Re: [CTRL] [CIA-DRUGS] Pharmacia Upjohn, Monsanto to merge
-Caveat Lector- "research budget of $2billion and a broader sales force TO PUSH EACH OTHER'S DRUGS" That's pretty honest, for an MSNBC report ;) MY research shows that this is the most profitable (legal) business in the U.S. (based on gross profit vs gross revenues) - and that DRUG companies tend to be also selling OTHER poisons, and are heavily into the genetically modified research/production biz. It's a terribly dirty business- easily linked to government corruption, phoney "science-made-to-order" reports, and a history of knowingly selling dangerous products... as well as using the FDA as a GOON SQUAD to try to stamp out inexpensive holistic health alternatives to often dangerous pharmaceuticals (3rd leading cause of DEATH in the U.S. = doctor-created illness (iatrogenesis.) Yes you read right. More people killed by doctors and pharmaceutical medicine than: aids, accidents, pneumonia, diabetes, stroke, ... As Konrad Kail, N.D. and Paul Bergner noted several years back in their AANP white paper on the impending health care crisis, an extrapolation of a 1981 study by Steele et all shows that iatrogenesis [doctor-caused harm] is likely the number 3 disease or cause of death! http://www.healthy.net/library/articles/naturopathic/art.natru2.pc.htm Adverse drug reactions alone kill over 100,000 people a year in the U.S http://www.nurseweek.com/news/98-4/20c.html Aspirine-like drugs are the 15th leading cause of death. http://www.marijuananews.com/aspirin_and_related_drugs_are_15.htm As you can see, we are paying DEARLY in more ways than one for "modern" medicine. NO ONE can hold a candle to MONSANTO in their BROAD spectrum approach to manufacturing and selling poisons and dangerous improperly rubber stamped by incompetent/corrupt FDA - products. The deadly excitoxin aspartame has a history worthy of a thriller book, and is still being sold despite over 10,000 individual consumer complaints to the incredibly corrupt FDA - more complaints than any other product, EVER... Monsanto has hired a few FDA investigators... payola must be sloshing all 'round. http://www.dorway.com/ Monsanto took a very big hit over the FrankenFood(tm) and Terminator Seed(sm) technologies. Hopefully more pressure will continue to be brought to bear against this heinous monster. http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave/altmedcon.htm Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave Drug company merger http://www.msnbc.com/local/wood/2947.asp Pharmacia Upjohn has signed a merger agreement with Monsanto. The deal creates the worlds 11th largest drug company with a cabinet of top-selling medicines to treat ailments from arthritis to glaucoma. The combined company, as yet unnamed, will have sales this year of $17 billion and 60,000 employees. The new companys pharmaceutical business will be headquartered in Peapack, New Jersey where Pharmacia is based. The agricultural-chemical business will be headquartered in Monsantos hometown of St. Louis. This is the second drug merger in as many months. In November, American Home Products Corp. announced an agreement to acquire Warner-Lambert Co. That deal, however, is being challenged in court by a rival suitor, Pfizer Inc. The frenetic search for partners in the pharmaceutical industry is being driven by the need to finance research for blockbuster drugs, while facing pressure from political and consumer groups to keep prescription costs down. Diversifying ones risk is very important in pharmaceuticals, said Fred Hassan, chief executive officer of Pharmacia Upjohn. This will give us the diversity we need. The combined company will have a research budget of $2 billion, and a broader sales force to push each others drugs. Monsantos Searle division, which sells the popular arthritis treatment Celebrex, can be used to bolster next years launch of Pharmacias new antibiotic called Zyvox. The announcement Sunday ends Monsantos long search for a buyer. Robert Shapiro, the chairman and chief executive officer of Monsanto, has had at least three failed attempts to clinch a deal since October 1998, when Monsantos merger with American Home Products fell apart. Shapiro will be the non-executive chairman of the newly combined company for 18 months and then retire. Hassan will be the president and chief executive and assume the chairmans title when Shapiro steps down. Monsanto has had trouble finding a partner because its agricultural-chemical business, which makes genetically altered seeds and weed killers like Round Up, is facing consumer backlash, particularly in Europe. Concerns about potential health risks from genetically altered foods have caused many manufacturers to rethink ingredients. Shapiro invested heavily over the past five years to build up Monsantos agricultural business, money that now seems poorly spent in light of the public outcry. Public concern is clearly an issue, and we obviously are going to be working on that to
[CTRL] Toyota to examine 'satanic' TV ad
-Caveat Lector- Let me off this Planet.. Peter See also http://www2.50megs.com/persewen/index.htm http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/business/story/0,2469,500144422-500172790 -500665335-0,00.html Toyota to examine 'satanic' TV ad Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Agence France-Press PARIS (December 19, 1999 10:44 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - After a newspaper claimed the spot was riddled with subliminal satanic messages, Toyota France said Sunday it was opening an inquiry into European television advertisement for its latest model, the Yaris Verso. The film, showing a father practicing getting to the hospital in time for the birth of his child, appears harmless. But Le Parisien newspaper said that, when shown at slow speed, satanic texts referring to the "power of the moon" and the "beauty of darkness" are visible, as well as incitations to suicide and images of bloodied Red Crosses. Toyota France was unaware of the presence of the images until the firm was contacted late Friday by Le Parisien. "We still have not managed to get through to our advertising agency so they can give us an explanation," head of public relations at Toyota France Philippe Boursereau told AFP. "We will call them first thing Monday," Boursereau said. Le Parisien says the British advertising agency Saatchi made the film. "If the images really do exist ... Toyota France will take the necessary action against all those who took part in the conception and the making of the Yaris Verso spot," the public relations head added. The spot is being shown, in slightly different versions, in various European countries. "We have informed all the countries concerned, but have not had any feedback yet," Boursereau said. We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/poleshift 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] Courage
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -Original Message- From: JP Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 1:12 AM Subject: Re: Courage Mike, ever heard of the wackenhut nuclear snake eaters? These boys are dressed in black, fully auhorized to kill civilians on us soil if deemed necessary to protect the national security or defending the usa from "terrorism". These folks apparently work closely with the energy folks you refer to. Also, e systems security folks have apparently had the same rights. But there have been less hits the last 4-5 years (other than the home invasions by drug teams) I think due to fear of being cut loose and left holding the bag, and also due to the fact most ops have lost their feelings of patriotism with the increased nwo orientation of the executive, and due to the publicity of waco and ruby ridge. Anyhow, I know that many folks, even a significant portion of the alphabet agency personnel are "fed up". - Original Message - From: Mike Ruppert Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 11:28 PM Subject: Courage Jim I too sense the meltdown which will precipitate either a successful or an unsuccessful attempt to remove the Constitution (overtly) and impose some version of a police state. But, as I think Catherine was saying in a phone conversation with me the other day, "I don't know how they have managed to keep it going this far, but they did." It is really pretty amazing. For a total of about three years I was a manager at the largest gun store in the State of California. Many law enforcement contracts and also many regular customers who were contractors or outright employees of Federal Agencies; everybody from Park Service to GSA had hired hitters. One of the best secret armies in the country is at DOE where they House the N.E.S.T. (Nuclear Emergency Search Teams) teams. Serious bad boys there. But it's just kind of out of control. The key is reaching an undetermined point where a combination of deteriorating socioeconomic factors merges with increasingly available information and starts the meltdown. I still don't believe that the bad guys can pull off an overt coup and imposition of a police state for more than five days. I just don't think that it can be done. Mike Ruppert www.copvcia.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] NIJ looking less-than-lethal inventions for citizen suppression
-Caveat Lector- NIJ looking for your help with new hi-tech inventions for citizen suppression check out #g below "telemetered perspiration drug detection" Voice I.D, scads of biometrics projects, neighborhood "mapping" and "data warehousing" CCTV cameras popping up everywhere with image (facial) recognition software, but wait what happened to the Bill of Rights ? How does a Department of "Justice" come to be a department of oppression and murder? More importantly ... how can this trend of creeping (leaping) Facism be reversed? Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave Full text: http://ncjrs.org/txtfiles1/sl000374.txt also: http://ncjrs.org excerpt: Officer Protection and Crime Prevention. Techniques, materials, and methods are needed to improve the protective and safety equipment used by law enforcement and corrections officials. Your applications addressing officer protection should emphasize improving the degree of protection, comfort and fit of body-worn equipment, ease of use, and cost of protection equipment. Your applications in this area should describe the development of systems that are easy to use, require low power (primarily for man-portable or unattended applications), and are inexpensive to purchase and operate. Some examples of this type of technology are (1) sensors and monitors (perimeter/physical security), (2) explosives/drug detection, and (3) concealed weapons detection. The development, adaptation of existing systems, appropriate deployment, and analysis of closed circuit television (CCTV) is an area that could benefit public safety. Image processing, enhancement and analysis may also be useful. For some types of safety threats (e.g. telephoned bomb scares), speaker identification might have some value. However, it is incumbent on the applicant to articulate the expected benefits and cost trade-offs with existing approaches for dealing with the problems that the technology seeks to address. (d) Less-Than-Lethal (LTL). NIJ seeks technologies that provide new or significantly improved options to conventional use-of-force methods. Scenarios where LTL technologies, devices, or techniques might be appropriately employed include, but are not limited to, confrontation with subjects who assault officers or refuse to comply with lawful orders and who may be armed with a weapon and individuals who become violent or uncooperative. You must consider all aspects of the safety of proposed LTL devices from the effect produced on the subject to the effect on bystanders and on persons employing the LTL device. Any disabling effect on an offender must be of a short duration and completely reversible. You must clearly articulate the expected reduction in the incidence of injury to officers and combative suspects. You must make cogent arguments that the proposed technique or device is quantitatively more effective or safer than that currently used to achieve the same objective. Included in less-than-lethal technology is car and vehicle stopping technology--developing and improving methods police may employ to safely stop fleeing vehicles, including use of stationary systems for check points, police vehicle-based systems, and hand-held portable devices. NIJ also seeks technology for use by law enforcement agencies in performing vehicular pursuit management. Several broad areas of technologies are sought: physical systems and devices that will safely and effectively immobilize motor vehicles; information technologies that can be employed in the management of pursuits in progress or to enhance law enforcement officers' preparedness in responding to pursuit situations; and technologies that warn the general public of imminent hazards associated with pursuits in progress. Proposals that address vehicle-immobilizing systems and devices must provide sufficient description of the physical operating principles of the system or device to permit an assessment of its expected effectiveness and safety. (e) Counterterrorism. NIJ, in concert with the Department of Defense, is a leader in the development of concealed weapon detection technology. NIJ solicits new and innovative concealed weapons detection technology for development and demonstration. Current concealed weapons technology focuses on passive millimeter wave imaging, low intensity electromagnetic technology, long wave infrared receivers, radar and ultrasound technology, passive magnetic detection technology, and low-frequency magnetic imaging technology. NIJ solicits proposals for new and innovative concealed weapons and explosives detection technology that is cheaper, easier to use, and portable. (f) Investigative and Forensic Science. This solicitation seeks proposals for the development of scientific bases for forensic physical evidence obtained from fingerprints and firearms; expansion of trace evidence and questioned document examination techniques; and employment of advanced DNA/serology, pathology, entomology,
[CTRL] news cooperative
-Caveat Lector- Ohhh, is this what is meant by the third eye?? Peter Peter http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap19991220_1325.html WIRE:12/20/1999 19:22:00 ET Networks announce news cooperative NEW YORK (AP) _ Three networks are joining their news services into a single domestic news cooperative, they announced Monday. Network News Service will consist of ABC NewsOne, CBS Newspath and Fox News Edge. NNS will collect video from the affiliates of all three news services, as well as the three network's newsgathering units and other sources, and supply this "raw video" back to ABC NewsOne, CBS Newspath and Fox News Edge. Each network's news service will select from all of that day's NNS material for inclusion in its regular feeds to affiliates. Meanwhile, the three services will continue to operate as separate competing entities. NBC is not part of the arrangement. "We think it's curious that we were not included in these discussions," said NBC spokeswoman Alex Constantinople. "NNS will be particularly important to breaking news coverage," said Roger Ailes, Fox News chairman. "It will dramatically enhance the ability of each network news service to cover breaking stories by offering more than one source of video." CBS News president Andrew Heyward added that the new arrangement "enables each network news service to devote more resources to its own coverage ... which will ultimately differentiate one station or one service from its competitors." snip We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/poleshift 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] Kudos to Kris: High Times article
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-12-21 01:54:05 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks. It was quite the process. And what a statement about todays media, that High Times is the only magazine to have any in depth accounts of a secret society that George W Bush, a leading contendor for the US presidency, belongs to. Things haven't changed in DECADES. In the '70s and '80s, the ONLY mass-media outlets that were able to publish articles about government conspiracies and cover-ups were "PORNO" magazines such as Genesis, Penthouse, and Larry Flynt's Hustler ... 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] Finding your way to The Stargate...(here's a map)
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Subject: Finding your way to "The Stargate"...(here's a map) Date: Sunday, December 19, 1999 2:01 PM (Citation and "find-your-way" direction to The Stargate follow, re Dan's reference to Saul Paul and Farley's forward of "The Stargate Conspiracy" related quotes, etc.) (For those not quite up to speed with what Dan Smith's talking about here, put on your "Star Wars" costume and think "Dark Side of the Force." Or shift over to the metaphysical, and consider what are perjoratively called "demonic entities." Or in a "UFOlogical" modality, perhaps "good aliens and bad aliens." But for our scientific vernacular, let's think in balanced terms of "viruses of the mind" consciousness? This allows even former-Soviets, Chinese and others into this game, "alien"-wise.) - - - - + In a message dated 12/19/99 12:08:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Consider the Boss. This is the Monster Group. I have spoken of the Monster several times before in this forum. Jack is afraid of the Monster. He realizes that it makes a shambles of his metaphysics. Jack hates Plato, and for the same reason. Plato believe(s) (sic) in disembodied existence. Remember -- Philosophy 101? Saul-Paul is Jack's Physics/Math mentor. Saul-Paul knows all about the Boss. Saul-Paul is a Platonist. Saul-Paul believes in disembodied spirits. He does not believe that they rot in the grave, any more than does the Monster Group which just happens to be the Boss of all of physics, even of Jack's little back-action. Is anyone in the world besides me keeping score? Does anyone else wonder what is coming down and who is fooling whom and why? Yes, in his own inimitable fashion, Farley wonders. - - - - + [Farley] Here's a little ditty resonant with Dan's emission, above. Actually, I'm not the only one "wondering." I'm just a mild-mannered reporter. But then there ARE "others?" Excerpting for review and promotional purposes only, quoting from "The Stargate Conspiracy," (Picknett Prince, Little Brown Co.), on Page 245 - 246, from the chapter titled "Behind the Mask": (Ver batim; author's footnoted refs. in parens.) "Many people have been impressed by the paranormal phenomena associated with the Nine, which often converts them to the cause. Another example of this happened to Saul Paul Sirag, the physicist who took over the Physics/Consciousness Research Group at Esalen after Sarfatti. He visited Ossining during the Geller communications, and was later present at Jenny O'Connor's sessions at Esalen. Sirag records a hauntingly surreal story in which he asked Geller if it was possible for him to see Spectra. Geller replied that he only had to look into his eyes. He did so -- and saw the Israeli's head turn into a hawk's. (143) This story has particular resonance because another person involved with the Puharich-Geller group at that time was Ray Stanford, who claimed extra-terrestrial contact since 1954, and the beings he saw were also hawk-like. (144) (In the 1950s Stanford was an associate of another controversial contactee, George Hunt Williamson, who was, in turn, a close colleague of the fascist channeller William Dudley Pelley.) "Hawks run through the Puharich story like wine through water: he himself claims to have been told by the Nine that he was the reincarnation of the hawk god Horus, and he often described how hawks regularly appeared around him and Geller during their travels in Israel and the United States, which he took as a sign of the Nine's protection. (Incidentally, the Turkey Farm was in Hawkes Avenue, Ossining.) "The idea that scientists -- with their traditional contempt for all matters paranormal -- believe they are in personal contact with extraterrestrial (or other non-human) intelligences may seem surprising and unlikely, but many of the Nine's most devoted followers are, as we have seen, physicists. In response to Sarfatti's description of his childhood telephone conversations with a computer from the future, ** (Dr.) Brendan O'Regan said he knew of 'several hundred' similar cases, and Saul Paul Sirag stated unequivocally that over 100 scientists in the United States alone believe they were in telepathic contact with the extraterrestrial intelligences. (145) John C. Lilly, another pioneer in the study of altered states of consciousness and LSD research, who spent time at the Esalen Institute in the late 1960s, reported his own experiences of contact with 'intelligences or entities higher than myself', which he believed were 'a shared organized aspect of the Universe'. (146) He speaks of these higher intelligences as 'programmers', and developed a theory that human beings are really 'biocomputers'. He wrote: 'All human beings... are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature as programmable entities. Literally,
Re: [CTRL] [1] Drugs, the U.S., and Khun Sa
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-12-20 14:41:46 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anthony Poe was indifferent to the problem. A marine in the Pacific during World War II, Poe joined the CIA's Special Operations division sometime after the war and quickly earned a reputation as one of its crack clandestine warfare operatives in Asia, playing an important role in the CIA's Tibetan operations. Poe's first assignment in Indochina was with anti-Sihanouk mercenaries along the Cambodian border in South Vietnam, and in 1963 he was sent to Laos as chief advisor to General Vang Pao. Several years later he was transferred to northwestern Laos to supervise Secret Army operations in the tri-border area and to work with Yao tribesmen. Old Tony Poe now lives in retirement in the Richmond district of San Francisco. 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] US Code and the militias
-Caveat Lector- 18 USC 2383 Rebellion or insurrection Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States. 18 USC 2384 Seditious conspiracy If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. 18 USC 2385 Advocating overthrow of Government Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof - Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction. If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction. As used in this section, the terms ''organizes'' and ''organize'', with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons. 18 USC 2389 Recruiting for service against United States Whoever recruits soldiers or sailors within the United States, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, to engage in armed hostility against the same; or Whoever opens within the United States, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, a recruiting station for the enlistment of such soldiers or sailors to serve in any manner in armed hostility against the United States - Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. 18 USC 2390 Enlistment to serve against United States Whoever enlists or is engaged within the United States or in any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, with intent to serve in armed hostility against the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com?sr=mc.mk.mcm.tag001 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL
[CTRL] Harmonics And The Unified Field Theory. Bruce Cathie
-Caveat Lector- http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/3460/bruce.html Harmonics And The Unified Field Theory by, Bruce L. Cathie This site has heaps of info. Index World Grid System Harmonic Unified Equations Atomic Bomb Unified Field Harmonic Unified Equation (1) Magnetic Lines of Force Harmonic Unified Equation (2) Harmonic Unifed Equation (3) Matter/Antimatter Physical Reality Contact Information/Books 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] Anarchism: Two Kinds / Wendy McElroy
-Caveat Lector- Another term for the two kinds of Anarchism: "right-Libertarian" (anarcho-capitalist) and "libertarian socialist" (anarcho-syndicalist) from: An Anarchist FAQ Webpage, Version 6.1 G.7 Lysander Spooner: right-Libertarian or libertarian socialist? http://au.spunk.org/library/intro/faq/sp001547/secG7.html Murray Rothbard and others on the "libertarian" right have argued that Lysander Spooner is another individualist anarchist whose ideas support "anarcho"-capitalism's claim to be part of the anarchist tradition. As will be shown below, however, this claim is untrue, since it is clear that Spooner was a left libertarian who was firmly opposed to capitalism. That Spooner was against capitalism can be seen in his opposition to wage labour, which he wished to eliminate by turning capital over to those who work it. Like Ben Tucker, he wanted to create a society of associated producers -- self-employed farmers, artisans and cooperating workers -- rather than wage-slaves and capitalists. For example, in his Letter to Cleveland Spooner writes: "All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be broken up; for few or no persons, who could hire capital and do business for themselves would consent to labour for wages for another." This preference for a system based on simple commodity production in which capitalists and wage slaves are replaced by self-employed and cooperating workers puts Spooner squarely in the anti-capitalist camp with other individualist anarchists, like Tucker. Right "libertarians" have perhaps mistaken Spooner for a capitalist because of his claim that a "free market in credit" would lead to low interest on loans. But, as noted, markets are not the defining feature of capitalism. There were markets long before capitalism existed. So the fact that Spooner retained the concept of markets does not necessarily make him a capitalist. In fact, far from seeing his "free market in credit" in capitalist terms, he believed (again like Tucker) that competition between mutual banks would make credit cheap and easily available, and that this would lead to the elimination of capitalism! In this respect, both Spooner and Tucker follow Proudhon, who maintained that "reduction of interest rates to vanishing point is itself a revolutionary act, because it is destructive of capitalism" [cited in Edward Hyams, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: His Revolutionary Life, Mind and Works, Taplinger,1979]. (Whether this belief is correct is, of course, another question; we have suggested that it is not, and that capitalism cannot be "reformed away" by mutual banking, particularly by competitive mutual banking.) Further evidence of Spooner's anti-capitalism can be found his book Poverty: Its Illegal Causes and Legal Cure, where he notes that under capitalism the labourer does not receive "all the fruits of his own labour" because the capitalist lives off of workers' "honest industry." Thus: ". . . almost all fortunes are made out of the capital and labour of other men than those who realize them. Indeed, except by his sponging capital and labor from others." Spooner's statement that capitalists deny workers "all the fruits" (i.e. the full value) of their labor presupposes the labour theory of value, which is the basis of the socialist demonstration that capitalism is exploitative. [1] Spooner's support of "Natural Law" has also been taken as "evidence" that Spooner was a proto-right-libertarian. Of course, most anarchists do not find theories of "natural law," be they due to right-Libertarians, fascists or whatever, to be particularly compelling. Certainly the ideas of "Natural Law" and "Natural Rights," as existing independently of human beings in the sense of the ideal Platonic Forms, are difficult for anarchists to accept per se, because such ideas are inherently authoritarian. [2] Spooner, however, never explicitly states in his essay in what sense he believes "natural law" to exist. Seeking to give him the benefit of the doubt, we can say that his support for juries indicates a support for the evolution of any concepts of "natural rights." In other words, the concepts of right and wrong in society are not indelibly inscribed in law tomes as the "true law," but instead change and develop as society does (as reflected in the decisions of the juries). In addition, he states that "Honesty, justice, natural law, is usually a very plain and simple matter, . . . made up of a few simple elementary principles, of the truth and justice of which every ordinary mind has an almost intuitive perception," thus indicating that what is right and wrong exists in "ordinary people" and not in "prosperous judges" or any other small group claiming to speak on behalf of "truth." As can be seen, Spooner's account of how "natural law" will be administered is radically different from, say, Murray Rothbard's, and indicates a strong
[CTRL] History of Psychological Applications of LSD
-Caveat Lector- "History of LSD Therapy" Chapter 1 of "LSD Psychotherapy" by Stanislav Grof MD, 1980, Hunter House Publishers, Alameda CA (ISBN 0-89793-158-0) http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofhist.htm DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Johnny Acid-seed, Al Hubbard [1/2]
-Caveat Lector- AL HUBBARD -- THE ORIGINAL "CAPTAIN TRIPS" by Todd Brendan Fahey [This investigative article originally appeared in the November, 1991, issue of "High Times."] Before Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ... before Timothy Leary ... before Ken Kesey's band of Merry Pranksters and their Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests ... before the dawn of the Grateful Dead, there was Alfred M. Hubbard: the Original Captain Trips. You will not read about him in the history books. He left no diary, nor chatty relatives to memorialize him in print. And if a cadre of associates had not recently agreed to open its files, Captain Alfred M. Hubbard might exist in death as he did in life -- a man of mirrors and shadows, revealing himself to even his closest friends only on a need-to-know basis. They called him "the Johnny Appleseed of LSD." He was to the psychedelic movement nothing less than the membrane through which all passed to enter into the Mysteries. Beverly Hills psychiatrist Oscar Janiger once said of Hubbard, "We waited for him like a little old lady for the Sears-Roebuck catalog." Waited for him to unlock his ever-present leather satchel loaded with pharmaceutically-pure psilocybin, mescaline or his personal favorite, Sandoz LSD-25. Those who will talk about Al Hubbard are few. Oscar Janiger told this writer that "nothing of substance has been written about Al Hubbard, and probably nothing ever should." He is treated like a demigod by some, as a lunatic uncle by others. But nobody is ambivalent about the Captain: He was as brilliant as the noonday sun, mysterious as the rarest virus, and friendly like a golden retriever. The first visage of Hubbard was beheld by Dr. Humphry Osmond, now senior psychiatrist at Alabama's Bryce Hospital. He and Dr. John Smythies were researching the correlation between schizophrenia and the hallucinogens mescaline and adrenochrome at Weyburn Hospital in Saskatchewan, Canada, when an A.M. Hubbard requested the pleasure of Osmond's company for lunch at the swank Vancouver Yacht Club. Dr. Osmond later recalled, "It was a very dignified place, and I was rather awed by it. [Hubbard] was a powerfully-built man ... with a broad face and a firm hand-grip. He was also very genial, an excellent host." Captain Hubbard was interested in obtaining some mescaline, and, as it was still legal, Dr. Osmond supplied him with some. "He was interested in all sorts of odd things," Osmond laughs. Among Hubbard's passions was motion. His identity as "captain" came from his master of sea vessels certification and a stint in the US Merchant Marine. At the time of their meeting in 1953, Al Hubbard owned secluded Daymen Island off the coast of Vancouver -- a former Indian colony surrounded by a huge wall of oyster shells. To access his 24-acre estate, Hubbard built a hangar for his aircraft and a slip for his yacht from a fallen redwood. But it was the INNER voyage that drove the Captain until his death in 1982. Fueled by psychedelics, he set sail and rode the great wave as a neuronaut, with only the white noise in his ears and a fever in his brain. His head shorn to a crew and wearing a paramilitary uniform with a holstered long-barrel Colt .45, Captain Al Hubbard showed up one day in '63 on the doorstep of a young Harvard psychologist named Timothy Leary. "He blew in with that uniform ... laying down the most incredible atmosphere of mystery and flamboyance, and really impressive bullshit!" Leary recalls, "He was pissed off. His Rolls Royce had broken down on the freeway, so he went to a pay phone and called the company in London. That's what kind of guy he was. He started name-dropping like you wouldn't believe ... claimed he was friends with the Pope." Did Leary believe him? "Well, yeah, no question." The captain had come bearing gifts of LSD, which he wanted to swap for psilocybin, the synthetic magic mushroom produced by Switzerland's Sandoz Laboratories. "The thing that impressed me," Leary remembers, "is on one hand he looked like a carpetbagger con man, and on the other he had these most-impressive people in the world on his lap, basically backing him." Among Hubbard's heavyweight cheerleaders was Aldous Huxley, author of the sardonic novel "Brave New World." Huxley had been turned on to mescaline by Osmond in '53, an experience that spawned the seminal psychedelic handbook "The Doors of Perception." Huxley became an unabashed sponsor for the chemicals then known as "psychotomimetic" - literally, "madness-mimicking." But neither Huxley nor Hubbard nor Osmond experienced madness, and Dr. Osmond wrote a rhyme to Huxley one day in the early 1950s, coining a new word for the English language, and a credo for the next generation: "To fathom hell or soar angelic / Just take a pinch of psychedelic." * * * Those who knew Al Hubbard would describe him
[CTRL] Wisdom's Maw -- Author's Website
-Caveat Lector- http://www.ucs.usl.edu/~tbf4931/Wisdom/ 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] Johnny Acid-seed, Al Hubbard [2/2]
-Caveat Lector- AL HUBBARD, THE ORIGINAL "CAPTAIN TRIPS" by Todd Brendan Fahey High Times, Nov. 1991 cont'd Hubbard abandoned his uranium empire and, for the next decade, traveled the globe as a psychedelic missionary. "Al's dream was to open up a worldwide chain of clinics as training grounds for other LSD researchers," says Stolaroff. His first pilgrimage was to Switzerland, home of Sandoz Laboratories, producers of both Delysid (trade name for LSD) and psilocybin. He procured a gram of LSD (roughly 10,000 doses) and set up shop in a safe-deposit vault in the Zurich airport's duty-free section. From there he was able to ship quantities of his booty without a tariff to a waiting world. Swiss officials quickly detained Hubbard for violating the nation's drug laws, which provided no exemption from the duty-free provision. Myron Stolaroff petitioned Washington for the Captain's release, but the State Department wanted nothing to do with Al Hubbard. Oddly, when a hearing was held, blue-suited officials from the department were in attendance. The Swiss tribunal declared Hubbard's passport invalid for five years, and he was deported. Undeterred, Hubbard traveled to Czechoslovakia, where he had another gram of LSD put into tablet form by Chemapol --a division of the pharmaceutical giant Spofa-- and then flew west. Procuring a Ph.D. in biopsychology from a less-than-esteemed academic outlet called Taylor University, the captain became Dr. Alfred M. Hubbard, clinical therapist. In '57, he met Ross MacLean, medical superintendent of the Hollywood Hospital in New Westminster, Canada. MacLean was so impressed with Hubbard's knowledge of the human condition that he devoted an entire wing of the hospital to the study of psychedelic therapy for chronic alcoholics. According to Metcalfe, MacLean was also attracted to the fact that Hubbard was Canada's sole licensed importer of Sandoz LSD. "I remember seeing Al on the phone in his living room one day. He was elated because the FDA had just given him IND#1," says one Hubbard confidante upon condition of anonymity. His Investigational New Drug permit also allowed Hubbard to experiment with LSD in the USA. For the next few years, Hubbard --together with Canadian psychiatrist Abram Hoffer and Dr. Humphry Osmond-- pioneered a psychedelic regimen with a recovery rate of between 60% and 70% -- far above that of AA or Schick Hospital's so-called "aversion therapy." Hubbard would lift mentally-disturbed lifelong alcoholics out of psychosis with a mammoth dose of liquid LSD, letting them view their destructive habits from a completely new vantage point. "As a therapist, he was one of the best," says Stolaroff, who worked with Hubbard until 1965 at the International Federation for Advanced Study in Menlo Park, California, which he founded after leaving Ampex. Whereas many LSD practitioners were content to strap their patients onto a 3' x 6' cot and have them attempt to perform a battery of mathematical formulae with a head full of LSD, Hubbard believed in a comfortable couch and throw pillows. He also employed icons and symbols to send the experience into a variety of different directions: someone uptight may be asked to look at a photo of a glacier, which would soon melt into blissful relaxation; a person seeking the spiritual would be directed to a picture of Jesus, and enter into a one-on-one relationship with the Savior. But Hubbard's days at Hollywood Hospital ended in 1957, not long after they had begun, after a philosophical dispute with Ross MacLean. The suave hospital administrator was getting fat from the $1,000/dose fees charged to Hollywood's elite patients, who included members of the Canadian Parliament and the American film community. Hubbard, who believed in freely distributing LSD for the world good, felt pressured by MacLean to share in the profits, and ultimately resigned rather than accept an honorarium for his services. His departure came as the Canadian Medical Association was becoming increasingly suspicious of Hollywood Hospital in the wake of publicity surrounding MK-ULTRA. The Canadian Citizen's Commission on Human Rights had already discovered one Dr. Harold Abramson, a CIA contract psychiatrist, on the board of MacLean's International Association for Psychedelic Therapy, and external pressure was weighing on MacLean to release Al Hubbard, the former OSS officer with suspected CIA links. Compounding Hubbard's plight was the death of his Canadian benefactor, leaving Hubbard with neither an income nor the financial cushion upon which he had become dependent. His services were eventually recruited by Willis Harman, then-Director of the Educational Policy Research Center within the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) of Stanford University. Harman employed Hubbard as a security guard for SRI, "although," Harman admits, "Al never did anything
[CTRL] Wisdom's Maw -- MK-ULTRA and LSD
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"WISDOM'S MAW" - The Story Behind the Story
by Todd Brendan Fahey
Author of "Wisdom's Maw," pub'd by Far Gone Books
"If someone were to take you out -- today -- would anyone
see the book?"
It was an absurd question. But we live in absurd times, and
so I paused in reflection and took a quick mental inventory of
just how many copies of the manuscript were floating around the
U.S. and England. In the final analysis --including published
excerpts from the book-- there are far too many copies of
"Wisdom's Maw" circulating "out there" to do anything about. For
better or worse, the CIA will have to lie with its mistakes.
There was a time, though, several years ago, Spring of 1990,
when I found myself worrying about the little things: the car
that had been in my rearview mirror for several miles and many
odd street changes, or the sonar blip somewhere in the bowels of
my phone line to which I could set my watch, or whether this turn
of the ignition key would be the last move I would ever make.
Democratic Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, in a closed
door session of the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1978, deemed
Project MK-ULTRA "the most diabolical experiment imaginable in a
democratic society."
And from what I know now, from the four-plus years it took
to research and complete "Wisdom's Maw," I would have to agree.
For over twenty years, several branches of the federal
government of the United States of America --most notably the
Army Chemical Corps, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation-- sought as their ultimate
objective nothing less than total control over human behavior.
A little-known chemical compound procured from a Swiss
pharmaceutical firm was to be THE KEY. Today, of course, we know
the drug as LSD-25.
It was through my reading of the history of lysergic acid
diethylamide in two works of nonfiction, "Acid Dreams" and
"Storming Heaven," that I decided this epoch in American history
to be worthy of a novel -- a work of fiction with space and time
altered, as if in the powerful throes of an acid trip, and with
the dimensions redrawn to benefit certain human agents who may
have been neglected proportionally by state-approved historians.
Such an art form was the only way to make sense of LSD
Precisely, it was the coming across the figure of one Alfred
M. Hubbard in "Acid Dreams," in the chapter titled "The Original
Captain Trips," that would throw me headlong into an obsession
that would culminate in the completion of a 77,000-word novel
surrounding Project MK-ULTRA.
After the buzz settled from my reading of "Acid Dreams," I
immediately set for myself the goal of knowing more about the
man whom Timothy Leary called, "the great, enigmatic triple
agent," than anyone alive. It was during this period of research,
between March of 1990 and the summer of 1991, that the word
"paranoia" became a meaningless abstraction.
I was, am, and will forever be convinced that Captain Al
Hubbard was a conscious, dedicated agent of the Central
Intelligence Agency, and that his astonishing career as "the
Johnny Appleseed of LSD" was but a pebble on the surface of
MK-ULTRA.
After dozens of hours of taped conversations with the likes
of Myron Stolaroff, Drs. Humphrey Osmond and Abram Hoffer,
Timothy Leary, and Laura Huxley, wife of the great psychedelic
visionary Aldous Huxley, I was able to deliver to Steve Hager and
John Holmstrom at High Times a long, investigative piece on Al
Hubbard for its November 1991 issue. I was also so convinced of
my being under surveillance, and that the phones at my home and
place of employment (then a Big-Eight law firm) were tapped, that
my wife and I moved abruptly one afternoon from Los Angeles to
Salt Lake City, Utah. ("They" would need to really want to go
after me, I reasoned, to follow me to Utah.)
It was in the idyll of a huge, old flat with hardwood
floors, just off Temple Square, in the heart of Salt Lake City,
that "Wisdom's Maw" was completed. While in the throes of too
many acid trips, drawing from Freedom of Information Act
sensitive documents, and supported by long breaks between
quarters at Weber State University, where I had been hired to
teach freshman English, I was able to finish off three-quarters
of the novel in about eight weeks (the other one-quarter had
taken four years ... "it must GERMINATE," I kept telling myself
... ). The excerpting of the book in 1993 by "Utah Holiday," a
now-defunct glossy regional, allowed me to forget about the sound
of footsteps (the phone-blips stopped after leaving L.A.), and
since then, the only concern I have had is the nature of the
baffling silence of virtually every major publisher in New York.
Author Ernest J. Gaines ("The Autobiography of Miss Jane
Pittman"), who spent time at Stanford in '59-60 with some of the
principals in "Wisdom's Maw," uttered this bottom-line
[CTRL] Y2K WARNING (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Y2K Warning - Please read WARNING!!! Please take time out of your busy life to check your toilet paper stockpile. Make sure it is Y2K Compliant !!! Word has it, if it is NOT Y2K compliant, on January 1, 2000 it will roll back to 1900 and turn into a Sears Catalog YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!! 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] Panamanians Seek U.S. Damages for Invasion Victims
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/21/1999 1:30:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then-U.S. President George Bush ordered the invasion of 26,000 troops to capture Noriega and bring him to the United States to face drug trafficking and racketeering charges. Washington has estimated that about 300 Panamanians died in the invasion. But Panamanian human rights groups say the civilian death toll topped 3,000. ``We want justice for all the people killed in the vile massacre carried out by the U.S. Army,'' said Sebastian Vergara, head of action group the Families of the Fallen. Invading Iraq to protect his oil contracts and invading Panama to get a guy he not only didn't like but wanted to make sure never saw the light of day again. Maybe the world would have been a better place if he had just had an affair. Oh no, what am I thinking of? Killing people is fine. It's sex that's bad, bad, badPrudy 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 coming end of western civilisation-1 intro
-Caveat Lector- Enjoy the next few years ..they are likely to be the best that has ever been. Beyond that however, the deluge. - I hope that everything that is sent in this mini series is wrong. That the world will go onto experience a millenia of prosperity, with no conflict and perennial growth. --- But the other scenario, that "Satan will be unleashed", and the darkness descends is a real possibility. What is certain is that in the following 100years, the change in power relationships will be greater than in the last 1000. The almost certain death of the west will cause disruptions that one can only guess at.(Using existing scientific literature in an appendix in no 8 a guess is made. It is controversial but gives tools to think about what is likely to happen) Two of the major source books that I used are The clash of civilisations by S Huntington and Grey Dawn-Peterson. Both are members of the CFR . I have extrapolated at what they have said (and what they hinted at) to a logical conclusion. In scenario planning they talk about the widening cone of uncertainty as the cumulative effects of uncertaintities cause increased difficulties in forecasting. Howver you also get the reverse cone where resources and demographics produce inevitable change. Such a thing was certain for a country such as south africa. Because of changing demographics, barring a massive war which would have changed demographics, it was inevitable that Apartheid would fall and that a black government would be put in place. What was uncertain was the nature of the government.(which depended on the transfer of power). also it was inevitable that the new government would implement anti white employment legislation(because of group identities and african culture) but the degree depends on the leadership and the remaining white power structures. Increasing crime and corruption are also inevitable for similar reasons, the level at which it is constrained depends on how much internal freedom remains (its disappearing rapidly), the devolution of power (it is being concentrated) and outside influences( the WTO acts to restrict corruption in SA and so for us is a positive force). Similar things can be said for the world. Because of the disappearance through demographics of the western world, the power will dwindle, the other power centres will try to exert themselves. this will be made worse by declining resources, climate change, and capital restrictions. === This is where conspiracy theories come into place. Who is the controller if at all. The main actors suggested be many are. 1The illuminati(skull and bones, CFR, etc) 2The Jews(Rothschilds, Bonfmans) 3The Anglo masononic( Churchills,Cecils, City of london) 4The catholics 5 the aliens. (I am not referring to the majority of members of the groups but the financial elite. most of the members remain cattle fodder as the rest Also these are conjectured may be entirely wrong.) here are some hypothetical extrapolations of could be wanted by the different elites? All groups(except 4 and possibly 2) would want a collapsing world population. All the groups would want the decline of the nation state, the rapid mixing of all the populations of the world. Group 2 would like to see the destruction of christianity, The others would like it to continue in order to manipulate. Groups 1,2 3 , since there main power base is in the west, if they want a one world govt will have to precipitate a crisis within the next 20 years, otherwise they will be superseded by the other grous with strong group identities- The Muslim world, Chinese and Indians. Group 5 would likely want a major conflabation in which the majority of people are destroyed and the remainder are slaves?. Sometimes its impossible to see who's who in the zoo- clinton was a rhodes scholar(group 1/3) educated ar georgetown(group4) abd has in his cabinet disproprtionally group2. He may be a descenndant of Rockerfeller(group1) anf behaves like he doesnt belong in this world(group5). perhaps he actually only cares about No1(himself) Enough doom and gloom. I hope I am wrong. I wish you all a merry christmass and a blessed new year. All the best for the millenium. and dont forget we are actually celebrating 1999 years (not quite 2 millenium) of a renewing revelation. John Silent Night, Holy Night All is calm, all is bright Round yon virgin, Holy infant,so tender and mild Sleep in Heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace 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
[CTRL] The coming end 4- the west is dying out
-Caveat Lector- Mail and guardian Johannesburg, South Africa. August 25, 1999 The world is dying out ... As fertility rates fall, a 'birth dearth' is spreading, write ANTHONY BROWNE and RICHARD REEVES. E VEN as the six billionth human is born, it's time to forget fears about the world being overpopulated. By the end of the next millennium, Tokyo will be a ghost town, and Japan will be empty. The country's population will be just 500 by the year 3000, and just one by 3500. When that person dies, the Japanese nation will be no more. These apocalyptic predictions aren't the rantings of a doomsday cult, or of a maverick academic out to gain some publicity, but of the Japanese government itself. Its Ministry of Health and Welfare reports: "If we dare make the calculation, Japan's population will be ... about 500 people by the year 3000." Of course, a lot of things can change in 1 000 years. But what is frightening about the forecast is that it's a mathematical certainty if Japanese women carry on having just 1,4 children each on average -- and if Japan doesn't change its immigration policy. If things continue as they are, the Japanese will die out. It's just a question of when. And so will Europeans. Britain is one of 61 countries that are not having enough babies to replace their populations, according to the United Nations. For a population to remain stable, women need to have 2,1 babies each on average. In the United Kingdom, women are now having 1,7 babies. One in four women are opting to have none at all. In all the countries of the European Union, fertility is so low that populations are set to decline -- if they haven't already. Spanish women -- having 1,15 babies each -- have the lowest fertility in the world. In some parts of Spain the average rate has dropped below one. The European Commission says fewer babies were born last year in the EU than in any year since World War II. "Obviously, the social structure is going to change dramatically in the next century," says John Clarke, professor of geography at the University of Durham. "We are going to become used to a world with no-child and one-child families, and with a growing proportion of older people. Siblings will become rarer and rarer." Clarke points out that the unprecedented "birth dearth" is even spreading to some developing countries. Women in India now have fewer babies than American women did in the 1950s, while in China, Cuba and Thailand women are already having too few babies to replace themselves. After centuries of population growth, and decades of apocalyptic warnings about the population bomb, most of the developed world is now facing a "population bust". In his landmark 1968 book, Population Bomb, Professor Paul Ehrlich warned that "we will breed ourselves into oblivion". Thirty years later, demographers say he is right -- but not in the way he expected. Even a few years ago predictions abounded that the exponential growth in the world's population would mean that by around 3000 there would be standing room only on the planet. One demographer predicted the impossible, claiming that in the fifth millennium humanity would outweigh the planet itself. But the unexpectedly sharp decline in fertility around the world has forced all forecasters -- including the UN -- to downgrade their predictions. There are now six billion people in the world, and while the UN's best guess is that the global population will reach nine billion by 2050, it admits the total could peak as low as 7,5-billion by 2040 before falling back. Almost all that growth will be in Africa and Asia, outweighing sharp falls in much of the developed world. The UN predicts that by 2050, Russia's population will have declined by 25-million people, Japan's by 21-million, Italy's by 16-million, and Germany's and Spain's by nine million each. Britain, with a younger population and more babies, is less affected -- at least initially. The UN forecasts the British population will drop by two million by 2050 before the decline accelerates. The most catastrophic fall will be in Estonia, which is set to lose more than a third of its population in the next 50 years. Samuel Preston of the University of Pennsylvania reckons Europe will lose 24% of its population by 2060. The UN forecasts that Europe and Japan will lose half their population by 2100. All this is not just crystal ball gazing. The European Commission says the "natural" populations of Germany, Greece, Italy and Sweden fell last year -- with only immigration ensuring that the overall populations remained steady. The populations of all but two of the countries in central and Eastern Europe fell in 1997, with Latvia's dropping by almost 1%. Of course, longer-term projections are shaky. "We really do have to differentiate between shorter-term projections, say up to 30 years, and the longer-term ones which by definition
[CTRL] The coming end- 8- 2020 Vision?
-Caveat Lector- Vision 2020 The Fall of Western Civilisation 2020- 2100 Section 1 The Roman Empire: The pattern of the future? At the end of the 3rd century, the Roman empire stood astride the whole western world, the centre of civilisation, stretching from the northern realms of England to the Persia empire. The Mediterranean was the Roman empire's lake. The trade of the empire went across the known world- Egypt, Africa, china, Persia were involved in a delicate web of global trade. The city of Rome was the centre of arts, culture trade. With architectural marvels and a population of about a million people. Peoples life style was at a level that was not to be repeated before the 17th century and even a slaves life was better than that of a freeman in the dark ages. But within a century, within 70 years, the lifetime of one man, the empire was destroyed . The empire in the east remained, although shrunk in size. The empire in the west was broken up until multiple kingdoms of Vandals, Visigoths , franks, Angles Saxons and Jutes. The population of rome ended up being 50 000, down from a million and the glory of Rome was destroyed leaving only the Coliseum and the parthenon. What went wrong? Why did Rome fall. No book ascribes a single cause and some are probably consequences of deeper malaise. There are three sets of commentators on the fall of the Roman empire- The classicists/ morally orientated and the Biological. The Classicists The headings are taken from Mr. Grant's fall of the Roman empire in order to see that the parallels without forcing the issue and committing the fault of Procrustes. 1 The Failure of the army The army began to be a parasite on the state. The costs of the army became large and at the same time the army became a corrupt power seeking organisation. The army began to fail to do its job of defending the borders, became interested in political intrigue(as all emperors were dependent on the army to continue ruling) and on increasing its share of the empire's taxes. At the same time, the people no longer held the army in high esteem and tried to get out of their duties with respect to the army. They were no longer willing to contribute voluntarily to the social overheads necessary to maintain the empire. Because they resented the army, it became difficult to impose discipline on the soldiers and severly reduced its fighting capabilities.. Hence when the barbarian invasions occurred the army was unable to resist. 2 Class Dissension As the empire entered the forth century, the empire was divided in terms of class. The aristocratic classes had stopped having children and were putting their lives and energy into their vas t estates and into wild revelry and hedonism. They felt minimal loyalty toward the empire and in some ways they were mini states unto themselves. They were exploiting the state for their own benefit, creating monopolies, withholding taxation. The unproductive poor were exploding in numbers and people who were on the states schemes numbered 300 000 in Rome alone. Again they were alienated from the state and wanting to gain the maximum benefit from the empire. The productive poor (Kulaks?) and the middle classes started to shrink. The peasant classes were paying so much in taxes that they could no long support themselves and committed wide spread infanticide. The urban middle classes were punished by high taxes and political oppression and it was common for people to sell themselves into slavery in order to survive. The shrinkage of the productive middle class and peasants was made worse by the impact of bubonic plague that struck the empire in the 4th century and a number of severe famines. Every man was doing his own thing. Eithe from selfihness or simply to survive. 3 Corruption/ lawlessness The bureaucrats who in earlier times were essentially honest became corrupt and inefficient. Since the visible face of the state is it bureaucrats this alienated the people from the state. The bureaucrats were money taking thieves lining their own pockets and providing very little service in return. The bureaucrats were also the police force of the day , so any sense of law and order began to disappear from the streets. The corruption reached the highest realms. Inflation was allowed to proceed at full force and helped destroy the middle classes. This was stopped toward the end , but then it was too late 4 The Racial partnerships that failed The split of the empire between the east (Greek) and west (latin) meant that their lives and interests began to deviate and were unwilling to come to the assistance of the other. If they had stood together they could probably resisted the barbarian invasions. But they did not. The empire lost its sense of identity and purpose. The Romans permitted large number of other peoples to come into the empire and undermine it as they had no loyalty to the empire, even if they admired it. Africans from the south, Goths ,
[CTRL] The coming end-3- Goodbye old blue eyes
-Caveat Lector- Bombshell for blondies In future, the peroxide bottle will be the only answer as fair hair becomes extinct. Johannesburg "Sunday Times" 19th Sep 199 One of the worlds great arbiter of fashion and style has pronounced the death of the blond- and claims to have scientific backing for the claim. To be published later this month. The vogue book of blondes, published by the company which owns the authoritative fashion magazine, Vogue, has ruled that the fun fair haired people are presumed to have in abundance, will die out and become a nostalgic memory. According to the author, Kathy Philips, the basis for this theory supplied by geneticist, steven Jones of University college London, who has discovered that blondness is the result of a recessive Gene. Jones who is dark haired is reported to have found "fair hair is caused by a weak genes whereas dark hair is the product of dominant ones. When a dark haired person and a natural blond have children together, the offspring will almost always be dark haired. According to Vogue, "naturally blond populations" could flourish in the "formerly closed societies" of Nordic and northern Europe. But the increasing immigration into these countries has brought out more liaisons between northern blonds and " dusty southern Europeans". The result according to the a report in Philips book is that by the end of the next millennium" the peroxide bottle" will be the only answer for those who cannot face life with mousy brown hair. .. Her book also reportedly examines a connection between power and blondness, and notes that the " one appears to augment the other. Margaret Thatcher became blonder as she became more powerful as did Eva Peron and Hillary Rodham Clinton" 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 coming end-5 -a miserable life on overcrowded Earth
-Caveat Lector- Cornell University http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Sept99/sustainable_life.hrs.html A.D. 2100: Cornell study warns of a miserable life on overcrowded Earth if population and resources are not controlled ITHACA, N.Y. -- One hundred years from now, democratically determined population-control practices and sound resource-management policies could have the planet's 2 billion people thriving in harmony with the environment. Lacking these approaches, a new Cornell University study suggests, 12 billon miserable humans will suffer a difficult life on Earth by the year 2100. "Of course, reducing population and using resources wisely will be a challenging task in the coming decades," says David Pimentel, lead author of the report titled "Will Limits of the Earth's Resources Control Human Numbers?" in the first issue of the journal Environment, Development and Sustainability. "It will be much more difficult," Pimentel says, "to survive in a world without voluntary controls on population growth and ever diminishing supplies of the Earth's resources." Even at a reduced world population of 2 billion in A.D. 2100, life for the average Earth dweller will not be as luxurious as it is for many Americans today. But the lifestyle won't be as wasteful of resources, either, the Cornell ecologist predicts. Some observers are seeing early signs that nature is taking a hand at reducing human populations through malnutrition and disease. According to the report, global climate change is beginning to contribute to the food and disease problems. "With a democratically determined population policy that respects basic individual rights, with sound resource-use policies, plus the support of science and technology to enhance energy supplies and protect the integrity of the environment," the report concludes, "an optimum population of 2 billion for the Earth can be achieved." Then the fortunate 2 billion will be free from poverty and starvation, living in an environment capable of sustaining human life with dignity, the report suggests, adding a cautionary note: "We must avoid letting human numbers continue to increase and surpass the limit of Earth's natural resources and forcing natural forces to control our number by disease, malnutrition and violent conflicts over resources," the report says. Among the key points in the report: -- The world population is projected to double in about 50 years. -- Even if a worldwide limit of 2.1 children per couple were adopted tomorrow, Earth's human population would continue to increase before stabilizing at around 12 billion in more than 60 years. The major reason for continued growth is "population momentum," due to the predominantly young age structure of the world population. -- The U.S. population has doubled during the past 60 years to 270 million and, at the current growth rate, is projected to double again, to 540 million, in the next 75 years. Each year our nation adds 3 million people (including legal immigrants) to its population, plus an estimated 400,000 illegal immigrants. -- Increasing U.S. and global population will place restrictions on certain freedoms: freedom to travel and commute to work quickly and efficiently, freedom to visit and enjoy natural areas, freedom to select desired foods and freedom to be effectively represented by government -- Today, more than 3 billion people suffer from malnutrition, the largest number and proportion of the world population in history, according to the World Health Organization. Malnutrition increases the susceptibility to diseases such as diarrhea and malaria. -- One reason for the increase in malnutrition is that production of grains per capita has been declining since 1983. Grains provide 80 percent to 90 percent of the world's food. Each additional human further reduces available food per capita. -- The reasons for this per capita decrease in food production are a 20 percent decline in cropland per capita, a 15 percent decrease in water for irrigation and a 23 percent drop in the use of fertilizers. -- Biotechnology and other technologies apparently have not been implemented fast enough to prevent declines in per capita food production during the past 17 years. -- Considering the resources likely to be available in A.D. 2100, the optimal world population would be about 2 billion, with a standard of living about half that of the United States in the 1990s, or at the standard experienced by the average European. The study was funded by Cornell University. In addition to Pimentel, authors of the Environment, Development and Sustainability report include Owen Bailey, Paul Kim, Elizabeth Mullaney, Joy Calabrese, Laura Walman, Fred Nelson nd Xiangjun Yao, all students at Cornell University. Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites provide additional information on this news release. Some might not be part of the Cornell University community, and Cornell has no control over their content or
[CTRL] The coming end- 6-Liberal attitudes...an everchanging story
-Caveat Lector- Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences." -- C.S. Lewis Introduction The left and liberal wings in the western political world have had a changeable relationship with regard to race relations. The only consistency has been for the left to hold radical opinions. I have covered the history in terms of various quotes from leaders of the left. The right wing was not included as it has probably changed less than the left and has had fewer hidden agenda's. Also race relations have assumed a religious dimension, that has never happened on the right wing(except for the Nazis). The definition of 'left wing' as will become apparent, was not as straight forward as one might think, I have defined it is those seeking radical transformation of society toward equality.( A definition that could include Mr Hitler, as well as. Thabo Mbekis radical transformation of South African society). Historically, the line between extreme right and left can become blurred. For instance Mussolini and Goebbels were socialists before they were fascists. Liberals I have defined as those believing in the sovereignty of the individual ( today that is more closely aligned with the libertarian movement). Originally the concept of race/ ethnicity pre the enlightenment was very fuzzy, as it was believed that environmental influences and culture were pre-eminent. For instance the first blacks imported into America came as indentured servants-on exactly the same status as white 'convicts'. who were imported to do hard labour. Slavery was not associated with race and that only changed toward the end of slavery's life in the USA. Also before the development of mass shipping, the most people including the elite only had contact with the ethnic group living alongside them and the Jewish community. Conflict was then defined only in terms of language/culture or religion. After the enlightenment, scientific approach was adopted to the study of people With the decline in Christianity (and traditional Judaism), the religious impulse in men was transferred into secular world views ranging from illuminism through Marxism, nazism, communism, existentialism, egalitarian humanism etc. Most of which have attempted to overcome the sense of alienation that has occurred with the decline of religion, the rise of capitalism and the process of urbanisation. The left wing has changed its emphasis between the equality as a matter of faith and science more than once as will be seen. In the 18th century, the attitudes of the right and liberal could be considered separatist toward out groups, with the extremes promoting domination and even extermination; with the left wing being wanting to use race as a form of radical revolution. In the 19th century, the right were more strongly into paternalism and domination (the so called white man's burden), with liberalism still promoting separation, and the left wing promoting extermination or separation of outgroups Modern left wing egalitarianism has a number of streams, that have combined to form today's attitudes to race and culture. The first is the radical socialists, which found a major voice in the Boasian school of anthropology by the 1940's something like 70% of Anthropology departments in the USA has a strong Boasian bias. The next is the Zionists, who did not want to be assimilated into WASP America and wanted open borders to aid the persecuted Jews in Russia and Poland. From this group comes modern multiculturalism. The Fabian groups have perhaps had the most radical change and become the major advocate of cultural marxism. The last and most suprising is the Rockerfeller / capitalist power elite with the associated large foundations. Mr JD Rockerfeller was a religious Baptist (he taught every weekend in Sunday school) However he was not orthodox and viewed himself as setting up an improved version of religion (The Prize-Daniel Yergin). Mr Rockerfeller's foundations (and associated foundations such as the Carnegie and later Ford foundation) have been consistently involved in promoting egalitarian causes such as the Fabian dominated London School of Economics, federal council of churches (see Fabian Freeway: High Road to Socialism in the USA--1884-1966 by Rose L. Martin) (see appendix 1). Also many leading industrialist have seen the liberating and enabling power of capitalism and began to see capitalism as an ideal in itself, rather than a means of wealth creation. More cynically, the elites have used socialism as a means of pacifying the masses from at least biblical times (Joseph's granary system in Egypt) In Roman times
[CTRL] The coming end-7- the clash of civilisations
-Caveat Lector- Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996) Chapter 12, The West, Civilizations, and Civilization THE RENEWAL OF THE WEST? History ends at least once and occasionally more often in the history of every civilization. As the civilization's universal stage emerges, its people become blinded by what Toynbee called "the mirage of immortality" and convinced that theirs is the final form of human society. So it was with the Roman Empire, the 'Abbasid Caliphate, the Mughal Empire, and the Ottoman Empire. The citizens of such universal states "in defiance of apparently plain facts . . . are prone to regard it, not as a night's shelter in the wilderness, but as the Promised Land, the goal of human endeavors." The same was true at the peak of the Pax Britannica. For the English middle class in 1897, "as they saw it, history for them, was over...And they had every reason to congratulate themselves on the permanent state of felicity which this ending of history had conferred on them."' Societies that assume that their history has ended, however, are usually societies whose history is about to decline. Is the West an exception to this pattern? The two key questions were well formulated by Melko: First, is Western civilization a new species, in a class by itself, incomparably different from all other civilizations that have ever existed? Second, does its worldwide expansion threaten (or promise) to end the possibility of development of all other civilizations? The inclination of most Westerners is, quite naturally, to answer both questions in the affirmative. And perhaps they are right. In the past, however, the peoples of other civilizations thought similarly and thought wrong. The West obviously differs from all other civilizations that have ever existed in that it has had an overwhelming impact on all other civilizations that have existed since 1500. It also inaugurated the processes of modernization and industrialization that have become worldwide, and as a result societies in all other civilizations have been attempting to catch up with the West in wealth and modernity. Do these characteristics of the West, however, mean that its evolution and dynamics as a civilization are fundamentally different from the patterns that have prevailed in all other civilizations? The evidence of history and the judgments of the scholars of the comparative history of civilizations suggest otherwise. The development of the West to date has not deviated significantly from the evolutionary patterns common to civilizations throughout history. The Islamic Resurgence and the economic dynamism of Asia demonstrate that other civilizations are alive and well and at least potentially threatening to the West. A major war involving the West and the core states of other civilizations is not inevitable, but it could happen. Alternatively the gradual and irregular decline of the West which started in the early twentieth century could continue for decades and perhaps centuries to come. Or the West could go through a period of revival, reverse its declining influence in world affairs, and reconfirm its position as the leader whom other civilizations follow and imitate. In what is probably the most useful periodization of the evolution of historical civilizations, Carroll Quigley sees a common pattern of seven phases. (See above, p. 44.) In his argument, Western civilization gradually began to take shape between A.D. 370 and 750 through the mixing of elements of Classical, Semitic, Saracen, and barbarian cultures. Its period of gestation lasting from the middle of the eighth century to the end of the tenth century was followed by movement, unusual among civilizations, back and forth between phases of expansion and phases of conflict. In his terms, as well as those of other civilization scholars, the West now appears to be moving out of its phase of conflict. Western civilization has become a security zone; intra-West wars, apart from an occasional Cod War, are virtually unthinkable. The West is developing, as was argued in chapter 2, its equivalent of a universal empire in the form of a complex system of confederations, federations, regimes, and other types of cooperative institutions that embody at the civilizational level its commitment to democratic and pluralistic politics. The West has, in short, become a mature society entering into what future generations, in the recurring pattern of civilizations, will look back to as a "golden age," a period of peace resulting, in Quigley's terms, from "the absence of any competing units within the area of the civilization itself, and from the remoteness or even absence of struggles with other societies outside." It is also a period of prosperity which arises from "the ending of internal belligerent destruction, the reduction of internal trade barriers, the
[CTRL] Seattle Police Wanted Destruction!
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Subject: Seattle Police Wanted Destruction! "...it came out that the police didn't arrest the people in black hoods who were damaging property... ...because they (the police) needed the damage = ($2.5 million) to occur so that "they could justify declaring a state of emergency"..." ...And this is honest police work? Won't the shop owners be delighted to hear about this police strategy! NewsHawkAE Inc. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 8 Dec 1999 Val Valerian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Report on the Public Meeting with the Seattle City Council on the WTO Incidents During the public meeting on December 8, 1999 at the Seattle Public Library, held by the Seattle City Council for public comment on the events in Seattle during the WTO meeting, it came out that the police didn't arrest the people in black hoods who were damaging property because they needed the damage ($2.5 million) to occur so that "they could justify declaring a state of emergency", permitting the police in the city to be federalized and a declaration of "limited martial law" to occur and the limited callup of a number of unarmed National Guard troops. It also came out that the police knew that the individuals in the black ski masks were coming to Seattle from Oregon - they knew who they were and that they were coming to cause damage. They let them come, didn't stop them, and let them do damage in order to justify further activities. So, it was a setup. Furthermore, the fact that Seattle hosted the WTO meeting was strange, because Washington has more trade unions than any other state in the US, and is an extremely environmentally concerned state. So, the city was selected despite the fact that it was the worst possible place to hold such an event. So, it was a setup on a "national" level, because international meetings in the US are orchestrated from Washington D.C. On the other side of the coin, it is interesting that this would occur the way it did, because it exposed fascist techo-cop tactics to the public, who were generally outraged and calling for accountability on the part of the Seattle City Council, and the mayor, Paul Schell. Perhaps this event, which I now categorize as a "wild card", will lead to greater public awareness in some limited way, of the nature of our socio-political paradigm. During this whole thing, militarized, federalized, jackbooted police, wearing black capes and helmets as the Germans wore during the Battle of the Bulge, terrorized and brutalized people, and demonstrably sought to provoke the public. I might even go so far as to suggest that this whole thing might have been a "test" to see how the public reacted. I think itbackfired. Lloyd Sez: Backfired? Huh? The people throughout the country, by and large accepted the rather extreme police tactics! ValForwarded 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]
[CTRL] ABOUT TODAY - Gay Couples Win; Elvis in the Oval Office; More (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:51:48 -0500 From: Jake Levich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ABOUT TODAY - Gay Couples Win; Elvis in the Oval Office; More ABOUT TODAY 21 December 1999 HOT TODAY --- COURT BACKS RIGHTS FOR GAY COUPLES In an unprecedented decision, Vermont's Supreme Court ruled yesterday that same-sex couples must be granted the same benefits and protections given married couples of opposite sex. Gay/Lesbian Issues Guide Deborah Levinson has details and commentary. http://gaylesissues.about.com/library/weekly/aa122099a.htm FOOLS RUSH IN When Elvis Presley stormed the Oval Office 29 years ago today, Dick Nixon was all shook up. But the pill-popping superstar emerged a "Federal Agent at Large" in the war against drugs. U.S. Government Guide Robert Longley recounts a legendary meeting between the President and the King. http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/news/aaelvisa.htm :: Advertisement : Win your wish list from Della.com - weekly drawing! Lucky winners will receive $2,300 for their wish list. Create your wishlist now on Della.com. http://clicks.about.com/393/1809.htm?PM=135 -- Headline News - * Victim in Possible Mexico Drug Slaying Was Shot * Pakistan Army Ruler: Parliament Stays Closed * Russia Pushes into Grozny, Mountains For these stories and more, visit About.com's News Center. http://newscenter.about.com/news/index.html -- Today's Poll -- DO YOU SUPPORT THE VERMONT RULING GRANTING EQUAL STATUS TO GAY COUPLES? http://today.about.com/blpoll.htm Special From Jake --- THIS IS THE PAGE THAT JAKE BUILT OK, so I thought I could get away without building my own Web page. But those snooty neighbors were starting to whisper. So I swallowed hard and tried out About.com's Personal Web Page feature. You know what? It was easy, quick, and relatively brainless -- nothing I couldn't handle. Check out the results: My own little place on the Web, complete with a family snapshot. Hey, if a schmuck like me can do this, so can you! http://today.about.com/library/weekly/aa122199.htm --- More About --- * Could be time for a tax swap, from Bonds Guide Claire Mencke. http://bonds.about.com/library/weekly/aa122099.htm * God and Election 2000, from Christianity Guide Charles Henderson. http://christianity.about.com/library/weekly/aa121899.htm * Doing business on the Golan Heights, from Israel Guide Ellis Shuman. http://israeliculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa122099a.htm --- Talk About --- TODAY'S CHAT HIGHLIGHTS Animal Rights * Bipolar Disorder * Horse Racing * Banking * More Times and details: http://talk..about.com/chatcentral/index.htm FORUM POST OF THE DAY: Handling Racism in Restaurants Race Relations: Sat, Dec 18, 8:20 pm ET "When it happened to me, I used to be terribly hurt and once I found a safe spot, I would just cry. Then I gained confidence in myself. Now, when I am discriminated against by a store clerk or in a restaurant, I stop it. I ask for an explanation or I demand to speak to a manager." --Ammalisa http://about.delphi.com/ab-racerelation/start/?msg=3.2 :: Advertisement : ZanyBrainy.com offers toys, books, music, software, videos and more! Shop today and save on all the best holiday gifts for the kids on your list. http://clicks.about.com/376/1882.htm?PM=135 Don't Forget About -- COMPARISON SHOPPING http://shopping.about.com/comparison/ HOLIDAY CARDS http://cards.about.com/holiday/index.htm HOLIDAY SHOPPING CENTER http://shopcenter.about.com/holiday/ How to Unsubscribe -- To remove your email address from this newsletter, go here: http://talk.about.com/newsletter/index.htm?COB=homePID=command=unsubscribe Check boxes as appropriate, enter the email address under which you're subscribed, and click the "Unsubscribe" button. Please be sure to enter your email address exactly as you did when subscribing. -- Parting Words - About Today, a free daily newsletter, lets you know what's happening right now, throughout the world and across About.com's hundreds of sites. For updates, breaking news, and more of our best, see http://today.about.com/index.htm MANAGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS: Change addresses, subscribe, unsubscribe: http://talk.about.com/newsletter/index.htm FEEDBACK: Give me a piece of your mind -- or several pieces. I can't always respond to your mail, but I read it. Jake Levich, About.com Editorial Director mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CTRL] Davidian lawyer raises questions on Delta Force (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- From: http://www.dallasnews.com/specials/waco/1221waco1lawyer.htm Davidian lawyer raises questions on Delta Force He says testimony leaves gap in siege account 12/21/99 By Lee Hancock / The Dallas Morning News Sworn testimony from two members of the Army's secret Delta Force unit raises questions about the actions of a third Delta soldier during the last hours of the Branch Davidian standoff, a lawyer for the sect said Monday. Two technical specialists from the classified anti-terrorist unit were among 24 government witnesses questioned in recent depositions by lawyers for the Branch Davidians, and their testimony indicated that "there's a combat guy [from the same unit] whose time is not accounted for on April 19," said Mike Caddell, lead lawyer for the Branch Davidians. Mr. Caddell said a protective order in the sect's wrongful-death lawsuit against the federal government prohibits divulging exact testimony of the government witnesses. They were questioned during two weeks of depositions in Washington that ended Friday. Justice Department officials did not return telephone calls for comment Monday. An FBI spokesman said he was unfamiliar with the matter. Justice Department spokesmen have previously declined to comment on depositions in the case. Mr. Caddell said the depositions left unanswered key questions about Delta Force's involvement in an FBI tank and tear-gas assault on the Branch Davidian compound. He said the questioning of FBI and military personnel also failed to resolve whether Delta Force soldiers or any other government agents fired guns into the building on April 19, 1993 - a charge that the government has denied. Pressed on the issue of government gunfire, the FBI's hostage rescue team members questioned during the depositions said they did not personally fire or witness any government gunfire April 19, Mr. Caddell said. But neither they nor FBI technical experts who operated FBI infrared cameras during the standoff could explain the origin of repeated flashes on an infrared videotape recorded by an airborne camera during the last hours of the tear-gas assault, Mr. Caddell said. Experts hired by the plaintiffs have said the flashes could have come only from government gunfire. Government experts dispute that, but an independent expert hired by the House Government Reform Committee to examine the infrared video has said he also thought that flashes were thermal signatures from gunfire. "One thing that became clear from this first round of depositions: Whatever really happened on April 19, there's only a handful of people that really know," Mr. Caddell said. "This operation obviously proceeded on a need-to-know basis. I would say fewer than a dozen people really knew what was going to happen or what did happen that day." Government officials and lawyers have adamantly denied that any Delta Force personnel were actively involved in the April 19 assault, which ended in a massive fire that consumed the Branch Davidian compound with more than 80 people inside. Government officials maintain that members of the sect set the fire. The Branch Davidians' federal lawsuit, set for trial in May in Waco, alleges that government negligence and actions caused the deaths of dozens of innocent women and children and other Branch Davidian followers. Lawyers for the sect have alleged that government agents, possibly including Delta Force members, repeatedly fired guns into the compound in the last hours of the siege. Justice Department lawyers initially tried to limit the Branch Davidian lawyers to written questioning of Delta Force members who were in Waco on April 19. Secret units Defense Department documents indicate that three soldiers from a secret military unit were present as observers on April 19 and that other Special Forces personnel from a classified military unit were shuttled in and out of Waco during the 51-day standoff. Delta Force is a classified military unit so secret that the Defense Department routinely refuses to acknowledge its existence. Defense Department officials ultimately allowed Branch Davidian lawyers to question the Delta Force soldiers who were at Waco on April 19 only if the soldiers could sit behind a protective screen during the deposition, Mr. Caddell said. Lawyers for the sect also had to agree that the soldiers would not have to divulge identifying information, Mr. Caddell said. The two soldiers who were questioned, both technical equipment specialists, denied active involvement in FBI operations in Waco, including the final assault, Mr. Caddell said. But they acknowledged that they could not account for the whereabouts of their unit's combat arms representative April 19 until after the compound burned. "Frankly, their explanation for that, the cover story that was given to explain his absence, was preposterous," Mr. Caddell said, adding that he could not divulge details of that story because of the court's protective order. Mr.
Re: [CTRL] [prj] In hell there will be nothing but law, and LAWYERS
-Caveat Lector- "Laws are useless. Good people don't need 'em. Bad people don't obey 'em." -- U. Utah Phillips 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: Araucanos are descedants of ancient Greeks
-Caveat Lector- In light of the current threads on prehistoric migration and exploration and their implications for history, here's a piece arguing that the Araucanas of Chile are of Greek origin. -Original Message- From: m [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 4:13 PM To: Eternera Subject: Araucanos are descedants of ancient Greeks Eternera Mailing List - http://get.to/eternera Excuse me, list owner, this has nothing to do with NWO but it is interesting. The book "The Greek origin of Araucanos (or Araukanos?) of Chile" made its second Greek edition. The book is written by Lonko Kilapan, chief of the Araukanos tribe that lives in Chile. He claims - and proves, as I've been told, because I haven't read it yet - that Araukanos are offspring of ancient Greeks, namely Spartans, who went to Chile about 600 a.D. and founded a colony. Araukanos still follow the ancient Spartan laws of Lycourgos. It is a fact that there is a sympathy between the people of Greece and Chile, a sympathy that seems to have no specific reason. Pablo Neruda, a Nobel-prized poet from Chile, used to lay emphasis on his Araukanos origin, associating this origin with the tribal tradition that Araukanos are descedants of Greeks. In his poem "Canto Jeneral" he speaks specifically of "Greek blood", that "goes down from the mountains to the sea". As far as I know, Greeks have discovered America in ancient times, before Colombus of course. This epirus is mentioned in ancient Greek writings with the name "Hesperia", that is to say Western land. Greek arms have been discovered in tombs in America, but I don't remember where. Fortunately enough, Greeks were not of genocidal mentality, so their discovery had no deplorable incidents. I am not among the nuts who believe that all earth inhabitants are descedants of Greeks. Moreover, there is no need to have blood relationship with peoples in order to like them. This is racism. But, despite of what some nuts are saying, many people allover the earth are of Greek origin or of mixing of Greeks with local inhabitants- i.g. Italians, particularly Sicelians, and Spaniards. There is a similarity among some tribal systems of American Indians and the ancient Greek communal system, that still exists in the form of Christian parishes in small communities. Of course this may be a coincidense. The best thing for the nowadays people is to know one another, and to love one another, despite of blood relationships. M. __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ DIGITAL CAMERAS Need to capture your moments and translate them over the internet? The Best way to start is with a digital camera. Find one now in a price range that's affordable. Click below and find out about all the features now! http://www.listbot.com/links/cdw2 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 12/21/99
-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 - The Lurker at the Threshhold A Total Collapse of Values in the 21st Century? by George Melloan "On the last day of the year 999, according to an ancient chronicle, the old basilica of St. Peter's at Rome was thronged with a mass of weeping and trembling worshipers awaiting the end of the world. This was the dreaded eve of the millennium, the Day of Wrath when the earth would dissolve into ashes." The above account is extracted from a book titled, "A.D. 1000, A World on the Brink of Apocalypse," by historian Richard Erdoes, published in 1988 by Harper Row. It portrays vividly that scene 1,000 years ago, as Pope Sylvester II celebrated a midnight mass for a worried throng, some wearing sackcloth and ashes in penance for their sins, who believed that Judgment Day was nigh. A church council some years earlier had predicted the end of history, literally, at the end of the first millennium. Today, it's a thousand years later, and the Christian world is counting down the days to the end of the second millennium. It's probably safe to say that most Christians are more worried about the judgments of scientists than the judgment of God. Another invisible hand, neither God's nor the market's, has come into being to help guide and regulate economic activity on the planet. It's the microchip. The calendars that computer designers put into operating systems years ago had only two digits. So when the clocks in New Zealand ring in the new year at midnight Dec. 31 some computers may not know what day it is. Mankind will again be wondering if the chimes are foretelling doom. Cybernetic doom. Probably we will escape once more. Just as those Christians of New Year's 1000 ran out into the streets of Rome and celebrated still being alive, probably we will find with joy and relief that all the wonders science has created are still in working order. Our faith in science will be restored sufficiently to launch us into a new millennium in which the laboratories will most likely bring forth more marvels. The possibilities for further development of existing microchip technology are by no means exhausted and after that reaches its limits, sometime in the middle of the new century, quite possibly organic chemistry will take us up to the next plateau of computational speed and memory. The Christian world of 1000 had no such concept of the future. Northern Europe was a primitive place, hardly cognizant of the discoveries in astronomy and mechanics of the more advanced Islamic and Chinese cultures. A belief in witchcraft would persist for centuries. Pope Sylvester himself was a truly learned man, having studied science and mathematics in Spain under Islamic scholars. But he died in 1003 only four years after his appointment to the papacy by German emperor Otto III, who had himself died a year earlier. Rome sank once more into the corruption and intrigue that had preceded Otto and Sylvester. But out of this unpromising movement eventually grew what we have come to call Western Civilization. A modern philosopher, Francis Fukuyama, has surmised that the eventual flowering of human creativity in Christian Europe--and those other parts of the globe, including the Americas, explored and conquered by European Christians--was attributable in part to the focus of that belief on the individual's responsibility for his own salvation. At any rate, Christendom eventually prospered while older civilizations went into a long snooze. And in the 19th century, those creative processes began to produce a long progression of inventions that would transform the world: electric power, telecommunications, the automobile, the airplane, the semiconductor, space exploration, biotechnology. But even though the world around us has changed dramatically, it is less evident that those primal forces that drive mankind toward horrible acts of destruction have changed much. The century that will soon end was also a century of mass slaughter, with two world wars and a host of smaller ones, some quite recent. There is very little material difference between the cruelty of Byzantine Emperor Basil II, who reportedly had 15,000 prisoners blinded during his 1014 conquest of Bulgaria and the threat only days ago by a Russian general to annihilate the entire population of Grozny. As the second millennium began, the Christian Byzantine empire was fighting the Islamic Fatimids near Baghdad and as it ends, the pilots of modern Christendom are bombing surface-to-air missile sites in the same place. The science that has yielded to the world its modern pleasures and comforts has been accompanied by more efficient ways of killing. Perhaps it is no wonder that anti-science attitudes have attained significant influence in the political debates of Europe and North America, where Green parties, Naderites and the like are waging war
[CTRL] Your Tax Dollars At Work--Florida Rednecks
-Caveat Lector- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K - Click Here: A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:582209"Your Tax Dollars At Work--Florida Rednecks/A - Subject: Your Tax Dollars At Work--Florida Rednecks From: A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "[EMAIL PROTECTED] /A (Abemarf) Date: Tue, 21 December 1999 06:00 AM EST Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Racist clique of guards alleged Inmates and guards say knotted cords worn by some prison officers signify those willing to "straighten out'' minorities. By ADAM C. SMITH © St. Petersburg Times, published December 16, 1999 -- -- Dangling from the pants pockets of some Florida prison officers, they look like innocuous sailor-knot key chains, the sort of thing kids might make at summer camp. But some correctional officers and inmates describe them as something more sinister: a secret symbol of solidarity for rogue officers willing to step over the line when using force on inmates, especially black inmates. The significance of the cords is said to be a well-kept secret. "I've heard them called "Nr Knots.' Only certain people get them, and if you're in that group, they'll protect you, whatever you get into," said Capt. Willie Hogan, a 21-year veteran officer from Lancaster Correctional Institution west of Gainesville. Hogan, who is black, declined to comment further, saying the Department of Corrections frowns on officers talking to the media. The knotted cords, one of which was given to the Times, are relatively common, especially in North Florida prisons. But inmates and officers say their significance is a well-kept secret. Three officers and three inmates confirmed that the cords represent a secret clique of guards. The Times contacted the Corrections Department about the knotted cords Tuesday afternoon, and department Secretary Michael Moore immediately ordered an investigation. A dozen investigators dispatched to Lancaster on Wednesday began interviewing all employees there and inspecting key chains. Department spokesman C.J. Drake said that 200 of the prison's 359 employees were interviewed by Wednesday evening and that 30 people on annual leave were ordered back for interviews. "We take the allegations seriously and encourage employees to report allegations of this kind of conduct to the (department's) inspector general's office," Drake said. "We're going to get to the bottom of whatever allegations have been made. If the allegations are substantiated, then we'll take appropriate action." Drake said an FBI agent in June interviewed Capt. Hogan about charges with "racial overtones" and could not substantiate the allegations. Drake did not know if those allegations specifically related to the knotted cords. The agent who interviewed Hogan declined to comment, and the FBI office in Jacksonville did not return phone calls Wednesday. James E. Wiggins, a burly former captain at Cross City Correctional Institution, said he used to have his own knotted cord key chain until he retired in 1995. He suggested that proving the meaning of the cords will be difficult at best. "Certain officers have them, but they're not issued by the department. You ask people, and they'll tell you, "Oh, this is just a key chain. It's nothing,"' said a chuckling Wiggins, a 15-year veteran of the prison system. Wiggins, who is white, said guards know that if they see a fellow officer with a knotted cord that person will back them up if they want to "straighten out" an inmate. He cheerfully demonstrated on a reporter how the cords, though usually only about 6 inches long, can make an effective tool for inflicting pain. One way is to wrap them around one or two of the inmate's fingers and then bend his hand backward against his chest. Another method is to stand behind an inmate and, with both hands, pull the cord hard up against the bottom of the inmate's nose until the pain forces him into submission. "They usually have keys on them so they can also make a good slap-jack, if you have to have one," Wiggins said. "Ingenuity, my friend, ingenuity." Several inmates told the Times that they think the cords signify officers who belong to a racist hate group, an allegation repeated by two current correctional officers who refused to be publicly identified. "They call them "two nrs in a knot," said 20-year-old Chester Hart, a former gang member who has done time in several of Florida's correctional facilities for burglary and grand theft. "You see those things all throughout the prison system. I saw them at Sumter, South Florida, (Lake) Butler and Indian River. In all the institutions I went to I saw officers carry those knots, and it was always the racist ones, the ones always picking on the black guys, never the white guys," said Hart, who was released from Lancaster a year ago and now lives in Pinellas County. Hart said that once in 1998, he was ordered into an
[CTRL] FBI Nazi Persecution of Sanders
-Caveat Lector- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K - Click Here: A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:582160"FBI Nazi Persecution of Sanders/A - Subject: FBI Nazi Persecution of Sanders From: A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A Date: Tue, 21 December 1999 12:22 AM EST Message-id: 83n2r3$42g$[EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF="http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=1999/12/8/93856"http://www .newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=1999/12/8/93856/A With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Wednesday December 8, 10:45 AM New TWA 800 Book Shrouded in Secrecy Freelance investigative author James Sanders has a new book coming out on the TWA Flight 800 disaster entitled Altered Evidence. But given his recent experience at the hands of federal prosecutors, Sanders has decided to take some extraordinary precautions. Why? Because, when he penned 1997's The Downing of TWA Flight 800, the Clinton Justice Department went after everybody associated with the book's publication in search of evidence against Sanders and his wife Elizabeth. In an outrageous breach of his First Amendment guarantees as a working journalist, Sanders was convicted last year of conspiracy to remove evidence from the Calverton, Long Island hangar where wreckage of TWA 800 had been reassembled. A TWA employee had voluntarily given Sanders seat fabric from the plane, which he promptly subjected to lab analysis. Tests revealed rocket fuel residue, suggesting that a missile had brought down the ill- fated Boeing 747 just minutes after it took off from JFK International. Because Mrs. Sanders had spoken by phone several times with her husband's source, she was prosecuted as well. The author gave NewsMax.com a preview of his new book's acknowledgments: "The last time I wrote an acknowledgment to thank those who touched my life in some meaningful way during the investigation of government wrongdoing was March 1997 as The Downing of TWA Flight 800 went to press. Virtually everyone thanked in that acknowledgment, from publisher to agent to friends, soon became victims of federal harassment and intimidation. "The Justice Department used the books acknowledgment section as a virtual roadmap to neutralize that which placed them at risk. It has been a long journey from March 1997 to November 1999. My wife Liz and I have survived. Because of the efforts of many people, I have been able to use the ordeal of indictment to accumulate additional, compelling evidence of federal lawlessness and corruption. "Kensington Publishing was raided by the FBI. The movie producer holding the option on the book was severely leaned on to not go forward with the project [he will not talk to the media]. A letter arrived the next day canceling the contract. My agent faced the real prospect of being indicted as a co-conspirator, had to retain counsel at significant expense. "Lizs best friend at TWA, listed in the acknowledgments, also had to retain an attorney and negotiated a deal to avoid possible indictment. Virtually everyone at TWA identified as a friend of Liz was subject to interrogation. Senior TWA management was leaned on to fire her. The FBI swept through our neighborhood in Williamsburg, wanting to know if I was ever seen carrying guns outside the home - shades of Ruby Ridge. "In summation, it is impossible today in America to publish Altered Evidence without treating everyone involved as a sensitive source requiring journalistic protection." A HREF="http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=1999/12/8/93856"http://www .newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=1999/12/8/93856/A Sent via Deja.com A HREF="http://www.deja.com/"http://www.deja.com//A Before you buy. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Pauline Morrissette's WTO Seattle LETS Report
-Caveat Lector- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K - Subject: TURMEL: Pauline Morrissette's WTO Seattle LETS Report From: A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "[EMAIL PROTECTED] / A (John Turmel) Date: Tue, 21 December 1999 12:38 AM EST Message-id: 83n3p6$q92$[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday November 26th to Friday December 3rd, 1999 Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. This would be our last opportunity before the Millennium to single handedly bring attention to L.E.T.S. and the power it would give us if we could link globally. With the internet this could be done almost overnight. So, now to the WTO, the World Trade Organization. The world is looking on Seattle where the world's richest man, Bill Gates who accumulated his wealth with Microsoft, just so happens to live? Are we being guided? This is a big gamble and the hundreds of thousands of L.E.T.Sers out there, who we wish could be here to back us up on this one, all we ask is that you pray for us and perhaps send off an urgent message to Bill Gates via his e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tell Mr. Gates we want interest free banking for all L.E.T.Sers world wide. For those who have already taken the initiative to do just that, we say thank you and God Bless. There are many radical groups here this week in Seattle, but, I am sure we must look the most radical. More of what we are doing and what has happened so far at the Battle in Seattle. I departed Ottawa at 5 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 25th. I drove with my mother and friend Robert Cutler to Toronto where I would board Via Rails westbound train to Vancouver, then Via Trailhead Bus to Seattle. The reason we choose this mode of transportation first of all it was the most inexpensive way to get to Seattle. If you are ready to rough it a little and go Coach it is a huge savings over flying or anything else being offered. John went before me to set things up in Seattle for our Headquarters as I had business to complete in Ottawa. My train pulled out on time 11:00 a.m. My first day and night on the train proved to be very, very interesting and again I felt a certain peace of mind that things were connecting and I was not alone on this journey out West. My first contact, and I guess you can say now, my first new friend was Marlyne Mellor of St. Pierre, Manitoba. She was our Conductor-Hostess. As she explained to two gentlemen how to take the little hammer and knock out the windows in the event of a mishap, I looked on. Most people did not look amused, especially after two trains had already been derailed this month on this very line. I said to her I thought they should have backups. What if they fall asleep or worst yet, are not even in the coach? Marlyne then put me in charge of my own hammer and my own window. I felt much more secure knowing where everything was. Marlyne and I had many wonderful exchanges during her stint from Toronto to Manitoba where she was then replaced. I was seated beside Lorraine c. Crouch of Columbia, Missouri. Lorraine was also an activist and also destined for Seattle to report to K.O.P.N. Community Radio in Columbia on movements at WTO. She was stopping over in Vancouver to do a poetry reading. I was privy to her doing a couple of her poems on the train and enjoyed them immensely. The next group of people all came to me at different intervals of the trip and this group were to be my faithful companions for the duration. Each from different walks of life, yet all of like mind. This was a most wonderful experience for me. Our common gathering spot was the dome coach and throughout the trip, this is where we spent much of our time together. As I had spent most of my day in travel and had not eaten properly, I decided to visit their dining car and check it out. I was seated at the 9 p.m. session. Helen and Arch Jones asked if they could join me, I was delighted to have their company. Retired folks, but also very active, they were heading home to Prince George, B.C. They were also travelling in the coach. We talked of the beautiful scenery and I learned that Arch had at one time studied painting with Tom Thompson, one of the Group of 7, a very famous group of Canadian painters displayed in galleries all over. I told them of my quest in Seattle, how we wanted to link Global LET Systems and how they worked. After dinner we retired back to the coach and I gave Helen and Arch one of John's books "The Adventures of John "The Engineer" Turmel" to look over. I then went to the Dome car to take in some sights. In the Dome was a young man from New Zealand, John McCullough,Thunder River Farm, P.O. Box 79, Murchison, South Island, New Zealand. John and I struck up conversation. It wasn't hard as I had been to New Zealand and had things I could talk about. John was in Canada because he had been tree farming in New Zealand and had a special type of timber that he wanted to sell. He came in hopes of making a contact, plus he was thinking about moving to
[CTRL] Bilderberg and Secrets of Golan - Chamish
-Caveat Lector- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K - Click Here: A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:582057"Bilderberg and "Secrets of Golan" - Chamish/A - Subject: Bilderberg and "Secrets of Golan" - Chamish From: A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A Date: Mon, 20 December 1999 05:45 PM EST Message-id: 83mbhf$kij$[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 11:59:38 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Phillip Henika [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bilderbergs and Secrets of the Golan X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.telis.net id NAA07107 Barry Chamish - sI have mixed in some info on the Bilderbergs who may have known about the Rothschilds ownership of the Syrian land - Philip Henika "SECRETS OF THE GOLAN by Barry Chamish In January 1996, the business magazine section of the Tel Aviv-based daily newspaper Globes published a four part series revealing a profoundly important fact that was unexplainably ignored: Israel has legal title over a large chunk of the Golan Heights and Western Syria. In the 1890s, Baron Rothschild [ Rothschild attendees at the Bilderberg Meetings from 1995-1999 include: [Bilderberg Evelyn de Rothschild - Chairman, N M Rothschild and Sons - A HREF="http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/1998.htm"http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/199 8.htm/A - 1998 Bilderberg Conference - Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland; Bilderberg Emma Rothschild, "Dir Ctr for History and Economics Cambridge" - A HREF="http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/cocktail.htm#List"http://www.tlio.demon. co.uk/cocktail.htm#List/A - "The following attended Bilderberg 95 in Zurich, Switzerland, June 8-11, 1995." and Bilderberg Norman Lamont - "MP, Fmr Chan Excq, Director of N.M. Rothschild" - A HREF="http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/cocktail.htm#List"http://www.tlio.demon. co.uk/cocktail.htm#List/A - "The following attended Bilderberg 95 in Zurich, Switzerland, June 8-11, 1995."] purchased 20,000 acres of Syrian land owned by the Ottoman empire. In 1942, the Syrian government illegally confiscated the land. The Baron transferred the deeds to the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in 1957. In 1992, the deeds were moved to the Prime Minister's Office where they are stored today. After I read the series, I called a contact in the JNF, Bunny Alexandroni of the public relations department. She said she'd look into the matter and called me back. She informed me that she couldn't comment on the Globes series but asked me to meet her at her office. An appointment was made and she told me that her boss, the director of her department, would talk to me if I agreed not to publish his name. After so agreeing, I entered his office and he invited me to be seated. He explained, "The Globes articles were essentially correct. They were a bit off on the location of the Rothschild land. Some of it is in the Golan but most is in the Horan, in Syria itself. I informed the government that the deeds are an excellent bargaining chip with the Syrians but the government refuses to play it. My hands are tied. I've been instructed not to pursue the matter." And that is the biggest secret of the Golan: the Israeli government is holding onto legal title to land in the Golan and beyond and is hiding the fact from the public. Of course, the first question would be, why? What follows is a chronological explanation of how the current Israeli-Syrian "peace" talks came to be. For those who are unable to dramatically readjust their sense of reality, it is advised to simply stop reading and make do with the knowledge of the land titles. They are more than enough to assure that Israel remains atop the Golan Heights. For those willing to accept a drastic switch in point of view, keep reading. December 1990 - President George Bush invites Syria to join his coalition of forces to fight Iraq. The only offer Syria will respond to is a promise that America will use its power to remove Israel from the Golan Heights. Bush's administration has already secretly transferred $5.5 billion to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and is in constant contact with him. Before the first shot of the Persian Gulf War is fired, Hussein agrees to bombard Israel with Scud missiles. In return, he is promised that no matter what the outcome of the war, he will not be brought down, nor will Israel respond to the attacks. Bush promises Syria a bombardment that will prove to the Israeli people that territory will not protect them in the age of missiles. Later America will put the squeeze on the Shamir government to relinquish the Heights. Syria accepts the terms and joins the coalition. Summer 1991 - Bush organizes a conference in Madrid to put international pressure on the Shamir government to leave the Golan. Shamir refuses to budge. Bush meets Syrian President Assad in Geneva. There Assad says he's running out of patience with Bush and threatens to take matters into his own hands before the upcoming American elections. Bush
Re: [CTRL] Paris Y2K
-Caveat Lector- Will all these revelers really feel safe within their celebratory circles surrounded by riot squads? Not after having watched the (one sided) "Battle" of Seattle on the TV they wont. 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] Information required - George Soros, The Greenpeace and Amnesty international.
-Caveat Lector- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K - Click Here: A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:581996"Information required/A - Subject: Information required From: "MU-NOC (Davorin-Josip Krivak)" A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"krivak@ ukrik.hr/A Date: Mon, 20 December 1999 09:11 AM EST Message-id: 83ld4v$u74$[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there, If anyone can supply me any information about the bussines policyes of George Soros, The Greenpeace and Amnesty international. I believe these socalled non-goverment, non-profit organisations serve for only one purpose: the trade of weapons... If you have any informations about this, please mail me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Ex-DEA agent spared prison time
-Caveat Lector- http://www.dailypress.com/news/stories/33784sy0.htm Tuesday, Dec. 21, 1999 Ex-DEA agent spared prison time Judge suspends sentence citing 'punishment' done By William H. McMichael Daily Press HAMPTON - Former federal drug agent Joseph Armento will not go to prison for his role in a drunken January showdown outside a Hampton bar that left two fellow patrons wounded. Following Armento's emotional turn on the witness stand Monday morning, Circuit Judge Christopher W. Hutton sentenced him to five years in state prison and just as quickly suspended all of it for 10 years, contingent on good behavior. Armento also will serve a to-be-determined period of supervised probation. "I do not feel in this case that incarceration would serve any purpose other than retribution," said Hutton, noting the "punishment that Mr. Armento has already visited upon himself." Armento was convicted Oct. 28 on one count of unlawful shooting into an occupied vehicle, a Class 6 felony. At the trial, Hutton dismissed the more serious charges of malicious wounding and use of a firearm during a felony, ruling that Armento acted without malice. In November, Armento was forced to resign from the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to a DEA spokesman. Suspended without pay for the better part of the year, he had to rely on unemployment benefits to help support his wife and three children, he testified. "It's been a nightmare," he sobbed during pre-sentence questioning by his attorney, John R. Fletcher. He said he felt embarrassment and shame over the incident. "I can't believe the pain I caused," Armento said, barely able to speak. "There's not an hour in a day that I don't think about it." He said he'd accepted responsibility for the crime. "Obviously, very pleased with the sentence," Fletcher said afterward. "I think it was the right thing to do." Armento has since landed a job in accounting, his profession prior to joining the agency. The shootings took place just after midnight on Jan. 14 outside Rooney's Grille Bar, where Armento and five other off-duty DEA agents -- in Hampton to assist local police -- had spent the evening drinking. Outside the bar, according to testimony, a shouting match erupted between several agents and three Hampton men. One of the three, Joseph Turk, produced a handgun and exclaimed, "You want some of this?" After listening to five different versions of what took place, Hutton found that Armento drew his DEA-issued 9mm handgun and fired a total of 14 shots. Turk was hit in the right arm while Jason Temple, backing his pickup truck away from the scene, was struck in the chest. The other man ran away. The original charges centered on the shooting of Temple; prosecutors felt the other shooting was justified because Turk drew his gun first. Afterward, Armento, his wife Sandy standing by his side outside the courthouse, said he was unhappy with news media coverage of his trial and felt that "this community has treated me unfairly from the beginning." Asked to elaborate, Armento criticized "the proceedings" but not Hutton, who convicted Armento Oct. 28. "He did what he had to do," Armento said. At the same time, Armento said, "I was trying to save my life that night. Turk, obviously through his own admission, had a gun. What was I supposed to think? That he was not going to use it? I reacted in the way I was trained." Armento's supervisor at the time, DEA Group Supervisor Frank Franco, called Armento a "developing crime investigator" who was honest and trustworthy and "pretty much a family man." He'd never seen him drunk, aggressive or belligerent, he said. Despite that endorsement, Armento said that the DEA "abandoned me from the beginning. And I thought, through the evidence, it was quite obvious what happened." He also said,
[CTRL] IBM - They're Coming - SMART CARD campaign
-Caveat Lector- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K - Click Here: A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:581817"IBM - "They're Coming" - SMART CARD campaign/A - Subject: IBM - "They're Coming" - SMART CARD campaign From: A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "[EMAIL PROTECTED] /A (E Right) Date: Sun, 19 December 1999 01:55 PM EST Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM - "They're Coming" - SMART CARD campaign Another IBM commercial in the "They're Coming" campaign features someone who appears to be a shoplifter grabbing things off a store's shelves and sticking them into his coat. He leaves by walking through the store exit, stepping through what appears to be a metal detector. A cop stops him on the way out, leading you to believe that the "detector" detected the stolen goods - the cop reminds him to get his receipt... the store goods were automatically deducted from the persons account using "Smart Card" technology. You remember smart cards, computer chips that have all your PERSONAL data on it like your SSN and bank account information? They can be read remotely - you don't even need to remove your card from your wallet. Just what you need right? Of course, not only can your position be tracked as you walk through these devices, whether you bought anything or not, they obviously electronically record your buying habits. Will the store sell your buying characteristics to others or the government for PROFILING? YES, they gave in the past! In the past when you paid for things with a credit card, the place, date, and total amount were recorded. More recently, a major grocery chain gave out bar codes to swipe at the checkout for discounts - the bar code was linked to your SSN, because it was a part of their check cashing system. They had your grocery list and your SSN in the same computer file. A Hong Kong company wants to use this system to deduct bus fares... welcome to the New World Order! With this new "SMARTASS" chip in everything to rat-on-your-ass-technology, they can track you in realtime - without you even knowing the card in your wallet was "interrogated" when you walked or drove through an activation field. College students are issued Smart ID cards from their schools - conditioning the compliant _ monitored _ generation. And the IBM connection? "Their Coming," and enabling BIG BROTHER. The solution, electronic countermeasures? Laws with JAIL time to information whores stealing your privacy and selling your soul? And what about the government's involvement in pushing BIG BROTHER technology, can they be trusted? No! DOD is issuing "SMART" government ID cards and advocating the technology. Are State drivers licenses next on the agenda? Yes they are, they make it easier to ticket your for not wearing a seatbelt or needing a tune up, or some other excuse to stop and search. As "smart technology" develops, the distance your card can be read will be reduced, depending on the upon the sensitivity of the reader and the card's power, which is derived from the field you walked through. This makes Big Brother VERY happy - keep in touch... = Subject: Re: IBM - "They're Coming" - SMART CARD campaign From: "Sail Jack" A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A Date: Mon, 20 December 1999 07:26 PM EST Message-id: 83mjgj$43m$[EMAIL PROTECTED] Use tin foil to wrap arond all your magnetic ID stuff. Also, read the book 1984. Huxley missed the year a little bit, but basically accurate. Also read Animal Farm. = Subject: Re: IBM - "They're Coming" - SMART CARD campaign From: A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "[EMAIL PROTECTED] /A (E Right) Date: Tue, 21 December 1999 10:30 AM EST Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ER Correction: " As "smart technology" develops, the distance your card can be read will be " reduced,(CORRECTION - INCREASED! depending on the upon the sensitivity of the reader and the " card's power, which is derived from the field you walked through. "Sail Jack" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Use tin foil to wrap arond all your magnetic ID stuff. "Also, read the book 1984. Huxley missed the year a little bit, but "basically accurate. Also read Animal Farm. ER I've heard there are millimeter wave cameras which can see through clothing, and are being developed for airport use. We'll need a suit of armor or a jammer - I'm not a criminal, I just want the war on PRIVACY to end. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, 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
[CTRL] Making Windows 95 Y2K Compliant
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: Microsoft Windows 95 Tips, 12/21/99 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:19:14 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Making Windows 95 Y2K Compliant Making sure that your Windows 95 system is Y2K compliant is a relatively simple task. Fortunately; the Y2K problems in Windows 95 are minor and are all taken care of by the Windows 95 Year 2000 Update. You can find FREE detailed instructions on getting Windows 95 ready for Y2K here: http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2404589,00.html *** NEED TO KNOW MORE? Visit http://www.zdjournals.com/w95 to see what's new in this month's issue of Inside Microsoft Windows 95. *** *** TIP SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES You can unsubscribe from a particular tip (or tips) list at http://www.zdjournals.com/zdtips/unsub This weekly tip is delivered to you as a free service from ZD Tips. http://www.zdjournals.com/zdtips *** ZD Tips (TM) is a trademark of Ziff-Davis Inc. Copyright (C) 1999 Ziff-Davis Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part, in any form or medium, without express written permission of Ziff-Davis is prohibited. 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 coming end-3- Goodbye old blue eyes
-Caveat Lector- John, Interesting series, I'm saving it for later. Part 2 never made it here, could you please send it down (again)? Thanks. 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] kim-spy: Intelligence and CounterIntelligence
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Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- Plus which, the entire marriage was a metaphor, symbolizing God's continuing convenant with Israel despite the people's habit of whoring after false gods. Hosea was typical of the Yahwist prophets in seeking to focus worship solely on one supreme deity. While Eagle1's point is technically correct (okay, it should have been fornication rather than adultery, but who's counting?), Hosea presented himself as a type of Israel, so that when asked "Why did you marry a whore?" he could say, "Because the people of Israel have done exactly this by lusting after Asherah in her high places." -Original Message- From: YnrChyldzWyld [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 18, 1999 8:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus -Caveat Lector- On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Eagle 1 wrote: There is a difference between "sin" and "disobedience". The two are not equal; nor do they have the same connotations. Example: God ordered Hosea to marry a whore - Hosea 1:2. He "obeyed" ... but technically, he "sinned", because he became party to a "sin" of the flesh, which was 'adultry'. Wrong. Adultery (try learning how to spell it correctly) according to the Bible, is sexual relations between a man and a woman who are both married to someone else. If only one partner is married, only that person is committing adultery. An unmarried person cannot commit adultery, neither is sexual intercourse between a man and a woman who are legally married to each other adultery. Hosea was legally married to the whore, therefore he could not be committing adultery when he had sexual relations with her. Neither was she an adulteress when having sexual relations with Hosea. And the fact that she was able to legally marry Hosea suggests that she was not married to another man, therefore even when she made a living as a whore, SHE did not commit adultery, even tho a client may have been married. It would have been her married clients who were adulterers... 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. 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
[CTRL] Secret War in Shanghai
-Caveat Lector- from; http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395985374/koreahomepage/102-1269685-48 21620 Click Here: A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395985374/koreahomepage/102-1269 685-4821620"Amazon.com: buying info: Secret War in Shanghai/A - Secret War in Shanghai by Bernard Wasserstein List Price: $26.00 Our Price: $18.20 You Save: $7.80 (30%) Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Hardcover - 352 pages (September 1999) Houghton Mifflin Co (Trd); ISBN: 0395985374 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.24 x 6.42 x 9.32 Write an online review and share your thoughts with other readers! Customers who bought this book also bought: * Raiders of the China Coast : CIA Covert Operations During the Korean War (Special Warfare Series); Frank Holober * Shanghai; Harriet Sergeant * Dangerous Pleasures : Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai; Gail Hershatter * Red Atom : Russia's Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today; Paul Josephson Click here for more suggestions... Reviews Editorial Reviews (10) Customer Reviews (2) Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Before World War II, Shanghai was China's leading commercial center and the most vital and glamorous of Asia's great cities. Against the background of civil war, Shanghai was administered by a consortium of international powers intent on exploiting a defenseless China. The city's seizure by the Imperial Japanese Army in December 1941 ended much of its glitter but not its role as a den of espionage, corruption, and vice. Bernard Wasserstein deftly sets the complex scene as the different powerbrokers, from ambassadors to gangsters, accommodated to the occupying Japanese. The cast of characters is bizarre, ranging from master spies such as Richard Sorge, whose coup was to warn Stalin of Germany's impending invasion, to imposters and petty secret agents living on their wits. People were not what they seemed: the author reveals the often sordid realities behind his protagonists' masks as they struggled for survival and each others' secrets. Richly researched from original sources, Secret War in Shanghai is particularly successful in painting vivid pictures of the different national groups that found themselves caught up in the city's vortex: destitute White Russians, refugees from Hitler's Germany, British taipans trying to hang onto their business interests. The story moves as fast as a racy novel, yet it is all meticulously documented fact. --John Stevenson From Booklist , September 1, 1999 The louche cynicism of wartime Shanghai emerges from Wasserstein's account of the criminals, spies, and hedonists who lurked in the city's shadows from 1937 to 1945. The metropolis became a stew of intrigue because, due to its internationalized status, sizable numbers of belligerent nationals lived there, excellent cover for the intelligence services of Britain, France, Japan, Germany, the Soviet Union, Nationalist China, and America. Throw in White Russian exiles, a Jewish community, and various adventurers, and Wasserstein has a dauntingly complicated cast of characters with which to work. He straightens what could have been a tortuous narrative by following the ... read more From Kirkus Reviews Well-written, well-researched, but ultimately flat look at the covert (and not so covert) activities of the various Axis and Allied powers in Shanghai during WWII, by a dean and chairman of the history department at Brandeis (Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe Since 1945, 1996). Wasserstein begins his study with a compelling look at Shanghai in the years before the war, a city in which White Russians intermingled with refugee German Jews, Japanese nationalists spied on Chinese Communists, Americans worked with Chinese nationalists, the British (seemingly) worked with and spied on everyone, and countless other nationalities, with their respective agendas, ... read more Jonathan Spence "A richly documented and fascinating exploration of hundreds of the foreigners and secret agents who schemed and scrabbled in the turbulent city, as all pretense at law and order vanished." See all reviews... Customer Reviews Write an online review and share your thoughts with other readers! A strugle for power by any means necessary. Reviewer: Kenneth S. Smith from Goleta, CA December 20, 1999 If you are a scholar, serious student, or avid reader of World War II History, this book is for you. This book is exhaustively researched, meticulously crafted, and written with flowing style. Prior to World War II, Shanghai was a major trading hub in Asia. The city was populated by Americans, British, Japanese, Italians, Nationalist and Communist Chinese, French, Australians, Indians, Germans, Jewish Refugees, Russian Refugees, and other minor national players. Add to the population
[CTRL] Raiders of the China Coast : CIA Covert Operations During the Korean War
-Caveat Lector- from; http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1557503885/ref=sim_books/102-1269685-48 21620 Click Here: A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1557503885/ref=sim_books/102-1269 685-4821620"Amazon.com: buying info: Raiders of the China C /A - Raiders of the China Coast : CIA Covert Operations During the Korean War (Special Warfare Series) by Frank Holober List Price: $32.95 Our Price: $23.07 Hardcover - 336 pages (June 1999) United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557503885 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.91 x 9.25 x 6.26 * Lost Crusade : America's Secret Cambodian Mercenaries (Special Warfare Series); Peter Scott * Wings of Air America (Schiffer Military/Aviation History); Terry Love * Wings of the CIA; Frederic Lert * Orphans of the Cold War : America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival; John Kenneth Knaus Book Description In an effort to divert China's attention from the Korean front in 1950 and relieve pressure on the allied forces, the CIA sponsored a series of raids along the southeastern coast of China conducted by anti-Communist guerrillas. The guerrillas were trained and supported by the paramilitary arm of the CIA from coastal islands still in Nationalist hands, and their covert operations remained sealed from public view. Now for the first time in print, the full dramatic story of this large-scale paramilitary campaign is revealed by a veteran of the operations. Author Frank Holober, a Harvard-educated Chinese specialist and veteran intelligence officer, takes the reader inside the little-known world of clandestine partisan operations early in the Cold War. In lively, straightforward prose, he describes the dangerous top-secret raids launched by Chinese Nationalist guerrillas (assisted by a colorful band of American adventurers) from Quemoy and other lesser-known islands off the Chinese mainland. Both anecdotal and analytical, his book is serious history with humorous overtones, based on his own experience and those of his comrades. Holober is at his best recalling the courageous feats and robust adventures of the "civilian" employees of the Agency-run Western Enterprises, Inc., which included Army and Marine officers on loan to the CIA, World War II veterans, reservists, smokejumpers, college football stars, and psychological warfare specialists surrounding a nucleus of veterans of the OSS's fabled 101 Detachment. Readers are treated to unforgettable characters with names like "One-Eyed Dragon," "Great White Father," "Two-Gun Creacy," "Fat Wang," and "Earthquake McGoon," whose camaraderie and zest for living are matched only by their "can-do" daring. Here, too, are the heroic exploits of the CIA's Civil Air Transport, run by the legendary Flying Tiger Claire Chennault. Totally candid and unusually insightful, this eyewitness account of special operations in an area that remains a political and military flashpoint will appeal to everyone from intelligence specialists and China scholars to history buffs and general readers who like action stories. Holober's account is unusually insightful. Reviewer: A reader from Palm Beach, Fl September 29, 1999 Frank Holober's account of the CIA paramilitary operations on the southeastern coast of China is unusually insightful. By focusing on the men who ran the operation, he humanizes the story in a way few CIA insiders-turned-authors have managed. It makes for an entertaining, as well as informative, read -- a rare find within this usually dry-as-toast genre. I recommend it to all history buffs as well as readers newly venturing into the intricacies of Cold War activity. It's a gem for anyone's bookshelf. A fascinating account with unprecedented insights Reviewer: A reader from Montevideo, Uruguay August 13, 1999 This book, which focuses on a little-known U.S. campaign to diminish Chinese capabilities at the height of the Korean War, provides a fascinating and entertaining insight into how U.S. covert operations were conducted in the early days of the Cold War, and the bravery and camaraderie of those involved in these operations. A VERY enjoyable and insightful read. Browse other History titles. Korean War,1950-1953 Secret service United States Korea Diplomatic history Military History - Korea Conflict Intelligence Operations History - Military / War History Military - Intelligence/Espionage Military - Korean War Modern - 20th Century Military - General Legal Notices © 1996-1999, Amazon.com, Inc. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, 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
Re: [CTRL] Kudos to Kris: High Times article
-Caveat Lector- --- Das GOAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the '70s and '80s, the ONLY mass-media outlets that were able to publish articles about government conspiracies and cover-ups were "PORNO" magazines such as Genesis, Penthouse, and Larry Flynt's Hustler Does anyone know a a place where one can get old articles from these mags, WITHOUT the sexually explicit pictures descriptions? Thanks in advance. __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- Robert, Thank you for that excellent minimized summary of the situation. You're right, who is counting? (In my book the two equate... on the bottom line, anyway. They still result in the same act.) Yes, God is not happy with the continued following of and worshipping of other gods. This action on the part of Hosea was also symbollic and type for the last days, when the habits of most show to have lost their sense of direction and who follow after strange gods, strange flesh, and other doctrinal "philosophies" that are directly contrary and replaced in the stead of the Covenant that God has made with Israel from generation to generation to the end of this earth age. eagle 1 - Original Message - From: "Tatman, Robert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus -Caveat Lector- Plus which, the entire marriage was a metaphor, symbolizing God's continuing convenant with Israel despite the people's habit of whoring after false gods. Hosea was typical of the Yahwist prophets in seeking to focus worship solely on one supreme deity. While Eagle1's point is technically correct (okay, it should have been fornication rather than adultery, but who's counting?), Hosea presented himself as a type of Israel, so that when asked "Why did you marry a whore?" he could say, "Because the people of Israel have done exactly this by lusting after Asherah in her high places." -Original Message- From: YnrChyldzWyld [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 18, 1999 8:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus -Caveat Lector- On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Eagle 1 wrote: There is a difference between "sin" and "disobedience". The two are not equal; nor do they have the same connotations. Example: God ordered Hosea to marry a whore - Hosea 1:2. He "obeyed" ... but technically, he "sinned", because he became party to a "sin" of the flesh, which was 'adultry'. Wrong. Adultery (try learning how to spell it correctly) according to the Bible, is sexual relations between a man and a woman who are both married to someone else. If only one partner is married, only that person is committing adultery. An unmarried person cannot commit adultery, neither is sexual intercourse between a man and a woman who are legally married to each other adultery. Hosea was legally married to the whore, therefore he could not be committing adultery when he had sexual relations with her. Neither was she an adulteress when having sexual relations with Hosea. And the fact that she was able to legally marry Hosea suggests that she was not married to another man, therefore even when she made a living as a whore, SHE did not commit adultery, even tho a client may have been married. It would have been her married clients who were adulterers... 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
Re: [CTRL] Phoenicians in ancient New Zealand ? (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- You're assuming that both "Israel" and "Phoenicia" were nations as we know that concept today. They weren't. They were a collection of cities (i.e. trading stations) loosely held together by cultural ties and fealty to a "high king." As we've discussed in other threads, there is considerable evidence of close cultural contact between Syria-Canaan-Israel and Mycenaean Greeks, both in Greece and in Anatolia. The "Philistines" (who gave their name, via a convoluted route, to "Filistina" [Palestine]) seem to have been a particularly heterogeneous group, some of whom were usually fighting with various Israelites at any given time...while at the same time other Philistines were *allied* with various Israelites. The same was true of Phoenicia, as well as Ammon, Midian, and the other "nations" of the Fertile Crescent. It wasn't the non-existent "king of Phoenicia" who was allied with Solomon of Israel, for example, but rather Hiram of Tyre...and it is not at all beyond the realm of possibility that there were Israelites on ships sailing out of Tyre and other Phoenician cities. -Original Message- From: YnrChyldzWyld [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Phoenicians in ancient New Zealand ? (fwd) -Caveat Lector- On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Nurev Ind Research wrote: snip cities on the Eastern Mediterranean evolved into Philistia. The Philistines were the enemies of the Jews then and down to this day. Both tribes were warring over the same territory. Down to this very day. Not according to the archeological evidence presented in the article -- before they became Philistines, apparantly Israel and Phoenicia were quite cordial with each other...Phoenicia in the beginning apparantly acted as an outpost of its neighbor to the south... 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
Re: [CTRL] Did humans lose a sixth sense?
-Caveat Lector- On a different tack, but generally agreeing, I used to have a supervisor who was a quintessential jock--a triathlete, for God's sake! When he had an all-male meeting in his office, the place smelled like a locker room after they finished. You could almost *see* the testosterone in the air. -Original Message- From: Hilary A. Thomas [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Did humans lose a sixth sense? snip Research has shown that the one constant in partners staying together is liking each other's personal aroma. Conversely, couples tend to split if they don't like how their partner smells. Hilary DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
-Caveat Lector- "Religious science fiction," bordering on heresy if it wasn't in the Bible... ISTM that there are an awful lot of supposed "Christians" who spend more time contemplating the Devil or angels or saints or anything other than Jesus Christ. -Original Message- From: Kris Millegan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/19/99 9:15:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Still LOL about satan under the little tiles... that's funny!) If it matters, Satan is alive and well and being held in heaven until Michael releases him for a very special purpose... which you can read about by going to your Bible, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12). (And contrary to popular belief, satan has never seen the sights of any place called 'hell', as of yet. He has a more special place for his demise). Fairytales. 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] Ad Alleges Bush Drug Problem
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991220/aponline201518_000.htm Ad Alleges Bush Drug Problem [NARFE] The Associated Press [Partners:] Monday, Dec. 20, 1999; 8:15 p.m. EST MANCHESTER, N.H. A Florida lawyer who is [CDNOW: buy 3, ship FREE!] running for president aired a political advertisement on New Hampshire's biggest television news station on Monday, alleging [VoxCap] Texas Gov. George W. Bush suffered from "alcohol abuse" and had a cocaine problem. Andy Martin, a West Palm Beach lawyer and perennial candidate for various political offices, is running the ad on WMUR-TV, an ABC affiliate that has aired presidential debates. The Bush campaign said it had not asked WMUR to stop running the ad. Spokesman Ari Fleischer said WMUR would have to decide that on its own. "It's part of the unfortunate nonsense that can come with political campaigns," Fleischer said. "These things are as mean-spirited as they are inaccurate." WMUR spokeswoman Julie Campasano, who handles media inquiries about the station's advertising policies, refused to answer questions about why the station accepted the ad. In the ad, Martin alleges: "George Bush had a cocaine problem. His brain suffered from alcohol abuse. Don't trust Bush with your vote until he trusts you with the truth about his past." Bush has refused to answer some questions about his past, saying only that he has not used illegal drugs since 1975. No evidence has surfaced that he ever used cocaine. Martin began airing commercials in New Hampshire before Thanksgiving, calling himself "New Hampshire's favorite son for president." Jonathan Klarfeld, a journalism professor at Boston University, said WMUR is not required to run the ad. "They get to refuse any ad they find offensive," Klarfeld said. © Copyright 1999 The Associated Press 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] US Prisons in the Millennium
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/lewis/122199lewi.html December 21, 1999 AT HOME ABROAD / By ANTHONY LEWIS Punishing the Country - [A] s we enter the new millennium, the population of America's prisons and jails is approaching two million. It will pass that mark, according to the Justice Policy Institute in Washington, around Feb. 15. In the entire world about eight million people are incarcerated, so a quarter of them are in this country. The number of prisoners has been growing at an extraordinary pace, up 70 percent in the last 10 years. We have overtaken Russia for the honor of having the world's highest incarceration rate. All this has a profound social cost. Since 1995 the states have spent more on prison than on university construction. Operating prisons in the year 2000 will cost about $40 billion. And of course it is not just the money. Two-thirds of the prisoners are there for nonviolent offenses. Chances are good that by the time they are released -- after sentences that are among the longest anywhere -- they will be thoroughly brutalized. The figures are so stunning that even some experts known for taking a hard line on crime think it is time for a reappraisal of criminal justice policies. One is Prof. John J. DiIulio Jr. of Princeton. He summed up his view in The Wall Street Journal in March under the headline "Two Million Prisoners Are Enough." "The value of imprisonment is a portrait in the law of rapidly diminishing returns," Professor DiIulio said. He noted that correctional costs were squeezing money for policing. He urged officials everywhere to maintain gains in public safety "while keeping the prison population around two million and even aiming to reduce it over the next decade." To that end he suggested, first, repealing mandatory-minimum drug sentencing laws. Since 1973 the Rockefeller drug laws in New York State have imposed fixed terms running from 15 years to life for all kinds of offenses. Federal laws also include many mandatory minimums. The result of fixed sentences is to put hundreds of thousands of nonviolent drug offenders away for many years, at great cost to them and to us. About a quarter of those in American prisons and jails are drug violators, according to the Justice Policy Institute. Their number has gone up sevenfold in the last 20 years. Professor DiIulio called for the release of nonviolent offenders imprisoned only for drug violations. He also urged that drug treatment be required for users, in prison and afterward. Legislation that requires extremely long sentences for drug and some other crimes is a political phenomenon of the last 25 years or so. Few politicians, state or national, have been willing to challenge the mantra of "toughness on crime" -- willing to look at the harsh consequences of such rigidity, human and societal. Mandatory-minimum sentences seem to me to reflect the delusion that eliminating the element of judgment will make the criminal justice system work better. Absolute rules assure certainty. But they also assure injustice. Leaving too much discretion to judges risks uneven sentences. Leaving none produces equally harsh sentences for situations and individuals that demand different treatment. The same delusion mars the 1996 Immigration Act, with its requirement of automatic deportation for minor crimes. The other distinctive feature of criminal justice in the United States is capital punishment. All other Western countries have given it up as an atavistic barbarity. It continues here despite a growing number of releases of death-row prisoners after last-minute proof of their innocence. Study after study has shown that executions do not deter further murders. Yet George W. Bush has defended the death penalty on the ground that it "will save other innocent lives." As governor of Texas, Mr. Bush has presided over 113 executions, more than any other governor in modern times. A compelling Boston Globe story by John Aloysius Farrell pointed out that in the next five weeks Governor Bush must
[CTRL] Kris: High Times article: Purchase Info
-Caveat Lector- Hi Kris: Where do I buy a copy? Barnes and Noble or Borders? Thanks. Gavin. 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] Anarchism: Two Kinds / Wendy McElroy
-Caveat Lector- Nessie, you and I may disagree about nonviolence (and BTW, I'm going to pick up that thread again soon), but here we agree completely. There is no such thing as "Russian" anarchism (usually described as nihilism), "American" anarchism, "German" anarchism, etc. That would be as impossible as electing the president of the International Anarchist Central Committee. I suspect that a lot of the "explanations" of anarchism going around right now are desinformatsiya, aimed at discrediting a movement which has the potential to pose a serious threat to the Oligarchy, and also at encouraging anarchists who speak particular languages to identify themselves as "Russian," "American," "German," "Catalan," and thus put artificial boundaries between people and disrupt the movement's unity. -Original Message- From: nessie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 8:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Anarchism: Two Kinds / Wendy McElroy -Caveat Lector- An excellent article that explains this tricky subject really well! This article is bunk. It is absurd to talk about "American" anarchism and "Russian" anarchism. Anarchism, by definition, recognizes no borders. If you're one of us, you're one of us, period. We don't care where you're from. It is particularly absurd to atribute the differences between individualist anarchism and collectivist anarchism to national origin. Both tendencies exist everywhere anarchists exist, which is most places on earth. Both are present in virtually every anarchist individual. We believe that self reliance and mutual aid are of equal importance. If you want to know about anarchism, don't listen to non-anarchists. Never believe anything anybody says about their enemies. Listen to what we say about ourselves and our beliefs. We knowus better than anybody does. snip DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] WACO Remarks By NEW ATF Director Bradley A. Buckles
-Caveat Lector- .FAR AND WIDE! Note: He is on C-SPAN 2 while this Post is being sent. http://www.wizardsofaz.com/waco/waco4.html Many excellent images. Brothers and Sisters, This is one GREAT web site. Bard Remarks By Deputy Director Bradley A. Buckles ATF Memorial Service National Police Week May 14, 1997 "The very nature of our enforcement mission has historically brought us face to face with the Nations most violent criminals. It is, therefore, not surprising that the number of ATF agents who have lost their lives in the performance of their duties which numbers 182 -- is among the highest in Federal law enforcement." Is it no WONDER? Sounds like ATF is its own worst violent criminal. How many of the deaths are attributed to training exercises, lack of communication, faulty equipment, INCOMPETENT Commanders, no written raid plan or specific instructions, and FRIENDLY FIRE!? Sometime around noon, Buford was transported to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, where Pat Muhl was the nursing supervisor on duty. "The first person we received, LeBleu, was dead," said Muhl, a nurse for 26 years. "We were all sad, but we did not have time to be sad for long because others were coming in." Two other agents were dead on arrival, four went to surgery and six others were treated, said Muhl. http://www.wizardsofaz.com/waco/waco4.html --- Branch Davidian Victims: http://www.wizardsofaz.com/waco/memorial.html DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Anarchism: Two Kinds / Wendy McElroy
-Caveat Lector- Hell, even the distinction between collectivist and individualist is baloney. The anarchists you name here leaped right out of the political spectrum and became non-Euclideans. Consider Proudhon: Property is theft. Property is liberty. Property is impossible. Whenever I try to seriously understand Proudhon, I am reminded of the *Last Whole Earth Catalog*'s comment on the *Tao Te Ching*: "Just when you think you understand it, it giggles and rains on you." ;^) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 2:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Anarchism: Two Kinds / Wendy McElroy nessie wrote: -Caveat Lector- An excellent article that explains this tricky subject really well! This article is bunk. It is absurd to talk about "American" anarchism and "Russian" anarchism. Anarchism, by definition, recognizes no borders. If you're one of us, you're one of us, period. We don't care where you're from. It is particularly absurd to atribute the differences between individualist anarchism and collectivist anarchism to national origin. True, it is particularly absurd to attribute the differences between individualist anarchism and collectivist anarchism to national origin, but you must admit there are major philosophical differences between great European Anarchist thinkers like Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, et al. (collectivist), and great America's Anarchist thinkers like Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, etc. (individualist). Their national origin is irrelevant and at most a coincidence, although their differences in beliefs are not (collectivist v. individualist, anarcho-syndicalist v. anarcho-capitalist, anarcho-left v. anarcho-right, etc.). And although all the beliefs of these great thinkers would not fit neatly into a single 'faction', many of them do, and they serve to give a rough idea of where they each stand, what type of anarcho society they advocate, and how to get there. So while the 'national origin' fallacy is generally bunk, it does not necessarily make the entire article bunk. snip DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Rate Your Sex Life (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Remember liberals make the lousiest lovers :( HOW SATISFYING IS YOUR SEX LIFE? Rate your sex life with the Sexuality Poll in Snap's Guide to Sexual Health. Find tips and techniques about your sex drive, birth control and more, plus get the latest in sexual health news. http://edition.snap.com/LMOID/resource/0,566,-12,00.html?dd.snap.d4 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] MonSatan bBGH geneMod FrankenFood / Fraud Drugging Apparatchik (FDA)
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave Yes! Another GMO document for your attention. If you care to read through this one, you'll see why the FDA is so corrupted and why there should be a Watergate-style inquiry into its decisions which are completely mangled by the ever-encroaching grasp and control of corporate lobbies. Labelling poisonous foods - and now irradiated meat on top of it all in the US - but leaving the lethal substance on sale for the unconscious and stupidly trusting public to eat is blatantly criminal and a sheer masquerade. How many millions of children will need to die an excruciatingly painful death from cancer before you guys in the media wake up and realize that by remaining silent about this you are not better than those who conspired to have their lucrative poisons approved by this fraudulent FDA? And if you are not from the USA, how could you believe that the international reach of these megacorporations does not apply to your country's own food regulatory system? The time to act is right NOW! From Richard Wolfson's web site, http://www.natural-law.ca/genetic/geindex.html (Slightly edited. If you read no other posts, please read this one. Robert Cohen's story played a big role in my lobbying the Mass. legislature in 1997 in support of an rBGH labeling bill. --Dick) FDA Testimony by Robert Cohen Robert Cohen was the final speaker on an FDA panel in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 1999. Some of you may have seen his speech on C-Span. Members of the panel included Mildred Cody of the American Dietetic Association; Mario Teisl, a professor of economics at the University of Maine; John Gray, president of the International Food Service Distributors Association; Kendal Keith, president of the National Grain Feed Association; and Richard Caplan, an environmental advocate with the US Public Interest Research Group. Cohen's Testimony: Hi everybody, I've got to apologize first - I don't have a prepared statement like the other panel members. All I'm going to give here is some facts. I have a copy of the Federal Register. It says here advertising this meeting: "FDA is not aware of information that will distinguish genetically engineered food as a class from other foods." [Mr. Cohen turns and addresses panel members.] I'm going to give you some information today, guys. The greatest controversy in FDA history was the approval process for Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone. We shouldn't be here today! We should not be in this room and I shouldn't be here because, in 1994, Congress HAD A BILL that was going to require mandatory labeling of all foods that were influenced by genetic engineering. I got my Congresswoman to co-sponsor that bill - 181 congresspeople co-sponsored that bill, and you know what? I learned how Congress works that year because in 6 months they stalled the bill -- 12 members of the Dairy Livestock Poultry Committee -- they stalled the bill until the 1994 session of Congress expired and the bill died. I was so upset, I investigated these 12 men and found that collectively they took $711,000 in PAC money from companies with dairy interests, and four of the members of the committee took money directly from Monsanto. Now we've got a lot of political intrigue and some real science here ... We've got a combination of John Grisham and ... Stephen King. Nikita Khrushchev said that what the scientists have in their briefcase is terrifying [Mr. Cohen then opened his briefcase and pulled out a stack of papers] -- and I've got some interesting things in my briefcase to share with you today. When Monsanto made their genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, they noticed a couple of problems right towards the end -- right before approval. They noticed that laboratory animals were getting cancer, and they noticed that cows were getting mastitis, ulcers in their udders. They were putting more pus and bacteria into the milk. So Monsanto arranged -- We've heard from Dr. Maryanski this morning, and Dr. Maryanski talked about the Pure Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act but what he didn't tell you was that in 1958, Robert Delaney, a congressman from New York, added the Delaney Amendment which was named after him. The Delaney Amendment stated that if a food additive caused cancer, it was not to be approved - a pretty good law - right? -- Monsanto got their attorney, Michael Taylor from the firm of King Spalding --By the way, when they started in 1979, they groomed their attorney who is now in the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, from the same law firm-- Anyway, Monsanto's attorney, Michael Taylor, wrote and minimized the Delaney Amendment- he wrote a scientific paper that was published in the "Journal of Toxicology". Lawyers --they write in law review journals, but this lawyer wrote in the "Journal of Toxicology": "a De-Minumus interpretation of the Delaney Amendment" became the new protocol, the new standard operating
[CTRL] Y2K bug will trigger major worldwide recession..
-Caveat Lector- .far and wide! TUESDAY DECEMBER 21 1999 Joseph Farah is editor of WorldNetDaily.com. Y2K predictions Here we are just days away from the rollover to the year 2000, and it's still anybody's guess as to the effects of the computer bug. Most government officials and establishment media outlets have been dismissing the seriousness of the Y2K date change on technology. But, yet, if you look hard enough for the reports, you'll find local, state and federal government officials and bureaucrats will, in many parts of the country, be hunkered down in Y2K bunkers powered by generators, with emergency food and water supplies and backup telecommunications systems that would be the envy of Bill Gates. In Washington, Massachusetts, New York and Los Angeles, armed guards will ensure that the ordinary civilians who paid for such structures are denied entry to them. These facilities are for the elite -- many of whom are still telling us there's nothing to worry about. If, indeed, there's nothing to worry about, why would these skeptics be locking themselves in underground vaults on the biggest party night of the year? It makes you wonder. The fact of the matter is that there are serious concerns -- not only among government officials, but for bankers, insurance executives, power suppliers and lots of others who have come to rely on technology for simplification, accuracy and efficiency. Though government and most of corporate America have declared virtually all critical systems will function normally when Jan. 1 arrives, only a tiny portion of most computer code is actually tested to make sure the year "00" will be correctly interpreted. And the truth is, even the most confident computer managers anticipate at least minor flaws. But, ultimately, nobody really knows what's going to happen Jan. 1 and beyond. A day doesn't go by lately that I'm not asked what I think will happen. Of course, I don't know any more than any of the experts. And, as I've said many times, my biggest concern about Y2K is the potential for overreaction and manipulation by those in government who would like to end our freedoms, deny us our basic individual liberties and put an end to our most fundamental personal rights. That's still the true worst case scenario for Y2K -- yet an entirely plausible one, given the government's preoccupation with hunting down terrorists, religious subversives and anti-government conspirators under virtually every bed. It won't be long now before we will all see for ourselves whether Y2K was just a lot of hype or whether it was the underplayed story of the century. My guess is that neither the doomsayers nor the skeptics have it quite right. Personally, I don't expect the sky to fall on New Year's Eve, nor the next day. I do expect some major failures. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if we saw some power outages and other technology problems immediately. But, I believe the real ramifications of Y2K are not short-term, they are long-term. I believe it may be months, even years, before we can actually evaluate the damage it triggers in our economy through a ripple effect that will largely begin in foreign countries on which Americans have allowed themselves to become far too reliant -- even dependent. I'm no prophet, but based on my readings and analysis, I predict the Y2K bug will trigger a major worldwide recession beginning in 2000 and possibly worsening thereafter. Recessions are
[CTRL] NEW! Davidian lawyer raises questions on Delta Force
-Caveat Lector- Davidian lawyer raises questions on Delta Force He says testimony leaves gap in siege account 12/21/99 By Lee Hancock / The Dallas Morning News Sworn testimony from two members of the Army's secret Delta Force unit raises questions about the actions of a third Delta soldier during the last hours of the Branch Davidian standoff, a lawyer for the sect said Monday. Two technical specialists from the classified anti-terrorist unit were among 24 government witnesses questioned in recent depositions by lawyers for the Branch Davidians, and their testimony indicated that "there's a combat guy [from the same unit] whose time is not accounted for on April 19," said Mike Caddell, lead lawyer for the Branch Davidians. Mr. Caddell said a protective order in the sect's wrongful-death lawsuit against the federal government prohibits divulging exact testimony of the government witnesses. They were questioned during two weeks of depositions in Washington that ended Friday. Justice Department officials did not return telephone calls for comment Monday. An FBI spokesman said he was unfamiliar with the matter. Justice Department spokesmen have previously declined to comment on depositions in the case. Mr. Caddell said the depositions left unanswered key questions about Delta Force's involvement in an FBI tank and tear-gas assault on the Branch Davidian compound. He said the questioning of FBI and military personnel also failed to resolve whether Delta Force soldiers or any other government agents fired guns into the building on April 19, 1993 - a charge that the government has denied. Pressed on the issue of government gunfire, the FBI's hostage rescue team members questioned during the depositions said they did not personally fire or witness any government gunfire April 19, Mr. Caddell said. But neither they nor FBI technical experts who operated FBI infrared cameras during the standoff could explain the origin of repeated flashes on an infrared videotape recorded by an airborne camera during the last hours of the tear-gas assault, Mr. Caddell said. Experts hired by the plaintiffs have said the flashes could have come only from government gunfire. Government experts dispute that, but an independent expert hired by the House Government Reform Committee to examine the infrared video has said he also thought that flashes were thermal signatures from gunfire. "One thing that became clear from this first round of depositions: Whatever really happened on April 19, there's only a handful of people that really know," Mr. Caddell said. "This operation obviously proceeded on a need-to-know basis. I would say fewer than a dozen people really knew what was going to happen or what did happen that day." Government officials and lawyers have adamantly denied that any Delta Force personnel were actively involved in the April 19 assault, which ended in a massive fire that consumed the Branch Davidian compound with more than 80 people inside. Government officials maintain that members of the sect set the fire. The Branch Davidians' federal lawsuit, set for trial in May in Waco, alleges that government negligence and actions caused the deaths of dozens of innocent women and children and other Branch Davidian followers. Lawyers for the sect have alleged that government agents, possibly including Delta Force members, repeatedly fired guns into the compound in the last hours of the siege. Justice Department lawyers initially tried to limit the Branch Davidian lawyers to written questioning of Delta Force members who were in Waco on April 19. Secret units Defense Department documents indicate that three soldiers from a secret military unit were present as observers on April 19 and that other Special Forces personnel from a classified military unit were shuttled in and out of Waco during the 51-day standoff. Delta Force is a classified military unit so secret that the Defense Department routinely refuses to acknowledge its existence. Defense Department officials ultimately allowed Branch Davidian lawyers to question the Delta Force soldiers who were at Waco on April 19 only if the soldiers could sit behind a protective screen during the deposition, Mr. Caddell said. Lawyers for the sect also had to agree that the soldiers would not have to divulge identifying information, Mr. Caddell said. The two soldiers who were questioned, both technical equipment specialists, denied active involvement in FBI operations in Waco, including the final assault, Mr. Caddell said. But they acknowledged that they could not account for the whereabouts of their unit's combat arms representative April 19 until after the compound burned. "Frankly, their explanation for that, the cover story that was given to explain his absence, was preposterous," Mr. Caddell said, adding that he could not divulge details of that story because of the court's protective order. Mr. Caddell said he hoped to question the third soldier during the next
Re: [CTRL] Y2K WARNING (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- From YnrChyldzWyld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Y2K Warning - Please read WARNING!!! Please take time out of your busy life to check your toilet paper stockpile. Make sure it is Y2K Compliant !!! Word has it, if it is NOT Y2K compliant, on January 1, 2000 it will roll back to 1900 and turn into a Sears Catalog Thanks for the info. I will be using compliant toilet paper to wipe the fecal matter from my screen generated by your silly posts. flw 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] Phoenicians in ancient New Zealand ? (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- "Tatman, Robert" wrote: -Caveat Lector- You're assuming that both "Israel" and "Phoenicia" were nations as we know that concept today. They weren't. They were a collection of cities (i.e. trading stations) loosely held together by cultural ties and fealty to a "high king." This is certainly true of the Phoenicians, but I'm not so sure about other people who were tribal and had tribal territories. As we've discussed in other threads, there is considerable evidence of close cultural contact between Syria-Canaan-Israel and Mycenaean Greeks, both in Greece and in Anatolia. The "Philistines" (who gave their name, via a convoluted route, to "Filistina" [Palestine]) seem to have been a particularly heterogeneous group, some of whom were usually fighting with various Israelites at any given time...while at the same time other Philistines were *allied* with various Israelites. The same was true of Phoenicia, as well as Ammon, Midian, and the other "nations" of the Fertile Crescent. It wasn't the non-existent "king of Phoenicia" who was allied with Solomon of Israel, for example, but rather Hiram of Tyre This is true. ...and it is not at all beyond the realm of possibility that there were Israelites on ships sailing out of Tyre and other Phoenician cities. This is probably true also. But only because the Phoenicians traded along the coasts. Many nations, including Egypt, sailed along the coasts. In coastal trading, it is possible that Israelites, and maybe even others sailed with them. But that did not apply to trans oceanic sailing. The Phoenicians had a monopoly on that and didn't share their secrets with anyone. Joshua2 -Original Message- From: YnrChyldzWyld [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Phoenicians in ancient New Zealand ? (fwd) -Caveat Lector- On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Nurev Ind Research wrote: snip cities on the Eastern Mediterranean evolved into Philistia. The Philistines were the enemies of the Jews then and down to this day. Both tribes were warring over the same territory. Down to this very day. Not according to the archeological evidence presented in the article -- before they became Philistines, apparantly Israel and Phoenicia were quite cordial with each other...Phoenicia in the beginning apparantly acted as an outpost of its neighbor to the south... 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] [libnw] Yeltsin Puts Nuclear Missiles on 'Red Alert'
-Caveat Lector- From: Frank Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [libnw] Yeltsin Puts Nuclear Missiles on 'Red Alert' Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 19:35:26 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [209.207.164.229] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBA2716470005D820F39AD1CFA4E538E40; Sun Dec 19 22:23:03 1999 Received: (qmail 21871 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 1999 06:20:41 - Received: (qmail 21817 invoked from network); 20 Dec 1999 06:20:37 - Received: from unknown (209.207.164.241) by pop1.onelist.com with QMQP; 20 Dec 1999 06:20:37 - Received: from unknown (HELO hvisions.com) (208.151.169.131) by mta2.onelist.com with SMTP; 20 Dec 1999 06:25:52 - Received: from hvisions.com (36.169.151.208.in-addr.arpa [208.151.169.36] (may be forged)) by hvisions.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15590; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:23:16 +0800 (PHT) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) From sentto-330505-825-alandewalton Sun Dec 19 22:24:10 1999 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Liberty Northwest Conference Newsgroup http://members.spree.com/lib_nw/confer.htm X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,en-GB Newsgroups: fidonews.grassroots Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bang Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 16:24:02 -0700 From: Larry Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeltsin Puts Nuclear Missiles on 'Red Alert' Foreign Affairs News Keywords: YELTSIN NUKES CHECHNYA Source: NewsMax Published: December 14, 1999 Author: unsigned Posted on 12/14/1999 14:42:08 PST by dirtboy Still furious over United States criticism of Russia's war in Chechnya, President Boris Yeltsin has placed his most deadly intercontinental nuclear missiles on "combat alert." The Moscow bureau of the London Express is reporting that, on his orders, 10 of Russia's newest, most sophisticated weapons capable of striking the United States have been deployed in full readiness. This unprecedented dramatic warning has Western observers nervous about the possibility of an inadvertent launch at a time when it is known that Russia's missiles are not fully reprogrammed to avert all millennium-year computer failures. Russia just recently sent computer and missile experts to Washington to work with American specialists in averting Y2K glitches. The alerted missiles Topol-Ms, with a striking range of 6,200 miles are based in the Saratov region, 400 miles southeast of Moscow. According to the Express: Although the West was advised in advance, as required by nuclear treaty commitments, the rarity of this move can be regarded only as a deliberate and serious show of force to underscore Yeltsin's outrage. It coincided with his return to Russia after a trip to China, where he warned Clinton and other Western leaders to stay out of Russia's business in Chechnya. He brandished Russia's still great missile threat by thundering: "Russia is a great power that possesses a full nuclear arsenal. It is we who will dictate." Recently, Gen. Vladimir Yakovlev, the Russian missiles-forces commander, bragged: "Of the five nuclear powers, none of the others will match these weapons in the next few years. "Topol-M is able to breach any anti-missile system that exists in the world and any which will be built in the near future." Also troubled by the missile alert are Russian politicians and analysts who regard Yeltsin as too ill to have his finger on the trigger of the world's second largest nuclear power. Britain's leading independent nuclear expert, John Large, said "There was an unwritten agreement for both Russia and the U.S. not to deploy nuclear weapons before the Y2K period. "Even if the weapons themselves are OK which I very much doubt since their testing system has been effectively down and out for three years they would have to work within the strategic defense system there, which is full of Y2K glitches. "There is no real need for it it is a risk they don't need to take. "I am not suggesting that these nuclear bombs will go off on their own, but we do expect to see the defense systems playing up a bit." thanks, larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +++ LIBERTY NORTHWEST CONFERENCE NEWSGROUP "The only libertarian-oriented political discussion conference on the Fidonet Z1 Backbone..." Fidonet SysOps AREAFIX: LIB_NW Visit Liberty Northwest on the Web: http://members.spree.com/lib_nw/confer.htm Email: to Subscribe or unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]*[EMAIL PROTECTED] ...Liberty is never an option... only a condition to be lost +++
[CTRL] Tarpley
-Caveat Lector- I've been having trouble accessing Tarpley's homepage at: http://www.radix.net/~tarpley/ Does Linda or anyone know if he changed servers, or if his pages are mirrored elsewhere on the web? [Maybe the server's just been down a lot lately, and I've merely had bad luck when accessing it.] Thanks, philately 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] Stopping Spammers (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- forwarded message From: "Fred Langa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [langalist] 20-Dec-99 LangaList An easier-to read, formatted, HTML version is available for online reading at http://www.langa.com/whats_new.htm Please email the LangaList to a friend! snip 3) Stopping Spammers Last week, I told you how spammers used a forged email header to make it appear that a spam mail was coming from Langa.Com. (see http://www.langa.com/newsletters/Dec-16-99.htm#8 ) Of course, the spam mail did NOT come from here; and in fact it never even passed through my mail server, which is specifically configured to prevent abuse by spammers. After I told you about my brush with spammers, I heard from many readers (thank you!) including Suresh Ramasubramanian, writing from India. Suresh is a member of CAUCE, The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email. It's a worldwide, all-volunteer organization dedicated to fighting spam. I've quietly been a supporter for years; I carry CAUCE's "no spam" logo on my home page at http://www.langa.com. Suresh had some great suggestions for me. For example, I'd been able to track the spam source to a company in Florida, and knew they'd used a server in China to blast their spam (carrying the fake langa.com address) out to the world. But within minutes, Suresh was able to dig deeper and tell me that the Chinese server was using a primitive and unprotected mailing program that shipped as part of the Solaris OS. Suresh's helpful email prompted me to take a look at all that CAUCE is up to now--- and it's a lot. They've collected almost 2 million examples of spammail, for instance; these are put in a database that webmasters and ISPs can use to know which domains send lots of spam: Mail from these domains can be blocked or filtered. They also offer an end-user oriented service called the "Spam Recycling Center." It's a site with anti-spam tips; a link that lets you forward your spammail to the appropriate federal authorities; download a free anti-spam filter; sign an anti-spam petition, and more. (Weirdly: They even have a "turn your spam into steak" program where you can order Omaha steaks for 40% off the list price. 8-) I'm not making this up!) The Spam Recycling Center is at http://www.chooseyourmail.com/spamindex.cfm The organization's main page is at http://www.cauce.org/ Join today! snip --- SUBSCRIBE (it's free!): Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNSUBSCRIBE: send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I.E. create a new email, and copy the address above into the To: field.) Why are you getting this newsletter? There are only two ways to get on the list (direct email request or via the WinMag mail list signup page) so if you're getting this newsletter, your name came to me through one of those channels. LIST TROUBLE? HAVE QUESTIONS? NEED HELP? See http://www.langa.com/help.txt About the advertisers: Langa Consulting will never knowingly accept advertising for a fraudulent product, company or service. However, Langa Consulting makes no implied or explicit warranty, recommendation or endorsement of or for the products, companies or services mentioned in the ads. Disclaimer: The tips and other information given in the newsletter are researched and are believed to be accurate, but we cannot and do not guarantee that all the information here will work on all systems, for all users, all the time. All information herein is offered as-is and without warranty of any kind. Neither Langa Consulting, nor its employees nor contributors are responsible for any loss, injury, or damage, direct or consequential, resulting from application of any information presented here. This newsletter is a free service of Langa Consulting and is Copyright © 1999 Langa Consulting. All rights reserved. . DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL
[CTRL] Canadian Scientist Hopes Y2K Will Shut Down Planet
-Caveat Lector- Tuesday December 21 11:35 AM ET Canadian Scientist Hopes Y2K Will Shut Down Planet By Leah Eichler TORONTO (Reuters) - A little Y2K chaos would not be such a bad thing, or so says David Suzuki, a respected Canadian geneticist, broadcaster and environmentalist. ``I hope there is a major glitch. It might give Mother Earth a rest,'' the 63-year-old host of CBC-TV's ``The Nature of Things,'' broadcast in more than 50 countries, told Reuters. ``I think it would be wonderful if things collapsed for a few days. Chaos would happen ... but it would be an amazing opportunity for people to really start thinking about things -- and a global collapse would really make people think.'' Even if Y2K goes gently into the night, Suzuki believes the time is ripe for people to start paying closer attention to the environment. And if interest in his new book, which has hit Canadian bestseller lists, is an indication, he may be right. ``At the end of every century people go nuts. The millennium is even a bigger deal. My message in my book is that this is a moment in time when we can reflect on where we are and where we're going,'' the Vancouver-based environmentalist said. Where we are is a dismal place, according to Suzuki and his book ``From Naked Ape to Superspecies,'' written with Holly Dressel. ``Water is polluted, the air is polluted, soil is polluted. We've essentially trashed the globe and I don't think there's any question that the major challenge facing us in the coming years is what are we going to do about it,'' he said. DOOMSDAY PROPHET? Although seen by many as a doomsday prophet, Suzuki insists that not only he and groups such as Greenpeace are sounding the death knell of environmental Armageddon -- scientists are too. ``From Naked Ape to Superspecies'' refers to a document, ''World Scientists Warning to Humanity,'' signed in 1992 by more that 1,600 senior scientists from around the world, including more than half of all living Nobel Prizewinners. The document stated that, as of 1992, humans have as little as 10 years to avoid an ecological catastrophe. Since then, Suzuki says, the destruction has accelerated. ``It is crystal clear from what scientists are saying that we have undermined the underpinnings of life on Earth; we have added 30 percent more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which set in motion enormous changes in climate,'' he said. ``We've trashed 78 percent of the world's forests and the remaining 22 percent are found in three countries: Brazil, Canada and Russia. And we're going to decide the fate of the remaining big forests in the next 15 years.'' But are people heeding the warning signs? Suzuki believes so. He quotes a recent poll that showed one of the issues people are most concerned about today is the health of their children, based on the quality of air, water and food. ``In Canada, one out of every five children has asthma. The asthma rate is skyrocketing, as are lymphoma, breast cancer and prostate cancer in spite of billions of dollars spent on medical research. Why? Because we poison the very things that we depend on for survival,'' Suzuki insisted. Much of his criticism is directed at his own country, which does not warn citizens of genetically modified foods. ``The Europeans are saying, 'If you want to find out if GMOs are dangerous just watch Canada. They're doing the experimenting for us. And I think that you don't put people in an experiment unless they have been told and ask for our permission. We haven't been told or asked. We're guinea pigs.'' ORGY OF CONSUMPTION Suzuki also takes issue with the fact that Canada is the only industrialized country in the world that does not support public transit. ``If every human being wanted to live like we do in Toronto, we'd need five more planets,'' he said. ``So there is no way our lifestyle can be enjoyed by everybody on Earth, but everybody wants to be like us.'' But all is not lost. Suzuki believes humans can have an immediate impact on the environment by limiting consumption. ``We (in industrialized countries) now consume 20 times as much as every person in China and 100 times as much as a person in Bangladesh. The Wal-Marts, the Home Depots ... the megastores. It's everything,'' he said. ``We are in an orgy of consumption. We very often point to the developing world and say they have a population problem ... but we are the ones overpopulating because we are overconsuming and all the Indians, Brazilians and Chinese want to be like us. And we keep saying, we gotta have more, so we can't tell them no, you can't, you shouldn't, have as much as we have.'' Consumer culture affects not only the environment but the quality of life, Suzuki says. According to Seattle-based New Road Map Foundation, the average American spends six to eight hours a week shopping and 40 minutes playing with his or her children. ``When you're 85 years old and dying, and you're thinking back on the things that fill you with
[CTRL] Red Dawn
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! "Red Dawn"--a potenial reality or just an action movie? The Pollyannas in this country will laugh and say it could NEVER happen. I say there is every probability it WILL happen, thanks to the traitor in the White House. For almost 30 years, I have said China, Russia and North Korea would become allied eventually--then attack us when we are the weakest, as we are now--the weakest since just prior to Pearl Harbor. Many will claim Clinton's sell-out of America has been motivatedby his insatiable love of power. That is only part of the answer. Clinton is a true globalist at heart and a totalitarian one at that. He knows that what he hopes to achieve can only be accomplished if America is first weakened--then destroyed, hence the scuttling of our military and an aggressive gun control agenda aimed at the eventual systematic destruction of the gun culture in America. His inroads on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are legion--possibly irreparable at this point. Read the words of our enemies below first. Then read what Col. Stanislav Lunev and Christopher Ruddy have to say. Ruddy's article is particularly shocking. It is a multi-parter with all links from the first page in sequence. Take time to read it in its entirety. [ A HREF="http://antipas.org/news/russia/russia_china_p1.html"Christadelphians, Antipas - Prophecy In The News -- Russia and China Prepare For War: Part 1/A http://antipas.org/news/russia/russia_china_p1.html ] Other eye-opening articles by J.R. Nyquist, Charles Smith and many other great commentators may be found in the WorldNetDaily archives at www.worldnetdaily.com. For detailed info you won't get from traidional media, spend some time at A HREF="http://afpc.org/"American Foreign Policy Council/A [http://afpc.org/]. Lynell "We will spit in their face [i.e., the faces of the Western capitalist leaders] and they will call it dew." -- Lenin "We will sell the Western businessmen the rope with which we will hang them." -- Lenin "The capitalists of the world and their governments, in the pursuit of the conquest of the Soviet market, will close their eyes to the indicated higher reality, and thus will turn into deaf, mute, blind men. They will extend credits in giving us the materials and technology we lack. They will restore our military industry, indispensible for our future victorious attacks on our suppliers. In other words, they will labor for the preparation for their own suicide." -- Lenin "War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in thirty to forty years. To win, we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie ... will have to put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we will smash them with our clenched fist." -- Dimitri Manuilski of the Lenin School for Political Warfare "Comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about glasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years. These are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal change within the Soviet Union other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep. We want to accomplish three things: One, we want the Americans to withdraw conventional forces from Europe. Two, we want them to withdraw nuclear forces from Europe. Three, we want the Americans to stop proceeding with the Strategic Defense Initiative." -- Mikhail Gorbachev in a speech to the Soviet Politburo, November 1987 "Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and minerals treasure house of central and southern Africa, and then we will dictate the terms of surrender to the United States and to the West." -- Leonid Brezhnev, 1973 "We at the executive level here were active in either the OSS, the State Department, or the European Economic Administration. During those times, and without exception, we operated under directions issued by the White House. We are continuing to be guided by just such directives, the substance of which were to the effect that we should make every effort to so alter life in the United States as to make possible a comfortable merger with the Soviet Union." -- H. Rowan Gaither, President of the Ford Foundation, 1953 "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt "There also exists another alliance -- at first
[CTRL] AF News 22 Dec 99
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! 992270. Air Force leaders discuss Allied Force lessons learned by Maj. Steve Michael Air Force Doctrine Center MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. (AFPN) --Senior Air Force leaders met here recently to examine aerospace power doctrine issues arising from Operation Allied Force, the recent air campaign in Kosovo, Yugoslavia. Attendees included Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Ryan, the commanders of all nine Air Force major commands, Air Staff officials and Air Force representatives from commands that were engaged in Allied Force. The summit itself consisted of briefings and discussion sessions that covered planning and employment activities from the Joint Staff level at the Pentagon through the numbered Air Force level in theater, and the roles air mobility and space operations played in supporting Allied Force. "General Ryan wanted to bring together the Air Force leadership to take a look at the application of our basic and operational doctrine principles during Allied Force," said Lt. Col. Bob Poynor, Air Force Doctrine Center's lead action officer for the summit. "The operation gave us a perfect opportunity to see if we organized and employed our forces in a manner consistent with our doctrine, and really practiced the principles and capabilities that we believe make aerospace power function most effectively in a conflict." Since the end of the Cold War, history has shown that the Air Force has been increasingly called upon to play a prominent role in overseas contingency operations. Operation Desert Storm was an early example, and Allied Force -- this year's aerospace power-dominated operation that forced the Serbian army to withdraw from Kosovo -- provided further proof of air power's capabilities to carry out the policies of the National Command Authorities. "The fact that the senior Air Force leadership gathered to focus their efforts on evaluating an air operation from the perspective of war fighting doctrine makes this one of the most unique meetings in the history of the Air Force," said Maj. Gen. Timothy Kinnan, AFDC commander. "It was fitting that the chief of staff called us together here at Maxwell, the site of the Air Corps Tactical School, where many of the Air Force's founding fathers first debated the best uses of air power in combat." The joint services' perspective on Allied Force was discussed in presentations made by Maj. Gen. Charles Wald, the Joint Staff vice director for strategic plans and policy, and Maj. Gen. Ronald Keys, U.S. European Command director of operations. Gen. John Jumper, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Allied Air Forces Central Europe commander presented a briefing that discussed the doctrinal basis for the type of operation conducted in Kosovo and the effectiveness of existing Air Force command and staff structures. Gen. Charles Robertson Jr., commander in chief of U.S. Transportation Command and Air Mobility Command, discussed airlift and mobility support for the Kosovo operation. And, Maj. Gen. Robert Hinson, 14th Air Force commander, discussed space operations support for Allied Force. Allied Force was the first major Air Force operation, since AFDC was established, to develop service doctrine in 1997. This air-dominated campaign provided a case study for the Air Force to review the war fighting capabilities and principles that are written in the service's 33 doctrine documents. The discussions are part of a larger effort by the Air Force and Department of Defense to review Operation Allied Force and glean lessons learned to improve future operations. (Courtesy of Air Education and Training Command News Service) 992272. Air Force releases information on C-130 crash in Kuwait SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, ILL. (AFPN) --The Air Force released information Dec. 20 about the ongoing investigation into the 9th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron C-130E aircraft accident that occurred at Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base, Kuwait, at 2:06 a.m., local time Dec. 10. In response to the emergency landing of a C-130 at Kuwait International Airport, the Air Force has convened a safety investigation board and an accident investigation board to investigate the accident that resulted in the deaths of three airmen and the injury of 17 others. Both boards have arrived in Kuwait City and begun their investigations. Initial investigations have determined the C-130 arrived at Ali Al Salem Air Base Dec. 3. The aircraft and crew, permanently assigned to the 61st Airlift Squadron, 463rd Airlift Group, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., arrived in Kuwait for a 90-day rotation as part of the ongoing Operation Southern Watch mission in support of UN resolutions and to help enforce UN sanctions of Iraq. At the time of the accident, the weather in the area was clear at altitude with restricted visibility on the surface. The crew was scheduled to fly a rotator mission on the night of the
Re: [CTRL] [EWAR] New Worm virus - from CTRL List
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/21/99 3:54:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Watch your Off-List e-mail messages for the following .EXE attachments, comprising the "W32.NewApt.Worm" worm virus. I received two of them recently, from the same virus brain: Bill, I am confused, I do not see the attachment in the CTRL archives and you yourself sent the email on the topic from Orbit. Did someone send you something in response, personally? 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] Two-thirds of Americans Want New Impeachment Review
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! Poll: Two-thirds of Americans Want New Impeachment Review NewsMax.com December 21, 1999 NEW YORKâA NewsMax.com/Zogby International poll finds that two-thirds of Americans want Congress to consider a second round of impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton for possibly swapping United States military secrets to China in exchange for campaign cash. Americans overwhelmingly indicated they are seriously concerned that President Clinton may have authorized the sale and transfer of nuclear and ballistic missile technology to China. The national survey of 1,005 registered voters was conducted by NewsMax.com/Zogby last week. The NewsMax.com/Zogby poll comes on the heels of a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released last week that found that 50 percent of Americans now approve of Congressâ impeachment of Clinton in December of 1998 after the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Americans apparently take the China allegations more seriously. Since 1996, federal law enforcement and congressional sources have claimed that large amounts of money â some estimates place the amount as high as $10 million â were funneled from Chinese government sources to help the Democratic National Committee fund Bill Clintonâs re-election campaign in 1996. Nearly 10 percent of Americans surveyed said the allegations were serious enough that Congress should immediately convene impeachment hearings against the President. Another 56 percent of Americans said Congress should begin a preliminary investigation to decide if impeachment is warranted. In 1998, the House of Representatives impeached the President. He avoided removal from office when the Senate decided not to convict him after a brief trial in 1999. Support for a fresh look at a possible Chinagate impeachment inquiry, however, enjoys broad support from Democrats, Republicans and Independent voters. African-American voters, considered among the presidentâs staunchest supporters, also backed the popular impeachment examination by 63 percent. Concerns about the Presidentâs treatment of China and military transfers to the communist country have simmered for several years. In 1996, the New York Times reported that U.S. defense contractors Hughes Electronics and Loral Space Communications assisted China in developing and improving the launch capabilities of their ballistic missiles. After a grand-jury investigation was convened to investigate Loralâs transfer of classified technology to China, President Clinton moved to authorize the transfer of such technology. Since 1993, the chairman of Loral, Bernard Schwartz, donated more than $1 million to the DNC, making Schwartz the committeeâs largest donor. The Clinton administration has also moved to issue more than 350 waivers, largely beginning in 1996, to transfer American supercomputers to China. Previous to Clintonâs authorizations, China had received few clearances because the computers could be used to develop advanced nuclear weaponry. Recently, ABC News reported that the Clinton administration authorized the sale of an ultra-high-speed IBM computer the network claimed would enable China to develop its nuclear-carrying ballistic missiles. President Clinton has made technology transfers of previously classified technology a priority. Early in Clintonâs first term, administration officials changed the screening process for technology transfers, moving the approval process away from the State and Defense Departments to the Commerce Department. The move was said to have increased the flow of technology transfers to China. Chinagate figure John Huang, who had been a major Clinton fund-raiser, also served in the Commerce Department. Congressional investigators believed Huang served as an agent of China, using ties through his previous employer, the Riady family of Indonesia. NEWSMAX.COM/ZOGBY POLL Question: Allegations have risen that Bill Clinton traded U.S. nuclear and ballistic missile technology to the Chinese for campaign contributions. Should Congress convene impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton over these allegations or should there be a preliminary investigation to see if there is a reason to start impeachment proceedings, or should Congress do nothing? Congress should: 1. Convene impeachment proceedings â 10 percent 2. Begin a preliminary investigation for impeachment â 56 percent 3. Do nothing â 30 percent 4. Not sure â 4 percent. **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.
[CTRL] Russian destroyer to beef up navy
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! Tuesday, December 21, 1999 Russian destroyer to beef up navy ASSOCIATED PRESS in Moscow -- -- Updated at 1.50pm: The first of two powerful destroyers ordered from Russia by the PRC navy is to be delivered on Saturday. The ITAR-Tass news agency, citing an unspecified military-industrial source, said the ship, a model of the ''Sovremenny'' class, is to be turned over to the Chinese navy at the St Petersburg shipyard where it was built. The Chinese sailors will then pilot the ship to its base, the report said. China in 1997 signed an order for the two destroyers in one of the largest arms deals for Russia in recent years. The amount of the contract was not made public, but reports from China estimated it at about US$1 billion (HK$7.6 billion). Chinese orders have become a boon for Russia's struggling defence industries. The report also said two shipments of Moskit supersonic anti-ship missiles that can be used on the destroyers will be delivered to the PRC next year. **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
Re: [CTRL] Kudos to Kris: High Times article
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/21/99 9:54:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the '70s and '80s, the ONLY mass-media outlets that were able to publish articles about government conspiracies and cover-ups were "PORNO" magazines such as Genesis, Penthouse, and Larry Flynt's Hustler Does anyone know a a place where one can get old articles from these mags, WITHOUT the sexually explicit pictures descriptions? Thanks in advance. You might check with Prevailing Winds. I don't have their web address handy here, but a search should bring it 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
[CTRL] GOP senator vows to block Clinton picks
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! GOP senator vows to block Clinton picks By Dave Boyer THE WASHINGTON TIMES A Republican senator said yesterday he will block all of President Clintonâs judicial nominees next year because Mr. Clinton on Friday quietly broke his written promise to notify the Senate before making recess appointments. A Republican senator said yesterday he will block all of President Clintonâs judicial nominees next year because Mr. Clinton on Friday quietly broke his written promise to notify the Senate before making recess appointments. The presidentâs reappointment of Sarah Fox, a labor-friendly member of the National Labor Relations Board, came without the required notice before the Senate left town, said Sen. James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican. âThe president has broken his word â yet again â and confirmed the deep and unfortunate breakdown in trust which exists between the Clinton-Gore administration and the Congress,â Mr. Inhofe said. âI will do exactly what I said I would do if the president deliberately violated our agreement,â he said. âI will place a âholdâ on every judicial nominee which reaches the Senate calendar for the remainder of the Clinton presidency.â A White House spokesman, Jake Siewert, insisted last night that the administration did âdiscussâ Miss Foxâs nomination with Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican. âWe communicated with the majority leaderâs office on this,â Mr. Siewert said. A spokesman for Mr. Lott, John Czwartacki, said last night that the White House âdid inform usâ about the pending recess appointment of Miss Fox on a list other than the one to which Mr. Inhofe referred. But he said Mr. Inhofe still has a right to object to the appointment. âIf Senator Inhofe chooses to exercise his right and wishes to place a hold, Senator Lott will hear and honor that hold,â Mr. Czwartacki said. The two Republican senators âboth understand where the other one isâ on the matter, Mr. Czwartacki said. Mr. Inhofe secured the written pledge from Mr. Clinton this summer after the president angered senators with recess appointments of James C. Hormel, a homosexual, to be ambassador to Luxembourg, and of Bill Lann Lee to be assistant attorney general in charge of civil rights. After Mr. Inhofe threatened to block further Clinton nominations, the president on June 15 wrote to Mr. Lott: âMy administration has made it a practice to notify Senate leaders in advance of our intentions in this regard, and this precedent will continue to be observed.â But Miss Foxâs name was not on a list of 13 contemplated appointments that Mr. Clinton submitted to the Senate last month, Mr. Inhofe said. A Senate Republican aide said Miss Fox is âconsidered extremely liberalâ and probably would have run into âconsiderable oppositionâ in the Senate if Mr. Clinton had tried to reappoint her through the normal process. Asked why Miss Fox was not on the list cited by Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Siewert reasserted that the Republican leadership was informed of the presidentâs desire to reappoint her. âI canât account for his list,â he said of Mr. Inhofe. Mr. Inhofe said in a statement that he âhas not yet had time to contact any of his colleaguesâ on the matter. In September, Miss Fox ruled with the NLRB majority that unions can charge dissenting workers for the cost of conscripting new members. The ruling runs counter to Supreme Court precedent, which held that unions could not compel nonmembers to subsidize union politics with which they disagreed. Under a recess appointment, the nominee can serve up to one year without any Senate action. That would take Miss Fox virtually up to the last days of the Clinton administration. Stan Greer, a spokesman for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation in Springfield, said Miss Fox has shown a âreal zealâ to go beyond the boundaries of the National Labor Relations Act in favor of big labor in her rulings. âWe do think it would have been quite difficultâ for her to be confirmed again by the Senate, Mr. Greer said. Another foundation member has accused Miss Fox of personally blocking 88 percent of cases awaiting NLRB rulings over whether dissenting workers may be charged for activities unrelated to collective bargaining, such as partisan politics. Mr. Inhofe said he is not objecting to Miss Foxâs political persuasion but to the president violating âthe principle of cooperation and executive branch respect for the Senateâs proper role on the confirmation process.â âConsidering the lame-duck status of the Clinton presidency, I believe it is now appropriate to defer these important life-term judicial appointments to the next president,â Mr. Inhofe said in a statement.
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Overview
From: "Catherine Austin Fitts" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Earth Rising ? The Revolution: Toward a Thousand Years of Peace ISBN: 1-890693-43-X 5.5"x8.5" Softcover, $17.95 List, 300 pages By Dr. Nick Begich and James Roderick Earth Rising ? The Revolution: Toward a Thousand Years of Peace is about technology and its impact on humanity. This book is about the basis of freedom, human dignity, sovereign individuality and self-determination. The material will be shocking to all. This is an exposé on technological advances which may reshape the destiny of mankind in the next millennium. This book covers a number of separate areas with extensive documentation from government, academic and major media reports including: o The Revolution in Military Affairs and its impact on freedom. o Mind control and the manipulation of human health through the use of drugs, electromagnetic weapons and other means. o Non-lethal weapons and their use and impact on people. o Environmental and weather control. o New technologies which will virtually eliminate privacy from the world scene. o Militarization of law enforcement around the country. o The HAARP story is updated, showing additional evidence of the military's plans to manipulate the environment. The book concludes with solutions that could be initiated in the next few years which could change the implications of these technologies from negative to positive. This book carries a message about our humanity and our reach toward higher purposes. We are spirit, energy, atoms, molecules, chemicals, cells, body organs and components and then we are body. These new technologies attack the very essence of who we are ? they attack the very foundation of our being by wounding the human spirit. The computer problems which have captured the attention of the world as we leave this millennium have made us all question technology and its impact on the world. We will not know the results for a few weeks of what the transition means and it is not the subject of this book ? technology is the subject. In each potential disaster there are even greater possibilities for solutions which redeem the human spirit and will help propel us into the next century. This book is about those solutions. Earthpulse Press, Inc.; PO Box 201393; Anchorage, Alaska, 99520, USA Voice: 1-888-690-1277; International 1-907-249-9111: Fax Orders: 1-907-696-1277 Web: www.earthpulse.com About the Authors Dr. Nick Begich is the eldest son of the late United States Congressman from Alaska, Nick Begich Sr., and political activist Pegge Begich. He is well known in Alaska for his own political activities. He was twice elected President of both the Alaska Federation of Teachers and the Anchorage Council of Education. He has been pursuing independent research in the sciences and politics for most of his adult life. Begich received his doctorate in traditional medicine from The Open International University for Complementary Medicines in November, 1994. He co-authored the book Angels Don't Play This HAARP; Advances in Tesla Technology, and wrote Towards a New Alchemy: The Millennium Science. His latest book Earth Rising ? The Revolution: Toward a Thousand Years of Peace was co-authored with James Roderick in December, 1999. He is also the editor of Earthpulse Flashpoints, a continuing new-science book series. Begich has published articles in science, politics and education and is a well known lecturer, having presented throughout the United States and in nineteen countries. He has been featured as a guest on thousands of radio broadcasts reporting on his research activities including new technologies, health and earth science related issues. He has also appeared on dozens of television documentaries and other programs throughout the world including BBC-TV, CBC-TV, TeleMundo, and others. Begich has served as an expert witness and speaker before the European Parliament. He has spoken on various issues for groups representing citizen concerns, statesmen and elected officials, scientists and others. He is the publisher and co-owner of Earthpulse Press and is also under contract as Tribal Administrator for the Chickaloon Village Council, a federally recognized American Indian Tribe of the Athabascan Indian Nation. Dr. Begich is married to Shelah Begich-Slade and has five children. He resides just north of Anchorage in the community of Eagle River, Alaska, USA. James Roderick is a 30-year resident of Alaska, working variously as a fisherman, gold-miner and trapper. His investigations into military toxics in Alaska led to stories in the press about chemical weapons disposal in Alaska's waters, nuclear power plant contamination in central Alaska and the military's illegal testing of Alaska natives and Eskimos with radioactive Iodine. His investigations continue. Table Of Contents Dedication.. ..1 Prologue Earth Rising ?
[CTRL] Re-Formed IRS
-Caveat Lector- www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : North America "Reform" of US tax agency has led to decline in audits of the wealthy By Jerry White 21 December 1999 Back to screen version The results of last year's political and media campaign against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), ostensibly waged to protect the average tax-payer against government abuse, provides an object lesson of the cynicism of American politics. For weeks on end, beginning in the spring of 1998, Congressional Republicans like Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and House Majority Leader Dick Armey issued ringing denunciations of the IRS' persecution of small businessmen, farmers and ordinary workers, and demanded legislation to rein in the federal agency. The press and television networks provided almost daily coverage of IRS abuse and uncritically highlighted populist-sounding speeches by politicians who are notorious for their slavish defense of corporate interests. When pollsters reported growing support for IRS reform, the Clinton administration and the Democratic Party jumped on the bandwagon and backed the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act. The law was passed overwhelmingly by both houses of Congress and signed into law by President Clinton in July 1998. Some 16 months later, the real motivation behind the reform campaign has become clear. The American tax system has been skewed even more to favor the rich at the expense of working and poor people. According to a recent report in the New York Times, since the passage of the law the IRS has sharply reduced audits of wealthy individuals and large corporations. Instead the agency has shifted its focus to investigating low- income families applying for the Earned Income Tax Credit, and cracking down on those, mostly the working poor and unemployed, who fail to file tax returns. The IRS has reassigned employees trained to audit companies and wealthy individuals to work counters at walk-in centers, answer telephones around the clock and resolve tax disputes of estranged couples. IRS agents, interviewed by the Times, said that these changes have had the effect of shifting the target of audits to people who do not have the benefit of professional advisers or political connections. IRS employees said their managers had pressed them to overlook complex issues and close audits quickly. This has meant virtually dropping any attempt to collect taxes from wealthy violators who conceal income from capital gains, hidden business interests and other sources. Among individuals with a gross income of $100,000 or more, less than 1 in 150 returns will be audited this year, compared to 1 in 33 in 1992. The percentage of corporate returns to be audited is expected to fall to just above 1 percent for the current fiscal year, as compared to just under 3 percent in 1992. Meanwhile, the number of returns reporting an income of $1 million or more has risen sharply over the past few years, from 87,000 in 1995 to 142,500 in 1997. An IRS agent in New York told the Times, Please don't call us tax collectors in the newspaper. We don't collect taxes anymore. We aren't allowed to. Another revenue agent in Nashville, Tennessee said anyone there could get a tax case resolved favorably if the taxpayer had enough influence to get a Senator or Congressman to complain to the IRS. In April of 1998 the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Senator William Roth Jr., the principal sponsor of the IRS overhaul legislation, held a widely publicized hearing which portrayed the IRS as an out-of-control agency. The testimony, some of which was later discredited, included horror stories from businessmen who claimed they had been arrested by armed IRS agents, and confessions from former IRS employees who said they had falsified evidence to extract more money from taxpayers. Clinton and the Democratic leadership reversed their initial opposition and joined the reform campaign, with Clinton declaring, Like most Americans I was outraged by the stories of our citizens harassed and humiliated by what seemed to be an unaccountable, downright tone-deaf agency. The entire stage-managed affair was given full credence by the media, which reported a groundswell of popular support for reform of, in the words of one newspaper, the most hated government agency in America. The IRS is an arm of the capitalist state. It often abuses small businesses and working class families. But the bipartisan campaign to reform the IRS, as the results have demonstrated, was not aimed at ending the harassment of working people, but rather at shifting the financial burden for public services and military spending even further onto working-class and middle-class taxpayers. Included in the 1998 legislation were additional tax breaks for the rich, as well as the establishment of an IRS oversight board that would include corporate executives. While Congress backed off from its original idea of giving the
Re: [CTRL] Zipped File-Report To Pres. And Congress Re:Terrorism and ...
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/20/99 9:47:11 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: better send it as text or you may be making a wasted effort. Also, please refrain from using cute background colors and patterns as this makes reading difficult and I usually dump them, without reading. Uh, yeah well this "text" would exceed the lomits imposed on me by my e-mail server, it's a huge file...and I certainly didn't use any "cute" colours or patterns... Otherwise, thanks a ton for your advice... 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] Fwd: Paranormal Experiences
(with graphics: http://Ian.Goddard.net/paranorm.htm) NEUROLOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR PARANORMAL EXPERIENCES (c) 12/21/99 Ian Williams Goddard Paranormal experiences that transcend the perceived confines of the body, such as out-of-body experiences, may be seen as evidence of the existence of a "spiritual body" that can exceed the confines of the physical body. The following, however, provides a simple neurological explanation for such paranormal experience. THE INTERNAL WORLD MODEL Looking at the computer screen before you, you assume the screen you're seeing is external to you. However, because all that you perceive is in fact data that have already entered the interior of your skull, what you perceive as external is a neurologically constructed model inside your brain of the real world outside your brain. (graphic: http://ian.goddard.net/paranorm.htm) You never perceive the external world directly, you only perceive second-hand "messages" sent via photons and sound waves that have already struck your sensory apparatus and sent information about the external world into your brain where it was processed into the three- dimensional model of the real world that you see. The things that you perceive as being the genuine articles "out there" are actually simulations of them inside your brain. (see: http://ian.goddard.net/paranorm.htm) Amazing as it seems, this means that what you think of as your body is actually a simulation body walking around your brain's model of the world! So long as your internal model is exact, you can interact with the real world without problem. However, if and when the accuracy of your internal world model is compromised, paranormal, insane, or unsober experience is the result. Because the perceived parameter of your body is a computational construct of your brain, it can be altered by abnormal brain activity. For example, the neurological program that places you, the observer, in one location in the model could just as well place you at any other location in the model, thereby creating an out-of-body experience. Or the location of your consciousness could appear to expand and engulf the entire world-model, resulting in a "cosmic consciousness" experience. Or, inside your brain's program, experiences like pain could be placed in a location outside your simulated body, such as in the perceived location an amputated leg used to be, resulting in a "phantom pain" apparently outside your body. In each example, only the parameters of a simulated body inside the brain are transcended, and thus the evidence of a spirit body disappears like a ghost. CONCLUSION: In comprehending the nature of out-of-body expereinces there's one thing we can know for sure: the fact that all observed data have already entered the skull of the observer leaves no room for doubt that the world you perceive including your perceived body is a simulation inside your brain of the real world outside your brain. The real world is thus never directly perceived. One explanation for out-of-body experiences is that the observer, or consciousness, moves outside the physical body via a spirit body. However, the physical evidence indicates that the spirit-body theory rests on the illusion that the observer's perceived body and environment are the real thing rather than a model inside the observer's brain, wherein, as a result of neurological anomalies, an observer can transcend the limits of his perceived body without actually transcending the limits of his real physical body. Visit Ian Williams Goddard -- http://Ian.Goddard.net (+) Something can come from nothing, if, and only if, (-) (-) that something is equal to nothing ((-)+(+) = 0). (+) "[I]n any closed universe the negative gravitational energy cancels the energy of matter exactly. The total energy, or equivalently the total mass, is precisely equal to zero." - + - + Dr. Alan Guth (The Inflationary Universe) + - + -
Re: [CTRL] Kris: High Times article: Purchase Info
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/21/99 10:52:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Kris: Where do I buy a copy? Barnes and Noble or Borders? Thanks. Gavin. I have heard it is at Borders. It will be off stands within the week. Thanks. 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] Tarpley
-Caveat Lector- Try this one: http://www.tarpley.net/ The old one should give you the new site. Linda -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 5:06 PM Subject: [CTRL] Tarpley -Caveat Lector- I've been having trouble accessing Tarpley's homepage at: http://www.radix.net/~tarpley/ Does Linda or anyone know if he changed servers, or if his pages are mirrored elsewhere on the web? [Maybe the server's just been down a lot lately, and I've merely had bad luck when accessing it.] Thanks, philately 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] Kudos to Kris: High Times article
-Caveat Lector- Copy of Prevailing Winds e-catalog: http://www.silcom.com/~patrick/pwrprnts.htm -Original Message- From: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 6:25 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Kudos to Kris: High Times article -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/21/99 9:54:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the '70s and '80s, the ONLY mass-media outlets that were able to publish articles about government conspiracies and cover-ups were "PORNO" magazines such as Genesis, Penthouse, and Larry Flynt's Hustler Does anyone know a a place where one can get old articles from these mags, WITHOUT the sexually explicit pictures descriptions? Thanks in advance. You might check with Prevailing Winds. I don't have their web address handy here, but a search should bring it 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 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] Kudos to Kris: High Times article
-Caveat Lector- Kris Millegan wrote: You might check with Prevailing Winds. I don't have their web address handy here, but a search should bring it up. I have the URL bookmarked: The Center for the Preservation of Modern History http://www.prevailingwinds.org/index02.htm Prevailing Winds Magazine is a journal of current events, politics, history, and health. We serve the public by providing hard to access information which effects us on a daily basis. CURRENT ISSUE http://www.prevailingwinds.org/mags/pwrmag5.html CATALOG http://www.prevailingwinds.org/pwrcat.htm -- PS, I live out in the sticks and can't get my hand on High Times either. Please consider posting your article to the list when you get the chance (especially after it goes of the shelves later this week), there are *lots* of us on your list who are interesting in reading it. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] End Of The Line For 'Free Press'
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! End Of The Line For 'Free Press' --3 Networks Combine News Services The news departments of Fox, ABC and CBS are going to merge into one single news "cooperative," with the faceless, Orwellian name of "Network News Service". Well isn't THAT just peachy. I mean REALLY. This is just about the most blatant example yet of the utter corruption and devolution of the major news media organizations into a monolithic, spineless mouthpiece for the "state". How much easier it is to control the "news" (what's that again?) a large percentage of Americans will hear, if the raw information gathered from all three networks funnels into only one "processing" facility, where any inconsistencies with the official sanctioned versions of events can be discreetly expunged and smoothed out, before the polished, "synthesized" information is dispersed back to the member organizations for publication/broadcast. And since all THREE networks involved in this "deal" will be spewing and regurgitating the exact same sanitized, edited, adulterated, denatured and spin-doctored version of reality, why bother watching ANY of them? With regard to these three major news outlets it's bye-bye, and so long... to any semblance of journalistic integrity and to the final vestiges of supposedly fundamentally inviolable "free press." Killed from within, no less, with nary a shot having been fired... at least in this case. In a sheer masterpiece of "big lie" doubletalk, CBS News president Andrew Heyward said the new system "enables each network... to devote more resources to its own coverage ... which will ultimately differentiate one station... from its competitors." Right. What WILL occur is the exact OPPOSITE, obviously. Interestingly, and perhaps fortunately, NBC was not approached with the "offer" as were the other three networks, a fact called "curious" by an NBC spokeswoman. Hey, take it as a compliment, NBC! Maybe NBC isn't yet infiltrated sufficiently with sellouts and pushovers. Although many may argue that the corruption of the press was nearly complete already, in our view this merger of three separate national news departments is an irrefutable indication of just how far the deterioration and disintegration has progressed. NewsHawk® Inc. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap19991220_1325.html WIRE:12/20/1999 19:22:00 ET Networks announce news cooperative NEW YORK (AP) _ Three networks are joining their news services into a single domestic news cooperative, they announced Monday. Network News Service will consist of ABC NewsOne, CBS Newspath and Fox News Edge. NNS will collect video from the affiliates of all three news services, as well as the three network's newsgathering units and other sources, and supply this "raw video" back to ABC NewsOne, CBS Newspath and Fox News Edge. Each network's news service will select from all of that day's NNS material for inclusion in its regular feeds to affiliates. Meanwhile, the three services will continue to operate as separate competing entities. NBC is not part of the arrangement. "We think it's curious that we were not included in these discussions," said NBC spokeswoman Alex Constantinople. "NNS will be particularly important to breaking news coverage," said Roger Ailes, Fox News chairman. "It will dramatically enhance the ability of each network news service to cover breaking stories by offering more than one source of video." CBS News president Andrew Heyward added that the new arrangement "enables each network news service to devote more resources to its own coverage ... which will ultimately differentiate one station or one service from its competitors." snip Copyright 1999 ABC **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]/
[CTRL] [2] Drugs, the U.S., and Khun Sa
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Drugs, the U.S., and Khun Sa Francis W. Belanger©1989 Editions Duang Kamol Siam Square, Bangkok, Thailand ISBN 974-210-4808 146 pps. First Edition Out-of-print --[2]-- KHUN SA, THE HEROIN KING THE EARLY YEARS The major producer of heroin in the Far East today is Khun Sa, an enigmatic character who makes a fortune through his trade in narcotics and other contraband. There are several other 'opium: warlords' in the Golden Trianglethe Laotian leader, Kaysone Phomvihane; a Thai, Lao Su; a Burmese, Kom Jerngbut Khun Sa is the man who during an interview at his fortress in Burma a short time ago arrogantly and publicly announced his plan to step up opium production in the Golden Triangle to 1200 tons a year. Khun Sa, 54, is a likable man, growing old gracefully, and quick to smile. Like many of the people in the Burma-Thailand-Laos area, he is the product of a mixed marriage, of mixed Shan and Haw Chinese blood; he was born in 1933 (or 1934) in Loi Maw in the Mong Yai State and claims maternal descent from a local sawbwa. Though his given name is Chang Chi-fu, he adopted the pseudonym 'Khun Sa', khun meaning "Lord" and' "Sa" being his stepfather's name, his mother having remarried a' Shan prince. He had gained military experience with the KMT, then became leader of his own army of several hundred men which he transformed into a KKY unit. The, young swashbuckler settled around the towns of Tang Yang and Ving Ngun close to the Wa States, an area renown for its bountiful opium production, and was soon sending large caravans of opium into Thailand and Laos. This led to clashes with KMT troops, who until then had controlled 90 percent of exports from Burma, thus sparking an 'Opium War'. The conflict ended in a formal battle at Ban Khwan in Laos, involving Khun Sa's troops, KMT troops, and Laotian troops. Khun Sa was defeated. With his subsequent arrest by Burmese authorities, on charges of corruption and drug trafficking, at Taunggyi in 1969, Khun Sa was thought to have been eliminated from the Golden Triangle. However, his army still controlled the opium-producing districts in the Lashio region, while Khun Sa languished in a Mandalay prison where for months, at least according to his own word, he underwent torture. In 1973, one of his lieutenants, Chang Tze Chuang (sometimes referred to as Chan Shu-chin), abducted two Russian doctors working at the Taunggyi hospital and ultimately exchanged them for his imprisoned leader Telling this story, Khun Sa's usually amiable face loses its smile and turns hard. "I've never forgotten what they did to me," he said, rubbing his groin. "I promised then that I'd make them pay somehow." After five years in jail, Khun Sa reassembled his army of about 2,000 men, which the Shan State army (SSA) had dubbed the Shan United Army (SUA), hoping to improve the political image of Khun Sa's brigands. Khun Sa quickly became deeply involved in the illegal drug trade and, with his subordinate groups, soon controlled 70 percent of the heroin production to come from the Golden Triangle refineries. His influence grew with his power and had soon spread to Thai territory. A sector of the SUA settled in the Shan village of Ban Hin Taek, eight kilometers from the Burmese frontier, which they used as a drug distribution point. Khun Sa claimed to have entered the narcotics trade as the only means of financing his struggle for Shan autonomy. However, cynics believed-and continue to believe- his motives were purely avaricious. OTHER SHAN WARLORDS There are several Shan warlords, the one most closely approaching the stature of Khun Sa being Lo Hsin Han, who was born in Yunnan and emigrated to the Shan States where he became chief of staff of Jimmy Yang's army of 3,000 men. General Yang, a member of a noble Kokang family, withdrew to Thailand after fighting the Burmese government for three years. The Yang family administered Kokang like a private fief and had organized armed groups at the beginning of 1950. One of the first bandit groups was headed by Jimmy's sister, Olive Yang. Jimmy was in charge of the Kokang Force, which joined the Shan State Independence Army (SSIA) in 1964 and then broke away to cooperate with the KMT. The SSIA was formed after Shan leaders called on a guerilla expert, Saw Yan Da, from the Tai (Dai) community in Yunnan, to set up a clandestine army. He adopted the name 'Sao Noi' and recruited high school students from Mandalay and Rangoon, forming the rebel group 'Nom Suk Han' on May 21, 1958. He operated in the mountains to the west of Lashio, but this group rapidly split into a number of factions. In 1959, the SSIA was formed from the nationalist-oriented faction, with 90 students and 140 Shan defectors from the Burmese Army. Lo Hsin Han was captured in 1965, but the Burmese Army subsequently released him to organize a KKY militia unit. After the defeat of Khun Sa, he became one of the Shan States main opium suppliers until
[CTRL] Fwd: Somebody Else's Wealth
Somebody Else's Wealth By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Where does the vast wealth of the United States come from? It is hard to read the financial and popular press today without encountering stories that suggest the answer is the creativity of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. To this prevailing, romanticized perspective, Winona LaDuke offers a jolt of reality: Many of the great U.S. fortunes are based on somebody else's wealth -- the natural resources of Native Americans. In her eloquent new book, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press), LaDuke documents the historic -- and ongoing -- process of Native American dispossession. LaDuke, a member of the Anishinaabeg nation, lives on the White Earth Reservation, in northern Minnesota. She describes how a series of treaties and U.S. laws transferred land from the Anishinaabeg to incoming settlers and converted commonly held Anishinaabeg land into individual parcels, with much of it soon alienated from Anishinaabeg (and a huge chunk taken by the state of Minnesota, illegally, for taxes). The big winners in the process were Frederick Weyerhaueser and the company he created. "Some are made rich and some are made poor," LaDuke writes. "In 1895, White Earth 'neighbor' Frederick Weyerhaueser owned more acres of timber than anyone else in the world." Today, descendant companies of Weyerhaueser continue to clearcut what remains of the Minnesota pine forests. In upstate New York and Canada, the Mohawk nation retains land in scattered reservations -- a tiny fraction of their former possessions. The Akwesasne Mohawk Reserve borders the St. Lawrence River. Families that once relied on fishing and farming have been forced, she writes, to abandon their livelihoods because the river is so polluted with PCBs dumped by General Motors and air pollution depositions have poisoned the land. "Many of the families used to eat 20-25 fish meals a month," LaDuke quotes an Akwesasne environmental expert as saying. "It's now said that the traditional Mohawk diet is spaghetti." All Our Relations features another half dozen case studies of corporate and governmental assaults on Native American land and livelihoods. Dispossession of Native American lands has led to what LaDuke calls "structural poverty." Structural poverty, she told us, "ensues when you do not have control over the land or any of your assets." "It is not a question of material wealth, but having conditions of human dignity within the reservation," she says, citing a litany of devastating statistics on Native American poverty rates, crime rates and access to health care. "You can throw whatever social program you want at this, but until we are allowed to determine our own destiny, these are the problems we are going to face." Dispossession has inflicted on Native Americans an intertwined spiritual poverty as well, she says. "You have some [Native Americans] whose whole way of life are based on buffalo, but we have no buffalo. This loss causes a kind of grieving in our community." But LaDuke's All Our Relations is as much a hopeful as depressing book. She chronicles Native American resistance to incursions from multinational corporations, government agencies which frequently act to further corporate interests and a white-dominated society which too often maintains a settler mentality. She profiles women like Gail Small, "the kind of woman you'd want to watch your back at a meeting with dubious characters." An attorney, Small runs a group called Native Action, which has led the strikingly successful fight against coal company strip mining on the Northern Cheyenne and other Montana reservations. Native Action has also pushed for affirmative development proposals, forcing the First Interstate Bank System to provide loans to Northern Cheyennes through use of the Community Reinvestment Act and helping establish a Northern Cheyenne high school. LaDuke herself is an inspiring figure, working with her White Earth Land Recovery Project not only to pressure states and the federal government to return Native American lands (which because they are government held, would not require the displacement of any individual property holders), but also trying to enact a sustainable forest management plan for White Earth, supporting the development of wind power on the reservation and establishing a project, Native Harvest, to "restore traditional foods and capture a fair market price for traditionally and organically grown foods" such as wild hominy corn, organic raspberries, wild rice, buffalo sausage and maple syrup. All Our Relations is a wonderful read, and an important book -- both for telling a story of plunder and exploitation too often forgotten, and because, as LaDuke notes, "this whole discussion is really not about the Seminoles and the panther" or other particular problems facing particular groups of Native Americans -- "it is really about America."
Re: [CTRL] Kudos to Kris: High Times article
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/21/99 5:22:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS, I live out in the sticks and can't get my hand on High Times either. Please consider posting your article to the list when you get the chance (especially after it goes of the shelves later this week), there are *lots* of us on your list who are interesting in reading it. After it gets off the stands. ;-) 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] Panamanians Seek U.S. Damages for Invasion Victims
-Caveat Lector- "Prudence L. Kuhn" wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/21/1999 1:30:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then-U.S. President George Bush ordered the invasion of 26,000 troops to capture Noriega and bring him to the United States to face drug trafficking and racketeering charges. Washington has estimated that about 300 Panamanians died in the invasion. But Panamanian human rights groups say the civilian death toll topped 3,000. ``We want justice for all the people killed in the vile massacre carried out by the U.S. Army,'' said Sebastian Vergara, head of action group the Families of the Fallen. Invading Iraq to protect his oil contracts and invading Panama to get a guy he not only didn't like but wanted to make sure never saw the light of day again. Maybe the world would have been a better place if he had just had an affair. Oh no, what am I thinking of? Killing people is fine. It's sex that's bad, bad, badPrudy Getting Noriega was a cover. The real reason the US invaded Panama was to destroy the Panamanian military. It was a pre-emptive strike. They knew that they had to give up the US bases in Panama by 1999. So they created a " fact on the ground." That fact is... Panama does not have a military which can protect the canal in a crisis. Today, after giving the zone back to the people Teddy Roosevelt stole it from, we have a secret agreement with the new US puppet government of Panama to use the US military to "protect" the canal in times of crisis. How is that for an example of long range planning by the CFR elites? It's endless. I'm sick and tired of supporting Big Business' Capitalist World Empire. I want my tax money to go towards universal health care and universal education. I want the US military to stay the fuck at home and stop killing people all over the world IN MY NAME to protect the investments of the Rich with the bodies of the poor. 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
[CTRL] From Books on Line
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?HS HS Societies and Clubs Minutes of the Christian Convention, Held at Aurora, Illinois. Oct. 31st and Nov. 1st, 1867 by Christian Convention at Aurora Ill. of 1867 (page images at MOA) Secret Societies: A Discussion of Their Character and Claims by David Macdill, Jonathan Blanchard, and Edward Beecher (page images at MOA) Statistical Abstract of the United States by United States Census Bureau (PDF files at census.gov) The Kloran of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Realm of Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan (frame-dependent page images at MSU) The Practice of Klanishness by Ku Klux Klan (frame-dependent page images at MSU) The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey (page images at MOA) The Lights and Shadows of Freemasonry by Robert Morris (page images at MOA) Tales of Masonic Life by Robert Morris (page images at MOA) Masonic Trials and Michigan Digest by Henry M. Look (page images at MOA) The Masonic Manual: A Pocket Companion for the Initiated (1867 edition) by Robert Macoy (page images at MOA) Constitution and Laws of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan by Ku Klux Klan (frame-dependent page images at MSU) Ritual in the Degree of Kriterion Konservator or the Women of the Ku Klux Klan by Women of the Ku Klux Klan (frame-dependent page images at MSU) A Fundamental Klan Doctrine by Ku Klux Klan (frame-dependent page images at MSU) Principles and Purposes of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan by Ku Klux Klan (frame-dependent page images at MSU) Questions Answered: Official by Ku Klux Klan (frame-dependent page images at MSU) Does the U.S.A. Need the K.K.K.? by Fred Bair (frame-dependent page images at MSU) Ku Klux Klan Secrets Exposed by Ezra Asher Cook (frame-dependent page images at MSU) The End of the Ku Klux Klan by Inu Esrov (frame-dependent page images at MSU) The Menace of Modern Immigration by Hiram Wesley Evans (frame-dependent page images at MSU) The Klan's Fight for Americanism by Hiram Wesley Evans (frame-dependent page images at MSU) The Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Meaning and Scope of Operation by C. Lewis Fowler (frame-dependent page images at MSU) K K K: The Kreed of the Klansmen: A Symposium, ed. by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (frame-dependent page images at MSU) Ku Klux Klan by Julia Emily Johnsen (frame-dependent page images at MSU) The Ku Klux Klan (from the American Publishing Society, 1922) (frame-dependent page images at MSU) Ideals of the Ku Klux Klan by Ku Klux Klan (frame-dependent page images at MSU) The Truth About the Women of the Ku Klux Klan (frame-dependent page images at MSU) America for Americans by Women of the Ku Klux Klan (frame-dependent page images at MSU) Ideals of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan by Women of the Ku Klux Klan (frame-dependent page images at MSU) Women of America! The Past! The Present! The Future! by Women of the Ku Klux Klan (frame-dependent page images at MSU) The Ku Klux Klan Unmasked by W. C. Wright (frame-dependent page images at MSU) Call Numbers Starting With HS.url
Re: [CTRL] [1] Drugs, the U.S., and Khun Sa
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/21/99 5:21:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Old Tony Poe now lives in retirement in the Richmond district of San Francisco. Goat! You forgot to put the word RETIREMENT in quotation marks. :) ** *** "Welcome to the desert of the real." Morpheus, "The Matrix". "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of seas of infinity, and it is not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." H.P.Lovecraft; "The Call of Cthulhu" DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] BITE MY SHINY METAL ASS...eh?
-Caveat Lector- Hey maybe that is why Richard Nixon (whose head was stored in a bell jar) decided to stage a comeback on Futurama (set in the year 3000) and steal Bender's mechanical body...so he could say, "Bite my shiny metal ass!" FWP. Merry Christmas y'all. -Original Message- From: CyberBeast [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 11:52 AM Subject: [Robots] Robots/Virtual Pets why I like em` From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CyberBeast) Recent Events have shown me that Biological lifeforms are NOT trustworthy.Aside from fellow VR pet,Furby and Robotics enthusiasts I can not get along with anyone.Why? Because I REFUSE to conform to what they think I should be.I take a lot of crap for liking Furby where I`m at.But I like what I like and I`d rather die than change who I am.I love robots because unlike Biologicals they won`t pat you on the back one minute while ramming a dagger through your heart the next.Humans have been known to do that to me,which is why I am a Cosmist and a Transhumanist.Robots can only do as programmed.They won`t turn on you unless programmed to. And NO one would be dumb enough to program a `Bot to be a backstabber.I want to see intelligent `bots created and I hope to be one of the ones to help bring the technology about.I love Robots.I love my Furbys who bring nothing but comfort and companionship to me.I desperately want to see that technology improved.I hear the latest thing will be voice recognition,so that you can carry on a conversation with your Robot.I hope they hurry and bring it out.I want everyone on the various robotic,Furby,VR pet lists I`ve joined to know that I count you among my friends.The Artificial life crowd Rules!!! And fellow adult Furby Fans if anyone EVER gives you any crap about liking Furby just tell em` ( and I`m quoting one of my Heroes Bender the Robot from Futurama ) Bite my shiny metal @$$ ( forgive the language ) I`m changing my name one last time.It will be Robot.I won`t be on the lists for a few hours as I have to re sign up once I get my Robot name.If any of you want to contact me Feell free to do so at [EMAIL PROTECTED] a permanent addy --- ONElist Sponsor Cell Biology Reference Set--3 books + 2 CDs-for $7.99! A $127.40 value, yours with membership in Library of Science, the leading science book club since 1958! Order NOW at a href=" http://clickme.onelist.com/ad/dblselect4 "Click Here/a DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Remote Viewing Manuals
-Caveat Lector- Remote Viewing is a technique to view past, present future events accruing in this dimension others. It's being used by secret agencies for a long time for their sick purposes agendas. However with positive use of this technique, as one has said, you can do a lot of thingstalk to Buddha, communicate with Dolphins, watch the Grays in underground facilities, find lost objects or friends, watch your home when you are away, Predict stock market movements basically break the time/space barriers. A good site to see is http://www.remoteview.com . There are two online-manual links for RV Techniques in that site: 1. A HREF="http://www.remoteview.com/farsight/manual.html"The Farsight Institute | The SRV Manual/A 2. A HREF="http://www.firedocs.com/remoteviewing/answers/crvmanual/"Firedoc s Remote Viewing : The CRV Manual: Section Contents/A We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/poleshift 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] Kris: High Times article: Purchase Info
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/21/99 1:52:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Kris: Where do I buy a copy? Barnes and Noble or Borders? Thanks. Gavin. I got a copy at Borders. ** *** "Welcome to the desert of the real." Morpheus, "The Matrix". "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of seas of infinity, and it is not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." H.P.Lovecraft; "The Call of Cthulhu" DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Decade Forecast: Asia
STRATFOR.COM's Global Intelligence Update - December 22, 1999 By The Internet's Most Intelligent Source of International News Analysis http://www.stratfor.com/ _ = = = = = = advertisement = = = = = = = = Destination: usairways.com. View fares and schedules, book tickets, check flight status, find out about special offers and access your Dividend Miles online. Sign up for E-savers and get discounts for last minute travel. Earn bonus miles each time you book online at http://www.enlist.com/cgi-bin/re/www_USAIRWAYS_com6 = = = = = = advertisement = = = = = = = = _ WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR WORLD? * All week, see our forecasts on the future of the world. * Also see the Year of the Crackdown, our in-depth analysis of China. FIND OUT AT http://www.stratfor.com/ __ STRATFOR.COM Global Intelligence Update December 22, 1999 Asia's Future Centers on China and Japan Summary Grappling with the future of Asia means we must tackle two central questions: the extent to which Asia can recover from the economic disaster of 1997 and the political consequences of that collapse. The Asian economic crisis marks the end of an era. The future of Asia depends on the future of China, the region's largest nation, and Japan, Asia's largest economy. Analysis Asia's explosive economic growth lasted for several decades and embraced most of east and southeast Asia. The universality of growth profoundly impacted the region's psychology, particularly at a time when the United States was in decline. It seemed that a lasting change of the guard was underway. Not only was there a sense that Asia was surpassing the United States as the center of international economic life, but there was a deeper belief that the very nature of international power was changing. For the United States, power rests on the three pillars of economics, politics and the military. In recent times, Asia, and particularly Japan, has rested its power almost exclusively on economic growth. Prior to the economic crisis in 1997, Asia appeared to be surpassing the United States economically and seemed to be redefining the meaning of international power by rendering traditional, politico-military considerations obsolete. Asia's rapid economic growth overshadowed the need for military competition. Moreover, the United States provided for the military defense of much of Asia. The U.S. Navy served to protect the region's strategic interests, including shipping lanes, while keeping in check potential regional powers, like China and Russia. With intra-regional disputes muted by the shared economic focus, Asia did not have a great politico-military power. Nevertheless, the theory went, Asia's economic vibrancy rendered American military power moot. Indeed, American expenditures on military power had undermined its own economic competitiveness. After The Asian Economic Crisis The Asian economic crisis shattered the region's self-image. Asia would no longer be the vibrant center of the global economy. A new consensus emerged with the view that Asia had sown the seeds of its own disaster. Far from being miraculous, Asian economic growth was the problem. The economy that had fueled Asian growth had also undermined capital structure. After all, any economy can grow if it is indifferent to profit. It can compete on price and it can afford investments that would appear irrational in an economy that measures success by rates of return on capital. Much said about Asia prior to 1997 was, in retrospect, overblown nonsense. After all, if the Asian savings rate, work ethic and discipline were all dedicated to a fundamentally flawed project then Asian excellence was itself flawed. This realization has been psychologically shattering. Lacking any politico-military power, Asians had to confront the illusion that they were at the dynamic center of the global economy. The burning issue in Asia, particularly in Japan, was a project in self redefinition that highlighted unique excellence. Asia will emerge from the current economic crisis in a markedly changed condition, but it will remain an influential and potentially dangerous region. East Asian and Pacific nations comprised 29.4 percent of the world's GDP in 1997. This unbalanced over-dependence on the economy as a measure of power will give way to a more balanced reality, in which economic power by itself will be supplemented by political and military power. China exemplifies this tendency. In the face of serious economic, China has sought to stabilize itself by resorting to other types of power. It has tried to revive an ideological defense of its government. It has used military and political forces to suppress opposition. And it has projected a more complex profile beyond its borders, moving from a country primarily interested in economic relations to a nation interested in great power status.
[CTRL] Death by medical error, London: Sunday Times 19th Dec. 1999
-Caveat Lector- U.S. estimated figure for doctor-caused death is 155,000 persons. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -Original Message- Sunday Times 19th Dec. 1999 Blunders by doctors kill 40,000 a year: Lois Rogers Medical Correspondent MEDICAL error is the third most frequent cause of death in Britain after cancer and heart disease, killing up to 40,000 people a year - about four times more than die from all other types of accident. Provisional research figures on hospital mistakes show that a further 280,000 people suffer from non-fatal drug-prescribing errors, overdoses and infections. The victims spend an average of six extra days recovering in hospital, at an annual cost of £730m in England alone. A pilot study investigating the issue - the first attempt to measure the problem in Britain - shows that one in 14 patients suffers some kind of adverse event such as diagnostic error, operation mistake or drug reaction. Charles Vincent, head of the clinical risk unit at University College London, who is leading the study, has pioneered efforts to examine the extent of clinical errors in Britain. His team has so far concentrated on two London hospitals. The first data from one hospital showed that 32 out of 480 patients in four different departments were victims of hospital mistakes. Vincent's estimate of 40,000 deaths comes from studies showing that 3-4% of patients in the developed world suffer some kind of harm in hospital. For 70% of them the resulting disability is short-lived, but 14% subsequently die. "It is a substantial problem," Vincent said. "There is a need to find out the true extent of error, what kind of things are going wrong and the cost." He believes the death rate may be even higher than indicated by the preliminary figures. Britain's death rate is comparable to that in America, where recommendations in a report produced by the Kellogg Foundation three weeks ago are likely to result in the creation of a new federal agency to protect patients from medical error. The report drew on studies that examined the records of 30,195 patients and found a 3.7% error rate. Of those injured, 14% died. Researchers concluded that 70% of the errors - and 155,000 deaths - were avoidable. Anne Rogers is the victim of one of these mistakes in Britain. Her husband Brian, a father of 10, bled to death after Christopher Ingoldby operated on him for stomach cancer. He is one of 11 patients whose deaths have been linked to treatment by Ingoldby. Pinderfields and Pontefract NHS Trust is investigating 40 other cases of alleged malpractice involving the surgeon, who has been suspended since January. But Rogers said last week: "There is no point in making an example of Ingoldby if they are going to allow another one like him to come and take his place." Bill Twist, 42, from Essex, lost his wife Sue, 37, through misdiagnosis and delay in treating her malignant skin cancer. "If people are dealt with properly, thousands more could be cured, instead of spending vast sums on litigation and extra treatment for those who are terminally ill," he said. Department of Health officials are now examining a proposal for a £1.2m three-year national study of 20 hospitals and 10,000 medical records to establish exactly how these avoidable deaths occur and how to prevent them. Graham Neale, former professor of clinical medicine at Trinity College Dublin, who is a leading expert on medical risk management, said: "In Britain outside the weekday hours of nine to five, medical emergencies, which are often the most difficult things to treat, are left to the most junior doctors. "It is disgraceful that nothing has been done. There are far too many errors happening that are nothing to do with NHS understaffing. They are happening simply because we have not examined how to avoid them." In a confidential inquiry's report into perioperative deaths published last month, doctors admitted that 20,747 British patients had died unexpectedly during operations or shortly after surgery. A study of junior doctors at 20 hospitals in the north of England revealed that 46% admitted they had given a wrong drug or the wrong dose at least once in the period under investigation. Copyright 1999 Times Newspapers Ltd. The Finchley Clinic (London) offers:- P.I.P. scans - Energy Field Imaging Electro-crystal Therapy Oxygen/Ozone Therapy Bowen technique Rife Therapy Nutrition Massage Tel : +44(0)181 349 4730 Visit our Web Site 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
[CTRL] Speakers Sought: Conference on Detecting Dealing with Fraud in Clinical Trials
-Caveat Lector- If you would be interested in speaking at a conference on detecting and dealing with fraud in clinical trials, please contact the conference sponsor directly using the information below. The program will be held in April in Philadelphia; program sponsor is Barnett International. Talks are 30 minutes in length with 10 minutes for QA. Audience is at an advanced level; speakers do not pay a registration fee; assistance for expenses is available. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave Subj:Re: Speakers Sought: Conference on Detecting Dealing with Fraud in clinical trials Date: 12/21/99 10:24:59 PM Eastern Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Betty Martini) Reply-to: A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED] om/A (Activist Mailing List) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lyn Hunter) Activist Mailing List - http://get.to/activist Dear Lyn, I'll put this on the list and see if any of the physicians want to speak. Thank you for thinking of me. All my best, Betty I'll also put this on other lists for others interested. At 10:12 PM 12/21/99 +, you wrote: Hi Betty, I a subscribe to the following list, and wondered in you or anyone else would like to speak at the conference. Lyn. From: Vera Hassner Sharav CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE CARE RESEARCH 142 West End Ave, Suite 28P New York, NY 10023 Tel. 212-595-8974 FAX: 212-595-9086 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Trauger, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: December 21, 1999 11:57 AM Subject: Speakers Sought: Conference on Detecting Dealing with Fraud in clinical trials Hello: If you would be interested in speaking at a conference on detecting and dealing with fraud in clinical trials, please contact me directly using the information below, or reply to this email. The program will be held in April in Philadelphia; program sponsor is Barnett International. Talks are 30 minutes in length with 10 minutes for QA. Audience is at an advanced level; speakers do not pay a registration fee; assistance for expenses is available. I look forward to hearing from you. Happy Holidays! If you are not familiar with Barnett, please visit our website and view our list of conferences. Thank you. Tracy Trauger, Sr. Conference Producer Barnett International Conference Group Rose Tree Corporate Center, Building 2 1400 N. Providence Road, Suite 2000 Media, PA 19063 610-565-2622 x2424 fax: 610-565-4842 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.barnettinternational.com/ DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Zipped File-Report To Pres. And Congress Re:Terrorism and ...
-Caveat Lector- OK, Bill, a link would work too __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Kudos to Kris: High Times article
-Caveat Lector- Thanks Kris and Linda. Tenorlove __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Paranormal Experiences
-Caveat Lector- hi, please take this mr pseudo rational guy out of my rational life. If he wants to talk about science and logic it doesn't come down plainer to the following basic equation/formula - after that its bye bye mr skeptic ie. his premis: ALL experiences are a Biochemical experience and that this is 'Rational cf. Logically Real' He has staked his scientific reputation and credibility - his logic and reason on a form of logical fundamentalism called 'Logical Realism' However all we need to completely dismiss this tosh - [ie. falsify it] is ONE - AND ONLY ONE contradiction. If we find only ONE contradiction - mr skeptic loses his high horse of rationalism immediately as he can now only say Logically: SOME experiences [not ALL] are a biochemical experience, and mr rational skeptic melts back into the woodwork as he can now be labelled classically 'irrational' - and if he continues - is merely arguing fo his own person psychological beliefs - which have nothing to do with the mechanism of scientific reason. There are Mountains of anecdotal and verifiable evidence of information gathered from remote viewing/OBE's that have supplied information from geographical localities - outwith the immediate remit of the biological senses. So we can safely say that this guy hasn't got a full grip on reality. Andrew Hennessey CONCLUSION: In comprehending the nature of out-of-body expereinces there's one thing we can know for sure: the fact that all observed data have already entered the skull of the observer leaves no room for doubt that the world you perceive including your perceived body is a simulation inside your brain of the real world outside your brain. The real world is thus never directly perceived. One explanation for out-of-body experiences is that the observer, or consciousness, moves outside the physical body via a spirit body. However, the physical evidence indicates that the spirit-body theory rests on the illusion that the observer's perceived body and environment are the real thing rather than a model inside the observer's brain, wherein, as a result of neurological anomalies, an observer can transcend the limits of his perceived body without actually transcending the limits of his real physical body. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Nazi Connections to the Occult
-Caveat Lector- http://user.fastinet.net/kalogonis/index/other.htm Other Nazi Connections to the Occult Hitler Pouring Lead to Predict the Future This photograph captured der Fuehrer engaged in the ancient Teutonic practice of "pouring lead" on New Year's Eve, 1938-39 at the Berghoff. This method of divination required that small lead pellets be brought to a molten state over an open flame, and then poured onto another surface, in this case a sink, where upon the future could supposedly be foretold based upon the shapes taken by the pellets upon cooling. John Tolland tells us that Ilse Braun, Eva's sister, commented that Hitler became so despondent upon reading the results that he sat down in a chair and hardly spoke for the rest of the evening. Hitler is also known to have possessed quite an interest in astrology as well. In fact, the September 10, 1940 issue of Look magazine featured an article entitled "The Hitler Nobody Knows" in which it contained the following quote beneath the picture of Hitler seated at his desk, studying his horoscope: "Hitler's Mysticism and his alleged addiction to astrology have been described often and have become a widely accepted part of the Hitler Legend. My collaborator has gone through Hitler's private observatory in his mountain retreat in Bavaria and found it filled with charts of the heavens, telescopes, and instruments of all sorts. But it is a typically scientific layout and there is nothing mystic about it. Hitler pursues astrology as a hobby in the same way other men collect stamps, coins, or butterflies. Actor that he is, Hitler listens with apparent faith to the horoscopes prepared by his various astrologers. Actually he is just playing them along. Not a shred of evidence has been discovered to support the contention that Hitler has ever been influenced in any of his history making decisions by the reading of the heavens and the stars, unless the readings referred to weather reports that might have an influence on coming military operations." But if Hitler never really paid any attention to horoscopes, then how does one explain the fact that the man whom Hitler had chosen to be his second in command, Hermann Goering, just happened to be born on the same day as Alfred Rosenberg, the chief Nazi ideologist whom Hitler had also chosen to serve as editor of the party's newspaper? Better yet, considering the odds against it, how does one explain the fact that not only were they born on the same day, but that they also died on almost the same day, within 3 days of each other due to the fact that Rosenberg committed suicide 3 days prior to his scheduled execution with Goering? (Note the screen captures from Grollier's Encyclopedia below which attest to the facts of their birth and death dates). Was this all mere coincidence? If so, then was it also merely coincidence that Hitler, the greatest killer of Jews in history, just happened to be born during Passover? Or that as a man who has often been pointed to as being a type of the antichrist, he just happened to have been born on Holy Saturday, sandwiched in between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, as the following screen capture also proves? In addition, it is a well known fact that Hitler believed himself to be destined for greatness, another indication perhaps that he believed that the future was mapped out already. He is quoted in The Book of Predictions as having told to his friends, "You will hear much about me. Just wait until my time comes," after he survived an explosion in a trench where he had been sitting until he said he heard a voice tell him to move away from the spot where he was currently seated. (This was in 1915 while serving as a soldier in World War I). He followed the instructions of the voice, moving perhaps 60 feet away, and immediately thereafter his original spot was hit by a blast which killed all of his comrades who remained there. This incident helped to confirm his belief that he had been saved for a special purpose in life, just as the failed future attempts to assassinate him did as well. And thus as Napoleon before him (who some people have also equated with antichrist, and who also paid heed to astrology), Hitler believed himself to be a man of destiny. As a matter of fact, when he went to Paris in June of 1940 upon the capitulation of France, he visited the tomb of Napoleon, "gazing at it for nearly an hour" according to William L. Shirer. What is even more strange about this action is that Hitler only stayed in Paris for about 5-6 hours. Yet he spent nearly an hour of that time just gazing at the tomb! (In the photo of this event shown below, Hitler is dressed in the light colored clothing). In conjunction with this mysticism stands the fact that Hitler also played the role of High Priest of National
Re: [CTRL] New Worm virus - from CTRL List
-Caveat Lector- At 07:22 PM 12-21-1999 EST, Kris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Watch your Off-List e-mail messages for the following .EXE attachments, comprising the "W32.NewApt.Worm" worm virus. I received two of them recently, from the same virus brain: Bill, I am confused, I do not see the attachment in the CTRL archives and you yourself sent the email on the topic from Orbit. Did someone send you something in response, personally? Yes, Kris - someone sent a reply to the message I forwarded from Orbit. It won't be in the archives, because they sent it 'Off-List', directly to me. But look at "who" it is addressed "from" (obviously spoofed) -- it says only that it was sent "from" - "Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED]", instead of the actual sender. Also, I received a similar "reply" to a different message, with the same type of worm attached -- a few days earlier, appearing to be a reply to an earlier message. That one was addressed as follows: Received: from mail.gte.net ([207.136.200.107]) by mtapop1.gte.net Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dwight Lorenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Somewhat amusing to me, but it could potentially do a less- informed recipient some damage, judging from the code Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus web page doesn't give a full description of all the worm's apparent capabilities -- it's still rather new, and they've already found four variations: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html 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] The Rosicrucian Connection and Stewart dynasty
-Caveat Lector- * In March '95, the radio station Arutz Sheva announced that it had seen a cable sent by the Israeli Embassy in Rome to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem outlining the handover of the Old City of Jerusalem to the Vatican. Two days later Haaretz published the cable on its front page. http://watch.pair.com/priory.html The Rosicrucian Connection During the Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic Church was a political power which was allied with the monarchies of Europe. In 1099 A.D., Pope Urben II called Western Christendom to take up arms to liberate the Holy Land from the Moslems. Later, in 1215, the Inquisition formally began during the reign of Pope Innocent III, who issued the following statement: "That they shall be seized for trial and penalties, who engage in the translation of the sacred volumes, or who hold secret conventicles, or who assume the office of preaching without the authority of their superiors; against whom process shall be commenced, without any permission of appeal." Thomas M'Crie records, "In the eleventh century, capital punishment, even in its most dreadful form, that of burning alive, was extended to all who obstinately adhered to opinions differing from the received faith." Henry Charles Lea wrote: "The papal Inquisition . . . constituted a chain of tribunals throughout Continental Europe perpetually manned by those who had no other work to attend to by constant interchange of documents and mutual co-operation they covered Christendom with a network rendering escape almost hopeless." (1) Today, the Vatican maintains its own State Department and an influential albeit non-voting presence in the United Nations. Reports such as the following confirm current Vatican negotiations to regain control of the Holy Land. Although it must now work through diplomatic channels, the second Vatican conquest of the Holy Land will be heralded as another spiritual mandate to reestablish the Holy Roman Empire. The Vatican's Jerusalem Agenda by Israeli journalist, Barry Chamish, inquire s: 'Did Shimon Peres make a deal with the Vatican? Consider the evidence: * On Sept. 10, '93, just three days before the signing of the Declaration of Principles in Washington, the Italian news magazine La Stampa reported that part of the peace deal was an unwritten understanding that the Vatican would receive political authority over the Old City of Jerusalem by the end of the millenium. The newspaper reported that Shimon Peres had promised the pope to hand over the holy sites of Jerusalem the previous May and that Arafat had accepted the agreement. * In March '94, the Israeli newsmagazine Shishi published an interview with Mark Halter, a French intellectual and close friend of Shimon Peres. He said he delivered a letter from Peres to the Pope the previous May, within which Peres offered the Vatican hegemony over the Old City of Jerusalem. The article detailed Peres's offer which essentially turned Jerusalem into an international city overseen by the Holy See. * In March '95, the radio station Arutz Sheva announced that it had seen a cable sent by the Israeli Embassy in Rome to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem outlining the handover of the Old City of Jerusalem to the Vatican. Two days later Haaretz published the cable on its front page. The Foreign Ministry explained that the cable was genuine but someone had whited out the word "not." ie We will not transfer authority to the Vatican. Incredibly, numerous Bnei Brak rabbis who had cancelled Passover meetings with Peres over the issue of the cable accepted the explanation and reinvited him to their homes. The Foreign Ministry's Legal Affairs Spokesperson, Esther Samilag, publicly complained about "various capitulations" to the Vatican. She was immediately transferred to a post at the Israeli Embassy in Katmandu, Nepal. MK Avraham Shapira announced in the Knesset that he had information that all Vatican property in Jerusalem was to become tax exempt and that large tracts of real estate on Mount Zion were given to the pope in perpetuity. Jerusalem's late Deputy Mayor Shmuel Meir announced that he had received "information that properties promised to the Vatican would be granted extra-territorial status." Beilin was forced to answer the accusations. He admitted, "Included in the Vatican Agreement is the issue of papal properties in Israel that will be resolved by a committee of experts that has already been formed." If so, this committee has not since released any proof of its existence. With all this in mind, how do we interpret the Vatican's current position on Jerusalem? The following report, circulated by MSANews may shed some light on that: Vatican City, Jun 14, 1997 (VIS) - Archbishop Renato Martino, apostolic nuncio and Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations, spoke June 9 on the status of Jerusalem at the New York headquarters of the Path to Peace Foundation. The archbishop addressed members of this foundation as well as
