[CTRL] [Fwd: THE REAL STORY IN FLORIDA; The Elite's Mess in Florida]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: THE REAL STORY IN FLORIDA; The Elite's Mess in Florida Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:41:38 -0600 (CST) From: Michael Eisenscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: ? To: undisclosed-recipients:; San Francisco Examiner November 25, 2000 The Real Story in Florida By Conn Hallinan I told myself I wasnt going to write a column about the elections or the Florida vote. What''s the point? Do you know a columnist who hasn't? And won't it be over before it's printed? But dammed if the whole craziness doesn't pull one in, like a sort of political Event Horizon, that bizarre zone bordering a Black Hole. At first, the cynical part of me dismissed the media's non-stop obsession as little more than proof of the late A.J. Leibling's Second Law of Journalism: "There is an inverse relationship between the number of reporters at an event, and the importance of the event." But then the numbers began coming in: The TV audience for the returns was bigger than the audience for the last "Survivor" show. The bored voter index dropped from 48 percent to 17 percent. Want to start a conversation? Walk into a, 1) Grocery store; 2) Laundromat; 3) Elevator, and ask anyone, "So, what do you think about the election?" Instead of a shrug or a blank stare, you are likely to get a real discussion. Media obsession, however, has not necessarily translated into good journalism. First off, the job the networks did on election night played no small part in starting the whole mess. First CBS, ABC, NBC, and CNN called Florida for Gore, then reversed field, and finally stampeded for Bush when Fox News declared the Texas Governor the winner. Now it turns out George Bush's first cousin, John Ellis, was at Fox's helm, and in constant contact with the Republican campaign throughout the night. Fox apologized, and the other networks are conducting a review of their own conduct. Second, the media has deep sixed what may be the real story of the Florida election: The systematic disenfranchisement of African-American voters and direct violations of the 1965 federal Voting Rights Act. In a November 14 letter, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) called on Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate what it called "substantial evidence" for systematic irregularities and discrimination in Black and Haitian precincts. According to testimony gathered by the NAACP, thousands of African-Americans were denied the right to vote, required to show photo IDs when whites were not, and had polling places moved without forwarding addresses. Haitian Creole speakers were denied assistance, even though Florida law allows interpreters into the voting booths. In a number of cases, police demanded to see voter IDs. The CBC letter also points to similar incidents in Virginia, North Carolina and Missouri. So far, however, the Black Caucus' complaint has gone largely unreported. Given the closeness of the count in Florida, this hardly seems an issue the media should go silent around. Nor does one have to be paranoid to suggest that pre-election polls showing overwhelming preference by African-Americans for Gore over Bush might influence the behavior of certain overly partisan voting officials. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris' duel role as election arbiter and Bush For President state co-chair is a case in point. Sooner or later, of course, all this will pass. Someone will be President, the public will change channels, and the media will go back to - what? The temptation will be more of the same: Four years of partisan bitterness, civil war and political gridlock leading up to a sequel in 2004: "The Bush vs Gore Rematch." Or the media can learn a very valuable lesson from this imbroglio: their audience is a lot more engaged with political issues than it thought. Americans are not apathetic or cynical, they're ambivalent. With the campaign (and the candidates) we all just went through, who can blame them? But ambivalence is not disengagement. Further, regardless of what finally happens in Florida, there are still some stories out there that ought not vanish down the memory hole when the dust settles. First and foremost, was there an attempt to systematically disenfranchise minority voters in Florida, and other parts of the nation? Given that "minorities" now make up close to 30 percent of the population, and are a majority in California, that is not an abstract question Secondly, what role did the media itself play in influencing the behavior of voters on election night? Some serious sanity just might come out of all this craziness. Subject: THE ELITES' MESS IN FLORIDA To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] LEFT MARGIN The Elites' the "Structures of Political Authority" By CARL BLOICE Two years ago, on the "most partisan and
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Nazi Origin of U.S. Gun Control
-Caveat Lector- Here you go Joshua (or is it Jaws2)..some of the idiots who created the so called myth.. I reproduce the story - might add the NRA keeps this alive - Zionists however arm Israelies, and talk about a little tail trying to wag big Arab Nation Dogs.. You see Joshua, this is AshkeNAZI Zionists at work, and this group knows the enemy..ADL who gave Moe Dalitz, Jewish Mafia and killer, an award..anything for the buck Saba JPFO - Mission Member Benefits Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Inc. P.O. Box 270143 Hartford, WI 53027 Phone (262) 673-9745 Fax (262) 673-9746 JPFO's Mission: to destroy "gun control" as an intellectually respectable position. Membership in Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) is open to ALL law abiding firearms owners who believe that ownership of firearms is a CIVIL RIGHT, not a privilege as a drivers license is. The annual dues is $20.00 and is deductible from your Federal Income Tax. The fact that we are a Jewish organization enables us to criticize Jewish Leaders such as the Anti -Defamation League and Elie Wiesel who support prohibitions on the civilian ownership of firearms. JPFO can criticize these people and organizations without fear of being labeled anti-Semitic. We also attack non Jewish gun prohibitionists such as Sarah Brady whose falsehoods erode the Constitution's protections that are most vital to all Americans. JPFO is a non profit educational organization that uses intellectual research in the fight to destroy "gun control." Right now, if you become a member, you will receive all 5 Gran'pa Jack booklets, and receive the latest Firearms Sentinel magazine. This is an $21.00 value. But it does not stop here. You will continue to receive your free subscription to the Firearms Sentinel, and receive our anticipated NEW releases of Gran'pa Jack booklets, free of charge. Time magazine would fail to tell you of our "Gran'pa Jack" cartoon booklet series. For more info on Gran'pa Jack booklets, go to: JPFO Books Booklets We are offering all of the above by simply becoming a member of JPFO, which is $20.00 per year. That comes to 0.05 cents per day. Remember, your financial contributions to JPFO are tax deductible. To become a member, go to: Membership Information There you will see a printable member application, along with info on membership. If you wish, you can become a member using our Secure On-Line Application. Membership IS open to ALL Law abiding citizens. Unless we build a strong membership, and show that "gun-control" is a very evil public policy, "gun-control" will prosper. And the American gun owner will, slowly, be erased. As stated, our members also receive the Firearms Sentinel quarterly, past issues have included: The Battle of Athens Tenn. This article explains how McMinn County residents took up arms against a corrupt local government. This did not happen in the Colonial Era, it occurred in 1946. Some World War 2 vets were concerned about the way elections were controlled and decided to run candidates. When the local political bosses saw that they were going to lose they tried to steal the ballot boxes. This is when the shooting started. A synopsis of this article may be found at this Web Site. JPFO has published 2 books: The Mitzvah Sadly, the majority of Jews in America do not embrace all of the Bill of Rights for all Americans. The Mitzvah was written in the hope of changing that. A "mitzvah" is a good deed or a blessing. Many will wonder if the story is fiction or fact, but they'll say The Mitzvah is a blessing in our time. Dial 911 and Die Anti-gun lobbyists get away with proposing to completely disarm the citizens only because most citizens just assume the police will protect them. That assumption is false. The police cannot protect everyone -- in fact the police usually have no legal duty to protect anyone. Dial 911 and Die, the new book available now, proves this fact. For nearly every American state and territory, this book shows how the police owe no legal duty to protect individuals from crime. The police in most places do not even have to come when you call. We will press our offensive against all those who, by disarming the law-abiding want to make life easier for criminals or to reduce obstacles to a genocide as happened in Nazi Germany during the 1930's. If you agree than JPFO is for you! [ JPFO Home MembershipMission ] © 1997, 1998, 1999 JPFO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity
[CTRL] Fwd: Gun Control Hall of Fame: Adolph Hitler, pioneer
Well here we go again, Jaws2...this story said Hitler had charismabut they do mention the fact that Hitler disarmed his enemies, the Jew, the Gypsy, and political enemies for the Nazis were just a political party and Hitler was Austrian, not German who wanted to return the King to the throne. Note they disarmed 13 million people and only 6 million jews killed according to ADL...55 million people died in that war. So how many people were in the Nazi partywell like Ehub Barak aka Brug, an AshkeNAZI Zionist, not very many - Ehud arms his thugs with Uzzis to murder children - it is easy to see Hitler and Ehud had much in common, as both were Ashkenazi Zionists without a doubt...one has but to compare their records for here we go againmurdering the domestic jews and arabs for the oiland toss in a few Christians to the zionists too. Anybody like Ehud with his sinister smile can have charisma with an Uzzi to back them up but he probably has quite a few people guarding his backbut every man has his Brutus and a Judas.. Saba Might add this is the same law Thomas Dodd brought into being for consideration in USA, father of Chris Dodd who introduced Joe Lieberman, sans cape, into the world of presidential living. They say the Judas always lives to write the book Gun Control Hall of Fame: Adolph Hitler, pioneer Adolph Hitler's Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 specifically outlawed firearms ownership by Jews and Gypsies and anti-Nazi opposition, successfully eliminating 13,000,000 of his foes and ensuring that Germany would be free of crime. One benefit of Hitler's policies was a series of highly effective population reduction and control programs. Hitler was the leader of one the world's most industrialized nations during his term in office. Under his leadership German leaders finally had a comprehensive policy of sensible gun control. The charismatic Nazi leader pioneered the "sporting use" test for firearms ownership, a concept that remains important to today's gun control advocates. Hitler has many successful U.S. imitators in the Gun Control Hall of Fame, many of them are well-known politicians and public figures. Hitler did it for the children. The Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 stands as a shining example of Hitler's genius and efficiency. Copyright 1999 VikingPhoenix.com Contact / Stats: June 24, 1999: page established, 0 visitors. visitors since 11 June 2000. 378 | 07/28/2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vikingphoenix.com/public/gchof/gchof001.htm
[CTRL] AP: Another suspicious death or another available widow?
-Caveat Lector- Clinton Makes Appearance at Memorial WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton made a brief appearance Monday night at a reception to raise money for a new fellowship program being offered by a foundation set up in honor of Washington lobbyist Dan Dutko. Dutko, 54, of Chevy Chase, Md., died July 25 in a mountain bike accident. A member of the Democratic National Committee and a major fund-raiser for the party, Dutko fell and struck his head while biking in Aspen, Colo., where he was participating in a weekend of fund-raising events for Democrats that Clinton also attended. Clinton spent about 30 minutes at a local steak house where the Dan Dutko Memorial Foundation was raising start-up funds needed to begin the Dutko Fellowship Program, a bipartisan public policy management program that will be administered by Tufts University. The president spoke, but reporters were not allowed inside. Dutko's widow, Deborah Jospin, is director of AmeriCorps. == Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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
Re: [CTRL] Transcript: Gore remarks on Florida vote certification
-Caveat Lector- You can tell Gore now has his own speechwriter, for Clinton would have pulled this one off without a scratch. Why is it when you read the above subject matter transcript, one must - well it is difficult to keep a straight face. I see how they work it.with Gore, they keep adding votes and with Bush, they subtract, counting backwards. And Tennessee did not back their favorite son? A prophet without honor - how does that go So I hope Gore and the Holy Man - well face it, Lieberman belongs to CYA for he also ran for the Senategot to give that guy credit, for a Bush in the ... 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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
Re: [CTRL] AFP: Gore says Florida count wrong
-Caveat Lector- Won't it be a hoot if Gore is allowed a full state recount and finds that he lost AGAIN!!! ~LOL Here's the daily dose of Gore Lore: A proposed revision to the rules of golf is being sought in South Florida which will replace the traditional call of "FORE". Once a player has hit an errant shot he will be allowed to call "GORE" while the ball is still in flight. He can then replace the ball in the same spot and hit it again. The player can do this until he is satisfied the ball is going where he intended to hit it in the first place. This will cause the time of play to be extended until such time the player can claim the hole. This revision is causing some consternation to the PGA but proponents say it is only fair. A recent test of this new rule was recently played out in an exclusive club in Palm Beach County Florida and the first hole only took 19 days to complete. ~~ eagle 1 - Original Message - From: "MICHAEL SPITZER" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 11:37 PM Subject: [CTRL] AFP: Gore says Florida count wrong, claims he is owed 1,800 votes -Caveat Lector- Gore says Florida count wrong, claims he is owed 1,800 votes Source: AFP - Agence France Presse Nov 27 13:11 by Matthew Lee ATTENTION - UPDATES with Gore complaint, quotes /// TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Nov 27 (AFP) - Lawyers for Democratic candidate Al Gore described the official presidential vote tally in Florida as "wrong" Monday, saying Gore was deprived of at least 1,800 votes that would have won him the state and the White House. The official tally certified late Sunday gave Republican rival George W. Bush a 537-vote victory in the southeastern state. The Gore complaint filed by attorney Dexter Douglass here shortly after 12:15 pm (1715 GMT), contested the count in three Florida counties: Miami-Dade, Nassau and Palm Beach. In the written complaint, Gore said he would have picked up a net gain of 1,025 votes if all manual recounts had been completed and certified. He also said he would have gained a further 800 votes if counters in Palm Beach county had tallied 4,000 ballots that were marked with an indentation but were not fully punctured. In the complaint, the Gore camp said the certified election results were simply wrong. "This is an action to contest the certification that George W. Bush and Richard Cheney received more votes in the presidential election in the state of Florida than Al Gore and Joe Lieberman," it read. "The vote totals reported in the election canvassing commission certification of November 26, 2000, are wrong. "They include illegal votes, and do not include legal votes that were improperly rejected. The number of such votes is more than sufficient to place in doubt, indeed to change, the result of the election." The case was assigned to Judge Sanders Sauls, according to a court clerk. After being forced to extend the certification deadline 12 days to Sunday by aFlorida Supreme Court ruling that ordered the inclusion of manual recounts in the final tally, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris declared Bush the victor late Sunday by just 537 votes out of some six million ballots cast. But her decision to ignore partial recounts submitted by Palm Beach as well as prior steps taken by officials in Miami-Dade and Nassau counties, drew quick denunciation from Democrats who say the official count is inaccurate and incomplete. Gore's running mate, Senator Joseph Lieberman, lashed out at Harris' certification shortly after her announcement, saying he and the vice president had "no choice" but to contest the vote counts, as is allowed under state law. "Vice President Gore and I have no choice but to contest these actions," he said, flatly rejecting calls from the Bush camp to drop the challenges and concede the election. Among their complaints, the Democrats allege that thousands of ballots in Miami-Dade were never tallied because vote-count machines could not read them. The Democrats also want the court to compel Miami-Dade electoral officials to complete their hand recount which they say was halted last week after they were intimidated by boisterous crowd of Bush supporters. Even without a full recount there, however, they say partial hand recounts showing a net gain of 156 votes for Gore in Miami-Dade should have been included in Harris' certified total. In Nassau County, Gore is contesting a decision by the canvassing board on Friday to use original vote totals, instead of the state-mandated machine recount, that cost the vice president 52 votes. "We seek restoration of the recounted total," the Gore legal team said in a summary of their filings in the circuit court here. In Palm Beach, the Democrats will try to prove that the canvassing board refused to abide by a judge's order to determine the voters' intent by
[CTRL] Fwd: [news] Bush Thanked Rioters
consortiumnews.com - http://www.consortiumnews.com The Wall Street Journal has dug up more details about how Gov. George W. Bush's campaign and the national Republican Party helped organize the violent protests in Miami last week. The Journal discovered that Bush even called the protestors a day later -- on the night of Thanksgiving Day -- as they were celebrating their victory in shutting down the Dade County recount, which saw 10,750 votes discarded. "The night's highlight was a conference call from Mr. Bush and running mate Dick Cheney, which included joking reference by both running mates to the incident in Miami, two [Republican] staffers in attendance say," according to the Journal. [Nov. 27, 2000] The Journal also reported that the assault on the canvassing board was led by national Republican operatives "on all expense-paid trips, courtesy of the Bush campaign." After their success in Dade, the rioters moved on to Broward, where the protests remained unruly but failed to stop that count. The Journal noted that "behind the rowdy rallies in South Florida this past weekend was a well-organized effort by Republican operatives to entice supporters to South Florida." House Majority Whip Tom DeLay's Capitol Hill office took charge of the recruitment. About 200 Republican congressional staffers signed on, the Journal reported. They were put up at hotels, given $30 a day for food and "an invitation to an exclusive Thanksgiving Day party in Fort Lauderdale," the article said. The Journal said there was no evidence of a similar Democratic strategy to fly in national party operatives. "This has allowed the Republicans to quickly gain the upper hand, protest-wise," the Journal said. The Bush campaign also worked to conceal its hand. "Staffers who joined the effort say there has been an air of mystery to the operation. 'To tell you the truth, nobody knows who is calling the shots,' says one aide. Many nights, often very late, a memo is slipped underneath the hotel-room doors outlining coming events," the Journal reported. After their victory in shutting down the Dade County recount, the GOP operatives from the Bush campaign and Capitol Hill celebrated at a party at the Hyatt on Pier 66 in Fort Lauderdale. The Journal reported that "entertainer Wayne Newton crooned the song 'Danke Schoen'," the German words for thank you very much. For more on Bush's triumph of the will, go to Consortiumnews.com at http://www.consortiumnews.com __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb
[CTRL] Fwd: Causenet: Bush/Cheney Transition
CauseNET The Common Cause Email Alert Network http://www.commoncause.org Monday, November 27, 2000 The following statement was released to the media this evening: STATEMENT OF COMMON CAUSE PRESIDENT SCOTT HARSHBARGER ON BUSH/CHENEY TRANSITION FUND Both of the men who may be the next President should avoid turning this delicate and uncertain time in our history into yet another frenetic fundraising opportunity, where Washington lobbyists are given the access- and influence-buying opportunity of a lifetime - a kind of initial public offering on what may be the next Administration. We call on Governor Bush to reverse the policy announced today by Secretary Cheney, whereby their ticket would actually raise private money to pay for a transition into office. It's a bad idea, and one that threatens to make an already precarious situation worse. We also restate our call to Vice President Gore to set reasonable limits on - and make immediate disclosure of - the contributions that he is receiving to fund his ongoing legal efforts. This post-election fundraising by both sides is a lamentable coda to a campaign season that has broken just about every fundraising record. That the ultimate outcome of the election is still murky at this hour should not preclude either candidate from thinking about who would serve with them in a new Administration. Soon enough, we will have a President- elect and the transition can begin in earnest - a transition supported by the office space and public funds provided for by law. Secretary Cheney has cited a 1992 precedent of President- elect Clinton's use of similar private funds during his transition period into office. We remind Secretary Cheney that that is not an especially lofty standard, given the Clinton Administration's track record when it comes to money in politics. CauseNET The Common Cause Email Alert Network http://www.commoncause.org Monday, November 27, 2000 CauseNET is the Email Alert Network of Common Cause, a nationwide, nonprofit, and nonpartisan citizens lobbying organization working for open, honest, and accountable government at the federal, state, and local levels. --- You are currently subscribed to cc-action as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe click or copy the following link into your browser http://www.commoncause.org/cgi-bin/ccause/causeunsubscribe.pl?[EMAIL PROTECTED]. DO NOT reply to this message. To change your CauseNET address, follow the unsubscribe instructions above, and re-enroll online at: http://www.commoncause.org/causenet
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Conspire.com Update
-- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/2/_/1406/_/975422280/"BClick Here!/B/A -_- Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Time for a Revolt, er, Revote! Or, How George W. Bush, the Rich Kid Who Gets Away With Everything, is About to Get Away With His Own Little Putsch UPDATE 11/26/00 -- The U.S. Supreme Court, two of whose nine justices were appointed by George Bush Sr., made a "surprise" decision last week to hear an appeal from George Bush Jr. to further suppress votes (SURPRISE!). Bush wants to invalidate human recounts in three large Florida counties, in order that he, Junior, may become president. According to a story in the Los Angeles Times, the court will likely decide on the basis of an obscure 1887 law that has never been applied. The law states that elections cannot be decided by rules enacted after the voting is closed. So what's more important, the sanctity of a dormant, 113-year-old statute, or insuring that all votes are fairly counted. The answer is clear, according to the Bush people? It's the law no one's ever heard of. Anything to perpetuate the Bush family dynasty. Meanwhile, with projections showing that current recounts (if completed by today's 5pm EST deadline) could cut the Bush lead to fewer than 90 votes, the Republican power grab looks more and more like a Brown Shirt putsch. (And while we're with the Nazi metaphors, here's a news flash: according to a recent news report, former Justice Department prosecutor and Nazi-hunter John Loftus has turned up documents showing that the Bush family fortune came directly from investments made by Dubya's grandfather in the Third Reich.) In Miami-Dade County, the canvassing board called off its recount - despite 10,000 ballots there that have never been counted at all -- after a mob of Republican "demonstrators" nearly stormed their 19th floor meeting room. Now it turns out (in another, just, simply shocking development) that far from being the "spontaneous display of outrage," the protest was well orchestrated by Republicans from outside of Florida. ABC News reported on its Web site that the mobile demonstration was operated out of a trailer that, shortly after accomplishing its task in Miami-Dade County, wheeled on up to Broward County, another pro-Gore stronghold where it Gore's gains in the recount sliced Bush's statewide lead nearly in half. In fact, conservative Wall Street Journal columnist Paul Gigot, in a column praising the Miami-Dade near-riot, wrote that he personally witnessed John Sweeney, a Republican congressman from New York, bark the final order to the vigilante throng, commanding the obstreperous right-wingers (who should never have been allowed to congregate inside the county building anyway) to "shut it down" as it appeared the canvassing board was going ahead with plans to tally the 10,000 or so uncounted ballots. As Salon.com's Jake Tapper reported, "paid members of the Bush campaign excite the partisan crowds with their overheated rhetoric, hand out free T-shirts with incendiary slogans and otherwise engage in various under-the-radar shenanigans The tactics are legal, but hardly statesmanlike. Within the laughable claims that all the Bush staffers are just 'volunteers' lies, apparently, Bush's plausible deniability." Beyond the threats of mayhem, the Republicans have used all means at their disposal in a vicious but effective propaganda campaign filled with accusations ranging from the frightening (the inflammatory canard that Democrats deliberately attempted to throw out military ballots) to the laughable (one Republican charged that Democratic vote-counters were actually eating pieces of "chad"). Look, you can save the e-mails accusing us of shilling for Gore, or any of that crap. We've never been fans of Big Al. Frankly, we hope he has learned a bitter lesson from this whole sordid experience. Gore has spent his entire life functioning in, and perpetuating, a system of corporate-controlled, money-driven politics with the expectation that this system would eventually reward him by anointing him U.S. president. It must seem darkly ironic to him that now, just as he appeared to have reached that goal, ever element of that same machine is working to shut him out and to install a candidate who, by his very shallowness and inanity, would function as a far more effective (i.e. malleable) frontman for the big-business oligopoly. Sorry, Al. We feel bad for you. We really do. However, and this is a big however, we do believe, quaint as it may seem, that participatory government is a good thing. And the minimum -- MINIMUM -- requirement of participatory government is a system in which every citizen can cast a
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Bush Bash
-- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/2/_/1406/_/975422369/"BClick Here!/B/A -_- Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com "The election was close, but tonight, after a count, a recount and yet another manual recount, Secretary Cheney and I are honored and humbled to have won the state of Florida, which gives us the needed electoral votes to win the election." George W. Bush Perhaps it is ironic that a man who has behaved with such dishonor and brazen arrogance would proclaim himself president, then add he was honored and humbled. Sorry, Dubya: the battle has just begun. And The Konformist is so disgusted with your behavior, we will not even feign a denial that we are out to destroy your stolen presidency before it even begins (and, hopefully, aid the stopping of your swindle.) Let the war begin. * New sign for Bush: SLOBadan MilsoBUSH * George (Ted Bundy) Bush Lee Markland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hasn't anyone besides myself and a friend noticed how much George Bush looks and acts like Ted Bundy? And how about this latest ploy, of trying to use PR to force Clinton to acknowledge him the winner, by raising a non issue (The Transition). The man is a scumbag, and is a reflection of his constitutency. Here's something that you might pass around to Kenn and others of a mind to do some research. Back when Reagan ran for President, I not only donated $300 to his campaign, but I prayed to the god that ain't for his victory, and then felt the cold water hit my face as he started picking his cabinet. Was I ever surprised when to a man he chose members of the CFR and Trilateral Commission, and even held over a CFRer, the Deputy Secretary of Defense from the Carter Administration. And amazingly, not a peep about this betrayal from any right wing organization, not the National Review, not even the John Birch Society, which filled every other publication with laments about the CFR and the TC. I wonder if the right wing, anti New World Order, mostly Republican crowd will be taking a similar tally, as George Bush names his new administration and most assuredly fleshes it out with CFR and TC members as well. Probably not, for them it is all about "family values" and something they call god. Lee * The Nation Full Court Press | December 11, 2000 ERIC ALTERMAN 'Accuracy' vs. 'Speed' The signal moment of the 2000 election occurred at 2:16 on election night when Fox News freelance consultant John Ellis called Florida and the election for his cousin George W. Bush. The anchors of NBC, CBS, CNN and ABC followed, lemminglike, within four minutes. Ellis had previously admitted, "I am loyal to my cousin I put that loyalty ahead of my loyalty to anyone else," a view that appeared consistent with the We Distort, You Deride standards of Murdoch's toy network. Alas, Fox is a relatively simple case. But how to explain the pro-Bush postelection of the rest of the mainstream media? Part of the answer lies in the original goof itself. Network executives enjoy profits, ratings and scoops, but their first priority is to try not to look like idiots. And given their premature election-night ejaculations, this is just what happened. "Sip it, savor it, cup it, photostat it, underline it in red, press it in a book, put it in an album, hang it on the wall. George W. Bush is the next President of the United States," advised a hypercaffeinated Dan Rather, outdoing his colleagues in poetical, if not political, perspicacity. From that moment on, media bigfeet adhered to a Bush-camp script that deemed the counting crisis a mere bump on the road to a restored Bush regency. Did Gore win the popular vote? Never mind. What was once feared by all as a potential crisis of legitimacy evaporated into ether when the perceived winner and loser in the equation switched places. Chris Matthews had complained days before the election that "knowing him as we do, [Gore] may have no problem taking the presidential oath after losing the popular vote to George W. Bush." But he quickly developed a case of selective amnesia afterward and called on Gore to concede. Before the election, it was the Bush team that was quoted in the New York Daily News as planning to overturn an Electoral College count in its disfavor. And it was the party's House whip, Tom DeLay, who has been openly plotting with his Congressional cronies to reject the Florida vote if it does not go their way. Never mind, also, that when you factor in the mistaken votes for Pat Buchanan and the disallowed ballots for Gore, the Democrat is the clear favorite of Florida voters. Thousands of absentee ballots in Seminole County, moreover, appear to have
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: LUNA ILLEGALLY CUT
-- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/2/_/1406/_/975422166/"BClick Here!/B/A -_- Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com http://www.CircleOfLifeFoundation.org/lunacut.htm ANCIENT REDWOOD TREE LUNA WHERE JULIA BUTTERFLY HILL LIVED FOR OVER TWO YEARS HAS BEEN ILLEGALLY CUT AND ENDANGERED FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November, 27 2000 Contact: Circle of Life Foundation: (707) 923-9522, (707) 923-4619 The small hamlet of Stafford, California is the site of a landslide that originated on PL/Maxxam land that destroyed seven families' homes. Stafford is also home to the Stafford Giant, an ancient redwood tree now known to the world as Luna. The tree was named Luna by forest activists who used the light of the full moon to rig a treesitting platform 180 feet high in the redwood in October, 1997. On December 10, 1997 Julia Butterfly Hill climbed into the tree to protect the magnificent redwood and to help make the world aware of the plight of the ancient forests. From her perch she carried out a tremendous amount of outreach to politicians, religious leaders, school children and citizens worldwide. After two years of risking her life, Julia, with the help of members of the US Steelworkers of America and other forest activists, successfully negotiated the permanent protection of Luna and a nearly three-acre buffer zone. The tree was protected by a Deed of Covenant, similar to a conservation easement that is held by the land trust Sanctuary Forest. The Luna Preservation Agreement, signed by Julia Hill and PL/Maxxam Corp., was designed to protect Luna in perpetuity so the tree could live for another millennium. On Thanksgiving weekend it was discovered that a critical cut had been made into Luna by a large chainsaw. The perpetrator made one deep and precise cut that went through a significant portion of the tree. While the tree is still alive and standing, Luna is extremely vulnerable to a windstorm. Judging from the precision of the cut and the fresh sawdust, the criminal action appears to have been committed by an experienced treefaller within the last few days. Julia Butterfly was devastated to learn of the injury to Luna, "Luna is the greatest teacher and best friend I have ever had. I gave two years of my life to ensure that she could live and die naturally. But two years is nothing compared to the thousand years she has lived, providing shelter, moisture and oxygen to forest inhabitants. It kills me that the last 3% of the ancient redwoods are being desecrated. I feel this vicious attack on Luna as surely as if the chainsaw was going through me. Words cannot express the deep sorrow that I am experiencing but I am as committed as ever to do everything in my power to protect Luna and the remaining ancient forests." Circle of Life Foundation and Sanctuary Forest are researching what can be done to stabilize the critically injured tree. There is a criminal investigation at the crime site for clues as to who may have committed this spiteful and malevolent action against this permanently protected tree. The forests surrounding Luna are sacrifice zones that were not protected under the Headwaters Forest Agreement. Other sacrifice zones include the old-growth Douglas fir forests on Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole River watershed. Police convoys are actively trying to stop forest activists from defending these forested steep slopes that are slated to be clearcut during this rainy season. Dana Stolzman If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist
[CTRL] Fwd: alfred w.shrub
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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: {slick-d} no wonder they want to void their votes!
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/27/2000 3:17:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: who was no doubt a bodyguard in full dress for the occasion..she looks like Eleanor Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt at least had a lot of class. Sweet little Chelsie note how her father takes half the army with him when he goes out - no wonder. When my son was about six years old he asked me why people liked people for the way they looked on the outside. I told him it was because people could see better than they could think. Prudy 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: florida election
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/27/2000 10:59:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The pattern begins..I like Baby Bush because of his comment re No US Soldier would ever wear a UN Uniform - it was then I decided to really vote for Bush. Yeah, and if you do join up, you don't have to bother to report for duty. Just your type. Prudy 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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
Re: [CTRL] The Consortium - W's Triumph of the Will
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/27/2000 11:01:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By Robert Parry George W. Bush has claimed the mantle of president of the United States after one of the most brazen â and effective â power grabs in political history. The loser of the national popular vote by about 337,000 votes and apparently not even the favorite of the six million Floridians who went to the polls, Bush assured his victory by deploying Republican foot soldiers to Florida and revving up the powerful conservative propaganda machine across the country. Barring an unlikely court ruling in the weeks ahead, the result of Bush's bare-knuckle strategy appears to be that the will of the American voters has been overturned for the first time in 112 years. The first popular-vote loser since Benjamin Harrison will ascend to the presidency. In Bush's victory, the Republican Party also cast aside any remaining shreds of the notion that logical consistency has any place in modern politics. And according to this morning's news, his brother Jeb is getting ready to make a law that will give Dubya the electoral votes. What a wonder. None of us will ever need to vote again. We'll just let the state governors decide who should be president. Saves time, saves money. Can't possibly do better than that. Well, we can save even more time and money. We'll just declare Dubya "king." That way the power will stay right in the Bush family forever. Won't it be wonderful. All that morality. Prudy 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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
Re: [CTRL] Bush's Pal Racicot Tied To Extremists
-Caveat Lector- But most Republicans are extremists. Why the surprise? Prudy 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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] Fwd: John Ellis is Connected
The Boston Phoenix January 28 - February 4, 1999 Bush league John Ellis may be the Globe's most intriguing op-ed columnist. He's certainly the best connected. Don't Quote Me by Dan Kennedy Last Saturday, John Ellis finally threw in the towel. Ever since the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, Ellis had used his op-ed column in the Boston Globe to excoriate Bill Clinton as a sleazy liar who's demeaned his office -- and to predict the president's imminent demise. Sneers a critic of Ellis's at a competing news organization: "Clinton's resignation has been certain every day for a year now. One of these days it might actually happen." Which is why the fact of Ellis's surrender was so surprising -- even as his rhetoric remained true to its incessant Clinton-bashing form. "It's over," he wrote. "The votes aren't there for conviction, and they're never going to be there." A well-considered observation. But then he added petulantly, "Those of us who believed that principled people in the Democratic Party might draw the line at immoral behavior and illegal acts were wrong. Those of us who thought a sense of shame might cause Clinton to resign for the good of the country were wrong." So much for matters over which, to quote House impeachment manager Lindsey Graham, "reasonable people" can differ. If it sometimes appears there's something personal about Ellis's obsession with Clinton, well, there is. Clinton, you see, turned Ellis's Uncle George into a one-term president back in 1992. Of course, one needn't be related to George Bush to conclude that Clinton is a scumbag; but it doesn't hurt, either. And the family connections don't stop there. Ellis's late grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a US senator from Connecticut. A first cousin, George W. Bush, is governor of Texas and a possible Republican candidate for president. Another first cousin, Jeb (as in John Ellis Bush), is governor of Florida. In fact, it's likely that the only journalists in America more genetically well-connected than Ellis are George magazine editor John Kennedy and NBC correspondent Maria Shriver. Unlike Kennedy and Shriver, though, Ellis is not especially well known; his readers are informed of his family ties only occasionally. When he writes about George W.'s presidential prospects (as he did most recently last Thursday), he never fails to note the relationship. But when he whacks Clinton, be it for lying about sex, botching US policy toward Iraq, or taking too much credit for the balanced budget, the Bush connection goes unmentioned. "He's had many, many columns just fucking raking Clinton over the coals. And the readers need to be reminded that there's a family grudge with the guy," says a respected Boston Herald writer who asked to remain anonymous. It's an issue that both pains Ellis and puts him on the defensive. "I think the `conflicts' issue is bogus," Ellis said in an e-mail exchange. "My columns about Clinton have been harsh not because I am George Bush's nephew but because I find Clinton truly loathsome. . . . My opinions about Clinton may seem extreme in Boston; they are routine in most editorial boardrooms." It is also true that Ellis, when judged by his work, appears to be no more tanked up than (to name one example) his Globe colleague Tom Oliphant, a notorious White House toady. But Ellis shouldn't be surprised when observers take a family connection more seriously than mere bias. Ellis is a guy whose entire career has been entwined with people he grew up with and people he knows. After a decade-long career as a producer in the NBC News election unit, Ellis resigned in 1989 to avoid the appearance of a conflict created by Bush's inauguration as president. For much of the 1990s, Ellis worked as a business consultant for politically wired dealmaker Larry Rasky and wrote a weekly freelance column for the Globe, leading to repeated -- if dubious -- accusations that Ellis used the Globe to reward Rasky's friends and punish his enemies. (That awkward situation finally resolved itself last fall, when Ellis left the Rasky/Baerlein Group and joined the Globe as a full-time staff member.) Ellis has even drawn some behind-the-back sniping for praising novelist Joseph Kanon (Los Alamos, The Prodigal Spy), who just so happens to have taught modern literature to Ellis when he was a senior at Milton Academy. ("A wonderful student," recalls Kanon, returning the favor.) Of course, it would be one thing if Ellis were an untalented hack. The truth, though, is that Ellis is a first-rate talent -- a passionate writer with a wide-ranging intellect who reports knowledgeably on topics such as Internet commerce, the decline of network television, technology, biowarfare, genomics, and culture. With the exception of his one-dimensional Clinton columns, his political analysis is sharp and to the point. (He was almost alone, for instance, in predicting then-attorney general Scott Harshbarger's near-upset of Governor Paul Cellucci last fall.) And if
[CTRL] Fwd: CHINESE ESPIONAGE THE ASSASSINATION OF RON BROWN?
There has been some interest re Ron Brown on the web lately.this item gives some good information..recently I fund an old award the Chinese kids at OSU had presented to my sister for work she did with them..she had visited the Soviet Embassy and went to Kennedy Center and Jean Dixon sat across from her.she was with people with commerce department, she was Int. Rep. That was October 27 - on October 28 she was dead. I could accepted her death as "probable pneumonia"..but you see to this day the Fire Department Squad, who pronounced her dead and the Police Department who strung tape all over hell, said she had been dead for over 2 hours yet I had just talked to her within the hour, and she had called 911 for help.police said 911 did not tape calls, and that is when I calld them every name in the book for I knew they did..I could barely hear her voice - "please help me"... How could a dead person dial 911? To this day I wonder..when she died the US Commerce Department sent reprs and flowers, and local department closed down.might had she beat the president of Ideco once, a steel company, IQ wise..she had what a lot of the others lacked, a brain ... Then I read this stuff..she died in 1991..but I still remember she returned to her office once and a Russian was hiding in her office closetsaid FBI was after him. Some things are best forgotten, but this is one thing I remembershe hurt nobody, she did the work of 3 people and was kind and considerate.I received hundreds of onotes from people, mostly small businessmen whom she had assisted.. Then I remember and wonder...how does a dead person call 911 for help?To this day the people involved say she was dead for two hours..he house was ransacked, and the nice coroner .. had a man on trial for murder, a doctor, on his payroll . Good story here on Ron Brown.. Saba CHINESE ESPIONAGE THE ASSASSINATION OF RON BROWN? ***CHINESE ESPIONAGE THE ASSASSINATION OF RON BROWN?*** J. Adams November 13th, 1996 "Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!" ('King John'; Act II, sc.1) Thanks to the internet, information is available from a variety of media sources around the world that brings to light profound truths that would otherwise be completely repressed. One example of this is the case to be made that TWA Flight #800 was shot down by a missile, either by terrorists or by friendly fire from a U.S. naval vessel. Another example of the revelatory power of the internet, which is yet to gain widespread attention in the major media, is evidence that the Clinton administration is responsible for, wittingly or not, extensive Chinese economic espionage in Washington and, in association with this, the death/murder of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. Ron Brown was killed in what the world was told was an "accidental" plane crash in Croatia on April 3rd of this year. The circumstances surrounding the plane crash were, to say the least, suspicious. Something that struck me as somewhat unbelievable at the time was that the military plane the U.S. Commerce Secretary had gone down in lacked the all-important "Black Box" to determine precisely what caused the plane to crash. That same plane had carried Hillary and Chelsea Clinton and Defense Secretary William Perry just the week before and all planes that carry U.S. government officials are required to have a Black Box. Thus, it is difficult, if not impossible, to believe the plane that went down in Croatia killing Commerce Secretary Ron Brown did not have a Black Box. Thus, there is strong evidence suggesting a cover-up of the fatal plane crash. Ron Brown's plane my have been brought down intentionally. Why, however, would anyone target U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown in such an elaborate way? In the wake of one of the newest Clinton scandals, the answer appears to be coming to light. Going into the election, controversy emerged surrounding the "Lippo Group", an Indonesian conglomerate that had been making huge and likely illegal contributions to the Clintons. It turns out that the Lippo Group was likely a front for China: In what appears to have been a classic espionage operation launched days after Clinton was elected in November 1992, China Resources purchased at a discount a 15% share in the Hong Kong Chinese Bank, which is owned by the Lippo Group, the Indonesian conglomerate with close ties to Clinton. Eight months later, after the Lippo Group had demonstrated it had direct access to the Oval Office and was able to influence American foreign policy, China Resources increased its shareholding in the bank to 50%. This time, the Chinese paid a 50% premium and gave Lippo a profit of about £12m. A key figure in the affair is John Huang, a former Taiwanese air force officer.
Re: [CTRL] Mob Rule Wins For W
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/27/2000 8:27:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The demostrators didn't set the deadline. All the democratic floridians in power did. Just the facts ma'am I'm not disputing the facts--just noticing the lack of pepper spray. Prudy 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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] Fwd: So sorreee!
My recommendation that SARDAR Singh had interesting info in his newsletter was bigtime wrong, my fondness for his zeal misplaced, my wonder at his daily dozen letters a kind of yogic jealousy at his kundalini, and my letter to you all exhorting you to sub to this free missive, SERIOUSLY _mis-timed._ Today I got a 'forward' from him by 'front page magazine dot com' comparing Al GORE to _HITLER._ SARDAR, sadly, is a liberterian Republican. That is the brawny Guns and Racoon caps 'moral-talking, bible-thumping 'wing' of the Repub party that foams when they hear Jesse Helms, Newt Gingrich and Pat Buchannan rave. Most are Allegheny backwoods lads with bigger extremities (closer to the ground) stealing the 'ojas' from the extremity at the top. Sardar, baby? This is for YEW, HONEYDEW! And after you've read the article I ENCLOSE BELOW, then click on this URL http://sightings.com/political/ciadrug.htm and read the truth about the Secret Gov's real identity. The Bush Lineage! Which goes back to WWII OSS and has been transhipping drugs to our ghettos since then! And using the MOB to do it. 1. Imagine that we read of an election occurring anywhere in the third world in which the self-declared winner was the son of the former prime minister and that the former prime minister was himself the former head of the nation's secret police secret police (CIA). Imagine that the secret government in pay of oligarchs, the 14 families of that country had a lineage that dated back to the late 30's pre WWII, and had been transhipping drugs all that time, using Italian criminal brotherhoods to distribute it to the ghettos and with resulting profits, running incursionistic ops in entire world, to subvert elections and fund/assasinate its own most prominent liberal, democratic president along with hundreds of priests, educators, elected rulers world-wide. Imagine that this art of terror had been imported to us by the SS at end of WWII when this secret gov took entire GESTAPO / SS to their capital and put them to work at this intelligence service as a determinational core group. 2. Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote but won based on some old colonial holdover (electoral college) from the nation's pre-democracy past which did NOT refer to popular vote! 3. Imagine that the self-declared winner's victory hung on disputed votes cast in a province governed by his own brother and that this very state had been used by the intelligence service for over fifty years for transhipping guns, sending secret mercenary troops to nearby islands to subvert foreign govs. 4. Imagine that the poorly drafted ballots of one district, a district heavily favoring the self-declared winner's opponent, led thousands of voters to vote for the wrong candidate. And that the recount of this district was shut down and ignored, the vote uncertified. 11,000 votes ignored. 5. Imagine that members of that nation's most despised caste (African-Americans) fearing for their lives/livelihoods, turned out in record numbers to vote in near-universal opposition to the self-declared winner's candidacy. 6. Imagine that hundreds of members of that most-despised caste were intercepted on their way to the polls by state police operating under the authority of the self-declared winner's brother. 7. Imagine that six million people voted in the disputed province and that the self-declared winner's "lead" was only 327 votes. Fewer, certainly, than the vote counting machines' margin of error. 8. Imagine that the self-declared winner and his political party opposed a more careful by-hand inspection and re-counting of the ballots in the disputed province or in its mostly hotly disputed district. 9. Imagine that the self-declared winner, himself a governor of a major province, had the worst human rights record of any province in his nation and actually led the nation in executions. 10. Imagine that a major campaign promise of the self-declared winner was to appoint like-minded human rights violators to lifetime positions on the high court of that nation. 11. Imagine that the Secretary of State in charge of entire election, in the state where this vote occurred was a supporter of the Intelligence family candidate. 12. Imagine that the state from where the father of the moron candidate provened, was run entirely by Oil Oligarchs who had paid for the murder of the famed liberal president four decades earlier. Rent EXECUTIVE ACTION w. Burt Lancaster and that these O.O. were poisoning the world's air fully knowing other viable car energy sources existed. So this truly is the death candidate in every sense of the world. YOUR GRANDCHILDREN's DEATH, your CHILDREN's DEATH. None of us would deem such an election to be representative of anything other than the self-declared winner's will-to-power. All of us, I imagine, would wearily turn the page thinking that it was another sad tale of pitiful pre- or anti-democracy peoples in some strange elsewhere. But
Re: [CTRL] NYT: Protest Influenced Miami-Dade's Decision to Stop Recount
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/28/2000 12:25:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Protest Influenced Miami-Dade's Decision to Stop Recount By DEXTER FILKINS and DANA CANEDY IAMI, Nov. 23 â The Miami- Dade County Canvassing Board's decision on Wednesday to shut down its hand recount of presidential election ballots followed a rapid campaign of public pressure that at least one of the board's three members says helped persuade him to vote to stop the counting. Isn't it wonderful? We can't get them to stop cutting down the trees, but one little Republican protest stops the wheels of local government from turning. If we could just find a Republican who cared about the environment or the welfare of children, we would never need to worry about getting a Democrat elected anywhere again. Prudy 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: {slick-d} no wonder they want to void their votes!
-Caveat Lector- Well Prudy, a rose is a rose and a pig is a pig.and little Chelsie the sands of time are already shifting to her bottom..maybe she could run for Ms. Liberty Bell.so New York can worry about the Albatross - Chelsie and her Mother will fit in fine. True beauty is only skin deep..and maybe this is why Hilliary had all that plastic surgery - and at such an early age.. 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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
Re: [CTRL] Causenet: Bush/Cheney Transition
-Caveat Lector- Comment: This is a free country, and if the Bush team wants to ask for private sector donations, let them, and let them make fools of themselves if needs be. It's none of our business, unless we choose to donate. More power to the Bush team transition, if they think they can pull it off. I find this begging for donations, no more disagreeable and disgusting than the Gore team "pushing" and almost "knocking down" the Supreme Court's doors to attempt to manipulate, RIGHT NOW, the law in order to get the counts to come out the way he wants them to. The bottom line is now with Al Gore not simply a Presidential race, it has turned to lust with him and he is not going to be happy until he is literally handed the office of the presidency, regardless of numbers. How can anyone ever accept or respect someone who has allowed this to become an obsession? Let's talk about principals then. Al Gore proves day by day that he has no concern for the people he claims to be attempting to win this contest for, but rather it has turned to selfish desire to have that which is not his to obtain. Let's face it, Al Gore isn't interested in counted votes, he wants the office, the position, the pay check and the power of the President of the United States. Al Gore is well on the road to making himself the laughing stock of the world. He is deluded if he thinks he can pull the wool over the eyes of Americans as is indicated by his declining support in polls. I feel sorry for this man for he is backed into a very difficult position. How can he say he wants ALL the votes counted and keep a straight face??? Americans know that what he really wants is the presidency and we know that there is NOTHING he or anyone else can legally do to count ALL the votes in FL no matter what he says he "wants". He thinks it sounds good to say that but we are not as stupid as he would have us be. So in the final analysis, who is stupid? Every time he or Lieberman opens their mouths, they shoot themselves in the foot and the polls show that fact. I see other democrats jumping off that sinking ship now they see the handwriting on the wall. Gore has killed his political future by taking this too far and trying to manipulate via court action and obviously false rhetoric. He has hurt his party and his own image for selfish reasons. I watched the MSNBC (or CNN..forget which) report after his speech last night and I'm now convinced the media is against him. They talked negatively about the speech for about 5 minutes and then went on their merry way as if it had never happened. My admittedly biased opinion is that Gore shows too little confidence compared to Bush to lead this nation. I like Bush's manner in presenting himself. And that is what this nation needs... a man... not a mouse. I want to see a man who shows more confidence than Gore in the White House dealing with this nation and other nations. I think it's that rather than the American people being "tired" of this that is influencing the polls now. That and the obvious LIES told by the Demoncrats.h, I think I'll leave that typo as is. :) eagle 1 - Original Message - From: "Common Cause CauseNet" Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 5:12 AM Subject: Causenet: Bush/Cheney Transition CauseNET The Common Cause Email Alert Network http://www.commoncause.org Monday, November 27, 2000 The following statement was released to the media this evening: STATEMENT OF COMMON CAUSE PRESIDENT SCOTT HARSHBARGER ON BUSH/CHENEY TRANSITION FUND Both of the men who may be the next President should avoid turning this delicate and uncertain time in our history into yet another frenetic fundraising opportunity, where Washington lobbyists are given the access- and influence-buying opportunity of a lifetime - a kind of initial public offering on what may be the next Administration. We call on Governor Bush to reverse the policy announced today by Secretary Cheney, whereby their ticket would actually raise private money to pay for a transition into office. It's a bad idea, and one that threatens to make an already precarious situation worse. We also restate our call to Vice President Gore to set reasonable limits on - and make immediate disclosure of - the contributions that he is receiving to fund his ongoing legal efforts. This post-election fundraising by both sides is a lamentable coda to a campaign season that has broken just about every fundraising record. That the ultimate outcome of the election is still murky at this hour should not preclude either candidate from thinking about who would serve with them in a new Administration. Soon enough, we will have a President- elect and the transition can begin in earnest - a transition supported by the office space and public funds provided for by law. Secretary Cheney has cited a 1992 precedent of President- elect Clinton's use of similar private funds during his
[CTRL] Independent Count
-Caveat Lector- From NEWSMAX.COM And, as I proposed a few days (weeks?) ago, there should be an independent and professional team going through the process. Democratic (or Republican) votes counted by Democrats is sheer nonsense. This would hold true for Florida or any other state. Somehow I think professional integrity is better than partisan integrity, whether political or regional partisanship. AER }}Begin Judicial Watch Begins Its Own Florida Recount CNSNews.com Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2000 The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch has the green light to begin its own count of disputed ballots in this month's presidential election in Palm Beach. Palm Beach Circuit Judge Jorge La Barga gave Judicial Watch access to count the votes. He cited a Florida state law that allows citizens to inspect ballots even after the certification deadline has passed. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified the election Sunday night, giving Florida's 25 electoral votes to Republican George W. Bush. Judicial Watch officials say more than 400 citizens from around the country have volunteered to help the group count "disputed" and "other ballots" such as absentee military votes. Johnson, Lambert and Co., a public accounting firm, will oversee Judicial Watch's effort because the group says the accounting firm has "expertise both in counting ballots and fraud." Besides Palm Beach, Judicial Watch plans to conduct an independent analysis of disputed and other ballots throughout Florida. Judicial Watch is best known for the legal challenges it has mounted against the Clinton administration. It has often represented individuals who say they have been harmed by Clinton or his White House. But the group's chairman says the Florida recount is not politically motivated. "It is important that an independent group, nonpartisan in nature, provide certified numbers for the American people. The last few weeks have shown that one can't trust partisans on the ground to count the votes," Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman said in a statement. Klayman is in Florida on behalf of the effort and was not available for further comment. Judicial Watch also will use, where feasible, statistical and accounting techniques to test the accuracy of the machine counts. Despite the official certification by the state of Florida in favor of Bush, the group decided to go ahead with the recount anyway. "Even though there was official certification of George W. Bush as the winner of Florida's electoral votes, Al Gore will contest this election. In this unusual circumstance, it becomes all the more necessary to have an independent, nonpartisan count. "Judicial Watch will make its recount results available to the American public, the courts and others who require an independent measure of the voting in Florida," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. Copyright CNSNews.com Read NewsMax.com's urgent letter to our readers. Find out how you can help expose voter fraud and the continuing attempt to steal the election. Click here now. Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics: Presidential Race 2000 George W. Bush Al Gore End{{ AER Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Integrity has no need of rules. -Albert Camus (1913-1960) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust The libertarian therefore considers one of his prime educational tasks is to spread the demystification and desanctification of the State among its hapless subjects. His task is to demonstrate repeatedly and in depth that not only the emperor but even the "democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist by exploitive rule over the public; and that such rule is the reverse of objective necessity. He strives to show that the existence of taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled. He seeks to show that the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to accept State rule and that these intellectuals obtain, in return, a share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded subjects. [[For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Murray N. Rothbard, Fox Wilkes, 1973, 1978, p. 25]] A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Nazi Origin of U.S. Gun Control
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[CTRL] Fwd: World Bank renews commitment to tackling AIDS epidemic
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[CTRL] Interview with Serbian Minister in Charge of post-bombing Reconstruction
URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/ivkovic1.htmSerbian Minister of Science Speaks out: An Interview with Bane Ivkovicwww.tenc.net[Emperor's Clothes]Bane Ivkovic is Serbian Minister of Science and Technology. He was forced from this position after the Oct. 5 coup d'etat. Mr. Ivkovic had been in charge of the highly successful program of rebuilding bridges, factories and homes destroyed by the NATO bombing. We interviewed Mr. Ivkovic at the end of October and again in early November. This is the first interview. The interviewer is Jared Israel, editor of www.tenc.net Interview with Bane Ivkovic Israel: I understand you were in charge of reconstruction after the bombing. Ivkovic: Yes. For four years I had been Serbian Minister of Construction and then starting in 1998 I was Minister for Science and Technology. During the bombing I organized a special group to help the 130,000 workers left jobless by NATO bombing their factories. We wanted to do more than just rebuild; we tried at the same time to restructure our economy, to increase the number of small and medium enterprises. We were able to set up 1050 such businesses. This created 33,000 new jobs.Israel: Private or public sector?Ivkovic: Mainly private. The Ministry developed relations between the [scientific and technical] Institutes and these displaced workers. We collected 2900 plans for small and medium businesses, programs to produce goods using Serbian resources instead of importing these products. To finance these new businesses, after the bombing we collected money by asking everyone with a job to give one or two day's pay and using this as well as money from the Serbian government we offered the displaced workers five year loans at excellent rates so they could set up their own production facilities. Israel: So these businesses were privately owned by groups of employees?Ivkovic: Yes. Up until then we had relatively few small and medium enterprises. We wanted to strengthen the small business sector, especially in the villages. It's our opinion that these small, profitable businesses are the way to stop the flow of young people to the towns.Israel: Just to get clear, these enterprises were privately owned by the people who worked there? Ivkovic: Yes.Israel: Not just by one man? Ivkovic: No no no by the people. Each unemployed worker could take a loan for himself, but several workers could get a collective loan and apply it to one business. 50 of them could get 50 times more money. Israel: So they could start something of some size. Ivkovic: Yes, but it would be their own. Their own factory. Their own enterprise.Israel: You know the Western propaganda says Yugoslavia was run so that a few people made a lot of money and everybody else got nothing.Ivkovic: It's not true. You must understand a couple of things here. First of all, there is private business in Serbia, and this is nothing new. After 1945 we had people who owned land in the villages, people who owned private enterprises. Not so much in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. But in the 1970s and 1980s this became far more common. A lot of these people established their own small offices, markets, enterprises and factories and now I think 50% of our economic life is in the private sector and it's a very profitable private sector. These owners are people of varying political viewpoints.The second thing is, we have been under a United States imposed embargo for 8 years and during that embargo some people who had previously been criminals went into business exporting or importing goods which were under embargo, and they made a lot of money. Those people are not the socialist party. We are a party of over 500,000 people, mainly ordinary working people. Of course whenever a party is in power it attracts some opportunists, some who are there for reasons other than principle; but those people have left us or are leaving us now and as for the ones who remain, what possible gain is there in it for them?Foreign investmentIvkovic: When I was Serbian Minister for Construction I proposed a Federal Law On Foreign investment. On the [Serbian] Republican level we have a concession law and a law for ownership transformation. But then came the embargo and we couldn't do as much as we wanted at that time.Israel: So you want foreign investment? Ivkovic: Yes, why not? In the past I was involved in negotiations with several very powerful groups of foreign investors about concessions in road construction and electric power production. Unfortunately everything that happened with Kosovo and Metohija put a halt to those negotiations. [Kosovo and Metohija is the Serbian name for what the West calls 'Kosovo.']Israel: I don't know if you read the piece that Chossudovsky and I wrote about the IMF and the World Bank and their harmful effects. Ivkovic: Yes.Israel: We argued that when the IMF and the World Bank enter a country it is
[CTRL] One more theory on the unending election
-Caveat Lector- http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/757472 Houston Chronicle Nov. 27, 2000, 6:30PM One more theory on the unending election By CAL THOMAS Everyone else is floating theories on the meaning of the election that will not end. Here is mine. What we are seeing in our politics is the predictable result of what occurs when institutions, philosophies and faiths that once united us have either died or have been so co-opted by other considerations that when they're most needed they lack the power to come to our rescue. Take truth, for example. Americans have always disagreed on what the truth of some things might be, but mostly we agreed on substantive things and we believed that truth exists. Our privilege in a free society was to try to find it. Today, to even suggest one knows what truth is, or where it may be found, risks ostracism and condemnation by certain elites who are determined to advance their own concepts of truth, while simultaneously refusing to acknowledge there is such a thing. Education once taught universal truths, including the pre-eminence of the American way of life, honesty, hard work, values that did not conflict with what was mostly lived out at home, personal responsibility, knowledge and wisdom. Today's government schools serve as laboratories and training grounds for a self-centered view of Man and indoctrination centers for people who would promote ideologies and behaviors that were once believed to be the antitheses of truth. Religion once was seen as a positive contributor to individual virtue and national honor. It has now been co-opted by politicians and clergy of the left and right. Some on the left would use religion to advance a social agenda underwritten by the taxes of all. They want its authority, but not its content. Some on the right use religion to advance a moral agenda through government edict, which they have decided is quicker (and more financially appealing and ego-fulfilling) than the selfless ways of the leader they claim to follow. To many of them, the way of the ballot box and the bank is to be preferred to the way of the cross. The law has been disrespected, not only by the Clinton-Gore Administration, but also by many citizens, who now see it as just one more prize, which can be claimed if the machinations and manipulations of one side outfox and overpower the machinations and manipulations of one's opponents. Responsibility to the whole has been replaced by demands for the individual. Race, class, gender, sexuality, income, politics and personal interests divide us. Instead of being united because of a shared belief in the American way of life, we undermine ourselves through our determination to have our own way even if by having it we destroy the nation our Founders designed to protect us from the evils of individualism. Our Founders were men of strong conviction. They disagreed about many things, but in forming this "more perfect union," they subordinated some of their individual beliefs for the greater good. Today we are seeing the opposite. People want their own way, regardless of the damage caused to the greater good and to the strength of the nation itself. That's why the Gore campaign vows to fight on regardless of the certified results in Florida that affirm George W. Bush the winner of that state's 25 electoral votes and the election. Writing in The Times of London on November 20, opinion writer William Rees-Mogg contends that whether George W. Bush or Al Gore is victorious, "America is the loser." Rees-Mogg believes neither candidate looks big enough or powerful enough to overcome what he sees as three challenges: "a bitterly disputed election, a hostile Congress and the downturn of the economic cycle." Rees-Mogg contends the age of the "imperial presidency" has passed and that Bush may be the better choice because "he is more modest in his ambitions." Indeed, the presidency has been overrated by too many of us who have tried to imbue it with powers it should not and does not have and rob it of powers that belong to that office. Still, leadership reflects followership, and in what's left of our Constitutional Republic, the fault, to paraphrase Shakespeare's peroration in "Julius Caesar," does not lie in our leaders, but in ourselves. 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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,
[CTRL] Voter error invalidated 2 million ballots nationwide
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-20001128225142.htm November 28, 2000 Voter error invalidated 2 million ballots nationwide By Audrey Hudson THE WASHINGTON TIMES The uncounted ballots in Florida which have played a key role in Democratic challenges are just a drop in the bucket of ballots dismissed nationwide because of voter error, say political observers. An estimated 180,000 votes were dismissed in Florida out of 6.1 million votes cast because of improper voting procedures. However, more than 2 million ballots were tossed out in all 50 states and also will not be counted, said Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate. Mr. Gans estimates that between 1 percent and 1.8 percent of votes cast or 2.1 million to 2.8 million ballots were eliminated nationally. "These are people who by one form or another did not accurately do their ballot, and it was thereby thrown out for one reason or another," Mr. Gans said. Vice President Al Gore is contesting the election in Florida based on "incomplete and inaccurate" vote tallies. The official count announced Sunday night gave Republican George W. Bush a 537-vote victory in Florida and the state's 25 electoral votes. "If we ignore the votes that have been cast, then where does that lead?" Mr. Gore asked rhetorically in a telephone call yesterday to congressional Democrats. "The integrity of our democracy depends upon the consent of the governed, freely expressed in an election where every vote is counted." "What is at issue here is nothing less than every American's simple, sacred right to vote," said Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, Mr. Gore's running mate. "How can we teach our children that every vote counts if we are not willing to make a good-faith effort to count every vote?" the Connecticut Democrat asked Sunday after Florida's secretary of state certified election returns. The every-vote-must-count mantra makes sense on paper, but election experts say it is not feasible to count every vote cast, and in this case is "sheer hypocrisy," said Rep. John Shadegg, Arizona Republican and an election lawyer. "Clearly, they do not believe that every vote should count. These thoughts are impeached by their attempts to get military overseas ballots thrown out, and also impeached by the fact they did not ask for a manual recount in any of the remaining Florida counties which also used punch-card ballots," Mr. Shadegg said. "Realistically, the answer is no, you cannot count every vote," said Doug Lewis, director of the Election Center, an international service association of election and voter registration officials. Sometimes, voters fail through their own error to turn a ballot into a vote. "Obviously, if the voter votes in a manner where it is impossible to determine their intent or that they voted for too many people, then you have no choice but to remove that vote from the count," Mr. Lewis said. Sen. Larry E. Craig, Idaho Republican, said it is a known factor that a certain percentage of votes is discarded during machine counts. Mr. Craig said every effort is made to create uniformity and fairness in counting votes, but it does not mean every vote can be counted. "While that is frustrating to some, it has never been that way," Mr. Craig said. Mr. Craig said the quick reaction by Mr. Gore's campaign to ask for recounts indicates they were prepared in advance of Election Day to ask for hand counts in heavily Democratic counties to swing a close vote. "This was a well thought-out and planned strategy in advance. When Al Gore said he would do anything and everything to win this election, we must take him at his word," Mr. Craig said. Contacted by The Washington Times, several secretary of state offices said they do not keep numbers on how many ballots are thrown out after an election, but "rejected ballots are a normal occurrence," said a spokeswoman in the Alabama secretary of state's office. Secretaries of state across the country have formed a committee to study election-reform issues raised in this election, said Leslie Reynolds, spokeswoman for the National Association of Secretaries of State. "We've been looking at these issues for a long time. Now, everyone is interested," Miss Reynolds said. Every vote would count "if we get rid of the rickety machines," said Al Felzenberg, visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation. "Voting should not be a mysterious or burdensome process," Mr. Felzenberg said. All site contents copyright © 2000 News World Communications, Inc. 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread
[CTRL] Fw: Lawyer Asks Boies to Explain Misrepresentation
-Caveat Lector- Lawyer Asks Boies to Explain Misrepresentation http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb10 75995 Monday, Nov. 27, 2000 John B. Thompson, Attorney 1172 South Dixie Highway, Suite 111 Coral Gables, Florida 33146-2750 Phone: 305-666-4366 Fax: 305-666-7275 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] November 27, 2000 David Boies, Attorney Boies, Schiller, and Flexner 5301 Wisconsin Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. VIA FAX to 202-237-6131 Re: False Representation to Florida Supreme Court about Illinois "Dimpled Chad" Case Dear Mr. Boies: It has come to my attention, and I am sure it has come to yours as well, that you falsely characterized the court's ruling in the Illinois "dimpled chad" case. You told the Florida Supreme Court last week that that case allowed the hand recounting of dimpled chads. Our state's high court seemed impressed with that fact. One problem, though. A big problem. The Illinois court ruled just the opposite way, disallowing the counting of dimpled chads. The affidavit you relied upon is false, and you now know that it is false. You have a clear and mandatory duty immediately to inform the Florida Supreme Court of your misrepresentation to the seven Justices in this critical regard. Any failure on your part is clearly subject to review and discipline by the appropriate authorities because such a failure would constitute an ethical breach on your part which compromises justice and is prejudicial to the opposing parties. You have until five o'clock p.m., Tuesday, November 28, 2000, to inform me by fax at the above number that you have alerted the Florida Supreme Court of your misrepresentation. Best, John B. Thompson Copy: Florida Supreme Court, Media -- C.I.A. - Criminals Infesting America 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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] Fwd: Lawyer Asks Boies to Explain Misrepresentation
Lawyer Asks Boies to Explain Misrepresentation http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb1075995 Monday, Nov. 27, 2000 John B. Thompson, Attorney 1172 South Dixie Highway, Suite 111 Coral Gables, Florida 33146-2750 Phone: 305-666-4366 Fax: 305-666-7275 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] November 27, 2000 David Boies, Attorney Boies, Schiller, and Flexner 5301 Wisconsin Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. VIA FAX to 202-237-6131 Re: False Representation to Florida Supreme Court about Illinois "Dimpled Chad" Case Dear Mr. Boies: It has come to my attention, and I am sure it has come to yours as well, that you falsely characterized the court's ruling in the Illinois "dimpled chad" case. You told the Florida Supreme Court last week that that case allowed the hand recounting of dimpled chads. Our state's high court seemed impressed with that fact. One problem, though. A big problem. The Illinois court ruled just the opposite way, disallowing the counting of dimpled chads. The affidavit you relied upon is false, and you now know that it is false. You have a clear and mandatory duty immediately to inform the Florida Supreme Court of your misrepresentation to the seven Justices in this critical regard. Any failure on your part is clearly subject to review and discipline by the appropriate authorities because such a failure would constitute an ethical breach on your part which compromises justice and is prejudicial to the opposing parties. You have until five o'clock p.m., Tuesday, November 28, 2000, to inform me by fax at the above number that you have alerted the Florida Supreme Court of your misrepresentation. Best, John B. Thompson Copy: Florida Supreme Court, Media HEAR / SEE JACK THOMPSON - CUT AND PAST URL TO WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER: Jack Thompson Exposes Reno at IBT (Part #1) http://www.apfn.org/wacoinfo/IBT_Thompson_Reno.WMV Jack Thompson Exposes Reno at IBT (Part #2) http://www.apfn.org/wacoinfo/IBT_Thompson2.WMV Jack Thompson Exposes Reno at IBT (Part #3) http://www.apfn.org/wacoinfo/IBT3_Thompson_Reno.WMV Jack Thompson Exposes Reno at IBT (Part #4) http://www.apfn.org/wacoinfo/IBT4_Thompson_Reno.WMV Clinton Readies an Avalanche of Regulations http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb1075995 Executive Order 11/27/00 http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb1075995 U.S. Army kick-starts cyberwar machine http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb1075995 "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." Matthew 22:21 http://www.apfn.org/apfn/church.htm "Silence can only be equated with fraud when there is a legal or moral duty to speak, or when an inquiry left unanswered would be intentionally misleading... We cannot condone this shocking conduct... If that is the case we hope our message is clear. This sort of deception will not be tolerated and if this is routine it should be corrected immediately" U.S. v. Tweel 550 F2d 297, 299-300. http://www.apfn.org begin:vcard n:Vardon;Kenneth tel;fax:623-334-3928 tel;work:623-910-9018 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.apfn.org org:American Patriot Friends Network version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Founder adr;quoted-printable:;;PMB 107=0D=0A6630 W. Cactus # B107;Glendale;AZ;85304;USA fn:Kenneth Vardon end:vcard
[CTRL] RadTimes -- Update proposal
-Caveat Lector- Please forward appropriately: = Hi folks, Apologies for the delay of RadTimes. (A number of issues will be assembled shortly.) I needed to write the following: The response to RadTimes has completely exceeded my expectations. I started this off in the middle of August and have now produced 113 issues. This averages to more than one per day. Subscriber response has been tremendous, indicating a definite need for this type of "radical clipping service." I started off with 30 recipients and am now up to over 300 individual subscribers. New subscription requests arrive daily. (I sent out only one subscription invitation during this time, so most of this increase has been via RT circulation online, where I notice (with no small satisfaction) that it is showing up in numerous non-subscriber venues.) I am also posting RT to a few selected email groups, whose membership cumulatively totals around 700. This means that well over 1000 people receive RadTimes daily! I have also picked up a small army of people who regularly submit newsworthy items for inclusion. While all this is more than gratifying, and an indication to me of the importance that RadTimes has come to play in the online world, I find I have less time to sort through the onslaught that has become my daily inbox and to also concurrently earn a living. It has become apparent that I am over-extended in gathering, reading, and assembling articles for RadTimes. I initially intended to stop at issue # 100, and take a break, but current events compelled (and continue to compel) me to keep publishing. 'Vital irregularities' continue to pour in, but I find myself overlooking my financial underpinnings. I do have a fairly productive business operating online, but the more time I put into RadTimes, the less time I have for income generation; and vice-versa. I now find myself in the position of either, a) having to stop producing RT for some period of time and attend to my personal finances, or, b) appeal to my readership to help underwrite this project (and hopefully others). I have decided to try b). In addition to wanting to continue RadTimes, I'd also like to engage a number of new projects: --Compilation of a "How to produce your own RadTimes" guide. This will be a list of information sources I've been using to produce the newsletter, which will contain a list of lists, how to subscribe to them, useful websites, etc., so folks can either get this type of information directly or use it to produce similar newsletters. It will, of necessity, be quite lengthy. I will attempt to get this out regardless of the ongoing status of RT. --Editorializing. The stories you see in RT beg for commentary and contexualization. Not left, not right, but from a definite anti-domination perspective. --More outreach. More subscribers. --A new compendium of environmental news, tentatively called "The Hard Green Herald". It will be identical in format and spirit to RT but will focus on our continuing environmental decline and opposition to same. --I've been offered the editorship of the Haight Ashbury Free Press http://www.hafp.org/. Non-paid position, but offers an excellent outlet for news, activism, etc. This site has the potential for some serious development and online impact. I have numerous ideas for the site. --Give RadTimes a web presence. Conversion into html, archived and cross-referenced, either on the Free Press site above or on its own site. --There are a number of "name" subscribers to RadTimes. Facilitating some networking and/or dialogue among subscribers may (or may not) be appropriate. (Anonymity is always respected.) There is a huge body of collective wisdom available that I can infer from merely perusing the subscriber list. To continue RadTimes without interruption and to move forward with the above projects, I need some of the following to happen: 1) Large donor underwriting: My expenses are $2000/month. Cover all or part of them, or find me someone who can. 2) Put me on the payroll: Hire me to do similar (compiling/editing/researching) efforts under the aegis of your organization. A (non-profit) sponsor of RT would also work. [Online/telecommute only.] 3) Individual donations: I have set up an account at www.paypal.com which enables you to donate money directly via a credit card. If you are a current PayPal user, then you know that all you need is my email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to contribute. If you are not a current user, use this link -- https://secure.paypal.com/refer/pal=resist%40best.com to sign up and contribute. (I also get a small referral payment when you use the above link to register.) The only information passed on to me via this process is your email address and the amount you transfer. Quick comparison calculations: $2000 divided by 300 subscribers = $6.67 per subscriber per month. $2000 divided by 1000 recipients = $2.00 per subscriber per month. (I realize that not everyone can or
[CTRL] Election 2000: SNAFU or NWO Plan?(part IIc)
-Caveat Lector- The Joshua Files http://members.spree.com/education/2302410/ "The government of the United States...is one of limited powers. It can exercise authority over no subjects except those which have been delegated to it. Congress cannot, by legislation, enlarge the federal jurisdiction, NOR CAN IT BE ENLARGED UNDER THE TREATY-MAKING POWER." - "NEW ORLEANS vs. UNITED STATES" (1836) [65] APRIL "The first move was made at San Francisco, where many nations met, drew up a charter, and submitted that charter to the Senate for approval as a treaty. This document had none of the earmarks of a treaty, because the Supreme Court of the United States has held in many cases that a treaty is an agreement made between nations, to do or not to do particular things. In the case of the CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS, it was not an agreement between nations. It was an agreement made by the agents of several governments, and there is no contention from any quarter that the United Nations at that time was a nation with which we could make a treaty, but intended to make it an integral power at the first opportunity. How these FORCES FOR EVIL planned to make the United Nations a NATION is clear now, since they propose at this time to build a world government by simply AMENDING the Charter of the United Nations... "After examining the record, can anyone doubt that the United Nations was purposely set up TO DO TO THIS COUNTRY WHAT COULD NOT BE DONE BY FORCE OF ARMS...? Why do we remain in the United Nations when we can plainly see that the whole scheme is directed to OUR DESTRUCTION?" - CONGRESSMAN USHER L. BURDICK (R-ND) [66] (Cotinued at The Joshua Files) -- Michael The Outlawlady The Joshua Files http://members.spree.com/education/2302410/ 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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
Re: [CTRL] Sexual Abuse May Affect Health For A Lifetime
-Caveat Lector- Dear List, Below please find info on the article above. Sincerely, Neil Brick from : http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtPrint/WSIHW000/333/8014/303852?k=basePrint "Sexual Abuse May Affect Health For A Lifetime 11/21/00 ...(Center for the Advancement of Health) - Far from being a static experience, sexual abuse during youth may affect health even in old age, suggest the results of a studyresearchers noted associations between early abuse and several health conditions in the elderly. "These associations are impressive in that they were still present in an older population," said co-author ...Stein, MD, of the U of Cal., San Diego's Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders ProgramStein and co-author... Barrett-Connor, MD, analyzed health data on more than 1,300 elderly white, middle class study participants from a Southern California community...In women, early sexual assault appeared to increase the risk of arthritis and breast cancer, with multiple abuse episodes increasing disease risk by two- to three-fold compared with a single episode. In men, early sexual assault appeared to increase the risk of thyroid diseaseThe study results appear in the 11/00 issue of Psychosomatic Medicine." 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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] Viva Bush.....
-Caveat Lector- = Subject] Date:Tue, Nov 28, 2000, 9:52am (EST-3) Paul Harvey commented that Argus Hamilton says that he can understand why Al Gore is feeling so confused and disoriented that he thinks that he won the presidential election. After all, this is a strange year. The number one rap music star is white while the number one golfer is black. and Bill Clinton just finished a tour in Vietnam. __ Visit http://www.visto.com/info, your free web-based communications center. Visto.com. Life on the Dot. 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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] Fwd: EIR Solution--Electoral College
http://207.150.197.195/pages/ewselectionstatement.htm www.larouchespeaks.com Tuesday, November 28, 2000 PERSPECTIVE ON THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL SELECTION OF A NEW PRESIDENT [The following memorandum, prepared by EIR Legal Editor Edward Spannaus, represents our best estimate at the moment of what are the essential steps and mechanisms required to meet a standard of constitutionality, in the process of selecting a President though the Electoral College and the Congress. This does not mean that the steps outlined will happen, but it describes what SHOULD happen. We will be pleased to consider any comments or refinements from readers.] During the process which runs from now, through the December 18 voting by the Electoral College, and then the January 5-6 consideration of those Electoral votes by the Congress, it is essential that the constitutionality of the process be respected and preserved, while at the same time the process be guided by a commitment to the intent and spirit of the U.S. Constitution, particularly its General Welfare Clause. This was the most corrupt election in U.S. history. It is incumbent upon the Electors who constitute the Electoral College under the Federal Constitution, to take into account during their deliberations, the contamination of the vote, as it bears upon the authenticity of the vote count, and the integrity of the presidency itself. The principal elements of the corruption of the presidential campaign during the entire year 2000, are: -- The rigging of the nomination process of the two major parties to ensure that two look-alike, thoroughly unqualified candidates, were awarded their respective parties' nomination with virtually no public dissent. This rigging took place through thuggery and intimidation, illegal vote-stealing tactics, and the use of the news media to create the perception of a unstoppable momentum for both "leading" candidates. -- The news media further rigged the election process through its general refusal to provide substantial news coverage to any but the two "leading" candidates, the exclusion of third-party candidates Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan from the presidential debates, and the falsified reporting of results early on the night of the Nov. 7 elections, before polls had closed in many parts of the country. -- Unprecedented amounts of money were thrown into a presidential campaign, in which there was no fight over ideas, no substantial difference between the two "leading" candidates, and no reason for voters to go to the polls to vote for a candidate -- only to vote against a worse one. -- Under these conditions, vote fraud and illegalities -- which are endemic to U.S. elections under any circumstances -- became the primary feature of the election process, including the rampant violation of the constitutional and civil rights of minority voters and others. The Electoral College, and the United States Congress, have a solemn constitutional and moral responsibility to consider such evidence, respecting the contamination and pollution of the electoral process, as this bears upon the integrity of the reported vote. Even if such evidence were not sufficient in a court of law to overturn the results in particular states or jurisdictions, the Electoral College and the Congress may not blind themselves to these realities, in the interests of procedural efficiency or "finality" of results. There are three points of inflection of the constitutional process of the selection of the President, of which we should be aware, including possible courses of action to be taken at each point. 1. December 18, 2000: The Electors meet and cast their votes for President and Vice President in their respective state capitols. Only in about half of the states, are Electors bound by state law to cast their Electoral votes in accordance with the popular vote in their states -- and the constitutionality of those provisions is dubious. Clearly, under the intent of the Constitution -- not only the provisions regarding the selection of the President, but above all, its fundamental principle of the General Welfare -- the Electors are primarily obligated to vote according to reason and conscience, and not to support any candidate unqualified to fill the office of the President and unable to govern according to Constitutional principles. (The leading example of this, is Alexander Hamilton's campaign to ensure that Thomas Jefferson, and not Aaron Burr, became President in 1801.) Electors are not bound to vote for either Bush or Gore, but may cast their votes for any person who meets the Constitutional qualifications to be President. 2. January 3-6: The new Congress is sworn in on January 3. On January 6 (or perhaps January 5 this year), the House and Senate meet in joint session to unseal, and tally, the Electoral votes transmitted by each state. If no candidate for President has obtained a
[CTRL] Fwd: Spreading Panic
. . .have just received inside information from a respected senior Israeli military official who must remain unnamed. He is considered an expert on Islam and the Middle East situation, and is also a very devout, Bible-believing Jewish man (not a Christian but appreciative of Christians who support Israel). First, he said that the Arab world is "jumping for joy" over our shattered election process. Israel is very concerned because the Arabs attacked Israel in 1973 during Watergate, when the US was perceived as being weak and distracted with domestic problems. The Arabs see us in an even weaker position at the moment and are "thrilled" at our problems...giving the impression that they are drawing closer to attacking Israel as we appear weak and unable to come to the aid of our ally. Secondly, he said that the reason Barak has been so restrained with retaliation operations is because NATO has threatened to bomb Israel if Israel moves any stronger against the Palestinians! Barak is actually trying to protect his civilian population from NATO bombs. However, he said he doesn't think this scenario can go on much longer which leads to Thirdly, Israel is expecting an Arab attack soon, while America is in turmoil, and he said there is no doubt in the Israeli intelligence community that this war will be nuclear at some point, probably by the third day. He also said that America will suffer greatly and Jews and Christians will both be in danger - persecution, etc. of a significant depth to cause American Jews to literally "run for their lives" with Christians following in their footsteps. (He knows about the teaching on the Rapture but himself personally is not sure exactly how that plays out.) . . .stressed that he could only share this from the best of intelligence and information that he has from reliable sources. He believes deeply in God and said twice that if he did not know that God was in control, he could not sleep at night. note: If item # 3 happens before the inauguration of a new President, Clinton will probably declare martial law by one of the Executive Orders he has put in place, suspending the Constitution, and there may be no new President.) eGroups Sponsor [click here] To change your settings for this list, go to http://www.egroups.com/mygroups To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] !doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en" html blockquote TYPE=CITEtt. . .have just received inside information from a respected senior Israeli military official who must remain unnamed. He is considered an expert on Islam and the Middle East situation, and is also a very devout, Bible-believing Jewish man (not a Christian but appreciative of Christians who support Israel)./tt brttnbsp;First, he said that the Arab world is "jumping for joy" over our shattered election process.nbsp; Israel is very concerned because the Arabs attacked Israel in 1973 during Watergate, when the US was perceived as being weak and distracted with domestic problems.nbsp; The Arabs see us in an even weaker position at the moment and are "thrilled" at our problems...giving the impression that they are drawing closer to attacking Israel as we appear weak and unable to come to the aid of our ally./tt brttnbsp;Secondly, he said that the reason Barak has been so restrained with retaliation operations is because NATO has threatened to bomb Israel if Israel moves any stronger against the Palestinians! Barak is actually trying to protect his civilian population from NATO bombs.nbsp; However, he said he doesn't think this scenario can go on much longer which leads to/tt brttnbsp; Thirdly, Israel is expecting an Arab attack soon, while America is in turmoil, and he said there is no doubt in the Israeli intelligence community that this war will be nuclear at some point, probably by the third day.nbsp; He also said that America will suffer greatly and Jews and Christians will both be in danger - persecution, etc. of a significant depth to cause American Jews to literally "run for their lives" with Christians following in their footsteps.nbsp; (He knows about the teaching on the Rapture but himself personally is not sure exactly how that plays out.)/tt brttnbsp;. . .stressed that he could only share this from the best of intelligence and information that he has from reliable sources. He believes deeply in God and said twice that if he did not know that God was in control, he could not sleep at night.//tt pttnote: If item # 3 happens before the inauguration of a new President, Clinton will probably declare martial law by one of the Executive Orders he has put in place, suspending the Constitution, and there may be no new President.)/tt brtt/ttnbsp; p!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| -- table BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=2 tr BGCOLOR="#CC" td ALIGN=CENTERbfont color="#003399"font size=-1eGroups
[CTRL] Voter error invalidated 2 million ballots nationwide
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Voter error invalidated 2 million ballots nationwide By Audrey Hudson THE WASHINGTON TIMES The uncounted ballots in Florida â which have played a key role in Democratic challenges â are just a drop in the bucket of ballots dismissed nationwide because of voter error, say political observers. An estimated 180,000 votes were dismissed in Florida â out of 6.1 million votes cast â because of improper voting procedures. However, more than 2 million ballots were tossed out in all 50 states and also will not be counted, said Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate. Mr. Gans estimates that between 1 percent and 1.8 percent of votes cast â or 2.1 million to 2.8 million ballots â were eliminated nationally. "These are people who by one form or another did not accurately do their ballot, and it was thereby thrown out for one reason or another," Mr. Gans said. Vice President Al Gore is contesting the election in Florida based on "incomplete and inaccurate" vote tallies. The official count announced Sunday night gave Republican George W. Bush a 537-vote victory in Florida and the state's 25 electoral votes. "If we ignore the votes that have been cast, then where does that lead?" Mr. Gore asked rhetorically in a telephone call yesterday to congressional Democrats. "The integrity of our democracy depends upon the consent of the governed, freely expressed in an election where every vote is counted." "What is at issue here is nothing less than every American's simple, sacred right to vote," said Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, Mr. Gore's running mate. "How can we teach our children that every vote counts if we are not willing to make a good-faith effort to count every vote?" the Connecticut Democrat asked Sunday after Florida's secretary of state certified election returns. The every-vote-must-count mantra makes sense on paper, but election experts say it is not feasible to count every vote cast, and in this case is "sheer hypocrisy," said Rep. John Shadegg, Arizona Republican and an election lawyer. "Clearly, they do not believe that every vote should count. These thoughts are impeached by their attempts to get military overseas ballots thrown out, and also impeached by the fact they did not ask for a manual recount in any of the remaining Florida counties which also used punch-card ballots," Mr. Shadegg said. "Realistically, the answer is no, you cannot count every vote," said Doug Lewis, director of the Election Center, an international service association of election and voter registration officials. Sometimes, voters fail âthrough their own error â to turn a ballot into a vote. "Obviously, if the voter votes in a manner where it is impossible to determine their intent or that they voted for too many people, then you have no choice but to remove that vote from the count," Mr. Lewis said. Sen. Larry E. Craig, Idaho Republican, said it is a known factor that a certain percentage of votes is discarded during machine counts. Mr. Craig said every effort is made to create uniformity and fairness in counting votes, but it does not mean every vote can be counted. "While that is frustrating to some, it has never been that way," Mr. Craig said. Mr. Craig said the quick reaction by Mr. Gore's campaign to ask for recounts indicates they were prepared in advance of Election Day to ask for hand counts in heavily Democratic counties to swing a close vote. "This was a well thought-out and planned strategy in advance. When Al Gore said he would do anything and everything to win this election, we must take him at his word," Mr. Craig said. Contacted by The Washington Times, several secretary of state offices said they do not keep numbers on how many ballots are thrown out after an election, but "rejected ballots are a normal occurrence," said a spokeswoman in the Alabama secretary of state's office. Secretaries of state across the country have formed a committee to study election-reform issues raised in this election, said Leslie Reynolds, spokeswoman for the National Association of Secretaries of State. "We've been looking at these issues for a long time. Now, everyone is interested," Miss Reynolds said. Every vote would count "if we get rid of the rickety machines," said Al Felzenberg, visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation. "Voting should not be a mysterious or burdensome process," Mr. Felzenberg said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be
[CTRL] Gore Faces Emotional Election Saga
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Gore Faces Emotional Election Saga By Sandra Sobieraj Associated Press Writer Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2000; 6:43 p.m. EST WASHINGTON ââ For Al Gore, the daily roulette wheel of election-saga emotion seemed to teeter Tuesday on the line separating red from black. Publicly, the vice president showed a steely ire as he sought to place blame for the drawn-out presidential election in George W. Bush's lap. Gore called a news conference â a rare event â on the lawn of the vice presidential residence. He rapped Bush for rejecting his proposed expedited schedule for resolving his court challenge of the Florida presidential vote. Gore fumed that the result would be "two weeks of additional court proceedings and additional hearings. "I believe this is a time to count every vote and not to run out the clock. This is not a time for delay, obstruction and procedural roadblocks." He noted pointedly that Bush was the first to file lawsuits over the Nov. 7 balloting. But some of Gore's closest associates said he privately battles frustration and dread that time will run out before his arguments against the accuracy of Florida's count are fully heard and weighed in court. One person who has been with Gore as he oversees legal and political strategy from his mansion within the gated Naval Observatory described the senator's son and career politician as "a lost soul" consumed by the struggle for his political future. Gore, a longtime Washington loner who does not schmooze, has strained at times to project a sociable geniality. He and running mate Joseph Lieberman and their wives had lunch Monday at a restaurant popular with tourists. The week before, they double-dated over margaritas. Other times, he tries to show a businesslike confidence that he has an administration to assemble. Gore extended Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers an unusual last-minute invitation to lunch on Tuesday, inviting news cameras in for just the slice of time between the pouring of the iced tea and the serving of the hamburgers. Gore is widely expected to ask Summers to stay on in any Gore administration. But after setting up the Cabinet-making image, he contradicted it. It was only lunch and a chitchat on the economy with "a close friend and close adviser," he said. "I don't think it's right for me to be offering people jobs." Heartened by election night numbers that showed he won the popular vote nationally by some 200,000 votes, Gore has become emboldened as that margin has grown to exceed 300,000 votes. He believes those numbers give his contest legitimacy, said another close adviser, also speaking on condition of anonymity. The adviser said Gore is flabbergasted that Americans show "no outrage over an election being stolen" in Florida. Instead, several polls suggested Monday that people want the ordeal to end and Gore to concede. But Gore said Tuesday: "I'm quite sure that the polls don't matter in this, because it's a legal question." Hours later, an NBC poll, the first to measure reaction to Gore's televised speech Monday night defending his vote challenge, offered a mood tonic: The country was evenly split on whether Gore should give up or fight on. He squinted into the sun to field other questions. He said he was contesting the tally in Florida's heavily Democratic Miami-Dade county â and two others â but not Republican-leaning areas because that's where the counting mistakes were concentrated. "One thing to remember is that the old and cheap, outdated machinery is usually found in areas with populations that are of lower income, minorities, seniors on fixed incomes," Gore said. He declined to weigh in on the Rev. Jesse Jackson's contention that black Florida voters were intimidated in violation of the Civil Rights Act. The last question Gore took: "Are you going to win?" "I hope so," he said. © Copyright 2000 The Associated Press *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of
[CTRL] Bush Moving Key Staff to D.C
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Bush Moving Key Staff to D.C. By Tom Raum Associated Press Writer Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2000; 8:17 a.m. EST AUSTIN, Texas ââ George W. Bush, in a bold gesture to assert authority, is moving key operatives to Washington and seeking private financing for a presidential transition. In the face of Democratic court challenges to the Florida presidential balloting, the Texas governor was pressing ahead with plans to form a new government and to fill thousands of top positions now held by Democrats. "We can move fairly rapidly in a couple of areas, but he has to decide the timing," Bush's vice presidential running mate, Dick Cheney, said Tuesday on NBC's "Today." He said there was a "good possibility" that a Bush Cabinet would include some Democrats. "The governor has given me instructions to look in those areas," said Cheney, who is overseeing transition planning. "We clearly will." Cheney said Bush was reaching out to people with experience, including some from the Bush and Reagan administrations, "but we're also going to want new talent. We're going to want to emphasize diversity. We're going to want a broad Cabinet." Bush was to designate retired Gen. Colin Powell as secretary of state and Stanford University scholar Condoleezza Rice as national security adviser. He also was expected to give economist Lawrence Lindsey a top economic job. Bush settled on these selections before the election and has not changed his mind, aides said. However, there remained some questions about scheduling, with Powell hoping to wait until some of the legal fireworks in Florida have subsided, the aides said. Associates close to Bush said the list of prominent Republicans under consideration for top jobs included Montana Gov. Marc Racicot and Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith. Racicot, who has emerged as a top advocate in the Florida recount fight, has been mentioned as a possibility for Interior secretary or attorney general. Goldsmith's name has been circulated as a potential housing secretary. Bush hopes to appoint at least one Democrat to a high-profile job, his associates said. Former Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., has been mentioned as a possible candidate for defense secretary and Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt of North Carolina could find himself on a list of potential education secretaries, aides said. Rebuffed by the Clinton administration in a bid for office space and $5.3 million in federal funds, a defiant Bush team announced Monday it would seek contributions of up to $5,000 each from individuals to help pay for a transition office in the nation's capital. He also was moving critical elements of his operation from Austin to Washington to establish a presence near the center of federal government. Cheney himself will be based in Washington. He announced that Clay Johnson, Bush's gubernatorial chief of staff, would serve as executive director of the prospective transition. Cheney also announced that Ari Fleischer, a senior campaign spokesman, would serve as transition spokesman. Both Johnson and Fleischer will move from Austin to Washington. The actions of the Bush camp contrasted sharply with assertions by Democrat Al Gore that the election won't be over until the courts say it's over. His camp is seeking legal action to reopen Florida's vote recount. "Let the people have their say, and let us listen," Gore said Monday night in a nationally televised address to the nation. That address was closely monitored in Austin â Bush watching from the Texas governor's mansion and the campaign staff assembled before television sets at campaign headquarters. Fleischer said Gore's address offered "nothing new." Gore "was just unfortunately not giving Americans the full picture of what took place," Fleischer said. "He did not advance his case." A day after declaring himself the winner of the presidential election based on his certified â but legally challenged â victory in Florida, Bush huddled on Monday with Andrew Card, his choice for White House chief of staff, and got down to transition business. The General Services Administration in Washington is refusing to open a transition office or release $5.3 million for the next president-elect until the contest is settled. "This is regrettable, because we believe the government has an obligation to honor the certified results of the election. Despite the decision, we feel it is our obligation to the American people to honor their votes by moving forward and assembling the administration that they've chosen in this election," Cheney said. "Therefore, at the direction of Governor Bush, we will proceed, drawing on other sources," he said. There are some 3,000 top positions to be filled by the new president â nearly all of them now held by Democrats. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is
[CTRL] Defending the smaller principles
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Defending the smaller principles -- -- Al Gore and Joe Lieberman say their motive in refusing to acknowledge their thrice-confirmed defeat is to defend the "larger principle" that every vote must count. I wonder if even one in four people believe them. If they keep this up, it won't be one in 10. Rather, they are defending the "smaller principles" that every Gore vote must count at least once and that they must win at all costs. What we are witnessing is an unparalleled demonstration of arrogance and self-indulgence. Do they really believe that their leadership is so important to the nation that all principles can be sacrificed? I suppose that Gore and Lieberman think most of us in middle-America (flyover country) rode in on pumpkin trucks. But surely even imbeciles wouldn't have been fooled by that hokey televised conference call they staged with Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle. To call it sophomoric would be abundantly generous. Isn't anyone in the Democratic Party getting embarrassed at their behavior yet? Isn't there some point beyond which rank-and-file Democrats will withdraw their support? Try to imagine Gore and Lieberman as our children -- which isn't much of a stretch, actually -- and how, as parents, we would deal with them. When they initially lost the automatic recount wouldn't we -- in order to instill in them a firm moral foundation -- have told them to accept defeat graciously? After promising that they would accept the result of the manual recount, they reneged when it didn't produce a victory for them. Just like class bullies -- they keep changing the goal posts. It's bad enough when the class troublemaker throws a tantrum when he doesn't get his way, but we are talking about the vice president of the United States and his running mate. Gore learned well from the master. This isn't that different from Clinton's reaction when he was "caught with his pants down" with Monica Lewinsky. Do you remember that little poll Dick Morris conducted at his own expense to trial balloon an apology speech he had written for Clinton to deliver to the American people? In it he had Clinton admitting that he'd had an affair with Monica and putting his fate in the hands of the people. To Morris' utter surprise, the people favored Clinton's resignation, 47 percent to 43 percent. What do you suppose Clinton thought of the vaunted "will of the people" then? You guessed it. He told Morris to scrap the speech. Clinton said, "Well, we just have to win then." That little sentence became the rallying cry for the next year, during which Clinton would subordinate every principle, all people and the national interest itself to his singular obsession to stay in power. And stay in power he did. Fast forward to late October 2000. Bill Clinton's would-be-successor, aware of the polls, believed that he was on the verge of losing the election and that his lifelong dream would soon be shattered. So what did he do? He assembled the Clinton-Gore war room veterans and told them, "Well, we just have to win then." Don't fool yourself. Gore's objections to the election were not formulated after he observed fraud or anomalies in the Florida election. They were part of a pre-formulated strategy conceived in the war room to create the illusion of substantial irregularities to justify a post-election judicial coup. What Gore didn't anticipate was that popular opinion would turn against him -- he is said to be stunned by Bush's post-election PR success. But this isn't about PR; not everything is spinnable. I have a renewed confidence in America as I watch the Clinton-Gore propaganda machine finally being checkmated by the scrutiny of an acutely engaged electorate. Several months ago, I ridiculed the idea advanced by some conservatives that Bill Clinton intended to remain in office beyond January 2001. How ridiculous. Well, how much different is that from what is going on? Like a spoiled brat who thinks America exists solely for his and Al Gore's pleasure and designs, Clinton has instructed the GSA not to turn over the keys and transition money to president-elect Bush. Listen to me Bill and Al: Those are not your keys, and it is not your money. In the immortal words of Glenda, the good witch of the North, "Be gone, you have no power here." © 2000 Creators Syndicate, Inc. -- -- David Limbaugh is an attorney practicing in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and a political analyst and commentator. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and
[CTRL] Fwd: No Vote of Confidence
Nationwide, an estimated 2.1 to 2.8 million ballots did not get counted toward the presidential total, said Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, based in Washington. "Some of those were thrown out and some of those were from people who didn't vote for EITHER candidate as president,'' Gans said Tuesday, adding that he had no way of knowing how many of the votes were not counted for different reasons. In Florida, about 180,000 of the ballots were these so-called ``undervotes,'' which don't count toward a presidential candidate. That's nearly 3 percent of the more than 6 million ballots Florida citizens turned in. The Democrats have been using undervote percentages to press their case, but the numbers in Florida are not different from those in the rest of the nation. "What nobody likes to recognize is that voters go to the polls and in very closely contested races cast NO vote for that race,'' said Doug Lewis of the Election Center, an independent clearinghouse that works with election authorities nationally. More Than 2M Ballots Uncounted By DAVID HO .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Al Gore and George W. Bush are locked in a legal fight over whether to manually recount almost 15,000 disputed ballots in two Florida counties, a tiny - but strategic - share of more than 2 million ballots nationwide that weren't counted toward picking a president. Electoral geography, at least as much as proper vote-counting practices, appear to be driving this legal struggle. Florida's 25 electoral votes will likely determine the presidential election. Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties were two of the handful of Florida counties identified by the Gore campaign as likely sources of uncounted votes to be explored. The Bush campaign has argued that manual recounts are not as reliable as machine counts. Nationwide, an estimated 2.1 to 2.8 million ballots did not get counted toward the presidential total, said Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, based in Washington. ``Some of those were thrown out and some of those were from people who didn't vote for president,'' Gans said Tuesday, noting that he had no way of knowing how many of the votes were not counted for different reasons. Since 1980, Gans' committee has compiled election data from 35 states that provide the total number of ballots their voters have cast and the number of votes for president. In Florida, about 180,000 of the ballots were these so-called ``undervotes,'' which don't count toward a presidential candidate. That's nearly 3 percent of the more than 6 million ballots Florida citizens turned in. Because the state-certified count gave Bush a 537-vote victory, Democrats argue the count was inaccurate and these ``undervotes'' cost Gore the election. But Republicans contend that ballots have been counted and recounted, and may reflect voters' desire not to pick a presidential candidate. The campaigns have been using undervote percentages to press their cases, with Republicans saying the numbers in Florida are not different from those in the rest of the nation and Democrats insisting they are an aberration. Gore supporters say the problem in Florida largely can be traced to paper punch-card ballots, which have added ``chad'' - dimpled, swinging, pregnant and otherwise - to the national lexicon. Chad are the tiny pieces of paper that pop out of a ballot when a voter chooses a candidate. The Bush campaign released its estimates Tuesday, citing preliminary vote totals from 32 states, they concluded that 1.9 percent of Americans who cast ballots either did not vote for president or made some mistake that disqualified their vote. ``They've been counted just like all of the other non-votes, not only in counties in Florida but also in other counties across the United States,'' James A. Baker III, representing Bush, said Tuesday. Democratic officials did not immediately return calls seeking comment, but Gore addressed the larger issue, speaking to reporters outside the vice president's mansion. ``Thousands of votes still have not been counted,'' Gore said. ``Once we have that full and accurate count of the ballots cast, then we will know who our next president is and our country can move forward.'' The vice president's lawyers want about 10,750 of undervote ballots cast in Miami-Dade County counted by hand, saying they could pick up approximately 600 votes. They also say that some 4,000 ballots in Palm Beach County were marked with a presidential choice but not counted by canvassers, costing the vice president about 800 votes. Undervote ballots can go uncounted because voters make mistakes, such as voting for two candidates, not perforating the slot by a candidate's name or deliberately choosing no candidate at all. ``What nobody likes to recognize is that voters go to the polls and in very closely contested races cast no vote for
[CTRL] Fwd: Barak Defeated! - Shocked, Dismayed, Devastated
___ __ / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\ http://www.MiddleEast.Org News, Information, Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] BARAK QUITS AND TWISTS HIS DEFEAT NEWSFLASH - Ariel Sharon forced Ehud Barak to effective resign tonight and call new elections. Recent polls indicate that if elections were held now Barak would be easily defeated by any opposition candidate, including Sharon and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At the last minute Arafat publicly called on Arab members of the Knesset to support Barak. Immediately upon receiving the news Arafat's de facto Prime Minister, Nabil Shaath, suggested they could now reach an agreement with Barak before the election and that doing so would help Barak win the election. UN OFFICIAL 'DEVASTATED' BY MIDEAST By Alexander G. Higgins GENEVA (AP - 27 Nov) - U.N. human rights chief Mary Robinson said Monday she was "shocked and dismayed and even devastated" at the plight of Palestinians confronting Israeli forces in the occupied territories. In a hard-hitting report on her visit earlier this month to the Middle East, Robinson urged establishment of an international monitoring body. And she said countries that are part of the Geneva Convention on war should "assume their responsibility" regarding the conduct of forces in the occupied territories. Yaakov Levy, the Israeli ambassador to U.N. offices in Geneva, said he found "a lack of balance in characterization and terminology and even laying blame" in the report. "When Israel is accused, the terms are clear," Levy told The Associated Press. "When reference is made to Palestinian responsibility, the language is vague - for example, on desecrating Jewish holy sites, the burning down of joint economic ventures." He said Robinson criticized Israel for failing to respect ambulances but failed to cite Palestinian misuse of ambulances and insignia. Robinson, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, stressed "the need for measures to be taken to reduce the terrible violence." She demanded that Israel cease construction of new settlements. Claiming that she tried to keep a balance, Robinson credited Israel for allowing her to visit and for allowing her to confront Israeli forces with Palestinian accusations. She also noted "a great feeling of insecurity and fear in Israel itself," but said the U.N. Human Rights Commission, in an emergency meeting last month, instructed her to focus on the human rights situation of the Palestinians. And that, Robinson said, is "bleak." "You cannot separate the human rights situation from the reality of occupation," she said. "That reality means ... the daily acts of discrimination, inequality, humiliation, powerlessness of occupation," Robinson said. "This has been intensified by the conflict, intensified by the excessive use of force, by the impact on children, on medical personnel, the use of the economic levers, the very serious economic impact." She criticized Israel for using live ammunition against demonstrators and heavier weapons, including rockets and heavy machine guns. Levy rejected the term "excessive" force. He said "it is evident to all that the character of the rioting involves the use of automatic firearms, bombings of civilian buses in Israel and the lynching of Israelis." Robinson urged that all cases of "lethal force" used by either side should be subjected to justice "to avoid impunity." Among her recommendations: - "As well as protecting settlers, Israeli security forces should also protect Palestinians from violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers." - Israel should pull back its forces from positions that act as "flash points." - Compensation should be paid to victims of unlawful force, including loss of property. Robinson noted that Israel has opposed the establishment of an international monitoring body, but she hoped it was still possible to win Israeli acceptance. Robinson said she had seen repeatedly the "deep hurt" in Palestinian parents over the assertion that they had sent their children out to throw stones and risk death at the hands of the Israelis. "I was to a very real extent shocked and dismayed and even devastated by the impact of the present conflict in the occupied territories in particular," Robinson said. "It is very clear that it is having a devastating effect on the civilian population." MiD-EasT RealitieS - www.MiddleEast.Org Phone: 202 362-5266Fax: 815 366-0800 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscriibe email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject SUBSCRIBE To unsubscribe email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject UNSUBSCRIBE
[CTRL] Skolnick-THE BIG LIE and THE OIL-SOAKED MONOPOLY PRESS
THE BIG LIE and THE OIL-SOAKED MONOPOLY PRESS by Sherman H. Skolnick Reporters that cover the U.S. Supreme Court are turning in stories they know are the BIG LIE. In items in the New York Times and other major papers, they are stating that the Bush Campaign's objections to the manual recount are granted to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. I happen to know a lot about that high court in Washington and their procedures. I hold a record of sorts having, in the past, petitioned that Court perhaps more times than most anyone else in that Court's history. In the Florida election mess, two petitions for what the high court calls "Certiorari", were filed. Listed on the Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court's records as #836, is George W. Bush, petitioner versus Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, et al.respondents. In that one, according to the high court's order of Friday, November 24, 2000, certiorari was gr! anted. The court narrowed down the petitioner to argue about the federal statute, Title 3 United States Code Section 5, dealing with the state's appointment of State Electors to the Electoral College. The court order stated, "the parties are directed to brief and argue the following question What would be the consequences of this Court's finding that the decision of the Supreme Court of Florida does not comply with 3 U.S.C. Sec.5?" The procedure, seldom mentioned outside law schools and such, in the U.S. Supreme Court is that petitioner is to basically knock on the door and beg to be heard. It is called Petition for Certiorari. In a recent term of the high court, since the judges are also lazy and indifferent, there were 1600 such begging petitions pending. Guess what? Using only one word, "denied", the nine judges refused to hear each and every one of the pending petitions and gave no reason for refusing them. The second begging! petition filed in the high court was listed as #837, Ned Siegel vs. Theresa LePore. The high court order stated, "The Petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment is denied without prejudice." This case involves recount issues. The oil-soaked monopoly press, to favor their CIA darling, George W. Bush, promotes the BIG LIE, that ALL the issues mentioned on the TV by Bush's lawyers are going to be heard. Not so. Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Goebels, was an amateur compared to the News York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and others among the press-fakers. Among other things, their purpose is to ignore that one of the presidential candidates, Albert Gore, Jr., won the plurality of the POPULAR VOTER, and that Bush is seeking to gain the Electoral College trick through seeking to defeat any kind of manual count. [As Texas Governor, Bush signed a manual recount law in his state on ! close elections.] I do not appreciate being called a Gore loyalist simply for pointing out the truth. I am an independent. In the 1960s and 1970s I was called "Mr. One Man, One Vote". Being self-educated in law, in Illinois, in the federal courts, I brought and won, on behalf of all voters and myself, various suits to re-do Illinois' then terribly gerry-mandered election districts, in the principle of equal numbers of residents in each district. Some districts had 150 thousand more residents than other districts, thus a vote in such a district had less weight than elsewhere. My suits re-apportioned various districts giving the equal chance, for the first time, for example, for latinos and Afro-Americans to have proper representation in Congress, in Chicago City Council, and other elected tribunals. Before the era of plain-paper cheap copiers, I used a high-speed mimeograph stencil machine to crank other stacks of court papers
in each case, to combat as many as 50 opposing lawyers in each case. A few corrupt judges got steam-rollered by me also when they tried to hold secret proceedings, without me, in some of these publicly important suits. Over the last ten years on my weekly public access Cable TV Show, I occasionally outrage some naive viewers by proclaiming they we ordinary Americans may be in a permanent post-election period. That what ails America most likely cannot be remedied anymore by elections since the ruling elite pick only blackmailable types for high office. That the ultra-rich rule us by the BULLET, NOT THE BALLOT. Leaders some of us thought were charming and possibly good for the people, have been assassinated and falsely blamed onto lone assassins. Is this the last presidential election for America? And from here on in, ordinary Americans will be interested only in the right to bear arms under the 2nd Amemdment? A guarantee by force! against a central government tyranny to abolish all our other beautifully-worded rights, privileges, and immunities set forth in the Bill of Rights? I am often misunderstood by being ahead of the parade. Stay tuned. Since 1958, Mr.Skolnick has been a court reformer. Since 1963, founder/chairman,
[CTRL] Watchdog Group Wins Right to View Palm Beach Ballots
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Watchdog Group Wins Right to View Palm Beach Ballots By Ellen Nakashima Tuesday, November 28, 2000; Page A08 A Florida circuit court judge has ordered the Palm Beach election board to make the county's disputed ballots available for inspection to Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, this morning. Circuit Court Judge Jorge Labarga said that Florida's public record law allows citizens to inspect ballots. "We're looking at the ballots to see if there were any irregularities or fraud," said Larry Klayman, Judicial Watch chairman. "We want to make sure it [the count] was done publicly and honestly." The group, which has tangled repeatedly with the Clinton administration over various matters, is also seeking access to disputed ballots in Miami-Dade, which has granted the request, and in Broward, which has refused. Klayman said his group will review 5,000 to 10,000 ballots in Palm Beach with the aid of an accounting firm that specializes in elections and election fraud. He said more than 400 citizen volunteers will be on hand to observe. County spokeswoman Denise Cote said that the only person who will handle the ballots is supervisor of elections Theresa LePore. "This is an unprecedented request," Cote said. "It could be a long and very tedious process." Klayman said the review could last several days. He will ask a circuit court judge in Broward County this morning to compel the Broward election board to make that county's ballots available. The Florida Democratic Party plans to file a motion this morning to stop the ballot inspection in Palm Beach. © 2000 The Washington Post *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Spreading Panic
-Caveat Lector- Is anyone surprised at these reactions? It's expected. They [the middle east] love to hate the U.S Now the election process has given them more fuel for their fires. And they can play while the cat's away from his duties... or is he really away? Calling martial law will be the only hope of continuing the Clinton admin.'s legacy, and Al Gore's continual legality of counting woes. You must admit... it's a Clinton calculation that is entirely possible, in order to buy Al Gore the time he needs to attempt to prove that he's the deserv-ed one to be the President. eagle 1 - Original Message - From: "Kris Millegan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 7:20 PM Subject: [CTRL] Fwd: Spreading Panic 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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] Why The Gov. Won't Come Clean About Nuclear Accidents
THE OOPS LIST By Chuck Hansen In February 1958, at Greenham Common airbase near Newbury, England, a U.S. Air Force B-47 experienced engine trouble on takeoff and jettisoned two full 1,700-gallon wingtip fuel tanks from an altitude of 8,000 feet. One or both of the falling tanks missed a designated safe impact area and exploded 65 feet behind a parked B-47 loaded with nuclear weapons. The resulting fire burned for 16 hours, detonating the high explosives in at least one weapon, destroying the parked bomber, killing two people, and injuring eight others. It caused the release of radioactive material, including finely powdered uranium and plutonium oxides, at least 10 to 20 grams of which were found off base. An adjacent hangar was also severely damaged, and other planes had to be hosed down to prevent their ignition by the intense heat of the nearby fire, which was fed by jet fuel and magnesium. The fire was allowed to burn itself out and was still smoldering several days later. (The population of the town of Newbury, the closest downwind village, later suffered a cluster of leukemia cases.) The air force has never officially admitted that nuclear weapons were involved in this accident. The U.S. Air Force and the British Ministry of Defence had agreed in 1956—two years earlier—to deny that nuclear weapons were involved in any accident with an American nuclear bomber stationed in England. In 1985, the British government stated that the accident merely involved a parked B-47 that was struck by a taxiing B-47 on a training exercise, omitting any mention of the ensuing fire. On January 16, 1961, an air force "quick reaction alert" F-100 based in England and loaded with a thermonuclear weapon intended for a Soviet target caught fire when, during engine run-up, the underwing fuel tanks were accidentally ejected and spilled fuel was ignited. The nuclear weapon mounted on the aircraft's centerline pylon was scorched and blistered before the flames were extinguished by the flight-line fire department. Other U.S. allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization were put at risk by U.S. nuclear warheads stationed on their soil. On at least four occasions between mid-October 1961 and August 1962, Jupiter missiles carrying 1.4 megaton thermonuclear warheads were struck by lightning at their bases in Italy. In each incident, thermal batteries were activated, and in two cases, tritium-deuterium "boost" gas was injected into the warhead pits, partially arming them. After the fourth Jupiter incident, the air force erected protective lightning strike-diversion tower arrays at all of its Italian and Turkish missile launch sites. On November 28, 1977, a U.S. Army CH-47 helicopter carrying nuclear weapons in West Germany crashed shortly after takeoff when it lost power in its no. 1 engine after the engine caught fire. The aircraft dropped rapidly, hit a row of trees, and came to rest in a planted field approximately 200 to 300 meters from the point of takeoff. The weapons were not seriously damaged, and were recovered from the aircraft wreckage. These are just a few of the many accidents and incidents involving U.S. nuclear weapons based in foreign countries that were not mentioned in May 1981, when the Defense Department released what it claimed was the first "comprehensive" list of U.S. nuclear weapons accidents. That compilation, titled "Narrative Summaries of Accidents Involving U.S. Nuclear Weapons, 1950-1980," listed only 32 "Broken Arrow"-type nuclear accidents and incidents during a 30-year period. Broken Arrows include lost weapons, burned weapons, dropped weapons, ruptured weapons, and weapons in which high explosives were inadvertently detonated; they are the most severe officially categorized nuclear weapon accidents. Less-severe accidents and incidents include "Bent Spears," "Dull Swords," and "Empty Quivers." The 1981 list included accidents that fell into two categories: those that had been publicly disclosed when they occurred, and those in which radioactive fallout spread beyond the limits of a military base, either within the United States or in a foreign country. When radioactive contamination did not extend beyond a military base, the incident that caused the contamination was probably not publicly announced. Of the incidents listed in the 1981 paper, at least seven were not made public when they happened and several had not been previously disclosed. In only 14 cases had Defense revealed at the time of the incident that nuclear weapons were involved. At least a few government officials were better informed: As reported by Shaun Gregory in his 1990 book The Hidden Cost of Deterrence: Nuclear Weapons Accidents, President John F. Kennedy was briefed in 1961 on more than 60 U.S. nuclear weapons accidents that had occurred since the end of World War II, including two instances in which "nuclear-tipped anti-aircraft missiles" were inadvertently launched. By January 1968, Defense had publicly announced only 13
[CTRL] The Hidden History Of Zionism
[The following are excerpts from Ralph Schoenman's "The Hidden History of Zionism." WARNING: Extremely gruesome.] The Zionist movement subdued Palestine and assaulted its culture with a relentless barbarity shocking even to those familiar with the cruel annals of colonial conquest. This history has been suppressed during the past one hundred year... The Israeli response to the [rock-throwing Arab] uprising [of 12/21/87] was brutal. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin ordered the use of tanks, armored vehicle and automatic rifles against an unarmed populatio... As the uprising intensified, the Israeli cabinet and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin implemented "collective punishment," a tactic characteristic of the Nazi occupation of France, Denmark and Yugoslavia. Food, water and medicine were prevented from reaching Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…personnel reported that children seeking powdered milk at U.N. depots were shot at and beaten with stick... One of the most vicious incidents occurred in the town of Qalquiya. Soldiers entered the house of workers and poured gasoline over them, setting them alight. Six workers were covered in flame... On February 20, two youths were arrested in Khan Yunis, beaten savagely and taken to the beach where they were buried alive under the sand. After the soldiers left, villagers managed to dig them out... Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced that Israeli civilians have the same authority as soldiers to shoot. He added that soldiers need not fire warning shots before shooting Palestinian... ... Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir [vowed] that Palestinians "would be crushed like grasshoppers...heads smashed against the boulders and walls."... Israel'...Minister of Defense, Yitzhak Rabin, launched the 1967 war as Chief of Staff with "Iron Will." As Prime Minister in 1975 and 1976 he declared the policy of Hayad Barzel, the "Iron Hand" in the West Bank. Over 300,000 Palestinians were to pass through Israeli prisons under conditions of sustained and institutionalized torture... In 1948, there were 475 Palestinian villages and towns. Of these, 385 were razed to the ground, reduced to rubble. Ninety remain, stripped of their land... Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, declaimed: "We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves."... ...Between November 29, 1947, when the United Nations partitioned Palestine, and May 15, 1948, when the State was formally proclaimed, the Zionist army and militia had seized 75% of Palestine, forcing 780,000 Palestinians out of the country. The Butchery Begins: Deir Yasin The process was one of sustained slaughter as village after village was wiped out. The killing was intended to cause people to flee for their lives. The commander of the Haganah, Zvi Ankori, described what happened: "I saw cut off genitalia and women's crush stomachs… It was direct murder." Menachem Begin gloated over the impact throughout Palestine of the Nazi-like operations he commanded at Deir Yasin. Lehi and IZL Commandos stormed the village of Deir Yasin on April 9, 1948, slaughtering 254 men, women and children…. ...like massacres occurred on a similar scale throughout the country. The massacre at Dueima in 1948 was perpetrated by the official Labor Zionist Israeli Army... The account of the massacre, as described by a soldier who participated in the horror, was published in Davar, the official Hebrew daily newspaper of the Labor-Zionist-run Histadrut General Federation of Workers: "...They killed between eighty to one hundred Arab men, women and children. To kill the children, they [soldiers] fracture their heads with sticks. There was not one home without corpses. The men and women of the villages were pushed into houses without food or water. Then the saboteurs came to dynamite them. "One commander ordered a soldier to bring two women into a building he was about to blow up... Another soldier prided himself upon having raped an Arab woman before shooting her to death. Another Arab woman with her newborn baby was made to clean the place for a couple of days, and then they shot her and the baby..." The program of massacre did not end with the formation of the state... The genocidal methods needed to impose the colonial settler state within the pre-1967 borders of Israel are regarded as the model for dealing ultimately with the Palestinians in the post-1967 occupied territories... Collaborating with the Nazis [The] strategy of enlisting Europe's virulent Jew-haters, and of aligning with the most vicious movements and regimes as financial and military patrons of a Zionist colony in Palestine, did not exclude Nazis... The World Zionist Organization broke with the Jewish boycott and became the principal distributor of Nazi goods throughout the
[CTRL] RadTimes # 114
-Caveat Lector- RadTimes # 114 November, 2000 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- QUOTE: "Government cannot exist without the tacit consent of the populace. This consent is maintained by keeping people in ignorance of their real power. Voting is not an expression of power, but an admission of powerlessness, since it cannot do otherwise than reaffirm the government's supposed legitimacy." --Fred Woodworth, 'Anarchism' --- Contents: --- --VoteScam editor speaks --Bush campaign makes appeal to military and extreme right --Crowd's Roar Dulls Rights [GOP goon squad] --The Electoral Stalemate: Not The End of The World Linked stories: *DOE Site For Victims Of Human Radiation Experiments *Shaking Things Up: Progressive And Radical Librarians *Drug Czar Predicts Colombia Fight *'Cyber-Terrorist' Jailed Again *Is a perfect economic storm brewing? *Trade gap soars to record *Election turmoil sends stocks lower *Damaged Cable Causes Internet Chaos *Between Theory and Practice: Surveillance Camera Players *Bush running mate in hospital *Cops Like Bigger Busts *Emusic Tracks Napster Naughties *Underage Unions *Democrats bow to bullying from the Republican right *Gore Camp Shaken as Voting Officials Abandon Recount in Biggest County *Counters Exhausted and Frustrated *E-Mail: Your Eyes Only? *Undersea Cable Break Shows Internet Vulnerability *Florida's High Court Rejects Gore Call for Miami Recount *Election battle goes to the top *'Sensory' marketers reach shoppers through the nose *The Secret Life of AAA: Environmental Foes *Survey: Teens Using Less Marijuana, More Ecstasy *A Nation Divided: The Call to Arms --- Begin stories: --- VoteScam editor speaks From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19 Nov 2000 We here at Victoria House Press would like to thank everyone who has contacted us in the past week (keeping us well on our toes!) with book and video orders, news releases, insider information, and general support and encouragement. Most importantly, this message is directed to the thousands of people who are waking up right now to the dark reality of American elections, and are faced with the anger, fear, and confusion that the rest of us have long become accustomed to. Now you know why we've been fighting! The 2000 election has sounded an alarm for many people who have been asleep, who have trusted the media network's vote "projections" and who have never questioned how their votes are counted. A rude awakening, no doubt, but we are all happy for the new numbers in our ranks, already tens of thousands strong. The army is growing, folks. And we've got to turn our sights to the future. What will come of the 2000 election? Only one thing is certain. A media-supported movement to standardize a computerized vote count, nation wide. The system, already in place in some counties, will be accessible by satellite, and cell phone, with absolutely no ballot-- no paper trail. We are being told that the current scandal in Florida is the result of "human error" and that only the computer can ensure easy, accurate elections. Oddly enough, the media is not informing the public that only the computer can ensure fast, unverifiable vote rigging as well! The only hope we have to save our system from falling completely out of our control, necessitating an actual violent revolution (and none of us want that, obviously) is to begin a massive campaign to educate our fellow Americans about the threat that is facing us. We need a system that offers us the best of both worlds: A computerized voting machine that gives a receipt in the form of a duplicate ballot. One for the voter, and another, in a different color but with corresponding serial number, for the ballot box at the precinct, where the ballot MUST BE COUNTED IN THE TRADITIONAL WAY. With strict citizen oversight! The results must then be posted on the precinct wall so that the vote can be verified at the local level. This would immediately neutralize any attempt by the Networks to manipulate our numbers. If we only have the computer, with no ballot, well . . .forget it, folks. We are checkmated. Plans are currently underway to find a manufacturer who will produce this kind of a machine, and it is up to us to demand it of our Secretary of State, and to let our Board of Election members know ahead of time that we will not accept
[CTRL] Vote rigging in Australia
-Caveat Lector- From the Sydney morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/0011/29/A45373-2000Nov29.shtml Labor MP warned he may face perjury charges Source: AAP|Published: Wednesday November 29, 1:21 PM Queensland Labor MP Grant Musgrove was today warned he could face perjury charges similar to former premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen for claiming he has no memory of falsifying electoral enrolment forms. The Member for Springwood has continued his evidence at the Shepherdson Inquiry into vote-rigging in the ALP today, claiming he has 'no recollection' of ever falsifying enrolment forms. The 32-year-old backbencher - who won the marginal Brisbane seat in 1998 - has already been accused at the inquiry of witnessing three false enrolments. The inquiry heard yesterday that Mr Musgrove was elected to state parliament with the help of a falsely-enrolled voter, who was moved into the seat a month before the state poll. During questioning by Counsel Assisting the Inquiry Russell Hanson, QC, the state MP was told he was not immune from perjury prosecution simply because he couldn't remember. 'Mr Musgrove I think I should just tell you that you should not sit there thinking that you are immune from a perjury prosecution if you simply say that you do not remember,' Mr Hanson told the MP. 'Because if it could be proved that your statement that you do not remember is false, you are at risk of being prosecuted for perjury. 'I'd like to remind you of the famous prosecution for perjury of the former Premier of Queensland, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, who was prosecuted for statements said to be false Do we understand each other?'. Mr Musgrove responded: 'We understand each other very clearly, Mr Hanson, yes, I do not remember doing such a thing.' Mr Musgrove later was unable to explain a false enrolment form moving his brother, Ashley, into the East Brisbane Ward, despite admitting the witness signature appeared to be his. The inquiry is investigating possible electoral rorts in the preselection for the East Brisbane Ward in 1993 as well as otherpreselections across the state. He said he had no knowledge of the form, but could only assume that he was coerced by former Australian Workers Union state organiser Lee Bermingham and his deputy Warwick Powell. Mr Powell has previously claimed at the inquiry that Grant and Ashley Musgrove assisted in boosting numbers for their preselection candidate. After being shown a series of false forms, Mr Musgrove admitted to the hearing his signature appeared to have been used as part of a scheme to falsely enrol people in the 1993 party plebiscite for the Brisbane City Council seat of East Brisbane. 'Yes, that's possible,' Mr Musgrove told the hearing in response to a question from Mr Hanson. 'On the balance of the evidence presented here it appears that I have signed enrolments which are in fact false.' Mr Musgrove's evidence is continuing. 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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] RadTimes # 115
-Caveat Lector- RadTimes # 115 November, 2000 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- QUOTE: "A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because they are permitted periodically to choose new masters. What makes them slaves is the fact that they now, and are always hereafter to be, in the hands of men whose power over them is, and always is to be, absolute and irresponsible." --Lysander Spooner, 'No Treason' --- Contents: --- --How Gore Lost the Green Vote --U.S. Elections: Racist Then, Racist Now --Hack the Vote! --I Can Tell You Who Lost --Republicans ready with 'doomsday scenario' --Stolen Florida Voting Machine Turns Up on eBay Linked stories: *Voter Fraud Ad In USA Today *A fluke? A crisis? No, the future *Let the spin cycle begin *James Baker: Accept the recount, Al.. *The disappearing ballots of Duval County *The woman under fire [Katherine Harris] *The fallacy of Nixon's graceful exit --- Begin stories: --- How Gore Lost the Green Vote by Charlene Spretnak November 19, 2000 San Francisco Chronicle IN THE CURRENT railing by liberal journalists and pundits against Ralph Nader's presidential candidacy on the Green Party ticket, I have yet to see anyone concede a basic fact of democracy: minority parties do not run candidates merely as a symbolic gesture or to be "spoilers." On the local level, they run to win. On the state and national levels, they run to demonstrate enough clout in the voting booths -- or in the ubiquitous pre- election opinion polls -- that one or both of the majority parties have to make concessions on various issues. With an enormous amount of grass-roots effort, the status quo can thus be moved via the democratic electoral process. As the race between Al Gore and George W. Bush became almost even in the final two weeks of the campaign, I expected the Democrats to do what majority parties all over the world do when they realize they cannot prevail at the polls without appealing to a particular minority party. In Europe, for instance, liberal parties have often formed reluctant but effective coalitions with the Green Party for the past decade. On local levels, Greens and conservatives have sometimes joined forces when the liberals have tried to impose overdevelopment. In our own country's history, minority parties have pressured majority parties sufficiently to effect changes in policy. This scenario for the Greens seemed so obvious that I included it in a story I wrote in 1996 as the closing chapter in "The Resurgence of the Real," a nonfiction book published by Addison-Wesley in March 1997. In the story, set in 2024 in an American heartland city, a character explains what transpired in the presidential election of 2000: Al Gore, running against unspecified Republican and Green candidates, realized around the third week of October that he would probably lose without the support of a large number of Green voters. He finally made some concessions in various areas and won handily. This fall, I watched with surprise as the actual Campaign 2000 began to match my story. When the Gore camp finally began worrying aloud about the Greens, I thought, "If you want to pick up some Green votes, Al, now's the time to publicly promise those voters you'll make concessions." Although Nader declined to meet with Gore, in late October, the Gore camp never revealed publicly whether they sought the meeting in order to ask him to withdraw from the election or to propose concessions. If the latter, Gore surely would have gone public with those proposed concessions in a direct appeal to Green voters. If the Gore camp never considered concessions, was it because the Democratic Party is now so thoroughly pro-corporate that no movement whatsoever in the Green direction is possible? I am not suggesting that the Green Party leadership (the national Coordinating Council) would have entered into negotiations with Gore, as Greens everywhere were working hard to win at least 5 percent of the vote. However, in the final week of the campaign in the closely contested states, many Green voters were becoming ambivalent, as the polls showed. Many were hoping for a way to help Gore without abandoning the Green platform, which was the product of years of grass-roots effort. Gore could have demonstrated that he had read the Green Party platform 3d.htmwww.gp.3d.htmorg and had
[CTRL] Vote rigging in Australia II
-Caveat Lector- From the Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/0011/29/A45544-2000Nov29.shtml Democrats deny receiving money from Swan Source: AAP|Published: Wednesday November 29, 2:31 PM The Australian Democrats today denied they had received money from Labor frontbencher Wayne Swan during the 1996 federal election campaign. Democrats leader Meg Lees said a search of the party's records found no sign of a payment from Mr Swan to the Democrats' candidate in the seat of Lilley. However, she said she could not speak for the individual candidate for Lilley in 1996, or for the local campaign manager, because both had now left the party. 'I reiterate that the Democrat Party did not receive any payment from Wayne Swan's campaign,' Senator Lees said. 'If we had received it, under our strict party protocols, it would have been disclosed.' Mr Swan has confirmed he made a cash payment to the Democrats' campaign in Lilley in 1996, but he has refused to say how much money was involved or what it was to be used for. However, he has denied the money was paid in return for Democrats' preferences, which were agreed at a national level. Senator Lees said she was opposed to the Democrats accepting any money from other political parties. 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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] RadTimes # 116
-Caveat Lector- RadTimes # 116 November, 2000 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- QUOTE: "A great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It had its origin in the principles of society, and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government and would exist if the formality of government was abolished. The mutual dependence and reciprocal interest which man has in man, and all the parts of a civilized community upon each other, create that great chain of connection which holds it together." --Thomas Paine, 'The Rights of Man' --- Contents: --- --Black-Shirt Coup In Florida --Anti-Castro Miami Crowd Disrupts Florida Recount --Eyewitness to a Travesty --What if Bush supporters had mistakenly voted for the Socialist Workers Party? --Real Vote Victims: Minorities --Will The Revolution Be Televised? Linked stories: *U.S. clash on global warming *Loyal Opposition: Election Bias *Smash The Nader Backlash *The Dirty Business Of Internet Porn *Study: Carnivore needs honing *A peace platform? --- Begin stories: --- Black-Shirt Coup In Florida http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=10660 Pro-Bush Mobs Overrun Dade County Board 11/22/00 In a move resembling the uprising of the fascist mobs which brought Mussolini to power in 1922, pro-Bush mobs stormed the offices of the Dade County Canvassing Board earlier today. Shouting "Let us in, " "No more Gore" and other pro-Bush slogans, the mob rushed into the offices, overwhelming authorities, and engaging in what CNN called "a near riot." Through intimidation, the threat of force, and mass action against the legally constituted authorities, these mobs coerced the Canvassing Board into suspending the manual recount. The "black shirt" aspect of this affair is being downplayed by the mainstream media, but there are strong indications that the board had decided on a complete recount until the mobs stormed the Dade County Canvassing Board premises. CNN correspondent Bill Schneider reported, "I saw something I thought I would never see. A near riot by Republicans. Republicans are not the kind of people to riot." He observed that, "The canvassing board is under tremendous pressure." CNN's interlocuter asked, Are you surprised by what appears to be a complete turnaround on the part of the Board? Does it makes sense that they would go to the extent of "staging a near riot perhaps to intimidate the Dade County Canvassing Board"? Schneider replied, "That is part of the game plan." He went on to add that all forces are in play, and that the Republicans felt such moves were necessary for them to achieve their goals. There was no tone of condemnation, or moral indignation at the use of mobs by the Republicans to coerce the board. As usual, the mainstream media supports virtually any illegal or intimidating "mass action" when employed for elite interests. Mass action on the part of disenfranchised blacks, progressive working class forces, or "strident" radicals would be met with cries of horror on the networks and standard news cable channels. "Tempers flare in South Florida," said one correspondent introducing the story. The notion of a black shirt coup, a la Mussolini, is alien to the corporate controlled journalists. The alternative media should seriously analyze such a notion. This reporter noted in a previous release that the Bush family had connections with vast numbers of covert assets, especially in Florida. George Herbert Walker Bush, former head of the CIA, employed these assets against Fidel Castro in Cuba, against the Sandinistas, and elsewhere in Latin America. These assets, many of which are based in the far right-wing Cuban community in Florida, were spawned by the creation of "operation mongoose," a CIA black operations group. They originally included thousands of mercenaries on the CIA payroll, and millions of dollars worth of front businesses. They have been employed both inside and outside the US, according the de-classified documents. Bush Senior's present connection to these assets has been commented on by numerous and domestic observers, though the issue has been ignored by the corporate press. Make no mistake. The Bush family is prepared to use both force and the THREAT of force to attain their goals. This is only the first taste of Bushite tactics during the current crisis.
[CTRL] Newsweek: Gore, Lieberman 'Totally Charged Up'
-Caveat Lector- http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/001127/newsweek_p_3.html Newsweek: Gore, Lieberman 'Totally Charged Up' By Fight For Presidency, Christopher 'Radicalized,' Daley 'Struggling' Cheney's Power In Bush Camp Growing, Edging Aside Strategist Rove 'Spontaneous' Demonstrations In Miami-Dade Led By Senior Republican 'Operatives; 'Democrats Decry 'Brownshirt' Tactics NEW YORK, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Vice President Al Gore and his team of advisors are combative and defiant in the face of the latest twists in events to elect a president, write Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas and Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff in the December 4 issue of Newsweek. An aide says Gore and running mate Sen. Joseph Lieberman are ``Totally charged up,'' while other advisors, like campaign manager Donna Brazile, are urging a fight to the finish. ``This is war without bloodshed,'' says Brazile, denouncing the Republicans for their ``goddam guerrilla tactics.'' (Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001126/NEWSWEEK ) Surprisingly, former secretary of State Warren Christopher, brought in to oversee the post-election day effort, has also been ``kind of radicalized by this process,'' one campaign aide says in the current issue (on newsstands Tuesday, November 28). Christopher, who was once expected to be the elder statesman who would tell Gore when it was time to gracefully exit, was taken aback when his Bush camp counterpart, James Baker, virtually invited the Florida Legislature to overturn a Gore victory on a recount. Christopher's ``become really pissed off at Baker,'' the aide said. ``He thinks he's been arrogant and presumptuous. And with Christopher, the absolutely worst thing you can be is arrogant and presumptuous.'' Contrarily, campaign chairman Bill Daley, expected to play hardball, is unsure how far the fight should go. ``Daley's a pro. But he's struggling with this,'' says an aide. Daley told Newsweek the night before the final deadline, ``I know what they [the Republicans] are going to try to do. They're going to 'find' some more votes at the last minute and try to surprise everybody - make the margin bigger than expected.'' Daley's own father, Mayor Daley of Chicago, was accused in the 1960 presidential election of vote-stealing to ensure that the Democratic vote would put John F. Kennedy over the top. Newsweek reports that last Tuesday night, as the Gore camp anxiously awaited the results of the Florida Supreme Court, which was set to rule on whether the hand recounts would count, the high command held a conference call. There was silence on the phone, which burst into relief and elation all around when the court ruled in their favor. Gore, who came on the line a few minutes later, was businesslike, almost clinical, as he has been with his staff since Election Day. He peppered them with detailed questions on whether the court said anything about how to evaluate the chads. No one knew for sure. Call me back when you get it, said Gore, and hung up. In the Bush camp meanwhile, Republican running mate Dick Cheney's power appeared to be growing, despite his recent heart attack. There were signs last week that Texas Gov. George W. Bush's once all-powerful campaign strategist, Karl Rove, was being edged aside in the post-election maneuvering by Cheney and Jim Baker - top cabinet advisors to W's father, former president Bush. Both Cheney and Baker are constantly on the phone to candidate Bush, write Thomas and Isikoff. Newsweek also reports on how the ``spontaneous'' demonstrations in Florida were led by senior Republican ``operatives.'' They were summoned from all over by e-mail from the Bush campaign, provided with plane tickets and hotel rooms. These election ``observers'' were handed placards to wave, T shirts to wear (SORE-LOSERMAN) and led in chants. Their commanders included Ed Gillespie, a well-known Washington lobbyist; Barry Jackson, the chief of staff to Ohio Republican Congressman John Boehner; and Ken Mehlman, the national field director for the Bush campaign who had flown in from Austin. When Miami-Dade officials decided to recount ``undercounted'' votes in a small glass-enclosed room that lacked seating for the press or public, a congressional aide, Martin Torrey, alerted his boss, New York Rep. John Sweeney. ``We should shut this thing down,'' replied Sweeney. ``I'll be right over.'' Another Republican, Brendan Quinn, the executive director of the New York state GOP, began urging demonstrators to head upstairs to the 19th floor. One of the shock troops was Duane Gibson, who had his trip to Miami paid for by the Bush team and is an aide to Alaska GOP Congressman Don Young. He told Newsweek he was angered by what he saw outside the canvassing board's ballot-counting room. ``I thought, 'My gosh, they're taking those ballots to a closed area and they're not going to let us see them.''' He insisted the angry demonstrations were ``spontaneous.'' But the Democratic
[CTRL] DRUDGE: NBC ORDERED AFFILIATES NOT TO CARRY BUSH SPEECH
-Caveat Lector- X DRUDGE REPORT X TUE NOV 28, 2000 21:04:29 ET X REVEALED: NBC ORDERED AFFILIATES NOT TO CARRY BUSH SPEECH IN MEMO The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a written order issued by NBC to all of its broadcast affiliates which directed the stations not to carry George W. Bush's speech -- a speech delivered just hours after certification of the Florida Election results! MORE NBC ordered its affiliates not to interrupt its entertainment programming for Bush. The order caused complete controversy inside of NBC, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Less than 24 hours later, NBC did break into its prime time entertainment programming for a speech by AL Gore. "We blew it on Sunday night," said one senior NBC NEWS source in Washington. "We will not make that mistake again... sure, the perception is we favor Gore, we carried his speech, but not Governor Bush's speech. This was not a decision from NBC NEWS. This came from the network president. TITANIC cost a pretty penny, the feeling was that carrying Bush would distract from the movie." NBC NEWS CHANNEL ADVISORY -ADVISORY--ADVISORY--ADVISORY-- Attn ALL stns: (as of 9:19pm ET, 11/26) Re: Bush statement anticipated between apx 9:30 - 10pm ET East, Centrl Mtn stns: will receive covg. w/in yr feed of Titanic - Stay there, do NOT fluke, you will be updated.possibly on short tape delay. Pac stns: must fluke (prior to 7pm PT) to K-2, trans 15 for MSNBC logo-less feed -animation/graphic. (Coordinates/conditions likely to change post-7pm PT.) Continue to monitor SkyRock and fluke terminals. NBC NEWS CHANNEL ADVISORY -ADVISORY--ADVISORY--ADVISORY-- We expect certification of the Florida Election results sometime after 7:20 pm EST in Tallahassee. If you are taking Nightly News at that time, you'll receive the certification ceremony as part of Nightly News. If you are carrying the movie Titanic, please do NOT dump out of the movie, you will get an update from NBC News as part of the show later. If you are not in Titanic or Nightly News, you can tune in to K2-15 for an optional anchored special report with Tom Brokaw. News Channel is offering a separate clean feed of the ceremony no K2-16A for your use. * * * Developing... --- Filed By Matt Drudge Reports are moved when circumstances warrant http://www.drudgereport.com for updates (c)DRUDGE REPORT 2000 Not for reproduction without permission of the author = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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] ET: Democrats play for the long game
-Caveat Lector- ' One Democrat in Washington said: "This is payback time for the Clinton impeachment. They tried to unseat a Democratic president so we'll try to screw a Republican one before he's even started." ' Electronic Telegraph-Wednesday 29 November 2000 Democrats play for the long game By Toby Harnden in Washington DESPITE their rhetoric about the "will of the people" and "every vote must be counted", Democrats on secondment to Florida and playing backstop in Washington privately accept the near certainty that the game will very soon be up. Al Gore and his running mate, Joe Lieberman, face almost insurmountable legal obstacles and public opinion is turning against them. Given these realities, the five hours Senator Tom Daschle and Representative Dick Gephardt spent in Tallahassee this week championing Mr Gore's cause was a surprise. "Hey guys, how are you?", asked a studiously casual VPOTUS (Vice-President of the United States) seated at his dining table in Washington at the start of a televised conference call between "Tom and Dick" and "Al and Joe". But contrived as it was, the call showed that Mr Gore's battle for the prize he has yearned for since childhood is, paradoxically, about more than him and more than the presidency. Even if - or perhaps because - Mr Gore will never become POTUS, Democrats have judged that there is much to gain from spinning matters out. Put simply, the more resentment there is towards a President George W Bush, the more likely Republicans will be to lose control of both Houses of Congress in the mid-term elections of 2002 and the White House two years later. This explains why the comments of Mr Gephardt, who nurses ambitions for the presidency in 2004 and is a long-time foe of Mr Gore, seemed calculated not to boost Mr Gore's legal case but to push the argument that Mr Bush could never be a legitimate president. He said: "Under the Freedom of Information Act somebody can come here, a professor or some other academic, and count these votes in the days ahead. So if we don't find out who won and who had the most votes, we're going to find out later. "Wouldn't it be a terrible thing for the country to find out a month or two from now that you already had the national popular vote by 300,000 votes in the country? How terrible would it be to find out that you also had the most votes in Florida and should have won this election?" The fact that Mr Gore narrowly won the popular vote is an irrelevancy because the person who wins 270 electoral college votes in the victor. But Democrats have repeatedly been using this statistic to undermine Mr Bush. Even more insidious was the threat that some "independent" individual could come along after Mr Bush was inaugurated, decide every dimpled chad from Miami-Dade had been a vote for Mr Gore. One Democrat in Washington said: "This is payback time for the Clinton impeachment. They tried to unseat a Democratic president so we'll try to screw a Republican one before he's even started." = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = 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, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.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