[CTRL] Promoting terrorism on CTRL
-Caveat Lector- At 08:21 AM 6/24/99 -0700, nurev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- * ||/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\||/\|| || * -- SPECIAL -- * June 23, 1999* -- EDITION -- * || ||\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/||\/|| * SPECIAL EDITION * * * * _ ANTI-FASCIST MOBILIZATION, JULY 10, IN IDAHO _ CONTENTS -- 1. (UFAF) UNITED FRONT AGAINST FASCISM [US]: Idaho Anti- Nazi Protest. 2. (BIAFS) THE BETHUNE INSTITUTE FOR ANTI-FASCIST STUDIES [Canada]: Aryan Nations Leadership in Canada Revealed. * * * * UNITED FRONT AGAINST FASCISM * 5018 Rainier Ave. S. Seattle, WA 98118 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tuesday, 22 June 1999 - - _ IADHO ANTI-NAZI PROTEST _ * * * June 19, 1999 Dear anti-fascist friends, On July 10, Aryan Nations and hooded Klansmen will once again march in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. At last year's parade, there were 90 white supremacists and nearly 1000 civil rights protesters. This year, Anti-Racist Action (ARA) and United Front Against Fascism (UFAF) are forming Coalition Against Nazis (CAN) to organize a large, orderly, outspoken counter-protest to this parade. We are mobilizing advocates of civil rights across the Northwest U.S. and Canada to make sure the world knows Nazis can't hide in Idaho! Notwithstanding that this posting would seem to a rationale person to be a violation of the list's "anti-proseletyzing" rule, it is also promoting the activities of a known terrorist group. The so-called "Anti-Racist Action" (ARA) has been linked to acts of violence and terror. The ARA has been specifically implicated in the fire-bombing and arson of German-Canadian activist Ernst Zundel's residence. It has also been reported that ARA has received financial assistance from the Canadian Government, and has a collaborative relationship with the Canadian B'nai B'rith, and hence the American B'Nai B'rith. DBC 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] ARA Exposed
-Caveat Lector- To find out more about ARA, go to http://www.canadafirst.net/cafe/ara/ara_campaign_of_terror.html http://www.canadafirst.net/cafe/ara/cafe-attacked.html http://www.freedomsite.org/ara/ara_facts.html Copyright (c) 1999 - Ingrid A. Rimland March 11, 1999 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: If you search for "ARA" or "Anti-Racist-Action" on the Zundelsite, you will find a curious, as-yet-to-be-explained connection between this unwashed, violent Marxist street mob and the ever so politically correct and "humanistic" B'nai Brith Canada. In the beginning in 1997, when the perverse "Human Rights" Tribunal hearing regarding the Zundelsite started, these ARA characters were like fruit flies buzzing around our pin-striped opposition coterie, but after I kept wondering - repeatedly, aloud - about the strange affinity between such unlike folks, the street mob disappeared. Now I am curious. Why did the ARA now re-appear - with the ***same slogan*** that was heard before the Zundel-Haus burned down? What was it that they left behind in their renewed activity that ties them again to B'nai Brith? I have been told an "item" (flyer?) has been recovered after the hostilities described below - and handed over to the police. Inquiring minds want to know. Here is what happened in the Toronto vicinity a couple of weeks ago, as per CAFE's press release. (In this ZGram, this press release is slightly abbreviated) --- CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION --- http://cafe.canadafirst.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- A CAFE meeting was attacked on Saturday Feb. 27, 1999 by assortment of hoodlums from a terrorist GOVERNMENT FUNDED group called Anti-Racist Action. They have been long known for violent and ILLEGAL tactics in Toronto, including doing $70,000 damage to the home of a member of the Heritage Front in full view of the Toronto Police. See bottom of document for links to info on who the Anti-Racist Action is. http://www.freedomsite.org/ara -- On Saturday Feb. 27, 1999, CAFE held a meeting in Toronto to have Stephen McNallen speak, who is an activist from California. He is an author and now spokesman for the Asatru people. The topic of his speech was "Who is Kennewick Man Why Does He Matter?". The meeting was to start at 7:30pm. At approximately 7:15-7:20pm 20-30 scruffy looking members of Anti-Racist Action busted a window in the corner of the meeting room and charged down the hallway leading to the meeting room. A lady was standing in the door and they pushed her trying to gain entry to the meeting room. Immediately members of the meeting rushed to the door to help the poor female out from being physically assaulted further. Only 3 members of the meeting held off the raging mob of bandanna wearing thugs from entering the room. Immediately one of the Anti-Racist Action hoodlums tried to punch an old gentleman in attendance. This elder former soldier grabbed the shirt of the ARA punk and pushed him out the door. More and more Anti-Racist Action troublemakers tried to rush the door. All were repelled from gaining access to the meeting room. A fire extinguisher was let off in the hallway which had the effect of clearing out all ARA punks from the hall. They regrouped outside and started to chant such slogans as "Lock the Nazis in - Burn the Building Down" which seems like a veiled threat (reminiscent of) the firebombing arson to Ernst Zundel's place back in 1995. To be true to their coward form, the mob of ARA members harassed people still coming to the meeting. An elderly gentleman on crutches was pushed and almost knocked to the ground as he tried to pass the raging screaming mob to get to the front door of the meeting hall - all in sight of the local police who stood by and said NOTHING (while) the ARA mob physically attacked and threatened people going to the meeting. A strange quirk of oddness came when the police originally showed up. The mob of Anti-Racist Action protesters were yelling that the police and CAFE were "Hand in Hand" but oddly the police *ONLY* harassed people going to the meeting, asking to see ID's and taking down people's license plate numbers. No ARA members were asked to show ID, even though they had broken the window of the meeting hall with a brick, physically attacked several old people trying to attend the meeting and attacked an elder gentleman who was on crutches. All younger people attending the meeting passed by the crowd with little to no difficulty - as per usual the crowd of rabble would only attack people over 60 on CRUTCHES and ALONE! When some of meeting attendees tried to stay outside to help out other people coming to the meeting, they were forced by Police to go inside or leave. To find out more about ARA, go to
[CTRL] BCCI Liquidators
-Caveat Lector- $1.16B Awarded to BCCI Liquidators WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge has ordered a retired Saudi government official to pay $1.16 billion in damages to the court-appointed liquidators of BCCI, a now-defunct foreign bank that was at the center of an international scandal. U.S. District Judge Joyce Hens Green ruled that Abdul Raouf Hasan Khalil, a Saudi businessman who was believed to be the biggest depositor in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, conspired with bank officials in a fraudulent scheme that resulted in big losses to the Third World bank. Green found that Khalil allowed BCCI to use his name and reputation as a shareholder in exchange for a payment of millions of dollars. The scheme allegedly included siphoning off more than $250 million from BCCI to Capcom Financial Services Ltd., a brokerage company partly owned by Khalil. Khalil's attorneys, James Linn and Stephen Johnson, didn't immediately return telephone calls Thursday seeking comment. Khalil is retired and living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, according to the liquidators. ``We are pleased that the court has recognized the significant loss to BCCI caused by the activities of Mr. Khalil,'' said Stephen Akers, a partner in accounting firm Deloitte Touche, who is one of the liquidators. ``We intend to enforce this judgment aggressively so that additional funds can be repaid to the innocent victims of BCCI as soon as possible.'' The liquidators have said the victims include depositors and other creditors of the bank who were owed some $10.5 billion. The ruling family of the Persian Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi owned 77 percent of BCCI before it collapsed amid allegations of arms smuggling, drug money laundering and financing of terrorists. At its peak, the bank had 1.3 million depositors and operations in 70 countries. BCCI pleaded guilty in December 1991 to federal fraud charges and forfeited a record $550 million in assets. In a plea bargain, BCCI acknowledged its secret, illegal ownership of four U.S. banks, including First American Bankshares, the biggest bank holding company in Washington at the time. The late Clark Clifford, a defense secretary under President Lyndon Johnson and adviser to several Democratic presidents, had been one of BCCI's principal lawyers in this country and the chairman of First American. Clifford and his former law partner, Robert Altman, agreed in February 1998 to pay a total of $5 million to settle civil fraud charges in the BCCI case. In agreeing to the settlement, Clifford and Altman neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing. 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] Supreme Court Debates States' Rights
-Caveat Lector- "Vermont officials asked a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit, on the grounds that a state is not a ``person'' who can be held liable. "They also invoked the protection of the 11th Amendment, which the court has interpreted to generally bar states from being sued by individuals in federal court." I suppose state governments want the "have their cake and eat it too" status of corporations in their attorneys' arguments -- it's a "person" in terms of the rights (and protections) it claims, but NOT a "person" whenever ACCOUNTABILITY is the issue. Court Faces States' Rights Disputes By RICHARD CARELLI .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court, having ended its 1998-99 term by dramatically enhancing states' political power, will confront two new states' rights disputes in October. The justices added one of those cases Thursday in an order issued among scores of others the day after they began a three-month recess from the bench. The court agreed to use a Vermont dispute to decide whether people can sue a state they accuse of cheating the federal government. Vermont's lawyers contend that the Constitution and federal law bar such lawsuits against states. Lower courts rejected that argument. The justices had agreed in January to decide, sometime in 2000, whether state employees who say they were victims of age discrimination can make a federal case of it. Consolidated cases from Florida and Alabama will yield that decision. In other orders Thursday, the court: Left intact a Pakistani man's Virginia death sentence for the 1993 fatal shootings of two CIA employees outside the spy agency's headquarters. Mir Aimal Kasi had challenged his arrest by FBI agents in Pakistan following a global manhunt. Refused to let four Arkansas cities bar people from putting leaflets on cars parked on city streets. Refused to require a New York public elementary school to rent its building to a church for Sunday worship services even though the school rents the building to groups using it for nonreligious purposes. Carried over until the term that begins in October a potentially important Louisiana voting-rights case. At issue is how vigorously the federal government can protect minorities from election-system changes that might impede their voting power. In the Vermont case, Jonathan Stevens was a lawyer for the state Agency of Natural Resources' water supply division when he sued the agency in 1995. He alleged that it had submitted false time records in connection with federal grant programs. Stevens sued under the federal False Claims Act, which lets private citizens file lawsuits on the federal government's behalf alleging that someone committed fraud against the government. Private citizens whose lawsuits are successful can collect a share of any damages awarded. Vermont officials asked a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit, saying a state is not a ``person'' who can be held liable under the False Claims Act. They also invoked the protection of the Constitution's 11th Amendment, which the court has interpreted to generally bar states from being sued by individuals in federal court. In three decisions earlier this week, the court extended the ``sovereign immunity'' states enjoy against lawsuits by businesses and private citizens in federal and state courts, and enhanced the states' power in relation to the federal government. 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] House Challenges Forfeiture
-Caveat Lector- House Votes on Property Seizures By CASSANDRA BURRELL .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted to curb the federal government's ability to seize private property - cash, securities, cars, boats and real estate - suspected of being linked to crime. Too many innocent citizens have been deprived of their possessions without due process, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., said during debate on the House floor Thursday before the measure was approved, 375-48. No companion bill has been introduced in the Senate. Police have used civil asset forfeiture for such things as shutting down drug houses quickly by taking possession of them or hitting drug traffickers in the wallet even before charges are filed. On Thursday, both Republicans and Democrats criticized current federal law, which lets officers seize property simply because they suspect it was involved in wrongdoing. ``They don't have to convict you. They don't even have to charge you with a crime. But they have your property,'' Hyde said. ``This is a throwback to the old Soviet Union, where justice is the justice of the government and the citizen doesn't have a chance.'' Added Democratic Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts: ``Think about that: Eighty percent of those whose property are seized are never even charged with a crime.'' Asset forfeiture is a powerful anti-crime tool, but it also can be an opportunity for abuse, especially for law enforcement agencies hungry for money to supplement tight budgets, said supporters of the new limits. ``In many jurisdictions, it has become a monetary tail wagging the law enforcement dog,'' said Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga. The bill passed by the House - introduced by Hyde and the Judiciary Committee's senior Democrat, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan - would require the federal government to prove with ``clear and convincing'' evidence the property was eligible for forfeiture if an owner files a legal challenge. The legislation would also: Require officers to prove criminality, not simply allege it. Current law requires property owners to prove they are not connected with the alleged crime. Require the government to give owners notice before seizing property. Owners would have 30 days - compared with the current 10 days - to challenge a seizure in court. Enable a judge to release property to the owner if continued government possession would pose a substantial hardship. Allow judges to appoint counsel for poor defendants. Let owners sue the government for negligence if their property is lost or damaged. Allow some owners of seized cash to receive interest if a judge orders the money returned. Apply only to civil asset forfeitures, not criminal ones, although civil forfeitures often are involved in criminal cases. It would not affect state forfeiture laws. In 1998, the federal government seized about $449 million worth of property through civil and criminal forfeitures. Some of the proceeds were sent to state and local law enforcement agencies that helped in investigations. The Clinton administration said the Hyde-Conyers bill ``would have a serious negative effect on the federal government's ability to combat drug trafficking, alien smuggling, terrorism, consumer fraud and many other criminal offenses.'' But the House rejected, 268-155, an alternative the administration favored. It would have let police seize property based on a lower standard of proof - a ``preponderance'' of the evidence rather than ``clear and convincing'' evidence. Opponents said it would have expanded the federal government's power to seize property, not curbed it. 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'll Judge What's Political Corruption? JANET RENO
-Caveat Lector- Reno Readies New Prosecutor Rules By KAREN GULLO .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - With the independent counsel law about to expire, Attorney General Janet Reno said the Justice Department is ready to take over the job of appointing special prosecutors to investigate misconduct by high government officials. Reno said the department is putting finishing touches on new rules it will follow in naming special investigators. ``Our regulations will be ready by July 1,'' she said Thursday at her weekly news briefing. The law that spawned Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Clinton and 20 other probes of high-level officials will expire June 30. A few lawmakers are drafting legislation to revive the law, but most believe the statute will be allowed to die. One key Senate Republican has urged Congress to seize some authority over the naming of special prosecutors by making Justice Department rules for their appointment, conduct and removal subject to the approval of Congress and the president. The department does not now need congressional approval to change its regulations. Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, said Tuesday that he plans to introduce the legislation in the next week or two. When asked to comment on the proposal, Reno said she wanted to work with Thompson and other lawmakers ``to address the concerns that have been raised,'' but asserted that appointing and removing special prosecutors should be left to the attorney general alone. ``The attorney general gets held responsible for it one way or another,'' she said. Under the expiring law, independent counsels are appointed by a judicial panel after the attorney general determines that the law has been triggered. New rules crafted by the Justice Department say the attorney general would appoint a special prosecutor when he or she determines that the investigation of a top government official presents a conflict of interest for the department. According to an outline of the new regulations submitted to a House subcommittee, the prosecutor would be subject to budgetary and investigative limitations that do not exist under the independent counsel law, including the following: An annual budget would be submitted for the attorney general's approval. A progress report would be required at the end of the first year. Some indictments might need the approval of the attorney general. The investigation would be limited to the issue that led to the appointment. Under the expiring independent counsel law, prosecutors had broad powers and no limits on how much they could spend. 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] Anti-Fascist Atrocities
-Caveat Lector- Slovenia Finds 1,000 Croat Bodies By ALI H. ZERDIN .c The Associated Press MARIBOR, Slovenia (AP) - More than a thousand human skeletons, believed to be Croats killed by vengeful anti-fascists in the aftermath of World War II, have been discovered in Slovenia, forensic experts said Thursday. Some 1,179 skeletons had been found by Thursday after a two-week exhumation in an old trench discovered by highway workers near Maribor, northeastern Slovenia. Franc Podrekar, a forensic expert, told Slovene television that ``many victims had their hands or legs tied with the wire and there are bullet-shaped holes on their skulls.'' Following the exhumations, State Attorney Zdenka Cerar asked for a criminal investigation against ``unknown perpetrators.'' During World War II, the Croatians - a disaffected minority in Serb-dominated Yugoslavia - sided with Nazis who occupied the country in 1941. Tens - perhaps hundreds - of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and anti-fascist Croats were killed in Croat-run concentration camps between 1941-45. In 1945, the pro-fascist regime was defeated and thousands of Croats fled toward Austria, afraid of reprisals from victorious communist partisans. But when they reached Austria, British officers there turned them over to the communists. Many thousands were killed by the Yugoslav partisans once they crossed into Slovenia, which was part of Yugoslavia. Slovenian government has not decided yet whether it will continue exhumations. So far, bodies have been exhumed from only a four-yard-long part of the trench, and forensics experts say there are more bodies buried in the rest of the trench. Marjan Znidaric, a historian and a director of the Maribor Museum of Contemporary History, estimated that up to 8,000 more skeletons remained buried. ``The trench is 800 yards long,'' Znidaric said. ``Obviously, the victims of this revenge were falling into it one after another.'' 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] British Anti-Terrorist Terrorism in Ireland
-Caveat Lector- "In its 1990 report - largely kept secret - a major investigation into the extent of police and army support for pro-British Protestant paramilitary groups on northern Ireland, identified at least 10 army members who leaked police documents in hopes of encouraging assassinations. "It also disclosed that the British army's anti-terrorist intelligence unit had infiltrated the top ranks of Protestant "terrorist" groups, allegedly to influence whom it killed." Briton Charged in Belfast Murder By SHAWN POGATCHNIK .c The Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - Ten years ago, Patrick Finucane was sitting down to dinner with his family when a masked gunman shot the prominent Catholic attorney 14 times at close range. Now, a former British soldier is charged with murder, reinforcing some critics' suspicions that the British army and the predominantly Protestant police force colluded in the killing. The accused man, William Stobie, a Protestant and a former member of a local army regiment, was arraigned Thursday. At the time of the killing, Stobie was a paid informer for the Royal Ulster Constabulary, Northern Ireland's police force. The 48-year-old man's arrest Wednesday in one of Northern Ireland's most politically explosive killings renewed allegations that the police and soldiers either guided or turned a blind eye to whoever killed the lawyer on Feb. 12, 1989. Finucane, 39, was admired in militant Catholic quarters - and just as reviled in militant Protestant ones - because of his highly successful defense of Irish Republican Army suspects and outspoken criticism of the police. Three of his brothers were IRA members. A pro-British Protestant paramilitary group, the Ulster Defense Association, claimed responsibility for the killing, but Finucane's supporters say the police targeted the lawyer because of his work and privately encouraged his killers. The arrest of Stobie, who was ordered held without bail until July 14, followed an international campaign to re-open the Finucane case. ``He totally denies and repudiates the charge of murder,'' Stobie's lawyer, Joe Rice, said in court Thursday. The attorney said his client had telephoned his police superiors to pass on a vague warning that Finucane's killers were about to strike. That tip-off, Rice alleged, ``clearly was not acted upon.'' The allegations against the police had gained momentum in March when a second high-profile Catholic attorney, Rosemary Nelson, was slain in suspicious circumstances. A U.N. human rights fact-finder and members of the U.S. Congress have demanded independent investigations into both killings. Northern Ireland's police commander, Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan, appointed an outsider to oversee a fresh Finucane investigation, and his choice was telling: John Stevens, deputy commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police. Stevens had led the only major investigation into the extent of police and army support for Northern Ireland's pro-British Protestant paramilitary groups, particularly the Ulster Defense Association. Stevens' 1990 report - largely kept secret - identified 10 army members who were subsequently convicted of leaking police documents on IRA suspects to UDA killers in hopes of encouraging assassinations. It also disclosed that the British army's anti-terrorist intelligence unit had infiltrated the top ranks of the Belfast UDA with a double agent, Brian Nelson - either to prevent planned UDA hits, as the army insists, or to influence whom the UDA killed, as others allege. Nelson, later convicted and imprisoned for conspiring to murder several people, has denied any role in targeting Finucane. Finucane's widow, Geraldine, who was wounded during the gun attack, is suing both the army and Nelson for financial compensation and has refused to cooperate with Stevens' investigation. 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] The Un-Nazis Zero in on the Balkans
-Caveat Lector- "The German chancellor was ready to sacrifice ``his top man and closest adviser for the success of the [Balkan reconstruction] project, which is so important for Europe. "Hombach has been the point man in negotiations with German industry and U.S. lawyers on a settlement of claims by Nazi-era slave laborers." Germany Proposes Aide for Balkans By TONY CZUCZKA .c The Associated Press BONN, Germany (AP) - Germany on Thursday proposed a top government official as coordinator of the Balkan stability pact, adopted this month to strengthen democracy and boost the economies of southeast Europe. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, by nominating his controversial chief of staff Bodo Hombach for the post, also signaled a surprise shake-up in his Cabinet at a politically sensitive time. The chancellor said he would dispatch Hombach, an economics expert and former industrial manager, if leaders of the other 14 European Union member nations agree. Hombach managed Schroeder's election campaign last year and is known as a shrewd political strategist, though he has little experience with the Balkans. The 31-nation stability pact, which includes eight southeast European countries, the United States, Russia and the EU, is the centerpiece of Western efforts to pacify the Balkans after the war in Kosovo. The idea originated with Germany. Leaders of participating countries are to meet in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo next month to give impetus to the pact. ``We want to be engaged also with personnel to bring what we're pursuing there forward, namely economic development in the Balkans, and with that to really secure peace,'' Schroeder said. Yugoslavia, which the West wants to exclude from reconstruction aid as long as President Slobodan Milosevic is in power, has been left out for now. Hombach, 46, has been the point man in negotiations with German industry and U.S. lawyers on a settlement of claims by Nazi-era slave laborers. He welcomed his proposed new role. ``This is a dream job,'' Hombach said. ``It's tailor-made for me.'' Schroeder said Hombach is exceptionally qualified. The chancellor was ready to sacrifice ``his top man and closest adviser at the Cabinet table for the success of this project that is so important for Europe,'' government spokesman Uwe-Karsten Heye said. EU foreign ministers could sign off on the nomination at a meeting in Brazil next week, Heye said. The governments of southeastern Europe pledge in the stability pact to carry out Western-style reforms and live peacefully with their neighbors. The pact also promotes economic cooperation and sets up permanent panels for settling border conflicts and minority rights disputes. Foreign ministers signed the document two weeks ago in Cologne. Hombach said he would resign as chief of staff if his nomination is accepted. With that, Schroeder stands to lose a key ally in efforts to promote free-market policies against resistance in his own Social Democratic Party. But he also would be losing a disputed figure. German media and Schroeder's junior coalition partner, the Greens, have often blamed Hombach for confusion over the government's policy agenda that has sharply eroded voter support. Political foes also have raised questions about the financing of his private home while he was a public official in North Rhine-Westphalia state in the 1980s. Hombach has denied wrongdoing. 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] Christian Identity undergoes a revival inarea,experts say
-Caveat Lector- Dear Mr. Davis, Like I said, I'll not do your research for you. Read Mullins on the Federal Reserve; Red Fog Over America by Carr; Iron Curtain Over America by Beaty; Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Mullins; On The Horns of the Beast by Still; Pawns In The game by Carr; The Empire Of The City by Knuth; You Gentiles by Samuel, for starters. The German Central Bank before Hitler was a private bank as is our own Fed Res Bank. Hitler changed that. I'm not sure how Hitler traded with other countries. It may have been barter or it may have been gold and silver or other precious metals or stones. It is not necessary to be on a gold standard to use gold as a medium of exchange. Any "standard" merely guarantees there is enough of something that has a set value everyone agrees to that sets the value of exchange between nations or other entities. It could be salt, for that matter, or any other commodity suitable to all involved, thus a guaranteed standard of exchange exists. Hitler's, Lincoln's and Kennedy's treasury bills drew no interest for Bankers and, in my opinion, got these three killed. Also, bankers were not able to use the fractional reserve to increase their profits by margin of 10. Now then, I do not know everything about the area of history of which we speak. I do, however, know enough to believe Hitler was not what he is being propagandized as today. Agree or not, it doesn't matter to me. John Lee - Original Message - From: Howard R. Davis III [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 8:07 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Christian Identity undergoes a revival inarea,experts say -Caveat Lector- John Lee wrote: Mr. Davis, The difference between Hitler's "money" and Roosevelt's "money" is considerable. German currency was state owned and issued, based upon the assets and production of the nation, whereas Roosevelt's was from the Federal Reserve, a privately owned national bank, as it still is today. All money used in America and the world today is borrowed from some private bank. I am quite familiar with your basic thesis concerning the operation of central banks. However, you state the the German currency was state owned and issued and apparently not borrowed as is normal policy in the central bank system. This would as you suggested be similar to Lincoln's policy of issueing "greenbacks" which were neither borrowed or backed by specie. And, it would also be similar to what JFK did when he issued several hundred million dollars in Treasury notes not long before he was killed. However, I have never heard this assertion made previously and would like to know where you got this information and whether or not it is true. The Federal Reserve bank of the US was paterned after that of Germany's and one of the Warburg brothers ran it while the other pushed for the adoption of the system in the US. So, apparently they did have that system previous to Hitler's coming to power in 1933. If Hitler did end the central reserve banking system in Germany then that certainly would be a reason for certain of the elite to be profoundly upset. However, you also stated that Germany " went off the international gold standard that was, and is, controlled by international Jewish banking". First, how would it then be possible for Germany to trade with other countries, if, in fact, they had gone off the gold standard which was still in effect at the time? Did they barter? And, since there no longer is a gold standard, how can it be controlled by "Jewish banking". You also state that the "World Jewish Congress declared WAR on Germany." Where and when did they meet and vote this declaration of war? What was the effect of this declaration of war? Considering that five years later Hitler got Austria and the next year Checkloslavakia, it seems there was not much to this "war". (Also, we know that American bankers such as Prescot Bush, Aviral Harriman, and the Dulles brothers were investing heavily in Germany (weren't they part of this "international jewish banking)). And, no real effort to stop Hitler was put forward by the countries which are supposedly under the control of these "international Jewish banking" until Hitler invaded Poland. (And if you have read "Mein Kampf" you will know that Hitler had planned on expanding Germany's borders to the east since 1924. Howard Davis DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance-not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL
[CTRL] China Bars US Ships, Planes from HK
-Caveat Lector- China Stops Landing of U.S. Plane .c The Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) - Chinese authorities have stopped a U.S. military airplane from landing in Hong Kong, the latest display of anger following the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. The South China Morning Post reported today that the move has thrown doubts over U.S. congressional delegations' plans to come to Hong Kong aboard U.S. Air Force jets this summer. The move also comes after China refused to let some U.S. warships dock in Hong Kong, a popular port. The U.S. consul general's office in Hong Kong confirmed today that several warships were banned and that one U.S. airplane was recently stopped from landing in Hong Kong on a routine training mission. A consulate spokeswoman, who declined to be identified, said she could not say whether any congressmen were hoping to come here this summer or whether their movements would be affected in any way. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Zhang Qiyue, was asked about the matter today in Beijing. ``Under the present circumstances, it is only natural that China does not allow the U.S. ships or planes to port or land in Hong Kong,'' she said. The U.S. consul general in Hong Kong, Richard Boucher, told business leaders Wednesday that several warships had been denied permission to dock, but apparently on a case-by-case basis. ``These have been individual denials,'' Boucher said. ``We have no indication of a permanent ban. I would expect we will continue to apply for visits, and I am confident at some point they will be approved.'' 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] Concentration Camp Commandant Blames the Serbs
-Caveat Lector- "Charged with crimes against humanity in the deaths of 2000 concentration camp inmates during the Nazi puppet regime in Croatia, he contends that the charges are based on files "falsified'' by postwar Communist authorities in Yugoslavia." Trial Opens for WWII Croatia Cmdr. By SNJEZANA VUKIC .c The Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - Declaring his conscience is clear, the last known living World War II concentration camp commander claimed Thursday that ``no harm was done'' to the inmates of Croatia's notorious Jasenovac camp. Dinko Sakic is charged with carrying out or allowing torture, random killings and mass executions while running the camp in 1944. He maintained he intervened to save several Jewish detainees at Jasenovac, one of more than 20 concentration camps run by the then-Nazi puppet state of Croatia. ``No one came to Jasenovac because of religion, race or political attitudes; only those who actively worked against the Croatian state,'' Sakic said during his first day of testimony. Tens of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and anti-fascist Croats perished in the camp between 1941 and 1945. Postwar documents also revealed names and photographs of children and elderly people slain in the camp. Survivors testifying in the trial have emphasized they were imprisoned only because of their nationality, or their opposition to the fascists. Sakic, 77, is charged with crimes against humanity in the deaths of about 2,000 inmates. But he said the charges against him were based on files ``falsified'' by postwar Yugoslav authorities. He stood by his claim that Jasenovac was a ``collective labor camp.'' In previous testimony, camp survivors recalled starvation, forced labor and mass killings, some of them trembling as they described details of torture and hangings. Sakic claimed he released ``many Jews'' from the camp at the request from a Croatian Jew, Ivan Heinrich, who, he said, ``knew that we respected the inmates and that no harm was done to them.'' Sakic added that Heinrich later helped him settle in Argentina. He used the three-hour testimony mainly to portray himself as an ardent Croatian patriot. He also emphasized that he lived in Argentina for more than 50 years under his real name, traveling often abroad without being sought by anyone. Argentina eventually arrested him in April 1998 under pressure from Holocaust survivors outraged by his claims about what happened at Jasenovac. ``But I wanted to come before a Croatian court,'' he said. ``Not to defend myself, because ... my conscience is clear, but only to establish the truth.'' Sakic, who was extradited to Croatia last June, defended himself without being questioned either by the prosecution or the judge, as allowed under Croatian law. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison. 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: The Shroud of Turin
-Caveat Lector- Since the Shroud of Turin is such a fake, created six centuries ago --- William Shannon wouldn't mind creating a few more, I'm sure. I mean, with today's technology it should be child's play. Carbon dating is very unreliable, -- it falls into the category of "evolution", which, on the basis of the available scientific evidence, stands totally disproven as of now. Carbon dating isn't worthless, but it can mean one of several things, depending on the premises. The new "don't raise any questions" propaganda tool is the DNA testing; the results released two days before the 1998 election showing that Jefferson and Sally Hemmings had relations and a child -- prove to be fraudulent, as since Jefferson had no male surviving line, there was no way to do the test. It was just a guess Incidentally, please advise us all when the new Shroud "fakes" are done. Thanks. Jim Condit Jr. P.S. opportunists making up fake relics do not necessarily discredit the orginal happenings. -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William Shannon Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 1:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Fwd: The Shroud of Turin 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] gilligan's isle
-Caveat Lector- mr jones is repremanded by the courts for calling mrs johnson a pig. and so the judge tells him so o o oo. mr jones asks the judge if it is okay to call a pig mrs johnson and the judge tells him that it is within his right to do so. mr jones turns to mrs johnson and says, "good day, mrs johnson". look again bill, josh, day and tenor love; it really is not that far over your heads. and so my fine feathered little subscribers to the 3rd reich, not. if anyone can pull up their posts (josh's and tenorlove's) wherein, you will find a note from joshua that comes from the return address of day and; a message from day comes (from) the return address of tenorlove. just because the posts cannot be pulled up does not mean that they are not true. it must be some big mix up in the computer wires. i do though, need to apologize, as i was hasty in my initial assessment. rather than thinking that they are all the same person, i think that josh is stuck on gilligan's island and him and ginger and maryann are out to get emael. josh, is tenorlove, ginger or marianne? they don't really want to get emeal, they just want to mess with him a little because he made poor josh and bill, once again look like the x-nothings they are so often mistaken for. ain much goin' on there on gilligans island is there, josh? well you still got ginger and marianne, count your blessings, my boy. try summadat coconut wine an' watch how good da pofessa start to lookin. day; you got a nerve. tenorlove; which hole did you pop out of? are you and day sharing a computer? is there anything going really on between you two? you can tell me, is it hot? is bill on that island too? hey bill, aintit kinna damp down there in the swamp? chris ric, i have attempted to keep this stuff off from the board but i will not be attacked and lied about on the list, from these x-nothings without a return one for one and day will attest to that. please ask them to take it off of the list also. do you think that we ought to put bill on notice? he has been doing a lot of name-calling lately with apparent impunity. 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] bill-u-nut
-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: Poor, poor (sh)e_mael, Clearly misunderstood, his private threats and insults are REALLY nothing more than kindly reminders to remain civil... like you bill? his piss-poor grammar but a mere are you expressing the righteous indignation of the x-nothing half-wit literatti? attempt to "identify" with the rest of us, his multiple personalities nothing but a ruse they aint as many hillbillies down in that swamp of yours to be say'n us about, is there bill? ...to reach us poor souls, (sh)e_mael is that how they denigrate in the swamp bill? by calling someone a girl. i like girls bill, i am a lesbian. realizes that our own tongues must be used lest we don't fully understand... now bill, read that statement to yourself (it is okay to move your lips [no this is not a test and you won't be tested on it]) and tell me if it don't seem to be a hamburger, and order of french fries, a toy and a game bag, short of a happy meal. remember bill think the complete thought of what you want to write before you begin to write and repeat the complete thought to yourself over and over and over again and reread several times. it is the only way you will ever learn. So from ALL of your targets I say "thank you (Sh)e_mael, thank you for showing us the sissy e mael now knows that you keep fun company the error of our, oh-so-wicked ways... bill, einstein said, in so many words, do not attribute to malice what might be attributed to stupidity. YOU must be the messiah(er)... from someone whose second choice would be tammyfae bakker, i am not impressed in the least. For how could we continue without your guidance begging and groveling like that bill ... how could i not try to help your pitiful plea for help. this is just my opinion and i could be wrong but certain psych friends of mine would say that your attributing femininity to me is a projection of how you want to be seen by others and how you want to be seen is that you are a woman trapped in a man's body and though you dare not go so far as to go through your sex change operation, you, at least have a need to be seen as the overly friendly neighborhood homosexual and that you are continually fighting off the compulsion to "serve men" in every concievable way. i know that is how they think and while i would disagree with this analysis i would have to add that you are at that racey age wherein your exuberance, while positive on the surface, also serves the secondary function of being the fertile soil wherein denial reighns supreme. kinda lika taco supreme sandwich at taco bell. you need to slow down a little bill and take a few minutes to think about it and you will see that i am right. Bill. also bill, if you must persist in this exercise in futility of having a battle of wits with me; can we at least take it off from the board, i think these people are tired of seeing you get smeared across the glass like a big ol shiney greenbacked horsefly every time you "attempt"lol, to cross wits with me. i would punctuate this sentence with "you hillbilly" but that would not be civil so i won't. you little sawed off half-witted swampassed coon suc..k... er.. ah ... oh yea. civil. if we ended this now it would be fine with me because i gotta tell you bill that you just bore the hell right out of me and if you ever had an ol lady, she would say the same ... so if you do not mind i really do have a lot of things to do. that would be things to do beyond your wildest imaginings so do not even bother to speculate as to what that might be because you will only hurt yourself, bill. is that civil enough for everybodies taste or can i even be more civil than that ... you damned well better bet that i can so get used to it and get over it and bill, "quit bothering me, like a horsefly." jussa grinnin he was, yo shudda saw is face chris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] ctrl list
-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: I don't know what you two looney birds are talking about, but leave my name out of it. - Joshua2 - the original lonely guy [except for ginger and marianne] better known as day and tenorlove. hi kids. you be good now. don't foreget to write. are they really gone? stayed tuned for the next action packed episode when ... under a new alias ... stay tuned boys and girls 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: [RuMills] Do You Use Aspartane? Nutrasweet? Equal? If ...
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 06/24/1999 6:48:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The FDA continued to refuse to approve it until President Reagan took office (a friend of Searle) and fired the FDA Commissioner who wouldn't approve it. Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes was appointed as commissioner. Even then there was so much opposition to approval that a Board of Inquiry was set up. The Board said: "Do not approve aspartame". Dr. Hayes OVERRULED his own Board of Inquiry. Shortly after Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., approved the use of aspartame in carbonated beverages, he left for a position with G.D. Searle's Public Relations firm. Now, now. We all know that President Reagan was such a kind, wonderful and far sighted man that he would never have engaged in any kind of cronyism. I just recently heard him described as the greatest president we've ever had. I will admit I had to do some serious rethinking when he appointed some big time rancher to an environmental slot, saying as he presented him, that ranchers knew more about the environment than any body else anywhere. It's painful to admit, but I'm still working on that one, but I'm sure I will overcome my skepticism, if I just keep thinking about how Ronnie was the greatest president we've ever had. 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] gilligan's isle
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: E Mael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enough already. EVERYBODY: name-calling, back-biting, love-letters, personal squabbles, are NOT appropriate on this list. And all this chatter goes into the CTRL archives - foolishness and pettiness are recorded for posterity, eh? It's time to focus on more important stuff: conspiracies, paranoia, fantasization, alien invasions, theocrats, secret societies, mind control, etc. Resume plotting. Ric Carter, co-moderator, CTRL ... look again bill, josh, day and tenor love; it really is not that far over your heads. ... ric, i have attempted to keep this stuff off from the board but i will not be attacked and lied about on the list, from these x-nothings without a return one for one and day will attest to that. please ask them to take it off of the list also. do you think that we ought to put bill on notice? he has been doing a lot of name-calling lately with apparent impunity. 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] Nabbed !!!
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 06/24/1999 10:21:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mrs Bush, from Leon, a town in central Mexico, has neither sought nor found the limelight in the past. She met her husband when she was 16, and found her role model in his mother, Barbara, not political wives like Hillary Clinton. This is really funny. Barbara Bush is the epitome of the political wife. She helped George run Zapata Oil, and could give poor old Hillary lessons on how to be political. The lady is FORMIDABLE. Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: National ID
-Caveat Lector- SCAN THIS NEWS 6/24/99 Paul leads effort to stop National ID Bipartisan team supported by broad-based coalition WASHINGTON, DC -- Calling on the federal government to end its war on the privacy rights of American citizens and the prerogatives of state governments, US Rep. Ron Paul (R, Texas) is leading a bipartisan team attempting to stop the national ID card, which is set for implementation on Oct. 1, 2000. The Privacy Protection Act of 1999 was introduced Thursday, June 24, to repeal the sections of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibilities Act that set the national ID in place. Co-sponsoring the legislation is US Rep. John Hostettler (R, Indiana), Maurice Hinchey (D, New York) and Bob Barr (R, Georgia). The legislation is supported by the National Conference of State Legislatures, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the National Council of La Raza, Eagle Forum, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free Congress Foundation and Americans for Tax Reform. "Under the provisions of the 1996 law, no American will be able to get a job, open a bank acount, apply for Social Security or Medicare benefits, purchase a firearm or even take an airplane flight unless their state's drivers' license conforms to the national ID," said Rep. Paul. "Any Member of Congress who refuses to support this common-sense legislation obviously has not considered -- or has considered and rejected -- the reaction of his constituents when they learn they must produce their government papers in order to do just about anything." Rep. Paul said he is pleased to have the backing not only of his colleagues but also of the American people. Congressional offices have been flooded with mail from constituents on this issue, said Paul. "This probably marks the first time state legislators and county officials have teamed up with liberal groups like the ACLU and conservative organizations like Free Congress and Eagle Forum, to stop what is a singularly bad idea." Rep. Paul is recognized as one of Congress' leaders in defending American's privacy rights. He was the first congressman to speak out against the now-withdrawn "Know Your Customer" regulations. He has also been leading the opposition to postal regulations that strip away the fundamental privacy of mailbox users. His legislation to overturn the postal regulations already has more than 30 cosponsors. "Privacy rights are fundamental to our system of government. These big-government programs only further erode our precious liberties, which is why the issue cuts across political party lines and the ideological spectrum." http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press99/pr062499.htm 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] Skeptic News - Friday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990625a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No clerical underlings went postal during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Global disasters, disease escalate. KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Epidemics and natural disasters are on the rise around the world, especially in underde- veloped countries where expanding urban slums pose health hazards. Global warming, deforestation, poverty and urban crowding in the developing world are escalating the spread of contagious and deadly diseases and have left populations vulnerable to natural disaster. An increasing number of people are being affected by poverty, mass population movements, increasing bact- erial resistance to antibiotics and emergence of new diseases like AIDS. Scientists link global warming and other climate changes to altering dis- ease patterns, including the emergence of diseases in places they hadn't been before: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560059291-664 : What's your favorite disaster? Do disasters/plagues signify The End Of The World; the need to go interplanetary soon; the need for population control? Are disasters caused by humans, gods, demons, reality, aliens, robots, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ My Favorite Lobe. End-of-millennium science has given us a startling new vision of the brain's topography. Eight of the world's leading experts describe fascinating areas: http://www.feedmag.com/brain/favlobe.html @ One Pill Makes You Smarter. Are memory drugs the next over-the-counter revolution? http://www.feedmag.com/brain/shenk.html?alert @ Next: cosmetic psychopharmacology: http://feedmag.com/brain/kramer.html @ FreeWill, Alzheimers ultra-Darwinism: http://feedmag.com/brain/rose.html @ Brain Candy: http://www.feedmag.com/brain/links.html?alert : What's your favourite part of your brain? Do you treat it well, abuse it, ignore it? Do you want your brain to work better? Do alien implants help??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ancient temple factory discovered. JERUSALEM (AP) 2000 years ago, masons working in an underground factory - a cluster of caverns beneath Jerusalem - carved stone mugs, dishes wine jugs for priests serving in the nearby Jewish Temple. Last week, a bulldozer clearing a road near the walled Old City of Jerusalem fell into a hole, unearthing the ancient masonry pro- viding physical proof of ritual purity laws described in the Bible. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560058385-7b9 : Does your belief system have physical proof of the existence of its doct- rines? Do you need proof? Do you need doctrines? Do you need ritual objects? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # RETHINKING TECH EXPORTS. A former Cold Warrior says it's pointless for the US to restrict techno exports. The money would be better spent on spying. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/20396.html # CRYPTO BOUND FOR MUSEUM BINS. Technology marches on. The US government's former gold-standard cipher is now fit only for museums, sez a new report: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20385.html # CELL-PHONE CALLS STREAMED ON NET. Basement webcasters are using an AOL- owned streaming service to pipe private cellular phone conversations out onto the Net. AOL is digging into the issue. We can hear your every word: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20405.html : Can any agency or technology assure or pierce your privacy? Should we just assume that everything we say/do/send can/will be intercepted? Do you spy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Mean Spirit. As the idea of apocalypse looms, the evangelical attitude toward non-believers has changed drastically over the years. "While pred- icting the apocalypse may be a constant, the way evangelicals think about it has undergone massive overhaul. The progression|regression is the move from rural towns to the halls of power. It's the expansion of the evangel- ical sphere of concern from the very local (my friends, my church) to the national and global (my president, my world policy). It's a move from a complex view of the individual to an oversimplification that identifies everyone as good-believer OR bad-heathen. It's also a change in sentiment towards the unbeliever from sadness, caring, and invitation to triumph, judgement, and dismissal. It's a chilling mutation, and has entrenched evangelical Christianity in an antagonism to secular America that borders, at times, on cruelty." http://www.feedmag.com/deepread/dr200_master.html : What realms of humanity do your belief system encompass? Do you embrace binary or complex logics? Do you demonize those you can't absorb? Who sets the agendae in your belief system? Why do you go along with them? When you encounter
Re: [CTRL] Burning the Flag: Recognition of America as It Is!
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Lloyd Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Burning the American Flag is an important ritual required to demonstrate to the moronic populace that the current US Government does not now and seldom if ever has had anything to do with the ideals expressed in Founding Documents such as the Declaration of Independence! In the 60s, cops wearing flags on their uniforms busted protestors wearing flags on their clothes, for 'desecrating' the flag. Is it a fashion statement? Protestors in other lands are encouraged to burn US flags - should Americans burn theirs in revenge? It's not just a current US gov't that needs be protested by injuring an icon, but govt's around the world, past present future, that deserve the attention of an outraged public. There are other ways to 'desecrate' a flag besides burning it. Using a flag in advertising, say - flag-draped beer, cigarettes, motor oil, all those images. Or printing flags on toilet paper, tampax, condoms, candy wrappers, postage stamps, anything disposable - when the item is soiled, the flag is injured, eh? We live in a mushrooming police state tyranny! We need to stop diverting attention from the evil US Government by naive flag waving! Indeed - what else is going on that congressional GOPs are so anxious to divert public attention from? Why raise desecrations as an issue at this time? What don't the Republican Reptilioids want us to see? Maybe if the Flag was discredited young men would stop following it into "Banker's Wars"! Just say no! Get you lighter... Who follows the Green Flag into eco-wars? Whatever happened to private property rights anyway?.if I buy a flag, it is mine to burn! Not on a hot dry day in my neighborhood, it ain't - too easy to set the woods on fire. Go burn it in a CitiBank parking lot. Ric "burn reactionaries, not flags" Carter 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] Fw: 'Many cops imagine they are in a war zone'
-Caveat Lector- These folks are almost ALL momma's boy/wannabes' who NEED to control SOMETHING in their lives, and who see the badge and gun as the easy/only way to meet this need... There's good one and there's bad ones, just like anybody else. The real probem is with the institution of police force that is seperate from the populace. It turns good men into animals and bad men into monsters. It does NOT protect us from evil. It does protect tyrants. What we need intead is an armed, trained populace where everybody is a cop, or can be when the need arises. If, fate forfend, I ever have to yell for help I want the nearest people to be ready, willing and able to do it. 911 is a joke. End the War On (Some) Drugs and almost all crime will evaporate virtually over night. The same goes for a standing army. It serves no defensive function. It is only for invading others and taking their resources. For defence we don't need an army, we ARE an army. Anybody invades, we'll kill 'em, plain and simple. If we can't run our economy without exploiting people on the other side of the planet then we need to change the way we do business. First and foremost, we need to stop burning petroleum. Convert to alcohol NOW. Quit using oil and quit making enemies. The world will top hating us and the threat of terrorism will evaporate. And all that money that we've been spending on the military, or most of it anyway, we can spend on things we actually need, like education, medicine, infrastructure, and art. Our tax money doesn't go to defend us; it goes to defend corporate profits. 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] Fw: National ID
-Caveat Lector- "Privacy rights are fundamental to our system of government. These big-government programs only further erode our precious liberties, which is why the issue cuts across political party lines and the ideological spectrum." This rings particularly hollow, coming as it does from a supporter of the War On (Some) Drugs. 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] International Environment and Development Prize SOPHIE awarded
-Caveat Lector- From: Maju Varghese (For WFF) Thomas Kocherry along with Herman Daly was awarded the International environment and development prize the Sophie prize yesterday at a meeting held at University of Oslo, Assembly hall, Norway. I am enclosing the speech made by Mr Kocherry on that occasion. Speech of Thomas Kocherry on the occasion of the prize ceremony of the Sophie Foundation June 15, 1999, Oslo, Norway. Dear chairperson and friends, First of all I want to thank the Sophie Foundation for honouring me with the Sophie Prize. In particular I thank Jostein Gaarder for creating the Foundation for honouring such ventures to recognise and to encourage re-imaging a world where every human being is equal in opportunities; without discrimination on the basis of caste, class, creed, religion or gender. Please accept my heartfelt thanks. Today we are in the context of GLOBALIZATION - LIBERALIZATION. The words look very attractive, but the vast majority of the people, are the victims of Globalisation. Globalisation began with COLONIALISM. In the sixteenth century Europe was overpopulated and the people began to migrate from Europe to other continents as if they were discovering new places. It ended up with conquering other places and people. Sword and Cross went together. They forcefully enslaved and converted natives and indigenous peoples. They conquered lands, exploited the resources and accumulated wealth. In the 20th century, the world witnessed the uprising of peoples for political freedom. However economic exploitation continued through Multi-National Corporations (MNCs) and Trans-National Corporations (TNCs). But the rich and the ruling class of the newly freed 3rd world countries generally sided with the MNCs for their own advantage, against the interest of the common people. Again the natives and the indigenous peoples were the worst hit. As a result, according to a UN study, today the 20% Northern minority of humankind has: 82.7% of world gross national product 81.2% of world trade 94.6% of all commercial lending 80.5% of all domestic investment 80.6% of all domestic savings 94.0% of all research and development It is in this context that we should understand GLOBALIZATION today. Those who have more are bound to get more. This means more accumulation and centralisation. The Northern 20% people are better placed to take away even the 10-20% of the wealth in the hands of 80% people in the South. The real Centre is G8 countries and of course the USA is the real centre of the centre. They are wielding POWER of WEALTH and ARMS. They are placed in a better position for quick profit at the expense of the vast majority of people and the environment. All the rest are in the periphery. Thus, PHERIPHERALIZATION of the vast MAJORITY is the other side of Globalisation. In the period following de-colonisation and political independence of the Third World (South) countries particularly after world war II, the international relationships among the countries at bilateral and multilateral levels were considered very important and viewed as mutually beneficial. This language and practice seems to be in the wane today. The Northern MNCs want to take over the control of UN. If the UN does not dance according to their tune they will not give their share. They are more interested in strengthening the WTO than the UN. They talk of DEMOCRACY and HUMAN RIGHTS but they have NO CONCERN FOR PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH. Market economy determines everything, there is no other value in life. MONEY HAS MORE VALUE THAN PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH. The UN has become a weak instrument. Globalisation is beneficial to those who have. All those who are have-nots are the victims. Globalisation is a mechanistic process (and therefore most easily manipulatable by the wielders of power) in the face of which there is no choice and alternative. This is the most insidious aspect of this ideology: that it could present itself as the only possible way of being. It creates a certain sense of inevitability and absoluteness. Outside Globalisation-and Market Economy, there is no salvation. Let me show how this is true as regards the fisheries sector. In the 1990s fishing reached the point of diminishing returns. Many fish populations have fallen to levels from which they can no longer recover without significant reductions in the catches or a moratorium on fishing. There are simply too many boats catching too many fish. The first surge in numbers of fishing vessels occurred during the industrial revolution. This upwell tapered off during the two world wars, but boomed again in the 1950s through 1970s. The world's fishing fleet doubled between 1970 and 1990. More than 100 million people in developing countries (South) are dependent on fisheries for our livelihoods. For us fishing is a way of life, not just a source of income. The Sea is our MOTHER. Traditionally, small-scale or artisanal fishers have provided fish for local consumption;
[CTRL] Taxing Matters
-Caveat Lector- From WorldNetToday -- -- Picture: WND Exclusive Commentary -- -- Global taxation near -- -- By Henry Lamb © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com Two primary targets are now in the cross hairs of the global tax-mongers: carbon and currency exchange. Carbon taxes are being designed to modify social behavior while the tax on currency exchange is designed to increase U.N. revenue from about $11 billion per year to $1.5 trillion per year. A revenue stream, independent of the voluntary contributions of member states, is all that prevents the United Nations from imposing, and enforcing, its vision of global governance. Momentum is building for global taxation schemes to provide that independent revenue stream. More than two-thirds of the American people support the idea of a global tax on foreign currency exchange, and a whopping 79 percent want a global tax on carbon. These numbers were collected by the ATI Foundation, and reported by the Washington-based Commission to Fund the United Nations. The numbers likely reflect the pollster's skill at asking misleading questions, rather than a true reflection of the American attitude toward global taxation. Nevertheless, support for various forms of global taxation is growing, pushed by well-funded organizations such as the Commission to Fund the United Nations; the United Nations Association U.S.A., Friends of the Earth; and a host of other environmental organizations. Carbon taxes are being discussed and presented as "Environmental Tax Reform" (ETR) which means, simply, taxes on the use of fossil fuel, while providing subsidies for non-carbon energy sources. Interestingly, nuclear and hydro energy sources are excluded from consideration for subsidies even though both are non-carbon energy sources. Carbon taxes are designed to force people, especially those heartless, greedy Americans, to reduce their consumption and live a simpler, slower, healthier, lifestyle. Bicycles and frequent brisk walks are in store for those lazy people who Al Gore describes as people who burn a gallon of gas to go buy a gallon of milk. The taxes will be called anything but taxes, and imposed incrementally. User fees, permits, registration fees, externalities cost adjustments, are but a few of the terms used to disguise the carbon tax. Bunker fuels (airplane and steamship fuel) are likely to be an early victim. Air travel represents only 3 percent of transportation fuel use, but it is easily taxed and the tax is easy to hide from the consumer. Virtually all resource use is subject to ETR. Fossil fuel use will lead the way, but logging, mining, ranching and even farming are the focus of Environmental Tax Reform. Very little of the revenues from ETR will go to the U.N. The real money prize lies in the tax on currency exchange. Global currency exchange exceeds $1 trillion per day, compared to about $10 billion per day traded on all U.S. stock markets. Nobel economist, James Tobin, calculated that if 0.05 percent of this exchange were taken as a tax, it would produce about $1.5 trillion, more than enough to fund all the U.N.'s ambitious social and peace-keeping objectives. U.N. advocates have been working overtime to create the mechanisms necessary to impose such a tax. The Global Policy Forum, one of many non-government organizations working to secure independent financing for the U.N., claims that the United States is nearly $17 billion dollars in arrears in its U.N. payments. Other nations, too, are behind in their payments. Therefore, the argument goes, the U.N. must be free from the deadbeats, and have its own source of income. Another, perhaps more powerful argument, arises from the recent rash of financial crises around the world. Mexico, Brazil, and most of Asia have had to be bailed out of economic disaster by massive loans from the International Monetary Fund, with money supplied by developed nations. The Tobin tax would give the U.N. the necessary funds to provide assistance to these nations in trouble, without calling on the United States and other developed countries. Moreover, of all the money exchanged in foreign markets, a full 80 percent is estimated to be market speculation. The Tobin tax would dampen this speculation and reduce the profiteering by wealthy traders. These arguments are gaining currency among Americans, and in the U.S. Congress. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., may be the last obstacle preventing global taxation. Even he may not be able to stop the momentum that is building. The United Nations is already empowered to collect taxes from seabed mining operations. Maurice Strong, executive coordinator for U.N. Reform, is now consolidating the U.N. financial
Re: [CTRL] Who is shutting up Bauval and Rasche?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.eridu.co.uk/news.html The most significant part of Hancock's new book concerns the temples at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, and their possible alignment to the stars of the constellation Draco. Hancock claims an amazing correlation, which he further claims was exact at 10500 BC - the same date as deduced by Bauval Gilbert for the pyramids-Orion correlation at Giza. If true, this discovery is of profound importance. And as with all important new 'discoveries', it simply won't do for critics to ignore it or 'sit on the fence'. So let's kick off this debate with some salient observations. snip Those who are familiar with the occult will recognise that he is, wittingly or unwittingly, following a masonic agenda in this matter, with all of its emphasis on the Sun and the stars. And as I have shown in my new book 'The Phoenix Solution', the masonic agenda conceals the true inter-planetary meaning of the original Egyptian mythos. ALAN F. ALFORD, 15th SEPTEMBER 1998 = http://www.eridu.co.uk/PhoenixSolution.htm 'The Phoenix Solution' is probably the most important book to be published on ancient Egypt in the last 30 years. In a nutshell, Alford's theory is that a pre-dynastic race built the Great Pyramid and deposited at Giza certain scientific records which specifically included the catastrophic history of our solar system and the subsequent development of life on Earth. Alford presents overwhelming evidence that the ancient Egyptian religion was an 'exploded planet cult', and suggests that they received this scientific theory when they themselves discovered the legendary 'Hall of Records' at least 6,000 years ago. This profound knowledge - of catastrophism in the heavens and on Earth - was adopted by the emerging Dynastic elite as a means of legitimising their rule as 'divine' kings. snip Alford has also tentatively identified connections to the origins of modern religion (including the myths of Jesus, John, Mary and Christianity), the modern concepts of Heaven, Hell, God and the Afterlife, the original meaning of Biblical prophesy, and the true meaning of the 'Holy Grail'. All of the latter issues will be subject to an in-depth treatment in Alford's next book. -Original Message- From: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, June 24, 1999 10:30 PM Subject: [CTRL] Who is shutting up Bauval and Rasche? -Caveat Lector- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo Subject: Who is shutting up Bauval and Rasche? Date: Tue, Jun 22, 1999, 9:38 AM Who closed the mouth of the Transmute organiser? One of the major UFO-events of the year in England would have been the Transmute Conference, held in Salisbury, over the weekend of the Spring Equinox. The event was organised by Niklas Rasche, a frequent contributor to the English newsstand magazine Fortean Times. The list of speakers included John Mack, Michael Cremo, Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent and many other well-known international authors. Less than a week before the start of the conference, however, the conference was cancelled. Various reasons were given and those who had paid a ticket (worth in excess of 100 pounds/175 dollar), were promised they would be refunded. But then the organiser disappeared and has never again been heard of. The speakers were given the excuse for the cancellation that little or no tickets had been sold and that because of this, it was best to cancel. Other trusthworthy sources, however, claim many tickets were sold. Why did Rasche disappear? Several years ago, it seems Rasche was involved with psychic research and belonged to the intimate circle of the British author Andy Collins, the author of books Gods of Eden and From the Ashes of Angels. Before these books, however, he was involved with a group of psychics, of which Rasche was apparently one. In 1998, Collins joined the so-called "Majestic 12", a group of 12 authors formed around Robert Bauval, the author of the Orion Mystery and two other books in co-operation with British bestselling author Graham Hancock. Bauval's group planned to organise a Spring Equinox Conference, but this idea never materialised (neither did his Summer Solstice Conference). Might these sudden cancelations be more than a meaningful coincidence? Even more strange is Rasche's sudden and immediate disappearance. He left unpaid bills for advertisements run in many magazines, including his "own" Fortean Times. To date, it has been reported that he has not refunded tickets and has, in fact, not even informed them of when and how. Sources close to the Fortean Times headquarters actually informed us that the police have taken an interest in this sudden disappearance. If for some reason, Rasche felt threatened and cancelled the event because of unknown but possible negative repercusions, one wonders whether the large sums of money that had been paid by the sponsors and the conference attendants might be a
Re: [CTRL] Who is shutting up Bauval and Rasche?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/112/egypt.html Whoever built the pyramids, a debate rages over who should uncover their secrets. Could there be a conspiracy to hide the truth? Niklas Rasche digs up the evidence. In 1095 the first crusade was launched against the Holy Land, ostensibly with the aim of vanquishing the heathens and `reclaiming' Jerusalem. Something similar has been going on at Giza for almost 140 years now. Nowadays we use satellite imaging, network television specials, exclusive book deals and hidden video cameras in our latest attempts to wrest control of the monuments both from the Egyptians themselves and from orthodox thinking about them. At the end of the second Christian millennium, Egypt has become the alternative Holy Land the only problem being that it really isn't that alternative at all. Just as Jerusalem is the focus of the three major monotheistic religions, Egypt has become the Mecca of our post-modern spiritual chaos. Every cult, conspiracy theory, mystical order and alternative theory of origins sets down on the Giza Plateau at some point. From Drunvalo Melchizedek to Damanhur, from the Freemasons to proselytisers for the reality of Atlantis Egypt is the alpha and the omega of non-orthodox religion. Everybody seems to experience their own personal religious `Plateau phase' the second they set foot in Giza. The official closing of the Great Pyramid on April 1st for "essential cleaning and renovation work" has prompted many to talk of hidden agendas and conspiracies at the highest level of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). Two points immediately come to mind. One why did the authorities not plan their secret tunnelling just a tad better and wait until the Pyramid was closed? (If just one person au fait with the layout of the Great Pyramid notices what seems to be new excavations you can be sure that everyone will soon hear about it see separate report and The Daily Mail Sat. 18th April 1998 .) Two the Great Pyramid is not, contrary to popular belief, now hermetically sealed. Throughout the period of renovation people will be allowed in for "meditation". In fact, if you have a desperate need to get inside the Great Pyramid in the next little while why not take up Reiki? Simon Treselyan is giving Master attunements in the King's Chamber in May. Egyptologists such as Bob Brier (author of The Murder of Tutankhamen) and Bassam El Shamma (who presented his well-argued theory of a second Sphinx at Giza ) have managed to do provocative, innovative work while maintaining excellent relations with the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Bassam related how he never has any problem seeing those in authority, who operate what he called an "open door policy". Is it any wonder that so many of those from the alternative camp have such problems when they insist on scaling the Great Pyramid, taking secret video cameras into the King's Chamber and generally acting like they own the place? The fact remains, however, that the monuments of ancient Egypt have thrown up enough `impossible' artefacts and anomalous data to give even the most dedicated Fortean a perpetual headache. Bowls and vases (which could only have been cast or machined) of diorite, basalt, quartz and granite, smelted iron evidence of tobacco and coca plants in mummies amazingly precise geodetic measurements advanced astronomical knowledge water weathering on the Sphinx and, of course, the actual Pyramids themselves. Writers and engineers have suggested, among other marvels, evidence of ultrasonic drilling, lathes, electroplating, sonic levitation and electromagnetic cranes. More pyramid schemes in Fortean Times issue 112 Image:Charles Walker Collection/E.Giillian (Image Manipulation) -Original Message- From: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, June 24, 1999 10:30 PM Subject: [CTRL] Who is shutting up Bauval and Rasche? -Caveat Lector- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo Subject: Who is shutting up Bauval and Rasche? Date: Tue, Jun 22, 1999, 9:38 AM Who closed the mouth of the Transmute organiser? One of the major UFO-events of the year in England would have been the Transmute Conference, held in Salisbury, over the weekend of the Spring Equinox. The event was organised by Niklas Rasche, a frequent contributor to the English newsstand magazine Fortean Times. The list of speakers included John Mack, Michael Cremo, Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent and many other well-known international authors. Less than a week before the start of the conference, however, the conference was cancelled. Various reasons were given and those who had paid a ticket (worth in excess of 100 pounds/175 dollar), were promised they would be refunded. But then the organiser disappeared and has never again been heard of. The speakers were given the excuse for the cancellation that little or no tickets had been sold and that because
[CTRL] MJ12 and William Cooper
-Caveat Lector- http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/122/disin2.html WHILE MJ12 - THE SEMI-SECRET BODY ALLEGEDLY OVERSEEING THE ALIEN 'PROBLEM' - AND AREA 51- THE SUPPOSED ALIEN HQ ON EARTH - ARE NOW WELL KNOWN, FEW PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF THEIR ORIGINS IN THE LATE 1980'S. VETERAN UFOLOGIST DON ECKER, CONCLUDES HIS ACCOUNT. While MJ-12 - the semi-secret body allegedly overseeing the alien problem - and Area 51 - the supposed alien HQ on Earth - are now well known, few people are aware of their origins in the late 1980s. veteran Ufologist Don Ecker, who had a ringside seat at the birth of this murky mythology, concludes his account. The close of 1988 saw American ufology in chaos over the claims and counter-claims about MJ-12. The airing, in October 1988, of the two-hour TV special UFO Coverup - Live only fanned the flames higher. In it, William Moore and Jaime Shandera - who had both gained fame for their investigations of the MJ-12 affair - introduced two men as American intelligence agents. Disguised electronically and given the codenames of Falcon and Condor, the men stated as fact that the American Government was playing host to alien visitors. Memorably, Falcon claimed the "grey aliens" liked strawberry ice cream. Within days of this broadcast William Cooper sent me his critique of it for publication on the ParaNet bulletin board system (BBS)2. He claimed that UFO Coverup - Live, in tandem with the MJ-12 documents, was part of an elaborate disinformation scheme designed to lead UFO researchers away from the real situation. WILLIAM COOPER William Cooper declared that he could confirm "150 per cent" of the Lear Hypothesis; a paper by John Lear containing allegations of the US Governments alliance with ETs who, in exchange for advanced alien technology, were allowed to abduct unwilling human subjects for experimentation and the harvesting of biological material. The confusing war of fantastic, paranoid and often contradictory claims between Lear and Cooper proved too much for ParaNets founder Jim Speiser. He ejected them from the ParaNet membership on 26 October 1988, explaining his reasons in a four-page document. Speiser also mentioned he had been contacted by a 24-year-old ParaNet user named Jeff Felix whom he agreed to meet in a restaurant in Tempe, Arizona. Felix claimed to work as a cryptology technician for the National Security Agency (NSA) who, while "fooling around" on the NSA computer, had stumbled across files on secret projects called Majestic and Aquarius. After consulting contacts who had a genuine intelligence background, Speiser put some testing questions to Felix at a second meeting several days later. Felix failed this simple test but referred to something he called "Project X-calibur". When Speiser mentioned this to Cooper, he claimed to have heard of it but knew nothing more. Later that day, Cooper called Speiser back and, to Speisers surprise, proceeded to tell him that Project Excalibur was real and concerned an MJ-12 project to obtain technology from the aliens. Speiser later said he began to think that Cooper and Felix "were scamming me behind my back". ParaNet, he said, was becoming "a home for unwed paranoids." That same month (October 1988) Lear sent Cooper copies of all his research into UFOs, including communications from Val Valerian (aka John Grace, an airforce NCO on active duty who had a keen interest in UFOs) and the Dallas Revisited videotape made by Lars Hansson exploring the theory that John F Kennedy had been fatally shot by his driver. Hansson had sent it to Lear in the hope that Lear might help finance his JFK research, asking Lear not to pass it on to anyone. The fact that Lear passed it on to Cooper had catastrophic consequences. In April 1989, KLAS TV journalist George Knapp presented a highly successful multi-part series on UFOs. In one segment, Knapp interviewed a man (electronically disguised) identified as Dennis who claimed to have worked at a super-secret site in Nevada known as Area 51 and at an even more secret site called S-4. His fantastic claim was he had worked on "real flying saucers". At this time, no-one except Knapp and Area 51 security knew who Dennis was. BILLY GOODMAN Lear and Cooper also appeared on a radio programme broadcast from Las Vegas and heard all over the western United States, hosted by Billy Goodman on KVEG radio. In May of 1989, Lear and Cooper were asked to appear on a tabloid television programme, PM Magazine. Later Lear heard Cooper telling the interviewer that while he was on the Naval briefing team in Hawaii, he saw secret files containing documents designated O H Krill. I knew these documents; John Lear sent me copies of the Krill papers in early 1988. I knew that they were written by the USAF NCO John Grace using the pseudonym Val Valarian. The name Krill was an inside joke, referring to a case in the late 1950s in which Navy investigators interviewed a woman who
[CTRL] America's impoverished children (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Citation: Journal of Economic Issues June 1998, v32, n2, p279(7) Author: Hill, Lewis E. Title: The institutional economics of poverty: an inquiry into the causes and effects of poverty. by Lewis E. Hill COPYRIGHT 1998 Journal of Economic Issues-Association for Evolutionary Economics Remark Upon Receiving the Veblen-Commons Award The thesis of this essay is that the failure of the American people to invest adequately in the human capital represented by impoverished children is both the most important cause and the most tragic effect of poverty in the United States. Impoverished parents do not have, and the welfare system does not provide them with, adequate means to make the necessary investment in their children to lift them out of a life of poverty. The types of investments in human capital that are both most important and most likely to be inadequate for impoverished children include nutrition, health care, and education. The inadequacy of these kinds of investment in the human capital represented by impoverished children condemns them to lifelong poverty through succeeding generations. Nobel Laureate Gary Becker has investigated this problem and has concluded that "the case is overwhelming that investments in human capital are one of the most effective ways to raise the poor to decent levels of income and health" [Becker 1995, 7]. More than one-fifth of all American children were impoverished in 1993. The rate of childhood poverty was higher in the United States than in most other Western nations [Bergmann 1996, 1; Duncan and Brooks-Gunn 1997, 1]. "American children are twice as likely to be poor as Canadian children, 3 times as likely to be poor as British children, 4 times as likely to be poor as French children, and 7 to 13 times as likely to be poor as German, Dutch, and Swedish children" [Lavelle 1995, 38]. Welfare does not eliminate poverty. In the early 1990s, the combined benefits from Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Food Stamps amounted to only 72 percent of the poverty line for a mother with two children in a median state [Danziger and Gottschalk 1995, 91]. The children of working poor mothers are more endangered than children on welfare because they are not eligible for Medicaid, and the cost of child care averages more than 25 percent of their mother's income [Chase-Lansdale and Brooks-Gunn 1995, 161-168; Lavelle 1995, 104]. Persistent poverty usually causes chronic malnutrition, which produces extremely detrimental consequences for children. The severity of these detrimental consequences is influenced by the intensity and duration of the poverty and by the age of the impoverished child. Malnutrition during infancy and childhood can damage their immune system and produce a wide variety of negative health outcomes [Sidel 1996, 143-147]. Moreover, chronic malnutrition adversely affects the development of the central nervous system and can cause permanent brain damage and mental retardation. Chronically inadequate nutrition inhibits the development of cognitive ability and social skills. Learning disabilities are an almost inevitable result of chronic malnutrition during infancy and childhood. All of these negative physical and mental outcomes of infant and childhood poverty combine to cause learning failure and to limit academic performance [Duncan and Brooks-Gunn 1997, 70-99; Karp 1993, 13-30; Walker 1994, 117-135]. Impoverished children are two to three times as likely to suffer from physical and mental disabilities as children who are not poor [Sidel 1996, 142-144; Lavelle 1995, 131]. These physical and mental disabilities, which have been caused by malnutrition, are greatly exacerbated by the very low quality and the woefully inadequate quantity of health care that impoverished children receive. Only about half of poor children are eligible for Medicaid, but even these children receive health care that is substantially inferior to the health care that children who are not poor receive. Most Medicaid providers are over worked and under paid. The access of poor children to Medicaid care is frequently limited by the inconvenient location of medical facilities and the long waiting time for service. For these and other reasons, Medicaid health care is likely to be piecemeal, discontinuous, uncoordinated, inefficient, and therefore inadequate. Medicaid providers are especially derelict in their failure to provide adequate preventive care [Rodgers 1996, 69-128; Chase-Lansdale and Brooks 1995, 159-169]. Although the children who are covered by Medicaid receive inferior health care, they are more fortunate than the children of the working poor who are ineligible for Medicaid. Financial barriers deny these impoverished children access to the health care they need. This medical neglect causes a substantial
Re: [CTRL] bill-u-nut
-Caveat Lector- E-mael @sfbg.com has been put on NOPOST, because of harrasing uncivil behaviour. 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] Fwd: The Week Online with DRCNet, Issue #96
The Week Online with DRCNet, Issue #96 -- June 25, 1999 A Publication of the Drug Reform Coordination Network PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE (To sign off this list, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line "signoff drc-natl" in the body of the message, or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. To subscribe to this list, visit http://www.drcnet.org/signup.html.) This issue can be also be read on our web site at http://www.drcnet.org/wol/096.html. Check out the DRCNN weekly radio segment at http://www.drcnet.org/drcnn/. SPECIAL $30 BOOK/MEMBERSHIP OFFER THROUGH JUNE 30: See http://www.drcnet.org/wol/092.html#thanks for details! TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Governor of New Mexico Calls Drug War "Failed" -- Calls for Discussion of Alternatives http://www.drcnet.org/wol/096.html#governorspeaks 2. Hyde's Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act Passes House Easily http://www.drcnet.org/wol/096.html#safepassage 3. Vancouver's Cannabis Cafe, Hemp BC Closed http://www.drcnet.org/wol/096.html#hempbccloses 4. Activist Banned From Talking About Marijuana http://www.drcnet.org/wol/096.html#nospeech 5. NEW YORK: Staten Island Assemblyman Wants Needle Exchange Banned http://www.drcnet.org/wol/096.html#statenisland 6. IDAHO: "Drug Bust: The Longest War" TV Special Preempted by Drug Testing Speech in Boise http://www.drcnet.org/wol/096.html#preemptedinboise 7. News in Brief http://www.drcnet.org/wol/096.html#newsbriefs 8. Supreme Court Roundup http://www.drcnet.org/wol/096.html#roundup 9. WASHINGTON: Free Video and Lunch-Talk Series http://www.drcnet.org/wol/096.html#videoseries 10. EDITORIAL: Can't Keep a Good Idea Down http://www.drcnet.org/wol/096.html#editorial 1. Governor of New Mexico Calls Drug War "Failed" -- Calls for Discussion of Alternatives Gary Johnson, Republican Governor of New Mexico, ignited a firestorm in his state on Wednesday (6/23) by calling for a re-examination of the failed drug war and a discussion of alternatives, including decriminalization. "It (the drug war) needs to get talked about," he said in an interview, "and one of the things that's going to get talked about is decriminalization. We really need to put all options on the table." Johnson, who said that the drug war was a "miserable failure" that "hasn't worked," noted that "the drug problem is getting worse. It's not getting better." The suggestion became a big story in the New Mexico media, with the state's largest newspaper, the Albuquerque Journal, running it as the lead story the following day (see http://www.abqjournal.com/news/3news06-24.htm) and local news stations interviewing DARE officers and others for reaction. Steven Bunch, President of the New Mexico Drug Policy Foundation, commended the governor for bringing the issue to public debate. "Governor Johnson is absolutely correct about the failure of the so-called drug war. Prohibition has caused more problems than the policy has solved. It has corrupted our nation and it insures that our children have access to substances that we cannot possibly control in a black market." Predictably, not every New Mexico elected official was receptive to the idea. A spokeswoman for Rep. Joe Skeen (R-NM) told the Journal that the congressman's views "can be summed up in three words: 'Just Say No.'" Johnson, who is 46 years-old and is the father of two teenage children, has previously acknowledged that he had used marijuana, and occasionally cocaine while in college. Now an avid triathlon, he stopped using drugs in his early 20's and has not used alcohol in 12 years. "What I did was criminal," he said, "and yet those people that I knew that did the same and those that still do it today, I don't consider them criminals." MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Write to Governor Johnson and let him know that you appreciate his political courage -- especially if you're from New Mexico. If you have family or friends in New Mexico, urge them to call. The Governor's number is (505) 827-3000, or you can write to Governor Gary E. Johnson, Office of the Governor, State Capitol Building, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87503, or comment through the net at http://164.64.43.1/opinion/Opinion.htm. His office needs to hear from people, especially constituents, so Governor Johnson will know there is support for what he is trying to accomplish. Submit letters to the editor to the Albuquerque Journal at [EMAIL PROTECTED], fax to (505) 823-3812, or mail to: Letters to the Editor, The Albuquerque Journal, P.O. Drawer J, Albuquerque, NM 87103. Your letter needs to include your name, address and phone number, and your signature if using fax or snail-mail. It should probably be under 200 words, to have the best chance of getting printed. 2. Hyde's Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act Passes House Easily (press release from the Drug Policy Foundation,
Re: [CTRL] [SC] Skeptic News - Thursday #3
-Caveat Lector- Kathy, And not only military--let's give them contracts for civilian vaccines, too! I was one of the lucky ones to get the Baby Boomer polio vaccine-wouldn't want the government out of that field, would we? Heck, they could just inoculate us all for/with anything and everything and we wouldn't even need to know about it--just munch away. Of course, it's for our own good. But we need to get Monsanto into the picture in a bigger way. General Mills might not could handle it alone. Amelia - Original Message - From: Cathy Laughlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] [SC] Skeptic News - Thursday #3 -Caveat Lector- # GM plants to produce medicinal honey. (BBC) A spoonful of honey could soon replace bitter pills or painful injections as scientists use the nectar of genetically-modified plants to produce honey containing drugs or vaccines. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377035.stm Personally, I think General Mills would do a helluva job at this! I mean...have you tried Honey Nut Cheerios? To die for! With or without milk. My kids woulda starved without GM foods! And the potential uses are mind boggling. Why, we could wipe out entire third world nations with just one Red Cross donation of cereal containing anthrax vaccine!I say we give them a military contract. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance-not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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
[CTRL] Anglican Bishop spearheads United Religions Project
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.ustimesdaily.com/ A HREF="http://www.ustimesdaily.com/"U.S. Times Daily News/A - Anglican Bishop spearheads United Religions Project JERUSALEM, Israel (ENI) -- Leaders of an initiative to set up a united body of the world's religions, paralleling the United Nations, claim that their campaign is gaining momentum. The Christian clergyman spearheading the "United Religions Initiative", California-based Episcopal (Anglican) Bishop William Swing, said that religions lagged at least half-a-century behind nation states in establishing international forums to resolve conflicts between different faiths. "As nations have got together for the past 50 years to pursue global good, during the same 50 years the religions have not spoken to each other and have not sat down to figure out what their common vocation is," he told ENI during a visit to Jerusalem during which he, along with the Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, attended an inter-faith conference. "Religions talk to each other at conferences, walk away, meet every two years, or five years or never. I am convinced that religions have to meet on a daily, permanent basis. "The problems, among religions, and in religions, are everyday problems, and they are not going to be solved, or addressed or helped, until we finally have some kind of 'United Religions', that will parallel the United Nations, so that we can carry out negotiations." His goal is to set up the world body of religions by June next year, and he remains hopeful of meeting the deadline - with God's help. The initiative also has the support of the Dalai Lama, whose visit to Jerusalem this month was sponsored by Bishop Swing's Inter-Religious Friendship Group and the Inter-Religious Co-ordinating Council in Israel. "The Dalai Lama and I have been talking about this for several years and he is very supportive," said the bishop, who added that he had also discussed his proposal with Vatican officials. But the bishop doubted that the Roman Catholic Church would join, pointing out that it had not become a member of the World Council of Churches. But he added that he believed the Vatican would cooperate with, though not join, a body of world religions. "We see Northern Ireland, we see Sri Lanka, we see the Sudan, we see the Middle East, we see religions pitted against each other. And we are going to see more of that, not less. What happens when we have five extremist religious groups in charge of five countries with hands on atomic weapons?"The only answer, he said, was to set up an organisation of world regions bounded by clear structures and principles, agreed by all the participants. To this end, he and others of like mind have been working on a charter that might be adopted by such a body. He stressed that the model should be quite different from the bureaucratic framework of the United Nations. Nor would a world body of religions have a single headquarters such as the United Nations, but rather would seek to establish spheres of influence through offices around the world. The structural basis for such a body had already been formed thanks to the growing trend to have inter-faith groups, he said. Later this year Bishop Swing will attend an inter-faith forum in Atlanta, Georgia, hosted by former US President Jimmy Carter, who has expressed interest in the project. The proposal will also be aired at another inter-faith conference in India in the coming months. (ENI - Ecumenical News International) (Post date: June 22, 1999) - 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] The Mafia is a Masonic Body Re: Mazzini Quote
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:533806"The Mafia is a Masonic Body Re: Mazzini Quote /A - Subject: The Mafia is a Masonic Body Re: Mazzini Quote From: St. John The Sublime Reformer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 25 June 1999 06:40 AM EDT Message-id: 7kvmbr$rl$[EMAIL PROTECTED] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], j Dolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the law of God, given by Him to humanity, all men are free, are brothers, and are equals. Brother Guiseppe Mazzini I am never ceased to be amazed by the absolute ignorance of the true history of their "craft" held and believed by the average freemason. Using a quotation of Brother Guiseppe Mazzini's to show the "good" works of freemasonry is really a classic !!! First of all it saves me a lot of trouble in having to "prove" to the freemasons on this n.g. (which can never be done by a "cowan" [what they derisively call non-masons], because they only accept the say so of their WORSHIPFUL MASTER whispered to them in secret in the "tyled" and darkened confines of their TEMPLES - of course freemasonry is not a religion and any and all coincidences to it are purerly that - "coincidental"), that the notorious Mazzini was in fact a freemason. Brother Mazzini was a contemporary of Albert Pike who introduced the Scottish Rite back into America holding the helm of that organization for 40 years until his death. He is known as the "plato of freemasonry", and was Mazzini's tutor. Now Mr. Mazzini has quite a reputation in Italy as he was deeply involved in various political conspiracies in the 19th century, and the leading light of the Italian Revolutions of that time which brought about the modern Italian State. Of course this is not Mr. Mazzini's only claim to fame. There were several secret groups he formed as part of his role as "revolutionary". In all the groups he drew heavily on his Freemasonry and occult involvement especially as instructed to him by Mr. Albert Pike (who also wrote all the ritual work and manuals for the Klu Klux Klan and authorized and instigated the formation of it while he headed the Supreme Council 33rd Degree). One of the groups Mazzini formed was a select assassination squad modelled on the masonic Hashishim called the Oblinica, roughly translated as "We reckon with the dagger". The other one is "rather" more known. It was called in Italian Mazzini Autorizzi Firenzi, Avelnamenti, Incenderie, or in english Mazzini Authorizes Thefts, Arson, Poisoning. It was also known by it's acronym M.A.F.I.A. The Mafia was and is a Masonic body and the initiation ceremony for being a "made" man would be rather familiar to the average freemason today in Deadwater Texas. The candiate is led into a darkened room with three candles burning on raised tables, one larger than the other two, just like in a modern masonic temple. The Mafia today remains a Masonic body, that is why the Central Intelligence Agency (run by freemasons and repleat with masonic symbols in its seals and accoutraments) feels so comfortable working with it, and why the F.B.I. led by the Grand Commander of the Supreme Council J. Edgar Hoover 33rd degree lied to the American People for so many years denying the Mafia even existed. So what have we learnt today kiddies, lets review. 1. The "average" freemason knows very little and understands even less about the true origins and history of his craft. 2. Freemasonry is a secret society which has, and is, active in a welter of political conspiracies throughout the western world. 3. That Official Freemasonry uses secret sub groups to perform it's more private tasks and provide it with "plausible deniability" to its "regular" members and the public. 4. That this organization is so powerful that it has infiltrated every aspect of American life so as to be able to write and rewrite history as it sees fit so as to "hoodwink" it's rank and file membership (who for the most part are decent and well meaning community minded souls who would be sicked if they learnt what some of skeletons lurking in their organizations closet were). 5. That Freemasonry has never shied away from doing "what is necessary", to maintain power, including "finessing" the constitution ala the Medici Family of Florence, and committing outright criminal acts, resulting in the complete undermining of Democracy and Freedom. 6. That among the more notorious groups of the past and present that were and are masonic bodies were the "brethern of the spanish main" - led by Captain Morgan flying the old Templar Naval ensign of the skull and crossbones, the Klux Klux Klan - brainchild of the Supreme Council 33rd Degree, Mother Council of the World led by Albert Pike remaining an official Masonic concordant body up at least until the 1940's in the Northern U.S. and certanly at least until the 1960's in the south, and the most notorious clandestine (or hidden) masonic body of them
Re: [CTRL] [SC] Skeptic News - Thursday #3
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Amelia Edgeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Cathy Laughlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] # GM plants to produce medicinal honey. (BBC) A spoonful of honey could soon replace bitter pills or painful injections as scientists use the nectar of genetically-modified plants to produce honey containing drugs or vaccines. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377035.stm Personally, I think General Mills would do a helluva job at this! I mean...have you tried Honey Nut Cheerios? To die for! With or without milk. My kids woulda starved without GM foods! And the potential uses are mind boggling. Why, we could wipe out entire third world nations with just one Red Cross donation of cereal containing anthrax vaccine! I say we give them a military contract. Kathy, And not only military--let's give them contracts for civilian vaccines, too! I was one of the lucky ones to get the Baby Boomer polio vaccine - wouldn't want the government out of that field, would we? Heck, they could just inoculate us all for/with anything and everything and we wouldn't even need to know about it -- just munch away. Of course, it's for our own good. But we need to get Monsanto into the picture in a bigger way. General Mills might not could handle it alone. Amelia Better include SKF-Beecham, DuPont, Bayer-AG, the rest of the pharmo- chemical giants too, make this an all-encompassing cartel - the more industrialists, the merrier, eh? And one needn't depend on food as a vector for drug delivery [vaccination]; but by careful gene-splicing of bees, wasps, hornets, other stinging flying insects, the very bugs themselves can inject the desired pharmaceuticals into the human target population. So, instead of establishing the infrastructure necessary for food 'donations' - landing strip, food containers, distribution 'volunteers' etc - a simple fly-over by the cargo plane, releasing the insects, would suffice. The possibilities are nearly limitless. Ric "The Phantom Of The Hymenoptera" Carter 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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[CTRL] The influence of intelligence services on the British left
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/lobster/articles/rrtalk.htm A HREF="http://www.knowledge.co.uk/lobster/articles/rrtalk.htm"The influence of intelligence services on the B /A - The influence of intelligence services on the British left A talk given by Robin Ramsay to Labour Party branches in late 1996 This is an adaptation and massive compression of the pamphlet The Clandestine Caucus written and published by Robin Ramsay in 1996. In that the sources for most of the claims contained in this talk are to be found. Dirty tricks and covert operations In the official theory of British politics the state in general and the intelligence services in particular have no role. This is what I think of as the Disney version of politics; and this is the one that is still largely taught in British universities and regurgitated by the mass media. In the Disney version, the state is neutral. Interests in society align with political parties; and the parties contest elections. The election winners form governments whose policies are then implemented by the state. This was the view, for example, of Ron Hayward, the General Secretary of the Labour Party. In 1974 Hayward was informed by a private security company that the Labour Party's headquarters were bugged. 'Nonsense,' said Hayward. 'We don't have Watergate politics in Britain.' Hayward simply didn't know. In 1974 hardly anybody outside Whitehall did. But we do have 'Watergate politics' and have had them since the cold war. By Watergate politics I mean, loosely, dirty tricks and covert operations. (Obviously they did exist to some extent before the war, but I'm concentrating on the post-45 period.) With hindsight, post cold war, it was inevitable that the major working class party of the second most important member of NATO would be of interest to the intelligence services of several countries Britain, the US and the Soviet bloc. The first I want to look at is the UK's. In 1948 the psychological warfare organisation, IRD, the Information Research Department, was set up within the Foreign Office. IRD worked abroad trying to combat nationalism in the British Empire, and at home to combat the British left. IRD fed information and propaganda on 'communists' within the labour movement through confidential recipients of its briefings one of whom we now know was the late Vic Feather into the media, and into the Labour Party's policing units, the National Agent's Department and the Organisation Subcommittee. These latter organisations also received information on a local basis from some police Special Branches. Special Branches also surveilled the unions, the wider left and organisations like CND. Also, and rather important in this period, surveillance and data collection by private sector groups such as the Economic League, the Building Employers Federation, was still important. [As the state grew in the 30s, and then with the war and the cold war, the relative significance of the private sector declined.] But we also had American activities to contend with. Through the State Department and the Department of Labour, the US ran education programmes and freebie trips for sympathetic Labour movement people. Hundreds, maybe thousands, no-one has yet assembled the data of British trade union officials and MPs that had these freebies. The State Department, via the London embassy, was sending back masses of reports. The idea that this was just the role of the CIA is false. None of these British reports have surfaced but over a 1000 pages of such reports made by the New Zealand US embassy to the State Department on the tiny NZ labour movement have been declassified and show surveillance down to the level of trades councils and union branches. It seems a reasonable assumption that the same attention to detail was being exercised on the strategically far more significant British labour movement. There were also US labour attachés based in the London US embassy. One of them, Philip Kaiser, has written a memoir which includes an account of his years in London. He writes: 'the labour attache is expected to develop contacts with key leaders in the trade union movement and to influence their thinking and decisions in directions compatible wth American goals...' And not just the unions. Joseph Godson, Kaiser's predecessor as the US labour attaché, got so close to Hugh Gaitskell that in the climactic struggle with the Bevanites, Gaitskell was planning strategy with Godson, running between Godson and the National Executive Committee. Under the anticommunism banner a series of domestic antileft groups were, I believe, funded by the CIA in Britain. Let me emphasise believe; for I don't have much concrete evidence. This network begins with Common Cause, which then produced an offshoot, Industrial Research and Information Services, IRIS, in the mid 1950s to work in the unions. Common Cause and IRIS produced information and propaganda against what it called
[CTRL] Who were they travelling with?
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/lobster/articles/l31whowh.htm A HREF="http://www.knowledge.co.uk/lobster/articles/l31whowh.htm"Who were they travelling with? /A - Who were they travelling with? By Tom Easton From Lobster 31 SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party Ivor Crewe and Anthony King Oxford University Press, 1995, £25 Few who lived through the launch of the Social Democratic Party are likely to forget the impact of the creation of the Gang of Four in 1981. The avowed intention of the four former Cabinet ministers was to offer Britain a fresh alternative - a replacement for the Labour party in which they themselves had made their name and to which most non-Conservatives in Britain had looked for alternative government for most of the 20th century. Given the ambition of their undertaking and the SDP's significance in dividing early opposition to a Conservative party now in power for 17 years, it is curious then that we have to wait until now for a detailed account. It is also disappointing that after so long - the bulk of the SDP merged with the Liberal Party in 1987 - its history should be written by two academics who helped found it in the first place. Not that Ivor Crewe and Anthony King of Essex University were ever members. Rather that they were friendly with many of the SDP's leading lights and were sufficiently interested in its formation to advise its founders on its likely chances of success. That close personal contact, plus access to the party's archive, ensure that in 600 pages of text, footnotes and statistical appendices we have the chance to learn a great deal about this comet-like phenomenon, even if it falls some way short of the judgement of Labour MP Gerald Kaufman in the Sunday Telegraph (November 12, 1995) - 'brilliant history, definitively researched'. For example, Crewe and King, in giving the first detailed account of the Liberals' botched attempt to ditch Roy Jenkins as leader in the middle of the 1983 general election campaign, illustrate the alliance's inherent fragility. In revealing that most working-class constituencies had fewer than 30 members, they show why 'the Westminster contrivance' that was the SDP was'fated to fail'. In profiling its parliamentarians, they show how 'most of the defectors were MPs who happened to be Labour, rather than pillars of the labour movement who happened also to be MPs'.They also tell us - without identification - how some of them, before defecting, voted for Michael Foot rather than Denis Healey as leader in 1980 in order to inflict maximum damage on the Labour Party. (1) The authors say, too, that the Labour Party's constitutional reforms (the mandatory reselection of MPs by local parties; the extension of the franchise for the election of leader beyond the Parliamentary Labour Party and moves to give the party's national executive committee sole responsibility for drafting the election manifesto) were the occasion of the 1981 split and not its cause. They add that the Gang of Four chose to exaggerate extremist influence in the Labour Party because they themselves 'no longer had a programme and a theory of how the world worked'. If King and Crewe are not persuaded that internal changes in the structure of the Labour party were actually grounds for the split as the SDP leaders claimed, what of the second oft-stated reason they gave in 1981 -- Labour policy towards Europe? Labour and Europe? On the face of it this would seem a more promising and principled basis for launching a new party than fear of the somewhat arcane activities of local party management committees. After all, the leadership quartet were central to that section of the Labour Party which had long supported British entry into the Common Market. David Owen was solidly pro-Common Market. Bill Rodgers had been hugely disappointed when his mentor, Hugh Gaitskell, had failed to share his Euro enthusiasm. Shirley Williams had threatened not to be part of a Labour government which withdrew from Common Market membership; and Roy Jenkins had actually left parliamentary politics for Brussels to become president of the European Commission. But after lengthy consideration, Crewe and King conclude that although some of the defecting Labour MPs shared the Common Market views of the Gang of Four, 'passionate commitment to Europe was not in fact what bound the SDP defectors together... views on the issue hardly distinguished the Labour right-wingers who did defect to the SDP from those who did not'. So of the three grounds given for the split by the SDP founders - changes in the Labour party on its own constitution, Europe and defence - Crewe and King rule out two as being wholly unconvincing. To the third, defence, we shall return at some length. But before we do it is worth making passing reference to the role of the Guardian in the history of the SDP. The Guardian and the SDP Crewe and King tell us: 'When the SDP was
[CTRL] MJ12 Documents
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9923/MJ12.html A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9923/MJ12.html"MJ12 Documents /A - Artwork by James Neff - Visit his Site for more incredible artwork "ASTOUNDING NEW MJ12 DOCUMENTS" Celestial Visitors (6 Pages) Go to WSPG, New Mexico (1 Page) Proceed to WSPG Command Control (1 Page) Intelligence Assessment (7 Pages) Air Accident Report (3 Pages) Disk-like Aircraft in New Mexico (1 Page) Intelligence Estimate So Far (18 Pages) Establishes Majestic Twelve (1 Page) Not...Divulged To Public (1 Page) 1st Annual Report-Majestic 12 (17 Pages) Briefing On MJ-12 (7 Pages) Extraterrestrial Entities And Technology, Recovery And Disposal (25 Pages) Memo Requesting Review of MJ-12 Intelligence Operations (1 Page) Classification Review Of All UFO Files (1 Page) Report on the MJ-12 Documents : by Dr. Robert Wood at MUFON, California I am Proud to Display Artwork on This Site By Sondra Seeger - visit her Wonderful Gallery!!! - 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] Fw: International Environment and Development Prize SOPHIE awarded
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " ewertverlag"@t-online.de Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 7:27 AM Subject: International Environment and Development Prize SOPHIE awarded From: Maju Varghese (For WFF) Thomas Kocherry along with Herman Daly was awarded the International environment and development prize the Sophie prize yesterday at a meeting held at University of Oslo, Assembly hall, Norway. I am enclosing the speech made by Mr Kocherry on that occasion. Speech of Thomas Kocherry on the occasion of the prize ceremony of the Sophie Foundation June 15, 1999, Oslo, Norway. Dear chairperson and friends, First of all I want to thank the Sophie Foundation for honouring me with the Sophie Prize. In particular I thank Jostein Gaarder for creating the Foundation for honouring such ventures to recognise and to encourage re-imaging a world where every human being is equal in opportunities; without discrimination on the basis of caste, class, creed, religion or gender. Please accept my heartfelt thanks. Today we are in the context of GLOBALIZATION - LIBERALIZATION. The words look very attractive, but the vast majority of the people, are the victims of Globalisation. Globalisation began with COLONIALISM. In the sixteenth century Europe was overpopulated and the people began to migrate from Europe to other continents as if they were discovering new places. It ended up with conquering other places and people. Sword and Cross went together. They forcefully enslaved and converted natives and indigenous peoples. They conquered lands, exploited the resources and accumulated wealth. In the 20th century, the world witnessed the uprising of peoples for political freedom. However economic exploitation continued through Multi-National Corporations (MNCs) and Trans-National Corporations (TNCs). But the rich and the ruling class of the newly freed 3rd world countries generally sided with the MNCs for their own advantage, against the interest of the common people. Again the natives and the indigenous peoples were the worst hit. As a result, according to a UN study, today the 20% Northern minority of humankind has: 82.7% of world gross national product 81.2% of world trade 94.6% of all commercial lending 80.5% of all domestic investment 80.6% of all domestic savings 94.0% of all research and development It is in this context that we should understand GLOBALIZATION today. Those who have more are bound to get more. This means more accumulation and centralisation. The Northern 20% people are better placed to take away even the 10-20% of the wealth in the hands of 80% people in the South. The real Centre is G8 countries and of course the USA is the real centre of the centre. They are wielding POWER of WEALTH and ARMS. They are placed in a better position for quick profit at the expense of the vast majority of people and the environment. All the rest are in the periphery. Thus, PHERIPHERALIZATION of the vast MAJORITY is the other side of Globalisation. In the period following de-colonisation and political independence of the Third World (South) countries particularly after world war II, the international relationships among the countries at bilateral and multilateral levels were considered very important and viewed as mutually beneficial. This language and practice seems to be in the wane today. The Northern MNCs want to take over the control of UN. If the UN does not dance according to their tune they will not give their share. They are more interested in strengthening the WTO than the UN. They talk of DEMOCRACY and HUMAN RIGHTS but they have NO CONCERN FOR PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH. Market economy determines everything, there is no other value in life. MONEY HAS MORE VALUE THAN PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH. The UN has become a weak instrument. Globalisation is beneficial to those who have. All those who are have-nots are the victims. Globalisation is a mechanistic process (and therefore most easily manipulatable by the wielders of power) in the face of which there is no choice and alternative. This is the most insidious aspect of this ideology: that it could present itself as the only possible way of being. It creates a certain sense of inevitability and absoluteness. Outside Globalisation-and Market Economy, there is no salvation. Let me show how this is true as regards the fisheries sector. In the 1990s fishing reached the point of diminishing returns. Many fish populations have fallen to levels from which they can no longer recover without significant reductions in the catches or a moratorium on fishing. There are simply too many boats catching too many fish. The first surge in numbers of fishing vessels occurred during the industrial revolution. This upwell tapered off during the two world wars, but boomed again in the 1950s through 1970s. The world's fishing fleet doubled between 1970 and 1990. More than 100 million people in developing countries (South) are
[CTRL] Desired Track - The tragic flight of KAL 007
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.vgernet.net/roberta/ A HREF="http://www.vgernet.net/roberta/"Desired Track - The tragic flight of KAL 007 /A - Mystery Solved! A Crash-Investigator's Reconstruction Of The KAL007 Tragedy. "Desired Track is the most detailed and comprehensive analysis of KAL007's flight path that I have seen, and the only one that stands up." Richard Witkin, a former aviation editor from The New York Times. = About the book Contact Order Pricing Home ABOUT THE BOOK If you believe there is nothing more to know about the KAL tradegy, but you still have a open mind, Desired Track is for you. Desired Track is the crash investigation report the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) should have compiled, but did not. Unlike the ICAO's two reports, it contains no spongy politics to modify or ignore the facts. More than 13 years in the making, Desired Track has receieved glowing reports from pilots and navigators. It offers the reader an understandable reconstruction of the events of that terrible night. The authors walk pilots and non-pilots alike, step by step, through the flight from beginning to end. For those qualified to test this work, all data necessary to validate the work of the authors is included in the second volume, The Evidence. Various systems of the 747 are explained in simple terms; the all important Inertial Navigation System (INS), for example. Properly understood, the reader will come to recognize the question is no longer whether the South Korean Airliner accidentally went astray, but who sent it to its destruction. - 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] Robert Henderson v Tony Blair: A Tale of New Britain
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://freespace.virgin.net/old.whig/flc028.htm"Free Life Commentary No. 28 - 20/2/99 /A - Free Life Commentary, an independent journal of comment published on the Internet Editor: Sean Gabb Issue Number Twenty Eight 20th February 1999 "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign" (J.S. Mill, On Liberty, 1859) Robert Henderson v Tony Blair: A Tale of New Britain by Sean Gabb Introduction The story that I have to tell is condensed from over a thousand pages of photocopied letters, articles and transcripts, plus many hours of tape recording. At times, it seems to resemble a baroque church, as the significance of a particular line of correspondence becomes hard to find and relate to the whole. However, I will do my best to simplify the story without doing harm to its essentials. Briefly stated, what I hold in one drawer of a filing cabinet is an indictment of Tony Blair as damning and well-established as any of the claims made against Bill Clinton. The evidence clearly shows that Mr Blair has the moral outlook of a Mafia godfather. He has used the police and the security services to harass his personal enemies. For the same purpose, he has obtained the help of his friends in the media. If any future biographer were to need an example with which to show Mr Blair's full turpitude and unfitness for office, he would find none better than the case of Robert Henderson. Let me explain. The Wisden Affair Mr Henderson is a political writer whose work has been published over the years in a number of journals and magazines. Until the mid-1990s, his strong interest in cricket drew him to write occasionally for Wisden Cricket Monthly. His last article for that magazine was published in July 1995, and is a development of his views on the bad performance in recent years of the England Cricket Team. He believes that one reason for this has been the mingling of foreign with native players. However talented these former may be as individuals, Mr Henderson argues, they lack the shared commitment to their side on which success in team games like cricket depends. He explains: The common experience of mixed groups makes it immensely difficult to accept that a changing room comprised of say six Englishmen, two West Indians, two Southern Africans and a New Zealander is going to develop the same camaraderie as eleven unequivocal Englishmen.[1] There are two things to be said about this argument. First, it is not an argument about race. Mr Henderson's cricket eleven is supposed to be bad not because it contains two black men, but because is contains five people who are not English, three of whom are almost certainly white. Second, whatever its validity, the argument seems to have been largely accepted by other writers on cricket - including David Firth, the Editor of Wisden Cricket Monthly,[2] and Matthew Engel, who edits the associated Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and also writes a column for The Guardian .[3] The article should have gone as unremarked outside cricketing as had all the other similar comments on that theme. But it was a bad time of year for other news, and the media had nothing better to do than take notice of the article and puff it into an immense "anti-racist" witch hunt. Mr Henderson found himself in the middle of a publicity storm as ferocious as it was unexpected. Without any sign of having read his article, journalists and public figures lined up to denounce him for having denied the patriotism of black and brown English players. Tens of thousands of words in the newspapers and hours on the wireless were given to the attack. It became a safe and easy way of showing one's own "anti-racist" credentials while throwing doubt on those of somebody el se. Eventually, two black cricketers mentioned in the article - Devon Malcolm and Philip DeFreitas - sued Wisden Cricketing Monthly for libel. On legal advice, their cases were settled out of court. The affair had become something more suited to an anthropological journal than the history of a great nation. Mr Henderson had to face this storm all alone. Smeared as a "racist" and a bigot, he was systematically denied a right of reply to any of the attacks on him. The press allowed him no reply at all. An interview that he gave to the BBC was edited into a parody of his views.[4] The Telegraph newspapers showed the cowardice and hypocrisy usual of them when faced with an issue that the politically correct classes take seriously. They joined in the attack - even publishing obvious clues to Mr Henderson's address[5] - and refused to print an unedited letter of reply from him. Perhaps most shameful, he was abandoned by Wisden Cricketing Monthly. Mr Frith refused to let him reply to the five pages of hostile criticism that was carried in the
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-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 6/25/99 8:26:42 AM, you wrote: I am having trouble signing off list. Please take my name off. Colleen Sorry to see ya go. I hope there are no bad feelings. chris was causing unneeded disruption. He hasn't been kicked off; he cannot mail but still receive. I always enjoy your take on items. Om K Om K DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Burning the Flag: Recognition of America as It Is!
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Amelia Edgeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ric, Always after the Republicans -- it ain't just they! I believe this current administration with all the cute Executive Orders is a pack of Democrats. Neither group is worth the powder it would take -- face it -- we are leaderless! The administration is under Dixiecrat control, the congress is run by GOPs - nary a Social Democrat to be seen on the horizon, just rival packs of corporate pimps and ideological panderers. But these are the groups US voters have vested with power, for better or worse. The best gov't that money can buy - do we have the gov't we deserve? In singling out the republicans daily are you suggesting the Democrats have answers/solutions/insight/leadership? Not so -- biggest bunch of liars/traitors/criminals I've ever seen in are in the White House currently. I 'single out' GOPs only when associating Republicans with Reptilioids, both cold inhuman carnivores with flat eyes and carrion breath. You've never seen me say anything good about Demos here, and you're not likely to, except that Demos generally aren't as craven as GOPs and Dixiecrats. [Myself, I'm a registered Green.] As for criminals in the White House, check out the number of felony convictions during the Reagan/Bush years. Unless you support this group, let's see equal nastiness for both major parties. Amelia "hang 'em all from the highest tree" Edgeman That's why I use this slogan: Ric "Democrat=Liar, Republican=Thief - VOTE GREEN!" Carter 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] algore - ..racist and not just socialist. [Joseph Farah]
-Caveat Lector- FRIDAY JUNE 25 1999 Al Gore -- racist to the core After the presidential election of 1996, my non-profit news organization was audited and threatened with losing its tax-exempt status because I, the executive director, had dared to investigate and criticize the incumbent president in an election year. I kid you not. This really happened -- in America. Of course, the action was initiated by the most politically ruthless and corrupt administration in the history of the United States. And the action by the Internal Revenue Service is the subject of two lawsuits by the Western Journalism Center, the parent company of WorldNetDaily.com. I remind you of this history because I am about to repeat the action that caused me so much grief back in 1996. I am about to (gasp!) criticize an incumbent vice president who is a declared candidate for president of the United States. Get ready you slackjawed bureaucrats and jackbooted thugs over there at the IRS. OK, here goes. ... Al Gore is a racist. That's right. I said it and I'm proud. Al Gore is a white supremacist as much as any white-hooded Ku Klux Klansman you have ever seen. His cracker Tennessee plantation-owning forefathers would be proud of their descendant. Al Gore oozes white bigotry from every pore in his redneck body. Worse yet, Gore combines his racism with socialism. That's a dangerously potent combination. Remember that racist national socialism brought the world to war in the 1940s and resulted in a human holocaust. No, this is not just inflammatory hyperbole. My assessment is based on real evidence. Al Gore told a Los Angeles audience yesterday that government-mandated affirmative action -- or what he termed "special efforts" in hiring, promotions and contracting -- for blacks and Hispanics must continue because those policies and those policies alone represent the only chance minorities have to catch up to whites in wealth accumulation. That, my friend, no matter how you slice it, is a racist concept. In other words, blacks and Hispanics are not smart enough, enterprising enough, ambitious enough and creative enough to achieve on their own -- they need the government to intervene on their behalf, giving them a preference or holding back the competition. Al Gore is for racial profiling. Oh, he doesn't say that. It's not fashionable to be in favor of racial profiling because police agencies use that technique to determine which kind of people are the most likely suspects. But Al Gore has determined that blacks and Hispanics should get preference in hiring and contracting decisions because their racial profiles suggest their groups have been held back from economic achievement. If Gore were not a racist, and simply a socialist, he would say that all poor people, regardless of their race and ethnic background, deserved a break -- deserved a preference. Let's face it. There are many poor whites in America. Many of them come from families that have been poor for generations through no fault of their own. Does it make sense that a well-educated, middle-class black person should be given a preference for a job over an equally qualified white person with half the income? Is that fair? Now personally, as a believer in freedom, not socialism, I don't think a person's wealth should be any determinant as to qualification any more than I think race should be a factor. But that's me, and I've got some quaint, old-fashioned ideas about inalienable rights, limited government and personal responsibility. Al Gore, on the other hand, is a materialist. He believes people need to be forced to behave in the best interest of the state. To do that, you need to divide and conquer, pit one class against another, play the politics of envy. "At a time when African-Americans earn just 62 cents on each dollar that white Americans earn, don't you think it's time for an equal day's pay for an equal day's work?" he asks rhetorically. In other words, we should pay people not based on the work they do as individuals, but by the color of their skin. That's racism. That's socialism. That's fascism. "I've heard the critics of affirmative action," he says. "They're in favor of affirmative action if you can dunk the basketball or sink a three-point shot. But they're not in favor of it if you merely have the potential to be a leader of your community and bring people together, to teach people who are hungry for knowledge, to heal families who need medical care." Well, I have to admit, Al is talking over my head here. I'm not quite sure I can keep up with him. Who exactly is it that is in favor of affirmative action when it comes time to dunking a basketball? Pardon me, but I haven't noticed anyone clamoring to force the NBA to hire more white players. But then again, Al Gore knows a lot more about
[CTRL] Fwd: [RuMills] New Information Added to Mind Control Article, Operation Open...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From Rayelan Allan (Russbacher)
When I was gathering all the pieces that I needed for the article,
"Operation Open Eyes"
Five Easy Steps to Create
A Manchurian Candidate,
I couldn't find two which I considered to be very important. I have since
found them and have rewritten the original article. It will soon be posted on
my web page, but at the moment it is on Jeff Rense's SIGHTINGS web page
(www.sightings.com)
Both pieces are very important in understanding how we are being herded into
the New World Order corral, i.e., concentration camps and a police state.
In the original article I described how the CIA uses a "Modified version" of
the Hegelian Dialectic to create conditions which will bring about the ends
they desire. Unfortunately, I could not find the information I needed to
describe this technique further.
Last week I finally located the three 60 minutes tapes which included this
information.
In August of 1993, I (Rayelan Allan {Russbacher}) was speaking at the Global
Science Congress in Denver.
A HREF="http://www.globalsciences.com/"Global Sciences Welcome/A
My husband, Gunther was in prison in Missouri. There had been several
attempts on his life. He had been poisoned, beaten and attacked by other
prisoners. I didn't know from hour to hour if he was alive or dead.
I was also having major problems staying alive. At the end of 1992, there
were four attempts, in rapid sucession made on my life. Gunther arranged with
his Godfather, Kurt Waldheim, to protect me until the Bush people were out of
power. I fled to Austria, in a state of fear wondering if the airplane would
blow up. I was guaraded by Austrian Security Police and 4 Marines from the
Embassy in Vienna. As soon as the Clinton Administration came into power,
Gunther was successful in getting the "hit orders" that had been placed o me,
rescinded.
Shortly before the Global Science conference, there and been two attempts to
kidnap me. Because Gunther was a SEAL team commander, I had Navy SEALS
around me at all times. If it had not been for these men, I would not be here
to write the articles you read in the Rumor Mill. One day, when I have fully
recovered from my 8 years as Gunther's wife, I will publish the story of what
we went through. The whole story has never been told anywhere before.
After my lecture at the conference, I was approached by two men I knew over
the telephone. Both men were political prisoners, just like Gunther. I did
not know they had been released. Like Gunther and me, they did not know from
hour to hour if they would still be alive. I have not heard from one of them
since that seminar. I don't know if he is back in prison or if he is even
alive.
The two men were Navy Captain Trenton Parker, and private investigator Stew
Webb.
Stew had just uncovered the secret funding behind the Denver Airport. He
stumbled onto it accidently as he tried to win custody of his child. It
turned out that his father-in-law was a very powerful man in the shadowy
world where the CIA and the Mafia connect. His father-in-law was the man who
was behind the Denver Airport.
Trenton Parker was a Navy SEAL, a financial planner for the CIA and a covert
operative. He and Gunther walked similar paths and these paths had crossed
many times.
Gunther, under his alias Emory J. Peden, the "banker" for the CIA, was the
man who arraigned the funding for the Denver Airport. I believe this is
described in Rodney Stich's "Defraduing America" third Edition
A HREF="http://www.defraudingamerica.com/"FBI, CIA and other government
agents document widespread government corruption.
/A (Rodney has just finished another book. It is at the printers right now.
I believe it is called "Drugging America". As usual, Rodney received his
information from CIA, DEA and FBI agents and operatives.
A HREF="http://www.druggingamerica.com/"Government insiders and former drug
traffickers reveal government's involvement in drugs.
/A This is the link to his new webpage.
When Stew and Trenton approached me, they asked if they could give a lecture.
I think both of them wanted their information on record because neither of
them knew how much longer they would be alive. Times were rough for all of us
in those days. Paul Wilcher had just been murdered. Another lawyer who was
helping us had just been jailed and disbarred, Gunther's boss, Admiral
Johann, the head of Faction 2, had been poisoned and I didn't know if he was
dead or alive.
When we gave the lecture, we didn't know if the FBI would burst in and arrest
us or kill all of us as they had done to the people at Waco. As we spoke,
each of us kept looking at the door, wondering if the next person through was
coming with a gun. The people who attended the lecture felt the same fear and
apprehension and many expressed their fears to us. Some people, who wanted to
attend the lecture, stayed away because they couldn't handle the stress and
fear. The only reason I mention this is because many
[CTRL] FWD:The Nation-Capitol Crimes
-Caveat Lector- Capitol Crimes If only Columbine High School had posted the Ten Commandments next to its football trophies, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold would never have killed anyone. This Charlton Heston logic--Moses meets NRA--was articulated by GOP Congressman Bob Barr, leader of the House gun-lobby mercenaries who in mid-June not only defeated background checks for gun-show weapons purchasers but passed the most vindictive youthful-offender bill ever and threw in the Ten Commandments for good measure. Although the gun debate and the amendment encouraging the posting of the Ten Commandments in public buildings got the headlines, the juvenile crime bill to which they were both originally attached points up the politics involved. Senators and criminal-justice lobbyists had labored to turn a severe and simplistic youthful-offender bill into a relatively moderate measure that included funding for antiviolence programs long sought by children's advocates. Then public horror at Littleton persuaded the Senate to append a gun-control amendment requiring the same three-day waiting period and background check for gun-show purchases as for weapons from other dealers. When the Senate's juvenile-crime-plus-background-check package hit the House it was Barr, last seen in the vanguard of the impeachment faction, who set out to derail it. Barr--with more than $81,000 in NRA contributions since 1994--proposed "poison pill" amendments so punitive they were sure to cost the bill its liberal support: harsh mandatory minimum sentences; federalization of youth gun crimes; prosecutors given unreviewable power to charge and incarcerate children as adults. Republicans then severed the gun measure from the child-punishment law--leaving the background checks as an unobstructed target for fierce lobbying, on which the NRA spent $1.5 million. The demise of the background-check bill was engineered by longtime NRA ally and Democrat John Dingell with an amendment purporting to extend background checks but actually weakening the existing system. Other Democrats and moderate Republicans opposed the Dingell-amended measure, so gun regulation vanished. Meanwhile, Republicans "enhanced" the juvenile crime bill with the Ten Commandments and two other religious-right provisions. It was the worst of all worlds: no gun law, a bad youthful-offender bill and a constitutionally indefensible posting of religious doctrine. The juvenile crime bill now goes to House-Senate conference. (Please contact your Congress members immediately!) The NRA's House victory proved again the potency of its war chest. The election-finance-reform organization Public Campaign says that the NRA and its allies gave more than twenty-seven times as much to Congress members as handgun-control advocates did in 1997-98. But the victory also came amid indicators of the gun lobby's decline. Lawsuits against gun companies or distributors have been filed in twenty cities and counties. The largest gun industry association, the American Shooting Sports Council, fearful of costly anticorporate liability suits, agreed to work toward some restrictions. A Pew Research survey finds 65 percent support for gun control, up from 57 percent in 1993, with the most dramatic shift among suburban Republican women. Will the alarm of suburban parents translate into voting power at the polls? At the state level, the politics of guns is shifting rapidly: NRA proposals to weaken existing gun laws have faltered in Colorado and elsewhere, while new restrictions are pending in New York, California, Ohio and other states. In Utah, Mormon leaders have called for handgun restrictions, and some conservative Republicans there fear they'll lose control of the legislature if they hew too closely to the NRA line. Guns are already emerging as a fault line in the presidential campaign. George W. Bush lifted Texas's 1870 prohibition against carrying concealed handguns. Al Gore denounced the NRA; Bill Bradley proposed national gun-violence measures, including limiting individual purchases to one gun per month, outlawing the manufacture of Saturday Night Specials and banning handguns from the homes of convicted domestic violence offenders. It is no accident that Congress entangled juvenile crime and the Ten Commandments with the seemingly simple matter of background checks: Guns are a surrogate for profound debates over crime, race and the roots of violence. But for the first time in a generation, the pendulum is swinging away from the NRA. Bob Barr's victory may prove as Pyrrhic as his success in winning the House impeachment resolution just a half-year ago. 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
[CTRL] [5] Inside The League
-Caveat Lector-
an excerpt from:
Inside The League
Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson©1986
Dodd, Mead Company
79 Madison Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10016
ISBN 0-396-08517-2
322pps out-of-print/one edition
[re-print/first edition available from:
W. Clement Stone, P M A Communications, Incorporated]
--[5]--
FIVE
I am the world's wealthiest fascist.
-Ryoichi Sasakawa
IN AUGUST 1945, thirteen Japanese fascists climbed to a hilltop above Tokyo.
From the hill, they looked out at shimmering Tokyo Bay and saw the
surrounding snowcapped mountains, the brilliant green of the rice paddies,
and the tiny hamlets whose coal fires sent little black spumes into the blue
sky. But the men hadn't come to admire the view. The empire they had spent
their lives creating lay in ruins. Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been
obliterated by atomic bombs. American troops were massed just over the
horizon, ready to invade. The talk in Tokyo was of surrender. For the men on
Atagoyama Hill, that would be the ultimate disgrace. Better to die than bear
witness to the final humilation.
As thousands of their countrymen throughout Japan and on untold numbers of
islands in the Pacific had already done, twelve of the men, members of the
ultra-right Sonjo Doshikai ("Association for the Reverence of the Emperor and
the Expulsion of the Barbarians") had come to the hill to commit suicide. The
thirteenth member of their party was apparently there to dissuade them. It
was to no avail the men on Atagoyama held hand grenades to their stomachs and
pulled the pins. Only one man, Yoshio Kodama, came down from the hill.
Kodama had a lot to live for. Thanks to the war and the patronage of a
political leader, Ryoichi Sasakawa, he was sitting on a fortune of over $200
million. In the years ahead, he would help create the dominant political
party of Japan, make and destroy prime ministers, fund the World
Anti-Communist League, and be the principal figure in the greatest scandal in
modern Japanese history. Working alongside him would be Sasakawa, his old
mentor.
The lives of Kodama and Sasakawa, the pre-eminent fascist leaders in postwar
Japan, are closely intertwined. Born in 1899, Ryoichi Sasakawa, the son of a
small sake (rice whiskey) brewer, became a millionaire at thirty by
speculating on rice futures. In 1931, he formed the Kokusui Taishuto, a
militarist political movement and, according to a U.S. Counter-Intelligence
Corps (CIC) report after World War II, was "one of the most active Fascist
organizers prior to the war."
Yoshio Kodama started life more abjectly. An orphan who had survived by
toiling in sweatshops, he found his calling among the various right-wing
movements that sprouted up throughout Japan in the 1930s. Often these yakuza
groups functioned more as criminal bands than as genuine ideological
movements; modeling themselves after the legends of the samurai warriors,
they displayed their allegiance to a particular leader by covering their
bodies with tattoos, they repented errors by cutting off the tips of their
little fingers. Bankrolled by conservative businessmen and politicians, these
private yakuza armies broke up labor unions, "protected" factories and
offices from vandalism, and assassinated opposition leaders. The young Kodama
excelled at these activities and by the time he was fifteen was a terrorist
leader in his own right. In 1931, he sent a dagger to a former Japanese
minister of finance. "Allow me to present you with this instrument," the
accompanying note read, "so appropriate for our troubled times. I leave you
to make up your mind as to how to use it-to defend yourself, or to commit
ritual suicide."[1]
The threat landed the twenty-year-old Kodama in jail, but it was not in vain;
the day he was released, another yakuza succeeded in killing the former
minister.
In the 1930s both of the future League benefactors ran afoul of the law and
were imprisoned, Sasakawa for plotting the assassination of a former premier,
Kodama for another murder plot, this time against the prime minister.
As the forces of fascism took over Japan and as the war in Manchuria got
under way, the talents of men like Sasakawa and Kodama were suddenly needed.
Both were released in order to further the cause of the empireKodama to
carry out intelligence missions in China and Sasakawa to resurrect his
Kokusui Taishuto movement, whose followers were now clad in blackshirts, the
symbol of international fascism they were to rally forces behind the
government's plans to rule Asia. Sasakawa even flew to Rome for a personal
audience with Mussolini, a man he would later describe as "the perfect
fascist." In 1942 Sasakawa was elected to the Japanese Parliament (Diet) on
the promise of expanding the war throughout Asia.
In the meantime, Kodama was making a name for himself in China. Entrusted
with the task of keeping the Japanese navy supplied with raw materials,
Kodama made a fortune of at least $200 million by seizing materiel, often at
the point of a gun,
[CTRL] [6] Other Altars
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Other Altars - Roots and Realities of Cultic and Satanic Ritual Abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder Craig Lockwood©1993 CompCare Publishers 3850 Annapolis Lane, Suite 100 Minneapolis, MN 55441 612.559.4800/800.328.3330 ISBN 0-89638-363-6 255+pps out-of-print/one edition. - A very interesting and excellent book. Om K --[6]-- Chapter 6 A Matter Of Magick "For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing." -Ursula K. LeGuin, 1968 Saying the "right thing," an important element of all ritual magic, is not just a matter of repeating words. Before all else, the novice, initiate, follower, or apprentice of the shaman, witch, sorcerer, or adept must learn magic's complex language. "Naming," notes anthropologist T M. Luhrmann in Persuasions of the Witch's Craft, "is often associated with magic: there is the sense that a name gives power over its object." Magic's ritual and linguistic roots are prehistoric. Archeological evidence suggests that many basic magical beliefs and elements of rituals and ritual language go back to the great "Earth-goddess" cults and "Earth-centered" spirituality. In ancient Greece an Earth-goddess cult probably predated the invasion of the Hellenes, an Indo-European tribe. Greece's Demeter may have owed something to that pre-Greek deity. Elements of earlier ritual human sacrifice were rejected during the later period. Some scholars suspect they may have survived in secret.[1] The goddess was worshiped under the names of Ge, or Gaia, Demeter, Ceres, Terra Mater, Bona Dea, Cybele, Ishtar, Atargatis, Hecate, Herodiana, and at least a dozen more in continental Europe and the British Isles. "Magic," the word in English, is derived from magoi, a special caste or tribe of ancient Persia who were recognized as specialists in ritual and religious knowledge, and were sometimes associated with the cult of fire. As mentioned earlier, modern practitioners of ancient magical traditions have appropriated the spelling "magick" for clarity. Magic served many masters and many functionsancient medicine and science among them. Magic worked in the material world, but ancients believed invisible forces governed it. Thus it was the magus who sought to control these forces, and gain knowledge of them, in order to predict the future or influence material-world events. While magic was born of Paleolithic parents, it became the sophisticated child of increasingly advanced culturesour own included. Few societies today exist without magic. In most languages the word for magic defines well-known functions and institutions revolving around 1) medical magic (healing), 2) black magic and sorcery, 3) ceremonial magic, 4) religious magic (spiritual), 5) occult sciences and theosophies, 6) paranormal events, and 7) magical cults and sects.[2] Individual societies tend to place an overriding emphasis or value on one or another of the above magical provinces. But what magic is proves far less definable. Marcel Mauss, a renowned French social scientist, attempted a general theory in 1903. His ideas appear in the 1972 book A General Theory of Magic. Emile Durkheim, another brilliant social theoretician of the same period, spent thirteen pages setting out a theory of magic in his 1915 book The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, but never mentioned it again. Durkheim took the position that magic derives from religion. In The Golden Bough, published in 1960, Sir James Frazer says "sympathetic magic" is based on the association of ideas, while Bronislaw Malinowski, a remarkable and prolific anthropologist and ethnographer, states in his 1954 Magic, Science and Religion that magic builds confidence in situations of uncertainty, exerts social pressure, and illustrates the "action function" of language. Theodore Adorno, using a Marxist conception in his article "Theses Against Occultism and the Stars Down to Earth," published in the 1974 spring issue of Telos, describes magic as a projection of "commodity fetishism" and the occult as an "alienating" force in an "oppressive" protofascist social order. He called occult wisdom "the metaphysics of dopes," seeing the thrust of magic aimed at "narcissistic" satisfactions, and subject to the "constant appeal" of "anal regression," disparaging the notion that weak, uneducated people with miserable assets can somehow triumph by rearranging them. In his 1946 book Religion, Its Functions in Human Life, Knight Dunlap observes that "magic, science and religion, are all praxis, aimed at doing something." Praxis was originally a Greek word that meant ritual. Georg Luck, a German scholar, offers a functional definition in Arcana Mundi: "Magic" may be defined as "a technique grounded in a belief in powers located in the human soul and in the universe outside ourselves, a technique that aims at imposing the human will on nature or on human beings by using supersensual powers." Luck points out that the single
[CTRL] [11] Loud and Clear
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Loud and Clear Lake Headly and William Hoffman©1990 Henry Holt and Company 115 W. 18th St. New York, NY 10011 ISBN 0-8050-1138-2 272 pps out-of-print/one edition --[11]-- 11 " A Matter of Jurisdiction'' All of my discovery papers went to the defense lawyers. If Dunlap and Robison won release, it would come through the judicial system, with the attorneys pulling the necessary strings. I viewed my function as similar to a hod carrier's, bringing bricks to the mason who builds a case. Without the mason, the hod carrier has only a pile of bricks. "Mr. Savoy," I said, visiting his office on January 12, 1979, "have you had a chance to look at the material I sent over?" "Not all of it," Savoy said, "but enough to make me think you're on to something. Unfortunately, until the Arizona Supreme Court rules on our appeal, we can't move with this information. We're forbidden from introducing newly discovered evidence prior to a ruling on our pending motions. As you know, an appeal in the supreme court stays all other proceedings. I grant you, often it seems unfair, and maybe it is, but that's how the system works." "Do you have any idea when the supreme court will rule?" "No way we can predict that, or hurry it along. Our chances for a reversal are slim to none, I'm afraid. You should keep digging, learn everything you can for the appeal, which we'll base on points not covered during the trial. Your press conference helped a lot." "Maybe. But none of the reporters seemed fired up by what they heard." "Lake, rest assured, members of the supreme court read the story in the Progress. And it could have an impact. Like everyone else, they're influenced by the media." I gave Savoy my impressions of the Funk-Emprise-Bolles battle that began in 1969, spilled into the 1972 Pepper Committee hearings, had hardly settled when the Republic pulled Bolles off the story in 1973, and then could have flared again shortly before the bombing with Bradley Funk finding out his ex-wife had talked to the reporter about preparations for her incendiary lawsuit. A dozen times I'd read Funk's hearing testimony, full of bullet-dodging ramblings and excessive preoccupation with Bolles and "the conspiracy." Then, in 1976, shortly before the bombing, up popped Funk's recurring nightmare. Perhaps this time Funk feared the reporter had honed his expository pen scalpelsharp-not to peel away layers covering a questionable business arrangement but to publicly eviscerate Funk's personal secrets. If Funk knew that Bolles nosed around his ex-wife's lawsuit, what must have gone on in his head? Betty Funk Richardson told Detective Marcus Aurelius about Bolles showing up at a child support hearing: "He just sat there and glared at Brad, and I love him for it. I think Don's been kicked around and around and made to look ridiculous for years. And finally when they couldn't shake him, they tried to destroy him. I hope Don becomes a Jesus Christ ... and you all rally around the poor guy and recognize what he's been fighting alone." Attorney General Robert Corbin, who took over the Bolles case in 1978 when Bruce Babbitt became governor, twice described Bradley Funk as a "contingency suspect" in the murder. Whatever that means, the Phoenix police interviewed Funk for less than one minute, suggesting they get together later with the racetrack magnate "to talk." But that talk never took place. Why not? I asked Savoy. What kind of police investigation was this? I'd never accepted the alleged motive for the murder, that Kemper Marley ordered the hit because a newspaper story cost him a post on the racing commission. But since that first night reading the discovery, I'd learned Marley had lost his bid for the position before the Bolles article. The weak motive had turned into no motive. I felt discouraged and shackled with the defense apparently unable to use the new information. Dammit, I fumed to myself, Robison and Dunlap should be out on bail, awaiting a new trial. But sitting there in Savoy's office, I couldn't even be sure they would be retried. Prosecutors had gone to great lengths to convict them on the flimsiest evidencesimply Adamson's testimonyand it was nose-on-the-face clear that the only "solution" to the case the powers that be wanted was the one they had now. I wondered what else they feared would be found, and assured Savoy as I left his office that I'd continue to look. "Absolutely," he said. "As a private investigator you're not hampered by a state bar or canon of ethics that restricts lawyers from dealing with the press during a pending criminal action. Stay with it. You're filling our quiver with arrows for a new trial after the appeal is denied." On January 20 I sat opposite Max Dunlap in the drab little room at Arizona State Prison and updated him on my activities, including news that the Playboy Foundation had agreed to contribute financially to the investigation. I had been visiting Max
[CTRL] [12] Loud and Clear
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Loud and Clear Lake Headly and William Hoffman©1990 Henry Holt and Company 115 W. 18th St. New York, NY 10011 ISBN 0-8050-1138-2 272 pps out-of-print/one edition --[12]-- 12 Goldwater In mid-February 1979, Terri Lee and I had dinner with Don and Naomi Devereux. I'd been seeing a lot of Terri, socially as well as professionallymovies, candlelight dinners, late-night sessions coordinating the mass of investigative material into a coherent, workable whole. This evening Devereux thought a relaxed, roundtable exchange of ideas on what we knew individually and collectively about the case would help. But first we ate, and I continued to be pleased with how well Terri and Naomi hit it off. They got along great on a personal level-talking about clothes, fun places, the Devereux childrenand as members of an investigative team, they meshed like movements in a Swiss watch. From working with Don on migrant labor articles, plus investigating the Bolles case, Naomi was a research whiz. She had volunteered to show Terri how to research court records, a task she did for Don and I needed Terri to do for me. Terri had located the Pepper Committee transcripts, and then continued with interviews, court record checks, and newspaper files to learn everything she could about Bolles's old nemesis Bradley Funk. The Funk family, Terri explained after we'd eaten, traced its roots in Arizona almost to the turn of the centurya long time in the last contiguous state admitted to the Union (1912). The Funks, ranked among the Arizona elite, used profits from a booming jewelry business to build Arizona's first dog-racing track in the mid-1940s, and the gambling business proved a bonanza. They parlayed one track into half a dozen, the only six in the state, which the family co-owned with Emprise. However, the state audit Bolles referred to at the Pepper Committee hearing revealed that the Funks owed Emprise a lot of money and had pledged their fifty percent interest in the tracks to Emprise as collateral. In the late 1960s Bolles began publishing articles about the Funks' friendly relationship with racing commissioners, who were supposed to regulate the pari-mutuel industry. After he wrote about his phone being tapped, and other serious privacy violations, the Funks had filed their lawsuit, claiming Bolles, Steiger, and the Arizona Republic were trying to "ruin" them. Terri suspected Emprise had its hand in this lawsuit. Attorneys call it the "chilling effect" turning profit-conscious publishers cold to the idea of running exposes from fear of costly legal action. Often, the claimant, after making sure the publisher has expended a great deal of money in pretrial preparation, drops the lawsuit. Regardless, even if the Arizona Republic had wonand it probably would have since the Pepper Committee said the Funks and Emprise were the ones employing false accusationsthe victory would have been Pyrrhic. In reality, the "chilling effect" won out. The Republic's secret out-of-court settlement with the Funks reportedly promised not to run any more articles about the dog-track scandal. On his own, Bolles continued to probe pari-mutuel racing in Arizona and Emprise, but he never wrote another story on either subject. "How about Brad Funk personally?" I asked Terri. "Before the murder he was a very heavy drinker. A loud, abusive drunk. After the bombing, but before Bolles died, Funk checked into an alcohol rehabilitation center near San Diego, called Beverly Manor. I suspect the reason had more to do with removing himself from the jurisdiction of Arizona authorities than with fighting his drinking problem." I needed to nose around Beverly Manor and see what I could learn. Too many people had left Phoenix right after the bombing: the one-legged gambler, Hank Landry, who overheard Roberts's "loud and clear" remark, vanished into thin air; Adamson flew to Havasu; Funk went to Beverly Manor. "Did Funk know Adamson?" "The police think he did. They looked into Adamson's past and found witnesses who claimed to have seen a drunken Bradley Funk being helped into his car by Adamson." "How about Funk and Neal Roberts?" "Regular drinking buddies at the Ivanhoe." "And Adamson hung out there every day," I added. "He used it as his office. That's not a big bar. It would be virtually impossible for him not to know Funk." "Right," Terri said. "Nobody denies Adamson and Roberts were good friends." "Anything else on Funk?" "Little things. Maybe important, maybe not. He went to Phoenix North High School with Max Dunlap. His family is understandably close with Kemper Marley, also a member of that tiny elite circle that largely controls affairs in this state." Terri Lee was our team's resident expert on Bradley Funk; and Don Devereux knew more than any of us about Barry Goldwater. "Goldwater," said Devereux, "his brother Bob, and former Republican State Chairman Harry Rosenzweig have been the movers and
[CTRL] Fw: IMPORTANT ROSWELL INFORMATION
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: George X. Kambic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 11:13 AM Subject: IMPORTANT ROSWELL INFORMATION On July 18, 1947, witnesses claim a spaceship with five aliens on board crashed on a sheep and cattle ranch outside Roswell, New Mexico, an incident they say was covered up by the military. On May 31, 1948, nine months after the Roswell incident, Al Gore was born. That clears up a lot of things. News at 11:00. George X. Kambic kambic @ ct.picker.com Voice: 440.473.2557 Fax: 440.473.7098 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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-Caveat Lector- Best wishes, Colleen. The list won't be the same without you. On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Kris Millegan wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 6/25/99 8:26:42 AM, you wrote: I am having trouble signing off list. Please take my name off. Colleen Sorry to see ya go. I hope there are no bad feelings. chris was causing unneeded disruption. He hasn't been kicked off; he cannot mail but still receive. I always enjoy your take on items. Om K 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 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] the culture of intolerance (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message Citation: American Political Science Review March 1999, v.93, 1, 193(1) Author: Affigne, Tony Title: The Culture of Intolerance: Chauvinism, Class and Racism in the United States.(Review) reviewed by Tony Affigne COPYRIGHT 1999 American Political Science Association By Mark Nathan Cohen. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. 320p. $27.50. Tony Affigne, Providence College For the most part, political science has held itself well back from the cutting edge of race theory. As a general rule, political scientists have adopted minimalist approaches to explicating the racial upheavals of recent decades. Perhaps we find it easier to squeeze "new" racial variables into familiar equations developed from earlier, whiter generations of data than to reconsider our basic assumptions. We have left most of the really hard thinking about the American scholar's own racial attitudes, and how these affect our work, to practitioners of the sister sciences, especially sociology, anthropology, and history. If greater knowledge and cross-cultural understanding are the solution, then much of political science has been, the author of Culture of Intolerance might argue, part of the problem. Many political scientists will thus want to, and should, read this engaging and well-crafted book by anthropologist Mark Nathan Cohen, an eminent scholar best known for histories of human health and the development of agriculture. Conversant in human prehistory and evolution, comparative culture, language, and social organization, Cohen synthesizes from these disparate fields an impressive argument against racism and for cultural relativism and tolerance. How, the author wonders, might our society overcome its profound cultural chauvinism, especially white racism, the peculiar and persistent prejudice that sets European and European colonial culture above all others? In part, Cohen's book is a critique of Herrnstein and Murray's The Bell Curve (1994), which proclaimed that social inequality springs from natural inferiority among those at the bottom of society (as "proven" by IQ tests). Following a flash of early notoriety, The Bell Curve has faded somewhat, due in part to persuasive, unanswered criticism from the very sciences on which Herrnstein and Murray avowedly based their conclusions - genetics and cognitive psychology. The History and Geography of Human Genes (by geneticist Luca Cavalli-Sforza et al., 1994), for example, as well as Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth (sociologist Claude S. Fischer et al., 1996), and The Mismeasure of Man (paleoanthropologist Stephen Jay Gould, 1996), exposed The Bell Curve's most serious flaws: egregious misinterpretation of psychometric data and reliance on discredited theories predating the emergence of molecular genetics. Cohen attacks The Bell Curve's underlying thesis of natural inferiority from a different direction, however, applying insights from cultural anthropology. The aptitude tests on which the Herrnstein/Murray arguments were based, for example, are culturally biased instruments, favoring test-takers familiar with white, middle-class, North American conventions and experiences. Other equally valid knowledge, and other forms of intelligence, are not recognized or measured. But if ours were actually the best and most advanced culture, as Allan Bloom (The Closing of the American Mind, 1987) and others have argued, perhaps this bias would be less problematic. Cohen's argument goes farther, however (after all, the cultural-bias criticism of IQ tests is well established), and directly challenges the central theses of Eurocentrism: that Western cultures are superior to others and that nonwhite peoples and groups are inherently deficient, as individuals and as cultures. In reality, Cohen writes, intact cultures successfully serve similar purposes in diverse ways and can hardly be rank-ordered according to some universal criterion of quality. It is true, Cohen acknowledges, that all cultures set themselves apart, preferring their own practices to others, to solve in distinctive ways universal problems of human community. Cultural self-importance, in other words, may be a nearly universal trait. All cultures are capable of, if not predisposed to, such parochialism. Furthermore, just as translating from one language to another inevitably yields mistakes of nuance and context, our efforts to comprehend entire cultures, with much deeper differences of weltanschauung, social convention, and meaning, are prone to more dramatic errors of interpretation. Some degree of misunderstanding may be inescapable. But, Cohen reminds us, most cultures "have been less militaristic than ours and less able to defend themselves or to commit large-scale aggression" (p. 61). As a result the
[CTRL] a tribe of budding supermen (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Citation: The American Prospect March-April 1998, n37, p86(5) Author: Purdy, Jedediah S. Title: The God of the digerati. (Wired magazine) by Jedediah S. Purdy COPYRIGHT 1998 The American Prospect, Inc. "No ambition, however extravagant, no fantasy, however outlandish, can any longer be dismissed as crazy or impossible. This is the age when you can finally do it all. . . . You can become whatever you want to be." This bold invitation stretches across the first few pages of the October 1994 issue of Wired magazine, emblazoned over a computer-generated, Dali-esque landscape populated by transparent human forms whose brains, muscles, and entrails are tangles of silicon chips and fiber-optic cable. The phrases echo a favorite slogan of Wired editor Kevin Kelly: "We are as gods, and we might as well get good at it." Do these proposals amount to the same thing? Should we accept them? And, if we do, what might be the consequences for our culture and politics? These questions are not idle. Wired is the lifestyle magazine par excellence--the chapbook of tastes, taboos, and aspirations--for the shock troops of the. information economy. More than 300,000 readers earn their average annual income of over $80,000 designing, selling, and hacking the computing systems that increasingly shape everyone's workplace, home, and civic life. More than any other group's, their job description includes designing the future. Wired outfits that future, announcing which ideas and products are "wired" and which "tired"; keeping up a "jargon watch" so that readers will know to say "lifestyle reboot," not "power cocooning"; pointing out the goods and manner that bring "street cred," as in credibility; and holding forth on "fetishes," the super-goods of the super-wired. Prominent among the magazine's fetishes is a new brand of libertarianism, the hoary political temperament that thinks of government as serving only to iron out a few inconveniences that arise between private individuals, and otherwise staying out of the way. Wired exchanges the gray woolens of conventional, economically minded libertarianism for the shimmering colors and romantic rhetoric of a technologically enhanced Friedrich Nietzsche. The magazine heralds a nascent political culture, a Nietzschean libertarianism. THE NIETZSCHEAN TRIBE Nietzsche, the German philosopher and iconoclast who died in 1900, has been the perennial source of twentieth-century efforts to break the chains of the past and create an entirely new intellectual and moral universe. He thought that all the old myths of religion, nation, and philosophy had failed and that people found themselves for the first time in a world without gods or magic. While desperately painful, this situation presented an opportunity. Christian morality, with its secular avatar, liberal democracy, had oppressed the most strong-willed and charismatic individuals, drawing them into its cult of meekness and sowing self-contempt with the doctrine that humanity is essentially sinful. With this burden lifted, the strongest individuals could create new myths, remake themselves as they wished, and form communities of the equally strong and like-minded. They would become, in the unfortunately popular phrase, supermen. Wired styles its readership a tribe of budding supermen. The magazine's first issue declared boldly, "Wired is about the most powerful people on the planet today--the Digital Generation." Publisher Louis Rossetto prefers the term digerati, a play on literati, for the new economic and, increasingly, cultural elite. This elite not only enjoys the usual perquisites of its position, but anticipates expensive biological and electronic advances that promise people the capacity to tinker with themselves in unprecedented ways. The quote that begins this essay comes from a leader of the Extropians, favorites of editor Kevin Kelly's. The Extropians are committed to "turning humanity into something far superior" through technology, espousing "a philosophy of freedom from limitations of any kind." Those who can afford it will eventually be able to overcome mortality by "downloading" consciousness into computers, where it will survive forever as disembodied mind, perhaps helped along by robotic accessories and virtual-reality sensations. They are equally committed to pharmaceutical, surgical, and other ways of concentrating and expanding the power of the mind. They also "hate government" and wish to develop wholly voluntary communities governed by "spontaneous order." Extreme as they are, the Extropians are representative lunatics. In "Birth of a Digital Nation," a piece that aspires to take a generational pulse, contributing editor Jon Katz writes that the zeitgeist honors "relying on oneself to be the captain of one's ship and
[CTRL] Religion and the Racist Right (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message - Author: PARTON, NIGEL R. Title: Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement.(Review) reviewed by NIGEL R. PARTON COPYRIGHT 1999 University of Chicago BARKUN, MICHAEL. Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement. Rev. ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xv+330 pp. $39.95 (paper). The Christian Identity movement has not been the object of extensive study in the field of American religious history. The revised edition of Religion and the Racist Right, Michael Barkun's latest book, rectifies this deficiency with admirable scholarship. The Gospel according to Christian Identity bears little resemblance to the message of salvation presented in the Bible. Instead, it incited the criminal activities of the Posse Comitatus in the last decade. It also motivated ten men to join the Order, a terrorist cell that robbed armored cars in Washington state and assassinated a Jewish radio personality in Denver. Some years later, in 1992, Identity compelled Randy Weaver into a showdown with federal agents in Idaho. It also prompted Richard Wayne Snell to murder a black state trooper in Arkansas. Snell was executed for this crime on April 19, 1995, a date marked by the denouement of Timothy McVeigh's bomb plot in Oklahoma City. Identity presently justifies the siege mentality of sects like Aryan Nations; Christian-Patriots Defense League; Covenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord; Elohim City; and Montana Freemen. In terms of lineage, Christian Identity is a militarized version of the genteel British-Israelism embraced by ultramonarchists at the height of the British Empire and transported to North American parlors as one of many fin-de-siecle religious novelties. Both systems teach that the Nordic races of Europe are descended from the "Ten Lost Tribes" of Israel, those dispersed by invading Assyrians seven centuries before Christ. Both systems, therefore, insist that Nordics are the chosen people of God. The first generation of Identity adherents, however, went to great lengths in divesting Jewry of the same status. Appalled by Zionism's conquest of Palestine in 1948, teachers intoned that Jews are the biological offspring of an unholy union between Eve and Satan. The sermons of Bertrand Comparet, Conrad Gaard, Jonathan Perkins, and Wesley Swift systematized this doctrine. Although the commitment of political agitators like cryptofascist Gerald Smith to Identity is uncertain, during the 1950s Smith secured extensive support from the new religious movement. Personal connections spawned two subsequent generations of professional misanthropes in ministerial garb. These dumped the fusty monarchism, abstruse pyramidism, and philosemitism of early British-Israel ideologues. Identity, by contrast, viewed the exalted role of Nordics in God's plans from the perspective of the populist mindset that colors American religious practice. Richard Butler, Sheldon Emry, and James Warner represented the second generation of Identity preachers, while Carl Franklin, Bob Hallstrom, and Pete Peters represent the current one. The demonization of Jews within Christian Identity placed believers in a precarious tension with society, which Barkun calls the "dynamic of withdrawal and engagement" (p. 251). Identity zealots, for example, physically separate themselves from a society that is perceived to be almost wholly corrupted by an omnipotent enemy. Consequently, in the 1970s, Identity churches shifted their base of operations from southern California to the Rocky Mountain states, where militants aspired to found an Aryan Republic. At the same time, Identity sects amassed enormous arsenals in order to do battle with the minions of the "Zionist Occupation Government" that controls the White House. A gun-waving "post-tribulationism," Barkun observes, is an important eschatological teaching separating Identity disciples from most American Protestants (the latter anticipate an imminent second coming of Christ). Although the historical and theological treatment of Identity is impeccable, Barkun fails to substantiate the main contention of the book's revised edition. This consists of the assertion that McVeigh was in some fashion inspired by Identity. Federal prosecutors, however, demonstrated that The Turner Diaries (Washington, D.C., 1980), penned by William Pierce, a neo-Nazi who deprecates Christian Identity, served as the master plan. Still, several points are worth noting. First, Barkun contextualizes the intellectual history that unites the otherwise organizationally fractured racist right in the United States. A crucial bond is the "cultic milieu," an environment of ideas characterized by "rejected knowledge" and condemned by elites (p. 247). Second, Barkun
[CTRL] Fw: What's New for Jun 25, 1999
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: What's New [EMAIL PROTECTED] WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 25 Jun 99 Washington, DC 1. PHYSICS WITH AN ATTITUDE: WHAT'S NEW IS 15-YEARS OLD TODAY. Let us know what's right and what's wrong with What's New. 2. SPY DETECTOR: DOE PREPARED TO BEGIN POLYGRAPH SCREENING. An estimated 5000 nuclear weapons scientists and other employees will be tested. Yet, "There is almost universal agreement that polygraph screening is completely invalid," FBI polygraph expert Dr. Drew Richardson asserts. (Richardson taught his 10-year-old son to beat the test.) In 1997 Senate testimony, Richardson warned, "To the extent that we place any confidence in the results of polygraph screening, and as a consequence shortchange traditional security vetting techniques, I think our national security is severely jeopardized." Critics contend that the test measures general anxiety, nothing more. In addition, there is a potential for false confessions from traumatized examinees. Mark Mallah, a former FBI agent deemed deceptive by a polygraph exam and cleared after a 2-year investigation, says, "In all its history, the polygraph has not detected one single spy. Ever." 3. DOE: WHAT LIES AHEAD? Former Senator Warren Rudman and DOE Secretary Bill Richardson testified before the House and Senate this week. Describing the "dysfunctional department," Rudman says that while it took less than 3 years to build the atomic bomb, it takes the DOE more than 4 years to fix the lock on a door to a secure area. Rudman is pushing for a semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the DOE, while Richardson is struggling to keep the weapons labs under his full authority. Congress, it appears, is preparing to do some restructuring of the department. Rep. Floyd Spence (R-SC) sums it up, "The bottom line: fundamental change is necessary and long overdue." 4. **FLASH** DOE Assistant Secretary Victor Reis, in charge of the nuclear weapons complex, is being forced to resign today. 5. EMF: "NOTHING YET, BUT LET'S KEEP LOOKING." In 1992, Congress created the EMF Research and Public Information Dissemination (EMF-RAPID) program. DOE pulled the plug on RAPID two years ago (WN 4 Apr 97) after an NRC report concluded that there are no health effects (WN 1 Nov 96). The NRC now has completed a review of the RAPID program and recommends that "no further special research program focused on possible health effects of power-line EMF be funded." But the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences issued its own review last week concluding that although there is no laboratory evidence of health effects, the possibility that a weak statistical association between EMF exposure and leukemia is due to EMF "cannot be completely discounted"; therefore, "meritorious" research should continue. (Helene Grossman contributed to this week's WN.) THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (Note: Opinions are the author's and are not necessarily shared by the APS, but they should be.) 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: AANEWS for Friday, June 25, 1999
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - from: AMERICAN ATHEISTS subject: AANEWS for June 25, 1999 A M E R I C A N A T H E I S T S #597 ~~ 6/25/99 http://www.atheists.org ftp.atheists.org/pub/atheists/ http://www.americanatheist.org - A Service of AMERICAN ATHEISTS "Leading The Way For Atheist Civil Rights And The Separation Of State and Church" -- In This Issue... * N.J. "Creator" recitation proposal sparks walkout * Picket the Promise Keepers tomorrow in Detroit * Alabama AG is "Pontius Pilate" for not handling Moore case * Psychic didn't see it coming... * Resources * About this list... COMMITTEE WALKOUT COULD END QUICK APPROVAL FOR "CREATOR" RECITATION PROPOSAL IN JERSEY A proposal to force school children to recite passages of the Declaration of Independence, including a part which refers to a "Creator" could be in trouble after two senators stormed out of a committee hearing on the bill yesterday. According to the Trenton Times newspaper, "The walkout effectively ended any chance of the measure being enacted before the beginning of the new school year." The State Assembly had approved a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Michael Carrol, requiring all public school youngsters to recite passages from the Declaration of Independence. This included: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." Carrol defended his proposal, saying, "These two sentences are the basis of everything America has become." While the measure passed 56-10, it ran into problems during yesterday's discussion in the Senate Commerce Committee after chairman Sen. Gerald Cardinale (R-Demarest) claimed that the "education community" was incapable of teaching democratic principles in public schools. Cardinale also suggested that the proposal bypass the Senate Education Committee. At that point, committee members including Sens. Jack Sinagra and Robert Singer, two Republicans, walked out. Singer later characterized Cardinale's remarks as "insulting to the entire education community." Sen. Garry Furnari (D-Nutley) left the hearing shortly after Singer and Sinagra, and opined that the bill belonged in the education committee. Cardinale, in the meantime, is pressuring Senate President Donald DiFrancesco to post the measure for a full vote sometime today. Cardinale's version of the bill amends the Assembly proposal and broadens the list of documents children would be required to recite from. That has made the legislation more palatable to some officials, including those who wanted the "all men are created equal" passage and similar phrases to be amended to "all people." Under Cardinale's version, schools would be required to provide a historical context of why certain documents only mention men. No such explanation, though, is given to the "Creator" reference, and its possible origins in the Deism of the Enlightenment period. American Atheists New Jersey State Director Dave Silverman has characterized the "Creator" recital proposal as a ruse to violate the separation of church and state. "I think it's pretty obvious that this is related to the school prayer issue," Silverman told AANEWS recently. He added that attempts to sanitize certain phrases or include other documents for recitation were a "smokescreen" to divert attention from the religious elements of the legislation. "The intention isn't to talk about diversity or equality," Silverman declared. "It's to get religion into school any way you can." The proposal comes just as Congress has passed a slew of symbolic measures, including one that allows states to display copies of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. Last weekend, though, comments published in the Newark Star-Ledger newspaper warned that if the proposal becomes law and is carried out in New Jersey, "a legal battle would surely follow." Aside from having a growing and well-organized network of Atheists and separationists, New Jersey is the focus of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1994 involving Black Horse Pike Regional High School in Camden County which led to the prohibition of student-initiated prayer at graduation ceremonies. Several school district superintendents expressed reluctance to meld religion into the classroom routine; referring to the Commandments decree from Washington, one commented "It's just kind of sad that we are at this point... I'm not crazy about the idea, but in these times, there is going to be a lot of these ideas." **
[CTRL] Collection of Material From the Book Matrix III
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 21:59:44 -0500 From: "Mark A. LeCuyer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IUFO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:IUFO: Collection of Material From the Book "Matrix III" Source: The Sovreign Scribe P.O. BOX 350 McKenna, WA. 98558 Interview provided courtesy of QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS. This is a collection of Material from the book "Matrix III" (The Psocho-Social, Chemical, Biological, and Electronic Manipulation of Human Consciousness), from Valdamar Valerian, First Edition Printing May 1992, Copyright 1992 Valdamar Valerian. Adress: Leading Edge Research, P.O. Box 7530, Yelm, Washington State 98597. Interview with Al Bielek 1991 Al Bielek, noted lecturer on the famous "Philadelphia Experiment" and the time travel/mind control experiments of the "Montauk Project," recently spoke with The Scribe interview team in Yelm. Bielek gave an update on the current use of mind control and psychic warfare, and also offered a more detailed account of his experience in the Montauk Project. Montauk, also known as the Phoenix Project, used Bielek and his brother Duncan Cameron, to explore the underground cities of Mars. SS: Sovereign Scribe - AB: Al Bielek SS: Regarding your experience on Mars you walked through the time tunnel, you take a step and you're on Mars: What did you see? AB: Well I was not on the surface of Mars. We were in the underground. The story goes back to the Alternative 3 book, the TV production in England outlining the fact that we have Mars bases, one or more, Provided by a joint operation with the US. government. I do not know if the Russians are in on it - and aliens. They are on the surface bases It's a World Government operation really, that's not strictly the United States government. After they were on the surface which was about 1969, they found that there where entrances to the underground sealed and they knew there was something down there. The rumors were that there was probably artifacts from an ancient civilization buried underground because there were a lot of remains above ground, ruined cities that have been there by NASA's estimates maybe 300,000 years, 250,000 years. But they found the entrances all blocked, all scaled off to any underground areas. So the word went back through communications (in the late 70's) to whomever back to the Montauk and Phoenix project, "Can you do anything about this for us? We can't get into the underground of Mars." They said, "Yes, I think we can. Give us some coordinates on the surface of the planet. We'll have to run astronomical computation." Which they did and plugged these all into the computer. They wanted two people to go and it happened to be Duncan and myself. SS: Why two? AB: To corroborate what the other one saw and also in case there was any problems in the underground. They didn't really know what was down there. So they sent us and we went up there in the underground. [Using the Montauk Time-Space "Tunnel" device, developed as a result of the Philadelphia Experiment. (See Scribe issues 9,13 and 14.)] There was a problem with light. We had to take lighting with us at the time. Lateron, if I remember, we found some of their light sources and turned those on. We found eventually that the last remnants of the Martians, if you wish to call them that, died in the underground between 10 and 20,000 years ago by estimate, and they left everything they had of their civilization underground. We found enormous amounts of statuary which appeared to be religious. SS: What did they look like? How big were they? AB: Typically 6,7,8 foot tall, stone, gems embedded in them and so forth. SS. These were of human-like people? AB: Yes. They were quite well preserved. Then we found archives. We found a lot of scientific equipment. We found electronic equipment down there; tons and tons of stuff. And the rumor was also later that ... I didn't recall until Duncan reminded me of it about a week ago. he said, "Don't forget the 17,000 metric tons of Martian gold they took out. According to his recollection of it, it was very strange gold. It was 5 times denser than ours. It was worth an unbelievable fortune. Where it went we have no idea, but it was returned to Montauk and from there it went somewhere. There were several authorized trips. And Duncan and I got the bright idea since everything was in the computer let's take a trip or two on our own and do our own exploring. So we did. After the second one it was found out and we were stopped. That was when he got into the archives and found enormous records of the civilization which was buried down there. SS: What did you find out? AB: He as the one that read them. I couldn't read them. SS. He didn't tell you? AB: No. Well he did at the time but I can't remember any of it now. It's a very strange memory. On again, off again, and that part of it was never made clear
[CTRL] Iraqiana: 06-25-99
-Caveat Lector- From WorldTribune U.S. balks at arming Iraqi opposition SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Friday, June 25, 1999 WASHINGTON [MENL] -- As Saddam Hussein has reportedly authorized the assassinations of U.S.-backed opposition forces, the United States maintains that such opponents of the Iraqi ruler are not ready to be armed. Elizabeth Jones, deputy U.S. assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, termed as "premature" calls to arm the Iraqi opposition. She said the administration is supplying such help as broadcast and other communications devices as part of the $97 million in aid approved in October 1998. "There are a host of issues that must be resolved before we can have confidence that providing arms to the Iraqi opposition would advance our objectives of promoting a change of regime and not just lead to more Iraqis being killed unnecessarily," Ms. Jones said in a Wednesday hearing to the Senate Foreign Relations' subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. "One requirement is a credible, broad-based, Iraqi political umbrella movement that can authoritatively articulate a future vision for those Iraqis who now lack a voice in their own fate." Ms. Jones said Washington has detected "a serious hesitancy among the people of Iraq" to participate in a revolution. She cited the fear of reprisals by Saddam's regime. Congressional leaders want to increase the pace of U.S. assistance to Iraqi opposition groups in an intensified effort to oust Saddam. "We need to get moving," said subcommittee Chairman Sam Brownback, a Republican from Kansas. "I don't want Saddam to outlast another American president." Brownback said Iraqi opposition leaders are unifying. Over the last month, both Iraqi opposition leaders as well as Kurdish leaders from northern Iraq have met in Washington with U.S. administration officials and congressional leaders. Ahmed Chalabi, the Washington representative of the Iraqi National Congress, a London-based umbrella group for the Iraqi opposition, agreed with Brownback. "It is time for bold action," Chalabi said. "The Iraq National Congress calls upon the United States and its allies to recognize what is already fact: that the United States and its allies are at war with Saddam's regime. Last summer, it was proven that Saddam had ballistic missile warheads loaded with deadly VX -- nerve gas -- an active biological weapons program, and the potential for nuclear weapons in less than a year." "In addition, over a thousand political prisoners have been executed in the so-called prison-cleansing campaign," Chalabi said. "Iraqis are dying now. It is not useful to say that any further, more aggressive moves against Saddam would get Iraqis killed, because Saddam is killing Iraqis now." The INC is planning to hold a national assembly meeting in July. No venue has been announced. Arab sources report that Saddam has authorized his son, Qusay, to train hit squads to assassinate or intimidate exile leaders who have launched an effort to oust the Iraqi president. Over the past month, Iraqi and Kurdish leaders have met in Washington in a U.S.-financed effort. Saddam's efforts include a reshuffle of his security and intelligence services and offers of amnesty to Iraqis who fled their country. Among the appointments was that of Saddam's personal secretary Abdul Hamid Hamoud General Ayed Alhaj. The London-based Yemen News reports that Saddam's "Fedayeen" led by Qusay are training for missions inside and outside Iraq. "It is believed that such missions may include intimidation and assassination of Iraqi opposition in the Middle East and Europe," the service said. Friday, June 25, 1999 Contact World Tribune.com at [EMAIL PROTECTED] From ArabicNews.CoM Iraq confirms readiness to normalize relations with Kuwait, Saudi Arabia Iraq, Politics, 6/7/99 Nizar Hamdoun, the under secretary of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, stated that his country will not cooperate with the UN Security Council for free, saying that uplifting the sanctions imposed on Iraq is considered a condition for future cooperation with the council. In press statements he made in Manama at the conclusion of a visit to Bahrain during which he met with Emir Hamad Bin Issa al-Khalifa and high-ranking officials Hamdoun urged the UN Security Council to fulfill its commitment, especially after Iraq's cooperation with the council through eight years. He said, "Uplifting the siege off the Iraqi people has become an Arab public demand," and he assured his country's readiness to normalize relations with all Arab states, including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia emphasizing that Iraq "does not form a threat to anyone." Iraq reiterates non-cooperation with inspection teams formed by UN Security Council Iraq, Politics, 6/7/99 Iraq restated that it will not cooperate with the different committees formed by the United Nations Security
[CTRL] Vaccination Information
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "Michael Albert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:ZNet Commentary June 25 Cynthia Peters Date sent: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:55:16 +0100 Here is today's ZNet Commentary Delivery from Cynthia Peters. The attached file is the same material in nicely formatted html so that you can read it in your browser if you wish. To pass this comment along to friends, relatives, etc. please note that the Commentaries are a premium sent to monthly donors to Z/ZNet and that to learn more about the project folks can consult ZNet (http://www.zmag.org) and specifically the Commentary Page (http://www.zmag.org/Commentaries/donorform.htm). Here then is today's ZNet Commentary... -- ZNet Commentary June 25, 1999 Chicken Pox?! By Cynthia Peters Many times during the past week, I wished my kids had been vaccinated against chickenpox. It's a miserable disease, and I hated to see them suffer through it.But overall, it's a fairly mild disease when left to run its course among children. Children with chickenpox rarely experience complications. Adults, pregnant women, and immuno-suppressed people experience much more severe cases and sometimes death. The chickenpox vaccine - Varivax - is not currently "required." However, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends it, and it seems likely to follow in the wake of the other standard (and currently required) vaccines against childhood illnesses - measles, mumps and rubella. So is there a problem? Should we not be grateful to Merck - the maker of the vaccine - for saving us from this significant annoyance? Bringing a layperson's curiosity, parental concern for my own little ones soaking in their oatmeal baths, and an inbred distrust of large pharmaceutical companies and the FDA, I dipped into the available literature on the chickenpox vaccine - a book from my library, numerous newspaper articles, medical journals, and various web sites. Following are some of my concerns: The vaccine is known to provide only temporary immunity, whereas actually contracting the disease is known to provide life-long immunity. Providing temporary immunity to children could drive chicken pox disease into the older adult population where it can cause many more deaths and complications. Merck - the pharmaceutical company that makes the chickenpox vaccine - has been ordered by the FDA to follow vaccinated children for 15 years to better understand how long they can expect to enjoy immunity. Clearly, individuals need to be studied much longer - 80 years and more - to know whether the vaccine's immunity follows them into old age. On the topic of longitudinal studies, how do we address the fact that varicella and its human hosts have been evolving together for thousands of years? Varicella developed the important knack of not killing off its host. Instead, it just causes minor illness, spreads easily through groups of children, and then lays dormant in the nerve cells until it (occasionally) emerges decades later as shingles. This painful re-emergence of the varicella virus makes the victim contagious for chickenpox. Anyone without immunity who comes into contact with someone with shingles is likely to come away with chickenpox. Thus, the ingenious varicella virus survives in its host, reactivating itself decades later with the ability to infect a whole new population of children. In the process of fighting off chicken pox, children's immune systems go through the important exercise of identifying an unfriendly viral invader and rallying the body's resources to develop the proper antibodies in response. Some doctors believe that childhood illnesses such as chickenpox provide a training opportunity to the immune system, arming it with the "knowledge" and "experience" of fighting off disease that come in handy later on in life. Furthermore, adult immune systems already equipped with chickenpox antibodies, continue to get stronger and develop as they come into contact with the varicella virus. Pediatricians who frequently see children with chickenpox tend to have powerful antibodies to the disease, and, so, rarely contract shingles later in life. During this last week and a half, in the process of taking care of my virus-ridden children, my immune system geared up against the disease, produced extra antibodies, and perhaps further refined itself, equipping me with disease-fighting power. Is there any value to this immune system training? I don't know for sure. The question has not been studied. When Merck tracks the effect of the chickenpox vaccine, they do not ask what the cost to our immune system is. But they do look at short-term financial trade-offs. The vaccine costs about $40 per child, the argument goes. The annual cost to "society" of hospitalizations and lost work is estimated to be more than $400 million by the
[CTRL] PANAMA CANAL-a Bard Bomb on the NWO Elites! Carter's perfidious fraud on America!
-Caveat Lector- SOURCE: THE NEW AMERICAN, June 21, 1999 Preface: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was still a long way from consolidating his grip on Russia in 1919 when he penned the introduction to TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD, an adulatory account of the Bolshevik triumph by Harvard-educated American Communist John Reed. Comrade Reed recorded in his book (printed by the Communist Party's International Publishers) this official demand of the Reds: "All straits opening into inland seas, as well as the Suez and Panama Canals, are to be neutralized." JIMMY CARTER'S(CFR) BETRAYAL: With all opinion polls in 1976 showing massive public opposition (over 80 percent) to any surrender of u.S. sovereignty over the Canal, candidate Carter (CFR) had promised during the campaign NEVER to give up the strategic isthmus passage. That PLEDGE could not be allowed to stand in the way of the Insiders' new world order, however. On HIS FIRST DAY AS PRESIDENT, he signed the order to commence negotiations to surrender the Canal. (Folks, Does this or does this not mean that the peanut-farmer Carter (CFR) committed a treasonous act?) ...the Carter-Torrijos treaties are patently invalid on purely legal grounds since the parties did not ratify the same documents. And ... the treaties are null and void on the following counts as well: 1. Article IV of the Constitution, requiring both houses of Congress to dispose of territory and property, was by-passed when the Senate and White House transferred the Canal and Zone alone. 2. Treaties, like laws, must be repealed by both houses of Congress; repeal of the 1903 treaty was NOT voted on by the House and therefore the treaty legally remains in force. 3. These actions violated the separation of powers doctrine which is the bedrock of our system of governance. 4. No plebiscite was held in Panama on changes made to the original document that the voters approved. 5. Panama's constitution requires that country's president to sign treaties; Omar Torrijos signed, whereas Demetrio Lakas was president. The 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty between the united States and Panama gave the U. S. sovereignty in perpetuity over the Canal and Zone. Definition of Perpetuity: 1. lasting forever; 2. something perpetual, as a pension to be paid indefinitely; 3. unlimited time; eternity--in perpetuity forever. Source: Webster's New World Dictionary of the America Language, Second Concise Edition The Media Lords have succeeded in stifling all outrage of the American public on this issue. All the more reason to VOTE 2000 for constitutional candidates and end this tyranny by the Fabian Socialists. God bless each and everyone of you who are concerned about Freedom, Is everyone too busy making a buck (half of which goes to government) to care about the security of the Nation, which includes one's personal security? "What's more important? What you have, or who you are!" Bard Visit The John Birch Society, at: http://www.jbs.org/ Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: a benefit/subsidy protection racket! 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] MJ12 and William Cooper
-Caveat Lector- Ufology was nearly destroyed by the disinformation games Ive detailed here. Great harm was done; the real problems are still with us and there is no end in sight. How true. An accurate, revealing portrait of the self-serving, indisputably hare-brained yadda-yadda-constituting the vast majority of the "content" of all "New Age" debate. "He who knows, does not talk about it. He who talks about it, knows nothing." --Lao Tse, Tao Te Ching 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] a tribe of budding supermen (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- technophiles' tendency to mistake new tools for new worlds. Katz refers in awed tones to "the unprecedented ability of individuals to speak directly to each other" on the Net, but thoughtful folk will recall that earlier eras are known, now and again, to have achieved conversation. The Net is purgatory. Fools communicating with each other only multiplies folly. "Baboon politics" (a nod to Tim Leary and RA Wilson) using high-tech tools only succeeds in getting baboons to pound each other over the head more elegantly. There's nothing new under the sun, except perhaps more expensive sunglasses. 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] bill-u-nut
-Caveat Lector- chris, You have expressed what you think, I think you are wrong. I have just spent over an hour in the archives, looking at what happened. Well a couple of things, a 'lady' logged on, talking about saying her piece and then getting kicked-off, then this same 'lady' asked to have two other people kicked off because she said they were nazis. Then you came trolling in with your childish 'humour' and the games began. 1. I ain't nobody's momma, I ain't got the time 2. You are the one that began uncivil public behaviour. 3. You egged people on and accused people of all being one person, etc. 4. If those are threats of harrasment to this list, please be advised . . . 5. ctrl is just an email list. . . . chill . . . Om K In a message dated 6/25/99 10:56:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to RoadsEnd privately: apparently it was fine when bill did it to me, nobody said a word to him when he attacked me. i damned well got tired of the attacks and attacked back. if you want to take me off from the list for that, you just knock yourself out. you are doing exactly what these assholes set out to do to me; if you are happy being the dupe for these clowns, don't let me stand in your way. i did not start this but they finished it. looks like you let them have their last word, that is all that they wanted in the 1st place. if this is your decision then go for it but unlike them i will not get another alias and do the same thing under another name. or maybe i will. in either case you have laid the groundwork for these assholes to take over the list; all i can say to that is that it is your list and it will sink or swim by your decision, but you are taking the wrong person off. my attacked were all in response to theirs. you had better wise up to what is going on here. don't take me half way off, take me all of the way off. and i will do what i have to do. this is not my first battle and it won't be my last, apparently you don't know whose side you are on. they had all attacked me with impunity but when i returned fire i am taken off from the list, mmm. i respect you and i like the list but i will not take the abuse they handed me now, here or anywhere else. i suggest that you can them and put me back on and if you don't, for all i care, you can move in with these assholes and become one yourself which by your action here, will not be any great adjustment for you, will it. i am disgusted with them, with you, and this list. maybe i will change my name twice a day and come back and get kicked off twice a day. maybe i, like yourself have taken a lesson from the assholes and if that is the way you want it then you have it. signed: could very well be anyone watch for me - 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] [RuMills] New Information Added to Mind Control Article, Operation Open...
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Subject: [RuMills] New Information Added to Mind Control Article,
"Operation Open Eyes"
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From Rayelan Allan (Russbacher)
When I was gathering all the pieces that I needed for the article,
"Operation Open Eyes"
Five Easy Steps to Create
A Manchurian Candidate,
I couldn't find two which I considered to be very important. I have since
found them and have rewritten the original article. It will soon be posted on
my web page, but at the moment it is on Jeff Rense's SIGHTINGS web page
(www.sightings.com)
Both pieces are very important in understanding how we are being herded into
the New World Order corral, i.e., concentration camps and a police state.
In the original article I described how the CIA uses a "Modified version" of
the Hegelian Dialectic to create conditions which will bring about the ends
they desire. Unfortunately, I could not find the information I needed to
describe this technique further.
Last week I finally located the three 60 minutes tapes which included this
information.
In August of 1993, I (Rayelan Allan {Russbacher}) was speaking at the Global
Science Congress in Denver.
A HREF="http://www.globalsciences.com/"Global Sciences Welcome/A
My husband, Gunther was in prison in Missouri. There had been several
attempts on his life. He had been poisoned, beaten and attacked by other
prisoners. I didn't know from hour to hour if he was alive or dead.
I was also having major problems staying alive. At the end of 1992, there
were four attempts, in rapid sucession made on my life. Gunther arranged with
his Godfather, Kurt Waldheim, to protect me until the Bush people were out of
power. I fled to Austria, in a state of fear wondering if the airplane would
blow up. I was guaraded by Austrian Security Police and 4 Marines from the
Embassy in Vienna. As soon as the Clinton Administration came into power,
Gunther was successful in getting the "hit orders" that had been placed o me,
rescinded.
Shortly before the Global Science conference, there and been two attempts to
kidnap me. Because Gunther was a SEAL team commander, I had Navy SEALS
around me at all times. If it had not been for these men, I would not be here
to write the articles you read in the Rumor Mill. One day, when I have fully
recovered from my 8 years as Gunther's wife, I will publish the story of what
we went through. The whole story has never been told anywhere before.
After my lecture at the conference, I was approached by two men I knew over
the telephone. Both men were political prisoners, just like Gunther. I did
not know they had been released. Like Gunther and me, they did not know from
hour to hour if they would still be alive. I have not heard from one of them
since that seminar. I don't know if he is back in prison or if he is even
alive.
The two men were Navy Captain Trenton Parker, and private investigator Stew
Webb.
Stew had just uncovered the secret funding behind the Denver Airport. He
stumbled onto it accidently as he tried to win custody of his child. It
turned out that his father-in-law was a very powerful man in the shadowy
world where the CIA and the Mafia connect. His father-in-law was the man who
was behind the Denver Airport.
Trenton Parker was a Navy SEAL, a financial planner for the CIA and a covert
operative. He and Gunther walked similar paths and these paths had crossed
many times.
Gunther, under his alias Emory J. Peden, the "banker" for the CIA, was the
man who arraigned the funding for the Denver Airport. I believe this is
described in Rodney Stich's "Defraduing America" third Edition
A HREF="http://www.defraudingamerica.com/"FBI, CIA and other government
agents document widespread government corruption.
/A
Re: [CTRL] Promoting terrorism on CTRL
-Caveat Lector- Howdy, sir, Please keep your rhetorical horseplay stuff to yourself, We know where to find it if we want. And if Bnai Birth is 'playing' one side you sure are doing a good job of the 'other' side. Divide and conquer, deliberate discrimination. Thanks. Om K In a message dated 6/24/99 10:27:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Notwithstanding that this posting would seem to a rationale person to be a violation of the list's "anti-proseletyzing" rule, it is also promoting the activities of a known terrorist group. The so-called "Anti-Racist Action" (ARA) has been linked to acts of violence and terror. The ARA has been specifically implicated in the fire-bombing and arson of German-Canadian activist Ernst Zundel's residence. It has also been reported that ARA has received financial assistance from the Canadian Government, and has a collaborative relationship with the Canadian B'nai B'rith, and hence the American B'Nai B'rith. DBC - 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] OEN 6/25/99
-Caveat Lector- John Paul Stevens...said that America was being returned to "the brief period of confusion and crisis when our new nation was governed by the Articles of Confederation" which preceded the constitution. Maybe after a brief period of confusion and crisis the Constitution will once again become the law of the land. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. 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] The IPO Lure
-Caveat Lector- From the NewYorkObserver Salon I.P.O. Is Proof of New Adage: Editorial Doesn't Go Public by Carl Swanson Salon.com hit the groundwell, it just sort of hit the ground when it went public at last June 22. It was offered at $10.50, but by the end of the day it had fallen to $10. The initial public offering of the Internet magazine company had long been derided by other journalists out of some combination of jealousy and professional proprietyas if a sudden payday just wasnt supposed to be a part of a journalist doing the job. Certainly not in something as, well, as self-promoting and San Francisco as Salon. But Salon.com had to go public. Thats what on-line companies do in San Francisco. These days, though Salon describes itself as a continuously updated "network of 10 subject-specific, demographically targeted Web sites," its at its heart still an electronic alternative weekly, just like certain other papers. Only now its worth $107 million. Its editor and chairman, David Talbot, may one day be rich enough to buy that apartment in North Beach and that house in the wine country that he mused about to Wired last January. "I think that most people think that Nasdaq has to be some sort of vehicle for karma," said Joey Anuff, editor in chief of Suck.com. "That some day they," meaning the instant "dot-com" winners, "will get their just desserts." Wireds failed I.P.O. back in 1996 reinforced the idea that editorial doesnt go public. But Mr. Talbots 4 percent (valued at $4 million after the I.P.O.) is not going to be worth much compared to James Cramers 14 percent take from TheStreet.com, which was worth $95 million the day that Salon was offered. And the market valuation of the company is puny compared to other Silicon Valley offerings. "Its sort of relative," said Mr. Anuff. "Employee No. 200 at Yahoo is probably never going to be jealous of Employee No. 1 at Salon." Still, journalists have been getting rich for some time in San Francisco. Big "portals" like Excite and Yahoo Inc., which are worth far more than Salon would ever be, hired ex-editors to help put together their sites. People like Todd Lappin, a former Wired editor who saw that I.P.O. go down, left after it was sold to Condé Nast and now is setting himself up as "editorial consultant" to Guru.com, which is a site thats being launched to help freelancers. "From the journalists point of view," he said, "you think, Ive spent so much time reporting on it, why not try it out?" And, he said, "theres lot of local pride out here," for Salon, and it has done one thing that many on the Internet have been trying to do fervently: build a brand. "In San Francisco," said one West Coast Salon source, "you cant walk two blocks without bumping into a multimillionaire People doing a lot less important stuff than us, making a whole lot more money." "Talbot has a lot of ideas and every third one works," said one person who dealt with him. The place moved quicklysometimes too quickly. People felt left behind. Areas were added for buzz and for sponsorships. The site bloated. The offices became crowded. Lines of authority became blurred. Mr. Talbot himself couldnt micromanage by charm anymore. Instead, Mr. Talbot has been out selling the site, though often inaccurately when it came to fluffing its financials. His chief competitor, Slate editor Michael Kinsley, took a whack at him recently. "Its insane that all these money losing organizations are going for these huge valuations," he said, reflecting what is most often said in the press about Salons I.P.O. But dont get the idea that Mr. Kinsley is bereft in the Web economy: Slate employees get Microsoft Corporation stock. After 13 years at Microsoft and one year at Slate, the sites managing editor retired at 40, and its first program manager retired at 30 after eight years at Microsoft. Somehow, Salon built a brand. Lacking in enough advertising or electronic commerce revenue to pay for its overhead, or some other futuristic revenue gimmick, "one of its big successes is recognizing and being a beneficiary of the fact that kind of splash-trash journalism makes incredibly good business," said Mr. Anuff. Which is how their exposing Representative Henry Hyde helped them go public because it built Salons name. Even had the stock not just sat there, at the bottom end of its possible $10.50-to-$13.50 offering range, few people were going to get rich off it. A recent hiring binge meant that many hadnt vested. On June 21, New York editorial director Larua Miller e-mailed that she and the staff at 1500 Broadway werent planning a party. "Theyll probably be drinking cocktails in S.F., but then they do that a lot anyway." In some ways, Mr. Talbot and his 4 percent is what this story has been about all along. "I kind of doubted his schemes all along," said one Salon source. "Hes too much of a
[CTRL] Fw: GOOD News on Gov. Asset Forteiture
-Original Message-From: Financial Management Press [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Newsletter Subscribers [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Friday, June 25, 1999 1:11 PMSubject: GOOD News on Gov. Asset Forteiture Just Received this good news thoufgt we'd pass it on: House passes Civil Asset Forfeiture ReformChairman Hyde thanks Paul for help in passageWASHINGTON, DC -- In a landslide victory, the House of Representativespassed HR 1658, the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act, 375 to 48 onThursday.Currently, innocent people can have their property seized and forfeited forsimply being accused of a crime and must prove themselves innocent in orderto get it back. The legislation, brought forward by House Judiciary ChairmanHenry Hyde (R, IL), Rep. Ron Paul (R, TX) and 58 others, will change theburden of proof so that federal prosecutors must prove guilt
Re: [CTRL] Religion and the Racist Right (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- From: William Hugh Tunstall [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message - Author: PARTON, NIGEL R. Title: Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement.(Review) reviewed by NIGEL R. PARTON COPYRIGHT 1999 University of Chicago BARKUN, MICHAEL. Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement. Rev. ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xv+330 pp. $39.95 (paper). Some years later, in 1992, Identity compelled Randy Weaver into a showdown with federal agents in Idaho. I believe that the above statement is false. Anyone wish to defend it? My understanding is that Randy Weaver was had attended a couple of meetings of of a Identy type group and had stopped attending when he was approached by some feds with the request that he spy on the group. He refused. Afterwards, the feds had an agent persuade Weaver to break a gun law in the hope that he would be forced to spy on the group. When he again refused he was indicted. The "showdown" followed from this. 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:The Nation-Christopher Hitchens-
-Caveat Lector- July 12, 1999 CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The Spies Who Fleeced Us It's always suspicious when Washingtonians start breaking into bad Latin. There may be a quid, you hear them say, and there seems to be a quo. But--aha--there's no smoking pro to connect the two. This pseudo-talk combines my least favorite styles: that of the overpaid attorney and that of the overpaid political obfuscator. Thus, it is not denied that Chinese military-industrial sources managed to transfer an awful lot of money to the Democratic National Committee. Nor is it denied that many tranches of valuable information made their way from American nuclear laboratories into the computer systems of the People's Republic of China. Nor is it denied that large American corporations were eager to share missile and satellite technology with the PRC, and that they, too, were generous to the DNC. All that is denied is that these things have anything to do with one another. In the current case, however, every one of the Clintonian defenses raises additional suspicions: § The White House "line of the day" says that Chinese espionage is nothing new and was known to occur under previous, Republican administrations. In that case, they had every reason to be vigilant, when all the evidence shows they were not. § The President says that he was not told of any espionage until March 19 this year. Not only does this tell against the smug claim of previous awareness of the problem, but it flatly contradicts Sandy Berger's claim to have been briefed by Energy Department intelligence as far back as July 1997 and to have passed on the briefing to Clinton "within a day or two." Not even Lanny Davis has been able to confect an explanation for this discrepancy. § The Clinton Administration, through legal measures such as the Anti-Terrorism and Intelligence Authorization acts, has been treating the Fourth Amendment as an inconvenience since at least 1996. The chief exhibit in this contempt for the Constitution is the "roving wiretap," whereby any phone to which a suspect is "reasonably proximate" can be invigilated by the FBI. Yet when the FBI asked Justice for permission to tap the phone of Wen Ho Lee, a scientist at the Los Alamos labs, Janet Reno's amazing subordinates three times turned down the application. We now know that in 1996 her judicial review panel authorized all 839 wiretap warrants that it received. Now, was there anything else going on, between about 1996 and now, that could make the Administration at all touchy about Chinese penetration? Well, there were the numerous Senate hearings at which it was established--and not denied--that the DNC and the 1996 Clinton/Gore campaign had shredded such distinction as existed between "hard" and "soft" political donations. Going back a bit further, there are intimate connections between the Riady Corporation--a front for Chinese interests--and Clinton's original financial backers in Arkansas. The Worthen Bank, owned by Clinton's longtime backer Jackson Stephens, was the conduit for a large Riady loan in 1992--just in time to save the financially exhausted Clinton campaign. Only Webster Hubbell knows for sure about the provenance of some of this dough. Here is Jeffrey Garten, formerly Clinton's Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade (and a onetime Nixon and Kissinger underling), recalling his work for Ron Brown in an incautious Newsweek essay in March 1997: John Huang, the suspicious DNC official, was a Commerce official first. You can't understand the 1996 money mess without grasping the environment in which commercial diplomacy was born. It is, after all, the major thrust of the President's foreign policy In our single-minded drive to help American companies, we dramatically expanded our commercial involvement in big emerging markets like China, India and Brazil. This push attracted a lot of foreigners who wanted to play in the new game There were people, like the Riadys or Charlie Trie or Johnny Chung, who may have thought they could gear this process to their own enrichment by buying special influence. If you open a wild bazaar, as we did, you have to expect the occasional pickpocket. Here is another series of admissions in the guise of excuses. (The term "commercial diplomacy" is worth having, you must admit.) A former senior official affirms that there was a revolving door between the Commerce Department and a bunch of shady businessmen, all of whom are friends and backers of the President. And you notice (see my last "Minority Report") that all the "pickpockets" identified as polluting this otherwise noble enterprise have Asian names. How this squares with Clinton's indignation about "Asian-bashing" is more than I can say. John Huang gave the First Lady's chief of staff a check for $50,000 to gain "access" for his Chinese military-industrial backers. Bernard Schwartz of Loral Space Communication gave almost twenty times that to the DNC and secured his company
[CTRL] Our Founding Fathers on Christianity
-Caveat Lector- John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd President of the United States " As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion " Article 11, Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary. As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that has ever existed?" Letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, Dec. 27, 1816 " Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, and Christian factions, above all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public? Miracles after miracles have rolled down in torrents, wave succeeding wave in the Catholic church, from the Council of Nice, and long before, to this day." To Jefferson, Dec. 3, 1813 Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American scientist, diplomet, writer "I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon hearing ... of making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing Deity." Works, Vol. VII p.75 "The way to see by Faith, is to shut the eye of Reason." Poor Richard, 1758 "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches." Ibid. "If we look back into history for the character of the present sects of Christianity, we shall find few that have not in turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Romish church, but practiced it on the Puritans. They found it wrong in Bishops, but fell into the practice both here (England) and in New England." Ibid. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 3rd President of the United States "Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisioned ; yet we have not advanced on inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth." Notes on Virginia "They (the christian clergy) believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man. To Sr. Benjamin Rush, 1800 "On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind." To Carey, 1816 George Washington (1732-1799) 1st Elected President of the United States "The United States is in no manner founded on Christian principle." Treaty of Tripoli 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] America's True Religious Tradition
-Caveat Lector- America's True Religious Tradition by Gipson Arnold The following essay is an adaptation of a speech presented by Gipson Arnold at a demonstration held by Atheist Network outside the Astrodome during the 1992 Republican National Convention. There has been a lot of rhetoric being broadcast by religious groups; a lot of tired old cliches like "one nation under God", "the Judeo-Christian tradition", and "our government is founded on Christian principles". These are all false claims. Our government is based on freedom of religion and freedom of speech, with those freedoms being protected by safe-guards in our constitution. Freedom of religion is not a Christian principle. Freedom to be a Christian is a Christian principle. The Christian Bible teaches that anybody not believing the Christian narrative will burn in hell forever. This is not freedom of religion. Christian theocracies have always punished people for the crime of holding and practicing non-Christian views. The United States government was not designed to uphold these Christian principles. And freedom of speech is not a Christian principle. The bible teaches that anybody blaspheming deserves ever-lasting punishment. This is not freedom of speech. In order for the founders of our country to establish freedom of religion and freedom of speech, they had to leave biblical and traditional principles behind. So the United States government was not founded on Christian principles. The United States government grew out of the principles of the monarchy mixed with the principles of Christianity in much the same way that a flower can grow out of dirt mixed with cow manure. It is the movement away from religious control that is America's true religious tradition. The United States government grew out of the various governments of the original 13 colonies, which were all Christian theocracies. Let's examine some of their laws: In Massachusettes in 1692, constables were ordered to patrol the countryside to arrest anyone who swam on the sabbath. A Connecticut law said "If any man shall kiss his wife on the Lord's day, he shall be punished at the discretion of the court". Another Connecticut law said "No food or lodging shall be afforded to a Quaker, Adamite, or other heretic". A New York law stated "If any man shall have or worship any god but the Lord God, he shall be put to death". A Virginia law said "To speak impiously of the Trinity or one of the Divine Persons, or against the known articles of the Christian faith is punishable by death". The U.S. Constitution spells out the basis of our government. What does it say? "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." "We the people" does not sound to me like the opening salvo of a document designed to serve a god. "We the people" sounds to me like the opening statement of a document designed to serve people. Then, the founders of our country wrote the Constitution with no religious language in it at all. There are not even any religious ideas in the United States Constitution. There is nothing about sins or salvation, heaven or hell, blessings or cursings, and there is no mention of any god, devil, demon, or angel. Then, they went an incredible step further and included provisions in the document designed to keep religion and government separate. The ratification of the U.S. Constitution, with its provisions keeping government out of the business of dictating religion, was one of the first and most important steps in what has become a truly American tradition of growth away from religion. The decline of religion has been halted, and even reversed at times, but the setbacks in our progress toward freedom have been short and insignificant compared to the more steady and constant movement away from religious control. Our nation was founded during the Enlightenment, when freedom to question had reached a new plateau. After the churches got over the shock of being dis-established, they fought back in an era known as the great awakening when curcuit riders and missionaries brought new popularity to religious zeal. This minor setback was corrected toward the end of the Civil War when the American freethought movement began. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution dealt religion a severe blow, the slaves were freed, and women were on the verge of winning the right to vote. These changes all brought a level of freedom that had not been known during the Enlightenment. The freethought movement lasted until the Great Depression and World War II. The most severe curtailment of America's traditional march toward freedom of thought was no doubt the McCarthy era, where conformity was imposed through witch-hunting
Re: [CTRL] Our Founding Fathers on Christianity
-Caveat Lector- From: William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd President of the United States " As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion " George Washington (1732-1799) 1st Elected President of the United States "The United States is in no manner founded on Christian principle." Here's what they said when they weren't drinking. John Adams, Second President: (Speaking of July 4, 1776) - "I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty." 101 "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion...Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." 113 Patrick Henry, Founding Father: "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." 102 "[The Bible] is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed." 117 John Jay, First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." 105 Alex de Tocqueville, French historian who visited the U.S. in the early 1800's: "Upon my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention...The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds,that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other...Religion in America...must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of that country,,, From the earliest settlement of the emigrants, politics and religion contracted an alliance which has never been dissolved." 106 John Quincy Adams, Sixth President (son of John Adams, Second President): "[T]he birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birth-day of the Saviour [and] forms a leading even in the progress of the gospel dispensation..[T]he Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth [and] laid the corner stone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity." 107 Noah Webster, Founding Father: "[T]he religion which has introduced civil liberty, is the religion of Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free constitutions of government." 108 "The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and law... All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." 109 Dr. Jedediah Morse, The Father of American Geography; "To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation...in the same proportion will the people of that nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom... All efforts to destroy the foundations of our holy religion, ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness. Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with them." 110 William Holmes McGuffey, Publisher of the McGuffey Readers a vital cornerstone of this nation's early education system: "From no source has the author drawn more copiously than from the Sacred Scriptures. For this [I] certainly apprehend no censure. In a Christian country, that man is to be pitied, who, at this day, can honestly object to imbuing the minds of youth with the language and spirit of the Word of God." 111 Thomas Jefferson, Third President: "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever." 112 George Washington, First President: "It is impossible to rightly govern the world
[CTRL] Clinton Says Misspoke On China Spying Scandal
-Caveat Lector- Friday June 25 6:02 PM ET Clinton Says Misspoke On China Spying Scandal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton said Friday he misspoke earlier this year when he said no security breaches occurred at U.S. nuclear research laboratories during his administration. A congressional report last month said China had acquired U.S. secrets about seven nuclear weapons and the neutron bomb through 20 years of espionage. China has denied it stole U.S. nuclear secrets. ``First of all, there has been a 20-year problem with lax security at the labs,'' Clinton said at a press briefing. ``And what I said was that I didn't suspect that any actual breaches of security had occurred during my tenure.'' But since he made that statement, it had been revealed that Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Wen Ho Lee, who was fired in March, downloaded information from classified computers into his personal computers, Clinton said. Lee has not been charged with any crime. ``That's something we know now that I didn't know then,'' Clinton said. ``But I think my choice of wording was poor. What I should have said was I did not know of any specific instance of espionage, because I think that we've been suspicious all along,'' Clinton said. ``I have to acknowledge I think I used a poor word there,'' he added. ``We did not have any specific instance, as we now do, of the off-loading of the computer,'' Clinton said. On March 19, Clinton said if China stole U.S. nuclear secrets it did not happen on his watch. ``To the best of my knowledge, no one has said anything to me about any espionage which occurred by the Chinese against the labs during my presidency,'' Clinton said in March. ``And if I have misstated this in any way because I don't remember something, then I will tell you that. But I don't believe that I have forgotten,'' he said then. -- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. - Henry David Thoreau 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] [3] Loud and Clear
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Loud and Clear Lake Headly and William Hoffman©1990 Henry Holt and Company 115 W. 18th St. New York, NY 10011 ISBN 0-8050-1138-2 272 pps out-of-print/one edition --[3]-- 3. The Plumber I ate lunch at a small diner in Florence, surrounded by sullen citizens bristling at what they considered a one-man invasion of their turf. The prison constituted Florence's main industry, and word had spread about the stranger, the p.i., paying a visit such as none of his type had ever made. What did these suspicious people think? That I'd disrupt their way of life? From the waitress slamming a plate down in front of me to the unfriendly stares singeing my face, the folks in this backroads desert town weren't exactly dusting off the welcome mat. With time to kill, I cruised the bleak landscape until I found a cemetery, an apt place for my mood, spread out a blanket, and read more of the discovery. Before this long, complicated, dangerous case ended for me, I would set a record for visits to the Arizona State Prison-seventy in all-and the quiet graveyard would become a regular resting spot between morning visits with Max and afternoon sessions with Jim. What I read that day in the few hours before I was scheduled to see Robison was even more mind-blowing than my reading of the night before. It began with Hank Landry, a one-legged card cheat and buddy of Neal Roberts and John Adamson. I read the story from a police report penned by none other than Jon Sellers: On 4/11/78 at approximately 3:00 P.m., Hank Landry was contacted by telephone. The purpose for the contact was to determine what knowledge Mr. Landry possessed of the Bolles incident. At this time Mr. Landry related to investigator that he was present at a Memorial Day weekend picnic of 1976 at Neal Roberts's house at 90 W. Virginia. He further stated that during this picnic there was a conversation between Neal Roberts and John Adamson concerning the [Anarchist] cookbook, as well as explosives. He said that during the conversation, Don Bolles's name was mentioned, and that he interceded in the conversation asking, "Why not just use a gun and get it over with?" He said that as a result of this statement, Neal Roberts replied he wanted it to be loud and clear. I read this report four times before convincing myself that my eyes weren't deceiving me. The weekend before Don Bolles's car exploded, Adamson and Roberts had talked about blowing him up-using dynamite for a "loud and clear" warning that other reporters should keep their noses out of sensitive investigations. The ramifications absolutely chilled me. As did Sellers's next report, which threw all his professed beliefs into a cocked hat. Evidently amazed by what the onelegged gambler had told him, Sellers conducted a second interview with Landry: On April 13, 1978, at approximately 1:00 P.m., Mr. Hank Landry was interviewed at the Organized Crime Bureau of the Phoenix Police Department. During this interview, Mr. Landry related things that he remembered happening prior to the incident, the day of the incident, and the days following the incident. Mr. Landry related that he believes he arrived in Phoenix on Friday, May 30, 1976. He said his purpose for coming to Phoenix was to attend Robert Letierre's wedding. Mr. Landry stated that he had originally intended to stay with Dink Miller. However, he wound up staying at John Adamson's apartment. Mr. Landry stated that on Saturday he took a ride with John Adamson and they went to the Arizona Republic parking lot looking for Don Bolles's car. He said that during this occurrence, Adamson told him that he was going to blow Bolles up for $50,000. He also stated that Adamson told him that he had other work to do after this was done. The Robert Letierre referred to in Landry's statement would later testify that Adamson had asked him to help kill Bolles, only to have Letierre refuse. Adamson told Sellers his "other work" involved murdering Alphonso "King Al" Lizanetza former Marley publicist and eccentric who dressed in funny costumes and seemed convinced of his own royalty-and Attorney General Bruce Babbitt: a three-murder deal, said Adamson, contracted by Kemper Marley. Adamson claimed Marley wanted Babbitt assassinated because he feared the attorney general was investigating him, and Bolles was merely the first of three hits. But why kill King Al, widely regarded, with considerable justification, as the Town Clown? Because, said Adamson, Lizanetz had gone around Phoenix hinting at skeletons in Marley's closet. Hogwash! All of this made no more sense than the motive given for Bolles's murder. Babbitt wasn't any threat to Marley, and no one in Arizona took King Al seriously. He was a nut. His organizationUnity with Humanity for Allwrote letters over a "King Alphonso" signature to Kurt Waldheim at the United Nations, calling Al himself Robin Hood and Waldheim "a real gem of God." Al passed out recipes on Phoenix street
Re: [CTRL] Our Founding Fathers on Christianity
-Caveat Lector- Here's what they said when they weren't drinking. Great White Father speak with forked tongue. 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: SNET: Every Patriot need to visit this site to be counted.. It's ur 2ndamendment
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 9:11 PM Subject: SNET: Every Patriot need to visit this site to be counted.. It's ur 2ndamendment - SNETNEWS Mailing List This individual is trying to get one million hits on his web page within 100 days. He is then going to send the address to some legislators to show there are people interested in continuing to own guns. Just go to his web site to show a hit. http://home.talkcity.com/ArenaBlvd/mar_1/fight_4_2_amnd_rites.html - Send "subscribe snetnews " to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Our Founding Fathers on Christianity
-Caveat Lector- day wrote: Notes: The above quotations were excerpted from "The Myth of Separation" by David Barton, published by Wallbuilder Press. http://www.sunnetworks.net/~ggarman/question.html Q.: What is your opinion of David Barton's book The Myth of Separation? A.: The real myth is that Mr. Barton is an historian. 1. It is highly dishonest for any writer on this subject to distort Thomas Jefferson's deliberate definition (1802) of the religion clauses as "building a wall of separation between Church State"; to omit James Madison's statements about (1811) "the essential distinction between civil and religious functions," (1819) "the total separation of the Church from the State," and (before 1833) "the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States"; and to skip Alexis de Tocqueville's assertion (1835) that in America "all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state." 2. The Constitution says what it means and means what it says: "no religious test," and "no law respecting an establishment of religion"; those statements are clearly in harmony with Jefferson, Madison, Tocqueville, and "separation"--but not with Mr. Barton. For the most part you make the SAME mistake many people make in many areas (not limited to this topic) ... you confuse words, ideas an concepts. God does NOT necessarily mean 'Christian God' or 'Biblical God'. Religion does NOT necessarily mean 'Christianity'. day wrote: John Adams, Second President: (Speaking of July 4, 1776) - "I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty." 101 "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion...Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." 113 Adams was a Unitarian. You, like Barton, fail to understand the second quote AND what religion entails. The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses -- John Adams, "A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America" [1787-1788]; Find THIS book and enlighten. day wrote: Patrick Henry, Founding Father: "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." 102 The citation you provide is NOT primary. Elsewhere in Barton's 'scholarly efforts' he admits that such sourcing does not exist to date. Henry was an Antifederalist. "[The Bible] is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed." This does not support your effort. It merely states Henry's opinion about book worth. day wrote: John Jay, First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." 105 Barton says that John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States, desired that we should "select and prefer Christians" for office. There are many problems with trying to leverage this statement into something more than it really is. While voters can choose their candidates for any reason they deem fit, the Constitution explicitly disallows any official religious test for public office (Article VI). In fact, this is the only place that the Constitution even mentions religion. George Washington himself, in a personal letter to a church in Baltimore, penned words which dispute Jay's ideas: "...a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor
[CTRL] Right On Germans
-Caveat Lector- WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : Germany The European Union elections and the German far-right By Max Rodenberg 26 June 1999 Back to screen version Seldom have the pollsters tried so hard to turn an election result on its head, as in the aftermath of the German elections for the European Parliament. Seldom has this task proved so difficult, which is not hard to understand since the results were so unequivocal. In the elections, held two weeks ago, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) suffered a debacle, capturing a mere 31 percent of the votes cast, a drop of 10 percent compared to the party's vote in the German federal elections last autumn. The SPD's coalition partners, the Greens, were just able to maintain their share of the vote at 6.4 percent. Less than half of the electorate went to the polls, the lowest turnout since the first direct elections to the European Parliament in 1979. The big victory of the Christian Democratsthey registered an 11 percent nation-wide gain, as compared to the federal elections, in their share of the votes castwas actually based on a loss of 3.4 million votes in absolute terms. Such a result cannot be interpreted as heralding a quick march by the Christian Democrats back to power, as even the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung noted. All of the parties in Bonn maintain that the war in Yugoslavia played no role in the election. Nothing could be further from the truth. At the very least, it showed a remarkable lack of enthusiasm for the war among broad layers of the population. Germany's first offensive military action since the Second World War has upset political conditions. Almost uncritical support for the bombing of Yugoslavia ran straight through the political establishment, marking an historical turning point in German foreign policy. The reawakening of German militarism will increasingly come to set the direction for domestic policy as well. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's wordsthat German domestic policy must attain the same level of excellence as German foreign policycould hardly be more threatening. What should working people expect? A further political turn to the right. Schröder can be expected to propose a tax and budget cuts concept and warn of difficult times ahead. The massive loss of votes by the Social Democrats expresses not only disappointment with the New Middle', (The German equivalent of Tony Blair's Third Way), or frustration over the record of the Red-Green government coalition. Broad layers of working people who put an end to the Kohl era last autumn by voting for the SPD have now turned their backs on all the parties in Bonn. The experience of the last nine months has provided proof positive that the SPD and the Greens have moved rapidly to the right. For the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, the establishment parties have received support from less than half the electorate. From its share of the poll in the European election, the governing SPD only represents 13.7 percent of all eligible voters. The fact that in Germany the growing alienation of the mass of working people from the political establishment did not express itself in increased votes for the extreme right is another important aspect of the elections. The far right, like the bigger parties in Bonn, received a cold shoulder. In contrast to the bourgeois parties like the SPD, Greens, Christian Democrats and Liberals, there has been no turn to the right in the general population. The National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) received 107,500 votes (0.4 percent). Compared with their result in the federal elections, they lost 20,000 votes. However, in comparison with their result in the 1994 European elections, they gained 30,000 votesmaking them the only party to increase their vote in absolute terms. The German Peoples Union (DVU), which has in the past garnered a relatively high percentage of the protest vote, did not participate in the European elections. They did, however, stand candidates in the local elections, which were being held in six states, but did not register exceptional results. In Saxony Anhalt, where they captured over 12 percent of the vote in the last state elections, they only managed 0.4 percent. The clearest losses could be seen in the vote for the Republikaner (Republicans), the largest party of the far right. They received just 1.7 percent, a smaller share than in the federal elections last September. Compared with the last European elections, they have lost more than half their 3.9 percent share of the vote. At that time some 1.3 million voters supported them; in this election their vote fell to 460,000. Like last time, they will not be represented in the European Parliament. In the 1989 European elections, the Republikaner won a 7.1 percent share, which was sufficient to give them six deputies. Together with the
[CTRL] No Ireland: 06-26-99
-Caveat Lector- From Irish Times Saturday, June 26, 1999 Arms principles agreed but tough talks lie ahead -- -- By Deadlán de Bréadún, Northern Editor The basic principles for resolving the arms decommissioning impasse have been agreed in the Stormont talks but major differences remain on timing and implementation, and the resumed negotiations next week are likely to be difficult. The Taoiseach and the British Prime Minister return to Belfast on Monday morning for what is expected to be a tough and sustained period of negotiations ahead of Wednesday's deadline for agreement. The meetings with different parties yesterday were considered a partial success which laid the groundwork for next week's talks. The details still have to be worked out, and there are serious differences outstanding between the Ulster Unionists and Sinn Féin. Mr Blair and Mr Ahern focused their attention on securing an acknowledgement from the proagreement parties, especially Sinn Féin, that they were committed to the following principles. 1, An inclusive executive exercising devolved powers; 2, Decommissioning of all paramilitary arms by May 2000; 3, Decommissioning to be carried out in a manner determined by the Independent Commission on Decommissioning. The Taoiseach and prime minister held a brief press conference to announce the agreement on principles, but allowed no questions from the media. Shortly afterwards, the Sinn Féin vicepresident, Mr Pat Doherty, read a prepared statement which welcomed an assertion from the two prime ministers that the Good Friday pact was "binding" and "the context for moving forward". In what was seen as a significant passage, Mr Doherty said: "The three principles that they put forward, firmly bedded in the terms of the Good Friday agreement, can resolve the impasse if there is the political will." A commitment to IRA decommissioning remained essential, however, according to the UUP leader, Mr David Trimble, who said he hoped that republicans were "making their own Damascus Road conversion by accepting their obligation to decommisson". The day began with the main parties giving noncommittal reactions to an article in the Times of London by Mr Blair in which he suggested Sinn Féin could be admitted to government without prior decommissioning provided there was "a clear guarantee of decommissioning by Sinn Féin" under a 10-month timetable laid down by Gen de Chastelain. In a key phrase, Mr Blair added that there should be "a cast-iron, fail-safe device that if it (decommissioning) didn't happen according to the timetable, that executive couldn't continue". Privately, senior unionists compared the Prime Minister's remarks favourably with his speech at Stranmillis College during a recent visit, which was felt to be unduly close to the Sinn Féin position. Republicans were adamant that Sinn Féin could not guarantee decommissioning by the IRA which, they insisted, despite the Prime Minister's claims to the contrary, was a separate organisation. Sinn Féin sources warned against confusion over the joint press statement issued by Mr Blair and Mr Ahern. The principles enunciated by the two prime ministers were "bedded firmly in the Good Friday Agreement". Nothing in the three principles superseded the Good Friday document, Sinn Féin sources said. ein had fundamentally altered its stance on the weapons issue, republicans privately poured cold water on this interpretation. Grave doubt still remains about the ability of the UUP leadership to sell any compromise to its grassroots supporters, many of whom are only interested in "product", i.e., prior disposal of guns by the IRA. Mr Blair appears to be trying to provide Mr Trimble with a shield against his internal party critics by attaching conditions to the existence of any executive formed in the absence of decommissioning. ein is prepared to use its influence with the IRA to achieve decommissioning, but says it cannot guarantee that disposal of weapons will, in fact, take place. Republican sources said privately that even the IRA could not give such a guarantee because of the unpredictable nature of events on the ground, e.g., continuing loyalist violence against nationalist homes. Meanwhile, it was announced that the US member of Gen de Chastelain's decommissioning body, Mr Donald C. Johnson, had told the two governments last month he would be standing down "for career reasons" from July 2nd. He will be replaced by another American, Mr Andrew Sens. Saturday, June 26, 1999 Supporters applaud as Long March leaves Limavady -- -- By Clare Murphy, in Limavady There was applause from bystanders outside the Orange Hall in Limavady, Co Derry, as the Long March left for the second stage of the 117-mile walk from Derry
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-Caveat Lector- WSWS : News Analysis : Asia : Korea G-8 powers warn North Korea over missile tests By Peter Symonds 26 June 1999 Back to screen version The Group of Eight (G-8) major powers turned up the pressure on North Korea last Sunday with a sharp warning in their final communiqué that they were deeply concerned over the country's missile flight tests and alleged missile proliferation. The statement said the group would examine further individual and collective means of addressing the problem and enforcing its Missile Technology Control Regime. The G-8 statement, coming in the wake of three days of talks on the outcome of the NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia, highlights the potential for North Korea to be targetted as a rogue state; for its leader Kim Il Jung to be vilified in the international media as the Milosevic of North East Asia; and for the Korean peninsula to become the next arena for US-led military build-up, provocation and aggression. Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, who pushed for the warning to be included in the G-8 communiqué, told reporters: The central issue of this summit was Kosovo, but if there are any other regions of the world for global security and world peace, one is the Korean peninsula. The threat comes amid speculation in Washington and Tokyo about new missile tests by Pyongyang. High-level talks between the two Koreas in Beijing have stalled in the aftermath of a naval clash in the Yellow Sea that led to the sinking of a North Korean craft on June 15. South Korea's Foreign Minister Hong Soon Young reported last Saturday that South Korea, the US and Japan were in intensive discussions over a possible test-firing by North Korea of its Taepodong 2 ballistic missile, said to have a range of up to 6,000 kilometres. Hong, who was relying on information from the US State Department, said he did not see such a test as imminent. Going one step further, Japanese newspapers recently claimed that North Korea was in the process of developing an even more advanced missile, the Taepodong 3, with a range of more than 8,000 kilometres. Evidence of North Korean preparations for missile testing is scanty. A New York Times article last Friday cited American intelligence agencies who claimed to have aerial photographs revealing North Korea was refurbishing its launch pad. On the basis of the photos, the agency officials concluded that the country was most likely to test its longer-range ballistic missile, the Taepodong 2. Once deployed, they said, it would be able to hit Alaska or Hawaii. This alarm follows the launching last August of a Taepodong 1 missile that passed over Japan before landing in the Pacific. Pyongyang claimed at the time that the missile had been used to launch a satellite into orbita claim that Washington was finally compelled to acknowledge as correct. We have concluded that North Korea did attempt to orbit a very small satellite, US State Department spokesman James Rubin stated on September 14. This has not prevented the Clinton administration from pressing ahead with demands for North Korea to halt its ballistic missile development program and to end its current sales of missiles. Earlier this month US presidential envoy William Perry visited North Korea to pressure the Pyongyang regime into giving up its weapons programs in return for the lifting of the 45-year US economic and diplomatic blockade of the country. Perry is reported to have told North Korean officials that the US and Japan would not tolerate another missile launch. Earlier in the year, the Clinton administration demanded access to a large underground excavation at the remote mountainous site of Kumchangri, which had been spotted by US surveillance satellites, claiming that the North Koreans could be reestablishing a nuclear weapons program there in breach of a 1994 agreement with the US. The only reason that the G-8 communiqué referred to missiles and not nuclear weapons was that a US team of visiting inspectors and scientific experts found no evidence of any preparations for the construction of a nuclear reactor in the tunnel. These findings were reported to North Korean officials this week during talks in Beijing by US Special Envoy on Korean Affairs Charles Kartman. Nevertheless, State Department spokesman James Rubin said the US still had its suspicions about the tunnel complex. Vice-ministerial talks between the North and the South, the first in 14 months, lasted for 90 minutes in Beijing on Tuesday morning but broke up after the North Korean delegation criticised South Korea for the battle in which a North Korean torpedo boat was sunk and about 30 of its sailors killed. The North Korean media has demanded an apology. Both sides blame the other for initiating the firing. At issue is control over lucrative crab fishing areas south of the so-called Northern Limit Line (NLL)a sea
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-Caveat Lector- From Irish Times Saturday, June 26, 1999 'Trail of Tears' a huge blot on Jackson's life -- -- LETTER FROM AMERICA/Joe Carroll My hero worship of Andrew Jackson is over. This rugged son of Ulster who became the seventh president of the US stands guilty of the most brutal ethnic cleansing in American history. Not that this will affect Jackson's towering reputation here where it's an American dream how an orphan boy came out of the wilds of the Appalachians, became a lawyer on the frontier territory of Tennessee, drank, duelled, gambled, courted women, fought Indians, humiliated the British, founded the Democratic Party and ended up in the White House. It is a more thrilling tale than the Kennedy family trek from Dunganstown to the White House with the help of Joe Kennedy's millions. But the Catholic Irish American immigrants have long ago won the public relations battle against the Presbyterian Scots-Irish. It's about time the Ulster unionists took pride in what their ancestors did in America My first encounter with the Jackson myth was to stand in the seaside cottage in Carrickfergus, Co Antrim from which his parents and two brothers emigrated to the American colonies in 1765. Next I walked the battlefield outside New Orleans where Gen Jackson routed a far superior British force in 1815 under another Irish general, Sir Edward Pakenham. One could only marvel at the scale of Jackson's triumph on the banks of the Mississippi which left some 2,000 British dead to 13 Americans. It was sweet revenge for Jackson, whose mother and two brothers had died as a result of harsh treatment from British troops in the revolutionary war. The battle made Jackson the biggest hero in America and helped him win the presidency in 1828. His legendary physical toughness earned him the nickname "Old Hickory". However, for the Indian tribes in the south-east like the Creeks, the Choctaws and the Cherokees, Jackson was the hated "Sharp Knife". Not only did he defeat them in bloody battles but he forced them to sign unjust treaties which drove them from their ancestral lands to settle over 1,000 miles to the west in what is now Oklahoma. For the Cherokees this was the infamous "Trail of Tears" when 4,000 died in the trek in winter from the Carolinas and Georgia over mountains and through dense forests. Altogether some 50,000 Indians were forced at gun point to move west from their lands, largely due to Jackson. The Cherokees were probably more civilised than the English and Scots-Irish land-grabbers. They lived in log cabins, had their own sophisticated government and laws, wore turbans and even had their own English language newspaper called the Phoenix. Some of them fled into the Appalachians rather than march west and their descendants, called the Eastern Band, now live in the magnificent scenery of the Great Smoky Mountains dividing North Carolina and Tennessee. Today these gentle people show visitors to their reservation how their ancestors lived, but you sense a sadness. They earn a living only by being a tourist attraction. From there it is a day's drive to a beautiful mansion called The Hermitage outside Nashville, capital of Tennessee and of country and western music. The Hermitage is where Jackson lived the life of a plantation owner and where he ended his days after retiring from the White House, tended by his devoted family and not so devoted slaves. He and his wife, Rachel Donelson, lie in a tomb in the corner of the garden. It was a real love match between the high-spirited Rachel and "Old Hickory". He helped her escape from her first abusive husband and married her before she had legalised her divorce. This was exploited as a "scandal" by Jackson's political opponents when he ran for the presidency. There were happy days at The Hermitage where Jackson and Rachel entertained and where their adopted son, Andrew, grew up along with an Indian boy, Lyncoya, whom the general had rescued after a battle in which he slaughtered his parents. This was the tender side of Jackson who was noted for his rages and ruthlessness. As a boy who had been orphaned himself, he felt what he called "an unusual sympathy" for the abandoned baby which he brought to his tent and fed before sending him to The Hermitage. Just as Jackson was getting ready to travel from Tennessee to the White House after his election in 1828, his beloved Rachel suddenly died. It was a cruel blow and Jackson wept, saying: "My heart is nearly broke" as he left to live alone in the White House. The frontiersman had wrested the presidency from John Quincy Adams, representing the richer, commercial classes of the northeast who mocked the uncouth Jackson. But he was the darling of the common people and laid the foundations for the modern Democratic Party, introducing the political
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-Caveat Lector- And check the sources ... From RollCall Internet Tax is a Hoax By Roll Call internet staff An email hoax has been circulating recently declaring that Congress is about to pass legislation allowing the U.S. Postal Service to collect a 5 cent surcharge on every email delivered. It is completely false. First, the U.S. Postal Service is not authorized to collect taxes of any kind for the United States government. Second, there is no Representative in Congress named "Schnell." Finally, the name and number of the bill mentioned in the hoax email does not follow the naming convention for bills in the House and Senate.br Following is the text of one of the circulating emails: The last few months have revealed an alarming trend in the Government of the United States attempting to quietly push through legislation that will affect your use of the Internet. Under proposed legislation the U.S. Postal Service will be attempting to bilk email users out of "alternate postage fees". Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt. to charge a 5 cent surcharge on every email delivered, by billing Internet Service Providers at source. The consumer would then be billed in turn by the ISP. Washington D.C. lawyer Richard Stepp is working without pay to prevent this legislation from becoming law. The U.S. Postal Service is claiming that lost revenue due to the proliferation of email is costing nearly $230,000,000 in revenue per year. You may have noticed their recent ad campaign "There is nothing like a letter". Since the average citizen received about 10 pieces of email per day in 1998,the cost to the typical individual would be an additional 50 cents per day, or over $180 dollars per year, above and beyond their regular Internet costs. Note that this would be money paid directly to the U.S. Postal Service for a service they do not even provide. The whole point of the Internet is democracy and non-interference. If the federal government is permitted to tamper with our liberties by adding a surcharge to email, who knows where it will end. You are already paying an exorbitant price for snail mail because of bureacratic inefficiency. It currently takes up to 6 days for a letter to be delivered from New York to Buffalo. If the U.S. Postal Service is allowed to tinker with email, it will mark the end of the "free" Internet in the United States. One congressman, Tony Schnell (r) has even suggested a "twenty to forty dollar per month surcharge on all Internet service" above and beyond the government's proposed email charges. Note that most of the major newspapers have ignored the story, the only exception being the Washingtonian which called the idea of email surcharge "a useful concept who's time has come" (March 6th 1999 Editorial. Don't sit by and watch your freedoms erode away! Send this e-mail to EVERYONE on your list, and tell all your friends and relatives to write to their congressman and say "No!" to Bill 602P. It will only take a few moments of your time, and could very well be instrumental in killing a bill we don't want. Picture: Back To Topback to top news scoops · politics · commentary · policy briefings roll call files · classifieds hill directory · let's discuss · about roll call · home Copyright © 1999 Roll Call Inc. All rights reserved. AER ~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --- Ernest Hemingway + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is
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-Caveat Lector- From TheIndependent (UK) Gibraltar embarks on risky alliance By Elizabeth Nash in Gibraltar The Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Peter Caruana, has plunged into a dangerous liaison with Jesus Gil, the flamboyant and controversial mayor of Marbella, whose right-wing party is advancing throughout southern Spain. The two men sealed their friendship with a pact this week that will infuriate Madrid and prompt jitters in London. The rapprochement was struck in Gibraltar amidst a furore surrounding Mr Gil, who is accused by Madrid's chief prosecutor of conniving with a Marbella judge to launder money for the Sicilian Mafia. Mr Caruana brushed aside doubts about Mr Gil's honesty, saying that was an internal Spanish matter and that nothing was proven. The two men will develop economic, cultural and sporting links between Gibraltar and neighbouring regions of Spain controlled by Mr Gil's Independent Liberal Group (GIL). Mr Gil, a populist rabble-rouser on bail for fraud, and Mr Caruana, the dapper lawyer, make an incongruous couple. But their opportunist alliance could mark the start of a beautiful friendship. They are astute and pragmatic politicians with a talent for an electoral flourish. They planned to meet over lunch on Thursday in a harbourside restaurant on the Rock, but at the last minute Mr Gil backed out, leaving fellow GIL members, his son Jesus Gil Marin, who is mayor of Estepona, and Juan Carlos Juarez, the mayor of La Linea which borders Gibraltar, as Mr Caruana's only guests. In local elections on 13 June, Mr Juarez swept into La Linea from nowhere to win a landslide victory. In GIL's swanky offices in La Linea yesterday locals queued to sign up. "None of the other parties ever did anything for us, let's hope GIL [or Gil] can turn La Linea into another Marbella," one enthusiast said. But Mr Gil has problems. He is on £420,000 bail, charged with funnelling some 450m pesetas (£2m) of Marbella's public funds to Atletico Madrid football club, which he owns. On Wednesday night he was warned that if he left Spain he could be arrested on his return, and forfeit his bail. So on Thursday lunchtime, he ventured no further than the border. There he told assembled press and a gaggle of fans how sorry he was to miss Mr Caruana, "because he's a good man you can talk to and negotiate with". But had he not realised that he would face penalties for leaving the country while on bail? Mr Gil turned on a sunny smile and grasped my hand warmly. "Perhaps I was naive, but it honestly didn't occur to me because I'm totally innocent. It's a shame because they're over there waiting for me." He added: "I want to make La Linea the envy of the costa." Sceptics suspect a publicity stunt, and Mr Gil lost no time in denouncing the state prosecutors as "base-born assassins" for accusing him of Mafia links. However, Mr Caruana is keen to have an interlocutor in Spain and has long said he could do business with Mr Gil. Gibraltar's Chief Minister is fed up with being cold-shouldered by Spain's Foreign Minister, Abel Matutes, who talks only to London. Mr Caruana wants to boost Gibraltarian business in Spain, and Mr Gil's ideology-free policy of promoting investment, especially in real estate, offers tempting opportunities. Residents of La Linea like the idea, too, scenting escape from decades of depression and unemployment that runs at 35 per cent, the highest in Spain. Gibraltar is the region's main employer, and some 3,000 Spaniards cross every day to work in hotels and bars on the Rock. Otherwise, La Linea's principle activity is drug trafficking, mainly hashish from nearby Morocco, and increasingly heroin and cocaine. Mr Gil promised yesterday to clean up the drugs, sweep criminals off the streets and bring prosperity to La Linea. This formula bounced him to power in Marbella eight years ago, and brought subsequent gains along the coast and in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in Morocco just across the Gibraltar Strait. La Linea could do with a face-lift. While the rest of the coast is cluttered with marble villas, golf links, timeshare complexes and casinos, La Linea looks more like a Paraguayan frontier town, scruffy and neglected, although with a gorgeous long beach, ripe for development. The new mayor, Mr Juarez, has taken personal control of urbanisation and relations with Gibraltar as priorities for his new mandate, and Mr Gil has openly declared Gibraltarians welcome in Marbella. Such gestures of friendship from Spain - which avoid the thorny question of sovereignty - are much appreciated on the Rock. In his dark suit, Mr Caruana stayed cool and elegant by Gibraltar's yacht marina that looked positively Marbella-esque with its fleets of gleaming pleasure craft. He said Mr Gil's party had achieved many improvements in the areas it ruled. He added that he hoped to meet Mr Gil very soon, "whenever he wants" -
