[CTRL] Harry Potter - occult, Iraq - Families live in fear of US Patrols
-Caveat Lector- scroll for news articles This is fyi only Letter From A witch writing about Harry Potter "As a former witch, I can speak with authority when I say that I have examined the works of Rowling and that the Harry Potter books are training manuals for the occult. Untold millions of young people are being taught to think, speak, dress and act like witches by filling their heads with the contents of these books. Children are obsessed with the Harry Potter books that they have left television and video games to read these witchcraft manuals." http://www.harrypottermagic.org/big_deal_hp_2.htm from mparent http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-739722,00.html July 09, 2003 Families live in fear of midnight call by US patrols From Daniel McGrory in Baghdad Despair: Ghania Hassan says that her eldest son is being held as a looter for eating a biscuit given to him by a US soldier NEVER again did families in Baghdad imagine that they need fear the midnight knock at the door. But in recent weeks there have been increasing reports of Iraqi men, women and even children being dragged from their homes at night by American patrols, or snatched off the streets and taken, hooded and manacled, to prison camps around the capital. Children as young as 11 are claimed to be among those locked up for 24 hours a day in rooms with no light, or held in overcrowded tents in temperatures approaching 50C (122F). On the edge of Baghdad International Airport, US military commanders have built a tent city that human rights groups are comparing to the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Remarkably, the Americans have also set up another detention camp in the grounds of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad. Many thousands of Iraqis were taken there during the Saddam years and never seen again. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Harry Potter Broomstick
-Caveat Lector- I heard on the news here in england that the harry potter vibrating nimbus 2000 has been taken out of circulation.When Mattel were asked if it was because of its sexual nature and they said absolutely not it just wasnt selling...what tosh!!! The Mermaid xx A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Harry Rositzke, Linguist and American Spymaster, Dies at 91
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/08/obituaries/08ROSI.html?pagewanted=printposition=top November 8, 2002 Harry Rositzke, Linguist and American Spymaster, Dies at 91 By PAUL LEWIS Harry Rositzke, an American spymaster whose career veered from researching the origins of the English language to probing the inner workings of Nazi Germany and, later, the Soviet Union, died on Monday at a hospital in Warrenton, Va. He was 91 and lived in Middleburg, Va. An intelligence officer for nearly 30 years, first with the Office of Strategic Services and with its successor, the Central Intelligence Agency, Mr. Rositzke found himself at the center of wartime and then cold war covert activity. Occasionally, however, he also found himself in an unwanted limelight. Once, an office he led was accused of involvement in a failed attempt on the life of the Chinese leader Zhou Enlai. On another occasion there were suspicions, never substantiated, that he had been picked to lead an illegal C.I.A. domestic spying operation. By the time America entered World War II, Mr. Rositzke had established himself as a promising scholar of linguistics, specializing in Anglo-Saxon. Harvard had sent him to Hamburg University as a Sheldon Fellow and awarded him a doctorate for a dissertation on The Speech of Kent Before the Norman Conquest. He had also taught Anglo-Saxon at Harvard as well as at the universities of Omaha and Rochester. But the war carried him into strategic services, for which he was chief of military intelligence in London, Paris and Germany. After the war, Mr. Rositzke moved to the C.I.A. The historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., wrote in his preface to Mr. Rositzke's book The C.I.A.'s Secret Operations (Readers Digest Press, 1977), War had made him a professional, adding, Peace evidently offered him scope for analysis and action on questions more urgent than Anglo-Saxon grammar. Mr. Rositzke was the first chief of the C.I.A.'s Soviet division. From 1952-54, he ran agents against the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe out of Munich. From 1954-56, he was in charge of the operations schools in the agency's training division. In 1957, he moved to New Delhi as station chief, operating against Soviet, Chinese and Tibetan targets. In 1962, Mr. Rositzke returned to Washington where he recruited Soviet and Eastern European diplomats as informers there and in New York. But in 1967 a former State Department code clerk, John Discoe Smith, who served in India from 1954 to 1959 and later defected to the Soviet Union, published a pamphlet in which he asserted that Mr. Rositzke had been expelled from India at his instigation. Mr. Smith said he had written to Indian officials telling them that the C.I.A.'s New Delhi station had been involved in the 1955 bombing of a plane carrying the Chinese delegation to the Bandung Nonaligned Conference in the mistaken belief that Zhou Enlai was on board. India then expelled Mr. Rositzke in belated retaliation, Mr. Smith said. After a period at George Washington's Sino-Soviet Institute, Mr. Rositzke was coordinator of operations against Communist parties abroad until his retirement in 1970. Five years later, however, he found himself back in the news when the director of central intelligence, William E. Colby, published a report on the agency's illegal domestic spying operations, known as Chaos. The operations had begun under President Lyndon B. Johnson but were greatly expanded by President Richard M. Nixon. The Colby report included a memorandum dated Aug. 15, 1967, by the leader of covert operations, Thomas H. Karamessines, suggesting that Mr. Rositzke and another official, Richard Ober, be put in charge of Chaos. Whether this happened remains unclear. Heinrich August Rositzke was born on Feb. 25, 1911, in Brooklyn, the son of German immigrants. He earned his undergraduate degree at Union College in 1931. In retirement he turned to writing about intelligence matters and the cold war. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Helen Bourgeoise Rositzke; a son, John Brockman Rositzke of Jackson, Mich.; and a daughter, Anne Elizabeth Hunt Rositzke of New York. __ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat
[CTRL] harry potter and the lord of the rings
-Caveat Lector- I don't suppose anybody got the connection between Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings ?? answer - scotland - Harry Potter was written in edinburgh and probably refers to Gordonstoun - the public school in north east scotland at which the royals are educated Lord of the Rings - mentions the stone of destiny, [erec] the surrounding county around edinburgh is lothlorien, [lothians] the name of the returning king is edinburgh [dunedain] it will be the end of the stewards [stewarts] - and there is evidence to suggest that edinburgh could be the city of Minas Tirith - around which the last battle was/will be fought. Edinburgh with its seven hills, patron saint of david, and masonic secret that it was once the aryan jerusalem - pontius pilates family stayed 50 miles north of edinburgh - and like the jerusalem in the bible - edinburgh has the port of Joppa - not jaffa. The NWO has sneaked out 2 films that centre around the scottish question - maybe we should take note. andrew hennessey www.scottishxfiles.co.uk www.fantasyedinburgh.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Harry the Pot(ter)
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/nov/22/rockyd.htm }}}Begin The Great Thanksgiving Hoax By Richard J. Marbury 11.22.01 Each year at this time school children all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating. It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and sanitized collection of half-truths which divert attention away from Thanksgiving's real meaning. The official story has the Pilgrims boarding the Mayflower, coming to America and establishing the Plymouth colony in the winter of 1620-21. This first winter is hard, and half the colonists die. But the survivors are hard working and tenacious, and they learn new farming techniques from the Indians. The harvest of 1621 is bountiful. The Pilgrims hold a celebration, and give thanks to God. They are grateful for the wonderful new abundant land He has given them. The official story then has the Pilgrims living more or less happily ever after, each year repeating the first Thanksgiving. Other early colonies also have hard times at first, but they soon prosper and adopt the annual tradition of giving thanks for this prosperous new land called America. The problem with this official story is that the harvest of 1621 was not bountiful, nor were the colonists hardworking or tenacious. 1621 was a famine year and many of the colonists were lazy thieves. In his 'History of Plymouth Plantation,' the governor of the colony, William Bradford, reported that the colonists went hungry for years, because they refused to work in the fields. They preferred instead to steal food. He says the colony was riddled with corruption, and with confusion and discontent. The crops were small because much was stolen both by night and day, before it became scarce eatable. In the harvest feasts of 1621 and 1622, all had their hungry bellies filled, but only briefly. The prevailing condition during those years was not the abundance the official story claims, it was famine and death. The first Thanksgiving was not so much a celebration as it was the last meal of condemned men. But in subsequent years something changed. The harvest of 1623 was different. Suddenly, instead of famine now God gave them plenty, Bradford wrote, and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God. Thereafter, he wrote, any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day. In fact, in 1624, so much food was produced that the colonists were able to begin exporting corn. What happened? After the poor harvest of 1622, writes Bradford, they began to think how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop. They began to question their form of economic organization. This had required that all profits benefits that are got by trade, working, fishing, or any other means were to be placed in the common stock of the colony, and that, all such persons as are of this colony, are to have their meat, drink, apparel, and all provisions out of the common stock. A person was to put into the common stock all he could, and take out only what he needed. This from each according to his ability, to each according to his need was an early form of socialism, and it is why the Pilgrims were starving. Bradford writes that young men that are most able and fit for labor and service complained about being forced to spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children. Also, the strong, or man of parts, had no more in division of victuals and clothes, than he that was weak. So the young and strong refused to work and the total amount of food produced was never adequate. To rectify this situation, in 1623 Bradford abolished socialism. He gave each household a parcel of land and told them they could keep what they produced, or trade it away as they saw fit. In other words, he replaced socialism with a free market, and that was the end of famines. Many early groups of colonists set up socialist states, all with the same terrible results. At Jamestown, established in 1607, out of every shipload of settlers that arrived, less than half would survive their first twelve months in America. Most of the work was being done by only one-fifth of the men, the other four-fifths choosing to be parasites. In the winter of 1609-10, called The Starving Time, the population fell from five hundred to sixty. Then the Jamestown colony was converted to a free market, and the results were every bit as dramatic as those at Plymouth. In 1614, Colony Secretary Ralph Hamor wrote that after the switch there was plenty of food, which every man by his own industry may easily and doth procure. He said that when the socialist system had prevailed, we reaped not so much
[CTRL] Harry Browne: How can we prevent future terrorist attacks?
Preventing future terrorism Harry Browne http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25147 How can we prevent future terrorist attacks? The first step is a foreign policy that rests on a simple principle: We're prepared to defend ourselves, but we threaten no one. Such a foreign policy should have four elements: 1. Non-interference Our government should never interfere in other countries' disputes, never arm foreign governments and never give terrorists a reason to pressure our government. The idea that our government acts to defend human rights around the world is absurd. It replaces democratically elected governments with dictators like the Shah of Iran or Augusto Pinochet. And it rarely comes close to achieving any of its goals. Too often, Americans have fought and died for nothing. Any American who wants to fight for or send money to a foreign government or revolutionary movement should be free to do so (even though that's currently illegal). But our government should stay out of such conflicts. When the U.S. no longer imposes its way on foreign people, those people will have no reason to fear us or hate us. 2. No foreign aid or military assistance The Constitution doesn't authorize our government to use your money to support foreign governments. It's not only unconstitutional, it's unfair. As Fred Smith has pointed out, foreign aid taxes poor people in rich countries for the benefit of rich people in poor countries. And by giving tons of money and military hardware to Israel's enemies, the politicians can say we have to give massive aid to Israel to keep it from being destroyed. Every American should be free to send money or weapons to any government anywhere. But you shouldn't be taxed for that purpose. Without our government arming dictators, the dictators' subjects would have no reason to hate us or fear us. 3. Security against attack If the world's bad people want to conquer America, they'd have to pulverize American cities until we submit to being occupied. In 1983 Ronald Reagan said America should protect itself against missile attacks. Unfortunately, he gave the job to the Department of Defense which is really the Post Office in fatigues. And so, 18 years later, we're no closer to being protected than we were in 1983. We should rely as little as possible on politics and bureaucracy to achieve anything. The government should simply post a reward say, $25 billion to go to the first private company that produces a functioning, fool-proof missile defense. We'd probably have it within five years. Will that make us 100 percent secure? Of course not. Nothing will. But it will make us far safer than we are today. And it will eliminate a principal excuse for meddling in other countries' affairs, so that foreign people have no reason to hate us or fear us. 4. Target the aggressors, not the innocent Even with a missile defense, America could be threatened by a foreign ruler. But a Libertarian president would target the aggressor himself not his innocent subjects. He would warn the ruler that an actual attack against the U.S. would trigger the posting of a reward of, say, $100 million for the person who kills the ruler. Everyone would be eligible to collect the reward including the ruler's guards and wives. This response would spare both innocent foreigners and Americans. Only those who try for the reward would be at risk. Americans wouldn't fight and die invading a foreign country. If you believe assassination is an unsavory act, what's the alternative killing thousands of people? Once we stop bullying innocent foreigners, they will have no reason to hate us or fear us. Peace for all time These policies will produce a strong national defense instead of the strong national offense we now have. And terrorists will have no reason to attack us. Then we must find a way to permanently stop politicians from playing with loaded weapons. Here's a start a proposed Peace Amendment to the Constitution: Except in time of war as declared by Congress, the United States will deploy no military personnel or weapons outside the boundaries of the United States; will not provide money, military equipment or other resources to foreign governments; and will not attack any foreign power. Upon any violation of this article, Congress will immediately institute impeachment proceedings against the president. If such an amendment had been enforced over the past 55 years, it would have: Prevented the deaths of almost 100,000 American military personnel; Saved each American family thousands of dollars in foreign aid most of which went into the pockets of foreign dictators; Saved a trillion dollars in unnecessary military costs; and Allowed people around the world to like us for what we are, instead of hating us because of our government's meddling. And it's 99 percent
[CTRL] Harry-ness
-Caveat Lector- This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?24080 Thursday, August 16, 2001 JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY Potter books: Wicked witchcraft? New documentary claims tales lead kids to the occult By Julie Foster © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com As kids around the world anxiously await the fall opening of Warner Bros.' film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, an occult expert has released a documentary video, Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged, Making Evil Look Innocent, claiming the Harry Potter phenomenon is incompatibile with Christianity. With four books of the seven-book series published since 1999, Harry Potter's popularity has skyrocketed. The young character is the creation of British author J.K. Rowling, who is expected to finish the fifth installment of the series next year. Now, with the first of several feature-film adaptations of the children's story set to open on Nov. 16, Harry Potter fever has started heating up again. The books made headlines in the United States in 1999, after the first Harry Potter installment was released stateside. Shortly thereafter, many parents and religious groups expressed concern that the story should not be taken lightly as mere children's fantasy literature. Critics disapprove of the books' presentation of the occult as a positive, virtuous lifestyle. To understand the controversy surrounding the books, it is necessary to review their content. While not all of the characters and story lines may be explored in this report, a few key elements should be discussed. Set in England, the books chronicle the life of young Harry Potter, whose wizard parents were killed by the evil Lord Voldemort. Because Harry escaped the death curse of Voldemort, he was given a mark on his forehead a lightening bolt. On his 11th birthday, Harry receives an invitation to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Each of the four published books represents a year at Hogwarts. Voldemort is a non-physical dark magic being who inhabits the bodies of various characters in the books. Perhaps most notably, Voldemort possesses Quirrell, Hogwarts' Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Voldemort taught Quirrell, There is no good and evil; there is only power, and those too weak to seek it. The evil lord made Quirrell his slave and could be seen on the back of the teacher's head, which Quirrell covered with a turban. Book one explains this phenomenon: Where there should have been a back to Quirrels head, there was a face, the most terrible face Harry had ever seen. It was chalk white with glaring red eyes and slits for nostrils, like a snake. See what I have become? the face said. Mere shadow and vapor. I have form only when I can share another's body but there have always been those willing to let me into their hearts and minds. Unicorn blood has strengthened me these past weeks. Once I have the Elixir of Life, I will be able to create a body of my own. Voldemort, according to Hogwarts' Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, is looking for another body to share. not being truly alive, he cannot be killed. When Voldemort dispossessed Quirrell, the teacher died. Rowling has said publicly that she intentionally created the graphic evil characters and scenes in her wildly popular series. I made a very conscious decision right at the beginning that I was writing about someone evil, and I wasn't going to tell a lie. I wasn't going to pretend that an evil person is a paper cutout and no one really gets hurt. OK, if you're writing about evil, I think generally you have a responsibility to show what that means, and that's the way I'm writing them. I think they're quite, well actually, I think they're very moral books, Rowlings told a television news program. Many agree with the author's premise, but critics object to the use of witchcraft and wizardry in fighting evil, not to mention the book's graphic depictions of evil. Even the good wizards in Harry's world cause eyebrows to be raised in many circles. One such example is found in Headmaster Dumbledore. Dumbledore is the one wizard Voldemort fears. In book one, the headmaster explains how his 666-year-old business partner Nicolas Flamel and Nicolas' wife, Perenelle, will die. The couple awaits permission from Dumbledore to kill themselves. Explaining to an astonished Harry, the headmaster says, To one as young as you, I'm sure it seems incredible, but to Nicolas and Perenelle, it really is like going to bed after a very, very long day. After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. There are varying degrees of opposition to the Harry Potter books, from those who choose not to allow their own children to read the series to those who would have the book banned. One woman, filmmaker and occult expert Caryl Matrisciana, focuses her efforts on explaining what she believes
[CTRL] Harry Truman, War Criminal
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j081001.html HARRY TRUMAN, WAR CRIMINAL WorldNetDaily's Tom Ambrose defends the undefendable My last column, "Hiroshima Mon Amour: Why Americans are barbarians," has provoked a storm of protest from the clueless and the humorless – reinforcing my own conviction that Americans, for the most part, are indeed barbarians, without the ability or the desire to overcome their brainwashing and engage in even the simplest tasks of reasoning. They don't know their own history, except as recycled and rewritten by CNN and the court historians, and, what's more, they don't want to know. As evidence of this brain-dead state, I submit a screed by Tom Ambrose, an assistant editor over at WorldNetDaily, imaginatively entitled "Raimondo's Wrong." A GREAT HONOR? Ambrose revs up his readers with a prefatory note about how he's never ever felt the need to "spar with other columnists" – with one exception that proves the rule – "no matter how much I disagreed with them. Until today." To what do I owe this great honor? Ambrose writes: "If his intention was to push people's buttons, he surely succeeded in that endeavor with me. I regard what he wrote as a thoughtless, warped rant – a pile of pacifistic pap with little redeeming value." PACIFISTIC OR PUGILISTIC? Pacifistic? Me? *Sigh* Okay, maybe I was a little unclear; maybe I waffled just a little bit, and didn't state my case against the US in unequivocally black-and-white terms, words even an Epsilon Minus Semi-Moron could understand, so here goes: I am not just saying that the US should have refrained from nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I am telling you that the war in the Pacific was a monstrous injustice from the word go. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's policy was to provoke, entice, and otherwise entrap the Japanese into war. He couldn't get into the war by the front door, in Europe, because the American people overwhelmingly opposed such a course, so he chose to go in through the back. Now this is a thesis not entirely unknown to Ambrose: indeed, he not only alludes to it later on in his rambling diatribe, but indicates his substantial agreement, admitting that: "There is strong evidence that the US acted in a way that helped lead to the Japanese decision to draw first blood. To his credit, Raimondo previously got this part of the story right." THE WHOLE STORY This is not just "part of the story," it is the whole story. It is astonishing that, to illustrate this one point of agreement between us, Ambrose links to my review of Thomas Fleming's The New Dealers' War, a book which shows how FDR, in response to the failure of his policies at home, sought US intervention in the war as the solution to his political and economic problems. But if Ambrose agrees that US involvement in that war was a colossal mistake – and not just that but part of a concerted policy by FDR and his closest advisors to socialize the American economy, smash domestic opposition, and build up the Soviet Union, as Fleming avers – then how could the murderous culmination of that very policy be justified? If the Pacific war was a mistake at its root, in its very origins, then surely its horrifying climax was something less than desirable. THE TRUTH ABOUT PEARL HARBOR Furthermore, in my review of the Fleming book, cited by Ambrose, I also discuss the thesis of Robert Stinnett's Day of Deceit, a book that proves FDR knew in advance about the Japanese "sneak attack" on Pearl Harbor. Stinnett, using the Freedom of Information Act, analyzes documents previously withheld from the public and shows just what the US government knew, and how and when they knew it, tracing the flow of information from US intelligence sources all the way up to the White House. Not only did they know about the Pearl Harbor "surprise" weeks in advance, but FDR and his cronies consciously engineered it, and were, in their own way, just as responsible as the Japanese warlords who gave the order to attack. Japan is entirely bereft of oil, rubber, tin, and virtually all of the natural resources necessary for the maintenance of modern civilization: she is forced to go abroad for them. But if the free flow of commerce is obstructed, and such items cannot be obtained peacefully, by means of trade, then Nippon must procure them in other ways – or else live a life of primitive privation. Faced with the prospect of death by strangulation or war, the Japanese chose the latter – and who can blame them? The Japanese attack, seen in the context of the economic blockade imposed on Japan by the Western powers, was a desperate act of self-defense. THE REAL AGGRESSORS Japanese diplomats desperately tried to come to some accommodation with the US, but FDR was intransigent: under no circumstances would he either lift the embargo, or permit a Japanese challenge to British, French, and Dutch hegemony in Southeast Asia. Seen against
[CTRL] Harry Browne on W
-Caveat Lector- Should we give George Bush another chance? Harry Browne --- © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com WorldNetDaily Publisher Joseph Farah received a lot of flak from readers when he suggested that the Bush presidency may be considerably less than what you dream of. The theme of the flak was, "Shut up and give George Bush a chance." But this overlooks the record. What the Bush backers should have said was, "Shut up and give Bush another chance." He's already had a chance. In fact, he's had two of them -- and he failed in both cases. The big-government governor The first chance was his reign as governor of Texas. He had almost six years to work for smaller government. Is the Texas government less expensive, less intrusive, less oppressive than it was six years ago? Hardly. The Texas Eagle Forum says government in Texas grew by over a third between 1995 and 1999. New gun-control laws were enacted. No state agencies or departments were eliminated. So he flunked his first chance. And that's in a state that's supposedly conservative. Do you expect him to be more libertarian now that he has to please a whole nation o f special-interest groups? The big-government candidate George Bush's second chance came during the recent campaign. He was running against a politician who was on the side of bigger government on every issue. Bush had a golden opportunity to gain major support by calling attention to the expense, futility and danger of Al Gore's big-government schemes. Instead, Bush offered his own version of each of these obscenities. Running against an obvious petty dictator, he barely squeaked out a victory because he never offered a true contrast. Oh yes, when speaking in generalities, he was for limited government, "strict construction of the Constitution," and the like. But whenever he was specific, it was always for bigger and bigger government that violated constitutional restraints. Take health care. We once had the best health-care system in history: personal service from doctors, low-cost hospitals, free clinics, charity hospitals and health insurance accessible to virtually everyone. Then the politicians created Medicare and turned our health-care system into a nightmare. So what cure did George Bush offer? He proposed a new government boondoggle for prescription drugs. Four years from now, I hope you aren't in dire need of a life-saving medicine. He presented big-government schemes for education, welfare, campaign finance, and any other area that was an election issue. And what government programs did he promise to get rid of -- or even reduce? None. He flunked his second chance. The big-government president George Bush is already failing his third chance. He's staffing his administration with out-of-work liberal politicians and retreads from previous Republican presidencies. There's one appointee who fits neither of those categories, but is even worse. That's John Ashcroft, who will be attorney general. Here's a man who has no more respect for the Constitution or your liberty than Janet Reno does. He's apparently never met an invasion of your freedom that he didn't think was necessary to fight crime or drugs. This demonstrates once again that there's really very little difference between the left and the right. Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. Thanks to George Bush and John Ashcroft, four years from now it will be easier for the government to tap your phone, read your email, snoop in your bank account, raid your home by mistake, and regiment your life. It doesn't matter whether you have an interest in guns or drugs or crime, because every American citizen will lose another chunk of his remaining freedom. What do you expect? Government spending, government snooping, government gun control -- all will expand in a Bush administration. This isn't conjecture or ill-wishing. It is simply obvious. Part of the reason is that the conservative organizations that would raise a stink if Bill Clinton proposed to steal your freedom will go into hibernation now that "one of our own" is safely in the White House. Do you really think George Bush is going to stop the federal government from snooping in your bank account and your e-mail? Do you really think he's going to stop the deterioration of health care and education by getting the federal government out of those areas? Do you really think he's going to stop risking your life by antagonizing foreign countries? If you believe any of those things, I have just two words for you: Grow up. What do you want? If what you want in a President is someone -- anyone -- who isn't Bill Clinton or Al Gore, then George Bush will suffice very well. But if what you want is someone
[CTRL] Harry Oppenheimer left £30 million, a fraction of what he is said to have been worth
-Caveat Lector- London Times FRIDAY OCTOBER 20 2000 CATHY PINNOCK/AP Harry Oppenheimer left £30 million, a fraction of what he is said to have been worth Mining tycoon hides his family fortune FROM MICHAEL DYNES IN JOHANNESBURG HARRY OPPENHEIMER, the South African mining magnate reputed to be one of the ten richest men in the world, went to his grave leaving little trace of his vast personal fortune thought to be more than £3 billion, it was revealed yesterday. The former head of the Anglo American Corporation and De Beers, two of the world's largest mining companies, left a will declaring his personal wealth at a paltry 307 million rand (£30 million), a fraction of his real net worth. Like other billionaires, Mr Oppenheimer, who died in August aged 91 after a brief illness, appears to have deposited the bulk of his vast fortune, accumulated from mining gold, diamonds and other minerals, in a trust to protect his assets for the future benefit of his family. Most of the wealth declared in his will goes to his widow, Bridget, to whom he was married for 57 years, including his extensive art collection, a stud farm in Kimberley, and all his racehorse enterprises, along with properties, stocks and cash. A lifelong collector of art, Mr Oppenheimer is said by friends to have accumulated "the most fabulous collections of art and Africana," including the "most extraordinary collection of Thomas Baines originals." His horse-breeding business at Mauritzfontein, Kimberley, is said to be worth several million dollars. In addition to leaving no clues as to the whereabouts of the missing billions, Mr Oppenheimer's £30 million will, which is only provisional as the value of his estate is still being finalised, also makes no mention of his son, Nicholas, the chairman of De Beers, his daughter, Mary, his five grandchildren, and his two great-grandchildren. All are expected to benefit from the wealth tied up in the Harry Oppenheimer Family Trust. Attempts to minimise death duties through the use of trust funds are legal, but questions are bound to be asked about the ethical implications of South Africa's richest individual protecting his vast personal wealth from taxation in a country where millions of people live in grinding poverty and where the Government does not have the resources to improve their lot. Although Mr Oppenheimer was widely regarded as a great philanthropist, his business interests benefited considerably from the pool of cheap black labour provided under the former apartheid regime. Some critics have insisted that he did not do enough to bring that system down. They are now likely to be outraged that his personal fortune has been placed beyond the reach of the taxman too. Mr Oppenheimer inherited control of the family's already substantial mining empire from his father, Sir Ernest, in 1957, before transforming it into one of the world's greatest mining houses. Harry was born in England in 1908 into a middle-class family that later moved to South Africa. His father was Jewish, but the family converted to Anglicanism. Sir Ernest founded Anglo American - which was valued on the London Stock Exchange last year at £8.4 billion - in 1917 and became chairman of De Beers in 1929. The young Harry was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, and served a tough apprenticeship in the family business during the Depression, before becoming the driving force behind the expansion of the Oppenheimers' worldwide mining interests, which he ran from a small room on the first floor of Anglo American's Johannesburg offices. He was a quiet, polite, even bookish man, with a passion for the Romantic poets, especially Byron. During the 1980s he was credited with taking the initiative to promote negotiations with the banned African National Congress in an effort to bring an end to white minority rule. An avowed capitalist with a social conscience, Mr Oppenheimer played a leading role in ensuring that Anglo American and De Beers ploughed some of their profits back into the community for large-scale development projects. The family also contributes to charity through the E. Oppenheimer Foundation. Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, his successor as President of South Africa, paid tribute to Mr Oppenheimer after his death "for building the economy and creating employment for hundreds of thousands of South African citizens". Overseeing the multibillion-pound business interests has always rested firmly on the shoulders of the men in the family. Mr Oppenheimer's son took over the chairmanship of De Beers in 1998, becoming the third generation of Oppenheimers to run the company. Rumour has it that Nicholas's son, Jonathan, is being groomed to take over the family business. Surprisingly, not one of the seven Oppenheimer women has ever entered or shown any interest in taking over the reins of the dynasty. Mr Oppenheimer's daughter, Mary, who has been married and divorced three times, has gone out of her
[CTRL] Harry Potter Casts a Spell on China
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=207033 Click Here: A HREF="http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=207033"Inside China Today Daily News - Harry Potter Ca /A - Home General NewsHarry Potter Casts a Spell on China BEIJING, Oct 6, 2000 -- (Reuters) Harry Potter made a splashy official debut in China on Friday, despite anxious debate within the People's Literature Publishing House over whether the schoolboy wizard was politically correct. An initial print run of 600,000 copies of the first three children's books by British author J.K. Rowling was rushed to market to beat pirates already making a killing. The biggest first edition run of a work of fiction in the 51-year history of Communist China attracted long queues outside Wangfujing Bookstore in Beijing's main shopping district that stretched halfway around the block. Wang Ruiqin, children's editor for People's Literature Publishing House - publisher of the Collected Poems of Mao Zedong - said she fought criticism that Harry Potter with his vampires, zombies and trolls promoted superstition. After the Communists took power in 1949 they outlawed "feudal superstition" along with a host of other evils, including prostitution and drugs. "Some who have not read the book feel it is just like witchcraft, but after you read it you will not feel that way," she said. The editorial board was persuaded by the argument that Harry Potter was a fine role model for children. "Harry Potter's courage, his willingness to help people - this is universal," she said. CULTURAL CLASH? Customers paid a hefty CNY 68 (USD 8.20) for the books printed on special green-tinted paper to foil counterfeiters. The Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets and the Prisoner of Azkaban are being sold as a trilogy. People's Literature Publishing House is negotiating for rights to the fourth in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and could bring it to market next year depending on the response to the first three, Wang said. "For Chinese readers, it has been a long wait," said publishing house president Nie Zhenning. First in line on Friday was Zhang Huitou, who waited more than three hours to get his hands on the set for his 11-year-old daughter after reading a newspaper account of the exploits of the boy wizard "Hali Bote", as he is known in Chinese. "This really makes Chinese kids excited," said Zhang. The publisher moved the launch in major cities up by a week to cut down on counterfeiting, but already three or four pirated versions are circulating on the streets. It said readers would be swayed by the more accurate translation and high quality of genuine copies. The publisher hopes the three books, which have sold more than 35 million copies worldwide, will provide commercial magic in China. But some literary critics are not so sure. "The cultural difference is too great," said Chen Jie, a writer for China Reading Weekly. "I'm not too optimistic about the China market." Gao Wei, a 27-year-old nursery school teacher, said he was buying the books for his classes, and himself. "Nine years old or 100 years old, we're all interested in Harry Potter," he said. (C)2000 Copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters Limited. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Harry
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nterview with Harry Browne
By Brian Weiss
Ralph Nader might make the most noise, and the battle over the Reform party
may hog the headlines, but the Libertarian party and presidential candidate
Harry Browne have quietly emerged as America's best organized third party.
Running for president for the second time, candidate Harry Browne talks to
Georgemag.com about his message of eliminating the income tax, stopping the War
on Drugs and why Al Gore and George W. Bush might belong in prison.
For people who may not be familiar with it, explain the Libertarian philosophy.
It's very simple. Libertarians want you to be free to live your life as you
want to live it, just as long as you don't intrude on somebody else's person or
property. Libertarians think you go to work everyday, so you ought to keep the
money that you earn. If the politicians want some of that money, they ought to
ask for it instead of taking it by force. This is what separated America from
the rest of the world. Instead of kings ruling by divine right you had a right
to self-determination. All of that has been lost in the United States.
Politicians decide everything. They decide how much of your income you are
going to be allowed to keep, they decide how big your toilet is going to be,
they decide how your child's school is going to be run, how your health
insurance company has to treat you. They make all the rules. And as a result,
America is no different from any other country in the world.
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Integrity has no need of rules. -Albert Camus (1913-1960)
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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking
new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust
The libertarian therefore considers one of his prime educational
tasks is to spread the demystification and desanctification of the
State among its hapless subjects. His task is to demonstrate
repeatedly and in depth that not only the emperor but even the
"democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist
by exploitive rule over the public; and that such rule is the reverse
of objective necessity. He strives to show that the existence of
taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between
the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled. He seeks to show that
the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State
has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to
accept State rule and that these intellectuals obtain, in return, a
share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded
subjects.
[[For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Murray N. Rothbard,
Fox Wilkes, 1973, 1978, p. 25]]
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[CTRL] Harry Browne Speaks
-Caveat Lector- http://www2.georgemag.com/interviews/harry1.html Interview with Harry Browne By Brian Weiss Ralph Nader might make the most noise, and the battle over the Reform party may hog the headlines, but the Libertarian party and presidential candidate Harry Browne have quietly emerged as America's best organized third party. Running for president for the second time, candidate Harry Browne talks to Georgemag.com about his message of eliminating the income tax, stopping the War on Drugs and why Al Gore and George W. Bush might belong in prison. For people who may not be familiar with it, explain the Libertarian philosophy. It's very simple. Libertarians want you to be free to live your life as you want to live it, just as long as you don't intrude on somebody else's person or property. Libertarians think you go to work everyday, so you ought to keep the money that you earn. If the politicians want some of that money, they ought to ask for it instead of taking it by force. This is what separated America from the rest of the world. Instead of kings ruling by divine right you had a right to self-determination. All of that has been lost in the United States. Politicians decide everything. They decide how much of your income you are going to be allowed to keep, they decide how big your toilet is going to be, they decide how your child's school is going to be run, how your health insurance company has to treat you. They make all the rules. And as a result, America is no different from any other country in the world. Who is Harry Browne? Where did he come from and what infused him with Libertarian values? I was born in New York City, grew up in Los Angeles and moved to Tennessee five years ago. I have also lived in Switzerland, Canada and California. Professionally, I was in the investment world for thirty years and wrote a number of books, published a newsletter and was an investment consultant. But I didn't vote for 30 years, because I didn't see any point in trying to chose between Democrats and Republicans because I knew that no matter who got elected, government was just going to get bigger and more expensive and more intrusive and more oppressive. So you became a Libertarian? I joined the Libertarian party in 1994 and ran for president in 1996 because I though we had reached the point where people were so disenchanted with government that we really did have a chance to turn things around and to reduce the size government dramatically. And we have a chance to give you your freedom back and let you run your life instead of having Al Gore or George Bush do it. Explain "The Great Libertarian Offer" in the party's platform? The Great Libertarian offer asks this question: Would you give up your favorite federal programs if it meant you never had to pay income tax again? We want government to live by it's constitutional mandate. There might be one or two things you are getting from the government that you don't want to give up, but under a Libertarian president, you're never going to pay income tax again, and your children will never pay income tax. Your grandchildren will go through life without ever having to pay the terrible burden of taxation that you had to endure. Early on, there was a lot of speculation that Pat Buchanan's candidacy would siphon votes from Bush. More recently Ralph Nader seemed to pose a similar threat to Al Gore. From which party do you take votes? Our situation is a bit different. All I have is anecdotal evidence, no statistics, but it would certainly appear from the people who call the talk shows and from the people I meet at political events that we are getting about 1/3 of our new votes from Democrats and 1/3 from Republicans. The other 1/3 are from people who just haven't voted in the past because they didn't see any point to it. This is your second run for the presidency. In 1996 you received about half a million votes. What are you doing differently this time around? We have gotten better at presenting the message as anybody would over a period of time. But the political landscape continues to change in the sense that people are just becoming more and more disenchanted with government. So is this approach working? Is your message resonating? Oh sure. The party is nearly three times as large as it was in the beginning of 1996. This makes it possible for us to do a lot of things we weren't able to do last time. We are doing a lot more national TV advertising this time. I've been on far more national television shows than I was in all of 1996. It won't be enough to elect us this year, but every vote that I get lays the groundwork to elect a Libertarian president and Libertarian congresspeople in 2002, 2004, 2006. I believe it is entirely possible that we could have a Libertarian president and congress before the end of this decade. Is your philosophy a harder sell amidst the prosperity in America? I don't think so. We simply have to change the question from
[CTRL] Harry S Truman and the origins of the national security state.
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/people/hogan.htm A HREF="http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/people/hogan.htm"Hogan/A - Ought to be interesting. Also this book should be also; Informal Entente: The Private Structure of Cooperation in Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy, 1918-1928 (1977) Anybody read? Om K - Michael J. Hogan; B.A., University of Northern Iowa, 1965; M.A., 1967; Ph.D., 1974, University of Iowa. Professor Hogan is a specialist in the history of recent American diplomacy and chair of the Department of History at The Ohio State University. He is also the editor of Diplomatic History, an international journal for specialists in diplomacy and foreign affairs. He is the author of Informal Entente: The Private Structure of Cooperation in Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy, 1918-1928 (1977) and The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952 (1987). He is the recipient of the Stuart L. Bernath Lecture and Book Prizes of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Quincy Wright Book Prize of the International Studies Association, and the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association. His last book was an edited volume on Hiroshima in History and Memory (1996). Professor Hogan is currently finishing a book on Harry S Truman and the origins of the national security state. His e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] He can also be reached at (614) 292-2674. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Harry: Dr Slick (In the form of Dr. Suess)
-Caveat Lector- Harry: Please: Who wrote this? I wish I knew! Someone FWD'ed through my list. I thought it was a riot. Edward []===[] "If you think they're out to get you, you're right." Edward Britton http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5285/connector1.html Talk to the planet. Subscribe to Reality Pump: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/Reality_Pump2 []===[] DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
