[CTRL] Ethiopian Cycle of Famine Continues
Tuesday April 11 2:12 AM ET Ethiopian Cycle of Famine Continues AP Photo By ANDREW ENGLAND, Associated Press Writer GODE, Ethiopia (AP) - Sakorey Faday and Adan Mohammed are young women from two different African countries, but they share experiences as similar as they are tragic. Adan spent 10 days walking 60 miles with her three children to a feeding center in Gode, 360 miles southeast of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The trek proved too much for her 4-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son. Both died along the way. Faday walked to Baidoa in neighboring Somalia in search of help after drought ended her farm work. Faday's husband died a year ago; the twin to the tiny, malnourished baby wrapped in her arms died at birth. Now, she says, she has nothing. These women's odysseys took place in February and March, as severe food shortages brought on by drought began to threaten millions of lives. Similar tales have been told over and over again in Ethiopia and Somalia. ``I have not seen rain for 18 months,'' said Adan, whose family's herd of 200 cattle and sheep died months ago. ``I just have to wait for something from God.'' Speak your mind Discuss this story with other people. [Start a Conversation] (Requires Yahoo! Messenger) The 33-year-old Adan, looking sad yet dignified in her dusty traditional veils, her remaining child tucked under her arm, now lives in a tiny hut of dried grass and bits of cloth. Faday has no place of her own and is forced to rely on charity. But nature is not solely responsible for the desperate situations of people like Adan and Faday. Politics, war and centuries of nomadic culture all have played roles. The entire region has a history of conflict and perennial food shortages. Of the countries bordering Ethiopia - Kenya, Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia - only Kenya can claim any meaningful stability. In recent years Ethiopia has perhaps suffered the most from drought, worsened by on-and-off warfare since the mid-1970s. In 1984, televised images of skeletal, starving Ethiopians pulled on the world's conscience, and as many as 1 million died. But famine also came in 1972, 1974 and 1989. Officials in Gode, which is home to ethnic Somalis and one of the worst-affected areas, say the drought comes in 10-year-cycles. Now, 11 years after the last severe food shortage, the message is being repeated. This time, aid groups say 7.7 million are at risk. ``These people are really on the edge,'' said Ben Foot, country director for the British branch of the international charity Save the Children. The situation is exacerbated, local officials say, by the nomadic lifestyle of the people who live in the region. The nomads rely on livestock for food and income. When the rains fail, cattle, goats, camels and sheep die - leaving the people with nothing. They then migrate to feeding centers, stretching local resources and increasing the risk of disease. Some 70 percent of the 3.5 million people in Ethiopia's Somali region, are nomads, government figures say. Ibrahim Abdi, chairman of the regional emergency task force, said the key is to persuade nomads to settle and diversify into farming. ``The problem is people do not adapt so quickly because agriculture is very laborious work,'' he said. ``If they get a harvest for two or three years, they will then go and buy cattle and go back to where they started.'' Teshome Emanek, head of the government's disaster preparedness and prevention committee, said regional authorities in Ethiopia - where regions have some autonomy - lack the means to end the cycle of famine. In Gode, the Wabe Shebelle River still flows strongly, but it has not been used efficiently for irrigation. ``Nothing is being done at this time to bring them (the nomads) off the land,'' Teshome said. He estimates it would take at least 10 years to change local habits. The Somali people on both sides of the border have been nomads for centuries, and their allegiance is to the land and their clans, not to any state. Most would resist changes. Aid officials say political attitudes and trade regulations need to change throughout the region so that the nomads can take their herds to the closest market without being blocked by national borders. In the meantime, the government is asking donors for more than 800,000 tons of food to keep famine at bay. But for Adan and Faday, the misery seems guaranteed to continue indefinitely. ``I am a beggar,'' Faday said. ``I have nothing for the future.'' - On the Net: http://www.savethechildren.org E-mail this story | Printer-friendly format -- -- Advanced Search: Stories Photos Full Coverage Apr 11 | Apr 10 | Apr 09 | Apr 08 | Apr 07 | Apr 06 | Apr 05 | Apr 04 | Apr 03 | Apr 02 Home | Top Stories | Business | Tech | Politics | World | Local | Entertainment | Sports | Science | Health
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On 12 Apr 00, at 1:53, Virgil wrote: references ? Colon cancer ethnology is at best -multifactorial ,with a strong hereditary element (inherited potential) -at worse :nobody knows for sure at this point in time .:) Hello Virgil, Here are some references regarding chlorinated water and cancer, beginning with this article from Environmental News Service: http://www.enn.com/enn-news-archive/1998/01/010898/dbp.asp Chlorination by-products may increase cancer risk Thursday, January 8, 1998 A series of studies published in the January issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology shows that there is a link between drinking water that has been treated with chlorine and an increased risk of bladder, colon and rectal cancers. However, the increased risk is primarily prevalent among people whose lifestyles put them at risk regardless of their drinking water source. According to Epidemiology, chlorination byproducts are found in drinking water disinfected with chlorine. This sterilization process has been around since the turn of the 20th century, but it was not until the 1970s that it was discovered that chlorine reacts with naturally occurring organic matter to form trihalogenated methanes, which have been linked with cancer. In the case of bladder cancer, the increased risk was found among people who are classified as smokers, while there was no elevated risk among non-smokers, according to Epidemiology. The study on the relationship between chlorinated by products in surface water and colon and rectal cancers found that there was an increased risk in people who live an unhealthy lifestyle and have low-fiber diets. Both physical activity and high-fiber diets result in quick stool transit time, thus giving the carcinogens less time to come into contact with both the rectum and colon. Given the results of this study, the American Water Works Association, a water safety group, has issued a statement that says although tap water often contains chlorination disinfection by-products resulting from chlorine's reaction with organic matter during the water treatment process, the World Health Organization notes that the risks to health from DBPs are extremely small in comparison to the risks associated with inadequate disinfection and water treatment. The AWWA is working with the EPA to research the issue of carcinogens in drinking water and microbial removal processes. Water utilities have committed to a $180 million investment to learn about and solve this problem. The use of chlorine to disinfect drinking water is vital in the fight against microbial diseases such as typhoid and cholera. Potentially harmful levels of DBPs are extremely rare in drinking water. However, those who lead a unhealthy lifestyle that includes a lack of exercise, a low-fiber diet, or smoking ought to take precautions when drinking surface drinking water that has been treated. For more information, contact Elizabeth Muslim, AWWA, (303)347-6140. Copyright 1998, Environmental News Network, All Rights Reserved Related stories: Study released on tap water contamination Related sites: American Water Works Association American Journal of Epidemiology (Here are a few more references, 500. I am sorry but I did not have time to sort through them all but you might find some interesting pro and con on chlorine. I think one of the biggest problems is that chlorine combines with organic compounds including gasses dissolved in water like methane and many other compounds, and the resulting compounds are in some cases carcinogenic. Many organic compounds containing chlorine are carcinogenic. --SW) CHLORINE - A Special Problem for Drinking Water as health concerns of cancer causing carcinogenic contaminants may http://www.doulton.ca/chlorine.html Chlorine - Infant Feeding Formula Water - CHLORINE Information http://www.ns-products.com/chlorine.htm ENN News - Chlorination by-products may increase cancer risk http://www.enn.com/enn-news-archive/1998/01/010898/dbp.asp Chlorine http://www.envirodoc.com/Pollute/chlorine.htm Federal panel ties tap water to cancer, Tuesday 24 November 1998. National News, The Ottawa Citizen Online. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/981124/2045508.html The Bracebridge Examiner: The Paper with the News http://www.bracebridgeexaminer.com/ CHLORINE CHEMISTRY COUNCIL® -- Chlorine Disinfects: Chlorine: Cornerstone of Modern Medicine® http://c3.org/newsroom/brochures/medicine.html Why Drink Water? http://www.viewzone.com/water.html Greenwash Awards | Chlorine Chemistry Council http://www.igc.apc.org/trac/greenwash/ccc.html The wonder of water - A drink to your health http://www.mayo.ivi.com/mayo/9909/htm/water.htm USANA:USANA What are free radicals http://www.thebetter.com/synergy/v014.htm Whole raw foods are the basis of good health http://www.haworth.addr.com/rawfoodsxa.htm Enzymes and Micronutrients: Building Blocks to Good Health
[CTRL] UFO Abductions In Germany, Austria and Switzerland 1/2
UFO Abductions In Germany, Austria and Switzerland 1/2 http://www.alienjigsaw.com/Part_II/ufo-abdu.html A Lecture by Johannes Fiebag, Ph.D. © 1997 Edited by K. Wilson The late, Dr. Johannes Fiebag was born in 1956, and is Germany's leading abduction research specialist. He has published many books about alien contact in ancient and modern times, and four books specifically about the abduction phenomenon in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Dr. Fiebag founded the CE-IV-Report, a newsletter for abductees, and he also organizes an annual meeting called Project Exchange that allows abductees to network with one another. In addition to CE-IV-Report and Project Exchange, Dr. Fiebag has also formed an interdisciplinary organization of Psychiatrists, psychologists and other medical professionals who work to help abductees. UFO abductions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland - Introduction Exactly fifty years ago, the modern UFO age began. At that time, on the 24th of June in 1947, an American pilot named Kenneth Arnold observed several crescent-shaped objects. Arnold described the objects as looking like a saucer might look if it were skipping across the water. The media adapted the term "flying saucer," hence, from this sighting a new term was born. [1] In the middle of the sixties, a new aspect of the UFO phenomenon became known, which until that time, nobody had any knowledge about. However, it was not until the seventies that UFO researchers became interested in it. This aspect - one that could be considered a sub-phenomenon - is the abduction of a human being into a UFO by alien beings. Today the abductions themselves appear to be at the heart of the UFO phenomenon. Without a deeper understanding of abductions, it is difficult to explain the presence of the UFOs. Abductions What occurs during an abduction that causes the individual to feel both alarmed and euphoric? What kinds of changes occur to individuals who experience an abduction? What happens to their environment and with the people who are with them? To be honest, we do not really know the answers to all of these questions. We have only the reports from those people who have encountered this phenomenon first-hand. We have statistical results, identical statements from people who do not know one another, and experiences that seem to repeat themselves. However, we still do not know why the abductions are occurring in the first place. Abductees almost always report the same thing: strange figures appearing in their room; they are taken - kidnapped - from their environment to suddenly find themselves inside a strange room. Once there, they are subjected to bizarre physical and psychological procedures. For example: the artificial insemination of women, followed by the removal of the grown embryo months later. After such procedures the abductee is then returned to their home or to their car in each case. However, with all this in mind, we must be aware that until now, only a sub-set of experiences representing the phenomenon has been made public, and even this sub-set may be an illusion: it may not correspond to what really happened to the abductee, but rather, what they "believe" occurred to them. The Hill Case Abductions by alien beings has been known since the early sixties. The famous Hill case is now considered a classic case. Betty and Barney Hill encountered a landed UFO on a secluded highway in 1961 in Canada. If we want to believe their report, they claim to have been forced - under mental control - into the landed object. In separate rooms, they were subjected to physiological tests. Betty was also was shown a star map and was asked by one of the UFO occupants if she recognized where she was on the map. Betty said she did not know. Later, Betty and Barney were returned to their car. It is believed that the aliens made them forget most their experience by the use of a post hypnotic suggestion or command. Only when the Hills arrived home, did they notice they were three hours late. Barney began to have nightmares and after some time, he developed a gastric ulcer. Betty and Barney went to a doctor, but he referred them to a psychiatrist named Dr. Benjamin Simon. Dr. Simon used regressive hypnosis on Betty and Barney Hill (during separate visits) and took them back to the events that transpired that night they saw the UFO. Current Reports Today we know that most abductions occur where one expects them the least. They begin where we feel secure: at home. The aliens penetrate the bedrooms of the abductees, in most cases appearing as small gray beings with huge heads and big black eyes. It is mostly the memory of the aliens' entering into the abductee's home that remains preserved in the conscious memory of the abductee. The beings bring the abductee, using an unknown technology, into strange rooms. They subject them to medical tests, physical
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UFO Abductions In Germany, Austria and Switzerland 2/2 http://www.alienjigsaw.com/Part_II/ufo-abdu.html It is even possible that the tales about Incubi and Succubi, so well known in the Middle Ages, may have originated by these earlier forced sexual contacts with alien beings. Originally, they were interpreted as demonic beings. Masked as pretty young women or men, they generated lustful dreams and then engaged in sexual intercourse with their sleeping victims: Succubi with women, Incubi with men. Even the German religious reformer Martin Luther believed that demons provided human sperm, and became procreative in hopes of obtaining human or human-like offspring. It sounds strange, but the behavior of the Succubi and Incubi, as well as the imaginations, dreams, and memories of their victims, resemble reports of the modern abduction and bedroom visitor phenomenon. The stories parallel one another in such a striking manner that it appears appropriate to state that they may be one in the same. Our current theories, based on the reports from abductees worldwide, shows us that the same phenomenon is occurring today. Sperm is supposedly tapped from men, and numerous female abductees believe they have been artificially inseminated by strange looking alien beings. Two or three months later, the fetus is then removed. It is indeed, a traumatic experience. The scenario that is emerging in so many of our present-day abduction accounts is this: years after these "terminated pregnancies" by alien beings, many of these same women are shown their children again: and they are described as looking like strange hybrid beings who are part human and part alien. This belief of the fertilization of women by heavenly or divine, as well as demonic beings, has pervaded throughout the course of human history. The legend of the virgin birth of Jesus of Nazareth and his conception by the holy spirit can be viewed as the incorporation of much older ideas that have been scattered throughout the ancient World. Many famous men of antiquity were believed to have had "heavenly fathers." For example, God himself went to Sarah, Abraham's wife, in order to beget a son with her. And, according to the legends, Buddha, Krischna, Alexander the Great, and Mohammed were also children of a similar "heavenly" union. In the mythological imaginations of the common people, strange beings like the Puk originated from such contacts. The description of a small naked gnome with big eyes, a giant head and a comparatively slight body, is certainly similar to the descriptions of the small Greys of our present-day UFO abduction accounts. Again, if we believe the abductees, the beings may be the result of an artificially induced combination between aliens and humans. During the Middle Ages women were confronted with Succubi and men were confronted with Incubi - demons. The same thing is occurring today in the modern UFO phenomenon. A Male Victim Ulrich is a 21 year-old man from Switzerland. Since he was a child he has had numerous experiences, many of them very frightening to him. He has since gained better insight into his experiences through regressive hypnosis. "The event that I can reconstruct best up to now probably occurred the night of the 10th to the 11th of May 1994. I was in my bed sleeping when suddenly I was awakened by a strong, pulsating blue light. I creeped under my blanket and I thought, 'No, not again. This cannot be real!' Then I had the feeling that I was floating, and my conscious memory abruptly ended! The next thing I remembered was laying on a table approximately 50 Centimeters high. I was in a dark room. The wall, ground and ceiling were very smooth. Below my feet and on the right side was something like a marble column. Suddenly, a slim, small white being got on top of me. She had big dark eyes and no hair on her head. Even thought I felt sick, somehow she made me feel sexually excited - I don't understand that. The whole episode was repeated by another one, but I cannot remember her appearance. And as if that wasn't bad enough, a third female came over to me. All I can remember about this last female is that she had more human features. After this, tears streamed across my face." What Is It? What are we confronted with here? Is it a genetic breeding program for the evolution of a new race? If so, why would it be occurring for a millennia now? I do not believe this "genetic breeding program" theory holds up due to the enormous amount of time these visitations have been occurring. If this were the case the beings would only require a few cells from our bodies. Even hair samples would satisfy their need if this was indeed all these beings are doing. Isn't this precisely what we expect from extraterrestrial beings: they come from other planets; they are somehow different (but perhaps a little bit like ourselves); they fly in shining spaceships; and they land on our Earth to examine us? Centuries ago we believed in
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"In 1964...Reports involving mysterious government men who attempted to silence the witnesses were reported as well. These mysterious men have been called MIBs or Men In Black. There is speculation that these MIBs are humans from secretive agencies of the government or military. There are also some ufologists and abduction researchers who believe the MIBs may be aliens disguised as humans." -- From K. Wilsons Project Open Mind http://www.alienjigsaw.com/Part_IV/pomintro.html The New "Men In Black" This area of The Alien Jigsaw Web site covers information that is highly controversial. MILABS or alleged military abductions, mind and behavior control, and information about cloning are discussed here. Because these are disturbing and controversial topics - especially as they relate to the alien abduction phenomenon - it is highly recommended that you read the articles in this section in the order they are presented. "...there appears to be a disinformation campaign underway. This has been orchestrated to mislead abductees - and therefore the research community and the public - as to what the truth is. In order to take the focus away from the true agenda, the aliens may want us to remember seeing 'humans', and the humans may want us to remember seeing 'aliens.' " -- Project Open Mind Why Do Some Abductees Report Seeing Military Personnel During Alien Abductions? By K. Wilson © Copyright 1998 Most people realize that as a single entity, the Government is not aware of the extensive nature of the UFO-ET phenomenon. Although it is safe to assume their knowledge has been highly compartmentalized, there are specific people within the Government (specific agencies and military personnel connected with those agencies) who have a "need to know." It is these individuals I am referring to when I talk about alleged Government involvement in abductions. The types of abductions they allegedly carry out have been termed "MILABs."[1] There are different hypotheses as to why some abductees are seeing military personnel during their supposed alien experiences. I. Who Are We Seeing? The military personnel... a. ...may actually be aliens using the techniques of camouflage and screen memories to deceive abductees into believing their government is involved b. ...may be part of a secret agency or military team that is involved in retrieving information from abductees about the aliens c. ...may be working with some of the aliens d. ...may be hybrids - a genetic combination or cross between humans and aliens, who wear military-type uniforms to confuse the abductee.[2] e. ...may be part of a secret human agency or military team abducting humans in order to create or increase the impression that aliens abduct humans; or to sow confusion regarding the possible presence and activities of aliens on earth; or for some other reason beyond our current understanding. II. Motive Regardless of whether our abductors are human or extraterrestrial, possible motives for interacting with or abducting us include: a. A longitudinal study: studying abductees' psychological and physiological responses over long periods of time b. Studying different types of human responses and how they relate to cultural and socioeconomic differences c. The Creation of a New Race (a controversial hypothesis) d. The Creation of a "new and better" Soldier e. Performing physical experiments for the secret testing of: (i) new drugs and vaccinations (ii) cloning techniques (through tissue and fluid collection) (iii) behavior modification / "mind control" techniques (iv) alterations and/or mapping of the human genome (v) unknown (perhaps alien) substances (vi) inducing paranormal experiences III. Maintaining Secrecy Whether we are dealing with extraterrestrials or a nefarious group of powerful human beings, there appears to be a disinformation campaign underway. This has been orchestrated to mislead abductees - and therefore the research community and the public - as to what the truth is. In order to take the focus away from the true agenda, the aliens may want us to remember seeing "humans," and the humans may want us to remember seeing "aliens." IV. Helping Mankind It is doubtful (but not impossible) that the human group would have intentions of helping their fellow human beings in the future. Unless the human group has developed the technology to look into mankind's future, my hypothesis is that any "helping purposes" relating to this phenomenon would include a small group of humans who have split from the "nefarious human group," extraterrestrials, spiritual beings or all three. It is also sensible to assume that spiritual beings come in both positive and negative forms and may also be influencing the overall UFO-ET phenomenon.[3] There may be efforts to show abductees what mankind's future holds, perhaps even to demonstrate what some of the aliens are planning to do. Many of the visions and teaching dreams abductees experience
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"The False Memory Syndrome Foundation board is almost exclusively composed of former CIA and military doctors currently employed by major universities. None have backgrounds in ritual abuse - their common interest is behavior modification." -- Psychic Dictatorship in the United States http://www.alienjigsaw.com/Part_IV/pom2.html Project Open Mind The Technology Go To: Introduction | Part One | Part Three | Part Four | Part Two The goal of this portion of Project Open Mind is to introduce the reader to the technologies that might be involved in answering the question: Are some alien abductions government mind control experiments? Even if we decide all alien abductions are carried out by alien Beings, this information will still be helpful to our understanding of how humans might be controlled. If we decide some abductions are carried out by a nefarious force within our government, or that the alien abduction phenomenon is a "cover" for a covert project being carried out by other humans, understanding this information may help us terminate some or all of these activities. I have divided the following information into seven sections. Please understand that I am only giving a brief history or description of each of these subjects since there has been enough information published about all them - with the exception of Section II - in order to write six separate books. The information I will cover includes: I) A Brief History of Electronic Stimulation of the Brain, II) Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral Control and Electronic Dissolution of Memory, III) Applications of Electroencephalography, IV) Hypnosis, V) Microwave Radiation, VI) A Dubious Defense, and VII) Virtual Surgery - Virtual Reality. Section I A Brief History of Electronic Stimulation of the Brain or ESB In 1928, scientists discovered what they called a "violence center" in the hypothalamus of the brain. They found that when the posterior region of the hypothalamus in an animal's brain was destroyed, the animal remained in a permanent state of rage. Soon, scientists discovered that instead of destroying this area of the hypothalamus, all they needed to do was stimulate it to produce the same effects of rage and violent behavior. Then came the invention of thin needle-like electrodes that could be inserted into any part of the brain without causing permanent damage. Scientists discovered that they could connect these brain stimulators to an apparatus which would enable the animal to stimulate its own brain.[53] Obviously, when the animals were given a choice, they preferred to stimulate other areas of their brains such as the pleasure centers, rather than the violence or pain centers. With funds donated by the Rockefeller Foundation to McGill University, a psychiatric facility named Allan Memorial was established in 1943, and a Dr. Ewen Cameron became head of the facility. With additional funding from the CIA during the 1950s, Cameron used experimental techniques on his patients, most of whom were women. One of Cameron's therapies was called "depatterning," and was described as "the breaking up [of] existing patterns of behavior, both the normal and the schizophrenic, by means of particularly intensive electroshocks, usually combined with prolonged drug induced sleep."[54] What he created were "mind vegetables." Cameron left these unfortunate people with very few memories. However, he didn't stop there. Cameron would then use another technique on his patients that he called "psychic driving." During this part of his "therapy" he would bombard the patient with repeated verbal messages that were "emotionally loaded" and mentally abusive. The patients were forced to listen to audio recordings all night long as they lay (drugged) in their beds because Cameron ordered that speakers be placed under their pillows.[55] After approximately two weeks or more, he would then force his patients to listen to so-called positive psychic driving tapes apparently to induce new thinking patterns. Cameron victimized his patients through unproved behavioral modification techniques. Also during the decades of 1940 and 1950, a neurosurgeon (at McGill University) named Wilder Penfield and his colleague performed brain stimulation experiments on the exposed brains of patients during neurosurgery. What they discovered was that their patients' brains could be stimulated in such a way that would make them remember past events. The doctors also discovered that their patients' brains could be stimulated to make them experience, "eerie feelings of familiarity." Their patients were alert during these procedures, but "they reported that things and people in the operating room were somehow familiar. Some said they felt that everything around them had happened before or was part of a dream."[56] Most everyone who has taken a basic psychology course has been introduced to José Manuel
[CTRL] Military Abductions - Hypnosis - K Wilson 4/5
Military Abductions - K Wilson 4/5 http://www.alienjigsaw.com/Part_IV/pom2.html What could be learned by placing a subject through a "mental maze" and measuring their evoked response or their P3 wave? One very interesting thing you could study would be the individual's responses during an abduction or a "perceived" abduction by alien Beings, and how the subject's responses differ from a normal life experience. Regardless of whether the implants are placed in people's brians by aliens or agents of mind control, the evoked response and the P3 wave are probably just a small representation of the data that is being collected from these subjects. Section IV Hypnosis Hypnosis is often described as a state of relaxation during which the subject retains a certain amount of control. However, what the hypnotist says and how they say it can have long-lasting effects on the subject. People can be led to answer questions in a particular manner while under hypnosis. Consider the following definitions that have been published in two university psychology texts: "Hypnosis is a state of heightened suggestibility in which a person is unusually willing to comply with the hypnotist's directives, including those that alter perceptions of self and the environment."[82] Some of the reputed effects of hypnosis include enhanced memory, pain reduction, improved athletic performance, improved scholarly performance, and the ability to remember earlier stages of development.[83] Some researchers believe that hypnosis can also be used by therapists to create split personalities in their patients.[84] Of course, I am not implying that abduction researchers who use hypnosis are doing anything like this. Rather, this discussion is designed to introduce the reader to what scientists affiliated with the CIA have done in the past, and how powerful the effects of hypnosis can be on certain individuals. The following is a brief look at some of the scientists who were notorious for their work with hypnosis. Dr. George Estabrooks was the head of psychology at Colgate University during the 1930s. Estabrooks stated that "Hypnosis did not work on everyone and that only one person in five made a good enough subject to be placed in a deep trance..."[85] In addition, hypnosis and narco-hypnosis, (the combination of drugs and hypnosis) have been shown to make subjects believe they were talking to someone other than the scientist-interrogator.[86] During the early years of the Cold War, the CIA found their first "behavioral research czar." His name was Morse Allen. One of his successes with hypnosis was getting "young CIA secretaries to stay after work...proving to his own satisfaction that [with the use of hypnosis] he could make them do whatever he wanted."[87] This takes me back to the time I was reviewing some hypnosis transcripts for another abductee. During her hypnosis session with a male hypnotist, she was told while under hypnosis, "The doctor loves you very much." Shortly after this session, the woman began to feel misplaced feelings of affection toward the hypnotist. Needless to say, this troubled the woman greatly. When she realized what had occurred she was incredulous, but had no other way to explain her feelings. It took several weeks for her feelings to subside. [This is one example of one hypnotist who made a mistake during hypnosis. I am using this as an illustration of the power hypnosis can have on particular individuals. It should not be misconstrued as an example of what all abduction researchers do to abductees while using hypnosis.] During Morse Allen's early work with hypnosis, his aim was to "...take an existing ego state - such as an imaginary childhood playmate - and build it into a separate personality, unknown to the first." Allen would then work with this "new" personality he created and would "command it to carry out specific deeds about which the main personality would know nothing. There would be inevitable leakage between the two personalities, particularly in dreams; but if the hypnotist were clever enough, he could build in cover stories and safety valves which would prevent the subject from acting inconsistently."[88] This is what was done to a beautiful and talented woman named Candy Jones during the decade of the sixties. Candy Jones was used by the CIA as a courier and became a victim of abuse and torture for over ten years. Her case was investigated by Donald Bain and published in 1976.[89] This leakage of information is pertinent to our discussion since it also relates to abductions. Some abduction researchers believe that the aliens use some type of post hypnotic suggestion so the abductee will not remember their abduction. However, we know from the information that has been reported by abductees that much information, has, in fact, "leaked out." Since we no doubt have "clever" hypnotists and aliens, perhaps "cover
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From the Spring-Summer 1993 issue of the Project, the Quarterly Newsletter
of A-albionic Research, PO Box 20273, Ferndale, MICH 48220-0273
Project Suspicions Confirmed:
Royal Family Under Intense Vatican Attack!
In re-reading the Winter 1992-93 Project article "New Age" Reign
of Prince Charles Stillborn? I was impressed by the lack of need for
revision as events have continued to unfold. The "increasing evidence of
a Vatican coordinated pattern of covert attacks on the very center of
Judeo-Masonic-Anglophile power" noted in paragraph five of that article
has been further buttressed by the revelations (see insert) that Princess
Di has been under the influence of Catholic Priests and is considering
conversion while she continues her fight to keep her sons in line for the
Throne!
That Prince Charles has chosen to publish his opinions in a new
journal and confront the Catholic Church on birth control and
environmentalism is also significant. (The Pope recently reaffirmed his
stand against birth control.) Meanwhile, Australia's P rime Minister, Paul
Keating (an Irish Catholic?) is campaigning to remove the Queen as
Australia's Head of State and humiliated her personally by putting his arm
around her in public and confronting her personally about the issue at
Balmoral!
It is important for historical perspectiv e to note that we are
not suggestin g that there is anything new in the Vatican attacks on the
Royal Family. As a reminder of the long-standing Vatican campaign which
has already resulted in the assassination o f the Queen's mentor Lord
Mountbattan and the downfall of the Queen's favorite, Harold Wilson, we
are reprinting an improved (we hope) reproduction of the slanderous "devil
at the ear of the Queen" which appeared on Canadian currency in the
1950's, probab ly due to French-Catholic influence, foreshadowing the
covert Vatican campaign which may be nearing its climax only now.
On the Vatican-Islamic (Fundamentalist) alliance against
modernism/gnosticism front, as lead by the British Monarchy, we note that
the Anglophiles continue to get their way in Bosnia by forcing Nato and
the Vatican-leaning, force threatening Clinton Admi nistration to sit on
their hands and dither. (On 5-13-93 the use of military force by the US
to help "the largely helpless people of Bosnia" was officially endorsed by
the US Catholic Bishops who opposed the Gulf war as "blood for oil".) The
Vatican fur ther tipped its hand regarding its Islamic Alliance by
supporting Libya in it showdown with the AngloAmericans over the Lockerbie
airliner bombing.
The Vatican has also criticized the AngloAmerican Somalia
adventure, a move calculated to please the aggre ssive Iran-backed
Fundamentalist movements and warring factions in nearby African nations.
Italy followed-up by pulling-out their troops! Iran has accused Britain
of fomenting conflict with the United Arab Emirates oil States over
disputed islands and regarding Rushdie. Thatcher, with her quasi-Vatican
views, kept up her drumbeat attacks on Prime Minister Major's cynical
geopolitics, especially with regard to Muslim Bosnia.
On the European Economic Community (EEC) front, the Pope's
cherished hopes for early European unity centered around German power have
been dashed by currency speculator's located in the Queen's City of
London. On August 2, 1993, the Times, the mouthpiec e of the British
Establishment, gloated that the British engineered death of the EC's
exchange rate mechanism (ERM) which kept currency values close together
means that "Post-Maastricht Europe could and must be a British-inspired
creation.."
We also note d that the British Israel World Federation ran an
article by the noted financier and Rothschild relative, Sir James
Goldsmith, pointing-out the folly of creating artificial conglomerate
nations from diverse ethic elements. Goldsmith, head of one of the firms
that sets the daily price of gold for the Empire of the City, is one of
the primary currency speculators who combined to sink the ERM! He also
initiated with Lord Rees-Mogg a legal action questioning the Maastrict
treaty ratification process. British Israel also printed an
anti-Maastricht article by a former Director of N. M. Rothschild! We
noted that Europe's "Greens" opposed Maastrict in line with Britain's
"rule or ruin" strategy.
{The next paragraph was written before Clinton finally implemented Vatican
policy and admitted Gerry Adams into the US in opposition to State
Department and British wishes--J. H. Daugherty}
Regarding the Northern Ireland issue, Clinton backed-off his
pro-Vatican position of allowing Sinn Fein terrorist Gerry Adams into the
country, but continued to offer "mediation" on the issue, flying in the
[CTRL] OEN 4/12/00
from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Click Here: A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Gold Market No Capital for Gold Industry World's gold available for $40 billion. Continued rationalisation was essential for the gold industry to compete for investor funds in global markets, the Australian Gold Conference was told yesterday. The head of one of the world's top five goldmining companies, Mr Ron Cambre of Newmont Mining, admitted yesterday that "gold is simply not relevant to most investors" in today's technology-driven equities market. He said the four biggest North American gold companies had a combined market capitalisation of 0.14 per cent of the SP 500 index. "The capital markets are telling us that size matters," Mr Cambre said. "North American gold funds today hold only $US2 billion [$3.3 billion] in assets as investors have withdrawn funds to invest elsewhere. "Future investors in gold shares must come from the generalists who judge us not against our relative performance within the industry, but against the outlook for all investments, including the dot.com world that few of us understand. "Considering that the Fidelity Magellan Fund and Vanguard's Equity Index Fund are each managing $US100 billion in assets, the threshold size for consideration by many portfolio managers today is a market cap of $US5 billion to $US10 billion." Mr Cambre said the market capitalisation of the global gold industry was less than $US40 billion, and only nine companies had a market capitalisation of more than $US1 billion. He said companies should also give thought to the re-emergence of the major mining houses of the past, and there was good logic to consider "multi-metallic" investments in the future. Mr Cambre said that despite hedging, no major North American producer had been consistently profitable in the past 10 years. "Looking only at earnings from operations, the average return on shareholders' equity for the top producers declined from 13 per cent in 1987 to zero last year. The average return for SP industrials is above 20 per cent," he said. "Generating adequate shareholder returns must be the industry's number one challenge in the years ahead. "We must stop believing that because we are gold producers we can ignore the cost of capital. "Projects that do not have a high probability of returning solid double-digit returns at today's gold price cannot be justified." Mr Cambre's views on rationalisation were echoed by Delta Gold managing director Terry Burgess. "For the industry to survive in the lowering grade and lowering margin environment there will be an ever-increasing push for mergers and acquisitions to take place between companies," Mr Burgess said. "Adding value must be the reason for this as growth for growth's sake can only provide a short-term warmth followed by a hollow feeling - not unlike the feeling that Internet stock investors will experience when they realise that revenue without profit is not a driver." Mr Burgess said the outlook for the Australian gold industry was robust even in the face of the low gold price. "Hedging will still provide the confidence and price outcomes that will allow projects to go forward, although vigilant treasury management and controls will be of paramount importance," he said. "The reduction in exploration expenditure will not materially impact the output of Australian gold mining industry for another three years or so, due to long lead times between discovery and first production. "However, like a hand water pump, once the water flow stops, it will take an appreciable period of pumping, with no apparent results, before the water starts flowing again." The West Australian, April 12, 2000 Spy vs. Spy Computer Failure Left US Spy Sats Useless One more reason to abolish the US government. WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The United States government's ability to keep track of looming international threats was drastically curtailed last year because of a prolonged computer breakdown at the Pentagon agency that collects and analyzes photographs from spy satellites, several federal intelligence officials said. The computer malfunction was so bad in August that United States intelligence agencies were left nearly blind for a few days, unable to rely on photographs from any spy satellites for use in a wide range of intelligence operations, officials added. "This was a catastrophic systems failure," one senior official said. "We were really lucky that there weren't any major crises going on at the time." The computer crisis, at the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, began in early August and continued for about a month, and was far more serious than the brief, previously disclosed Year 2000-related problems in intelligence systems that occurred over the New Year's holiday, officials said. It came as the mapping agency was installing a new system, which caused the breakdown. Some critics have said the new
[CTRL] Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness
from: http://www.steamshovelpress.com/ksullivan.html Click Here: A HREF="http://www.steamshovelpress.com/ksullivan.html"Katherine Sullivan's Letter about Jim Keith's B /A - Mass Control Redux The late Jim Keith's new book, Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness (IllumiNet Press), contains several chapters on the ostensible victims of Operation Monarch, a secret mind control project, who have come forward in the wake of Cathy O'Brien's book, Trance Formation. Steamshovel editor presented one of these chapters to one of the victims interviewed by Keith, Katherine Sullivan, who offers her corrections below. Dear Steamshovel: I appreciate your sending me the xeroxed copy of "my" chapter in Jim Keith's book so quickly. I am especially glad you did because he made a number of errors, and also misunderstood some things I said. Because of this, I need to make corrections. I realize it's too late that the book is out, but at least perhaps you can file this letter away to share with whoever makes inquiries about that chapter. First, I need to share something I've only learned since he interviewed me. I suffered ten additional years of hardcore trauma as my memories came back and I literally relived so many horrible experiences. Because I was very upset and overwhelmed by all I was remembering, and because I suffer not only from D.I.D. but also from P.T.S.D., I was not able to logically sift through the memories to determine what was probably factual, what was propaganda fed to me by my handlers, and what was misunderstanding. Only in the last year have I been able to step back and take a harder look at what they told me. Perhaps to them, especially those with Nazi ideologies, the lies were reality. But that doesn't make it reality to the rest of us. Example: I was told over and over that by the year 2000, they were going to overthrow the US government in honor of Hitler and start a new world government. This never materialized. Another example: they told me they were going to create a mock UFO invasion, and also have the image of Jesus Christ appear in the sky, to confuse and bring men -- particularly Christians -- to their knees. So far, neither has happened. They had me totally convinced that they were in control of the world. I fully believed that they could kill me or my daughter any time they chose. After having been gang raped and tortured and so much more for most of my life by these people, I believed they were all-powerful and would do everything they talked about in their get-togethers and planning meetings. Only recently have I realized they are far from all-powerful, and that a lot of what they said they would do was the rantings of insanely grandiose men who are far out of touch with real life. When I gave inforinafion to ACHES-MC, to Mr. Keith, and to others about what I'd heard the movers and shakers talk about, I believed they really would do it and presented the informafion that way. If I could go back and do this over again, I would tell the interviewers that I was only told that they were planning to do such-and-such. I would not present it as facts. I now realize it was much to my disadvantage to present information as it was given to me, because it leaves me looking like a fruitcake! The other broad clarification I need to make is that a lot of the code names I heard were just that. Code names. They may or may not mean anything to anyone outside the Octopus network. The reason I listed as many as I could in the CKLN series was to throw out a line and see if anyone else had heard of these phrases and words used in such ways. So far I've gotten very little verification. That tells me that either these were not true code names, or were about activities so covert that it will probably be decades before I get verificafions. If the second hypothesis is true, I am willing to wait ... as usual. Now for the corrections (P. 154:) I was in treatment for codependency in late summer, 1989. My daughter was in treatment in the same rehab facility before me, for AD issues. (She had taken a gun to school and fully planned -- in a rather mindless way -- to kill a friend, then to stand on the cafeteria table and "blow her brains all over everybody." Thank God, she was stopped before she did either.) During that 31-day stint, I recovered childhood memories of having been sexually abused by my dad, and him making me and my full brothers do it to each other in front of him. (They still do not seem to remember any of this.) The ritual abuse memories came a year later, and the government memories about a year after that. This seems to be about on target for the progression of such memories. One remembers what is most bearable first, then more and more difficult material as one's strength and skills develop to cope with it. My memories of assassin programming were inadvertently triggered, but I did not attempt to kill hospital nurses
Re: [CTRL] abortion and gun control
[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: I would think the issue is why/whether abortion is related to gun ownersh ip. I can't see that they are. The fact that some illogically relate the two issues should not color the whole movement Of course they are related. As long as we are united, the anti-gun control movement is simply to numerous to be defeated. Some people in the anti-gun control movement are pro-choice. Some people in the anti-gun control movement are anti-choice. The gun grabbers can use this to split us in to factions small enough to be defeated. People who call each other "shitheads" can't count on each other for succor in times of trial. Times of trial ARE down the road. Are we going to let the gun grabbers divide and defeat us? A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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 A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] Operation Mongoose Psy War Against Cuba
from: http://www.steamshovelpress.com/operationmongoose.html Click Here: A HREF="http://www.steamshovelpress.com/operationmongoose.html"O peration Mongoose Psy War Against Cuba/A - RE: Operation Mongoose, Etc. Below is a follow-up to a recent exchange between Steamshovel editor Kenn Thomas and Jon Elliston, author of the book Psy War On Cuba: The Declassified History of U.S. Anti-Castro Propaganda, that appeared in Parascope Dispatch Three, the hard-copy counterpart of the Parascope web site (www.parascope.com). Thomas and Elliston recently appeared together, along wit h Robert Sterling of Konformist, Jonathan Vankin, and a "skeptic" named Dave from Wired magazine, on the Fox network's Full Nelson program, discussing conspiracies of the new millennium. Dear ParaScope, If Jon Elliston can forgive my erroneous assertion (a typo, actually) that Edward Lansdale sat in on the meeting between JFK and Ian Fleming, I will forgive his misidentification of Gus Russo's 1998 book, Live By The Sword (Jon calls it Die By The Sword.) Jon is correct that Lansdale has not been identified as present at that meeting, but Russo does note the presence there of CIA agent John Bross. I have not seen documentation establishing that JFK himself initiated the bizarre assassination plots against Castro which seemingly originated at that meeting with the creator of James Bond. I don't argue with Jon's assertion that "propaganda and paramilitary actions were directed straight out of Washington." Washington is a big place, however, and I think Jon should be careful when he accuses Kennedy of initiating the 1960s politics of assassination by gunning for Fidel. For one thing, people like E. Howard Hunt publicly confessed to trying to smear Kennedy in this way, in Hunt's case, by forging cables suggesting that JFK had the Diem brothers killed in Vietnam. If JFK was so ruthless, why the need to frame him? Long before Russo's book was published, before Oliver Stone's JFK movie in fact, he was being quoted in Newsweek and other major media as a critic of Stone. Mark Lane pointed out in Steamshovel Press that this was noteworthy in that long-time experts on the assassination (like Lane himself) are rarely quoted at all. At the very least, in Live By The Sword, Russo is quite incredulous when it comes to his intelligence agency sources. For instance, he quotes as credible Edward Lansdale's pronouncements in 1975 that Kennedy was behind the assassination plots. As the real chief suspect behind the plots, any reasonable person could hardly accept what Lansdale has to say on this matter at face value. Unfortunately, Russo does. That the CIA resumed its connection to Rolando AMLASH Cubela on the very day Castro announced his awareness of the plots against him, making the announcement in Brazil, where Cubela met with his CIA contacts on the very day those contacts were to resume, is a matter of history. (1) Even the Senate Intelligence Committee felt that Castro's announcement was meant to send a signal to JFK. As for the back-channel diplomacy between JFK and Castro, I would suggest that rather than Russo, readers should return to Jean Daniels' articles in The New Republic just after the assassination (12/7, 14 21/63) Daniels was on hand when it was happening. Castro's "most important" question to Daniels after getting word about Kennedy's death was about LBJ: "What authority does he exercise over the CIA?" Time and again, Castro gives indication that he felt Kennedy himself had potential as a possible ally, but that the real power, and the real threat to him, resided within the intelligen ce community. 1. Schulz, Donald E., "Kennedy and the Cuban Connection," Foreign Policy, Spring 1977. Columbus Dispatch, 6/21/76 From Parascope Dispatch Three, December 1999-January 2000 (ParasCope, 1430 Williamette #329, Eugene, OR 97401, www.parascope.com) Subj: Operation Mongoose Parascope Dispatch Two came out before I could comment on Parascope Dispatch One, so I'm send- ing this belatedly. Fine little zinelet you have there, and I wish it the best success. Hard copy zines still have many advantages over the inter- net, like reaching new readers from people who browse the newstands. Despite the proliferation of conspiracy info on the web, it's all targeted to those of us who have a specialized interest. It is obviously important that conspiracy researchers reach larger audiences, so I hope Parascope Dispatch can help serve that function. The article about Operation Mongoose (Dispatch One, The Paper Trail, "Dirty Tricks Vs. Cuba") particularly grabbed my attention. It reported on Brigadier General William Craig's bizarre projects to discredit, harass and possibly assassinate Fidel Castro. According to new DoD files released by the Assassination Records Review Board, Craig came up with projects above and beyond those initiated by Edward Lansdale. As I pointed out in my new book Maury Island
[CTRL] AIR CRASHES, BLACK BOXES, and UNSAFETY BOARDS/PROMIS: Israeli Spy Cover-Up Crumbles
from: http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/things.htm Click Here: A HREF="http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/things.htm"Steamshovel Press: Things Are Gonna Slide!/A - Things Are Gonna Slide! AIR CRASHES, BLACK BOXES, and UNSAFETY BOARDS---EgyptAir Flight 990, More of the Same? by Sherman H. Skolnick The National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, and its predecessor federal agencies, have a long, sorry history of covering up foul play involved in some aircraft disasters. The word "sabotage" is a dirty, forbidden word to them and the airline industry. How can they sell tickets if passengers are haunted by the idea that some planes are put down by bombs, missiles, or other bloody work? Some NTSB panel members, in the past, have been suspected of concealing that some of their family members and cronies have financial interests, if not actual stock ownership, in the airline travel business. There is, in short, nothing safe about the Safety Board. About 1965 a commercial plane was enroute to Chicago. Just offshore of the Windy City, the plane blew up and fell in relatively shallow water of Lake Michigan. Early news accounts in some of the newspapers said a bomb was suspected. Later editions, like with political assassinations, cleaned up the messy details. Further stories dismissed the crash as merely some kind of "accident". One night a diver went down to the wreckage and apparently stole one of the "black boxes", that records various parameters of the plane's operations or records voices in the cockpit. Also removed were apparently certain items in the wreckage. What was that all about? According to some news reports, it was some kind of an unsolved mystery. Left out of reports in the monopoly press were that one of the passengers was a disgruntled top official of the American CIA. He was on the way to meeting a prominent journalist in Chicago. He was going to turn over documents showing that there had been a high-level cabal implicated in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. [Not the only time key witnesses were snuffed out on the way to meet with reporters. Example, the Karen Silkwood case. AND, see our details in an earlier story, about Reporters and Assassins(they sleep together)]. These details I had confirmed to me from two reliable sources. One of them was federal aircrash inspector. Unlike some of his colleagues, he had several times endangered his job and career demanding the truth be told about some crashes. BUT, his superiors always told him to "shut up". The facts were simple. To silence a top espionage official an entire plane was put in the drink killing all onboard. In December, 1972, one month after President Nixon was re-elected, a commercial plane was headed from Washington's National Airport, set for a stop in Chicago. Among the passengers were twelve WATERGATE figures, including Mrs. E. Howard Hunt, wife of the Watergate burglar. She was nervous about her luggage. So, she bought an additional first class seat ticket for her baggage right near her. Why? Well, contained there was two million dollars of "hush" money, that her husband reportedly blackmailed out of Nixon. Both Mr. and Mrs. E. Howard Hunt were long-time CIA officials. Both reportedly knew about the role of Tricky Dick implicated in the political assassination of President Kennedy. The two million dollars in valuables were to be "parked" apparently with her Chicago-area relatives, one of whom reportedly owns a sizeable accounting and motel operation some say is tied to the "boys", the traditional mafia. Some of the passengers perished when the United Air Lines plane pancaked just short of Midway Airport. Sooner than the police and fire departments, 150 FBI agents were already in the crash zone keeping local authorities away from the smouldering plane. The FBI headquarters is 12 miles away. How did that many FBI get there that soon, ahead of the fire and police? The FBI apparently were already in the vicinity of the airport waiting to take Mrs. Hunt and some of the other Watergators into custody, to be charged with extortion, that is, shaking down a federal official, namely President Nixon. It was supposed to result in a secret "national security" federal criminal prosecution with the court records sealed. From all the details we uncovered, we knew Mrs. Hunt and some of her confederates survived the pancaked air plane and were poisoned later by the FBI. We arranged to "liberate" the entire 1300 pages of documents and pictures of the National Transportation Safety Board, showing sabotage. The NTSB did NOT intend to release THOSE documents in the form they had them. Without telling the NTSB we had their file, we sued the NTSB, claiming sabotage cover up. A local crooked judge, however, put us out of Court without any formal hearing. Because of the lawsuit, the NTSB re-opened their public investigation later. Because of talk radio at the time we had caused a commotion and United Air Lines, likewise unaware we
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] another note on Bechtel
Hi all, Though this isn't exactly on target, I thought you all might want to see this, those of you who keep a wary eye on Bechtel and friends. Leap to your own conclusions about this article's info please. Peace, Preston -- Wednesday, April 12, 2000 Net hardware at secure and secret California site http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters2411_4011.html SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) - Caged like a criminal and guarded 24 hours a day, the Internet was finally put in its place Tuesday. That place, at least according to officials at Equinix Inc., is a nondescript warehouse off a faceless freeway "somewhere in Silicon Valley." Sheathed in Kevlar to ward off potential artillery attack, fitted with biometric hand-geometry scanners to identify unapproved intruders and equipped with generators to ensure uninterrupted electric supply come power grid meltdown or earthquake disaster, the building sits amid the strip malls and condominium developments of America's high-tech heartland with no sign to advertise its existence. Equinix insists on anonymity for its new high-tech facility, officially dubbed the Silicon Valley Internet Business Exchange Center, or IBX. In fact, in a sign of the company's dedication to its cloak-and-dagger image, visitors Tuesday were required to sign nondisclosure agreements promising not to reveal where the high-security warehouse actually is. But company officials hope it will eventually be an important part of a new network of "neutral" sites housing the computer routers, servers and other hardware that makes Internet business run. 30 CENTERS PLANNED "We know these are important places to keep secure," Equinix founder and Chief Executive Al Avery told a group of industry analysts and journalists gathered for the opening of the IBX, one of about 30 scheduled to be built worldwide over the next four years. "It's where the virtual world meets the physical world," Avery said. "It's a mixture between Fort Knox and Mission Impossible." Founded in 1998 by Avery and Jay Adelson, who built the Palo Alto Internet Exchange (PAIX) for Digital Equipment Corp., Equinix has over $315 million in financing, including investment from the Reuters Group Plc. through its Greenhouse Fund. In partnership with world engineering giant Bechtel, Equinix has embarked on a $1.2 billion global IBX program. The Silicon Valley facility is the third to become operational after openings in Newark, New Jersey, and the Washington area. The idea behind the IBX centers is simple: provide a single, secure location for Internet companies ranging from content providers to e-commerce giants to set up the computers that make their businesses run. The company is designed to take advantage of what it sees as a sea change in the way the Internet works. What started three decades ago with a few tentative online contacts between universities and grew into a loose network based on government and military computers has evolved into a globe-spanning conglomeration of public, private and commercial computers engaged in myriad tasks. QUICK LINKS By placing key computer equipment under one IBX roof, companies can link directly to other, related Internet players with clear and quick connections that will eliminate network kinks and bottlenecks, the company says. They will also be able to share maintenance costs and make new business alliances -- all while safe in the knowledge that, should a tank-driving anti-Internet extremist trundle down a nearby highway, their business computers will be protected. "This is exactly the type of ecosystem we were looking for," said Mark O'Leary, general manager of ExciteAtHome's AtWork division, which announced on Tuesday a deal to deploy its services to IBX clients. Taking visitors on a tour of the 133,000-square-foot Silicon Valley IBX on Tuesday, Equinix's Adelson pointed out the building's Kevlar skin, the concrete planters designed to thwart car bomb attack, the biometric hand scanners, the bulletproof glass. Inside, computers belonging to clients such as Enron , iBeam, MCI Worldcom and NorthPoint Communications whir within individual "cages" while Equinix staffers monitor temperature and humidity as carefully as workers at a nuclear reactor. While conceding that armed attacks on data centers were fairly low on the computer security worry list -- way below hackers, for instance -- Adelson said Equinix's own customers asked for the Mission Impossible-style precautions. "They've asked us to provide this level of protection because of their fear of what the future could bring," he said. Get paid for the stuff you know! Get answers for the stuff you dont. And get $10 to spend on the site!
[CTRL] Be Afraid
from; http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2000-04-05beat.htm Click Here: A HREF="http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2000-04-05beat.htm"Politic s Prose - 2000.04.06 - Beatty/A - Be Afraid If the digital revolution is soon to produce what Bill Joy -- one of the world's leading technologists -- fears is a dystopian nightmare, the only hope for humanity may be the end of capitalism as we know it. Try selling that in an election year by Jack Beatty April 6, 2000 "This is the first moment in the history of our planet when any species, by its own involuntary actions, has become a danger to itself -- as well as to vast numbers of others." --Carl Sagan In the projectable future robots will replace "biological humans" as economic actors. Unable to compete in the marketplace with their super-intelligent creations, human beings won't be able to afford what they need to live and will "be squeezed out of existence." That is the dystopian vision of robotics. The utopian vision is that humans will attain immortality by "downloading" themselves into the undying electronic being of robots. Genetic engineering will give evil new life, putting the power to loose new plagues on humanity into the hands of terrorists, madmen, and despots. Genetic engineering will soon allow our descendants to end hunger, to create myriad new species with myriad scientific and economic possibilities, to increase our life-span, and to improve our quality of life in dimensions beyond our present means to calculate (in the future we can all be blondes!). Nanotechnology -- manufacturing at a molecular level -- will create plants that will "outcompete real plants," surrounding us with an inedible jungle and spawning "omnivorous bacteria" that, wind borne, will spread a self-replicating pollen that "could reduce the biosphere to dust in a matter of days." Nanotechnology promises to achieve huge results through the manipulation of the infinitesimal. Molecular-level "assemblers" engineered by nanotechnology will allow a grateful humanity to cure cancer, to abandon the use of fossil fuels before they render the planet uninhabitable (replacing them with cost-effective, environmentally salubrious solar power), and to compact all knowledge into a wristwatch. These clashing vistas of the possible are taken from a horizon-widening 20,000 word article in the April issue of Wired by Bill Joy, the "Chief Scientist" and cofounder of Sun Microsystems. The Chief Scientist is afraid of science. The twenty-first-century technologies of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics (GNR) could give us "knowledge-enabled mass destruction" to supplement existing arsenals of twentieth-century triumphs of mass destruction like nuclear bombs and germ warfare. Not since Jonathan Schell's 1982 vision of nuclear devastation, The Fate of the Earth, has one seen a preview of apocalypse to compare with this passage: I think it is no exaggeration to say that we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals. Humankind's only method of escape from a future so terrible as to drive us off the planet is "relinquishment: to limit development of the technologies that are too dangerous, by limiting our pursuit of certain kinds of knowledge" -- a dread step contemplated by scientists Joy respects. Relinquishment will require a degree of monitoring and verification that only a government with near-dictatorial powers could enforce -- and remember, this is the good news. Government has no monopoly on GNR technologies, as it does on NBC -- nuclear, biological, and chemical -- weapons of mass destruction. The GNR revolution is being led by the private sector, meaning that, to achieve relinquishment, private businesses will have to significantly evolve into semi-public entities under the total scrutiny of thought-police. This is incompatible with capitalism as we know it. In history's bitterest irony, the "knowledge economy" will be the end of Western man's Faustian drive to know at any cost. To ponder questions of this heft in an election year, when no candidate in his right mind will ask any member of the electorate to sacrifice anything, is to despair of democracy. If two dollars a gallon for gasoline has the voters in an uproar, imagine their reaction to Joy's thought police! Politics is more and more about disguising problems than about bringing important issues to the fore. The politics of candor can't seem to get traction against the politics of escape. Increasingly, candidates who identify problems so as to make issues of them -- Bill Bradley making universal health insurance the justification of his candidacy; John McCain running against systemic corruption -- get penalized for ruffling the national complacency. Politics needs to be made safe for bad
[CTRL] The Effects of Electronic Media On A Developing Brain
from: http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/FA/MLArticleFolder/effects.html Click Here: A HREF="http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/FA/MLArticleFolder/effects.html"Th e Effects of Electronic Media On A Developing /A - The Effects of Electronic Media On A Developing Brain Author: Robert Sylwester Professor of Education University of Oregon Eugene Oregon 97403-1215 Phone: (503) 345-1452 Apportioning Time And Energy During Maturation We have about 150,000 hours of living to expend between the ages of one and 18. We sleep about 50,000 hours of this time, and we dream about two hours of the eight we sleep each night. Sleeping and dreaming appear to be positively related to the development and maintenance of the long term memories that emerge out of daytime activities, because they allow our brain to eliminate the interference of external sensory/motor activity while it physically adds to, edits, and erases the neural network synaptic connections that create long-term memories. We spend about 65,000 of our 100,000 waking hours involved in solitary activities, and in direct informal relationships with family and friends, and these activities play a major role in the development and maintenance of important personal memories. We spend about 35,000 of our waking hours with our larger culture in formal and informal metaphoric/symbolic activities -- about 12,000 hours in school, and about twice that much with various forms of mass media (e.g., TV, computers, films, music, sports, non-school print media, churches, museums). Mass media and school thus play major roles in the development and maintenance of important culture memories . So on an average developmental day between the ages of l-18, a young person sleeps 8 hours, spends 10 waking hours with self, family, and friends, 4 with mass media -- and only 2 hours in school. Our society has incredible expectations for those two hours! Young people tend now to spend much time/energy on such electronic media as video games, TV, and computers -- at the expense of non-electronic media and socialization (although new forms of socialization are evolving around TV-watching and video-game-playing). The attentional demands of electronic media range from rapt (video games) to passive (much TV), but this is the first generation to directly interact with and alter the content on the screen and the conversation on the radio. Screenagers emotionally understand electronic media in ways that adults don't -- as a viral replicating cultural reality, instead of as a mere communicator of events. For example, portable cameras have helped to shift TV's content from dramatic depiction's to live theater, extended (and often endlessly repeated and discussed) live coverage of such breaking events as wars, accidents, trials, sports, and talk-show arguments. What occurs anywhere is immediately available everywhere. Our world has truly become a gossipy global village, where everyone knows everyone else's business. Emotion drives attention, which drives learning, memory, and behavior, so mass media often insert strong primal emotional elements into their programming to increase attention. Since violence and sexuality in media trigger primal emotions, most young people confront thousands of violent acts and heavy doses of sexuality during their childhood media interactions. This comes at the expense, alas, of other more positive and normative experiences with human behaviors and interactions. Mass media tend to show us how to be sexy not sexual, and powerful not peaceful. Commercial sponsorship in mass media has led to a distorted presentation of important cultural and consumer-related issues. For example, TV commercials tend to be very short, superficial, and factually biased. Further, computer programs and TV editing techniques tend to compress, extend, and distort normal time/space relationships, a critically important element in the creation and use of effective long- term memories. Our Brain and Electronic Media: Biological Systems, Cultural Issues Brain Development * Our awesomely complex, yet elegantly simple brain is the best organized three pounds of matter in the known universe. Decidedly human but individually unique, it is a wary, curious, and exploratory organ that actively experiences and interprets its environment, applying a variety of cognitive models and systems that it develops (within established limits) to the reality it perceives. The brain, as a basic animal organ, developed in three successive layers over evolutionary time to meet survival, emotional, and finally rational challenges. Our rational cortical forebrain is unique among animal brains in its size and capabilities, but our sub cortical survival and emotional systems play much more powerful roles in shaping our thoughts and behavior than previously believed. * Our brain is composed of tens of billions of highly
[CTRL] Upcomingmovies.com: The Ninth Gate
from: http://upcomingmovies.com/ninthgate.html Click Here: A HREF="http://upcomingmovies.com/ninthgate.html"Upcomingmovies. com: The Ninth Gate/A - The Ninth Gate Release Date: March 10th, 2000 (moved up a week from March 17th, 2000) MPAA Rating: R (for some violence and sexuality) Distributor: Artisan Entertainment Cast: Johnny Depp (Dean Corso), Lena Olin, Frank Langella (Balkan), Barabara Jefford, James Russo, Emmanuelle Seigner Director: Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Death and the Maiden, Rosemary's Baby, Fe arless Vampire Killers, Bitter Moon, Frantic, Knife in the Water, The Tenant, many more) Screenwriters: Roman Polanski (cowriter of many of his films), John Brownjohn (cowriter of Tess, Pirates, Bitter Moon), Enrique Urbizu (cowriter of Cachito) Based upon: The novel The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Premise: A rare book dealer (Depp) discovers a strange demonic conspiracy while trying to find the last two copies of an ancient tome said to hold the secrets of summoning Satan. Filming Locations: Portugal, France, and Spain Genres: Comedy, Thriller Official Site: ninthgate.com Also at Theaters: March 2000 Input about Upcomingmovies.com, or any movie covered here, is encouraged. Just e-mail Greg Dean Schmitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that all release dates are subject to change. Review (***): There are going to be many people who won't agree with a *** review for this film, because one of the biggest problems of the film is that Artisan has been marketing it as a horror film... and it's not one. The Ninth Gate starts off as a film noir detective story, and ends as an European-flavored satire comedy that goes a bit over the top, but effectively... if you're in on the joke. If you go in expecting the sort of Satanic booga-booga-boo special effects and gore that we've seen in movies like End of Days and Spawn, you're going to be disappointed, because the film takes a different route, leaving the evil deeds to be done by the people in the film rather than some monstrous demonic form. This is the first movie for director Roman Polanski since 1994's Death and the Maiden (and only his 7th since Chinatown), and the biting, intelligent humor in that film is here as well. It's almost like this film is Polanski's reflection on Rosemary's Baby, complete with a scene where one character mocks a group of Satanic cultists not unlike the one in that earlier movie. There's also many film noir elements (mostly in the first hour) that are fun for film buffs to spot, including homages to The Big Sleep (and indeed, the film's story is a bit like Double Indemnity). There are some weak spots, mostly in the form of the anonymous supernatural girl played by Emmannuelle Seigner (who she is never explained; and though some mysteries in this film work; that one doesn't). Some people will also be baffled by the ending, which leaves interpretation to the audience. The Ninth Gate is especially noteworthy on nearly every technical point. Wojciech Kilar's score is among the best I've heard this year; it was alternatingly creepy and beautiful. The cinematography by Darius Khondji (The Beach, Se7en) is top-notch, including some lighting (such as the closing scene) that is just about perfect. The Spanish and Portuguese locations were well-chosen; they evoke a mystery that matches the story. The Ninth Gate is a distinct acquired taste. It's not for those seeking a horror movie; a good scare. Rather, it's for those who would enjoy a biting satire comedy about the sort of people who are attracted to Satanic worship, to the point where the characters who are being satirized themselves satirize other characters. I laughed several times; more than I have at some other recent "comedies" (like What Planet Are You From?). In the end, I think this is a movie about people who become so obsessed with the search for information at any cost that they forget to live lives with the information they've gathered; and that's what makes them "evil", and thus, drives the plot. Greg's Preview Thoughts: Even now, twenty years later, controversial directors don't get much controversial than Roman Polanski. That he is one of the world's most talented directors is hard to dispute, but in the eyes of some, he may never outlive the pariah of the statutory rape charge which forced him into his exile. The Ninth Gate is only Polanski's third film in this decade, following the brilliant Death and the Maiden and 1992's Bitter Moon. It's worth noting that the delay between between this film and Death and the Maiden is partly because of a problem in 1996 with a film project called The Double which was set to star John Travolta, but which was cancelled by Polanski after Travolta bailed. With its supernatural themes, it appears Polanski is returning to the genre with which he made such a mark in 1968 with Rosemary's Baby. There is no lack of films with similar themes this year, but this film has the advantage of beating the others
[CTRL] Fwd: [net-alert] Digest Number 21
Get your money connected @ OnMoney.com - the first Web site that lets you see and manage all of your finances all in one place. http://click.egroups.com/1/3012/7/_/480272/_/955439727/ There is 1 message in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Net-Alert Volume 3, Issue 2 From: Mark Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message: 1 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:02:07 +0930 From: Mark Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Net-Alert Volume 3, Issue 2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Net-Alert April 10, 2000 If you have any questions, comments or other feedback concerning Net-Alert articles, contact the Editor at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Previous editions of Net-Alert are available at http://www.onelist.com/archive/net-alert Subscription and unsubscription details are available at the end of this newsletter. Contents: ##911 Virus - Not an April Fools joke ##Holding "virtual sit-ins" ##Big figures in online crime ##DoubleClick backdown ##Free protection for your PC ##More privacy worries ##Self-healing computers 911 Virus - Not an April Fools joke A new, aggressive, self-replicating "worm" (similar to a computer virus) was reported on April 1 by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The worm is able to spread itself from computer to computer without any involvement by the computer's owner. It does this by scanning PCs connected to the Internet, looking for a specific security weakness. If it finds the weakness, it sends a copy of itself to the PC, over the Internet. It can do this without any indication that this is taking place, so most users won't know their machine is being infected. Once installed, the copy of the worm will search for other Internet computers to infect. Because it is able to copy itself to multiple machines, and because each copy of itself is able to infect other PCs independently, this worm may become very wide-spread very quickly. Once the worm has infected a PC, it may also format the computer's hard disk and attempt to instruct the PC's modem to dial "911" (which is the US emergency services number). From initial reports, it would appear that this worm is specifically targeting US computer users. However, there appears to be several variations of the worm, and it may be that future versions will have the capacity to attack computers located outside the US. For more information about this worm, including how to detect its presence, see the reports below. To test whether your PC has the security weakness exploited by this worm, use the free Shields UP! service, and follow the instructions provided by the service in the event it detects and security weaknesses. URLs ShieldsUP! - http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 Virus Alerts: SANS Institute Alert http://www.sans.org/newlook/alerts/911worm.htm Symantec Alert http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/bat.chode.worm.html McAfee Alert http://vil.nai.com/villib/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=98557 Holding "virtual sit-ins" A popular "tool" for demonstrators is the sit-in. The humble sit-in helps gain media attention for causes, and draws complaints and issues to the attention of whatever company, organisation or government the protest is aimed at. It seems that new Internet tools - little more than slight modifications of the Distributed Denial of Services software covered in the last edition - will allow activists to take similar action online. Basically, demonstrators invite similarly minded individuals to register via a central coordinating Web site. On the designated sit-in date, registered individuals are sent an email which contains a Web page. The Web page contains special code so that, when it is loaded in a Web browser, it instructs the browser to repeatedly send page requests to the Web site of the target organisation/company. The idea is that the Web site will be overburdened in such a way that it gains the site owner's attention (in much the same way that occupying the HQ reception does), though it is done using relatively benign, peaceful and (possibly) legal means. URLs Electrohippies Paper: http://www.gn.apc.org/pmhp/ehippies/files/op1.htm Rebuttal: MSNBC article: http://www.msnbc.com/news/380065.asp Big figures in online crime I must admit to being terribly cynical when it comes to reading estimates of the losses caused by "computer crime". In the late 80s and early 90s, there were a number of prosecutions against computer criminals (aka "hackers") in the US (as part of the government's so-called "Hacker Crackdown"). On most occasions, the corporate victims were requested
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1
SkeptiNews 000412a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/11_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No cheating hearts were lab-grown during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Nothing's obsolete: http://www.obsolete.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Are ETs and alien abductors... us? A UFOlogist has published an extensive theory of aliens who travel in parallel universe, and that may be "our own species of the future. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal041101.html # Top scientist sez: SPACE ALIENS ARE STEALING OUR WOMEN turning them into prostitutes! LAS VEGAS, NV -- Twisted aliens are running a shocking inter- planetary white-slavery ring, says a top UFOlogist, charging that the ETs routinely whisk female abductees off to far-flung planets space stations to serve as hookers! http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1457.html # Whither "Jane Doe's" UFO? A probable "UFO/ET abduction" case may prove to be too much evidence for Virginia Gov. Gilmore to ignore in his continued stonewalling of requests that he do his constitutional and statutory duty in repelling the "UFO invasion." http://www.caus.org/gc041200.htm : Have you encountered any ETs lately? Have they stolen your women/men/kids/ pets/money/land/sexuality/brain/inhibitions? D'ya have cause for a lawsuit? Can you successfully sue time-travelers?Do they already know what'll happen? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Damaged Nerves Heal Faster With Electricity - stick finger in socket for new brain: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000410091145.htm # GROW YOUR OWN HEART? The future of cardiology -- growing hearts in labs? www.healthcentral.com/columnists/JoeFlower/JoeFlowerFullText.cfm?ID=31429 # MY HMO WON'T PAY FOR A NEW HEART ANYWAY, EVEN IF I GROW IT MYSELF. Gosh darn them: http://www.healthcentral.com/centers/onecenter.cfm?Center=Hmo # Study Of Rats' Brains Indicates Brain Continues To Grow After Puberty. A simple study of rat brains has added more substance to the idea that the adult brain is still a work in progress, even well after puberty. While overall size may not change, composition of nerve fibers in a key area does. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000406091914.htm : Have your bodily organs grown lately? D'ya prefer to grow organs in situ, in vivo, in utero, in labo? Has y'r brain grown after puberty? Is this good? Have you stimulated growth of your brain/heart/genitalia with electricity or drugs or prayer or vacuum pumps? Has your insurer reimbursed you? Why not?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LAST DAYS WARNINGS OF POPE JOHN PAUL. VATICAN CITY -- A document crafted in secret by Pope John Paul II and intended only for the eyes of his successor has surfaced in Rome. And it contains terrifying warnings of worldwide turbulence bloodshed destined to occur in the coming days -- culminating in Armageddon! http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1455.html @ Take a virtual peek into the future: http://www.cnn.com/future @ All about 2000: From parties to predictions: http://www.cnn.com/2000 @ 21st cent. scenarios: http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/at2000/index.html#poll $ ROCK PROPHECY -- The Hendrix/asteroid/Microsoft incident. A new religion, the original asteroid prediction of Jimi Hendrix triggered an avalanche of asteroid stories. Interpret history in ways that dominators are most concerned to obstruct and crush. The story reports Microsoft's connection with the end of civilization. Gates IS Satan: http://www.rockprophecy.com/ : What's your favorite prognostication? Does your belief system control/see the future? D'ya keep your knowledge secret or d'ya warn all humans who will heed you? Do those who ignore you deserve their dreadful fate? Does anyone? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA NCI To Develop Nano-Explorers For The Human Body. To treat symptoms of the common cold, most people take a gel capsule containing hundreds of granular pieces of medicine as a remedy for coughing, sneezing and a runny nose. Now, imagine ingesting a capsule of similar size, containing micro- scopic sensors to detect, diagnose treat disease inside the human body. Li'l angels: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000410092003.htm # Robots in rescue plan. US scientists are developing a new breed of robot to locate avalanche victims four times faster than conventional mountain rescue teams. They're developing an army of cockroach-sized mini robots that can scour the snow surface looking out for radio signals given off from transmitters sewn into modern ski jackets. Robo-bugs swarming on a mission: http://www.the-times.co.uk/interface/insight/story328.html : What's your favorite little robot? Are all
[CTRL] Fwd: Organized crime gone global, NWO style
4.12.00 Organized crime gone global, NWO style Not wishing to miss out on the cash to be made from global operations, organized crime groups are said to be going "global" in a big way lately. But they're just playing catch-up with the REALLY big criminal enterprises like the BUSH Crime Syndicate, which has been operating on a global basis for MANY years now. NewsHawk® Inc. +++ + + + + + + + + Organized crime on globalization bandwagon United Press International - April 10, 2000 19:22 VIENNA, April 10 (UPI) -- Organized crime has "jumped on the bandwagon of globalization to create trans-national criminal networks," U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frchette Monday told a U.N. crime conference in Vienna. Echoing her concern, Undersecretary General Pino Arlacchi, executive director of the U.N. Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention said, "Our task is to examine how, in the face of a globalized threat from organized crime, we can guarantee to the peoples of the world a life under a Rule of Law." Added Arlacchi, "I mean the right to a life free of violence and intimidation, the right to basic services on an equal footing with all other people, the right to freedom and dignity." Frchette opened the Tenth U.N. Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders. "As trade barriers fall and data circulates around the world at the touch of a button, new opportunities abound for increased prosperity, better information and education and increased involvement of citizens in many areas," she said, explaining, some of those who realize they have a lot to gain in the digital age are from what Secretary-General Kofi Annan calls, "uncivil society." "To them, opening borders means it is easier to traffic in women and children for forced labor and prostitution, to smuggle drugs and arms, and to escape justice," she said. "Open economies man more business to extract bribes from and new shares of illegal markets to be won. Technological progress means new opportunities for child pornography, falsification of documents and money laundering." Frchette said misuses of new technology bring with them "unprecedented challenges for law enforcement officials and legislators, who struggle to keep abreast of highly specialized criminals and grapple with incredibly complex jurisdictional and legal issues." She said those challenges have lead to a recognition that "No country alone can cope successfully with the growth of transnational crime." The deputy secretary-general said, issues that were traditionally considered the preserve of nations, "Must now be addressed in multilateral settings" where joint strategies can be agreed on. "If criminals are going global, those fighting them must also launch a global effort and create effective networks of technical, legal and judicial cooperation or they will always be one step behind," Frchette said. "People choose to abide by the rules, " Arlacchi said. "Some of them also decide, if they can get away with it, not to abide the law. The rule of law must be seen as something broad, a concept linked to the political culture, a concept that goes beyond legislation. It reflects the social contract that binds state and society together." Said, Arlacchi "The new frontier for the defense of our states and societies, is, in many cases no longer the state border. It is against crime in all its forms and manifestations, and especially against transnational organized crime, that we have to build new and better fences." Arlacchi said the mission of those at the congress is to help strengthen the rule of law in the world. Said the undersecretary-general, "Other international bodies deal with the global economy or with issues of war and peace. Our business is to help secure that justice is done in the world, that crime does not go unpunished, that we cannot hide behind international borders in safe havens. Some forces of crime have taken on global dimensions that we must, as Madame Frechette stated, now think of global solutions." -- Copyright 2000 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
[CTRL] Coal-Powered Supersonic Jets?
Source: American Chemical Society (http://www.acs.org/) Date: Posted 4/12/2000 Supersonic Transports Could Be Powered By Coal Coal-Derived Jet Fuels Less Likely to Form Engine Deposits at High Speeds SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 To allow jet planes to fly faster safely, scientists are looking to coal, rather than petroleum, as a source of fuel. Coal-derived fuel is less likely to form engine-clogging coke deposits in jet engines at higher speeds and temperatures, according to research being done at Pennsylvania State University. The research, which is funded by the United States Air Force, was reported here today at the 219th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society. The weeklong meeting is expected to attract about 20,000 scientists from around the world. Fuel now used in commercial jet aircraft comes from petroleum and is typically exposed to operating temperatures below 600 F (300 C). As speeds increase, temperatures are expected to reach up to 900 F (482 C) and higher, says John Andrésen, Ph.D., of the Energy Institute at Penn State, where the research is being done. Jet fuels presently used have been shown to form solid deposits that can plug the fuel system and ultimately lead to catastrophic malfunction of the jet aircraft, says Andrésen. Coal-derived liquid jet fuels can withstand temperatures up to about 500 C for several minutes, he adds. The reason for the superior performance of the coal-derived fuel is its ring-shaped hydrocarbon (alkane) makeup. Coal is rich in cycloalkanes, which are more thermally stable than the straight-line linear alkanes found in petroleum. Linear alkanes are highly susceptible to thermal degradation at temperatures above 400 C, resulting in solid particle formation (coke), says Andrésen. Underway since 1991, the research project so far has been confined to laboratory measurement and analysis of how petroleum-derived and coal-derived jet fuels behave at different temperatures. The next step is laboratory testing of the fuels in actual engines. This phase is expected to take about five years, Andrésen estimates. Although jet speed can be increased using current petroleum-derived fuels, how long you safely operate at higher speeds is the crux of the matter, Andrésen points out. Using coal-derived jet fuels, you can operate at a high max speed for a longer time without running into any problems with solid particle formation, he says. Speed isnt the only benefit of using coal as the source for jet fuels. Coal is much more plentiful in the United States than oil, which could reduce reliance on imports. Bituminous coal, the most abundant type of coal in the United States, is being used in the research project. While more processing is needed to produce jet fuel from coal than from petroleum, it is still economically viable and competitive, Andrésen believes. The investigation into coal-derived jet fuels is part of a large Penn State research project on jet fuels being conducted at the schools Energy Institute under the direction of Harold Schobert, Ph.D. Co-authors of the research report on jet fuel from coal are Chunshan Song, Ph.D., and undergraduate student James Strohm. Dr. Andrésen is Associate Director and Research Associate, Applied Catalysis in Energy Laboratory, The Energy Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. Dr. Chunshan Song is Associate Professor, Energy Geo-Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. James Strohm is an undergraduate student studying science and engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. Dr. Harold Schobert is Professor and Director of The Energy Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. Editor's Note: The original news release can be found at http://center.acs.org/applications/news//story.cfm?story=343 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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 A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To
[CTRL] Pulsing Light Sorce Puzzles Astronomers
Flashing Light Source Puzzles Astronomers [Original headline: Scientists spot mysterious flashing light in Big Dipper] Los Alamos, N.M. (AP) Astronomers using an automated telescope that scans 10 million stars and galaxies a night have discovered a mysterious pulsing light in the Big Dipper. It flashes like a slowly rotating searchlight, scientists say. ''It's a mystery,'' said Los Alamos researcher Jim Wren. ''It's definitely a strange object.'' It was spotted March 29 by the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment at Los Alamos. It brightens, then dims and brightens again in a cycle, Wren said. Ron Remillard of Massachusetts Institute of Technology was the first to see it. He sent out a request for corroborating observations and received a response from Japan within an hour that scientists there saw it, too. Remillard theorizes the pulsing may come from a black hole, a dying star with a force of gravity so intense that not even light readily escapes its pull. He said the black hole, perhaps on the fringes of our galaxy, may be sucking dust and gas which heats as it spirals to its death, giving off the pulsing light and X-rays. He has seen similar phenomena, he said, but with different pulse patterns. ''There's a big mystery out there that's not solved,'' Remillard said. The lightweight ROTSE telescope is designed to wheel around at a moment's notice, giving astronomers a view of celestial fireworks as they occur. It's mainly intended to watch for gamma ray bursts, but it will watch for other phenomena when gamma rays aren't keeping it busy. The telescope, built in 1997 by Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Michigan, is housed here in an 8-foot steel cylinder along with the computer that runs it. The computer is linked to satellites that may signal phenomena like the pulsing light. It takes 5.5 seconds from a satellite signal until ROTSE, plugged into the Internet, gets the message. The satellite gives only a general area of sky, so ROTSE swings around and starts snapping electronic pictures, rapidly scanning that part of the sky. Story originally published by The Boston Globe / MA - April 9 2000 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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 A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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: [RuMills] MARTIAL LAW DECLARED IN BOLIVIA -- FROM SPY NEWS]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 8:07 PM Subject: [Fwd: [RuMills] MARTIAL LAW DECLARED IN BOLIVIA -- FROM SPY NEWS] Sunday, April 9th Cochabamba, Bolivia Dear Friends: The situation here in Bolivia remains critical. Since the declaration of martial law yesterday at least three people have been killed, including a 17 year old boy shot by soldiers with live ammunition here in Cochabamba. More than 30 people in Cochabamba alone have been injured from conflicts with the military. Respected leaders of the water protests have been jailed, some flown to a remote location in Bolivia? '²s jungle. Soldiers continue to occupy the city? '²s center. However, there is now something very real and straightforward you can do to help. The massive protests that prompted the declaration of martial law here were prompted by the sale of Cochabamba? '²s public water system to a private corporation (Aguas del Tunari, owned by International Water Limited) which then doubled water rates for poor families that can barely afford to feed themselves. It turns out that that the main financial power behind that water corporation in the Bechtel Corporation, based in San Francisco (Source: http://www.bechtel.com/whatnew/1999artsq4.html). The people of Bolivia have made it very clear that they want Bechtel out. The Bolivian government is so committed to protecting Bechtel that it has declared martial law and killed its own people. While some in the government here are saying this afternoon that Bechtel will leave, given the government's reversal on the same promise Friday the statement has no credibility here ansent a written agreement and end to martial law. It is critical that pressure be brought to bear directly on Bechtel in the US. You can help, here? '²s how: 1) Send an e-mail, letter, fax or make a phone call to: Riley Bechtel, Chairman and CEO, Bechtel Corp E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (415) 768-1234 Fax: (415) 768-9038 Address: 50 Beale Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 2) The Message: "Bolivians have made it absolutely clear that they want Bechtel? '²s water company, Aguas de Tunari, out of Bolivia, through a week of huge protests that have nearly shut down the country. To protect Bechtel, the Bolivian government has now put the country under martial law, leaving many dead and wounded. Bechtel has a responsibility to honor the wishes of Bolivians and bring the crisis to an end by immediatley signing an agreement to turn the water system back over to Bolivians." 3) Please send this information as far and wide as you can. More than 1,000 other are receiving this message today. Even 100 e-mails ro calls to Bechtel Monday will make an enormous difference. To give you some additional context on events here I am including below an article, which I published in Saturday? '²s San Jose Mercury News. The article went to press just before the government reversed position and declared martial law. Many thanks, Jim Shultz The Democracy Center mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information please visit http://www.1worldcommunication.org Ravi Khanna, Director 1world communication P. O. Box 2476 Amherst, MA 01004 Phone: 413-323-7629 Fax: 413-323-9348 E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web-site: http://www.1worldcommunication.org Special Offer-Earn 300 Points from MyPoints.com for trying @Backup Get automatic protection and access to your important computer files. Install today: http://click.egroups.com/1/2344/0/_/7016/_/955405743/ - ~__~___~_~___~__~___~_~_~_~__~ /%_]%0%\%V%/%\[%]%__]\%/%/%%_] \_%\%%%/\%/[%\\%]%_]%%V%V%\_%\ [__/%%]%//%[_|\_]___]%_n_/[__/ OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station http://mprofaca.cro.net/mainmenu.html ~~~ Mario Profaca, owner, editor and moderator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get paid for the stuff you know! Get answers for the stuff you dont. And get $10 to spend on the site! http://click.egroups.com/1/2200/0/_/163550/_/955418473/ RMNews, The Uncensored National Rumor http://www.rumormillnews.com THE ONLY RUMOR YOU CAN TRUST RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY P.O. BOX 1784 APTOS, CA 95001 TELFAX 831 462 3949 WHY WAS PRINCESS DIANA MURDERED? http://www.dianaqueenofheaven.com
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #2
SkeptiNews 000412b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/11_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No code-breaker geeks were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Little Futurama People: http://www.quinnarama.com/futurama.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Astronaut believes there's life beyond Earth. A NASA astronaut who is the veteran of four space shuttle missions says his explorations of space have contributed to his belief that there is extraterrestrial life in the universe. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal041201.html # PUBLIC IS READY TO HANDLE E.T. REALITY Fresh encouragement about the govt Acclimation Program of preparing the public for official acknowledgment of extraterrestrial contact. http://www.jps.net/drboylan/wlffrsh.htm @ LGM: http://space.com/spaceimagined/books/little_green_men_000323.html @ IS ETA CARINA GOD? Yeah sure, why not? http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/ # THE SUN SPEAR. Oh my gosh, I can't believe my eyes. Looking through the eyes of the SOHO spacecraft I just saw something spear the sun, right through it from north to south pole, or vice versa, stem to stern, slick as a whistle! Now what do I do with this? http://www.caus.org/os041200.htm : Have aliens manipulated/reprogrammed/attacked/penetrated your galaxy/star/ planet/brain lately? Have they conspired with your govt to cover-up damage/ contact/control? Do LGM (Little Green/Gray Men) buzz ominously in your head? Are the Grays and Greens battling for your heart/soul/mind/money? Who else? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Making and breaking codes at US spy agency NSA. FORT MEADE: Some of the US govt's best weapons against terrorism wear eyeglasses held together with tape and sometimes forget to wear their shoes. They could be known as the Nerd Warriors of the National Security Agency,mathematical puzzle-solvers. Geeks'R'Us http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/apr/12/12042000ft.htm#A1 # Shadowy world of germ war. (UPI) - While the threat of an all-consuming nuclear exchange between superpowers has diminished in recent years, the grisly development of biological warfare remains a bustling cottage indus- try among rogue states. http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=78496 # Company running U.S. uranium operations facing serious money problems -- nukes not profitable any more -- US/Russia decommissioning treaty jeopard- ized --- subsidy needed? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9661987 : What's your favorite military technology? Are war.techs best neutralized/ suppressed by rendering them unprofitable? Is cyberwar cheaper, more cost- effective than physical warfare? Will all war be cyber in the future? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Did Looped Heart Shape Give Edge To Vertebrates? Asymmetrically swirling flow patterns and direction changes in heart cavities may be important for smooth, efficient heart action, enabling it to move blood through the body efficiently, especially with the increased demands of exercise. But bugs never get pumped-up, sweaty: http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0412003.htm # Sweaters for Penguins: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9660139 # Mystery footprints said to be 500 million years old. A mystery footprint found by a fossil collector in Utah two decades ago is said to be 300 to 600 million years old. And he apparently wasn't alone in his discovery. Proof that there were previous civilizations on Earth, or visitors from another world? http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal041202.html : Are you better/bigger/badder than bugs? Then why are there so many of THEM and so few of YOU? How old are y'r footprints? How old are bugs' footprints? What conclusions are inescapable? Which aliens influenced your evolution?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The "Warning" To Take Place This Week. This is the week to watch the skies very closely. The info was bestowed upon me regarding the Third Secret Of Fatima states a time between April 8th and 16th is a day the sky will turn red. There is speculation it will be a near miss asteroid or comet. It may also occur as a direct hit from a CME. People around the world should take pause. Alert! http://earthchangestv.com/breaking/April2000/0409warning.htm # Red Skies Already? www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/April2000/0409skies.htm # Does the New Jersey Devil predict wars? Lurking in the wooded areas of the New Jersey Pinelands is a legendary creature that's been scaring residents since 1735 or even earlier. The Devil's first appearance dates back to the era when Native Americans populated the area and described its haunts as "the place of the dragon." http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal041102.html : Have you
[CTRL] Biowarfare
Book details shadowy world of germ war Tuesday, 11 April 2000 19:25 (ET) Book details shadowy world of germ war By HIL ANDERSON LOS ANGELES, April 11 (UPI) - While the threat of an all-consuming nuclear exchange between superpowers has diminished in recent years, a new book reminds the world that the grisly development of biological warfare remains a bustling cottage industry among rogue states. Journalists Tom Mangold and Jeff Goldberg report in "Plague Wars" that the harnessing of lethal bacteria and viruses has been the goal of various major powers since World War II, and research into making the organisms deadlier, and delivering them more efficiently to a helpless foe, continues. The prospect of an unhinged dictator or a terrorist cell loosing anthrax or some other vile plague on a major city or against the woefully unprepared U.S. military conjures up nightmarish visions of mass burials in Central Park or the loss of entire divisions of troops. "I am taking the biological terrorist threat very, very seriously," Jerry Hauer, the head of New York City's Office of Emergency Services, told the authors. "I have a background in public health, and I know what the implications are." The implications are serious trouble due not only to a lack of equipment, medicines and trained emergency personnel, but also to the nature of biological weapons -- invisible to the eye and capable of swiftly drifting along on the breeze through streets, air conditioning ducts and subway tunnels. It is this apparent portability that seems to make biological warfare an attractive possibility for a terrorist bent on causing mass casualties and panic in an urban area, or a rogue nation looking for a weapon that will serve as a great equalizer in a confrontation with the United States. According to the book, the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo repeatedly tried to launch biological attacks against Tokyo and against U.S. Navy installations in Japan in the mid-1990s, but the attempts failed - undone for a variety of reasons, including faulty equipment or viruses that just didn't work -- and the cult turned to sarin nerve gas, which killed a dozen people and injured about 5,000 others in the Tokyo subway in March 1995. The prospect of facing biological and/or chemical weapons in the days leading up to the Gulf War was enough to prompt President Bush to deliver a thinly-veiled threat to Saddam Hussein that the coming battle could go nuclear quickly if the Iraqis unleashed their arsenal of such weapons against Coalition forces. The nuclear option appears to be what has been keeping the biologicals at bay, and more likely to be used in a regional conflict such as the Iran-Iraq war, or the kind of covert "dirty" war as the one that occurred in the bush during the guerrilla campaigns against Rhodesia and South Africa. While the prospects of a strategic biological attack are bone chilling, the most likely scenario is a small-scale operation during a little-known war in a remote corner of the world. Biological weapons have been under development since World War II when Japan, the Soviet Union, Britain and the United States all took the plunge into biological warfare research. The Soviet program appeared to have been the most ambitious, and Plague Wars reports on a couple of mysterious outbreaks of disease that swept through the invading German army that may or may not have been caused by germs grown in Soviet labs. The Soviet program frightened the west enough that the United States kept its program alive after the war ended, even drafting former members of Japan's ghoulish Unit 731, that had conducted bizarre and inhumane medical experiments on hapless prisoners in China, to provide U.S. scientists with their discoveries. The western programs never really matched the Soviets' in terms of output and ambition, and the collapse of the Communist government failed to terminate research that continued into the Yeltsin years. So cloaked in secrecy was the Russian biowar industry that even Yeltsin had to fumble around for the truth when coming clean about offensive biological weapons to the U.S. and the British. The Russians eventually agreed to a series of reciprocal inspections of both their facilities and those of the U.S., and Plague Wars mercifully breezes through the frequently tedious negotiations of such arms agreements. The secretive nature of biological warfare continues to the present day as United Nations arms inspectors try to ferret out the truth about Iraq's program. Plague Wars offers a fresh look at the often-tangled process by focusing on the adventures of the inspectors themselves in Iraq, the kinds of war stories one would hear over a drink in a pub rather than read about in the Sunday papers. Richard Butler, the head of the UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission on Iraq), told the authors that he saw his mission in Iraq as a vital step toward a solid, verifiable biological arms treaty.
[CTRL] [NA] Lies! Lies! Lies!
.. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.html From: Jim Condit Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NA] Lies! Lies! Lies! Date: Friday, April 07, 2000 2:25 AM www.networkamerica.org "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." Communist Tyrant Josef Stalin (Listen anytime to Votefraud vs Honest Elections "crash course" radio show over the internet at www.sightings.com in the archives, April 3rd, 2000 show, Jeff Rense host, Jim Condit Jr. guest) April 6, 2000 NA (Network America) e-wire Lies! Lies! Lies! As we have stated repeatedly in one way or another: computerized votefraud, buttressed by phony polls, is an absolutely essential lynchpin of the hoped-for world dictatorship, now in progress. As the program for the regimentation of mankind gets farther along, the world rulers of this darkness foresee that resistance will increase, so it absolutely essential to have completely controlled elections, masquerading as honest elections. The New Age Dictator doesnt want to have to say: You serfs! Do this! Because I demand it. No, not at all. The New Age Dictator wants to be able to say: Dear People, I am doing this WE are doing this because YOU, THE PUBLIC have demanded it! Look at the polls. Look at the election results. I am only forging these chains for you and your children, and placing them on your wrists and ankles, because you have demanded it. I am only freeing the evil-doers to run rampant throughout the land, while imprisoning and neutralizing the good, because YOU have demanded it by way of polls and election results. What else can I do? One of the biggest lies told by public officials is that they cant return to paper ballots counted by the people in the precinct. They will even be so brazen as to say that they cant return to verifiable elections because theyve spent so much money buying systems which provide UNVERIFIABLE elections off limits to citizens. The following is from our Canadian ally, Brent Belesky, investigative researcher, and director of the International Voters Coalition: Re: City of Barrie, (Ontario, Canada) past and future, -- illegal, unfounded $500,000, soon to be a million dollar, ballot-less computerized, municipal elections. The city of Barrie can't afford to return to printing paper ballots in this November's election's, declared deputy clerk John Sisson. Excluding Aldermen Ainsworth, Eadie and Ramsay, who oppose the computerized elections, -- the mayor, the rest of council, city clerk John Craig and deputy clerk John Sisson, are all promoting an illegal election, an election without ballots, privacy, merit or authority. (Mayor Janice) Laking said anyone with concerns about how the election was being held, or the expense, should have made them known earlier. "We are too far down the road for them (the clerks office) to make a change," exclaimed Laking. Well Janice Laking, why indeed, have you and your friends dared to change our sacred election process to begin with? Why indeed! I have sure been concerned, as well as the citizens of Barrie, since the last computerized election in 1997. Notwithstanding that you and the city clerk have spent over $100,000 of taxpayers money, in 6 courts, making darn sure that an application to the courts, for a [a return to a verifiable] election, would not be heard. What are you afraid of? The courts deeming your so-called computerized, ballot-less election scheme to be illegal and invalid? Why are you so afraid? I quote the Officer of the Assembly and the Chief Election Officer of Ontario, Warren R. Bailie, [joined by] the chief provincial and federal election officers in Canada, [as stated in] a letter to me, dated March 9th 2000. The use of paper ballots has been prescribed by the Ontario Election Act since Confederation. Moreover, Canada, in federal elections also uses a paper ballot process and this practice also dates from Confederation. The method is, therefore, a tried and tested method. . . . As a result I am of the opinion the paper ballot mechanism is the most transparent, private and secret method of voting in any democracy. Thus stated Chief Election Officer Bailie. On April 3, 2000, the International Voters Coalition will be continuing a petition, to restore the paper ballot and our priceless democracy, immediately, to the citizens of Barrie! Therefore, alleged Mayor Janice Laking and friends, the jury is in, and one that can declare that your ballot-less, computerized bogus elections, are not tested by law, not true, not transparent, not private, not secret, not audit-able, not accountable, [as well as] with no merit, no authorization, nor is under any legal statute, nor principle, nor law. Well, I guess all the Chief Election Officers across Canada and the vast amount of citizens of
[CTRL] [BCPolitics] Re: Chemtrail Conspiracy. (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:45:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Franklin Wayne Poley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BCPolitics] Re: Chemtrail Conspiracy. David: This is where my limits are (first year college chemistry only). You however were aspiring to be a vet before becoming a tv celebrity so you may know this one. I thought the idea of the aluminum oxide was to reflect the sun back into space and reduce global warming. If that is so, cities shouldn't be targeted. OTOH, cities produce more heat so infrared is the problem there. I guess you could say that our benign masters are doing this for our own good...even the biowar tests. After all we (they) have to know how to deal with this contingency if an enemy were to attack. That was the reasoning way back in the Cole/Cranston reporting on spraying large Canada-US populations with microbes in the 60's/70's. The additional consideration is that the "democratic society" guaranteed and in those words by the Canadian Constitution is trashed by the senior politicians of this country. Diane Francis, Bill VanderZalm and others have said, THIS IS NOT A DEMOCRACY, on public tv. Why don't you invite them on with that as a topic? You see, it doesn't matter much what us peasant masses say on this topic or any other as long as Chretien, Manning and their ilk are running the political show. FWP. On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Will Thomas wrote: Yes Franklin, Your points are well taken. If the "screen" is also meant to cut down on dangerous levels of UV, "they" would spray over cities. But spraying pathogens has nothing to do with weather/atmospheric modification. The implications are disturbing and ominous. Best, WILL - Original Message - From: Franklin Wayne Poley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Will Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 12:07 PM Subject: Re: Chemtrail Conspiracy. Thanks for the compliment William. Your excellent work here has drawn a lot of attention on the Internet. I'm not big on David Ingram's "conspiracy theory" guests, like Horowitz though I think he should present their messages for the public to decide. I still get my flu shots every year! But I think you have a hold on something real and scientifically verifiable by the chemical-lab tests. And it is BIG...HUGE. The question I wanted to ask you is whether you can demonstrate if those "gassing" North America are flying over cities more than non-cities. If they just want to reflect light back into space they don't need to target cities. But the microbes you find in the samples suggests a repeat of "Clouds of Secrecy" (Cole/Cranston) which means there is an anti-personnel purpose to this. That is bloody well chilling. FWP. On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Will Thomas wrote: Thank you Franklin, Your comments re. journalistic ethics and the responsibility of journalists to cover news is well said. Best Regards, William Thomas - Original Message - From: Franklin Wayne Poley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Barry Rueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 1:50 PM Subject: Re: Chemtrail Conspiracy. What about calling journalists to task for a BREACH OF JOURNALISTIC ETHICS? You have a duty to the public when it comes to protecting the democracy of this country. That is what I was taught by Professor Dawson in my Canadian Government course and it is sound to-day. FWP. On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Barry Rueger wrote: CAJ guidelines - Rule Number One: "1. CAJ-L is not to be used as a tip sheet or a means to lobby journalists to cover certain events or issues. Nor is it a discussion list for general public policy or political issues. Postings should be directly relevant to its main purposes (see above)." OK? B. On 8 Apr 2000, at 13:06, Franklin Wayne Poley wrote: Date sent: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:06:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Franklin Wayne Poley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Chemtrail Conspiracy. Anybody on Canadian Association of Journalists List come across the "Chemtrail Conspiracy"? See http://www.islandnet.com/wilco . "Project Censored" rated it as one of its top contenders last year. Investigator William Thomas was interviewed on the David Ingram television show yesterday concerning this story. Laboratory tests seem to confirm that large scale spraying of chemicals over Canada and USA is underway. The main component of the sprays is aluminum oxide leading to Thomas'
Re: [CTRL] Jane Fonda Says Pro-Life People are Hypocrites -NOPOST
Kris Millegan wrote: I don't really care and this is not the list for this discussion. You had been asked. And I ain't got time for this bs. Not only time... considering the 144+ megs of disk space at l-soft, costing you about 120FRN a month (if I remember correctly), who can blame you? And how many tens of megs in the CTRL archive have been squandered on off-topic crap as this? Odd how the most profound conspiracies posted to CTRL seem to "wither on the vine" so to speak, and seem to fade away with little or no comment, while the BS, non-conspiracy releted threads like "Jane Fonda Says Pro-Life People are Hypocrites", and other "Battling Bickersons BS", as you aptly call it, seem to run on forever. As far as the "Battling Bickersons BS" threads that seem to run on forever goes, IMO this re-post seems to sum it up well: -- Question: How many [CTRL] posts does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: 1,331: 1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mail list that the light bulb has been changed; 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently; 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs; 27 to point out spelling / grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs; 53 to flame the spell checkers; 156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list; 41 to correct spelling in the spelling/grammar flames; 109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take this email exchange to alt.lite.bulb; 203 to demand that cross posting to alt.grammar, alt.spelling and alt.punctuation about changing light bulbs be stopped; 111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts _are_ relevant to this mail list; 306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique, and what brands are faulty; 27 to post URLs where one can see examples of different light bulbs; 14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly, and to post corrected URLs; 3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to this list which makes light bulbs relevant to this list; 33 to concatenate all posts to date, then quote them including all headers and footers, and then add "Me Too"; 12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy; 19 to quote the "Me Too's" to say, "Me Three"; 4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ; 1 to propose new alt.change.lite.bulb newsgroup; 47 to say this is just what alt.physic.cold_fusion was meant for, leave it here; and, 143 votes for alt.lite.bulb. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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 A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] Chinese Embassy Bombing
-- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:07:12 -0400 From: Seth Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mowing Embassies (was sowing dragons) Doug Henwood wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Brad. Imperialism is at least as stupid as it is evil. I mean, look, we sent a man with a cake shaped like a key to see if he could pry the American hostages loose from Iran. Uh, guys, sure bureaucracies screw up, and the U.S. military is the biggest bureaucracy known to humanity, but the Observer/Politiken story is based on interviews with people who said the bombing was deliberate. - --- That's right. Here's a list of the Observer/Politiken's sources--for their *first* story--based on conversations with the reporters: * A European NATO military officer serving in an operational capacity at the four-star level - a source at the highest possible level within NATO--confirmed three things: (1) That NATO targeted the Chinese embassy deliberately; (2) That the embassy was emitting Yugoslav military radio signals; and (3) That the target was not approved through the normal NATO channels but through a second, "American-only" track. * A European NATO staff officer at the two-star level in the Defense Intelligence office confirmed the same story. * Two U.S. sources: A very high-ranking former senior American intelligence official connected to the Balkans - "about as high as you can get," according to one reporter -- confirmed that the embassy was deliberately targeted. A mid-ranking current U.S. military official, also connected to the Balkans, confirmed elements of the story and pointedly refused to deny that the embassy had been bombed deliberately. * A NATO flight controller based in Naples and a NATO intelligence officer monitoring Yugoslav radio broadcasts from Macedonia each confirmed that NATO's signals intelligence located Yugoslav military radio signals coming from the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. When they informed their superiors, they were told that the matter would be handled further up in the chain of command. Two weeks later, the embassy was bombed. * An official at the U.S. National Imagery and Mapping Agency told the reporters that NATO's official explanation, which involves a faulty map of Belgrade, is a "damned lie." The Alliance claims it was targeting the Yugoslav Federal Directorate for Supply and Procurement which had once been located at that site. But Holsoe discovered through simple open-source inquiries that no building was ever on that site before the embassy. The Yugoslav office for supplies is in fact 500 meters down the street and was struck later by NATO. According to Helsoe, "nearly everyone involved in NATO air operations or signals command knows that the embassy bombing was deliberate." (Pacific News Service, 10/20/99) - --- In the Observer/Politiken's follow-up story, they wrote: "Five weeks ago the Observer reported evidence gathered from sources within NATO -- serving military officers who would be instantly sacked if named. Our account was denied by the CIA, by Albright and by Cook, who said there was not a "shred of evidence to support this rather wild story." "The Observer has gone back to its original sources, and also spoken to other serving officers, from NATO colonels to intelligence officers to a military officer with the rank of a general. All are in agreement. The Chinese Embassy was deliberately bombed." - --- The reporters have also spoken to officials in the Danish and British foreign ministries who confirmed the story to them. -- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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 A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
ic Mind-Control - How-To: http://www.geocities.com/wtmick/basichow.htm : Are you intrinsically connected to other people;the universal unconscious; your memories; space-time; machines? Where would you like to send your soul, if any? Would it be rejected and sent back? Would that rilly bum you out?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Wicca-Hater With Dagger Guilty of Interstate Stalking. (Reuters) A man armed with a dagger who hitchhiked across the United States in search of a death duel with members of the Wiccan faith was convicted on interstate stalking charges: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000412/10/odd-hitchhiker # GOOD CATHOLIC/BAD CATHOLIC: A former altar boy (and lapsed Catholic) reveals what stopped him from attending Mass after 19 years of perfect attendance. The Grateful Dead and pretty girls were just starters: http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0015/features-seely.shtml # Mission to seek lost Persian army in Egypt desert. CAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists head into Egypt's Western Desert next month to try to solve an ancient mystery - the fate of the lost Persian army of Cambyses. Abducted? http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters2411_2173.html : Are/were you on a holy mission? Was it canceled? Who plans/controls holy missions? Have you stalked any human/aliens/spirits lately? Did you get'em?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Conspiracies'R'Us: # FAMILIES DEMAND RELEASE OF MATERIALS ON COLUMBINE SHOOTINGS. The families of two slain Columbine High School students have given the sheriff three days to release his final report on the shootings. Then they'll come out with guns blazing... http://CNN.com/2000/US/04/11/columbine.parents.ap/ # As Infamous Anniversaries of US Terrorism Loom, Nation Asks Why. WHY!?! Citizens and government to mark dates of Oklahoma City and Littleton tragedies. http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/2412/t34282.html # SOUTH POSTPONES RISING YET ANOTHER YEAR. HUNTSVILLE, AL -- For the 135th straight year since Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, repre- sentatives for the South announced Monday that the region has postponed plans to rise again. http://theonion.com/onion3613/south_postpones.html # Bill Gates uses Ralph Reed to buy George W. Bush Jr. - affordable: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565621898-bf0 # US VICE PRESIDENT BACKS ANTI-CATHOLIC GAY EVENT IN ROME - Gore is Satanic tool: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49053 # Alleged rapist footballer Mark Chmura wanted to be GOP politico: http://www.jsonline.com/packer/news/apr00/1chmura12041100.asp # Holier-than-thou Chmura refused to meet with "sinner" Clinton: http://www.jsonline.com/packer/comm/apr00/baumcol12041100.asp @ Hillary Clinton has built her child-care policy on a curious -- and false -- theory of human development. Where do her ideas come from? Where are they going? Who's right? http://www.gladwell.com/2000_01_10_a_baby.htm # Jenny Craig drops Monica Lewinsky - too unwieldy to lug around any more: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565624313-e39 # Going to Pot. The Web is going to pot. Just ask the founder of iToke: a Web-based pot delivery service preparing to launch in Europe. If you think the concept is outrageous, wait until you hear the plans for world domination. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35496,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "There is no sin except stupidity." --Oscar Wilde * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding... A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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 A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] CATO Film on Kosovaria
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Film Depicts Damage Wrought By Kosovo Air War
Foreign Affairs News
Source: Defense Week
Published: April 10, 2000 Author: Christian Lowe
Posted on 04/11/2000 05:36:35 PDT by Stand Watch Listen
When NATOs Kosovo air war wrapped up in June 1999, U.S. and NATO officials
touted its "overwhelming success." In 78 days and nights of bombing over Serbia
and Kosovo, NATOs three goals of ensuring Europes stability, stopping ethnic
cleansing and bolstering NATOs credibility were accomplished without the loss
of a single alliance members life, they said.
But a new documentary film presented last week at the CATO Institute, a
Washington, D.C. think-tank that tends to oppose U.S. intervention abroad,
argues that NATOs "victory" was not as clear-cut as some have claimed.
In many ways, the situation in the Balkans has either not improved or gotten
much worse since the war started in March 1999, according to the film, titled
Collateral Damage. Far from stopping the ethnic cleansing and stabilizing
Europes southern flank, the war resulted in displacement of Serbs and
Albanians, crushed economies and a real threat to democratic reform in the
region, the film makers say.
Two CATO staffers, Gary Dempsey and Aaron Lukas, flew to the Balkans on a shoe-
string budget to document the "unintended consequences" of NATOs bombing
campaign. They traveled extensively through the region, filming patrols in
Kosovar cities where NATO troops are stationed, inspecting bombed-out
industrial complexes in Serbia and interviewing victims of the war who were
nowhere near the bombed areascitizens of Macedonia, Romania and Bulgaria.
One repression for another
Collateral Damage directly attacks the notion that the air war stopped ethnic
cleansing. In fact, according to the film, the Yugoslav army was engaged in a
campaign against Kosovo Liberation Army insurgents in the region and switched
to a tactic of mass expulsion. The intent was to flood NATO staging areas with
refuges, thereby hampering a possible ground invasion, the film said. The U.S.
Department of State admitted, although belatedly, that the NATO bombing caused
the Yugoslav cleansing campaign to begin, according to the documentary.
Up to 2,000 people were killed during the war, including around 1,000 Serbs
outside Kosovo, the film said. Since NATOs occupation of Kosovo, according to
Sava Janjic, an orthodox priest interviewed in the film, 200,000 Serbs have
left Kosovo. The exodus of Serbian authorities and the organizations they ran
has left a void that organized crime has quickly filled, the priest said.
"Now, one repression has been replaced with another," Janjic said.
The air war did more than stir up the ethnic pot in the region. Precision
bombing strikes against bridges, oil refineries and other civilian industrial
targets have plunged the region into a severe economic crisis, the film argues.
Serbia has suffered $30 billion in damage to the economy, which has seen its
gross domestic product cut by 41 percent in 1999, it says.
Most disturbing has been the damage done to the city of Nis. Formerly an anti-
Milosevic bastion, Nis now boasts 30,000 jobless citizens and an average 3,000
residents using soup kitchens every day, the citys mayor said in the film.
More than just affecting Serbia and Kosovo, the bombing has brought Romania and
Bulgarias burgeoning export economies to a virtual stand-still, the film says.
NATOs targeting of bridges crossing the Danube river on Yugoslavias border
has strangled shipping along that vital riparian way.
Romania, on Yugoslavias eastern border, conducts 67 percent of its trade with
European Union member nations, one official said in the film. Because of the
downed bridges, the countrys industries cant move products by barge along the
river to customers in Hungary and on into the rest of Europe.
The country is losing $50 million a week because of the damage, the official
said.
A threat to reform
The bombs may have splintered the fragile brick and mortar of democratic reform
in the region as wellstill hardening after years of communist domination. Many
of the Balkan countries are trying to become members of the European Union and
eventually NATO. But now, that pro-NATO, pro-Europe position is harder to
explain, the film said.
A Bulgarian journalist said that the NATO bombing had prompted nearly 1 million
voters to withdraw support from the ruling democratic coalition government.
Some polls showed that 60 percent of Bulgarians disapproved of the bombing, he
said.
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Behind the Headlines
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
April 12 , 2000
OUR WAR CRIMES, AND THEIRS
At the height of the Kosovo war hysteria, when we were being subjected to a
daily barrage of bawling refugees telling vivid horror stories of alleged
Serbian "atrocities," the estimates of dead Kosovars went as high as 100,000.
If "genocide" was committed in Kosovo, then where are all the bodies? This is a
question that the Western news media, and their overseers at NATO headquarters
in Brussels, dare not ask, let alone answer. For the fact is that, so far, a
full year after the Kosovo war was launched amid the self-righteous braying of
our "humanitarian" militarists, a grand total of 2,108 bodies have been
uncovered. How to account for the discrepancy?
TALL TALES
The reason is because every tall tale told by a Kosovar "victim" was considered
unbiased "testimony" and reported as "fact" by Western governments and the
media and the story was, unsurprisingly, always the same. It was always the
Kosovars who were the victims, and the evil Serbs who were cast in the role of
"Milosevic's willing executioners," in the New Republic's typically hopped-up
phrase. The same methods were used to demonize the Serbs during the Bosnian
civil war, and now we have a spate of "war crimes" trials, with indictments
based on "testimony" of similar credibility. Bosnian Serb leader Momcilo
Krajisnik is the latest to stand in the dock for the "crime" of standing up for
the independence of the Serbian people: a few days ago, the NATO-crats came
knocking on his door in the night, dragging him out of bed and clapping him
into jail on the authority of a secret warrant issued by that star chamber
tribunal headquartered in The Hague. The gloating New York Times [April 8,
2000] account gives us the flavor of what life is going to be like in the new
world Tony and Bill and George and Al are building for us:
"Long a powerful figure, Mr. Krajisnik, 55, seemed just a slight figure in the
largest courtroom of the tribunal. Twice he tried to speak, first asking, 'May
I say a few words?' and then saying, "I would like to ask for a couple of
minutes at this hearing to say a few words in my own defense.' Both time Judge
[Richard] May [of Britain] cut him off, saying that no statements could be made
at this stage."
VYSHINSKY BACK IN VOGUE
Bound, gagged, and delivered before their tormentors, all who resist the New
World Order will grovel at the feet of the Tribunal's lord high executioners
and beg for mercy or else find themselves in for long prison terms in the
Euro-Gulag. Communism may be dead, but show trials are even more vogueish than
ever. Not since Vyshinsky indicted Bukharin and Trotsky as agents of Hitler and
the Mikado have so many Stalinists had such a good time of it. Why, it's almost
like the old days of the Moscow Trials again, lacking only a Stalin of
sufficient stature to rival the towering evil of the original.
RESISTANCE
By a great coincidence, the arrest of Krajisnik occurred on the eve of the
Bosnian municipal elections a model of the New Europe in which all Serbian
opponents of the NATO military occupation were banned from the ballot. In spite
of such measures, including the seizure of Serbian resistance radio and
television stations, and censorship imposed by the occupation forces, the
remaining Serbs, having been forcibly incorporated into the "multiethnic" state
of Bosnia-Hercegovina, stubbornly resist the NATO-ization of their nation.
Every effort to install a democratically-elected regime of Quislings has
failed, and the NATO-crats are fuming. The American ambassador, Thomas Miller,
complains: "I'm not interested in recommending to my bosses in Washington that
they put any money into areas where you have people who are doing all they can
to obstruct Dayton implementation." The Times account of Bosnia's electoral
charade goes on to note that "such voting patterns have long obstructed
reconstruction efforts."
THE NAKED FACE OF EVIL INCARNATE
The history of these persistent voting patterns, and Western efforts to break
them, underscores the eerily Orwellian atmosphere of NATO-run Bosnia: In every
election held since the imposition of the Dayton Accords, the Serbian
Democratic Party, the party of Radovan Karadzic and Krajisnik, has maintained
full support in the Serbian regions, and the Croatian nationalists have
retained control of their own precincts. This time, too, it seems that in spite
of threats by the Western powers to starve them out and bring them to their
knees if they didn't vote the "right" way, the people outside the Muslim-
controlled urban centers such as Sarajevo have rejected the occupiers and their
collaborators. Yet still the NATO-crats issue press releases opining that these
elections augur the beginning of a "new era" yet more evidence that the
forcible absorption of Serb and Croat communities into a "multicultural" state
led
[CTRL] SNET: please read (fwd)
visit my web site at www.voicenet.com/~wbacon -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 18:50:47 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNET: please read - SNETNEWS Mailing List I received this today from another list..I think it's great This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing. America: The Good Neighbor. Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record: "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one those." Stand proud, America! This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the United States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of the world would realize it. We are always blamed for everything, and never even get a thank you for the things we do. I would hope that each of you would send this to as many people as you can and emphasize that they should send it to as many of their friends until this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just a single American that has read this, I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON. Stand proud, America! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Enlighten your in-box. http://www.topica.com/t/15 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be
[CTRL] The Other 56/100
From (both) www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : Britain Britain: Labour government and Conservative opposition reported for stoking up anti-immigrant prejudices By Julie Hyland 12 April 2000 Back to screen version Britain's ruling Labour Party and the Conservative Party opposition were referred to the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) for making allegedly anti- immigrant statements in the run-up to next month's local council elections. The home affairs spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, Simon Hughes, said he had made the referral because he believed the Labour and the Conservatives had broken an agreement drafted by the CRE not to "use problems in the immigration and asylum system to damage community and race relations", signed by all three main parties the previous year. Hughes, a former human rights lawyer, said the Conservative Party local election manifesto and remarks made by Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw in the wake of the Stansted hijack crisis, when Afghan hostages applied for asylum in the UK, breached this agreement. In his complaint Hughes said, "There is growing concern that the struggle by the Conservative and Labour parties to be seen to be tough on asylum and immigration issues is motivated by short term party political advantage, rather than any objective of longer term racial and national tolerance." The referral came just days after the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had also attacked the Conservative election manifesto for claiming that racketeers are "flooding our country with bogus asylum-seekers". Such language plays into the hands of racists and xenophobes, the UNHCR said, and amounts to Conservative attempts to whip up fear to win votes. The UNHCR also criticised the Blair government for doing nothing to combat the current climate of hostility that has been created towards asylum-seekers. Anti-immigrant propaganda has reached a crescendo over the past month, as both parties compete to prove they are harsher on immigration. Politicians, and much of the press, have scapegoated asylum-seekers for the running down of health, education and social provisions carried out by both Conservative and Labour governments over the past two decades. For the Conservative Party, anti-immigrant propaganda is a means through which they hope to rebuild their political support based on the most reactionary and backward prejudices. The Tory election manifesto concentrates on the issue of asylum-seekers, claiming that council tax billsused to finance local servicesare increasing because the Labour government has allowed bogus refugees to flood into Britain. The manifesto also claims that the average household pays the equivalent of up to £160 in tax a year to finance "bogus" asylum-seekers. The Conservatives responded to the CRE referral by aggressively defending their campaign. Ann Widdecombe, Conservative Shadow Home Secretary, said the party's manifesto reflected the gravity of the situation. We have a very serious problem in which the asylum system is out of control and everybody can see it is out of control." Conservative Home Affairs spokesman David Lidington said the UNHCR had made a "foolish" intervention. "What we're doing is giving expression to the genuine feelings of anger among very large numbers of British people at the fact that our immigration controls and our tradition of giving hospitality to genuine refugees is currently being abused, and that the Labour government has taken insufficient action to bring this crisis to an end," Lidington said. Although dismissing Hughes' referral as a "political gimmick", Labour was deeply embarrassed by it. Prime Minister Blair has sought to portray his government as "inclusive" on racial and sexual issues, but the longer the controversy over asylum-seekers goes on, the more Labour's own racist immigration policies are exposed. Reflecting their own electoral considerations, Labour has conducted "private polling" sessions to assess their target voters' attitudes towards asylum- seekers. The increase in asylum claims over the last yearto approximately 74,000 individuals and familiesis mainly attributable to the war in Kosovo. NATO's exploitative use of Albanian refugees fleeing Kosovo in order to justify its bombardment of Serbia saw Blair forced to allow a number of them into Britain for a limited period. Outside of this, Labour has pursued a draconian offensive against the right to asylum. This week saw the start of a system, adopted from continental Europe, where those awaiting the outcome of their asylum claim receive vouchers rather than cash benefits. The government has also introduced a "fast track" system of assessing asylum claims, in order to remove immigrants as quickly as possible. For the first time in over two years, those whose applications are turned down now outstrip the numbers seeking asylum. But even this is not regarded as enough to discourage refugeesfleeing terrible conditions
[CTRL] Fw: Gen Clark
=== The Committee for National Solidarity Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU Date: Monday, April 10, 2000 11:36 PM Subject: [sn-vesti 4670] Fw: Gen Clark Any comment? - Original Message - From: "NATODOC" [EMAIL PROTECTED] PRESS RLEASE (2000)037 10 April 2000 SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER EUROPE MEDAL CEREMONY At a ceremony at HQ NATO on Wednesday, 12 April 2000, at 12:00 hours, the Secretary General of NATO, Lord Robertson, will present NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), General Wesley Clark, with his NATO medal for the Former Yugoslavia and his NATO medal for Kosovo. Accredited press and media wishing to cover the event are welcome and should arrive at NATO's Main Entrance no later than 11:45 a.m. In the event of bad weather, the ceremony will take place inside the building, in the lounge area outside the conference rooms. The decision on whether it will be a wet weather or outdoor programme will be made no later than 10:00 hours on 12 April 2000. The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Salon des Ambassadeurs, hosted by the Secretary General. There will be no invited press to the indoor events but NATO photo and video coverage will be available to all accredited media on request. Enquiries: General Press Arrangements: Press Media : Mr Fran?ois Le Bl?vennec+ 32 (0)2 707 50 38 TV-Radio : Mr George De Brouwer+ 32 (0)2 707 50 49 Photo Office : Mr Armando Soares + 32 (0)2 707 50 46 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Secretary General Mrs. Jela Jovanovic Art historian === A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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 A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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Hi ! The information below is not meant to show any disrespect to anyone's religious beliefs. It is only being presented as information for those interested in hearing more about some possible Mormon connections to ritual abuse. Sincerely, Neil Brick http://members.aol.com/smartnews/Sample-Issue-06.html - This includes info on the Pace Report A search on the word "Mormon" at http://members.aol.com/smartnews/Back-Issues-Ordering-Info.htm will have links to other newsletters with pertinent info. Deviant Scripturalism and Ritual Satanic Abuse Part Two: Possible Masonic, Mormon, Magick and Pagan Influences by Prof. S. Kent, other articles avail., S. Kent, Univ of Alberta, Dept of Soc. Faculty of Arts, 5-21 HM Tory Bldg.., Edm, Canada T6G 2H4 Utah Lighthouse Ministries - books and newsletters, info on Masons also, P O Box 1884, Salt Lake City, UT 84110, books: Evolution of the Mormon Temple Ceremony, Satanic Ritual Abuse and Mormonism, Occult Ritual Abuse - Fact or Fantasy, http://www.utlm.org (These pages may be Christian in nature and may be triggering for survivors of alleged Mormon RA.) Mormonism, Masonry and Godhood, (Christian in nature) Dr. Burns, Sharing, 212 E 7th St., Mt. Carmel, PA 17851-2211 Clergy Ignores Victims, Allege LDS Plaintiffs, 10/17/99, Salt Lake Tribune by S. McCann, discusses a $750 million lawsuit against the LDS church (Mormon) in West Virginia at http://www.sltrib.com/1999/oct/10171999/utah/38781.htm, "more than 40 plaintiffs have alleged church officials knew of molestations or ignored warning signs and failed to alert either victim's families or authorities." http://www.childpro.org A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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 A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] [1] THE FBI REPORTEDLY PROTECTS THE REAL MOB IN CHICAGO
FROM: http://www.skolnicksreport.com/protects.html Click Here: A HREF="http://www.skolnicksreport.com/protects.html"Sherman Skolnick's Report/A - THE FBI REPORTEDLY PROTECTS THE REAL MOB IN CHICAGO, Part One by Sherman H. Skolnick "They are willfully blind". That is the way some describe the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Chicago. Of course, minor gangsters ARE targeted. Long-time FBI dicatator, the late J. Edgar Hoover repeatedly claimed there was no Crime Syndicate. Big-time criminals were blackmailing Hoover on his homosexuality. And hoodlum bigshots in the liquor industry even set up a Foundation for Hoover's financial benefit. (See, Anthony Summers, "Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J.Edgar Hoover", Putnam, N.Y., 1993.) In 1974, there was a 25 million dollar robbery of a vault used to store large sums of money in transit for an armored truck business, at the time a division called Purolator. The money was supposedly recovered by the then U.S. Attorney in Chicago, James "Big Jim" Thompson. For him, FBI agents carried the recovered loot in the trunk of their cars but somehow reportedly "neglected" to count how many bags of cash there were or to mark the bags with identifying markings. Guess who did the counting? Why, a reputed gangster-linked enterprise called Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, politically and criminally tied to Big Jim and his cohorts in the federal bureaucracy. They counted and counted and counted, and said they find only two million dollars. Really? The rest went apparently to further the political ambitions of Big Jim who was elected Illinois Governor in 1976 and stayed there for 14 years. Although Thompson was a close pal of the Rockefeller family, he had to supply a lot of "his own money" for political campaigns. An accused vault guard in custody kept saying the money was twenty five million dollars and was grabbed by Nixon's pals, a left over detail of the Watergate Affair. In jail, the guard was pumped full of forget-me drugs to silence him. An apprehended reputed minor gangster hired private investigators to help with his court defense. As shown by the voluminous, undisputed federal court records, the gumshoes unraveled vast FBI criminal enterprises, including stolen farm and construction equipment taken across state lines, and converted by crooked FBI officials in Chicago for re-sale for their own financial benefit. A top FBI inspector in Chicago, who apparently helped Thompson divide up the recovered Purolator vault loot, was quietly allowed to escape prosecution and take an early retirement. [From the tremendous undisputed court files in the group of cases known as the Marzano matters.] One of the times Big Jim was re-elected as governor there was massive vote fraud, to favor him, covered up by the FBI n Chicago. After 14 years as Illinois Governor, Thompson became the head of a huge law factory, Winston Strawn, headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Washington, and worldwide. Their overseas offices were reportedly part of the international dope traffic tied to Red China. They reportedly had an inner circle, not in the law business at all, but links to nefarious activities. [Through a relative, Beryl Anthony, there were reported links to Vincent W. Foster, Jr. and his law partner Hillary Rodham Clinton. Before his short-lived, ill-fated position in the Clinton White House, Foster was a super bank money launderer with Hillary. Read about Foster and why he had to be murdered: GREENSPAN REPORTEDLY AIDS AND BRIBES GEORGE BUSH and FAMILY, Part Three In 1994, we did a one-hour public access Cable TV show about Big Jim and the dope traffic, confirmed by sources within his law offices and corroborated by us elsewhere. Of course, the Chicago FBI did nothing to pursue these details. Little understood are the links of Bill/Hillary to the REPUBLICANS as well as the Democrats. Their GOP crony has been George H. Ryan, a reputed long-time criminal who was for several years Illinois Secretary of State, and in 1998 elected Illinois Governor. The office of Illinois Secretary of State has a long history of corruption. Holding that office in the 1960s, was an enterprising criminal named Paul Powell who dressed in dreary black garments like a mortician. Those applying for drivers licenses and car and truck title registration and such had to make their payments payable TO PAUL POWELL. Since it was made out to his name, he figured it was perfectly okay to pocket those checks and money orders. [Some people just made the remittances TO PAUL POWELL, not Paul Powell, Illinois Secretary of State.] Powell kept shoeboxes full of those payments in his hotel apartment. One mistake. Being a cheapskate, he did not tip the maid who discovered the shoeboxes with the loot in his closet. She turned him in. By the time he was put on federal criminal trial, Powell had bladder trouble. You could see his accidental urinating down the carpet to the courtroom. A group of reporters one day
[CTRL] Forwarded Post
.. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.html From the archives of A-albionic Research, PO Box 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gopher: gopher.a-albionic.com 9006 Who Was Carroll Quigley? Too often the John Birch Society interpretation of Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope and AngloAmerican Establishment is accepted without further research, even in some left-wing circles! We think it is important to know that Carroll Quigley's mentor at Jesuit Georgetown University was Jesuit Father Edmunt Walsh a Vatican expert on Geopolitics and founder of the Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in 1919. In addition to founding an institution designed to counter the Anglophile WASP Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Father Walsh debriefed the Prussian geopolitical savant Karl Haushoffer after WWII! We have gathered together a number of items published by A-albionic Research, PO Box 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220 (The Project, $30.00 year/quarterly). In the hopes provoking a more sophisticated interpretation of Carroll Quigley's still very important work. New Source of Support for Project Theory of Quigley We recently discovered through a SpyBase computer search for references to Carroll Quigley a defunct magazine named ParaPolitics/USA which contained a fascinating article by Kevin Coogan which we have quoted below. Ignoring the obvious "left-bias" for a moment, note the support the article gives for the Project theory of Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope as a Georgetown Jesuit, Vatican plot. _ Quoted from ParaPolitics #6, 1982: "It was the SMOM (Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta) -- Georgetown axis which also launched Joe McCarthy's career. McCarthy was directly briefed by men like Father Walsh of Georgetown University who, with the help of the FBI, fed McCarthy his stories of "Communists" in the State Department. It is not just a case of "deja vu" when today the group is Georgetown-CSIS and it goes after such politically pathetic groups as the Institute for Policy Studies for their "KGB connections". In fact, the IPS in these circles is perceived as the outer wing of an "Atlanticist" faction in both American and British intelligence. Such British intelligence figures (and social democrats) as Richard Crossman have long been attacked by SMOM types for sponsoring the social democratic parties of Western Europe. It was because men like Gehlen (SMOM) hated the social democrats of all kinds that they also hated whole sections of British Intelligence. In effect they saw the Anglican and Catholic progressive circles as having their stronghold in the British Labor Party and other circles. This is why Georgetown was the home base for Professor Carroll Quigley whose book Tragedy and Hope "exposes" the close relations between the British "Roundtable" group and the American Council on Foreign Relations. Tragedy and Hope is the bible of the Birch Society and Catholic right. With the rise of the Thatcher faction of the Tory party (and the decline of Edward Heath whose ties were to much more moderate elements) the SMOM right has run a virtual coup in England." from ParaPolitics #6, 1982 The Men Behind the Counterreformation by Kevin Coogan _ Of course, the above quote also contains many distortions due to the left-wing obsessions of the author. First, it fails to mention Carroll Quigley's hatred of McCarthy. However, Quigley's hatred was not based upon McCarthy's anti-communism, but rather h is primitive intellectual nature that made it impossible for him to carry-out the sophisticated program planned by Jesuit Father Walsh in a sensible manner that would have achieved its anti-communist goals instead of discrediting them! Second, Coogan tries to dismiss the Institute for Policy Studies as politically impotent. On the contrary, IPS, which was extremely influential with left-liberals in the radical 60's and early 70's, was founded with money from the estate of James Wa rburg. Recall that the Warburgs, in combination with the Rothshilds with whom they are intermarried, were the founders of the Federal Reserve System and one of the premier International Merchant Banking firms of the Queen's Empire of the City (of London). Third, Coogan thinks IPS and similar circles are seen as creatures of the "Atlanticist faction of British and American Intelligence" by the SMOM forces. This failure to see that the Royalist ruling class of remnant British Imperialism (hardly just a n "Atlanticist" intelligence agency faction) controls left-wing groups such as IPS is
[CTRL] Colonists May Have Been Poisoned
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Jamestown-Deaths.html April 12, 2000 Colonists May Have Been Poisoned RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- In what could be a macabre sequel to the Pocahontas story, a pathologist says many of the settlers who died at Jamestown may have been poisoned with arsenic -- perhaps by Capt. John Smith himself. Dr. Frank Hancock examined writings by Smith and other English settlers in Jamestown, Va., in search of a medical explanation for why so many colonists died within two years after the first permanent English settlement in America was established in 1607. His conclusion: Many of the colonists may been poisoned. ``I continue to find what I consider circumstantial evidence that would lead one to believe that a plot may have been in place,'' said Hancock, medical director for Laboratory Corp. of America. While reluctant to name suspects, he said one settler wrote that Dutchmen in the colony had accused Smith of poisoning others with ratsbane, or arsenic trioxide. ``There was an indication Smith was having disputes with the Dutchmen and others,'' Hancock said Wednesday. He said he found no mention of possible motives, but there was no question the atmosphere at the colony was politically charged. In Europe, James I had angered both Catholics and Puritans as he sought to consolidate his hold on the throne; England and Spain were continuing their fight for global dominance; and the brother of colonist George Percy was imprisoned in the Tower of London, suspected of conspiracy. In going through the writings of that period, Hancock found about 60 phrases that suggested symptoms of illness. ``Out of that, I began to seek a common medical diagnosis,'' he said. He ruled out lead, cadmium and mercury, then settled on arsenic. Hancock believes the poisonings occurred in at least four episodes from 1607 to 1610. The deaths during the so-called ``starving time'' of 1609, after which only 60 of the 504 colonists remained, may have been poisonings as well, he said. Historians blame rats for the starvation, saying they destroyed much of the colony's corn stores in the spring of 1609. Hancock acknowledged that ratsbane, used to kill rats, was present throughout the Jamestown settlement and on ships, and the poisoning could have been accidental. But he said, ``There is some pattern for the deaths in terms of timing'' that warrants further study. Hancock, who is not a forensic pathologist and has no experience with arsenic poisoning, admitted he has no clinical or historical evidence to prove his conspiracy theory. Bone samples found in an excavation of the Jamestown site were provided by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, but test results were inconclusive. ``Without modern toxicologic evidence, it may never be answered,'' Hancock said. His research will be featured in a documentary being produced by the BBC and PBS for Channel Four Television's ``Secrets of the Dead.'' ``As far as a conspiracy, anything's possible, but I don't think it's probable,'' said Bill Kelso, director of archaeology for the APVA. Karen Kupperman, a New York University professor and expert in Colonial history, said she is vaguely familiar with the accusations made against Smith but somewhat skeptical of Hancock's theory. In a 1979 article in the Journal of American History, Kupperman speculated that nutritional diseases such as pellagra and scurvy killed many colonists, who were helped early on by Powhatan, a local chieftain and father of Pocahontas, but who endured frequent episodes of hunger and disease. ``Obviously, this is something that has intrigued a lot of people, because there does seem to be a pattern that is hard to explain,'' she said. Another historian, Carville Earle, has argued that colonists died of salt poisoning from drinking the brackish water of the James River. Kelso said a geology student from the College of William and Mary is testing groundwater in the area to see whether any conclusions can be drawn. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence to Holocaust denial
[CTRL] FW: Subtle Energies Research Article (XVII)
forwarded from the author.. Dave Hartley http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave -Original Message- From: Paul Von Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 7:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Subtle Energies Research Article (XVII) Dear Friends and Colleagues, The below article was requested for the University of Science and Philosophy's Spring issue of Cosmic Light. It gives an overview of some of the issues regarding the existence and characteristics of the phenomenon of subtle energy. It also highlights the work of several people in this area. I thought you might find it of interest. Please fill free to share it with anyone you would like. With best wishes, Paul COSMIC LIGHT (Spring-2000) "Subtle Energy in Human Senses and Powers" by Paul Von Ward This article reviews a series of discoveries that reveal inherent principles of the subtle energy aspect of reality. The research moves us beyond the descriptive articles and books that have thus far dealt with this topic. It suggests how the human senses and powers that lie beyond the world of the five senses actually function. Such research provides support for the hypothesized existence of a three faceted universe (with consciousness, subtle energy, and physical matter/energy posited in my book SOLARIAN LEGACY: Metascience and a New Renaissance) where consciousness is "primo entre pares" or predominant among the three. I have suggested "subtle energy" is the conductive medium through which consciousness acts on the realm of ordinary matter and energy. The existence of subtle energies has been described in historical records at least as old as Hinduism. The first discussions of chakras dealt with their role as the vortices of interaction between this pervasive life energy and the human body.(1) According to a 1990s National Institutes of Health literature review, at least 52 terms are used for "subtle energy": chi, prana, holy spirit, manna, ether, orgone, bio-magnetism, and zero-point, among many others in our current vocabulary. William Collinge, in his fine description of ways in which subtle energy plays a role in our lives, settles on the term biofield.(2) (In SOLARIAN LEGACY, I used the terms noumena, energeia, and phenomena for the three aspects. The noumena comprises universal and local consciousness, the realm of pure thought-ideas, concepts, patterns and numbers. Phenomena is the realm of dark and light particles and waves-matter and energy, the two poles of matenergy-and their antimatter counterparts. Energeia stands for subtle energies, the "virtual reality" distinguished from the four forces of physics.) Regardless of the label, subtle energy appears to contribute to many processes not currently explained by conventional science: telekinesis, remote sensing, gut- or heart-based intuition, healing by prayer or other psychic means, biocommunication between species, etc. Since these processes have tangible effects that can be documented, but not explained by the known principles of the electromagnetic force, they require that we hypothesize another force through which conscious intent acts on the affected objects, senses, and cells. Some researchers believe a fuzzy part of the electromagnetic (E/M) spectrum, beyond gamma rays, constitutes this force, but that it has not yet been discovered due to the lack of refined instrumentation. People like Hal Puthoff (see below), Beverly Rubik, Ph.D. (Head of the Institute for Frontier Science in Oakland, CA), and William Tiller, Ph.D. (author of SCIENCE AND TRANSFORMATION: Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness) believe development of more advanced technology will enable humans to use directly this fuzzy extension of the E/M field. (As the harnessing of Maxwell's hypothesized radio waves and X rays had to await the development of new technologies.) Others postulate that this subtle energy exists in correspondence, but parallel, to the E/M spectrum, and may not have the constraints of that spectrum, such as the speed of light. Regardless of whether there are parallel spectra or all three aspects (mental, emotional and physical fields) collapse into one unified force at some level, there is practical value in viewing them as distinct, but interrelated and interdependent facets of our universe. These distinctions permit humans to consciously participate in the process. This article all too briefly reviews the work of several people whose research shed some light on these issues. Backster and Primary Perception Cleve Backster's work in the late '60s and early '70s was an important impetus for the best selling book THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. In the '80s and 90s, his work was chronicled by Robert Stone in THE SECRET LIFE OF YOUR CELLS and many periodicals. His research journey started with the 1966 almost accidental rediscovery that plants are sentient and respond to the spontaneous emotions and strongly
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