[CTRL] TWA800: New evidence of missile attack (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- From: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/19991213_xex_new_evidence.shtml WorldNetDaily MONDAY - DECEMBER 13 - 1999 THE DOWNING OF FLIGHT 800 New evidence of missile attack Metal plume seen emerging from side of doomed airliner By David M. Bresnahan © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com New evidence from radar data and analysis on the crash of TWA Flight 800 is "as convincing as a fingerprint in a murder case" that a missile, according to an independent investigator brought down the plane. Radar images only recently available and analyzed by Ret. Naval Cmdr. William Donaldson show what he describes as a plume of metal debris coming from the right side of TWA flight 800 at a very high rate of speed. Click HERE for a larger view. VIEW: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/images/19991213_xex_new_evidence2_.gif Exclusive graphic shows new evidence of missile. The green numbered dots show pieces of metal traveling away from TWA flight 800 at high speed. The numbers begin with the first radar sweep after the transponder failed. Sweep 1 shows a piece of the plane. Sweep 2 shows two pieces of metal at a point about 7 seconds after impact. The farthest number 2 blip is thought to be the remains of the missile 3,200 feet from the impact point in just 7 seconds. Sweep 4 most likely shows the same piece of metal from sweep 1, according to Cmdr. William Donaldson. "Only a missile body, with its hundreds of thousands of foot pounds of kinetic energy would have the inertia to perform this way on radar," Donaldson explained in a report sent to Duncan's committee Wednesday. Donaldson claims the evidence is now irrefutable that a missile is responsible for the downing of TWA flight 800. He also claims that the FBI, CIA, and the National Transportation Safety Board have known about this evidence from the beginning. Donaldson received help with the analysis of the recently acquired radar data from a member of the U.S. Air Force weapons guidance systems division. That source, who asked to remain anonymous because of fears of reprisals from Air Force officials, agrees with the conclusions of Donaldson. Radar sends a signal out which is reflected off any object it hits and comes back. Each sweep of the radar creates a new echo, or image on the screen. The time between sweeps is 4.69 seconds, according to Donaldson. "The one thing that you're going to focus in on tightly when you look at the radar is the sweep after the initial breakup of the aircraft. If it's hit by a weapon, you're going to have metal pieces going in the direction that the weapon hit the airplane. No matter if it's an anti-aircraft shell or a missile," explained Donaldson. In the event of a missile strike to a large commercial aircraft, the extremely high speed of the missile would carry the warhead right through the plane "almost like it's not even there," said the Air Force source. "I can't over emphasize this point. This is not theory, not speculation, but hard physical evidence," Donaldson told Rep. John Duncan, R- Tenn., in a recent report to the Subcommittee on Aviation. Duncan has not yet replied and could not be reached over the weekend. TWA flight 800 crashed off Long Island, New York July 17, 1996 and the investigation has been one of controversy ever since. The FBI and National Transportation Safety Board have ruled out the possibility of a missile or bomb as the cause of the crash, but Donaldson insists they are ignoring or covering up the facts. Donaldson is the chairman of the Associated Retired Aviation Professionals, formed in early 1997. Its members are former military, civilian, and aviation professionals who organized to independently investigate the downing of TWA Flight 800. Donaldson has many years of aviation and investigation experience, as do many of the members of his organization. Donaldson has testified before Congress, and continues to pursue evidence and witnesses. WorldNetDaily learned the FBI had been given preliminary information immediately after TWA flight 800 went down from the same Air Force office. Even at that time, the Air Force advised the FBI to look for missile debris on radar. They even told the FBI where to look in the water for the debris. "They (the Air Force) told the FBI that in order to find the missile body, you go to the radar and you look at the first sweep where you see the aircraft in trouble. If there's anything displaced laterally, take a look and get the ballistic line of that and when you search for the missile body it's going to be on that line when it hits the water," Donaldson explained. The Air Force told the FBI that the missile body would be in the water between 1 and 3 kilometers beyond the track of the aircraft, if it were a shoulder-fired weapon, according to the Air Force officer. "What you're describing is exactly what we told the FBI," he said. He didn't think the FBI agents recognized the importance of what was told them at the time because they didn't
[CTRL] Fwd: eBook-List-Digest V1 #189
For your enjoyment. It IS becoming a whole new world. #$%^ the New World Order. Onwards to the Utmost of Futures. Om K eBook-List-Digest Tuesday, December 14 1999 Volume 01 : Number 189 -- Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 10:13:06 -0500 (EST) From: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [eBook-List] [DUC] INFO/NYT: The Romance of the Paper Book and the Developing Reality of Electronic Text for Document Delivery As Seen By a Published Author REGARDING A NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE WITH LINK AND EXCERPT BELOW: A published author shares her emotional reactions and observations regarding the developing trend away from paper text to electronic and web based formats in book publication. Uploading the next days reading at home may have advantages over the rush to the airport bookstore the next day. Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204-4584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Source: New York Times (NYT) Author: MARGARET DIEHL Title: Ready to Download Now Source Date: December 12, 1999 Resource Type: News Article Description/Keywords: Electronic Books, Cultural Values, New Technologies, Social Adjustment URL: Listed Below Article Summary December 12, 1999 BOOKEND / By MARGARET DIEHL Ready to Download Now As I spend more of my time in front of the computer -- writing, perusing online newspapers and magazines, sending e-mail -- it has become clear to me that one day I will read like this. I mean really read: novels, poetry, lengthy prose, for the purpose of deep, slow literary pleasure. I will end my life, if I am blessed with a normal span, embraced by a new technology, adjusted to it, and still in love with stories and the English language. I refused to believe this a few years ago. How could something like an electronic book -- a small, wireless computer one can load with any volume off a comprehensive menu, at a price that will probably be less than the cost of a paperback now -- compete emotionally with ''real'' books, those flexible, paper- and ink-scented companions we have all tucked under an arm to read on the train; carried off triumphantly from the store, signed by the author; left out in the rain or used to prop up a wobbly table? Real books are discovered in vacation cottages, inherited from a grandmother or your husband's first wife; they're scribbled in, bled on, thrown at the wall. Lately, I've started to look forward to the new era. I can imagine becoming attached to my e-book, my carry-everywhere entertainment center, a cornucopia that never empties -- what I feel now toward my laptop but more so. As for the love of paper, my suggestion is to transfer it back to trees. Visit them, sniff their bark or a crisp curled leaf in October. The natural world is always with us. What matters, in literature, is the word. An abstracted citation for this story will be archived in an edition of E-Carm News at http://www.ecarm.org Check My Articles on Database Searching on CyberPlayground by Clicking on Ringleaders and Then My Name at the CyberPlayground Website: http://www.Edu-CyberPG.com/ Full Story May Be Read At: http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/12/12/bookend/bookend.html - MSNBC.com AND USA TODAY HOT SITE PICK AWARDS The Educational CyberPlayGround http://www.edu-cyberpg.com Diversity University Collaboratory Listserv [DUC] http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/diversity.html - -- Thanks for using eBook-List, Discussion about Electronic Books - -- Post Message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get Commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "help" Administrator: Jon E. Noring, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "unsubscribe ebook-list" . (or if on digest "unsubscribe ebook-list-digest") -- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 00:27:26 -0600 (CST) From: "Michael S. Hart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [eBook-List] December Project Gutenberg Newsletter ***The Project Gutenberg Newsletter of Wednesday, December 15, 1999*** Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet [Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.] Main URL is promo.netWebmaster is Pietro di Miceli, of Rome, Italy *Check out our Websites at promo.net, and ask me for our FTP servers.* I will most likely already be gone by the time you receive this, so if you have questions, you might want to cc: one of these fine people, in addition to emailing me. I should be back by mid to late January. mh Greg Newby [EMAIL PROTECTED], sysadmin, FTP, mirrors, etc. Dianne Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED], US Director of Production Sue Asscher [EMAIL PROTECTED], AU Production
[CTRL] Drudge/Excite: Tripp Hung Out to Dry (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- [This x-post begins with some relevant questions by a member of another list. --MS] --begin forward-- There's a legal finesse-point or two that I don't pretend to understand here. Tripp maintains she didn't know that what she was doing was not protected (Maryland's law, from what I've read, immunizes those who don't comprehend the illegality of recording). Today's testimony clarifies this not at all. If she were counseled that the "grant of immunity... would make it difficult for any state prosecutor to use her recorded conversations as evidence in a criminal proceeding", then it would sensibly seem to be a get-out-of-jail-free card for Tripp. Bennett testified, "[We made] the task (of state prosecution) insurmountable." Certainly this testimony would argue *against* the hysteric "Hung Out To Dry!" headline on Drudge. Unless I'm missing something. Secondly, Tripp's recording always (as far as I know) crossed State lines and would therefore seem to be a Federal issue, over which Starr's office's immunity grant would seem to be unequivocal. Could somebody please explain why this isn't a slam-dunk for Tripp? --Scott J. From: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991213/14/clinton-scandal-tripp Starr staffers say Tripp not guaranteed protection Updated 2:20 PM ET December 13, 1999 By David Morgan ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (Reuters) - Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded phone conversations with Monica Lewinsky led to President Clinton's impeachment, was never guaranteed protection against state charges she violated Maryland's wiretap laws, an independent counsel's office lawyer said Monday. Investigators from the office of former independent counsel Kenneth Starr instead offered the former White House secretary a grant of immunity that they believed would make it difficult for any state prosecutor to use her recorded conversations as evidence in a criminal proceeding. "We told her the state of Maryland was a separate sovereign (from the federal government) and that they may ultimately be able to return an indictment against her," Stephen Binhak, a federal prosecutor attached to Starr's office, testified at the start of a hearing in Howard County Circuit Court that will determine whether Tripp should be tried on two criminal counts of violating the Maryland wiretap statute. Jackie Bennett, the Starr deputy who signed Tripp's immunity letter, said, "What we could do, and intended to so, and did do, was to make the task (of state prosecution) insurmountable." Tripp secretly taped more than 20 conversations in which Lewinsky discussed her illicit affair with Clinton. Some were taped from Tripp's Maryland home, violating the state law that makes it a crime to record telephone conversations unless all parties consent to it. The best form of protection Tripp could hope for, Binhak said, was a grant of federal immunity "that would make it extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible for the state of Maryland to use those tapes in the prosecution of a criminal case." Binhak, one of four former Starr staffers to take the stand Monday, testified that "Mrs. Tripp was not grasping the technicalities" of her legal situation when she first met at her home with four members of Starr's staff around midnight on Jan. 12, 1998. But now, nearly two years later, that same distinction could be crucial for the Columbia, Maryland, woman who faces up to five years in prison and $10,000 in fines on each count if convicted. Howard County Circuit Judge Diane Leasure was expected to rule in open court Tuesday morning as to whether Tripp's immunity began on Jan. 16, when Starr's office gave her a letter of immunity and subpoenaed her tape-recordings of conversations with Lewinsky, or on Feb. 19, when it was officially ordered by a federal judge in Washington. Tripp's attorneys, who want the case dismissed, claim her immunity protection began on the earlier date. If Leasure agrees, prosecutors will lose a crucial piece of evidence, namely a taped conversation with Lewinsky from Dec. 22, 1997. Tripp is charged specifically with making the tape and sharing its contents with a reporter from Newsweek magazine. On Monday, Tripp was absent from court but submitted a sworn affidavit maintaining that she would never have come forward with her evidence against Clinton without Starr's immunity letter and the later court order to assist investigators. Later in the week, the judge also will oversee a so-called Kastigar hearing in which prosecutors must show that their evidence against Tripp is independent from the protected findings of Starr's investigation. Lawyers have said that Lewinsky herself may be called to testify. Because of the White House sex scandal's rampant coverage by myriad media outlets, ranging from supermarket tabloids to cable-TV talk shows, the challenge facing Maryland prosecutors is being compared with a failed attempt by U.S. authorities to prosecute former Reagan aide Oliver North for his role
[CTRL] What has happened to the capstone of the great pyramid?
-Caveat Lector- Subject: What has happened to the capstone of the great pyramid? http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/therevelation2.shtml http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/capstone/index.htm What Has Happened To The Capstone Of The great Pyramid? By a fellow researcher "Although the capstone is supposed to be a one-night affair or celebration to usher in the New Millenium there are some who believe the Capstone will "turn on" whatever kind of machine the pyramid was built to be. They believe this function will have lasting changes in the consciousness of mankind. We will soon see. The Millenium is close at hand." ( Oh dear will the holograms be ready in time for the false rapture? or whatever they have planned? Nicky) We hear a lot about the pyramids of Giza but we don't hear much about the missing capstone. Yet we have reminders of it everytime we pull a dollar bill out of our wallets. There are plenty of places on the web that explain the symbol of the eye over the pyramid. What we don't see much of is speculation on what happened to the original capstone. What was it, did it have a purpose, where did it go? What little speculation we do see is usually more of an assumption that it was stolen or lost somewhere in the sands of time. Why do I get the feeling this is what we are meant to believe, but this may not be entirely accurate. Whatever the capstone was I doubt it would have been left to the mercy of robbers. It is more likely it was been spirited away in the same manner as the Ark of the covenant, the Holy Grail and the Tablets with the Ten Commandments. The pyramids have held a fascination for people thruout recorded history. There are many reasons for this. One reason is because the great pyramid is the largest ancient structure on earth. The shape itself has power called Pyramid Power which has been studied and reported in several books. Many people have reported strange experiences while in the pyramids. But the biggest mystery has been why were they built and what did they mean to the ancients who built them. Pyramids are thought by some to be a kind of mystical machine. We are learning more everyday about the mystical forces of the Earth, Ley Lines, Power points, gravitational anomalies. If the pyramids were built in one of these areas the capstone could have been an amplifier for one of these earth energies. The Great Pyramid could have been a beacon similar to our lighthouses of today. The pyramid is the only manmade object on earth that can be seen from the moon. If the capstone was a crystal it could have been also been a communicator. What is a laser but a crystal! When we read the fables of Atlantis we read how the Atlanteans used crystal power and how it was the misuse of this power that caused Atlantis to break up and sink. There is more evidence coming to light all the time that Atlantis did indeed exist. If it did exist then there must also be something to the accuracy of the fables. It is possible that the capstone of the great pyramid was not only a crystal but part of the Atlantis energy network. If this is the case then it is quite possible the Atlanteans themselves spirited away the capstone before even more damage could be caused. Another possibility is that the capstone was an energy device that was spirited away by someone else for their own purposes. It could have been hidden by a benevolent group of people simply to keep it from being used for further destruction on our planet. It may lie hidden in one of those mysterious mounds that are scattered around the Earth or it may be buried inside one of the Earth energy vortexes. At the rate our geologists are making new discoverys today it may not be long now until we know the answers. There are plans to recap the Great Pyramid on December 31st with a gold-encased capstone that will be lowered by helicopter. There will be a special dusk-to-dawn music and laser show by French musician Jean-Michel Jarre called The Twelve Dreams of the Sun" according to Jarre. Jarre also made the comment "The pyramids are a reflection of mankind and eternity." How close will this "new" gold-encased capstone be to the original capstone we can only guess. Although the capstone is supposed to be a one-night affair or celebration to usher in the New Millenium there are some who believe the Capstone will "turn on" whatever kind of machine the pyramid was built to be. They believe this function will have lasting changes in the consciousness of mankind. We will soon see. The Millenium is close at hand. It should be noted that Planet Mars will be 33.33 degrees below the horizon from the perspective of Cairo on January 1, 2000 at 12:19 AM. 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
[CTRL] Review of Naomi Cohen's bio of Jacob Schiff
-Caveat Lector- New York Times Book Review December 12, 1999 __ From 1880 to 1920, no one in America did more to fight anti-Semitism than Jacob Schiff. By DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT JACOB H. SCHIFF: A Study in American Jewish Leadership. By Naomi W. Cohen. 320 pp. Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis University Press/ University Press of New England. $35. _ Modern American Jews generally believe that until the period after World War II American Jewry was afraid to exert political power. ''Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership,'' by Naomi W. Cohen, the author of ''Jews in Christian America,'' is a useful corrective to this mistaken idea. Surprisingly, Schiff has not been the subject of a serious biography until now. That makes this book particularly welcome. A resolute defender of Jewish rights, Schiff was the American Jewish community's pre-eminent leader from 1880 to 1920. He came before presidents not as a supplicant but as an advocate, convinced that in fighting against discrimination he was upholding American values. A partner at the New York banking house of Kuhn, Loeb Company, Schiff was one of a cadre of German Jews who in the 19th century created a kinship network of investment houses on Wall Street. Though many of these men demonstrated intense communal responsibility, none compared to Schiff in terms of philanthropy, political activity and unashamed Jewishness. Affectionately called ''unser Yankele'' (our Jacob) by eastern European immigrants, Schiff vigorously opposed every attempt to bar immigrants from this country. Similarly, he spoke out for American Jews excluded from the country's leading institutions by the WASP power structure of the time. He gave Barnard College a half-million dollars for a building for ''social and ethical activities'' because Barnard, unlike Columbia, forbade social groups that restricted Jews. But he did more than fight discrimination. He sought to engender respect for Judaism by financing translations of the Hebrew Scriptures and other classic Jewish texts, and by donating the seed money for Harvard's Semitic (that is, Jewish) studies program, the first of its kind in the country. Harvard's president, Charles W. Eliot, said he believed Schiff's efforts would help reverse ''the centuries-long antagonism of the Christian church to the Jews.'' Schiff was not without his contradictions. Although he viewed anti-Semitism as an irrational sentiment that existed irrespective of the presence or behavior of Jews, he nonetheless believed that Jews could take steps to prevent it. Arguing that resentment against Jews was fostered by their congregating in ethnic neighborhoods in Northeastern cities, he created the Galveston Plan to encourage Jewish immigrants to enter the country in the Southwest. So, too, he thought that if the immigrants Americanized by abandoning their distinctive dress, language and leftist politics, anti-Semitism would dissipate. As an effort in Americanization, Schiff brought Solomon Schechter, a learned rabbi and Cambridge University Semitics scholar, to New York to revitalize the Jewish Theological Seminary, then a moribund institution, and to reach out to the staunchly traditional eastern European immigrants with a form of Judaism that bridged tradition and modernity. In this way, Schiff, a resolutely Reform Jew, secured a foothold for Conservative Judaism in America. Outside the United States Schiff waged a personal battle against czarist Russia's brutal anti-Semitism. Failing to persuade Russia to abandon its persecution, he arranged for substantial loans to Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. And he assiduously lobbied a series of presidents -- Harrison, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson -- to abrogate the 1832 American-Russian treaty because Russia refused visas to American Jews. He insisted that Washington could not countenance a double standard in the treatment of American citizens. Unlike contemporary Jewish leaders, Schiff never felt the slightest obligation to achieve communal consensus. As Cohen so amply demonstrates in her well-written and well-researched book, he did what he believed was right and he expected others to follow. __ Deborah E. Lipstadt, the author of ''Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory,'' teaches Jewish history at Emory University. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not
[CTRL] US INTERVENTIONISM PAVES WAY FOR WORLD WARS
-Caveat Lector- © A New Enlightenment Feature. Word count 1334 plus credits P.O. Box 7024, New York, NY 10128-0010 [WASHINGTON OR WILSON?] US INTERVENTIONISM PAVES WAY FOR WORLD WARS US INTERVENTION AND THE WORLD WARS -Wilson's Intervention and Duplicity Led to World War II, the Russian Revolution, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the Cold War. Yet the United States continues interventionist policies. By Robert John* Should the United States have participated in the World Wars of this century? Presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan in his 436-page new book, A Republic, Not an Empire. depicts an American foreign policy over more than two centuries that, far from being "isolationist," has been deeply engaged in the world, but--at least until 1917-almost always for the national interest. He argues that the country went wrong in a period of imperialism, and now seeks to impose its image on other countries, using force-economic or military-if they resist. The main focus of criticism has been on defending American participation in World War II - that "just war." That is an argument potent with emotions and pitfalls. What is simpler to demonstrate, is that World War II was a result, or even a continuation of World War I. American intervention in World War I, and participation in its aftermath, including the Versailles Treaty, produced circumstances that led to the to the rise of Hitler, National Socialism, and the Second World War (and the Bolshevik take-over in Russia). President Washington's guiding principle of American policy toward European conflict prior to World War I was the principle of neutrality. Prior to belligerency, the United States of President Wilson had not been neutral. On 15th May 1915 by Order in Council the British government declared goods of all kinds entering or leaving Germany contraband, a full blockade. Yet the U.S.A. sold war materiel to France and Britain, and virtually supported their food embargo of Germany. The copper in every shell the Allies fired enriched the Guggenheims, who controlled copper; every use of nickel enriched Alfred Mond who controlled that metal. William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State in 1915 on this and other issues and Wilson's neglect of his advice. Early on in the war, Britain had cut the undersea communication cable between the United States and Germany, and therefore had the lead in the propaganda war for American public opinion. Stories of German soldiers impaling Belgian children on their bayonets were hard to counter. British intelligence services in the United States, were successful in bringing much of the American press to support intervention on the side of Britain and France. Without American partiality, and the expectation of American direct belligerency, the war might have ended in compromise toward the end of 1916, when, according to British Prime Minister Lloyd George, "the Allies had almost exhausted the gold and marketable securities available for American purchases." The saving in lives and suffering would have been enormous. The Bolshevik coup d'état would have been highly improbable. As for the peace, America failed to honor President Wilson's Fourteen Points for peace which were announced by him on 8th January 1918, but particularly Wilson's declaration a month later: that there were to be no annexations, no contributions, and no punitive damages. It was on that basis that General Ludendorf had recommended to Field-Marshall Hindenburg that Germany ask for an Armistice. Diplomatic exchanges followed until 23rd of October 1918. Classified as Secret in the U.S.A. until the 1990s, only now do we know that on 23rd October Wilson, who had become the key player in bringing the Great War to an end, informed the German government that if the United States had to negotiate "with the military masters and monarchical autocrats of Germany now, or if it is likely to have to deal with them later in regard to the international obligations of the German Empire, it must demand not peace negotiations but surrender." The Kaiser abdicated for his country and people. They were led to believe that he had voluntarily deserted them in their darkest hour. The Berliner Tageblatt of 10 November 1918: reported, "Yesterday morning . . .everything was still there"¾the Kaiser, the chancellor, the police chief¾"yesterday afternoon nothing of all that existed any longer." The March 1917 Menshevik Revolution in Russia was being re-enacted in Germany, with Friedrich Ebert playing the role that Kerensky had played in Russia the year before. According to the outstanding British military-and geopolitical analyst Maj. General J.F.C. Fuller, "Thus chaos was planted in Europe." Europe needed stability and political evolution. Wilson used American power in the name of peace and democracy, interfering with the local process of political evolution, for revolution. In spite of the Kaiser's
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Brian The Name of the Rose
I was hanging out with my very cool stepmother, Stella, tonight in Jackson Tennesse tonight. I went to Blockbusters and rented In the Name of the Rose. It reminded me how right Brian is and how important it is to keep our eye of the eight boxcars of drugs. The Name of the Rose is about power, money and the manipulation of knowledge to deny access to knowledge that will alter the power and money formula. It is monks and the Pope in the medieval ages but the metaphor is clear. The monks keep all the books hidden because the accumulated wealth of knowlege does not sort with church doctrine. Meantime, they keep the peasants in a state of starvation, highly dependant and not in a position to access knowlege, capital, or to build alternative systems. The peasants fall into the trap by competing with each other instead or organizing and collaborating. Meantime, murders start to occur as the younger monks try to access the knowledge. Access is provided in exchange for sexual favors, etc. To cover up the murders, the Inquisition prosecutors tee up a soup full of witchhunting and devil worship that off course has nothing to do with anything, but offers all the entertainment and mystery and ritual that folks are otherwise denied. Meantime, the inquisition folks gain power and status until the failure to address the real problem results in the library buring up and being destroyed. The inquisition gets stopped and the prosecutors run out of town, but now until total disaster. Driving the long drive back to Hickory Valley with my dog Forest leaning way out the the car trying to smell all the cows and skunks, I am trying to estimate how much I could increase the equity value of a prostitution ring if I had a 100% reliable vacinne against AIDS. But I was also thinking about how much time it takes to research some of the giant steps forward that technology has made possible for those whose purpose is making the rich richer, and how important it is for me to not let that time investment deter me from seeing a framework that is very much controlled and driven by the cash cows of essential servicesair, water, roads, food, drugs, sex, electricity, gas, sewer... It is all about energy and creating a critical edge. In a world where all the players are sure that winning requires winning at war and that war is inevitable and that the way to survive is to help the rich get richer, the power of this technology can sure cause send Planet Earth off course. The question is can we learn to collaborate and to provide the sacred and the mysterious and the pleasing to ourselves? . If we lead, the leaders will follow. They have to if we can prove we can build alternative systems without them.
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: RETURN OF THE BIG COVERUP
Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Friday, December 10, 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETURN OF THE BIG COVERUP by Barry Chamish Today was supposed to be special. This was to be the day that Israel's only secular alternative newspaper, Makor Rishon, returned to life. And to celebrate its revival, Makor Rishon was going to expose the full extent of the Rabin assassination coverup in detail. And indeed, the newspaper was printed and a six page article written by Tsur Ehrlich about my work did appear with the headline, Khaver Ani Khoker; Friend, I'm Investigating. The radio commercials were broadcast this morning declaring the revival of Makor Rishon and proudly announcing that its feature article was a focus on my latest Rabin revelations. But at 10:30 this morning Tsur phoned to say, "We're not sure what happened yet, but the paper wasn't distributed." "What do you mean?" I asked. "What happened to the copies?" "We really don't know yet. They could all have been trashed by the distributors." "Do you think it's because of the Rabin expose?" "Not very likely. We think the distributors are taking revenge for old debts." So, I make no claims that the authorities suppressed the issue. Still I have my suspicions and here is why: for the past month I have suffered one media disappointment after another. Every time it looks like I will finally be given a widespread forum to present the facts to the public, something comes up at the last minute to wipe out the opportunity. Two examples: three weeks ago I was filmed at length by the Channel Two morning program, Coffee Time, only to have my segment nixed from the show minutes before air-time. The next week, I was invited to appear on the Channel One program Politika. The producer came in the morning to interview me and by 4:30 in the afternoon, he called to say he was told to cancel my appearance because a balancing opinion could not be found. The powers that be have been doing a marvelous job of repression in the past two weeks. Barely a fortnight ago, the Rabin family called for a reinvestigation of the Rabin murder and the media was forced to report that the circumstances of the assassination didn't add up. Then suddenly there was nothing. Rabin's children and wife were no longer newsworthy and the truth was stopped in its tracks. So here I am, giving you some of the new revelations that you will not have a chance to read in Makor Rishon today and that you will never read in the mainstream media. I am very grateful to several of my correspondents for pitching in to spread this letter as widely as possible. Most of you reading this are concerned correspondents who have long ago asked to be updated on my work. Some of you are friends of my regular correspondents who recommended you as recipients in an attempt to fight the media suppression through an alternative e-mail network. A mere five years ago, the Rabin assassination coverup would have failed. Then came the Internet. Because of you fine folks spreading the truth, the latest polls (Gallup, Jerusalem Post) show that some 65% of Israelis want Rabin's murder reinvestigated. And these people have bought my book Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin by the thousands and made it number three on the Yediot Ahronot bestselling Israeli books list last week. So let's have a look at some new developments. * One of the most intrepid truthseekers has been Asher Zuckerman, editor of the religious newspaper Kol Hashavuah. He just broke the disturbing report on the condition of the head of the surgical team which operated on Rabin, Dr. Mordechai Gutman. For those unfamiliar with the medical inconsistencies of the Rabin murder, according to the State Pathologist's report and the findings of the Shamgar Commission, Rabin was shot twice in the back and was not inflicted with any spinal wounds. Dr. Gutman's notes reveal that Rabin was shot once frontally and that two vertebrae were shattered. For the past five weeks Dr. Gutman has been incarcerated in Tel Hashomer Hospital with headaches that have all but incapacitated him. His doctors have sent his test results to hospitals around the world and cannot find the cause of his debilitating affliction. * At a recent lecture, a member of the audience asked to speak with me privately and requested that I do not reveal his name. He opened my Hebrew book to the page where I presented the report on Hagai Amir's weapons from police ballistics laboratory. Hagai Amir was imprisoned for keeping an arsenal of weapons in his home and for giving his brother Yigal the bullets which supposedly murdered Rabin. Included in the armory was a pistol whose serial number was noted. The audience member took out his own weapon and asked me to read the serial number. It was the very same number as Hagai Amir's pistol. How could that
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: KN4M 12-13-99
Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com 12.10.99 AOL Actions Trigger Massive Internet Censorship Row This very important information was sent ot us by our recipient and good buddy Para. NewsHawk® Inc. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- A.O.L. ACTIONS CENSOR CRITICISM OF C.I.A. The launch of a new book (July 17th) entitled 'The Stargate Conspiracy' by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, and published by Little Brown, has triggered a massive censorship row across the Internet. The book exposes governmental plans to hijack Millennium mysteries, through political interference or by manipulating belief structures. Evidence has come to light that AOL, the UK's largest subscription based Internet service, is through its actions assisting CIA designs on introducing a new belief system and form of racist fundamentalism for the New Age. Despite connecting 8 million users across the UK and Europe, and carrying over 55 million "Instant Messages" every day, AOL has engineered a sudden and unexpected clampdown on Egypt News, an independent electronic newsletter supplied free of charge to 600 voluntary subscribers. Having operated successfully and completely unhindered since September 1997, Egypt News now defends itself amidst accusations of 'spamming' - a term used to describe the delivery of unsolicited mail across the Internet. Whilst AOL claims to have responded as a result of a single complainant, Egypt News vehemently defend themselves, saying that subscribers are able to cancel their subscription without charge and at any time, adding that AOL closed down the service by changing its password without any form of consultation or investigation. In a statement, Chris Ogilvie-Herald, editor of Egypt News, asks "Does this not raise serious questions concerning the freedom and transmission of information?" He adds: "Despite our explanations that we were not sending unsolicited mail, AOL expressed no interest in reviewing the situation, reading the content of prior postings, acknowledge that the service was of a non-commercial nature, nor recognise the fact that it could not be termed unsolicited mail." A key clue into the reasoning behind AOL's intransigence appears to lie in the content of the offending Egypt News article. In less than 30 lines, this message describes the content of The Stargate Conspiracy, a book by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince which exposes a long term plan to take advantage of the turn of the Millennium by mixing established religious beliefs with ideas relating to ancient Egypt, extraterrestrial contact, alien abductions and channelling. Speaking on the unusual experiences of Egypt News, Clive Prince says "It is interesting that our posting provoked it". The Stargate Conspiracy reveals that behind the plot are intelligence agencies of more than one country, but led by the CIA as part of the Pentagons psychological warfare and parapsychology experiments. Involving the use of false prophets, ideas promoted by famous authors, hallucinogenic drugs, hypnosis and electromagnetic influence, the conspiracy has already influenced the decision making of world leaders and has led one social scientist to state that the project was "an elaborate psychological experiment sponsored by the defense community". However, unexplained experiences have not been restricted to email messaging. As part of the offending email, subscribers to Egypt News were referred to the official website for the book - a public forum for issues arising, debate and questions to the authors known online as the Stargate Assembly. However this website has experienced extremely erratic access patterns and an extraordinary level of interest from Virginia, USA, headquarters of the CIA. Within days of full details being posted, access rates for information on the The Stargate Conspiracy inexplicably dropped by at least 80%, whilst at the same time monitoring from Virginia peaked at 69% of total traffic. IS A.O.L. ASSISTING C.I.A. NETWORK? Despite claiming to provide customers and businesses with "an unprecedented array of new choices", AOL's action against Egypt News appears to have acted against the terms of the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA), a group devoted to the protection of free speech on the Internet, and of which AOL is a founder member. Speaking on May 12, 1999, David Phillips of AOL Europe, confirmed that the ICRA initiative was being taken to provide "concerned citizens the tools to protect their children and communities while ensuring the essential openness and freedom of the Internet." Chairman of the ICRA board, Jens Waltermann, added "It is not for us or for governments to decide what is inappropriate." Further announcements made on June 10th and 17th, 1999, declared AOL to be operating an alliance with both BSkyB and Verio Inc. Targetting both Sky subscribers and web users via traditional forms of direct mail and television advertising as
[CTRL] Forbidden knowledge links.
-Caveat Lector- Please click on RELATED LINKS at the bottonm of the frame. Subject: Forbidden knowledge links. http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/links/framelink.htm Related Links SOHO - The connection between SOHO and masonic rituals. Keep Angkor and Draco in mind here. NASA and ISIS - NASA Continues Ritual Pattern as Discovery Docks with IS(I)S. RAVEN RESEARCH - "The history of liberty is a history of of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it." - former US President Woodrow Wilson Illuminati News - What's Big Brother up to? The Illuminati and Proofs of Conspiracy - *Proofs of Conspiracy* Bilderberg Group - Planning the World's future behind close doors. THE JAMES CAMERON CONSPIRACY THEORY - The Conspiracy Theorists Cut. The Great Pyramid of Prophecy - How close are we to the second coming of Christ? Disinformation - Disinformation News. Microsoft TerraServer - Lansat images of Earth. THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LIGHT BULB - BUY THE VIDEO HERE XTL's Contrail Page - just what is going on? The Contrail Connection - Is Satan er I mean, the government poisoning us? WIOLAWA.COM - It's time for some advanced LEARNING! Debs ancient future prophecy page Prophecies of our Ancestors Indian Native American Bunkhouse White Buffalo Calf is born American Indian Jewelry Medicine Wheel Morgana's Observatory Grandmother Web Hopi Way - Cloud Dancing Traditional and True Native Amrrican Stories Native American Quote's Whirling Mountain of the Navajos UFO UFO EBE CHALLENGE Beyond Boundaries In Search Of LATEST NEWS Underground Bases Alien Connections Anomalous Images and UFO Files UFO Experience Rods Index sauderzone Konig 080895 Department of Interplantery Affairs Abductions 9 Paranormal news PHOENIX UNDEAD Galactic War III UFO SCOTLAND American Computer Company UFO Public Nuisance Hall of Fame - Final Tally http--hometown.aol.com--gotuten-alien.htm Hear Audio Files Reptilian Aliens UFO Technology Keyhoe UFO Alien Text Files UFO Folklore Center The Alien Brief Sean Casteel, UFO Journalist German UFOs VJ Enterprises - UFO's in the 90's Visitations Alien Government Abductions Aerial Phenomena People Robert Ghostwolf Robert Morning Sky Home Page ET Insider James-Eve-Cassie TV KOMO ABC 4 SEATTLE SCIFI.COM FOX.COM Television Stations Weather Channel Audio Radio KAOS! Steve Vaus Singer-Songwriter sitchin Klang Topdownloads.Net - MP3 Browse Native American Big G Info Illuminati_News Satanic_bloodline Secret Societies Anti-Masonry Frequently Asked Questions Real X-Files DNA tampering Electronic MKULTRA Are you being targetted Liberal Lie Overpopulation Texaco Gas Stations Denver Airport Floor Deciphered EagleNet Trilateral Commission Membership YCL Frequently Asked Questions Columbine Research Task Force Exposing Satanism http--users.sedona.net-~redstone-bar.htm Cryptome Boycott Network Great Seal of the United States of America Strategic Intelligence...What you don't know...Can hurt you! Jon Rappoport Targets_of_the_Illuminati anti-Masonic (antimasonic) Books from Acacia Press; also thoughts on Freemasonry, links to the JFK assassination conspiracy cov Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government Citizens For Better Government Index of -illuminati Opal File http--www.involved.com-ewolfe-misc- Recall Davis doomed NWO Quotes An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control Michel Chossudovsky DESTROYING NATIONAL CURRENCIES, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, author of The Globalisation o Abductions 9 NSA mind control and psyops ESR The Un-American United Nations - Page 1 Sovereignty International Provable Accusations Against American Public Schools CONSPIRACY TOP 25 1998 Fear ZionOsphere anti-Clinton sign irks neighborhood; Repeats Broaddrick's claims of rape [Free Republic] ACLU Freedom Network Your Rights and the Police King-Kill 33 Masonic Symbolism in the Assassination of John F.Kennedy Progressive Review Home Page barcode beast ECHELON TO SAVE LUCIFER Proof mind altering technology has existed for some years WWWVL Sumeria - -Politics Mindsong, Inc. Blue Beam Millennium Dynasty U.S. DETENTION CENTERS AN ILLUMINATI OUTLINE OF HISTORY STOA Political control technologies - Summary of Interim Study Washington Monument Homepage List Member Sites Matt's Paranormal Links - Index Crystals Site Alec Millennia Consortium - Operation Farfriend Synchronistic Discussion Group John - GNOSTIC MYSTERIES Alecs Site You'll never think the same way again Peters Pole Shift Links Jesus, The Bible, UFOs, ETs, and the nwo Alien Astronomer - Articles and photos of ufology, astronomy and secret societies Good sites Illuminations Illusion Nvisible Hidden Meanings Lucky Mojo Esoteric Archive Planet Earth's Coming Attractions Experience Celestine Prophecy Ishayas' Ascension Branch Davidians What happened at Waco Massacre of the Branch Davidians ( in parts ) Earth Portals Sacred Geometry Stories of Jesus
[CTRL] Nuclear-Weapons Scientist Pleads Not Guilty; Held Without Bail (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- [Note the last sentence. --MS] December 14, 1999 NYTimes Nuclear-Weapons Scientist Pleads Not Guilty; Held Without Bail By CHRISTIAN BERTHELSEN ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A weapons scientist pleaded not guilty on Monday to the illegal computer downloading of a vast trove of nuclear arms data, but a federal magistrate ordered him jailed pending trial, declaring that the acts he is accused of represent "a clear and present danger to the security of the United States." The defendant, Wen Ho Lee, was ordered held behind bars after all-day proceedings here, where he entered the courtroom smiling broadly at relatives and dozens of supporters and left to live in a cell while awaiting a trial that may be months away. "I plead not guilty," Lee responded in a loud, clear voice after Magistrate Don Sven asked what he had to say about the 59-count indictment returned against him on Friday. The hearing produced testimony that Lee's unauthorized downloading of highly classified data in 1993 or 1994 roughly coincided with his notice from the Department of Energy that he might lose his job at the Los Alamos laboratory because of cutbacks. There was also testimony that seven computer tapes containing a virtual blueprint for much of the country's nuclear arsenal had been created by Lee, then had vanished -- not turning up despite an investigation involving about 1,000 witnesses, a review of a million documents and inquiries by the FBI in Europe and in Asia. And at the end of the day, Lee's lawyer, Mark Holscher, said his client had destroyed the tapes. But he refused to tell questioners outside the courtroom where or how they had been destroyed, or whether there was any proof that they had been. FBI investigators have concluded after a search of Los Alamos computers that Lee copied information relating to the design, construction and testing of the most advanced nuclear weapons in the American arsenal -- data that Lee's former boss said on Monday was of extraordinary importance. The former boss, Stephen Younger, said that the material Lee is accused of compromising could, in the wrong hands, make the U.S. missile systems vulnerable to hostile nations, perhaps even change the global balance of power. "The very first day I entered the nuclear weapons program it was made crystal-clear to me how important this information was to national security," said Younger, the associate laboratory director for nuclear weapons. "We are more aware of anyone else of the destructive capability of these weapons. It is a sacred trust to me that we have taken on for the country, and we take that very seriously." While he is not accused of espionage, or passing the classified data to another country, Lee has not explained why he downloaded the data or what he did with it. A few of the computer tapes he used have been recovered, but most are unaccounted for. An FBI special agent, Robert Messemer, testified that the volume of material downloaded by Lee would have made a stack of paper 134 feet tall if it was printed. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Mike Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. = DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] With Berger in Catbird Seat, Albright's Star Dims (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- December 14, 1999--NYTimes With Berger in Catbird Seat, Albright's Star Dims By JANE PERLEZ WASHINGTON -- The end of the war in Kosovo was supposed to be a moment of glory for Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, who had argued passionately for the fight. Instead, in the six months since, Dr. Albright has been effectively eclipsed in foreign affairs by Samuel R. Berger, the national security adviser, who has brought his physical proximity to the Oval Office and his personal relationship with President Clinton to bear on every foreign policy issue, according to administration officials and foreign policy experts. From forging China's entry into the World Trade Organization, to the unsuccessful battle to win the Senate's approval of the nuclear test ban treaty, to shaping American policy toward Russia's war in Chechnya, to running President Clinton's 11-day trip to Europe, Berger's presence has been unrelenting. Nobody would argue that Dr. Albright has been locked out. The secretary was at center stage in the Middle East last week when the Syrian president, Hafez al-Assad, told her during their meeting in Damascus that he was prepared to resume negotiations with Israel. Her assistants were quick to note that Assad had told a visitor the week before that "nothing can happen until the lady comes." The Israeli-Syrian breakthrough was announced by President Clinton, but Dr. Albright was in the spotlight explaining the deal on television, even though she is less a fixture on the talk shows than she once was. Despite what will be continued visibility for Dr. Albright this week as the Middle East peace talks resume in Washington, officials inside and outside the administration say there is little doubt about who actually formulates the decisions. "There is no dispute who runs the show on foreign policy," said Ivo Daalder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who is working on a study of the national security council, and who worked with Berger in the first Clinton term. Of Dr. Albright, he said: "She remains a participant in the process. But her weight as secretary of state in the determination of foreign policy appears less than at any time in the Clinton administration, including Secretary of State Warren Christopher's term." Berger, a trade lawyer by profession and longtime Washington political insider, has emerged on top not because of his expertise in foreign policy, said Daalder. Rather, what helped him rise so forcefully are his skills as a hands-on manager, his obsession with finding a consensus among top officials and the fact that, in this administration, foreign policy has often been redefined as economic policy advanced through increased trade. Administration officials say Berger emerged the much stronger of the pair from the Kosovo war. Dr. Albright, who is seen as a policy maker driven by convictions with a large human rights concern, convinced Berger and Clinton of the need to go to war against the Yugoslav leader, Slobodan Milosevic, many officials have said. It was a position that the president and Berger came to much later and more warily than the secretary. But once the war began, the White House became the center of operations, a place that Dr. Albright visited for meetings but where Clinton and Berger held the fort. For the most part, her task was to work the phones from the State Department to try to keep the NATO foreign ministers on board and fully briefed. The administration's foreign policy emphasis then shifted away from Dr. Albright's strengths -- the Balkans and Europe -- to China, Russia, the Middle East and Ireland -- where a special envoy, George Mitchell, reported to Berger and the president. At the same time, Berger was being reinforced by a bigger and more operational National Security Council than ever before. There are currently 99 policy assistants at the council (35 on loan from nongovernmental institutions like the Council on Foreign Relations), many of them micromanaging issues. A decade ago, there were about 70. On Clinton's recent trip to Istanbul for a meeting of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, where Russia was the major topic, Berger briefed reporters every day, a job often done by the White House spokesman. On Russia
[CTRL] More on: The Fed and gun suits: Interesting facts. (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- From: CNS Yale Professor Says Gun Lawsuit May Have Harmful Effects By Jim Burns CNS Senior Staff Writer 13 December, 1999 (CNSNews.com) - A criminal justice expert and author of the best selling book More Guns, Less Crimes argues that a possible lawsuit by public housing authorities against gun manufacturers may do more harm than good. Dr. John Lott told CNSNews.com, "I think these suits are going to result in more deaths rather than fewer deaths. . . . It's an abuse of the legal system." President Clinton, during a White House news conference last Wednesday, said the public housing authority litigation against gunmakers has a good grounding in fact. "There are 10,000 gun crimes every year in the largest public housing authorities. They spend a billion dollars on security and I think it's important that the American people know that they (public housing authorities) are not asking for money from the gun manufacturers, they are seeking a remedy to try to help solve the problem," Clinton said. But, Lott believes such lawsuits are going to worsen the crime situation in America's public housing projects. "Poor people who live in high crime urban areas like these public housing units benefit the most from having the option to be able to protect themselves. . . . Raising the price of guns through these suits is merely going to be price those people out of the market for being able to defend themselves," said Lott. "The question I have for him (Clinton) is what advice does he give to someone who's living in one of these poor, high crime areas. What are they supposed to do when they are confronted by a criminal and there's no police around?" Lott said. Clinton also said irresponsible marketing practices by gunmakers should be stopped as well. "One company advertised an assault weapon by saying that it was hard to get fingerprints from. You don't have to be all broke out with brilliance to figure out what the message is there." Clinton did not say what company was using selling assault weapons using such a sales pitch. Lott called Clinton's comment a "complete distortion." "They say that fingerprint oil is easily removed from the gun . . . otherwise the metal on the gun can rust, " Lott said. Another thing public housing authorities are looking for in the suit, according to Clinton, is "some safety design changes. We have a lot of gun manufacturers in this country who have been, I think, immensely responsible. If you remember a majority of gun manufacturers signed on to our proposal for child trigger locks. I still would like legislation to cover them all." --end-- --begin forward-- Lott comments: More legislation, according to Lott, would be counterproductive. === "This constant haranguing on deaths involving children greatly === exaggerates in people minds what the true risks are. In 1996, === for children under the age of 10, there were 8 accidental === handgun deaths in the United States, according to the Centers === for Disease Control (CDC). There were 21 for children under === the age of 15. If you compare it to the number of guns that are === owned in America compared to other risks that are in the === home, guns are extremely safe, as far as having to worry === about actual gun deaths," Lott told CNSNews.com. === Lott thinks there are "more children under age 5 who die from === drowning in waterbuckets than you have children under the === age of 15 who die from accidental handgun shots. You have === 40 children a year who die from drowning in 5 gallon === waterbuckets under age 5. You have 80 children a year under === age 5 who drown in bathtubs around the home." = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Mike Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. = DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[CTRL] White House Calling --Washington post (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- White House Calling Howard Kurtz 12-13-99 Weekly Standard reporter Tucker Carlson was surprised recently to get a call from Sidney Blumenthal's White House assistant. The aide, Sean Johnson, wanted Carlson's home address. Johnson acknowledged to Carlson that he was calling people at the direction of Blumenthal's private attorney in connection with the libel suit Blumenthal has filed against cybergossip Matt Drudge over a false allegation of wife-beating. The purpose of the call became clear last week, when Carlson was served at home with a subpoena from Blumenthal. "You can't use the White House press office for a private lawsuit," Carlson says. Blumenthal says he was in Europe when the calls took place and that he "admonished everyone" involved. "I didn't know about it until afterwards," he says. "It was an innocent mistake on the part of a young person. Certainly I've told people not to let it happen again." Blumenthal's aide also asked for the address of Carlson's father, consultant Richard Carlson, who calls his pending subpoena "political payback" because he helped Monica Lewinsky with her TV and book deals. The Carlsons say they know nothing about the allegation published by Drudge. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Mike Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. = 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] Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-12-13 18:03:51 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The TRUTH is that Jesus probably looked like Woody Allen without glasses. Or perhaps, Gene Wilder. Or, if Christians are really lucky, Bernard Schwartz a.k.a. Tony Curtis. Personally, I like the unprepossessing face imprinted on the Shroud of Turin. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Aborigines were the first Americans
-Caveat Lector- Bucky Fuller said in Critical Path that the first towns grew up around rivers and coasts, and the first technologies after primitive tools were sailing technologies. It is now becoming clear that Bucky was right. Joshua2 Das GOAT wrote: -Caveat Lector- Who were the first Americans? This is beginning to sound like a silly academic question on the order of "Who were the first Europeans?" or "Who were the first Asians"? Like, who were the first people in the Northern Hemisphere? In the Southern? The moment we admit the very real possibility --indeed, the likelihood now-- that "primitive" human beings were able to navigate the world's oceans far earlier than we've assumed --THOUSANDS of years before urban civilization-- we run into a little problem ... We then have to deal with the likely phenomenon of MULTIPLE ethnic groups traversing the planet and colonizing spots on each and every continent, at one period or another, even in PREHISTORIC times. The whole planet has ALWAYS been potentially within the reach of any human being willing to travel, and almost every ancient civilization was more or less "global" in its scope, through trade missions, colonial expeditions, and expanding territorial border wars. So, what's the big deal? If we widen our lens on "history" from FOUR thousand years to FORTY thousand, we find that "everybody" has been around "everywhere." Once the mongrel cat is out of the bag, and the sacred myths of any given race's genetic preeminence and cultural superiority are set reeling from the blows delivered by PRE-historic archeological findings around the globe, what's the point of all this looking for "the FIRST" men "arriving" on ANY continent from "elsewhere"? Is there some kind of politicized Olympic "race"1 to determine which "race"2 travelled farthest the fastest and earliest, offering gold, silver, or bronze medals, prizes worth their weight in vanity? An attempt to argue continental-scale "eminent domain" via retroactive deeds of title? A cloud of meta-political pretensions still hangs dark and heavy over this "battlefield" which, to archeologists at ground-level, looks more like a round-robin game of tag ... 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] Morris Dees' Divorce Papers Expose Dark Side.
-Caveat Lector- William Shannon wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/12/99 4:17:11 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Who gives a shit? Well, I have it on good authority that Joshuas 1 3 do... And you believe someone who uses a phony name with a number after it??? 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] Covert Operations of the CIA _
-Caveat Lector- Try William Blum's " Killing Hope." Joshua2 --- Kris Millegan wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/12/99 2:40:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you tried Tom Davis Books in Aptos California? Nada. Om K DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Crazy Country needs medicine?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-12-13 20:25:03 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If one in five people each year experience an episode of mental illness, I suspect that 90% of those cases are among government officials under pressure of stupid laws. Perhaps cannabis medicine would be good for their mental health and improve social policies to ameliorate crime. As a comedian put it: "Think, at random, of four of your friends or relatives. Alright, try another group of four. Now, if none among them are crazy, guess who that leaves?" 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] Y1K and GERBERT, the First European
-Caveat Lector- On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Tatman, Robert wrote: Yes, of course...I had forgotten "the Head" in *That Hideous Strength*. I first read the Perelandra Trilogy in seventh grade, and came back to it only a couple of years ago. June, you're absolutely right about Lewis's prescience. The book is chilling...and perhaps Lewis's best writing aside from *The Screwtape Letters*. Like Lewis, I 'much prefer bats to bureaucrats...' June ;-) |===SEASONS===GREETINGS==| | \ /| | *~o) )_ )_ )_ )_ - * - | | |`--) , ,_),_),_),_/ / \| | ``^^^`` /~\/~\/~\/~\| || | / / / | | | \ / (((((( -+- | | - * -.-#--..-#-..--#-. | | | /|\/__\ /_\ /__\ /-\ | |__//|\\| [] [] || [] [] || [] [] |___/---\___ldb__| artist -SheDragon (Laura) (ldb) *---* revcoal AT connix DOT com *---* It is UNLAWFUL to send unsolicited commercial email to this email address per United States Code Title 47 Sec. 227. I assess a fee of $500.00 US currency for reading and deleting such unsolicited commercial email. Sending such email to this address denotes acceptance of these terms. My posting messages to Usenet neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. ** DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- The TRUTH is that Jesus probably looked like Woody Allen without glasses. Or perhaps, Gene Wilder. Or, if Christians are really lucky, Bernard Schwartz a.k.a. Tony Curtis. The TRUTH is that Jesus would probably NOT have looked like the men you mentioned, who are of European ancestry (albeit Judaic), rather Jesus probably looked just like any other modern Palestinian...which means he was NOT blond-haired and blue-eyed, but of a somewhat dark complexion... More of a chance of him looking like Arafat than Allen... June ;-) |===SEASONS===GREETINGS==| | \ /| | *~o) )_ )_ )_ )_ - * - | | |`--) , ,_),_),_),_/ / \| | ``^^^`` /~\/~\/~\/~\| || | / / / | | | \ / (((((( -+- | | - * -.-#--..-#-..--#-. | | | /|\/__\ /_\ /__\ /-\ | |__//|\\| [] [] || [] [] || [] [] |___/---\___ldb__| artist -SheDragon (Laura) (ldb) *---* revcoal AT connix DOT com *---* It is UNLAWFUL to send unsolicited commercial email to this email address per United States Code Title 47 Sec. 227. I assess a fee of $500.00 US currency for reading and deleting such unsolicited commercial email. Sending such email to this address denotes acceptance of these terms. My posting messages to Usenet neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. ** DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- I would agree with the dark complexion; probably look like someone that would not be allowed to sit at the front of the bus in the 60's. As soon as some idiot clones from blood stains on the shroud, I guess we'll know for sure, huh? :^) AmPat -Original Message- From: YnrChyldzWyld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 7:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus -Caveat Lector- The TRUTH is that Jesus probably looked like Woody Allen without glasses. Or perhaps, Gene Wilder. Or, if Christians are really lucky, Bernard Schwartz a.k.a. Tony Curtis. The TRUTH is that Jesus would probably NOT have looked like the men you mentioned, who are of European ancestry (albeit Judaic), rather Jesus probably looked just like any other modern Palestinian...which means he was NOT blond-haired and blue-eyed, but of a somewhat dark complexion... More of a chance of him looking like Arafat than Allen... June ;-) |===SEASONS===GREETINGS==| | \ /| | *~o) )_ )_ )_ )_ - * - | | |`--) , ,_),_),_),_/ / \| | ``^^^`` /~\/~\/~\/~\| || | / / / | | | \ / (((((( -+- | | - * -.-#--..-#-..--#-. | | | /|\/__\ /_\ /__\ /-\ | |__//|\\| [] [] || [] [] || [] [] |___/---\___ldb__| artist -SheDragon (Laura) (ldb) *- --* revcoal AT connix DOT com *- --* It is UNLAWFUL to send unsolicited commercial email to this email address per United States Code Title 47 Sec. 227. I assess a fee of $500.00 US currency for reading and deleting such unsolicited commercial email. Sending such email to this address denotes acceptance of these terms. My posting messages to Usenet neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. *= ===* DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. == == Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ == == To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om 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] IMPORTANT: Final Y2K preparations
-Caveat Lector- Every night, while taking a smoke break at work, I look up at the night sky, and for what seems like months now, I've seen the same two planets, Jupiter and Saturn, always separated by a hand's-breadth. As an astrologer, that tells me something about the "crisis" everyone seems to be expecting around Y2K Day, December 31st. The Y2K CHART is unexceptional. But come May 2000, when the "gap" between Jupiter and Saturn CLOSES, it's time to worry ... The ancients always treated the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn as a ending-cum-new-beginning point in a 20-year [as well as in a larger SIXTY-year] cycle of expansion and contraction (analogous to the lunar cycle of new and full moons or the lunisolar cycle of eclipses) in all spheres of collective human life -- for example, in the progress of religion (Jupiter and Saturn were conjunct at the birth of Jesus and said to have been conjunct when Abraham and Moses were born) and in economics, as the turning point in a recurring cycle of surpluses and deficits. It has meant something important also in POLITICS -- a radical change in "era," as a rule marked by the tragic death of the head of state, followed by a kind of reversal of values with the succeeding office-holder. Every astrologer is familiar with the 20-year cycle of deaths of American presidents in office: Since 1776, almost every time, the presidents ELECTED during Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions --e.g., 1900, 1920, 1940 and 1960-- died under unusual circimstances (often by assassination) shortly afterward. One of the rare exceptions --but not necessarily signalling a CHANGE in the pattern-- was the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan, who somehow SURVIVED (bodily, at least) ATTEMPTED assassination. The year 2000 is another one of those fateful elections, and it'll be interesting to see if the SOCIOLOGICAL pattern observed thus far repeats itself. That pattern involves a complete polar-shift in political temper -- as after 1940, when, following the death of FDR, American politics veered from far Left to far Right, under Truman, culminating in the McCarthy era; and after 1960, when, after the JFK assassination, '60s liberalism was driven back by Nixon, Kent State, and Watergate. (Post Watergate, the snowballing revolt against Nixon and covert ops resulted in Jimmy Carter, whose "October Surprise" LOSS to Reagan-Bush inaugurated the 1980 cycle.) So, if the historical correspondences to NATURAL (planetary) cycles are any guide, the ARBITRARY (calendrical) "turning point" signified by Y2K --not even the TRUE end of a century and millennium, technically-- will come and go with a "whimper." But don't give up YET, if it's a "bang" you're expecting. That's still coming, in the immediate future ... 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] IMPORTANT: Final Y2K preparations
-Caveat Lector- On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Edward Britton, believing the sky will fall, wrote: 1. Remove any cash assets from your checking accounts and be sure to obtain an electronic statement clearly indicating your checking and savings balances prior to 12-20-99. Store large amounts of cash in several secure, readily accessible locations. That is, if you aren't mugged by all the savvy crooks who know how foolish people will follow this advice and be carrying large amounts of cash on themselves when they leave the bank... And if you succeed in getting home without being mugged and losing your life's savings in the process, pray that your hiding place is fireproof and floodproof, and that you don't experience either disaster before retrieving your stash... And then sit back in your barcolounger, secure in the fact that your actions -- along with a million or so other Chicken Littles, -- will help bring about the very thing you fear... The rest of us know that banks, as an industry, were one of the first to become compliant, and even in a worse-case scenario, we will be able to physically walk into the local branch of our bank on January 3rd and present a demand deposit writ to the teller, and walk out with cash in hand... 2. If practical, liquidate stocks, bonds and any other financial instruments on or before the first sign of market instability. Whether you invest in the market or not, monitor market activities very closely for the remainder of this year. Again, if everyone follows this advice, they will actually bring about the very thing they fear... Wall Street, like banks, has been compliant for a long time... Feel free to add whatever I haven't thought of to this list and pass it on if you consider it appropriate. No...I, unlike you, will NOT be crying 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, when there is no fire June ;-) |===SEASONS===GREETINGS==| | \ /| | *~o) )_ )_ )_ )_ - * - | | |`--) , ,_),_),_),_/ / \| | ``^^^`` /~\/~\/~\/~\| || | / / / | | | \ / (((((( -+- | | - * -.-#--..-#-..--#-. | | | /|\/__\ /_\ /__\ /-\ | |__//|\\| [] [] || [] [] || [] [] |___/---\___ldb__| artist -SheDragon (Laura) (ldb) *---* revcoal AT connix DOT com *---* It is UNLAWFUL to send unsolicited commercial email to this email address per United States Code Title 47 Sec. 227. I assess a fee of $500.00 US currency for reading and deleting such unsolicited commercial email. Sending such email to this address denotes acceptance of these terms. My posting messages to Usenet neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. ** DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- --- YnrChyldzWyld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More of a chance of him looking like Arafat than Allen... If that's the case, Jesus would truly have my pity, 'cause Arafat is ONE PLUG UGLY DUDE! __ 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] June: IMPORTANT: Final Y2K preparations
-Caveat Lector- June: While I certainly respect your disparate opinion on this, I do have a few questions: That is, if you aren't mugged by all the savvy crooks who know how foolish people will follow this advice and be carrying large amounts of cash on themselves when they leave the bank... Do you find that people in general are not smart enough to take this into account when visiting the banks or are we all just sheep, ripe for the pickings of governments, banks, and other criminals? And then sit back in your barcolounger, secure in the fact that your actions -- along with a million or so other Chicken Littles, -- will help bring about the very thing you fear... Why should I be concerned with banks when it is MY butt that will be out in the cold IF something does happen? The rest of us know that banks, as an industry, were one of the first to become compliant, and even in a worse-case scenario, we will be able to physically walk into the local branch of our bank on January 3rd and present a demand deposit writ to the teller, and walk out with cash in hand... Oh, do "the rest of us" really know this? Do the rest of us place the same trust in bank and government propaganda that you do? Do we all accept as gospel the garbage pumped out by the media machine in this country? Again, if everyone follows this advice, they will actually bring about the very thing they fear... Again, my concern is NOT for the freaking ponzi scheme market. Those who lose money in the market should try earning their own money as opposed to extracting the profits from the efforts and production of others. Wall Street, like banks, has been compliant for a long time... Do you believe in the tooth fairy too :-)? Edward + = WARNING! Stay OUT of America's cities on 1/1/2,000!! Edward Britton + http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5285/connector1.html Reality Pump: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/Reality_Pump2 = DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] June: IMPORTANT: Final Y2K preparations
-Caveat Lector- I'm wit' you, Ed. Subject: [CTRL] June: IMPORTANT: Final Y2K preparations -Caveat Lector- June: While I certainly respect your disparate opinion on this, I do have a few questions: That is, if you aren't mugged by all the savvy crooks who know how foolish people will follow this advice and be carrying large amounts of cash on themselves when they leave the bank... Do you find that people in general are not smart enough to take this into account when visiting the banks or are we all just sheep, ripe for the pickings of governments, banks, and other criminals? Perhaps if the gun grabbers get their way we will be, but not yet! And then sit back in your barcolounger, secure in the fact that your actions -- along with a million or so other Chicken Littles, -- will help bring about the very thing you fear... Why should I be concerned with banks when it is MY butt that will be out in the cold IF something does happen? Last I heard, all banks were NOT compliant. Even the FAA's CLAIM of compliance is subject to question. (I wonder how many US airline VEEP's will follow Chinas example and be airborne though midnight on NY eve? The rest of us know that banks, as an industry, were one of the first to become compliant, and even in a worse-case scenario, we will be able to physically walk into the local branch of our bank on January 3rd and present a demand deposit writ to the teller, and walk out with cash in hand... Oh, do "the rest of us" really know this? Do the rest of us place the same trust in bank and government propaganda that you do? Do we all accept as gospel the garbage pumped out by the media machine in this country? Not hardly! Worst case scenario? This sounds like the BEST case scenario, to me! How can you assume that the FIRST business day there will be electricity, employees, and $ in your bank, even IF it happened to be 'Y2K compliant'??? And you assume that you will be able to get there, as well - - - Again, if everyone follows this advice, they will actually bring about the very thing they fear... Again, my concern is NOT for the freaking ponzi scheme market. Those who lose money in the market should try earning their own money as opposed to extracting the profits from the efforts and production of others. Some of us have retirement $ there; I am not actually worried LONG term; it is the SHORT term that bothers me - I believe that within a few weeks, all the glitches will be ironed out. BUT - I do not bet my, nor my families, LIFE on this belief. Wall Street, like banks, has been compliant for a long time... Do you believe in the tooth fairy too :-)? Oh come on, Ed - don't burst all the bubbles in a single post! :^) AmPat 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: [00] Sandline and Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Spicer
From: "An Unorthodox Soldier - Peace and War and the Sandline Affair" by Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Spicer Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, Scotland. [ ISBN: 1 84018 180 X ] Introduction: "Expecting the Unexpected" One of the lessons I have learned in a lifetime of unorthodox soldiering is that you must always expect the unexpected. Try as you will, things creep up on you, and what might appear at first sight to be a perfectly normal process can rapidly turn into a very dicey situation or become completely surreal. This book is full of such events, but I shall give two examples of what I mean, illustrating both eventualities. The first incident took place during our time in Papua New Guinea, the second during a visit to an African country which will remain nameless. When the Sandline operation was in its final stages, it was thought necessary to visit the PNGDF Special Force unit which was then in training at Wewak, on the northern side of the main island. Wewak lies about two hours by air from the capital, Port Moresby, and since many people were interested in the training we were giving to the PNGDF units, we filled our CASA 212 aircraft with representatives from the government and the PNG military, including the Deputy Prime Minister and the Defence Minister. The visit went well, the standard of training - mortar training, range work, battle drills and some physical training - reached by the PNGDF was found to be impressive, and the day concluded with lunch in the officers' mess of the 2nd Battalion, The Pacific Islands Regiment, one of the elements of the PNG Defence Force. We returned to the aircraft in the early afternoon, ready to fly back to Port Moresby. At that point a rather agreeable day turned very nasty indeed. The weather was already beginning to break when we got back to the airfield at Wewak. Heavy storm clouds were building up, lightning was flickering about and there was the constant rumble of thunder. To this can be added periodic tropical downpours and winds rising to gale force. All in all, it was not the sort of day to go flying about the mountains in a light aircraft - but we had to get back to Port Moresby. Papua New Guinea - mountainous, tropical, sparsely populated - is difficult flying country at any time and our pilots, both Americans, were anxious to get away before the impending storm broke or we ran out of daylight. The CASA 212 is a great little aircraft with a few passenger seats and good freight-carrying capacity, and we took off and battered our way back towards Port Moresby against a driving headwind and torrential rain, stopping midway at another airfield to drop off some of our passengers. Then we took off again. This was not entirely wise. Visibility was practically zero and the aircraft was constantly being buffeted and thrown all over the place. It got incredibly dark, with lots of lightning and driving rain. I am never very happy just sitting about, strapped in on an aircraft; I like to stand in the space behind the pilots, so I can talk to them and see what is going on. In this case the pilots were clearly struggling to control the aircraft and were very worried about either being struck by lightning, which could knock out our electronics, or flying into a mountain. Eventually, after about an hour, when we were nearing Port Moresby and it was getting rougher and rougher, I had a conversation with the pilots, who told me that because of the visibility and the lightning they could not pick up the usual landmarks and radio beacons. Therefore they could not land - and because of the headwinds we had been battling we were getting low on fuel. In fact we were very short on fuel, and unless we found Jackson Airport soon we would have to fly out to sea and ditch. I did not find this news particularly comforting; thoughts of swimming about in dark, gale-tossed, shark-infested seas began to drift into my mind. We circled around as long as we could, trying to pick up the red marker beacons leading to the runway. We were all concerned because the airport is surrounded by hills, each with a marker beacon, and we did not want to fly into a hill while attempting to pick up a beacon. This went on for some time. Then there was more discussion about ditching and I said that, on balance, I would rather ditch in the sea than attempt a landing in the mountains or the jungle, but before it got to that would it not be sensible to fly out to sea and try and fix our position along the coast, before coming back in on a compass bearing for another go? If we ran out of fuel in the interim, we could ditch in the sea. It was not a very enticing prospect - an encounter with a salt-water crocodile now joined the one with a shark at the back of my mind - but what choice had we? Just at the point when it was getting critical, we saw, just ahead and slightly to our right, one of the red beacons. We were too low and climbed immediately, circled to the left and, through a brief gap in
[CTRL] Fwd: [01] Sandline and Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Spicer
From: "An Unorthodox Soldier - Peace and War and the Sandline Affair" by Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Spicer Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, Scotland. [ ISBN: 1 84018 180 X ] Chapter One SANDLINE 'Everything changed with the end of the Cold War. Up to then we knew what we had to do and who the potential enemy was and we could train and prepare accordingly. Now its all guesswork.' GENERAL SIR PETER INGE, CHIEF OF THE DEFENCE STAFF, 1996 This is a story in three parts. Part of this book concerns the events leading up to what became known as 'The Sandline Affair', in which, during 1998, the British government tied itself into an almighty knot over the work of my company, Sandline International, in Sierra Leone. That may seem a small, transient incident, worth a few feature articles in the national press or an in-depth analysis on television, but the issues raised by the Sandline Affair are not going to go away. However, I did not create Sandline International on my own, nor start it without a great deal of previous experience in the military arena. Over the years, in different places and at different times, the need for something like Sandline began to grow in my mind. Therefore a major part of this book is autobiographical, tracing my military career over two decades, from my time at Sandhurst to the time I commanded the 1st Battalion, Scots Guards, on operations in Northern Ireland. Sandline came later, after I had served in Bosnia and seen what level of chaos the world is heading for unless some practical steps are taken to tackle the growing list of problems in a pragmatic way. The last part of the book offers my views on those issues that are likely to trouble the world in the next century, issues where private military companies like Sandline may have a useful role to play. Private military companies - or PMCs - are corporate bodies specialising in the provision of military skills to legitimate governments: training, planning, intelligence, risk assessment, operational support and technical skills. Sandline International is just such a company and was created to tackle a growing number of situations which the world's major nations are unwilling or unable to tackle themselves, or to assist smaller nations where these military skills were found necessary - and lacking. This raises the 'Sandline Affair' from an issue that affected only a small number of people in a couple of countries - in this case Britain and Sierra Leone - to something that will affect many governments and many people in many parts of the world for decades to come. The hard fact is that the world, having come out of the Cold War into the 'New World Order', is not actually getting any safer. One of the greatest of the Cold War warriors, Henry Kissinger, said as much in an interview in January 1999. Asked if the world seemed a safer place now than when he was in government, he replied: From the point of view of nuclear danger, infinitely safer; from the point of view of structure, far more chaotic. In those days you had a Cold War; you had basic criteria of what would benefit one side or the other. Today you have a very amorphous situation. What exactly is NATO supposed to do? What do we want to happen in Bosnia, in Asia, in the Middle East, in the long term? Moreover, you have the economic and political organisations of the world at variance from each other. The economic concerns are global, the political firmly regional. And all these forces are moving at a time when the quality of political leadership is declining - because the leaders are too busy getting elected or re-elected. In other words, we have inherited the ancient Chinese curse 'May you live in interesting times'. The world's political leaders are afraid of political or military involvement in the world's endemic conflicts because they don't want the bodybags coming home as in Vietnam or, more recently, Somalia, or because they don't want to take risks or to be blamed if matters go awry, or, rather less creditably, because they simply want to be popular and garner votes at home. This creates a vacuum in the search for world peace, part of which private military companies like Sandline should be able to fill. Until Sandline was established I had spent most of my life as a professional soldier in the Scots Guards, one of the crack regiments of the British Army, a career which gave me the chance to see the world, to gain experience in a growing and diverse number of roles, to serve in dangerous places, including Northern Ireland, the Falklands and Bosnia, to take part in two wars and to rise to a respectable military rank. I can fairly say that life has not been dull. This experience has given me a few precepts that I apply personally. First, I believe that your effectiveness comes totally from within your own efforts, and the excellence you obtain in whatever you do is directly proportionate to the effort you are prepared to put in. I know that war or combat 'Is
[CTRL] Fwd: [02] Sandline and Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Spicer
From "An Unorthodox Soldier - Peace and War and the Sandline Affair" by Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Spicer Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, Scotland. [ ISBN: 1 84018 180 X ] Chapter Three PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES 'An army may be likened to water: water leaves dry the high places and seeks the hollows; an army turns from strength and attacks weakness. The flow of water is regulated by the shape of the ground; victory is gained by acting in accordance with the state of the enemy.' SUN TZU, THE ART OF WAR Having described the traditional role of the military company and laid the 'mercenary' canard to rest, it is now necessary to describe the purpose of private military companies. Private military companies are organisations which do more than provide passive assistance in areas of conflict. The accent is on the word passive - PMCs are not passive; they do not stand about murmuring soothing words, and their operations extend beyond the guarding role. PMCs offer practical military help in an acceptable form to legitimate governments. Before continuing and providing some examples, it would be as well to outline the differences between a legitimate PMC and a modern mercenary. A mercenary will be an individual, recruited for a specific task. He is not part of a permanent structure and has only a limited range of capabilities. There is no group cohesion; before the job he will not know his colleagues. He subscribes to no doctrine or collective training standards and his ideas on discipline, the rule of law and human rights may be well short of those required by the law of armed conflict. He is recruited without adequate vetting, his standards of competence are not checked and his motives are suspect. A PMC, on the other hand, offers a packaged service covering a wide variety of military and quasi-military skills - a study of the chart will be helpful here. PMCs are permanent structures, corporate entities, which are run like a business. They have a clear hierarchy, are run on military lines and operate to high disciplinary standards and within the law of armed conflict, with a particular concern for human rights. In a well-regulated PMC, the involvement will begin with an analysis of the situation facing the client government and the preparation of a commander's estimate - a process known to an older generation of soldiers as 'making an appreciation of the situation', or, in lay terms, finding out what the real problem is and suggesting ways to solve it. The commander's estimate is crucial to the PMC's ethos. In it, the PMC's senior executives will analyse the situation facing the client, examine what is feasible and suggest what might be done to resolve the situation. PMCs do not simply supply what the client asks for. The closest and simplest analogy is with the medical profession. The patient goes to the doctor and says he feels ill; the doctor examines the patient, organises any necessary tests and proposes a course of treatment that will cure the condition; he does nor simply respond to the patient's request for a sick note and a bottle of pills. In short, as professional organizations operating in a highly technical field, PMCs expect to be consulted. The range of PMC facilities at the disposal of any suitable client can be considerable. PMCs may provide training and equipment to extend the capabilities of the client's existing military resources, or provide them with whatever strategic or operational advantage is necessary to suppress their opposition, or, going even further, play an active role alongside the client forces, as 'force multipliers'. A 'force multiplier' is something that makes a force more effective, a term best summed up by the use of helicopters during the Borneo Confrontation of the 1960s between Britain and Indonesia, when it was said that 'a battalion with helicopters is worth a brigade without them' - in other words, adding helicopter support increased the battalion's effectiveness by a factor of three. PMCs can be responsible for supplying trained manpower or equipment such as helicopters or battlefield radar, even deploying their own personnel into the field of conflict but with the strict caveat that they are acting within the chain of command of the client's military hierarchy, and, certainly in the case of Sandline, that military hierarchy must be the arm of a legitimate government. A PMC is, by this very definition, not in the business of providing arms to its client in isolation, and Sandline, incidentally, is not an arms-dealing company. Like any well-run PMC, we would prefer only to supply weaponry and systems within a wider package of training, support and operational use. To touch on the moral issue, we need to know what we are getting into, but the practical point to remember is that PMCs are not 'arms dealers' per se but packaged-services providers. Using the example of computers, well-run PMCs are not hardware providers. They deliver a workable package
Re: [CTRL] McCain's ties with Vietnam
-Caveat Lector- Reference the part on USMC Captain Cook. Captain Cook tore off the right pocket of his fatigues. On it was stenciled the USMC emblem he denied the enemy the knowledge of his branch of service. Captain Cook was held with a young man who was released in the mid to late 60's in South Vietnam. This young man, an Army private, came to Cook and admitted he was worried. The young soldier had signed enemy propaganda literature. Captain Cook gave him two pieces of paper to smuggle out on his exchange. One was letter to Captain Cook's wife. The other was a summary of punishment under the UCMJ. Captain Cook stated that as the senior POW he administered appropriate punishment under the UCMJ to the soldier for signing the propaganda. It ended with "No further action is required for this punishment." Mark Giddens, Intelligence Analyst, Joint Casualty Resolution Center, Sep 74 to May 76. 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 12/14/99
-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 - Panama Canal Communist Rebel Threat to Panama 45 Marines Killed Near Border COLOMBIAN communist rebels have attacked a naval base on the border with Panama, killing 45 marines, it was reported yesterday. The hostilities came as America prepared for the official handover of the Panama Canal today after an occupation lasting almost a century. About 600 members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia launched the attack on the Pacific coast town of Jurado on Sunday. US military authorities are worried that the guerrillas could launch attacks inside Panama and even on the canal itself once America's withdrawal is complete. The attack was one of the heaviest in more than a year and was thought to be the worst defeat suffered by a naval unit in Colombia's long-running war that has claimed more than 35,000 lives in the past 10 years. Today's handover ceremony will be a deliberately low-key affair, with America wanting to bow out of the region quietly. Madeleine Albright, the US Secretary of State, cancelled her visit, leaving former President Jimmy Carter, who signed the Canal Treaty in 1977, to lead the American delegation. Panama's Foreign Minister, Jose Miguel Aleman, played down the significance of the low level of US representation and hailed a new age in relations with the superpower that has dominated Panama's history. Other dignitaries due to attend the ceremony include King Juan Carlos of Spain and the president Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico. With the transfer of the waterway, Panama's chief economic resource will pass into Panamanian hands, giving the country of 2.8 million people full sovereignty over all its territory for the first time since it won independence from Colombia in 1903. Panama will regain all 363,000 acres of lush tropical land the United States has used for military bases. A recent poll in La Prensa daily newspaper disclosed that 61 per cent of the population were opposed to a complete withdrawal of the American military who will be gone by Dec 31, the official handover day. Panamanians have good reason to fear the departure of American troops, whose numbers peaked at 64,000 during the Second World War. Colombian guerrillas and drug smugglers have already begun to wage "turf wars" near deserted US bases. "The truth is that we cannot believe they're going," said Javier Castano, a bar owner. "We always thought there would be some deal, like the anti-drug centre, which would mean US troops stayed." The Colombian army, which is 120,000 strong, has struggled to contain the 20,000 guerrillas and it is widely accepted that Panama would have little chance against them. It simply hopes the border problem will go away. While US-Panamanian relations in the next century largely remain to be defined, leaders said mutual economic interests and democratic principles would be key. The United States is the canal's largest customer. The London Telegraph, December 14, 1999 Fear 2000 Asia Is Not Afraid of the Big, Bad Y2K Wolf The cell phones may be out, but the hookers will still be in service. KATMANDU - Less than a year after doomsayers painted Asia and the Pacific as the world's biggest millennium-bug black spot, officials throughout the region are proclaiming that their banks, businesses, governments and airlines will greet the new year with few noticeable computer glitches. ''Eight months ago we drew up some very scary scenarios for Asia,'' said Raeleigh Napier, Singapore-based regional millennium coordinator for British American Tobacco PLC, one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of cigarettes. ''Since then, the situation has dramatically improved, with tons of old computers having been retired, replaced or upgraded.'' Many experts had warned that Asia was woefully behind in attacking the millennium bug and predicted widespread chaos due to power outages, communication failures and errors in aircraft navigation. The millennium bug, also known as the Y2K bug, is a programming glitch that could cause some computers and electronic equipment to fail when their internal clocks roll over from 1999 to 2000. ''We are now quite confident there will be no disruption whatsoever at the port and business will continue as normal,'' Ms. Napier said, referring to Khlong Toey port in Bangkok. Nonetheless, British American Tobacco will follow through with contingency plans for a two-week failure of the port facilities. Although many private-sector analysts share the new confidence in Asia, some skepticism persists. Many Asian airlines have reduced flights on New Year's Eve, and many countries have advised people to prepare for problems. Both Japan and the Philippines have urged people to stockpile canned goods, cash and enough food and water to last for several days. ''We don't think any big disruptions will take place, but it
[CTRL] The World War III Scorecard, by Dr. Jack Wheeler
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.48/ww3.htm Click Here: A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.48/ww3.htm"The World War III Scorecard, by Dr. Jack Wheeler/A - The World War III Scorecard by Dr. Jack Wheeler This century, as we know all too well, has seen two wars of such global scope that they were christened "World Wars." Will the next century see a third? I fervently hope not, and might even venture to say probably not, but I certainly can't say never, that there will not. At the end of the 19th century, there was the euphoric conviction that the new century would be one of unparalleled peace and prosperity. The prediction that 14 years later Europe would be engulfed in mass slaughter beyond anyone's imagination would have been called lunacy. I am making no such prediction now. Yet I do think it prudent to see where in the world the best chances for a war of global scope might be in the first decade or two of our new millennium. Let's first look at where it almost cannot be. Not Africa. Local slaughters will remain endemic until the entire map of the continent is redrawn into political units that make cultural, geographical, and economic sense. But there is nothing there that can engulf other continents. Not South America, even though Colombia is now the most dysfunctional state in the Western Hemisphere, while its neighbor and the US's biggest foreign oil supplier, Venezuela, has embraced a Castro-type pathology. It's possible the US could get involved here militarily, but it wouldn't go beyond that. Not North America, surely. Canada could break up with Quebec, Mexico could break up with northern Mexico bailing out of being controlled by the irretrievably corrupt national government in Mexico City, and either or both could put severe stress on US border regions wanting to shear off from Washington's clutches. Again, whatever hostilities might emerge from this won't go global. We'll also leave out Australia and the Pacific. How about Europe? It's just about impossible to see where and how a big war would develop there. All most Germans dream about, for example, is going on vacation. The Middle East? The odds obviously increase here. Yet in any major conflict between Israel and the West versus the Arabs, it's hard to see who the Arabs' allies would be. Don't bet on their Moslem buddies. Islamic countries everywhere are deafeningly quiet about Russia's genocide of the Moslems in Chechnya, or China's oppression of Moslems in East Turkestan. That's why all the Arabs can threaten is terrorism. And it's also hard to see how Russia all by its lonesome could get a global conflict going. Stripped of Marxism as the ideological justification for imperialism, all it has left is naked Russian colonialism, which everyone except the fascist goofball who runs Belarus resists. So we come to Asia. Here is where WWIII, if it happens, will take place and it will be between India and China. India already has a billion people. They are the two biggest boys on the block, and they almost have to fight sooner or later. The rationale for India's army is to oppose Pakistan, which is disintegrating. Another enemy is needed: the oppressors of India's cultural brethren in Tibet, who stole the Aksai Chin region from it in 1962, and still claim half of Arunachal Pradesh. Further, both India and China may require a war as the only means to generate enough fervent nationalism to override the centrifugal forces building to break both countries apart. Information Age Capitalism is deadly to Beijing's and New Delhi's control over their territories. As various regions of China become more prosperous, the more they will bolt from national control and seize more regional autonomy. As more and more people become prosperous in India, the more destructive it is of the caste system upon which Hinduism depends. The more non-Hindi speaking regions like Tamil Nadu flourish, the more independence from New Delhi they will demand. Both governments will conclude that only a war of sufficient size with a sufficiently infuriating foreign devil will keep them intact and in power. If such a war breaks out, it will be of global immensity and China will lose. China will lose for two reasons: it will have no allies, and it will not have enough people. Japan, Korea, the Philippines, the US, Europe would either attempt to stay neutral or support India as a fellow democracy. China's only possible ally of any significance would be Russia. Yet China is already in the process of sub rosa taking over Far Eastern Russia (primarily the district of Primorski Krai which blocks all of Chinese Manchuria from access to the Sea of Japan, and which the Russians stole from China in 1860) through immigration. The odds are high that China will go to war with Russia over this border region, and before war with India has burgeoned. Russia will lose badly and thus be driven into the Western camp, and into India's with which it has had a
[CTRL] Cheap Labor, by Tibor R. Machan
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.48/cheap_labor.htm A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.48/cheap_labor.htm"Cheap Labor, by Tibor R. Machan/A - Cheap Labor by Tibor R. Machan One of the complaints raised at the WTO meetings in Seattle, Washington, echoes the accusations that have for years been leveled at Nike, Kathy Lee Griffin, WalMart and others, all of whom have employed workers abroad who charge far less for their labor than do workers in most Western countries, especially in the US. It is said that it is evil to pay so little for the work being provided and, moreover, it is unfair to other workers who have fought long and hard to obtain better wages from their Western employers. Now, after all this struggle and the benefits finally reaped from it, companies are managing to escape the results by moving to countries where wages are still low, where there is no organized labor movement, and where other harms befall workers as well (for example, environmental destruction via the costless dumping of wastes, wrought by the lack of legal sanctions). It is difficult to judge these charges without actually living in the regions of the world where labor accepts the "cheap" wages, at least cheap in comparison to what labor gets paid in, say, Detroit or Dallas. After all, medical care is less expensive and less up to snuff in most such regions, as well, as is entertainment, transportation, clothing, food, furniture and the rest. "Cheap" is not an absolute concept! In short, in most regions of the world the quality of life is lower than in the West. Ironically, that is largely because in most regions of the world free trade had been either outlawed completely or curtailed severely by governments that have ruled there. Without free trade, labor cannot organize, wages cannot be bid up, the environment suffers, and, of course, the quality of goods and services lags. It is hardly the fault of corporations that do business in these regions that they need not pay more for what they get. But to this the response is that corporations ought to, and even be made to, pay more for the work. Curiously, on a recent TV magazine program Kathy Lee herself said that she wished the minimum wage were higher in Central America, where she does some businessas if she were prevented from raising wages unless the government forced her to do so. At any rate, there is a widespread sentiment, fueled by the likes of Ralph Nader and Michael Moore (the man responsible for those badly made but sentimental favorite movies with many people, Roger and Me and The Big One) that it is the obligation of people in business to seek out badly paid workers and raise their wages to what is confusedly called a "living wage." I don't wish to address the basic moral issue for the time beingit is just not possible to argue that out here. Suffice it to note that this complaint very likely does not square with the behavior of most peopleI'd bet even those who advance it. Consider just this much. You are in a grocery store and shop for some item, say tea or chicken or soda pop. If you see that your preferred item comes in both an expensive and a cheap rendition, which do you purchase? At the mall, do you avoid the very expensive stores and the very expensive items and, instead, look for sales or good deals? When you shop for shoes do you seek out the most expensive if you can find more reasonably priced ones that meet your needs? When you bid on a house, do you volunteer a higher price than the seller is asking? How about a careven from Korea? When considering going to a hair dresser or barber, do you look for the most expensive place to get this service? I doubt that the answer is that most folks want to part with more than less of their wealth as they make their way about the market place. It is to throw away good opportunitiesfor saving for a rainy day, or being able to afford something elseto behave in such an irresponsible fashion. People in the market place aren't there to be charitable and that goes for everyone, not just managers of multinational corporations. If you shopped the way the critics expect companies to shop, your family would be outraged at your carelessness, your lack of prudence. But it must be remembered now that just as charity begins at home, so does charitable wage negotiation. If you avoid the stores where goods are expensively priced, you are putting into motion a process that leads to the manufacturer of the goods sold there to seek out the cheaper rather than more expensive labor, overhead and transportation. Folks who buck this trend simply cannot attract customers and will go out of business, thus leaving what used to be "cheap" now simply unemployed labor! The fact is that in a free market there are better opportunities to improve one's bargaining power than in a regimented economy. The latter relies on the non-existent omniscience of bureaucrats to set prices, wages, and production
Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- Hello Terry, They've already tried to clone the stains on the shroud. So far, no luck. But, then again, there are prominent groups who have significant proof that the shroud is bogus. WHO really knows? Carbon dating isn't always so reliable. You can see an article about the shroud though, at http://www.shroud.com/ As far as Jesus with dark complexion? Who really knows? His body was never found. And really, what does it matter what color his skin was? However, if we follow the heritage, his skin was most likely what we know today as European caucasian. Tracing the skin color isn't that difficult. Jesus' claimed ancestry is directly from Adam, which the word Adam in Hebrew means "ruddy complected" or "able to show blood in the face". It tells us really nothing more. If you follow the Biblical historical record, his mother was Jewish and of the Levites. Chances are most likely he was fair complected. Regardless. Those who are considered "Arabic" or dark complected, are technically from the premature liason of Abraham with the bond woman, which produced and whose descendants are of Ishmael, not the sons (descendants) of Isaac. Historically, it can all be proven by Biblical history, for those who are willing to do the research, and not listen to what some man says about it. eagle 1 http://www.lambsheart.com - Original Message - From: "Terry Trainor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 7:07 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus -Caveat Lector- I would agree with the dark complexion; probably look like someone that would not be allowed to sit at the front of the bus in the 60's. As soon as some idiot clones from blood stains on the shroud, I guess we'll know for sure, huh? :^) AmPat -Original Message- From: YnrChyldzWyld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 7:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus -Caveat Lector- The TRUTH is that Jesus probably looked like Woody Allen without glasses. Or perhaps, Gene Wilder. Or, if Christians are really lucky, Bernard Schwartz a.k.a. Tony Curtis. The TRUTH is that Jesus would probably NOT have looked like the men you mentioned, who are of European ancestry (albeit Judaic), rather Jesus probably looked just like any other modern Palestinian...which means he was NOT blond-haired and blue-eyed, but of a somewhat dark complexion... More of a chance of him looking like Arafat than Allen... June ;-) 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] FLASH! Navy base near Panama under siege FLASH!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=001851641145319rtmo=aTBBXBBJatmo=gggKpg=/et/99/12/14/wpan14.html Rebel threat to Panama as US gives canal back By Jerry McDermott in Panama City Panama Canal Commission: http://www.pancanal.com/ COLOMBIAN communist rebels have attacked a naval base on the border with Panama, killing 45 marines, it was reported yesterday. The hostilities came as America prepared for the official handover of the Panama Canal today after an occupation lasting almost a century. About 600 members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia launched the attack on the Pacific coast town of Jurado on Sunday. US military authorities are worried that the guerrillas could launch attacks inside Panama and even on the canal itself once America's withdrawal is complete. The attack was one of the heaviest in more than a year and was thought to be the worst defeat suffered by a naval unit in Colombia's long-running war that has claimed more than 35,000 lives in the past 10 years. Today's handover ceremony will be a deliberately low-key affair, with America wanting to bow out of the region quietly. Madeleine Albright, the US Secretary of State, cancelled her visit, leaving former President Jimmy Carter, who signed the Canal Treaty in 1977, to lead the American delegation. Panama's Foreign Minister, Jose Miguel Aleman, played down the significance of the low level of US representation and hailed a new age in relations with the superpower that has dominated Panama's history. Other dignitaries due to attend the ceremony include King Juan Carlos of Spain and the president Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico. With the transfer of the waterway, Panama's chief economic resource will pass into Panamanian hands, giving the country of 2.8 million people full sovereignty over all its territory for the first time since it won independence from Colombia in 1903. Panama will regain all 363,000 acres of lush tropical land the United States has used for military bases. A recent poll in La Prensa daily newspaper disclosed that 61 per cent of the population were opposed to a complete withdrawal of the American military who will be gone by Dec 31, the official handover day. Panamanians have good reason to fear the departure of American troops, whose numbers peaked at 64,000 during the Second World War. Colombian guerrillas and drug smugglers have already begun to wage "turf wars" near deserted US bases. "The truth is that we cannot believe they're going," said Javier Castano, a bar owner. "We always thought there would be some deal, like the anti-drug centre, which would mean US troops stayed." The Colombian army, which is 120,000 strong, has struggled to contain the 20,000 guerrillas and it is widely accepted that Panama would have little chance against them. It simply hopes the border problem will go away. While US-Panamanian relations in the next century largely remain to be defined, leaders said mutual economic interests and democratic principles would be key. The United States is the canal's largest customer.
[CTRL] Spanning The Century - Harriman Bio/Bones material
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Spanning The Century Rudy Abramson©1992 William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019 ISBN 0-688-04352-6 778 pps First/only edition Out-of-print - At the same time the question of professional-versus-amateur crew coaching was being argued, Yale's venerable senior societies, a bedrock of undergraduate social order and alumni loyalty, were under growing student criticism and public ridicule. Fanned by a new novel, Stover at Yale, written by Owen Johnson, Yale 1900, the controversy saw the societies belittled for fostering offensive elitism that was out of place at a modern educational institution. But Averell was no more inclined to support the overthrow of the social order than he was to ignore the decline of Yale rowing. The societies bonded men like himself to Yale and to each other across the generations. As much as he had wanted to row under the Blue banner, he wanted even more to be tapped for membership and inducted into one of the imposing secret fortresses. He returned from his first trip to Oxford just as the three societies prepared for the annual Tap Day ritual. Vying for men from proper families who had distinguished themselves in ways deemed exemplary, each selected fifteen members from the forthcoming senior class to perpetuate the secret brotherhood. The taps of 1912 were anticipated with uncommon interest not only because of Owen Johnson's best-seller but because the class of 1913 included a bumper crop of offspring of publicly prominent Americans, Averell being conspicuous among them. Opinion among the undergraduate cognoscenti was divided over whether he would go to Skull and Bones or to Scroll and Key. The latter made claim to scholarly superiority, but Bones was the first of the societies, the list of its members an awe-inspiring roll of men at the top of America's political, financial, and social institutions. Over the generations, its pledge of secrecy had stood more firmly than marriage vows and professional oaths. Except for the fifteen active members and alumni, Yale men could only guess at what was inside the prison-like oaken doors of the great ivy-covered mausoleum. Wolf's Head, the third society, was out of the question for the son of E. H. Harriman, even though the family had no Yale tradition of its own to uphold. Unlike most of his friends, who represented second or third generations and hoped to follow fathers and grandfathers into Bones or Key, Averell could point only to his uncle, William H. Averell, and an Averell cousin as Yale men before him, and he had hardly known them, if at all. On May 16, as juniors did on Tap Day year after year, members of Averell's class with aspirations for society membership gathered beneath a gnarled oak in front of Battell Chapel to wait for a man from each of the societies to emerge from the fortresses. A spring downpour soaked them to the skin and left them standing in mud. They waited without hats and with their coats draped about their shoulders, seemingly oblivious to the rain as their judgment approached. Dozens of underclassmen scrambled up into the tree and took places on the lower limbs where they could have an unrestricted view of the proceedings, during which representatives of the societies would walk into the crowd to find the juniors found worthy, whacking them on the back and ordering, "Go to your room." Every window was filled in Durfee Hall, and faculty members crowded onto the porch of the chapel. Girlfriends, graduates, newspaper reporters, even parentsincluding athletic director Walter Camp, who was anxious to see whether Walter junior would follow his famous father into Boneshuddled under umbrellas on the fringe of the crowd. At the moment the clock on the front of the chapel struck five, a man from each of the societies, wearing a derby, a blue serge suit, and his gold society pin in his lapel, approached waiting candidates. The grave emissary from Bones walked straight to Harriman, spun him about and whacked him on the back with the command, "Averell Harriman, go to your room." From the tree, a shout went up, "Harriman goes Bones," and Averell hurried away through the parting crowd to his dormitory. The supreme honor of the tapping ritual was not being chosen first, however. By long-standing tradition, the moment of highest drama went to the juniors chosen last, and in the class of 1913, the last tap for Bones went to George Cortelyou, Jr., whose father had been an important figure in New York Republican politics before going on to the White House as Teddy Roosevelt's private secretary. Key's last tap honor went to Vanderbilt Webb, chairman of the Yale Daily News, who had continued to shine at New Haven as he had at Groton. There were more poignant moments, however,, as others arrived at the crossroads which many considered the most important of their college careers. At times, Owen Johnson's acerbic criticisms of the
[CTRL] [0] Syndicate Abroad
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Syndicate Abroad Hank Messick©1969 The Macmillan Company London-Tronoto LCCCN 69-11590 246 pps. First/only edition Out-of-print Prologue: Command Decision NEW YEAR'S EVE in Havana and two "high rollers" prepared to quit the game. General Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar and Maier Suchowljanskybetter known as Meyer Lanskypossessed an active sense of realism. International gangsters of long standing, both had surrendered power before only to rebuild as the vagaries of man's ignorance created new opportunities. It was a warm night as 1958 died, and cloudless. Business boomed in a hundred brothels where virginsreal and allegedasked top prices. Experience was a commodity also concealed in the plush casinos where syndicate technicians cleaned the suckers as they had done for decades in scores of stateside joints. In the ballrooms of plush hotels subsidized by the casinos, tourist and Cuban bureaucrat danced the old year away. Reporters, their stories filed, joined the fun and games. The New York Times w ould be scooped by no newspaper next day for reporting: GOVERNMENT TROOPS SUPPORTED BY TANKS AND AVIATION HAVE FORCED THE REBELS TO WITHDRAW FROM SANTA CLARA, ACCORDING TO REPORTS REACHING HAVANA TODAY. Perhaps reporters who never learned of the relation of crime to politics back home should not be expected to recognize a similar combination in a foreign country. For behind the official blandness things were happening. As bands in nightclubs across Havana broke into "Auld Lang Syne," President Batista began a series of telephone calls. The message to crook and crony was the same. Only those who had proven their value in the past received the warning. Presumably they might be useful in the future. To Camp Columbia, the military fortress in the suburbs of Havana, the chosen were directed. A ten-foot-high Christmas tree still stood in the lobby of the Air Force building, and it attracted the wonder of sleepy children who might otherwise have asked why Santa Claus was fleeing by plane. The short, stocky Batista, escorted by seven carloads of armed men, arrived about 2:30 A.M. Once again the hopeless military situation was reviewed. Contrary to the reporters' stories, the rebels were advancing, and resistance had collapsed. The decision to run was ratified. Farewells were short. Most of the men had prepared for this day by stashing their loot in Swiss banks. Within the hour planes began taking off with the world's latestand richestcrop of refugees. The Dominican Republic was Batista's immediate destination. His home in Daytona Beach, Florida, occupied for four years during a previous exile, was not politically practical. Since regaining power, Batista's public image had suffered. Perhaps later, when the excitement died, and new villains caught the public fancy, it would be possible to return to Florida and from that base plot a new coup in Cuba. Meanwhile, Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo offered temporary haven at a price Batista was well able to pay. Within two years El Benefactor would be dead, shot down like a dog while returning from a visit to his mistress. Unlike Batista, he proved unable to adapt to the realities of a changing situation. Long before that happened, however, Batista moved to the Madeira Islands off the northwest coast of Africa. Portuguese officials were happy to welcome the wealthy visitor. At least one effort would be made to get Batista into Florida. Leonard Bursten of Miami Beach, a man with important friends, conceived a scheme to have Representative Abraham J. Multer (D-NY) invite the ousted dictator to testify in Washington before the House Banking and Currency Committee. The FBI investigated, and the plan was dropped. Later the Department of Justice found "no sufficient predicate for criminal prosecution." Meanwhile, as rumors swept Havana, and dice continued to roll, some of the new refugees headed straight for Florida. Among them was Meyer Lansky. He had been an international gangster even longer than Batista but, over the years, had learned how to make himself virtually invisible. The Gold Coast, which he had looted ten years before, was still open to him as home and headquarters. It was to Broward County he flew in a chartered plane. For the short, slender Lansky, the flight marked his second retreat from Havana. In the late Thirties he had begun building a gambling operation around the Hotel Nacional, only to have Pearl Harbor interrupt his plans. Before the war ended, Batista gambled on a free election and lostmaking it impossible for his friend to resume the gambling program when peace returned. Only after Batista's second coup had the syndicate been able to pick up the pieces in Havana. As the plane soared over the Florida Straits, Lansky wasted no time on regrets. Even yet he was not ready to write off Cuba as hopeless. Every man had his pricebe it money, women, idealsand presumably Fidel Castro was no exception. When
Re: [CTRL] Indictment Sought for Scientist Lee (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/10/1999 6:47:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was not until after he was fired that authorities discovered that Lee, around 1994, had improperly transferred thousands of computer codes, the "legacy codes" that provide a history of nuclear weapons development, from Los Alamos' highly secured computer system to his less-secure personal office computer. Does anyone know what happened in the case of the former head of the CIA who had all kinds of highly classified material that he had taken from CIA computers and transferred to his home computer? Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- Actually, there is a sort of underground tradition, mostly in the later New Testament apocrypha, that Jesus was in fact an ugly man with one twisted leg. Paul is also reported to have been a cripple, possibly bow-legged from rickets; note that while *Paulos* has no specific meaning in Greek, one meaning of its Latin homonym *paulus* is "lame". -Original Message- From: Tenorlove [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus -Caveat Lector- --- YnrChyldzWyld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More of a chance of him looking like Arafat than Allen... If that's the case, Jesus would truly have my pity, 'cause Arafat is ONE PLUG UGLY DUDE! 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] Indictment Sought for Scientist Lee (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Basically zilch, aside from having all of his privileges as a former DCI revoked. No criminal charges were filed. -Original Message- From: Prudence L. Kuhn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Indictment Sought for Scientist Lee (fwd) -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/10/1999 6:47:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was not until after he was fired that authorities discovered that Lee, around 1994, had improperly transferred thousands of computer codes, the "legacy codes" that provide a history of nuclear weapons development, from Los Alamos' highly secured computer system to his less-secure personal office computer. Does anyone know what happened in the case of the former head of the CIA who had all kinds of highly classified material that he had taken from CIA computers and transferred to his home computer? Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- Hello Robert, I've been quoted almost the exact thing you wrote... about Jesus Paul, from my estranged dad who is a Mason, first and above all other things. (The fact that he believes this from Masonic folklore, to me, says enough). I happen to disagree with that opinion, both about Jesus and Paul, and leave it on that step. I would rather follow the Biblically historical facts that show an entirely different point of view. In historical records, it is noted that Paul was not lame but rather nearly, if not completely, blind. This is why he had others write for him so often, such as Luke and Timothy. This is also why historians often disagree about the authenticity of Paul's writings, and often renounce his writings, because the handwriting varies in more than one copy of the manuscript notations. eagle 1 - Original Message - From: "Tatman, Robert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 12:52 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus -Caveat Lector- Actually, there is a sort of underground tradition, mostly in the later New Testament apocrypha, that Jesus was in fact an ugly man with one twisted leg. Paul is also reported to have been a cripple, possibly bow-legged from rickets; note that while *Paulos* has no specific meaning in Greek, one meaning of its Latin homonym *paulus* is "lame". -Original Message- From: Tenorlove [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus -Caveat Lector- --- YnrChyldzWyld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More of a chance of him looking like Arafat than Allen... If that's the case, Jesus would truly have my pity, 'cause Arafat is ONE PLUG UGLY DUDE! DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [2] Syndicate Abroad
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Syndicate Abroad Hank Messick©1969 The Macmillan Company London-Tronoto LCCCN 69-11590 246 pps. First/only edition Out-of-print --[1]-- 1 Rise of the Syndicate AMERICANS, uneasily sensing that organized crime is but a logical extension of their cherished free enterprise system, have stubbornly avoided learning too much about the subject. Investigators who try to dig are certain to incur the wrath of the John Birch Society, which wants you to support your local police regardless of how corrupt your local police may be. Million of words have been written and spoken about crime, but there has been very little research worthy of the name. Nevertheless, law enforcement agencies on local, state, and federal levels have amassed a tremendous amount of information while investigating individual cases. Many of the answers to the problems of organized crime are buried in dusty file cabinets from coast to coast. Some day, when citizens fear gangsters more than politicians, a central agency will be created to collect and coordinate these millions of isolated facts and permit investigators for the first time to know what is going on and why. When that happens, a war on crime can begin to achieve results. In the absence of any real understanding of the problem, certain misconceptions have been foisted on an ignorant public by officials more interested in empire-building than crime-busting. Newspapers, while occasionally living up to their traditions, have welcomed the misconceptions, because they made it possible to treat crime on a day to day basis. Thus it was in the Depression decade following Prohibition, the emphasis was not on syndicate gangsters, who even then were consolidating their power, but upon such "public enemies" as John Dillinger, Ma Barker, and Pretty Boy Floyd. The FBI, aided by a flock of semi-official books, won great renown during this so-called "Gang era" and became so identified with crime fighting as to exclude from public consciousness such other effective federal agencies as the Secret Service or the Intelligence Division of the Internal Revenue Service. Nevertheless, it was apparent by 1950 that despite the great work of the FBI, a lot of gangsters were operating almost openly. The Kefauver Committee in 1950-1951 dug for the first time into the compost pile of crime and politics and traced the careers of men and organizations back to Prohibition. The committee's work made it plain that crime was not the special province of any one ethnic group, although it did recognize the existence of the Mafia and called it the "cement" that binds together various syndicates. Despite the fantastic revelations of the Kefauver Committee, and a degree of public indignation it aroused, very little was done to follow through with new legislation or new investigation in the next decade. The McClellan Committee did produce a mass of testimony that more than confirmed the findings of Kefauver, but its preoccupation with the sins of the Teamsters prevented other findings from being put into perspective. As a result, the labor movement got a lot of heat that could better have been applied to the businessmen of organized crime, who had made league with Jimmy Hoffa to exploit the pension funds of honest truckdrivers. Ironically, although Hoffa at last went to prison, many sincere liberals perferred to overlook his crimes and blame a Bobby Kennedy "vendetta" for the pursuit of Hoffa. Uninformed liberals notwithstanding, Kennedy learned enough about what he called "the enemy within" to launch a Coordinated War on Crime when he became Attorney General in 1961 The big problem was to bring the FBI into the battle. J. Edgar Hoover had long maintained there was no syndicate, no Mafia, no organized crime. Kennedy could and did get laws passed that put the FBI into the areas of gambling and racketeering for the first time, but more was needed to get Hoover off the limb where he had roosted so long above the battle. La Cosa Nostra was the answer. Joe Valachi, a minor punk, was arrested and convicted by the Federal Narcotics Bureau, which had been talking about the Mafia for decades. Joe, seeking a break, began squealing. The narcotics bureau dutifully reported the development to the Organized Crime Section set up by Kennedy in the Justice Department to coordinate the work of a dozen agencies. Who had the inspiration remains a classified secret, but it was quickly decided to turn over Valachi and his tales of the old days in New York to the FBI. Nothing that Valachi said was new except the name he gave the old "Honored Society" of the Sicilians. Yet such was public ignorance, and credulity, that La Cosa Nostra was hailed as a breakthrough in the fight against crime. The McClellan Committee, which had plowed much the same ground in 1957, cooperated in 1963 by giving Joe maximum publicity. The FBI took bows left and right for exposing the New Menace, and everything that conflicted
[CTRL] [Fwd: Fw: CONSUMER WARNING/PHONING - ACTION ALERT - PLEASE POST!]
GE Foods -- 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 -Original Message- From: Debbie Ortman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Recipient list suppressed Recipient list suppressed Date: Monday, December 13, 1999 12:42 PM Subject: CONSUMER WARNING/PHONING - ACTION ALERT - PLEASE POST! CONSUMER WARNING - The Frankenfoods Fifteen(see list at end) IF YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS IN YOUR SHOPPING CART, YOU BETTER ACT NOW! HERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE YOU BUY ANY FOOD OR BEVERAGE PRODUCTS IN YOUR GROCERY STORE ARE YOU EATING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS? * Lab tests and industry disclosures indicate that 60-75% of all non-organic supermarket foods now "test positive" for the presence of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients. * Despite growing public concern over the safety of milk and dairy products from cows injected with recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), as well as human health and environmental concerns over genetically engineered corn, soy, canola, and cotton, the US government refuses to require safety-testing or labeling for genetically engineered foods. As a result Europe, Japan, and other nations are now refusing to buy many US food exports. * Mounting scientific evidence suggests that genetically engineered foods may present serious hazards for human health and the environment. The British Medical Association has called for a global ban on GE foods, while the New England Journal of Medicine has warned that "the allergenic potential of these newly intoduced microbial proteins is uncertain, unpredictable, and untestable." Scientists warn that GE foods may set off allergies, increase cancer risks, produce antibiotic-resistant pathogens, damage food quality, and produce dangerous toxins. * Environmental hazards of genetically engineered crops recently discussed in scientific journals and the media include: increased use of toxic pesticides, damage to soil fertility, genetic pollution of adjoining farmlands, harm to Monarch butterflies and beneficial insects such as ladybugs, and the creation of "superpests, "superweeds," and virulent new plant viruses. * Consumer polls over the past decade have shown that 80-95% of Americans want genetically engineered foods to be labeled--mainly so that we can avoid buying them. Fifty members of Congress recently sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration demanding labeling. In addition, a federal lawsuit has been filed by a broad coalition of scientists, environmental groups, religious leaders, organic farmers, and consumer organizations demanding that all genetically engineered foods be taken off the market until they have been properly safety-tested and labeled. * Turn over this leaflet to see what you can do today to protect yourself and your family from genetically engineered foods. WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY TO AVOID GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS Ask your grocery store manager for a written statement on their policy regarding genetically engineered foods. Request that they identify which food products are genetically engineered and which are not. Tell your grocer to offer a full-line selection of certified organic foods. Organic farmers and producers operate under strict certification rules and do not use any genetically engineered seeds or ingredients. Buy certified organic foods from your local co-op, health food store, farmers market or through a CSA - (Community Supported Agriculture) program. Join the Organic Consumers Association and volunteer to help organize opposition to genetically engineered foods in your local community. Keep informed on genetic engineering and food safety issues by visiting our web site at http://www.purefood.org Call the 15 companies listed below - The Frankenfoods Fifteen - and tell them you will not purchase their foods or beverages unless they can provide you with written assurance that their products do not contain genetically engineered ingredients. Safeway 800-723-3929 Frito-Lay 800-352-4477 Kellogg's 800-962-1413 Nestle 800 452-1971 Heinz Foods 888-472-8437
Re: [CTRL] Hoffmans Oklahoma book ordered destroyed
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/12/1999 11:48:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is just in from the RichSlick mailing list. David Hoffman's complete book, "The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror" is available at the hyperlink below. Can anyone verify that it has been ordered destroyed? Gavin. The Erie Morning Times contained the following on ll Dec l999: Quote OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)--The California publisher of a controversial book about the Oklahoma City bombing will destroy copies of the book as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed by a former FBI official over false and inaccurate statements in the book. Stan Twardy, attorney for former FBI official Oliver "Buck" Revell, said Friday that the number of books being destroyed was not available but it he described it as "substantial." The publisher said all books in its distributor's warehouse would be destroyed. Revell said David Hoffman's book, "The Oklahoma City Bombing and The Politics of Terror" contained false and inaccurate statements about him and "by innuendo" portrayed him as a co-conspirator in the bombing. Unquote Seems official. Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [3] The Squad
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: The Squad Michael Milan Rose Ann Levy and Shadow Lawn Press©1989 Shapolsky Publishers, Inc. 136 West 22nd Street New York, NY 1001 ISBN 0-944007-52-X 304 pps. First/only edition[there is also a UK printing] -- Out-of-print --[3] The Old Man On the Lower East Side, people used to say that when Roosevelt had a problem he couldn't solve, he turned to God. If the problem had to do with the Lower East Side, God would tell him to talk to Sam Koenig. Sam Koenig was the macher, the ganzer macher, the center of life in the neighborhood. He wasn't important because of how much he knew. It was who he knew that counted, and how he could get people he knew to do what he wanted. So when I found out many years later that it was Sam Koenig who had put Costello and J. Edgar Hoover onto me from the very start, I wasn't surprised. But if you had told me then, even in 1948 when I was just two years out of the Navy, that Koenig had steered me into the Special Group, you could have knocked me right over. Koenig seemed to know everybody, and when he put the fix in, it wasn't because he expected something in return the next day. That wasn't it at all. He was a man who built up a vault of favors. Everybody owed him and he knew how to exchange favor for favor, even putting people together whose paths might never cross. That's bow he built himself one of the most powerful neighborhood political machines in the country. He put judges on the bench, sent congressmen to Washington, and got you out of hot water with the* cops. If your nephew was laid off and needed a job with the city, you saw Sam. And if some paper-pushing son of a bitch was putting the bite on you for a chunk of dough under the table, you saw Sam. His word went all the way to the top. When Roosevelt needed votes from New York, he went to the Republican Sam Koenig. And in 1942, when Captain Roscoe McFall, who was running an OSS operation out of a hotel room in midtown, needed local muscle to cut a deal with Charlie Luciano to put some boys he could trust on the docks, he also went to Sam. Luciano was spending the war stamping license plates up at Dannamora so Koenig talked to Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello about setting up a meeting with him. Meyer, especially, thought he could get Luciano sprung when things cooled down after the war. Koenig got Governor Dewey to bring Lucky downstate to Sing Sing where he could enjoy some of the comforts of home. And he also got Dewey to grant him a pardon as his cut for letting his button men organize the docks. What nobody knew except Meyer and Frank was that Luciano had his own men in the OSS underground units sent to Sicily in advance of General Patton. By the time our troops entered Palermo, Lucky's men had organized the entire island and were diverting U.S. fuel supplies into the European black market. When I was drafted out of Seward Park High School in 1944, it was Sam Koenig who put me in the OSS operation he'd setup with Luciano, Lansky, and Costello in 1942. 1 worked undercover at Navy bases up and down the east coast until the end of the war. And that was how I came to Hoover's attention. So you could say that it was Sam who put me into the Squad, and years later before he died, he admitted that he had spoken to Hoover about using me for some special jobs. Just like any of the celebrities Ed Sullivan wrote about in his column, J. Edgar Hoover was a man of mystery to a Lower East Side kid like me. I knew that he liked to stay at the Carlyle up on Madison Avenue whenever he came to town. He didn't mind being seen at a swanky place like that, especially when he stepped out at night with the local politicians and the show dames they hung around with. He liked it when he saw his picture in the papers the next day. What I didn't know was on that afternoon in 1948 while I was looking at his picture on page one of the Daily News was that Hoover was in town looking for people to beef up an operation he was running strictly on the q.t. Like most afternoons, I was eating lunch at one of the rear tables in Ratner's. And like most afternoons, I was alone, reading the results of the horse races the day before. Because I had to make my collections from the East Side book around dinnertime, I always liked to know who had made out on the day's action and who had taken beatings. As usual, I sat facing the front so I could keep an eye on the door while I read the papers. I noticed these two guys come in who I made to be cops right away. They stood up too straight for local torpedoes and their shoes were shined up real bright like they had marched in a lot of parades. I made like I was just part of the local scenery, but I knew they were looking right at me. I was glad I wasn't carrying a gun. One of them walked over to one of the waiters and whispered something in his ear. Then they followed him to a table and sat down. So far so good, I said to myself. If they were cops looking for me,
Re: [CTRL] Morris Dees' Divorce Papers Expose Dark Side.
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/12/1999 5:17:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Who gives a shit? Joshua2 Hear, hear! Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/14/99 11:08:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is why he had others write for him so often, such as Luke and Timothy. This is also why historians often disagree about the authenticity of Paul's writings, and often renounce his writings, because the handwriting varies in more than one copy of the manuscript notations. There are the actual manuscripts of Pauline letters available? Om k DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- Let me ask you this Kris, if there are not manuscripts and or written notes and or notations, who did the King James Committee copy their works from? It is my understanding that there are five copies of the Septuagint in various hands over the world. I've seen one copy with my own eyes about 20 years ago. These seem to reflect what is written, to the "T", in what is commonly called the King James Bible. Where other translators got their translations or transliterations, I cannot say. However, I do not believe that this work we have come to call the Bible is merely a collection of simple hand-me-down hagadah's, but rather it is a documentable and historical reference regarding the tribes of the Hebrews and their migrations from Adam and Eve until we end with John's writings of the Messiah's Revealings - the Revelation. The original recordings are mostly obtainable, or at least viewable. If you want a more exact resource, give me a couple of weeks, since I have to work through and including New Year's Day, and I'll give you a documentable resource of where you can go to view, or where you can obtain a copy of these same documents I viewed. I believe that they are available. I do not believe, however, that they are all in manuscript / coptic form, as you may think of the "Dead Sea Scrolls". eagle 1 - Original Message - From: "Kris Millegan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 1:57 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/14/99 11:08:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is why he had others write for him so often, such as Luke and Timothy. This is also why historians often disagree about the authenticity of Paul's writings, and often renounce his writings, because the handwriting varies in more than one copy of the manuscript notations. There are the actual manuscripts of Pauline letters available? Om k DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- Lighten up, Eagle - I'm quite sure that this was a joking reference to your use of the term 'handwriting'; I know that no one here thinks we have an ORIGINAL manuscript, one that Paul himself penned - - - AmPat -Original Message- From: Eagle 1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 2:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus -Caveat Lector- Let me ask you this Kris, if there are not manuscripts and or written notes and or notations, who did the King James Committee copy their works from? It is my understanding that there are five copies of the Septuagint in various hands over the world. I've seen one copy with my own eyes about 20 years ago. These seem to reflect what is written, to the "T", in what is commonly called the King James Bible. Where other translators got their translations or transliterations, I cannot say. However, I do not believe that this work we have come to call the Bible is merely a collection of simple hand-me-down hagadah's, but rather it is a documentable and historical reference regarding the tribes of the Hebrews and their migrations from Adam and Eve until we end with John's writings of the Messiah's Revealings - the Revelation. The original recordings are mostly obtainable, or at least viewable. If you want a more exact resource, give me a couple of weeks, since I have to work through and including New Year's Day, and I'll give you a documentable resource of where you can go to view, or where you can obtain a copy of these same documents I viewed. I believe that they are available. I do not believe, however, that they are all in manuscript / coptic form, as you may think of the "Dead Sea Scrolls". eagle 1 - Original Message - From: "Kris Millegan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 1:57 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/14/99 11:08:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is why he had others write for him so often, such as Luke and Timothy. This is also why historians often disagree about the authenticity of Paul's writings, and often renounce his writings, because the handwriting varies in more than one copy of the manuscript notations. There are the actual manuscripts of Pauline letters available? Om k DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance-not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. == == Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ == == To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FW: Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- Nah, that's an image of Jacques de Molay created by Leonardo DaVinci for his Illuminati bretheren. David Get caught up in The Web of Fate at http://pages.whowhere.com/arts/david.rupp/home.html. -- From: Das GOAT[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 6:55 AM Subject:Re: Politically Correct Jesus -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-12-13 18:03:51 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The TRUTH is that Jesus probably looked like Woody Allen without glasses. Or perhaps, Gene Wilder. Or, if Christians are really lucky, Bernard Schwartz a.k.a. Tony Curtis. Personally, I like the unprepossessing face imprinted on the Shroud of Turin. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Indictment Sought for Scientist Lee (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/14/1999 1:57:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically zilch, aside from having all of his privileges as a former DCI revoked. No criminal charges were filed. Amazing. I thought I had just missed it. It's all a matter of who you are. Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Psyops / mindwar booklist ... free energy techno-linkage
-Caveat Lector- TV Most folks have no life outside of TV, job, minimal interaction with family. It is difficult to talk to the average person in the street since I am not aware of the plotline or "star" of the latest "Miami Vice" or "Baywatch" or whatever the fools are wasting their lives on. I haven't read Peter Moon on Montauk. I don't believe that there is a successful mass-mindcontrol other than TV in place.. although there are many collaborative effects impinging on people's ability to be "themselves" and to develop intellectually and spiritually. TV is broad spectrum. It is psychocultural behaviour modification. It is a constant message of fear, insufficiency, elevation of the primitive spiritual attitudinal states over the advanced states... mass-market monoculture .. theism of materialism subliminally inserted into the viewers' minds. PR .. "Public Relations" was developed as a means of controlling "the masses" .. TV is PR's Disneyland, where the masses are invited daily into the enchanted castle for poison apple pie. Many people living today are people whose Realities are shaped primarily by TV... people who've been accustomed to TV since earliest childhood. Such people are entangled in a web of TV created pseudo-reality. Nothing more is needed to control them. They are ACCUSTOMED to being told what to DESIRE. What could be more basic? The fundamental programming for controlling these people was inserted beginning years ago, and is being maintained and upgraded on a daily basis. Many were virtually parented by TV. It is very difficult for these people to think outside of any reality paradigm which is not directly supported by TV, and they are easily led to acquiescence .. look at the "public support" engineered by the media for the U.S. Military orgies in Kosovo and the Gulf War which were based in false information. an interesting site on "Communications studies," the media, monopolies, censorship, "PR," media violence ... http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/commun.html Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -Original Message- From: Catherine Austin Fitts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 4:41 PM To: Dave Subject: RE: Psyops / mindwar booklist ... free energy techno-linkage Holy smokes. I was sitting here thinking almost the same. I am reading Eustace Mullins, The World Order. I am coming to grips with the facts that this is my family, my friends, my former partners and business associates, investors I have worked with, and on and on. Have you read Peter Moon's series on Montauk? I keep trying to understand what mind control technology is being used on the general masses. These has to be something. I can not explain folks behavior any other way. 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] Institute for Molecular Medicine / GWS
Title: Dave Hartleyhttp://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave from http://www.immed.org/prod/chronic/chronic.html Chronic Infections | Chronic Fatigue Illnesses | Gulf War Illnesses Signs and Symptoms | General Information | Veterinary Infections | Search Articles available on-line are categorized as follows: Gulf War Illness, Chronic Fatigue and Arthritis, General Information,, and Veterinary Infections Click here to go to the article. ARTICLESRELATINGTOGULFWARILLNESSLink also to CFS/Arthritis or General Information or Veterinary Infections 1 Nicolson, G.L. and Nicolson, N.L. Doxycycline treatment and Desert Storm JAMA 273: 618-619 (1995). html doc 2 Nicolson, G.L., Hyman, E., Kor nyi-Both, A., Lopez, D.A., Nicolson, N.L., Rea, W. and Urnovitz, H. Progress on Persian Gulf War illnesses--reality and hypotheses. Int. J. Occup. Med. Tox. 4: 365-370 (1995). html doc 3 Nicolson, G.L. and Nicolson, N.L. Chronic fatigue illnesses and Operation Desert Storm. J. Occup. Environ. Med. 38: 14-16 (1996). html doc 4 Nicolson, G.L. and Nicolson, N.L. Diagnosis and treatment of mycoplasmal infections in Persian Gulf War Illness-CFIDS Patients Int. J. Occup. Med. Immunol. Tox. 5: 69-78 (1996). html doc 5 Nicolson, G.L. Further information about Persian Gulf War Illnesses. Int. J. Occup. Med. Immunol. Tox. 5: 83-86 (1996). html doc 6 Nicolson, G.L. and Nicolson, N.L. Chronic Fatigue Illnesses Associated with Service in Operation Desert Storm. Were Biological Weapons Used Against our Forces in the Gulf War? Townsend Lett. Doctors 154: 42-48 (1996). html doc 7 Nicolson, G.L. and Nicolson, N.L.Mycoplasmal infections--Diagnosis and treatment of Gulf War Illness/CFIDS. CFIDS Chronicle 9(3): 66-69 (1996). html doc 8 Nicolson, G.L. and Nicolson, N.L. The Gulf: War or Human Laboratory (comments on an article by John Nichols) British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine: Medicine, Conflict Survival 12: 260-262 (1996). html doc 9 Nicolson, G.L.and Nicolson, N.L. The Eight Myths of Operation Desert Storm and Gulf War Syndrome. Medicine, Conflict Survival in press (1997). html doc 10 Nicolson, G.L., Nicolson, N.L., and Nasralla, M. Mycoplasmal Infections and Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue Illness (Gulf War Illness) Associated with Deployment to Operation Desert Storm International Journal of Medicine In Press 2/17/97. html doc 11 Nicolson, G.L., Nicolson, N. L., and Nasralla, M. Chronic Fatigue Illness and Operation Desert Storm (Report) html doc 12 Nicolson, G.L., and Nicolson, N.L. Politics interfere with diagnosis and treatment of Gulf War Illness Criminal Politics January 1996: 20-27. (Text and 2 references) html doc 13 Nicolson, G.L.and Nicolson, N.L. Mycoplasmal Infections in Gulf War Illnesses. President's Panel on Gulf War Illnesses Washington D.C. August 14-16, 1995 html doc 14 Nicolson, G.L. and Nicolson, N.L. Summary of Persian Gulf War Illness Pilot Study on Mycoplasmal Infections in Veterans and Family Members. (Text and 5 references) html doc 15 Nicolson, G.L. and Nicolson, N.L. Written Testimony to the Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations, House of Representatives, U. S. Congress, April 2, 1996. (Text and 3 figures) html doc 16 Nicolson, N.L. and Nicolson, G.L. The Enemy-- From Within. Criminal Politics October 1996: 13-18. (Text) html doc 17 Nicolson, G.L. News Release for American Academy of Environmental Medicine Annual Meeting. October 14, 1996 html doc 18 Nicolson, G.L. Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications of Garth L. Nicolson on Gulf War Illness/myalpic encepthalomyelitis/CFIDS/Fibromyalgia html doc 19 Nicolson, G.L. Brief Summary of Possible Sources of Chronic Infections Associated with Gulf War Illness html doc 20 Written Testimony of Dr. Garth L. Nicholson, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Benefits, United States House of Representatives, July 16, 1998 html doc 21 Emerging Infectious Diseases 1998 in press ; Hospitalization for Unexplained Illnesses Among U. S. Veterans of Persian Gulf War html doc 22 Poster: Diagnosis and Treatment of Systemic Mycoplasmal Infections in Gulf War Illnesses, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Syndromes ,Garth L. Nicolson, Marwan Nasralla, Joerg Haier and Nancy L. Nicolson The Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, CA 92649-1041
[CTRL] [BRIGADE] PJB: GOP Walking Away from the Unborn
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! Dear Brigade, PJB on last nights debate - fyi - and GO PAT GO Linda --- December 14, 1999 BUSH, MCCAIN WALKING AWAY FROM UNBORN VIENNA, VA -- Today, Presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan released the following statement: "Last night, Texas Governor George W. Bush, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, pointedly refused to rule out a pro- abortion running mate such as Christine Todd Whitman. Senator John McCain, his closest rival in the polls, also refused to rule out of a pro- abortion vice presidential nominee. "Mr. Bush and Mr. McCain have also refused to commit themselves to nominate Supreme Court Justices who would overturn the 1973 abomination Roe v. Wade. The retreat of the national Republican Party from the Reagan principle that all human life is sacred, and must be protected, is now headlong and irreversible. "I urge those within the GOP who believe in the cause of life to walk away from a party that is turning its back on the unborn-and to join my campaign to win the nomination of the Reform Party for President. If nominated, I shall choose a pro-life running mate. If elected, every nomination I make to the Supreme Court will be of a jurist who believes in the sanctity of human life, and understands that Roe v. Wade was a crime against God and the Constitution. "The time for trust in the national Republican Party is over." - end --- ~~~ T H E I N T E R N E T B R I G A D E Linda Muller - WebMaster Post Office Box 650266, Potomac Falls, Virginia 20165 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.buchanan.org ~~~ Have You O F F I C I A L L Y E N L I S T E D Yet? http://www.buchanan.org/form-enlistment.html ~~~ The One and Only B R I G A D E Email List! To Subscribe or Unsubscribe go to: http://www.buchanan.org/000-p-brigade-list-subscribe.html ~~~ **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] (Note: GOP is more like Democrats every day, Lets jump on Pat's Bandwagon!-- Bill) 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] Rebel threat to Panama as US gives canal back
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! Rebel threat to Panama as US gives canal back By Jerry McDermott in Panama City Panama Canal Commission: http://www.pancanal.com/ COLOMBIAN communist rebels have attacked a naval base on the border with Panama, killing 45 marines, it was reported yesterday. The hostilities came as America prepared for the official handover of the Panama Canal today after an occupation lasting almost a century. About 600 members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia launched the attack on the Pacific coast town of Jurado on Sunday. US military authorities are worried that the guerrillas could launch attacks inside Panama and even on the canal itself once America's withdrawal is complete. The attack was one of the heaviest in more than a year and was thought to be the worst defeat suffered by a naval unit in Colombia's long-running war that has claimed more than 35,000 lives in the past 10 years. Today's handover ceremony will be a deliberately low-key affair, with America wanting to bow out of the region quietly. Madeleine Albright, the US Secretary of State, cancelled her visit, leaving former President Jimmy Carter, who signed the Canal Treaty in 1977, to lead the American delegation. Panama's Foreign Minister, Jose Miguel Aleman, played down the significance of the low level of US representation and hailed a new age in relations with the superpower that has dominated Panama's history. Other dignitaries due to attend the ceremony include King Juan Carlos of Spain and the president Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico. With the transfer of the waterway, Panama's chief economic resource will pass into Panamanian hands, giving the country of 2.8 million people full sovereignty over all its territory for the first time since it won independence from Colombia in 1903. Panama will regain all 363,000 acres of lush tropical land the United States has used for military bases. A recent poll in La Prensa daily newspaper disclosed that 61 per cent of the population were opposed to a complete withdrawal of the American military who will be gone by Dec 31, the official handover day. Panamanians have good reason to fear the departure of American troops, whose numbers peaked at 64,000 during the Second World War. Colombian guerrillas and drug smugglers have already begun to wage "turf wars" near deserted US bases. "The truth is that we cannot believe they're going," said Javier Castano, a bar owner. "We always thought there would be some deal, like the anti-drug centre, which would mean US troops stayed." The Colombian army, which is 120,000 strong, has struggled to contain the 20,000 guerrillas and it is widely accepted that Panama would have little chance against them. It simply hopes the border problem will go away. While US-Panamanian relations in the next century largely remain to be defined, leaders said mutual economic interests and democratic principles would be key. The United States is the canal's largest customer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=001851641145319rtmo=aTBBXBBJatmo=ggg Kpg=/et/99/12/14/wpan14.html **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.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] [4] Inside the Covert Operations of the CIA Israels Mossad
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Inside the Covert Operations of the CIA Israels Mossad Joel Bainerman ©1994 S.P.I. BOOKS/Shapolsky Publishers, Inc. 136 West 22nd St. New York, NY 10011 ISBN 1-56171-350-3 291 pps. First Edition Out-of-print --[4] Vice President Quayles Role In President Bush's CIA Agenda When Dan Quayle was chosen as George Bush's vice-presidential candidate most people had never heard of him. Some speculated that he was "impeachment insurance" for Bush in case Iran-Contra blew up in his face if he was elected President. Others claimed that it was to satisfy the conservative wing of the Republican Party While the media labeled Quayle as an "idiot" and the public views him as a dummy, incapable of sophisticated thinking, Bush knew otherwise. He chose Quayle because of the ability of Quayle to carry out covert operations, such as the key role he played in the secret effort to supply the Contras during the Reagan White House. To carry out his secret agendas Bush has to control key committees in the House and Senate, such as Finance, Intelligence, and Armed Forces, and command the loyalty of legislative assistants to congressmen and senators. Senator Quayle served the then-Vice President Bush well in the Senate as an integral part of the Secret Team. He was the Vice President's point man for th e Contras, soothing Congress' mind over the nasty rumors it was hearing about the Contras' ties to drug dealers and unscrupulous mercenary groups. When money is spent, congressmen and senators have to be informed. When "humanitarian aid" for the Contras was granted by Congress, Quayle did the explaining. In the summer of 1991, I got to know William Northrup, the Israeli arms dealer who was arrested in Bermuda in 1986 for selling arms to Iran. Before leaving for the States in September, he told me to try and get gut to California and meet Gene Wheaton. "Gene's a good man," he assured me. Wheaton had been investigating Reagan-Bush covert operations since the early 1980s and had seen from the inside how these secret agendas operated. In addition to his 25 years' experience as a criminal investigator for the U.S. Army, he had designed security systems for airports in the Middle East and served as an anti-smuggling narcotics advisor to the Shah. By that time I had interviewed covert operators like Richard Secord, and Iran-Contra players such as Yaacov Nimrodi. Now I had someone who looked at the world of covert operations from the perspective of an investigator. Unlike intelligence agents, Wheaton didn't thrive on lies and deceit. Judging from his very modest home, he obviously wasn't in it for the money. In 1985 Wheaton was vice president of a small cargo airline company that Oliver North's network wanted to use to haul arms to the Contras and rebels elsewhere, such as in Afghanistan. Wheaton had the expertise the secret team wanted, so they set out to recruit him. While Wheaton may have fit their political profile, he was conservative and right-wing; he was a cop, not an intelligence agent. He was brought into the center circle, where he stayed tong enough to learn about the White House's ties to drug runners, the massive arms transfers to rebel groups, the mountains of falsified documentation and miscarriages of justice. "I had no objection to the covert end of it, as long as it was legal," says Wheaton. "It wasn't. Whenever I asked about the legality of certain operation I was told, "It's all right, this is a vital national security issue.' I talked myself out of the inner circle but I was in- it long enough to get to know the players and their method of operation. The government officials I met in the Pentagon called supporting the private covert operator 'intelligence support activity.' These covert operators trampled on our Constitution and made a mockery of our judicial system. They aren't motivated strictly by anti-communism, power, or money, but by the adrenaline that stems from being able to create chaos. They would gladly destabilize a democratic ally of America just so they can go back in and save it." Wheaton explains that the origins of Oliver North's network was in the mid-1970s. There were, he says, literally tens of thousands of ex-covert operators and former Air America "employees" running around loose in the U.S. These weren't the kind of guys to lay back and run 7-11 stores, so they set up an array of covert airlines using the assets of Air America, the former CIA proprietary airline which had helped fly heroin out of Burma and Laos. When Air America was liquidated it created scores of smaller airlines, including Global, Capital, and Southern Cross. All tolled, these companies employed over 15,000 people. The subsidiary companies of Air America, Southern. Air Transport, Continental Air Services, and Air Asia were also broken up. This meant this secret team was able to supply pilots and mechanics, logistics and control people for future, privatized covert
Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- --- Eagle 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- Let me ask you this Kris, if there are not manuscripts and or written notes and or notations, who did the King James Committee copy their works from? It is my understanding that there are five copies of the Septuagint in various hands over the world. The Septuagint is only the Old Testament. No New Testament MSS exist that date prior to the reign of Diocletian, who ordered all Christian documents destroyed. Constantine, after his conversion to Christianity/Sol Invictus monotheism, commissioned new documents. __ 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] U.S. Weighs Cost of Involvement After FARC Attack
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! STRATFOR.COM Global Intelligence Update December 14, 1999 U.S. Weighs Cost of Involvement After FARC Attack Summary: Guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) overran a Colombian naval base near the Panamanian border on Dec 12. The raid highlights a new lack of Colombian military intelligence and is likely to precipitate calls for increased military aid to both Colombia and Panama. The incident will likely result in more U.S. intelligence aid to Colombia and force a reevaluation of U.S. involvement in both countries. Analysis: On Dec. 13, the Colombian Defense Ministry confirmed reports in the Colombian newspapers El Tiempo and El Universal that at least 34 Marines, one policeman and a civilian, were killed and at least 40 Marines were wounded after more than 600 FARC guerrillas attacked a Colombian naval base Dec. 12. The assault demonstrates how a reduction in U.S. intelligence aid to Colombia has left that country's military more vulnerable, which may increase pressure for more U.S. aid to both Colombia and Panama. The attack on the base, located in the Pacific coast town of Jurado near the Panamanian border, came just two days before a formal ceremony in Panama marking the U.S. handover of the Panama Canal. It was the heaviest attack this year and coincided with a wave of other clashes over the weekend in northwest and western Colombia. In a separate incident in San Luis, in neighboring Antioquia province, rebels killed eight police and two town hall officials. The area around Jurado, a key staging post for arms and drugs, has a heavy guerrilla and paramilitary presence and is 150 miles from the Panama Canal, separated by the nearly impenetrable jungles of the Darien province. Earlier this year, some U.S. military authorities had warned that Colombian guerrillas, who hold sway in the border area, could launch attacks inside Panama and even on the Canal itself once the U.S. pullout was complete. But, the guerrillas have long been in the territory, and this recent attack does not signal any particular increase in the threat they pose to the canal. The potential for increased FARC presence in Panama Canal Zone is not the direct issue. The real issue from the Colombian perspective is the new lack of adequate intelligence on rebel movement. Almost certainly as a result of U.S. intelligence aid, the Colombian military foiled at least two major FARC offensives last summer. The first incident occurred in the run-up to peace talks when the FARC attempted to strike at the mountain headquarters of paramilitary leader Carlos Castano. They were quickly intercepted and driven back by Colombian army troops. The second incident occurred following the postponement of peace talks when a column of FARC guerrillas marching on Bogota was intercepted and routed by the Colombian Army. [ http://www.stratfor.com/services/giu/072999.ASP ] But since the crash of a U.S. RC-7B intelligence gathering aircraft in southern Colombia in late July, the Colombian military has carried out no other major offensives. Prior to the employment of the RC-7B, the kind of rebel attack launched against the naval base was becoming all too common. The Colombian military was attacked in its barracks at Mitu and Miraflores, and its columns were regularly ambushed. Improved U.S.-provided intelligence support, however, seemed to have turned the tide of the war, allowing the Colombian military to carry out two massive ambushes of its own. From the U.S. perspective, the issue is the attack's proximity to Panama. It serves as a signal to the United States that its increased involvement in the Colombian drug war has to be weighed against a potential rebel threat to Panama, which has no standing military of its own. U.S. involvement in Colombia has been growing rapidly since Colombian President Andres Pastrana's ascension to office, while U.S. forces are drawing down in Panama. FARC has tried to draw the United States into its war with the Colombian government. Its latest attack will pressure the U.S. government to either increase its presence in Panama or increase its military aid to Colombia. Either case works to FARC's favor in that it heightens U.S. involvement in Colombia and thus leaves the Clinton administration's policy in question. This attack and its success will also strengthen the hands of those in Colombia and the United States who want to see an increased U.S. presence in Colombia and an extended U.S. presence in Panama. Most certainly, it will at the very least immediately result in increased U.S. intelligence aid to Colombia. It exposed the massive intelligence deficit faced by the Colombians at a time when the U.S. lost its primary asset in Colombia, the RC-7B, and in Panama, Howard Air Base. The incident will force a reevaluation of U.S. involvement in both countries. (c) 1999, Stratfor, Inc.
Re: [CTRL] Fw: SNET: Fw: [theseries] Earthlink knows everything about you!!
-Caveat Lector- 3 questions: 1. What is Total Access? I couldn't find a file with that name on my computer 2. Does this only pertain to people who use Earthlink as an ISP? 3. What other ISPs are involved? Thanks in advance, 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
[CTRL] Pitchers Hit Better!
-Caveat Lector- Published Monday, December 13, 1999, in the San Jose Mercury News Doomsayers Are Batting Zero Y2K provides another chance for failed prophets of disaster BY GEOFFREY TOMB Mercury News Staff Writer What if nothing happens? What if after years, months, days, hours, minutes and final seconds of Chicken Little-ing, the world wakes up on Jan. 1 to discover the great Y2K disaster is a yawner? Actually, there are eons of precedent for Armageddons that never happen. Fact is, ever since time began people have been predicting that it was about to end in a cataclysmic disaster. And there is one common link to each and every one of the forecasts of global gloom and doom. ``They have all been wrong,'' said Professor Richard Landes, founder and director of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University. Landes, a professor of medieval studies, said hysteria in 1000 wasn't much different than it is today, although computer breakdown makes today's a more secular end than a heaven-sent doomsday. Yet despite a 100 percent failure rate, disaster predictions keep on coming and people keep believing the worst, said Landes. Why? Because no one can see into the future. ``As a result, we want to know about it, we fear it, we use it as a depository for our hopes, and, when someone who claims to know it comes along, we are susceptible to their rhetoric.'' Here is a look at some of the best and brightest, or dumbest and dimmest, predictions of disaster in our recent times: IBEN Browning, a 72-year-old climatologist from New Mexico, alarmed America's heartland when he predicted, more than a year in advance, that a record earthquake would strike within 48 hours of Dec. 3, 1990. It would hit along the New Madrid Fault in Missouri, last struck in 1811. As the Big One approached, schools were dismissed, businesses closed, National Guard troops alerted. Hundreds fled their homes, and thousands from Mississippi to Illinois stocked up on food and water. They even canceled the annual Christmas parade in Pine Bluff, Ark. And on Dec. 3? Oh, never mind. CLAIMING to be a channel from a round table that included Jesus, Buddha, Pope John XXIII, Christopher Columbus, King Arthur, Merlin and the ``Cosmic Master Ray-o-Light,'' Elizabeth Clare Prophet warned that Dec. 31, 1989, would be the world's last New Year's Eve. Nuclear war and economic collapse would occur when Russia attacked the United States. Prophet gathered 2,000 followers on a 12,000-acre ranch near Yellowstone National Park in Montana, where they built underground shelters to be safe from nuclear incoming. Many of the group closed bank accounts and paid $10,000 to guarantee themselves a haven underground. They called their enclave Glastonbury, after the place in Britain said to be the sanctuary of King Arthur. They also ate macrobiotically and wore purple on Thursdays. When war did not erupt on New Year's, Prophet updated her doomsday to April 23, 1990. And what happened? Oh, never mind. THE appearance of comets are sure signs of pending disaster. Remember the 1997 mass suicide in San Diego, when 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult killed themselves to shed their ``earthly containers'' to join a UFO tailgating the Hale-Bopp comet? Less deadly was the worldwide fizzle experienced with the 1973-74 no-show of the Comet Kohoutek, which many feared would collide with Earth. Proclaimed as the Comet of the Century, so bright it would burn retinas and augur global catastrophe, the comet was a bust, barely visible. It is still known as the shy comet. But none holds a candle to Halley's, a regular returnee every 76 years for the last 4.6 billion years. Halley's, last here in 1986, has been an ill omen for centuries. In 1910 it was suggested that all life would end when Earth passed through the comet's tail because the tail was made of deadly space gas. Thousands rushed out to purchase newly marketed anti-comet pills and gas masks. Out in Oklahoma a group called the Select Followers determined that the only way to save the planet was to reach back to a tried-and-true method from another time and sacrifice a virgin. A candidate was actually chosen until police got wind of the plan and stepped in. And when the comet came? Oh, never mind. MORE recently, Paris designer Paco Rabanne, modeling himself more on Descartes than Chanel, said he had interpreted Nostradamus, dead since 1566 but still cited for his prescience. Rabanne said he learned that Paris would be destroyed at 11:22 a.m. on Aug. 11, 1999. The City of Light would be extinguished in flames by the crash of Russia's Mir space station during that day's solar eclipse, Rabanne claimed. A poll showed 10 percent believed this. Rabanne fled to Brittany. A group of 1,000 unfortunates left behind gathered Aug. 11 at his Left Bank boutique and counted down to 11:22 a.m. ``Caramba! No Paco-lypse,'' shouted the champagne-sipping celebrants as the appointed hour came and went. Rabanne, perhaps
Re: [CTRL] Ritilin/Prosac, Gun Control, and School Shootings
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: MrGoodSalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ritilin/Prosac, Gun Control, and School Shootings Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999 5:27 AM A hypothesis for your consideration: Could the recent wave of school shootings have been deliberatedly caused by globalists and extreme liberals for the purpose of ushering in a one-world government which would be facilitated by: a) undermining the legitimacy of the Judeo-Christian heritage of America, and b) instigating anti-gun laws and ever bigger government? Reasons for hypothesis: 1) Most of these school shootings have been strangley isolated in rather mundane, "heartland of America" areas with relatively large Christian populations. The probable reaction of an increasingly atheistic and ignorant population would be disgust for "traditional" America. 2) In a democracy, a major motivation for sweeping legislative changes are public spectacles that produce a mass emotional reaction in the population. 3) There are serious and well organized elements in our society and the world that want to disarm the domestic U.S. population in particular and the world population in general as a prelude to or in facilitation of a one-world goverment. 4) The means currently exists to engage in the deliberate and sophisticated psycho-social manipulation of school children with the aid of sophisticated computer diagnostic testing and expert psychological consultanting firms. Also, the political attitudes of the organizations who have both expertise in these methods and access to our nations school children are extremely liberal, atheistic, and even out-and-out communists with a clear and proactive agenda to change American society through the destruction of our existing culture. For details, see the book: "The Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality Through Education" by B.K. Eakman. Possibilities: 1) The "heartland" of America has been targeted for undermining by those who want to portray normal America as sick and in need of severe changes. 2) Existing pervasive computerized testing technology could be used by existing psychological consulting firms to identify those adolescents from the target population that are having the types of emotional problems that are most likely to lead to violence. 3) Once identified, this troubled adolescent sub-group could be pumped up on judgement distrupting drugs and provoked by additional psycho-social manipulations until a sub-set begins wigging out. 4) As the sub-set starts snapping like popcorn in a microwave, the one world government political agenda could be pursued, it's advocates all the while waving the latest headlines in the face of policy makers and opponents. 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 '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
[CTRL] Soy Update
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Ian Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Soy Update Date: Saturday, December 04, 1999 3:05 AM A second article in another Hawaiian paper on the tofu study has been located. The papers published follow-ups that sought to allay concerns about tofu, raising points from the need for more research before coming to definitive conclusions (obviously) to harming local tofu businesses. Here are the articles I've found on the tofu study: http://starbulletin.com/1999/11/19/news/story4.html http://starbulletin.com/1999/11/22/news/story4.html http://starbulletin.com/1999/11/24/news/story5.html http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/1999/Nov/20/localnews3.html http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/1999/Nov/26/localnews3.html I contacted a researcher in a study I quoted showing that the soy phytochemical genistein killed testicular cells. I asked if those cells were normal or cancerous. He said they were altered, but in other studies he has and/or is working on, genistein is found to kill normal testicular cells, yet increase their proliferation at lower doses. While healthy folks may not need chemicals increasing or decreasing the number of their cells, that evidence suggests that if there's a toxic level, there may also be a safe and possibly beneficial level of soy. With respect to reducing rates of cancer and other major illness, research suggests that soy works. The FDA recently approved the use of health claims on soy products.[*] PubMed searches find numerous studies (see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed) over the years that demonstrate an anti-cancer effect of soy phytochemicals, and their cytotoxic effect appears generally to be highly specific to cancer cells. Of course, the possibility of a risk of brain atrophy is not to be taken lightly. Of all organs, the brain is arguably the most valuable and important to preserve. [*] http://soy.com/Soy_Information/News/newfdaclaim/newfdaclaim.html IS SOY SAFE?: http://users.erols.com/igoddard/soy.htm GODDARD'S JOURNAL: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/journal.htm 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 '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] Spiked Hoax Returns
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Ian Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Spiked Hoax Returns Date: Thursday, December 02, 1999 6:00 PM WEBSITE THAT THE FBI SPIKED IS REOPENED (c) 12/02/99 Ian Williams Goddard The FBI recently went into panic mode and intimidated Mike Zieper's Internet Service Provider to shutdown his website. While the ISP caved in at first, they have since allowed his site to go back up. The furor was over a video that Zieper claimed came from his brother in the army. The video claims to be a U.S. Army briefing pertaining to an Army plot to incite riots at Time Square as the New Year (Y2K) arrives. Here's the page: http://crowdedtheater.com/index1.html About the video, Zieper's site still states: "I got it from my cousin Steve who's in the army. ...If it's real, then we're in really big trouble." But there's nothing to indicate that Zieper himself created it. A report from Zieper's ISP, and from Wired, defines the video without question as a "spoof" created by Zieper: http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32746,00.html Zeiper's ISP: http://www.becamation.com/crowded.htm If it was a hoax, it was fraud and thus the FBI had grounds to take action to shut it down, although perhaps not in the way they did. But if it's a hoax, why would the ISP allow it to go back into operation? It seems to me that if Zieper created the video, but is to this day saying on his webpage "I got it from my cousin Steve who's in the army," and claims not to know if it's true, then it's a lie and is fraud. Zieper's ISP, BECamation, said they got complaints (http://www.becamation.com/crowded.htm) about their having taken down the hoax. They said in their press release (http://rumormillnews.com/pulled.htm) that when the FBI contacted them, they already knew the video "was a farce." I think that they should get complaints about putting it back up! Put it back up, BUT with a statement that it's FICTION. If it doesn't say it's fiction, they're perpetrating fraud. Here's exactly what the page has said and says to this day: http://www.crowdedtheater.com/index1.html CROWDEDTHEATER.COM Is there going to be a Military Takeover of New York City on New Years Eve 1999? I don't know too much about this tape you are about to see. I got it from my cousin Steve who's in the army. He said that copies of this tape are floating around the base, and nobody knows who made it. If it's fake, then there's nothing to worry about. If it's real, then we're in really big trouble. I posted it with Real Video G2, but it should work with other versions of Real Video. Go here for a free download of the Real Video software. Click here to see the tape. [EMAIL PROTECTED] = IAN: The page clearly states that the presenter, who is the site owner and the person who has since admitted that he made the tape, instead received the tape. It also clearly indicates that the presenter is unsure if the content of the tape is what it purports to be, which is a U.S. Army briefing. Both of those allegations made by the site are FALSE according to the presenter and to his ISP, which means they're willfully promoting a lie. I'm all for free speech, but not free fraudulent speech. It seems to me that there's a confusion here between free speech and freedom to make fraudulent claims. All they need to do is state that the video is fictional. GODDARD'S JOURNAL: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/journal.htm 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
[CTRL] DEA Y2K
-Caveat Lector- 13 December 1999 Source: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html - [Federal Register: December 13, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 238)] [Notices] [Page 69548-69549] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr13de99-96] === --- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA-188N] Contingency Plans for Year 2000 AGENCY: Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Justice. ACTION: Notice; Guidance. --- SUMMARY: In light of the possibility that computer or operational difficulties may arise due to the transition to the year 2000, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is detailing its contingency plans for the Year 2000. In consultation with the regulated chemical and pharmaceutical industries, DEA has prepared these plans to ensure a smooth transition to the new millennium. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia M. Good, Chief, Liaison and Policy Section, Office of Diversion Control, Washington, D.C. 20537, (202) 307-7297. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: What Is the Purpose of This Notice? This notice makes public the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA's) business continuity and contingency plans to deal with any computer or operational difficulties which may result from Year 2000 (Y2K) problems. Background Concerns have arisen within both the public and private sectors as to possible computer or operational problems which might occur due to the use of two-digit date fields in computer files as dates change from December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000. Functionality of key systems, including telephones, power and other utilities, as well as computer- based business functionality have been questioned. Much discussion has occurred as to the types of problems which might be encountered and the best contingency plans available to deal with them should they arise. DEA undertook a thorough review of its systems to determine where problems might exist and to work proactively, both internally and externally, to ensure that the regulated industries are prepared for 2000. What Steps Has DEA Taken To Prepare for the Possibility of Problems? In order to prepare for the possibility that problems might arise, either internally or externally, DEA has developed a business continuity and contingency plan to have in place back-up systems, where necessary, to deal with problems, should they arise. Registration and Reregistration Many registrant services are computer-based. While all efforts have been made to ensure that DEA's registration systems are unaffected, as a contingency against interruption of controlled substance registration service, DEA has taken a number of precautionary steps: 1. All renewal applications that would normally be printed in January, February, and March 2000, have been preprinted. Matching certificates of registration have also been preprinted. the forms and certificates will be manually sent to registrants. 2. Until computer-generated certificates can be issued, form letters will be provided to new registrations to serve as proof of registration. 3. Until computer generated certificates can be issued, form letters will also be provided to registrants requiring modification of their registration. Quotas for the Manufacture of Controlled Substances Concerns have been expressed that there may be some stockpiling of controlled substances by patients worried about the availability of controlled substances. This stockpiling, should it occur, could result in shortages of controlled substances for patients in the early part of 2000. In an effort to ensure that any stockpiling does not strain the controlled substances system, and to ensure that manufacturers and distributors of controlled substances do not experience shortages of raw materials, DEA has adjusted the aggregate production quotas to include the allowable maximum of 50 percent inventories for each basic class of controlled substances manufactured for legitimate medical use (64 FR 56366; October 19, 1999). Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System The Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System (ARCOS) is the automated system used by DEA to monitor selected controlled substances inventories and transactions. All registrants required to submit ARCOS reports should do so under the normal schedule of reporting. If there are interruptions in the computer system, the ARCOS Unit of DEA will collect the reports and catalog them into a library until such time as they can be entered into the computer system. Importation and Exportation of Controlled Substances Many countries, including the United States, use import/export
[CTRL] The right to bear arms
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: The right to bear arms Date: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 4:01 PM The right to bear arms Joseph Farah WND http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_btl/19991206_xcbtl_the_ri ght_.shtml There's a reason the Founding Fathers considered the right to bear arms fundamental in a free society. A couple of recent unrelated incidents should bring this home to all of us. In Seattle last week, the local government, faced with widespread civil disobedience over the city's hosting of the World Trade Organization conference declared a state of emergency, a curfew and even went so far as to ban the use of gas masks by anyone except police. Now, in case you hadn't considered this before, gas masks are not weapons. They can only be used to defend oneself, usually from tear gas fired by government police. Now imagine you lived in Seattle and had some urgent business. Perhaps you have an asthmatic son or daughter with a doctor's appointment. You live outside the immediate area of protests, but as a precaution against what could be a life-threatening attack to your child, you feel compelled to break out the gas mask collecting dust in the basement. In Seattle, you would be treated as a criminal. It's arbitrary. It's capricious. And I say it's unconstitutional. And the Constitution doesn't even explicitly guarantee the right to bear strictly defensive tools such as a gas mask. I think many, if not most, people -- left and right -- would agree with me. Nevertheless, there is still, somehow broad debate in this country about whether the Constitution really means what it says about firearms. I don't get it. Some of the anti-gun, anti-Constitution, anti-freedom crowd looks at it this way: "Yeah, it's in the Constitution. But the Constitution is outdated and in need of change -- especially the Second Amendment. Our first priority needs to be to protect people from violence. If we take the guns away from ordinary people, they will be safer and more secure. They can rest easy knowing the government will protect them." Of course, the facts, the statistics, the evidence just doesn't bear out any such theory. On the contrary, the only cold, calculating, objective, scientific research conducted in this area, by Dr. John Lott, shows just the opposite to be the case -- more guns mean less crime. But put that aside for a moment and consider a recent development in a police shooting case in Claremont, Calif. Last January, Irvin Landrum Jr., 18, was stopped for a traffic violation. The cops say Landrum pulled a gun on them, so they shot him and killed him. The family never bought the story and filed a lawsuit suggesting the police shot the kid and planted a gun on him. It turns out ballistics tests showed the gun was not fired that night. It had no fingerprints on it. And the last traceable owner was the late police chief of a neighboring town. I don't know about you, but I believe the kid was shot three times by the cops and the .45 was dropped on him. It happens. You see, some cops are crooked. Some cops are dishonest. Some cops are even unbalanced, untrustworthy and unqualified to carry a gun. And even more of them are unsuited to that role if and when the police hold a monopoly on firepower. When some nut climbs a tower somewhere and shoots innocent people, too many Americans begin clamoring to take away guns from perfectly law-abiding citizens who need them to protect themselves as well as to protect our own liberty from the creeping police state. When a nutty cop goes berserk and kills innocent people -- and it happens -- I never hear anyone suggesting we disarm all police. True self-government requires an armed citizenry. If the government holds a monopoly on force, tyranny is only a shot away. We can never allow that to happen in America. Nor can we ever tolerate American city governments, state governments or federal government suspending the constitutional rights of free people. The WTO be damned. Let the organization meet in China. Let it hire its own private security force to protect Fidel Castro and Bill Clinton. We shouldn't suspend the Constitution to protect people who would like to shred it permanently. Remember, gas masks don't kill people. Overbearing, unchecked, heavily armed governments kill people. The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution. ---Doug McKay"mckay003_AT_maroon.tc.umn.edu Joe Sylvester Don't Tread On Me ! = ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY DON'T VOTE FOR LAWYERS! http://www.constitutionalguardian.com/ =Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List,
[CTRL] Tofu Study Update
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Ian Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tofu Study Update Date: Thursday, December 09, 1999 2:44 AM The following contains much information about the "tofu study" reported: http://starbulletin.com/1999/11/19/news/story4.html http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/1999/Nov/20/localnews3.html I contacted Lon White, lead researcher in the tofu study to ask some questions. I asked him about the statistical significance of the findings in the study. He informed me that there were four major endpoints in the study: 1. cognitive impairment of men (number of men=3734) 2. cognitive impairment of sample of wives (n=502) 3. brain atrophy by weight of men who died (n=290) 4. brain atrophy by volume measured via MRI (n=574) The probability (p) value was less than .05 (significant) for a correlation between each endpoint and tofu intake (there was no significant correlation for other foods). In some cases the p value is less than .001 (if the p value is more than .05, it's not significant, if it's .05 or less, it's significant). Here's what this means: IF p = .05 there's 95% chance the correlation is true IF p = .01 there's 99% chance the correlation is true IF p = .001 there's 99.9% chance the correlation is true So the correlation between the four endpoints listed above and tofu consumption had an over 95% probably of being true, with a probability of truth as high as 99.9%. Of course this cannot be read as proof that tofu causes those problems, but at the least it signals the need for further investigation. What is perhaps most significant is that Dr White informed me that there is a dose-dependent relationship between tofu consumption and the endpoints, ie, the more tofu was eaten, the more impairment and/or atrophy is found. The odds that such findings would be chance are extremely low! = Here are two papers Dr. White, et al., have had published: White, L., Petrovitch, H., Ross, G.W., Masaki K.H. (1996) Association of mid-life consumption of tofu with late life cognitive impairment and dementia: The Honolulu-Asia Aging Study. The Neurobiology of Aging, 17 (suppl 4), S121. White, L., Petrovich, H., Ross, G. W., Masaki, K. H., Abbot RD, et al. (1996) Prevalence of dementia in older Japanese-American men in Hawaii. JAMA, 276, 955-960. = More: http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/References/Brain.htm = Here's a brief review of those two papers found in a letter to the FDA from Daniel Sheehan, PhD, Director of the Estrogen Base Program Division of Genetic and Reproductive Toxicology, and Daniel Doerge, PhD, Division of Biochemical Toxicology: == On 02/18/99, Dr. Sheehan Dr. Doerge comment on White's work == Finally, initial data from a robust (7,000 men) long-term (30+ years) prospective epidemiological study in Hawaii showed that Alzheimer's disease prevalence in Hawaiian men was similar to European-ancestry Americans and to Japanese (White, et al, 1996a). In contrast, vascular dementia prevalence is similar in Hawaii and Japan and both are higher than in European- ancestry Americans. This suggests that common ancestry or environmental factors in Japan and Hawaii are responsible for the higher prevalence of vascular dementia in these locations. Subsequently, this same group showed a significant dose-dependent risk (up to 2.4 fold) for development of vascular dementia and brain atrophy from consumption of tofu, a soy product rich in isoflavones (White, et al, 1996b). This finding is consistent with the environmental causation suggested from the earlier analysis, and provides evidence that soy (tofu) phytoestrogens causes vascular dementia.Given that estrogens are important for maintenance of brain function in women; that the male brain contains aromatase, the enzyme that converts testosterone to estradiol; and that isoflavones inhibit this enzymatic activity (Irvine, 1998), there is a mechanistic basis for the human findings. == Full Letter: http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/files/nctrpti.doc == The following is the abstract to the recent study, which should be published by April. Below that is a memorandum sent out by Doctor White after the newspaper publications: === ABSTRACT TO UPCOMING PUBLICATION OF TOFU STUDY ===
[CTRL] Toxicity of Environmentalism
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Kenneth Nebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Toxicity of Environmentalism Date: Monday, December 06, 1999 5:24 PM Here is a summary of Reisman's Toxicity of Environmnentalism. The essay is available online at http://www.capitalism.net. Ken Summary of "The Toxicity of Environmentalism" by George Reisman Human life and well-being depend on science, technology, and economic progress. As the leading evidence of this fact, man's life expectancy has increased by two and a half times and the quality of his life improved immeasurably since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The key to this marvelous success has been the growing use of machinery driven by man-made power. The application of the energy released by man-made power, primarily in the form of the combustion of fossil fuels, and more recently in the form of atomic radiation, has enabled human beings to accomplish with their relatively feeble muscular endowments, amazing productive results--from the making of automobiles, airplanes, computers, and television sets to the moving of mountains, the irrigation of deserts, and the clearing of entire jungles--and to do all this, and much, much more, with less and less fatigue. The so-called environmental or ecology movement is the enemy of man-made power, of the Industrial Revolution, of economic progress, technology, science, and man. Thus far, it is has been responsible for the energy crisis, a decline in the average standard of living, and the enrichment of terrorist governments, which last is a direct result of the artificially high price of oil it has caused through restrictions on the supply of oil and competing forms of energy. In its absence, the war in the Persian Gulf would not have been necessary, because Saddam Hussein would not have had the oil revenues to finance his military buildup. The ultimate goals of the environmental movement are even worse: namely, the destruction of industrial civilization, mass impoverishment, and depopulation. Its ethical perspective is that of the anti-human doctrine of "intrinsic value"--i.e., the notion that lower animals and inanimate matter are valuable in and of themselves, apart from all connection to human life and well-being, and that man must sacrifice himself for their sake. The philosophical corruption that the acceptance of the movement represents, not the environmental pollution it alleges, constitutes the genuine crisis of our time.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 '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 Paul Garson Show.
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.CyberRadioTV.com/ Click Here: A HREF="http://www.CyberRadioTV.com/"CyberRadioTV/A - Kris, Just a note to confirm your appearance on The Paul Garson Show. I have you scheduled for Monday, 12/14. 7-9 pm PST. We're looking forward to the show. Catherine Silvestre The Paul Garson Show CyberRadioTV.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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
Re: [CTRL] The Paul Garson Show.
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/14/99 7:20:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kris, Just a note to confirm your appearance on The Paul Garson Show. I have you scheduled for Monday, 12/14. 7-9 pm PST. We're looking forward to the show. I have just been informed that I come on at 9pm . Om K DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] New PARANOIA out
-Caveat Lector- Highly Recommended. Matrix, Larry gardner Kenn Thomas and more. Al , I couldn't acces your site at www.members.aol.com/alhildell/paranoia though. Wha's up? Om k DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] The Paul Garson Show.
-Caveat Lector- Would really be interested in hearing the show, but the media player keeps cutting out to where not a word can be understood. Is there a way to make it quit resetting and rebuffering? Anybody know? eagle 1 - Original Message - From: "Kris Millegan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 9:22 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] The Paul Garson Show. -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/14/99 7:20:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kris, Just a note to confirm your appearance on The Paul Garson Show. I have you scheduled for Monday, 12/14. 7-9 pm PST. We're looking forward to the show. I have just been informed that I come on at 9pm . Om K DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] The Paul Garson Show.
-Caveat Lector- Way to go, Kris! I'll try to stay up that late, I'm 3 hours ahead of you. inserts coffee IV Tenorlove also need sugar nicotine to stay awake __ 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] Seattle Wrp-up from Pogressive Review
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave SEATTLE WRAP BRETT SMITH, 10 YEAR VETERAN OF THE SEATTLE POLICE QUOTED IN SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: We had some follow-up meetings and an officer whose brother works for King County said there was FBI and Secret Service in their riot training sessions and they were told to fully anticipate that five to six officers would be lost during the protests, either seriously injured or killed. SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER A handful of officers took matters into their own hands, getting permission to empty the munitions stores of police departments in Auburn, Renton and Tukwila, the King County Jail and the Department of Corrections. In addition, some drove around in a sport-utility vehicle to buy chemical agents from a local law enforcement supply business. Meanwhile, a police captain flew to Casper, Wyo., to pick up a stock of gas from federal agents." BRASSCHECK http://www.brasscheck.com Arianna HUFFINGTON, SALON: The most significant aspect of the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle is that they embodied the widespread fears and anxieties of millions of Americans who do not share the prevailing assumption that these are the best of times, and who in effect represent America's unrecognized third party, made up of those so disgusted with the system that they have even given up on voting . . . The emerging populist alliance cuts through both parties and across generations. It traces its roots not to the street protests of the '60s but to the progressive reform movement of the '90s -- the 1890s. "The humblest citizen in all the land," said populist William Jennings Bryan in his 1896 "Cross of Gold" speech, "when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error." In "The Age of Reform," Richard Hofstadter analyzes Robert LaFollette's watershed address in the U.S. Senate in 1908: "He attempted to prove, with careful documentation from the interlocking directorates of American corporations, that fewer than one hundred men, acting in concert, controlled the great business interests of the country. 'Does anyone doubt,' he asked, 'the community of interest that binds these men together?'" SALON http://www.salon.com ECONOMIST: As politicians pore over the disarray in Seattle, they might look to citizen groups for advice. The non-governmental organizations that descended on Seattle were a model of everything the trade negotiators were not. They were well organized. They built unusual coalitions (environmentalists and labor groups, for instance, bridged old gulfs to jeer the WTO together). They had a clear agenda to derail the talks. And they were masterly users of the media. The battle of Seattle is only the latest and most visible in a string of recent NGO victories . . . The NGO agenda is not confined to economic issues. One of the biggest successes of the 1990s was the campaign to outlaw landmines, where hundreds of NGOs, in concert with the Canadian government, pushed through a ban in a year. Nor is it confined to government agendas. Nike has been targeted for poor labor conditions in its overseas factories, Nestlé for the sale of powdered baby milk in poor countries, Monsanto for genetically modified food. 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] LA Police Scandal
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave From Drudge: LA TIMES: LA POLICE CORRUPTION SCANDAL MAY AFFECT 3000 CASES According to publishing sources, the LOS ANGELES TIMES is fronting a blockbuster in Wednesday runs revealing that "Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti and Public Defender Michael Judge have vastly increased their estimates of the number of convictions that need to be reviewed as a result of the city police scandal, and both now say they will need more resources to handle what could be more than 3,000 questionable cases." The previous estimate was 500. The TIMES' Henry Weinstein reports that Garcetti has already put seven prosecutors on the case full time reviewing trouble cases -- but that number could multiply shortly. Los Angeles law enforcement is coping with what is being called the 'Rampart Scandal' -- dirty cops in the city's Rampart Divison's anti-gang unit accused of illegally beating, shooting and framing individuals for no apparent reason. So far, four inmates have been released as a result of the investigation -- and seven no longer in custody are looking to have their convictions cleared. Judge believes that the scandal will take years to unravel: "People who saw `L.A. Confidential' and said it could never happen now were wrong." DEVELOPING... 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] IMPORTANT: Final Y2K preparations
-Caveat Lector- No...I, unlike you, will NOT be crying 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, when there is no fire June ;-) Well, we will soon know if there is a fire or not. Unfortunately the Feds are not as confident as June about the fire proof status of the theater. flw Clinton Readies 50 State Emergency Declarationshttp: //www.mcjonline.com/news/news3693.htm WASHINGTON, D.C. (BP) -- Fifty declarations of emergency, one for each state, have been prepared for President Clinton to sign on New Year's weekend if regional computer glitches occur in the United States due to the "Y2K" problem. "For the weekend beginning New Year's Eve, we have prepared 50 emergency declarations in case there is any scenario in which a local area's problems cannot be handled by local and state emergency personnel and a request for a presidential declaration of emergency is requested by a governor," said Mark Wolfson, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency told Baptist Press. FEMA, based in Georgia, is responsible for coordinating the federal government's nonmilitary response to all national emergencies, such as those caused by acts of terrorism, war, hurricanes, tornadoes and disruptions of power or other necessary services which could be sparked by Y2K glitches related to computer's coping with the turn of the millennium. 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] Forwarded Post
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: GREAT SECRETS OF THE 20th CENTURY Part Two by Sherman H. Skolnick Adolph Hitler was joined at the hip with American big business jointly with the British royal family. They financed him as a bulwark, they thought, against the Soviets. The Moscow government was perceived by them as a great threat to the West. The British royals were and are heavily German and were originally Von Battenberg. Following World War One, they changed their name to the House of Windsor, which sounds harmless. King Edward 8th abdicated the throne in the 1930s with the cover story that he wanted to marry a commoner. In fact, it was because he was very pro-Hitler and this would cause trouble with war clouds gathering. As the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, they lived mostly in the Bahamas, and he was the Governor there. He treasonously permitted Nazi U-boats to refuel there and be able to sink U.S. and British ships. After all, the British royal family was tied to the Nazis. See: John L. Spivak's book, "Secret Armies, The New Techniques of Nazi Warfare" [Starling Press, N.Y. N.Y., 1939], pages 17-30. World War Two started when the Germans invaded Poland, September, 1939. Three weeks AFTER that, Rockefeller's Standard Oil of New Jersey and the German chemical octopus, I.G. Farben, made an unholy deal to share patents, royalties, and deals all during the war via neutral South American countries like Columbia. To make it seem legal, they arranged to fraudulently back-date the deal to THREE WEEKS BEFORE THE WAR STARTED. Who brokered and arranged this? Why, Joseph P. Kennedy, the pro-Hitler U.S. Ambassador to London until October, 1940, and "Founding Father" of the Kennedy clan. See: "The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin. I.G. Farben had a secret arrangement with the top U.S. Military brass, not to bomb any of Farben's facilities during the war. At the close of the conflict, Farben's facilities were 93 per cent untouched and intact. A U.S. Military officer wrote a heavily documented account of Farben being not bombed. See: the book "I.G. Farben" by Richard Sasuly, Boni Gaer Publ., N.Y. N.Y, 1947. With Joseph P. Kennedy having a strong financial link to Hollywood, he ORDERED some 50 of the leading screenwriters NOT to write anything about the Nazi concentration camps. See: Ben Hecht's book, "Child of the Century", Simon Schuster, N.Y. N.Y., 1954, page 520. "The Cliveden set" of the British aristocracy wanted peace and collaboration with the Nazis. [Jacqueline Bouvier Auchincloss Kennedy's family were close to that group.] Hitler's top aide, Rudolph Hess flew to Scotland on a peace mission shortly after the war started. He was murdered by British Intelligence on behalf of the anti-Cliveden set and a double inserted instead. That double for Rudolph Hess was designated a war criminal after World War Two and was kept in Spandau Prison until he was way past 90 years of age. He was never allowed to write anything down or communicate with anyone. Hess's wife once proclaimed it was not her husband that was in jail because the jail inmate did not have her husband's tell-tale battle scar from World War One. To protect the secret about the peace overture, British Intelligence murdered the Hess double in jail. In 1962, after Joseph P. Kennedy's son, John F. Kennedy, had become President, the President and his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, as U.S. Attorney General, arranged for hundreds of millions of dollars of Nazi alien property, still in the hands of the U.S. Government, to be returned to Nazi war criminals by way of a Swiss front, Interhandel. See: New York Times, September 21, 22, and 24, 1964. Some contend these treasonous dealings by the Kennedys justified the "patriotic" political assassinations of President Kennedy, and then later, his brother Bobby, each murder falsely blamed on a "lone assassin". How far into the next century will one have to wait for the truth? The American CIA has used dozens of Nazi war criminals as consultants, particularly on how to cover up political murders and how to snuff out material eyewitnesses to the same. A magazine called "The National Tattler",before they ceased publication, had a hard-hitting story, February 22, 1976, showing how Nazi war criminals after World War Two, run an international secret police group called Interpol, which specializes in hunting for people with Jewish surnames, often fingering them for minor offenses. In the 1970s, in Chicago, Cook County Undersheriff, Ross V. Randolph, was Interpol's key man in the Windy City. For many years, holding a top Post-War position also with Nazi-war-criminal-run Interpol, was FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. As we stated in Part One of "Great Secrets of the 20th Century", "1912- the British ship TITANIC sunk
[CTRL] FW: Liberty Update/radio program schedule
-Caveat Lector- Ollie North has a radio show that is syndicated to 147 affiliates?! That is uh... disgusting? dangerous? demoralizing? Congressman Ron Paul seems to be worth listening to ... but Oliver "Contra/Crack" North? sheesh... I figured it must be some OTHER Ollie North... but no.. http://www.ktkz.com/north.htm I just don't know what to think about this. What does Joe SixPack think of Ollie North? Just a good 'ole boy patriot Marine stand-up kinda guy? Funny... I thought it was COMMON KNOWLEDGE that North was very near the top of the chain of command in several C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L conspiracies (the ones that he got CAUGHT in.. ) related to COCAINE smuggling and distribution, illegal armaments trade, and who knows how many associated misappropriations of Gov't funds, aircraft, personnel, etc. Even the stoopid Grolier's Encyclopedia recognizes a tiny fragment of this vast criminal conspiracy http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/aae/side/irancont.html A radio show, syndicated to 147 affiliates. This guy and his associates armed and trained Nicaraguan military to murder peasants and opponents of drug lords (like Catholic Nuns) and took COCAINE in trade for guns and "services" and smuggled TONS and TONS of this cocaine into the U.S. and SOLD this COCAINE to inner-city black dealers (one of whom was sentenced to life in prison) and unknown others (probably "W" (dubya his Texas friends.) A radio show, syndicated to 147 affiliates. The mind vomits to think of it. Brainpuke. Truly, we are living in an Alice-in-(perverted)-Wonderland world... (ranting, SHOUTING, gesticulating wildly, spittle flying) Listen to Ron Paul anyhow, if you get a chance. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -Original Message- From: Liberty Study Committee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 8:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Liberty Update/radio program schedule Dear friend of liberty, Congressman Paul has appeared on several radio talk shows during this last week talking about executive orders. We will soon be posting on our Web site an audio archive of some of these programs so you can listen to them at your convenience. Please note that we are only making available those programs that the station has given us permission. The following is a list of upcoming live radio programs featuring Congressman Paul discussing how presidential executive orders relates to Y2K, martial law, and federal land grabs: Wednesday, 12/15 Oliver North Show, Radio America (syndicated nationally to 147 affiliates) 2:05 p.m. PT/3:05 p.m. MT/4:05 p.m. CT/5:05 p.m. ET Thursday, 12/16 Rick Barber, KOA-AM 850 Denver (50,000 watts) 3:00 a.m. PT/4:00 a.m. MT/5:00 a.m. CT/6:00 a.m. ET http://www.850koa.com Monday, 12/20 Doug Wright, KSL-AM 1160 Salt Lake City (50,000 watts) 10:00 a.m. PT/11:00 a.m. MT/12:00 p.m. CT/1:00 p.m. ET http://www.ksl.com Tuesday, 12/21 Quinn in the Morning, WRRK-FM 97 Pittsburgh (25,000 watts) 5:30 a.m. PT/6:30 a.m. MT/7:30 a.m. CT/8:30 a.m. ET http://www.warroom.com Monday, 12/27 Ron Engelman, Talk Radio Network (syndicated nationally to 200 tations) 10:00 p.m. PT/11:00 p.m. MT/12:00 a.m. CT/1:00 a.m. ET Tuesday, 12/28 Roger Fredinburg, Talk Radio Network (syndicated nationally to 300 stations) 8:00 p.m. PT/9:00 p.m. MT/10:00 p.m. CT/11:00 p.m. ET. A big "thank you" to Congressman Paul for getting up early and staying up late to appear on these programs! A big "thank you" to the 19,516 people who have sent a message to their U.S. representative urging them to support H.R. 2655! If you haven't already sent a message to your congressman, please go to http://www.executiveorders.org and urge them to co-sponsor H.R. 2655. Kent Snyder Executive Director Liberty Study Committee http://www.libertystudy.org http://www.executiveorders.org If you have a question or comment, please Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. To unsubscribe from this list, please Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE on the first line of your message. 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:
[CTRL] The Irish and Aids
-Caveat Lector- I usually send something terribly depressing on Aids..but every now and then--- John An Irishman named O'Malley went to his doctor after a long illness. The doctor, after a lengthy examination, sighed and looked O'Malley in the eye, and said, "I've some bad news for you. You have cancer, and it can't be cured. I'd give you two weeks to a month to live," O'Malley was shocked and saddened by the news, but of solid character. He managed to compose himself and walk from the doctor's office into the waiting room. There, he saw his son who had been waiting. O'Malley said, "Well son. We Irish celebrate when things are good, and we celebrate when things don't go so well. In this case, things aren't so well. I have cancer, and I've been given a short time to live. Let's head for the pub and have a few pints." After 3 or 4 pints, the two were feeling a little less somber. There were some laughs and more beers. They were eventually approached by some of O'Malley's old friends who asked what the two were celebrating. O'Malley told them that the Irish celebrate the good and the bad. He went on to tell them that they were drinking to his impending end. He told his friends, "I've only got a few weeks to live as I have been diagnosed with AIDS." The friends gave O'Malley their condolences, and they had a couple more beers. After his friends left, O'Malley's son leaned over and whispered his confusion. "Dad. I though you said that you were dying from cancer??? You just told your friends that you were dying from AIDS!" O'Malley said, "I am dying of cancer, son. I just don't want any of them sleeping with your mother after I'm gone." DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Fw: Publisher agrees to destroy copies of Hoffman's Oklahoma bombing book
From: "JP Viken" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Y2K NEWS FLASH?: Here's a summary of a "supposed" interview from late summer, 1999 which I thought you would all appreciate. High ranking former j*int chi*fs of st*ff member makes statement (after guarantee made to withhold his identity for reasons of national security and continued sustenance). States emphatically that Y2K safety for all of USA, its territories, and nations of the western world can be "virtually assured" if the following groups are immediately detained: Division V, fb*,; c*a directorate of operations, d*d, d*a counterinsurgency and milintell groups, on*, desc disc operatives, ns* blackcard holders, adl, southern p*vert*y law center, m*ss*d, mi5, mi6 on US and its territories' soil, etc. etc. He further states that this would have to be ordered by congress and/or potus, and unless an "serious incident" occurs this this is extremely unlikely due to the cowardice of congress. He said the non-criminal high ranking military's view was that potus is a traitor put in place to disassemble our military and nation and represented foreign based entities! But, he did state that if any large scale terrorist incident occurs as "sting gone bad" or supposed "islamic attack", this would be enough to create an actual martial law directive straight from the military through the navy. Ret. Col. __ emphatically stated that all major acts of international and domestic terrorism are actualy intel ops classified as deep cover, black ops; and further states that the concept of mass terror was started as a chinese and roman war tactic, to be further developed and "finely honed" by most military related intelligence agencies after wwII. He further states that the fb* and *tf were competitive and did everything they could to master these black op skills, developing their own particular practices best known as "stings gone bad". These two groups have considered their tactics superior because they contain their own misinformation coverup functions. He stated that it was common knowledge that the at one time the kkk was over 50% undercover operative based, and that so called right wing neo-nazi and christian identity groups were 10-15% undercover operative based, and in most cases almost completely directed and supported by key operatives well skilled in filed manipulation skills toward their cutouts and assets. He stated that the c*a's typical style terrorist black op is to use supposed "radical cutout groups" which could not exist on their own. Col. _ emphatically stated that the only entity legally qualified, powerful enough and patriatic enough to seize these criminal covert elements and detain them in whatever manner is necessary is the United States Armed forces and National Guard, operating at a field level. He further stated that any clear efforts by the covert op criminal elements in these covert agencies to inititate "stings gone bad" or "terrorist attacks" on the US or its territories could and would likely result in an immediate declaration of martial law by the navy (the only entity so authorized by the us constitution to enact national security) and that a 100% mobilization against these extra legal covert agencies would then become immediately imminent. He further stated that many of the greybeards and army/navy general staff were tired of the r*ch**d *rmit*ges. etc. and self serving, weapons for drugs scams, and were about a "hair" from being pushed to act. He said there were a lot of arms stockpiled for such contingencies and the "criminal" operatives in these agencies were grossly outnumbered and outgunned.He said the public would support such martial law once given the facts but that most congressmen and senators would be too afraid of being murdered by these agencies to support any action either way, until they saw the public giving full support which would be imminent once the media were utilized to fully disclose the truth about these covert criminal elements. He further stated that these covert criminal elements constantly surveilled military officers through their hold on the comintel and many patriotic officers had been targeted for murder by strange "helicopter accidents" and other means. He stated that only 10% of the members of these agencies were criminal, but that they had control of the comintel and had well organized hit squads. He also said we were very close to an all out attack on these covert criminal elements by two large military factions: a very well organized command and control group and a vastly numbered and very well "decentralized" that could function in disorganized, massive and well targeted guerilla actions against these enemies. He had no further comments about this expected response but stated the die was set and something would cutlosse in the next year or so if not sooner. He said that when the dust settled most members of the american public would be pleasantly surprised at the outcome, which
[CTRL] UPDATE: Copy Tracking
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Ian Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UPDATE: Copy Tracking Date: Monday, November 29, 1999 6:42 AM COPY-CODE-CONSPIRACY UPDATE J.J. Johnson, husband of Libertarian Party VP candidate Nancy Lord Johnson, has received confirmation [1] of the existence of invisible tracking numbers encoded into color photocopies, which he recently reported on. [2] I also found and received some confirmation. [3] Johnson received confirmation from Color Laser Printer Engineer Richard Longcoat with Xerox. Longcoat told Johnson: "The 'encrypted' code reveals the serial number of the color copier that made the document. This is because the quality of a well tuned color laser printer could be used to print extremely good counterfeit money, Stocks and Bonds, Etc... My understanding is that Xerox, as well as other makers of High Quality Color copiers have an agreement with the Treasury Department, (not the CIA). Since there is no foolproof way for the copier to recognize...currencies, a code is included." Apparently the government actually prohibited color photocopy machines from being sold unless they included the encoding technology. It's surprising that so few people have heard of this, yet it supposedly goes back many years. Even searching counterfeit-related-Internet resources turned up nothing on color-copy encoding. It's so unheard of I got responses after forwarding Johnson's initial post that said it was "another crazy conspiracy theory... too many people would know, how would they all keep it secret..." But it seems that it has been kept "secret" from most people. But why keep it "secret"? The purpose of keeping color-copy-encoding quite may be to encourage counterfeiters to do their dirty deed, so they will then get caught. Or maybe it's feared that if they figure out the encoding technology, it could be circumvented. Whatever the reason, if the government compels private makers of any color-printing presses to include a technology that places hidden tracking codes on all the prints, then that is clearly a violation of both the letter and the spirit of Freedom Of The Press. __ [1] http://www.jj-johnson.com/copiers2.htm [2] http://www.jj-johnson.com/copiers.htm [3] Statements about the existence of hidden codes can be found here http://www.c-prompt-dev.com/bulletin.0119.htm and here http://www.naqp.org/staging1/press/copier_fraud.html Interesting history of covert photocopy technology: http://www.parascope.com/articles/0197/xerox.htm GODDARD'S JOURNAL: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/journal.htm 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 '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
[CTRL] Surveillance Society: Exposing Echelon
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.cbnnow.com/newsstand/stories/991214.asp Click Here: A HREF="http://www.cbnnow.com/newsstand/stories/991214.asp"Surve illance Society: Exposing Echelon/A - CBN News Surveillance Society: Exposing Echelon By Erin Zimmerman December 14, 1999 -- A Russian spy made headlines last week after he was found listening in on conversations through a bug planted at the U.S. State Department, and there are renewed concerns about Chinese spying. But the government is using methods that are far more sophisticated -- and far more secret -- to capture everything from phone calls to e-mails to faxes. And there's growing evidence that they may be using it, not just on terrorists, but on you. "I think that people need to understand that were entering an age of a new America, and were not going to like it," says privacy expert Lisa Dean of the Free Congress Foundation. "This is not a society where what we say, or what we do, or what we tell people is kept a secret." "And people's conversations are being eavesdropped on in violation of the 4th amendment," says Greg Nojeim of the American Civil Liberties Union. "If Americans don't wake up to their diminishing window of privacy, as it were, pretty soon, there's not going to be any left." In a high-tech world that now contains 40 million cell phones, 14 million fax machines, and 180 million computers, just how private is your communication? The answer may surprise you. "I dont think we have a whole lot of privacy left in America," says Dean. "We think we do, but we really dont." Big Brother may not be watching yet ... but he may be listening to your phone calls and reading your e-mail, all in the name of national security. "Secretary of Defense William Cohen has said publicly, the American people need to decide how much privacy theyre willing to give up in favor of more security," says Dean. "Well, the answer to that should be none." And as Americans move further into the information age, Big Brother is rapidly becoming public enemy number one. "The Wall Street Journal conducted a poll about a month ago and asked Americans what do you fear most in the next century. Terrorism? No. Crime? No. The thing that concerned most Americans was the loss of personal privacy." At the center of the firestorm over electronic privacy is the National Security Agency, headquartered in Fort Meade, Maryland. With a global staff of around 38,000 the NSA is larger than the FBI and the CIA combined. "The NSA has two missions: one is foreign intelligence gathering, and the other one is creation of codes to protect U.S. diplomatic and military secrets," says former NSA analyst Wayne Madsen. "Historically, thats been NSAs two major functions. Unfortunately, with the end of the Cold War, theyre now looking into other areas." These other areas may include your own home, through a global eavesdropping system known as ECHELON. "What ECHELON basically is is a system that, based on key words in a conversation or key words in an e-mail -- it takes those key words of interest, which are basically pre-programmed in something called a dictionary." According to Madsen, this dictionary may be searching your phone calls, faxes, and e-mails to sniff out terrorists, hackers, and other potential threats. Privacy experts charge that even accidental use of these so-called key words could put you under the sharp ears of the NSA. "I think the NSA would say, 'I wonder what theyre up to,' and I think there might be increased monitoring of their communications." Most of the public information about ECHELON is based on a report commissioned by the European parliament. Published last April, the report charges that the NSA's global spy bases, like the one at Menwith Hill in England, routinely intercept around two-million communications every hour. "So basically, you can think of it as a giant drift net that captures everything," says Madsen. The countries casting this global drift net are members of what's known as the UKUSA alliance: the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. According to the EU report, this five-pronged partnership also forms the legal loophole that allows the NSA to spy on its own citizens. "The NSA has no jurisdiction here in this country," says Dean. "So it cant legally listen in on Americans phone conversations or electronic communications. However, according to the European parliament, what its doing is getting its British counterparts, or Australian counterparts, and so on, to do their dirty work." For example, if you send an e-mail message from New York to Los Angeles, it may be routed through Canada or the UK before reaching its destination. And once a message travels outside U.S. borders, it's fair game for ECHELON's web. Most Americans got their first glimpse of the super-secret agency in the 1998 action film Enemy of the State. Former attorney and journalist James Bamford wrote The Puzzle
Re: [CTRL] NSA: Hard of hearing
-Caveat Lector- POOR, POOR General Whathisname feeling a little embarrassed at the reception his agents and his agency receive at the theater. Let's all have a pity party for him okay. Pity that is perhaps warranted, given the penchant of Hollywood to give every wild conspiracy theory about the NSA the widest possible airing. Oh and let's not forget to raise the old budget for the NSA who are, presumably, according to this article running the risk of falling behind. They gotta catch up to catch those "rogue nuclear powers", and those "sinister hackers who are just itchin' to crash global computer systems". Why I'm just as amazed that with such a paltry budget of [deleted for NATIONAL SECURITY reasons] that they are able to do anything at all. And with only [UNKNOWN] agents they certainly can't be expected to do everything. Do you even have a sound idea of what they do? Wait a minute! I think I got the answer! How about this, let's have the good old NSA start actually using it's resources for productive National Security purposes and have them QUIT WASTING ALL OF OUR MONEY ON MONITORING ALL OF US LAW ABIDING CITIZENS WITH THEIR ECHELON AND OTHER VIOLATIONS OF THEIR CHARTER, FEDERAL LAW, AND THE CONSTITUTION. Nope. You don't have a clue. But it's obvious that you only see Big Brother down in Fort Meade... Simple isn't it. If only you were right, but I think you're not. I'm so stupid! Well you said it. Why argue with that? There is even a better answer, how 'bout we scrap the hulking piece of shit instead, especially since the FBI has field offices in other countries (not that there's anything wrong with that (lol)). Ah. Of course. Don't understand what it does. Someone or other told it was bad. I don't believe officials who say it does good. Smash, crush, kill, destroy is the only answer. Perhaps if you examined some of the literature around the traps about the essentially foreign intelligence collection role of the NSA as opposed to the speculative and alarmist work of the all too numerous "Big Brother watchers" out there, you might realise that some things are not what they seem... BD 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] Forest Service Seeks Public Comments On Roadless Areas
-Caveat Lector- http://www.fs.fed.us/news/19991208.html Forest Service Seeks Public Comments On Roadless Areas WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 1999 -- The USDA Forest Service wraps up a series of national public meetings on roadless areas with two sessions Thursday, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Hyatt Arlington, 1325 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Va. "Our goal for these sessions is to hear people's ideas on what we should address in developing a proposal to care for this unique part of their National Forests and Grasslands," said James Furnish, Deputy Chief for the National Forest System (NFS). The listening sessions are designed for "scoping" -- a legally required process of seeking public comment to help identify the scope of issues to be addressed when a federal agency proposes any action potentially affecting the human environment. The Forest Service is seeking comments on what actions, alternatives, values and impacts should be considered in a proposed rule and draft Environmental Impact Statement for administering more than 50 million acres of NFS lands in its roadless area inventory. After a brief overview by Furnish, brief comments from members of the public will be heard and recorded during the two sessions. Citizens who want to listen only and submit comments later will receive background information, comment cards, and instructions on where to send comments. Forest Service Associate Chief Hilda Diaz-Sotero will give a short closeout for each session. The scoping meetings are among 187 held around the country -- 10 national meetings and local meetings hosted by each National Forest and Grassland office. The scoping period ends Dec. 20, 1999. President Clinton kicked off this process Oct. 13, 1999 by asking the Forest Service to address the roadless area issue. On Oct. 19, 1999, the agency published a Notice of Intent in the Federal Register to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for rulemaking on roadless areas. Based on public comments and extensive analysis, the Forest Service will release a proposed rule and draft EIS (DEIS) in spring, 2000, for further public comment. The DEIS will analyze effects of various alternatives for roadless area management. After another public comment period and further analysis, the Forest Service plans to release a final rule and EIS before the end of 2000. Citizens who cannot attend the public meeting can send written comments to USDA Forest Service-CAET, Attention: Roadless Areas NOI, P.O. Box 221090, Salt Lake City, UT 84122, e-mail them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or fax them to 801-517-1021. A website called roadless.fs.fed.us provides further information on the roadless proposal. -FS- Contact: Cindy Chojnacky (202) 205-1596 === http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/028826.htm Mich Briefs OSCODA, Mich. (AP) -- The U.S. Forest Service is giving the public one more week to comment on its plan to limit motor vehicle access to national forests. The state has three national forests -- the Hiawatha and Ottawa in the Upper Peninsula and the Huron-Manistee in the Lower Peninsula. President Clinton's ``Roadless Initiative'' calls for preserving certain national forest wilderness areas. It would restrict development activities, like road building, in large forest tracts that have no roads. It also would develop rules for managing forest lands without roads. The first step in drafting the plan is public comment. U.S. Forest Service planners will accept public comment by letter or e-mail until Monday. A series of public meetings also are being held nationwide, including one in Cadillac on Thursday. From snowmobiles to all-terrain vehicles, sport-utility vehicles to vans, motor vehicles seem to be central in the way Michiganians experience their federal forest lands, said Nick Schmelter, a 20-year U.S. Forest Service veteran. The ranger has worked in national forests from California to West Virginia and now works at Oscoda's Huron Shores Ranger Station in the Huron-Manistee National Forest. He said he never has seen forest motor traffic like Michigan's. ``Michigan is a motor state,'' he told The Bay City Times for a story. ``People everywhere like their land, but here, they want to drive it.'' Planners say Michiganians' love affair
[CTRL] The (tactical) Lessons of Seattle
-Caveat Lector- Mr. Elmore seems a bit underinformed in some areas, but has offered an interesting viewpoint. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.48/seattle.htm The Lessons of Seattle by Bruce Elmore Well, the Circus-in-Seattle appears to be winding down, and upon close examination of the events that occurred there, I have gleaned what I feel are a number of useful tactics which will be necessary for freedom lovers to use sooner or later. It must be obvious to all but the most completely stupid among us that the protestors won this battle. While I personally disagree with this band of Luddites, I must admit that their tactical and strategic planning was completely successful. Smart people learn from others, whether they agree with them or not. I believe there are many useful lessons to be learned from the protestors in Seattle. I will attempt in my own way to elucidate those lessons here. General Observations First off, the "mobs" won this round. That fact is indisputable in my opinion. The array of groups who assembled in Seattle had as their goal the disruption of the WTO talks. This goal was accomplished in a rather spectacular fashion in spite of the forces which were arrayed against them. Forget about what you saw on your television sets. What is important to remember is the fact that a bunch of citizens managed to shut down a meeting of Government Officials from over 100 nations in a major American city, and they did it without resorting to the use of any weapons at all. Think about it. Not one foreign dignitary was killed, and the only people who carried, displayed, or used any firearm of any type were members of the Seattle Police Department. The Seattle Police Department knew well in advance that these people were coming to protest the WTO meeting. In fact, the City Fathers of Seattle had issued "permits" allowing some of these protests to occur. They were warned well in advance that "trouble" was likely. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were allocated to deal with anticipated problems, yet still, the protestors managed to accomplish their goal of shutting this conference down. They succeeded! How did they do this? My sources tell me that this feat was accomplished quite easily, and I will tell you, my gentle reader, how they pulled this off. Communications Strategic Communication Sources indicate that the protestors took advantage of a number of means of communications technology. All of these means are available at little or NO cost to you. First, the protestors made contact with a number of persons of like mind via the Internet. They then set up (relatively) secure means of e-mail communication using any number of free e-mail providers and using the simple and free encryption program known as PGP. http://www.pgpi.org/ Their planning was done via e-mail and was encrypted using this very powerful tool. The leaders of this bunch located and used maps of the downtown Seattle area which they also located and exchanged among themselves using the Net. Maps of ALL major cities are available on the Internet. They are incredibly detailed. Yahoo.com will give them to you for nothing. All one needs to do is log onto their site, and follow the simple instructions, and these maps can be printed out on your PC at home. From there it is a rather simple matter to identify choke points, rally points, and other tactical information. You can then communicate this critical information to other like-minded groups and individuals via (relatively) secure e-mail. I mentioned PGP. Allow me to explain. PGP is a very simple, and very secure method of encrypting private communication over the Web. Without getting too complicated, PGP renders one's e-mail almost unbreakable to all but the most dedicated of opposition. Some readers will no doubt be familiar with this incredible piece of technology and point up that Government can indeed "crack" PGP encrypted e-mail. Those people are correct, but cracking PGP requires a very large committment to decypher even ONE e-mail message, using the most sophisticated resources of the NSA. In this case, there were hundreds of people exchanging their plans using this amazing tool. The Seattle Police Department never had a chance to monitor the plans of a dedicated group using this form of secure communications technology. Tactical Communication The tactical communication methods used by the "protestors" appear to have been fully integrated with their strategic methods. All of these methods are available to any U.S. citizen for a very small investment. The news media made mention of the fact that two-way radios were "banned" during the uprising. This "ban" appears to have made little or no difference in the outcome of events in Seattle. My research and sources have revealed that at least three and possibly four methods of tactical communications were used by the "protestors". I will detail them here. Radio
[CTRL] FW: WTO/Seattle - uniform duplicity of media threatens democracy
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave Tue, 14 Dec 1999 19:31:46 -0800 THE AP: MISLEADING FROM THE START by Jared Israel [Note from www.emperors-clothes.com Readers are encouraged to distribute this article but please do so in full, with credit to emperors-clothes.com. Thank you.] On December 9, AP issued a news report about a Seattle City Council meeting in which citizens protested police behavior during the World Trade Organization protests. I read this AP dispatch quickly but it bothered me so I read it again, and then once more, carefully, and found what seemed to be a deliberate effort at misinformation. (Either deliberate or these guys got very lucky.) Let's look at the AP piece together. It begins with the following headline: "Seattle Police Actions Questioned" Studies of how people read newspapers confirm what common sense suggests: if a group of people are given a newspaper, some will look at a particular headline and some won't; a smaller number will read the first paragraph of the article but no more; an even smaller number will read the second paragraph and so on, with more and more dropping away as they move toward the end. Even for those who read the entire text, the headline has a big impact. It lingers in the imagination, suggesting a certain tone, coloring the story. What about this particular headline: "Seattle police actions QUESTIONED"? (my capitals) What does "QUESTIONED" suggest? Don't we use the verb "to question" to administer a mild rebuke? For example, would you say, "I questioned the mugger's right to break my wife's jaw"? Would you say, "The policeman pulled off the non-violent protester's gas mask, sprayed pepper gas in his face at point-blank range and rubbed it into his eyes. I questioned his behavior"? By saying police behavior is being "questioned", the headline sets a gentle tone. It suggests that people may be concerned but not terribly upset. I'm OK, you're OK, everybody's friends. The first paragraph continues along these lines, creating a gentle ambiance: "DETRACTORS far outnumbered defenders of police at a special City Council meeting on the handling of protests surrounding the World Trade Organization meeting." (My capitals.) "Detractors" and "Defenders" - nice, very balanced. What's a detractor, by the way? Isn't a detractor a gentle critic? For example, mightn't one say: "Her detractors commented that she was too old for that outfit." But mightn't one be viewed askance (perhaps even questioned) if one said: "Charles Manson's detractors thought he should have been executed." HUH? DID SOMEBODY GOOF? People generally read news stories to satisfy their curiosity. But what is left to wonder after this first paragraph? Doesn't it suggest that nothing much happened at the City Council? It does. The suggestion is false. Reading on, we are informed that: "Kathy Cado, alarmed that her husband had been tear-gassed on his way home from work, told the hearing she ventured to the city's embattled Capitol Hill neighborhood last week to witness for herself the clash between protesters and police. "'What I saw was as frightening as anything I've ever seen in my life,'" Cado said. "It was a cross between Star Wars and Tiananmen Square." "At the hearing that drew an overflow crowd Wednesday, Cado and others described police officers indiscriminately tossing tear gas canisters at not only the demonstrators they were trying to disperse, but also at residents out shopping, dining and walking their dogs... "Speakers particularly took police to task for their actions the night of Dec. 1 in the Capitol Hill neighborhood east of downtown - first for forcing demonstrators in that direction from downtown, and then taking aggressive actions that included firing tear gas and pepper spray. "'I basically think they were treating residents of Capitol Hill like animals,' said Clark Pickett." (AP dispatch) "As frightening as anything I've ever seen in my life" - ?! Would you describe Cathy Cado's remarks as "questioning" the police? Is Clark Picket a "detractor"? What's going on here? Is the AP scrambling stories? Mix and match? Did they take the headline and first paragraph from the report on a ruckus over Christmas tree lights at a Seattle-area PTA and stick them on the City Council piece? Let's do some editing, change a word here, a word there and voila, here's the headline and the first paragraph: "Seattle Residents Denounce Police" "Attackers far outnumbered defenders of police at a special City Council meeting on the handling of protests surrounding the World Trade Organization meeting." Isn't that better? Doesn't it suggest what actually happened? WATERING IT DOWN By using the inaccurate opening, the AP sends busy readers away with impressions diluted. Remember, readers tend to skim news articles, not study them. They will recall the mild tone of the headline and opening paragraph; if they read further they may remember that some
[CTRL] Y2K NEWS FLASH?
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave From: "JP" Y2K NEWS FLASH?: Here's a summary of a "supposed" interview from late summer, 1999 which I thought you would all appreciate. High ranking former joint chi*fs of staff member makes statement (after guarantee made to withhold his identity for reasons of national security and continued sustenance). States emphatically that Y2K safety for all of USA, its territories, and nations of the western world can be "virtually assured" if the following groups are immediately detained: Division V, fbi,; cia directorate of operations, dod, dia counterinsurgency and milintell groups, on*, desc disc operatives, nsa blackcard holders, adl, southern povert*y law center, mossad, mi5, mi6 on US and its territories' soil, etc. etc. He further states that this would have to be ordered by congress and/or potus, and unless an "serious incident" occurs this this is extremely unlikely due to the cowardice of congress. He said the non-criminal high ranking military's view was that potus is a traitor put in place to disassemble our military and nation and represented foreign based entities! But, he did state that if any large scale terrorist incident occurs as "sting gone bad" or supposed "islamic attack", this would be enough to create an actual martial law directive straight from the military through the navy. Ret. Col. __ emphatically stated that all major acts of international and domestic terrorism are actualy intel ops classified as deep cover, black ops; and further states that the concept of mass terror was started as a chinese and roman war tactic, to be further developed and "finely honed" by most military related intelligence agencies after wwII. He further states that the fb* and *tf were competitive and did everything they could to master these black op skills, developing their own particular practices best known as "stings gone bad". These two groups have considered their tactics superior because they contain their own misinformation coverup functions. He stated that it was common knowledge that the at one time the kkk was over 50% undercover operative based, and that so called right wing neo-nazi and christian identity groups were 10-15% undercover operative based, and in most cases almost completely directed and supported by key operatives well skilled in filed manipulation skills toward their cutouts and assets. He stated that the c*a's typical style terrorist black op is to use supposed "radical cutout groups" which could not exist on their own. Col. _ emphatically stated that the only entity legally qualified, powerful enough and patriotic enough to seize these criminal covert elements and detain them in whatever manner is necessary is the United States Armed forces and National Guard, operating at a field level. He further stated that any clear efforts by the covert op criminal elements in these covert agencies to inititate "stings gone bad" or "terrorist attacks" on the US or its territories could and would likely result in an immediate declaration of martial law by the navy (the only entity so authorized by the us constitution to enact national security) and that a 100% mobilization against these extra legal covert agencies would then become immediately imminent. He further stated that many of the greybeards and army/navy general staff were tired of the r*ch**d *rmit*ges. etc. and self serving, weapons for drugs scams, and were about a "hair" from being pushed to act. He said there were a lot of arms stockpiled for such contingencies and the "criminal" operatives in these agencies were grossly outnumbered and outgunned.He said the public would support such martial law once given the facts but that most congressmen and senators would be too afraid of being murdered by these agencies to support any action either way, until they saw the public giving full support which would be imminent once the media were utilized to fully disclose the truth about these covert criminal elements. He further stated that these covert criminal elements constantly surveilled military officers through their hold on the comintel and many patriotic officers had been targeted for murder by strange "helicopter accidents" and other means. He stated that only 10% of the members of these agencies were criminal, but that they had control of the comintel and had well organized hit squads. He also said we were very close to an all out attack on these covert criminal elements by two large military factions: a very well organized command and control group and a vastly numbered and very well "decentralized" that could function in disorganized, massive and well targeted guerilla actions against these enemies. He had no further comments about this expected response but stated the die was set and something would cut loose in the next year or so if not sooner. He said that when the dust settled most members of the american public would
[CTRL] [2] Drug Politics
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: 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 --[2]-- --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. It would have been a bit interesting if he had used Kwittney , Marshall, PD Scott, and Stitch in his sources. Highly recomended. A taste. Om k - PART II Governments, Organized Crime, and International Finance CHAPTER 4 GOVERNMENTS: FROM THE OPIUM WARS TO THE COLD WAR THE AMBIGUOUS ROLE OF GOVERNMENTS IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES An understanding of governmental involvement is essential to an understanding of the narcotics problem. The economic model alone does not include an awareness of governmental support of and protection for drug trafficking.[1] Furthermore, it impedes an enhanced understanding of the embedded nature of criminal activity within the political system. As mentioned before, the standard economic model focuses solely on supply, demand, and profits and explores only those areas where the system is vulnerable in controlling drug trafficking. Proponents of this model center their debate around the relative merits of targeting crop eradication, interdiction, and interruption of profit repatriation. Thomas B. Fowler suggests the key to disrupting the drug trade lies in severing the flow of money from smugglers to drug barons. (See figure 3.) "Interception of laundered money or the flow of money back to the drug barons," Fowler has said, "has much greater promise of achieving the desired goal of making drugs unavailable and can be carried out at a cost which is significantly less than that of drug interdiction efforts."[2] But the purely economic model ignores the mutual dependency among governments, organized crime, and transnational capitalism. Governments may operate in the international environment to insulate themselves from domestic accountability. Historically, governments have had an interest in the drug trade for reasons of revenue. In 1797, during the war against Napoleon Bonaparte, Great Britain decided to formally supervise narcotics trafficking in the Far East to ensure the nation's revenues and tea supply British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger placed the management of the East India Company under a government-appointed board, the Calcutta Council. (The center of opium production in India was in the Bengal where Calcutta served as the capital.) Although the Calcutta Council officially prohibited the import of opium into China, it rescinded the company's direct control of the opium business because it was not being run with sufficient profitability. Thus the council appropriated that share of the profit that the contractor had previously enjoyed, and, more important, it was in a position both to supervise and restrict production.[3] The British government's involvement illustrates how trade in opium began as a government-protected monopoly and later became a fully government-controlled business. The Calcutta Council officially recognized its duty to discourage the sale and consumption of opium, except for medicinal purposes, when "in fact, it would be using it as an additional source of revenue, . . . making the government of British India still more dependent upon its production." Consequently, the British government, "needing some commodity which would sell in sufficient quantity in China to maintain the balance of trade, was equally involved. As it held the controlling interest, parliament, in a sense, had become the chief shareholder in the opium business. And the government had again to consider how best to protect it."[4] This pattern of government-granted monopoly or direct government management has become a model for organized crime. Governments sometimes protect the illegal activity or knowingly permit it through a lack of regulation or enforcement. The opium wars (1840-42 and 1858-60) between Great Britain and China demonstrate a government's historical involvement with the narcotics trade and willingness to engage in war to protect it. THE OPIUM WARS Early in the seventeenth century, Great Britain's East India Company secured trading rights to buy tea from the emperor of China. As British demand for tea increased, a balance of payment deficit resulted between the two countries.
[CTRL] [3a] Drug Politics
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: 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 --[3a]-- --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. It would have been a bit interesting if he had used Kwittney , Marshall, PD Scott, and Stitch in his sources. Highly recomended. A taste - CHAPTER 5 THE DEVELOPMENT AND SPREAD OF ORGANIZED CRIME Organized crime has spread with the internationalization of capitalism and the increase in global trade. Although it is not the only variable, organized crime plays a significant role in corrupting the state. Most observers are familiar with the problem of organized crime in large cities but do not consider it as having a statewide or international presence. Yet organized crime is embodied in modern and well-established international groups that infiltrate governments and financial institutions. The illegal activities of these groups extend beyond narcotics trafficking and money laundering. Organized crime, whether called a syndicate, mafia, or cartel, is at the root of "productive" criminality. It is an organization that manufactures or appropriates for markets both illicit and legitimate goods and services while seeking either the de facto or the de jure protection of portions of the government. This definition of organized crime draws on insights gained from numerous studies that demonstrate that its effective operation requires exploitation of the market and its cooperation with elements of the government. In his study of the traditional Sicilian mafia, Hermer Hess found that "The phenomenon of the traditional Sicilian mafia has combined in itself the characteristics of two types of crime: [those] of organized crime with those of repressive crime. In other words, those of an illegal enterprise for financial gain and profit with those of an illegal defense of econon-dc and political privilege."[1] Organized crime is intimately connected with people in the political structure who facilitate its activities. As authors Pierre Tremblay and Richard Kedzior note, "An admission that organized crime exists is an admission that political corruption exists and that power is exercised through patronage. On the other hand, the denial that organized crime exists may emanate from a conviction that patronage is no longer a part of the political process or that it will be harmful to admit that this is so. "[2] Organized crime's relationship with the government provides for political immunity from the law. The mafia or cartel boss operates at a midline between the upperworld and the underworld. Figure 4 illustrates a model of the relationship between upperworld and underworld mafia systems. In this model, the crime boss operates as a broker between local, regional, and national levels of the political system. Political connections in the upperworld protect the organization's production and distribution of goods and services while the organization's enforcement apparatus protects business in the underworld. Sometimes enforcement mechanisms of the underworld ally themselves with the upperworld against political opponents. A three-level hierarchy of power is evident in both the upperworld and the underworld. The boss is clearly number 1 with respect to the underworld but, depending on the nature of the political system, the boss may or may not be subordinate to a more powerful political figure in the upperworld. These relationships are fluid and dynamic. Organized crime may be part of the productive economy and the social system in that it depends on mass markets and exploits the level of social tolerance for its products. The fight for legalization only promotes the social acceptability of the activity. The evolution of organized crime in societies ranging from Japan and China to Italy and the United States indicates that struggles between the cartels are frequent and ongoing, as are the struggles between the political bosses. The conflicts between the underworld and the upperworld merge as the relationships between the mafias and politicians consolidate. This is occurring in Mexico and has been underway in Colombia since the early 1980s, as will be shown in later chapters. The corruption stemming from organized crime provides a substitute
[CTRL] [3b] Drug Politics
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: 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 --[3b]-- --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. It would have been a bit interesting if he had used Kwittney , Marshall, PD Scott, and Stitch in his sources. Highly recomended. A taste Om K - THE U.S. NATIONAL CRIME SYNDICATE Organized crime in the United States "(1) is not some random or episodic thing, but a patterned and structured activity; (2) finds and exploits opportunities for illicit gain; and (3) operates across time regardless of individual changes in personnel or leadership," one observer has claimed. According to Peter A. Lupsha, "Organized crime in the United States tended to be dominated by an Italian-American-Jewish coalition Charles 'Lucky' Luciano's group appeared paramount over all other socalled 'La Cosa Nostra' groups, and with its multi-ethnic leadership mix, it acted as the link connecting Jewish and Italian organized crime across the United States."[59] The characterization of organized crime in America as uniquely Italian has led to a misdiagnosis of the range, extent, and multiethnic nature of the country's National Crime Syndicate (NCS), which was designed to protect its leaders from competition, to provide funds for political protection, and to tax regional bosses according to their ability to pay. When the U.S. Senate's McClellan Committee investigated organized crime in 1959, Meyer Lansky was identified as the head of the National Crime Syndicate.[60] According to Hank Messick, the author of an in-depth study of Lansky, when a high-ranking Justice official was asked why the department placed emphasis on the mafia instead of the National Crime Syndicate, the man explained, "The Mafia was small and handy The feeling was the American people would buy it with its family relations and blood oaths a lot quicker than they could understand the complex syndicate. You must remember, we wanted to get public support behind the drive on crime. "[61] Born Maier Suchowljansky in Grodno, Russia, Meyer Lansky came to the United States in 1911 when he was nine years old. In time he filled the vacuum left by the previous brain of organized crime, Arnold Rothstein the fixer of the 1919 World Series, who was murdered on November 4, 1928, in the Park Central Hotel of New York. Lansky, who had traveled about the country meeting with the bosses from Philadelphia to Kansas City, subsequently inspired the 1929 gangland convention held at the Hotel President in Atlantic City to search for additional sources of income. Lansky was the informal leader of the New York delegation which included Lucky Luciano and Joe Adonis. Other city or state organizations represented at the meeting were those of Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Kansas City, and New Jersey. This Atlantic City meeting demonstrated the multiethnic character of the NCS.[62] Although no formal organization was created at the Atlantic City meeting, Lansky initiated the New York group's cooperation with the Cleveland syndicate. From that time on, arrangements were developed with other gangs throughout the United States, with Lansky the de facto chairman of the board. Organized crime expanded during Prohibition, and when it ended, the major distributors of alcohol made large fortunes in the legal market. Most of the hard-core criminals who stayed in illegal activities after Prohibition went into gambling. Gambling houses were often located far from major cities, in towns such as Covington, Kentucky, and Hot Springs, Arkansas. Gambling was facilitated by the nationwide wire service, which ultimately led the FBI to recognize organized crime as a national problem. In addition to gambling, the NCS moved into Hollywood. Key to controlling Hollywood was dominance of the performing artists and their unions. In 1924, Julius Caesar Stein started the Music Corporation of America (MCA). He achieved his first great success when he signed Guy Lombardo and his orchestra to an exclusive contract. MCA gradually came to represent many of the major Hollywood stars, including Betty Davis, Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Betty Grable, and Jane Wyman. Stein's "enforcer" was Willie Bioff, who "specialized in disrupting the
[CTRL] The European Arms Hustle by Col Hackworth
-Caveat Lector- The European arms hustle By Col David hackworth. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_hackworth/19991214_xcdha_the_europe.sht ml Defense Secretary William Cohen has been in Europe doing his thing, hustling U.S. arms. The Sec Def is America's top salesman for all that deadly stuff produced by his buddies in the U.S. arms business and then promoted and authorized by his pals in Congress in their never-ending quest for more pork and jobs for the folks back home. These days he's got an uphill job. Made-in-the-USA fighters, bombers, missiles and tanks sold briskly in Western Europe until the Iron Curtain collapsed. But with no major military threats on the horizon, some European nations have reduced their defense spending by as much as half. Others, weary of the U.S. monopoly in arms, have made it a point to take their shopping elsewhere. For the U.S. military-industrial-congressional complex, this is very bad news. The American defense industry gang, the world's biggest arms supplier, misses the golden days of the Cold War, not unlike the mob missed Prohibition when it was repealed back in the 1930s. So Cohen's been pushing the line that while the Soviets are no longer an issue, Europe must be prepared for new threats from rogue states like North Korea and Iran. With a straight face, Cohen's putting out the word that Pyongyang, Tehran and a dozen other meanies are assembling intercontinental ballistic missile systems to blow everyone away. Long-range missiles capable of putting a nuke weapon right splat on top of that wonderful little cafe across from the Eiffel Tower and other fun spots in Western Europe. His pitch is right out of the Cold War: Create a threat, fan the fear that the bad guys are coming and then sell weapons to save the "Free World." Hey, it's worked for 50 years. Why not 50 more? Take the recent case of the United States and Red China. First the White House, Hughes and Loral give the Reds the high-tech capability to whack an ICBM down in any front yard in the USA. Then Cohen tells us we're once again nuclear targets and only the creation of a multibillion-dollar protective umbrella will save us from those nasty incoming Chinese missiles. There's no mention that what triggered this new anti-missile arms race was our providing Red China with the secrets of how missiles hit targets, or that since Reagan kicked off Star Wars more than $100 billion has been blown on this unworkable scheme. But at the end of a bloody century where more money's been spent on arms than in the complete history of humankind, most European leaders aren't falling for Cohen's line. Nor are they gung-ho about remaining dependent on the U.S. security apparatus, especially since our bungles in Serbia. American leadership both in Washington and among the top brass at NATO -- starting with Gen. Wesley Clark, the biggest doofus since William Westmoreland of Vietnam shame -- has made European leaders leery about being led down the tubes by another American Gen. Humpty Dumpty. Going it alone with an all-European defense force commanded by their own generals is looking better and better. And it should. They're big boys and girls who can well defend their own back yard. We've been propping them up for 55 years, and it's time they did the Bosnias and Kosovos on their own while we attend to our home fronts, beginning with securing our southern border. Hopefully, then, NATO won't be around much longer to waste your tax dollars. When this obsolete defense treaty disappears, we can bring 100,000 troops back to the USA and save about $50 billion per year. One of life's ironies is that our government arms most of the so-called Free World with horrific weapons. Meanwhile, the same politicians are scheming to take away our peashooters in order to make our country a more peaceful land -- just as we enter a decade of the worst terrorism in history. Perhaps we should all make a New Year's resolution to disarm the world instead. We could start by putting an end to the mass exportation of weapons. And we could also stop sticking our noses in everyone else's business. Of course, this wouldn't be good for our Sec Defs. How could they afford their post-Pentagon lifestyle? Since 1961, there hasn't been one U.S. secretary of defense who didn't end up a multimillionaire. Ever wonder where the money comes from? Col. David Hackworth is co-author of the 1989 international best-seller, "About Face," and the subsequent "Brave Men" and "Hazardous Duty.[per thou] His latest books, available from WorldNetDaily, is "Price of Honor." DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and
Re: [CTRL] New PARANOIA out
-Caveat Lector- Kris I'm getting so many of these messages the last 2 days is there some block on the good sites I wonder? Nicky -Original Message- From: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, 15 December 1999 16:32 Subject: [CTRL] New PARANOIA out -Caveat Lector- Highly Recommended. Matrix, Larry gardner Kenn Thomas and more. Al , I couldn't acces your site at www.members.aol.com/alhildell/paranoia though. Wha's up? Om k DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
