-Caveat Lector- also has The War on Terrorism is a fraud.
"Majorities of Americans now think the Bush administration and Vice President Dick Cheney are hiding something about their dealings with Enron....Most Americans believe big business has too much influence on both Congress and the current Administration.... Now, three quarters of the public think the Bush Administration is either hiding something or lying when it comes to its dealings with Enron executives." this may be heavy for survivors of abuse. FBI Busts Teen Sex Ring - 2/28/02 "The News2Houston Investigators reported Wednesday night in an exclusive story that the FBI (news - web sites) has busted a teenage sex ring wide open. The teenage sex ring spanned across several states. It landed an untold number of teenage girls in so-called modeling studios in Houston, as adult men raked in the money from their sex slavery. The pimps used a video camera to keep track of how good the business was for prostitutes in several cities. The FBI seized the video of one pimp, as he found a new hot sport to bring underage girls for prostitution.....Daniel McNeal, 30, is just beginning 3 1/2 years in federal prison. McNeal of Las Vegas begged for a light sentence, but the federal judge said that he put so many young girls to work in these clubs that the maximum sentence was in order." Archdiocese May Pay $30M to Settle - 3/6/02 - By ROBERT O'NEILL, Associated Press Writer "Negotiations between the Boston Archdiocese and people who say they were sexually abused by a former priest have stalled on two factors — neither of which is money, the plaintiffs' lawyer said Wednesday. Mitchell Garabedian, who represents the plaintiffs in civil lawsuits against defrocked priest John Geoghan, refused to detail the points of contention. "We have two sticking points, all I can say is they don't concern money," Garabedian said. The reported framework for a settlement would give up to $30 million to the 86 plaintiffs, which include 70 people who claimed they were abused by Geoghan. Each would receive an average of $232,000 to $348,000 each, with an arbitrator deciding the amount in each case, The Boston Globe reported." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020306/ap_on_re_us/church_ abuse_settlement_5 related article - Boston Globe Online - Metro Region - $20m accord seen in Geoghan cases - http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/064/metro/_20m_accord_seen_in_Geoghan_case s+.shtml "Since the mid-1990s, the church has paid another 100 victims of Geoghan an estimated $15 million. If the church pays just the minimum, $20 million, under the new agreement, that would put the cost of the pedophilia of one priest at $35 million. The arbitrator's decisions could push that cost higher....In addition to the 84 lawsuits that are headed for settlement, there are four other pending lawsuits against Geoghan, and 48 claims pending against other priests." Native lawsuits fuel costly bureaucracy By Michael Valpy - Religion and Ethics Reporter 3/5/02 - Globe and Mail - "The federal government has created a $53-million bureaucracy to work on resolving aboriginal residential school claims despite its failure to reach any agreement on liability and redress with the churches that ran the schools on Ottawa's behalf. The Office of Indian Residential Schools Resolution of Canada, which has the status of a full government department and is run by a deputy minister, has more than 50 employees, the services of 72 lawyers and an unknown number of researchers commissioned to examine claims of physical and sexual abuse by former students. There are approximately 9,000 individual claims. About 160,000 aboriginal children passed through the schools before the last one was closed at the end of the 1960s....The government says it has allocated $20-million for compensation, which is part of the $53-million budget, and is moving toward out-of-court settlements. The rest of the budget goes toward office operations." Major NGO Groups Moves to Protect Children From Abuse 3/4/02 - "Washington (Reuters) - America's largest coalition of non-governmental aid organizations said on Monday it would establish a task force aimed at protecting displaced children from sexual exploitation. The move by InterAction, whose 160 members conduct overseas relief and development in 100 nations, came after findings of widespread child abuse by aid workers in West Africa. The study by UNHCR and Britain's Save the Children released last week found that almost 70 aid workers from 40 agencies had been pushing refugee children in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone into sex in exchange for food, medicine and other supplies sent to save their lives. http://news1.iwon.com/article/id/215359|top|03-03-2002::13:40|reuters.html Lieberman: Action Against Iraq Might Start Secretly March 3, 2002 1:17 pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Democrat said on Sunday that U.S. action against Baghdad might begin without notification to Congress to allow President Bush "to employ surprise in attacking or going against the leadership of Iraq." Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat and former vice presidential candidate, criticized the Bush administration for generally failing to consult enough with members of Congress in the ongoing war against terrorism, telling CBS's "Face the Nation" program: "The administration could at this point do a better job of involving members of Congress in some of the discussions about where the war is going." http://alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12525 The Enron-Cheney-Taliban Connection? Ron Callari, Albion Monitor February 28, 2002 Enron is a scandal so enormous that it's hard to wrap your mind around it. Not just a single financial disaster, it's actually a jigsaw of interlocking scandals, each outrageous in its own right. There's Enron the Wall St. con game, where company bookkeepers used sleight of hand to turn four years of steady losses into stunning profits. There's Enron the reverse Robin Hood, which stole from its own employees even as its executives were hauling millions of dollars out the backdoor. There's Enron's Ken Lay the Kingmaker, who used the corporation's fraudulent wealth to broker elections and skew public policy to his liking. And then there are the Enron coverups, as documents are shredded and the White House seeks to conceal details about meetings between Enron and Vice President Cheney. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/02/28/opinion/printable502464.shtmlCBSNews _com Poll: Enron Hurting White House NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2002 The latest CBS News poll shows the fallout from the Enron bankruptcy continues to haunt the Bush Administration. Majorities of Americans now think the Bush administration and Vice President Dick Cheney are hiding something about their dealings with Enron. For the Vice President, the Enron connection comes in the form of the General Accounting Office lawsuit to access records from his energy task force meetings with industry executives. Most Americans believe big business has too much influence on both Congress and the current Administration.... Now, three quarters of the public think the Bush Administration is either hiding something or lying when it comes to its dealings with Enron executives, up from 67% just a month ago. The number of people who say the Administration is lying has more than doubled, to one in five now. Only 13% think members of the Bush Administration are telling the entire truth. IS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THEIR DEALINGS WITH ENRON? Now Telling the truth 13% Hiding something 55 Lying 20 1/02 Telling the truth 17% Hiding something 58 Lying 9 Moreover, a majority of the public, 56%, says the Bush Administration is hiding "something the public needs to know" in their dealings with Enron. Just a month ago, 44% said so. IS THE ADMINISTRATION HIDING SOMETHING THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW? Now Hiding something, public needs to know 56% Hiding something, public doesn't need to know 19 Not hiding anything 13 1/02 Hiding something, public needs to know 44 Hiding something, public doesn't need to know 21 Not hiding anything 17.... There is another potential problem for the Bush Administration. Vice President Dick Cheney is currently facing a lawsuit by the General Accounting Office to make public records from meetings his energy task force held with executives from the energy industry, including some executives from the now-bankrupt Enron. 53% think Cheney is refusing to hand over records from those meetings because he has something to hide, and 37% think he is doing so on principle. WHY IS CHENEY REFUSING TO DIVULGE RECORDS ON TASK FORCE? Hiding something 53% Principle 37 http://victoria.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=2421&group=webcast The War on Terrorism is a fraud. Its purpose is to maintain carte blanche for the ever more desperate agenda of American capital: the domination of the continent of Eurasia, and the crushing of the Left worldwide, especially its anti-capitalist core. 9/11 : A DESPERATE PROVOCATION BY U.S. CAPITALISM The "War on Terrorism" is indeed a fraud, as Australian film and print journalist John Pilger has repeatedly pointed out. "Terrorism" is simply taking the place of "Communism" during the Cold War as the propaganda line spewed by the state and the corporate media to rally a confused and fearful population against "enemies" who supposedly threaten them. This most effective form of social control was recommended by Hitler's chief propagandist, Josef Goebbels. The purpose of the "War on Terrorism" is to maintain carte blanche for the ever more desperate agenda of American capital: the domination of the continent of Eurasia (the critical sector of which is Central Asia, precisely where the "War on Terrorism" just happens to have begun), and the crushing of the Left worldwide, especially its explicitly anti-capitalist core. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> 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. 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