If you do you will see that they get away with all kinds of
ATROCITIES with regularity.

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[CTRL] The Declaration of Evolution

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The Declaration of Evolution

When in the course of organic evolution it becomes obvious that a mutational
process is inevitably dissolving the physical and neurological bonds which
connect the members of one generation to the past and inevitably directing
them to assume among the species of Earth the separate and equal station to
which the Laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them, a decent concern for
the harmony of species requires that the causes of the mutation should be
declared.
We hold these truths to be self evident:

That all species are created different but equal;
That they are endowed, each one, with certain inalienable rights;
That among them are Freedom to Live, Freedom to Grow, and Freedom to pursue
Happiness in their own style;
That to protect these God-given rights, social structures naturally emerge,
basing their authority on the principles of love of God and respect for all
forms of life;

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of life, liberty,
and harmony, it is the organic duty of the young members of that species to
mutate, to drop out, to initiate a new social structure, laying its
foundations on such principles and organizing its power in such form as
seems likely to produce the safety, happiness, and harmony of all sentient
beings.

Genetic wisdom, indeed, suggests that social structures long established
should not be discarded for frivolous reasons and transient causes. The
ecstasy of mutation is equally balanced by the pain. Accordingly all
experience shows that members of a species are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable, rather than to discard the forms to which they
are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, all pursuing invariably the
same destructive goals, threaten the very fabric of organic life and the
serene harmony of the planet, it is the right, it is the organic duty to
drop out of such morbid covenants and to evolve new loving social
structures.

Such has been the patient sufferance of the freedom-loving peoples of this
earth, and such is now the necessity which constrains us to form new systems
of government.

The history of the white, menopausal, mendacious men now ruling the planet
earth is a history of repeated violation of the harmonious laws of nature,
all having the direct object of establishing a tyranny of the materialistic
aging over the gentle, the peace-loving, the young, the colored. To prove
this, let Facts be submitted to the judgement of generations to come.

These old, white rulers have maintained a continuous war against other
species of life, enslaving and destroying at whim fowl, fish, animals and
spreading a lethal carpet of concrete and metal over the soft body of earth.

They have maintained as well a continual state of war among themselves and
against the colored races, the freedom-loving, the gentle, the young.
Genocide is their habit.

They have instituted artificial scarcities, denying peaceful folk the
natural inheritance of earth's abundance and God's endowment.
They have glorified material values and degraded the spiritual.
They have claimed private, personal ownership of God's land, driving by
force of arms the gentle from passage on the earth.

In their greed they have erected artificial immigration and customs
barriers, preventing the free movement of people.

In their lust for control they have set up systems of compulsory education
to coerce the minds of the children and to destroy the wisdom and innocence
of the playful young.

In their lust for power they have controlled all means of communication to
prevent the free flow of ideas and to block loving exchanges among the
gentle.

In their fear they have instituted great armies of secret police to spy upon
the privacy of the pacific.

In their anger they have coerced the peaceful young against their will to
join their armies and to wage murderous wars against the young and gentle of
other countries.

In their greed they have made the manufacture and selling of weapons the
basis of their economies.

For profit they have polluted the air, the rivers, the seas.
In their impotence they have glorified murder, violence, and unnatural sex
in their mass media.

In their aging greed they have set up an economic system which favors age
over youth.

They have in every way attempted to impose a robot uniformity and to crush
variety, individuality, and independence of thought.

In their greed, they have instituted political systems which perpetuate rule
by the aging and force youth to choose between plastic conformity or
despairing alienation.

They have invaded privacy by illegal search, unwarranted arrest, and
contemptuous harassment.

They have enlisted an army of informers.

In their greed they sponsor the consumption of deadly tars and sugars and
employ cruel and unusual punishment of the possession of life-giving
alkaloids and acids.

They never admit a mistake. They unceasingly trumpet the virtue of greed and

Re: [CTRL] Godless Commie Rat!!!

[Sean McDougal]

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Original Message Follows
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MJ:
 Capitalism has NEVER existed.
 Please explain how forcibly taking from SOME and giving
 this to others is moral.
SM:
 CAPITALISM has existed for centuries and leaves no room
 for truly representative government, be it socialism or
 any kind of truly free market.

MJ:
A Free Market is possible in *any* economic setting.
..
SM:
Precisely my point.
..

Capitalism, however, means the complete separation of
economy and state, just like the separation of church
and state.
..
SM:
Avoiding arguing over definitions, what I was asserting that has existed for
centuries is the dynamic that those who have amassed the most make a vast
majority of the decisions that affect the world's populace, geo-tectonic
plates aside.

Basically if I had all the food in the world in a huge storage shed and had
the armed guards to defend it [well fed ones of course] I could dictate my
reality to everyone.  The only way to remedy that is to take it back.  Yes,
I did say TAKE.
..
Capitalism is the only politico-economic system
based on the doctrine of individual rights.
..
SM:
Capital being the root word of capitalism, I suppose it stands to reason
that having a lot of capital is the essence of the ism.  So according to
CAPTIAListic principle, those who already have almost everything ought to
run our lives, even if they took it by force, which, I would suggest, is the
only way that 2% of a group can own 90% of its assets.  Such LITERAL
capitalism exists quite rampantly now.

As far as capitalism being the only politico-economic system based on the
doctrine of individual rights, allow me to offer the following link:

http://www.spunk.org/library/intro/sp001636.html
..


SM:
When manipulators have amassed much of what they cannot
use, usually by force, forcibly redistributing wealth
is MORAL.

MJ:
THEFT is never moral.
..
SM:
You obviously believe that if I walk into your garage and take your car that
it would make me the rightful owner.  You also state that if you attempted
to reclaim it that it would make you a thief.  What culture did you grow up
in?  Capitalism?
..


SM:
 It is precisely because of attitudes like the one you
 put forth that a truly free market has never existed.
MJ:
In another thread you stated:
  In the meantime, we need not attack ANYONE for merely
  stating a fact.  That only contributes to further
  hesitation to state facts in the future and only
  serves ignorance, as a result.

Why is it you cannot follow your own advice as I have merely
stated a FACT?
..
SM:
Silly man.  I never did anything but address the points you made and never
attacked you for whining, as I believe you did with Prudy.  I expected you
to respond and looked forward to more debate.  I did NOT essentially tell
you to either put up, shut up, or pick up your gun.  THAT is what YOU did.

If in opining that your attitude is part of the problem with the current
global power dynamic was interpreted as "quit talking," then I am sorry that
you misunderstood.  I did not agree with your statement nor your stance so I
said so.  I did NOT tell you that you were whining and that if you were not
going to do something about it that you should shutup.  That, my friend, is
a significant difference.

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[CTRL] Waco and the Press

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http://www.counterpunch.org/

September 8, 1999

Waco and the Press

The ashes of the murdered Branch Davidians and their children -- all 74 of
them -- were still glowing as the nation's major news institutions rousingly
endorsed the decision of Janet Reno and her boss, Bill Clinton, to give the
FBI (and, as it turned out, the Delta Force) the go-ahead for an operation
that ensured massacre. Newsweek, we particularly remember, rushed out its
cover of Koresh swathed in flames like one of the damned in a medieval
painting. It was one of the great failures of American journalism, one of
the most sickening, one of the most predictable and one of the most
revealing. To this day one can meet progressive types who devote many of
their waking hours to activities designed to save Mumia abu Jamal who didn't
give a toss about the Branch Davidians and their terrible slaughter by the
federal government, and who still don't. Use the word "cult" and both reason
and moral judgement enter recess.

So now comes further proof of the lies, deceptions and cover-ups of the FBI,
and how do the big press poobahs react? Do they make confession that they
bought a cover-up and tried to sell it to the American people, the vast
majority of whom steadfastly continued to believe that the government was
lying and that an infamy had been perpetrated? Here's Ted Koppel, the night
of September l, discussing the siezure by federal marshals of tapes of FBI
hostage "negotiators", discussing the use of pyrotechnic grenades the
morning
of the Waco raid:
"... the credibility of the FBI, which probably did tell the truth about
most of what happened, that credibility is badly damaged, while the
credibility of conspiracy theorists, who tend to be wrong about most of what
they've spun together about Waco, their credibility is newly enhanced. It is
on these two fronts that the greatest damage has been done."

In this disgusting paragraph Koppel defines his career role as flack for
state power. For him the issue is not that an agency of government planned
mass murder, just as the so-called conspiracy nuts first surmised, then
proved. For him the issue is the credibility of the state. For the liberal
elite -- in whose ranks most so-called conservatives can be numbered -- this
is always the issue.

In the Koppel program that night was Henry Ruth, a former Watergate
prosecutor who was appointed in the aftermath of Waco to investigate the
federal raid. "The real issue,"Ruth said, "was whether any military force
was actually used in the raid, separate and apart from just military
advisors, and my guess is that such force is so dangerous, so controversial,
that it probably did not happen, but it's certainly worth looking at in this
environment where the whole credibility of the investigation is now at
stake." Note here Ruth's desperate eagerness to let the government off the
hook, and preserve the cover-up (code-named "credibility") intact.

Koppel was scarcely alone. Here's a CBS broadcast of September 2:
"For years now the disaster near Waco has been exhibit number one for many
who have deep distrust of the American government. From conspiracy sites on
the Internet to documentary films, Waco has provided a focus for those who
see the government as the enemy. And now they say there is proof the
government has been lying, reports CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone.

'This is just fodder for the conspiracy theorists,' says psychologist
Margaret Singer. She says this is just what the militia movement needs to
say we told you soMany are certain to see this as government out of
control. 'The anti-government movement, the militia, hate groups are
absolutely going to get a boost out of this and I think it's really a
tragedy for that reason,' said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law
Center. At one time conspiracy theorists may have been viewed as eccentrics
far out on the fringe, but then Timothy McVeigh drove a truck full of
explosives to Oklahoma City and we all discovered just how dangerous it can
be when people stop
trusting the government."

As with Koppel, the problem for these CBS broadcasters , and for the shrink,
Singer, and for Potok, from that fraudulent Dees outfit, is not one of
overweening and murderous government, but of potential sedition. Anything
that disturbs popular torpor is tactically inept. Accomplices in the great
and ongoing Cover-up of Everything that Really Matters -- the central
mission of the Fourth Estate, they tremble for Power, whenever Power is
displayed in an undignified or unappetising light. The film Waco, A New
Revelation, whose
disclosures about the pyrotechnic devices CounterPunch reported many weeks
ago, has had the benign effect of discrediting the FBI and the Department of
Justice and its chieftain, but in the end it may permit the FBI to recoup,
by saying that the target of the pyrotechnic devices was just an outhouse
and that these same projectiles never struck the main building in which the

Re: [CTRL] The glorious capitalist free market economic system.

[Sean McDougal]

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History bears out that the time will come for people deciding to take charge
of their own destinies.  In the next century, the behemoth will over extend
and such will be easy.

In the meantime, Das GOAT, we need not attack ANYONE for merely stating a
fact.  That only contributes to further hesitation to state facts in the
future and only serves ignorance, as a result.

BTW, not being among those that brazenly exploit and subjugate does not make
me one of the "readily identifiable criminal class."

Are you forgetting who the true criminals are?

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Re: [CTRL] Godless Commie Rat!!!

[Sean McDougal]

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Original Message Follows
From: "M.A. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

MJ:
Capitalism has NEVER existed.
Please explain how forcibly taking from SOME and giving
this to others is moral.
..
SM:
CAPITALISM has existed for centuries and leaves no room for truly
representative government, be it socialism or any kind of truly free market.
  When manipulators have amassed much of what they cannot use, usually by
force, forcibly redistributing wealth is MORAL.

It is precisely because of attitudes like the one you put forth that a truly
free market has never existed.

Capitalism does not equal free market.
..



>From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if
we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual
position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position
would be to treat them differently.
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SM:
More doublespeak.  You would have us believe that inequality is equality.  I
suppose war is also peace.


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[CTRL] FBI and Nortel Strike Software Agreement

[Sean McDougal]

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September 14, 1999
FBI, Cos. Strike Software Agreement


Filed at 7:49 p.m. EDT

By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI reached a first-of-its-kind agreement enabling
telecommunications companies to use computer software made by Nortel
Networks to assist law enforcement agencies in conducting lawfully
authorized wiretapping.

The agreement calls for Nortel, a major supplier of telecommunications
equipment, to provide certain software to its carrier customers. Nortel will
waive the license fees.

The 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act authorized $500
million for the purpose of reimbursing the telecommunications industry for
its costs in cooperating with law enforcement agencies in wiretapping.

``Carriers can now begin taking steps to correct technological impediments
within their networks that currently prevent law enforcement from being able
to carry out court-ordered electronic surveillance directed at suspected
criminals and terrorists,'' Attorney General Janet Reno said in a statement.

The telecommunication carrier Ameritech also is a party to the agreement.
FBI Director Louis Freeh said the bureau is working toward finalizing
similar reimbursement agreements with other carriers and manufacturers.




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