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-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Nukes R Us US Says China Stole Nuclear Secrets from Los Alamos White House says secrets were just borrowed WASHINGTON -- Working with nuclear secrets stolen from a U.S. government laboratory, China has made a leap in the development of nuclear weapons: the miniaturization of its bombs, according to administration officials. Until recently, China's nuclear weapons designs were a generation behind those of the United States, largely because Beijing was unable to produce small warheads that could be launched from a single missile at multiple targets and form the backbone of a modern nuclear force. But by the mid-1990s, China had built and tested such small bombs, a breakthrough that officials say was accelerated by the theft of U.S. nuclear secrets from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The espionage is believed to have occurred in the mid-1980s, officials said. But it was not detected until 1995, when American experts analyzing Chinese nuclear test results found similarities to America's most advanced miniature warhead, the W-88. By the next year, government investigators had identified a suspect, an American scientist at Los Alamos laboratory, where the atomic bomb was first developed. The investigators also concluded that Beijing was continuing to steal secrets from the government's major nuclear weapons laboratories, which had been increasingly opened to foreign visitors since the end of the Cold War. The White House was told of the full extent of China's spying in the summer of 1997, on the eve of the first U.S.-Chinese summit meeting in eight years -- a meeting intended to dramatize the success of President Clinton's efforts to improve relations with Beijing. White House officials say they took the allegations seriously; as proof of this they cite Clinton's ordering the labs within six months to improve security. But some U.S. officials assert that the White House sought to minimize the espionage issue for policy reasons. "This conflicted with their China policy," said a U.S. official, who like many others in this article spoke on condition of anonymity. "It undercut the administration's efforts to have a strategic partnership with the Chinese." The White House denies the assertions. "The idea that we tried to cover up or downplay these allegations to limit the damage to United States-Chinese relations is absolutely wrong," said Gary Samore, the senior National Security Council official who handled the issue. Yet a reconstruction by The New York Times reveals that throughout the government, the response to the nuclear theft was marked by delays, inaction and skepticism -- even though senior intelligence officials regarded it as one of the most damaging spy cases in recent history. Initially, the FBI did not aggressively pursue the criminal investigation of lab theft, U.S. officials said. Now, nearly three years later, no arrests have been made. Only in the last several weeks, after prodding from Congress and the secretary of energy, have government officials administered lie detector tests to the main suspect, a Los Alamos computer scientist who is Chinese-American. The suspect failed a test in February, according to senior administration officials. At the Energy Department, officials waited more than a year to act on the FBI's 1997 recommendations to improve security at the weapons laboratories and restrict the suspect's access to classified information, officials said. The department's chief of intelligence, who raised the first alarm about the case, was ordered last year by senior officials not to tell Congress about his findings because critics might use them to attack the administration's China policies, officials said. And at the White House, senior aides to Clinton fostered a skeptical view of the evidence of Chinese espionage and its significance. White House officials, for example, said they determined on learning of it that the Chinese spying would have no bearing on the administration's dealings with China, which included the increased exports of satellites and other militarily useful items. They continued to advocate looser controls over sales of supercomputers and other equipment, even as intelligence analysts documented the scope of China's espionage. Samore, the Security Council official, did not accept the Energy Department's conclusion that China's nuclear advances stemmed largely from the theft of U.S. secrets. In 1997, as Clinton prepared to meet with President Jiang Zemin of China, he asked the CIA for a quick alternative analysis of the issue. The agency found that China had stolen secrets from Los Alamos but differed with the Energy Department over the significance of the spying. In personal terms, the handling of this case is very much the story of the Energy Department intelligence official who first raised
[CTRL] [2] America's Secret Establishment
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: America's Secret Establishment An introduction to The Order of Skull Bones by ANTONY C. SUTTON Liberty House Press 2027 Iris Billings, Montana 59102 1986 - Highly recommended. There is more in this book than can be presented here. Many charts and reproductions of orginal source material. As always, . . . In stock at: A-albionic Research, PO Box 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220-0273 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lloyd Miller, Research Director) Om K - Memorandum Number Two: The Order What It Is And How It Began Those on the inside know it as The Order. Others have known it for more than 150 years as Chapter 322 of a German secret society. More formally, for legal purposes. The Order was incorporated as The Russell Trust in 1856. It was also once known as the "Brotherhood of Death Those who make light of it, or want to make fun of it, call it "Skull Bones". or just plain "Bones". The American chapter of this German order was founded in 1833 at Yale University by General William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft who, in 1876. became Secretary of War in the Grant Administra- tion. Alphonso Taft was the father of William Howard Taft, the only man to be both President and Chief Justice of the United States. What Is The Order The Order is not just another campus Greek letter fraternal society with passwords and handgrips, common to most campuses. Chapter 322 is a secret society whose members are sworn to silence. It only exists on the Yale campus (that we know about). It has rules. It has ceremonial rites It is not at all happy with prying, probing citizens - known among initiates as "outsiders" or "vandals''. Its members always deny membership (or are supposed to deny membership) and in check- ing hundreds of autobiographical listings for members we found only half a dozen who cited an affiliation with Skull Bones. The rest were silent. An interesting point is whether the many members in various Administrations or who hold government positions have declared their members in the biographical data supplied for FBI "background checks". Above all, The Order is powerful, unbelievably powerful. If the reader will persist and examine the evidence to be presented - which is overwhelming - there is no doubt his view of the world will suddenly come sharply into focus, with almost frightening clarity. (1) Before we go further we need to add a couple of important observa- tions about The Order: * It is a Senior year society which exists only at Yale. Members are chosen in their Junior year and spend only one year on campus. Senior year. with Skull Bones. In other words, the organization is oriented to the post graduate outside world. The Order meets annually _ patriarchs only - on Deer Island in the St. Lawrence River. * Senior societies are unique to Yale. There are two other senior societies at Yale, but none elsewhere. Scroll Key and Wolf's Head supposedly competitive societies founded in the mid 19th century. We believe these to be part of the same network. Rosenbaum commented in his Esquire article. very accurately'. that anyone in the Eastern Liberal Establishment who is not a member of Skull Bones is almost certainly a member of either Scroll Key or Wolf's Head What is the significance of the "322" in Chapter 322? William Russell imported the society from Germany' and so it has been argued the 322 stands for- '32 (from 1832). the second chapter. of this German organization. Possibly a chapter 320 and a chapter 321 may exist somewhere and 323 is the designation of a room within the Skull Bones temple at Yale. Another interpretation is that The Order is descended from a Greek fraternal society dating back to Demosthenes in 322 BC This has perhaps some credibility because Bones records are dated by adding 322 to the current year. i.e.. records originating in 1950 are dated Anno-Demostheni 2272. How A Member Is Chosen By The Order The election procedure for new members of The Order has not changed since 1832. Each year 15, and only 15, never more, never fewer, are selected in the past 150 years about 2500 Yale graduates have been initiated into The Order. At any one time about 500-600 alive and active. Roughly about one-quarter of these take an active role in furthering the objectives of The Order. The others either lose interest or change their minds. They are silent drop-outs. A Yale Junior cannot ask to join. There is no electioneering. Juniors are invited to join and are given two options: accept or reject. Ap- parently some amount of personal information is gathered on potential members. The following is the kind of evaluation made in the last cen- tury: we doubt it has changed too much down to the present time: * "Frank Moore is an ideal Bones man, he is a hard worker and a man whose efforts have been more for Yale than himself. He is manager of the Musical clubs and has been active in Dwight Hall. His election will be
[CTRL] Fwd: Right Blames '60s for Moral Apocalypse
Clinton's misbehavior has now resulted in demonizing an entire generation ? While Republicans have finally succeeded in finding (or creating, via the media) a COUNTER-icon emotionally charged --polarizing-- enough to divert attention, by sleight of hand, from the image of Richard Nixon, hanging like an albatross around their neck for so long, limiting their capacity to hoodwink the public with Far Right magic ... Some Say America in Cultural War By CALVIN WOODWARD .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- There's a ``war'' going on in this country, but most people may not notice. It's about whether absolute right and wrong exist and whether Americans can even tell the difference. In the midst of prosperity, some thinkers see a decline in things money cannot buy -- values, morals and old truths. Commentator Pat Buchanan pledged at the onset of his third presidential campaign to ``clean up all that pollutes our culture.'' Another prominent activist from the right, Paul Weyrich, has gone as far as suggesting conservatives separate themselves from U.S. culture -- ``an ever wider sewer,'' he called it -- because the ``enemy'' has won. A president who lied and still leads is held out as an example of cultural decline. So are magazine covers peddling sexual gratification and raunchy TV. Even the move toward turning George Washington's birthday into a generic Presidents Day is cited as a sign of how this country has fallen. ``I wonder if, after this culture war is over that we are engaged in, an America will survive that will be worth fighting to defend,'' Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, the leading House impeachment prosecutor, told the Senate in his effort to unseat President Clinton. The culture war is an apocalyptic struggle ranging across the landscape of national life, yet hardly visible to so many. It takes multiple forms: the constitutional impeachment drama, Hollywood fare, billboard advertising, the teaching of history, behavior on college campuses, Internet content and more. The question about absolute truth vs. relativism has engaged philosophers since the earliest time: Is truth eternal and unchanging or is it relative, depending on circumstance, time and place? To the cultural warriors, America is ``slouching towards Gomorrah,'' the biblical city destroyed for the sinfulness of its people. Yet the disquiet is difficult for many to fathom. Most social indicators either are good or improving. ``There is a cultural war among the elite,'' says Boston College sociologist Alan Wolfe, author of ``One Nation After All.'' ``But it doesn't go much farther than that.'' Even some of the book titles at the center of the conflict recognize that people are not really with it: William Bennett's anti-Clinton ``The Death of Outrage'' and Robert Bork's ``Slouching Towards Gomorrah.'' James Hunter, who popularized the phrase in scholarly circles with his 1980s book ``Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America,'' agrees the fight mobilizes no more than 10 percent of the population. But he says that does not diminish its intensity or importance. Elites, after all, shape what is taught to children, shown on TV, turned into law and resolved in courts. ``Certainly the majority of Americans live their lives fairly removed from these kinds of tensions,'' he says. ``That doesn't mean there's not a culture war.'' The culture war is often traced to the 1960s, the decade of protest, free love, beads and bad pants. Some slogans from that time still hold meaning today, among them ``Do Your Own Thing.'' ``Americans are pretty tolerant,'' says Todd Gitlin, once at the vanguard of the counterculture as president of Students for a Democratic Society. ``They have their judgments. They just don't think people should enforce their judgments.'' Gitlin, who wrote ``The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars,'' concedes the 1960s eroded traditional authority and brought on the ``rambunctious relativists'' -- perhaps the sort of people who later would judge that Clinton should stay in office. That is how GOP Rep. Tom Delay of Texas, the majority whip, saw the impeachment struggle. He told the House it was ``a debate about relativism vs. absolute truth.'' Some public opinion research indicates Americans, while more religious than many cultures and hardly freewheeling about sex, are moving toward consensus on many social issues. No seething cultural conflict is apparent. Wolfe ticks off areas where he is finding common ground among most Americans. ``Working women,'' he offers. ``That used to be a big fight. Race -- we used to have overt and explicit racism. No one questions the principle any more of racial equality. God -- we used to have furious battles between Catholics and Protestants.'' An August 1998 poll by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation found strong majorities supporting both ``traditional family values'' and the idea that people should be tolerant
[CTRL] HRC's speech at UN
-Caveat Lector- See http://www.brama.com/news/press/990304un.html Regards, -A http://www.erols.com/mack97 "The sharpest tool in the shed." -- anonymous 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: SNET: [piml] OREGON'S The Mail Tribune: MEDFORD LOOKING CLOSELY ATMARTIAL LAW MEASURES
- SNETNEWS Mailing List - Begin forwarded message -- From: "A.C." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: (Recipient list suppressed) Subject: OREGON'S The Mail Tribune: MEDFORD LOOKING CLOSELY AT MARTIAL LAW MEASURES Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 22:39:19 -0800 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As the reality of martial law approaches ever so surely, ever so close to home, in all quarters of the nation, it is so important to bring to our fullest awareness exactly what MARTIAL LAW would impose and how it would affect our lives. This article articulating the wishes of Medford's city fathers, is notable and succinctly clear, right here in the US of A., and not just in some distant banana republic or in merely any number of lawless narcocrasies worldwide. Just take a good and somber look at Medford's studiously written EMERGENCY POWERS Act and tell me there was not long deliberation on all dictatorial protocols listed within? Besides gun confiscation, the prohibition of citizens gathering, of alcohol, of transportation, note the "control of food and its distribution." Also observe carefully that "Fire Administration Chief Phil Kessler said the council directed staff to come up with an emergency management plan in 1995." 1995?? Aren't we to understand by this, then, that all our "current hyped dangers of terrorism, domestic and international, not to mention potential Y2K chaos," were in fact well known at least as early as 1995--or do I dare say...horror of horrors!...apparently systematically and methodically planned, years ago? Note also how private citizens, in the advent of "an emergency," however and whatever the anointed chieftains deem an emergency, perhaps even a "blight," could be compelled to house other citizens at the command of the town czar! Adding great insult, we the proletariat, must be subjected to the boring and well shorn excuse that all this pernicious business is ad nauseum in the name of "protecting the lives and property of your community...," and let us not forget it must be for the welfare of the children, naturally. ac http://www.mailtribune.com/ Feb. 18, 1999 Plan would allow city `martial law' Medford council considers measure today By JIM DAVIS Medford's city manager could establish a citywide curfew, prohibit public gatherings and close businesses under an emergency-powers proposal city leaders will consider today. Manager Michael Dyal would be granted those powers and others after declaring a "state of emergency" during disasters. "Why do you do all of this? To protect the lives and property of your community," Dyal said. "That's why all of this is in place." The proposal is part of the city's emergency management plan. Such laws are common, Dyal and other city officials said. But the ordinance raises "serious constitutional issues," said Bill Mansfield, a former city attorney and councilman who reviewed the proposal Wednesday. Mansfield pointed to the curfew and the prohibition against gatherings as well as a clause that would exempt city employees from liability if citizens die or are injured during the state of emergency. "It authorizes a city manager to become the czar," Mansfield said. Medford City Council will consider adopting the ordinance at its noon meeting today at Medford City Hall, 411 W. Eighth St. Medford Fire Administration Chief Phil Kessler said the council directed staff to come up with an emergency management plan in 1995. The emergency-powers ordinance portion of the plan defines an emergency as any human-caused or natural event, including fires, explosions, spills of hazardous materials, terrorism, riots or the interruption of public services. Under the state of emergency, the city manager would be granted authority to work with state organizations and to redirect city funds for emergency use. It also would grant power to the city manager to enforce "martial law" regulations upon the city's populace. Those include setting curfews, prohibiting gatherings and ordering evacuations. It also would allow the manager to stop the sale of alcohol and gasoline and the sale or carrying of weapons. It would give him power to turn off water, gas and electricity. Medford City Attorney Gene Hart, who drew up the ordinance, said it wasn't in response to the fear that computers will crash at the end of this year and cause turmoil throughout society. He said many cities already have similar laws. And he noted the ordinance has checks and balances. It would allow the council to vote to end the state of emergency, for example. Also, the ordinance has a "due process" clause that would allow any person "deprived of a liberty or property" to have a hearing before a city officer. Ashland adopted a similar law in 1997, said Paul Nolte, Ashland city attorney. "The declaration of martial law by local
[CTRL] Fwd: Spy in the Cold
http://www.consortiumnews.com/c030499a.html March 4, 1999 Spy in the Cold By Robert Parry The two decades of U.S. isolation from Iran have permitted the British to rebuild their historically strong intelligence ties to Iran's ruling elites, according to Jamshid Hashemi, an Iranian who worked for both U.S. and British intelligence. In an interview in the United States, Hashemi said he helped British intelligence regain that edge through his work for the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), the parent organization of MI-6, the British foreign intelligence agency. Hashemi asserted that he helped the British recruit 17 Iranians in sensitive positions. The total number of Iranians working as British agents, he added, was certainly much higher. "I'm only one man," he observed. Now, bitter over his prosecution in Great Britain on fraud charges, Hashemi said he intends to divulge the identities of those Iranians. "The SIS agents should get out of Iran within two months," he warned in the interview on Feb. 16. When asked if he was disclosing the names because the British had "betrayed" him, Hashemi answered, "Exactly." Court records in London reveal that Hashemi was recruited by British intelligence in 1985 and that he supplied Great Britain with accurate information about Iran's military needs when that data was unavailable from other sources. Hashemi's work for British intelligence involved setting up arms deals for Iran that gave his SIS superiors insights into Iranian strategies as well as access to communist-bloc technology. One Hashemi deal bought silkworm missiles from China. British intelligence discontinued its use of Hashemi in spring 1993 because information about Iranian military needs was deemed less vital, the papers said. Four years later, Great Britain's Serious Fraud Office charged Hashemi in a fraud scheme that used allegedly non-existent commodity deals with Iran to deceive suppliers of American satellite phones, German gas masks and Vietnamese rice. Hashemi was incarcerated in August 1997 after he tried to flee England on a false Italian passport. Hashemi, 63, who suffers from a serious heart ailment and walks slowly with a cane, was held part of the time at Belmarsh prison, Great Britain's highest security facility. Eventually, four charges were dropped because British intelligence feared disclosure of state secrets. In December 1998, at a pre-trial hearing at the Old Bailey, Hashemi agreed to plead guilty to four other charges, with the understanding that he would be freed within a few months. Judge Andrew Collins said he granted Hashemi leniency because of the "valuable information" he had given British intelligence. [The Guardian, Feb. 6, 1999] Hashemi was released in early February and returned to the United States where he holds citizenship. Although Hashemi's relations with the U.S. government have been stormy, too, he expressed thanks to the interest section of the U.S. embassy in London, which "helped as much as they could." Even before Jamshid Hashemi spied for the British, he assisted the CIA and U.S. Customs. His younger brother, Cyrus Hashemi, an international financier, sent for Jamshid in late 1979 after Iranian Islamic radicals had overthrown the U.S.-backed shah of Iran and seized 52 American hostages. The Hashemis had close ties to the new Islamic government and were seen as useful intermediaries. Cyrus also had business ties to CIA-connected Americans, including businessman John Shaheen and Shaheen's lawyer, William J. Casey. Jamshid Hashemi arrived in the United States on New Years Day 1980 and promptly met with U.S. officials, including a CIA officer. According to U.S. government records, the Hashemi brothers became conduits for negotiations with Iran about the American hostages. Jamshid Hashemi has testified that Shaheen and Casey, who became Ronald Reagan's campaign director in February 1980, used the same channels to send Republican messages to Iranian radicals urging them to delay the hostage release only after Reagan was elected, the so-called "October Surprise" conspiracy. Other October Surprise witnesses, including senior Iranian officials and Middle East intelligence operatives, confirmed key elements of Hashemi's story when it surfaced in 1990-91. But Republicans angrily denied the charges. A House task force was assigned to examine the October Surprise case. But its leaders -- Reps. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., and Henry Hyde, R-Ill. -- moved quickly to reject the troubling allegations. The task force concluded that Hashemi had lied about arranging a face-to-face meeting in Madrid between Casey and a senior Iranian cleric in late July 1980. But the task forces alibis for Caseys whereabouts collapsed under scrutiny, and Hashemi still insists his account was true. [For details on the bogus alibis, see Robert Parry's Trick or Treason or The October Surprise X-Files.] Though Hashemi's credibility was assailed, the task force report
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Confession in DC Starbucks killings
From: Michael Novick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Report: Confession in Starbucks murders (Last updated 9:45 AM ET March 4) WASHINGTON, March 4 (UPI) WTOP radio and WRC-TV are reporting that 29-year-old Carl Cooper has confessed to his role in the 1997 triple murder of three Starbucks coffee shop employees. Cooper was arrested earlier this week for attempting to kill off-duty Prince George's Md. police officer Bruce Howard in 1996. He waived an extradition hearing in Washington, and has been in custody in Maryland. The July 7, 1997 early-morning killings of Aaron Goodrich, Mary Caitryn Mahoney, and Emory Evans shocked the Georgetown neighborhood, and local police have endured criticism for not solving the case earlier. According to the reports, Cooper confessed overnight, during interrogation at Prince George's County police headquarters, and implicated two others. WTOP reports the second suspect is already in custody, while police look for the third. The FBI has been looking at Cooper as a suspect for more than a year. Agents have been monitoring a wiretap at his home. Cooper came to the attention of law enforcers after the Starbucks murders case was featured on the television show, "America's Most Wanted," which mentioned a large reward for aid in the case. According to reports, a phone tip suggested police investigate Cooper. On Monday, Cooper was arrested at his District of Columbia home. --- © 1999 UPI. All rights reserved 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. People Against Racist Terror (PART) PO Box 1055 Culver City CA 90232 Tel.: 310-288-5003 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://people.we.mediaone.net/part2001/index.html Order our quarterly: "Turning the Tide:Journal of Anti-Racist Activism, Research Education" End the racist death penalty! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Alejandrina Torres, and all political prisoners and P.O.W.'s in U.S. prisons! Have you visited our new web site? http://www.onelist.com Onelist: Helping to create Internet communities
[CTRL] The Mysteries of Rennes-le-Chateau and the Prieure du Sion
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/seeker1/fortpages/rennes-sion.html A HREF="http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/seeker1/fortpages/rennes-sion.html"The Secrets of Sion/A - The Mysteries of Rennes-le-Chateau and the Prieure du Sion by Steve Mizrach A Rennes-le-Chateau Refresher For those who have not already read the excellently researched book Holy Blood, Holy Grail , and have not stumbled across other books which have capitalized on the current Rennes "cottage industry" in France, I present the basic outlines of the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau. It was clear that Berenger Sauniere, the parish priest of the small village during the late 19th and early 20th century, had been receiving vast sums of money to refurbish the local church and also to build many structures in the area, such as his Tower of the Magdalene (Tour Magdala). (Sauniere was originally so poor that he relied on the generosity of parishioners to survive in 1885.) Sauniere died in 1917, leaving the 'secret' of where he got his fabulous wealth to his housekeeper, Marie Dernaud, who promised to reveal it on her deathbed - but sadly she had a stroke which left her paralyzed and unable to speak before her death in 1953. Speculation was rife on the source of the parish priest's money. Was it the lost treasure of the Templars or the Cathars in the area? Might it have been buried Visigothic gold? Was he being paid by the Hapsburgs or some other government for his services? Did he know the lost goldmaking secrets of alchemy? Or was he blackmailing the Church with some terrible secret? The evidence that points to the last possibility is that Sauniere's confession before his death was so shocking that the priest who heard it denied him absolution and last rites[1]. What could Sauniere have known? The mystery is rendered greater by a series of parchments found by the cleric in 1891, which contained an easily discovered (but extraordinarily diificult to translate) cypher. They were apparently written by his predecessor, Abbe' Antoine Bigou, confessor to Marie d'Hautpoul, in 1781. (The same cypher appears on her tombstone.) The parchments were, on the face of it, Latin transcriptions of passages from the Gospels; but they contained deeper mysteries. Sauniere also appears to have left certain other "clues" in the highly unusual redesign of his church and of the other structures in the area. Hidden within those Latin parchments was a message in French: "THIS TREASURE BELONGS TO DAGOBERT II KING AND TO SION AND HE IS THERE DEAD." Within the second parchment was an even stranger message: "SHEPHERDESS NO TEMPTATION THAT POUSSIN TENIERS HOLD THE KEY PEACE 681 BY THE CROSS AND THIS HORSE OF GOD I COMPLETE (could also trans. as DESTROY) THIS DAEMON GUARDIAN AT MIDDAY BLUE APPLES." A third cypher that appears, not in the documents, but at Shugborough Hall's Shepherd Monument, is the curious "D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M" which has never been translated. There is a famous painting by Poussin entitled Les Bergers D'Arcadie (the Arcadian shepherds) which shows them around a tomb containing the mysterious inscription "Et in Arcadia Ego..." This tomb appears to be a virtual replica of one not too dissimilar to it right outside of Rennes-le-Chateau. Sauniere's church indeed contains a "daemon guardian" which is a representation of the Biblical Asmodeus, who helped Solomon build his Temple; and some say the rays of the sun at midday passing through the glass create an optical effect they call "blue apples." Needless to say, these were not enough clues to unravel the mystery. But three intrepid historians searched far and away for others to help d ecipher the puzzle. Suffice to say, Lincoln, Baigent, and Leigh did a masterful job of "unearthing" the Merovinigian monarch Dagobert, and tied together many mysteries of history with a fantastic thesis that can be stated as thus: Jesus and Mary Magdalene, legitimate nobility from the Judaic Houses of Benjamin and David, married and sired heirs. Jesus did not die on the cross but went either to England or India. The Magdalene's heirs married into the Visigoth families of the time, and gave birth to the sacred Merovingian ruling family. The Visigoths of the area might have themselves been descended from the House of Benjamin, which had fled to the Arcadia region of Greece, and thence north into France, a thousand years earlier. The Merovingians were not wiped out by the Carolingian usurpers, and their lineage survives in some of the other royal families of Europe; apparently the goal of the secret society entitled the Prieure du Sion is a Merovingian restoration in France. Apparently . For nothing is as it seems with the Rennes mystery. But in the hands of Leigh, Lincoln, and Baigent, it seems to encompass myriads of others - the dissolution of the Templars, the downfall of the Cathars, the bizarre Rosicrucian manifestoes, and other political intrigues of French history. For it seems that Sion has a grievance
[CTRL] [2] Report On The Opening Of The Tomb
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:498333"Report On The Opening Of The Tomb. Part 2./A - Subject: Report On The Opening Of The Tomb. Part 2. From: "John F. Winston" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Mar 5, 1999 2:08 PM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Report On The Opening Of The Tomb. Part 2. Mar. 5, 1999. Back to the beginning of the show again. The show started out with the pretty lady producer being shown in front of the Great Pyramid telling us what we were going to do in the show. Next Richard Hoagland was shown, as Art Bell said, "Looking very dapper." which means that he was dressed very nice and looked like a Dapper Dan which was a person who always looked very well dressed. Richard then showed some scenes taken from Mars showing "The Face" and pyramids that looked like the ones in Egypt. He said that we came from Mars. In my opinion the Chinese people did come from Mars to get away from a lot of debris that hit their planet many years ago. Some of those who didn't come to Earth constructed Canals and covered them with a thin material that can be seen through from Earth. Now I will put down something that talks about what might be found in The Hall of Records. I'm not saying it's exactly true, but it is one way of looking at things. .. From: J L INSIDE THE HALL OF RECORDS! by J L Part 2 (JW Please don't ask where part 1 is because this is all I have at the present time.) "Deep, and Deeper We Go." Other that the records of ancient civilizations, the Hall of Records holds many treasures that revealed the accomplishments of mankind. Among them were thin metal discs on which various "Documentation" was transcribe. Such metal recordings indicated that music was the key to the universe and life on the planets. There are recordings of music for every possible phase of man's life. There is music to soothe the savage beast. Music which can even anger. Music to march off to war with. The greatest treasure is found in the strange but enchanting music that is designed to cure all known illnesses! These metal plates contain not only music and historical recordings, but some are of a video nature. When placed into the non electrical computer, they show actual 3-D scenes that are thousands of years ago. Such as Noah's actual ark, Je--s on the Mount of Olives and his Sermon of the Mount. As well as Adam, Cain Able, George Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Churchill, Gladstone, St. Francis of Assisi, and Groctine, master of the Atlantean race. The chamber located on the top level of the four-story tomb, which was named on discovery as the "King's Ball Room." contains the Great Book of Knowledge. Amazingly this book lays open to the present day of our civilization! Thus, the records of the forbidden chambers date from the first man on earth up to the present day and years that are to follow. Among the artifacts there is stored the oddest collection of computers, machines, visa phones, communication systems and displays of ultra modern portal to portal transportation. One item is a "Telabrain." From all appearances it is in working condition. The lettering on the 25 dials has not been translated, nor has it any meaning in any known earth language. The only markings that seem translatable are the triangles, for this Telabrain is directly connected with the other pyramids located around the earth in a very sacred geometric pattern. The markings are known only to Mayan Priests who went underground since the time of the last delude when Atlantis sank. Other treasures found in the hidden chambers may be on science fiction shows such as Star Trek. But these devices Do exist. They are a reminder that civilizations existed thousands of years ago which were more advanced than ours today. That is because we go in cycles and not in a straight line manner of growth. One invaluable device looked like a modern day search light. But it had a box behind it which measured 21" X 21" (divisible by 7). It is a computer, bearing tiny glass circles of various colors, over an equal number of toggle switches. The markings on the face plate have been translated to mean, "Antigravitor." This man made device was responsible for lifting the tons of marble slabs into place to form the pyramids. It's still operational! The famous "Time Machine" is next. It is sitting in an antechamber on the third floor. It contains one giant-sized metallic ring that measures roughly 25 feet in diameter and is more than 6 feet deep. On its base, in the exact center of its deep tubular ring, there is a square marking. On both sides of this ring are banks of computerized dials, buttons, lights and a viewing screen 4 feet square. The markings are like a set of hieroglyphics. In addition to these artifacts of which only a few have been mentioned, additional records contain histories of our universe. One set of
[CTRL] Military exercise in Lowell, Massachusetts . . .
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:498217"Military exercise in Lowell, Massachusetts/A - Subject: Military exercise in Lowell, Massachusetts From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MLS) Date: Fri, Mar 5, 1999 6:12 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had read about the same thing going on in Texas. Well it happened here. The other night I heard loud helicopters and wondered if a police search was going on (even though it was dark). Now, I was in a suburb of Lowell, at least 3 to 5 miles (as the crow flies) from the action. It was pretty loud there, I can imagine how loud it must have been at the site of the exercise. Last night's local paper (The Lowell Sun) had an article about it and it was featured on the Boston TV newscasts this morning. I did an altavista search but there is no word of it on the Internet (yet). According to the paper, Lowell has the best type of urban landscape (old mill buildings, overhead wires, etc.) to train Navy SEALS in some sort of urban assault. OK, well fine, but the TV report this morning said that there was no advance warning to the public and people were scared and panicky in some cases. Why no warning? That was because they don't want people gathering around to observe and perhaps get hurt. I can't help but think that these explanations are hiding something. Has the military always rehearsed smack dab in the midst of our daily lifes? Texas, Massachusetts, what poor neighborhood will be terrified out of their wits next. Is there a precedence for this type of activity? Feeling paranoid, ML Starkey = Subject: Re: Military exercise in Lowell, Massachusetts From: "mikee." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Mar 5, 1999 11:14 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The marines will be storming the beaches near Monterey, CA, the weekend of the 13th. mikee. ... = Subject: Re: Military exercise in Lowell, Massachusetts From: John Klapperich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, Mar 6, 1999 2:45 PM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think Somali is a pretty good precedence for training in urban environments. There were a lot of questions about "how this could have happened" when the bullet ridden bodies of 18 young rangers came home. Could it have been the fact that training in inner city fighting did not occur? - 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
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Introduction: The purpose of this web site.
Volume 2 of the CIA Inspector General's Report on Contra drug smuggling
and the CIA's acquiesence was released late last fall (Fall '98), and is
available here with additional commentary here.
This stands as the official CIA admission of its collusion with
narcotics traffickers allied with the CIA-supported Nicaraguan Contras.
The Contra drug-running was part of the vast Iran-Contra affair that
mushroomed during the Reagan administration, whereby various Contra
supporters (known CIA assets and Contra leaders) were found to have
heavy ties to drug couriers, middlemen and the major cartels.
Taken alone, one Contra drug ring, that of Rafael Caro Quintero and
Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo (two Contra supporters based in Guadalajara,
Mexico) were known by DEA to be smuggling four tons A MONTH into the
U.S. during the early Contra war. Other operations including Manuel
Noriega (a CIA asset, strongman leader of Panama), John Hull (ranch
owner and CIA asset, Costa Rica), Felix Rodriguez (Contra supporter, El
Salvador), Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros (Honduran Military, Contra
supporter, Honduras) along with other elements of the Guatemalan and
Honduran military. Cumulatively, the aforementioned CIA assets were
concurrently trafficking close to two hundred tons a year or close to
70% of total U.S. consumption. All of these CIA assets have been
ascertained as being connected to CIA via public documentation and
testimony.
The 300 page report holds many revelations; however, it is was
originally a 600 page document. Robert Parry (
http://www.consortiumnews.com) did a story in the Fall of 1998 regarding
the omitted sections of the report, particulary concerning a second CIA
drug ring (distinct from the one examined in Dark Alliance) in South
Central Los Angeles that existed between 1988 and 1991. And according to
Parry, there was yet another drug ring in L.A. that remains classified,
because it was run by a CIA agent who had participated in the Contra war
. It remains classified because of an ongoing CIA investigation into the
matter, leaving one to speculate whether the CIA will utter another word
about this case.
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Evidence: Three DEA agents and their first-hand experiences:
Bradley Ayers traces of drugs found on CIA-related airplanes in
Miami, Florida.
In 1985 and 1986, Ayers surveilled airplanes (parked at Miami
International Airport) belonging to two CIA-related airlines ("formerly
owned" by the CIA) under contract with the Dept. of Defense to transport
materiel for the Contras. He repeatedly found traces of cocaine and
marijuana inside the planes. Ayers' findings became court evidence in a
lawsuit by the airlines against a Miami TV station, and was found to be
truthful and accepted as evidence.
Cellerino Castillo's surveillance of CIA/NSC airplanes in Panama.
Castillo gathered evidence during 1984 and 1985 that known traffickers,
with multiple DEA files, piloted CIA- and NSC-owned airplanes, using two
CIA and NSC hangars at an airbase in Central America. These CIA-paid
pilots obtained U.S. visas, despite their drug trafficking dossiers
being in U.S. Gov't databases. Some of the pilots were quite bold about
their smuggling of drugs: Once stateside, some would use their CIA
credentials to ward off U.S. Customs and DEA agents. Other pilots,
Castillo noted, were more discrete. "Hundreds of flights each week
[through Ilopango] delivered cocaine to the buyers and returned with
money headed for ... Panama."
"From Panama, the money was wired to a Costa Rican bank account held by
the Contras" (Castillo, Powderburns: Cocaine, Contras, and the Drug War
[Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press, 1994], 138-39) "There is no doubt that
they were running large quantities of cocaine into the U.S. to support
the [Nicaraguan] Contras."
"We saw the cocaine and we saw boxes full of money. We're talking about
very large quantities of cocaine and millions of dollars."
"...my reports contain not only the names of traffickers, but their
destinations, flight paths, tail numbers, and the date and time of each
flight." (1994 interview (How the
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Title: out of control seattletimes.com Nation and World Copyright © 1998 The Seattle Times Company Posted at 08:44 a.m. PDT; Monday, September 28, 1998 Three reports of embezzlements expose Pentagon's lack of control by Ralph Vartabedian Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - A string of embezzlements at military installations across the United States is pointing out serious weaknesses in the Pentagon's control over its multibillion-dollar contractor payment system, according to three investigative reports out today. The embezzlements, ranging from $11,000 to $3 million each, were executed mainly by low-level employees at federal payment centers exploiting loopholes in the government's troubled accounting system, the reports found. In one recent case, an Air Force staff sergeant in Dayton, Ohio, arranged for his mother and girlfriend to receive more than $900,000 in government checks, a scheme he executed even after managers had been warned that he should not be trusted, an internal Defense Department memo states. Weaknesses in the payment system, which is operated by the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, have played a key role in more than a dozen cases of embezzlement in recent years, according to a General Accounting Office report obtained by the Los Angeles Times. Even clerks are able to manipulate the Pentagon's computerized finance system to create fictitious contracts and then direct the Treasury Department to send checks to personal postal boxes, according to a second GAO report. The known embezzlements represent only the tip of waste and fraud throughout the Pentagon's financial system, said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who requested the investigations out of growing concern about lax internal controls. If we can send missiles to a bulls-eye at a factory in Khartoum and a Bedouin training camp in Afghanistan, we ought to be able to set up an accounting system at the Defense Department that operates with precision, Grassley said. Let's say it takes a rocket scientist to do that; well, the Pentagon has rocket scientists right there. The problem has been exacerbated by the administration's touted effort to reinvent government, which has curtailed safeguards in an effort to cut red tape for defense contractors, according to a probe by a Senate subcommittee staff. In addition, the Pentagon is cutting back on audits. In July, the Defense Contract Audit Agency stopped all routine reviews of contracts under $10 million. Susan Hansen, a Pentagon spokeswoman, denied that such streamlining has compromised the integrity of the Pentagon's finances. But investigators for the Senate Judiciary's subcommittee on administrative oversight and the courts, which will issue its own report today, note that the Justice Department investigated 807 financial crimes against the Pentagon in 1997 alone and obtained 88 guilty pleas. The finance service has long been troubled by serious accounting problems. The agency has never been able to balance its books and has set a goal of producing its first clean financial statement in 1999, a spokeswoman said. Senate investigators conducted 15 on-site inspections to check whether ordered goods actually existed. The list of missing items included furniture, televisions and computer equipment. No proof existed that services were performed even after payments were made. In some cases, cheaper goods were substituted for higher-cost products.
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Title: net patrol This article was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). The following is an article from The Nation magazine (March 4, 1996) that reports on a Pentagon study on how the military can exploit the Internet. The Pentagon paper suggests using the Internet for the routine interception of global e-mail, for covert operations and propaganda campaigns, and for tracking domestic political activity, particularly that of the left. The article was written by David Corn, the Washington editor of The Nation. If you have any comments or leads for follow-up stories, please contact him at 202-546-2239/ph 202-546-1415/fx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to The Nation, a magazine of politics and culture, call 800-333-8536. Pentagon Trolls the Net By David Corn c1996 Internet users beware; Pentagon snoops are taking an interest in your cyber-communications. Last summer, Charles Swett, a policy assistant in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, produced a report that assessed the intelligence value of the Internet for the Defense Department. His study discovered the obvious: By monitoring computer message traffic and alternative news sources from around the world, the military might catch early warning of impending significant developments. Swett reports that the Internet could also be used offensively as an additional medium in psychological operations campaigns and to help achieve unconventional warfare objectives. A striking aspect of his study is that there is one sort of Internet user who attracts a large amount of attention from Swett: cyber-smart lefties. The thirty-one-page, unclassified study is mostly cut and dry. Much of it describes what the Internet is and what can be found within its infinite confines. Swett lists various fringe groups that are exploiting the Internet: the white-supremacist National Alliance, the Michigan Militia, Earth First, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). He highlights MUFON--the Mutual UFO Network--which uses the Internet to disseminate information on U.S. military operations that members believe relate to investigations and cover-ups of UFO-related incidents. MUFON computer messages, Swett notes, contain details on MUFON's efforts to conduct surveillance of DoD installations. The report does not suggest that the computer communications of MUFON and these other groups should be targeted by the military--though X Filers will be forgiven for wondering if something sinister is afoot. What Swett apparently finds of greater interest than MUFON and the fringe groups is the online left. A significant portion of the report is devoted to the San Francisco-based Institute for Global Communications, which operates several computer networks, such as PeaceNet and EcoNet, that are used by progressive activists. I.G.C. demonstrates, he writes, the breadth of DoD-relevant information available on the Internet. The paper refers to I.G.C. conferences that might be considered noteworthy by the Pentagon, including ones on anti-nuclear arms campaigns, the extreme right, social change, and multicultural, multi-racial news. Swett cites I.G.C. as the home for alternative news sources that fill gaps in the mainstream media. (It might be good for Pentagon analysts to read I.G.C. dispatches from Holland's Peace Media Service.) Yet he seems to say that one can also track the left around the world by monitoring I.G.C.: Although [I.G.C.] is clearly a left-wing political organization, without actually joining I.G.C. and reading its message traffic, it is difficult to assess the nature and extent of its members' actual real-world activities. Swett's paper presents the world of opportunity awaiting a cyber-shrewd military and intelligence establishment. The Pentagon and intelligence services will conduct routine monitoring of messages originating in other countries in the search for information on developing security threats. That means overseas e-mail, like overseas phonecalls, will be intercepted by the electronic eavesdroppers of the National Security Agency or some other outfit. The data will be fed into filtering computers and then, if it contains any hot-button words, forwarded to the appropriate analyst. Networks of human sources with access to the Internet could be developed in areas of security concern to the U.S. (But bureaucrats rest assured; this approach--using computer-assisted spies--could never replace official DoD intelligence collection systems or services.) The Internet can also serve counterintelligence purposes by identifying threats to the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence activities. As an example, Swett refers to a message posted in a discussion group for left-wing political activists that repeated an A.P. article about an upcoming U.S. Army Special Operations Command training exercise at an empty
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Yahoo! NewsAP Headlines Saturday March 6 11:34 AM ET Some Say America in Cultural War By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - There's a ``war'' going on in this country, but most people may not notice. It's about whether absolute right and wrong exist and whether Americans can even tell the difference. In the midst of prosperity, some thinkers see a decline in things money cannot buy - values, morals and old truths. Commentator Pat Buchanan pledged at the onset of his third presidential campaign to ``clean up all that pollutes our culture.'' Another prominent activist from the right, Paul Weyrich, has gone as far as suggesting conservatives separate themselves from U.S. culture - ``an ever wider sewer,'' he called it - because the ``enemy'' has won. A president who lied and still leads is held out as an example of cultural decline. So are magazine covers peddling sexual gratification and raunchy TV. Even the move toward turning George Washington's birthday into a generic Presidents Day is cited as a sign of how this country has fallen. ``I wonder if, after this culture war is over that we are engaged in, an America will survive that will be worth fighting to defend,'' Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, the leading House impeachment prosecutor, told the Senate in his effort to unseat President Clinton. The culture war is an apocalyptic struggle ranging across the landscape of national life, yet hardly visible to so many. It takes multiple forms: the constitutional impeachment drama, Hollywood fare, billboard advertising, the teaching of history, behavior on college campuses, Internet content and more. The question about absolute truth vs. relativism has engaged philosophers since the earliest time: Is truth eternal and unchanging or is it relative, depending on circumstance, time and place? To the cultural warriors, America is ``slouching towards Gomorrah,'' the biblical city destroyed for the sinfulness of its people. Yet the disquiet is difficult for many to fathom. Most social indicators either are good or improving. ``There is a cultural war among the elite,'' says Boston College sociologist Alan Wolfe, author of ``One Nation After All.'' ``But it doesn't go much farther than that.'' Even some of the book titles at the center of the conflict recognize that people are not really with it: William Bennett's anti-Clinton ``The Death of Outrage'' and Robert Bork's ``Slouching Towards Gomorrah.'' James Hunter, who popularized the phrase in scholarly circles with his 1980s book ``Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America,'' agrees the fight mobilizes no more than 10 percent of the population. But he says that does not diminish its intensity or importance. Elites, after all, shape what is taught to children, shown on TV, turned into law and resolved in courts. ``Certainly the majority of Americans live their lives fairly removed from these kinds of tensions,'' he says. ``That doesn't mean there's not a culture war.'' The culture war is often traced to the 1960s, the decade of protest, free love, beads and bad pants. Some slogans from that time still hold meaning today, among them ``Do Your Own Thing.'' ``Americans are pretty tolerant,'' says Todd Gitlin, once at the vanguard of the counterculture as president of Students for a Democratic Society. ``They have their judgments. They just don't think people should enforce their judgments.'' Gitlin, who wrote ``The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars,'' concedes the 1960s eroded traditional authority and brought on the ``rambunctious relativists'' - perhaps the sort of people who later would judge that Clinton should stay in office. That is how GOP Rep. Tom Delay of Texas, the majority whip, saw the impeachment struggle. He told the House it was ``a debate about relativism vs. absolute truth.'' Some public opinion research indicates Americans, while more religious than many cultures and hardly freewheeling about sex, are moving toward consensus on many social issues. No seething cultural conflict is apparent. Wolfe ticks off areas where he is finding common ground among most Americans. ``Working women,'' he offers. ``That used to be a big fight. Race - we used to have overt and explicit racism. No one questions the principle any more of racial equality. God - we used to have furious battles between Catholics and Protestants.'' An August 1998 poll by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation found strong majorities supporting both ``traditional family values'' and the idea that people should be tolerant of those who live by moral standards that they consider wrong. But for some warriors there remains too much moral equivocation, too much garbage on the tube, too far a drift from the verities. Weyrich, president of the Free Congress Foundation, declared that his side has ``probably lost the culture war.'' He is suggesting conservatives consider such steps as home schooling and getting rid of TV,
[CTRL] Unocal accused in Federal Court of conspiring with narco-traffickers in Burma
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.angelfire.com/id/ciadrugs/BurmaUnocal.html A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/id/ciadrugs/BurmaUnocal.html" http://www.angelfire.com/.../outline.html/A - Unocal accused in Federal Court of conspiring with narco-traffickers in Burma San Francisco Bay Guardian April 23, 1997 by Dennis Bernstein and Leslie Kean Los Angeles-based Unocal has become an active player in the expanding global heroin trade as a result of the oil giant's business activity with the narco-dictatorship of Burma (also known as Myanmar), according to an affidavit filed as part of an ongoing federal lawsuit. The affidavit - filed April 7 with the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles - states that the government-controlled Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) "has been the main channel for laundering the revenues of heroin produced and exported under the control of the Burmese army." The legal document was filed in support of a suit that seeks to hold Unocal - the largest American investor in Myanmar - liable for widespread human rights abuses allegedly committed by the Burmese regime. Francois Casani er, an associate researcher for the Paris-based Geopolitical Drugwatch, wrote the affidavit. Unocal and the French oil giant Total are partners in a joint venture with MOGE to build a $1.2 billion gas pipeline project through southern Burma. The 14 plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit are ethnic minorities who live in the region where the pipeline is being built. They charge that the Burmese military, in providing security and infrastructure support for the pipeline's construction, is committing human rights abuses, including forced labor, forced relocations, rape, torture and killings. A little-noticed March 25 ruling by Federal District Judge Richard A. Paez held that Unocal and its executives could be held liable for illegal and repressive actions committed by the Burmese government in the course of their business dealings. The court action, the first of its kind, was reported by several newspapers in mid April. But the explosive contents of Casanier's affidavit, which have received virtually no coverage, paint a disturbing picture of an oil giant benefiting from the international drug trade. According to a 1996 State Department report, Burma now supplies over 50% of the world's heroin and 60% percent of the heroin sold in the United States. "Drug traffickers and their families are among the leading backers of high-profile infrastructure projects in Burma," said Robert Gelbard, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. "They launder their money with impunity in banks controlled by the military," he says. In announcing sanctions against Burma on April 22, President Clinton stated "The regime has shown little political will to stop the narcotics exports from Burma and prevent illicit drug money from enriching those who would flaunt international rules and profit by destroying the lives of millions. " These sanctions are not retroactive, and will not affect companies like Unocal who are already invested in Burma. The plaintiffs have submitted Casanier's sworn affidavit in support of a request for a preliminary injunction that would prevent Unocal from doing any further business in Burma pending the outcome of the case. In his affidavit, the French researcher lays out a compelling case that the foreign partners of Burma's ruling State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) provide "big shields for [the] money laundering" of drug dollars. Casanier states that because "heroin has become the country's highest valued export, accounting for 50 percent to 70 percent of the cash flow into the country," money laundering strategies have become an integral part of government operations. "MOGE has transferred hundreds of millions of dollars into Singapore banks since setting up the joint venture," states the affidavit by Casanier, "[yet] it has no assets other than the installments of its foreign partners and makes no profit." According to Casanier's four year investigation, MOGE has been able to purchase military hardware from Portugal and Poland, run embassies in Europe, and invest in companies at home, all through the use of drug money. Randy Renick, an attorney with Hadsell Stormer handling the federal lawsuit, said that the drug allegations are directly related to human rights aspects of the case because the military has used its extensive arsenal, purchased with profits from the drug trade, against the Burma people while protecting foreign investments. According to Renick, Casanier's sworn declaration to the court "provides irrefutable evidence that Unocal is in partnership with criminal drug dealers who are making profits off the backs of the indigenous people of Burma." In January, the SLORC launched a series of on-going military offensives against the Karen and Mon, ethnic minorities living in the area surrounding the pipeline, sending thousands of
Re: [CTRL] no subject
-Caveat Lector- I like Buchanan - whether he is liked or not, he seems like a good guy. The generic President's Day; I always wondered by St. Patricks Day could not be made into a National Holiday - the Fitzgeralds carried the arms of Saint Patrick, or vice versus - he carried their Coat of Arms.. St. Patraicks Day is a day a lot of people celebrate, the Irish Catholic in particular; even the orange Irish, celebrate it I image. It is said the Irish make the sign of the cross when they hear the name of JOhn Fitzgerald Kennedy - but the Fitzgeralds name was virtually blotted out of history.almost a biblical curse against them by King Henry. Anyway, for those who did not like JFK, you would get an official day off work; for those who make the sign of the cross when their hear his name, you have a day you earned through grief of the death of a potential Saint. And for those who don't give a hoot - well life goes on, and the sun also rises. 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] net patrol
-Caveat Lector- Well, the Rusians, the Chinese, the Alaskans, Artic and Antiartic Circle, friends and foes; are already doing that. And what they call hackers, believe me, now and then get in. If that is all they have to do is sit around and read each others mail - they are going to have a lot of fun with this list. Consult the works of Col. Beardon, Huntsville, Alabama...and get on Mothership on the net; boy, these guys are way ahead of the pentagon anyway. I do believe this 2000 computer glitch is a farce. Nobody, but nobody could be hat stupid as to say doomsday is fst approaching with the computer glitch If the Russians and Chinese stole our stuff, I still believe if we gave them our stuff and system, they will or should be in a worst spot than we are . What is the world - disinformation. The Chinese should really be in for it, because their calendar - what year is it, the year of the rabbit??? Chinese and Soviets did not steal anything; the USA had to give it to them; they now will feel the afterglow of Yankee Doodle Dandy at his worst. 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] net patrol
-Caveat Lector- 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] net patrol
-Caveat Lector- sure, there has been talk of doomsday problably since the first days of man. i'm sure the US gives away more information than needed. but in that, there has to be info that sould not get out. that would be my concern. if hackers are getting to that info, then maybe it souldn't be there. what did this world do before we had computers? troy -- From: Colleen Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] net patrol Date: Sun, Mar 7, 1999, 1:00 AM -Caveat Lector- Well, the Rusians, the Chinese, the Alaskans, Artic and Antiartic Circle, friends and foes; are already doing that. And what they call hackers, believe me, now and then get in. If that is all they have to do is sit around and read each others mail - they are going to have a lot of fun with this list. Consult the works of Col. Beardon, Huntsville, Alabama...and get on Mothership on the net; boy, these guys are way ahead of the pentagon anyway. I do believe this 2000 computer glitch is a farce. Nobody, but nobody could be hat stupid as to say doomsday is fst approaching with the computer glitch If the Russians and Chinese stole our stuff, I still believe if we gave them our stuff and system, they will or should be in a worst spot than we are . What is the world - disinformation. The Chinese should really be in for it, because their calendar - what year is it, the year of the rabbit??? Chinese and Soviets did not steal anything; the USA had to give it to them; they now will feel the afterglow of Yankee Doodle Dandy at his worst. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substanceónot 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 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] net patrol
-Caveat Lector- You know before computers, there were filing cabinets with locks. I remember years ago reading about the communists stealing all our secrets re satellites and the space program in one article, and then in another article reading where we were ten years behind the Soviets. So, I wrote a letter to the editor in the local paper and said good, let them steal them and get ten years behind like we are. Maybe there is some method to our madness? One must always retain a sense of humor and have some fun too. Before computers, there were local tv news shows you had to watch; today I have more fun reading the computer news, and learn more from this list of people than I have ever learned from a managed MSNBC news show. Well, it is 3 in the morning; I am sober, but got home at 2:30.could not resist reading all the good stuff and will probably use up m 7 letters again. Thanks for the note; people are only human, and the only thing I cannot tolerate is the rich, stealing from the poor; or someone dumb enough to get cornered in an oval officejust kidding. 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] [2] Report On The Opening Of The Tomb
-Caveat Lector- I tell you , I will never be bored reading material on this list. When I was 5 years old, I used to look at the planet Mars. I told everyone I was from Mars, and I really believed it. Strange child...I read about the music in the super markets - leisurely hypnotic music when they want you to take your time and shop and spend all your loot, but when they want you out of their,wow - you go out to the straiins of Yes We Got No Bananas. King David played the Saul to soothe the savage soul; even in biblical times, the psychological impact of music and sound and vibrations, was understoodand lood at the walls of Jericho tumbling down at the sound of trumpets. In Job, it was remembered when all the Morning Stars sang together. And a poem by Edgar O'Shaughnessy back in the 1870 period.in part reads (and this is by memory, so forgive me) We are the music makers; we are the dreamers of dreams; Wandering by lone sea breakers, sitting by desolate streams. Earth movers, and world shakers Now how is that for an ego - but they also made Nirvana, in their mirth. We sent our troops to war with songs written by Berlin - and who could hear Dixie and ever forget the Southern Cause and spirit. Maybe the history of the world and the universe has been written in a song that has yet to be played - but I still hate that song Feelings.and as for Rap.which way we going, anyway. 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] The Mysteries of Rennes-le-Chateau and the Prieure du Sion
-Caveat Lector- This was fascinaing; I always wondered if the Holy Grail had some meaning in Auld Lang Syne, or Drink to me only with thine eyes.this cup of kindness. Back in 1983 Frank Sinatra and the name escapes me - Brazzi, the one who played in South Pacific, found this little poverty stricken island, with a chicken walking down the road.and wanted to buy this Island and establish the Order of the Viskgoths. If we are talking about gold.and this Vesco supposedly was connected to this = at the time, all I could think of was Columbian Gold. I do not believe any one of the three had the pedigree to form this group, unless there was someone else involved.Anyway, nothing ever came of it There is a cathedral in Chartres my spelling is awful on this stuff.where on a certain day of the year, the sun hits a certain point..there is a lot of gold carefully recorded in the bible, and coded without a doubt; somehow I think our Treasury Department and the Pyramids are involved here. But Frank Sinatra and the Visigoths; along with Vesco, if this be true lurking in the shadows..on an island with a chicken walking down the road - a dirt road. What a half-way house, for what. Thank you for a beautiful item.I will save this - but I did always wonder if the cup of kindness (charity) was not the answer to the question of the Holy Grail - the eyes are the windows to the soul. Thank you again. There goes my 7 letters, and I am out of here. I have not gone to bed yet, and its almost time to get up. As Fitzgerald said - In the dark of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning. To me, after three, the magic is gone. 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: Spy in the Cold
-Caveat Lector- I must add to this - the Shah of Iran. After his departure from Iran, he appeared on Barbara Walters show; she asked one of the most - well for lack of a better word, un-intelligent question I have ever heard which in went something like this. Mr. Shah, do you intend to return to Iran. The Shah said - I have been accused of a lot of things, but never being stupid. So much for diplomatic services. My friend in M16 said that the Shah of Iran was a member of a secret society called the Peacock Society.do not recall much on this, but the Shah probably had a lot of gold hidden in a volcano.. But never be let it said, that the Shah didn't have a sense of humor. . 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] net patrol
-Caveat Lector- i like your reply. i could not agree with you more about computer news today. i hope it continues for years to come. troy -- From: Colleen Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] net patrol Date: Sun, Mar 7, 1999, 1:38 AM -Caveat Lector- You know before computers, there were filing cabinets with locks. I remember years ago reading about the communists stealing all our secrets re satellites and the space program in one article, and then in another article reading where we were ten years behind the Soviets. So, I wrote a letter to the editor in the local paper and said good, let them steal them and get ten years behind like we are. Maybe there is some method to our madness? One must always retain a sense of humor and have some fun too. Before computers, there were local tv news shows you had to watch; today I have more fun reading the computer news, and learn more from this list of people than I have ever learned from a managed MSNBC news show. Well, it is 3 in the morning; I am sober, but got home at 2:30.could not resist reading all the good stuff and will probably use up m 7 letters again. Thanks for the note; people are only human, and the only thing I cannot tolerate is the rich, stealing from the poor; or someone dumb enough to get cornered in an oval officejust kidding. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substanceónot 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 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] History of Secret U.S. Gov't Programs/Samantha
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/7/99 5:13:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay. I like Peter King from NY (R) and I admired Cohen long before he became Sec. of Defense. And I do believe that some D's are probably pond scum despite what they say publicly. Truth is, I don't know everything there is to know about all the Reps and Senators. I only know what I know. Oh, Phil Graham from Tx disagreed with the proposed banking-spy laws, and I agree with him on that. Orrin Hatch, whom I normally despise, doesn't want the FDA regulating alternative health care products because so many of them come from Utah, so I agree with him on that. I do try to keep an open mind and judge people on their actions rather than their parties. But I do have political preferences and lean toward the left rather than toward the Christian Coalition Right. I will admit that I agree with Pat Roberton on at least one thing: we shouldn't lie to our children about Santa Claus because it might undermine their trust in us on other matters. I know this sounds humorous, but I really do believe it. I love JFK, MLK, RFK in hindsight. I also admire Ike in hindsight. I think Truman was really dumb to allow the conversion of the OSS to the CIA and allow them so much financial freedom, but, then again, Truman thought he was dumb to do that, too, in hindsight. I don't care for LBJ -- social programs aside. I identify with "Hey Hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today?" Seemed to me, as a kid in the 60's, the social emphasis was on tolerance, peace and brotherly love. I miss that. Now, the emphasis is on net worth, clean urinalysis, and D.A.R.E. The sixties were much more interesting. The human spirit had a place in the sun then. I have preferences. I don't overlook all of the Kennedy faults. I've never heard a bad word about Maxine Waters. Just don't malign Henry D. Gonzales and I'll be fine. I may have illusions, and I've been accused of being idealistic. There are worse things to be. There are heroes. I do think it's sad that some don't believe that's true. My heroes are JFK, RFK (mostly), MLK, Jim Garrison, John E. Mack, M.D., Lillian Hellman, Charlotte Bronte, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kurt Vonnegut, Alex Constantine, Maxine Waters, John Conyers, Whitley Streiber, Barbra Streisand, Henry D. Gonzales, Mike Levine (DEA) ... I do try to keep an open mind, Teo, especially since you've challenged me to. Not to anger you, though, but Bill Clinton has earned my admiration simply by standing up to the forces arrayed against him. I admire HIllary for many reasons, yet I read her book , "It Takes a Village" and found her emotionally vacant. I wished to admire her unreservedly and couldn't. I admire Ted Kennedy. You ought to read his speeches sometime (and yes, I know he doesn't write them all.) I even read the book written by his former aide, who told of coke use, etc. and only admired Ted all the more for just being an imperfect human being with high ideals. (The anecdotal evidence of Ted's class came through loud and clear to me.) I admire Joe Sr., even. I simply believe what I believe, while trying hard to keep an open mind. Samantha Samantha, truly a response worthy of your intelligence! Thank you. Your list of people you admire has a few people on it in which I would wholeheartedly agree. JFK, MLK, RFK, all of whom were murdered as either examples to NOT be emulated or because they threatened the power structure of the country and had to be eliminated to ensure that people would continue to be fed to the meat grinder. Jim Garrison, John E. Mack, M.D., Lillian Hellman, Charlotte Bronte, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kurt Vonnegut, Alex Constantine, Maxine Waters, John Conyers, Whitley Streiber, Barbra Streisand, Henry D. Gonzales, Mike Levine (DEA) ... I also am an admirer of Mack, and Jim Garrison for their efforts to find the truth in the face of so much opposition (though Garrison carried a lot of baggage) Kurt Vonnegut, truly an original thinker. Alex Constantine was one of the first people I read in order to get a handle on "conspiracy theory" as such I owe him more than anyone else for what I have become and where I am today (which may be good or bad depending on your perspective, ha, ha!). As for Ted Kennedy, I can't admire him because he is too much of a buffoon, or class clown, BUT he has largely been made the way he is by the forces who destroyed his family and murdered his brothers, so I do feel sorry for him (but would have a vast respect for him if he reopened the investigations and spoke publicly about the assassinations of his brothers, though that probably will never happen). He had great potential, that was destroyed when his brothers were killed and when "they" got a hook in him with the Chappaquiddick incident which may have been staged (at least partly) to compromise him. His dad Joe Sr.
Re: [CTRL] McDougal Defiant In Face of Trial
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/7/99 1:05:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any ideas on why shy is being silent? Hilary MARCH 07, 12:44 EST McDougal Defiant in Face of Trial By PEGGY HARRIS Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Whitewater figure Susan McDougal remains adamant. She says she has no pertinent information on President Clinton and the first lady's business dealings in Arkansas and insists she's ready to go back to prison. Sure, dealing with Ken Starr (the AntiChrist) is a no-win situation. She might as well not say anything as say something Starr doesn't want to hear. Besides with Starr's peculiar fetish about pressuring women, he should enjoy the trial immensely. He has all the friends in court, so he can put this poor woman back in the slammer and get a tickle at the same time. 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] Tripp Alleges There Is Another Woman
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/7/99 1:17:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WASHINGTON, March 7 (UPI) - Linda Tripp, the woman who secretly recorded her telephone conversations with Monica Lewinsky, told ABC's "This Week" (Sunday) there is another woman named Juanita "who has not yet surfaced." Tripp said the woman in question was not Juanita Broaddrick, who recently alleged Clinton sexually assaulted her 21 years ago, but that Clinton had talked on the telephone with this woman for 158 minutes in 1996. Tripp also alleged that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton "was complicit...in virtually every scandal." Yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada. 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] McDougal Defiant In Face of Trial
-Caveat Lector- -- From: Prudence L. Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] McDougal Defiant In Face of Trial Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 11:21 AM -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/7/99 1:05:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any ideas on why shy is being silent? Hilary MARCH 07, 12:44 EST McDougal Defiant in Face of Trial By PEGGY HARRIS Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Whitewater figure Susan McDougal remains adamant. She says she has no pertinent information on President Clinton and the first lady's business dealings in Arkansas and insists she's ready to go back to prison. Sure, dealing with Ken Starr (the AntiChrist) is a no-win situation. She might as well not say anything as say something Starr doesn't want to hear. Besides with Starr's peculiar fetish about pressuring women, he should enjoy the trial immensely. He has all the friends in court, so he can put this poor woman back in the slammer and get a tickle at the same time. Prudy Hiya Prudy, Can't say that I would like to face K. Starr. But, why is she protecting Clinton? Hilary 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] Tripp Alleges There Is Another Woman
-Caveat Lector- -- From: Prudence L. Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Tripp Alleges There Is Another Woman Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 11:23 AM -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/7/99 1:17:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WASHINGTON, March 7 (UPI) - Linda Tripp, the woman who secretly recorded her telephone conversations with Monica Lewinsky, told ABC's "This Week" (Sunday) there is another woman named Juanita "who has not yet surfaced." Tripp said the woman in question was not Juanita Broaddrick, who recently alleged Clinton sexually assaulted her 21 years ago, but that Clinton had talked on the telephone with this woman for 158 minutes in 1996. Tripp also alleged that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton "was complicit...in virtually every scandal." Yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada. Prudy Prudy, You're adorable! Were you sticking your tongue out and covering your ears when you felt motivated to write this? :) Hilary 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: [InTheShadows] U.S. Believes Bin Laden Is Hiding In CIA-Built Caves
-Caveat Lector- -- From: Dan S [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [InTheShadows] U.S. Believes Bin Laden Is Hiding In CIA-Built Caves Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 9:40 AM From: Dan S [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nypostonline.com:80/030799/news/4276.htm - U.S. BELIEVES BIN LADEN IS HIDING IN CIA-BUILT CAVES By NILES LATHEM Saudi millionaire terrorist Osama bin Laden is believed to be on the move and hiding in a network of high-tech mountain caves built by the CIA during the Afghan war, The Post has learned. U.S. intelligence agencies assigned to track the world's most dangerous terrorist believe bin Laden and his entourage have been moving around in remote regions of Afghanistan since the Taliban, the Islamic militia that controls most of that country, reported his alleged "disappearance" three weeks ago. The agencies are convinced he's taken refuge in specially fortified caves that were built for the Afghan resistance during its war against Soviet occupation in the 1980s. Nicknamed the "bat caves" by CIA operatives in Pakistan, these secret remnants of the last Cold War conflict are scattered in key strategic regions throughout Afghanistan and were used as headquarters and staging areas for the Afghan mujahadeen fighting the Soviet Red Army. "They are very deep, very fortified and were built to withstand carpet bombing by the Soviets. The U.S. government financed their construction and helped build many of them," said Yousef Bodansky, staff director of the House Task Force on Terrorism. In fact, the nerve center of bin Laden's Kandahar headquarters, which was targeted for U.S. missile attacks last August, was in one of the CIA-built and-financed caves. Journalists and other people who have visited bin Laden in the Kandahar cave have said there were three rooms: one with one desktop and two laptop computers, two faxes and a satellite telephone system; another loaded with weapons and a third, bin Laden's private study, that contained a library of classic Islamic writings and three beds. Bin Laden was a hero in the holy war against the Soviets when he left his privileged life in Saudi Arabia to finance and organize a global network of Islamic fighters in the Afghan war. He has kept his network, known as al Qeda, intact and is now turning it loose on U.S. interests in an attempt to drive U.S. forces out of the Persian Gulf. Last month, the Taliban, responding to growing U.S. pressure to extradite him to New York to face charges of plotting to blow up U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and other terrorist attacks, told the State Department it had a falling-out with him and he had disappeared. But U.S. intelligence has sporadically tracked him by monitoring his use of his satellite phone and his Internet log-ons, sources told The Post. He was first tracked down in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, and then in Helmand. Most recently he's been placed in Jalalabad, a region controlled by former Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatayar, a grizzled warlord and veteran of the Afghan war who is associated with, but not part of, the Taliban. Jalalabad was a key staging area for the mujahadeen during the Afghan war, and sources report there are several cave complexes in that area. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are proud as punch of our new web site! http://www.onelist.com Onelist: The leading provider of free email community services InTheShadows (formally the list known as exploration) is a discussion list dedicated to keeping up-to-date with new technologies, advancements in medicine, environmental concerns, 'conspiracy theories', politics, and, of course, UFO stuff. Discussion is encouraged. Bashing and soapboxing will get you bounced off the list. To subscribe to InTheShadows go to: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/InTheShadows You can write me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Moderator: Hilary Thomas 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]/
[CTRL] EPA Probes Purple Pigs and Stunted Crops
-Caveat Lector- 3/5/99 Philadelphia Enquirer http://www.phillynews.com:80/inquirer/99/Mar/05/city/CFARM05.htm EPA probes purple pigs, stunted crops A malady plagues some farms in the region. ``We don't know why,'' an official said. By Matt Stearns INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF Deformed calves. Discolored crops. Purple pigs dying by the hundreds, then decomposing quickly. It isn't some Old Testament pestilence. It's a here-and-now mystery that has driven one farmer in western Montgomery County out of business and has others in the area scared for their own businesses -- and for their health. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials will visit at least four farms today as part of a continuing effort to figure out what is going on, said Carrie Deitzel, an EPA community-involvement coordinator. Thus far, the long series of reported problems, first noted in the early 1990s, has confounded environmental and agricultural officials. The EPA did its most recent round of soil and water testing on the farms in January, and more tests will be run in the next few weeks. "The data we've got back so far do not indicate any kind of environmental or human health emergency out there," Deitzel said. "We're looking at what needs to be done from here on out." Deitzel acknowledged that the lack of environmental danger did not mean the lack of an environmental problem. And the problem does not appear to be restricted to these parts. "This isn't an isolated thing," said Lynn Campbell Wingert, an EPA spokeswoman. "Throughout the mid-Atlantic region, farm animals are dying, and we don't know why. We're going to make any connection we can to figure out what is going on here." One farmer, Wayne Hallowell of Douglass Township, said there was no real way to know how many farms were involved locally because it was unlikely every farmer would be willing to cooperate with investigators. "A lot of farmers with something wrong won't tell anyone," Hallowell said. "They don't want the government coming in and shutting them down, or they're trying to sell their land. They're very tight-lipped on that." But problems there are -- enough that Tom Yarnall, a farmer for 30 years, finally gave up raising pigs on his Gilbertsville spread. Yarnall still grows some corn, but spends most of his time these days as a carpenter. "I had almost 1,000 pigs when this thing started," Yarnall said. "In the spring of '92, it all went downhill. We had whole litters die when they were born." More than 200 pigs died during a two-month period in 1993, Yarnall said. All displayed similar symptoms: turning a purplish color, with newborns just not growing to maturity. His crops also turned purple, and have been stunted for several years, Yarnall said. "The yields are way down," he said. "They just don't do well." The pigs' bodies decomposed in about half the normal time, Yarnall said. Generally, dead pigs decompose in two to seven days, depending on the surrounding climate and other variables, said Arlen Wilbers, a large-animal veterinarian at the Quakertown Veterinary Clinic who examined livestock at Yarnall's farm. "Whatever was in their system broke down their fat," Yarnall said. "They'd turn into slop." Kenneth Kephart, an associate professor of animal science at Pennsylvania State University, investigated the goings-on at Yarnall's farm. "We went at it from a lot of different directions, and unfortunately we came up with zero," Kephart said. "Whatever it was seemed to be pretty persistent. It's extremely rare that you can't find at least some evidence of what's going on." Kephart added that livestock management might have accounted for some of the problems. But Yarnall is not the only local farmer facing unexplained and unusual disease among his livestock. Merrill Mest said he had had a decade's worth at his farm, just a few miles from Yarnall's. "I've had health problems with cows," Mest said. "They just waste away. They don't grow right. Couldn't live, couldn't die. Kind of in-between." Other cows on Mest's farm have had displaced stomachs and cystic ovaries, he said. "My vet says I have a lot more problems than I should," Mest said. "But nobody knows why." Wilbers, who is also Mest's veterinarian, said that some of the problems again might be chalked up to livestock management. "Some of the stuff kind of rings true" as being caused by external problems, Wilbers said. "But there's nothing I could specifically say. Nothing seems to crop up" as a definitive cause. Down the road at Hallowell's dairy farm, three deformed calves were born in a year and a half in the mid-1990s -- after nearly 50 years without any deformed calves being born on the land. One newborn calf weighed three times the typical birth weight. Another was born with both a testicle and a vagina. A third was born without a neck, without a tail and with reversed leg joints. During the same period, Hallowell said, several calves on his farm would not grow. "They more or
[CTRL] [3] America's Secret Establishment
-Caveat Lector-
an excerpt from-
America's Secret Establishment
An introduction to The Order of Skull Bones
by ANTONY C. SUTTON
Liberty House Press
2027 Iris
Billings, Montana 59102
1986
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Highly reccomended. There is more in this book than can be presented here.
Many charts and reproductions of orginal source material. As always,. . .
In stock at: A-albionic Research, PO Box 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220-0273
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lloyd Miller, Research Director)
--:
Om
K
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Memorandum Number Three: How Much
Known About The Order?
The openly published literature on The Order amounts to merely two
articles over a span of one hundred years: The Iconoclast) (Volume
One. Number One only) published October 13. 1873 and an already -
cited article in Esquire by Ron Rosenbaum. published in 1977. This
book and its successors are based on unpublished archival material
originating with The Order.
The Iconoclast (October 1873)
Back in October 1873 an enterprising Yale student. stung to action
because The Order had taken over Yale finances and left the University
near poverty, took it upon himself to publish an expose. Unfortunately
some of the anonymous student's acutest observations were buried in
not so good verse. We will reprint some of the verse below as in the
original Iconoclast because it's impossible to summarize.
The Yale college newspapers, Courant and Record, had a blackout
policy on The Order. As Iconoclast puts it.
"We speak through a new publication. because the college press is
closed to those who dare to openly mention 'Bones' ".
The College Press was controlled by The Order. From time to time
Yale newspapers were run by Editors in The Order. For example, one
noteworthy editor of the Yale Record also in The Order was Thomas
Cochran ('94). who went on to make a career as an influential partner
in the influential banking firm of J.P. Morgan.
Three paragraphs in this anonymous publication summarize the
iconoclast accusation.
First, there is a Yale secret society open only to a select few:
"For more than forty years a secret society called Skull and Bones has
existed in Yale College. It receives a certain number of men from each
class. There are chosen nominally by the members of the class . . .,
although it is understood that a prominent man's influence avails for his
friends and relatives through several years after his graduation. By
observing the men elected from year to year, we find that they are
chosen with a distinct end in view, namely, that of obtaining for the
society the most honors. Some of these honors are given to literary,
some to wealthy men. This, then, is the case. Men receive marks of
distinction from Yale College or from their entire class, because of
which they are taken into this secret society. Since Yale honors men
this fraternity professes to honor them also."
Secondly', the Iconoclast states that The Order has obtained control
of Yale. and its members care more for their society than for Yale:
To Whom It May Concern
We come before the college now on Justice's side arrayed,
To claim redress for open wrongs that Vandal hands have made,
To give a college sentiment expression bold and free,
Asserting each man's native right, if such a thing there be.
We represent no clique or clan, but honest men and true,
Who never will submit to that which fifteen men may do,
Who feel the shameful yoke that long has on the college lain
And who propose to do their best to break that yoke in twain
We are not "soreheads. " God forbid that we should cherish strong
Desires to be identified with principles that long
Have been a blight upon the life and politics of Yale,
Before whose unjust aims the glow of "Boss Tweed's" brass
would pale.
We represent the neutral men, whose voices must be heard,
And never can be silenced by a haughty look or word.
Of those whose influence here at Yale would be but void and null
Did they not wear upon their breasts two crossed bones and a
skull.
We hold no grudge 'gainst any man, but wish that all may be
United by the common bond of peace and harmony;
Yet, when a few do to themselves most proudly arrogate
The running of affairs, there can be no such happy state.
What right, forsooth, have fifteen men to lord it over all?
What right to say the college world shall on their faces fall
When they approach? Have they, indeed, to "sickly greatness
grown, "
And must each one with servile speech them his "superiors" own
If they have grounds on which they base their claim as just and
true,
We challenge them to set them forth exposed to public view,
That all may know the reasons why this oligarchy proud
Elect themselves as lords supreme o'er us, the "vulgar crowd."
We offer no objections to their existing clan, -
No one disputes with them this right, we question but the plan
On which they act, - That only he who wears upon his
breast
Their emblem, he for every post shall be considered best.
We wish this
Re: [CTRL] The 33 Year Question
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/3/99 12:16:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know the SOURCE of this story about the courier getting struck by a lightning bolt. ME I have seen this several places. Here is one source: an excerpt from: America's Secret Establishment An introduction to The Order of Skull Bones by ANTONY C. SUTTON Liberty House Press 2027 Iris Billings, Montana 59102 1986 --The information on The Order that we are using surfaced by acci- dent. In a way similar to the surfacing of the Illuminati papers in 1783 when a messenger carrying Illuminati papers was killed and the Bavarian police found the documents.-- p 66 - 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] Prudy: Tripp Alleges There Is Another Woman
-Caveat Lector- Prudy: Yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada. Prudy This is twice that have I found the both of us in agreement (although perhaps for differing reasons :-)). The people have spoken: Americans have no problem with a pervert and a rapist as a president. So, for the rest of us, LET IT DROP already! Edward 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 "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] Saunire Society Symposium
-Caveat Lector- from: [Rennes-le-chateau] Digest Number 43 http://www.onelist.com - Message: 1 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 20:31:27 -0500 From: Andrew Ormston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sauniére Society Symposium The latest Sauniére Society Symposium has been done, and a good time was had by all, from my initial feedback. Other people who came will give you their own impressions. From information received it was better than the first one, better lectures, better speakers and the organisation was improved. We will strive to make the next one even better ! The web page to show this times symposium is at: http://ourworld.compsuerve.com/homepages/ormston/saun99.htm or via the Templar Lodges web site (follow the link) at: http://come.to/templarlodge It is under construction so please bookmark it and come back regurarly. This time we had Henry Lincoln in good voice, Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, together with usual stalwarts of Prince/Pinknett, Alan Butler (this time with his co author Stephen Dafoe), along with some new speakers Ian Campbell, Mark Oxbrow (spelling?), Penny White, Ahmed Osman and others. There was an unusual addition to the proceedings on Sunday night with an interjection by a Dr. Barbara Young who proceeded to give the audience an inpromptu "mystical templars" mind experience. This was handled well by Henry Lincoln, who in his slow, deliberate fashion calmed the whole audience and received almost a standing ovation. Retreating to the bar, we all had a good time, networking, rubbing shoulders with famous authors in a relaxed environment. Many malt whiskies went down well. Lets look forward to the next one. For details of the next Sauniére Society Symposium, please see the above URLs. Thanks must go to the following : The staff of the Templar Lodge Hotel (for making it work), all the delegates (who wore their badges), Malcolm and Liz Littler (for the use of the digital camera for the whole weekend that made the web site), the speakers (who gave us a treat) and all the extras and people who contributed, especially John and Joy who made it all possible. -- 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
Re: [CTRL] Hate Literature calling Father COUGHLIN: once America's No. 1 Fascist
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/4/99 12:53:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris, if you see Coughlin as more of a danger to the world than FDR . . . . where in the Hades are you coming from?? I'm afraid I've already made a correct educated guess . . . Jim Condit Jr. Howdy Jim, Facts on File is a rather innouccous source material. Actually, I thought their presenatation was rather bland. Jim, you seem to be coming from a very dualistic world-view. Your continued diaorama colors your thoughts. Facism and communism both have their roots in Hegel and much of the opposing forces you see are a planned dialectic. MHO. BTW, I came across La Popessa, a very interesting book, and will be posting parts. 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
[CTRL] OEN 3/7/99
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Spy vs. Spy MI5 Arrests British Army "Neo-Nazis" Combat 18 SOLDIERS with the elite Parachute and King's regiments, together with several civilians, were under arrest last night after a year-long MI5, Special Branch and military police inquiry into organised neo-Nazi infiltration into the Army and civilian life. Fourteen addresses were raided on Friday as MI5 officers examined possible links between the arrested men, members of the violent Combat 18 fascist group, and Loyalist terrorists in Ulster. Racist literature, computer disks, knives and, in one case, ammunition were seized. Some of those detained, who include two serving members of the Army and at least one ex-soldier, are suspected of using their military expertise to offer weapons training to neo-fascist organisations and Loyalist terrorists. Security sources refused to confirm or deny whether any of the arrested men were also suspected of involvement in arms trafficking to Ulster paramilitaries. Another senior defence official said that in addition to the soldiers involved in Friday's raids, a further dozen men in Regular and TA units were under investigation for neo-Nazi activity. Some were under surveillance and some will be questioned shortly. He said: "There are pockets of neo-fascist activity in some regiments. There has been an attempt [by neo-fascist groups] to spread the word in the Army and that is the basis on which we are acting. But 99 per cent of the Army would rebuff this sort of activity very strongly." Combat 18, which takes its name from Adolf Hitler's initials, the first and eighth letters of the alphabet, has long been connected with illegal activity. It orchestrated hooligans to disrupt a football match between Ireland and England in 1995 and sent letter bombs to mixed-race couples such as Sharron Davies and Derek Redmond. High-ranking members of Combat 18 have been photographed with the leadership of the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force. A World In Action programme last year claimed that Charlie Sargent, the former leader of Combat 18, spied on Ulster Loyalists for the Special Branch. It also showed that Combat 18 members acquired guns and detonators for the UDA. A Scotland Yard spokesman said raids took place in London, Lancashire, Merseyside, Kent, Thames Valley, Humberside, West Yorkshire, and South Wales. Ten forces were involved. He said: "We can confirm that a number of warrants were executed to seek material including compact disks and publications suspected of contravening Part Three of the Public Order Act 1986 which concerns acts intended or likely to stir up racial hatred." Those being questioned are a private with the Parachute Regiment, whose background is in logistics and whose Para service includes deployments to Northern Ireland and Bosnia. He has been seen at a number of Blood and Honour events, which are run by members of Combat 18. The second soldier being questioned is a private from 1 Bn the Kings Regiment, based in the North West. The Army knew of Combat 18 activity within its ranks as early as last July. MoD documents obtained by Searchlight, the anti-fascist magazine, and seen by The Telegraph, show that the Army commissioned a detailed report into neo-Nazi activity last year. It identified at least 12 soldiers as supporters of Combat 18 - but there were no arrests. One security source said: "We had to get evidence against these people or there was a risk of things going off at half-cock. We conducted an extremely painstaking long-term joint investigation including surveillance." Nick Lowles, co-editor of Searchlight, said: "The Army is seen by neo-Nazis as a potential breeding ground. The investigation is positive, but could have been launched months ago." An Army spokesman said disciplinary action would be taken against any soldier shown to be involved in racist activities. He said: "There is absolutely no place in the Armed Forces for racism or harassment." The London Telegraph, March 7, 1999 Spy vs. Spy Russia Puts Scientologists Under Scrutiny Who is spying on whom? MOSCOW, Mar. 05, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) The Russian secret service has recently stepped up its surveillance of the Church of Scientology amid suspicions that it is violating basic rights of members, using violence if need be, and engaging in illicit financial business. Russian Orthodox Patriarch Aleksiy II this week welcomed recent police raids on four premises owned by the Scientologists in Moscow. He said they might "shed light on what these sects inspire in people; charity and peace or confusion and evil." The Moscow public prosecutor has initiated proceedings against the Scientologists, citing legislation covering commercial activities and religious and social organizations. Persons found guilty of breaking these laws face from two to three
[CTRL] Anti-Privacy Bank Rules Crushed
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18311.html A HREF="http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18311.html"Political News from Wired News/A - Anti-Privacy Bank Rules Crushed by Declan McCullagh 4:45 p.m. 5.Mar.99.PST The US Senate on Friday took the first step toward derailing a controversial government regulation that will require banks to monitor every transaction their customers make. By an 88 to 0 vote, the Senate approved a change to an education bill being debated. The amendment blocks banking regulators from proceeding with the so-called Know Your Customer plan. "If you ever wondered whatever happened to the people in the former Soviet Union who used to run things there and now are permanently out of work, the answer is they're all in the Clinton administration, and they're running the banking authorities of this country," said Phil Gramm, a Texas Republican who chairs the Banking Committee, in a speech on the Senate floor. Senate Democrats first blocked Gramm's standalone bill that would have repealed Know Your Customer, but then joined their GOP counterparts in a unanimous vote to add the amendment to the education bill. Under Know Your Customer, banks will be required to tell the Feds about transactions that aren't "normal and expected" for a particular customer, based on a profile of that person. Over 140,000 irate Americans have complained about the proposal in a comment period that ends Monday. "We're hoping that Know Your Customer will be over and done with on Monday and the regulators will see the error of their ways," said Christi Harlan, a spokesman for Gramm. Harlan said the Senate planned to continue debating the education bill next week. Agency officials have responded to the unprecedented storm of outrage -- proposed regulations generally draw few public comments -- by backpedaling. On Thursday, the comptroller of the currency said he wants to ditch it. "I firmly believe that any marginal advantages for law enforcement in this proposal are strongly outweighed by its potential for inflicting lasting damage on our banking system," John Hawke told a House Judiciary subcommittee. The Federal Reserve, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency simultaneously introduced the plan last year. Also on Thursday, the House Banking Committee voted to dump Know Your Customer. Unless the full Senate and the full House vote to block it or executive-branch officials change their minds, the regulation will take effect early next year. But on Thursday, critics told Congress that just stopping Know Your Customer isn't good enough. "If Congress stops there and fails to repeal or substantially modify the statutory basis for the proposed Know Your Customer regulations or to strengthen the Right to Financial Privacy Act, it will itself have perpetrated a massive deception on the 100,000 people who spoke out against the Know Your Customer regulations," said Greg Nojeim, ACLU legislative counsel. When a bank detects any "suspicious activity," current regulations already require that the company complete a five-page report that includes the customer's name, address, Social Security number, driver's license or passport number, date of birth, and information about the transaction. Under the existing rules, banks are required to telephone law enforcement "in situations involving violations requiring immediate attention." But Know Your Customer would compel banks to also identify their customers, determine their source of funds, and profile them to measure account activity against historical patterns. Representative Ron Paul, a Texas Republican, has introduced bills to repeal current regulations as well. Related Wired Links: Bank Plan May be Doomed 4.Mar.99 Foes Target 'Know Your Customer' 20.Jan.99 Banking with Big Brother 10.Dec.98 Copyright © 1994-99 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved. 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]
[CTRL] The Theft Of A Billion Dollars A Day From The US Treasury
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.angelfire.com/fl/BriansHouse/happenings.html A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/fl/BriansHouse/happenings.html"Print Up Back To Back Copies (Landscape) - Cut /A - The Theft Of A Billion Dollars A Day From The US Treasury Those Serving Criminal Operations: Yes, the US Congress, the US Supreme Court, the Executive Branch, the unconstitutional Independent Agencies ... all knowingly support and protect International Organized Crime (I.O.C.) as their vile operations rob this nation, its citizens, and the whole world. Indeed, the Forty Billion Infidels (FBI), the US Justice Department, the Media Moguls, and Agents everywhere knowingly serve the vile thieves rather than truth, honesty, integrity, ethics, etc. Proof Of Corruption: Simple logic. Creating paper money, then "borrowing" it, and paying the thieves a billion dollars a day in bogus interest payments has involved blatant theft of trillions of taxpayers' dollars. Not even imbeciles would deposit money in a bank that charged interest when they spent it. So, why does the US Government deposit its paper (fiat) money in the private Federal Reserve and pay fantastic payments? Check Out The Scams on the Internet, Scam # 1 is only part of International Organized Crime's world-wide operations. www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Floor/7845/index.html#scams = from: www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Floor/7845/index.html#scams A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Floor/7845/index.html" brianshouse: The Year 2000 Has Passed, The LORD /A Counting From The 5 BC Birth Of Christ The Year 2000 Ended In 1996 AD The LORD'S Day Is Here A Broad But Detailed Discussion Of Prophetic End Times Events Lays Out The Schedule Now Unfolding. Reality Becomes Obvious! Matters Are No Longer Hidden. Slavery To International Organized Crime (Goliath) Robs Nations, People, And Corporations. Corruption In Government And Wall Street. Biblical History And Prophecy Coming True. Scripture Explains End Times Events In Detail. The 35 Years Of Severe Tribulations Are Only The Beginning For Wrongdoers. Humanity Divides Into Two Kingdoms: The Holy Kingdom Survives But The Tares Will Not. Their Doomsday Is Coming. The Temple Will Be Built. GOD'S Holy Ark Taken Captive, The Glory Of GOD Returns, The Eternal Congregation Becomes True Israel. The Second Exodus Is Now Underway. Prepare For The Glorious Solemn Assembly And Utopia. Welcome To Brian's House! Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Floor/7845/ THE GANG: Those Who Serve The Gang Are Part Of The Gang: SCAM #1: International Organized Crime is ripping off the people via the National Treasury while being aided, abetted, and protected by the US Government. This amounts to $350 Billion annually and far more when wages of agents on the public payrolls are considered. Why isn't the White House, The Congress, The Justice Department, The FBI, etc. doing anything to stop this larceny? Slavery is illegal! So, why do slavemasters take a cut out of every paycheck before the workers get to spend it? People who don't "volunteer" go to prison and/or have their property seized. Again, that's illegal slavery plain and simple. The Scriptures foretold of this larceny. SCAM #2: International Organized Crime is controlling the national markets selling bogus counterfeit receipts while being aided, abetted, and protected by the US Government. Legitimate receipts are being severely "watered" and companies are being deliberately damaged and bankrupted to eliminate the thieves' liabilities to repurchase their counterfeit receipts. Again, why isn't Government protecting the public interests? The Scriptures foretold of this larceny. It's the same age-old scam used by the thieves in the Temples and by the Gold Merchants of old. Thievery is thievery! Three significant hyperlinks that supplement SCAM #2 are identified here for your convenience: 1.Copy Of: US Senate Subcommittee Letter Dated 30 January 1974. This letter acknowledges the existence of SCAM #2, the responsibility of US Government enforcement agencies, and the intricate tiein between organized crime and stock manipulations. 2.Diagram Of Dow Jones Industrial Average (1964 thru 1974) whose explanation thereof clearly reveals the artificial nature of the DJIA to further verify SCAM #2. 3.Market Operations provides a further explanation of SCAM #2 that everyone, including all investors and corporate management, should know and understand. The chicanery could materialize with a deliberately concocted depression far worse than the 1929-1930's maliciously engineered debacle if people do nothing. The 35 years of Severe Tribulations are here! SCAM #3: International Organized Crime's international loan scam robbing nations everywhere. SCAM #4: International Organized Crime's invasion of the USA. I.O.C.'S conquest and control of the US
[CTRL] TERMINATOR UNLEASHED: Patenting life -- patenting death
-Caveat Lector-
from:
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/terminatorTech.html
A HREF="http://www.ratical.org/ratville/terminatorTech.html"Terminator
Unleashed, "policing the unauthorise /A
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Links and embeds, galore, a virtual sea of blue.
Om
K
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June 1998: We have at best two years, and at worst six months
to safeguard the right of farmers as seed-savers and breeders.
UPDATES
December 13:
"Monsanto Terminates Terminator?, ... or is the "Monster" just taking
its own sterility strategy underground? Get Ready for Terminator II -
the ``T'nT'' of agriculture," RAFI News Release, 12/11/98 Monsanto may
choose to avoid negative publicity by giving up its high-profile
association with the Terminator patent, and instead conduct in-house
research on a second-generation variation of the suicide seed.
"Unfortunately, this isn't goodbye to Terminator, it's probably hasta la
vista," explains Mooney, "It's likely that Monsanto's research on
genetic seed sterilization will move under-ground where it can be
conducted away from public scrutiny and negative publicity." Mooney
adds, "After all, this is a technology that is still in the early stages
of development, why invite more negative publicity when its still some
years away from commercialization?" . . .
A handful of multinationals are racing to dominate the "Life
Industry." Zeneca is proposing to merge with Sweden's Astra to create
AstraZeneca - possibly the third largest life industry company. Hoechst
and Rhone-Poulenc are also merging and they could be the largest of all
in this field. Novartis, DuPont and Monsanto will likely respond to
these mega-mergers by creating more and bigger alliances. "Together,
these five account for virtually one hundred per cent of the global
transgenic seed market," explains Mooney. "They aren't about to abandon
a profitable monopoly opportunity like Terminator. If Monsanto does what
rumours suggest - and low-keys the Terminator," Mooney concludes, "we
can take heart in knowing that the Terminator can be terminated. We can
win this fight. But the battle is far from over."
November 2:
"Terminator Seeds Rejected by Global Network of Agriculture Experts,"
RAFI News Release, 11/2/98 The Terminator - and related genetic seed
sterilization technology - has been banned from the crop breeding
programs of the world's largest international agricultural research
network. The strong and unambiguous policy was adopted by the
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) at a
meeting at the World Bank in Washington on Friday, October 30th.
Although RAFI's report, Monsanto's `Spectre' Dims, provides an
insightful timeline on the "`Goldfinger' of biotechnology"'s
crash-and-burn activities, the fact of such utterly inappropriate human
activities -- as the Terminator patenting of life and death -- require
ongoing vigilance and awareness by our entire, single human family to
avert these life-annihilative "bids" during this time of massive
transformation.
October 2:
RAFI invites you to join an international e-mail campaign to protest the
licensing and commercial development of the Terminator technology. At
http://www.rafi.org/usda.html you can automatically send a customized
e-mail to US Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman and others to
politely demand the USDA both immediately ceases negotiations to license
Terminator technology to a Monsanto subsidiary and abandon its worldwide
patent applications on this immoral and dangerous technology.
See also: 1. Terminator Science Explained: How the Terminator
Terminates
2. list of people who have written the USDA about terminator tech
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 18 17:57:58 1998
From: Mary Jo Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Indigenous Earthlings
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Terminator technology, "policing the unauthorised use of
American technology"
Your site is wonderful! Didn't see any info specifically on this topic,
so am sending you mine. I'm sorry it is so long, it is as short as I
could make it. Included at the end are the places the info came from, so
you can do your own checking.
I've gotten some feedback suggesting my concern is an over-reaction,
but I think that is the same argument we heard when AIDS was new ("why
worry, it only kills gay men"!). Right.
This file is RICH with hyper-links. Find it at
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/terminatorTech.html
TERMINATOR UNLEASHED
patenting life -- patenting death
by Mary Jo Olsen
The only thing that can keep pace with the rate of agricultural
biotechnological change these days is the speed with which the
transnational Life Industry is eating itself. In the last couple of
years, Monsanto has
Re: [CTRL] Anti-Privacy Bank Rules Crushed
-Caveat Lector- Kris Millegan wrote: But Know Your Customer would compel banks to also identify their customers, determine their source of funds, and profile them to measure account activity against historical patterns. Representative Ron Paul, a Texas Republican, has introduced bills to repeal current regulations as well. In recent discussions, most have condemned all politicians as being bought, etc. I wonder if there is any controversies in this regard concerning Ron Paul. As far as I can tell, he seems as honest a man as you will find. Any body have reason to disagree? Howard Davis 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: PIKE, ALBERT
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/web_fetch_doc?dataset=tsha.dstdb=handboo kdoc_id=6886query=scottish+rite PIKE, ALBERT (1809-1891). Albert Pike, lawyer, soldier, and author, and one of the most remarkable figures in American history, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 29, 1809, the son of Benjamin and Sarah (Andrews) Pike. He attended school at Newburyport, the town to which his parents moved while he was still a boy, and at an academy in Framingham, Massachusetts. Through most of the years 1824 through 1831 Pike taught at schools in Gloucester, Fairhaven, and Newburyport, while pursuing private study and writing poetry in his spare time. His self-acquired knowledge of the classics was prodigious, and he acquired a working knowledge of Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and French. In addition to a strong literary bent, he possessed unbounded physical energy and great determination. More than six feet tall and large of frame, with hair that reached his shoulders and a beard that reached near his waist, Pike also presented an impressive appearance. When the restraints of New England life became too irksome for his adventurous spirit, he set out, in March 1831, for the West. Reaching Independence, Missouri, with little money and less of a plan for his future, Pike joined a party of traders and hunters bound for New Mexico. On the trail his horse broke away, leaving him to walk the remaining 500 miles to Taos. His party was caught, as well, in a ferocious snowstorm that caused a layover of five days and froze many of the horses. After reaching Taos at last, Pike accompanied another expedition to Santa Fe, but left that "city of mud" in 1832 for a trapping venture on the Llano Estacadoqv of West Texas. He found the beaver population negligible, however, and traversed the Caprock,qv crossed Oklahoma, and finally arrived at Fort Smith, Arkansas, having traveled 1,300 miles, 650 on foot, and experienced many hardships and exciting adventures. While serving as associate editor of the Little Rock, Arkansas, Advocate in 1833, Pike wrote in travel narrative, short story, and verse of his recent adventures. These vivid memoirs, tales, and poems, which first appeared serially in the Advocate were published by Light and Horton of Boston in 1834 as Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country. Pike's narrative is said to be the first book ever printed dealing with the region between Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Certainly Pike was New Mexico's first Anglo-American poet as well as its first short story-writer in English and was among the first to describe in print the Mexican borderlands. On October 10, 1834, Pike married Mary Ann Hamilton, and her dowry enabled him to purchase an interest in the Advocate. The following year he became its sole owner and editor. In 1837, however, he sold the newspaper, having been licensed to practice law. Within a few years he was regarded as one of the most capable attorneys in the Southwest and became the first reporter of the Arkansas Supreme Court. He wrote "Maxims of the Roman Law and Some of the Ancient French Law, as Expounded and Applied in Doctrine and Jurisprudence," which, although unpublished, greatly enhanced his reputation as a student of the law. As a staunch Whig and later a Know-Nothing, he championed many internal-improvement causes against the Democratic majority in Arkansas. During the Mexican Warqv Pike commanded a troop of volunteer cavalry in Archibald Yell'sqv regiment and performed quite credibly at the battle of Buena Vista in February 1847. His Civil Warqv record, however, was not so handsome. Although opposed to both slavery and secession,qv he cast his lot with the Confederacy and during the first year of the war greatly assisted Gen. Ben McCullochqv in formulating alliances with the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory. He was commissioned a brigadier general on November 22, 1861, and led a brigade of Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Cherokees at the battle of Elkhorn Tavern (Pea Ridge), Arkansas, in March 1862. There the Indian troops performed disgracefully, taking scalps and then routing in the face of federal artillery. Criticism of Pike and his command caused him to offer his resignation on July 12, 1862, but it was not accepted until November 5. His response to continued criticism led a fellow officer in the department to the conviction that Pike was "either insane or untrue to the South," and on November 3, 1862, he was arrested and was briefly placed under confinement in Warren, Texas. The end of the war saw him an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court. With his property confiscated and viewed with suspicion both in the North and the South, Pike became something of a wanderer. He first moved to New York in 1865 but feared arrest for inciting the Indians to revolt and so fled to Canada. When Andrew Johnson issued him a pardon on August 30, 1865, however, Pike returned to Arkansas
[CTRL] Important Info on VCRs
-Caveat Lector- Do not throw away your VCR in the year 2000. Set it on 1972 because the days will be the same. Thought u can use the info. Pass it on because u know the manufacturer will not share this info, they want u to buy a new one!!! Let's fool them and correct it ourselves. 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] Who Finances Oliver Stone?
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy.spy - As always, Caveat Lector. For your perusal. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy.spy:856"Who Finances Oliver Stone?/A - Subject: Who Finances Oliver Stone? From: Michael Collins Piper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, Mar 6, 1999 3:25 PM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Israeli-born Hollywood producer who financed Oliver Stone's JFK assassination epic has been linked to Israel's nuclear weapons intrigue. Imagine if it had been an Arab arms dealer who had financed the movie! Oliver Stone is widely known as the creative genius behind the controversial motion picture, JFK. However, the film's executive producer--the man who actually put up the money to make the movie--is little known outside Hollywood's inner circles.His name is Arnon Milchan. And although he's now a major player in the film industry, the Israeli-born Milchan was described in the May 18, 1993 edition of The Nation as one Israel's llargest arms dealers In 1985 Milchan's name popped up in a United States federal criminal inquiry into covert efforts by Israel to obtain U.S. nuclear weapons technology. A Huntington Beach, California, computer engineer, Richard K. Smyth, was indicted by the Justice Department on charges that he had illegally exported 800 electronic timing devices (known as "krytons") that can be used to trigger nuclear bombs. The recipient of the illegal exports was Milchan's Heli Trading Co., based in Israel. Smyth, a former advisor to NATO and the U.S. Air Force, told investigators that he was involved with Milchan in a joint venture, Milco (based in Huntington Beach), that had shipped the nuclear devices to Heli Trading. According to Smith, the Israeli government had provided "encouragement" to the endeavor. Milchan, however, said he had nothing to do with the Milco company (the company name notwithstanding) and that he knew nothing about the alleged kryton exports.Milchan said further that all Heli business was in the hands of its Israeli managers. Milchan's hands were clean.According to Milchan:"At the end of the day, [a moviemaker like Milchan] can't be expected to read scripts, go to marketing meetings and still worry about everything else" Despite Milchan's denials, Robert Mainhardt, one of two nuclear scientists on Milco's board of directors, contradicted Milchan's claims about having no knowledge of Milco's affairs In a 1993 interview with NBC, Mainhardt, who had been involved in the development of the hydrogen bomb, said that he (Mainhardt) quit Milco after Milchan asked him to obtain nuclear reactor designs and a uranium compound needed for Israel's nuclear bomb-making program.NBC also unveiled coded Milco records that revealed the sales of other classified items to Israel and reported that one source said that Milchan's company had sold Israel enough rocket fuel to propel all of Israe's long-range missiles. Perhaps to mitigate the scandal, the Israeli government returned 460 of the 800 nuclear devices saying that the materiel had nothing to do with Israel's nuclear bomb program, which, of course, then (as now) was officially denied by the Israelis. According to the Israelis, the krytons were to be used only for development of conventional weapons .In the end, before he could be brought to trial, Milchan's partner, Smyth, disappeared. According to NBC, citing U.S. authorities, Smyth had taken refuge in Israel in the high-toned Tel Avia suburb of Herilya Pitua.NBC also conducted an interview with Arthur Biehl, a former director of hydrogen bomb design at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, who told NBC that he had gone to the FBI after Milchan introduced him to an Israeli official who wanted to gain access to nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons without going through official [i.e. U.S. government] channels. Oliver Stone had excuses for his relationship with Milchan. "I've heard the rumors," Stone told The Los Angeles Times, "but, then, I've always had a penchant for larger-than-life pirates. If Arnon comes from an arms or defense background, well, so did Rhett Butler. If those stories are true, I'm sure Arnon sees himself as a patriot Somebody should tell Mr. Stone (who may be confusing reality with his motion pictures) that Rhett Butler, the swashbuckling Confederate arms smuggler in Gone With the Wind, was a fictional character. Milchan's arms deals, however, were very real, Stone's typically artistic explanation notwithstanding. And by the way, has anyone bothered to find out what happened when Jim Garrison's family sued these big Hollywood types after they were bilked out of the profits that Milchan and company made from JFK. To coin a phrase, just a thought.--MICHAEL COLLINS PIPER - 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.
[CTRL] [Fwd: Rambo's 'First Blood' Warn U.S. about 'Hope?']
And, BTW, did anyone catch the name of the reservist who was screamed at by the neanderthal sheriff for blowing up the cave where Rambo was allegedly hiding out? "Clinton." Talk about a tall Hollywood tale?! ;-0 Cheers, -A http://www.erols.com/mack97 "The sharpest tool in the shed." -- anonymous 7 Mar 99 This afternoon, USA Networks is showing "First Blood," the first installment of the long running and successful Rambo films. In the beginning of this late 80's film, there's a scene in which the sheriff, played by Brian Dennehy, drops off Johnny Rambo, portrayed by Sly Stallone, at the end of the bridge, on the opposite side of the neighboring town. In the background, there's a sign with the town's name, though it's somewhat faded and difficult to make out. Did anyone catch the name? It reads, "Hope." Could it be _that_ town called "Hope?" Could Hollywood have been warning us years before about 'em folks from Hope? Of course, as the story goes, the wicked 'ole sheriff tries to get rid of the Vietnam Vet, because "they" --the townspeople-- don't look kindly on soldiers of war (i.e. our hero Johnny Rambo). Especially, someone who fought in 'Nam. Rambo's jacket had an American flag sewed on, something the sheriff didn't apparently like either, based on several derogatory remarks he made after first meeting tough guy Special Forces Rambo. We learn from the sheriff that _they_ "don't want any trouble." So, doing his job his way, the neanderthal-type sheriff decides to send Rambo on his merry way 30 miles up the road to the next town, and get rid of him, rather than allow him to eat at the town's local diner. In that rain and miserable weather who, in their good conscience, would send a fella packing when, after all, he didn't provoke or cause any trouble in the first place? A town named Hope would, according to Sly's machismo flick about a solider who, after being cornered like a rat by the unkindly sheriff and his posse, grumbled to his commanding officer, Col. Trautman, "They drew first blood, sir." Trautman, as you might recall, was played by Hollywood veteran Richard Crenna. We all know how the films ends and who the hero is. If you don't, rent it at your local Blockbuster and enjoy. It really is a good movie, if you haven't seen it yet. Hopefully, in this case life _will_ imitate art and the U.S. will not bleed to death over unethical and immoral behavior that seems to pervade the highest levels of our government. Go, Johnny, Go!! Now, back to the film Cheerio, -A http://www.erols.com/mack97 "The sharpest tool in the shed." -- anonymous
[CTRL] Anthropomorphizing the Corporation
-Caveat Lector- Anthropomorphizing the Corporation by John H. St.John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) There is a troubling element of opportunism in discussing corporations as though they were human beings. Corporations are slippery. They are organized that way. Originally created for the purpose of eliminating liability for wealthy investors; they now have become legal individuals in their own right. As a subterfuge to avoid liability they have the even more curious ability to shift the blame for their crimes to human beings. Even pulling the charter of a criminal corporation still leaves the impression that there are good public corporations that are law abiding citizens. The reality is that no corporation is wedded to any other law than the bottom line. When corporations adhere to the law it is only because not doing so would be bad public relations. Corporations are very fearful of public opinion but they do not fear the law because they can not be put in jail. If they are caught breaking the law, they throw the blame on Chain Saw Al or some other obedient employee. They invest large sums of money in law and public relations firms. They also invest money in a large number of think tanks composed of hired academics with the mandate to screw up higher education and provide talking-heads for C-Span. The American Enterprise Institute has over 200 corporation CEOs on its board. The Heritage Foundation likewise. They have tightened control over the government and the media to the point where the government has become a select committee to do their negotiating with other countries and enable them to raid the US Treasury with impunity. The culture spewed out by a corporate media reveals the inherent lack of humanity endemic to the corporation hierarchy. The corporation is not human -- it is a golem, a robot with one prime directive -- the bottom line. Even investors, the privileged beneficiaries of the corporation, are victimized by insider trading, class warfare, environmental degradation, genetic tinkering, radio-activity and eventual chaos. The public corporation is a Frankenstein monster that will kill its creator unless stopped. It is a genie that can not be put back in the bottle. To think of reforming corporations or returning corporations to the control of a sovereign people is like advising Pandora to put the troubles, she released, back in the box. By threatening to pull their charter and selling their assets to some other good corporation, and we can be sure that Unocals CEO Roger Beach would be part of the deal; would not be a victory but would put us in the position of creating another merger. Dan Lundgren lost the election for governor of California, but not because he tabled the Alliance petition. His successor as Attorney General promises to revisit the petition; but will he actually pull Unocals charter? The killer is that the whole affair probably wont even make the news. Never the less I rejoice at any attack on a corporation, but I still remember Neville Chamberlains attempt to reform Adolph Hitler. Public corporations are criminals by definition. Selling stock is a criminal act. It is in violation of common law. Ownership and liability can not be separated. No other organization has ever had this particular ability. If a government or any other organization wants to raise money, they ask for donations, borrow it, or issue bonds. Today there are a lot of people making money on the stock-market and I realize that outlawing stock would be as popular as outlawing motherhood but many financial experts are fearfully expecting an inevitable Black Monday with Wall Street laying another egg. We also have y2k waiting for us. We should be thinking in terms of using this catastrophe to sound the death knell for the illegal Ponzi scheme known as the public corporation. This time we should put them in cement overcoats and sink them in the ocean. If the Roosevelt administration had done this when it first took power we would not have had to suffer sixty years of war Kenesianism. The word corporation is from the Latin word corpus, or body. In its inception with the Merchants of London, a guild; it was a body. When they decided to sell stock to outsiders it became a corporation. Thus a corporation is not a corporation. It is made up entirely of employees who have no interest unless they own stock, and this is not a large enough interest to confer ownership. In order to make a corporation truly a corporation; you would have to give ownership to those who run it -- the employees and change the stocks to bonds. Those who run and manage the business are much more entitled to ownership than are stock-market gamblers. If the corporation were a corporation and it committed some illegal acts. Then it could be dissolved and the owners (employees) held liable. Ed Yardeni; chief financial officer for Morgan Deutche and Grenfell. (Europes largest bank) said at the
[CTRL] [2] La Popesa
-Caveat Lector- excerpts from: La Popesa Paul I. Murphy©1983 w/R. Rene Arlington. Warner Books ISBN 0-446-51258-3 --[2]-- Upon becoming archbishop, Spellman immediately went to work to clear up not only the New York archdiocese's financial plight but that of the Church throughout the United States. Unknown to Catholics and even to many within the hierarchy in the United States, near chaos characterized the Holy See's financial affairs in America. Long-overdue debts had accumulated to almost $200 million nationally, in addition to the $28 million owed by the New York archdiocese. Spellman named as his financial adviser his longtime friend John A. Coleman, one of Wall Street's ablest and most influential brokers. From then on the Holy See in America was into big business in a big way. In their successful drive to turn the heavily debt-ridden New York archdiocese into the richest in the world, the ambitious pair began by playing upon Spellman's "amazing capacity for getting things done by the give-and-take of favors through powerful people." Day after day they staged luncheons and dinners with bankers, industrialists, Wall Street traders, corporate executives, labor leaders, real estate brokers, financial editors-anyone of influence in any field. Titles in the Knights of Malta, the Holy See's most prestigious organization of laymen, were offered as bait to the wealthy and powerful who sought personal gilding in exchange for funds and favors. The title of knight became so eagerly sought after by Catholic laymen that it was not uncommon for an aspiring applicant to give Spellman from $50,000 to $100,000 for the honor. Some Catholics were known to have paid the New York archbishop as much as $200,000 to be named a knight. Spellman became so greatly indebted to Coleman and trusted him so implicitly that he eventually appointed the financier to the top post of the Knights of Malta. From then on Coleman was known as "The Pope of Wall Street." The archbishop took Knights of Malta funds and sums from another of the Church's secretive male organizations, the Knights of Columbus, to use as seed money for investments. The New York archdiocese also established its own bank, the Archdiocesan Reciprocal Loan Fund, to borrow and lend money. Soon the high-pressure team of Spellman and Coleman began making deal after deal-huge multimillion-dollar transactions-principally with the Catholic establishment's elite in big business, industry, and commerce. In one deal alone during Spellman's reign $30 million was invested through Coleman in the purchase of stock in National Steel, Lockheed, Boeing Aircraft, Curtiss-Wright, and Douglas Aircraft. Large Church investments also were made in other leading U.S. corporations, including Goodyear, Firestone,, General Foods, Procter Gamble, Standard Oil, Westinghouse, and Colgate-Palmolive. A considerable interest in the Lambert Pharmaceutical Company, manufacturer of Listerine Antiseptic, was bequeathed to Spellman by the firm's founder and later sold by the archbishop for $25 million. Spellman was rarely one to let personal feelings or ethics stand in the way of opportunity. He heatedly denounced from the pulpit certain motion pictures that he considered unfit and immoral. Forever Amber and Baby Doll, both made by Paramount, were loudly condemned by him. Spellman nevertheless viewed Paramount, despite its Church-censored movies, as a particularly wise investment. Just how heavily the Holy See invested in the motion picture company in later years has never become known, since the stock was traded through disguised channels. Almost all Church investments have been made through dummy corporations, or in the names of those commissioned to act as straws. The negative image of a religious organization being into big business in a big way has been the chief consideration for its coverture. Spellman even drew upon his personal hobbies in considering investments. An avid baseball fan and even a fairly good player himself while in high school and college, he thirsted for the glamour of owning a part of the New York Yankees. Though the team was not for sale at the time, Spellman-using Knights of Columbus fundssettled for the purchase of the Yankee Stadium grounds and the surrounding parking lots. Always the pragmatist, morality stood second to money on Spellman's list of priorities. His attacks were frequent on show business people for what he considered the entertainment industry's "loose morals," yet that did not stop the archbishop from building a close relationship of his own with Broadway showgirl Mabel Gilman Corey. When Corey became widowed from her wealthy steel- magnate husband, William E. Corey, Spellman persuaded the former dancing beauty to turn over to him her entire $5 million inheritance. In a handwritten letter to the Chase Manhattan Bank, Corey directed the transfer of all her wealth to Spellman's New York archdiocese. She wrote: GENTLEMEN: I desire to transfer
[CTRL] [1] La Popesa
-Caveat Lector- excerpts from: La Popesa Paul I. Murphy©1983 w/R. Rene Arlington. Warner Books ISBN 0-446-51258-3 --[1]-- An interesting book. A bio of Sister Pascalina, girl Friday to a Monsignor/Cardinal Pacelli, who was the Vatican's Secretary of State, then Pope Pius XII. Knights of Malta, mafia, fascists, big bucks and more. Thanks, Jim. As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - VI "We sail for the United States under a cloud of suspicion," Pascalina wrote in her diary their first night at sea aboard the Italian liner Conte di Savoia on its maiden voyage from Naples to New York. Many serious reasons-political and personal-compelled Pacelli publicly to minimize the significance of the trip. "I am going to America simply on a vacation," he told the Associated Press in an interview before they sailed. "I have a great longing to see the United States." In response to reporters' questions the secretary of state added, "There is no political aspect to my trip whatever." But The New York Times and other papers around the world were not convinced that the Vatican secretary of state would make a historic journey at so crucial a time in Church history merely for enjoyment. Pacelli was too responsible, in the press's view, to leave Rome and travel to a foreign land for an extended period with the Pope in his late seventies and not in the best health. Punching holes in the papal announcement that the trip was purely for pleasure, the Times said that Pacelli was forced to come to America because of a serious rift that had been developing between the Holy See and the Roosevelt administration. "He will most certainly visit President Roosevelt," the paper reported of Pacelli's visit, "and is also expected to investigate the situation brought about by the Reverend Charles E. Coughlin's radio attacks against President Roosevelt." The Times further claimed that their undercurrent of difficulties had finally reached crisis proportions. The trouble between Church and state had started a few years earlier when a priest from Canada, bent upon destroying Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, took to a radio microphone in Detroit, Michigan, and began attacking the new President, calling him "a liar," a double-crosser," and "an upstart dictator in the White House." Though decidedly out of line with the Holy See's hands-off policies in politics, the rebel priestFather Charles E. Coughlin so inflamed emotions among Catholics throughout the United States that he began to politicize the nation and the Church itself in America. As mail poured in to the priestsometimes as many as 350,000 letters in a single week and almost all supportivethe radio priest, as Coughlin became known, kept up his tirade against FDR. Every Sunday afternoon from his Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan, the cleric addressed the nation for a full hour over a growing network of stations. His followers increased rapidly into the millions, and by the time Roosevelt sought reelection in 1936, the priest's influence on the Catholic vote was considerable. Though FDR's New Deal policies had the blessing of the nation's vast army of liberals, millions of conservatives saw their personal freedoms threatened and were in a crusading mood. For a President whose strategy was to rule through his hold upon the country's combined minorities, the Catholic vote was essential. It was this crucial vote, which Coughlin claimed as his, that posed such a serious threat to Roosevelt. A poll published by the Literary Digest, the leading news magazine at the time, not only had the Democratic President's reelection in doubt but predicted his Republican opponent, Governor Alfred M. Landon of Kansas, as the winner by a landslide. The Vatican anguished in silence, torn by its strong affinity toward Roosevelt and by fear of Father Coughlin, whothough merely a priest in the Holy See's lowliest rankshad taken extreme hold upon much of the Catholic mind in America. At the time that Coughlin first came upon the scene in the early 1930s, the Vatican and the White House were seen as having never been closer. Anxious to continue to build his bridges with American Catholics, FDR had proposed a plan with Catholic leaders for formal recognition by Washington of the Vatican as an independent state. The President himself had been quietly conferring with Joseph P. Kennedy, later to become ambassador to the Court of St. James, and with Bishop Francis J. Spellman, FDR's favorite Catholic churchman at the time,*[*During World War I, when FDR was assistant secretary of the Navy and Spellman was a priest in Boston, Roosevelt had thought so little of Spellman that he refused the cleric's request for a simple chaplaincy. After Spellman later appealed, FDR, aggravated by Spellman's persistent brashness, went out of his way to block the priest's appointment.] since he was the Vatican secretary of state's intimate friend and choice confidant in the United States. It was important
[CTRL] Fwd: THE SCOOP: A Fellow Of Infinite Jest
The Scoop - http://www.bobharris.com/ New subscribers: thanks for joining up. Yes, the column really is free, and you're encouraged to forward it to friends. That's how my readership grows. If you live somewhere near Los Angeles and you'd like info concerning my live appearances, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll get updated info on where I'm performing once a month or so, depending on the schedule. Thanks again. bh THE SCOOP for March 8, 1999 ___ Del Close A Fellow Of Infinite Jest © 1999 Bob Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [] = italics Del Close died this week. If you have laughed out loud anytime in the last thirty or forty years, chances are Del touched your life. The world will not be as cool without him. __ Del Close was one of the early performers and directors who helped create the venerated Second City improvisational comedy troup in Chicago. And as a creative guru to various Saturday Night Live casts, Del influenced entire generations of performers, from John Belushi and Bill Murray to Chris Farley and Mike Myers. You may not recognize his name, but Del was at least partly responsible for a large percentage of what you probably think is insightful and funny. The name of Del's textbook was [Truth In Comedy.] Convinced of an abiding and inherent human compassion, he taught that your richest, finest connection with an audience comes not when you go for an easy joke, but when you mine the deepest parts of your soul, wrestle with your emotions, and speak with total candor. Whether playing a character in a scene or engaging in direct monologue, Del taught militant, unflinching honesty, believing that audiences would recognize their own frailties and fears and react accordingly -- with a laughter every bit as deep and honest as the performance itself. __ This was a revolutionary idea thirty years ago, when live comedy consisted largely of guys named Shecky doing set-up, punchline, set-up, punchline, thank you, drive safely. If you think about it, that kind of comedy -- which as the 1980s demonstrated, capuchin monkeys and Andrew Dice Clay can do passably well -- is inherently conservative. It's not easy to engender empathy and challenge prejudices in ten words or less, so stand-up tends to play to the audience's assumptions. Which is why so many comics play to base impulses and obvious stereotypes. Del would throw you out of class for that. Del would rather see you work through a half-dozen honest moments -- even uncomfortable ones, which are often still amusing as hell -- for one insightful laugh than get a score of Shecky laughs. I went through the Calendar section of my Sunday paper to see how much Del's influence is felt in film comedy today. "Analyze This" was directed by Harold Ramis. "Rushmore" features Bill Murray. Both are Second City alumni who readily acknowledge Del's influence. And consciously or not, Julia Sweeney's "God Said Ha!" and "20 Dates" by Myles Berkowitz also exeplify Del's guiding principle of trusting honesty and openness to lead to a deeper laugh. Ironically -- given that Del's own film career was little more than a series of bit parts, sometimes in surprisingly cheesy movies -- literally half of the comedies onscreen right now (or anytime), including pretty much all the cool ones, would not be what they are without Del Close's influence. __ He also had a phenomenal resumé of countercultural contacts. Beyond knowing half the comedy world, Del did experimental theatre in San Francisco in the late '60s, ran with Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey, and produced light shows for the Grateful Dead. But more than just a gadfly, Del was a genuine subversive, in the best sense of the word. Del didn't consciously try to change anyone's political ideas in the way you or I normally imagine such things: protests and placards and parades in the street. Instead, and to much greater effect, Del's work simply liberated the creative spirits of his students and audiences. The cardinal rule of improvisation is to "yes, and" -- which means to agree with any premise, no matter how absurd, and then follow and amplify it, working with fellow players who will "yes, and" any idea of yours. Implicit in this exercise is the obliteration of the superego, a voluntary abolition of internal authority. It's a magnificent creative tool. And as a side-effect, it teaches self-reliance, tolerance of others, and disrespect for rigid totalitarianism, either emotional or political. If you've ever sensed that the richest comedy is inherently anti-authoritarian, that's the deal. Spending time with Del Close is the reason I eventually came to read Noam Chomsky. I studied with Del for a couple of years. I can't say I liked him, exactly. What I felt was more like awe, like a boy feels toward a father he both fears and admires. When Del was at full speed, he was amazing. I once saw him play Polonius in a production of
Re: [CTRL] Rosslyn
-Caveat Lector- At 11:31 PM 3/6/99 -0500, you wrote: -Caveat Lector- If this is true of the 3 men - and the 3 witnesses were interviewed by Garry Woods a prominent media figure and UFO researcher, then it would appear that the mystery of Rosslyn; with its devotion to Bloodlines, Blood worship, Genetics, Occult, Lunacy, Satanism, Animism [there are over 140 'green men' in Rosslyn Chapel] a place thought to be the ultimate connection to God and the 'new messiah' - near Edinburgh - a City with Seven Hills [ref. Revelations] - takes on a much more sinsiter aspect. Wow. What a place. That must be where they're keeping HItler's living brain and Walt Disney frozen in suspended animation. HOFFA You may think that that's amazing - well that is a MERE werewolf story, There is some stuff about Edinburgh and Rosslyn which is truly incredible - for which there is enough physical evidence to talk about. I will post it to the list soon. Andrew 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
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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 11 Num. 37
===
("Quid coniuratio est?")
JESSE JAMES WAS ONE OF HIS NAMES -- III
===
The question arises: If Jesse James got $5 million from Emperor
Maximilian, then why did he bother to rob trains? Supposedly,
the answer is that James was working for the Confederate
underground, adding to their treasury.
The question lingers: Who is "HH?" The anonymous author (CN
11.32) tells of the mysterious "88" and "88, Jr.," with those
numbers said to signify the eighth letter of the alphabet, "H."
The anonymous author claims that a Felix Monroe Hughes raped and
impregnated an illegitimate daughter of Abraham Lincoln. The
child therefrom was named "88." Shedding possible light on the
mystery, one CN reader states:
Felix Monroe Hughes... the father of 88.
88 is HH is of course Howard Hughes...
Howard Robard Hughes, Sr. 1869-1924
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. 1905-1976
In his book (*Jesse James Was One Of His Names* by Del Schrader,
with Jesse James III. Arcadia, California: Santa Anita Press,
1975. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 74-33962),
Schrader claims that Jesse James took the $5 million (see above)
and parlayed it into a huge fortune, partly through investments
in the Texas oil boom. Schrader adds that "with capital to burn,
Jesse was a backer of the Hughes Tool Company, which was founded
by Howard Hughes' father."
But the anonymous author has indicated that, no, "HH" (88) is not
"Howard Hughes." So who is "88?" Is it Herbert Hoover? Is it
Hannibal Hamlin? The anonymous author won't say.
As noted in the previous issue (CN 11.36), the Confederate
government went underground in 1865, and was headquartered in
Nashville until about 1884. The South's spy network was very
good. How did the Confederacy stave off defeat during "The War
of Northern Aggression," four long years, 1861-1865? The answer
in part, says Schrader, is that the South had a better spy
network. And that spy network did not just go away in 1865.
Feeling in the South still simmered and boiled against the
"damnyankees" after 1865. When those "damnyankees" increased
their war upon the indian nations of the American West, many
southerners strongly sympathized with the indians. To Jesse
James, "Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, and other chiefs were
Confederate allies..." (Schrader) The underground Confederacy
began smuggling guns to the indians. Furthermore, says Schrader,
military training was provided. The indians "were trained to
fight like Morgan's Raiders and Quantrill's Missouri guerrillas
-- to split up on command, hit with force and devastation and
then fade away before the enemy could recover." (ibid.)
Jesse James eventually rose to the position of "chief of the
Inner Sanctum of The Knights of the Golden Circle." He was "one
of the most powerful men in America. The Golden Circle had
industrial as well as military spies on both sides of the
Atlantic." (ibid.)
Unfortunately for our tale, The Knights of the Golden Circle are
linked to the infamous Ku Klux Klan, an organization responsible
for many hateful acts over the years. Schrader does consistently
point out that James himself was not a racist. In fact,
according to Schrader, some of James' gang were themselves
blacks, including chief James lieutenant John Trammell, "the
black cobra."
Reportedly belonging to a lesser-ranked Confederate secret
society, The Knights of the White Camellias, was John Wilkes
Booth. Booth worked for Confederate Intelligence, smuggling
messages and contraband between North and South. In the final
year of the Civil War, Booth reported that "a representative of
the European Rothschilds called on President Lincoln and offered
him money at 27.5 percent interest, but was thrown out of his
office." (qtd. in Schrader) After Booth shot Lincoln, the
Knights of the Golden Circle began to suspect that Booth had been
recruited into the Rothschild organization. Booth had not been
ordered by the South to kill Lincoln, so on whose orders had he
acted? However, whatever the circumstances, Booth knew too many
secrets and had to be smuggled to safety. The Confederate
underground eventually moved him to the Free State of Van Zandt,
Texas. (Schrader)
But Booth slowly developed a drinking problem and his tongue
began to wag. Schrader notes that Booth, by about 1890, had
hired a lawyer "to write a book about his secret life and how and
why he shot President Lincoln." (This book may have been,
*Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth* by Finis L. Bates. See
CN 3.91) It was decided,
[CTRL] Jesse James Bibliography
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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 11 Num. 38
===
("Quid coniuratio est?")
JESSE JAMES WAS ONE OF HIS NAMES -- IV
==
Bibliography and Partial List of Sworn Statements
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(From: *Jesse James Was One Of His Names* by Del Schrader, with
Jesse James III. Arcadia, California: Santa Anita Press, 1975.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 74-33962)
*Jesse James Rides Again*, 1948, by Frank Hall and Lindsey
Whitten. Covers "emergence" of Jesse W. James in Lawton,
Oklahoma, May 19, 1948. Strong documentation to prove J. Frank
Dalton really was Jesse W. James.
"I Rode With Quantrill," August, 1937, Rocky Mountain News, by J.
Frank Dalton. Story deals chiefly with Frank and Jesse James.
Dalton says, "My name today isn't exactly what it was the day I
enlisted under Quantrill's black flag."
"Double Life of Jesse James." The National Police Gazette,
March, 1951. "Privileged and confidential information truly
reveals that 'Dalton' is Jesse James."
Columnist Robert Ruark. In three national columns the late
author wrote, "J. Frank Dalton is the real Jesse W. James."
(1948)
Aunt Cora's Letters. She was Cora James Anderson, who died a few
years ago [ca. 1972] in Nashville, Tennessee. She was a
daughter of Jesse W. James by a Sioux Indian woman. Highly
educated, she knew all the facts of her father's "lost years."
"Who Lies Buried in Jesse James' Grave?" Real West Magazine,
January, 1967, by Dr. W.D. Chesney. States Jesse James was not
killed in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1882. Cites medical evidence
of the corpse which was buried.
*The Lost Cause*, a book published by J.L. James in 1961, states
St. Joseph ["death" of Jesse James] was a "hoax." Tells about
Jesse W. James' war record and has quotes from JWJ.
*The Day Lincoln Was Shot* by Jim Bishop. Gives screwball
background of actor John Wilkes Booth, which coincides with
Confederate Underground secret records. Bishop has Booth dying
in a Virginia barn.
*This Was Frank James* by Sarah Vaughn Snow, 1969, who was a
daughter of Frank James. She casts serious doubts that Jesse
James, her uncle, was gunned down in St. Joseph, Missouri, in
1882.
*Notorious Ladies of the Frontier* by Harry S. Drago, 1969. He
covers "emergence" of Jean Hickock McCormick in 1941, which
coincides with James family records.
Search Magazine, September 1968. Editor Ray Palmer helped in
identification of J. Frank Dalton as Jesse W. James in 1948.
True Magazine, September, 1947, ran photo of Jesse, Frank James
and their Kentucky mother which was so identified. The old photo
was found in a cabin near Bottomless lake, New Mexico, in 1940s
by man named Yourkes.
*Jesse James the Outlaw* by Henry Walker.
*The Truth About Jesse James* by Phyllis Argall.
*Jesse James Was My Neighbor* by Homer Croy.
*Jesse James Was His Name* by William A. Settle, Jr.
*The Complete Authentic Life of Jesse James* by Carl Breihan.
*The Private Papers* by Jesse James III.
"Jesse James Alive in 1949," by George McGrath. Police Gazette,
April 1950.
"More Proof -- Murder of Jesse James a Hoax," by George McGrath.
Police Gazette, August 1950.
*Cow By The Tail* by Jesse James Benson.
List of Sworn Statements (Sample)
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Fulton County, Georgia, December 31, 1948, by Young Mathis. His
mother and Jesse W. James' mother were first cousins. Identified
Jesse W. James.
Lawton, Oklahoma, May 19, 1948. All Jennings, reformed outlaw:
"It's him. That's the face. My word of honor."
Escambia County, Florida, October 26, 1948, by Joseph L. Hines,
who was Jesse R. (Dingus) James, JWJ's first cousin: "He is the
real Jesse W. James alright. I would know him anywhere. He
pulled the biggest deal of all time in St. Jo., Missouri, April
3, 1882. I know all about it."
County of Alameda, California, Feb. 5, 1949, by Florence Corbett,
daughter of "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, the heavyweight champion,
who was a first cousin of Jesse W. James. "I positively identify
this man as Jesse James who once stayed with us for more than 11
months near Mooringsport along the Texas-Louisiana border."
Jackson County, Georgia, Dec. 16, 1948, by Harvey Devereaux
James, 87, a second cousin of Jesse W. James. "After talking to
him about happenings of the past, I'm sure this man is Jesse W.
James."
Logan County, Oklahoma, July 27, 1948, by R.E. James, 87: "I am
a second cousin of Jesse W. James... am convinced after talking
with him he is the real JWJ."
Logan County, Oklahoma, July 27, 1948, by Eugene E. Robertson:
"I worked for Frank James, 1910-1912, and he often told me his
brother, Jesse W.
[CTRL] PIKEs GLOBAL PLAN - THE BAD NEWS
-Caveat Lector- hi, in response to the other article from texas sorces about Pike the genius, and nice guy, here is an excerpt from 'The Dark Gods' - Roberts and Gilbertson isbn 0 586 06233 5 pub panther 1985. page 235 ... 'In 1840, another american freemason, the notorious general albert pike, whose indian auxiliary troops had committed various military atrocities, became friendly with Mazzini and, being an apt pupil, was quickly initiated into the higher grades of luciferic hierarchy. Being unusually proficient at his new task - he was a 33 degree mason -, pike rapidly assumed ipsissimus status in the conspiratorial priesthood, and between 1859 and 1871 he constructed a truly diabolical military plan that was an improvement on Weishaupts original. There were to be 3 world wars and three revolutions and they were all to reach their fruition by the end of the 20th century, the closing of the piscean age. Pike coolly drafted his plan in his mansion of thirteen rooms in Little Rock, Arkansas. He organised the new and reformed palladian rite of freemasonry and founded three supreme councils, one in Charleston, One in Rome and one in Berlin. They are probably still funcyioning today. Pike under the dark auspices of Mazzini also established 23 subsidiary cabals in strategic locations all over the globe. The Pike Plan was fiendishly simple. What we now term Nazism [aryan supremancy], communism [atheistic totalitarianism] and Zionism [religious extremism] were to be used as the instigators of the full scale wars and their supplementary revolutions. The First World War was to destro the Tsars and allow Russia to become a stronghold of communism. The second world war was to weaken the whole western economic and political structure and the tools used were the differences between nazism - fascism and the Jewish race [Zionism], so allowing the state of Israel to come into being. The fact that millions of people would die was an extra bonus that must have pleased the ultraterrestrials far more than their Illuminati puppets. As the second world war progressed, communism was to be built up so that in the aftermath it would grow and be as strong - if not stronger - than the whole of united christendom. It would then be held in check to be unleashed when the final apocalyptic social upheaval was considered necessary ...' General Pike wrote a revealing letter to Giuseppe Mazzini, dated 15 august 1871, which exists today in the archives of the British Museum. In the letter he said that after the third world war, the illuminati would precipitate the ultimate social disaster ... to quote Pikes letter .. 'We shall unleash the Nihilists and the Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against a world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilisation, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that moment without compass [direction], anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.' here endeth the reading from Brother Albert Pike, and the quote from the Dark Gods. Here is a quote from the same book by HP Lovecraft - [remember the Arizona Wylder evil-shape-changing-aryan-bloodfest-Reptile stuff I posted] page 66 ' All of my stories unconnected as they may be, are based on the fundamental lore or legend that this world was was inhabited at one time by other races who, in practising black magic, lost their foothold and were expelled, yet live on Outside ever ready to take possession of this Earth again.' Andrew Hennessey Transformation Studies Group EdinburghScotland 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]/
[CTRL] Microsoft Alters Windows in Response to Privacy Concerns
-Caveat Lector- Microsoft Alters Windows in Response to Privacy Concerns http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/biztech/articles/07soft.html March 7, 1999 Microsoft to Alter Software in Response to Privacy Concerns By JOHN MARKOFF SAN FRANCISCO -- The Microsoft Corporation moved to defuse a potentially explosive privacy issue today, saying it would modify a feature of its Windows 98 operating system that has been quietly used to create a vast data base of personal information about computer users. Microsoft conceded that the feature, a unique identifying number used by Windows and other Microsoft products, had the potential to be far more invasive than a traceable serial number in the Intel Corporation's new Pentium III that has privacy advocates up in arms. The difference is that the Windows number is tied to an individual's name, to identifying numbers on the hardware in his computer and even to documents that he creates. The combination of the Windows number with all these data, the company said, could result in the ability to track a single user and the documents he created across vast computer networks. Hackers could compromise the resulting data base, or subpoenas might allow authorities to gain access to information that would otherwise remain private and unavailable. Privacy advocates fear that availability will lead to abuses. "We're definitely sensitive to any privacy concerns," Robert Bennett, Microsoft's group product manager for Windows, said. "The software was not supposed to send this information unless the computer user checked a specific option." Mr. Bennett said the option to collect the information had been added to the software so that Microsoft support employees would be able to help users diagnose problems with their computers more accurately. He said the Redmond, Wash., software giant had never intended to use the data for marketing purposes. In response to a complaint from a software programmer in Massachusetts, Microsoft will not only alter the way the registration program works in the next maintenance release of Windows 98, Mr. Bennett said. He said Microsoft technicians would look through the company's data bases and expunge information that had been improperly collected as a result of earlier versions. The company is also exploring the possibility of creating a free utility program that would make it possible for Windows users to delete the serial number information from a small data base in the part of Windows system known as the registry, where it is now collected. Microsoft has been discussing the issue with a Cambridge, Mass., programmer who contacted the company earlier this week after discovering that the Microsoft Office business software was creating unique numbers identifying a user's personal computer and embedding them in spreadsheet and word processing documents. The programmer, Robert M. Smith, who is the president of Phar Lap Software Inc., a software tools development company, told the company that he believed the practice created a potential threat to privacy. Microsoft officials said earlier this week that the numbers generated by the company's software were part of an effort to keep different components from interfering with each other in an increasingly complex world of networked computers. However, Mr. Smith said that the number, in effect, created a "digital fingerprint" that could be used to match a document created by a word processing or spreadsheet program with a particular computer. On Thursday, after further studying the "registration wizard" -- the software module that enables customers to register their copies of Windows 98 operating system for support and updates -- Mr. Smith discovered that the number, known as a Globally Unique Identifier, was being transmitted to Microsoft as part of a list of registration information that generally includes the owner's name, address, phone number and other demographic information as well as details about the hardware and software on or attached to the user's computer. "Microsoft never asked me if it was O.K. to send in this number, and they never said it was being sent," Mr. Smith said. "They are apparently building a data base that relates Ethernet adapter addresses to personal information." Ethernet adapters are cards inserted in a personal computer that enable it to connect to high-speed networks within organizations and through them to the Internet. The controversy erupted just weeks after Intel, maker of the most widely used processors for machines that use the Windows operating system, agreed to make it possible for computer manufacturers to set its new Pentium III computer chip so that a serial number on the chip would not be recorded without the computer user's permission. Privacy activists have been attacking both companies, arguing that identification numbers can be easily misused to create electronic monitoring systems. Such systems could track a computer user's behavior in
[CTRL] Microsoft Will Fix Privacy Problem
-Caveat Lector- March 7, 1999 Microsoft Will Fix Privacy Problem By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Microsoft Corp., whose Windows software runs most of the world's personal computers, acknowledged that the latest version of its dominant operating system can be used to help trace the identity of authors of some types of electronic documents. A software programmer, Richard M. Smith of Brookline, Mass., first noticed last week that documents created using Microsoft's popular Word and Excel programs in tandem with its Windows 98 operating system included within their hidden software code a 32-digit number unique to his computer. The number, called a Globally Unique Identifier, is at least partly based on a 12-digit number unique to a computer's so-called Ethernet network adapter, a hardware device common in business environments that allows high-speed Internet connections. The disclosure carries important privacy implications, since those documents can be traced back to a specific computer even when an author wishes to remain anonymous. The majority of home computers aren't equipped with such network cards -- although they're becoming more common as even consumers in their homes opt for high-speed Internet connections. But even without an Ethernet card installed, Windows 98 still generates this 32-digit identifier -- it merely bases the number for those computers on a ``dummy'' network address that is the same for all such machines. Robert Bennett, Microsoft's group product manager for Windows, said Sunday that the company will create a software tool to let customers clear the ID number from the Windows repository of system settings, called its Registry. The ID number is transmitted to Microsoft whenever a customer registers his copy of Windows 98 using the automated ``registration wizard'' included in Windows. ``Since people's Ethernet addresses are also being placed into Word documents, someone at Microsoft could use this database to look up where a document came from,'' Smith warned in e-mail. Bennett said Microsoft was investigating whether the number ever was sent to the company even when customers had explicitly indicated they didn't want information sent about their computers, such as their network address. ``Microsoft is in no way using that identifier, or any identifier, to track user behavior or to do any marketing,'' Bennett said, adding it was never intended to be sent regardless of consumer preference. ``If it is, it's just a bug,'' Bennett said. ``If it is indeed happening, and we have testers working this weekend, we'll absolutely fix that.'' Bennett promised that Microsoft also will wipe any of those numbers from its internal databases that the company can determine may have been inadvertently collected. Privacy groups said they were appalled by Microsoft's decision to generate an identifier that can so easily be traced. They warned, for example, that a coworker could easily verify the address of a colleague's network card and then prove whether that colleague anonymously wrote specific Word or Excel documents. ``The impact is, if you have one of these tattooed numbers, you can extract the Ethernet address of the computer that created the document,'' said Jason Catlett, president of Junkbusters Corp. of Green Brook, N.J., which lobbies on privacy issues. Microsoft's decision and its implications comes as Congress considers whether to propose new federal privacy laws governing the high-tech industry. 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
