-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Der Fuher Invades Yugoslavia Yeltsin Orders Plans for Battlefield Nukes Yeah! Nuclear war! That the ticket! Come on, NATO! Attack Russia! Russia Thursday ordered its military to draw up plans for the development and use of tactical nuclear weapons in what may be a response to NATO's heightened profile, and at the same time began a new diplomatic initiative to end the war in Yugoslavia. The nuclear order was given at a highly secretive meeting in Moscow between President Boris Yeltsin and the advisory Security Council, according to a Russian news agency quoting Security Council Secretary Vladimir Putin. Tactical nuclear weapons are smaller than strategic weapons and are intended for battlefield use. State Department and Pentagon officials said they were still studying the report and had no immediate comment. At the same time, Russian Balkan envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin set out for a round of meetings in Western European capitals carrying what he said were new proposals to end the war in Yugoslavia. Analysts said the proposals called for NATO to first halt its air strikes, something the alliance has refused to do. Mr. Yeltsin also met in Moscow with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to discuss that plan and other ideas to end the fighting. Reuters news agency said Mr. Yeltsin signed three documents including one on tactical arms during his Security Council meeting, which was held in such secrecy that even the chief of the Strategic Rocket Forces left the room. Russia's RIA news agency, monitored by Reuters, quoted Mr. Putin as saying the presidential decrees "covered the development of the nuclear weapons complex and a concept for developing and using non-strategic nuclear weapons." Mr. Putin specifically ruled out any link between the council meeting and the alliance's bombing of Yugoslavia, Reuters said. But it said defense experts noted that Russia was eager to respond to NATO's Yugoslav campaign and to last weekend's summit in Washington. At the summit, the members adopted a document on strategy that reaffirmed NATO's intention to maintain a "credible nuclear posture [with] flexibility and survivability" and for the first time extended the alliance's mandate to areas outside the geographic territory of its members. "Don't take [Mr. Yeltsin's decree] seriously," a Russian arms expert told Reuters. "It's a game, so the West gets upset." Defense experts told Reuters that Russia's army has about 10,000 to 12,000 tactical nuclear weapons already, but they are largely in storage. The Russian rationale has been to keep them for perceived threats from the south and east rather than from the west. On the diplomatic front, Mr. Chernomyrdin traveled Thursday to Germany and Italy to outline his proposals for a Kosovo peace settlement. He was due in Belgrade Friday for talks with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. "It's too early to speak about a breakthrough in the Yugoslav settlement, but there is a certain progress," he said in Berlin after a meeting with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Mr. Chernomyrdin's plan provides for Mr. Milosevic to pull his forces out of Kosovo and allow the deployment of an international peacekeeping force that would be under U.N. control and have substantial Russian participation. NATO would have to halt its bombing of Yugoslavia before the Serbian pullback began, the former Russian prime minister said. At his Moscow meeting with Mr. Annan, Mr. Yeltsin warned that "the stakes are very high now not only for the Balkans and Europe, but for the entire world," according to wire service reports. "Either law and order will be restored, or lawlessness and the unlimited force of one country will rule the world," he was quoted as saying in what appeared to be a reference to the United States. Russia has been treading a delicate line since the bombing of Yugoslavia began, torn between the need for Western help with its economic crisis and the sympathy of its people for the Serbs, with whom they share a Slavic background and Orthodox Christian religion. On the one hand, Moscow has delivered repeated assurances to American and NATO leaders that it does not intend to be drawn into the war. Yet it has taken several highly visible steps to show support for Yugoslavia, beginning with a pledge to send a fleet to the Adriatic Sea to shadow NATO vessels operating in the area. In the end, just one ship was sent. Russian leaders exploded in anger when NATO proposed a military blockade to stop all oil deliveries to Yugoslavia last week and vowed to defy any such action. Moscow sold the nation about 12,000 barrels of oil a day before the air war began. "We will continue delivering oil in keeping with our international commitments," Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said last Saturday. And Mr. Chernomyrdin was quoted as saying nations embroiled in the oil dispute "may slip toward a third world war, the final war." NATO commanders said subsequently they would not use force to bar Russian ships from delivering oil to Yugoslavia. Moscow has also enjoyed limited success on the economic front, completing a deal this week with the International Monetary Fund for more than $4 billion in new loans. The Washington Times, April 30, 1999 Today We Track Kids, Tomorrow We Track You Satellite Device Helps Trace Kids Now, if you only had a microchip in your butt... ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) _ Dave Smith stares at a computer screen as a satellite map of North America telescopes down to a grid of a major city and, finally, to a single neighborhood with green space and railroad tracks. He clicks a mouse. A dial tone sounds, followed by the screech of a modem. Suddenly a little panda icon with a red bow tie appears at the intersection of Linwood Drive and Warren Road. A few seconds later, amid more tones and screeches, the panda lurches to another spot on the map. ``He's out on the highway now,'' says Smith, a former Defense Department computer programmer. ``We're within 100 yards of that right now _ well within visual range.'' Smith, now a private computer consultant, has just accessed a global positioning satellite unit, or GPS, in Canada. But he's not tracking a stolen car. He's hunting down a kidnapped child _ or, rather, a software engineer in Toronto posing as one for this test. All from a tiny office in South Carolina peach country. All because a pair of businessmen-grandfathers decided that if you can track a stolen car, you should be able to track a stolen child. ``You can replace an automobile,'' says Bill Brown, who along with Dan Booker founded Protect Me Toys last year. ``You can't replace a child.'' Their plan is to eventually give away the devices. ``We're not Bill Gates, but we live comfortably,'' says Booker, 50, who with Brown struck it rich selling prepaid telephone calling cards and drives a gleaming white Rolls-Royce to his Anderson office. The pair have spent about $250,000 of their own money to develop a system that can be hidden in the bottom of a backpack or in an unobtrusive fanny pack. Now they're looking for investors to help bring their plan to fruition. The idea developed a few years ago when Brown's son was divorced and Brown became concerned for the safety of his 3-year-old granddaughter. He says he went shopping for something that could help him keep track of her, but found nothing. The technology was focused on recovering cars. Brown, 48, says he was told that kids could be tracked only ``when a child was capable of wearing a 40-pound battery.'' There are more than 600,000 abduction attempts on children each year, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Each day, 2,300 children are reported missing and entered into the FBI's computer system. The two friends kept searching and eventually found Canadian Marconi Co., which was selling GPS units to do everything from tracking bulls on the loose to telling golfers how far they hit a ball. ``It's unbelievable ... the different calls that you would get for weird applications,'' says Hubert Pellerin, product manager for Marconi's GPS group. ``But this one was a really nice one. Because I have three kids, also.'' Marconi took a GPS card that it developed for Boeing 777s and made it more sensitive. It's about the size of a business card and weighs less than an ounce. Pellerin combined the card with a cellular phone receiver and antenna. He added a layer of aluminum shielding to keep the components from interfering with each other. The entire package weighs around 1 1/2 pounds. The SatCel unit basically ``sleeps'' until it is called by the tracking center, so the 870-hour standby battery doesn't run down unnecessarily. There's no ringing when it is contacted, so as not to tip off a kidnapper. The signal can be reached anywhere that has cell phone coverage, and is strong enough to be detected from the trunk of a car. The GPS cannot be reached from inside a building, but its memory can play back its last 100 locations. Booker and Brown expect the unit to cost about $200, with a monthly activation fee of as little as $5. This year, they tested the device with a juvenile justice agency and the Anderson Police, using Booker's 5-year-old granddaughter as the abductee and her father as the kidnapper. Officials say it worked splendidly. The first five units have been sent to Child Search, a Houston-based nonprofit group that hunts missing children, to be given to five children considered most at risk. Dr. Brandon Ward, operations officer of Child Search, says the concept has been discussed for years. ``These are the first guys who've put their money where their mouth is,'' says Ward, whose group helped find more than 500 missing children last year. Smith, a consultant on the project, says its possibilities are numerous. People could use the device to track a grandparent with Alzheimer's disease, hikers, wayward teen-agers _ even the school bus your child is riding. The device now is about the size of a box of animal crackers, but work is under way to make it smaller, stronger and more accurate. Fugawi Software, the Toronto firm that did the mapping, is developing a tracking system that can be run on a home computer. Brown envisions the day when a GPS unit can be sewn into a child's jacket or tucked into a shoe. ``The predators,'' he says, ``are going to watch TV and say, `It ain't like it used to be. We can't just snatch anybody we want to.''' Associated Press, April 25, 1999 Der Fuhrer Invades Yugoslavia NATO Attacks Sofia, Bulgaria Missile goes astray. Put some ice on that. THE Nato Secretary-General, Javier Solana, apologised yesterday to the Bulgarian envoy in Brussels after an alliance pilot launched a missile by mistake that landed in the suburbs of Sofia. The incident embarrassed Nato and made Bulgaria uneasy because it is applying for membership of Nato. Jamie Shea, the alliance spokesman, said that a plane had been "illuminated" by a Serb air defence radar and launched a missile in self-defence against the threat of a surface-to-air missile on Wednesday night. [Hmmm. Is this a secret reference to the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Shea, on yesterday's web page?] But the Serb ground radar was then switched off and "the missile strayed from its target and unintentionally landed" in the Bulgarian capital 50 miles away. There were no casualties, he said. Bogomil Bonev, Bulgaria's interior minister, said the incident was "a drastic violation of our airspace". Bulgarian air force officials identified the missile as a laser-guided anti-radar AGM-88 HARM, a type carried by F-16 jets. Nato officials said the missile was launched from an F-16CJ plane, but they did not yet have a full explanation. The HARM missile is one of the most frequently used weapons against radar. The incident comes at a difficult time for Nato, because the Bulgarian authories have proposed granting it an air corridor on its western border with Yugoslavia, although the idea needs formal approval from the Bulgarian parliament. The incident happened only a day after a Nato pilot lost control of a missile targeted on an army training centre in Surdulica, 200 miles south of Belgrade. That missile overshot its target by 200-300 metres and landed in a residential area. Serbia says that at least 17 people, including children, were killed. Bombs that rely on laser beams to find their targets can miss by miles if fog, clouds or smoke get between the optical "seeker" in the bomb's nosecone and the target on the ground. The laser beam becomes scattered and the bomb "sees" and homes in on light particles in the fog, smoke or cloud, putting it on an incorrect course. The London Telegraph, April 30, 1999 Political Prisoners Jim Norman's Letter to Warden of Manchester Prison 26 April 1999 Warden FCI Manchester P.O. Box 4000 Manchester, Ky 40962-4000 via fax to: 606-599-4115 Dear Sir: On or about April 12, 1999, I mailed to you a transcript of an interview with prisoner Charles Hayes (05930-320) for your comment. Having received no reply or acknowledgment after two weeks, I expect to proceed with the story. Your response is welcome at any time, but may now likely come after publication. In addition, the April 12 letter formally requested copies of Mr. Hayes' medical and government service records, which he indicated he would approve for release. Notwithstanding the fact that he has apparently been relocated (in what appears to be violation of his sentencing order by Judge Coffman), that document request remains and your prompt response is expected. Further, for the record, I would like to request a formal statement from your office as to the reason for Mr. Hayes' transfer, the location to which he has been transferred and the reason for sending him to that facility. Your prompt response would be appreciated. Cordially yours, James R. Norman Senior Writer 212-xxx-xxxx fax:: 212-xxx-xxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Address for Charles Hayes (as of 4/28/99) Charles S. Hayes 05930-032 Wake Forest Unit F.C.I. P.O. Box 1000 Butner, NC 27509 ------ 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. Substance—not 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. 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