[CTRL] The rioters' version
-Caveat Lector- http://ss.GettingIt.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_FutureTenseContentServer=2f63100e2247658apagename=FutureTense/Demos/GI/Templates/Article_Viewparm1=A2146-1999Dec6 Let's Have a Riot! Voting with bricks in corporate Seattle BY LADY SWOOSH AND CAPTAIN COFFEE [ 12.07.99 ] It started with the boom of police shooting tear gas. As the first canisters exploded around us and the biting smoke hit our eyes and throats, a friend said, "Here we go." Within an hour, the sound of the police assault were mixed with the merry tinkle of breaking glass and the hiss of deflating police tires. It seemed that our side was striking back as best they could: smashing mega-store windows and trashing cop cars. In the end, as part of our overall victory, we racked up a $10-million bill, leaving the corporate heart of downtown Seattle besmirched with graffiti and a bit roughed up. It was the least we could do: The cops had rioted, and the forces of global capitalism -- convened inside the WTO -- were fixing to do the same. But not all was well among the triumphant... "Here we are protecting Nike, McDonald's, The Gap, and all the while I'm thinking, 'Where are the police? These anarchists should have been arrested.'" Thus spoke Medea Benjamin, crusader against corporate tyranny and ubiquitous spokesperson for the non-profit Global Exchange. By Thursday of last week it seemed that a new "anti-violence" McCarthyism had gripped many of our comrades. The hysteria was gobbling up more air time and column inches than any radical analysis of the real issues. In fact, the mainstream left appeared to be more horrified by the property damage than were the mayor of Seattle or President Clinton. Juan Gonzalez, of liberal Pacifica radio's "Democracy NOW!," bashed the "minority" of anarchists who had misbehaved, as did John Sellers of Berkeley's Ruckus Society who was quoted as saying, "It was really inexcusable... The people of Seattle got punished." And lest you think Benjamin's above comments were a single faux pas, check this out: "...[T]he people who were doing the vandalizing got off scot-free... We prepared so long for this, and we assumed we'd have massive arrests. If the police had just done that, none of this would have happened." One wonders what sentence Judge Benjamin would hand down for these miscreants: six months, a year? Or something more "progressive," like two weeks? On Tuesday, as demonstrators prevented the opening ceremonies of the WTO from going forward, Benjamin and other "good protesters" formed a human chain -- not around the WTO's meeting place -- but rather around downtown Seattle's NikeTown so as to prevent other protesters from helping themselves to complimentary pairs of Air Jordans. Then on Wednesday, Benjamin and her cadre again took to the streets of downtown, this time to sweep up broken glass and scrub away spray-painted slogans like "We Win" and "The Writing is On the Wall." Why this craven pandering to the mainstream? Why the veneration of corporate property? And most of all, why the vicious and unprincipled badmouthing of "anarchists" and other undesirables? Clearly, Benjamin and others are on an obsequious quest for legitimacy. As if that weren't bad enough, the accusations and recriminations from the grassroots guardians of order were replete with unfair and unprincipled misrepresentations. For example, Benjamin claimed the rowdies "who have been the ones who have been orchestrating the violence" were "not part of our movement." Not true. Many of those who rioted are just as dedicated, and give even more time to the cause of justice, than do the NGO-set. For those who don't know: The brick-throwers are also the tree-sitters and collective organizers, some of whom have literally lived camped-out in the mud and frequently locked-down to trees for years on end. In reality, the well-behaved NGO's and the rock throwers exist on a continuum, part of a single movement. Another massive misrepresentation was the facile use of the word "violence." Acts of window breaking, tire slashing, and graffiti (whether you love them or hate them) are not violence; such acts are called vandalism. Violence is WTO-fostered child labor; the wholesale annihilation of sea turtles; and the prohibition against manufacturing cheap AIDS drugs in the Third World. Violence is tear gas, and rubber bullets fired at point-blank range. And violence is "peaceful protestors" physically attacking those targeting corporate property (the ACME Collective reported this occurring on six occasions). Moreover, the grassroots guardians of order failed to acknowledge that the vandalism only started after the police opened fire with chemical agents and rubber bullets. And they failed to note that the riot in Seattle was incredibly well-disciplined: While Arnold Schwarzenneger's Planet Hollywood, NikeTown, and Bank of America were smashed-up, small, locally-owned businesses emerged
Re: [CTRL] Towards Ultimate CONTROL
-Caveat Lector- I guess them Lawrence Liverpool Labs must be out at that Area 52... Actually, they're in Area 51-A. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] The rioters' version
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-12-08 03:16:41 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another massive misrepresentation was the facile use of the word "violence." Acts of window breaking, tire slashing, and graffiti (whether you love them or hate them) are not violence; such acts are called vandalism. The "violence" which The Powers That Be fear most is "violence" directed against the inanimate material objects used for raking in huge profits -- retail outlets, commercial real property, capital equipment. Let the workers die -- but don't hurt the machinery! 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] Safra Death a Mystery
-Caveat Lector- Mystery Surrounds Safra Death By IAN PHILLIPS .c The Associated Press MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP) - It was business as usual Tuesday at the Monaco branch of the Republic National Bank of New York underneath the gutted shell of a penthouse where billionaire banker Edmond Safra died last week in an arson attack. But one day after American nurse Ted Maher was charged with starting the blaze, mystery still surrounded events leading up to the Lebanese-born financier's death in the luxury seaside building. Did Safra really refuse to leave a locked bathroom where he then suffocated despite pleas by his wife and firemen that he should come out? And how did Maher, 41, described as mentally unstable, penetrate the inner circle of a powerful banker who was so concerned about his safety that he routinely recruited his bodyguards from Israel's elite security services? ``It's true that everyone still has many questions - the prosecutor, too,'' said Alexander Bruggmann, a spokesman for the Republic Bank in Geneva, Switzerland. ``But it's now a police matter.'' On Tuesday, police and prosecutors would not comment on the case. After a flurry of news conferences, Monaco reverted to official silence. The nurse, Ted Maher, 41, first claimed that two hooded men had burst into the penthouse before dawn Friday, attacked him, then set the deadly blaze. He was treated at hospital for two stab wounds. But on Monday with no evidence to support his version - and police patience dwindling - Maher, who was just about to be released from the hospital, confessed to inventing the whole scenario, said Monaco's chief prosecutor, Daniel Serdet. There had been no break-in, Maher said, according to Serdet. He stabbed himself, and then started the fire that killed Safra and another American nurse, Viviane Torrent, who also hid in the bathroom. Maher said he didn't want to kill Safra: instead he was convinced he would emerge the hero who rushed his employer to safety in a bathroom while fending off the attackers. He set the fire to make the scene even more dramatic, he told investigators. He was charged with arson, jailed, and faces a life term. Despite the confession, it could be months - if not longer - before the many questions are answered. Investigators say Safra was paralyzed by fear and refused to come out of the locked bathroom, even though it was filling with smoke and firemen and his wife were telling him it was safe to come out. But a source with detailed knowledge of the case said that version was ``totally untrue.'' Safra had called police twice while coughing in the smoke-filled bathroom and begged them to get him out, the source said. An investigator in the Monaco prosecutor's office said Safra did call police once to alert them to a break-in, but denied the fire had already started. Secondly, could the firefighters have acted more quickly to extinguish the fire, which started in a paper-filled wastebasket and devastated the whole top floor? Finally, it remained unclear how Maher, who Serdet said was mentally unstable and took large doses of sedatives, could have got through security vetting. Security was not something Safra took lightly. His penthouse overlooking the Mediterranean was fortress-like, with bulletproof doors and windows. Surveillance cameras were posted inside and outside the building. Reports have said Safra's security chief, absent at the time of the attack, was Israeli-trained and that the banker had been protected by former Israeli security agents since 1985. Prosecutors said security was so tight at the penthouse that confident Safra had instructed his chief guard to remain at his other residence: a high-walled villa on the Cote d'Azur, once used as a summer home by Belgian royalty. 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] Weinberger on Chinese Control of Panama
-Caveat Lector- South of the Panamanian border is Colombia ... Weinberger Says China Eyes Panama By GEORGE GEDDA .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger on Tuesday joined a chorus of conservatives warning that China may be preparing to assume control of the Panama Canal, a development that he said would imperil U.S. security. It would be illogical for China to ``pass up a chance to acquire a major foothold in one of the world's three major choke points - especially if it can be done with little cost or risk,'' Weinberger said in a statement. He said China already has established a beachhead in Panama through a Hong Kong-based corporation, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., which signed a lease arrangement two years ago for control of ports at both ends of the canal. The Clinton administration has said it has found no basis for suggestions by many Republican lawmakers and others that the firm has close links to Chinese military. Under the Panama Canal treaties, Panama will assume control over the waterway on Dec. 31 and all U.S. troops must be withdrawn at that time. An Alabama company that tried and failed to win the contract for the ports told a congressional hearing Tuesday that the Panamanians may have tilted the bidding process in favor of Hutchison Whampoa. Peter Romero, the top State Department aide for Latin America, said Monday it is a mistake to assume that the United States will abandon Panama once U.S. control is relinquished. The two countries have had ongoing discussions on law enforcement and security issues and have established a good basis for cooperation - ``deeper, wider cooperation in the years ahead across the whole spectrum of issues that we share,'' he said. Weinberger, who was a Reagan administration defense secretary, said in his statement that the canal's importance to U.S. security cannot be overestimated. The United States saves ``millions of hours and dollars each year by having our naval vessels and supplies for all military services sail through the canal rather than around Cape Horn,'' he said in his statement to a conference sponsored by the conservative Center for Security Policy. Alarmist views about the canal transfer were voiced by other participants at the forum, including former National Security Council official Norman Bailey, who said Panama's border with Colombia is vulnerable to incursions by Colombian guerrillas. ``Panama has no capacity to control it,'' Bailey said. ``The possibilities of sabotage of the canal are enormous.'' Romero dismissed that possibility Monday, contending that while Colombian guerrillas have engaged in cross-border incursions, the canal is not vulnerable because access is blocked by the ``virtually impregnable'' Darien area of Panama. 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] Militant Jews on Temple Mount
-Caveat Lector- Militant Jews Ascend Holy Mosque By LAURIE COPANS .c The Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) - Militant Jews burned Palestinian flags and ascended one of Islam's holiest mosques Tuesday to protest Prime Minister Ehud Barak's acquiescence to a new Muslim-built entrance there. Barak and security officials had determined the new entrance to the Al Aqsa mosque compound was necessary for crowds expected during the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, which begins this week. But Israeli archaeologists, opposition leaders and legal officials have protested the opening, saying Jewish archaeological sites were damaged during construction. The site, also known as Temple Mount, is holy to both Muslims and Jews. Barak defended his decision in a meeting of top officials Tuesday. He pledged to make sure Israeli sovereignty and law are maintained at the compound, which in the past has been a flashpoint for violence. ``The government will continue to act to see to it that the law is obeyed,'' Barak told reporters in Jerusalem. He said he already prevented the Muslims from widening the entrance beyond a mere emergency door. Protesting the decision, several members of the Temple Mount Faithful group tore up and burned cardboard Palestinian flags in front of Palestinian headquarters in east Jerusalem. The demonstrators also stomped on a mock coffin with the word ``Palestine'' written on the side. The Palestinian-controlled Islamic authority, or Waqf, oversees the compound, the third holiest site to Muslims. It is located on the site of the Jewish Temple that was last destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. East Jerusalem, where the Al Aqsa compound is located, was captured and annexed by Israel in 1967. The Palestinians claim that sector of the city as the capital of a future state. Elsewhere Tuesday, the Israeli army prevented Jewish worshippers from entering a holy site in the West Bank city of Nablus after an Israeli swore at a Palestinian police officer near the sanctuary, Israel radio reported. 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] Y1K and GERBERT, the First European
-Caveat Lector- GERBERT OF AURILLAC (ca. 955-1003) by Lynn Nelson, University of Kansas, Dept. of History Gerbert was born somewhere in the mountainous region of Auvergne, in central France. Since neither his place of birth nor his parents were recorded, it seems likely that he was of low birth. Sometime about 963, he entered the monastery of St. Gerald at Aurillac. This is the monastery that Gerald the Good had established near his castle just before his death some sixty years earlier, and where he was buried. It was, like Cluny, a rather strict Benedictine monastery and was independent of any local control, being subject only to the pope. Here he studied his Latin grammar under a teacher by the name of Raymond, for whom he held a special affection for the rest of his life. Of course, by this time, "grammar" had come to stand for the verbal skills included in the "trivium" -- grammar, logic, and rhetoric. In 967, Count Borrell of Barcelona visited the monastery, and the abbot asked the count to take Gerbert back to Spain with him so the lad could study mathematics there. It would seem that Gerbert had proven to be an apt pupil, and his abbot wanted to see him go on to study the "quadrivium" -- arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. Borrell agreed and put the lad in the care of the bishop of Vic, where there was a cathedral school. Catalunya, in which both Barcelona and Vic were located, was a frontier territory, and there was considerable communication between Catalunya and the Muslims of al-Andalus to the south. Al-Andalus was much more advanced that Christian Europe. While the greatest library in Christian Europe boasted less than a thousand volumes, the library in the Muslim capital of Cordoba held over four hundred thousand. Catalunya benefitted from the proximity of the cultured Muslims, and the libraries of the cathedral of Vic and the nearby monastery of Ripoll were among the largest and best equipped in Europe. The proximity of the Muslims meant more than that in the matter of the subjects of the quadrivium, however. The Muslims had fallen heir to both Greek and Persian science in their initial expansion and had translated many classics into Arabic. At the same time, Arabic traders and travelers were in contact with India and China and had absorbed many of their advances. Muslim "scientists" were highly regarded, and perhaps nowhere in Islam as much as in al-Andalus. Muslim astronomy was the most advanced in the world, and Muslim astronomers proficient in using the astrolabe had done much to map the skies. Although the names of modern planets and constellations are Latin, the names of most major stars --Altair, Deneb, Rigel, Sirius, Fomalhaut, Aldeberan, Betelgeuse-- are Arabic as are many of the other terms of astronomy, such as azimuth, almagest, almanac, and the Zodiac. The Arabs were even further advanced in the realm of arithmetic. They had adopted the concept of zero from the Indians and used a positional numeric system much like the modern system -- in fact, our numerals are based on the Arabic notation. They had also borrowed the abacus from the Chinese and were proficient in its use. They had gone beyond arithmetic and had established algebra, were investigating prime numbers and coordinate equations. Their study of proportions made it possible for them to approach music in a quite precise manner, distinguishing accurately between notes, developing theories of harmonies and discords, and constructing musical instruments with quite accurate tuning. The cathedral school of Vic was able to offer Gerbert much of this knowledge, and Gerbert took full advantage of the opportunity. As a matter of fact, his knowledge and abilities were so great that some of his contemporaries could not explain them except by assuming he was ether a magician or had made a pact with the devil. In this fashion arose the Gerbert of legend: "Gerbert had travelled to Spain, where he became the apprentice of a Muslim magician of wondrous powers. Gerbert came to realize that all of the magician's powers came from the spells that were contained in a book that he kept under lock and key. At the same time, the magician began to suspect that Gerbert wanted to steal his secrets and take them away with him, and so began to watch him very closely and to hide the key to the chest in which he kept his book. The magician had a beautiful daughter, and Gerbert seduced her with the promise of taking her away with him and marrying her. The duped girl helped Gerbert put a drug in her father's evening wine and, when he had fallen into a stupor, got the key from where he had hidden it, opened the chest, and gave Gerbert the book. "Gerbert immediately fled, leaving the girl behind. When the magician awoke and saw what had happened, he got his horse, which could run faster than the wind, and his dog, which could track anything or anyone over or under both ground and
[CTRL] JFK Assassination Puzzles
-Caveat Lector- "... in 1947 Ruby, then called Jacob Rubenstein, had been an informant for a crusading anti-Communist senator named Richard Nixon ..." http://www.conspire.com/jfkcc.html Where Were You When They Had the Coup? Excerpted from "Conspiracies, Cover-Ups and Crimes" by Jonathan Vankin Copyright (c) 1991 by Jonathan Vankin "There is no doubt now that there was a conspiracy, yet most of us are not very angry about it. The conspiracy to kill the president of the United States was also a conspiracy against the democratic system -- and thus a conspiracy against you. I think you should get very angry about that." --Gaeton Fonzi, Investigator, House Select Committee on Assassinations The assassination of President John F. Kennedy happened 32 years ago, which is not a very long time when you think about the breadth of history. But is there any other single event that has been the subject of such voluminous writing, research and contemplation in the first three decades after it happened? There are hundreds of Kennedy assassination books. New ones come out every year. Add on magazine articles, television programs and radio talk shows and the words expended over the JFK assassination must number in the multimillions. Most are dedicated to the proposition that there was a conspiracy involved. To summarize all the evidence and arguments, obviously, is beyond the each of human endurance. Suffice to say that suspicion has been stirring since the moment Kennedy's head snapped backward from the impact of a bullet that hit him from the front. On the famous Zapruder film, an eight-millimeter home movie of the assassination taken by a Dallas businessman, you quite clearly see Kennedy's head lurch violently backward at the precise moment that a geyser of blood and brains erupts from the right side of his head. The Warren Commission insisted that Kennedy had been struck only from behind. The anomaly fascinated UCLA graduate engineering student David Lifton. Laws of physics require that an object struck from in front be propelled backward. Lifton couldn't accept that these laws of the universe were suspended at the moment a bullet struck Kennedy's head. That single observation altered Lifton's life. He devoted the next 15 years to scarping through the assassination's medical evidence. By the time he was a finished, and his work culminated in the bestseller "Best Evidence," the backward head snap was the least of the peculiarities Lifton had uncovered. His conclusion that Kennedy's body was shanghaied once it arrived from Dallas at Bethesda Naval Hospital, then medically altered to eliminate evidence of shots from in front, is still one of the most debated hypotheses of the JFK conspiracy theory. But no one has yet been able to refute fully Lifton's findings. Who was on the Warren Commission, the government body that scripted the tale of Lee Harvey Oswald, "lone nut"? Lyndon Johnson appointed the Warren Commission to quell national trepidation. "Out of the nation's need for facts, the Warren Commission was born," Johnson earnestly stated. The commission was headed by United States chief Justice Earl warren. It also included former CIA director Allen Dulles. Dulles had been removed from his CIA fiefdom in 1961 -- by Kennedy. Gerald Ford was also on the commission. Ford later became an unelected president of the United States when Richard Nixon resigned and handed him the job. Nixon had appointed Ford to fill the slot vacated by the disgraced Spiro Agnew. Ford pardoned Nixon unconditionally for any crimes he had committed in connection with Watergate, even though Nixon had never been charged with any crimes. The pardon insured that he never would be. Nixon, who had been narrowly defeated by Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election, had been in Dallas up until the day Kennedy arrived, as corporate lawyer for Pepsi at bottlers' convention. While in town he garnered much ink after a few death threats, but, in true macho Republican style, he refused to add any new bodyguards to his entourage. One researcher I've interviewed, Trowbridge Ford, believes Nixon's bravado was a setup, goading the self-consciously virile Kennedy into eschewing simple security measures while riding through Dallas. The ploy also diverted the attention of the Secret service. "I think he knew the president was going to be assassinated," says Trowbridge Ford. He also believes that Nixon's worried references to "the Bay of Pigs thing," sprinkled throughout the Watergate "smoking gun" tape are euphemistic references to Dallas, an hypothesis shared by Nixon's close advisor H.R. Haldeman. Quoth Ford, "You can't say 'Dallas' because if you say 'Dallas' people are going to say 'My God! Dallas!' So you say, 'The Bay of Pigs thing--that's a consequence of the Bay of Pigs thing.'" Did
Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #3 - y2k minus 25
-Caveat Lector- The findings could one day lead to the design of a male birth control pill I still think a misterectomy is more effective. __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.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] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1 - y2k minus 24
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991208a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No underworld denizens were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ If you ever hear this song it will drive you nuts forever after: http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/html/lyrics/t/theres_a_new_sound.txt _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Archaeologists descend into underworld. (BBC) Archaeologists discover underground chambers described as a "descent into the underworld" on the Scottish island of Orkney. And it's a Hell of a place. Stygian: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_554000/554494.stm : What's your favorite underworld experience? Did you ever go to the gates of Hell and back, and all you got was a lousy t-shirt? Do you descend into the underworld everytime you ride a subway? Are subways Hellish? All of'em? @ Real Ghosts! http://dreamryder.home.mindspring.com @ Alien Encounters: http://www.alienencounters.com/ @ Strange: http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/991204.htm @ UFO Nest Hatches (Sweden): http://fly.to/ufo-nest _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Seattle-A-Rama: # Linux Advocates Turn Violent, Go On Rampage. Until yesterday, protesters had kept a quiet, good-natured presence outside of Microsoft's new office in downtown Seattle, handing out free computer software, and even giving cute little stuffed penguins --their mascot-- to children of passers-by. "They're such NICE young men," said one grandma. But these demonstrators, whose numbers have escalated in recent weeks, did in fact turn violent yesterday, clashing with police in the worst street violence in the city's history. Seattle in a shambles: http://w3.one.net/~sunlion/linuxriot.html : Do operating systems drive you insane? Were they crafted by Reptilioids to divert the brightest humans from more important pursuits? Is Linux a drug?? # DAY OF THE JACKAL. A teenage punk who lives on the streets of Los Angeles tried to make his mark during the WTO protests in Seattle. http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/feature/1999/12/08/seattle/ # How Demos Lost The White House In Seattle: WTO battles blew it for Gore: http://www.salonmagazine.com/people/col/pagl/1999/12/08/cp1208/index.html # Beyond the brick throwing - What does the World Trade Organization really want? http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?13@@.eea519f # Everything you need to know about the WTO: http://salonmagazine.com/news/feature/1999/11/29/wto/ : Is world trade a conspiracy? Do you benefit? Was the computer you use made by Chinese slave laborers? Do you wear clothes made in Asian/Pacific sweat-shops? Do the voices in your head persuade you that it's OK? Are they right? # Sustainable agriculture or Shakespeare? Protesters voice their resistance to globalization in the streets of Seattle, but do they really have the people's best interests at heart? Striking a blow for child labor: http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/feature/1999/12/03/wto/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # It may be possible to breed or to genetically engineer new plant varieties to improve productivity in geographic regions with significant ozone exposure, such as California. http://unisci.com/stories/19994/1207996.htm # Gene Therapy Yields Bigger Pigs - young hogs grow 40 percent larger and faster. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991207/sc/big_pigs_1.html : Can big, fast-growing hogs that survive L.A. smog be bred? Should they be? Will gigantic, ozone-tolerant lifeforms overrun California? Who'd notice?? # Genetic extremism overstates risks - scare tactics must yield to scien- tific analysis: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/orst-geo120699.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Self-updating virus spreads on Web. NEW YORK (AP) Cybernerds warned of a new virus that can update itself with potentially malicious instructions from a Web site. The first of its kind, this virus primarily affects home computers and spreads through Microsoft software used for chat rooms. The W95.Babylonia virus comes disguised as a Y2K fix, making it the 6th known virus preying on the Year 2000 glitch. The virus' most worrisome aspect is its ability "to add new capabilities as it rolls along." The virus writer can effectively control the infected computer remotely. Anti-virus experts worked to identify the specific commands for the virus, say these could include erasing files and grabbing sensitive information. We're all doomed now: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562477896-f3e : When will a cybervirus break loose, gain intelligence, take over the world by making itself immortal, transmit itself into our brains, and make all of humanity one big happy family? Will this solve all our problems? How soon? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Click On
Re: [CTRL] [prj] The Organ Snatchers
-Caveat Lector- Much, if not all the organ theft was carried out regardless of parental wishes. Many parents had signed papers "denying any organ extraction". What started out as a single investigation by one family, then took in the whole hospital, which seems to be the tip of the iceberg. Organs harvested normally (does that sound right?) - are in the system, and accounted for, by and large. Any organs harvested "Illegally" are outside the parameters of the legally tracked organs - this is a lucrative trade here. Did (all) the babies die naturally, or were some 'let go' on special order. In China, many transplant hospitals 'just happen' to be next door to top-security prisons. Hell, I'd be the last person to suggest they were supplying organs "to order" - I'm sure the deal they got for a "hospital prison" was much better than just a prison, or just a hospital. Sensible economics at work here, right? Anyway, as of Monday ALL hospitals in the U.K. are under investigation. How's your hospital doing? And are stocks in the companies manufacturing shredders going up a point or two? Buy now. At 18:08 05/12/99 -0600, you wrote: To: Para [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [prj] The Organ Snatchers I have really mixed feelings on this. ON the one hand, why should the parents care if the child is already dead? On the other hand, none of this should be done without the parent's consent? Andre On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Para wrote: Free Rare/Out-of-Print Book Searches - Ruling Class/Conspiracy Experts: E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** * END The Organ Snatchers: Mother wins inquiry after claiming: "Our baby was butchered". By KATE HURRY and Ian COBAIN HEARTBROKEN parents finally won action yesterday over the scandal of organs taken without their knowledge from their dead children. Health Secretary Alan Milburn ordered an investigation into practices at Europe's biggest children's hospital, Alder Hey in Liverpool. Officials there have admitted removing and keeping more than 2,000 hearts and 850 other organs from babies and young children. 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 - Wednesday #2 - y2k minus 24
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991208b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No cheapskate beancounters were hurt during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DECK THE HALLS - Start celebrating a little early this holiday season with PlanetOut Personals: http://www.planetout.com/personals/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Past losses yield NASA frugality. (AP) - NASA's policy of exploring the solar system with less expensive, more frequent missions stems from the loss of the $1 billion Mars Observer in 1993 and budget cuts imposed by Congress. The "faster, better, cheaper" policy was intended to save money distribute risk among several missions. With the failure of Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander, critics say NASA has reduced costs so drastically that their probes are now less reliable and prone to failure. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562486348-a58 : Do you blame NASA's failures on cheapskate beancounters, ET gunners, mind- controlled saboteurs, divine maliciousness, demonic possession, fuckups, me? # NASA abandons hopes for Mars lander - "played its last ace:" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562477642-eae # Also: Plans for future Mars missions, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562477847-c40 # And: Mars Polar Lander mission costs, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562478008-eb5 # Mars 'wake up call' for Nasa - next planned trip may be scrapped: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_555000/555067.stm # Also: Mars probe silence signals failure - no news is bad news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_553000/553861.stm @ LINKS - Nasa Mars: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/ @ Mars Polar Lander: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/ @ Exploring Mars: http://www.exploringmars.org/mission/mpl @ Federation of American Scientists: http://www.fas.org/ @ SpaceRef.com: http://www.spaceref.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CAPTURED BY ALIENS. I met two women who believed that they, themselves, were alien entities. Both were striking blondes, perhaps 40ish, and they were on an amazing voyage of self-discovery. Miesha Johnston ran a support group for people who had had "experiences" with aliens. She was gradually coming to terms with the theory advanced by her roommate, Jan Bingham, which was that they were aliens in human bodies, or "starseed." http://www.salonmagazine.com/people/feature/1999/11/03/aliens/ : Are you an alien entity? Does this explain your anomie, your inhumanity, your utter isolation? Are you a striking blonde? Do you strike blondes?? # Silver Spheres Gray Discs http://filersfiles.com/ - OHIO UFOs CIRCLE A JUMBO JET - TEXAS UFO DISC SIGHTING REPORT: http://caus.org/mu120799.htm # UPDATE Intelligent Signals From Space - SETI Correction - just a blip, not a cosmic connection: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/correct.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Militant Jews Defile Mosque. JERUSALEM (AP) Militant Jews burned Palestin- ian flags ascended one of Islam's holiest mosques to protest PM. Barak's acquiescence to a new Muslim-built entrance there. Security officials said the new entrance to the Al Aqsa mosque compound was necessary for crowds expected during the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, which begins this week. But opposition leaders, Israeli archaeologists and lawyers have protested the opening, saying Jewish archaeological sites were damaged during construc- tion. The site, also called Temple Mount, is holy to both Muslims Jews. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562478052-50e : What/whose holy site would you most like to ascend/occupy/defile? Have you defiled any holy sites lately? Have you ignited any holy wars lately? Have your guardian deities strengthened your arm, smitten your opponents, yawned? # Finally, a Palestinian Homeland. ICANN will OK .ps as the official Pales- tinian National Authority domain. Is this terribly significant, mildly significant, or completely, utterly, terminally insignificant? To whom? http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32908,00.html?tw=wn19991207 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Vatican's Holocaust Archives Probed.(AP) An international team of Catholic and Jewish scholars called for full access to the Vatican archives to help establish the role of Pope Pius XII in the Holocaust. At least one scholar questioned whether Vatican officials will allow the team to see sensitive archival materials. Some historians say Pope Pius XII could have done more to save European Jews from the Nazis. Was the Pope anti-Semitic? Vatican denies: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562477931-5f3 : Has your belief system been complicit in
[CTRL] People in America early
-Caveat Lector- (many of these bits of evidence have been availlable for a long time. Why were they suppressed? Why now are they being made public? John Policy on human remains hampers new thinking on archaeological finds By SOLVEIG TORVIK SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER December 5, 1999 It's counterintuitive to suppose that early humans turned up their noses at American real estate for as long as many learned scholars insist they did. But scholars, unlike the rest of us, are bound by the rules of evidence. And the evidence of earlier human habitation on this continent has been non-existent. Of course, that may be because, until recently, few archaeologists thought the evidence was there to find. If America's human prehistory is a blank page, nearsightedness on the part of those who are trying to write it has been a contributing factor. As Dr. Albert C. Goodyear put it at a recent archaeological conference in Santa Fe: "You don't look for what you don't believe in." Now, as the 21st century dawns, archaeologists and anthropologists are scrambling to come to terms with mounting evidence that suggests people may have arrived here much earlier, and from different places, than conventional wisdom has dictated for most of this century. The conference, held under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and the Center for the Study of the First Americans at the University of Oregon, was the first in 40 years on the fractious subject of the peopling of the Americas. Turmoil triggered by new discoveries and sharp disagreements about what they mean served as the backdrop to often archly contentious proceedings. As a result of provocative new discoveries that challenge their assumptions, many archaeologists indicated they've resolved to "dig deeper," literally and figuratively, into the mystery, and that's a welcome development. Getting archaeologists to believe in the possibility that people may have lived here before 13,000 years ago may be too much to ask, given the paucity of irrefutable evidence. Simply proceeding on the assumption that it's a serious possibility is good enough for starters. Happily, the profession now seems poised to think outside the box. But as ill luck would have it, this seismic shift in archaeologists' mental approach to human prehistory in the Americas comes just as the federal government has determined that its duty lies in facilitating destruction of what little evidence does exist that might allow scientists to shed light on who came here when. This is a lamentable congruence of events. Tantalizing new scientific evidence that suggests humans may have arrived here in many disparate waves from more than one direction and tens of thousands of years earlier than commonly accepted is irrelevant, according to official U.S. policy. Human remains, even those many thousands of years old, routinely are given by U.S. Park Service officials to tribes for reburial on the unscientific assumption that the remains are ancestors of modern Native Americans. Yet those remains, some of which appear not to resemble modern Native Americans, may hold invaluable answers to the peopling of the Americas puzzle. The likely result of the government's failure to acknowledge that the prevailing story of the peopling of the continent may be wrong will be that evidence to support that assertion will be lost forever. It's bad enough that a good deal of the evidence already may have been lost. It's worse that it's been by deliberate government design. Some of it has been buried, both literally and figuratively, on government orders, in Idaho and
[CTRL] Different Positions
-Caveat Lector- A January 20, 1999 From "National Jewish Coaltion Applauds Republican National Committee Condemnation of Racist Group January 20, 1999, Washington, DC The National Jewish Coalition wrote to Chairman Nicholson: "Your forceful and unequivocal condemnation of that group's racist views is a resounding restatement of one of the Republican Party's core principles. "The Republican Party has always been committed to the basic values of liberty, democracy, and equality. Hate and racism have no place in the party of Lincoln and never have." NJC National Chairman Cheryl Halpern said, "Republican Party leaders have consistently come out against racism and bigotry whenever they have appeared. Whether it's David Duke or the Council of Conservative Citizens, Republicans have repudiated those who espouse racist views and kept them out of the party. This party has a strong record of opposing hatred and racism, a record of which the party can be proud." By calling on all Republicans to denounce the Council of Concerned Citizens, Chairman Nicholson has once again demonstrated his commitment to putting principle above politics. The NJC commends him for standing up for the rights and equality of every American." -- - B December 1999 "From Republican Jewish Coalition site: U.S. - Israel Relationship ...The U.S.-Israel alliance is of tremendous importance to both countries. Israel is a major ally of the U.S., a stable democracy in a region that is unstable and where certain rogue countries remain hostile to America's interests..." December 6,1999" -- -- C December 6, 1999 "New York Times December 6, 1999 JERUSALEM -- On the surface, the bill that Muhammad Baraka recently submitted to the Israeli Parliament seemed innocuous enough. Baraka, an Israeli-Arab legislator, is proposing to anchor in law the seemingly factual assertion that Israel is a democratic and multicultural state. Parliament's legal advisers, however, considered the bill so subversive that they recommended that it not even be sent to the floor for debate. Baraka's proposal, it seems, cleverly omits a sacred point: that Israel values one culture above all others. It is, after all, the Jewish homeland, established on a policy of ethnic preference to redress the enormity of the Holocaust as well as millennia of wandering..." "A Rightist Leader Stirs Tepid Dissent, and Assent . . .Haider's party did well in Vienna with a simple slogan, "Stop the Überfremdung," an appeal against "overforeignization" that, to a German speaker, carries connotations of Goebbels, as indeed do other aspects of Haider's speeches. Haider now disowns the slogan and says it was dreamed up by the Vienna branch of his Freedom Party. "...the speaker of Austria's Parliament, Heinz Fischer, promised that the legislature would pass a resolution against xenophobia. That evening, some 25,000 people rallied in Vienna against racism. The rally drew Haider's scorn and sharply divided even his opponents over its size and its aims. Doron Rabinovici, a writer and one of the rally's organizers, pledged at the gathering that anti-Haider forces will not wait next time until after an election to come out against racism. He demanded a law against discrimination because "no one can be certain of their future in Austria so long as someone is exposed to persecution because of their origins." The rally was "the beginning of a political movement against people who whip up fear, the first of many manifestations of courage," he said. At the Hofburg gathering, Haider inveighed against what he called frustrated left-wingers; an "organized witchhunt from abroad," and "this leftist, pseudo-intellectual nonsense about hating foreigners." To those who marched under the banner "Haider-shame for Austria," his retort was, "It is certainly not a shame to feel responsible above all for one's own people." Such language worries some Viennese. Ariel Muzicant, the leader of the small Jewish community that has re-formed since World War II, has said that anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise. " 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.
[CTRL] USA immigration debate
-Caveat Lector- Lew Rockwell has on his web site posted the complete text of the letter that Brimelow sent, before editing and expurgation by the editors of Commentary. = To see in boldface the bolded sections to which Brimelow refers, go to http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/brimelow2.html KB The Complete Brimelow Letter by Peter Brimelow Note: I've bolded what was cut out - the attack on the neocons and a parallel with Pickett's Charge [!] They made some minor word changes which I represent with brackets - including cutting out the reference to National Review, oddly. To The Editor, Commentary Irwin Stelzer is to be congratulated on a remarkable review of a remarkable book: George Borjas' Heaven's Door: Immigration and the American Economy (Commentary, September 1999). Borjas' research has led him to astonishing findings: that the immigration wave accidentally unleashed by the 1965 legislation has not benefited Americans in aggregate; that lower-skilled workers in particular are being hurt; that the current system's paradoxical selection process is producing lower-skilled (and overwhelmingly Third World) immigrants; that these immigrants are disproportionately failing and going on welfare; that Americans are actually paying, through fiscal transfers, for the transformation of their society. Dr. Stelzer's handsome acknowledgement that "many of these findings are now uncontested" is entirely appropriate - but only for economists. In public debate, the conventional wisdom is still entirely the opposite. I must gently point out that this unfortunate situation is, in a small way, Dr. Stelzer's fault. In 1995, I published Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster. It anticipated Borjas' conclusion that U.S. immigration policy is broken and must be fixed - although reasonable people can certainly disagree on how to fix it - for the simple reason that my book [a book that was] in large part an explicit popularization of Borjas' work. But Dr Stelzer, in his New York Post column (April 13, 1995), brushed aside the very evidence that he now finds so compelling as a "narrow-minded statistical compendium." He completely ignored my exposure of the paradoxical selection process that he now describes as "one of the besetting sins of the present system." Instead, his point was purely emotional: that my argument was rightly "falling on deaf ears in the neo-conservative community" because "they well remember their parents' tales of the contempt in which they were held by earlier immigrants and nativist WASPs..." Naturally, I rejoice at the return of the Prodigal Stelzer. Needless to say, I look forward to being enlightened by him, in the best tradition of Commentary's correspondence columns, as to which of my personal failings so blinded him, happily for a mere four years, to the facts. But ideas, and emotions, have consequences. The year 1995 was a brief shining moment of hope for immigration reform. The landslide victory of California's Proposition 187, cutting off certain tax subsidies to illegal immigrants, had gotten the attention of the Washington elite. The bipartisan Jordan Commission, appointed by Congress and headed by the late black Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, had provided perfect political cover with its recommendation of significant immigration cutbacks. Legislation embodying these proposals, the Smith-Simpson bill, had the support of the leadership of the Republican majority in Congress. It took a ferocious campaign of special-interest lobbying to intimidate the Republican leadership and derail the Smith-Simpson bill. Playing a critical fifth-column role in that campaign were the neoconservative-dominated media ? notably the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Dr. Stelzer's own Weekly Standard magazine. They amply demonstrated that he was right to predict they would have "deaf ears" to facts and logic about immigration. Sadly, however, he had helped stop those ears. Today there is no immediate prospect that the present system, with all its "besetting sins," will be reformed. I think the failure of Smith-Simpson was disasterous for the American nation. Apparently this unit of analysis makes Dr. Stelzer uncomfortable. But perhaps he could be interested in the fate of the American conservative movement, and of the Republican Party, to which the neo-conservatives have allied themselves. One part of Alien Nation that Dr. [What Mr.] Stelzer still has not reckoned with is its discussion of the level at which immigration should be set. I pointed out that because Americans of all races have brought their families down to replacement level, the demographic impact of immigration is much greater than it was during the last great wave in 1890-1920, when the native-born population was still growing rapidly. Combined with the system's paradoxical selection process, which has favored the Third World and choked off Europe, this means the U.S. racial
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3 - y2k minus 24
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991208c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No Satanic bargains were negotiated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CALENDARS: Christian, Hebrew, Islamic, French Revolutionary, Mayan, and Chinese calendars: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/calendars/faq/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # How Much for This Tear Gas? (Wired) Collections of WTO "riot memorabilia" are being auctioned off on eBay. There's no shortage of collectors dying to get their hands on mementos of the "last great riot" of the 1900s. Is this perverted? http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,32951,00.html : Do you look fondly back at those great days in Seattle? When do you start production on WTO: THE MUSICAL? Will Chinese slave-labor prisoners be forced to produce counterfeit memorabilia to fill the frantic demands of WTO buffs? # CHARGES DROPPED: Earlier this fall, prominent New York art dealer Mary Boone was arrested after her gallery gave out live ammunition accompanying a show by artist Tom Sachs. Her brush with New York's legal system was a "kind of interesting adventure," she says. Not exactly Guns'n'Roses: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-boone.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sistine Chapel Restored. VATICAN CITY (AP) The Vatican completes its two- decade restoration of the Sistine Chapel Saturday with the dedication of newly bright frescoes created by Botticelli and his peers more than five centuries ago. Pope John Paul II will preside over the service celebrating the restoration of the frescoes, scenes from the lives of Jesus and Moses that line the chapel walls beneath better-known frescoes by Michelangelo overhead. Improved depth, color and detail - a wide-screen spectacular: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562475428-a52 : What's your favorite religious art? Does your belief system employ art to gain converts, insert memes, impose mindcontrol? Are you successful? Very? # PAGANINI DISCOVERY: Manuscripts for 12 violin guitar sonatas by Paganini have been found in Italy. They were written "with teaching in mind." To be auctioned: http://www.smh.com.au/news/9912/09/features/features10.html : Did Paganini cut a deal with Satan to enhance his musical prowess? Do you wish you had? Are Satanic deals your favorite self-improvement programs? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ARE THEY COMING FOR US? There's another solar system in our galaxy, and the lights we're seeing may well be somebody's highbeams. Duck and cover: http://www.annoyed.com/daryl-lease/cosmic-angst.htm : Are you afraid of aliens? Should they be afraid of us? Will any ETs be as nasty, vicious, ruthless, genocidal as we humans have shown ourselves to be? @ Filer's Files - UFO reports: http://www.filersfiles.com @ National UFO Reporting Center: http://www.ufocenter.com @ Private UFO Investigations: http://ufo-pi.homepage.com/ @ Georgian Ufological Assn: http://www.gufoa.kheta.ge/english.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DNA Patent Invalid. SAN FRANCISCO(AP) An important patent for DNA analysis owned by biotech giant Hoffman-La Roche was obtained by deliberately mis- leading the U.S. Patent Trademark Office and is invalid, a federal judge has ruled. The patented substance is Taq DNA Polymerase. Developed from bacteria, it allows molecular biologists to use the replication process known as polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, much more quickly and cheaply than previous methods developed in the 1980s. Lawyers frothing to appeal - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562481396-d81 : Is control of DNA research/manipulation too important to let legalities intrude? Are the stakes too high? If you impede biotech giants, will they wipe your DNA? Will you and your progeny vanish, obliterated from reality? # "Frozen Pictures" Allow Far-Reaching Glimpse Into Cells Protein Factory. The structure of the small ribosomal subunit has been determined at the highest resolution ever achieved by a team of scientists. They located key ribosomal features, including the site where protein biosynthesis begins. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/12/991208055512.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Virgin Mary In New Jersey? Devout Catholics flock to a Jersey City super- market to catch a glimpse of what they believe to be a manifestation of the Virgin Mary on a freezer door. She sure picks some strange places: http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/paranormal/vmarynews.html : Do deities, saints other significant supernatural entities of y'r belief system often choose to manifest in dust, rust, stains, mold, crops? Do they communicate with humans via crop circles, fungus circles, lichen
[CTRL] Fwd: Black Bloc and obsessive analysis
-Caveat Lector-
I didn't write this, but I would have if this person hadn't beaten me to
it. This is the most cogent analysis of what happened in the streets of
Seattle that's appeared on the net yet.
-- nessie
**
C'mon, people!
Enough crap about the Black Bloc anarchists being provocateurs.
When did provocateurs advocate or practice property damage? Never.
Provocateurs lay it on much thicker than that. They call for violence
("off the pigs!") and other hysteria.
The BB groups mostly did not get caught because they did not sit down
and beg to be arrested. Jeez, if you don't imitate Gandhi, you're an
infiltrator? What B.S.! Not to put words in anyone's mouth, but Black
Bloc participants probably figured the police would be brutal, and
prepared to split when necessary. Also the cops will attack the unarmed
before they hit those with crowbars and hammers who might hit
back--basic police cowardice.
Please look out for the martyr cult for which the Left is famous/
notorious. Revolution ain't about being nice! It's a class WAR, get
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[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Breaking News on Ed Wilson
From: "JP Viken" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike, here's my take on this. First, wilson's survival has been "in the can" ready to take down higher up cutouts. The big boyz always keep skeletons in the closet which can be activated to blackmail and weaken their underlings who have amassed too much covert power. I predict that wilson was promised by some higher element that he would be reprieved at the end of the milennium and given his due rewards for being loyal in spite of the treachery by his sidekicks. How better to take down the "secret team" than exposing the wilson injustice since they are no longer needed and have amassed too much power to be useful anymore. There may be another 50 ed wilson type waterloos just around the corner. As an old covert op told me once, "its just a matter of time and all cutouts get it." I asked him how does one know who the cutouts are and who the big boyz are. He said it was easy, the big power was all in austria, spain, italy and germany and enjoyed being relatively unknown and could only be identified by the size of their international banking and industrial holdings all over the world. - Original Message - From: Mike Ruppert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CIA Drugs list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 1:19 PM Subject: [CIA-DRUGS] Breaking News on Ed Wilson From: "Mike Ruppert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK guys: Judging by the level of debate here lately, you need some fresh material. Again let us go back to the 20% who keep everything running for the 1%. That's where the system is vulnerable. Read this and see why the system is falling apart. I am an activist. FTW is an activist publication. By definition that means that we offer information which allows us to effect change rather than passively witness it. This article on what Ed Wilson has got, and is now turning loose, should keep you going for at least a day or two. The combined Nov/Dec. issue of From The Wilderness is 20 pages with stories on Wilson * EgyptAir 990 * A scanned reprint of the so-called CASEY letter acknowledging drug trafficking which was sealed by a U.S. District Court Judge on Nov. 8th * Y2K Updates and * The third installment of Catherine Austin Fitts' brilliant series on Edgewood - the CIA, Wall Street and "Computers for Niggers." Since Linda Minor and a couple of others contributed to the research I thought I would pay the list back with an advance peek at the story. Enjoy and please honor the Copyright as posted at the end. Mike Ruppert www.copvcia.com ___ * CIA Memo Could Have Major Impact on Tyree Case - Bush, Shackley exposed Federal Prosecutors Knowingly Used Perjured CIA Affidavit To Secure '82 Convictions of CIA Agent Edwin Wilson -- Cream of the Current U.S. Judicial/Justice System Guilty of Perjury, Subornation and Conspiracy According to CIA and Justice Department Memos by Michael C. Ruppert From The Wilderness (c) 1999, From The Wilderness Publications www.copvcia.com No less than seven of the most powerful and prominent names in the U.S. legal/judicial system stand exposed of perjury and subornation of perjury according to CIA and Department of Justice documents in the possession of former CIA agent Edwin Wilson and his Houston attorney. The documents also indicate that Department of Justice officials knowingly concealed exculpatory materials from Wilson's defense before his 1983 conviction and sentencing on weapons charges. These documents have led to the filing of a motion by Wilson's court appointed attorney, David Adler, asking the court to vacate Wilson's 1982 conviction on charges of selling plastic explosives to Libya in the period from 1976 to 1978. The Government is scheduled to respond to the motion in mid-January and may well have a tough time doing so in a way that avoids deep embarrassment, professional sanctions and/or criminal exposure for a lot of very important people. Wilson, 71, serving a total of 52 years on three separate convictions was, according to Adler, convicted on the basis of a perjured affidavit from the CIA to the Department of Justice denying that Wilson had any "direct or indirect" affiliation or association with the Agency during the period of time in which he was selling plastic explosives to Libya's Moammar Qaddaffi and other groups. That the affidavit was perjured was confirmed by the release, under the Freedom of Information Act of an uncontested CIA follow-up Memorandum addressed to then Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mark Richard entitled, "Duty To Disclose False Testimony." That document, buttressed by additional papers, located over the last two and half years by Mr. Adler, indicates clearly that the Central Intelligence Agency committed perjury when it provided an affidavit from the Agency's then number three man, Executive Director Charles Briggs, to prosecutors trying Wilson's case. That
[CTRL] Humor: Politically Correct Season's Greeting
-Caveat Lector- Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all . . . A n d a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2000, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great (not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country or is the only "AMERICA" in the western hemisphere), and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or sexual preference of the wishee. (By accepting this greeting you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.) 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: DRUGGING KIDS: A New Agenda?
(http://users.erols.com/igoddard/polyrisk.htm) LOOKING FOR "EARLY SCHIZOPHRENIA" IN CHILDREN MAY INCREASE RISK OF IATROGENIC POLYPHARMACY (c) 12/8/99 Ian Williams Goddard The New York Times (12/7/99) [1] reports that a possible new psychiatric diagnostic agenda for children may be to identify "early warning signs" of schizophrenia that are to be treated with antipsychotic drugs. Research funded in part by the drug company Eli Lilly is attempting to see if antipsychotic drugs can reduce the incidence of full-blown schizophrenia if given to "high-risk" subjects while they are still children. With the ability to cause permanent brain damage and disfiguring conditions such as tardive dyskinesia, antipsychotic drugs, also known as neuroleptics, are the most harmful psychiatric drugs. [2] Also of concern regarding an "early schizophrenic" focus in childhood diagnosis is that the drug Ritalin, which is being prescribed to millions of children, is known to produce symptoms that mimic schizophrenia. [3] One drug study even found that Ritalin "induces a psychopathology that seems to mimic schizophrenic psychosis more closely than that induced by amphetamines and cocaine." [4] About the ability of psychostimulants such as Ritalin to mimic symptoms of schizophrenia, Peter Breggin, M.D., states: "All of the stimulants, including Cylert, can cause psychoses that mimic schizophrenia... These drug- induced psychoses look so much like schizophrenia that a strong argument has been made that stimulant abuse sometimes causes 'chronic schizophrenia.'(43)" [5] Since doctors often prescribe multiple drugs (polypharmacy), and since an illness treated by one drug may be caused by another (iatrogenic polypharmacy), the potential exists that Ritalin-induced schizophrenia might be treated with even more dangerous mind-altering drugs. As Breggin observes: "Because Ritalin is promoted as relatively free of adverse effects, the development of a severe mental disturbance can be mistaken for the surfacing of further 'mental illness.'" [6] The potential for iatrogenic polypharmacy could arise as a result of any "early schizophrenia treatment" agenda unless all doctors are aware of all adverse effects of stimulants and are willing to take a child off them to see if symptoms subside before they risk prescribing potentially brain- damaging neuroleptics, and yet psychosis has been reported during withdrawal from long-term Ritalin use. [7] Chances are some doctors will drug first and ask questions later. Quoted below are excerpts from a study that found Ritalin produced a dose-dependent dysfunction in nonschizophrenics that "'mimics' schizophrenic psychopathology." The range of doses in the study intersects Ritalin's therapeutic range. The study used Ritalin to test a hypothesis about the nature of an on-set schizophrenic dysfunction. The fact that Ritalin (methylphenidate) was chosen reflects the fact that it is a drug of choice for modeling schizophrenic psychopathology. Here then are important excerpts from that study: == Archives of General Psychiatry (1988;45(9):827-32) == Methylphenidate-Induced Information Processing Dysfunction in Nonschizophrenic Patients David L. Braff, MD, Leighton Huey, MD Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093. "Schizophrenic patients have significant deficits in a wide range of attentional and information processing tasks. It is hypothesized that catecholamine (eg, dopamine) overactivity may induce and that antipsychotic medications may reverse these attentional deficits." ... "This experiment was designed to test whether systemic administration of the dopamine agonist methylphenidate hydrochloride [Ritalin], in nonschizophrenic patients, would induce an information processing dysfunction similar to the dysfunction typically seen in schizophrenic patients in the visual backward masking task."[8] "These results show that methylphenidate, which increases central catecholaminergic activity, induces dose-dependent deficits in information processing similar to those seen in schizophrenic patients. ...this experiment used a combination of psychophysical tasks and pharmacological probes and is a novel illustration of how stimulant challenges can induce the type of information processing dysfunction seen in schizophrenic spectrum patients." ... "...the higher dose of methylphenidate induced significantly more information processing disruption, indicating a dose-dependant effect that needs further investigation." [IAN: The low dose in this study was 0.5 mg/kg, the high
[CTRL] Gold Price Manipulation
-Caveat Lector- from a friend: Om K - Post far and wide, please. * AN OPEN LETTER TO ALAN GREENSPAN Chairman, Federal Reserve System AND LAWRENCE SUMMERS Secretary of the Treasury What Are You Doing With America's Gold? Dear Chairman Greenspan and Secretary Summers: On July 24, 1998, before the House Banking Committee, and six days later before the Senate Agricultural Committee, Chairman Greenspan made the following statement: "Central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise." Ever since that comment was made, there has been a growing controversy about whether the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department have been actively involved in the gold market. There has been speculation that the U.S. government, through your agencies, has been seeking to lower the gold price to rescue certain financial interests, much as the Fed orchestrated the rescue of Long-Term Capital Management last year. Aggressive bullion dealers, hedge funds doing the gold "carry trade," and unwise price speculation disguised as hedging by gold mining companies are most frequently cited as the beneficiaries of this government intervention in the gold price. As with LTCM, there is concern about severe risk to the world financial system, this time because of irresponsible gold lending policies of central banks. The gold controversy reached the floor of the British Parliament last June 16, after the Bank of England announced plans to sell 415 tons of its gold: "We cannot allow these rumors to grow, because they are extremely dangerous to public confidence. It has been suggested that the market is very short of gold, that the short positions may be a substantial multiple of the total amount of gold currently held by the Bank of England, and that the bank's real motive is to save the bacon of firms that are running those short positions. If such a suggestion is being made seriously, it must be dealt with authoritatively and definitively, and we want an answer from the government now. - Quentin Davies, Member of Parliament" The Bank of England's announcement collapsed the price of gold from $290 to $252 per ounce. But when, on September 26, fifteen European central banks announced that they would restrict their gold sales and gold lending for the next five years, the gold price soared to $337. Word spread that the bullion banks were panicking again. As if right on cue but in uncharacteristic fashion, the government of Kuwait then announced it was depositing its 79 tons of gold with the Bank of England for lending purposes. There was speculation that the New York Federal Reserve Bank was using all means at its disposal to push the gold price down to accommodate the financial interests that were short gold. The Question Demands An Answer: Is the government of the United States intervening in the gold market and, if so, why? Chairman Greenspan, we will take you at your own word that you are intervening in the gold market as you said you would if the price rose. The Federal Reserve Bank's Open Market Committee may have the authority to deal in gold coin and bullion, but all purchases and sales, according to 12 USC 263-359, "shall be governed with a view to accommodating commerce and business." If, rather, the Federal Reserve Bank or the Treasury Department is depressing the gold price in order to help various and numerous gold short sellers, it is a clear and illegal violation of the bank's purpose clause. The government's intervening to help one side over another in a private contract is illegal, fraudulent and unconstitutional. For the U.S. central bank to use its powers to benefit one class of citizens to the harm of another class of Americans is a gross violation of the Constitution's equal protection clause. If the Federal Reserve intervened in the gold market after the October price rise as you said you were prepared to do, it was not to accommodate commerce and business, but to accommodate one half of the parties to a private contract who had shorted gold. The other half of the parties to this same contract who bought gold were cheated and deprived of a fair market price, denied the equal protection of the law and cheated of profit potential. It would be an illegal and fraudulent act that was perpetrated by bankers who are unelected bureaucrats reigning like tyrants without legal or political supervision. The manipulation of the gold market has caused irreparable harm to gold owners, gold companies and gold miners as well as all Americans. It destroyed a free market, depressed the fair value for an important financial asset, distorted the value of gold companies on the New York and American Stock Exchanges and decreased the value of its own and America's gold assets. The Fed's price fixing action should be investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading
[CTRL] Supersecret defense agency sizes up world
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.detnews.com/1999/nation/9912/08/12080131.htm Click Here: A HREF="http://www.detnews.com/1999/nation/9912/08/12080131.htm" Supersecret defense agency sizes up world - 12/ /A - Wednesday, December 8, 1999 Supersecret defense agency sizes up world Director says China is unlikely to attack Taiwan, Hussein is secure, 'no end in sight' for Chechen war By John Omicinski / Gannett News Service WASHINGTON -- "There are no facts about the future," says Vice-Adm. Thomas Ray Wilson. He says it so often it sounds like a mantra. But his business is getting information -- lots of it -- that offers clues to the future. Wilson is almost four months into his job as Defense Intelligence Agency director and his "customers," as he calls them, are looking for more than facts. "They ask us ... 'Can you be more predictive about the future?' " In an hourlong interview rare for the supersecret DIA, Wilson shared with reporters some views about what's ahead. The three-star admiral ventured these forecasts: * Despite its huffing and puffing, China is unlikely to attack Taiwan "on the near-term horizon." Beijing doesn't have the air and sea equipment for an amphibious invasion, and China's leaders are usually patient enough to await developments, Wilson said. "An invasion of Taiwan would not be in their capability right now," he said. "I think they are going to await the outcomes of (Taiwan's) next elections (March 18) and come to see what the new leaders do." * North Korea isn't showing much activity around its three-stage Ta'epo Dong missile site. "We don't see anything alarming," he said. * There is no prospect that an insurgency can topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Wilson said. Almost 10 years after invading Kuwait, Saddam "appears to be relatively secure." At the same time, he added, Saddam has shown he is willing, perhaps desperate, to sacrifice his ground-based radars to shoot down an American pilot and hold him for ransom. Saddam also probably is rebuilding installations bombed out in last December's Operation Desert Fox, said Wilson, including chemical and biological weapons factories. * "There is no end in sight" for Russia's war against Chechen guerrillas in the Caucasus. Unlike the 1996 war fought over much the same ground, said Wilson, Moscow seems to have domestic support. Three years ago, heart-broken or irate mothers went to the battlefront in buses and trucks to retrieve their sons, dead or alive. "But the weather is worsening," Wilson said. "It will be winter soon," he added, a reminder that winter and war are a bad mixture in Russia. Wilson had some thoughts but risked no official guesses on why Russian military officials have turned belligerent toward Washington. Earlier this year, the Russians announced that their conventional military strength had fallen so low that they were abandoning their historic pledge not to use nuclear weapons first. Russia's air force chief recently lashed out at U.S. criticism of its Chechnya offensive, saying it didn't compare with the Kosovo campaign. "Just to remind them," said Col. Gen. Anatoly Kornukov, "Russia is not Iraq, nor is it Yugoslavia. There you have it. We will deal decisively with any interference." Copyright 1999, The Detroit News - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] OEN 12/8/99
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Click Here: A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Spy vs. Spy "Iran-Contra" Mop-Up Files of Israeli newspaper seized. Now Bush is safe. JERUSALEM Documents and tapes linked to the Iran-Contra affair have been seized from the office of an Israeli newspaper publisher and one-time arms dealer, a lawyer in the case said Thursday. The office of Yaakov Nimrodi, acting publisher of the Maariv daily, was searched this week as part of an investigation involving Nimrodi's son, Ofer, who is suspected of having plotted the murder of a state witness in a wiretapping scandal. Police are not renewing an investigation of the Iran-Contra affair, said spokesman Ofer Sivan. He would not say what material was taken from Nimrodi's office. The Iran-Contra scandal erupted in the mid-1980s when Israel and the United States secretly sold weapons to Iran, while publicly condemning arms sales to the country. The weapons, including anti-tank missiles, were sent to Iran in exchange for Iran's agreement to work for the release of U.S. hostages held in Lebanon by pro-Iranian Shiite Muslim extremists. Nimrodi, a former agent in Iran for Israel's Mossad secret service, was one of three Israeli middlemen in the deal. Part of the profits were funneled to anti-Sandinista insurgents in Nicaragua known as Contras. Yitzhak Shamir, prime minister at the time, said the United States always knew what Israel was doing, but did not always agree. "Our interests were different, though very close," he told Israel television. Nimrodi's lawyer, Yossi Cohen, said Thursday that his client was writing a book about the scandal and that while the documents and tapes in his possession were of historical importance, they were not secret. Cohen said, however, that Nimrodi hadn't looked at the material in 15 years. A reference to Irangate first emerged Wednesday when police said they had found a secret document linked to the scandal in the office of private investigator Oded Ben-Dov. Police suspect Ben-Dov was hired as a hitman by Nimrodi's son in the alleged plot against the witness. Ben-Dov said the Iran-Contra document he had was sent to him by an overseas client several years ago, the Haaretz newspaper reported. Israel television reported that the document was a secret Israeli government inquiry into the scandal. The younger Nimrodi stepped down as Maariv publisher after police announced last month they were investigating him in connection with the alleged murder plot. Nimrodi was arrested a week ago. Earlier this year, he had served four-and-a-half months in jail on charges he wiretapped phones of a rival newspaper, Yediot Ahronot. Associated Press, December 2, 1999 Federal Reserve Greenspan Pumps Up the Money Supply by Irwin Kellner NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- If you look at what the Federal Reserve has done to interest rates this year, you might think that chairman Alan Greenspan was auditioning to play the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. M-3 has been growing at an annual rate of 12 percent -- more than twice as fast as gross domestic product growth." The Fed has raised interest rates three times, taking back all of last year's cuts. But if you look instead at what the Fed is doing with the nation's money supply, you would have to conclude that Mr. Greenspan really wants to be Santa Claus. This is because the money supply is growing much faster than usual. In the past 13 weeks, the money supply M-3 has been growing at an annual rate of 12 percent -- more than twice as fast as gross domestic product growth. This apparently has resulted from Mr. Greenspan's promise to inject extra liquidity into the banking system in case there are any Y2K-related withdrawals. The Fed has already added more than $50 billion to the money supply over and above seasonal needs (see my column of Nov. 9). But wait, there's more. But you ain't seen nothing, yet. The Fed has also been writing a huge amount of what are called repo options. These options could add another $500 billion to the system, if exercised. And while it is the Fed's intent to take this extra money out of the system, come the New Year, this temporary injection of funds is not without its consequences -- some of which might well be long-lasting. Effects are obvious Its effects in the financial markets are already visible. The stock market has run up sharply since the middle of October, reflecting this extra liquidity looking for a home. On the other hand, both bond prices and the dollar have declined, as these markets have begun to fear the inflationary impact of this massive injection of funds. So far, prices of most goods appear to be rising only slowly. This might change, however, since these extra funds are now being spent -- not just for the holidays, but for Y2K as well (see my column of Nov. 24). Don't think for one moment that prices of batteries, flashlights, portable stoves, generators
[CTRL] Ten Risks of PKI: What You're Not Being Told About Public Key Infrastructure
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.counterpane.com/pki-risks.html Click Here: A HREF="http://www.counterpane.com/pki-risks.html"Ten Risks of PKI/A - Ten Risks of PKI: What You're Not Being Told About Public Key Infrastructure C. Ellison and B. Schneier Computer Security Journal, v 16, n 1, 2000, pp. 1-7. [PDF (Acrobat)] [plaintext] Home page - Counterpane Labs - Applied Cryptography - E-Mail Security - Crypto Links Bruce Schneier Bio - Blowfish - Twofish - Yarrow - Publications - Contact Coun terpane - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End 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] Economist Calculates the Odds on Egypt Air Flight 990 Ritual Alignments
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Economist Calculates the Odds on
Egypt Air Flight 990 Ritual Alignments
CONTACT INFORMATION:
MICHAEL BARA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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RICHARD C. HOAGLAND - The Enterprise Mission
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© 1999 THE ENTERPRISE MISSION
Egypt Air logo of Horus the Falcon god.
One of the ongoing projects at the Enterprise Mission has been the
accumulation of data on "Ritual Alignments," the repetitive pattern of
certain stars associated with ancient Egyptian gods showing up in ceremonial
positions during key NASA or political events. As we have presented this data
and the weight of argument has grown, a number of readers with backgrounds
in statistical analysis have stepped forward to offer to calculate the odds
of these alignments happening by chance. In contrast to our critics --
especially the ones who have argued against the validity of the Cydonia
"geometric relationship model" -- who have run like bandits rather than
address the overwhelming odds, these readers have openly offered their
expertise in an effort to confirm or deny our assertions. The first of these
critical review papers was present by Mary Weaver just a few weeks ago. Now,
another contributor, Robert Harrison, an economist by profession, has stepped
up to the plate to determine the odds in a specific instance, the sacrificial
downing of Egypt Air Flight 990. Mr. Harrison has asked us to keep all other
details of his identity a secret for now. Here is his report.
Preamble
Dear Mr. Bara,
As you know I have taken a great interest in attempting to calculate the
probabilities on the star alignments that yourself and Richard Hoagland have
been compiling around NASA missions. The new study by Mary Weaver appears to
provide the objective proof that some employees of NASA have indeed been
attempting to match space missions to spiritually symbolic star alignments.
You may be interested in the following probability calculations concerning
the very specific set of co-incidences to be found within the "star"
alignments at the time of the crash of Egypt Air Flight 990. These conclude
that the chance of these alignments occurring at the time of the crash, at
the location of the crash site and at Giza are very improbable.
However, be warned. The fact that a single event is highly improbable is not
proof of anything because highly improbable single events are occurring all
the time without comment. The results of my study should therefore be viewed
as just one more highly suspicious co-incidence that attached itself to the
mysterious Flight 990 disaster. The idea that the crash may have been in some
(mundane?) way the work of a religious cult would be consistent with the many
co-incidences that you have observed. Therefore, it is a possibility that
cannot be ruled out of the investigations.
JUST HOW IMPROBABLE WERE THE STAR ALIGNMENTS THAT COINCIDED WITH THE CRASH OF
EGYPT AIR FLIGHT 990 ?
By
Robert Harrison
Flight 990 began its death dive in a nine minute window just after --
(a) Comet Encke set only 3 degrees from true West - and -
(b) just before Alnilam (the centre star of Orion's Belt) set exactly due West
of Giza.
These star alignment's have special significance in the Hoagland/Bara model
of the rituals of a theorised Egyptian/Masonic cult. The probability question
to be posed is -
What are the odds against these specific alignments happening at these
locations on the same day AND at the same time of day as the crash of Flight
990?
To answer this question it is necessary to break the problem down into a
sequence of smaller steps and then cumulate the odds. These intermediate
questions are -
(1) What are the chances of Encke and Alnilam setting within nine minutes of
each other at the crash location and at Giza on the day of the crash?
(2) What are the chances of this nine minute window overlapping with the same
time of day as the crash?
(3) What is the chance of Encke ("death") setting before Alnilam/Orion
("resurrection") ?
(4) What is the chance of Encke setting only 3 degrees off true West from the
crash site?
(5) What is the chance of Alnilam setting exactly due West from Giza?
The minute by minute movements of Encke and Alnilam in the sky are
independent from one another. To find the probability of these to objects
setting in exactly the same minute of the day then we must calculate all the
possible permutations between their positions during the
[CTRL] Corruption,Drugs and the U.S. Military
-Caveat Lector- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K - Click Here: A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:579100"Corruption,Drugs and the U.S. Military--Pt. 1/A - Subject: Corruption,Drugs and the U.S. Military--Pt. 1 From: A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "[EMAIL PROTECTED] /A (Abemarf) Date: Wed, 08 December 1999 12:34 AM EST Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This article seems to have "mysteriously" disappeared from alt.conspiracy, so I'm putting it back up. === Subject: Whistle-Blower Roberta Hamlin Tortured and Mutilated by U.S. Gov't Date: 1999/11/29 Author: Mark S. Bilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roberta Hamlin discovered drug smuggling and other crimes going on at a military base on U.S. soil. When she told the authorities about it, she was ordered to keep quiet. When she refused, she was subjected to torture and mutilation by the United States government. In response to an article I posted about a movie on Iran-Contra drug trafficking, Ms. Hamlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and asked for help in getting the word out about her terrible experience. Here is her summary of the events, plus a copy of her latest response to the Federal Court. See the website www.copvcia.com for information on the Bush-connected drug smuggling that constitutes the background to her story. *** In 1986, I blew the whistle on some wrongdoing at a military base. This was Fort Bliss, in El Paso, Texas, where I had taken pathology training (as a civilian) at the William Beaumont Army Medical Center, a teaching hospital. I still had connections there, as I was married to a retired Army sergeant. The wrongdoing ranged from drugs to fraudulent disability payments. If you knew the right people, you could get 100% disability payments even though you were in perfect health. As to drugs, there was not only rampant drug usage, but international drug trafficking going on at the base (El Paso borders on two nations and three states). I went to the JAG office and the Inspector General at WBAMC. They told me to mind my own business. I explained to them it IS my own business -- everybody's business. I was told that if I didn't mind my own business, I could get hurt. I did not shut up. Around this time I found a small lump in one breast, and a biopsy was performed at the Medical Center. Although they knew from the biopsy reports that I did not have cancer, I was told I needed bi-lateral mastectomies. Army surgeon Dr. Rosenda Icochea of Peru took great pains to explain the procedure and the proposed plastic surgery reconstructive process: he drew pictures for my daughter, and RN and I to show us what would be done. He is an expert in breast surgery and had his own patients that flew in from the East coast to have him perform breast surgery. I ultimately learned I did not have cancer. I had the surgery not realizing it was not going to be as he had described, it was a ruse to get me into surgery where I could be silenced permanently. They very nearly succeeded. When I had the surgery, they mutilated me. It looked like they had used a machete on me -- I had slash marks clear down to my lower rib cage. There were also very large and painful bruises all over my body; they had beaten me severely while I was unconscious. (There was nothing in the medical record to indicate the cause of the bruising.) Also, I was not taken to ICU after the surgery, or given normal post-operative care. They apparently expected me to die of complications. After this I was in constant pain, and had difficulty breathing or moving my arms. One of the two implants had been placed under my right armpit. I had photographs taken of all this, and they have been provided to the court. I applied for SSI. It was denied. I learned later that Vice President George Bush had directly interacted with Dorcas Hardy, the Commissioner of Social Security for the U.S., regarding my case. I was denied all benefits, and listed as "insane", although i had never been interviewed by a psychiatrist or any other mental health worker (as is required by law, in Social Security rules). I have a copy of the memo sent by Dorcas Hardy back to Vice President Bush acknowledging his communication; this was provided to the court. I filed an appeal with Social Security. I contacted an administrative law judge in Albuquerque New Mexico, Jonathan Boltz, who flew to El Paso to review my situation. He saw the pictures of the mutilation that I had sustained, and reviewed the Social Security rulings, including the mental health aspects. He overturned their rulings, stating that I was one of the most credible people he had ever interviewed. He ruled that I am permanently disabled, and ordered the Social Security Admini- stration to pay benefits retroactively, starting from the date of application. Around the same time, someone at Social Security
[CTRL] NSA to Spy with FBI - but wont tell CIA who's in charge!
-Caveat Lector- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K - Click Here: A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:578781"NSA to Spy with FBI - but wont tell CIA who's in charge!/A - Subject: NSA to Spy with FBI - but wont tell CIA who's in charge! From: A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "[EMAIL PROTECTED] /A (E Right) Date: Tue, 07 December 1999 12:23 AM EST Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSA to Spy with FBI - but wont tell CIA who's in charge! NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Security Agency is now drafting "memoranda of understanding" to clarify ways in which it can help the FBI track terrorists and criminals in the United States, territory in which it is generally off-limits, Newsweek has learned. -- www.newsweek.com ER NSA is going to spy on Americans? You know, the NSA, the ones who have a system allegedly called ECHELON, which can monitor everyone's phone calls everywhere? They want to monitor the internet now. They will be working with the FBI who required the telephone companies to install wiretap friendly (CALEA *) relays, and of course they have protected "SECRET EVIDENCE" which no one can cross examine... ER Our intelligence oversight committees don't have a clue what's going on by the way, since they still haven't been told if ECHELON exists or not, and what it has been doing over the last decade. ER Is this "terrorism" boogey man (which has been decreasing by the way!) creating a totalitarian secret police state? It appears so. The NSA swears they wont share their database and info with the CIA, but folks, our intelligence agencies allegedly were centralized under the CIA years ago. The Director of the CIA is supposed at the top of the intelligence gathering hierarchy, so we are to assume they wouldn't know what they are in charge of? Preposterous! Read more closely: NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Security Agency is now drafting "memoranda of understanding" to clarify ways in which it can help the FBI track terrorists and criminals in the United States, territory in which it is generally off-limits, Newsweek has learned. The FBI, never known for its technical know-how, welcomes the help from the high-tech NSA, but some senators are uneasy about letting the NSA eavesdrop more in the United States ER: MORE??? While a secret court must approve any national-security wiretaps on U.S. citizens, there is still the risk of abuse. Under pressure to perform better, the NSA and CIA could overreach. Under the existing rules, the NSA and CIA are supposed to spy on foreign threats while the FBI tends to crime at home. But the Internet has blurred boundaries, and as the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 demonstrated, foreign terrorists have targeted the United States. ER Clue, shooting the wrong civilians, bombing the wrong aspirin factories, and burning the wrong church CAUSES TERRORISM! The Oklahoma terroristic attack would NOT have happened if Ruby Ridge and the Waco massacre never happened. But the NSA may be losing its grip on the technology front. "The agency has got to make some changes," because "by standing still, we are going to fall behind very quickly," concedes Air Force Lt. Gen. Mike Hayden, the new chief of the NSA, in an interview with Newsweek. The old tools, such as spy satellites and global-listening stations to pick up broadcast transmissions and massive computers to sort and decipher them, are relatively ineffective on the new Info Highway. Oh here it is - they want to SPY ON THE INTERNET! WINK, LIKE THEY NEVER DID THAT BEFORE? The agency's problems have already been costly. The intelligence community's failure to predict that India would test a nuclear weapon in 1998 NO AGENT ON GROUND PROBLEM? suggests that the NSA is becoming hard of hearing. BECAUSE THEY HAVE BECOME LAZY THINKING MACHINES WILL TELL THEM EVERYTHING? Some intelligence experts speculate that Washington has had difficulty finding its most-wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, because Islamic extremists use European-made encrypted mobile phones, reports Newsweek in the December 13 issue (on newsstands Monday, December 6). ER: The Maxwell Smart excuse, the old complicated gadget trick? Did these folks consider they might find Bin Laden if they look outside our border? SOURCE Newsweek - Web Site: A HREF="http://www.newsweek.com"http://www.newsw eek.com/A ER Why don't the intel.govs start working on bombing the right enemy buildings overseas and work your way up from there before you do try this on US civilians... xxx EXCERPTS: NSA Patents New Technology To Monitor Millions Of Phones Calls The US National Security Agency has designed and patented a new technology that could aid it in spying on international telephone calls. The NSA patent, granted on 10 August, is for a system of automatic topic spotting and labeling of data. The patent officially confirms for the first time that the NSA has been working on ways of automatically analyzing human speech. The
[CTRL] Copiers
-Caveat Lector- http://www.vortex.com/privacy/priv.08.18 Date:Mon, 6 Dec 99 13:31 PST From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator) Subject: IDs in Color Copies--A PRIVACY Forum Special Report Greetings. We've recently seen a tirade of stories about "hidden" identification codes and what many would consider to be surreptitious centralized information flowing from various popular Internet products and packages. These have tended to highlight an important truth--whether or not users really would be concerned about the particular identifiers or data involved, they tend to get the most upset when they feel that an effort was made to perform such functions "behind their backs." While it can be argued how routine, intrusive, or even mundane and innocent a particular case may be, it's certainly true that people feel a lot better when they know what's going on. This issue isn't restricted only to the Internet world. A case in point-- the recurring rumors floating around regarding the presence or absence of identification codes in color copies (or color prints xerographically generated from computer output systems). A recent story involved a customer who was refused permission to make a color copy of his driver's license (to deal with an identification problem with his local telephone company). A Kinko's (copying center) worker reportedly told him that such a copy was "illegal," and could be traced back to the store through a "hidden ID." Regardless of whether or not the Kinko's employee was being overzealous in his interpretation of the rules, what's really going on here regarding a so-called hidden ID code? In fact, rumors about this, often chalked up as an "urban legend," have been circulating for a long time. This is a bit ironic, given that in the copier/printer industry it's been well known for years--no secret--that "invisible" IDs *are* imprinted on virtually all color xerographic output, from (apparently) all of the manufacturers. But for persons outside of "the trade," this hasn't been as widely known (even though the issue goes back to the early 90's, and the topic has appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal). However, it does not appear that the privacy-related aspects of this technology have ever been subject to significant public discussion. In an effort to pin down the current state of the art in this area, I had a long and pleasant chat with one of Xerox's anti-counterfeiting experts, who is the technical product manager for several of their color-copying products. The conversation was quite illuminating. Please note that the details apply only to Xerox products, though we can safely assume similar systems from competing manufacturers, although their specific policies may differ. Years ago, when the potential for counterfeiting of valuable documents on color copiers/xerographic printers became apparent in Japan (where such machines first appeared) manufacturers were concerned about negative governmental reaction to such technology. In an effort to stave off legislative efforts to restrict such devices, various ID systems began being implemented at that point. At one stage for at least one U.S. manufacturer, this was as crude as a serial number etched on the underside of the imaging area glass! Modern systems, which are now reportedly implemented universally, use much more sophisticated methods, encoding the ID effectively as "noise" repeatedly throughout the image, making it impossible to circumvent the system through copying or printing over a small portion of the image area, or by cutting off portions of printed documents. Effectively, I'd term this as sort of the printing equivalent of "spread spectrum" in radio technology. To read these IDs, the document in question is scanned and the "noise" decoded via a secret and proprietary algorithm. In the case of Xerox-manufactured equipment, only Xerox has the means to do this, and they require a court order to do so (except for some specific government agencies, for whom they no longer require court authorizations). I'm told that the number of requests Xerox receives for this service is on the order of a couple a week from within the U.S. The ID is encoded in all color copies/prints from the Xerox color copier/printer line. It does not appear in black and white copies. The technology has continued to evolve, and it is possible that it might be implemented within other printing technologies as well (e.g. inkjet). At one time there were efforts made to also include date/time stamps within the encoded data, but these were dropped by Xerox (at least for now) due to inconsistencies such as the printer clocks not being set properly by their operators, rendering their value questionable. It's interesting to note that these machines also include other anti-counterfeiting measures, such as dumping extra cyan toner onto images when the unit believes it has detected an attempt to
[CTRL] Hackers uncover secret billions of Arafat's PLO
-Caveat Lector- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K - Click Here: A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:578720"Hackers uncover secret billions of Arafat's PLO/A - Subject: Hackers uncover secret billions of Arafat's PLO From: "news" A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"info@internetofficen ews.com/A Date: Mon, 06 December 1999 07:38 PM EST Message-id: bGY24.8995$[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hackers uncover secret billions of Arafat's PLO (This is really no secret but here is the proof) THE Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has salted away billions of pounds for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in secret foreign bank accounts and investments, including property in London. The disclosure about the hidden wealth of his PLO comes amid deepening economic hardship in his Gaza and West Bank fiefdoms. It will also hamper his efforts to woo a huge influx of European aid for his fledgling Palestinian regime. The timing of the disclosures could not have been more embarrassing as Mr Arafat, seated before a stage built to resemble a giant Christmas crib, yesterday opened Millennium celebrations in Bethlehem. He hopes that the year of festivities in Jesus's birthplace will showcase his push for an independent Palestinian state. New details of the vast PLO fortune he controls have come to light following a series of computer break-ins at the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Tunis. The hackers discovered that the PLO maintains about £5 billion in numbered bank accounts in Zurich, Geneva and New York. It also holds accounts with smaller sums in north Africa, Europe and Asia. They are not registered in the PLO's name, but in the names of private individuals. MORE ON WEB PAGE -- Michael Owens THE UNDERGROUND NEWS A HREF="http://www.internetofficenews.com"http://www.internetofficenews.com /A A HREF="http://www.quickcomtech.com"http://www.quickcomtech.com/A - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End 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] We review controversial publications.
-Caveat Lector- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K - Click Here: A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:578658"We review controversial publications./A - Subject: We review controversial publications. From: A HREF="mailto:ARG"ARG/A Date: Mon, 06 December 1999 04:30 PM EST Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you've published a controversial newsletter, zine, or book, and you're wondering how to get the word out to potential readers, please consider sending a copy to A Reader's Guide to the Underground Press. A Reader's Guide is an amateur publication, written, edited, printed, and mailed out by an all-volunteer staff. We believe free speech is for everyone, not just for giant corporations. Our readership is small but enthusiastic about grassroots media. We review out-of-the-ordinary books, zines, videos, comics, posters, chapbooks, spoken word recordings, etc. We're interested in almost anything that isn't mainstream media-controlled crap. We also offer free classified ads, up to 50 words, for independent or do-it-yourself projects. Limit one free ad per person, please. A Reader's Guide to the Underground Press PMB 2386-C, 537 Jones St. San Francisco CA 94102, USA www.UndergroundPress.org - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End 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] **Censored**F ZoneMovie , not in videos stores or theatres ...
-Caveat Lector- From: Richard Leroy Lancial [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The F Zone ICE: I am sending this to you in hopes you will forward it on out to members of your list. This is a must see movie that will NOT be available through normal retail outlets nor will it be available through the video rental outlet stores. Thanks! God Bless! Hail Victory! Dick Lancial [EMAIL PROTECTED] THE F ZONE The Most Controversial Film of the Decade! "Historically fueled, politically explosive!" WITH THE I.R.S. YOURE GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT BUT THE TAX REVOLT HAS BEGUN. THE F ZONE One man is fighting for his rights and only one woman can save him. The insurgence of patriot groups, militias and other similar organizations is related to the rising discontent with the tax system as well as the federal government. These groups, in general feel the government has become too powerful an entity in which the rights of the individual are continually eroded. Recent disclosures, such as the governments radiation experiments upon unwitting participants, the Iran-Contra drugs-for-weapons scandal, the leaving behind of American POWs in North Korea, or the CIAs fundraising by selling crack in inner cities, has lead to an ever increasing distrust of the government. Now recent evidence has suggested that the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, upon which all purported authority for modern taxation rests, was never legally ratified. We pray every American can see this 101 minute movie while there is still an opportunity to do so! This movie was to be released in theaters in the Spring of 1999 but for obvious reasons never made it. The chances of major stores stocking "THE F ZONE" are slim to none because of its controversial nature. This movie is professionally and well produced and the expense to film such a production was quite expensive (over 3 million dollars Im told). The value of this movie lies not only in entertainment, but as a valuable educational source as well. To place an order, please send check, money order (LEAVE "PAYEE" BLANK) or cash in the amount of $30.00 plus $3.00 for shipping and handling to: Patriot / Law Publications P.O. Box 86507, Creston Station Portland, Oregon state (97206) (ORDERS WILL BE SHIPPED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING, HOWEVER, PAYMENT BY CHECK WILL DELAY SHIPMENT UNTIL AFTER THE CHECK CLEARS THE BANK SYSTEM) (ALSO NOTE: This is a movie grade video. It is NOT a copy of a copy of a copy, etc.) 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: Virus Alert - W95/Babylonia
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: "McAfee.com Dispatch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 10:17 PM Subject: Virus Alert - W95/Babylonia (( McAfee.com Dispatch ) ___VIRUS ALERT__ [This message is brought to you as a subscriber to the McAfee.com Dispatch. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at the bottom of the page.] ** VIRUS ALERT - W95/Babylonia * Dear McAfee.com Dispatch Subscriber: W95/Babylonia is a polymorphic virus. AVERT has given it a risk assessment of Medium--On Watch. The virus was first distributed on at least one newsgroup as a help file called "serialz.hlp". When executed, the virus infects .EXE and .HLP files, in some cases damaging them beyond repair. Upon infection, the virus creates a file called KERNEL32.EXE, which monitors system activity for Internet connection. When it detects an Internet connection, it attempts to connect to a Web site hosted by a virus authoring group, and if successful, it downloads additional components of the complete virus to the host PC. If the virus detects mIRC installed on the host PC, it will attempt to send a copy of itself through Internet IRC channels, as a file called "2KBug-MircFix.exe". The virus also sends an email notification to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED], with the "from" information listed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: If you are using McAfee Clinic, please click here to update Active Shield(TM). - http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/virusscan/activeshield/start.asp --McAfee.com ___Virus Fixes__ Find out more about this virus. Click here to go to the W95/Babylonia Help Center. - http://www.mcafee.com/viruses/babylonia Check if your system is infected, click here to use VirusScan Online. - http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid= Purchase the latest copy of VirusScan, please click here. - http://store.mcafee.com/category.asp?CatID=3CategoryLevel=1rfr=VSCALRT Upgrade to the latest VirusScan. Purchase the VirusScan Maintenance Plan which entitles you to 12 months of upgrades, click here. - http://store.mcafee.com/category.asp?CatID=18CategoryLevel=1rfr=VRSPLN Download the latest DAT files, click here. - http://download.mcafee.com/updates/updates.asp __Special Offer_ Check out our new lower prices in the McAfee Store - http://store.mcafee.com/default.asp?rfr=DISPRM or give McAfee Clinic Subscriptions to friends and family for the holidays... and save up to an additional 20% too! - http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/giftcert/default.asp?rfr=cln_dsp If this message has been passed on to you by a friend and you would like to subscribe to the McAfee.com Dispatch, click here. - http://www.mcafee.com/subscribe/beginI.asp?s=22 This Virus Alert has been issued by the Network Associates Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team (AVERT). McAfee.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Network Associates. Copyright 1999 McAfee.com / All Rights Reserved. __ This message was sent by McAfee.com using Responsys Interact. 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: http://www.wto.int/wto/new/press151.htm
-Caveat Lector- So... what did you think? Maybe the world is not yet ready for full-on global capitalist subversion of national sovereignty, huh? Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -Original Message- From: Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 9:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: http://www.wto.int/wto/new/press151.htm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You say: - "I am deeply concerned about the recent appearance of anonymous websites which copy important design features of the WTOs official websites. This causes confusion among visitors looking for genuine information from the WTO, disrupting a much-needed democratic dialogue. Its illegal and its unfair to those who have a genuine case in criticizing the WTO, an organization that only functions with the authority of sovereign governments." - I say: you are a group of "globalist" international criminals undermining the sovereign citizenship and eroding the human rights of the population of the planet. According to the Constitution of the United States of America, you are a foreign enemy, which has formed treasonous ties with members of the U.S. government, corrupting and dissuading them from their duty to the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS of the several United States of America. 75:1 is the ratio of income between rich and poor, and yet this is not enough for you and your kind? You are elitist scum, floating on a lake of blood. May your meeting in Seattle show you the error of your ways. Dave Hartley 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] [ncnculture] ...Tues Quake in L.A. (3.8)...
-Caveat Lector- Range-finding exercises to fine-tune the calibrations of the equipment at China Lake, which is near L.A. and is only about 100 miles from the area that has been bombarded with unbelievably high numbers of small quakes in the past weeks/months. http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/117-35.html http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/ A 7.0 followed by a smaller quakes in Alaska yesterday day before http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/quake/gldfs.cr.usgs.gov Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 8:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ncnculture] ...Tues Quake in L.A. (3.8)... (from this morning's InfoBeat) === *** Quake shakes southern L.A. SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - An earthquake shook a wide area of Orange County and southeastern Los Angeles County Tuesday, but there were no reports of injuries or serious damage. The 1:58 p.m. quake had a preliminary magnitude of 3.8, said Nick Scheckel, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. It was centered about 35 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Scheckel said it was not an aftershock of a previous quake. Charlie Flores, a technician with the Yorba Linda station of the Brea Police Department, said she felt it as a single jolt. Knotts Berry Farm, an amusement park in Buena Park, took precautionary measures, shutting their rides temporarily for a safety check. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562478875-f49 === -- Jeff --http://www.wellnow.com - Well Now Health Information Service Box 15524 Atlanta Georgia [30333] eFax: (419) 793-3043 - "There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using any means available to that purpose." - [to unsubscribe: send 'unsubscribe ncnculture-L' to [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] Doctor fired for challenging Navy diagnoses
-Caveat Lector- No surprises here... I happen to have pulmonary sarcoidosis myself, and am well aware of the Navy's history of the disease. In fact, the Navy cases have often been cited as exemplars of sarcoidosis, which is not exactly a "rare disease": it is at least as common as multiple sclerosis. The symptoms of silicosis would be virtually identical to those of sarcoidosis, which mimics dozens of other disorders; however, the characteristic scar tissue of sarcoidosis, called "noncaseinating granulomas," would not be present, nor would the frequent blood abnormalities. Diagnosing sarcoidosis is a process of ruling out everything else, and it looks very much, in light of this story, as if the Navy's doctors either didn't bother to do all the work required for a real diagnosis, or (more likely) deliberately misdiagnosed the affected sailors to keep them from being able to claim service-related disability. (I received a medical discharge from the Army in 1967 after 160 days of service, 20 days short of the 180 days needed to qualify for disability; according to an Army Reserve colleague of my father's who was a VA executive, this was very deliberate policy on the part of D0D to avoid as many disability claims as possible.) -Original Message- From: Steve Wingate [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 1:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[CTRL] Doctor fired for challenging Navy diagnoses -Caveat Lector- Doctor fired for challenging Navy diagnoses Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press By VICKI SMITH MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (December 6, 1999 10:25 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - A doctor who went public with his belief the Navy may have misdiagnosed hundreds of sailors exposed to potentially lethal mineral dust says he was fired Monday for insubordination. Dr. Philip Jajosky, an outspoken medical investigator and 23-year veteran of the U.S. Public Health Service, was ordered to pack up his belongings, then escorted out of his office at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health here. snip The old diagnosis was sarcoidosis, a rare lung disorder with no known cause. The new diagnosis identified silicosis, a chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling silica, a hard, glassy mineral. The change and Jajosky's report to the Navy led to a recommendation by the VA that its 172 medical centers perform detailed medical histories on affected sailors. There are no known estimates of how many could be at risk. Jajosky's opinions on the sarcoidosis cases, if validated, could have enormous financial ramifications for the Navy. Compensation and disability payments to those who have suffered or died of lung disease could become possibilities. snip 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] FBI Forces Information Websites to Close
-Caveat Lector- http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9947/boal.shtml 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] Project Freedom - UK MC Website
-Caveat Lector- http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/local/h-pages/pro-freedom/ 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] URGENT!/Evidence Neurotoxins used on Seattle demonstrators
-Caveat Lector- 12.8.99 Evidence Neurotoxins used on Seattle demonstrators © 1999 NewsHawk® Inc. A medical doctor says careful analysis of symptoms experienced by a significant percentage of the thousands assaulted and victimized by law enforcement in Seattle last week shows there's a great deal of evidence some people were NOT only dosed with pepper spray and various tear gases but ALSO with CHEMICAL WARFARE substances, commonly described as NERVE GAS! Most but not all the law enforcement personnel used in Seattle were either local or regional (sheriffs) and it seems unlikely those agencies would have knowingly utilized such substances, but they could have been sufficiently primed and pumped up by federal intel spooks and goons about the wildly overstated threat posed by demonstrators that they flipped their lids and broke out the hard stuff. However, we think it's more likely that either the local/regional agencies' pepper spray/tear gas supplies were mixed with chemwar toxins without the knowledge, OR that such federal agencies KNOWN to be on the scene in Seattle like FBI, ATF, and military Special Forces units were responsible for dispersing the nerve gas. Though we at NewsHawk are well aware just how malevolent, psychotic and sociopathic the criminally insane lunatics predominating in the federal government are, even we find the fact that chemical warfare agents were dispersed upon both peaceful protesters and uninvolved citizens alike in this country by law enforcement personnel to be an outrage almost beyond comprehension. UNBELIEVABLE! THIS is the kind of thing which really pushes many people to begin contemplating complete, total restructuring--if not a dismantling or overthrow--of the government in this country. This government is OUT OF CONTROL and is directing criminal, warlike activities against it's own citizens. ENOUGH!! NewsHawk® Inc. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Original Message Subject: Neurotoxic agents used in Seattle gas attacks? Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:02:19 -0500 From: Brasscheck December 7, 1999 Neurotoxic agents used in Seattle gas attacks? In addition to eye witness accounts that some Seattle "police" were armed with M-16s, some doctors are concerned that tear gas and pepper spray were not the only chemical agents used against demonstrators. Perhaps the Special Forces "advisors" CNN reported being present in Seattle took a more hands-on approach than we know. - - - - - - - - Neurotoxic Symptoms In Chemical Warfare Casualties At Seattle WTO Meeting by Kirk James Murphy, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:04am Tue Dec 7 '99 Direct Action Network Medical Collective members provided first aid and other care for thousands of casualties of chemical warfare during the Seattle WTO protests. Collective members identified a subset of casualties with symptoms consistent with exposure to neurotoxins which disrupt acetylcholine. Irritant agents do not explain the symptoms. The Direct Action Network Medical Collective was organized to provide first aid and other health services to activists and others (onlookers, media, residents, and anyone else requesting assistance) in Seattle for the WTO meeting last week. The Collective members rovided care for literally hundreds of chemical warfare casualties on both November 30 and December 1; hundreds more have requested information and treatment in subsequent days. As one may imagine, Collective members have acquired extensive expertise in the recognitio and treatment of symptoms arising from exposure to pepper spray (OC) and "tear gases" (CS and CN). Individuals exposed to chemical weapons in the late afternoon and evening of December 1st at two locations downtown blocks adjacent to Pike Place Market and the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill evinced and reported a pattern of symptoms which is inconsistent with the pattern of symptoms which may be ascribed to irritating agents. This "atypical" pattern of symptoms includes the rapid onset of: mydriasis (pupillary dilation) with resultant impairment of visual acuity; tachycardia (rapid heart rate) with some palpitations; new-onset hypertension (high blood pressure) in one individual; nausea, vomiting, diarrhea (persisting for days after exposure); abrupt or immediate onset of menstruation (asynchronous with usual menstrual cycle); muscular fasciculation (twitches); muscular dyscoordination; lethargy, confusion, disorientation, diminished concentration, nocturnal hallucinations. Moreover, some casualties reported an abrupt experience of loss of muscular tone and strength that sometimes (but not always) immediately preceded a loss of consciousness; one observer of these affected individuals reported uncontrolled, spasmodic movements in those affected. Some individuals exposed in the Pike Place Market area reported that the aforementioned symptoms came immediately after exposure to a non-irritating agent which was did not cause pain, lacrimation,
Re: [CTRL] The rioters' version
-Caveat Lector- This is absolutely true. Crimes against paperwork (destruction of files, etc.) and other forms of information are also anathema to the Oligarchs, who regard information as a vital means of controlling the hoi polloi (i.e, us'ns). Remember, these are men to whom Property Rights are sacred, ranking well above human rights. Despoiling their Property is tantamount to raping their wives and daughters in their eyes. Workers exist to create Property for the ruling class; they have no other raison d'etre... -Original Message- From: Das GOAT [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 4:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [CTRL] The rioters' version -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-12-08 03:16:41 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another massive misrepresentation was the facile use of the word "violence." Acts of window breaking, tire slashing, and graffiti (whether you love them or hate them) are not violence; such acts are called vandalism. The "violence" which The Powers That Be fear most is "violence" directed against the inanimate material objects used for raking in huge profits -- retail outlets, commercial real property, capital equipment. Let the workers die -- but don't hurt the machinery! 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] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1 - y2k minus 24
-Caveat Lector- See Umberto Eco, *Foucault's Pendulum*, for some very interesting insights into the hidden (occult) nature of subways, sewers, tunnels, and the like... -Original Message- From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1 - y2k minus 24 : What's your favorite underworld experience? Did you ever go to the gates of Hell and back, and all you got was a lousy t-shirt? Do you descend into the underworld everytime you ride a subway? Are subways Hellish? All of'em? 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] Slippery Stuff
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America's Push on the Caspian Pipeline is Not Good Sense for the Oil Companies
By JONATHAN POWER
Dec 2, 1999
LONDON- Rarely, if at all in the post Cold War world, has there been such a
stark case of high politics and doubtful economics. The oil company's director
of international affairs has been openly blunt about it: "The only way this is
going to work is to make the pipeline as affordable as possible for shippers to
put their oil down it. We are asking the U.S. government to attract as much oil
as possible and to attract as much financing as possible".
Thus BP Amoco, the world's third largest oil company, opens its begging bowl
for
a taxpayers' handout with the fulsome backing of the U.S. government. All in
the
cause of giving Russia, now supposedly no longer our enemy, a black eye. Left to
itself and the dictates of the competitive market, BP Amoco would not build a
new pipeline to carry Caspian Sea oil across Turkey, avoiding the old routes
through Russia. But if the U.S. government makes it worth its while, well that
is another story.
Not for nothing have the oil companies signed up high paid consultants the likes
of former U.S. Secretaries of State Al Haig and James Baker and former National
Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. Insecure when it comes to political
decisions whose stakes are this high the oil companies have bought the best
advice money can buy. The truth is they've bought re-cycled Cold War warriors
whose primary loyalty is not to their current paymasters but to their long-held
convictions that the U.S. should first win the Cold War and then make sure that
Russia can never again mount a credible challenge to the West. To integrate
Russia with the West would be a mistake, they believe. Rather Russia should be
reduced in power and then isolated. This is the Treaty of Versailles by another
name and another method. Not reparations. Instead, no opportunities.
And political encirclement - an expanded Nato on its western flank and a line of
pro-western oil-rich client states- Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan and
Kazahstan - on its southern Asian flank. And, of course, if possible, a Western
orientated China on its east.
At the moment oil from the Caspian Sea goes from Azerbaijan across Georgia to
Russia or up through Chechnya. The Russians, naturally, would want to see these
routes, which are both the cheapest and the most direct, used to capacity. And,
if they become overused, build an additional pipeline for oil and gas underwater
to Turkey's Black Sea Coast.
The oil companies themselves have pushed for a new pipeline south via Iran with
an outlet on the Persian Gulf. But the U.S., despite some tentative moves
towards rapprochement with Iran, is not yet in the mood to consider ending its
long standing embargo. It remains convinced that Iran is still intent on
manufacturing nuclear weapons and targeting them on Israel.
The deal long in the making for the new Caspian pipeline across Georgia and then
Turkey was announced two weeks ago by President Bill Clinton in Istanbul and
immediately denounced in Moscow as one more piece of evidence that, although
Washington talks a lot of peace, its clear long term purpose is hard real
politik, a fundamental change in the whole strategic relationship between Russia
and the West.
For now the Yeltsin Administration has its own reasons for keeping the Russian
reaction in check. Yeltsin himself started the ball rolling by working to
dismember the Soviet Union as part of his own bid to displace from power Mikhail
Gorbachev - he needed to make his own position as the elected Russian premier
the one that counted. But once Yeltsin ends his term of office next year a new
man in the Kremlin - likely on the present line up to be more of a nationalist -
will draw on the widespread anti-American antipathy that exists not just among
those that follow such matters, but among a general populace that was startled
by the expansion of Nato and is distinctly uneasy about America's wish to
re-write the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The oil pipeline confirms the worst
suspicions of the Russian man and woman in the street who feel more by the day
that America is trying to do their country down.
Clinton Administration apologists have their arguments. Mr Clinton himself has
described the pipeline as "an insurance policy for the entire world because it
would route energy supplies through multiple routes and not a single choke
point".
The language of choke points dates back to Cold War days and the greatly
overdrawn fears that the Soviet armies would march across Afghanistan and
Pakistan and head down to the Persian Gulf and close it off for exiting oil
tankers by seizing control of the Strait of Hormuz. Wildly exaggerated as a
scenario then, it received its coup de grace when, as a consequence of the Gulf
War, Iraq was stopped from shipping its oil out and the West,
[CTRL] (Fwd) [FAIR-L] Media Advisory-- WTO: Prattle in Seattle
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 13:42:19 -0500 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: FAIR-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[FAIR-L] Media Advisory-- WTO: Prattle in Seattle To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAIR-L Fairness Accuracy in Reporting Media analysis, critiques and news reports Media Advisory: WTO Coverage: Prattle in Seattle December 7, 1999 As an estimated 50,000 protesters rallied in Seattle to shut down the opening conference of the World Trade Organization meeting last week, mainstream media treated protesters' concerns with indifference and often contempt. That hostility translated into slanted coverage of both the demonstrations and the police reaction. In mainstream reports, "anti-trade" became a common--though wildly inaccurate--label for the demonstrators. "A guerrilla army of anti-trade activists took control of downtown Seattle today," a Washington Post article (12/1/99) began. ABC News reporter John Cochran (11/30/99) said Seattle had become a "home for protests against world trade." ABC anchor Jack Ford (12/1/99) pitted the demonstrators against the city hosting them: "No American city exports as much, President Clinton was happy to point out today, which helps explain why a good many people in Seattle are angry--at the protesters and their very anti-trade message." Even coverage that did attempt to describe the protesters' goals dealt with them in only the vaguest terms--and often at a level of generalization that rendered the descriptions inaccurate or meaningless. An ABC News story by correspondent Deborah Wang in Seattle failed to address the activists' concerns with anything more than platitudes: "They are fighting for essentially the same issues they campaigned against in the '60's. Corporations, which they say are still exploiting workers in the Third World. Agribusiness is still putting small farmers out of work. Mining companies, still displacing peasants from the land But what is different is that, for these protesters, this single organization, the WTO has come to symbolize about all that is wrong in the modern world." More helpful than such generalities would have been a summary of some of the protesters' specific complaints: that the WTO has issued rulings forcing member countries to repeal specific laws that protect public health and the environment; that it proposes new rules limiting countries' freedom to regulate foreign corporate investors; and that its decisions are made in secret by an unaccountable tribunal. The lack of understanding of the demonstrators' concerns was unsurprising, given how seldom the media spoke with them. When the police first started using tear gas against street blockades, CNN reporter Katherine Barrett (11/30/99) turned for comment to Jerry Jasinowski, president of the National Association of Manufacturers. Jasinowski confessed that he was "struck by how loopy some of the protesters were" and observed that they were "shouting a lot of crazy different messages." Perhaps the single WTO opponent who received the largest amount of time on CNN to expound his views was Pat Buchanan, who was interviewed, one-on-one and at length, by Inside Politics anchor Judy Woodruff (11/30/99). Though right-wing nationalists appeared to make up--at most--an infinitesimal fraction of the actual protesters in Seattle's streets, the media seemed to anoint Buchanan as a major leader of the anti-WTO movement. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote (12/1/99) that "knaves like Pat Buchanan" had "duped" the demonstrators--"a Noah's ark of flat-earth advocates, protectionist trade unions and yuppies looking for their 1960s fix"--into protesting the WTO. "What's driving [the protests]?" CNN political analyst Bill Schneider asked on Inside Politics (11/30/99). "Resentment of big business for its irresponsible behavior, a resentment shared by the left"--followed by a soundbite of AFL-CIO leader John Sweeney--"and the right"--followed by a soundbite of Pat Buchanan. This type of right/left "evenhandedness" concerning the protests did not appear to be justified by the actual composition of the anti-WTO movement. Media outlets seemed unconcerned by Buchanan's less-than-sterling record as an advocate for labor. As co-host of CNN's Crossfire (7/3/91), Buchanan once grilled public-sector union leader Gerald McEntee--one of the labor officials present at the Seattle demos--on "the suicidal impulses of American unions": "A lot of the jobs now have disappeared-they're gone. One reason, one complaint, is the pay of the United Auto Workers and the benefits Aren't you fellows committing suicide by yourselves?" Perhaps mainstream news outlets' confusion concerning the protesters' goals contributed to their often skewed coverage of the behavior of the Seattle police and
Re: [CTRL] People in America early
-Caveat Lector-
Most of the hard scientific evidence for "non-Indian" or "non-Native
American" origins has been discovered quite recently. Yes, there are many
anomalous sites throughout North America, but there is also an amazing mass
of pure nonsense put out over the past two centuries by people seemingly
determined to prove that the "Indians" were not the true possessors of the
Americas before the European conquests. Even borderline researchers such as
Barry Fell, for all their good intentions, often wind up using arguments
which originated with white racists. Now, I do believe very strongly in
pre-Columbian intercultural contacts, especially in Mesoamerica (Aztec,
Maya, Toltec, Olmec)...but the efforts of a lot of so-called scholars, even
today (including many New Age types), to find European or Egyptian (or
Atlantean) roots for American high civilizations purely disgust me. That
line of reasoning does a huge disservice to the creative abilities of the
Native American peoples.
With that said, I am equally aghast at the political games being played with
finds such as the Kennewick Man, games played both by Washington and by the
Indian tribes themselves. The "folk memories" many Indians and other
aboriginal peoples are so proud of, the meticulously chronicled lineages,
are in many cases either guesswork or fiction. In most cases, I suspect,
they have no more idea of where they came from than we (Anglo America) do.
Aboriginal cultures have changed as much over the millennia as have
"civilized" ones, and have suffered the same kinds of Dark Ages where
teachings and knowledge vanished and had to be recreated or reimagined. The
Pueblo and Hopi have no more idea of who the Hohokam ("Anasazi" is a Navaho
word and is considered an insult) were than do the archaeologists at Penn or
Arizona.
At this point, I'd be very interested to see Judith ABR's comments on this
whole controversy; she has been very helpful in past discussions on CTRL
involving Native American cultures. Judith, any thoughts?
-Original Message-
From: Taylor, John (JH) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 9:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[CTRL] People in America early
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[CTRL] Chemical Weapons in Seattle
-Caveat Lector- MORE THAN TEAR GAS? From a report by the Direct Action Medical Collective, one of the groups that provided first aid during the Seattle demonstrations. KIRK JAMES MURPHY, MD: Individuals exposed to chemical weapons in the late afternoon and evening of December 1st at two locations downtown blocks adjacent to Pike Place Market and the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill evinced and reported a pattern of symptoms which is inconsistent with the pattern of symptoms which may be ascribed to irritating agents. This "atypical" pattern of symptoms includes the rapid onset of: mydriasis (pupillary dilation) with resultant impairment of visual acuity; tachycardia (rapid heart rate) with some palpitations; new-onset hypertension (high blood pressure) in one individual; nausea, vomiting, diarrhea (persisting for days after exposure); abrupt or immediate onset of menstruation (asynchronous with usual menstrual cycle); muscular fasciculation (twitches); muscular dyscoordination; lethargy, confusion, disorientation, diminished concentration, nocturnal hallucinations. Moreover, some casualties reported an abrupt experience of loss of muscular tone and strength that sometimes (but not always) immediately preceded a loss of consciousness; one observer of these affected individuals reported uncontrolled, spasmodic movements in those affected. Some individuals exposed in the Pike Place Market area reported that the aforementioned symptoms came immediately after exposure to a non-irritating agent which was did not cause pain, lacrimation, or burning on mucous membranes. . . . The pattern of symptoms is not consistent with known mechanisms of action of the irritant chemical weapons OC, CS, or CN. The pattern, however, is consistent with disruption of neurotransmitter activity. Lamentably, the single most compelling explanation for the observed findings is the (deliberate or accidental) inclusion of "incapacitating agents" which disrupt neuronal function in the chemical munitions discharged by law enforcement agencies in Seattle during the WTO protest. While direct cholinergic effects or indirect (inhibition of acetylcholinesterase) effects arising from synergistic combinations (of OC, CS, and CN) cannot be ruled out at this time, the experience and observations Medical Collective members, together with the aforementioned information, appears to most robustly support the hypothesis that the casualties described above resulted from exposure to cholinesterase inhibitors used as chemical weapons in crowd control. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on December 4 that the Seattle Police Department had to replenish its chemical weapons stocks by going to outside sources. Various individuals have reported being told by individual law enforcement officers that chemical weapons in addition to OC, CS, and CN were deployed by various entities; these anecdotal accounts are not yet confirmed. Any information regarding the use of chemical munitions in addition to OC, CS or CN, as well as information regarding the discharge of chemical weapons by agencies other than the Seattle Police Department would be helpful. . . . If you were exposed to chemical weapons during the WTO protests and have the pattern of "atypical" symptoms discussed below, please make a written, signed, and dated account of your exposure, including details such as the (approximate) location in which you were exposed and the date and part of the day (morning, midday, afternoon, evening) of your exposure, as well as the nature of your symptoms. Please send such accounts to the email above and to the ACLU unit investigating law enforcement actions in Seattle during the WTO protests. KIRK JAMES MURPHY, MD: mailto:[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] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3 - y2k minus 24
-Caveat Lector- Hey, when I came outside to start up my car the other day, the windows were all frosted over, and before I got in to start the engine and turn on the defroster I could SWEAR, up, down, and sideways that I saw the Goddess Eris (Hail, She What Done It All!) peering out at me from inside the car...but you know, when I got the car door open, it was just a smudge where the dog had pressed his nose against the glass... Oh well. "Indeed do many things come to pass." Fnord. -Original Message- From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3 - y2k minus 24 # Virgin Mary In New Jersey? Devout Catholics flock to a Jersey City super- market to catch a glimpse of what they believe to be a manifestation of the Virgin Mary on a freezer door. She sure picks some strange places: http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/paranormal/vmarynews.html 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] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3 - y2k minus 24
-Caveat Lector- "God made mud. Lucky, lucky mud." --Kurt Vonnegut, *Cat's Cradle* -Original Message- From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3 - y2k minus 24 "God made pot. Man made beer. Who do you trust?" --anon 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] Hoagland Discusses Loss of Mars Polar Lander on Art Bell's Coast to Coast
-Caveat Lector- Richard Hoagland at his best, discussing the recent Mars spacecraft failures and possible reasons, including intentional sabotage by a rogue element within NASA. Starts at the second hour. http://ww2.broadcast.com/artbell/abell/9912/ab1207.ram Steve Wingate California Director SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL Anomalous Images and UFO Files http://www.anomalous-images.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. 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] Nazi link cancels art sale
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/frontpage.html?999 December 5 1999 Nazi link cancels art sale ONE of cubism's most significant paintings has been withdrawn from a Sotheby's sale in London on suspicion that it was looted by the Nazis from a Jewish family, writes Peter Watson. The painting - Bouteille, verre et journal - by Juan Gris, a friend of Picasso, is part of a collection of 18 paintings sent from Germany to London in the 1930s. Its withdrawal, without conclusive evidence that it was taken by the Nazis, has alarmed the art world. The Gris was listed in the 1932 catalogue of the Whitechapel gallery in London, months before Hitler came to power. It said Dr Ismar Littman, of Breslau, was "compelled . . . to sell his entire collection" but neither his descendants nor Sotheby's has been able to discover what forced him. After the Nazis came to power, the modern art Littman collected was declared degenerate. The banks foreclosed and he shot himself, dying a year later. Nobody knows what happened to the painting between 1933 and 1941, when it was sold to Erich Mendelsohn, another Jewish exile in London. Sotheby's will not disclose the identity of the seller. 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] Mobile phone companies face crackdown on masts
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/frontpage.html?999 December 5 1999 Mobile phone companies face crackdown on masts A CRACKDOWN on mobile phone masts is to be demanded by a Scottish parliament committee in the wake of public fears over potential health risks, write Geraldine Murray and Kenny Farquharson. Tougher laws to force mobile phone companies to apply for full planning permission every time they want to erect a transmitter mast will be proposed in a report by the transport and environment committee. The move, planned for early in the new year, will give local authorities the right to reject applications for masts, many of which are currently erected on schools and in residential areas. Under existing legislation, mobile phone operators do not require planning permission unless the mast is above 49ft. The committee's proposals would prevent companies from erecting masts without members of the public being fully informed and given an opportunity to object. The telecommunications industry is concerned that such a move could allow councils the chance to make political capital out of mobile phone masts and deliberately block future applications. But a source close to the committee said: "None of the industry representatives have made a convincing case for the committee to do anything other than recommend full planning powers." The committee has taken evidence and submissions from a range of experts including scientists from Greater Glasgow Health Board and the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health. Both organisations insisted that there is a growing body of research into possible links between mobile phone masts and a number of conditions including short-term memory loss and cancer. They called for new rules to restrict where masts are sited. The Scottish executive will have to respond to the committee's recommendation, but the committee has the option of bringing forward its own legislation if it chooses. Half of Scotland's 32 local authorities have imposed restrictions on erecting further masts on schools and council-owned buildings until further scientific research has been carried out. Kevin Dunion, director of Friends of the Earth Scotland, welcomed the news. "There's no doubt the people of Scotland want planning controls to prevent masts on schools and hospitals," he said. "The choice facing the Scottish executive is clear: does it propose changes to planning legislation itself or will it be forced to bow to proposals from the parliament's environment committee?" Bob King, secretary of the Scottish Advisory Committee on Telecommunications, said: "Clearly health and safety takes priority over any planning issue, but at the same time I would want to see any new constraints exercised in such a way they do not deliberately inconvenience an operator." A spokesman for the Scottish executive said: "We cannot comment until we see the results of the report." The news coincides with the revelation that hundreds of schools that have let mobile phone companies erect aerials on their roofs in return for rent face safety checks after scientists found some were exposing children to potentially dangerous radiation levels. Two schools as well as homes have been subjected to radiation levels that exceed safe limits. The problem was discovered at one school by government scientists after they were called in by concerned parents. The other cases emerged only by chance and it is thought that a survey will show many more. Mobile phone masts emit about 100 watts of power, similar to a domestic light bulb. But the microwaves they emit are focused into beams and are emitted in pulses - properties which, say some scientists, can alter the way brain cells function and damage DNA. Additional reporting: Jonathan Leake. 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: [MC] URGENT!/Evidence Neurotoxins used on Seattle demonstrators
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, 9 December 1999 10:26 Subject: [MC] URGENT!/Evidence Neurotoxins used on Seattle demonstrators 12.8.99 Evidence Neurotoxins used on Seattle demonstrators © 1999 NewsHawk® Inc. A medical doctor says careful analysis of symptoms experienced by a significant percentage of the thousands assaulted and victimized by law enforcement in Seattle last week shows there's a great deal of evidence some people were NOT only dosed with pepper spray and various tear gases but ALSO with CHEMICAL WARFARE substances, commonly described as NERVE GAS! Most but not all the law enforcement personnel used in Seattle were either local or regional (sheriffs) and it seems unlikely those agencies would have knowingly utilized such substances, but they could have been sufficiently primed and pumped up by federal intel spooks and goons about the wildly overstated threat posed by demonstrators that they flipped their lids and broke out the hard stuff. However, we think it's more likely that either the local/regional agencies' pepper spray/tear gas supplies were mixed with chemwar toxins without the knowledge, OR that such federal agencies KNOWN to be on the scene in Seattle like FBI, ATF, and military Special Forces units were responsible for dispersing the nerve gas. Though we at NewsHawk are well aware just how malevolent, psychotic and sociopathic the criminally insane lunatics predominating in the federal government are, even we find the fact that chemical warfare agents were dispersed upon both peaceful protesters and uninvolved citizens alike in this country by law enforcement personnel to be an outrage almost beyond comprehension. UNBELIEVABLE! THIS is the kind of thing which really pushes many people to begin contemplating complete, total restructuring--if not a dismantling or overthrow--of the government in this country. This government is OUT OF CONTROL and is directing criminal, warlike activities against it's own citizens. ENOUGH!! NewsHawk® Inc. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Original Message Subject: Neurotoxic agents used in Seattle gas attacks? Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:02:19 -0500 From: Brasscheck December 7, 1999 Neurotoxic agents used in Seattle gas attacks? In addition to eye witness accounts that some Seattle "police" were armed with M-16s, some doctors are concerned that tear gas and pepper spray were not the only chemical agents used against demonstrators. Perhaps the Special Forces "advisors" CNN reported being present in Seattle took a more hands-on approach than we know. - - - - - - - - Neurotoxic Symptoms In Chemical Warfare Casualties At Seattle WTO Meeting by Kirk James Murphy, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:04am Tue Dec 7 '99 Direct Action Network Medical Collective members provided first aid and other care for thousands of casualties of chemical warfare during the Seattle WTO protests. Collective members identified a subset of casualties with symptoms consistent with exposure to neurotoxins which disrupt acetylcholine. Irritant agents do not explain the symptoms. The Direct Action Network Medical Collective was organized to provide first aid and other health services to activists and others (onlookers, media, residents, and anyone else requesting assistance) in Seattle for the WTO meeting last week. The Collective members rovided care for literally hundreds of chemical warfare casualties on both November 30 and December 1; hundreds more have requested information and treatment in subsequent days. As one may imagine, Collective members have acquired extensive expertise in the recognitio and treatment of symptoms arising from exposure to pepper spray (OC) and "tear gases" (CS and CN). Individuals exposed to chemical weapons in the late afternoon and evening of December 1st at two locations downtown blocks adjacent to Pike Place Market and the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill evinced and reported a pattern of symptoms which is inconsistent with the pattern of symptoms which may be ascribed to irritating agents. This "atypical" pattern of symptoms includes the rapid onset of: mydriasis (pupillary dilation) with resultant impairment of visual acuity; tachycardia (rapid heart rate) with some palpitations; new-onset hypertension (high blood pressure) in one individual; nausea, vomiting, diarrhea (persisting for days after exposure); abrupt or immediate onset of menstruation (asynchronous with usual menstrual cycle); muscular fasciculation (twitches); muscular dyscoordination; lethargy, confusion, disorientation, diminished concentration, nocturnal hallucinations. Moreover, some casualties reported an abrupt experience of loss of muscular tone and strength that sometimes (but not always) immediately preceded a loss of consciousness; one observer of these affected individuals reported uncontrolled, spasmodic
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #4 - y2k minus 24
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991208d - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No astronauts were ritually sacrificed to produce this bulletin. Mañana. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Mermaid With Sailor: www.users.dircon.co.uk/~wombat/pictures/fc00310.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Uranus, Neptune May Have Flown from Sun. (AP) Scientists may have solved a far-out mystery: how Uranus and Neptune came to exist at the very edges of the solar system. A new study says the 2 icy planets may have been born much closer to the sun than previously thought, and ended in their current orbits after gravitational forces from Jupiter violently hurled them away. Zap: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/planets991208.html : Does this validate Velikovsky? Is Velikovsky's time frame still off by a few million/billion years? Will that dissuade the True Believers? Why not? @ Velikovsky via Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=velikovsky @ Dome Of The Sky - Planetarium: http://einstein.stcloudstate.edu/Dome/ @ The truth about pot: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/drugs/hemp-marijuana @ Institute For New Energy: http://www.padrak.com/ine/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Machine Demonstrates Superhuman Speech Recognition Abilities. (USC) Bio- medical engineers have created the world's first machine system that can recognize spoken words better than humans can. The system may soon allow voice control of computers, help the deaf, aid air traffic controllers others who must understand speech in noisy environments, and instantly produce clean transcripts of conversations, identifying each speaker. The U.S. Navy, which listens for the sounds of submarines in the hubbub of the open seas, is another possible user. Not to mention the NSA, of course. http://www.usc.edu/ext-relations/news_service/releases/stories/36013.html : Has automation made human hearing obsolete? Now that machines hear better than humans, will we replace our ears with listening devices? Will our hear- ing implants be reprogrammed by mindcontrollers? Will we enter the Matrix?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Astronaut Grissom Ritually Murdered? This is richly symbolic consistent with our previous decoding of NASA's celestial hi-jinks. To have Encke, the veritable embodiment of chaos and death in the Egyptian system, hang- ing over the Cape as the fire broke out is as strong an omen as one could find. The symbolic message of all this seems to be "A Mason is about to be sacrificed." But why was he sacrificed, and why is his memory now being "resurrected" on a ritual date? http://enterprisemission.com/lib7.htm : Have you ritually sacrificed any astronauts or other 33rd degree Masons lately? Did you pick a propitious moment? Has anyone ferreted out the truth? # Investigators probe ferret's death at Mike Tyson home - PETA's gonna get his sorry ass: http://www.nypost.com/news/19244.htm # Ferret found after surviving tornado - divine intervention: http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/shart?ID=413181TP=getarticle _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Where Were You When They Had the Coup? "...in 1947 Jack Ruby, then called Jacob Rubenstein, had been an informant for a crusading anti-Communist senator named Richard Nixon ..." http://www.conspire.com/jfkcc.html : Have you overthrown any govts lately? What's your favorite coup? Have you committed any unnatural acts with/for/on Richard Nixon? Do you prefer assas- sination by shooting, poisoning, explosives, arson, or overloading implants? @ WORLD WAR II HISTORY AND OPINION: News:soc.history.war.world-war-ii # Confederate flag faces heat in S.C. - Rebs should have folded long ago: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562487642-5de # Militiamen face weapons hearing - explosion to overthrow govt: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562492586-174 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Supersecret defense agency sizes up world. DIA director says China is unlikely to attack Taiwan, Hussein is secure, 'no end in sight' for Chechen war: http://www.detnews.com/1999/nation/9912/08/12080131.htm : Do you feel secure? Will a devastating war break out soon? Is the future so bright, ya gotta wear shades? Do ETs have everything under control? Yah? # Army private admits murder charge - hatred for homosexuals: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562486754-865 # Dutch School shooting linked to family - Turkish clans feud: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562494901-95e _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Thirteen myths of genetic engineering. New Zealand's Consumers for Education about Genetic Engineering has prepared this helpful guide to genetic engineering. http://emporium.turnpike.net/P/ProRev/genetic.htm : Have you engineered any genes
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Black Bloc and obsessive analysis
-Caveat Lector-
I never said that *all* of the anarchists were provocateurs. *Some* of them
were provocateurs. Most were just "useful idiots." But provocateurs *have*
provoked violence against property many times in the past, and if people got
injured or killed into the bargain, so much the better... I cannot say this
too many times: *violence only serves the Oligarchy's purposes.* Doubt this?
Then tell me who got NATO to come in and cover their asses in Kosovo, the
nonviolent activists led by Rugova who had created a parallel government
with their own institutions, or the drug-running disciples of the CIA and
BND? Uh-uh. The bosses understand violence. They love to manipulate it.
Nonviolence, OTOH, entails withdrawing consent from the PTB, creating a new
society, with new rules, right alongside the old order, and finally
supplanting the bosses and all they stand for. And violence can have no part
in creating such a society.
-Original Message-
From: nessie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 10:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[CTRL] Fwd: Black Bloc and obsessive analysis
-Caveat Lector-
I didn't write this, but I would have if this person hadn't beaten
me to
it. This is the most cogent analysis of what happened in the streets
of
Seattle that's appeared on the net yet.
-- nessie
**
C'mon, people!
Enough crap about the Black Bloc anarchists being provocateurs.
When did provocateurs advocate or practice property damage? Never.
Provocateurs lay it on much thicker than that. They call for
violence
("off the pigs!") and other hysteria.
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[CTRL] Australia - new platform - defense there-of
-Caveat Lector- Australia Look on a map and figure who could bother it if the internet went down. Who could bother it even with satalites UP Korea has missle tech so that could neg - China, Japan New planes to Saudi Arabia - technology to be "close" to equal of what the military is currently using. New Zealand has been a major center of chemical use and I believe that there are more sheep there than people. Clonning. India - finacially strapped - WTO taking it down coconut oil, plasma, and other sactions Africa? - Madagascar? Current law allows the DA to put anything they want to on any computer or to hack any computer in Australia. Would you know if the person that you are talking to - is the person that you are talking to? Think does the situation with the PLO the othodox Jews and the other Jews make sense - Money for what - But they came from Isreal BUT did they come with the grace of the Isreali army? I would be courious about checking out some opal mines in Australia and see if they have more than Opals... Just M:y Questions for the month -- Any person can stand adversity, The true test is to give a person power. If you treat a relationship as if you are the only one in it, eventually you will be. Atrocities happen when the people about you - start considering you surplus. "I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion" Thomas Jefferson My Grandfather told me there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to be in the first group - there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi http://freeweb.digiweb.com/science_fiction/ThePiedPiper/~index.htm ICQ 14484977 NEW - my sites are having a problem staying up right now. So, here they are mirrored. http://freeweb.digiweb.com/science_fiction/ThePiedPiper/site_map.htm http://ThePiedPiper.tripod.com/site_map.htm http://ThePiedPiper.tripod.com/index.html http://members.xoom.com/ThePiedPiper/index.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] Pope Pius XII's Holocaust Role Probed.
-Caveat Lector- 06:40 PM ET 12/07/99 Vatican's Holocaust Archives Probed Vatican's Holocaust Archives Probed By JULIA LIEBLICH= AP Religion Writer= NEW YORK (AP) _ An international team of Catholic and Jewish scholars on Tuesday called for full access to the Vatican archives to help establish the role of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust. At least one scholar questioned whether Vatican officials will allow the team to see sensitive archival materials. Some historians say Pope Pius XII could have done more to save European Jews from the Nazis. A recent book by John Cornwell, ``Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII,'' charges that the pope ignored the plight of the Jews because he was anti-Semitic _ a claim the Vatican strongly denies. The International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission was appointed in October to examine the issue by the Vatican and an international group of Jewish leaders. The commission met for the first time on Tuesday. The scholars' mandate is to study 11 volumes of World War II-era material the Vatican published between 1965 and 1981, and to raise questions about any missing information. Commission member Bernard Suchecky, a researcher at the Free University of Brussels, said that filling in the gaps requires both access to the Vatican archives and a lesson in how they are organized. The Rev. Gerald Fogarty of the University of Virginia's religious studies department said: ``We should look back and at least acknowledge what we have done wrong. One of the greatest obstacles to Christianity in our time is, unfortunately, Christians.'' The other Catholic scholars on the commission are Eva Fleischner of Montclair State University in New Jersey and the Rev. F. John Morley of Seton Hall University in New Jersey. The Jewish representatives are Suchecky, Robert S. Wistrich of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Michael R. Marrus of the University of Toronto. 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] Safra Death a Mystery
-Caveat Lector- Is there perchance a gay angle to this all? Hmnnn.. -Original Message- From: Das GOAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 4:55 AM Subject: [CTRL] Safra Death a Mystery -Caveat Lector- Mystery Surrounds Safra Death By IAN PHILLIPS .c The Associated Press MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP) - It was business as usual Tuesday at the Monaco branch of the Republic National Bank of New York underneath the gutted shell of a penthouse where billionaire banker Edmond Safra died last week in an arson attack. But one day after American nurse Ted Maher was charged with starting the blaze, mystery still surrounded events leading up to the Lebanese-born financier's death in the luxury seaside building. Did Safra really refuse to leave a locked bathroom where he then suffocated despite pleas by his wife and firemen that he should come out? And how did Maher, 41, described as mentally unstable, penetrate the inner circle of a powerful banker who was so concerned about his safety that he routinely recruited his bodyguards from Israel's elite security services? ``It's true that everyone still has many questions - the prosecutor, too,'' said Alexander Bruggmann, a spokesman for the Republic Bank in Geneva, Switzerland. ``But it's now a police matter.'' On Tuesday, police and prosecutors would not comment on the case. After a flurry of news conferences, Monaco reverted to official silence. The nurse, Ted Maher, 41, first claimed that two hooded men had burst into the penthouse before dawn Friday, attacked him, then set the deadly blaze. He was treated at hospital for two stab wounds. But on Monday with no evidence to support his version - and police patience dwindling - Maher, who was just about to be released from the hospital, confessed to inventing the whole scenario, said Monaco's chief prosecutor, Daniel Serdet. There had been no break-in, Maher said, according to Serdet. He stabbed himself, and then started the fire that killed Safra and another American nurse, Viviane Torrent, who also hid in the bathroom. Maher said he didn't want to kill Safra: instead he was convinced he would emerge the hero who rushed his employer to safety in a bathroom while fending off the attackers. He set the fire to make the scene even more dramatic, he told investigators. He was charged with arson, jailed, and faces a life term. Despite the confession, it could be months - if not longer - before the many questions are answered. Investigators say Safra was paralyzed by fear and refused to come out of the locked bathroom, even though it was filling with smoke and firemen and his wife were telling him it was safe to come out. But a source with detailed knowledge of the case said that version was ``totally untrue.'' Safra had called police twice while coughing in the smoke-filled bathroom and begged them to get him out, the source said. An investigator in the Monaco prosecutor's office said Safra did call police once to alert them to a break-in, but denied the fire had already started. Secondly, could the firefighters have acted more quickly to extinguish the fire, which started in a paper-filled wastebasket and devastated the whole top floor? Finally, it remained unclear how Maher, who Serdet said was mentally unstable and took large doses of sedatives, could have got through security vetting. Security was not something Safra took lightly. His penthouse overlooking the Mediterranean was fortress-like, with bulletproof doors and windows. Surveillance cameras were posted inside and outside the building. Reports have said Safra's security chief, absent at the time of the attack, was Israeli-trained and that the banker had been protected by former Israeli security agents since 1985. Prosecutors said security was so tight at the penthouse that confident Safra had instructed his chief guard to remain at his other residence: a high-walled villa on the Cote d'Azur, once used as a summer home by Belgian royalty. 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]
Re: [CTRL] The Phil Ex by Brad Steiger
-Caveat Lector- Hi Das, Could you please tell us the name of the person mentioned below on a companion ship to the Eldridge. Thanks. I have another post by someone, now called Drue who claims to have been a scientist on the Philadelphia Experiment and is now a "walk in" also having had his soul transferred to his present body but he remembers. I was reading on one of those PX posts that the results of the PX were developed in a COPY of this reality and not this present timeline. Will try to find it again. I'd believe that for sure, as I think that people from the future can go back and change the past and think it is entirely possible that someone from the future is or has fixed the problem of the 40 year rip in time (if it occured), because if the Eldridge did appear in 12 places and times at once then more than likely the technical ability and history/knowing of the problem in 1943, the wrongs may have been righted. THEN the event/disaster may have been transferred to a 'copy' of this reality and away from this time line. Your comments appreciated. Nicky ps the post I'm commenting on is below the quoted one you mentioned. I'll post on CTRL. The author has now interviewed a man who served on a companion ship to the destroyer in question, and who was on the scene the night of its supposed disappearance, which he is able to explain in minute detail. Yet the features of the story are such that it survives in the UFO literature and is now being revived under a novel form [referring to Montauk--Ed.] for the benefit of a new generation of readers. Using this incident as a model of a successful HOAX, the present article extracts thirteen parameters that have been instrumental in its remarkable survival over the last 50 years; it compares the features of this fabrication to other questionable episodes of UFO lore; finally, it attempts to draw up a list of suitable measures for their detection, challenge and ultimate exposure." The Philadelphia Experiment and Time - part 2 of 2 With Drue (Interview by Joshua, 12/6/95 ) Joshua: Does the Roswell Crash have any connection to the Philadelphia Experiment, in your opinion? Drue: No. It was not related to the Philadelphia Experiment, but it was other time related experiments that were being conducted underground near Roswell, New Mexico that caused the crashes. Electrical disturbances along the earth's planetary magnetic grid had caused quantum gates to open up and the ET traveling the corridor got caught up in these disturbances and materialized. Recently, you may recall the televised "Alien Autopsy" of which many who saw this, to include many in the UFO arena, do not believe that this was an authentic alien autopsy conducted after the Roswell incident. The crash site was massive, and instead of the known one or two crashes, there were 16 in total and over 45 ET beings had come to their demise. My point is, that these electrical disturbances did not discriminate against just one type of ET, but affected all traveling through the corridor. I would also like to point out that there were 181 men that were on board the Eldridge, but also that there were six other ships with men on board that had been involved with subsequent experiments. We are not the only two men that have recall of our involvement with the Philadelphia Experiment, but many do. Many who will: Joshua: As a result of this project happening, did this create some new conditions for our Earth? Drue: Yes. One of the paradox's of conducting this experiment was the creation of a whole new 3rd dimensional timeline. We caused a global shift of energy, so anything or anybody that existed on this timeline on August 18th, 1943 was duplicated. Therefore, the Philadelphia Experiment as we know it DOES NOT exist on the new 3rd dimensional timeline; nor, are the world events and structure of this new timeline the same as our 3rd dimensional timeline. 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
[CTRL] Fwd: UNDERNEWS Dec 8
UNDERNEWS December 8, 1999 Free-range journalism from Washington's most unofficial source - Editor: Sam Smith The Progressive Review 1312 18th St NW (Fifth Floor) Washington DC 20036 202-835-0770 Fax: 835-0779 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PROGRESSIVE REVIEW INDEX: http://www.prorev.com/ UNDERNEWS: http://www.prorev.com/indexa.htm SUBSCRIBE: Reply with "subscribe" as subject UNSUBSCRIBE: Reply with 'unsubscribe' as subject - WORD CORPORATION: Inglorious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility -- Ambrose Bierce MORE THAN TEAR GAS? From a report by the Direct Action Medical Collective, one of the groups that provided first aid during the Seattle demonstrations. KIRK JAMES MURPHY, MD: Individuals exposed to chemical weapons in the late afternoon and evening of December 1st at two locations downtown blocks adjacent to Pike Place Market and the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill evinced and reported a pattern of symptoms which is inconsistent with the pattern of symptoms which may be ascribed to irritating agents. This "atypical" pattern of symptoms includes the rapid onset of: mydriasis (pupillary dilation) with resultant impairment of visual acuity; tachycardia (rapid heart rate) with some palpitations; new-onset hypertension (high blood pressure) in one individual; nausea, vomiting, diarrhea (persisting for days after exposure); abrupt or immediate onset of menstruation (asynchronous with usual menstrual cycle); muscular fasciculation (twitches); muscular dyscoordination; lethargy, confusion, disorientation, diminished concentration, nocturnal hallucinations. Moreover, some casualties reported an abrupt experience of loss of muscular tone and strength that sometimes (but not always) immediately preceded a loss of consciousness; one observer of these affected individuals reported uncontrolled, spasmodic movements in those affected. Some individuals exposed in the Pike Place Market area reported that the aforementioned symptoms came immediately after exposure to a non-irritating agent which was did not cause pain, lacrimation, or burning on mucous membranes. . . . The pattern of symptoms is not consistent with known mechanisms of action of the irritant chemical weapons OC, CS, or CN. The pattern, however, is consistent with disruption of neurotransmitter activity. Lamentably, the single most compelling explanation for the observed findings is the (deliberate or accidental) inclusion of "incapacitating agents" which disrupt neuronal function in the chemical munitions discharged by law enforcement agencies in Seattle during the WTO protest. While direct cholinergic effects or indirect (inhibition of acetylcholinesterase) effects arising from synergistic combinations (of OC, CS, and CN) cannot be ruled out at this time, the experience and observations Medical Collective members, together with the aforementioned information, appears to most robustly support the hypothesis that the casualties described above resulted from exposure to cholinesterase inhibitors used as chemical weapons in crowd control. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on December 4 that the Seattle Police Department had to replenish its chemical weapons stocks by going to outside sources. Various individuals have reported being told by individual law enforcement officers that chemical weapons in addition to OC, CS, and CN were deployed by various entities; these anecdotal accounts are not yet confirmed. Any information regarding the use of chemical munitions in addition to OC, CS or CN, as well as information regarding the discharge of chemical weapons by agencies other than the Seattle Police Department would be helpful. . . . If you were exposed to chemical weapons during the WTO protests and have the pattern of "atypical" symptoms discussed below, please make a written, signed, and dated account of your exposure, including details such as the (approximate) location in which you were exposed and the date and part of the day (morning, midday, afternoon, evening) of your exposure, as well as the nature of your symptoms. Please send such accounts to the email above and to the ACLU unit investigating law enforcement actions in Seattle during the WTO protests. KIRK JAMES MURPHY, MD: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GREAT MOMENTS IN OBJECTIVE JOURNALISM In a front page story on the Seattle demonstrations, the New York Times referred to "tree huggers," and without the quotes. The NYT is a major consumer of trees. GULF WAR (CONT'D) ASSOCIATED PRESS: Brain scans of soldiers who believe they suffer form Gulf War illness indicate evidence of brain damage, possibly from chemical exposure during the 1991 conflict, researchers reported. "This is the first time ever we have proof of brain damage in sick Gulf War veterans," said the lead researcher,
[CTRL] The Philadelphia Experiment and Time - part 2 of 2]
From: Nicola Molloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philadelphia Experiment Philadelphia Experiment The Philadelphia Experiment and Time - part 2 of 2 With Drue (Interview by Joshua, 12/6/95 ) Joshua: You mentioned that you are a time traveler --- can you explain what you mean by this? Can you share your perception about what 'time' is and how this was connected with the Philadelphia Experiment? Drue: Yes, I do make the claim of being a time traveler or a timeliner. Having the ability to move through time, either forward or backward. These abilities came with my understanding of 'time' and 'timelines' through my involvement with the Philadelphia Experiment and other time related experiences. The highly secretive government experiments dealt with movement through time as it is truly understood only by a few. The correct meaning of 'time' is not as the dictionary defines it, nor, how we were taught. 'Time' is parallel and is nothing but an event. All events are happening simultaneously --- NOW! Joshua: What is you interest in UFOs? Some have suggested that UFOs have a connection with this experiment in some way, is this true? Drue: Yes. UFOs do have a connection to the experiment, because when you deal with UFO's, you also are dealing with 'time' as it truly is. It is my opinion that approximately 85% of the UFO sightings are sightings of government technology; one of the reasons why the government will not acknowledge UFO's. This type of technology is nothing but unidentified technology. Today, instead of using warships, they applied this technology to helicopters known as black helicopters. Because of the difficulty in applying the use of this technology to large metal objects such as a naval warship, they took it into this direction. Most sightings will take on this shape in the future, if they have not already. Joshua: Do you have some comments or clarification on the story that Al Bielek discusses about his relationship to the Philadelphia Experiment? Drue: He has done a commendable job in bringing to the public awareness of his involvement with the project(s). He is an early pioneer and took the point by breaking the silence, and has done well in documenting his understanding. In my opinion, there are pieces of our involvement yet to be revealed, but we are both actively pursuing the information from our own observation standpoints. I feel comfortable in saying that though we do not work together, Al and I provide many with "Food for Thought". I would also like to point out that there were 181 men that were on board the Eldridge, but also that there were six other ships with men on board that had been involved with subsequent experiments. We are not the only two men that have recall of our involvement with the Philadelphia Experiment, but many do. Many who will: (1) not be willing to actively pursue their involvement for reasons only known to them; or, (2) have recollection and be willing to discuss their experiences without their identity exposed; and lastly, (3)like Al and myself, be very public of their involvement. This is NOT the end of the information of this secret government experiment, and "those in the know" are cognizant of this. Joshua: Is there a connection with the Philadelphia Experiment and the experiments with time travel in Montauk? What involvement do you have if any in Montauk? Drue: Yes, Montauk was a continuation of time related experiments that ran parallel with the Philadelphia Experiment. As of this date, I have no recall of any involvement in Montauk. However, I do know that on August 18th, 1943, the USS Eldridge was sent to Montauk Point, Long Island, New York to the year of 1983, at which time it was dismantled. Those at Montauk were conducting more experiments in 1993, however, today there is no activity. Experiments by those who worked at Montauk, are presently involved in time related experiments in Canada. Joshua: From all of your experiences, what is your perceptions about reality, what is happening to our world at the current moment and where we may be heading in the future? Drue: This is a most complex question that would take a great deal of time and space to discuss. In short, however, know this, with the true understanding of "time" and "timelines", realities are altered for the betterment of all, a richness beyond words. As for our future... you and I will decide our future either together or individually. This, needing more time and space to elaborate. Joshua: If the Philadelphia Project is considered by the government to be a secret project, why do you feel inspired to speak out at this time? Do you have any concern that the government will try to silence you? Or, do they want this information to come out? Drue: My being public is a calculated move for my own safety. "Those in the know" knew that they could not permanently keep me from the recall of many of the events, and while I was in the military they were able
[CTRL] The Philadelphia Experiment and time - part 1
From: Nicola Molloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philadelphia Experiment Philadelphia Experiment The Philadelphia Experiment and Time - part 1 of 2 With Drue (Interview by Joshua, 12/6/95 ) While attending and participating at the Whole Life Expo held in that incredible city of New York, in October of last year (1995), I had a chance to meet with Drue briefly. Drue was a member of the UFO panel, but I just heard the end of his talk and his room was jammed packed for his free lecture, so I could only speak to him when he came out of the room and had finished his talk. I have always been fascinated by this subject so I had to meet him. He gave me his card and told me to write to him and I proposed to share some of his information and insights on our web site. So we had a few phone conversations and included in this page is Drue answers to questions related to the Philadelphia Experiment and time travel. I was hoping to share with our readers an expanded interview, as I felt that Drue needed to clarify somewhat a few of his points and hopefully, very shortly we will be able to provide this update this interview with his clarifications. I still am not sure how he was present as a scientist during the Philadlphia Experiment and also now claims that he has the DNA memories of this scientist. However, there are a number of new twists he discusses to this mysterious experiment that I felt it was important to release the interview in its current form. Again, as many of the pages we have in this section of our web site, it is impossible to make a statement on the validity of Drue's story but I have found him to be a very honest and sincere person to talk with and very easy going. Drue is open to speak with others who have interest in these topics (see his address and phone included in the interview), he also has some materials available for sale and is in the process of writing his own book as well as continuing to do public presentations. He has copyrighted the materials here and asks that if you want to reproduce the material, you do so in its entirety (all materials that appear after this brief introduction). So lets here what Drue has to say about the Philadelphia Experiment ILLINOIS Statement: The following interview may be challenging or nurturing to your current beliefs. It has never been my intentions to challenge you or your beliefs, but to give you "Food for Thought". I have a saying, which goes like this: If you WILL to see---you will see; if, you WILL not to see---you will not! For those of you who are well informed, you will most likely find little difficulty in some of the information provided within. For those who are not well informed, prepare to open your eyes and your mind (if you WILL) to a new understanding and a new knowledge. Joshua: Drue, Can you please share something about yourself, your background and what you are doing today? Drue: Yes. I was born and raised in the state of Montana. In 1971 I joined the U.S. Marine Corps for 22 years of service, retiring in 1993. Detailed as a systems analyst for major Marine Corps systems for the majority of my career, I was attached to the rosters of the Marine Corps' Headquarters in Washington, D.C., but was geographically located either in Southern California or Okinawa, Japan. After I retired, I got involved with UFO investigations and paranormal research and exploration. I am actively lecturing on Time Travel and the Philadelphia Experiment and writing of my experiences. Joshua: How did you become involved with the Philadelphia Experiment? Drue: I joined on with the project as a civilian scientist in the year of approximately 1938. My experience and training in physics, geometry and electronics was a necessary requirement for my assignment. For the sake of those who are reading about my experiences for the first time, I would like to explain who I am in relation to time related government experiments, such as the Philadelphia Experiment and a Time Transfer Experiment. Some would look at my individual case as one form of a "Walk-in". There are many forms of Walk-ins, and my existence is solely based on a government experiment and its uses of technology from extraterrestrial sources. My memory of my involvement with the Philadelphia Experiment are NOT memories of a past life, but DNA memory that was transferred from one body to another. I, therefore, have DNA memory of both existences that had been merged. Joshua: Can you define precisely what the Philadelphia Experiment was about, and what were its goals? Drue: The experiment was an attempt to move equipment and personnel through time and space using a Naval warship known as the USS Eldridge (DE-173), a destroyer escort. On August 15, 1943, a total of 181 men (176 sailors and 5 civilian scientists of which I was one of) were on board the Eldridge and along with one observation ship set out to sea for an experiment of which was never before attempted.
[CTRL] Tyson Targeted By Masons???
-Caveat Lector- Here's a conspiracy, 1st Iron Mike is SET UP in hayseed Indiana by a forum shopping prosecutor, NOW freaking PETA has been Illuminati-influenced to get the pug...He's a modern day Captain William Morgan for chrissakes! Bill. PROBERS PUZZLE OVER TYSON'S DEAD FERRET By ANDY GELLER Investigators are trying to ferret out the facts behind the mysterious death of one of the wily weasels at Mike Tyson's Las Vegas estate. A second ferret was found alive -- but almost down for the count. C.J. Jones, a volunteer ferret rescuer, said she found both ferrets in a cage -- the live one pacing frantically -- in Tyson's back yard Nov. 18. The dead animal "was just a bag of bones. He was just a skeleton. You could see every bone in his body," Jones said. Jones said Tyson aide Darryl Francis summoned her, asking if she wanted one of the ex-heavyweight champ's ferrets. "He said the animal was not feeling well ... Mike isn't around to take care of it anymore," she said. Jones said that when she arrived, she was shocked to learn that there was no food or water in the cage. "I asked who was taking care of the ferrets and Darryl said, 'That guy got fired,'" she said. Jones said the dead ferret weighed only a pound, about a third of its normal weight. "Neglect was a cause of death. Ferrets only die if they are sick or they're neglected," she said. Jones adopted the second ferret, which weighed half a pound and showed signs of malnutrition and dehydration. "She's just a little skeleton," she said. The ferret-abuse fighter filed a complaint with animal-control officers. If they find the animals were abused or neglected, Iron Mike could face a maximum of six months in jail or a $1,000 fine. Francis did not return calls, and Tyson's manager, Shelley Finkel, said, "I'm not going to comment on anything like that. It's ridiculous. It's crazy." 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] Drug Politics : Dirty Money and Democracies
-Caveat Lector- Click Here: A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806131748/qid=944700828/sr=1-23/ 102-2230007-9815261"Amazon.com: buying info: Drug Politics : Dirty /A - Drug Politics : Dirty Money and Democracies by David C. Jordan Shopping with us is 100% safe. Guaranteed. (We'll set one up for you) View my Wish List List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $17.47 You Save: $7.48 (30%) Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Need this by December 24? No problem. Select any shipping method (U.S. addresses). Hardcover - 304 pages (October 1999) Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0806131748 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.07 x 9.32 x 6.32 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 86,910 Be the first person to review this book! Write an online review and share your thoughts with other readers! Reviews Editorial Reviews (1) Be the first person to review this book! Editorial Reviews The publisher, Univ. of Oklahoma Press , October 14, 1999 Challenge to Current Drug Policies DRUG POLITICS is an enlightening new book by a man who knows this disturbing and dangerous subject. A former United States ambassador to Peru, David C. Jordan has testified before the U.S. Senate and House Foreign Relations committees and has consulted with various government security organizations. His account of government protection of the criminal elements intertwined with local and global politics challenges many of the assumptions of current drug policies. Using examples from South America, Mexico, Russia, and the United States, Jordan shows that the narcotics problem is not merely one of supply and demand, the post-Cold War globalization process is not necessarily benign, the democratization of formerly autocratic states does not guarantee a new era of democratic peace, and organized crime is not confined to specific ethnic groups. Jordan explains that the theory of supply-and-demand ignores or downplays the fact that the drug trade depends on state cooperation and compliance to sustain multibillion-dollar levels of illicit global commerce. He exposes features of the globalization process that permit wealthy elites to operate outside accountable political processes and reveals how organized crime develops under political protection, becomes multiethnic, and forges transnational alliances. Jordan argues that many national and international financial systems are dependent on cash from money laundering, and some governments are far more involved in protecting than in combating criminal cartels. Sure to stimulate debate, DRUG POLITICS makes a strong case for a reexamination of American and international policies in the drug and culture wars. Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Part I Drug Trafficking, State Corruption, and the Crisis of Democratic Theory 1 Introduction 2 Defining Democracy 3 The Corruption of Elites Part II Governments, Organized Crime, and International Finance 4 Governments: From the Opium Wars to the Cold War 5 The Development and Spread of Organized Crime 6 The Criminalization of the International Finance System Part III Corrupting Democratic Transitions and Consolidations 7 Democratic Transitions and Organized Crime: Russia and the Andean Region 8 Pretransition Regimes and Organized Crime: Mexico 9 Consolidated Regimes and Organized Crime: Colombia Part IV Drug Culture, Conflict, and Order 10 Cultural Underpinnings of Modern Drug Consumption 11 Anarchy, Narcostatization, and World Order 12 Conclusion Appendix Medical Consequences of Drug Use: The University of Virginia Policy on Illegal Drugs (1996) Glossary Notes Selected Bibliography Index - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End 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
[CTRL] [1] Drug Politics
-Caveat Lector- an excerptfrom: Drug Politics David C. Jordan University of Oklahoma press©1999 Norman Publishing Division of the University ISBN 0-8061-3174-8 288 pps -- first edition -- In-print - ---With the drugging of the general population, governing elites come to see themselves as a ruling class and not as public servants accountable to a public that believes in limits on private and public behavior. And, finally, as these unaccountable elites forge alliances with their counterparts in other countries, a transnational alliance of finance capital is facilitated, an alliance freed of democratic republican accountability. Borderless and unchecked capital is thus available for speculative assaults on states resisting the agendas of unaccountable money interests.-- Quite the interesting book. A bit of a view from an ivory tower, but all in all thought-provoking. Recommended. A taste Om K - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANISM AS THE ALTERNATIVE TO PROCEDURAL DEMOCRACY The alternative to procedural democracy is democratic republicanism, which explicitly grapples with the problem of corruption by seeking to prevent decay and politicians' abuse of power. Democratic republicanism provides an alternative foundation for democratic theory by focusing on how power may be abused and how the process of accountability may be corrupted. Democratic republicanism is historically based on the mixed regime that highlights the people's responsibility to maintain accountability. The norms of the democratic republic were developed to address the problems of tyranny, to provide independence for the state vis-a-vis other states, and to promote liberty within the state. Democratic republicanism considers participation a phenomenon of a disciplined people, seeks to avoid electoral despotism, supports a mixed regime, and fears the corruption of the public and the public's servants. This book seeks to reach beyond the classical concerns of democratic republicanism, to add to those the challenges that arise from the globalization of the world economy and the threat of corruption. POLITICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGIES Normative political science can be approached from two angles: political anthropology and philosophical anthropology. One establishes how a society understands itself and behaves and the other how all societies ought to be evaluated and conduct themselves. Political anthropology approaches the understanding of a political society as it perceives itself. Human activities must be understood in terms of the meanings the actors in a society ascribe to them. The political order in which humans live is normative in the sense that people understand what they should or should not do in any given society. The rules from one society do not necessarily apply to another. Political anthropology provides a relative understanding of societies. The population's existence or its real situation in a society is guided by what is and is not permitted in that society Members of a nation have no choice but to live in that nation's understood social order. Once the "rightness" of that order comes into question or is evaluated, the study of philosophical anthropology is being introduced. The Greeks pioneered philosophical anthropology They accepted the existence of a tribal order, idios kosmos, which were the rules of that particular order or city-state. There also existed a universal order, a koinos kosmos, wh ich was a universal standard for judging all particular orders. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all believed in this universal order. The koinos kosmos w as superior to the tribal orders and was the basis for evaluating each of them. The philosophical anthropology of the Greeks asserted that koinos kosmos was an ultimate truth, a Logos for all mankind." For Heraclitus, the precursor thinker of the Logos concept, the Logos was the principle of order under which the universe exists. The Logos was the bridge between the Greek world and Christianity. Logos gave a person reason and knowledge of the truth, not only of the physical world, or the world of nature, but also of human events: "All things are controlled by the Logos of God. The Logos is the power which puts sense into the world, the power which makes the world an order instead of a chaos, the power which sets the world going and keeps it going in its perfect order. The Logos," said the Stoics, "pervades all things."[23] The bridge between the Greek world and Christianity came with the identification of Christ's word with the Logos. Christianity spread the idea of the Logos, thereby rooting philosophical anthropology in Western culture. The practical application of philosophical anthropology confronts whether the universal standard could or should be applied in actual circumstances, and, if so, how. MACHIAVELLI AND TOCQUEVILLE Niccolo Machiavelli and Alexis de Tocqueville are two well-known classic theorists of democratic republicanism. Both use the methods of
[CTRL] Hidden Fortunes: Drug Money, Cartels and the Elite Banks
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0966996801/qid=944700828/sr=1-36/102-22 30007-9815261Click Here: A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0966996801/qid=944700828/sr=1-36/ 102-2230007-9815261"Amazon.com: buying info: Hidden Fortunes: Drug /A - Hidden Fortunes: Drug Money, Cartels and the Elite Banks [LARGE PRINT] by Eduardo Varela-Cid, Fabian Baez (Contributor) Shopping with us is 100% safe. Guaranteed. (We'll set one up for you) View my Wish List Our Price: $22.50 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Need this by December 24? No problem. Select any shipping method (U.S. addresses). Paperback - 398 pages (April 1999) Bookworld Services; ISBN: 0966996801 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.08 x 8.97 x 6.06 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 348,248 Avg. Customer Review: Number of Reviews: 2 Write an online review and share your thoughts with other readers! Reviews Editorial Reviews (2) Customer Reviews (2) Editorial Reviews Book Description Money laundering in USA: Bank of Boston and Citibank drug money, cartels and the elite banks -Bank of Boston laundered $ 1.2 billion from the trafficker Genaro Angiullo. They pled guilty and paid a fine of $500,000 -The complete story of Citibank dealings with Raul Salinas de Gortari, Amy Elliott, Persecutor Carla del Ponte, Hubertus Rukabina and the Confidas subsidiary; information you need to know to understand what is going to happen. -The story of the real money laundering in USA. The relationship between the Mafia and the politicians not only in South America. -The so-called "War on Drugs" is a hysterical farce. -The honest are afraid of the corrupts. 'Two powerful men, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, President of Mexico, and John Reed, head of Citibank, are supposedly ignoring what the third man, Raul Salinas de Gortari, did to accumulate an enormous personal fortune in Swiss and British banks. As in the times of Watergate, the press and society have to ask the tough question in order to know who knew what and when they found out. The President of bank, John Reed, and the adjunct president in charge of Latin America, Bill Rhodes, has the fiduciary responsibility of making sure that no money laundering operations are executed under Citibank auspices. Mike Wallace, of CBS program "60 Minutes." About the Author Eduardo Varela-Cid was a well-know congressman in Argentina, and Vice President of the Latin American Parliament from 1989 to 1995. He co-authored many of the anti-drug laws currently in place in South America. Yet with painful intellectual honesty he now realizes that these laws are not working. He fought publicly for many years against the Mafia boss, a Syrian-Argentine named Alfredo Nallib Yabran. Varela-Cid is to the Argentine political system what Serpico was to the New York City Police Department many years ago. Both were banished for not adhering to unwritten codes. Customer Reviews Write an online review and share your thoughts with other readers! Citibank, Boston Bank, Guardians of the Drug Trade Reviewer: A reader from USA July 24, 1999 Recently when Raul Salinas -- brother of Mexican ex-President Carlos Salinas de Gortari -- was caught sending hundreds of millions of dollars out of his country, the money trail led to Citibank in New York. Citibank, in turn, was passing the loot along to prestigious banks in Switzerland and Lichtenstein. It appears that the chief executives of the various banks in this laundering opereation were all friends. Understandably -- this kind of money is the basis for a very good friendship. But the money comes from the Drug Trade, responsible for the devastation of societies and families world-wide. Yet it matters not to the elite banks where the money comes from, only where it ends up: in their accounts. What makes this book different is the knowledgeable perspective of the author, Eduardo Varela Cid, a well-kown Congressman from Argentina and also a former Vice Pres. of Latin American Parliament.Varela Cid co-authored many of the anti-drug laws currently in place in many South American countries. Varela-Cid's good friend Lara Bonilla, a Colombian Minister, took seven cartel bullets to his head as a reward for his efforts to extradite the Drug Kings from Colombia to stand trial in the USA. This is what can happen to a fighter - a politician or a journalist - outside the spheres of power, beyond the protection of the elite banks and the cartels. The primary thesis of this book is that the elite banks are a critical problem -- because no big business can run efficiently without them. Particularly an immense business like the world Drug Trade which counts on the banking system to pay its employees world-wide, and get illicit money back into legal channels. And yet it is not the smaller, unknown banks that are
[CTRL] Check out Amazon.com: buying info: The Opium Empire
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0275957594/qid=944700828/sr=1-47/102-22 30007-9815261#amzn-reviewsClick Here: A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0275957594/qid=944700828/sr=1-47/ 102-2230007-9815261#amzn-reviews"Amazon.com: buying info: The Opium Empire/A - The Opium Empire by John M. Jennings Shopping with us is 100% safe. Guaranteed. (We'll set one up for you) View my Wish List Our Price: $76.50 Availability: On Order; usually ships within 1-2 weeks. Need this by December 24? Select Next Day Air shipping method (U.S. addresses). Click for larger picture Hardcover (April 1997) Praeger Pub Text; ISBN: 0275957594 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.76 x 9.57 x 6.35 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 395,907 Be the first person to review this book! Write an online review and share your thoughts with other readers! Reviews Editorial Reviews (3) Be the first person to review this book! Editorial Reviews Book Description The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) found Japan guilty of deliberately promoting drug abuse as a weapon to further its imperialistic aims in Asia. This study provides the historical context behind the IMTFE's findings from the annexation of Taiwan in 1895 to the end of World War II. Given the extent to which drug use permeated the politics, economy, and culture of Asia, it was inevitable that Japan's rise as an imperial power would lead to contact with, and increasing involvement in, the opium and narcotics trade. This study argues that the nature of that involvement should be understood not simply in terms of a conspiracy to drug the people of Asia into submission, but rather as indicative of the general twists and turns of Japanese imperialism. Thus, opium and narcotics emerge not so much as a weapon of, but rather as a metaphor for, Japanese imperialism in Asia. From the Publisher "Jenning's book is a study of opium, its derivatives, and cocaine as part of Japan's career as an imperial power in Asia Based primarily on Japanese-language sources, many of them unpublished government documents, this book is a product of impressively diligent scholarship. It is well organized, succinct, and soundly reasoned..." Choice About the Author JOHN M. JENNINGS is Visiting Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University. Legal Notices © 1996-1999, Amazon.com, Inc. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End 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] Sharing the Secrets
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0275954544/qid=944702877/sr=1-106/102-2 230007-9815261 Click Here: A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0275954544/qid=944702877/sr=1-106 /102-2230007-9815261"Amazon.com: buying info: Sharing the Secrets/A - Sharing the Secrets by J. F. Holden-Rhodes Shopping with us is 100% safe. Guaranteed. Our Price: $55.00 Holiday Note: This item may not arrive by December 24. Visit Gift Ideas to find items we can ship today. Hardcover - 256 pages Praeger Pub Text; ISBN: 0275954544 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.01 x 9.56 x 6.38 Availability: This title usually ships within 4-6 weeks. Please note that titles occasionally go out of print or publishers run out of stock. We will notify you within 2-3 weeks if we have trouble obtaining this title. Amazon.com Sales Rank: 333,015 Be the first person to review this book! Write an online review and share your thoughts with other readers! Reviews Editorial Reviews (2) Be the first person to review this book! Editorial Reviews Book Description Against the backdrop of U.S. drug policy and strategy, this important work, written by an experienced Intelligence and Special Operations Officer and Scholar, peels away the rhetoric to present an insider's view of cocaine trafficking in the Western Hemisphere. From the Huallaga and Chapare Valleys, through the cocaine transit countries to the U.S. border, this book compares and contrasts the enormous success of the traffickers to the monolithic U.S. drug policy that produces no "end-game" and conceals its failures behind a "classified" stamp. Drawing on his experience as the Counter Drug Intelligence Team Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory and as a "Black Hat" Team member with the U.S. Southern Command, the author approaches drug trafficking from the narcotraficantes point of view to paint a picture that portrays the cocaine industry as it really is. Arguing that it is impossible to stop drugs at their source, the author builds a compelling case for shifting U.S. assets to the southern borders of the United States, through a strategy that causes the traffickers to pass through a series of obstacles designed to slow and impede their operations. Identifying drug trafficking as an examplar of the Gray Area Phenomena--the impact of non-state players and organizations on a post-colonial, multi-tribal world--the author brings a currency to his work using Open Source Intelligence as the vehicle by which the drug trafficking world may be assessed and analyzed. Sharing the Secrets offers an "Intelligence" for the new world disorder that enables decision-makers to recognize and define the new threats and suggests how realistic policy and strategy might be evaluated and re-cast. This work will be of particular interest to policy-makers, law enforcement and Intelligence professionals, and scholars as it "opens the book to the right page" and provides for the first time the stubborn facts that they may have been neglecting in the war on drugs. Sharing the Secrets is a body of descriptive, proscriptive, and prescriptive material that will enable serious public discusion to begin on national drug policy and strategy. About the Author J. F. HOLDEN-RHODES is a former serving Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army where he held Reconnaissance, Infantry, Special Forces and Intelligence positions. Legal Notices © 1996-1999, Amazon.com, Inc. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End 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: AP: Conspiracy Found in King Killing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991208/aponline182559_000.htm Conspiracy Found in King Killing By Woody Baird Associated Press Writer Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1999; 6:25 p.m. EST MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A jury hearing a lawsuit filed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s family found Wednesday that the civil rights leader was the victim of a vast murder conspiracy, not a lone assassin. The King family had sued Loyd Jowers, a retired businessman who claimed six years ago that he paid someone other than James Earl Ray to kill King in Memphis in 1968. The family's lawyer claimed that the FBI, CIA, the Mafia and the military were involved. The family wanted the jury to find evidence of a conspiracy and lend support to their call for a new investigation into the killing. Prosecutors have long said that they are convinced Ray fired the fatal shot and that they could find no evidence anyone else was involved. The Kings asked for only a token amount in their wrongful-death lawsuit. After three hours of deliberations, the jury of six blacks and six whites awarded the family $100 in damages. "I'm just so happy to see that the people have spoken," King's son Dexter said. "This is what we've always asked for." Ray confessed to shooting King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He spent the rest of his life claiming to be innocent and trying to get a trial. He died of liver disease last year. Ray's guilty plea was upheld eight times by state and federal courts. A congressional committee concluded in 1978 that Ray was the killer but that he may have had help before or after the assassination. The committee did not find any government involvement. William Pepper, the Kings' lawyer, told the jury that Jowers, 73, was part of a conspiracy involving the Mafia and federal agents to kill King because of his opposition to the Vietnam War and plans for a huge march on Washington. In his closing argument, Pepper said the order to kill King came from the head of organized crime in New Orleans to a Memphis produce dealer who got Jowers to handle the payoff and murder weapon. An Army sniper squad was in place to shoot King if the Mafia hit failed, Pepper claimed. Later, the FBI, CIA, the media, Army intelligence and state and city officials helped cover up the assassination, said Pepper, who also represented Ray in his efforts to get a trial. Pepper told the jurors they could rewrite history. Juror David Morphy said he believed the assassination was too complex to be carried out by one person. "We all thought it was kind of a cut-and-dried case, with the evidence that Pepper brought forth that there were a lot of people involved, everyone from the CIA, military involvement in it -- Jowers was involved in it, we felt," he said. Lewis Garrison, Jowers' lawyer, told the jury that while they could reasonably conclude King was the victim of a conspiracy, his client's role was minor at best. In 1993, Jowers said on ABC-TV that he hired King's killer as a favor to an underworld figure who was a friend. He did not identify the purported killer, but said it wasn't Ray. Jowers, who has never repeated the claim but has not recanted it either, was sick for much of the trial and did not testify. At the time of the killing, Jowers owned a small restaurant, Jim's Grill, across the street from The Lorraine Motel, where King was killed. On the day of the assassination, Ray, a prison escapee from Missouri, used an assumed name to rent a room in a rooming house above Jim's Grill. Garrison told the jury it was hard to believe that "the owner of a greasy spoon and an escaped convict" could have pulled off King's assassination. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, testified that her family believes Ray did not act alone. "If we know the truth, we can be free and go on with our lives," she said on the trial's opening day. Shelby County prosecutor John Campbell, who has investigated the assassination but was not involved in the Jowers trial, said Jowers' claims have no merit. Campbell said several of Jowers' friends and associates said he was merely hoping to get a movie or book deal. "We looked at this off and on for five years ... and I've still seen nothing that would change my opinion," Campbell said. Last year, Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a limited probe by the Justice Department into two allegations of a conspiracy in the King murder. One was Jowers' claim; the other was a statement by former FBI agent Donald Wilson that he found papers in Ray's car that might support a conspiracy. "Our review is still ongoing," Justice Department spokeswoman Carol Florman said. She would not comment on the Memphis case. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991208/aponline182559_000.htm GODDARD'S JOURNAL: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/journal.htm
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Breaking News on Ed Wilson
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/8/99 11:07:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As an old covert op told me once, "its just a matter of time and all cutouts get it." I asked him how does one know who the cutouts are and who the big boyz are. He said it was easy, the big power was all in austria, spain, italy and germany and enjoyed being relatively unknown and could only be identified by the size of their international banking and industrial holdings all over the world. This my friends is the crux of the REAL secret team that runs the show. Old world families in the money and banking trades, not to mention drugs and other less than "worthy" activities. ** *** "Welcome to the desert of the real." Morpheus, "The Matrix". "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of seas of infinity, and it is not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." H.P.Lovecraft; "The Call of Cthulhu" 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] My JFK Jr. theory
-Caveat Lector- I finally figured out the REAL connection between JFK Jr.'s plane crash and the Three Tenors: JFK Jr. attended the Three Tenors Concert at Giants Stadium on July 20, 1996. Parts of JFK Jr.'s plane washed up on Philbin Beach. Regis Philbin hosts a morning TV talk show with Kathie Lee Gifford. According to a book written by Marcia Lewis, Kathie Lee Gifford had an affair with Placido Domingo, one of the Three Tenors. Marcia Lewis is the mother of Bill Clinton girl-toy Monica Lewinsky. Bill's wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, frequently attends opening night performances at Washington Opera, where Domingo is Artistic Director. If JFK Jr. were a threat to Hillary's run for the Senate, when could be a more auspicious time to "take him out" than the day before a Three Tenors concert? JFK Jr.'s plane left the sky on Friday, July 16, 1999, and the Three Tenors performed at Detroit's Tiger Stadium the next day, July 17. Tenorlove __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.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
Re: [CTRL] Towards Ultimate CONTROL
-Caveat Lector- Das GOAT wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-12-06 22:03:50 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To help promote the U.N. global dictatorship, Soviet KGB scientist have recently been working at various U.S. advanced weapons facilities, such as Lawrence Liverpool and Los Alamos Laboratories. "Liverpool"!?! Lawrence Liverwurst? I met Lawrence Liverwurst. He was quite a guy. Liverwurst is not his real name. He was called that by his physician who was treating him for alcoholism. He was born to an itinerant Muslim family of comedians who worked the Mecca to Medina circuit. He was known as Lawrence of Arabia. He was MUCH funnier than Seinfeld, but not as talented as Richard Prior. FYI, Joshua2 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to 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] Towards Ultimate CONTROL
-Caveat Lector- Tenorlove wrote: -Caveat Lector- -- nessie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- To help promote the U.N. global dictatorship, Soviet KGB scientist have recently been working at various U.S. advanced weapons facilities, such as Lawrence Liverpool and Los Alamos Laboratories. "Liverpool"!?! Of course. Aren't the Beatles a Tavistock creation? snort I met Lawrence Liverpool. He was quite a guy. Not only did he invent that city in England, he also invented the lubricated love doll, and the Beatles Haircut. Lawrence Liverpool Labs makes the best damn Indica Extract in the world. This is one of the most sought after food additives on the planet. It puts the JERK in Jamaican cooking, and gives Indian cuisine its multi- layared, multi- colored enhancement. Liverpool's Indica Extract is also splendid as a health and virility enhancer. If you are drunk, nauseated, or an aggressive asshole, it will put you to sleep. If not, it just makes you horny. Liverpool for Liverpudlians! Joshua2 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to 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: Chuck Baldwin's Food for Thought from the Chuck Wagonfor12/07/99
-Caveat Lector- Tenorlove wrote: Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com Subject: Chuck Baldwin's Food for Thought from the Chuck Wagon for 12/07/99 Date: 07 Dec 99 06:44:39 -0600 From: "Chuck Baldwin"[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Rising Sun of International Government December 7, 1999 What Japan could not do by bombing Pearl Harbor, todays political and commercial elite are quietly accomplishing without a shot being fired. So successful is their attempt to globalize the economies and militaries of the world that many no longer bother to hide it. snip Through the IMF, the World Bank, the under-construction World Financial Organization, so-called "free trade" agreements and organizations like NAFTA, GATT and the WTO, the much-touted "global economy" is fast becoming global government. The US Senate is even considering legislation to authorize a study considering the potential benefits of hiring police officers of other nations by federal law enforcement agencies, according to World Net Daily. This is now all BS. Before Seattle. It seems clear to me that the presidential election next year will be more about American sovereignty and independence versus globalism and internationalism than any other single issue. Sadly, I find little significant difference on this issue between the establishment front runners of both parties. Both Bush and Gore support NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, MFN for Red China, the entrance of China into the WTO, ALL OF THEM. Not just Gore and Bush. They ALL came out early as supporters of " Free Trade." And you know why??? Because " Free Trade " benefits the Rich and THEY ARE ALL MILLIONAIRES. Duh!!! And all candidates are funded by millionaires. virtually all international trade deals, the IMF, the World Bank, ad infinitum. Neither candidate appears likely to stand against the UN and its desire to create a socialist New World Order. Oh Jeez! What isn't wrong with this diatribe? First of all, in typical right wing stupidity, you STILL fail to admit that ALL the major players pushing the New World Order are Capitalists. CAPITALISTS! It's time to stop with this Socialist Boogeyman crap. The demonstrators in Seattle were ALMOST ALL LEFTIES!!! You Right Wing Nuts owe them BIGTIME for stopping the WTO. Our choice seems to be between a New World Order Republican and a New World Order Democrat. I choose neither. I resent the two major parties constant compromise of American sovereignty and independence. I refuse to vote for the "lesser of two evils" if Im convinced the lesser evil is still going to lead my country further down the road to internationalism. Good point. Joshua2 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to 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] [MC] Fwd: Black Bloc and obsessive analysis
-Caveat Lector- --- yeah, right. Cogent. 'Spin-control' is more like it. Or ignorance. Does that mean you think the leftists were right? 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: Chemical war in Seattle-The World's Still Watching-
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave = [Seattle Independent Media Center] The Seattle Indy Media Center is a coalition of many independent media organizations and producers, offering live coverage of the WTO protests ignored by the corporate media. Latest News: Neurotoxic Symptoms In Chemical Warfare Casualties At Seattle WTO Meeting by kirk james murphy, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:04am Tue Dec 7 '99 Direct Action Network Medical Collective members provided first aid and other care for thousands of casualties of chemical warfare during the Seattle WTO protests. Collective members identified a subset of casualties with symptoms consistent with exposure to neurotoxins which disrupt acetylcholine irritant agents do not explain the symptoms. The Direct Action Network Medical Collective was organized to provide first aid and other health services to activists and others (onlookers, media, residents, and anyone else requesting assistance) in Seattle for the WTO meeting last week. The Collective members provided care for literally hundreds of chemical warfare casualties on both November 30 and December 1; hundreds more have requested information and treatment in subsequent days. As one may imagine, Collective members have acquired extensive expertise in the recognition and treatment of symptoms arising from exposure to pepper spray (OC) and "tear gases" (CS and CN). Individuals exposed to chemical weapons in the late afternoon and evening of December 1st at two locations downtown blocks adjacent to Pike Place Market and the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill evinced and reported a pattern of symptoms which is inconsistent with the pattern of symptoms which may be ascribed to irritating agents. This "atypical" pattern of symptoms includes the rapid onset of: mydriasis (pupillary dilation) with resultant impairment of visual acuity; tachycardia (rapid heart rate) with some palpitations; new-onset hypertension (high blood pressure) in one individual; nausea, vomiting, diarrhea (persisting for days after exposure); abrupt or immediate onset of menstruation (asynchronous with usual menstrual cycle); muscular fasciculation (twitches); muscular dyscoordination; lethargy, confusion, disorientation, diminished concentration, nocturnal hallucinations. Moreover, some casualties reported an abrupt experience of loss of muscular tone and strength that sometimes (but not always) immediately preceded a loss of consciousness; one observer of these affected individuals reported uncontrolled, spasmodic movements in those affected. Some individuals exposed in the Pike Place Market area reported that the aforementioned symptoms came immediately after exposure to a non-irritating agent which was did not cause pain, lacrimation, or burning on mucous membranes. At least one individual complaining of fasciculations and cognitive impairment days after exposure reported resolution of both symptoms for a duration of approximately five to six hours within twenty to thirty minutes after treatment with 10 mg of the specific antidote dicyclomine (Bentyl) - an anticholinergic medication which crosses the blood-brain barrier and hence can relieve central nervous symptoms of excessive cholinergic activity as well as relieving peripheral symptoms of the same etiology. The pattern of symptoms is not consistent with known mechanisms of action of the irritant chemical weapons OC, CS, or CN. The pattern, however, is consistent with disruption of neurotransmitter activity. Lamentably, the single most compelling explanation for the observed findings is the (deliberate or accidental) inclusion of "incapacitating agents" which disrupt neuronal function in the chemical munitions discharged by law enforcement agencies in Seattle during the WTO protest. While direct cholinergic effects or indirect (inhibition of acetylcholinesterase) effects arising from synergistic combinations (of OC, CS, and CN) cannot be ruled out at this time, the experience and observations Medical Collective members, together with the aforementioned information, appears to most robustly support the hypothesis that the casualties described above resulted from exposure to cholinesterase inhibitors used as chemical weapons in crowd control. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on December 4 that the Seattle Police Department had to replenish its chemical weapons stocks by going to outside sources. Various individuals have reported being told by individual law enforcement officers that chemical weapons in addition to OC, CS, and CN were deployed by various entities; these anecdotal accounts are not yet confirmed. Any information regarding the use of chemical munitions in addition to OC, CS or CN, as well as information regarding the discharge of chemical weapons by agencies other than the Seattle Police Department would be helpful. Available Internet
[CTRL] DRUGGING KIDS: A New Agenda?
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Ian Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DRUGGING KIDS: A New Agenda? Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 5:58 AM (http://users.erols.com/igoddard/polyrisk.htm) LOOKING FOR "EARLY SCHIZOPHRENIA" IN CHILDREN MAY INCREASE RISK OF IATROGENIC POLYPHARMACY (c) 12/8/99 Ian Williams Goddard The New York Times (12/7/99) [1] reports that a possible new psychiatric diagnostic agenda for children may be to identify "early warning signs" of schizophrenia that are to be treated with antipsychotic drugs. Research funded in part by the drug company Eli Lilly is attempting to see if antipsychotic drugs can reduce the incidence of full-blown schizophrenia if given to "high-risk" subjects while they are still children. With the ability to cause permanent brain damage and disfiguring conditions such as tardive dyskinesia, antipsychotic drugs, also known as neuroleptics, are the most harmful psychiatric drugs. [2] Also of concern regarding an "early schizophrenic" focus in childhood diagnosis is that the drug Ritalin, which is being prescribed to millions of children, is known to produce symptoms that mimic schizophrenia. [3] One drug study even found that Ritalin "induces a psychopathology that seems to mimic schizophrenic psychosis more closely than that induced by amphetamines and cocaine." [4] About the ability of psychostimulants such as Ritalin to mimic symptoms of schizophrenia, Peter Breggin, M.D., states: "All of the stimulants, including Cylert, can cause psychoses that mimic schizophrenia... These drug- induced psychoses look so much like schizophrenia that a strong argument has been made that stimulant abuse sometimes causes 'chronic schizophrenia.'(43)" [5] Since doctors often prescribe multiple drugs (polypharmacy), and since an illness treated by one drug may be caused by another (iatrogenic polypharmacy), the potential exists that Ritalin-induced schizophrenia might be treated with even more dangerous mind-altering drugs. As Breggin observes: "Because Ritalin is promoted as relatively free of adverse effects, the development of a severe mental disturbance can be mistaken for the surfacing of further 'mental illness.'" [6] The potential for iatrogenic polypharmacy could arise as a result of any "early schizophrenia treatment" agenda unless all doctors are aware of all adverse effects of stimulants and are willing to take a child off them to see if symptoms subside before they risk prescribing potentially brain- damaging neuroleptics, and yet psychosis has been reported during withdrawal from long-term Ritalin use. [7] Chances are some doctors will drug first and ask questions later. Quoted below are excerpts from a study that found Ritalin produced a dose-dependent dysfunction in nonschizophrenics that "'mimics' schizophrenic psychopathology." The range of doses in the study intersects Ritalin's therapeutic range. The study used Ritalin to test a hypothesis about the nature of an on-set schizophrenic dysfunction. The fact that Ritalin (methylphenidate) was chosen reflects the fact that it is a drug of choice for modeling schizophrenic psychopathology. Here then are important excerpts from that study: == Archives of General Psychiatry (1988;45(9):827-32) == Methylphenidate-Induced Information Processing Dysfunction in Nonschizophrenic Patients David L. Braff, MD, Leighton Huey, MD Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093. "Schizophrenic patients have significant deficits in a wide range of attentional and information processing tasks. It is hypothesized that catecholamine (eg, dopamine) overactivity may induce and that antipsychotic medications may reverse these attentional deficits." ... "This experiment was designed to test whether systemic administration of the dopamine agonist methylphenidate hydrochloride [Ritalin], in nonschizophrenic patients, would induce an information processing dysfunction similar to the dysfunction typically seen in schizophrenic patients in the visual backward masking task."[8] "These results show that methylphenidate, which increases central catecholaminergic activity, induces dose-dependent deficits in information processing similar to those seen in schizophrenic patients. ...this experiment used a combination of psychophysical tasks and pharmacological probes and is a novel illustration of how stimulant challenges can induce the type of information processing dysfunction seen in
[CTRL] is panama quid pro quo 4 DNC ChiCom cash??
-Caveat Lector- WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 8 1999 WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS 'Dirty' war in Panama Congressional investigators say China to wreak havoc in Central America By Charles Smith © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com Amid widespread concerns and administration denials following President Clinton's surprise admission that Communist China soon will be "running the (Panama) Canal," a previously unreported secret congressional investigation reveals that America will soon face a new "dirty" war in Panama involving China, Cuba and Russia. Speaking on the imminent transfer of the canal to the government of Panama, per the controversial 1978 Carter-Torrijos treaties, Clinton said last week, "I think the Chinese will in fact be bending over backwards to make sure that they run it in a competent and able and fair manner. ... And I would be very surprised if any adverse consequences flowed from the Chinese running the canal." Immediately following the president's statement on Panama, congressional concern became riveted on a Chinese company called Hutchison Whampoa, which won the contract to operate ports at both ends of the vital canal. Why the concern? "The president has explicitly acknowledged what we've been saying all along," said Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga. "The unilateral U.S. withdrawal from Panama has created a vacuum which the Chinese have eagerly filled." But Asian billionaire Li Ka-Shing openly refuted suggestions that his company, Hutchison Whampoa, would control the Panama Canal for Communist China. "We are not even the largest operator in Panama, compared with some of the Americans and Taiwan operators," said Li in a Dec. 1 South China Morning Post article titled "Li denies controlling Panama Canal." "We are running a container port business which has nothing to do with the operation of the Panama Canal," stated Li. White House National Security Council spokesman David Leavy concurred with Li, stating, "Responsibility for operation of the canal following the transfer will rest solely with the government of Panama. The company in question will have no control over, or role in, the operation of the canal." Nevertheless, sounding the alarm was Adm. Thomas Moorer, who warned recently that, with the U.S. military presence gone after Dec. 31, a corrupt and defenseless Panama could well become a Chinese missile base, as Cuba was for the Soviets a generation ago. White House spokesman Joe Lockhart dismissed the analysis of the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as "the kind of silly stuff you hear from time to time." Yet, according to congressional investigator Al Santoli, national security advisor to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., the greatest danger is not likely to be Chinese missiles in Panama. Rather, the most likely threat comes from a "dirty," unconventional form of warfare, which the Chinese will wage in the region -- by supporting mercenaries, drug cartels, crime lords and hard-core revolutionaries throughout Central America. In May 1999, Santoli led a delegation of congressional investigators on a special trip to Panama. The congressional delegation included Jim Doran, Asia and Pacific specialist from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Dr. Michael Waller, vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council. The investigative team's report, "The Panama Canal in Transition: Threats to U.S. Security and China's Growing Role In Latin America," shows that an old Cold War alliance of China,
[CTRL] Vote for '99's Best Notable Quotables
-Caveat Lector- Check out http://www.mediaresearch.org/nqbest/nq1999bestballot.html -- A.C. Szul http://www.erols.com/mack97 "If I had more time I would have written less." --Mark Twain 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: UCLA M.D.: Chemical Wepons in Seattle - ACLU/UCLA seek answers
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave MORE THAN TEAR GAS? From a report by the Direct Action Medical Collective, one of the groups that provided first aid during the Seattle demonstrations. KIRK JAMES MURPHY, MD: Individuals exposed to chemical weapons in the late afternoon and evening of December 1st at two locations downtown blocks adjacent to Pike Place Market and the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill evinced and reported a pattern of symptoms which is inconsistent with the pattern of symptoms which may be ascribed to irritating agents. This "atypical" pattern of symptoms includes the rapid onset of: mydriasis (pupillary dilation) with resultant impairment of visual acuity; tachycardia (rapid heart rate) with some palpitations; new-onset hypertension (high blood pressure) in one individual; nausea, vomiting, diarrhea (persisting for days after exposure); abrupt or immediate onset of menstruation (asynchronous with usual menstrual cycle); muscular fasciculation (twitches); muscular dyscoordination; lethargy, confusion, disorientation, diminished concentration, nocturnal hallucinations. Moreover, some casualties reported an abrupt experience of loss of muscular tone and strength that sometimes (but not always) immediately preceded a loss of consciousness; one observer of these affected individuals reported uncontrolled, spasmodic movements in those affected. Some individuals exposed in the Pike Place Market area reported that the aforementioned symptoms came immediately after exposure to a non-irritating agent which was did not cause pain, lacrimation, or burning on mucous membranes. . . . The pattern of symptoms is not consistent with known mechanisms of action of the irritant chemical weapons OC, CS, or CN. The pattern, however, is consistent with disruption of neurotransmitter activity. Lamentably, the single most compelling explanation for the observed findings is the (deliberate or accidental) inclusion of "incapacitating agents" which disrupt neuronal function in the chemical munitions discharged by law enforcement agencies in Seattle during the WTO protest. While direct cholinergic effects or indirect (inhibition of acetylcholinesterase) effects arising from synergistic combinations (of OC, CS, and CN) cannot be ruled out at this time, the experience and observations Medical Collective members, together with the aforementioned information, appears to most robustly support the hypothesis that the casualties described above resulted from exposure to cholinesterase inhibitors used as chemical weapons in crowd control. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on December 4 that the Seattle Police Department had to replenish its chemical weapons stocks by going to outside sources. Various individuals have reported being told by individual law enforcement officers that chemical weapons in addition to OC, CS, and CN were deployed by various entities; these anecdotal accounts are not yet confirmed. Any information regarding the use of chemical munitions in addition to OC, CS or CN, as well as information regarding the discharge of chemical weapons by agencies other than the Seattle Police Department would be helpful. . . . If you were exposed to chemical weapons during the WTO protests and have the pattern of "atypical" symptoms discussed below, please make a written, signed, and dated account of your exposure, including details such as the (approximate) location in which you were exposed and the date and part of the day (morning, midday, afternoon, evening) of your exposure, as well as the nature of your symptoms. Please send such accounts to the email above and to the ACLU unit investigating law enforcement actions in Seattle during the WTO protests. KIRK JAMES MURPHY, MD: mailto:[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
[CTRL] FDR!rapist touts killer of 4000 in Hawaii'thug of century'
-Caveat Lector- *** far and wide! *** (short comment at scroll's end) Reuters Clinton says FDR is person of the century Updated 7:07 PM ET December 8, 1999 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As far as President Clinton is concerned, Franklin Roosevelt is the most important person of the century for his leadership during the Great Depression and World War II. "If I had to pick one person, I would pick him," Clinton told a news conference. Clinton, an avid reader of presidential biographies, said Roosevelt tops his list because "in this century our greatest peril was in the Depression and World War II" and Roosevelt led the country through them. Roosevelt also oversaw the creation of the Social Security retirement benefits system and looked to the future by endorsing the United Nations and other international institutions. Clinton said Roosevelt was also a model for how to live a fruitful life with a crippling malady. He had polio, which left him in a wheelchair. "I think Roosevelt was an example to Americans of the importance of not giving up, and of the dignity inherent in every person," he said. Archive: Wed Dec 8 Tue 7 Mon 6 Sun 5 Sat 4 Fri 3 Thu 2 http://news.excite.com/news/r/991208/19/clinton-roosevelt Bard Seek not the phony fiat-paper of our Masters; instead seek the wisdom of our Lord and his only begotten Son! May the Spirit of our Lord not forsake you when your in the voting booth. Our future is in great peril, and you MUST understand that you have the power to right the wrongs inflicted on us by our Slave Masters. 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 U S and Biological Warfare by Uri Dowbenko
-Caveat Lector- http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.8/germwar.html The United States and Biological Warfare a book review by Uri Dowbenko CIA "legends" die hard. A "legend" is a cover story concocted by the CIA to cover-up US state-sanctioned criminality. During the Korean War, CIA operative Colonel Edward Hunter created the "legend" that US airmen were "brainwashed" by the Red Chinese to make false confessions about engaging in germ warfare. "The popularization of the idea that the flyers were brainwashed grew out of a widely read book of the time by Edward Hunter titled Brainwashing in Red China (1951)," write Torontos York University historians Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman in their fascinating book, The United States and Biological Warfare. "A few years later, after the results of a mammoth US Army study were known, the US Defense Department concluded that US POWs had not been subject to brainwashing, merely hardship, stress and duress," they continue. The CIAs disinformation campaign, however, took on a life of its own. This "legend" has become a myth of 20th century history, further enshrined in movies like The Manchurian Candidate. The CIA promoted the idea that American soldiers were coerced through mind control to confess to imaginary crimes. And the fact that they had actually engaged in "germ" warfare during the Korean War was effectively covered-up. Roosevelts Biological Warfare Program And how did US biowarfare get started? Under Roosevelt, during World War Two. "Begun with an inital grant of $250,000, modest by wartime standards, the biological warfare program quickly grew to be one of the largest wartime scientific projects in American history, second only to the Manhattan Project, which created the atomic bomb," write Endicott and Hagerman. "Granted top priority status, the program employed approximately four thousand people by the end of the war. The center of activity was the Special Projects division of the Chemical Warfare Service and its new research and development center located in Camp Detrick, Maryland," they continue. The Pentagon and its devils workshop was a busy place. "The Detrick scientists cast a wide experimental net. They studied anthrax, brucellosis (undulant fever), botulinus toxin, plague, ricin, southern blight of grains, potatoes and sugar beets (Sclerotium rolfoil), late blight, late blast, brownspot of rice, plant growth inhibitors, rinderpest, glanders and melioidosis..., tularemia (Rabbit fever), mussel poisoning, coccidioidomycosis, rickettsia, psittacosis, neurotropic encephalitis, Newcastle disease and fowl plague," write the authors. "The first to receive concentrated attention were anthrax and botulinus toxin... It also was Detricks mission to mass produce agents for operational use." Meanwhile the Detrick scientists, among them George Merck, head of the pharmaceutical giant Merck Co., was recruited by the FDR administration to head the War Research Service (WRS) Committee. However, because of internal ethical arguments by Admiral William D. Leahy and others, "there remained certain constraints in the use of biological and chemical weapons. One was the lingering fear that US and world opinion would morally condemn this extension of the limits of war. The burden of using chemical weapons was politically great because the United States had ratified the 1925 Geneva Protocol against chemical weapons. Its failure, along with Japan, to ratify the protocol banning biological weapons relieved the US from arms-limitation obligations in that direction, but it raised nagging questions about US intentions before the international community." The Lucky Accident It wasnt until 1980 that American journalist John William Powell discovered the "smoking gun" of US biological warfare. "In one of those lucky accidents that sometimes befall researchers," write the authors, "he uncovered evidence of the US deal with the Japanese biological warfare criminals by getting his hands on an exchange of memoranda involving General MacArthur, his intelligence chief General Charles Willoughby" and others. Powells exposure of the cover-up appeared first in the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars and, later in abbreviated form, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, according to the authors. "The US government continued to make denials, but two years later Japan officially acknowledged its World War II biological warfare program, as well as the fact that General Ishii [its head] had received a large retirement pension." Continuous lying by successive administrations, denials of wrongdoing, and complicity with Nazi and Japanese war criminals has contributed enormously to the current distrust of the US government. Ironically, lying to the American public is called "psychological warfare" (PsyWar). Directed at not only so-called enemies but the public in general, PsyWar has historically included biological warfare. The Psychological Warfare Division was assigned
[CTRL] CIA-DOJ Collusion in Drug-Trafficking Coverup? by Uri Dowbenko
-Caveat Lector-
CIA-DOJ Collusion in Drug-Trafficking Coverup?
by Uri Dowbenko
http://www.zolatimes.com/v3.12/cia_doj.htm
Despite documented evidence by government whistleblowers, the US Central
Intelligence Agency and the Department of Justice have never been held
accountable for their collusion in, or acquiescence to, to drug trafficking.
On March 15, 1999, however, class action lawsuits were filed by attorneys
Katya Komisaruk, William M. Simpich and Kenneth Frucht on behalf of Rosemary
Lyons and Olivia Woods in Northern California and Donna J. Warren and
Berlina M. Doss in Southern California (Case No. 99-02603).
The suit names the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of
Justice, Estate of William Casey, Robert Gates, John Deutch, George Tenet,
Estate of William French Smith, Edwin Meese, Richard Thornburgh, Janet Reno
and others as defendants, alleging that these US Government agencies and
employees were responsible for the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic and the
resulting social and economic devastation of inner city communities.
According to the Statement of Facts, "on March 16, 1998, CIA Inspector
General Frederick Hitz appeared before the House Intelligence Committee to
report on his investigation of the CIA, the Contras and crack cocaine. Hitz
testified that beginning in 1982, the CIA entered into an undisclosed
agreement with the Department of Justice, allowing CIA officers to refrain
from reporting drug trafficking by its "agents, assets and non-staff
employees." Hitz admitted that "there are instances where the CIA did not in
an expeditious or consistent fashion, cut off relationships with individuals
supporting the Contra program who were alleged to have engaged in drug
trafficking activity, or take action to resolve the allegation."
When asked by Congressman Norman Dicks of Washington, "Did any of these
allegations involve trafficking in the United States?" Hitz's answer was
"yes." Hitz acknowledged that the CIA knew of drug trafficking allegations
"regarding dozens of individuals and a number of companies connected in some
fashion to the Contra program or the Contra movement."
Hitz recounts in Volume II of the Inspector General's Report dated 10/9/98
that through the secret agreement, the CIA and DOJ attempted to exempt the
CIA from reporting about the drug trafficking of persons "employed by,
assigned to, or acting for an agency within the intelligence community."
Since the CIA itself admitted to having knowledge of its own "assets" being
involved in illegal activities, the argument seems to be indisputable.
Government Agencies Violate Federal Statutes
"Plaintiff claims that the CIA/DoJ agreement violated a federal statute,
28USC 535," the lawsuit alleges, "which imposes a duty on every department
and agency in the Executive Branch to report promptly to the Attorney
General any information, allegations or complaints relating to possible
violations of [criminal law] by officers and employees of the government."
In other words, if federal agency employees are aware of violations, these
must also be reported. There is another category of criminal code violation
called misprision of felony, which refers to the offense of concealing
knowledge of a felony by one who has not participated in it. CIA officials
could be charged with this as well.
"The private CIA/DoJ agreement attempted to get around this federal law by
redefining the term 'employee' to mean only full time career officials -- as
opposed to persons 'employed by, assigned to, or acting for an agency within
the intelligence community.' In addition, the secret agreement violated
Executive Order 12333 issued in 1981, which required the reporting of drug
crimes."
The suit also states that the 1989 Kerry Report ("Drugs, Law Enforcement and
Foreign Policy") made specific findings that "drug trafficking had pervaded
the entire Contra war effort, that 'one or another agency of the US
Government had information regarding the involvement either while it was
occurring or immediately after' and that 'senior policy makers were not
immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras'
funding problems.'"
A Little History, Please
"In the opening phase of the crack cocaine epidemic, between 1982 and 1986,
CIA officers and other intelligence agencies received reports regarding Bay
Area cocaine importers Norman Meneses and Danilo Blandon," the lawsuit
alleges. "Both of these men were among the primary importers in the United
States and dominated the market on the West Coast. Because of the secret
CIA/DoJ agreement which purported to exempt the CIA from having to report
drug crimes, cocaine suppliers connected with the Contras or other US covert
operations were able to import their 'unregulated product' under the cloak
of national security."
"Meneses and Blandon funneled vast quantities of cocaine, at a price far
lower than other suppliers, to 'Freeway Rick' Ross, who proceeded to flood
South Central
Re: [CTRL] Molly Ivins on WTO
-Caveat Lector- Yea Molly ! Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave - Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 99 11:51:27 -0700 Molly Ivins Updated: Monday, Dec. 6, 1999 at 20:45 CST It was WTO (Wasn't That Obtuse?) coverage AUSTIN -- You, too, can feel like a presidential candidate this morning by taking this simple pop quiz -- not `from' your friendly news media but `about' your friendly news media. Here's the situation: 35,000 people go to Seattle to raise crucial issues concerning the World Trade Organization, an outfit that (just for starters) affects everyone on the planet and operates in complete secrecy. Of those 35,000 people, fewer than 1,000 misbehave by trashing some local stores. How much more coverage do the 1,000 who misbehaved get than the 34,000 who didn't? (A) 35 times as much. (B) 34 times as much. (C) Virtually all the coverage. You are correct: "C" is the answer. Do the other 34,000 people get any coverage? Yes -- they are referred to as "some people concerned about turtles." Human rights (especially slave labor and child labor), workers' rights (especially health, safety and living wages) and the natural environment of the planet on which all our lives depend are "some people concerned about turtles. Meanwhile, the violent protesters are interviewed on national television, identify themselves as anarchists and explain to us all that owning property is wrong and that none of the Earth should be in private hands. Question: Next time a group wants to draw attention to its concerns by getting lots of media coverage, do you think they will: (A) Peacefully rally, speak and march? (B) Smash a lot of windows in downtown stores? If civil disagreement and civil debate draw no attention from the media, what is the alternative? Next time you hear one of those solemn panels on the causes of violence in this society, consider that conundrum. To have covered the issues raised in Seattle about the WTO as though they were entirely a matter of free trade vs. protectionism, or as though the protesters were "opposed to globalization," is poppycock. Anyone who bothered to listen to the Nov. 30 AFL-CIO rally in Seattle (the only place you could find it was on C-SPAN) knows that it was not about simplistic trade-bashing. Superb presentations were made by human rights advocates from Ireland, India, the Caribbean, South Africa, China and many other places. They were eloquent and thoughtful. Union leaders, including James Hoffa Jr., gave excellent presentations of their concerns. Student leaders from across the country who have been active in forcing Nike to clean up its corporate act made sensible suggestions. The only simplistic nonsense I heard came from the media. Having grasped the great Clintonian principal that trade is good, many of the dimmer media minds have gone on to posit that all trade is good. I actually heard it argued that free trade inevitably leads to democracy and human rights. You would think, would you not, that people would have enough sense to check the evidence before making a statement like that. Among the WTO's members in good standing are Colombia, Cuba, Rwanda, Myanmar, Angola, Pakistan and many others high on the hit lists of human rights organizations around the world. It's enough to make you wonder about the double standard of those who condemn the admission of China to the WTO as some heinous new offense against concern for human rights. Look, trade is good. Markets are good. But markets have to be restrained by society and by political organizations. Unrestrained markets get rid of Jesus and Jefferson at the same time. There is no necessary corollary between free trade and secrecy. Free trade doesn't mean free to trash the environment or to trample on people. After the WTO talks collapsed, the news media informed us that this was A Big Defeat for Clinton: Clinton, Big Loser. Clinton isn't the big loser -- we are. Huge multinational companies have so far been the chief beneficiaries of free trade. May I point out that many of these huge multinationals are in the media business? Katrina Vanden Heuvel of `The Nation' recently suggested that we are close to a kind of `karetsu' --the Japanese network of interlocking government and corporate interests. What you missed if you saw only the major media coverage of Seattle was not just the impressive labor rally but significant conferences by experts on topics related to globalization: a whole day on human rights, a whole day on women and globalization, a whole day on the environment, a whole day on alternative models of globalization. Fifteen specialists from around the world made presentations on what fair trade and democratic globalization should look like. They offered real content and sensible solutions. They were not "people concerned about turtles." Fortunately, we still have several sources of news that offer more than shallow corporate blather. Anyone who wants to be
[CTRL] Pearl Harbor Revisionism (marxist thug FDR responsible]
-Caveat Lector- *** ... f a rw i d e! *** (an estimate 4000 innocents were murdered by that bastard) Wise up People; it is written that the Truth will make you FREE! First Order revisionism holds President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally responsible for the debacle at Pearl Harbor and regards him as having used the incident as a means to get the United States involved in the War and subsequentely used the Hawaiian commanders as scapegoats to shift public attention away from the activities of the Administration. -- Pearl Harbor Revisionism Welcome to the Pearl Harbor revisionism page. If the name of Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel means something to you and you believe that he got a rotten deal from the Administration, you've come to the right place. And if you don't know anything about Pearl Harbor and the Admiral, drop in and learn something about a part of history that certain people high in our government would prefer to sweep under the rug. Pearl Harbor revisionism is historical scholarship which disputes the official Administration judgement that the unreadiness of US forces when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 was solely the fault of the local commanders in Hawaii, Admiral Kimmel and his colleague in the Army, General Walter C. Short. Pearl Harbor revisionism comes in two major forms, the First Order and the Second Order. First Order revisionism holds President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally responsible for the debacle at Pearl Harbor and regards him as having used the incident as a means to get the United States involved in the War and subsequentely used the Hawaiian commanders as scapegoats to shift public attention away from the activities of the Administration. First Order revisionism has two sub-forms, the strong form and the weak form. Strong form First Order revisionism holds that Roosevelt specifically planned to bring about an attack on Pearl Harbor itself. According to this theory, Roosevelt deliberately left the Hawaiian commanders in an untenable position while he backed the Japanese into making an attack, then withheld the information on the pending attack from the Hawaiian commanders so that they would be left helpless. Weak form First Order revisionism holds that Roosevelt was trying to set up some sort of incident, perhaps an attack on a single ship (like the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in Vietnam, which the Johnson Administration used to escalate US activity in that fiasco), but got more than he bargained for. Embarassed, he scapegoated the Hawaiian commanders to cover his own mistakes. Second Order revisionism blames mismanagement by the Administration rather than personal malice on Roosevelt's part for the lack of warning prior to the attack. Roosevelt's primary moral fault lay in his mishandling of things afterward to cover the Administration's act by fixing the blame on the Hawaiian commanders. Some Second Order revisionists believe that the Administration's mismanagement was systematic and that no specific person should bear the preponderance of the blame. More recent Second Order revisionists, including Edward Beach, have focussed blame on Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, whose tyrannical and overbearing behavior (the so-called "Mutiny on the Second Deck") prevented vital intelligence data from flowing to Hawaii. During the War, national security interests prevented a thorough investigation of the issue. After the War was over, a new complication had entered the scene because President Roosevelt had died in the meantime. Because of this, the question of responsibility for Pearl Harbor became intricately intermeshed with Roosevelt's posthumous reputation. Many people came to feel that attempts to suggest that Roosevelt was in part responsible for the debacle at Pearl Harbor were slanders on his reputation rather than the sort of legitimate criticism that all leaders should be subject to. Thus emotional issues overshadowed historical ones and the Hawaiian commanders found themselves stymied in their efforts to clear their names in their own lifetimes. Their descendants have continued the fight to this day, with only partial success. Perhaps I should explain why I have such an interest in this issue. The reasons have to do in part with New Age spiritualism, so if discussion of religion makes you uncomfortable, please skip to my list of links to various Pearl Harbor sites. Pearl Harbor and Me Or why I am a Pearl Harbor revisionist In 1992 I reached the absolute nadir of my life. I had lost my job and was living at home with parents I could not agree with, desperately trying to find a way out of the situation without any luck and generally feeling absolutely hopeless. During that time, I was reading a book about Pearl Harbor and found myself staring at a portrait of Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, who was
[CTRL] Remote Viewing by Tim Rifat
-Caveat Lector- Article by Uri Dowbenko on Mind Control also on this site. Tim Rifat is good too. Nicky http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/ESPionage.html REMOTE VIEWING - The ESP of Espionage - We may all have latent psi powers, but our ability to develop them is being blanked out by socially engineered stress, and with the collusion of covert agencies. Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 3, #6 (Oct-Nov '96). PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381 From our web page at: www.nexusmagazine.com by Turan Rifat © 1996, Paranormal Management Systems PO Box 2749 Brighton, Sussex BN2 2DR, UK Telephone: +44 (0)1273 690424 Web site address: http://www.fastnet.co.uk./pms MILITARY DEVELOPMENT OF REMOTE MIND-CONTROL TECHNOLOGY Military/intelligence interest in remote-viewing (RV) goes back to at least the 1950s. Remote-viewing-the ability to see things far from one's physical body-was developed during the Cold War to enable security organisations to gain information about top-secret enemy sites in which they had no assets. The Russians have always been more advanced than their American counterparts in the study and development of RV and biophysical remote mind-control technology (RMCT). This did not go unnoticed by the CIA and the US military, who started experimenting with biophysical RMCT in the 1960s. However, because it proved difficult to control, the Americans concentrated instead on electronic techniques-until quite recently. US military research into RV was implemented with Project Scangate, and continued with many different projects including Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sunstreak and Stargate.1 As a scientist I became fascinated by the implications of RV, for if it really worked it totally upset the paradigm upon which our scientific model of reality is based. The work of Dr Jessica Utts-a Professor of Statistics at Stanford who has scientifically proven that RV phenomena exist2-was significant in this respect for it showed that science as we know it is crucially flawed.3 We have developed atomic energy, yet it is as if we have less knowledge than our cave ancestors about the essential nature of reality. The sceptics rebutted the Utts paper and have denied that any paranormal phenomena could possibly exist.4 This might be more comfortable for the scientific community, but RMCT is being used more and more by the military/intelligence community. To mask this, the US military's position on RV was stated by CIA spokesperson David Christian, who accepted that no further official US research into RV was warranted: "We think the intelligence community shouldn't pursue research on this and that it is best left to the private sector..."5 Is there a campaign of disinformation to cover up their continued and accelerated study of the subject? Could programmes such as The Real X-Files (shown on Channel 4, UK)-created by Jim Schnabel, an alleged CIA operative-be designed to act as red herrings, to mask the US security organisation's true intent? If so, wouldn't the public's interest in this area mean that the privately-run US RV organisations (all headed by 'retired' US security officers), to which the public could turn for training, would have a large number of applicants? This would be useful if the US intelligence community were trawling for undiscovered psi-able people to recruit for a burgeoning RMCT military programme.6 THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF REMOTE-VIEWING This led me to ask whether there could be a scientific basis to RV and RMCT. As a proponent of RV, I knew that it worked. Joe McMoneagle, a retired US Army intelligence officer-who claims to have left Stargate in 1984 with a Legion of Merit award for providing information on 150 targets that was unavailable from other sources-used RV to go into the mind of Shaw Taylor, to see through his eyes, in an experiment carried out on The Paranormal World of Paul McKenna (ITV, UK). This method of using RV to enter the brains of other people is called remote sensing (RS). Biophysical RMCT can be considered to have the explanation for how ESP and telepathy work. I have had many people ask me whether there is information available on the scientific basis of RV. Having looked through the Internet at the web sites purporting to be leaders in RV technology, I came to the conclusion that either the knowledge base of Western experts was feeble, or most of the real information was classified. Most of the leading research done in the US on brain function with respect to electronic RMCT is classified. The excellent articles in NEXUS (e.g., vol. 3, no. 3) have covered electronic RMCT in more depth than is available elsewhere, but to my knowledge there has been little scientific discussion of biophysical RMCT, so the following is a
[CTRL] 1,175 uss arizona crewmen murdered by FDR [is ignorance bliss?]
-Caveat Lector- ONE THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN men rest at the bottom of the harbor, encased in the Arizona's rusty hull. In the Navy's known history, there has never been a ship that has taken so many of its crew down with her. http://members.aol.com/buckeye34/pearlharbor.html - Add that to the tally of those killed by the rapist, FDR's ardent admirer; i.e. WACO, Haiti, Somalia, Desert Storm, and the Yugoslavians. Who'd I leave out? Where will the next hit be? Will it be Main Street, USA?? Bard For christsakes People, Wakeup! 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] People in America early
-Caveat Lector-
Its not just non indian that is iteresting but also the early inhabitation.
This almost seems to fit in with the work of Hancock about early habitation.
John
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From: Tatman, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 09 December 1999 12:37
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Subject: Re: [CTRL] People in America early
-Caveat Lector-
Most of the hard scientific evidence for "non-Indian" or "non-Native
American" origins has been discovered quite recently. Yes, there are many
anomalous sites throughout North America, but there is also an amazing mass
of pure nonsense put out over the past two centuries by people seemingly
determined to prove that the "Indians" were not the true possessors of the
Americas before the European conquests. Even borderline researchers such as
Barry Fell, for all their good intentions, often wind up using arguments
which originated with white racists. Now, I do believe very strongly in
pre-Columbian intercultural contacts, especially in Mesoamerica (Aztec,
Maya, Toltec, Olmec)...but the efforts of a lot of so-called scholars, even
today (including many New Age types), to find European or Egyptian (or
Atlantean) roots for American high civilizations purely disgust me. That
line of reasoning does a huge disservice to the creative abilities of the
Native American peoples.
With that said, I am equally aghast at the political games being played with
finds such as the Kennewick Man, games played both by Washington and by the
Indian tribes themselves. The "folk memories" many Indians and other
aboriginal peoples are so proud of, the meticulously chronicled lineages,
are in many cases either guesswork or fiction. In most cases, I suspect,
they have no more idea of where they came from than we (Anglo America) do.
Aboriginal cultures have changed as much over the millennia as have
"civilized" ones, and have suffered the same kinds of Dark Ages where
teachings and knowledge vanished and had to be recreated or reimagined. The
Pueblo and Hopi have no more idea of who the Hohokam ("Anasazi" is a Navaho
word and is considered an insult) were than do the archaeologists at Penn or
Arizona.
At this point, I'd be very interested to see Judith ABR's comments on this
whole controversy; she has been very helpful in past discussions on CTRL
involving Native American cultures. Judith, any thoughts?
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Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 9:41 AM
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Subject:[CTRL] People in America early
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spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL
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[CTRL] The Stargate conspiracy
-Caveat Lector- http://www.templarlodge.com/index.html The Stargate Conspiracy by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince Revealing the truth behind extraterrestrial contact, military intelligence and the mysteries of Ancient Egypt The Stargate Conspiracy - Overview Following the release of The Templar Revelation by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, the Templar Lodge is pleased to announce the national launch of their sequel, The Stargate Conspiracy, published by Little Brown. This page contains exclusive transcripts of related talks delivered at the Templar Lodge Hotel. You are warmly invited to contribute towards an online public database of information in connection with The Stargate Conspiracy. Entitled the Stargate Assembly, this arena explores issues arising from the book, list associated web sites and monitors press sources. Members of the public are also invited to attend an interactive series of conferences at the Templar Lodge Hotel either in person or by videolink via the Internet. The Stargate Assembly - Online Updates... Although further details will be posted to this page as they become available, we recommend that you join our Stargate Assembly mailing list by entering your details below: Name: Email Address: I am interested in conferences at: EdinburghLondon Los Angeles MunichNew York Other (state city, county, country): Please confirm to send: or The Stargate Conspiracy - Introduction by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince Revealing the truth behind extraterrestrial contact, military intelligence and the mysteries of Ancient Egypt The Stargate Conspiracy exposes the most insidious, disturbing - and successful - mass manipulation of our times. Designed to bring us, hearts, minds and souls under the total control of the conspirators, this sinister programme has ruthlessly exploited our Millennial craving for signs and wonders - even hijacking the predicted return of the ancient gods. The Conspiracy... Its central focus is the belief that the gods of the ancient world were extraterrestrials who created and civilised the human race, that they're back - and that, communicating through special chosen ones, they are actively directing the way we think. However, The Stargate Conspiracy reveals that this romantic and exciting scenario was in fact the brainchild of the West's most powerful intellectual agencies. Designed to become a new religion for the 21st century, its real purpose is political - to make us easier to control. Centred on the search for lost secrets of the pyramid builders, this extraordinary true story reveals the links between US scientific intelligence agencies, Mars and ancient Egypt. For almost 50 years, like Frankenstein's monster, this conspiracy has been put together from cultish - but astonishingly powerful - belief systems, culminating in the emergence of a new fundamentalism that is gathering strength by feeding on Millennium fever. Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince reveal the secret agenda that unites apparently independent authors and researchers - including top names with millions of readers worldwide - and which is targeted to all of us. The Stargate Conspiracy reveals that even the genuine mysteries of the gods themselves have been hijacked by powerful cabals - which include top industrialists, politicians, scientists and intelligence agencies such as MI5 and the CIA - in order to fulfill their secret agenda. At the heart of this conspiracy is the belief that the ancient Egyptian gods were - and are - extra terrestrial beings, that certain key people are in contact with them, and that they are about to return through the 'stargate' between our world and theirs. Are we prepared for the imminent return of the gods? And will we be expected unquestioningly to accept the conspirators as our spokesmen? Or is this an exercise in mass manipulation designed to make us support the conspirators? As they calculatedly whip up Millennium fever, triumphantly persuading us that they alone know how to talk to the gods, this book serves as a serious warning to mankind. The Main Points: Over the last few years, the public has come to accept specific ideas about the 'message' of ancient Egypt, largely due to the works of certain high-profile authors. But we demonstrate that many of the principles of this 'New Egyptology' are not only based on false-premises, but have also been used by others as part of a secret long-term agenda. We reveal the shadowy presence of US government agencies behind the current interest in the Giza plateau. An essential part of this plot is the alleged link between ancient Egypt and a lost civilisation on Mars, based on the discovery of supposedly artificial features on that planet. We show that this view is seriously flawed, and that the intelligence agencies are
[CTRL] [endsecrecy] www.echelonwatch.org
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Remy C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: endsecrecy list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [endsecrecy] www.echelonwatch.org Date: Thursday, December 02, 1999 5:26 PM From: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Russell sent to PLANETNEWS ACLU launches web site on global surveillance system WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- The American Civil Liberties Union today launched a web site designed to shed light on a global electronic surveillance system known by the code name "Echelon" that reportedly allows the United States and other governments to eavesdrop on private citizens. "Echelon is perhaps the most powerful intelligence gathering network in the world," said Barry Steinhardt, Associate Director of the ACLU. "But it is still very much a black box, which apparently operates without the oversight of Congress or the courts." The website -- www.echelonwatch.org -- encourages public discussion of the potential threat that Echelon poses to civil liberties, and allows visitors to fax free letters to Congress, urging their support for a congressional inquiry into the Echelon project. It also provides a collection of research documents on Echelon. After many years of reports by investigative journalists, the existence of Echelon became an international issue when the European Parliament received two reports detailing its operations and after the Australian government confirmed its participation in the operation. According to those reports, Echelon is led by the U.S. National Security Agency in conjunction with its counterpart agencies in England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Echelon reportedly attempts to capture all satellite, microwave, cellular and fiber-optic communications worldwide, including communications to and from North America. Computers then use sophisticated filtering technology to sort through conversations, faxes and emails searching for keywords or other flags. Communications that include the flags are then forwarded to the intelligence agency that requested them. The report to the European Parliament charged that Echelon had been used in the United Kingdom to spy on charities such as Amnesty International and Christian Aid. "Echelon can no longer be dismissed as an X-Files fantasy," Steinhardt said. "The reports to the European Parliament make it quite clear that Echelon exists and that its operation raises profound civilliberties issues." The NSA has refused to share with Congress and the public the legal guidelines for the project. This refusal prompted passage of a bill, now in the final stages before becoming law, requiring the intelligence agencies to prepare a report on the legal standards they use for monitoring communications. Within the next few months, the U.S. House Government Reform and Oversight Committee will hold hearings on Echelon. "It appears that the U.S. government is once again spying on Americans'private communications," said Gregory T. Nojeim, a legislative counsel in the ACLU's Washington National Office. "Congress must determine if Echelon is as sweeping and intrusive as has been reported, and most importantly, it must ensure that Americans' conversations are not intercepted without a court order." The ACLU created and administers the site in conjunction with the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Omega Foundation of Great Britain, which prepared the first report to the European Parliament. -- Create a poll/survey for your group! -- http://www.egroups.com/vote?listname=endsecrecym=1 Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research (POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220), a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. Quarterly journal, book sales, rare/out-of-print searches, New Paradigms Discussion List, Weekly Up-date Lists E-text Archive of research, intelligence, catalogs, resources. To Discuss Ideas: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msen.com/~lloyd/ For Ordering Info Free Catalog: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://a-albionic.com/formaddress.html For Discussion List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] text in body: subscribe prj [EMAIL PROTECTED] **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html Every Diet Has Failed! What Can I do? Click Below to "Ask Dr. Kathleen"! http://www.radiantdiet.com/cgi-bin/slim/deliver.cgi?ask-1364 *** DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and
Re: [CTRL] WTO: Meltdown
-Caveat Lector- This article sounds like apology for fascism to me. Whats going to happen when the bubble bursts and the greedy pig industrialists of this country can no longer find cheap labor anywhere? It would be better to totally restructure the consumption of the people than to keep ignorantly building landfills to maintain a runaway elite. This conservative idiot thinks the well will never run dry, or only cares if it doesn't run dry during his lifetime. If the people get hungry enough they will just take everything back forcefully and a less refined version of organized crime, versus our federal government, will take the place of the criminals running business in the world today. Witness Russia. The currency everywhere is corrupt. Understand that the bubble is at the bursting point and know that all this discussion and social masturbation is just that, instant gratification and hot air.BG -Caveat Lector- WTO: Meltdown Thank Heaven the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization closed with absolutely nothing accomplished. Indeed, the delegates are glad just to leave the city in one 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] Explosion at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant hospitalizes 3.
-Caveat Lector- http://www.oakridger.com/stories/120899/new_1208990200.html Story last updated at 5:09 p.m. on Wednesday, December 8, 1999 Y-12 explosion hospitalizes 3 by Larisa Brass and Beverly Majors Oak Ridger staff The Department of Energy has announced it will launch its most serious category investigation into this morning's explosion at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant. The accident sent three people to the hospital, and seven others required observation, officials at the weapons plant reported. David Michaels, DOE assistant secretary for safety, environment and health, announced in a press conference this afternoon that a "type A" investigation will begin at Y-12 on Friday. DOE reserves type A investigations for incidents resulting in a fatality or the hospitalization of three or more people for 48 hours. "We have three people hospitalized," said Michaels. "We certainly don't want to wait 48 hours to find out if they're going to be hospitalized for 48 hours." A procedure to change out an old crucible used in casting nuclear weapons parts resulted in the explosion of a cooling agent used in the process, Y-12 officials said. Ten men, all Y-12 workers, were involved in the incident. The most seriously injured man, 48-year-old Jerry Lynn Scruggs of Oak Ridge, was flown by helicopter to Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga for second- and third-degree burns. He is in serious condition, according to hospital officials. Charlie Ivy, 53, and Robert Scott McLain, 32, both of Oak Ridge, were admitted to Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge for second-degree burns. Seven other workers were examined on site and released. The workers were also exposed to limited amounts of radioactive contamination, Y-12 officials confirmed, resulting from depleted uranium in the crucible dispersed by the explosion. The incident occurred in Y-12's 9201-5, or alpha 5, building, which houses a portion of the site's enriched-uranium processes. "Our principal concern is for our employees, those that were injured in this accident, and obviously making sure that they were accounted for. That has been done," said Bob Van Hook, president of Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, which operates the nuclear weapons facility for the Department of Energy. Van Hook said there were no releases from the site that would affect employees outside the building or the public. Approximately 50 people were evacuated from the building, and it has been sealed off until investigations begin, said Van Hook. LMES will conduct its own investigation, he said. Margaret Morrow, LMES deputy vice president for defense programs, said workers were attempting to mop up a sodium hydroxide alloy that had spilled from the area where the crucible was stored. Workers were replacing the crucible, she said, which had not been changed since 1993. The workers were dressed to protect themselves from radiation, Morrow said. "Some of that material came out, in the process of changing out that crucible, into the bottom of the furnace area," said Morrow. "As the employees were going about following their operational procedures to clean that (the furnace) out, they struck it ... and then the reaction occurred." The material is sensitive to moisture, she said, but no one knows what specifically triggered the reaction. Michaels said DOE's investigation will attempt to uncover causes for the explosion by interviewing employees and managers and by reviewing related documents. Michaels said David Stadler, DOE acting deputy assistant secretary for oversight, will lead the investigation. Stadler headed up DOE's recent investigation into allegations of health and environmental exposures at its Paducah, Ky., site. Michaels, based in Washington, D.C., happened to be in Oak Ridge today to conduct a hearing for local ill workers. The hearing was to start at 6:30 p.m. at the American Museum of Science and Energy. Check the Oak Ridger Online Edition for updated information as it comes in. All Contents ©Copyright The Oak Ridger -- --- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml --- DECLARATION DISCLAIMER ==
[CTRL] eBay - ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS; TEXAS WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
-Caveat Lector- from: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=215567568 Click Here: A HREF="http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=215567568"eBay item 215567568 (Ends 12/16/99, 18:31:32 PS /A - ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS; TEXAS WAR OF INDEPENDENCE Item #215567568Antiques:Books, Manuscripts:American Starts at $10,000.00 First bid $10,000.00 Quantity1 # of bids 0 (bid history) (with emails) Time left 7 days, 19 hours + LocationCalifornia mountains Started 12/06/99, 18:31:32 PST (mail this auction to a friend) Ends12/16/99, 18:31:32 PST (request a gift alert) Featured Category Auction Seller (Rating) spiritof94 (116) (view comments in seller's Feedback Profile) (view seller's other auctions) (ask seller a question) High bid-- Payment Money Order/Cashiers Checks, Personal Checks, See item description for payment methods accepted ShippingBuyer pays fixed shipping charges, Seller ships internationally, See item description for shipping charges Update item Seller: If this item has received no bids, you may revise it. Seller assumes all responsibility for listing this item. You should contact the seller to resolve any questions before bidding. Currency is U.S. dollar ($) unless otherwise noted.Description Perhaps the most significant documents to ever be offered on eBay, 26 ORIGINAL documents, 1831-1835, relating to the Texas War of Independence, issued in Goliad by Political Chief Ramon Músquiz who then was named Vice Governor of Texas, all relating to the Texas War of Independence I am drastically reducing the reserve on the documents, GUARANTEED TO BE GENUINE, since receiving word that the University of Texas is interested. The full price, starting bid, has been lowered from $15,000 to $10,000 (years ago I refused $25,000). There is no additional reserve. I am placing the documents on ebay again, hoping that some benefactor might donate them to the University of Texas, San Antonio, where many of the related documents now rest. Someone will acquire a priceless treasure. The papers originated years ago from the estate dispersal of one of the world's foremost collectors and dealers of rare documents. The great majority of these documents were issued in Goliad (La Bahia) by Ramon Músquiz who was in the forefront of events leading to the Alamo, Houstin and the invasion by Santa Anna. Goliad was cardinal to the Texas War of Independence. Years ago, the University of Texas indicated a strong interest in these documents to compliment their important collection of Ramon Músquiz papers. Músquiz was Political Chief of Bejar (San Antonio) and Goliad, central to the Texian rebellion in 1836, then was named Vice Governor of Texas and Coahhuila before the war. He would eventually sign the Treaty of Capitulation after Houstin captured Santa Anna. But the documents were not for disposal at that time, since they were required in my study of the Texas rebellion as an adjunct to my trilogy of historical novels, Fellowship in Treason. All universities and civic museums in Texas will be notified of this sale, but traditionally their fundings are limited, so it is expected that a private hunter will capture this quarry. Perhaps the winner could present these papers as a tax deductable donation to a grateful Texas sanctuary. In the published inventory of Texas War of Independence papers in 1989, The Bexar Archives, consisting of two archival locations, the University of Texas at Austin, and County archives in San Antonio, nearly 200 documents are attributed to Ramon Músquiz, a previous confederate of Stephen Austin, who was now acting half-heartedly on orders from President Santa Anna regime to suppress the revolutionary movements of Austin and Houstin. Músquiz, who had been very friendly to the Americans and desired ultimate separate statehood for Texas (not independence), wrote to Austin, expressing disapproval of the convention by American colonists to demand rights from Mexico. Austin replied: . When Austin was imprisoned in Mexico City, Músquiz wrote to the authorities on Austin's behalf. I had a strong purpose in acquiring documents of early Texas, and in accumulating papers of Edward Everitt Hale (being offered in another lot), for I was struggling with two decades of research and writing, including a doctoral study, of a trilogy of historical novels that concerned the travails of a backwoodsman from a gunsmithing family, Ellis Bean (Tennessee's earlist family), who was betrayed by the traitorous commanding general of the U.S., James Wilkinson (Ellis was captured in Texas on Wilkinson's orders since he was aware that President-elect Jefferson was strongly involved in this illegal expedition to acquire Texas for Wilkinson who would be ruler of the West; Wilkinson intimidated our first three presidents while he collected bribe money from Spain to have Tennessee and Kentucky secede). Ellis spent a decade imprisoned in Mexico, where he swore to
