[CTRL] SkepticNews Monday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990125b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with : are editorial comments to provoke discussion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Afghan Taliban Sees Muslim Rulers Erring On Beard. KABUL (Reuters) - A senior official of Afghanistan's Taliban government said some Muslim rulers were violating Islamic injunctions to grow long beards. "Growing a beard is an order of Islam's prophet (Mohammad)," Maulvi Shamsuddin, deputy minister of Taliban's religious police, told reporters. But he said: "Many Muslims, some heads of Islamic states, including that of Saudi Arabia, do not abide by this order." http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990125/12/odd-beard : Does your religion prescribe the state of your body hair? Should it? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Twenty Reasons For UK To Join USA. LONDON (Reuters) - The taxes in the US are lower than in Britain, the scandals are sexier, Viagra is more readily available. And if that's not enough to convince Britain to join the United States rather than look toward a United Europe, Britain's Sun tabloid came up with 17 more reasons. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990125/07/odd-join : Are evil Brit mind-control wizards masterminding the amalgamation? Is this the next step of the Illuminati's world domination plot? Is it a good idea? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Genome Project Could Protect Against Attack. ANAHEIM, Calif. (Reuters) - Itemizing all the genes in potential biological weapons such as anthrax or bubonic plague could prevent extremists from ever using them against the United States. Experts called for a kind of bioterrorism genome project, similar to the Human Genome Project currently under way in which scientists are racing to map out, or sequence, every gene in the human body. See http://cnn.com/US/9901/24/BC-SCIENCE-BIOTERROR.reut/index.html # Gene may be tied to nicotine addiction. (AP) Scientists have isolated another gene that might affect a person's vulnerability to cigarette addiction. The finding may help researchers develop new ways to stop smoking. Having a certain form of the gene makes it easier to kick the habit, or perhaps to avoid getting hooked in the first place. See http://www2.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,10792-18504-132860-0,00.html and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558177938-804 : Are humans engineered for addiction? By whom? Can we be re-engineered to thwart or potentiate bioterrorism? What genomes would you like to sequence? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Forget Beanie Babies, These Rocks Are Hot! Meteorites become the next collector's item - Call it the Armageddon syndrome, the Deep Impact effect, or a spinoff from other sky-is-falling Hollywood movies. Factor in the 1996 finding that primitive life forms may exist in a Martian rock discovered in Antarctica. Add the cachet of owning an out-of-this-world conversation piece and an investment that looks certain to increase in value. The result: Meteorites are now the hottest natural-history collectible. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/990201/1mete.htm : Is UFOlogy just the publicity arm of the meteorite marketing business? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # APPLE RECRUITS HAL 9000. The computer maker calls on history's most sinister computer to remind us that the Macintosh is Y2K compliant. See http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/culture/story/17519.html *** Intel agrees to change its chips. WASHINGTON (AP) Intel Corp. bowed to concerns by privacy groups upset over new technology that allows consumers to be identified as they move across the Internet. The company promised it will offer free software to allow customers to easily turn off the feature permanently on its new line of Pentium III computer chips. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558188510-fb6 : Will Y2K interfere with ID-tracking? Is your implant Y2K compliant? Are evil computers a threat? Are computers our friends? Will you boycall Intel? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FOOTLIGHTS TO THE MAX. Composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson needed some outlandish scenery for their new opera. They wound up ditching conventional notions of staging. All the world's a stage - see http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/culture/story/17496.html : When will all entertainment, all observations, all experiences be virtual? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Pope meets Mexico's affluent. MEXICO CITY (AP) A day after ministering to the masses, Pope John Paul II reached out to the rich, celebrating a private Mass for bankers, politicians and other church patrons. Well-dressed couples climbed out of luxury cars at the Vatican's nunciate (embassy) for the gathering, offering a stark contrast to Sunday's exuberant Mass before an estimated 1 million people at a dusty, trash-filled auto racetrack. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558188399-4a9 *** Also: Pope focuses on converts, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558185859-652 *** : Would you like
Re: [CTRL] Free Speech Is Whatever the Government Allows
-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.4/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.4/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 4/A The Laissez Faire City Times January 25, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 4 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - Free Speech Is Whatever the Government Allows by Zola Our friends Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw have kicked FDA butt. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has long violated the First Amendment with impunity. According to the FDA, you are not allowed to make scientific statements like "antioxidant nutrients may help prevent certain types of cancer." Not if you sell antioxidant nutrients and you want to put that statement on the bottle, and the FDA hasnt given you permission. Even though the claim may be true and backed up by scientific evidence. Oh how I hate libertarian bullshit! Look at the above statement. The ad line "antioxidant nutrients may help prevent certain types of cancer." does NOT jibe with this scumbag's contention -" Even though the claim may be true and backed up by scientific evidence " because the use of the word MAY instead of DOES indicates that there ISN'T scientific evidence. Otherwise the use of MAY would not be necessary. This whole spiel is typical of Libertarian mind fucking. Anything that restricts the opportunity of making money is Statist horror. But poisoning the gullible public is not nearly as important. It begins with the so-called doctrine of "commercial speech" which is supposed to have less protection than other types of speech under the First Amendment. The U.S. Constitution, of course, doesnt distinguish between commercial speech and any other type of speech. The US Constitution doesn't distinguish a lot of things. Isn't it obvious that commercial speech is not the same as other speech? Commercial speech is intended mind control with the hidden or not so hidden agenda of placing the subject of that speech INTO YOUR MIND whether you like it or not. But the FDA has relied on the commercial speech doctrine for its underlying authority, and proceeded in its rulemaking to only approve claims for which there is "significant scientific agreement". What the fuck is wrong with that??? What is "significant scientific agreement"? Whatever the FDA says it is. They have refused to define the term. Pearson and Shaw grew tired of this nonsense, took the FDA to court, and won in a 3-0 circuit court decision. In defending the FDAs own actions, the FDAs attorney even went to the length of arguing that its parent agency, Health and Human Services, makes misleading statements. The Court mocked this approach. THE COURT: . . . Do you seriously argue that these statements are inherently misleading? MS. KOHL [Christine N. Kohl, representing the FDA]: In the FDAs judgment, Your Honor, yes, they are. There is such power over the consumer in the market place at the point of sale . . . The seller wants to maintain that advantage. THE COURT: . . . what if the proposed statement were exactly what your FDAs parent agency [HHS] said, quote, "Fatty acid omega-3 is under study because of a possible association with a reduced risk of heart disease in certain people." That was the only thing they wanted to put on the label, and it was word for word what HHS put out. Is your position that is inherently deceptive? MS. KOHL: Yes, Your Honor, thats the scientific judgment of the FDA that there is not THE COURT: So HHS, FDAs position is that HHS is making inherently deceptive statements. MS. KOHL: . . . These regulations that are being challenged apply only to labeling on the dietary supplement. THE COURT: But why does that matter? . . . Why is it inherently deceptive in the label, and not in the brochure? You can read Durk and Sandys own account of the case in this issue of The Laissez Faire City Times. Durk Sandy have been hustling " Life extension," and " live forever " crap for years. What the hell. Laissez Faire. Joshua2 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
[CTRL] Copts fleeing Egypt.
-Caveat Lector- Embattled Coptic Christians are Fleeing Egypt By Charles M. Sennot, Boston Globe 18 January 1999 EXCERPTS: AL KOSHEH, Egypt - On a sweltering night last summer, the bodies of two slain Christian men were dumped in the center of the Christian neighborhood of this remote village on the banks of the upper Nile River. . . . In the weeks after the Aug. 14 murder, the victims' families and local Christian leaders presented evidence that the killing was done by a gang of five Muslims. But local police ignored their claims and rounded up 1,000 Christians from the town for questioning. Christians charge that police subjected dozens of people, including women and small children, to beatings and torture to force statements from them to frame a Christian for the crime. He now faces the death penalty. Egyptian officials have reacted predictably, critics say, by concerning themselves more with masking the perception of a Muslim- Christian divide in Egypt than in investigating the case. The government thus far has done nothing to reprimand the local police, all of whom are Muslim. Instead, they arrested a prominent Coptic bishop for speaking out against the alleged injustices and a leading human rights worker for doing the same. Both face charges of fomenting sectarian strife. A five-count indictment against the bishop includes a charge of threatening national security, which carries the death penalty. "What happened in Al Kosheh is a very sad chapter for our country," said Bishop Wissa, the frail, 60-year-old Coptic cleric, on the October night he was arrested. "We have traditionally got along with our Muslim neighbors. But the situation is deteriorating from bad to worse. We have spoken out and now I may face the death penalty for doing so. How can I say nothing when this is happening to our people?" Egypt's nearly six million Copts, by far the largest Christian population in the Middle East, have for centuries coexisted with Muslims Today they are an embattled minority, and they are leaving in significant numbers . . .. The Coptic church estimates that more than 1 million Christians have left for the United States, Europe, and Canada over the last three decades. ... There are 250,000 Copts registered with the North American Archdiocese of the Coptic Orthodox Church. ... the Copts have become a smaller minority. In 1975, according to church statistics, the Copts represented close to 20 percent of the total population. Today they are between 6 and 9 percent of Egypt's 60 million population. Discrimination against Copts is rarely as dramatic as the incident at Al Kosheh. What they claim to face in their daily lives is far more subtle. . . . Copts feel the discrimination in schools, especially in the poorer neighborhoods of Cairo and small villages of upper Egypt, where Islamist teachers sometimes distort and insult the Christian faith. Only the Muslim faith, not Christianity, is taught in mandatory religion classes in public schools. As their presence dwindles, Copts are being marginalized politically and economically. Of the 26 governors appointed by President Hosni Mubarak, none is a Copt. None of the presidents or deans at Egypt's universities is a Copt. And with the powerful professional syndicates increasingly under the control of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, Copts complain that they are disenfranchised. . . . Copts are fiercely proud of their Egyptian identity and generally reluctant to criticize the Egyptian government. This makes the recent voices of protest all the more resonant. Yet they have suffered petty discrimination for centuries. One lingering example is the 19th-century Ottoman empire restriction against the construction and even repair of Christian churches without approval from the highest levels of the government. Today, this law infuriates the church hierarchy that oversees once-grand cathedrals and small parish churches that are crumbling. Bishop Thomas, who oversees a diocese of 21 churches and monasteries, says many of the properties have cracked foundations, broken steeples, and lack plumbing. "I don't know what kind of danger to the state repairing a toilet poses, but apparently there are security reasons for this," said Thomas. . . . ...in 1980 ...president Anwar Sadat courted Islamic fundamentalists to consolidate power against socialist rivals. This further embittered the Coptic hierarchy, especially the church leader, Pope Shenouda III, who charged that Sadat had replaced nationalism with religion. In 1981, Sadat outraged Copts by putting Shenouda under house arrest...for four years. The Islamic militant group Gama Islamiya began targeting Copts in 1991, when it launched a terrorist campaign to overthrow the secular government of Hosni Mubarak, which responded with a relentless crackdown that
Re: [CTRL] Clinton to be trusted ?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-01-25 19:33:07 EST, you write: You're right. I guess I'm what you would call a "Clintonite," and I don't trust him. But then, I don't trust anybody anymore. Linda I think that everyone on this list is more than a little sceptical about anything the government has to say. If it sounds good... what is the hidden agenda? People I know at work seem to think something is wrong, but they can't quite put their finger on it. When I show them a few laws that are directly anti-Constitutional... they refuse to believe them, but some day they will, I hope they begin to understand before it's too late to do anything about it. Then again, maybe it is already too late. Regards, Bob Stokes 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] Free Trade Hearings in the Senate
-Caveat Lector- In case you missed this. ** Clinton looks to Senate to lead way on fast-track Finance Committee ready to assemble trade agenda; hearings on international trade to start on Tuesday BY WILLIAM ROBERTS JOURNAL OF COMMERCE STAFF WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration is looking to the Senate Finance Committee chaired by Sen. Bill Roth, R-Del., to take a leadership role in crafting a trade agenda for 1999. With global free-trade talks set to kick off again at a U.S.-hosted meeting of the World Trade Organization later this year, and after two-years of partisan bickering here, pressure is intensifying on all sides to achieve a consensus on U.S. policy. This week the Senate Finance Committee jumps into the fray with three days of hearings beginning Tuesday on international trade, featuring testimony from senior administration official, U.S. business and industry, labor and environmental groups. The Senate's willingness to engage in the issues, signaled by Sen. Roth last year, has drawn a positive response from the administration. "At this juncture we will work particularly with the Senate Finance Committee as they put together a bill," U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky said last week when asked by reporters about the administration's plans for winning renewed trade negotiating authority this year. Mr. Clinton's call last week in his State of the Union address for "common ground" on trade policy has given the Finance Committee's hearings impetus. Among those scheduled to appear are Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin, Commerce Secretary Bill Daley, Labor Secretary Alexis Herman and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol Browner. The Senate activity is in sharp contrast to the tone of trade politics in the House, where Ways and Means Committee leaders are not pursuing talks. Rather, Rep. Philip Crane, R-Ill., chairman of the Trade Subcommittee, intends to advance the same, narrow fast-track bill that was defeated in the House last year. Rep. Bill Archer, R-Texas, chairman of the full Ways and Means Committee, also plans to advance that bill. Both men seem to want to get the issue off their agenda's quickly. "Their thinking is they haven't heard anything from the administration to change their minds. They just want to get it out," one observer said. Meanwhile, interest is focusing on defining what role the International Labor Organization could play in setting labor standards for world trade. Last year, Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, D-N.Y., attached language to the Senate's version of the fast-track bill identifying the ILO as a player. Last year also saw Labor Secretary Alexis Herman travel to Europe to meet with ILO officials and raise trade issues. Mr. Clinton mentioned the ILO and banning abusive child labor in his State of the Union address. Also, Mrs. Barshefsky reiterated administration interest in drawing the organization into the game. American big business is willing look at the ILO, too. "There's a trial balloon being floated here. We would like to know some more specifics about expanding the role of the ILO," said Willard Workman, of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "The ILO is not just a forum for the unions and government but business is represented there, too. We have a seat at the table," he said. Still unclear is how U.S. labor will come down on the matter. John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, and other influential union leaders are believed to be anxious to cut a deal with the administration soon. The timetable of the United States hosting the WTO ministerial meetings later this year, and plans for summit meetings on labor and environment in March, will pressure U.S. unions to articulate a workable, non-obstructionist policy. So far, "I think they are viewing the signals from the president as very positive. They are very clear on what's needed for fast-track to be done," said one congressional aid. Labor's position on legislative language will be key, because it sets the level of Mr. Clinton's forcefulness in lobbying and pushing for fast-track enactment. Historically, strong leadership by the president is needed to pass any such legislation. * In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. /s/ Mike Dolan, Field Director, Global Trade Watch, Public Citizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tradewatch.org 202.546.4996 fax:547.7392 Join the Global Trade Watch list server. We will keep you up to date on trade policy and politics. To subscribe, send this message: "SUBSCRIBE TW-LIST" [followed by your name, your organizational affiliation and the state in which you live] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational
[CTRL] Views from Abroad
-Caveat Lector- From Irish Times http://www.irish-times.com/irish-times/paper/1999/0125/lea.htm#7 CLINTON ON TRIAL Sir, - I felt it my duty, in a starving world, to butt in so as to help prevent the American Senate from wasting money on this Bill Clinton nonsense any longer. There is no need for a trial. The man's nose is growing longer and redder by the day. I swear to God - check it out. It's Pinocchial. Case dismissed. Does impeachment mean they're gonna turn him into a peach? If so - can I eat him? - Yours, etc., SINÉAD O'CONNOR, St John's Wood, London NW8. From Reuters Tuesday January 26 12:30 AM ET Singer Sinead O'Connor Urges End To Clinton Trial DUBLIN (Reuters) - Outspoken Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has urged the U.S. Senate to stop the impeachment of President Clinton, who she has described as the ``sexiest man in the universe.'' ``I felt it my duty, in a starving world, to butt in so as to help prevent the American Senate from wasting money on this Bill Clinton nonsense any longer,'' she wrote in a letter published in The Irish Times Monday. O'Connor, who caused outrage in 1992 when she ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II on a live U.S. TV chat show, has expressed support for Clinton before. She told the Irish Independent last month: ``Bill Clinton is the sexiest man in the universe. I would bring my own cigars. My mouth is watering at the prospect. I thought he was sexy, anyway, but now ... my God!'' In her letter Monday she wrote of Clinton: ``Does impeachment mean they're gonna turn him into a peach? If so, can I eat him?'' Apart from her music, particularly her haunting hit ''Nothing Compares To U,'' O'Connor has become known for her trademark shaven head, criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and support for women's access to abortion, which is illegal in the overwhelmingly Catholic Irish Republic. AER The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. 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] Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025
-Caveat Lector- Title: [2025] Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 http://www.au.af.mil/au/database/research/ay1996/acsc/96-025ag.htm Subject: Military applications of weather modification in 2025. Author(s): Ronald J. Celentano; Tamzy J. House (Faculty Advisor); David Mark Husband; Ann E. Mercer; James B. Near (Faculty Advisor); James E. Pugh; William B. Shields DTIC Keywords: ANTIFOGGING AGENTS, ANTIFOGGING DEVICES, ATMOSPHERES, CLEAR WEATHER, CLOUDS, CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERES, CROSSWINDS, FOG, FOG DISPERSAL, HAIL, IONOSPHERE, LIGHTNING, RAIN, RAINFALL INTENSITY, STORMS, THUNDERSTORMS, UPPER ATMOSPHERE, WEATHER, WEATHER COMMUNICATIONS, WEATHER FORECASTING, WEATHER MODIFICATION, WIND, WIND SHEAR Abstract: In 2025 US aerospace forces can "own the weather" by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to warfighting applications. Such a capability offers the warfighter tools to shape the battlespace in ways never before possible. It provides opportunities to impact operations across the full spectrum of conflict and is pertinent to all possible futures. The purpose of this paper is to outline a strategy for the use of a future weather modification system to achieve military objectives rather than to provide a detailed technical road map. A high risk/high reward endeavor, weather modification offers a dilemma not unlike the splitting of the atom. While some segments of society will always be reluctant to examine controversial issues such as weather modification, the tremendous military capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own peril. From enhancing friendly operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural weather patterns, to complete dominance of global communications and counter-space control, weather modification offers the warfighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary. Technology advancements in five major areas are necessary for an integrated weather modification capability: (1) advanced nonlinear modeling techniques, (2) computational capability, (3) information gathering and transmission, (4) a global sensor array, and (5) weather intervention techniques. Some intervention tools exist today and others may be developed and refined in the future. Current technologies which will mature over the next thirty years will offer anyone who has the necessary resources the ability to modify weather patterns and their corresponding effects, at least on the local scale. Current demographic, economic, and environmental trends will create global stresses that provide the impetus necessary for many countries or groups to turn this weather modification ability into a capability. In the US, weather modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its interests, at various levels. These levels could include: unilateral actions, participation in a security framework such as NATO, membership in an international organization such as the UN, or participation in a coalition. Assuming that in 2025 our national security strategy includes weather modification, its use in our national military strategy will naturally follow. Besides the significant benefits an operational capability would provide, another motivation to pursue weather modification is to deter and counter potential adversaries. In this paper we show that appropriate application of weather modification can provide battlespace dominance to a degree never before imagined. In the future, such operations will enhance air and space superiority and provide new options for battlespace shaping and battlespace awareness. "The technology is there, waiting for us to pull it all together;" in 2025 we can "Own the Weather." Adobe Acrobat document (512,115 bytes) HTML Page Steve Wingate California Director SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL Today's Midi http://www.anomalous-images.com/onedays.mid Anomalous Images Bulletin Board http://www.anomalous-images.com/wwwboard.html Anomalous Images and UFO Files http://www.anomalous-images.com 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.
[CTRL] Intel ID Chip vs Privacy!??
-Caveat Lector- hmm? It appears that the Intel ID chip is voluntary and can be turned-off [or not purchased!]. Why should anyone object to this? Interesting that the Government finds this to be a problem! The same Clinton Administration who wanted the coercively installed "clipper" chip! the intrigue around which has lead to murders including Vince Foster according to some sources. Most recently, one of the Directors of the Company who invented the the chip was an Arkancide. *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research (POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220), a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. Quarterly journal, book sales, rare/out-of-print searches, New Paradigms Discussion List, Weekly Up-date Lists E-text Archive of research, intelligence, catalogs, resources. To Discuss Ideas: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msen.com/~lloyd/ For Ordering Info Free Catalog: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://a-albionic.com/formaddress.html For Discussion List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] text in body: subscribe prj [EMAIL PROTECTED] **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: http://a-albionic.com/search.html ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html Video Finder, Free Catalogs, Links, Sweepstakes, What-Not: http://www.msen.com/~daugh/store.htm *** -Original Message- From: Samuel E. Konkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cartwright,Paul A [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 2:34 AM Subject: Re: More intel on Intel Thanks, Paul. For those who don't have time to browse or no browser, I clipped and relaid out the article below. Well, Neil? Convinced now? Ready to come back now, Kent? Motorola's Power PC chip: the Hacker's Choice! Mark of the Beast, Mike? Conspiracy, Lloyd? "Cartwright,Paul A" wrote: http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,1051,ART-22167,00.html Intel Hell --- or, You Think Y2K Was Bad? This is 666 times worse. *** INTEL CHIP FIRES UP PRIVACY DEBATE ID technology to help Net trade; foes fear loss of anonymity By Frank James Washington Bureau January 22, 1999 The growing rift between the needs of Internet commerce and the individual's right to privacy was amply illustrated on Thursday when Intel Corp. disclosed its plans for new microchips containing embedded electronic serial numbers that would allow individual computers to be readily identified. The identifiers, similar to the unique vehicle identification numbers on cars and trucks, would be a kind of caller ID technology for computers. Intel said its new Pentium III microprocessors will promote the growth of Internet commerce by giving companies doing business on-line a better way to verify the identities of customers. But critics see it as an ominous development, ushering in a new period of electronic surveillance. Privacy experts fear the new Intel chips could mean the death of anonymity on the Internet. Indeed, Intel's new microprocessor can be expected to add fuel to the heated debate in the nation's capital over privacy. While companies have asked the government for the freedom to regulate their own use of consumers' personal data, privacy advocates and the Clinton administration have criticized those efforts, with the administration warning that if more is not done to protect consumers, legislation could be the next step. The Intel chip marks a fundamental turning point in the high-tech era. One of the virtues of computers until now was that users have not necessarily had to reveal their identities. "This would appear to really seriously endanger privacy on the Internet by creating a permanent ID number for every Intel user on the Net," said David Banisar, a privacy expert with the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. "It makes you wonder if maybe Intel should change their logo from 'Intel Inside' to 'Big Brother Inside.'" Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel, the world's largest maker of microprocessors, with more than 75 percent of the market in 1998, on Thursday briefed reporters about the new technology. In a telephone interview, spokesman Chuck Mulloy said the company plans to begin shipping the new microchip to computer-makers by the end of March. Later this year, Intel intends to introduce a separate technology, called a random number generator. That development, he said, will enable better encryption of computer communications and transactions. "These are pieces of a puzzle that will eventually end up causing, we hope, the Net to become much more secure than it is today," Mulloy said. Besides letting on-line marketers reassure themselves that a customer placing an order is actually who he says he is, the new microprocessors would also let companies create more protected "doorways" into their networks. Like the list used by the
Re: [CTRL] LJ: Constitution / religion
-Caveat Lector- [The list of spammed recipients have been reduced to the lists I'm actually on...one must wonder why Frost insists on spamming this thread beyond the venue of original discussion] On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, J FROST wrote: The constitution states: Congress shall make no laws respecting the establishment of religion, OR PROHIBIT THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF. After madam O'Harah started her stink, And WHO, pray tell, is 'madam O'Harah'? Any relation to 'Harrah's' in Vegas? What does that have to do with religion. Perhaps you mean Madeline Murray O'Hare? No religious songs, no speaking about God or the bible ... no religious material allowed ... PROHIBIT THE FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION ... contrary to the command of the Constitution? Every public school across America is in violation to the Constitution. So okay, let's put 'religion' back in the public schools... Whose religion? I know YOUR answer, you just want your private brand of 'Christianity'...but in fact, you'd have to provide ALL religious viewpoints, not just Christianity: Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confuscism, and as you yourself have pointed out, since Wicca is officially recognized as a religion, it would have to be taught, also... along with Native American religions, Santeria, Voudoun, Satanism (also officially recognized as a religion)... People believe in leprechauns, flying saucers, the lock nest monster, witch craft and all kinds of goofy things, but even though I've never heard of 'the lock nest monster', but I DO know that modern scientific studies lend more credence to the existence of the Loch Ness monster than it does to the belief that a Jew convicted of treason 2000 years ago rose from the dead people actually believe in these unfounded things, Just as YOU believe in the unfounded tenets of Christianity Yet school libraries have books on witch craft, wicca and other pagan religions? They also have the Bible, and books on Christianity. And Buddhism. And Hinduism. And any number of other religions. I know of NO school or public library which DOESN'T have at least one Bible in its religion section... June === The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. -- Wm. Cullen Bryant: The Death of the Flowers === *---* revcoal AT connix DOT com *---* It is UNLAWFUL to send unsolicited commercial email to this email address per United States Code Title 47 Sec. 227. I assess a fee of $500.00 US currency for reading and deleting such unsolicited commercial email. Sending such email to this address denotes acceptance of these terms. My posting messages to Usenet neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. ** 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] Florida's new governor gives 10K to abortion clinic!
-Caveat Lector- All: Regardless of one's stance on abortion, the irony enclosed is hard to miss. According to a local radio station, the campaign committee for Jeb Bush gave an Orlando abortion clinic a ten thousand dollar donation (by mistake ? :-)) on the anniversary of Roe V. Wade. At last report, the clinic refused to give back the money. Nobody ever said that Republicans were the sharpest knives in the drawer--thank God. Edward "From the rage of today's downtrodden comes the revenge of tomorrow's revolutionary force." Edward Britton http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5285/connector1.html Talk to the planet: 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. 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] Foster, NSA and Banks (Part 12)
-Caveat Lector- Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and Banking Transactions Spying, Part XII by J. Orlin Grabbe Did you every think of having your own country? Consider the advantages. No export controls. You could manufacture your own armaments. Do biological warfare research. Even build casinos. Hey, do whatever you wanted! You could also avoid those pesky ITAR restrictions. Cryptology software is classified as a munition by the U.S. State Department. This designation is found in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. So software products that use cryptography can't be exported without State Department permission. (The State Department, however, turns all such decisions over to the National Security Agency [NSA].) For convenience, locate your country in the middle of California. And run an interstate freeway right through it! Say Interstate 10, which goes from Los Angeles to Phoenix. A dream? No, consider it done. It's called the Cabazon Indian nation, located near Indio, California. This little nation of two dozen individuals is very entrepreneurial. They've set up the Cabazon Arms Corporation, the Cabazon Security Corporation, the Cabazon Trading Company, the Cabazon Gas Oil Corporation--lots of interesting companies come and go in this nation. Maybe you could make a deal with them, and set up your own ventures! But you'll find someone got there ahead of you. Namely, a private security firm called Wackenhut. Wackenhut is a funny outfit. Among other things, it provides security to nuclear installations and to U.S. military bases, jobs previously held by the U.S. Marine Corps.. And its officers have included an amazing number of ex-CIA or NSA people. Bill Casey was an outside counsel to Cabazon. Admiral Stansfield Turner, whose Saturday Night massacre in 1977 provided Wackenhut with a number of ex-CIA employees, has served on the Board of Directors, as has ex-Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci. One Vice President of Wackenhut, Robert Chasen, had been CIA head of station and Vice President of ITT during the time of Allende. Have these people, too, considered the advantages of having their own country? Yes, it seems they have. They seem to have taken over the Cabazon Indian nation. And they don't want any competition from you, thank you. But the corporate rulers are very good to this little tribe. They've put everyone in a medical and drug treatment program! And they are very strict about seeing that each person shows up regularly to take their medicine! It was at the Cabazon Indian nation that modifications were first made to the PROMIS software for installation of a surreptitious surveillance mechanism. (Another modification would take place in Little Rock, Arkansas, to tailor the PROMIS software for use by banks.) The modifications were made by a guy called Michael Riconosciuto. Riconosciuto was a bright guy who, at age 16, showed up at Stanford's Cooper Vapor Laser Laboratory, having built his own argon laser. His family were friends of Richard Nixon. Riconosciuto became an expert on explosives and software. In an affidavit he states: "1. During the early 1980's, I served as the Director of Research for a joint venture between the Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the Cabazon Band of Indians in Indio, California. The joint venture was located on the Cabazon reservation. . . . "3. The Cabazon Band of Indians are a sovereign nation. The sovereign immunity that is accorded the Cabazons as a consequence of this fact made it feasible to pursue on the reservation the development and/or manufacture of materials whose development or manufacture would be subject to stringent controls off the reservation. As a minority group, the Cabazon Indians also provided the Wackenhut Corporation with an enhanced ability to obtain federal contracts through the 8A Set Aside Program, and in connection with Government-owned contractor-operated (GOCO) facilities. . . . "6. Among the frequent visitors to the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture were Peter Videnieks of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and a close associate of Videnieks by the name of Earl W. Brian. Brian is a private businessman who lives in Maryland and who has maintained close business ties with the U.S. intelligence community for many years. . . . "7. In connection with my work for Wackenhut, I engaged in some software development and modification work in 1983 and 1984 on the proprietary PROMIS computer software product. The copy of PROMIS on which I worked came from the Department of Justice. Earl W. Brian made it available to me through
[CTRL] Fwd: THE SCOOP: The State Of The Union, Unabridged
Hi everybody -- This column is suddenly growing way too popular for me to handle without automation, so I have a favor to ask that will take less than a minute: As of March 1, I'll be using ListBot, which means if you want to keep receiving the column, please send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. You'll get an email back from ListBot in a few seconds. Then just hit Reply to the verification letter and you're done. If you don't sign up, you won't receive the column after March 1. I'd do it all myself, but ListBot protects you from spam by requiring lists to be totally voluntary, so you have to sign yourself up. But that's good: you never have to worry about your address being used for any other purpose. During the transition, you might get the column twice for a while, once from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and once from [EMAIL PROTECTED] This will stop in a few weeks. Sorry for any inconvenience. Both email addresses will continue to work just fine. Thanks! THE SCOOP for January 25, 1999 ___ The State Of The Union Unabridged © 1999 Bob Harris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [] = italics Highly-placed sources have leaked to The Scoop an early draft of Bill Clinton's State Of The Union address. Phrases deleted from the final draft are indicated by [italics]. Tonight, I have the honor of reporting to you on the State of the Union. [Tomorrow, everyone else in this room can go back to reporting on the state of my unions.] Let me begin by saluting the new speaker of the House [especially for not being the old speaker of the House]. Mr. Speaker, you asked us all to work together in the spirit of civility and bipartisanship. Mr. Speaker, let's do exactly that. [Please. For the love of God.] Tonight I stand before you to report that America has created [what could be called] the longest peacetime economic expansion in our history [if we weren't bombing Iraq or Sudan or sometimes even Pakistan by accident on almost a daily basis]. Thanks to the leadership of all of you [and to a demographic drop in the number of 18 to 24-year-old males who commit most violent crimes], we have the lowest violent crime rate in a quarter century. [But really, Congress, you can take the credit anyway, if it'll get Henry Hyde off my keester.] America is a strong force for peace from Northern Ireland to Bosnia [two shining beacons of harmony. As for Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan... look, stop nitpicking.] Thanks to Vice President Gore, we have a government for the information age [in that it's completely locked at the moment and needs rebooting]. America is working again. [Often two or three jobs at once.] But we cannot allow the hum of our prosperity to lull us into complacency. [I got lulled into complacency by a hum a while back, and just look at the mess that made.] So with our budget surplus growing, our economy expanding, [and Hillary talking to me again,] now is the moment for this generation [which is about to get old] to meet our historic responsibility -- to address the aging of America. [Just like our generation has been in favor of everything to our benefit for almost forty years.] With the number of elderly Americans set to double by 2030 [that's us], we must save Social Security. (Applause.) [You guys are too freaking easy.] Without Social Security, half our nation's elderly would be forced into poverty. [Just like so many kids are being forced into poverty since I wiped out AFDC payments.] I propose that we make the historic decision to invest the surplus in the private sector. [Unless this wildly overpriced market tanks] this will earn a higher return [and either way it'll goose the living crud out of Wall Street in the short run, keeping Robert Rubin and my other money guys really happy.] But we must aim higher. We should eliminate the limits on what seniors on Social Security can earn. [After all, Wal-Mart always needs greeters.] From its beginning, Americans have supplemented Social Security with private pensions and savings. Yet today, [thanks to the export of our manufacturing base, the dismantling of labor unions, and a minimum wage that isn't even close to enough,] millions of people retire with little to live on. I propose we establish universal savings accounts -- USA accounts. [Cute, huh? I was gonna call them LSD accounts, just for the joke, but I don't need the hassle.] With these new accounts, Americans can receive funds to match a portion of their savings. [Look, fair's fair. You guys in Congress get offered money for votes. It's time we do the same thing for the little guy.] I propose a tax credit of $1,000 for the aged, ailing, or disabled and the families who care for them. [That'll cover maybe two days in the hospital if they're lucky. After that is their own business.] Now there are children from more diverse backgrounds in our public schools than at any time in our history. [In spite of Pat Buchanan's best efforts.] We are well
[CTRL] Fwd: The Proliferator-In-Chief - Radiation Hardened Chips/Lasers For PLA
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_smith/19990126_xcsof_the_prolif.shtml The Clinton administration allowed the export of advanced radiation-hardened microchip technology, vital electronic components for military satellites and nuclear weapons, to Russia and China. The specialized computer chips are designed to withstand the intense radiation of space and global thermonuclear warfare. Radiation hardened chips were controlled under the State Department and the Defense Department as a "military" technology until 1996. In early 1996, all export license authority for radiation-hardened microchip technology was transferred to the Commerce Department by President Clinton. On January 13, 1999, the Commerce Department responded to a June 1998, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information on radiation-hardened chip technology transfers to China and Russia. The Commerce response, a two page letter, states "we issued two licenses for Russia and three for China for the export of microprocessor technology." The Commerce Department response noted that the licenses issued not only included the export of radiation-hardened chips to Russia and China but also included "non-U.S. citizens employed by U.S. firms in the U.S. to work with controlled microprocessor technology." The response also stated that "BXA (Bureau of Export Administration) is unable to provide you with any more detailed information on these exports. Specific information on applications to export technology for microprocessor or microchips to China or Russia is being withheld... from public disclosure unless the release of such information is determined by the Secretary to be in the national interest." The Clinton administration allowed Chinese and Russian engineers inside the U.S. to study how chips designed to withstand intense radiation are manufactured. The Chinese and Russian engineers took those skills, techniques and equipment back to Russia and China to produce their own advanced, radiation-hardened, computer chips. The Commerce Department has more but will not give up the secret documents without a legal fight. Military technology certainly went east and money certainly went west. The crossroads for the high-tech military commerce was the White House. The list of Clinton officials taking money from, or acting as agents for the Chinese government grows longer and goes to higher levels with each return of Freedom of Information (FOIA) documents. For example, Webster Hubbell was selected by Janet Reno in 1993 to oversee a secret encryption chip project. John Huang sought and obtained 37 classified briefings on encryption technology from the CIA. Both Hubbell and Huang were well paid by the Lippo group, the Riady family empire run with the Chinese government as half partners. In addition, there is abundant evidence that Chinese Army agents met directly with Clinton officials to obtain military communications satellite technology. In August 1994, Lt. General Shen Roujun, the Vice Minister of the Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND), met with Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz and Ron Brown in Beijing. According to the GAO, COSTIND is "an agency of the Chinese military... COSTIND oversees development of China's weapon systems and is responsible for identifying and acquiring telecommunications technology applicable for military use." The documents obtained from the Commerce Department clearly note the 1994 PLA/Loral meeting was arranged by Ron Brown and President Clinton. General Shen arranged to buy satellites for the Chinese Army from Loral using phony commercial licenses issued through Ron Brown's Commerce Department. In February 1996, a Chinese Long March rocket carrying a Loral Intelsat satellite failed and crashed on lift-off. The Loral Intelsat payload was also destroyed. The Chinese intended to launch the Loral satellite into deep space as they had been paid to do by Mr. Schwartz. However, it was discovered that a vital computer control board was missing from the satellite. The satellite would have failed in orbit. The missing board from the Loral Intelsat satellite is no mystery. Chinese engineers removed it and kept the board for examination. The stolen Loral electronics consists of radiation-hardened, encrypted, telemetry chips, stored in a hardened flight control box similar to those found on airliners. The Chinese operation was the perfect crime. China could blame American engineers when the satellite failed to function. The sabotaged satellite would be given up as space junk and lost forever. The U.S. could not recover the satellite to discover the real cause of the failure without great expense. However, fate took a twisted path, and so did the Chinese rocket. The Long March rocket failed on launch and crashed into a nearby Chinese village, killing over 200 innocent civilians. The failure of the Long March allowed the U.S. to recover the sealed
Re: [CTRL] Clinton to be trusted ?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/25/99 12:35:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do You Trust Clinton I trust Clinton as much as I trust any politician. My list of people I trust is very, very short. Prudy 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
Re: [CTRL] Official Secrets:
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/25/99 7:06:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: from anyone else in occupied Europe. There were fears that anti-semitism might be aroused in privation-beset war-time Britain There were also fears of a huge wave of refugees in Palestine, upsetting the delicate balance there between Jews and Arabs. So how much did the British know? Considering Britain's gift of Palestine to the Jews after the war, the thought of their sensitivity regarding the delicate balance between the Jews and Arabs is downright hysterical. What a hoot of an idea. Prudy 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] OEN 1/26/99
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Impeached POTUS A Difficult Spell on Capitol Hill by Mark Steyn OUTSIDE Monica's and my hotel, the first demonstration of this trial is going on - from a pro-intern group waving a placard saying "Hounded From Day One". As a sign of solidarity, they've adopted the same spelling standards Monica demonstrated in her Revlon job application and are accusing the Republicans of "Hypocricy". "You've got 'hypocrisy' wrong," I tell the large African-American woman in front of me. "I know hypocrisy when I see it," she says. "No, no. I mean you've mis-spelt it." "Says who?" "Says the dictionary." "Says your dictionary." Ah, the old Clinton defence: I'm obviously using a partisan dictionary; it depends what the spelling of the word "is" is. But then right from the start this trial has been characterised by shoddy spelling. Back when the senators first signed their solemn oath to administer "impartial justice", they were given the federal government equivalent of a Crackerjack pencil - a souvenir ballpoint pen emblazoned with the words "Untied States Senator". That's right: not "United", but "Untied" - as if they'd all been called out of a bipartisan bondage session in the Capitol basement. The question was whether the senators could really be untied - from their party caucuses - and do impartial justice as independent jurors. But one by one the chickens have all come home to their Democrat roost. Senators Joe Lieberman, Bob Kerrey and Pat Moynihan, all of whom spoke out against the President, have fallen into line. Fritz Hollings, the junior senator from South Carolina, was also tipped as a possible defector: he's assumed to loathe Mr Clinton, mainly on the grounds that he loathes everybody else. Now Senator Hollings, in his stately Southern drawl, has pronounced: "Theah ox is ean theah ditch." The ox is presumably the House managers' case, not the President, who is, um, the bull and is back in the cowshed with the milkmaid. But, if the House case is in the ditch, then why not just leave it there? Still, Democratic senators insist that the Clinton defence has been "compelling". In case you've forgotten what it was, here's a summary: a) The President was telling the truth when he denied that he'd lied about whether he told the truth. b) It would do grave damage to the dignity and solemnity of The World's Greatest Deliberative Body for senators to discuss oral sex in the well of the chamber. Senators should only discuss oral sex in the well of their massage parlour. c) Our defence team has a person of colour (African-American Cheryl Mills, also a person of gender), a person of disability (wheelchair-bound Charles Ruff) and a person of hogwash (authentic Arkansas swamp-gibberish-bound Dale Bumpers): we look like America. The prosecution look like uptight, sexually repressed, Rotarian nerds. To counter this compelling defence, the House managers have resorted to desperate measures. Late on Sunday I was startled to see Representatives Asa Hutchinson and Ed Bryant come by in open-necked shirts and roll-neck cardigans to interview Monica. Monica was unimpressed, accustomed as she is to meeting government officials in open-zipped trousers. Out on the street, the world's press waits for Monica. Methinks she'll use the convenient, no-fuss, express check-out. Unfortunately for senators, the impeachment clause of the US Constitution has no express check-out. The London Telegraph, Jan. 26, 1999 Impeached POTUS That Was a Trial? Of course he's guilty Solons and pundits have recently spent a lot of time plumbing the Constitutional phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors." It seems they should instead have been trying to discern how the Founding Fathers understood the verb "to try," as in Article I, Section 3, which gives the Senate "sole Power to try all Impeachments." The proceedings that have so far taken place in the Senate have been theatrical and sometimes illuminating, but have had only a passing resemblance to a trial. When in the two centuries since Blackstone, in particular, has anyone held a trial with rules that outlaw witnesses? The World's Greatest Deliberative Body is now bending itself out of shape debating whether it's kosher for prosecutors even to talk to witnesses. The Democrats are transparently disingenuous, while Republicans as usual cower behind their majority. At least we have Henry Hyde (see alongside) to point out that the emperor has no clothes. The issue of the moment is whether Trent Lott, Orrin Hatch and the rest can summon themselves to do what the Constitution, universal practice and common sense make obvious. It is of course equally obvious that the President is guilty as charged. White House lawyers headed by Counsel Charles Ruff have been skillful in their nit-picking. They
[CTRL] ::: The Propaganda Model Revisited :::
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:482492"::: The Propaganda Model Revisited :::/A - Subject: ::: The Propaganda Model Revisited ::: From: Dan Clore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, Jan 26, 1999 2:41 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The propaganda model revisited Monthly Review, July, 1996 by Edward S. Herman In Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Pantheon, 1988) Noam Chomsky and I put forward a "propaganda model" as a framework for analyzing and understanding how the mainstream U.S. media work and why they perform as they do. We had long been impressed with the regularity with which the media operate within restricted assumptions, depend heavily and uncritically on elite information sources, and participate in propaganda campaigns helpful to elite interests. In trying to explain why they do this we looked for structural factors as the only possible root of systematic behavior and performance patterns. The propaganda model was and is in distinct contrast to the prevailing mainstream explanations -- both liberal and conservative--of media behavior and performance. These approaches downplay structural factors, generally presupposing their unimportance or positive impact because of the multiplicity of agents and thus competition and diversity. Liberal and conservative analysts emphasize journalistic conduct, public opinion, and news source initiatives as the main determining variables. The analysts are inconsistent in this regard, however. When they discuss media systems in communist or other authoritarian states, the idea that journalists or public opinion can override the power of those who own and control the media is dismissed as nonsense and even considered an apology for tyranny. There is a distinct difference, too, between the political implications of the propaganda model and mainstream scholarship. If structural factors shape the broad contours of media performance, and if that performance is incompatible with a truly democratic political culture, then a basic change in media ownership, organization, and purpose is necessary for the achievement of genuine democracy. In mainstream analyses such a perspective is politically unacceptable, and its supportive arguments and evidence are rarely subject to debate. In this article I will describe the propaganda model, address some of the criticism that has been leveled against it, and discuss how the model holds up nearly a decade after its publication.1 I will also provide some examples of how the propaganda model can help explain the nature of media coverage of important political topics in the 1990s. The Propaganda Model What is the propaganda model and how does it work? The crucial structural factors derive from the fact that the dominant media are firmly imbedded in the market system. They are profit-seeking businesses, owned by very wealthy people (or other companies); they are funded largely by advertisers who are also profit-seeking entities, and who want their ads to appear in a supportive selling environment. The media are also dependent on government and major business firms as information sources, and both efficiency and political considerations, and frequently overlapping interests, cause a certain degree of solidarity to prevail among the government, major media, and other corporate businesses. Government and large non-media business firms are also best positioned (and sufficiently wealthy) to be able to pressure the media with threats of withdrawal of advertising or TV licenses, libel suits, and other direct and indirect modes of attack. The media are also constrained by the dominant ideology, which heavily featured anticommunism before and during the Cold War era, and was mobilized often to prevent the media from criticizing attacks on small states labelled communist. These factors are linked together, reflecting the multi-leveled capability of powerful business and government entities and collectives (e.g., the Business Roundtable; U.S. Chamber of Commerce; industry lobbies and front groups) to exert power over the flow of information. We noted that the five factors involved -- ownership, advertising, sourcing, flak, and anticommunist ideology -- work as "filters" through which information must pass, and that individually and often in additive fashion they help shape media choices. We stressed that the filters work mainly by the independent action of many individuals and organizations; these frequently, but not always, share a common view of issues and similar interests. In short, the propaganda model describes a decentralized and non-conspiratorial market system of control and processing, although at times the government or one or more private actors may take initiatives and mobilize coordinated elite handling of an issue. Propaganda campaigns can occur only when consistent with the interests of those controlling and
[CTRL] The Millennium Bug and The New Industry of Hysteria
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. An alternative view. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:482184"SENSIBLE Y2K ARTICLE/A - Subject: SENSIBLE Y2K ARTICLE From: Des Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, Jan 25, 1999 9:34 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Y2k Hysteria Borderland Sciences Research Foundation The Millennium Bug and The New Industry of Hysteria by Michael Theroux It's 1998. In less than two years the so-called Millennium Bug, also known as "The Year 2000" (Y2k) software problem will be upon us. If you havent already heard, this is a problem with computers that arises from the use of a two-digit field to identify years in the computers programming (for example 76 = 1976), and that the computer assumes there is only one century the 1900s. Software written for computers will read (or try to) "00" for the year 2000 as the year 1900. Computer programs that use this two digit date scheme instead of a four digit one will fail or malfunction if the errors are not corrected. Champions of this problem insist that it will be catastrophic that everyone on the planet will be seriously affected and that the world may end as we know it. One website says, "It may be the biggest problem that the modern world has ever faced." Fears range from international telecommunications malfunction to total economic collapse. The Industry of Hysteria The negative side of this situation is that "hysteria" is fast becoming one of the biggest marketing tools ever thrust upon an unsuspecting and gullible public. The creation of such "mass hysteria" campaigns has had an excellent history where there is money to be made. For instance, in 1991, the discovery of a computer virus called "Michaelangelo" (so named as it would do its destruction on the birthday of the famous artist, March 6th) spread hysteria "across the planet." Representatives employed in marketing departments of antivirus software companies deemed "Michelangelo" a "very serious threat." On March 5th, 1992, the day before Michelangelo was supposed to strike, John McAfee (of McAfee Antivirus software) appeared on the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour and debated with virus researcher Charles Rutstein. McAfee stated, "anywhere from 50,000 to five million [computers will suffer], but were still talking $60 million at the very low end" for virus damage and cleanup costs. Rutstein, on the other hand, estimated that only "ten to twenty thousand [computers] worldwide" could suffer on March 6 when Michelangelo triggers. Frightened computer users drained computer store shelves of antivirus software, and when every last bit of antivirus software had been purchased, customers flocked to the stores to get books about viruses. Well, March 6th came and went without much impact. Of the 5 million predicted infections, there were only at most 10,000 (note: any computer malfunction on this day would be attributed to the virus). Some say this is because most had protection before the virus hit, but subsequent years (up to 1998) have reported zero infections of the virus to antivirus companies (I personally have never had protection from this virus and balked when everyone else ran out to buy the software. None of my computers have ever been infected by the Michaelangelo virus, or with any virus for that matter). Many other hysterical virus warnings have appeared over the years all have been inflated myths. Another great technological myth involves the hysteria stirred up concerning the "HAARP" project. It isnt bad enough the government plainly states their intended purpose of heating up the ionosphere with the huge transmitting station in Alaska, but industrious booksellers would have us believe that the HAARP device is really intended to alter global weather, control our minds, and jam all communications over the entire planet. BSRF has covered this subject thoroughly in some 1000 pages of text and documents (Secrets of Cold War Technology, Declassified Patents of the Cold War and SDI, etc.), but most wanted no part of what we had to say (even though the threat of satellite weapons was emphasized and could have been capitalized on by entrepreneurial hysterecists). The media has always played a crucial role in the propagation of thesemyths. This is due to the fact that "fear" and "hysteria" make for the best story material, and that "expert" journalists failed to do any serious research into the subject matter. Even the computer industrys reporting lacks the simple understanding of the scary computer term, "virus". In a recent instance concerning the so-called Millennium Bug, Web Review reporter Stephen Pizzo opened with an ominous warning: "The biggest and baddest computer virus in history is less than four years away from smashing the worlds computer systems senseless. Its called the Millennium Virus."Pizzos story includes a weblink on the
Re: [CTRL] Intel ID Chip vs Privacy!??
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/26/99 7:20:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, lloyd@A- ALBIONIC.COM writes: hmm? It appears that the Intel ID chip is voluntary and can be turned-off [or not purchased!]. Why should anyone object to this? Much of password hacking is done by signal interception. ANY signal can be intercepted and it does not matter whether or not you are dealing with a series of numerals or a series of letters, once intercepted they are easily broken. This is either a ploy to make some money on something that adds no security at all or it is a tracking device. Let's keep Intel's record in mind here too. 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] [1] REPORT - HOW THE INTERNET IS BEING CONTROLLED
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:482328"REPORT - HOW THE INTERNET IS BEING CONTROLLED/A --[1]-- REPORT - HOW THE INTERNET IS BEING CONTROLLED "But there is another, perhaps more disturbing aspect of the PCCIP report. Almost every solution proposed by the commission represents some new expansion of government authority and some new encroachment into personal liberty. These recommendations follow from the description of a potential problem with barely a moment to consider the consequences for our form of open government. - moshe CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION AND THE ENDANGERMENT OF CIVIL LIBERTIES An Assessment of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) By Wayne Madsen Electronic Privacy Information Center Washington, DC About the Electronic Privacy Information Center The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. EPIC is a project of the Fund for Constitutional Government. EPIC works in association with Privacy International, an international human rights group based in London, UK and is also a member of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign, the Internet Free Expression Alliance and the Internet Privacy Coalition. The EPIC Bookstore provides a comprehensive selection of books and reports on computer security, cryptography, the First Amendment and free speech, open government, and privacy. Visit the EPIC Bookstore at http://www.epic.org/bookstore/ Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Copyright (C) 1998 by the Electronic Privacy Information Center First edition 1998 Printed in the United States of America All Rights Reserved ISBN: 1-893044-01-7 EPIC Staff Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director David L. Sobel, General Counsel David Banisar, Policy Director Shauna Van Dongen, Publications Director Kathleen Ellis, Administrative Director Wayne Madsen, Senior Fellow, Principal author of this report ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Electronic Privacy Information Center gratefully acknowledges the support of the Fund for Constitutional Government, the C.S. Fund, the Scherman Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund, and the Stern Family Fund as well as the assistance of members of the EPIC Advisory Board. Preface More than ten years have passed since adoption of the Computer Security Act. That law, which was intended to ensure that issues of computer security not be held hostage by government secrecy, has remained more a goal than a result. For more than a decade, administrations of both parties have sought to limit government accountability and to extend government secrecy. The cost of these efforts to expand government control over computer security have been enormous: a failed encryption proposal, expanded wire surveillance, short-sighted technical standards to facilitate monitoring, and lack of trust and confidence in government's ability to defend proposals in open forums among technical experts. The most recent dangers to civil liberties comes from the new-found threat to our nation's infrastructure. An elaborate report identified a whole series of attacks that terrorists could wage against our communication lines, power grids, and transportation networks. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the report recommended a dramatic expansion of government authority, new funding to combat the threat, and greater secrecy to conceal potential vulnerabilities as well as the work of the government agencies now tasked with defending us. Taken on its face, there is a real question of whether the PCCIP report adequately evaluated the dangers to our Nation's security. The PCCIP report largely ignored the Y2K problem, now seen as the greatest threat to our nation's infrastructure by experts, industry, and the general public. The PCCIP also ignored the extraordinary damage that could be caused by natural disasters such as the ice storm that crippled large parts of southern Canada during the winter of 1998. Natural disasters, computer errors, and network vulnerabilities are very real threats that we must consider in a society that is ever more dependent on advanced technologies. To view all dangers through the lens of terrorist attack, invariably hides from view many of the practical problems we should consider. But there is another, perhaps more disturbing aspect of the PCCIP report. Almost every solution proposed by the commission represents some new expansion of government authority and some new encroachment into personal liberty. These recommendations follow from the description of a potential problem with barely a moment to consider the consequences for our form of open government. In each of the areas
[CTRL] [2] REPORT - HOW THE INTERNET IS BEING CONTROLLED
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:482328"REPORT - HOW THE INTERNET IS BEING CONTROLLED/A --[2]-- CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION IMPACT AREAS COUNTER- RECOMMENDATIONS The PCCIP Report contains a number of proposals that could, if implemented, adversely affect the freedom of American citizens. Many of the proposals affecting the ability of Americans to engage in scientific and other research, as well as political and social discourse, without being subjected to government security controls, are a direct outgrowth of similar proposals advanced by President Reagan's NSDD-145. Privacy The PCCIP Report complains that because private sector employers do not have access to criminal history, financial, and employment information and also may incur tort liability for releasing adverse employment information to other employers, the private sector should be granted limited exemptions from these restrictions. The Report recommends that federal and state laws be amended to "balance employers' needs against individual interests in privacy." Such a recommendation is frightening in light of reports that companies are increasingly monitoring the communications of their employees. The degree to which companies may be required or encouraged to hand over the contents of such communications to the FBI's National Infrastructure Threat Center also poses significant civil liberties concerns. Many companies currently possess and use monitoring capabilities. A MacWorld survey revealed that 22 per cent of large companies "engaged in searches of employee computer files, voice mail, electronic mail, or other networking communications." Only one-third of these companies informed employees that such surveillance was taking place. A 1997 survey by the American Management Association showed that more than 35 per cent of employers use surveillance tactics such as reviewing e- mail, inspecting computer files, or eavesdropping on phone conversations. The Report also recommends that state legislators amend their privacy laws to require mere implied "consent" as authority for employers to request sensitive background information on employees or prospective employees. In addition, there is a recommendation that Congress amend the Employee Polygraph Protection Act to include information security personnel in the category of professions which can be required to be subjected to polygraph tests. Freedom of Information, Open Government, and Censorship The PCCIP Report recommends that the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO) established by PDD-63 require appropriate protection for specified private sector information. It, therefore, proposes to require that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemptions of paragraph b (3) be broadened to include "sensitive information" from the private sector. At a partially-open meeting of the Advisory Committee to PCCIP held on December 3, 1997, Steve Mitchell from the Justice Department called for a "cultural change" to take place over the next 15 to 20 years in order to deal with the information warfare threat. He called for FOIA exemptions under both Federal and state law for companies passing on proprietary information to government agencies. He also said state FOIAs, in particular, should be amended because they are often more liberal than the Federal law on opening up government documents and files to the public. Mitchell also called for some form of Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) relief for joint government-private sector boards and committees. He said this would permit sensitive but unclassified meetings to be closed to the public. Another aspect of information warfare involves censorship and disinformation. According to a report written for the Pentagon by SAIC, "widespread dissemination by the U.S. media and its independence vastly complicate military operations. Any information warfare strategy must taken into account the press or at least address its potential impact." Former NSA director and CIA deputy director Studeman stated that there should be a "rapid media reaction force" charged with disseminating propaganda to various media channels and outlets for "positive purposes". Studeman is currently the Vice President and Deputy General Manager of TRW's Systems and Information Technology Group, another contractor with a vested interest in critical infrastructure protection. Studeman also serves on the Board of Directors of Thiokol Corporation, formerly headed by PCCIP Commission Chairman Marsh. Congress should ensure that the FOIA and FACA are not amended in any way that would inhibit the public's right to access unclassified information held by the government, regardless of the information's origin. New Security Classification Category The PCCIP Report recommends that the CIAO classify new categories of information such as "aggregated" unclassified information. It also recommends
[CTRL] [3] REPORT - HOW THE INTERNET IS BEING CONTROLLED
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:482328"REPORT - HOW THE INTERNET IS BEING CONTROLLED/A --[3]-- APPENDIX B: White House Statement on PDD-62 and PDD-63 THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 22, 1998 SUMMARY OF PRESIDENTIAL DECISION DIRECTIVES 62 and 63 President Clinton today ordered the strengthening of the nation's defenses against emerging unconventional threats to the United States: terrorist acts, use of weapons of mass destruction, assaults on our critical infrastructures and cyber-attacks. The Combating Terrorism directive (PDD-62) highlights the growing threat of unconventional attacks against the United States. It details a new and more systematic approach to fighting terrorism by bringing a program management approach to U.S. counter-terrorism efforts. The directive also establishes the office of the National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter- Terrorism which will oversee a broad variety of relevant policies and programs including areas such as counter-terrorism, protection of critical infrastructure, preparedness and consequence management for weapons of mass destruction. The Critical Infrastructure Protection directive (PDD-63) calls for a national effort to assure the security of the increasingly vulnerable and interconnected infrastructures of the United States. Such infrastructures include telecommunications, banking and finance, energy, transportation, and essential government services. The directive requires immediate federal government action including risk assessment and planning to reduce exposure to attack. It stresses the critical importance of cooperation between the government and the private sector by linking designated agencies with private sector representatives. APPENDIX C: Members of PCCIP The government members of the PCCIP clearly represented intelligence and law enforcement interests. They included: o Peter H. Daly, U.S. Treasury, Senior Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Management and Chief Financial Officer. Daly's portfolio includes responsibility for electronic money policy issues as they affect law enforcement. o John C. Davis, National Security Agency, Director of the National Computer Security Center. Davis served in various positions during a 34-year career at NSA, including Deputy Chief of the INFOSEC Operations and Technical Support Group, Deputy Chief of the Research and Technology Group, Chief of the Microelectronics Office, and Chief of the Office of Computer and Processing Technology in the Research and Engineering Organization. o Thomas J. Falvey, Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of the Secretary, Office of Intelligence and Security. Falvey is the DOT's National Security Advisor in the Office of Intelligence and Security and the department's expert on transportation infrastructure protection and assurance and information warfare. o Brenton C. Greene, Department of Defense (DOD), Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Director for Infrastructure Policy. Greene, a former U.S. nuclear submarine commander, led the DOD staff element responsible for developing policy, plans, programs and procedures for infrastructure assurance policy and information warfare. o David A. Jones, Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Safeguards and Security, Director, Policy, Standards and Analysis Division. At DOE Jones was responsible for developing, promulgating and analyzing DOE-wide safeguards and security policy, procedures and standards, including physical security, information security, personnel security, nuclear materials control and accountability, and the Design Basis Threat. o William B. Joyce, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Joyce joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1972 and has served in a number of supervisory and management positions overseas and in Washington. He specializes in the collection and processing of foreign open source intelligence. o Stevan D. Mitchell, Department of Justice. Mitchell is a trial attorney with the Criminal Division's Computer Crime Unit where has litigated cases, conducted investigations, drafted legislative proposals, and participated in international efforts to curb illegal uses of advanced technology, presumably including encryption technology. o Dr. Irwin M. Pikus, Department of Commerce, Bureau of Export Administration. Dr. Pikus worked in the Bureau of Export Administration where he directed an office that collects and analyzes information dealing with foreign technology comparable to the advanced technologies whose exports are controlled by the United States. This presumably includes encryption technology. o Dr. John R. Powers, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Senior Policy Advisor for Strategic Planning. Dr. Powers developed a policy framework for an integrated emergency response capability
Re: [CTRL] Enviros support removal of 8000 trees
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/25/99 12:03:57 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The enviros A blanket term used to discredit. What are you up to here? One would assume from your post that your only hang up with logging 8000 trees is the fact that I refered to the movement in the generic sense..the enviros. Assume all you want. No, I did not give you the pleasure of reacting to a piece of doo doo. I didn't deem the post worth any more of my time. It WAS worth it to me, however, to point out the obvious attempt to discredit that was to be found only a little into the piece. I predict that there will be no outrage, no outcry from the enviros in general.. This HAS been an issue in the environmental community. .because their leaders are the ones doing it. We don't have leaders. I find it interesting that leaders/followers in the enviros proclaim logging to be evil UNTIL it suits their purposes and their leaders advance the plan...then its OK. They have discredited themselves yet AGAIN. Cheers, Robert Lame. I have given you too much attention already. Good bye. smile 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] social problems vs? environmental ones
In a message dated 1/25/99 2:07:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: n a message dated 1/25/99 2:03:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OTOH, the conservation movement has deep roots (pun intended) in social conservatism. Environmentalism has often been used as an excuse to ignore social problems TV is used as an escape from social problems but so are many things. I tend to think that our social problems are inextricable tied to environmental problems and neither should be ignored. The distribution of your message dated Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:06:15 EST with subject "Re: [Re: [CTRL] Earth First Group and NWO]" has been rejected because you have exceeded the daily per-user message limit for the CTRL list. Other than the list owner, no one is allowed to post more than 7 messages per day. Please resend your message at a later time if you still want it to be posted to the list. Rejected message (28 lines) -- Received: from imo11.mx.aol.com (imo11.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.1]) by listserv.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20293 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:07:34 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] by imo11.mx.aol.com (IMOv18.1) id MJUMa04317 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:06:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:06:15 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [CTRL] [Re: [CTRL] Earth First Group and NWO] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 205 In a message dated 1/25/99 2:03:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OTOH, the conservation movement has deep roots (pun intended) in social conservatism. Environmentalism has often been used as an excuse to ignore social problems TV is used as an escape from social problems but so are many things. I tend to think that our social problems are inextricable tied to environmental problems and neither should be ignored.
[CTRL] Fwd: GM crops enter food chain by back door
Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/ GM crops enter food chain by back door INDEPENDENT January 24 1999 Animal feed for cows, pigs and chickens containing genetically modified crops is about to go on the market, raising fears in Whitehall of another BSE-style health crisis. Government officials, environmental groups and scientists believe that genetically modified DNA from the animal feed could pass though the food chain to humans, with unknown effects. They also say that consumers will be denied the opportunity to avoid GM food, as there are no laws saying that meat or milk containing the product must be labelled as such. Earlier this month, Monsanto, the biotechnology giant, applied for government approval to sell two new GM ingredients to animal feed producers in Britain. Its applications, one for GM cotton and the other for GM corn for specified use in animal fodder, were considered by government advisers. Insiders have told the Independent on Sunday that officials at the Ministry of Agriculture (Maff) animal feed unit, which dealt with the BSE crisis, were "very worried indeed" when the applications came before the Maff approval committee. They called for more "toxicology tests" on Monsanto's GM cotton and have privately expressed fears about unknown implications of using it as feed. "Maff officials wanted full toxicology tests on the cotton," said a source from the meeting. "They were very concerned and agitated. One of them was virtually shaking. They are not happy and they have been saying so privately." Sources close to the committee have confirmed that Monsanto is about to be given the green light to sell GM maize to animal feed producers in Britain. Some scientists, however, say that by the time the meat and milk is consumed by humans, the DNA will have broken down and only infinitesimal quantities will remain. "The truth is that no one has any idea whether the GM organisms fed to animals pose dangers to human health," said Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association. "But surely the very least the consumer should have is the right to choose whether they consume these products or not." The crisis comes in the week the Government is to announce the setting up of a Food Standards Agency, which will preside over food safety, including that of GM food. Supermarkets, pubs, and shops will all be expected to pay a flat rate of #90 each in a food "poll tax" under plans which will go out for consultation this week. Nick Brown, the Agriculture Minister, recently said at an organic food conference that people should be able to choose whether to eat GM food. Already, two varieties of Monsanto's genetically modified corn and soya have been approved for general consumption by humans and animals in Europe. It is not known whether they are yet being used in animal feed. Nervous farmers, who had to destroy generations of cattle because of the BSE crisis, have begun asking feed companies whether the processed food contains GM ingredients. A spokesman for the National Farmers Union said: "Farmers are asking what is in the feed; it's a big problem. There is certainly concern among farmers who don't want to use GM crops in their feed." At the same time, the Government is funding new research into genetically modifying the grass that cows and sheep graze on. The scientists in charge admit that there are public concerns about feeding GM products to cattle and say that a vital part of their work is assessing potential risks. "We are doing some work on genetically engineering grasses. We are looking at changing their digestibility," said a spokesman for the Institute for Grassland and Environmental Research. "We can't theoretically see problems with feeding genetically manipulated crops to humans, but we have to realise that the public is worried." JOIN THE ACTIVIST MAILING LIST _ * The Activist * http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian =20 This is not about the world that we inherited from our forefathers, It is about the world we have borrowed from our children !! _ __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/ http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/thirdeye.html Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/ GM crops enter food chain by back door INDEPENDENT January 24 1999 Animal feed for cows, pigs and chickens containing genetically modified crops is about to go on the market, raising
Re: [CTRL] LJ: Constitution / religion
-Caveat Lector- [The list of spammed recipients have been reduced to the lists I'm actually on...one must wonder why Frost insists on spamming this thread beyond the venue of original discussion] /// Duh if I am spamming the list then how come you replied adding your own spam to it? (As for my spelling, such knit picking is only necessary to detract from the points I make. I see hundreds of such spelling mistakes words left out and poor grammar every week. The only people I have seen point out such things are losers who need to attack the messenger because they can not argue with the facts) = My take on schools is to expose the lying hypocrisy of politicians who quote the scriptures, talk about God and pray in public buildings thousands of times every year. Schools were set up for one purpose ... to prepare kids for the work force. It is not for us to entertain them, pay for sports, teach them yoga, bring in homosexuals to teach them how to use condoms to sodomize each other, strip search teen age girls, teach them situation ethitics or any other such bs. I say get rid of all the bibles, locknest monsters, witch craft, situation ethics, social studies (humanism, government recognized religion) and pay for the one purpose schools are established for. It is not for us to pay taxes for the 3 billion dollar "after school programs" baby sitting programs Clinton just signed. Schools are not baby sitting, brain washing or entertainment centers. It was a tax funded baby sitting program that brought kids in the federal building where they were blown up. == So okay, let's put 'religion' back in the public schools... Whose religion? I know YOUR answer, you just want your private brand of 'Christianity'... /// Wrong O miss wicca witch (you do profess to be a witch or was that someone else)? No, I do not push "Christian" values in schools, I just say get rid of all the humanist/homosexual waste when you empty the shit pot. The topic was the constitution which I replied to in order to point out the fact that crooked politicians are liars who transgress the constitution any time they want. == ...people actually believe in these unfounded things, /// Just as YOU believe in the unfounded tenets of Christianity \\\ Your crystal ball must be broken witchy. It is you who believe in superstitious magic, you have not once made me make any such claims. I would just prefer to look at the turd of a Christian than the face of idiot "pagans", homosexuals, dope users ... perverts. It is you who speaks of wicca and such magic Before this century there was no such thing as a "white" witch. Shows like Bewitched, the latest friday night thingy, wendy the witch, casper ... the 3 sister thing which was a spin off the movie ... the fantasy of fiction and cartoons is where the "good" witch was fabricated. Before the funny book came along, all info about witches were they were evil beings who only did harm to others. According to the dictionary a witch is defined as * One who is involved magic and * the other definition is a hag Let's see some of your magic so we know which kind of a witch you are. === Back to the point of the beginning of the thread... The humanist/homosexual/atheist organization known as the aclu #1 Brings law suites against schools when anyone exercises their "right" to freedom of religion. #2 Clinton sat in the oval office and spoke of God and praying to God? #3 At the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars just before the last election, Clinton went to a black church to get votes for his chums. #4 In books and transcripts of mayors, governors, congressmen senators and presidents there are literally thousands of quotes of politicians quoting the bible, talking about God and praying in public places while they are in their official capacity. #5 Until the middle of this century (1900s) the government paid for text books with references to God, creation and the whole thingy. #6 In God we trust is on the dollar #7 Using the bible, congress and the senate opens with prayer. #8 When someone testifies, they put out a bible for them to put their hand on. #9 We pay taxes for churches and clergymen in the military. #10 The word "separation" is no where in the constitution in reference to religion. The constitution states: (a) Congress (bs) shall make no laws respecting the establishment of religion, OR (c) PROHIBIT THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF. After madam O'Harah started her stink, the politicians did make laws that prohibited the free exercise of religion. If some group of kids decide that after school they will sit on the track field and read the bible a) They are not a member
[CTRL] Skeptic News Tuesday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990126a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with : are editorial comments to provoke discussion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # E-NAZIS CREATING CHAOS ON THE NET. (BBC) A highly-organised cracker attack on computers in Ireland which brought down the East Timor domain has been called "the new style of war", provoking a protest to the Indonesian gov't. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_263000/263169.stm # Relevant Stories: US funds for cyber attack: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_26/260855.stm # Chinese protesters attack Indonesia through Net: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_154000/154079.stm : Can/should/must all wars be virtual? Will all peace be virtual? How many dimensions of chaos can war encompass? Would you virtually surrender? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ EARTHQUAKE ROCKS WESTERN COLOMBIA; AT LEAST 407 DEAD. A strong earthquake shook western Colombia on Monday afternoon, killing at least 407 people and injuring 1,226 in the nation's coffee-growing belt. The quake, given a pre- liminary magnitude of 6 by the U.S. Geological Survey, was centered in Valle del Cauca state, 220 kilometers (140 miles) from the capital, Bogota. Laid to waste - see http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9901/26/colombia.quake.01/ # Colombia quake toll rises. (BBC) Efforts to find survivors are resuming as the death toll continues to rise in what may be Colombia's worst ever quake. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_262000/262848.stm # ALSO: Picture gallery: Colombia quake: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_263000/263065.stm # The Earth's Ring of Fire: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_136000/136248.stm # U.S. Geological Survey: http://www.usgs.gov/ # National Earthquake Information Center: Colombia Seismicity http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/97_EVENTS/970902121326/seismicity.h tml *** Hundreds dead in Colombia earthquake in coffee-growing heartland. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558195509-958 *** Also: Colombia's other recent earthquakes, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558195927-b6f # Up To 2,000 Feared Dead In Colombia Quake City (Reuters) http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990126/07/international-quake : Why did the earth gods strike the coffee region, not the cocaine region? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Clinton's audience with the Pope. (BBC) President Clinton and Pope John Paul II will meet in private for half-an-hour as the Pope continues his tour of the American continent. Perjurer/adulterer confronts pontiff - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_262000/262933.stm # Links: The Vatican: http://www.vatican.va/ # Catholic Information Network: http://www.cin.org/ # The "UNOFFICIAL" Pope John Paul II: http://www.zpub.com/un/pope/ Pope wraps up Mexico trip, declaring 'I feel Mexican!' http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9901/25/pope.02/index.html Excerpts from pope's strategy for church in the Americas http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9901/23/pope.excerpts.ap/index.html Pope condemns excesses of capitalism in Americas document http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9901/23/pope.future/index.html With pope en route, Protestant leaders discuss unity in St. Louis http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9901/23/pope.christianity.ap/ : When Clinton and the Pope go to Wright-Patterson Field to see the Roswell aliens, what will they learn? What will they plan? What will happen to us? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Three Adventurers Reach South Pole After 84 Days. SCOTT BASE, Antarctica (Reuters) - New Zealander Peter Hillary, son of Mount Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary, and two companions reached the South Pole Tuesday after an 820-mile trek across Antarctica's frozen wastes. "I must say having got here to the South Pole, everything seems worth it," Hillary told Television New Zealand. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990126/09/international-antarctica http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/antarctica990126.html : How many Antarctic explorers have reported UFO sightings? How many have disappeared while venturing too near to the Nazi/ET bases? Have you ever visited the South Pole by astral projection / remote viewing? Is it cool? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Earth Plants, Animals Studied For Use By Space Colonists. (AP) Organisms that evolved in the gravity of Earth may not thrive in the lighter gravity of the moon or Mars. And the surface tension of water, which shatters easily in Earth's gravity, becomes a strong barrier in lighter gravity and could affect basic biological functions. "We have to learn if Earth organisms can live and evolve in these changed conditions." G-dependent genes: "In a dif- ferent gravity some genes may fail to turn on while others could shut down." http://www2.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,11191-19082-138035-0,00.html or http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/spacecolony990125.html : Are
[CTRL] Priory of Sion/Digest395 - various
-Caveat Lector- from: Priory of Sion/Digest395 - Message: 12 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:52:16 + From: Ros Calverley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OLD TOPIC: How many wives? snip You're not proposing Mary as the originator of the Cathars, are you? Steven Runciman makes an excellent case in 'The Medieval Manichee' for Catharism being an Eastern European import, derived from Bogomilism (Bulgaria). In any case, though the Cult of the Black Virgin in the South of France is pretty old, it's not _that_ old. The earliest shrines are 11th century. Any proposal to link this cult to Mary M. or to an even earlier Goddess cult has to overcome this time difference somehow. R. = Message: 13 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 15:23:43 -0800 (PST) From: La Colombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: [CTRL] "Osiris's Grave" Detected Near The... Frank McGovern wrote: But I heard it called the Library of Knowledge, and supposedly is accessible somewhere under the ground between the two paws of the Sphinx. The rumor was that this Library was to be opened Jan. 1 2000 to the world. Was this Cayce's prophecy (which I believe referred to an earlier date, thinking about it), or another rumour? There's so much speculation, prophecy, conspiracy theory and wishful thinking surrounding the Pyramids and Sphinx that I'm quite confused by now. This article on the Tomb of Osiris is quite interesting - seeing as it is in water H water in an area that hasn't had a lot of rainfall in years. True - but I guess even a desert must have a water table somewhere. But the thing that struck me most about the story was not only the royal connection, but Zaki Hawass. I mean, this guy's famous! He's _the_ most prominent Egyptian Egyptologist, with dozens of publications in scholarly journals to his credit, and he simply wouldn't come out with a statement like this if he didn't mean it. He's got far too much to lose. snip = Message: 18 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:17:48 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Carmain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lords, Sirs and titles ---Andrew Ormston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Ormston [EMAIL PROTECTED] (actually, I don't know who asked this question...) So "Prince" Michael is not a prince? Are you sure about this. Has anyone ever asked him for evidence? He claims to be elected as "President of the European Council of Princes". Is this phoney? It isn't the organization that's phoney - it's anyone and everyone who has ever been associated with it, including Michel Lafosse, aka "Prince Michael Stewart of Albany". (This part is apparently from Mr. Ormston) Plenty of people have asked for evidence for his prince-ship. He has offered and given his evidence. When researched, some of this evidence has shown to be flawed. Some of the more ancient genealogy may be correct, but the recent "tie-ing in" to older evidence appears not to be bona fide. His explanation is that history has been changed. History has undoubtedly been changed. But this global statement should not give a carte blanche excuse for claimants. The most common ploy for fraudulent royalty claimants is to cite established genealogies as proof of their heritage, but to change a small detail in their favor. This is typically cited as being the result of some sinister plot or another to deprive them of their rightful inheritance - a cover-up. In Mr. Lafosse's case, he offers photocopies of purported Vatican documents showing his descent from the only son of Prince Charles Edward Stuart by his second wife. The only problem is that Prince Charles Edward never had a second wife, having still been legally married to his first wife when he died. At this point controversy becomes a mere contradiction. It is therefore only by scrutinizing the evidence offered that one can arrive at a definite conclusion for or against written history. The Vatican archives do not contain the original documents that Mr. Lafosse offers as proof, as he claims. Furthermore, the documents - purportedly the work of different authors, for different purposes at different times - appear to have been written by the same hand. The grammatical errors attributable to a rudimentary grasp of Latin are evident and repeated in each document. One would assume that a Vatican scribe would have a stronger grasp of the language. As the originals cannot be produced, they also cannot be examined for authenticity. In light of these and other inconsistencies in Mr. Lafosse's story, we are left to draw our own conclusions. To go back to the dictionary definition. He has not yet shown himself as son of a sovereign or any of the definitions. I can discuss this at length if you wish. I have access to research done on Prince Michael by several people. If researchers on this list want point-by-point counter evidence, I have it. BTW, I have met and spoke to Michael on many occasions and he is a charming man and certainly
[CTRL] Robert Anton Wilson The RICH Economy plus commentary
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Date: Sun Jan 17 03:36:17 1999
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Mary Therise Gleason")
Subject: Robert Anton Wilson "The RICH Economy"
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://freespace.virgin.net/sarah.peter.nelson/pages/rawilson.html
"People can spend only so much time fucking, smoking dope, and
watching TV; after a while they get bored ..."
The Rich Economy by Robert Anton Wilson from The Illuminati Papers
If there is one proposition which currently wins the assent of nearly
everybody, it is that we need more jobs. "A cure for unemployment" is
promised, or earnestly sought, by every Heavy Thinker from Jimmy
Carter to the Communist Party USA, from Ronald Reagan to the head of
the economics department at the local university, from the Birchers
to the New Left.
I would like to challenge that idea. I don't think there is, or ever
again can be, a cure for unemployment. I propose that unemployment is
not a disease, but the natural, healthy functioning of an advanced
technological society.
==
JCT: As Real Caouette, the Great Quebec Social Credit leader,
once explained:
"If you want jobs, I can give you jobs. Take out the bulldozer
and put in 50 men with shovels. If you want more jobs, take away their
shovels and give them spoons."
He used this to explain that it wasn't the toil that people
wanted but rather the paycheck that people wanted. That's why when
there's a National Dividend, a share of the robot paycheck, no one
will worry about being replaced by a robot when their dividend goes
up.
==
The inevitable direction of any technology, and of any rational
species such as Homo sap., is toward what Buckminster Fuller calls
ephemeralization, or doing-more-with-less. For instance, a modern
computer does more (handles more bits of information) with less
hardware than the proto-computers of the late '40's and '50's. One
worker with a modern teletype machine does more in an hour than a
thousand medieval monks painstakingly copying scrolls for a century.
Atomic fission does more with a cubic centimeter of matter than all
the engineers of the 19th Century could do with a million tons, and
fusion does even more.
Unemployment is not a disease; so it has no "cure."
==
JCT: When there are things to be done, involuntary unemployment
is a mental disease for which there is a cure.
==
This tendency toward ephemeralization or doing more-with-less is
based on two principal factors, viz:
1.The increment-of-association, a term coined by engineer C.H.
Douglas, a meaning simply that when we combine our efforts we can do
more than the sum of what each of us could do separately. Five people
acting synergetically together can lift a small modern car, but if
each of the five tries separately, the car will not budge. As society
evolved from tiny bands, to larger tribes, to federations of tribes,
to city-states, to nations, to multinational alliances, the
increment-of-association increased exponentially. A stone-age hunting
band could not build the Parthenon; a Renaissance city-state could
not put Neil Armstrong on the Moon. When the increment-of-association
increases, through larger social units, doing-more-with-less becomes
increasingly possible.
2.Knowledge itself is inherently self-augmenting. Every discovery
"suggests" further discoveries; every innovation provokes further
innovations. This can be seen concretely, in the records of the U.S.
Patent Office, where you will find more patents granted every year
than were granted the year before, in a rising curve that seems to be
headed toward infinity. If Inventor A can make a Whatsit out of 20
moving parts, Inventor B will come along and build a Whatsit out of
10 moving parts. If the technology of 1900 can get 100 ergs out of a
Whatchamacallum, the technology of 1950 can get 1,000 ergs. Again,
the tendency is always toward doing-more-with-less.
Unemployment is directly caused by this technological capacity to
do more-with-less. Thousands of monks were technologically unemployed
by Gutenberg. Thousands of blacksmiths were technologically
unemployed by Ford's Model T. Each device that does-more-with-less
makes human labor that much less necessary.
Aristotle said that slavery could only be abolished when machines
were built that could operate themselves. Working for wages, the
modern equivalent of slavery -- very accurately called "wage slavery"
by social critics -- is in the process of being abolished by just
such self-programming machines. In fact, Norbert Wiener, one of the
creators of cybernetics, foresaw this as early as 1947 and warned
that we would have massive unemployment once the computer revolution
really got moving.
It is arguable, and I for one would argue, that the only reason
Wiener's prediction has not totally been realized yet -- although we
do have ever-increasing
[CTRL] Fwd: In Search of Space Genes
Can Plants, Animals Live in Space? By PAUL RECER .c The Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Sometime in the next century humans may colonize the moon or Mars and researchers are looking for the plants and animals that those settlers from Earth will take with them. ``For a long-term habitation of Mars, you'll have to grow crops, deal with microbes and so forth,'' David Morrison of NASA's Ames Research Center said Monday. ``We have to understand the response of those organisms to the different conditions.'' Organisms that evolved in the gravity of Earth may not thrive in the lighter gravity of the moon or Mars, said NASA's Emily R. Morey-Holton. In the one- sixth gravity of the moon and the one-third gravity of Mars, there are changes in the fundamental processes of heat convection and sedimentation. Also, the surface tension of water, which shatters easily in Earth's gravity, becomes a strong barrier in lighter gravity and could affect basic biological functions. ``We don't know the effect of these changes,'' Morey-Holton said at the national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. ``We have to learn if Earth organisms can live and evolve in these changed conditions.'' For instance, Morey-Holton said, researchers found that tadpoles hatched in orbit never developed lungs. In the low gravity, the surface tension on air bubbles became so strong that the tadpoles could not punch through to breathe, she said. ``They would hit the bubbles and just bounce off.'' In another orbital experiment, a type of mustard plant failed to thrive in space because water droplets clustered about the roots, blocking absorption of nutrients. Again, the cause is thought to be the enhanced surface tension of the water droplets. Changes in gravity could also affect how genes work and could even affect evolution, Morey-Holton said. ``Some researchers are looking for gravity-dependent genes,'' she said. ``There is concern that in a different gravity some genes may fail to turn on while others could shut down.'' Such actions could dramatically alter a plant or animal or even cause lethal changes, she said. In one orbital experiment, several generations of human kidney cells were cultured and researchers have found that the genes in the space grown cells changed. Just how the changes would affect the cells is not known. ``If we find gravity-sensitive genes, there is no reason why we can't have designer organisms that would be viable in the new environment,'' said Morey- Holton. In effect, Earth plants or animals could be genetically altered so they would thrive in the changed conditions of Mars and would then be put on board a space-age ark that would carry colonists to the Red Planet. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is planning a series of experiments on the International Space Station to find Earth organisms best suited for Mars. Plants and animals will be grown through several generations and then analyzed for genetic changes, Morrison said.
[CTRL] Fwd: FC: Time to boycott Ethernet too?
* Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:12:43 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bob Stratton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FC: Intel backs down At 09:15 AM 1/26/99 -0500, you wrote: [I'm also not a fan of Intel's move, but I think it's reasonable to note that every computer with Ethernet hardware has a unique ID number that some programs have used for at least a decade to thwart piracy, for instance. Seems to me that civil libertarians irked about "digital fingerprints" and "virtual Social Security numbers" should start thinking twice about computers with network connections. After all, while the Pentium Problem applies only to PCs, Macs and Suns have Ethernet built-in... --Declan] I had a chat with one of the boycott organizers about this yesterday. As it happens most popular workstation vendors have included something called a "host ID" in their systems for over a decade now. While it's on the motherboard and not resident in the CPU, the difference is essentially immaterial. I asked this well known privacy activist (for whom I have the greatest respect) why they wouldn't then boycott Sun, HP, SGI, and IBM for starters, since they've been doing the EXACT SAME THING for MUCH LONGER. The only answer I got was that workstations aren't intended for the "consumer". When I asked what the difference between a $4000 workstation and a PC was, the answer was $3000. When I mentioned all of the educational institutions which use workstations, and why they wouldn't be ample justification for a boycott against w/s vendors I didn't get an answer. Now I'm not thrilled about host ID's. I hate to have to give them out in order to buy software for Suns, and I'm generally in agreement with Bruce Schneier and Austin Hill's comments about the security flaws in this approach to user security, but... - Let's not forget why Intel is really doing this: Chip piracy, people knocking over trucks to steal inventory, chip re-stampers, and overclockers. Most of the recent new CPU releases have each included some new technology to frustrate people from doing things Intel doesn't want them to do. I don't like it, but there's always AMD and Cyrix. - It seems to me that we should be patting them on the back for deciding to integrate decent (or more decent than those to date) random number generators in the CPU. Having worked on network crypto hardware, it would be a damn sight better than having to count pulses from the floppy drive controller and some of the other hacks that people have had to use because good RNGs are so expensive. In fact, one of the best hardware RNGs is even RADIOACTIVE. So far as I can tell, Intel's isn't. (I can't wait for the Newbridge boycott by Greenpeace..."Does your PC glow?") - I work in the information security field and I'm regularly criticized by my friends for not wishing to disclose personal information, but it seems there is a huge leap between having a host ID, and "being tracked by web sites." You need complicity from both the OS and the browser. Now I wouldn't put this past Microsoft, but I run filtering software separately anyway. - While I am regularly disappointed by the lack of respect for privacy on the part of both government and business in the U.S., this latest campaign is faintly reminiscent of the people on late night shortwave who are afraid of the government mind control lasers. Oops, I shouldn't have mentioned that...I have to go. Robert Stratton, Vice President Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Security Design International, Inc. TEL:+1 703 847 8282 URL: http://www.sdii.comFAX:+1 703 641 9090 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:17:29 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "K. M. Peterson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FC: Intel backs down I'm also a bit mystified over this for several reasons... First, the real application that I can see is anti-piracy. Having worked in the IBM System/370 years, where any application could query the CPUID, this is a pretty good way for network/systems managers to keep track of their assets, including the use of software. After all, in a corporate environment (and even the educational one, as I keep reminding people around here), it's the corporation or institution's responsibility to ensure that people are not running illegally copied software. For software vendors this could be a win, as one could now lock software to a particular system. Second, the hardware (where Intel comes in) doesn't talk directly to the network. The real issue is browser support for this functionality, and given market pressures I don't think you're going to find Netscape or MSIE are going to "enforce" CPUID reporting any more than they do cookies. To say that this is a privacy concern because it's enabled in hardware just doesn't seem convincing to me, as it could be very useful in some circumstances -- just ensure the OS support allows selective blocking, as well as the web browsers. (To say this function gets
[CTRL] Fwd: Starr Probe STILL Ongoing
Starr Seeks To Seal Secret Material By JOHN SOLOMON .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Prosecutor Kenneth Starr is asking a court to prevent a woman indicted in the Kathleen Willey investigation from disclosing secret materials provided to her lawyers. Starr argues the release of the materials could jeopardize his broader investigation. Starr requested the protective order in the case of Julie Hiatt Steele, a Richmond, Va., woman charged with obstructing justice and making up a false story that cast doubt on Mrs. Willey's allegation of an unwanted sexual advance by President Clinton. Ms. Steele was indicted earlier this month and denied the charges. ``The government still has pending criminal investigations related'' to the Monica Lewinsky controversy, Starr told the court in seeking the protective order. ``Disclosure of some of the discovery materials the government may provide poses a substantial risk of impeding and influencing those investigations.'' Starr was not specific as to what aspects of his investigation might be adversely affected, but said ``disclosure beyond that necessary to prepare a defense could impact the interests of the parties in this indicted case.'' The prosecutor's motion said Ms. Steele's lawyers refused to voluntarily agree to the restriction. Nancy Luque, one of Ms. Steele's lawyers, declined comment Monday on the dispute. Ms. Steele was indicted earlier this month by a grand jury in Alexandria, Va., on three counts of obstruction of justice and one count of false statements. Among other things, the indictment accused Ms. Steele of filing a false affidavit in Paula Jones' sexual harassment suit against Clinton, lying to two grand juries and attempting to influence the testimony of other witnesses. The president's lawyers had used Ms. Steele's testimony in an effort to cast doubt on the credibility of Mrs. Willey, a former White House volunteer who alleges Clinton made an unwanted sexual advance toward her in the Oval Office in 1993. Clinton denies Mrs. Willey's accusation, which became a focus of Mrs. Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit. In his testimony in the Jones lawsuit, the president said Mrs. Willey ``was not telling the truth'' and that her credibility had been ``pretty well shattered.'' The indictment alleges that a lawyer for Clinton approached Ms. Steele in January 1998 to get her to file the affidavit and that she initially refused, then changed her mind. Ms. Steele eventually filed an affidavit in the Jones lawsuit claiming Mrs. Willey never told her about the alleged advance as she had claimed. Starr alleged the affidavit and Ms. Steele's subsequent testimony before two federal grand juries were false. Ms. Steele ``well knew and believed'' Mrs. Willey had told her about the alleged sexual advance shortly after it happened and ``even related information about Mrs. Willey's account of the incident'' to several of her friends as early as 1993. The indictment also charged that Ms. Steele ``repeatedly attempted'' to convince two friends that she hadn't told them about the Willey incident, even though she had. At the time, one of the friends was being sought by FBI agents for questioning.
[CTRL] Fwd: French President Above Impeachment
French President's Immunity Widened PARIS (AP) -- In a move that could give France's president widespread immunity, the country's constitutional court has ruled that Jacques Chirac can't face criminal charges as long as he is president. The Constitutional Council, one of France's highest legal bodies, ruled Friday that the president cannot be brought to trial except in cases of treason. The decision follows months of debate on the question of presidential immunity, but may not provide a definitive answer. Constitutional scholars apparently disagreed on the ruling's importance, with one saying in Monday's edition of Le Monde that the Constitutional Council's decision could still be overruled by France's highest court, the Court of Cassation. Under the Fifth Republic formed by Charles de Gaulle, the French president enjoys extremely broad powers. Chirac has come under scrutiny for his role in an alleged employment scandal during his 1988-1993 tenure as mayor of Paris, and several close to him at the time are targets of a probe. The decision by the constitutional council came in a case unrelated to that scandal, but could affect it. A French judge is investigating allegations that some city hall employees under Chirac were actually working for the conservative Rally for the Republic party, which Chirac founded. Former Prime Minister Alain Juppe, also an RPR member, has been placed under formal investigation -- a step short of being charged -- for his alleged role in the employment scandal while he was finance director for the city of Paris. Michel Roussin, Chirac's former chief assistant while he was mayor, is also under investigation. A court in Versailles, south of Paris, will announce Tuesday whether it will pursue charges against Juppe, officials said.
[CTRL] Fwd: Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Tighten Control
"`The Knesset [Israeli parliament] rejected two-thirds of the Jewish people." Bill Hurts Role of Liberal Judaism JERUSALEM (AP) -- Deepening the rift between Israel and American Jewry, parliament today narrowly passed a bill aimed at preventing liberal streams of Judaism from playing a more active role in Israel's day-to-day religious life. The bill requires representatives of the Reform and Conservative movements on local religious councils to pledge allegiance to the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate. The Chief Rabbinate dominates religious and personal status matters in Israel, including marriage, divorce and burial. The legislation, sponsored by Orthodox legislators, passed 50-49, with one abstention. The Reform and Conservative streams of Judaism are predominant in the United States, but have fewer followers in Israel. American Jewish leaders have warned that attempts by Israel's Orthodox religious establishment to prevent the liberal movements from gaining more recognition in Israel are dividing the Jewish people. ``The Knesset today pushed away two-thirds of the Jewish people and caused a split between Israel and the Diaspora,'' said Rabbi Ehud Bendel, chairman of the Conservative movement in Israel. Bendel said the liberal streams would not be deterred by the legislation. He said Reform and Conservative members would go through the motions of pledging allegiance to the Chief Rabbinate rather than stay away from the religious councils ``They (religious council members) will sign what they have to sign ... but of course we don't see the Chief Rabbinate as the only arbiter of Jewish religious questions,'' he said. Education Minister Yitzhak Levy, a member of the National Religious Party, said there could only be one authority on religious law. ``It is impossible to have several points of view, several religions, in the same council,'' he said. Capping a prolonged court battle, the liberal streams only recently were awarded the right to be represented on religious councils which disburse government funds to synagogues and supervise the inspection of kosher eateries and ritual baths. The Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Conservative and Reform movements was hailed as a major victory in their battle for recognition. As part of the bitter debate over the religious councils, a top Orthodox rabbi sparked outrage today when he said the Reform movement encouraged intermarriage and assimilation and was eroding the Jewish population just as the Holocaust did. Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, the chief Sephardi rabbi, said assimilation has reduced the number of Jews by more than the Holocaust did 50 years ago. ``I compared the numerical decimation of the Jewish people from the Holocaust, which was by one-third, with the number lost through assimilation because of Reform Jews, which is more,'' Bakshi--Doron told The Associated Press. Bakshi-Doron said he regretted that people were offended by his statements, but said Jewish leaders have long referred to assimilation as the ``quiet holocaust.'' Still, the rabbi's comments caused anger in a country that has given refuge to hundreds of thousands of survivors of the Nazi genocide in which 6 million Jews perished. ``It's incitement, I would say, almost a call to bloodshed,'' said Bendel.
[CTRL] Fwd: Supreme Court Denies Press Right to Know
Court To Study Release of Documents By RICHARD CARELLI .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court today agreed to decide whether states may block release of police records and other government documents to those who would sell the information even when the records routinely are released to the news media and others. The justices said they will review rulings that struck down such a California law as a violation of commercial free-speech rights. Elsewhere around the country, courts have reached conflicting rulings on the legitimacy of laws aimed at protecting the privacy of people arrested by police. Courts have upheld laws similar to California's in cases from Colorado, Louisiana and South Carolina. Courts have struck down similar laws in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, New Mexico and Texas. California lawmakers amended the state's public records law in 1996 to limit the release of information on arrested suspects and crime victims to those with ``a scholarly, journalistic, political or governmental purpose or ... a licensed private investigator.'' Anyone given such records had to certify that the information would ``not be used directly or indirectly to sell a product or service.'' Union Reporting Publishing Corp., which had sold lists of names and addresses of arrested people to lawyers, insurance companies and driving schools, sued the Los Angeles Police Department over its enforcement of the law. A federal trial judge blocked enforcement of the law, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling. ``It is not rational,'' the appeals court said last June, ``for a statute which purports to advance the governmental interest in protecting privacy of arrestees to allow the names and addresses of the same to be published in any newspaper ... or magazine in the country so long as the information is not used for commercial purposes.'' In the appeal acted on today, lawyers for the police department argued that ``restrictions on the release of government records do not violate the First Amendment'' because they merely block access and do not restrict commercial speech. ``California unquestionably could adopt a complete prohibition on access to arrestee address records, which would more completely protect the privacy of arrestees,'' the appeal said. ``But such a prohibition would deprive the press of address information, which although it would be constitutional would be inimical to the fundamental goals of the First Amendment.'' The case is Los Angeles Police Department vs. Union Reporting Publishing, 98-678. Newspaper Denied Access to Fee Data By RICHARD CARELLI .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A New Mexico newspaper's bid to gain access to documents detailing costs of providing court-appointed lawyers for 22 alleged members of an Albuquerque street gang linked to murder and drug trafficking failed in the Supreme Court today. The court, without comment, let stand a ruling that blocked access to most of the court-sealed fee, cost and expense documents sought by the Albuquerque Journal. In denying access, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last July that the newspaper had no constitutional right to that information. In the appeal acted on today, the paper's lawyers said that ruling wrongly ``interferes with the right of the people to be informed about happenings in the criminal justice system.'' Under a 1964 law, the Criminal Justice Act, guarantees that defendants in federal criminal trials will have lawyers appointed to help them if they cannot afford to hire their own. Most such representation is handled by public defenders, but some of that work goes to private lawyers who bill the trial court for their work under rates provided for in federal law. During the 1996 trial of the 22 alleged members of the ``Sureno 13'' street gang, the Albuquerque newspaper sought access to all the paperwork related to compensating and reimbursing the defendants' court-appointed private lawyers. A federal judge ordered that those documents remain sealed until the trial ended and every convicted defendant had been sentenced. At the time, three of the alleged gang members faced possible death sentences. The newspaper appealed, seeking immediate access. The defendants also appealed, seeking to block access permanently. The 10th Circuit court ruled all the documents except certain vouchers and the raw payment totals paid to such lawyers be permanently sealed, noting that the newspaper could not hope to get any cost and expense information from Justice Department prosecutors or from the federal public defenders. The appeals court also ruled that the sought-after information was not ``trial documents in any accepted sense of that term.'' The newspaper's appeal said other appeals courts have found a First Amendment right to such materials. The amendment guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of the press. The case is The Albuquerque Journal vs. Gonzales,
Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] Views from Abroad]
-Caveat Lector- Alamaine Ratliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- From Irish Times http://www.irish-times.com/irish-times/paper/1999/0125/lea.htm#7 CLINTON ON TRIAL Sir, - I felt it my duty, in a starving world, to butt in so as to help prevent the American Senate from wasting money on this Bill Clinton nonsense any longer. There is no need for a trial. The man's nose is growing longer and redder by the day. I swear to God - check it out. It's Pinocchial. Case dismissed. Does impeachment mean they're gonna turn him into a peach? If so - can I eat him? - Yours, etc., SINÉAD O'CONNOR, St John's Wood, London NW8. ROTFLMAO! I might have known it would take an Irishwoman to inject sanity into this sorry mess... Bob = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail 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
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: French President Above Impeachment
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/26/99 12:49:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PARIS (AP) -- In a move that could give France's president widespread immunity, the country's constitutional court has ruled that Jacques Chirac can't face criminal charges as long as he is president. The Constitutional Council, one of France's highest legal bodies, ruled Friday that the president cannot be brought to trial except in cases of treason. Isn't it wonderful for a country to have a court that makes such intelligent rulings. We, on the other hand, have a court that finds trials no problem at all and feels that innocence is no bar to carrying out a conviction. Prudy 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
Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] social problems vs? environmental ones]
-Caveat Lector- Agent Smiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/25/99 2:07:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: n a message dated 1/25/99 2:03:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OTOH, the conservation movement has deep roots (pun intended) in social conservatism. Environmentalism has often been used as an excuse to ignore social problems TV is used as an escape from social problems but so are many things. I tend to think that our social problems are inextricable tied to environmental problems and neither should be ignored. No disagreement...as will have been obvious from other posts, I support Earth First! and other radical environmentalist groups. As for the relationship between social and environmental problems, well, how many $500K "townhomes" are going up next to landfills? And how many of those landfills and recycling plants are in minority and/or low-income communities? 'Nuf said about *that*! My point was just that you can't expect the Sierra Club or World Wildlife Fund to be out there putting sugar in the fuel lines of loggers' tractors. Their members are far more likely to be on the board of the logging company. The Oligarchy likes to "preserve" wild places for its own enjoyment, and locks the gate to keep the ATVs and snowmobiles of the masses from getting in--not because they damage fragile ecosystems (which they do), but because they're *so* tacky, don't you know? There's a difference between environmental activism and elitist preservationism, and it's important to recognize that difference. Bob = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail 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] ¥Lost History: Reagan-Bush Crime Syndicate
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/lost7.html A HREF="http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/lost7.html"The Consortium/A - The Consortium Lost History: Reagan-Bush Crime Syndicate By Robert Parry WASHINGTON -- It should be clear by now that for 12 years, from 1981-1993, the United States was governed by political leaders who merged the power of the state with criminality to a degree possibly unmatched in modern American history. That disturbing reality was underscored again this past month by an exhaustively researched series by Gary Webb in The San Jose Mercury-News. Webb's three-part series, with supporting documentation, traced the "crack" epidemic that devastated Los Angeles and other U.S. cities to massive shipments of cocaine smuggled by elements of the CIA-organized Nicaraguan contra army in the early-to-mid 1980s. Danilo Blandon Reyes, a former contra leader and drug dealer, testified during a recent cocaine trafficking trial in San Diego that the smuggling was given a green light by the late Enrique Bermudez, who commanded the FDN, the largest contra force and the one most closely associated with the CIA. "There is a saying that the ends justify the means," Blandon said. "And that's what Mr. Bermudez told us in Honduras, OK. So we started raising money for the contra revolution." Though Blandon was offered as a U.S. government witness, the Justice Department first obtained a gag order that blocked defense attorneys from inquiring about the CIA's role in dealing dope to the Crips and Bloods and other inner-city gangs. But a wealth of other evidence, collected by federal drug agents and congressional investigators during the 1980s, corroborated that the Reagan-Bush administrations knew about the drug trafficking and mounted a determined cover-up to protect the contras from exposure. Senior administration officials apparently shared Enrique Bermudez's situational ethics. After all, President Reagan had hailed the contras as the "moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers." They could not be unmasked as drug dealers. Published stories about contra drug trafficking were also not new. On Dec. 20, 1985 -- more than a decade ago -- The Associated Press published a story by Brian Barger and me reporting that all major contra factions had joined the drug trade. "Nicaraguan rebels operating in northern Costa Rica have engaged in cocaine trafficking, in part to help finance their war against Nicaragua's leftist government, according to U.S. investigators and American volunteers who work with the rebels," our AP story read. It was the first article alleging contra drug trafficking and it was sharply criticized by both the Reagan-Bush administration and the conservative media. The contras were already reeling from widespread charges that they engaged in rape, torture and murder of Nicaraguan civilians. The day our AP story ran, deputy State Department spokesman Charles Redman declared, "we are not aware of any evidence to support those charges" -- a claim Barger and I knew to be untrue. But Redman's denial was just the start of a cover-up by the "just-say-no" crowd. Contra Probes The contra-drug story -- and others we had written about Oliver North's secret contra supply operation -- did, however, attract the attention of a young U.S. senator, John Kerry, D-Mass., who instructed his staff to investigate. A federal prosecutor, Jeffrey Feldman, also was sniffing around in Miami and Costa Rica. He had uncovered allegations of gun-running and some hints of drug-trafficking by the contras. But Feldman's probe drew a watchful eye from senior Justice Department officials in Washington. On a trip to Miami, Attorney General Edwin Meese III talked about the investigation with Feldman's boss, U.S. Attorney Leon Kellner. On April 4, 1986, another Miami prosecutor David Leiwant said he overheard Kellner saying that Washington had ordered him to "go slow" on the contra probe, a claim Kellner later denied. At AP, Barger and I got wind of the federal investigation, too, and published a story disclosing that the U.S. Attorney's office in Miami was examining allegations of contra gun-running and drug-trafficking. The AP article prompted a front-page attack on our work by The Washington Times, a right-wing newspaper financed by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. But it was not just conservatives giving us trouble. The New York Times weighed in with an article knocking down our story. A reporter for the prestigious Times interviewed Meese's spokesman Patrick Korten who dismissed the contra allegations by claiming that "various bits of information got referred to us. We ran them all down and didn't find anything. It comes to nothing." Despite those public declarations from Washington, Feldman and Miami-based FBI agents actually were finding a lot. On May 14, 1986, Feldman recommended to his superiors that the evidence of contra crimes was strong enough to take the case to a grand jury.
[CTRL] Clinton To Ban Private Gun Sales
-Caveat Lector- SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, February, 1999 PAGE UPDATED: 1/10/99 Clinton To Ban Private Gun Sales by Robert K. Brown "No background check, no gun, no exceptions." On 7 November our Com-mander in Chief, "Zipper Willie," gave a radio address concerning gun shows and private gun sales. If the Zipper's plan is implemented, as outlined in the radio address, it will be the most drastic change in gun ownership ever. His intention is to ban all gun sales without a background check. If you are wondering why our headline states that Clinton intends to ban private gun sales when he only said: "No background check, no gun, no exceptions," the reason is simple. Every sale will involve a background check and the associated record keeping. The sale will not be private. This means no gifts of a gun to your children or grandchildren without government ap-proval. No casual trades with a friend. How will this be administered? Will ordinary gun owners have to maintain the same records as a dealer? Will our records be subject to audit by the BATF? If our records are not adequate what kind of penalties will we face? Will we have to call a number and do a instant check on our neighbor or grandchild? Will this end gun sales between private individuals? We believe that any regulations promulgated by this antigun administration will be intentionally onerous and fraught with penalties for simple oversights in record keeping. The obvious goal is to chill all such sales. Many people will choose not to make a sale to an individual because of the possible consequences. How bad can it get? Don't think it will end here. The next step or even this first step may include a demand for a complete inventory of all your firearms. After all, how can the BATF be sure you haven't sold a gun without government approval if they don't know what you started with? If you believe that the records of transfers will be deleted after some limited period, then you believe that Bill Clinton never tells a lie. As usual, his speech included outright lies, misrepresentations and obvious contradictions. Clinton said: "But at too many gun shows, a different, dangerous trend is emerging. Because the law permits some firearms to be sold without background checks, some of these gun shows have become illegal arms bazaars for criminals and gun traffickers looking to buy and sell guns on a cash-and-carry no-questions-asked basis." Since the law permits some sales without background checks the sales are not illegal! He also said, "I believe this should be the law of the land: No background check, no gun, no exceptions. Therefore, I am directing Secretary Rubin and Attorney General Reno to report back to me in 60 days with a plan to close the loophole in the law and prohibit any gun sale without a background check. We didn't fight as we hard as we did to pass the Brady Law only to let a handful of unscrupulous gun dealers disrespect the law, undermine our progress, put the safety of our families at risk. With this action, we are one step closer to shutting them down." Since gun dealers are already required to make background checks at gun shows, this is another lie. How will the ban be implemented? Clinton can issue an executive order. An executive order gives the president virtual dictatorial powers and is not subject to the usual checks and balances. Or, he can go to congress with proposed legislation. A Republican-controlled congress may resist such drastic legislation. We say "may." After all, Brady passed only because of Republican support. Phone your congressmen now! 202-224-3121. Write your congressman too: U.S. Senate, Washington D.C., 20510; or, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 20515. A HREF="http://www.sofmag.com/"Welcome to Soldier of Fortune/A 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] Fwd: [EWAR] Wind as cause of whole-Earth hum
Science Vol. 283 15 Jan 1999 p. 321 reports a new hypothesis for the whole-Earth ringing (oscillation) with periods of 3 to 8 minutes detected last year by seismologists. Seismologist Naoki Suda noted that hum was strongest from noon to 8:00 p.m. Greenwich time and weakest from midnight to 6:00 a.m., which correlates with the pattern of activity followed by the sum of the world's thunderstorms (mainly from storms over Africa and southeast Asia). Suda hypothesizes that turbulent winds of thunderstorms striking the surface are setting up the seismic hum. This raises the question of a possible relation to hum perceived by humans. Possibilities that occur to me: audible harmonics of these seismic frequencies (.008 to .002 Hz) or energy coupled from ringing to terrestrial structures that then vibrate in an audible range. *** EWAR-L Electronic Warfare Mailing List To unsubscribe or subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text: unsubscribe EWAR-L or subscribe EWAR-L. To post messages, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Previous posts: http://www.sonic.net/~west/ewar/digest.htm. EWAR Web site: http://www.sonic.net/~west/ewar/ewar.htm. -Wes Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED], list owner
Re: [CTRL] LJ: Constitution / religion
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/26/99 8:58:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The religious arguments I have brought here is not to push religion in schools but to expose "judges"/politicians as the lying hypocritical bastards that they are. And it is all rather off-topic dicussion. I am sure there are constitutional and religious discussion groups. This list is about Conspiracy Theory Research and is an informational exchange with relevant discussion. Your discussions and divisiveness are unwelcome. Thank you Om K 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
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Starr Probe STILL Ongoing
-Caveat Lector- Ms. Steele was indicted earlier this month by a grand jury in Alexandria, Va., on three counts of obstruction of justice and one count of false statements. The above charges should be no problem whatsoever, I believe censure is the newest punishment for such minor offenses of the "so called law". Oh wait a minute, this person is only a citizen !! I am sure the punishment will be considerable time in jail. For a minute a thought we were talking about a government employee such as the president !! sorry folks. -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Fwd: Starr Probe STILL "Ongoing" Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 12:48 PM 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] CONSPIRACY THEORY LITERATURE FAQ Version: 1.1
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:482575"Conspiracy Theory Literature FAQ/A - Posting-Frequency: 21 days Last-modified: Jul 4 1997 Version: 1.1 URL: http://www9.pair.com/xpoez/faq/ctl.html Maintainer: Xavier Poez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright: public domain Archive-name: books/conspiracy-theory CONSPIRACY THEORY LITERATURE FAQ By Xavier Poez, [EMAIL PROTECTED]. HTML version of this file is available at http://www9.pair.com/xpoez/. * introduction * overviews * worldwide conspiracies + secret societies + WW I II, Nazism, etc. + Cold War + United Nations, NWO + government revolutions + terrorism, sabotage + religion + media manipulation * money manipulation + world bankers + Federal Reserve bank, IRS + 1929 Great Depression * assassinations + death of Kennedy + death of Lincoln * US government + NSA + CIA + mind control: CIA's MKUltra + Mena drug trafficking + Vince Foster Whitewater + NASA coverups + Oklahoma bombing, TWA800 + presidential directives * US military + Nazi relocation: project Paperclip + secret weaponry/HAARP + Montauk/Philadelphia experiment + FEMA, Mount Weather + Area 51/antigravity research * other + AIDS + cancer + free energy + aliens/UFOs * real/confirmed conspiracies + radiation poisoning by government in experiments + psychic research and remote viewing by CIA and Soviets + chemical poisoning of Gulf War veterans * how conspiracies work + pyramid structure + pawns dupes + double agents + agent provocateurs + middlemen + elite * aspects of human nature that lead to conspiracies + conspirators: o ego o greed o fear o vice o megalomania + pawns/dupes: o naivete gullibility o closemindedness o black white thinking o cynicism, apathy o "moving target" mentality o inability to say no o herdlike mentality o short attention span, lack of curiosity questioning o fear * key methods of advancing conspiracies + secrecy + greed, bribery + guilt, anxiety + victimhood + intimidation, terror, paranoia, blackmail + manipulation + infiltration + disinformation, lies, revisionism, coverup + assassinations + suppression/censorship + "trojan horse", "bait and switch", "shell game" + "frog boiling" + "pump and dump" + plots within plots + decoys, smokescreens + problem, reaction, solution (thesis, antithesis, synthesis) * resources + web sites + newsgroups + mailing lists + periodicals * bibliography _ Introduction This is FAQ that I am interested in further editing and improving. The topic of conspiracies has become more prevalent in the American psyche and I've not found a free compilation or overview of classic references. I don't consider myself an expert in this field, just a hardworking and curious layman, and I would appreciate any insight that others can offer. I know that a FAQ is a very iterative process in which early versions are only marginal and incomplete, whereas later versions can become extremely comprehensive with the help of reader input. With your help, I can really improve the quality of this document. I am committing to keeping it free for unlimited distribution at all times. If you know some good references for any of these sections, in the interest of educating humanity, please send them to me. Note: I am not going to try to collect every reference that exists. In particular I prefer to collect references to other authoritative collections that contain references themselves. I intend to keep a short list of web sites in this FAQ, which I don't intend to be exhaustive either, but which points to the premier sites. If you have one of the most comprehensive sites on the net, I would like to hear about your pointer, however, if you are working with subtopics, please submit your URL to the site maintainers of the more "master" sites. I will generally not attempt to resolve the truth or falsity of various issues, but simply remark on the
[CTRL] END OF BANKING CASH FOR 'LOSERS'
-Caveat Lector- from alt.politics.media - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.politics.media:93515"END OF BANKING CASH FOR 'LOSERS'/A - Subject: END OF BANKING CASH FOR 'LOSERS' From: Secret Squirrel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, Jan 26, 1999 8:10 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == SCAN THIS NEWS 1/24/99 Big Bankers Plan Your Electronic Financial Future Not Everyone's Going to Like It "Where are no-frills customers to go? Well, biometric ATMs may be an option. They identify users by fingerprints, facial dimensions or distinctive marks in the iris of the eye." -- "In the brave new banking world, the 'unprofitable' customer will find that bankers don't want you -- or your money..." So states a banking industry publication in their report which tells how mega-bankers are developing programs and systems that will, for many classes of people, mean the end of traditional banking altogether. The CEOs of the mega-banks were sweating out the details at their Las Vegas-hosted convention in December of 1998. The focus: How best to transition the country to a system of totally electronic commerce without instilling rebellion. Many of the "finer points" of their plan have now been revealed thanks to the bankers symposium. Under the electronic banking system of the future, only the rich and well-to-do will have access to traditional bank services and accounts. According to the January 1999, Bank Rate Monitor article entitled "Big Banker is Watching," several software companies have unveiled new programs tailored specifically for the banking industry's future needs. The programs, known as "Customer Relationship Management" are designed to monitor almost every detail of each and every customer's financial activity. With this tool, bankers can quickly and easily weed out the unprofitable ones, and zero in on the ones they want to tap. Little will be left to chance with these CRM aces up their sleeves. For example, Epsilon Software Development Company has developed their version of CRM programming which, the article states, will "change how you interact with your bank -- or whether you interact at all." Some of the other major players in the CRM game include ATT, IBM, Unisys, Diebold, FairIsaac (who alone generates half the 4.5 billion credit reports in the U.S. annually) and Microsoft -- all of which demonstrated CRM products at the Banking Administration Institute summit. According to the article, in the "CRM-ruled future," consumers will bank almost entirely via phone and the Internet. The few bank offices that remain will operate like car dealerships, staffed by sales reps, not tellers. Bank employees will get a commission for each mortgage, loan, or investment portfolio for which they close a deal on. Sales reps will use CRM software to identify profitable customers by analyzing such factors as the customer's salary, age, marital status, debt, number of jobs and residence changes, education and property owned. New customers will supply detailed data in order to open an account. Established customers will routinely update their data so that the CRM program can track - and predict - their "changing luck." Of course, it will all be "voluntary;" anyone who does not "volunteer" simply will not get service[d]. Data will also be collected and shared throughout the rapidly expanding system of credit bureaus and data-warehouses. According to the Monitor, customers identified as "losers" by the CRM system "might" get checking accounts -- but only at a price. First Manhattan Consulting Group's executive vice president Seamus McMahon is quoted as saying, "you charge them higher fees because you don't want them -- make them know they're not welcome." The article goes on to say: "Unprofitable customers will pay an additional price in terms of service. Each time a customer calls or emails a bank, the sales rep need only type his name to view his CRM profile. 'You answer the cash cows first,' said McMahon. 'The losers can wait 20 minutes if they call in a question. The losers will just make you drown.'" Banks of the future will want to make a profit off their more affluent customers through cross-selling a variety of banking-related products, and CRM will facilitate their capitalizing on that potential. The CRM software will alert bank sales reps when a profitable customer buys a new business, so they can pitch employee insurance, pension plans or corporate credit cards. And, with "facial recognition" surveillance cameras installed at each of the bank's entrances, they'll "know" their "target" as soon as he walks through the door. A company called "FairIsaac," (perhaps best known for its credit bureau rating system), has developed software that can notify the bank officials when a profitable customer has a baby. As part of their
[CTRL] ALL DRIVER PHOTOS ON NATIONAL MUG SHOT DATA BASE
-Caveat Lector- from alt.politics.media - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.politics.media:93086"ALL DRIVER PHOTOS ON NATIONAL MUG SHOT DATA BASE: A CALL TO ARMS WANTED/A - Subject: ALL DRIVER PHOTOS ON NATIONAL MUG SHOT DATA BASE: A CALL TO ARMS WANTED From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dctest Anonymous Remailer) Date: Fri, Jan 22, 1999 8:04 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == SCAN THIS NEWS 1/20/99 I just received this interesting tid-bit from a subscriber regarding Texas digital driver's licenses... -- "My daughter renewed her drivers license in January and today we received a letter from the Texas Department of Public Safety license issuance Bureau on green stationary saying that her new license 'cannot be issued due to a processing error'." "I called to inquire and was told that somehow 13,000 digital applications (meaning digital photos, digital prints, digital signatures) have been "lost" and applicants must return in person to redo the three 'D's'." "No explanation was offered as to where all this digital info. disappeared to." "Instills one with total confidence and security." roc On a related note: Anyone who listened to President Clinton's State of the Union Address last night heard him propose a new, federally-run "digital mug shot" database program. What this will be is merely a computer link-up of all the states' existing digital driver's license photographs. In fact, such a system was one of the primary, secretive, concealed purposes for going to going to digital photos in the first place; which almost every state in the country has now done. One state, West Virginia, even uses digital "facial recognition" technology. The Department of Transportation confirmed the real intent for digital photos in their booklet "The Highway Safety Deskbook" published for the benefit of law enforcement. In it, they stated that the AAMVA has been pushing for several years to standardize driver's licenses across the United States. The AAMVA's plan includes digital driver's license photos and digital fingerprints. The Deskbook further revealed the true objective in going to digital photos as follows: "With a central image database of every driver in a state, the public safety community has a ready-made storehouse of photos to be used in criminal investigations. Due to the electronic nature of these images, they can be obtained in seconds via a computer retrieval unit in the department or even faxed or thermal printed directly to the patrol car. These same images can also be brought into a photo array for suspect identification." "The uses for these images are limited only by the wants and needs of the public safety community." Sadly, no one was told when they had their digital driver's license photo taken that it would one day be placed in a federal "mug shot" database. Unfortunately, it is too late to protest now. Digitally captured photo, signatures, and fingerprints are un-retrievable once they're place them into the system. These digitized databases are backed up to several locations every night. And, they may even have already shared or distributed the digital information to other systems without the licensee's knowledge. They (the state licensing agencies) are under no obligation whatsoever to tell the licensee what they have done with, or are going to do with, the personal "identifying" information supplied to them by the license applicant. As a further example, it was reported in the Winter of 1998 that Florida has already contracted to sell their driver's license photos, names, and addresses to a private check-authorizing company for commercial use. - An abbreviated version of the Deskbook is available at: http://www.networkusa.org/fingerprint/page2/fp-hwy-safety-deskbk-brief.html The full version is available at the DOT web page: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/enforce/deskbk.html === Don't believe anything you read on the Net unless: 1) you can confirm it with another source, and/or 2) it is consistent with what you already know to be true. === Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === To subscribe to the free Scan This News newsletter, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and type "subscribe scan" in the BODY. Or, to be removed type "unsubscribe scan" in the message BODY. For additional instructions see www.efga.org/about/maillist.html --- "Scan This News" is Sponsored by S.C.A.N. Host of the "FIGHT THE FINGERPRINT!" web page: www.networkusa.org/fingerprint.shtml
[CTRL] Skeptic News Tuesday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990125b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with : are editorial comments to provoke discussion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Are workers 'intellectual property'? OTTAWA - The outcome of a legal dispute between two Ottawa technology companies might significantly change aspects of high-tech recruiting, and could raise the question of whether workers are the intellectual property of their employers. Tote dem barge -http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/990126/2215511.html : Is chattel slavery legal in Canada now? Where else? Are you enslaved? By whom? To what end? Can you buy your way free? Did God ordain slavery? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FEDS PLAN Y2K SPIN CONTROL. The US gov't preps a public-relations campaign to calm those jittery Americans who might be looking nervously toward Y2K. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/17527.html *** U.S. responds to Russia's Y2K concerns - fears accidental nuclear alert. *** Also: Poor countries unprepared for Y2K, [as if they could afford it], see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558206396-e45 : Can a good PR campaign neutralize an accidental nuclear launch? Really? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TUNED OUT. Can we wake up now? An ostrich-eye view of the year. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/17528.html *** Clinton reflects on millennium. "People... can make a difference." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558198711-bf5 *** Dec. 31, 1999, may be a holiday. "Only once in our lifetimes," see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558205770-d5d : Which is worse, last year or the next one? Is 'now' a good or bad time? What difference do you make? Do you need help from deities, aliens, or me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ROUTE COLD WAR. What happens to Cold War weaponry now that the Cold War is over? At the U.S. Aircraft Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) in Tucson, relics of the Cold War -- thousands of retired aircraft, including hundreds of venerable B-52 bombers -- are being reduced to scrap metal. Take an interactive tour of one of the Cold War's biggest junkyards. http://CNN.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/the.bomb/route/06.amarc/ : What would you do with old military hardware - scrap it, recycle it, sell it to 3rd-world nation, to backward ETs, to collectors, to private armies? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Brits monitored Mata Hari. LONDON (AP) British intelligence interrogated sultry spy Mata Hari twice during World War I, but couldn't force her to ad- mit she was working for the Germans, according to secret government papers just published. Although she later confessed to the French and was executed, the files from MI5 note that there was no evidence Mata Hari ever passed on anything of military importance. The British domestic intelligence service is releasing files dating from World War I, considered too old to be a sec- urity risk. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558205842-3ce : Would you believe old intelligence reports? ANY intelligence reports? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # VATICAN RAG. While the US Senate wrestles with his fate, Pres. Clinton is in St. Louis to greet Pope John Paul II, fresh from a visit to Mexico where he nudged his straying flock back into the Catholic herd. Clinton won't be going to confession, but the president can still expect to get an earful. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/story/17535.html : What would you confess to the Pope? What penance would you expect? Why? # Archbishop arrested over sex. (BBC) The most senior Catholic churchman in Wales has been arrested by police investigating serious sexual allegations. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_263000/263542.stm : Who does an archbishop confess to? What penance should he expect? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pope Says U.S. Faces Test Of 'National Character' on abortion and assisted suicide. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990126/18/news-pope : Does your political jurisdiction have a character, a soul, a mind? Does your town, parish, district, nation require salvation? Can it be tested? # Vatican Issues First New Exorcism Ritual Since 1614. VATICAN CITY - The Vatican issued its first updated ritual for exorcism since 1614 and warned that the devil is still at work. Introducing the 84-page Latin-language text known as the Roman Ritual, it told Catholics they had no choice but to beli- eve in Satan's existence. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990126/17/odd-exorcism : Are your problems caused by a devil, demons, malignant entities? Does the ritual exorcise Reptilioids, Zeta Reticulans, Draco-Borgs, CIA/KGB agents? If not, what use is the ritual? Are you more bedeviled by spirits, aliens, gov't operatives, Internet writers, religious representatives, or bedbugs? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Conspiracy Stories: @ The Proliferator-In-Chief - Radiation Hardened Chips/Lasers For PLA:
Re: [CTRL] LJ: Constitution / religion
-Caveat Lector- On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, J FROST wrote: [The list of spammed recipients have been reduced to the lists I'm actually on...one must wonder why Frost insists on spamming this thread beyond the venue of original discussion] Duh if I am spamming the list then how come you replied adding your own spam to it? Do you even know what spam is? Considering that I REDUCED the list of recipients to the lists I am actually a member of, it's hard to see where you come off stating that _I_ spammed anything... You obviously don't know how to properly format quoting previously posted text (I always have to reformat), so you probably are clueless as to proper Netiquette regarding spamming... (As for my spelling, such knit picking is only necessary to detract from the points I make. No, it show how ignorant you are. So okay, let's put 'religion' back in the public schools... Whose religion? I know YOUR answer, you just want your private brand of 'Christianity'... Wrong O miss wicca witch (you do profess to be a witch or was that someone else)? You can't even remember, can you, oh ignorant one... ...people actually believe in these unfounded things, Just as YOU believe in the unfounded tenets of Christianity Your crystal ball must be broken witchy. What crystal ball? Why do you believe I practice witchcraft? It is you who believe in superstitious magic, DO I? Show us any posts of mine where I've made that claim. It is you who speaks of wicca and such magic Uhhhno, it's YOU who's constantly harping on the issue... June === The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. -- Wm. Cullen Bryant: The Death of the Flowers === *---* revcoal AT connix DOT com *---* It is UNLAWFUL to send unsolicited commercial email to this email address per United States Code Title 47 Sec. 227. I assess a fee of $500.00 US currency for reading and deleting such unsolicited commercial email. Sending such email to this address denotes acceptance of these terms. My posting messages to Usenet neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. ** 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] Smiley - Re: IFIC Debunk Brochure put out by FDA on aspartame
http://members.xoom.com/ThePiedPiper/Intro2.htm -Original Message-From: L. Shipton [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: ADDKIDS [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 1:34 PMSubject: Fwd: IFIC Debunk Brochure put out by FDA on aspartame This also has a url for the original article. Laura aka The Pied Piper Some of you on this list have gotten emails about the NutraSweet Companytrying to disclaim the World Environmental Conference. Most of theirpropaganda is what is stated in this brochure they use. We got sick oftime and time again having to answer this and explain the true facts soMark Gold who is wonderful at this rebutted th eir baloney withreferences . Its on www.dorway.com and his web site which iswww.holisticmed.com/aspartame/When people don't understand they are lying because they tend to believethe FDA and industry we send them this and it also helps them tounderstand the seriousness of this toxin.One of the reasons we have the government documents on the originalstudies, congressional records, protest of the National Soft DrinkAssociation, damning investigation by CDC, etc., is so if Monsanto lies wecan take them to www.dorway.com and let them read the government documentsthemselves. Then they understand its indust ry lies.Hope this helps and answers some of the questions. I have so manythousands of emails I thought I would just put this on the list and itwould help e verybody.Regards,BettyAnd thank you again, Mark What you should know about Aspartame August 1992 Favorably Reviewed by:American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation (Does anyone know anything about them?)The Official myth as related by the International Food Information Council Foundation, 1992 The original 1995 article can be viewed at:http://ificinfo.health.org/brochure/aspartam.htm. _Q_ Question _A_ IFIC Answer _R_ Rebuttal_Q_What is aspartame made of?_A_Aspartame is made by joining two protein components, aspartic acid and phenylalanine, and a small amount of methanol. Aspartic acid and phenylalanine are building blocks of protein and are found naturally in all protein-containing foods, including meats, grains and dairy products. Methanol is found naturally in the body and in many foods such as fruit and vegetable juices._R_Incomplete and inaccurate information. Real-world aspartame-containing products contain more than just methanol, aspartic acid, and phenylalanine. These products also contain breakdown products of aspartame such as beta-aspartame (Lawrence 1987, Stamp 1989b) and aspartylphenylalanine didetopiperazine (DKP) (Tsang 1985). Because the amino acids are not bound in proteins, they are absorbed quickly and spike the plasma aspartic acid and phenylalanine to high levels. Even the industry researchers admit that these amino acids are metabolized differently than those found in foods (Stegink 1987a, Stegink 1987b). Methanol is found in *available form* in much greater quantities in aspartame than in real foods (Monte 1984). Methanol taken orally is extremely toxic to humans. Even though a small amount is found in the body, as little as a can of diet soda can spike the plasma methanol levels significantly (Davoli 1986). This is the beginning of IFIC's nonsensical information about aspartame. One has to realize that IFIC is the public relations organization for Monsanto/NutraSweet and many other junk food companies. I suppose in a strange sort of way that it is appropriate that they use junk science to defend certain dangerous junk foods. Davoli, E., et al., 1986. Serum Methanol Concentrations in Rats and in Men After a Single Dose of Aspartame, Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 24, No. 3, page 187-189. Lawrence, J.F., J.R. Iyengar, 1987. Liquid Chromatographic Determination of Beta-Aspartame in Diet Soft Drinks, Beverage Powders and Pudding Mixes, Journal of Chromatography, Volume 404, page 261-266. Monte, Woodrow C., 1984. Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health, Journal of Applied Nutrition, Volume 36, No. 1, page 42-54. Stamp, Jeffrey A., Theodore P. Labuza, 1989a. An Ion-Pair High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Method for the Determination of Aspartame and its Decomposition Products, Journal of Food Science, Volume 54, No. 4, pg. 1043-1046. Stegink, Lewis D., et al. 1987a. Plasma Amino Acid Concentrations in Normal Adults Administered Aspartame in Capsules or Solution: Lack of Bioequivalence, Metabolism, Volume 36, No. 5, page 507-512. Stegink, Lewis D., et al., 1987b. Plasma Amino Acid Concentrations in Normal Adults Ingesting Aspartame and Monosodium L-Glutamate as
[CTRL] Smiley - Re: Part 2, the Nancy Markle Story, Dr. Roberts, and other information
http://members.xoom.com/ThePiedPiper/Intro2.htm -Original Message-From: L. Shipton [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: ADDKIDS [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Sunday, January 17, 1999 2:04 PMSubject: Fwd: Part 2, the Nancy Markle Story, Dr. Roberts, and other information X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:37:44 -0500To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]From: betty martini [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Fwd: Part 2, the Nancy Markle Story, Dr. Roberts, and other information Dear Serenity: This is part 2 regarding the Nancy Markle post. I leftoff in Part 1 explaining you could get the original post on the WorldEnvironmental Conference as I wrote it on www.dorway.com . Some even askedto prove I lectured. On DORway is the confirmation letter of my lecture.Some even said there was no Dr. Espisto who gave the closing lecture.That one came in on Dec 31 so I beeped Dr. Joe Espisto on New Years Eveto ask his permission to put his telephone on Internet. He's still gettingcalls. Everything isconfirmed and the government documents show aspartame was never provensafe. Also,on DORway is the story of how it got approved which is incredible. ReadNutraPoison by Alex Constantine for the his tory and he even says thataspartame was once listed with the pentagon in an inventory of prospectivebiochemical warfare weapons submitted to Congress. I don't doubt it -sure did a number in the Persian Gulf as diet drinks heated up toformaldehydecocktails in the 120 degree Arabian sun. Also, you can read the historyby Barbara Mullarkey in Informed Consent who is author of BittersweetAspartame: A Diet Delusion. Also on Dorway. H. J. Roberts, M.D. is the world expert on aspartame. As to hiscredentials, he is a Board Certified and Recertified Internist and aninternationally known medical consultant and researcher. He is listed inWho's Who in America, Who Who in the World, Who's Who in Science andEngineering and The Best Doctors in the U.S. Dr. Roberts was selected asthe Best Doctor in the US in l984.He has recently retired but was on the Active Staff of Good SamaritanHospital and St. Mary's Hospital He is the Director of the Palm BeachInstitute for Medical Research since l 984 and a member ofmany prestigious medical and scientific organizations - including theEndocrine Society and the American Academy of Neurology. He has authored10 acclaimed books , three being nominated for a PUltizer Prize.His publications include more than 200 original articles and letters.Many regard Dr. Roberts as the foremost aspartamologist because of hisextensive pioneering studies in this field. He has also been knighted forhis professional and humanitarian efforts b y the Order of St. George. In his first book on aspartame titled ASPARTAME (NUTRASWEET) IS ITSAFE? , Charles Press, he commented that he said in his first pressconference that if something wasn't done about aspartame then we would havea plague in 5 or 10 years. (Book written in l990) In March, l998 Iattended the First International Conference on Emerging Diseases, sponsoredin part by CDC in Atlanta, and was attended by doctors and scientists from91 countries of the world and the global press. Dr. Roberts paper wasdistributed declaring aspartame to now be a disease and world epidemic.His new medical text on the world plague is in the process of beingpublished. It is estimated that 5 out of 7 on aspartame already have someof the 92 symptoms on the FDA report or one of the diseases it triggers.Dr. Roberts has done research on Alzheimers for 30 years and wrote DefenseAgainst Alzheimers Disease which in my opinion is a masterpiece. He says inthis book that aspartame is escalating this 20 th century disease now the4th leading cause of dea th in adults. The Alzheimers Association admitsthat 50% of every nursing home room is occupied by an Alzheimer patient,even mature babyboomers. Indeed, memory loss is #9 on the FDA list. Hisweb site of publications is http://www.icanect.net/sunpress Dr. Roberts has provided us with many of the position papers on seriousproblems triggered by aspartame. They include MS or Aspartame Disease?,aspartame and cardiac symptoms, aspartame and pregnancy, aspartame andheadaches, aspartame and diabetes, aspartame and the eyes (recentlypublished in Focus, An Alternate Information Forum for Retinal DegenerativeDisorders ). Dr. Roberts is a diabetic specialist and this is how he first realizedthere was something seriously wrong with aspartame as his diabeticpatients became con fused, loss their memory and some went blind.
[CTRL] Net Snoops
Subj: NorthStar - NSA Poised to Control the Internet Date: 96-05-27 03:14:00 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (El Tiburon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=_=-=_=-=_=-=_=-=_=-=_=-=_=-=_=-=_=-= NorthStar A Guiding Light on Internet Issues Newsletter of the Internet Users Consortium =_=-=_=-=_=-=_=-=_=-=_=-=_=-=_=-=_=-=_= To heighten the NorthStar experience, subscribe to the HTML Version of NorthStar. NorthStar is a guiding light to help you focus on the primary issues which threaten our Internet Freedom. In this Newsletter we let Internet Users know what the necessary issues and actions are to defend the Internet. We sincerely invite your participation at all levels, from discussion to action. Rethink what Activism means - Isn't it just participation? NorthStar #18 Sunday 5/26/96 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +++ NEVER SAY NEVER . . . but . . . We at NorthStar believe so strongly in these principles that we make the following pledge to you, our reader and fellow Internet Activist: NorthStar will NEVER sell/rent/trade/share our mailing list NorthStar will NEVER use Government mandated encryption NorthStar will NEVER represent any commercial interest NorthStar will NEVER cooperate with any Government intrusion +++ The National Security Administration is Poised to Control the Internet The oppressive atmosphere of Orwell's 1984 arises from the omnipresence of Big Brother, the symbol of the government's concern for the individual. Big Brother controls the language, outlawing words he dislikes and creating new words for his favorite concepts. He can see and hear nearly everything - public or private. Thus he enforces a rigid code of speech and action that erodes the potential for resistance and reduces the need for force. As Noam Chomsky says, propaganda is to democracy what violence is to totalitarianism. Control thoughts, and you can easily control behavior. U.S. history affords a prime example in the era named after Senator Joseph McCarthy, though he had many supporters in his attack on freedom of thought and speech. Perhaps his most powerful friend was J. Edgar Hoover, who fed him material from FBI files (some of it true) which he used to attack individuals for their supposed political leanings. By the time of Watergate, the CIA had become at least as notorious as the FBI, due largely to its assassinations of foreign leaders and support for military coups around the world. Now its the 90's. A computer revolution seems to be happening and with it a dramatic increase in people using the Internet, as well as people watching what the people use it for. Ever heard of the NSA? This could very well be the NSA decade for the Internet. Conspiracy, power struggles and survellience of the citizenry may be what is remembered about the NSA during this period of time. I used to think democracy meant people keeping a watchful eye on its government, not its government keeping a watchful eye on its people. Today we can now see comparisons being drawn between the FBI of the 50s and the CIA of the 60s, the obvious government corruption in the 70s, Reagan in the 80s (sorry - that was just incompetence), and the emerging role of the NSA in the 90s. Is NSA Sniffing the Internet? Do they have the jurisdiction? Lets take a look back and see what they are all about and make an educated hypothesis. Budgetary authority for the National Security Agency (NSA) apparently comes from the Central Intelligence Act of 1949. This act provides the basis for the secret spending program known as the black budget by allowing any arm of the government to transfer money to the CIA "without regard to any provisions of the law," and allowing the CIA to spend its funds as it sees fit, with no need to account for them. Congress passed the C.I.A. Act despite the fact that only the ranking members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees knew anything about its contents; the remaining members of Congress were told that open discussion, or even clear explanation, of the bill would be counterproductive. There were complaints about the secrecy; but in the end the bill passed the House by a vote of 348-4, and the Senate by a majority voice vote. H, it seems several legislative disasters have occurred by landslides. Anyone remember the Telecommunication Attack of 1996? The NSA's estimated $10 billion annual allocation (as of 1990) is funded entirely through the black budget. Thus Congress appropriates funds for the NSA not only without information on the agency's plans, but without even a clear idea of the amount it appropriates; and it receives no accounting of the uses to which the funds were put. This naturally precludes any debate about the direction or management of such agencies, effectively avoiding public oversight while spending public funds. Weiner notes the analogy to
[CTRL] Fwd: Re: Testing on Civilians LEGAL!
GOOD NEWS! I've learned that Section 1520 of Title 50 Chapter 23 was REPEALED on November 18, 1997! However, the Cornell Law School on-line library has NOT updated the U.S. Code since then, even though it says at their site that "Updated information will be added here within 24 hours of its availability from the House," suggesting that shortly after laws are passed or repealed they'll be posted, but in fact over 9,000 hours have passed so far. The problem is that the House hasn't made it available. No search engine I've used can find the fact that 1520 was repealed. All on-line government archives I've found list the old law as law. However, I discovered that 1520 was repealed thanks to someone who accessed a pay-for- use on-line law resource. Section 1520 was replaced with 1520(a), which was sent to me (quoted below in full). Many webpages of private researchers cite Section 1520, and Art Bell mentioned it last evening. Many of those who are interested in 1520 are not aware of its repeal, so please send this message to anyone not aware of such! Interesting that the now-repealed Section 1520 of Title 50 (which allowed chemical warfare testing on "civilian populations") was enacted under Jimmy Carter's term in 1977 (not 1996), which seems interesting to me in light of the fact that Carter has such a humanitarian image. Here's the replacement law. My only problem with it is that the ONLY entity it prohibits from conducting tests on civilian populations is the Secretary of the Defense, yet bio-warfare-related laws often cite the President as the ultimate conductor of actions, yet the new law does not place any prohibition on the President or any other federal official except the Secretary of the Defense. = U.S. CODE TITLE 50, SECTION 1520(a) = S 1520. Repealed. Pub L. 105-85, Div. A, Title X, S 1078(g), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1916 S 1520a. Restriction on the use of human subjects for testing of chemical or biological agents (a) Prohibited activities The Secretary of Defense may not conduct (directly or by contract)- (1) any test or experiment involving the use of a chemical agent or biological agent on a civilian population; or (2) any other testing of a chemical agent or biological agent on human subjects. (b) Exceptions Subject to subsections (c), (d), and (e) of this section, the prohibition in subsection (a) of this section does not apply to a test or experiment carried out for any of the following purposes: (1) Any peaceful purpose that is related to a medical, therapeutic, pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial, or research activity. (2) Any purpose that is directly related to protection against toxic chemicals or biological weapons and agents. (3) Any law enforcement purpose, including any purpose related to riot control. (c) Informed consent required The Secretary of Defense may conduct a test or experiment described in subsection (b) of this section only if informed consent to the testing was obtained from each human subject in advance of the testing on that subject. (d) Prior notice to Congress Not later than 30 days after the date of final approval within the Department of Defense of plans for any experiment or study to be conducted by the Department of Defense (whether directly or under contract) involving the use of human subjects for the testing of a chemical agent or a biological agent, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives a report setting forth a full accounting of those plans, and the experiment or study may then be conducted only after the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date such report is received by those committees. (e) Biological agent defined In this section, the term "biological agent" means any micro-organism (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, rickettsiac, or protozoa), pathogen, or infectious substance, and any naturally occurring, bioengineered, or synthesized component of any such micro-organism, pathogen, or infectious substance, whatever its origin or method of production, that is capable of causing-- (1) death, disease, or other biological malfunction in a human, an animal, a plant, or another living organism; (2) deterioration of food, water, equipment, supplies, or materials of any kind; or (3) deleterious alteration of the environment. = END OF U.S. CODE TITLE 50, SECTION 1520(a)
[CTRL] Fwd: [BIOWAR] [Fwd] Pilots Refuse Anthrax Shots
Forwarded by BJ: . Begin Forwarded Message . -Original Message- From: MikeP Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 6:50 PM Subject: Pilots Refuse Anthrax Shots X post from Carolyn Hart (PIML) Mike P Topic: Military Policy Air National Guard pilots quit rather than take anthrax shot Baltimore Sun Jan. 15, 1999 Tom Bowman WASHINGTON -- Nine pilots from the 103rd Fighter Wing of the Connecticut Air National Guard -- about 25 percent of its combat-ready fighter force -- have resigned from flying duties rather than take the Pentagon's mandatory anthrax vaccinations, saying they have concerns about possible health effects and question its value as a defense against the biological weapon. All nine of the citizen soldiers, mid-level officers and veterans of Desert Storm, Bosnia and the Iraqi "no-fly" zones, left the reserve unit during the past month, said unit members. While several dozen sailors, airmen and soldiers have been disciplined for refusing to take the six-shot anthrax program unveiled in December 1997, the nine A-10 "Warthog" pilots at Bradley Air National Guard Base in Granby, Conn., are the first officers to decline. "There are some questions as to the effectiveness of it," said Tom Rempfer, a 33-year-old captain and Air Force Academy graduate, who decided to resign rather than take the inoculations. "The Iraqis or others could come up with a different strain." Rempfer, a 12-year veteran pilot who deployed to the Persian Gulf last winter, said the pilots talked with superior officers over the past six months. But their many questions and concerns were never addressed by the Pentagon, said Rempfer, leaving the local commanders "ill-prepared to help their troops." Members of the unit were ordered to take the first shots before the doses expired Feb. 23. "They had to use it or lose it," said Rempfer, noting that some members of the fighter wing were slated to deploy to the gulf soon. "There was an ultimatum: Get the shot or get grounded," said Dom Possemato, a major with 17 years' experience, who said reserve pilots around the country are raising concerns. The 42-year-old pilot questions the effectiveness of the shots and worries about possible health effects. "I'm willing to let the Iraqis take a potshot at me and put me in a grave. I'm not willing to let my country do that," said Possemato, who along with the others favors an optional vaccination program. "We're falling on our swords to get the word out. This is not well-tested. This is not well-proven." Officials of the 103rd Fighter Wing either refused to comment or referred calls to the wing's press spokesman, who was not available. "We've had an incredibly successful program," said Jim Turner, a Pentagon spokesman, noting that even with the resignations of the Connecticut pilots only "a handful" of service members have refused to take the shots. THOUSANDS HAVE COMPLIED As of Tuesday, 166,223 military personnel had begun the inoculations, he said. Turner said the anthrax vaccine, approved by the Food and Drug Administration and in use since the 1970s, has resulted in only minor health effects, mostly sore arms. Defense Secretary William S. Cohen and Gen. Henry H. Shelton have been taking the shots, which are given over 18 months. Cohen ordered all 1.5 million active-duty service members and 1 million reservists to take the vaccinations, with the first troops slated to be those heading to the gulf and other combat areas. The program is expected to take six years. The Pentagon called for the program to counter the threat of biological attacks. Iraq is among those states with a large cache of anthrax, an infectious disease whose spores can be produced in dry form for weapons. It can be fatal even in microscopic amounts. But Rempfer and the other pilots said the anthrax vaccine was developed for ranchers who come into contact with anthrax through the skin, not by a massive cloud. And they said Iraq could develop another strain of the disease -- or even use another biological or chemical agent that may make the inoculations worthless. LINKED TO GULF WAR SYNDROME Some critics think the vaccine may be one of the links to gulf war illness -- the collection of maladies including headaches, dizziness and nausea -- that affected thousands of troops who served there. But Pentagon officials have said two independent studies have discounted any link between gulf war illness and the shots. And officials at Fort Detrick, which helped develop the vaccine, say it will stand up to any strains of the threat because the immune response is based on a component that is common to all strains of anthrax. "My main concern is safety," said Peter Smith, a 32-year-old pilot with the 103rd who also resigned. "There have been no long-term studies." There has been some long-term study over the years involving the anthrax vaccine and other immunizations given to lab workers and millworkers. Recently,
[CTRL] Clinton's 12 'national emergencies'
-Caveat Lector- TUESDAY JANUARY 26 1999 THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY Clinton's 12 'national emergencies' Is this a sign of White House power grab? By Sarah Foster © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com President Clinton has all the authority he needs to place this country under a dictatorship with the stroke of the pen. He could do it at any time. Congress has given him the power. The laws are in the statute books. And the courts have already refused to say "no." Those are the conclusions of Virginia attorneys William Olson and Alan Woll, editor and assistant editor of Issues Bulletin, the newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Foundation, a non-profit, public policy organization in Washington, D.C. In the December issue, the two attorneys take a sharp look at the unrestricted expansion of the executive branch by means of a little understood procedure, and the feet-dragging reluctance of Congress and the courts to do anything to stop it. Their eight-page legal study is titled, "Executive Orders and National Emergencies: Presidential Power Grab Nearly Unchecked." According to Olson and Woll, "A President may simply choose to declare a state of emergency, without any standards, any input from Congress or much risk of judicial challenge." President Clinton has already declared and renewed 12 distinct "national emergencies" -- all currently in force. "Once a national emergency is declared, presidents use executive orders to exercise emergency powers. Some such powers come from Congress -- (but) presidents assert other emergency powers without any statutory or Constitutional authority," according to the report. To make matters worse, "(T)he courts have deferred to presidential declarations of national emergencies, refusing to examine the basis for the emergency even years -- or decades -- after the emergency was declared." In fact, the United States has been in a presidentially-declared state of emergency since March 1933. Olson and Woll fear that Americans are especially "vulnerable" at this time, quite frankly because of the character of the president. As they see it: "So long as the definition (and declaration) of a national emergency remains at the unbridled discretion of a president -- with the Congress and the courts granting extensive, perhaps comprehensive authority to presidents whenever a national emergency is declared -- Americans enjoy little protection from the prospect of oppressive, dictatorial government. The risk is greatest when the character of the president is not worthy of trust." Contacted for comment, Olson and Woll discussed their report with WorldNetDaily in a telephone interview. "I wish I had an infinite amount of time to become an expert in a field in which no one is an expert," said Olson, who deplores the "dearth of sound legal and policy research" regarding executive orders and the powers the president can wield during a national emergency. "There are some secondary sources out there, but most of those are unreliable because it's not clear how these things (executive orders) really work. No one really understands them," he said. The problem is compounded by a lack of interest by persons they had expected to be well informed. Early in their investigation they discovered that no one at the Capitol, not even entrenched congressional staffers, has a firm grasp of the subject. National emergencies are declared, executive orders are issued, but "there's no real tracking." "Nobody is minding the store," said Olson. With almost nothing to go on, the two attorneys were forced to begin their research virtually from scratch. "We had to go to the original sources, do everything from the ground up," Olson recalled. A 1976 Senate report on presidential powers and national emergencies proved to be the most valuable source. The report explained how President Franklin Roosevelt declared a national emergency and bank holiday immediately following his inauguration in March 1933 citing as authority the 1917 Trading With the Enemy Act, a wartime measure that was never repealed. The state of national emergency continued until 1977, when Congress -- in an attempt to impose some limits on presidential powers -- amended the Trading With the Enemy Act to prohibit its use to proclaim national emergencies in peacetime. In addition, Congress passed the National Emergencies Act in 1978, which provided that all national emergencies would cease on September 14, 1978, and set up a mechanism for Congress to terminate or block a declaration. It didn't work. Despite Congress' effort, a dozen or so national emergencies have been declared and renewed annually, and are right now in effect. These are premised upon problems with Iran (every year since 1979), Libya (since 1986), Iraq (since 1990), Yugoslavia (since 1992), proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (since 1993), UNITA (Angolan anti-communists, since 1993), Middle East terrorism (since 1995), Colombian drug dealers (since 1995), Cuba (since 1996),
Re: [CTRL] OJ Simpson Case Mere Prelude To Clinton Trial (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/26/99 6:10:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (CNNS, 01/26/99) -- "What are they up to?" This question -- first, last, and always -- forms the basis of Conspiracy Nation News Service. It very well could be that the dynamics of the OJ trial were looked at with this 'national circus' in mind. Looking at the grand show and all the undercurrents, I mean there are more subplots than ER and all the other new trendy fast paced 'soaps', there does seem to be methodology to the chaos. Respect for our government and its institutions are at an all time low. Tensions and diviseness are high. There is the creation of many 'haters', who can then be led, by the 'blindness' of their hate, into a myraid of 'conspiracy theories' and rationalizational pools of dichotomous fodder. Remember a conspiracy theory does have to be true to have an effect. Suspicion and paranoia have been the begining of many an action. Just as scandal is used to deflect and condition a populace, so conspiracy theory is used to divide, disuade and box people in to deteriminable action , docility and/or termination. Personally, one way I read the psy-sets being sent right now is a continued assault on our national composure and a stepped-up in your face 'drug and thought police' pogroms. Strong attempts to mollify growing opposition to the facistic pogroms , especially out west and to be assertive in the continued erosion of Constitutional rights by excercising illegal police powers. MHO Om K - 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] Moving toward a police state
-Caveat Lector- Moving toward a police state by Joseph Farah Jan. 26, 99 Executive orders ... national emergencies ... a domestic "commander-in-chief" ... the threat of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. An impeached president is leading America ever closer toward the reality of a police state, and there's been hardly a peep from the civil liberties establishment. In fact, those who dare address such issues are quickly denounced as paranoid "extremists." But let's look at the facts -- coldly, objectively and rationally. President Clinton has declared more "states of national emergency" than any of his predecessors. And he's done it in an era he boasts about as the freest, most peaceful and most prosperous time in recent American history. President Clinton has issued more executive orders than any of his predecessors. His top aides have even boasted of using them as a political strategy to go over the heads of the legislative branch of government. "Stroke of the pen, law of the land," boasted Paul Begala of the plan. "Pretty cool, huh?" Few of the executive orders have even been challenged by a Congress controlled by the opposition party. Few of them have even been read by a sleeping press establishment. And now President Clinton tells the nation that terrorism is such a threat to America that we need to consider establishing a "commander-in-chief for the defense of the continental United States." But don't worry about the civil liberties implications of any of this, the president tells us. "If there's a question, bring it to me," he says, like any good monarch would. Sure, that will solve the problem. Clinton himself will be the arbiter of whether his policies are an assault on our fundamental freedoms. Sounds fair, huh? Keep in mind, folks, that this is the same president who has: used FBI files to attack his political enemies; employed Internal Revenue Service audits to punish his critics; at the moment of his highest triumph, his re-election as president in 1996, warned he would attack his adversaries ruthlessly and cut them out of the body politick "like a cancer"; used at least one federal employee as a sex toy, using Marine officers to chauffeur her to the White House, then wielded all the power at his disposal to cover up the scandal through perjury and obstruction of justice; accepted illegal campaign contributions from powers hostile to the United States and then offered them previously forbidden high-technology transfers; used taxpayer resources to malign the character of anyone who offered a political challenge to his authority; abused his power to step on and over anyone who got in his way; I could go on and on. But you get the point. The kinds of powers under discussion would be unacceptable in the hands of the most ethical, honorable, virtuous leader, but in the hands of a man with no character, a man whose only motivation is the accumulation and preservation of his own authority, the mere discussion of such powers should be anathema to every American. Yet, I don't hear the outrage. I don't hear expressions of real concern. I don't hear anyone warning of impending tyranny. Let me, then, be the first. America is not slouching toward totalitarianism, it is rushing headlong toward it. It is disregarding more than 200 years of historical lessons, the prophetic cautions of the geniuses who invented this country. It is forgetting what made America great -- its Constitution, its acceptance of freedom and responsibility and its commitment to a morality etched in men's hearts from the beginning and defined in words beginning with the Ten Commandments. How can we then trust a man who treads on the Constitution, insults the Founding Fathers, limits freedom daily with new initiatives empowering government, encourages irrepsonsibility in others and breaks nearly every one of the Ten Commandments with no credible regrets or contritition? Tell me, America: Are you ready to let Bill Clinton completely redefine and rewrite the contract between the people and the government? Are you willing to permit him to be the judge and jury of that new covenant? Or, are you ready to trade in your liberty for a promise of security from a man who is himself a proven coward, rogue and ego-maniac? Or, are you ready to open your eyes and see what this man is trying to take from you, your children and grandchildren? A daily radio broadcast adaptation of Joseph Farah's commentaries can be heard at http://www.ktkz.com/ "And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it." -President Bill Clinton, 3-22-94, on MTV's "Enough is Enough" ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Patriot Resource Center: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6627/ **Live Free or Die!** DECLARATION DISCLAIMER
[CTRL] Chinese exercise targets Taiwan, US Troops
-Caveat Lector- Chinese exercise targets Taiwan, US Troops By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES China's army conducted a military exercise last month with simulated missile firings against Taiwan and also for the first time conducted mock attacks on U.S. troops in the region, according to Pentagon intelligence officials. The exercise began in late November and ended in early December as road-mobile CSS-5 medium-range missiles maneuvered along China's coast, said officials familiar with a Dec. 2 Defense Intelligence Agency report on the exercise. Disclosure of the Chinese exercise comes as officials in the Clinton administration said efforts are under way to soften the conclusions of a congressionally mandated report on missile defenses and missile threats in Asia,including new details on the rapidly growing Chinese missile arsenal. According to sensitive intelligence gathered by U.S. satellites, aircraft and ships that monitored the Chinese exercise, People's Liberation Army units, including those equipped with intermediate-range CSS-5s and silo-housed CSS-2 missile units practiced firing missiles at Taiwan. Intelligence information also indicated that the U.S. Army troops based in South Korea, and Marine Corps troops on the Japanese island of Okinawa and mainland Japan were targeted with strikes. "They were doing mock missile attacks on our troops," said one official. White House spokesman David Leavy said he could not comment on intelligence matters. A senior administration official confirmed that the missiles were CSS-2s, first deployed in 1971, and CSS-5s, first fielded in the 1980s. Both weapons had "never been pointed our way before," the senior official said. "The important point is these are not new missiles." The official did not address the threat the Chinese missiles posed to the 37,000 troops based in South Korea, and 47,000 troops in Japan, including about 25,000 Marines on Okinawa. The intelligence report also raises questions about the recent statement of Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who announced during the June summit in Beijing that he and President Clinton agreed "we will not target each other with the strategic nuclear arms under our control." The Chinese leader told reporters June 27 that the detargeting "shows the whole world that China and the U.S. are cooperative partners instead of adversaries." Pentagon officials said, however, the simulated attacks are a sign China is prepared to go to war with the United States over the issue of Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a breakaway province and not an independent nation. The vulnerability of U.S. troops in Asia to missile attacks is a sensitive issue. North Korea has deployed medium-range Nodong missiles that also can hit troops in both Korea and Japan, although the Pentagon has been reluctant to acknowledge the threat. During the recent exercise, the Chinese mobile missiles were observed erected on truck launchers, but none was actually fired, said officials who declined to be named. One military official said the exercises also showed China's growing capability to counter U.S. laser-guided bombs, using what the Pentagon calls "obscurance." The masking involves spraying clouds of small particles around the missiles that cause laser tracking devices to bounce off their intended targets and fool adversaries guiding the bombs into believing the weapons are on target. The CSS-2 was the only intermediate-range missile ever exported. China sold a battery of the missiles to Saudi Arabia in the 1980s. According to an earlier Pentagon intelligence report, China is engaged in a major program to upgrade its 40 CSS-2s with newer and more capable CSS-5s, which come in two versions. Liquid-fueled CSS-2s, with ranges of about 1,922 miles, are being replaced in some regions by solid-propellent CSS-5s that have a maximum range of 1,333 miles, the 1996 report said. During the Taiwan straits crisis of March 1996, China fired short-range M-9 test missiles north and south of the island in what U.S. officials said at the time was an attempt to intimidate Taiwan shortly before its first presidential elections. Those exercises led the Pentagon to deploy two U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups to waters near the island. Regarding the report due to reach Congress Jan. 1, the Pentagon has been held up from sending the report to the House Armed Services Committee because of disagreements with its conclusions. The senior official said the delay is due to "normal interagency discussion about an important national security issue" and that it will be sent to Congress "in a timely manner." The report to Congress examines the possible components for regional missile defenses in Asia that would have the capability of protecting key regional allies from missile attack. It was mandated by the fiscal 1999 defense authorization bill and will include descriptions of U.S. missile defenses that could be transferred to key allies in Asia for "self-defense
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Re: Fw: Mike Ruppert At The O2
From: "Winfred Richardson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "David Crockett Williams" [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnna Aho) O2 8688 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90069 Ph: (310) 360-9002 Fax : 360-9008 www.o2bar.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Event Announcement O2 Bar and Restaurant to host lecture with Mike Ruppert on January. 30th 1999 at 5:00 pm (West Hollywood, CA) Ex-LAPD officer Mike Ruppert will be the featured guest speaker at the Sunset Strip's O2 Bar in West Hollywood. Mike Ruppert, 47, was born in Washington, D.C. An Honors graduate of please call 818-559-2647 or reach O2 directly at 310-360-9002. Thank you. Contact DeAnna Aho (323) 463-2511 She Who Remembers http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7525 http://www.remembers.com To start I've known Mike a number of years and he and his former wife Mary spent a couple of days with us and I can vouch for the fact you need to go see him if at all possible! I am Winfred Richardson, the whistleblower on E-Systems, the company that owned Air America. see US [et rel Winfred E. Richardson] v E-Systems filed in Federal Court in Dallas Tx. Mike met and talked to the Judge that was set up and framed after he tried to arrange for me to go in front of a grand jury. He was also given a copy of the court records in the judges case where the attorney for the North East Texas Drug Interdiction Task Force admitted under oath about them knowing about the drug smuggling through E-Systems (now Raytheon Systems). He also got to see the sail boat set up approx 100 yds from my house filled with electronic gear. He has got to see the records of the people killed here in Hunt County and has a copy of the pictures of me and another witness that looked like a wanted poster which the Sheriff had posted and told all the deputies that I was possibly a terrorist and for them to use extreme caution when approaching us. The death and distruction here in Hunt Co Tx makes Mena look like a picnic and the two are tied together. If I can get it scanned in I'm going to send Mike a copy of a l;etter where I am to send info to the Professional Ethics Branch for an investigation into the Dallas Office US Attorneys. Mike knows what he is talking about, he's walked the walk and talked the talk. And spent the night with me and mine even after the murders and bombings. Go see him and tell him E-Systems sends their love. Winfred 'Rich' Richardson To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left.
Re: [CTRL] Enviros support removal of 8000 trees
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/26/99 9:44:38 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a message dated 1/25/99 12:03:57 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The enviros A blanket term used to discredit. What are you up to here? One would assume from your post that your only hang up with logging 8000 trees is the fact that I refered to the movement in the generic sense..the enviros. Assume all you want. No, I did not give you the pleasure of reacting to a piece of doo doo. I didn't deem the post worth any more of my time. It WAS worth it to me, however, to point out the obvious attempt to discredit that was to be found only a little into the piece. What you refer to as a piece of doo doo was a news article about Bruce Babbitt and other so called mainstream enviros advancing plans that call for the cutting down 8000 trees. No matter what anybody says or does, it is Bruce Babbitt and people within the enviro movement that want to log this batch of trees.Where is the public outcry, commentary from inside the "movement?" Likely it won't happen. I predict that there will be no outrage, no outcry from the enviros in general.. This HAS been an issue in the environmental community. It won't get the outrage/outcry that would have been had if it was a logging company who had proposed to cut 8000 trees. Are the people within the enviro movement going to file lawsuits against the Dept of Interior, Bruce Babbitt, and the various enviro groups and organizations that are involved as they would have done if a logging company had wanted to do the same thing? Has anybody in the enviro movement sought a court injunction to stop the plan until an EIS (which would take years) was done? I hope I am wrong, but the likely answer to those questions is a big fat NO, and it is not likely to happen in the future. Why? Because it is people within the enviro movement supporting the cutting of trees. .because their leaders are the ones doing it. We don't have leaders. While you may not have any, most of the others dance to the drums of either the Sierra Club, and other so called mainstream groups. Yet others dance to the drums of the more militant groups like Earth First and others. I find it interesting that leaders/followers in the enviros proclaim logging to be evil UNTIL it suits their purposes and their leaders advance the plan...then its OK. They have discredited themselves yet AGAIN. Cheers, Robert Lame. I have given you too much attention already. Good bye. smile I noticed how you dodged the issue when confronted with the fact that it is enviros and Bruce Babbitt who want to cut down trees. The article merely demonstrates how two faced those people are. Had this been a logging company that made the proposal, the screaming would have gone on, and on, and on, and on. People would have been filing lawsuits and climbing the trees in grand canyon in protest. As I have observed this is an example of when some people in/around/connected to the environmental movement consider it "expiedent" to log trees by the 100s or thousands, then its OK. But if a logging company wanted to do the same exact thing, they would be instantly denouced as evil, lawsuits would be filed, and on and on. Since you claim to be concerned about tree issues,and such, you also apparently have no "leader" to worry about, nor are you a follower of any of the major groups involved , I would expect that you will probably be the first one of many lawsuits to be filed against the plan. Cheers, Robert 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] Fw: The Elders Speak to NASA
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 11:35 AM Subject: The Elders Speak to NASA NASA Listening To Native Elders To Help Save Environment Salt Lake City Tribune 1-21-99 The Nome Eskimo elder lamented that nowadays his homeland in winter is too warm for the life system to sustain itself -- only 20 degrees below zero instead of 70 below. His people have learned to live in balance with the ice and cold. But now the Bering Strait is sick. Sea ice is forming later, affecting the animals who breed on it. The sea pups aren't ready to leave when the ice melts, so they die or are abandoned. The hunters say the walrus are skinny, and they have to hunt farther into the tundra because the caribou know the thin ice won't sustain their weight. In the old days, the elders in Alaska could forecast the weather by watching the stars. But now, says one Siberian Yupek elder, ``The Earth is so fast now. We can't predict the weather anymore.'' Many native prophesies warned of a time when the people would be confused, and the old and the young would die first. The prophesies said the trees would die from the tops down and the world would be in danger. Using ``eyes'' from space, NASA officials have seen that the elders are right. Its officials conclude that the ``Earth is a living system that is distressed.'' So now, NASA has turned to native elders for counsel as it examines the effect of climate change on the U.S. population, environment and economy. NASA brought together a gathering of several hundred elders for a five-day climate-change workshop in Albuquerque, N.M., last fall. NASA is seeking to merge the knowing and wisdom of people who understand the responsibilities that humans have to the Earth with the knowledge of non- native scientists. The elders who attended the conference, called the Circle of Wisdom Native Peoples/Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop, stated: ``It is this spiritual connection to Mother Earth, Father Sky and all Creation that is lacking in the rest of the world. . . . We call upon the people of the world to hold your leaders accountable.'' According to documents issued by the workshop, temperatures will become warmer in the Northern Hemisphere by 5 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit within the next 20 years. The primary source of human-induced climate change is the burning of oil, gas and coal. The melting of sea ice ``affects the exchange of energy continuously taking place on the Earth's surface,'' according to NASA. While it might seem a distant problem to many people in the United States, all life is interconnected. We have long said that native prophesies are misunderstood. They not only are spiritual visions, but often also come from a life-science observation of the natural world. When people understand that they are not separate from the natural world, they will seek to honor and understand it. This is why Chief Joseph said long ago that the Earth was part of his body and they were of one ``mind.'' Native people traditionally have understood that the Earth and universe have a mind and a spirit, a cosmic intelligence that responds to us, to our intentions. ``Earth is a living mother, an organism. I know none of us would think of abusing our birth mother. She is a spiritual woman . . . that gives life. Through our ceremonies, we honor her life-giving power so that she can continue to nourish us,'' says Cheyenne elder Henrietta Mann. When people no longer live and learn from the land, their disconnection to it leads to the abuse of Mother Earth. Along with the land, native people's traditions die: their food, their ceremonies, medicinal plants, their fibers for making sacred baskets. And much of it has been through the greed of market economies and the perversions of science and technology that have claimed or contaminated the land, particularly native lands, through deforestation, pesticides, industrial waste, radioactive poisoning and mining. ``What good is an economic system if our children die anyway?'' asked a Kanaka Maoli elder from Hawaii. A nearby flip-chart read, ``There is no post-environment economy.'' There are myriad things to be done, including requiring companies to factor the environmental impact of their projects into their businesses, and demanding that all public projects invest in clean and renewable forms of energy. But most of all, we must begin to value life in all its manifestations. Corbin Harney, a Shoshone elder, says the spirits of the land and the ancestors are waiting for people to recognize their responsibility to Mother Earth. ``They want to hear us pray so that they can work with us, so everything can heal.'' Brightest Blessings even in the darkest of times, Love to heal the heart, Light to guide your way. Kat Steingraber Elemental Circle of Spirit ICQ: 1492782 AlabamaPaganAwarenessLeague SouthEastern Regional Director Education Director http://canisminor.knology.net/~elemental "I was abducted by space
[CTRL] Fw: DRUDGE-REPORT-EXCLUSIVE 01/26/99
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: DRUDGE REPORT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 8:03 PM Subject: DRUDGE-REPORT-EXCLUSIVE 01/26/99 X DRUDGE REPORT X 01/26/99 23:59 UTC X BROADDRICK: 'I'M SO AFRAID' Juanita Broaddrick said she was emotionally drained after her exhaustive interview with NBC's Lisa Myers last week. And since giving the interview, Broaddrick has confessed to a friend: "I'm so afraid over what is going to happen now." NBC HOLDING INTERVIEW WITH 'JANE DOE'; WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE HAS NETWORK BRASS ON PAUSE, SAY SOURCES **World Exclusive** NBC NEWS hotshot Lisa Myers has conducted an in-depth interview with "Jane Doe #5", according to media sources in an around the network. The interview with Juanita Broaddrick of Arkansas went down late last week and is now being held tight by the network. NBC NEWS brass claim it has to be relevant and airtight before broadcast. The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that in the past 24 hours, network executives have come under enormous pressure from the White House not to air the interview! "There is a civil war developing," one network insider said on Tuesday. "Between those pushing for the interview to air and those who think it is completely reckless." The interview, believed to have been conducted inside of Broaddrick's home in Arkansas, is being described as "provocative." "At this late stage, the White House is trying to pull off another Aldrich!" declared one Myers supporter. [ABC NEWS was hit with White House pressure after its Sunday morning show booked former FBI agent Gary Aldrich to appear after the release of his book UNLIMITED ACCESS. Leon Panetta, White House chief of staff at the time, called vice president for news coverage at ABC Robert Murphy and urged him to cancel Aldrich. George Stephanopoulos also hit Murphy in a separate call. Stephanopoulos, whose use of spin so impressed ABC NEWS executives they later hired him, once even lobbied CNN president Tom Johnson to keep coverage of Paula Jones off the air when she first accused Clinton of sex harassment back in 1994.] Media excitement grew after a well-armed NBC crew was spotted outside of Broaddrick's home late last week. "It was obvious that something was going down," reports one eyewitness. "The were cameras and a sound crew." A second news network, reacting to reports that NBC was conducting the interview, later captured Broaddrick arriving and leaving a Tennis Club. "They chased her car, at times going at high speeds... her husband went wild," says one network insider. Now a pro-Myers NBC NEWS source reveals: "Anyone who says that her interview with Broaddrick is a dud, is just simply spreading misinformation." Last February, the DRUDGE REPORT alerted readers who were following the Paula Jones sex case that there was great interest swirling around a woman named "Juanita." She was code named "Jane Doe #5." A month later, NBC's Myers explored the "Juanita" story in a nightly news shocker: A woman claims she was sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton back in the 1970s! The White House called that allegation "outrageous." The following is a flashback to the first Myers report on "Juanita" that aired on NBC NIGHTLY NEWS on Saturday, March 28, 1998: "The explosive new allegation tonight is that President Clinton sexually assaulted a woman 20 years ago in Arkansas. It involves an alleged encounter at this Little Rock hotel in the late 1970s, between then Attorney General Bill Clinton and campaign worker, Juanita Broaddrick. In court documents today, Jones' lawyers claim Clinton quote 'forcibly raped and sexually assaulted' Broaddrick, then quote "bribed and intimidated her" to remain silent. Sources say that Broaddrick, now 54, recently denied under oath that such an assault occurred. But Jones' lawyers claim she had told their investigator she had suffered a quote 'horrible thing' at the hand of Clinton, and did not want to relive it. And NBC NEWS has talked to four people from Arkansas who say Broaddrick told them of such an assault years ago. Today's charge is largely based on a letter from this man, Philip Yoakum, a friend and business associate of the alleged victim. In a letter to Broaddrick, written in 1992, Yoakum, a Republican writes, I was particularly distraught when you told me of your brutal rape by Bill Clinton, how he bit your lip until you gave into his forcing sex upon you.' In an interview with NBC NEWS, Yoakum said Broaddrick told him that Clinton invited himself to her hotel room, allegedly to discuss her nursing home business. Unidentified Reporter: She told you in 1981 that Bill Clinton assaulted her? Mr. PHILLIP YOAKUM (Arkansas Businessman): Mm-hm. Yes, 1981 is when she told me. Reporter: Did you believe her at the time? Mr. YOAKUM: I believed her. MYERS: Yoakum admits he is no fan of the president and that he unsuccessfully tried to get Broaddrick to tell her
