[CTRL] A Plot to Bug Prince William??
-Caveat Lector- A Plot to Bug Prince William?? Updated 12:23 PM ET January 30, 2001 LONDON (Reuters) - The Scottish university that Britain's Prince William will attend in September on Tuesday dashed newspaper reports about a supposed plot to bug him with listening devices. "To the best of our knowledge, these stories are completely untrue," spokeswoman Claire Grainger of St. Andrews University told Reuters. The Express and Daily Star reported earlier on Tuesday that officers from Britain's MI5 domestic intelligence service had discovered electronic surveillance equipment during sweeps of the university town of St. Andrews. Unnamed intelligence sources were quoted as saying the equipment was set to tap into the prince's telephone calls and e-mails. It was programmed with word recognition triggers which would be activated when the prince was using the telephone or computer. It was unclear where the devices had been found. A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: "We do not comment on matters of security". William, the dashing son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana will take a four-year art history degree at the prestigious Scottish university. He is second in line to the British throne. ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com 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] Weiss on cabinet
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "John Taylor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "lloyd" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Weiss on cabinet Date: Saturday, January 20, 2001 7:05 AM This piece that you have already seen , tends to confirms the Benson idea of the original wasp conspirators being overtaken by the jewish. The west has lost the will to live, and the people with a strong group identity are pulling the power strings at far in excess of their 30% level the elite. and possibly at even higher in terms of financial power. You say that the Jews are the front window for the hidden gentile power, but ther is little evidence saying otherwise. Both elite groups have little regard for their cattle but the old masons had respect for allowing separate groups to at least some identity. It is the liberal Jewish groups that want the destruction of all identity and sense of belonging and they have their shabas Goys like Gore.. I still estimate that there will be a giant collapse starting any time now(but probably in 2020) and ending by 2100. John January 22, 2001 http://www.observer.com/pages/opinions.asphttp://www.observer.comhttp://w ww.observer.com/pages/opinions.asp/pages/opinions.asp Jews in Bush's Cabinet? Don't Hold Your Breath by Philip Weiss George Bush has put every kind of American in his cabinet except Jews, and no one has complained about this, even though everyone knows it's nuts. Remaking the American power structure without Jews is like remaking sports without blacks. At least when it comes to blacks in sports, you can talk about it; you can say that blacks changed sports. But no one is allowed to speak up about something we all quietly know: Jews changed America. There is hardly an area of public life on which Jews have not had a profound impact in the last generation, as discrimination against them ended and as they gained power. The civil rights movement reflects Jewish values of justice. Feminism is a reflection of liberal Jewish matriarchal values (note the Jewish groups that are talking about Roe v. Wade in opposing John Ashcroft for Attorney General). Ever-more-powerful Jews in the media have ushered in the information age. Psychologically attuned Jews and Hollywood Jews changed the language of popular culture-Seinfeld, Weinstein. And the new emphasis on educational achievement throughout our society reflects the Jewish love of learning. I have not even gotten to finance or the law, though anyone who doubts the Jewish influence here should ask how many white-shoe law firms still keep gentlemen's hours. These trends have made America a fairer and more creative place-and no, it's not as if one or another of them would not have occurred without Jews. But altogether they represent the force of Jewish values coming into public life. In a recent study, Jews and the American Public Square, the Center for Jewish Community Studies argues that Jews have fostered an important legal trend in the last half century, the separation of church and state. I'd go further and argue that the greatly diminished influence of church on public mores wouldn't have happened without secularized Jews gaining cultural power. And no one ever talks about it. The most important change in establishment culture in the last 25 years, and it goes unspoken. Instead, people talk about blacks all the time, as the press did throughout the Florida election struggle, as if blacks and Jews share a political identity, which they don't. From its beginnings, the Bush campaign represented, in the hearts of many Jews and apparently in the heart of George W. Bush himself (that knower of hearts), an attempt to reverse Jewishness in the establishment. The press has only been able to discuss this power struggle in code. The most perfectly coded statement appeared in The New York Times' long series last year on George's life, from swaddling to bottling, when The Times' Nicholas Kristof marveled that when Bush went to Yale he directed all his anger at East Coast "elitists." But, Mr. Kristof pointed out, George Bush was in Skull and Bones-wasn't that an elite? Nicholas Kristof knew exactly what George Bush was talking about: the new elite, the ones who could take SAT's. Mr. Kristof knows better because he was himself part of that trend, and so was I, at Harvard. Yes, there were Italian-Americans, Asians, but the sea change that was upon us was that middle-class Jews were taking up an important place in the establishment. Which was threatening to George Bush, as he's made clear in his cabinet choices. The Jewish press has been concerned about those choices. Forward said warningly that the cabinet picks were a symbolic "snub." Phil Baum, executive director of the American Jewish Congress, was quoted by The Jerusalem Post as
Re: [CTRL] FW: Stop Military Voter Fraud
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/30/2001 5:56:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right now, Western Journalism Center investigative journalist Ken Timmerman is exposing the shameful attempt by former President Bill Clinton and his administration to block our military personnel's right to vote and have their votes counted in the last election. And Ken's discovering that Democrats have more of the same planned in 2002! I know what you're thinking -- now that Clinton's out and George W. Bush is president we'll get to the bottom of this. Think again! My friend, if you and I don't demand action -- a full congressional investigation -- then Democrat leaders in Congress are going to push it out of sight. There isn't and wasn't any voter fraud in the military. What is there is a problem with voting officers. It's an additional duty, and if the guy is too lazy or too busy, then the voters get short shrift. Absentee voting is not difficult, but the voter must take some resposibility. Military post offices are amazingly efficient, and it only takes carrying the vote to the mail room and getting it postmarked. Once that is done, the vote will get to its destination and be counted. Now, of course, if the Republicans get to worrying that the rank and file are now voting rather than just the officers and was once the case, they might want to ignore the ballots. Ninety-nine per cent of the military officers are Republican (they can't make real rank otherwise), but a large, very large percentage of the enlisted are black and vote as well. Since most of the black vote was for the Democrats, one could understand Republicans beginning to be worried about the military votes. One never knows when the wind will change. 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] Weiss on cabinet
-Caveat Lector- John Taylor - Tony Blair and Ehud Barak aka Brugg the Thug and Clinton - all had same PR peopleand this Carville managed Barak as he did Clinton. Clinton wants this country destroyed and he is a destroyer..he is a murderer, a thief, a sodomist, and Ehud likes to dress like a woman and carry a purseloaded with explosives though, all illegal. Israelies getting wise to this bunch and many are now deserting their armies for they do not, these young people, as this one soldier said to murder kids throwing stones. All these rumors of war - who is pocketing the billions of dollars we give Israel leaders? Did you know Israel mines and sells billions of dollars is diamonds - grand theft - and this money should belong to the people of Israel. So genocide begins and the new generation not falling for the same old crap - how many people died in WWII - 6 million jews died? Well over 55 million people died in that war.where were all these bodies buried...look to India now for they are cremating on the scene those who died in the earthquake over 30,000 some say - for they fear the spread of disease and no time to bury the bodies? Artificial earthquake? I wonder.for it has been done.. You see what these war mongers have done in the name of religion - the bible is an expose of the evil that has been done and to tell the truth sometimes I prefer the devil to God for permitting people like Clinton and Ehud to live while othres have died - slaughter of the innocents.Tarot Card Assassins and it depends who is dealing, as to the outcomefor all is not simply Kismet. Not enough the Zionists stole the diamonds in the holy land they want that arab oil.. I prefer Sadaam Hussein to Clintonanything was better than that serial killer. 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] Mad Cow Caused By Chemical Contamination?
-Caveat Lector- February 1, 2001 Could the Scientists Be Wrong on Madcow Disease? By REUTERS Filed at 9:10 a.m. ET SOMERSET, England (Reuters) - Mark Purdey still eats beef, even ``junk'' in pies and hamburgers, and he has no fear that he or his wife or six children will be struck down by the deadly human form of mad cow disease. ``It's an absolute myth,'' the 48-year-old organic farmer says, banging his fist on a large wooden table to underline his argument that much of the accepted logic on bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, is wrong. His story unfolds -- a 16-year campaign to explore the effect of organophosphates, the chemicals he believes are behind the spread of the brain-wasting disease in cattle and in people. Purdey says we should distance ourselves from ``the men in bow-ties'' who have what he calls a monopoly on thought. Forget the role of tainted animal feed in spreading BSE among cattle or infected meat in passing the disease to humans as new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD). Look instead at the use of systemic organophosphates, derived from military nerve gas, which the UK agriculture ministry told farmers to pour along the spine of their cattle in the early 1980s to kill a parasite called the warble fly. And those used in sprays used in Britain's countryside. ``I have been hammering the establishment theory, the so-called meat-and-bone meal theory, since 1988 or 1989. Even then I had identified that meat and bone meal had been sold all over the world, particularly the Middle East,'' he says. ``If you're blaming this stuff and you're sending it all over the world, why on earth aren't you getting more BSE?'' He agrees that other scientists would argue it has yet to appear because of the long incubation period of disease, believed to be caused by a mutated prion protein in the brain. But Purdey argues there is little logic in the theory. He also disputes the argument that BSE is passed to humans via infected beef. ``If it was to do with eating beef we'd have lots of cases in towns, where most burger bars are, but 60 percent of cases are in rural areas,'' he said. ``Most victims live by fields, where crops are sprayed.'' SELF-TAUGHT SCIENTIST A self-taught scientist, Purdey says he acted first on ''intuition,'' refusing to treat his 60 cows with the organophosphate, called phosmet, and going on to win a court battle with the agriculture ministry to make his point. When BSE was first detected in a British herd in 1986, he immediately thought phosmet was the problem -- a theory which after years of unpaid research has now won respect from senior scientists, public figures and politicians. ``Like most things it was instinct. Being a farmer, I was horrified when I was approached by a ministry official to treat a cow for warble fly by pouring this chemical along the spinal cord and the base of the head,'' he said. ``It was an oil designed to seep through the skin and to change the entire internal environment of the cow into a poisonous medium to kill off the parasites.'' Purdey began to trawl through books and do field research. He looked at the clusters of BSE in Britain, clusters of deer and elk in the United States with a similar illness called chronic wasting disease, and villages where many people were dying of the more common Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. ``I went on the road,'' he said, describing trips to the United States, Slovakia, Calabria in Italy and Iceland. ``To me it was clearly something in the environment that was igniting these illnesses. But what was this factor?'' He found one common factor -- high levels of manganese, a metal given to cattle in high doses via the organophosphate. ``What I found in the environment was supported by the laboratory,'' he said, describing tests by David Brown, a neurobiologist at Cambridge University. Purdey explains the prion would normally bond with copper and carry it around the brain to destroy free radicals. But if lacking copper, the prion bonds with another metal -- manganese, which stops the prion from folding properly. He did soil analysis on the areas near clusters of vCJD in Britain and found high levels of manganese from crop spraying. He concluded the doses of manganese intensifies the traditional illness, giving vCJD the potency to kill younger people. FUNDING REQUIRED Now all he wants is funding for more research -- something that Agriculture Minister Nick Brown says may be ready in May after a scientist has reviewed all work into the origins of BSE. ``In the BSE inquiry there is a caveat that it is not clear whether organophosphates could have been a contributory factor...it leaves the door open on organophosphates,'' Brown told Reuters. But Purdey is worried that the funding may never come. ``No one's prepared to admit it because it would involve massive compensation,'' he said. ``By keeping the causal agent as something mystified, no one's to blame.''
[CTRL] Fw: Debut of The School Liberator from the Alliance for the Separation of School State
-Caveat Lector- Subject: Debut of "The School Liberator" from the Alliance for the Separation of School State Wednesday, January 31, 2001 Inaugural Issue === T H E S C H O O L L I B E R A T O R === Alliance for the Separation of School and State WHAT'S INSIDE 1) Optimism: School Liberation is gaining 2) 21 ways "public schools" harm your children 3) Bush's Bold New Vision of Same Old Thing 4) EduAbsurdity: School closed---not enough white students = WELCOME You're reading the Inaugural Issue of "The School Liberator," the new email newsletter from the Alliance for the Separation of School State. This is a one-time, unsolicited announcement. To subscribe, please see instructions below. "SchoolLib" will keep you informed about the deep reform of "public schooling"--the liberation of all schools from politics by the separation of **school** and state. Every two weeks, subscribers receive four links to articles germane to the School Liberation movement. 1-1-1 Optimism: School Liberation is gaining. Marshall Fritz writes why he thinks School Liberation is moving toward victory. http://www.sepschool.org/Other/Fritz_Winning.htm 2-2-2 "It is a crime of crimes to compel pupils to attend schools where the teacher dare not teach moral laws," begins R. C. Hoiles' great indictment of what he called, 44 years ago, "gun run schools." http://www.sepschool.org/Edlib/v3n2/21ways.html 3-3-3 Fritz claims Bush's Education plan full of contradictions, and even worse, based on invalid premise. http://www.sepschool.org/Other/Fritz_bold_new_vision.htm 4-4-4 EduAbsurdity: School closed---not enough white students. The United Charter School in Baton Rouge can't open its doors because its racial balance doesn't meet fed standard. Can't attract enough WHITE students. (Free access to story expired. Click on Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com then search archive for "United Charter School" to see a summary of the article.) The Alliance for the Separation of School State 4578 N First #310, Fresno, CA 93726 (559) 292-1776. We are a non-profit, grass roots educational organization dedicated to informing Americans how education can be improved for all--not only the poor--by liberating schools from politics. For more information and to sign our "Proclamation for the Separation of School and State" go to http://www.sepschool.org. Publisher: Marshall Fritz Editor: Cathy Cuthbert (c) 2001, The Alliance for the Separation of School State, Inc. All rights reserved. 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] NYP: Morris: THE PERILS OF PARDONS
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/30/2001 7:56:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New York Post-Tuesday January 30, 2001 By Dick Morris THE Clintons are giving nouveau riche a bad name. Having made off with all the furniture their moving van could carry, one assumes that each of these couches, chairs and dishes will have their own little plaque identifying the name of the donor. Like the seats in the Metropolitan Opera House. What a thrill to read the opinion of this nasty little pervert. 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] HC vs Ashcroft
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/31/2001 6:00:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "His record and his views placed him on the distant shores of American jurisprudence." And that's putting it mildly. 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 administration to review listeria proposal
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/31/2001 6:02:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WASHINGTON (January 29, 2001 9:02 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - The Bush administration has pulled back for review a food-safety regulation aimed at forcing meat and cheese processors to do more testing to prevent listeria-tainted cold cuts and cheeses from reaching supermarket shelves. Consumer groups said they were disappointed by the delay in publishing the 300-page regulation. President Clinton had ordered the regulation after an outbreak of listeria in hot dogs and deli meats was linked to 21 deaths and 100 illnesses in Michigan two years ago. Listeria is a bacteria named after British physician Joseph Lister. The bacteria appears in prepared meats, including hot dogs and hard sausage, and unpasteurized "soft" cheeses such as camembert and brie. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the bacteria is responsible for 2,300 hospitalizations and 500 deaths a year. You know how it is with the Republicans, unless someone really important has a problem, they'll be glad to risk the rest of us to preclude Government intervention. 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: [Spy News] Source: Pentagon reports 'no damage' from Deutch lapse
Source: Pentagon reports 'no damage' from Deutch lapse http://europe.cnn.com/2001/US/01/30/pentagon.deutch/index.html January 31, 2001 Web posted at: 0022 GMT From Jamie McIntyre CNN Military Affairs Correspondent WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Pentagon has found that there was no damage to U.S. national security despite extensive computer security violations by former CIA chief John M. Deutch, Defense Department sources told CNN Tuesday. "There was no evidence found of any compromise of national security," said a senior Pentagon official familiar with the findings of the investigation. The Pentagon's inspector general last November sharply criticized Deutch for storing classified material on a laptop he used at home to access America Online. The Defense Department focused on Deutch time at the Pentagon as defense undersecretary for acquisitions and technology beginning in April 1993, and then as deputy defense secretary from March 1994 until he was tapped to head the CIA in 1995. A follow-up investigation has concluded that despite the mishandling of classified material, there is no evidence any sensitive information fell into unauthorized hands. The report effectively closes the book on the case, because Deutch was a recipient of one of the 140 pardons that former President Clinton granted on his last day in office. The Pentagon reported last year that while he was deputy defense secretary, Deutch maintained a daily journal containing classified information that was almost 1,000 pages long on a government laptop that was also used by Deutch and members of his family to access his AOL account. At that time the Pentagon's inspector general called that "an extremely risky practice" because a computer hacker could have gained online access to Deutch's computer and information stored on the hard drive. The CIA inspector general conducted a separate investigation in July 1999, which resulted in CIA director George Tenet revoking Deutch's security clearance. Deutch, who headed the CIA from May 1995 to December 1996, is currently a chemistry professor at MIT. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/7016/_/980945270/"BClick Here!/B/A -_- == SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station http://mprofaca.cro.net/mainmenu.html == *** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to SPYNEWS eGroup members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml -- To subscribe SPYNEWS send a blank message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your subscription mode to Daily Digest (one message a day) send a blank message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe SPYNEWS send a blank message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mario Profaca, SPY NEWS eGroup list owner, editor moderator mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Spy books, handbooks and manuals: http://mprofaca.cro.net/manuals.html =
[CTRL] Fwd: Project 21 Release: Black Judges and Blackface: Liberals Playing Race Card Riles Black Leadership Coalition - November 1999
Today watching C Span we had Holy Joe Liebeman saying he admired the integrity of Ashcroft, but no he cannot support this man and this Judge "Ronnie" White was brough into the scene. This Patrick Leahy, stated that the FOP had supported this judge - and then the Senator from Oklahoma reminded him yes but it was AFTER the guy went down on the floor as not wanted.. One thing in particular rang a bell.Ashcroft had received support of the Sheriff's Association who had condemned this White's appointment because he was anti law enforcementseems this guy in question, had murdered 4 Deputy sheriffs and the Sheriff's wife. Now this guy not only shot the Sheriff Wife but he shot his deputies as well dead. Now Sheriffs are elected to office, and are essentially chief law enfocement officer in any Statehe has county wide juridisdition and is ELECTED by the people. Now in the big cities you have this FOP - they are civilians with no power, suppoedly a benovolent organization and these are he ones who intimidate the Judges. I know of one judge who walked out on this group in Coumbus because they waned hanging judges on the bench.what are the police doing getting involved in politics for they all answer to the Safety Directors who answers to the Mayors. What right do police have, to intimidte the publicwhy they are becoming D Platoons and bring on Swat Teams for domestic problems.essenially they would be the tail wagging the big dogs. So FOP wanted White - a black judge - who was unfit to hold this most important post of a Federal Judge, because boy you are stuck with those guys for life once they get on the benc and sometimes I think the person who - well Judge Crater - the judge who disappered All other Judges are elected - the judges power comes from the people directlybut not true with a Federal Judge...know one one Federal Judge who hid a killer in the coroners office whie the police set up a young black kid for the murder of a local black doctor, when the Jewish Mafia had murdered thisi man while the doctors with the hit man who was dressed like a sheriff, got carried away and according to the Assistant County Coroner, tried for the murder - he said he only wanted to castrate the guy (and this bunch had neo nazi literature which made me wonder). So okay to shoot the Sheriff and the deputies too - remember that old song? And this White named 'Ronnie" came out so pure when he was nominated by Clinton - tell me, did anything good ever come from the Clinton administration, other than his departure from office But to see Holy Joe Lieberman in all righteousness say how he loves this guy Ashcroft, but he is not fit to hold this office thogh the man is hones, has integrity, and is true ...true blueone good thing about Holy Joe and Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton - these guys are now all taken off the endangered species list and are all now fair game like us white folks. And I think if one looked into little Ronnie Whites background they might find something more than they bargained for? Wonder what his bank account reads these days - and why the life of a Sheriff who is elected to office is of little consequence - and why certain FOP would back release of killers? So the big show is on C Span and Teddy Kennedy looks like he had on makeup and then it hit me - he seems to have had some plastic surgery but he is big and fat and well fedwhat about the 9 million people all kids who go to bed hungry every night while Hill and Bill stteal millions of dollars from our people? Read this item on "Ronnie" White and wonder - keeing in mind civil servie which police are, are supposedly not to get involved in political arenas...in Columbus this FOP stalks candidates and public officialssome they set free while others they send to slammer? Facts of life. Get the FOP out of politics or let them lose their tax exempt non profit status - and if I ever get another call from this poor FOP wanting money - he hit the road jack, and don't come back no mo, no mo no mo...taxpayers forget a traffic ticket, but they never forgive police injustices... FOP trying to run the Courts.remember this sign I read in our local police station (where I was a clerk of court)a policeman is a psychoogist, a lawyer, acts like a doctor, and in fact it said he was everything but a public servant who is supposed to protect the people in his community Good government begins at home, and it is about time the FOP gets out of the political endorsement field for they sway some judges who would do anything to get elected - to prejudge all cases in favor of the police. But a Sheriff is elected to office and by virtue of this election by the people have a right to engage in political affairs.and their authority supersedes the authority of any local police who from time to time play Starskey and Hutch and Rambo all in one. Saba Long Live Eric Rudolph Press Release For
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: The Profit in Pulling the (Electrical) Plug on the Peasants
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/31/2001 11:53:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you suppose it is Yes We Got No Bananas, like when wheat was sold to Russia and people went to bakeries and no bread - There was bread, Saba. It just cost a lot more, and the price never did go down, although I think the farmers still aren't getting more for their wheat than they did then. 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] WHO WAS CHARLIE MANSON!
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Lloyd Miller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WHO WAS CHARLIE MANSON! Date: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:42 PM http://www.newsmakingnews.com/mb,broadcast,%2010,13,71.htm MAE BRUSSELL'S BROADCAST NO. 16, OCTOBER 13, 1971 WHO WAS CHARLIE MANSON! GLORIA BARON: This is Dialogue: Assassination with research specialist Mae Brussell. For KLRB I'm Gloria Baron. Well Mae, we promised them last week that you would be doing the Manson trial this week. And I guess from the looks of things you're ready. MAE BRUSSELL: Yes. I'm ready and I'm not ready. I would like lots of hours on this, but it's really big and we'll get right into it. I had ten other subjects I wanted to talk about today, but it would delay the Manson story, so we'll go into it, Gloria, right away. Because in this world, in this strange world of covert overthrow of the governments and clandestine armies and secret operations, the problem we're facing is that you're working with two realities: you're working with what we assume is the real way to function and move. And then we're working with a system of what we call power: exchange of power, economic power, power over people; controlling their lives. And in order to do that you disguise certain persons and send them into roles to influence; they become actors on a stage and they influence our minds in a way that is not real but effect a reality that will touch us later. A propos of the Manson thing: the Oda trial; the murder of the Oda familywith accused murderer, Faziergoes to trial Monday. It's in the paper today. That was not a hippie murderI've said it before. They took the trial out of Santa Cruz up to Redwood City. We'll do a show on the Oda trial, but because the Manson trial effects this particular geographic areait's close to us; it's close to home. California was where the flower children were. Big Sur was the home of the people like Joan Baez, Henry Miller, free souls, artists. California was an important state in terms of conspiracies to kill candidates and presidents, and to effect national policy. And it's part of the military-industrial-complex. And I'm going to explain why the Manson trialwhy the murder of Sharon Tate and the other persons in her home was a political massacre. Other researchers have done work on John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King. I was the first researcher in the United States to turn the other peoples' minds to the fact that the same lawyers, the same planners, the same teams originated this particular massacre, and what effect it would have on our society. It had to be planned well in advanced of when it happened. And I'll go inI'm going to give you my conclusions on the MansonI call it the Manson trial because nobody talks about it being Charles Watson's massacre. That's the boy who killed seven people. But the news media associates the name Charles Manson. He made the picture on the cover of Life. He is the man that you associate with killing Sharon Tate. Many people don't even know the name Charles Watson, because you're not supposed to know it. Right now there's a hung jury in Los Angeles on the decision of whether Charles Watson is guilty of murdering seven people. He was in the home. He did the stabbing forty times. He wrote "death to the pigs" on the door. The jury can't decide if he was guilty. Now, my conclusions are, number one: that all of these persons involved: the major people, are agent provocateurs. They come at a time to increase violence. To come down on a segment of our society prior to an election year. And to make law and order necessary to protect us from the people at large in our society. Number two: Charles Manson was a patsy. He is identical, historically, to Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, and James Ray. Charles Manson killed nobody in the Sharon Tate home, or in the La Bianca home. He was being charged with these murders, he didn't kill any one of those seven people. He was used. He was a person who had been in jail twenty-two of his thirty-two years of life. He was the product of our penal system. He was not a hippie or a part of the youth culture. They bought him a guitar, let his hair grow, and put a leather jacket on him, gave him money, gave him a bus and credit cards, and told him to do his thing. It was like James Ray was a part of our penal system. He was in Missouri in jail, and he was met with certain persons. And the next day he was out and there was twenty, thirty-thousand dollars of money spent. And he traveled continents and everywhere, and he was to be used at a certain time and place. Charles Manson was identical to James Ray as a product of our penal system. He was used by the news
Re: [CTRL] Bush administration to review listeria proposal
-Caveat Lector- There's a good deal more than disinterest--far from it--to the Republicans reluctance to act where the meat industry is concerned. The meat industry has fought for 100 YEARS successfully to keep real reforms from taking place. Whitley Strieber's recent guest on Dreamland was Eric Schlosser, (from Whit's website) a contributing editor of the Atlantic Monthly and winner of a National Magazine Award. He is also the author of the book _Fast Food Nation_ which among other things exposes the corrupt relations between the meat industry and our beloved government. Every clearly understood safety measure, including bacterial analysis and INCLUDING the avoidance of feeding animal parts/blood to cattle, chickens, etc--despite KNOWING that this causes the Mad cow epidemic--is cavalierly flouted. The industry operates by using illegal immigrant labor. That's why dear old Gee Dubya wants to be so easy on illegal immigration: his butchering meat industry buddies, as well as his oil buddies, want a limitless supply of cheap labor too afraid of the law to fight back against conditions. You can listen to the interview at http://www.whitleysworld.com/audioa.html It's the Jan. 28th show. Jenny Decker - Original Message - From: "Prudence L. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 7:37 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Bush administration to review listeria proposal -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/31/2001 6:02:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WASHINGTON (January 29, 2001 9:02 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - The Bush administration has pulled back for review a food-safety regulation aimed at forcing meat and cheese processors to do more testing to prevent listeria-tainted cold cuts and cheeses from reaching supermarket shelves. Consumer groups said they were disappointed by the delay in publishing the 300-page regulation. President Clinton had ordered the regulation after an outbreak of listeria in hot dogs and deli meats was linked to 21 deaths and 100 illnesses in Michigan two years ago. Listeria is a bacteria named after British physician Joseph Lister. The bacteria appears in prepared meats, including hot dogs and hard sausage, and unpasteurized "soft" cheeses such as camembert and brie. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the bacteria is responsible for 2,300 hospitalizations and 500 deaths a year. You know how it is with the Republicans, unless someone really important has a problem, they'll be glad to risk the rest of us to preclude Government intervention. 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. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, 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 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
[CTRL] What Neil Armstrong said as he signed off on the moon.....
-Caveat Lector- This is a true story and I might add John Glenn had a sense of humor above all.he was unfortunate enough once to get me on the phone and gave me 45 minutes of his life but I returned the favor by chairing the dinner wherein he made the decision to run for the Senate. Glenn and Armstrong, the All American Boys both from Ohio and we also take great pride in having General Custer as one of ours. The Golden Boys all.for that Custer rode in like the 600..General Armstrong Custer was it not? Saba Mail message GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU SMILE. ESPECIALLY SINCE IT'S A TRUE STORY. ON JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE, NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON. HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON, "THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND," WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY MILLIONS. BUT JUST BEFORE HE REENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY." MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGH IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING SOME RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT. HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS. OVER THE YEARS MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY" STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED. ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, WHILE ANSWERING QUESTIONS FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION TO ARMSTRONG. THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED. MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD ANSWER THE QUESTION. IN 1938 WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MIDWEST TOWN, HE WAS PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD. HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S YARD BY THE BEDROOM WINDOWS. HIS NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS. GORSKY. AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK UP THE BALL, YOUNG ARMSTRONG HEARD MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY. "SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! YOU'LL GET SEX WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!" TRUE STORY. From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Full-name:Newbie36 Date: Thu, Feb 1, 2001, 3:17am Subject:Fwd: true story (fwd) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Wed, Jan 31, 2001, 9:34am From:Marsha Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Fwd: true story (fwd) -- Forwarded Message -- Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 2:23 PM + From: Steph I [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: true story Original Message Follows From: "Lori Cochran" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: true story Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:24:54 -0500 GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU SMILE. ESPECIALLY SINCE IT'S A TRUE STORY. ON JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE, NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON. HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON, "THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND," WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY MILLIONS. BUT JUST BEFORE HE REENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY." MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGH IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING SOME RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT. HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS. OVER THE YEARS MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY" STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED. ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, WHILE ANSWERING QUESTIONS FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION TO ARMSTRONG. THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED. MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD ANSWER THE QUESTION. IN 1938 WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MIDWEST TOWN, HE WAS PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD. HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S YARD BY THE BEDROOM WINDOWS. HIS NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS. GORSKY. AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK UP THE BALL, YOUNG ARMSTRONG HEARD MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY. "SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! YOU'LL GET SEX WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!" TRUE STORY. __ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com -- End Forwarded Message -- 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
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: The Profit in Pulling the (Electrical) Plug on the Peasants
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/31/2001 11:16:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I forget the source, but it was on the TV news the other day that journalists had found that natural gas (which fuels most of the power generated in California) was secretly being sold by Enron and BP to foreign countries at prices far lower than the lowest rate charged US power companies, whom they've been apparently gouging for years while claiming they're losing money and desperately need rate increases (which of course get passed on to consumers by the ISOs [themselves perhaps the greediest profit-mongers around, judging by what I often get to see in my confidential litigation-support work] ... Gee, just like the pharmaceutical companies. Perhaps if enough of us learn to do without their stuff 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] What Neil Armstrong said as he signed off on the moon.....
-Caveat Lector- http://www.snopes2.com/ Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky! Claim: Immediately after Neil Armstrong uttered his famous "That's one small step for man . . ." quote during the historic first moon landing, he added the cryptic phrase, "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!" Not until over twenty-five years later did Armstrong reveal that Mr. Gorsky was a former neighbor, whose wife had proclaimed that she would give him oral sex "when the kid next door walks on the moon." Status: False. 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] Weiss on cabinet
-Caveat Lector- The psysets in this and others show a continued attack upon us beleaguered hoipolloi. The "hardening of sides" and soon to be thrown into to mix "big-time" is a "terrorist" attack. "De is playing them race cards and the population having been subjected to pulsating degrees of 'uncertainties', subtle background electronics and cultural contaminations." Are the elites and the helpers, retinues and wanna-bes enough de-sensitized to allow the cult their horrors? We shall see . . . Do Not Tread on Me. MHO Om K - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End 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] What Neil Armstrong said as he signed off on the moon.....
-Caveat Lector- what else are you passing off as a true story aliesha? it is an urban myth for goodnessake! no surprise that you rate custer a s a good guy- what with you reckoning george w. bush is a real gentleman-. was custer a drink driver too? is that the common definition? good time to mention that your racist and antisemite shit that you fill your posts with is against the rules of the list. and utterly offensive. - Original Message - From: "Aleisha Saba" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 February 2001 16:43 Subject: [CTRL] What Neil Armstrong said as he signed off on the moon. -Caveat Lector- This is a true story and I might add John Glenn had a sense of humor above all.he was unfortunate enough once to get me on the phone and gave me 45 minutes of his life but I returned the favor by chairing the dinner wherein he made the decision to run for the Senate. Glenn and Armstrong, the All American Boys both from Ohio and we also take great pride in having General Custer as one of ours. The Golden Boys all.for that Custer rode in like the 600..General Armstrong Custer was it not? Saba Mail message GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU SMILE. ESPECIALLY SINCE IT'S A TRUE STORY. ON JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE, NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON. HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON, "THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND," WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY MILLIONS. BUT JUST BEFORE HE REENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY." MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGH IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING SOME RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT. HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS. OVER THE YEARS MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY" STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED. ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, WHILE ANSWERING QUESTIONS FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION TO ARMSTRONG. THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED. MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD ANSWER THE QUESTION. IN 1938 WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MIDWEST TOWN, HE WAS PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD. HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S YARD BY THE BEDROOM WINDOWS. HIS NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS. GORSKY. AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK UP THE BALL, YOUNG ARMSTRONG HEARD MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY. "SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! YOU'LL GET SEX WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!" TRUE STORY. From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Full-name:Newbie36 Date: Thu, Feb 1, 2001, 3:17am Subject:Fwd: true story (fwd) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Wed, Jan 31, 2001, 9:34am From:Marsha Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Fwd: true story (fwd) -- Forwarded Message -- Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 2:23 PM + From: Steph I [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: true story Original Message Follows From: "Lori Cochran" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: true story Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:24:54 -0500 GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU SMILE. ESPECIALLY SINCE IT'S A TRUE STORY. ON JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE, NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON. HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON, "THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND," WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY MILLIONS. BUT JUST BEFORE HE REENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY." MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGH IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING SOME RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT. HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS. OVER THE YEARS MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY" STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED. ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, WHILE ANSWERING QUESTIONS FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION TO ARMSTRONG. THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED. MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD ANSWER THE QUESTION. IN 1938 WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MIDWEST TOWN, HE WAS PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD. HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS
Re: [CTRL] Computer Intrustion: Global Crossing
-Caveat Lector-
I am not pleased that today alone, my firewall has blocked attempted access
to my computer more than 100 times from The Global Crossing Network... "the
global financial community and worldwide government networking." This is the
first time I've seen this company show up on my firewall alerts.
http://www.globalcrossing.com/pressreleases/pr_080100.htm
Added Hindery: "The Global Crossing Network is now an operating reality on
three continents - Europe, North America and Asia - and we
landed our first cable on Latin American shores in the second quarter.
The announced segments of our network will be completed by the middle of next
year, and we have already begun breaking through to new vertical segments of
customers. This company was founded to serve multi-national corporations
(MNCs), large telecommunications services users and telecommunication
carriers that need capacity. This quarter we've added customers in all three
of these markets, including two major new vertical markets - the global
financial community and worldwide government networking."
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Re: [CTRL] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/1/01 12:21:13 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't this a shame! Ashcroft and his supporters have answered every charge and there is no proof of any of their claims. The proof is in the public record. CSPAN has audio/visual recordings of the hearings in its archives (CSPAN.org). I have watched the hearings and the floor debate. Ashcroft has used the powers of public office to further an ideological agenda and ignored what during the hearings he has called "settled law" in order to do it. Furthermore, he has 'misrepresented' facts while under oath during the hearings. Golly gee, that's perjury. Good thing the right wing doesn't have a double standard by which to judge such things. Samantha 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] You Only See What You Want To See - from Saba
-Caveat Lector- Hello! Saba has just sent you a greeting card from Bluemountain.com. You can pick up your personal message here: http://www2.bluemountain.com/cards/boxb223938a3/mj23zr9e35n8xc.html Your card will be available for the next 90 days This service is 100% FREE! :) Have a good day and have fun! Accessing your card indicates agreement with Blue Mountain's Website Rules: http://www.bluemountain.com/home/WebsiteRules.html Send FREE Blue Mountain cards to friends and family (and attach gifts too!) http://www.bluemountain.com www.ctrl.org 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 Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl 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] [DrRichBoylanReports:] ETs Reported Terra-forming Mars
-Caveat Lector- ETs Terra-forming Mars! 09/30/99: This morning National Security Council consultant Dr. Michael Wolf called to discuss a recent announcement by American Computer Company CEO Jack Shulman, and to add major inside information. In Shulman's company's release it is stated that: ACC REPORTS: NASA Orbiter "Shot Down or Captured" says Russian Liaison. Alien Space Station still beyond our reach! Written Posted By: Sandy Soze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, 24 September 1999, at 12:42 a.m., C R A N F O R D, N J. NASA ORBITER SHOT DOWN BY ALIENS?? Company Officials receive private report from Russian Government. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02330.jpg The most expensive, tiny picture of MARS in history. A Russian Government Liaison to American Computer ( http://accpc.com and http://accpc.com/roswell.html) has indicated, in an unverified story, that that infamous 25 Mile Long Alien Space Station the Russian Republic believes is parked in low orbit beyond Human access outside the Solar System, which has previously allegedly assaulted two Russian probes aimed at sneaking pictures of it, while flying on to Venus, blinding them, may have "sent a robotic drone out to capture and study, or just incapacitate" the NASA $125 Million Mars CLIMATE Orbiter which went dead this past morning. "They either don't want us to know something about Mars (perhaps they are doing the Alien equivalent of 'terraforming' Mars, a very long process), or they are simply using this opportunity to get to know our technology a little bit better," mentioned the liaison. The Russian Liaison had previously provided ACC with a look at the BLUE RIBBON PANEL REPORT issued by General Leonid Alexayev over a year ago. Alexayev, of the Russian Air and Space Command, had passed on word that the Russian Republic (formerly the Soviet Union) has correctly concluded that there is an Alien Presence in our Solar System, that all the evidence points to same as being "without a doubt true, and proven". The United States Air and Space Command and scientists working for NASA had "no comment" about the Russian Reports when we contacted them for comment, today. NASA issued a statement this evening indicating it believes that the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost due to "software or human error". Commenting on the ACC report, Dr. Michael Wolf of NSC says: "The Russians are absolutely correct. The ETs are not just terraforming Mars, but they do have bases there, which The Cabal [rogue forces operating within the UFO Cover-Up organization] thinks premature (That's PREMATURE) to admit publically." So, Dr. Wolf backs the Russian Government liaison's disclosure that the ETs have an operational presence on Mars, and are busy slowly transforming the climate, atmosphere, accessible water, and soil into a more habitable environment. Dr. Wolf indicated that even with the prodigious technology the ETs command, the process will take a long time. Richard Boylan, Ph.D. Dr. Richard Boylan is a behavioral scientist, certified clinical hypnotherapist, retired university instructor, and internationally-noted researcher of extraterrestrial-human encounters. Richard Boylan, Ph.D., LLC, Post Office Box 22310, Sacramento, California 95822, United States of America. Phone: (916) 422-7479 (PDT) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEBSITE: http://www.jps.net/drboylan/ You are invited to join the UFOTruth internet reports-and-communications list; moderated by Dr. Boylan: (subscribe at: http://UFOTruth.listbot.com ). __ EcoNews Service - Always online for Ecology, Consciousness Universe Exopolitics. EcoNews http://www.ecologynews.com/ Prague http://mujweb.cz/www/ecologynews/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Vancouver, BC V6M 1V8 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
[CTRL] Fwd: Demon Info: Helpdesk: FAQs: Proxy
BooHoo at Demon Co UK..I know who you are .. you knew nothing about Scotland and new nothing about the underground seabases or BMEWS and Missile sites that my brother in law set up for you? Nice picture of him on banks of Loch Lomondand you would do well to find out what an antisemite is...Zionists or European Jews are not semites. your ignorance is appalling - your style is familiar ...go find another dummy account - Anybody want a dummy account from Demon.Co.UK Saba Search for HomeRegistrationSite MapInformationProductsHelpdeskDownloadsNetwork ToolsPress CentreAbout UsContact UsCareersMember ServicesNetwork StatusWebMailWebPasswordCommunityGamesChatDemon MagazineSafe Usage GuideChannelsNews HeadlinesFinanceShopping Home/Helpdesk/FAQs/Proxy Proxy Server The Demon WWW Proxy Service provides proxy facilities for Web (HTTP), file transfer (FTP) and Gopher protocols. What is a Proxy? Why would I want to use a Proxy Service? How would using Automatic Proxy Configuration help me? Setting up your browser to use the Demon Proxy Service Internet Explorer Proxy setup Netscape Navigator Proxy setup Proxy setup for other browsers What is a Proxy? A Proxy Server is a machine that sits between your computer and the Web Server whose pages you are accessing. It holds an archive (called a 'cache') of the most popular recently accessed pages. These can then be served to your computer far more quickly than if they had been requested from the original Web Server. Proxy systems are designed to speed up file requests, reduce international bandwidth requirements, and ease the load on Web and FTP servers by only requesting updated or new files that they do not already have in store. A recent development in proxy cacheing is the Automatic Proxy Service, or AutoProxy. This gives your browser access to the very latest information on which Proxy Servers are available, which types of Internet access can be used, and whether some pages should be downloaded direct from their own server. Why would I want to use a Proxy Service? In summary, the benefits you will notice are: Significant speed increases when accessing more popular documents. Overloaded sites will still be accessible to you - since they are likely to be available from the Proxy. It helps speed up your access to the Internet as a whole - the more people who use the Proxies, the less bandwidth is consumed. Details of the "Cache Now!" Web Proxy campaign, and links to more cacheing resources, can be found at http://vancouver-webpages.com/CacheNow/. For a brief summary of the issues involved in WWW Cacheing, read Alan J Flavells WWW Cache Briefing. How would using Automatic Proxy Configuration help me? Please note that even though our enhanced Proxies are fully operational, "Automatic Proxy Configuration" is currently a Beta service. Feedback is welcome - simply email your comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Demon now has an improved Web Proxy service in place that will help ensure your web access is faster and more reliable. Part of this scheme involves updating the proxy system continuously. For full effectiveness you will need to set up the "Automatic Proxy Configuration" (AutoProxy) feature of your browser. The benefits that you will see from using Automatic Proxy Configuration are: Improved resilience - you will be able to access the Web even if a Proxy server becomes unavailable. We reconfigure for you. Consistency of performance - we can ensure consistent service by balancing the load on the Proxy servers. Access more sites quickly - we can even ensure the optimum Proxy setting is used for individual sites. Other browsers that don't support automatic proxy configuration can be set up using the standard proxy configuration. Internet Explorer Proxy setup You should be using the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer to get the most out of your Web browsing. You can check the Microsoft Web Site to see if there is a more recent version for you to install. We recommend that you should be using at least version 3.02. If you are using Internet Explorer version 3.02 or 5 for Windows 95 or NT4, then you will be able to take advantage of Demon's AutoProxy Service. If you are using Internet Explorer 3.01 or 4.0 for Windows, or any Macintosh version, you will need to set the Standard Proxy Configuration. (Internet Explorer 4.0 does not properly support the AutoProxy service.) * Which version of Internet Explorer are you using?: Internet Explorer 3.01 OR 4.0 Internet Explorer 3.02 Internet Explorer 5 To set Standard Proxy access for Internet Explorer 3.01 or 4.0 for Windows 95, 98 or NT4, simply follow these instructions: With your browser running, from the menu choose View, then Options and select the tab at the top marked Connection. In the section labelled Proxy Server, make sure the box marked "Connect through proxy server" is ticked and click the button labelled Settings... and the Proxy Settings dialogue box will appear. In the section labelled
[CTRL] Fwd: {slick-d} Ashcroft Vote
Democrats having voted for Ashcroft byrd-wv, miller-ga, breaux-la, dorgan-nd, conrad-nd, dodd-ct, feingold-wi, nelson-ne I didn't get to hear, but I believe McCain voted against him, but he is probably the only one. I've not hear the final tally yet, but it is all over but the shouting. David Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/1/_/122670/_/981056057/ -_- THIS SPACE FOR RENT For details, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please limit your postings to this list to 3 messages in any 24 hour period.** Subscribe to SlickPlus and receive columns from some of the finest political writers on the net. Send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words JOIN PLUS in the subject. If you're more of a reader than a writer, you may want to receive the Slick-D DIGEST instead of individual emails. Send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove your address, send blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No muss, no fuss. Have a great day :=(
[CTRL] Unarmed Man Shot Over 100 Times by Police
An Internet Publication for Real Americans Published on: 02/01/2001 02:46:02 - CALIFORNIA POLICE-STATE COVER-UP - The ULTIMATE "Murder By Badge" By Mel Young - Posted: 02.01.01 Unarmed man shot over 100 times by police. Hello out "there", does anyone give a damn? The victim of this most heinous crime and cover-up was a white, American male. That means, he had no civil rights. That means the Revvveeernnd, rcist Jackson wouldnt lift his little finger in response, let alone get out of bed with his concubine to race to California with Maxine Waters and Al Sharpton sucking up behind him. Jesse didnt make that pile, estimated to be over $27 million bucks, standing up for white folk who had their civil rights violated and their lives taken by the militarized, police-state thugs with badges and guns. Being a white male, the victim deserved no respect from the major media. Sure, an article was buried in the LA Times Metro section. There may even have been some short blurbs; the police version, of course, on the evening news, but, since the cops said this man was a freeway shooter and suicidal, that was all she wrote. I mean, what the hell, we all know that a smiling, usually female or minority "spokesperson" for the cops wouldnt lie to us, would they! And, were not talking about one or two rogue cops here. We are talking about at least twenty-two officers and possibly, many more from three distinct agencies; all involved in the massive cover-up. Those agencies include the California Highway Patrol, the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department and the City of Hawthorne Police Department. There well may have been others, but this is a start. Back before Christmas, I received an e-mail from Constance Flaum, mother of the victim, pleading for someone; anyone, to step up and get involved to bring the doers of this foul deed to justice. What I read in that initial plea for help sickened and disgusted me and I responded. Previously, a number of "honest" cops, former cops, forensics experts, crime scene investigators, and even the Chief Medical Examiner of the County Of San Bernardino, sickened by what they heard, had volunteered to help. Some came from other parts of the state and some well may have come from other states. They were not welcomed with open arms by the powers-that-be. Naturally, the police were not friendly. The "brotherhood" was protecting its own - oaths of office, the public trust, honesty, integrity, etc., be damned. The crucial video tape taken by the roving, independent, night television news crew had been confiscated. The crew had been frightened to the point where they had nothing to say. Paramedics who rushed to the scene and pronounced the victim dead had been hushed up and would not talk to anyone. The victims mother paid an attorney a hundred bucks to get her a complete copy of the police report but the 440 page report she received is incomplete with numerous pages missing. The "official" police report is so full of obvious distortions, errors, and blatant falsifications that its more like reading fiction than fact. The only cooperative agency, according to the mother of the victim, was the Los Angeles County Coroners Office. Their autopsy report is some 88 pages in length. ATTEMPTED CITIZENS ARREST OF OFFICERS INVOLVED. At one point, desperate for some sort of action to be taken against the officers involved in the murder, the mother and widow of the victim served arrest warrants at the Hawthorne Police Department, Lennox Substation of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department and to the California Highway Patrol. Naturally, they were all but laughed out of those agencies, who had no intention of allowing a citizen to arrest one or more of their own. Nothing came of the attempt. WIDOW BOUGHT OFF...LAWSUIT DROPPED. Sadly, the victim had not been very wise in the way of the world and had "fallen" at age 27, for a woman twenty-two years his senior with a new facelift, and had married her. One could speculate as to what might have driven the poor guy to drink in the first place but I wont get into that here. Allegations have been made that the widow, about 61 years old at the time of death of her husband had at age 39 some slightly shady business dealings in her past, involving her real estate business. She made a quick, out-of-court settlement with the sheriffs department for $70,000 bucks and an agreement that they would not look into her past financial dealings. With her acceptance of the payoff, the lawsuits were dropped. Under California law, only the spouse or child of a legally married person may bring a wrongful death lawsuit. The cops figured they were home free for that seventy grand. BLATANT INDIFFERENCE AT ALL LEVELS. Letters were written to Governor Davis, Attorney General Dan "run-with-your-guns" Lundgren, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the major television
[CTRL] Boy Suspended for Pointing Chicken
- SNETNEWS Mailing List # # # Here we go again ! http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010131/us/chicken_finger_gun_1.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 Title: Boy Suspended for Pointing Chicken Home - Yahoo! - My Yahoo! - News Alerts - Help weather.com - driving weather Choose 3 DVDs for $0.49 each! Home TopStories Business Tech Politics World Local Entertainment Sports Science Health FullCoverage Top Stories News - updated 1:26 PM ET Feb 1 Add to My Yahoo! Reuters | AP | AP U.S. | ABCNEWS.com | Photos | Videos Full Coverage In-depth coverage about School Violence Related News Stories Photo Clerk Knew Call To Cops 'Right Thing' - San Francisco Chronicle (Feb 1, 2001) Hate Fueled De Anza Bomb Plot, Cops Say - San Francisco Chronicle (Feb 1, 2001) Man Accused of Bombing Plot 'Hated Everyone' - Los Angeles Times (Feb 1, 2001) 'Walking Hate...Ready To Snap' - San Francisco Chronicle (Jan 31, 2001) Student Said To Plot Mass Killing - AP (Jan 31, 2001) More... Opinion & Editorials A Small Solution to the Large Problem of School Violence - San Francisco Chronicle (Jan 15, 2001) Bullies in Colorado schools - Rocky Mountain News (Dec 6, 2000) School violence task force has worthy mission - Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (Nov 14, 2000) More... Magazine Articles Have We Gone Too Far In Policing the Blackboard Jungle? - Business Week (Aug 31, 2000) "We're Turning to High Tech Because It's a Quick Fix" - Business Week (Aug 31, 2000) "If Anything, School Officials Are Far Too Complacent" - Business Week (Aug 31, 2000) More... Video 'Columbine-Style' College Attack Foiled - MSNBC (Jan 31, 2001) New Orleans police discuss shooting - MSNBC (Sep 26, 2000) Related Full Coverage Columbine High School Gun Control Debate Yahooligans Full Coverage: Addressing Violence Yahoo! Categories At-Risk Youth School Violence Education More... Wednesday January 31 6:59 PM ET Boy Suspended for Pointing Chicken Boy Suspended for Pointing Chicken JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) - An 8-year-old boy was suspended from school for 3 days after pointing a breaded chicken finger at a teacher and saying, ``Pow, pow, pow.''The incident apparently violated the Jonesboro School District's zero-tolerance policy against weapons. The boy was suspended last week.Kelli Kissinger, mother of first-grader Christopher, said she believed the punishment was too severe.``I think a chicken strip is something insignificant,'' she said. ``It's just a piece of chicken. How could you play like it's a gun?''South Elementary principal Dan Sullivan said he was prevented by law from discussing Christopher's suspension.Sullivan said the school has zero-tolerance rules because the public wants them.In March 1998, four students and a teacher were killed and 10 others wounded when two youths opened fire on a schoolyard at Jonesboro's Westside Middle School.``People saw real threats to the safety and security of their students,'' Sullivan said.A school discipline form provided by the boy's mother and signed by Sullivan says the child was suspended because he ``took a chicken strip off his plate, pointed it at (a teacher) and said 'Pow, pow, pow,' like he was shooting her.''Sullivan said punishment for a threat ``depends on the tone, the demeanor, and in some manner you judge the intent. It's not the object in the hand, it's the thought in the mind. Is a plastic fork worse than a metal fork? Is a pencil a weapon?'' Email this story-View most popular|Printer-friendly format Archived Stories by Date: Jan 31 Jan 30 Jan 29 Jan 28 Jan 27 Jan 26 Jan 25 Jan 24 Jan 23 Jan 22 Jan 21 Jan 20 Jan 19 Jan 18 Jan 17 News Resources Message Boards: Post/Read Msgs (13 msg Feb 1, 1:06 PM ET) Conversations: Start a live discussion Search News AdvancedSearch:StoriesPhotosFull Coverage Home TopStories Business Tech Politics World Local Entertainment Sports Science Health FullCoverage Copyright 2001 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. Questions or Comments Privacy Policy - Terms of Service
[CTRL] MIND CONTROL WITH SILENT SOUNDS
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Lloyd Miller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MIND CONTROL WITH SILENT SOUNDS Date: Monday, January 22, 2001 8:53 PM MIND CONTROL WITH SILENT SOUNDS AND SUPER COMPUTERS The mind-altering mechanism is based on a subliminal carrier technology: the Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (), sometimes called "S-quad" or "Squad". It was developed by Dr Oliver Lowery of Norcross, Georgia, and is described in US Patent #5,159,703, "Silent Subliminal Presentation System", dated October 27, 1992. The abstract for the patent reads: "A silent communications system in which nonaural carriers, in the very low or very high audio-frequency range or in the adjacent ultrasonic frequency spectrum are amplitude- or frequency-modulated with the desired intelligence and propagated acoustically or vibrationally, for inducement into the brain, typically through the use of loudspeakers, earphones, or piezoelectric transducers. The modulated carriers may be transmitted directly in real time or may be conveniently recorded and stored on mechanical, magnetic, or optical media for delayed or repeated transmission to the listener." According to literature by Silent Sounds, Inc., it is now possible, using supercomputers, to analyse human emotional EEG patterns and replicate them, then store these "emotion signature clusters" on another computer and, at will, "silently induce and change the emotional state in a human being". Silent Sounds, Inc. states that it is interested only in positive emotions, but the military is not so limited. That this is a US Department of Defense project is obvious. Edward Tilton, President of Silent Sounds, Inc., says this about S-quad in a letter dated December 13, 1996: "All schematics, however, have been classified by the US Government and we are not allowed to reveal the exact details... ... we make tapes and CDs for the German Government, even the former Soviet Union countries! All with the permission of the US State Department, of course... The system was used throughout Operation Desert Storm (Iraq) quite successfully." The graphic illustration, "Induced Alpha to Theta Biofeedback Cluster Movement", which accompanies the literature, is labelled #AB 116-394-95 UNCLASSIFIED" and is an output from "the world's most versatile and most sensitive electroencephalograph (EEG) machine". It has a gain capability of 200,000, as compared to other EEG machines in use which have gain capability of approximately 50,000. It is software-driven by the "fastest of computers" using a noisenulling technology similar to that used by nuclear submarines for detecting small objects underwater at extreme range. The purpose of all this high technology is to plot and display a moving cluster of periodic brainwave signals. The illustration shows an EEG display from a single individual, taken of left and right hemispheres simultaneously. Ile readout from the two sides of the brain appear to be quite different, but in fact are the same (discounting normal leftright brain variations). CLONING THE EMOTIONS By using these computer-enhanced EEGs, scientists can identify and isolate the brain's low-amplitude "emotion signature clusters", synthesise them and store them on another computer. In other words, by studying the subtle characteristic brainwave patterns that occur when a subject experiences a particular emotion, scientists have been able to identify the concomitant brainwave pattern and can now duplicate it. "These clusters are then placed on the Silent Sound® carrier frequencies and will silently trigger the occurrence of the same basic emotion in another human being!" SYSTEM DELIVERY AND APPLICATIONS There is a lot more involved here than a simple subliminal sound system. There are numerous patented technologies which can be piggybacked individually or collectively onto a carrier frequency to elicit all kinds of effects. There appear to be two methods of delivery with the system. One is direct microwave induction into the brain of the subject, limited to short-range operations. The other, as described above, utilises ordinary radio and television carrier frequencies. Far from necessarily being used as a weapon against a person, the system does have limitless positive applications. However, the fact that the sounds are subliminal makes them virtually undetectable and possibly dangerous to the general public. In more conventional use, the Silent Sounds Subliminal System might utilise voice commands, e.g., as an adjunct to security systems. Beneath the musical broadcast that you hear in stores and shopping malls may be a hidden message which exhorts against shoplifting. And while voice commands alone are powerful, when the
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Demon Info: Helpdesk: FAQs: Proxy
-Caveat Lector- whqat on earth are you dribbling about now? phoney account? you have the audacity to accuse me of ignorance LOL my ISP (internet service provider- for saba's benefit) is demon- go visit at www.demon.net in what way is my ISP phoney? my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] in what way is my email address and sub-domain phoney? i would give you my web page addie- but if you are so awfully smart and know all about interenet conventions- then you will work it out- won't ya? mail me and tell me what ya think ;) ok- so i got the nomenclature wrong(?) not sure if i did actually- i know the difference between zionism and just being jewish. but you make it clear with your reply your opinionof them (whatever you choose to call "them") i "knew nothing about scotland" ? in what way do you mean this? you know who i am? cool... i know you too o'saba- just another ugly hatefilled personality claiming heritage that your gracelessness and indiscretion show to be a lie. i know you McSaba- scared of the black man and the jew and the queer- beneath it a desire. show me your dummy demon account then if you are so fucking smart. i already gave you the place to sign up- but i am sure you are going to crack it, maybe with oine of your CIA friends- or your royal cousins, uh? LOL you twat sabastein, i just realised that you have completely misconstrued the demon proxy server... i don't use it, sabacoco, it is for faster net access (allegedly) and i don't like it. who am i then if you are suc a fecking whizz with reverse lookups? ;) - Original Message - From: "Aleisha Saba" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 February 2001 19:34 Subject: [CTRL] Fwd: Demon Info: Helpdesk: FAQs: Proxy BooHoo at Demon Co UK..I know who you are .. you knew nothing about Scotland and new nothing about the underground seabases or BMEWS and Missile sites that my brother in law set up for you? Nice picture of him on banks of Loch Lomondand you would do well to find out what an antisemite is...Zionists or European Jews are not semites. your ignorance is appalling - your style is familiar ...go find another dummy account - Anybody want a dummy account from Demon.Co.UK Saba Search for Home Registration Site Map Information Products Helpdesk Downloads Network Tools Press Centre About Us Contact Us Careers Member Services Network Status WebMail WebPassword Community Games Chat Demon Magazine Safe Usage Guide Channels News Headlines Finance Shopping Home / Helpdesk / FAQs / Proxy Proxy Server The Demon WWW Proxy Service provides proxy facilities for Web (HTTP), file transfer (FTP) and Gopher protocols. What is a Proxy? Why would I want to use a Proxy Service? How would using Automatic Proxy Configuration help me? Setting up your browser to use the Demon Proxy Service Internet Explorer Proxy setup Netscape Navigator Proxy setup Proxy setup for other browsers What is a Proxy? A Proxy Server is a machine that sits between your computer and the Web Server whose pages you are accessing. It holds an archive (called a 'cache') of the most popular recently accessed pages. These can then be served to your computer far more quickly than if they had been requested from the original Web Server. Proxy systems are designed to speed up file requests, reduce international bandwidth requirements, and ease the load on Web and FTP servers by only requesting updated or new files that they do not already have in store. A recent development in proxy cacheing is the Automatic Proxy Service, or AutoProxy. This gives your browser access to the very latest information on which Proxy Servers are available, which types of Internet access can be used, and whether some pages should be downloaded direct from their own server. Why would I want to use a Proxy Service? In summary, the benefits you will notice are: Significant speed increases when accessing more popular documents. Overloaded sites will still be accessible to you - since they are likely to be available from the Proxy. It helps speed up your access to the Internet as a whole - the more people who use the Proxies, the less bandwidth is consumed. Details of the "Cache Now!" Web Proxy campaign, and links to more cacheing resources, can be found at http://vancouver-webpages.com/CacheNow/. For a brief summary of the issues involved in WWW Cacheing, read Alan J Flavells WWW Cache Briefing. How would using Automatic Proxy Configuration help me? Please note that even though our enhanced Proxies are fully operational, "Automatic Proxy Configuration" is currently a Beta service. Feedback is welcome - simply email your comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Demon now has an improved Web Proxy service in place that will help ensure your web access is faster and more reliable. Part of this scheme involves updating the proxy system continuously. For full effectiveness you will need to set up the "Automatic Proxy Configuration" (AutoProxy) feature of your browser. The benefits that you will
[CTRL] Campus has many skeletons in closets
-Caveat Lector- http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/ydn/paper/3.31/3.31.95storyno.KC.html Campus has many skeletons in closets By Graham Boettcher Contributing Reporter Given Yale's age and the often fantastic imaginations of its students, it is surprising that ghost stories have not really entered the school's oral tradition. To be sure, every Halloween various student publications manage to dig up a ghost story (such as the spectral presence in the School of Music), but one could hardly call Yale haunted. That is not say, however, that Yale and its students have not had a bizarre affinity for death and its trappings. In 1832, Yale College entered into an agreement with the painter and patriot, Colonel John Trumbull. In exchange for his series of paintings of the American Revolution, Yale consented to pay Trumbull $1,000 each year for the remainder of his life. In addition to this sum, Yale promised to keep the remains of Trumbull and his wife, Sarah, beneath his favorite painting, his portrait of "George Washington at the Battle of Trenton." Upon Trumbull's death in 1843, Colonel and Mrs. Trumbull were interred in the Trumbull Gallery, which was at that time on Old Campus. Today, their bodies can be found, marked by a worn tablet, in the old sculpture hall connecting Street Hall with the Yale University Art Gallery. To be sure that his wishes would be forever honored, Trumbull stipulated that if Yale ever reneged on its commitment to serve as his final resting place, the painting should go to Harvard. Harvard has not yet had the pleasure of owning the works. In the same year that Yale was entertaining Col. Trumbull's bizarre request, fifteen Yale students met for clandestine evening rites, forming what would be known to its members as "Eulogia" or to the rest of Yale as "Skull and Bones." Skull and Bones, by its very name, evokes a sense of the macabre. The name is not in vain. According to Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, in his 1871 book "Four Years at Yale," actual human remains were involved in tap rituals and other society traditions. He writes, "It is said that formerly the fifteen Bones men, at midnight, silently moved from their hall to the rooms of the chosen ones, when the leader, in each case displaying a human skull and bone, said simply, 'Do you accept?' and whatever was the reply, the procession as silently departed." Bagg goes on to write that after tap night, the new members were photographed "in front of an antique clock whose hands point to the hour of eight -- about a table on which lies a skull ... the thigh bones are held by certain members." Another persistent rumor about Bones is that its members must lie in a coffin as they give their biographies. This may have some basis in fact. According to a turn-of-the-century article in The New York Times, an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus arriving at the Port of New York had been purchased by the Russell Trust Association. This is Skull and Bones' corporate moniker, named after its founder, Gen. William Huntington Russell. A short-lived secret society of the 1860s shared Skull and Bones' obsession with mortality, at least in name. Lyman Bagg describes the group, called "Spade and Grave," writing "[t]he 'Bed and Broom' it was first called by outsiders; and by more respectful ones, the society was known as 'Graves,' and its members were 'Graves men.' None of these names were ever popular, however, and 'Diggers' soon came to be the only title by which the society or its members were referred to." Perhaps the supreme expression of Yale's fascination with death was the ritual known as the "Burial of Euclid." As early as 1843, members of the sophomore class, having become intimately acquainted with Euclid by way of their math lessons, would gather for the "funeral" of the Greek mathematician. In lieu of a body, the students used a mathematics text. According to Bagg, the ceremony proceeded in the following manner: a huge fireplace poker was heated and driven through the center of the book, so that the students may at last "see through" the content. The smoking volume was then passed over the students' heads so that they could "understand" it. Finally, the assembled sophomores stepped on the book in a "solemn processio n" to prove that they had "gone over" the material. The body [i.e. the book] was then laid on a bier, decked out with sable pall and carried with great pomp to an open grave, where it was laid to rest with three coins, so that it might pay the ferryman as it crossed the river Styx. In later years, an effigy of Euclid was burned in grand funeral pyre while the sophomores gathered by torchlight wearing "fiendish masks and satanic habiliments." Though Euclid was last buried in 1861, the event lives on in the lyrics of a traditional Yale song: "In soph'more year we have our task -- Fol, de rol, de rol, rol, rol! 'Tis best performed by torch and mask --
[CTRL] Juniors engage in Tap Night foolishness
from: http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/Article.asp?type=liveAID=12092 Click Here: A HREF="http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/Article.asp?type=liveAID=12092"Yale Daily News/A - Published Friday, April 14, 2000 Juniors engage in Tap Night foolishness BY WILLIAM HSU YDN Staff Reporter ROBERT HANSON/YDN STAFF A blindfolded junior kneels before a black-robed senior during Tap Night, performing tasks as part of his initiation into one of Yale's many secret societies.An element of mystique surrounded the campus yesterday during Tap Night, the culmination of the induction process for juniors joining secret societies. Across the campus, juniors being tapped were dressed in various funny-looking costumes, and performed bizarre tasks under the instruction of black-robed seniors. "From now on tonight you will not tell anyone about your name, your major, or anything. And you will only answer to Lion Number Four," said a senior girl to a blindfolded tapee on the steps of Sprague Hall. Limousines, both black and white, were spotted frequently around campus. There was a black stretched Lincoln Towncar parked across the street from the Yale School of Drama, near Wolf's Head. "I am driving around campus and picking up people. It will take about seven hours," the driver remarked. "It's a private party for nine, and I am only doing my job," he added. A lacrosse player, standing by the Yale Center for British Art, held a sign that read "I am an easy score." The scene was especially lively on Old Campus. Two junior girls, claiming to be superheroes, professed their love for army men because "they are hot." Standing by the gate to Old Campus on Elm Street, a male inductee wearing fake breasts asked passersby to touch them. By High Street Gate, a girl getting tapped held a microphone and sang "Genie in a Bottle" solo over and over again. Some junior tapees said they found their tasks amusing. "I'm having fun, it's just a little cold," the transvestite said. A tennis player getting tapped by St. Elmos's said he is looking forward to life as a society member. "I am definitely excited. It's an opportunity to meet a lot of people. It's a diverse group," he said. Some students not involved in Tap Night gave the Yale tradition positive reviews. "It shakes up the Yale campus. Normally there is no silliness nor spontaneity. They are just having fun," Julian Perel '03 said. However, some students were concerned about what Tap Night represents. "It looks like a lot of fun. But at the same time I am not sure if I like the exclusiveness of the secret societies," Danica Novgorodoff '02 said. A group of Rumpus associates took advantage of Tap Night to take action against Skull and Bones. Holding a tailgate party outside the Skull and Bones tomb on High Street, Rumpus staff ate, drank and played loud music as they watched the Bonesmen's rituals. According to Rumpus editors, members of Skull and Bones may be responsible for stealing the geochron from the Saybrook common room and placing it in the Rumpus office, where it was found two nights ago. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End
[CTRL] Secret societies swimming in cash, IRS reports show
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/Article.asp?type=liveAID=12090 Click Here: A HREF="http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/Article.asp?type=liveAID=12090"Yale Daily News/A - Published Friday, April 14, 2000 Secret societies swimming in cash, IRS reports show BY PERRY BACON YDN Staff Reporter While a new film may not paint the brightest picture, membership in secret societies certainly means today's chosen juniors will receive lavish treatment on Sunday and Thursday evenings, according to federal tax filings. Four of the best-known societies -- Book and Snake, Scroll and Key, Wolf's Head, and Skull and Bones -- spent over $80,000 a year on their programs, including $270,938 from Scroll and Key. Part of these expenses, however, is incurred through maintaining the societies' huge tombs, which are valued at more than $400,000 each, according to filings. These figures, obtained from recent filings of the federal 990 forms -- required for non-profit groups such as the societies -- show some of their financial details while retaining the secrecy of their activities. Scroll and Key's 1998 tax filings were among the most detailed, showing that the society spends over $16,000 arranging "conferences, conventions, and meetings," according to the form. It also gave specific prizes to members, which ranged from $50 to $2,500, although it is unclear whether this is the only money members of the society will receive. Although the tax forms do not reveal this information, Skull and Bones reportedly gives each new member $15,000. The highest portion of the money spent by Scroll and Key -- $20,440 -- goes toward investment fees, but a close $17,119 is spent on the group's undergraduate meetings at the tomb on 484 College Street. The tomb was valued at just over $500,000 at the time of the filing and could be worth more with the society's completed renovations. Scroll and Key also reported the highest value of assets on May 31, 1999 -- at over $5 million -- with Skull and Bones registering over $4 million in assets. While the tax filings showed the many financial dealings of the societies, the actual activities remained largely secret. All four defined their purposes very vaguely, ranging in detail from Skull and Bones' "educational programs" to Book and Snake, which "provides a forum for the exercise of the student's intelligence and the formation of their character in the presence of contemporary students -- as well as outside speakers having many diverse backgrounds and interests." Wolf's Head and Scroll and Key's descriptions of their societies both described the financial assistance they offer members and graduates. Book and Snake, located on 145 High Street and formed in 1863, also included some information about the society's founding in its filings. The by-laws of the society, created in 1961, include a number of stipulations about how the society should prove "the intellectual and moral improvement of its members" including calling for the preparation and delivery of speeches or papers by the members on the bi-weekly sessions, which would be followed by questions and analysis by the members. Copyright 2000 Yale Daily News. All rights reserved. Visit BoolaBoola.com to buy Yale shirts, hats, etc from the Yale Daily News! Click here! - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End 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] Eager juniors await secret society taps
from: http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/Article.asp?type=liveAID=11924 lick Here: A HREF="http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/Article.asp?type=liveAID=11924"Yale Daily News/A - Published Wednesday, April 5, 2000 Eager juniors await secret society taps BY BRET LADINE YDN Staff Reporter YDN FILE Three new secret society members follow a senior on a past tap night. Students were fooled by Pundits recently pretending to be interviewers and leading them a wild goose chase.During the first weeks of April, a junior hears a knock on the door and knows that something out of the ordinary is about to happen. Several cloaked individuals holding candles wait outside. They take the junior to a strange meeting place where a group of potential members has been assembled. Each student is ecstatic as he or she is about to become a part of one of Yale's greatest traditions. The mysterious members ask personal questions and tell the recruits to call certain society members on a list. Their orders are followed as the juniors leave messages on various answering machines that include their birthday and biggest accomplishment at Yale. But confused society members return those messages, claiming there must have been some mistake. The unsuspecting juniors are told one-by-one that they have been victims of a prank, and, of course, are heartbroken. This year's pre-tap festivities were kicked off over the weekend with a slew of practical jokes as the pundits took advantage of the enigmatic tap process surrounding secret societies. Aside from the pranks, some societies legitimately began contacting potential new members through phone calls and interviews. While pre-tap activities unofficially begin tonight, the campus is abuzz over what some juniors have already been subjected to. "The pundits were taking people to the basement in Pierson and to the rooftop of the AA building," said a junior who wished to remain anonymous. "There were people basically in tears when they found out it was a joke." Since there is no standard method all societies use to communicate with those they plan to recruit, juniors are left speculating whether they will receive a special phone call or be contacted by a mysterious person. An ad placed in the Yale Daily News by nine different societies March 23 indicated that pre-tap activities will begin tonight and last through next Thursday, the actual tap night. Among the sponsors of the advertisement were Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Wolf's Head, and Book and Snake. But some juniors have already been contacted. "There have been short interviews at places like Xando's," said the same source. "That's where Wolf's Head and Elihu were talking to people." Others have received phone calls or letters in the mail with vague instructions. "I was told off-handedly to make sure I wasn't doing anything this Thursday and next Thursday," said another junior who did not wish to be identified. Some juniors refuse to wait for some mysterious nighttime event to occur. A group of Stiles juniors living in the college's tower is seeking to form its own society. "We thought we'd have a little fun before finals," Justin Davids '01 said. "We were thinking about calling our society 'Wrath and More Wrath.'" Davids said the society would not be for everyone. "We were talking about holding interviews," he said. "For our enemies, it would be an interview process that leads to nowhere." While some approach societies with humor, others look forward to the friendships they might help form. "I think it would be great getting to know 14 interesting people who you wouldn't otherwise even get to know," said a junior who had been approached by at least one society. Sections: Home | News | Opinion | Sports | A L Copyright 2000 Yale Daily News. All rights reserved. Visit BoolaBoola.com to buy Yale shirts, hats, etc from the Yale Daily News! Click here!
[CTRL] And according to Dieter, Bush spent much of his senior year at Skull and Bones
-Caveat Lector- --Bush, who attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., had friends ranging from prep school students to international students who came to Yale on financial aid. Roy Austin '68, a Davenport student, was one of these friends, as he came to Yale from Saint Vincent and The Grenadines. One classmate said Austin was difficult to relate to for many because of he was significantly older than other Yale students in the class of 1968, but Bush had no problem forging a friendship. Austin also said that he experienced some discrimination at Yale, but never any from Bush. "I think he is a very nice person, as many people seem to realize," Austin said. "He could get along with anybody, and maybe that is why I was able to get along with him." The fact that Austin and Bush were in the same senior society, Skull and Bones, of course helped their friendship along. And according to Dieter, Bush spent much of his senior year at Skull and Bones. Here Bush also forged a strong relationship with Donald Etra '68, who again commented on Bush's willingness to interact with anyone and not restrict himself to either the jock side or the intellectual side of the college. Etra was a big consumer advocate and worked with current presidential candidate Ralph Nader when he left college, and he is also a criminal defense lawyer, often representing people on death row. And yet, despite his strong political differences with Bush, he still is supporting him in the presidential election. "I wrote a letter to the whole class [encouraging support for Bush] because I think George has a terrific track record for what he did in Texas," Etra said. "I was incredibly impressed with the relationship he has established between Texas and Mexico, especially compared to the California relationship with Mexico." Etra added that the letter led many in the class to contribute to Bush's campaign, and that the class has been very supportive. But while Bush spent all this time forging friendships in the class and getting to know people, he did not spend much time hitting the books. "He's not an academic kind of person," said Dieter, who is a professor of criminal law and trial advocacy at the University of Colorado.-- = -- http://www.med.yale.edu/yaxis/res_coll.html The exception to the rule of residential college-sponsored social events are the fraternities and secret societies which will throw an occasional mixer. Due to the strength of the college system, fraternities and sororities have traditionally been absent from Yale but the last few years have seen a strong resurgence in Greek activity. Most weekends will find one or more frats throwing a party; good ones include the Zeta Psi Buffet Bash and Sigma Nu's Octoberfest. And everyone should experience the hedonism of DKE Tang at least once. With colorful names like "Skull and Bones," "Book and Snake," and "Wolf's Head," the secret societies (unof cially, seven in all) are housed in those windowless, tomb-like buildings which you may see here and there around campus. Membership in each is limited to 12 15 seniors, most of whom are prominent and accomplished members of the class. Although membership in societies is supposed to be secret, it is also a status symbol and provides access to a valuable "old boy" network of society alums (ask George Bush about "Skull and Bones"). Society members usually throw one or two often-extravagant parties per year in their exotic tombs, but the invite-only policy tends to be strictly enforced. = http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/Article.asp?type=liveAID=14002 Published Wednesday, December 13, 2000 Secret societies add to Yale mystique BY ALICE DONG Contributing Reporter Founded in the early 19th century, the secret societies at Yale have since been a trademark of the University. As has been tradition since 1832, when Skull and Bones, Yale's first secret society, was founded, a select group of prominent juniors are initiated into this underground world annually. But unlike Tap Night for freshmen, there are no loud celebrations on Old Campus or whole-hearted congratulations from friends. New members are instead whisked away in the silence of the night; they are sworn to secrecy about the world they are about to enter. This underground world was built at a time when students were looking for a stronger sense of a close-knit community at Yale. The need for societies During the early years at Yale, students were looking to distinguish themselves in the highly regulated atmosphere. At the time, all were required to live in the same building, eat in the same dining hall, perform chores together and to live relatively similar lives. Amongst the organizations established at Yale during that time was Phi Beta Kappa. Upon initiation to Phi Beta Kappa, members were sworn to secrecy. "During the 1830s to 1850s, there was a great fad for secret societies," history professor Gaddis Smith said. During that period America consisted of
[CTRL] Student accused in bomb plot had Columbine fascination
-Caveat Lector- Police: Student accused in bomb plot had Columbine fascination http://news.findlaw.com/ap/l//2-1-2001/20010201025719100.html By MAY WONG Associated Press Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) _ A college student who allegedly assembled an arsenal of guns and explosives in his bedroom and plotted a mass killing at his school was fascinated with the 1999 rampage at Columbine High School and "hated everyone," police said Wednesday. Amid the 30 pipe bombs and 20 Molotov cocktails stashed under clothes and in duffel bags in Al DeGuzman's messy bedroom, investigators found magazine articles about the Columbine killers, writings worshipping them and pictures of them on the wall, Sgt. Steve Dixon said. DeGuzman, 19, allegedly planned for two years to kill fellow students at De Anza College and follow the example of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 13 people and wounded 23 others in Littleton, Colo., before committing suicide. "He was going to kill as many people as possible before he died," Dixon said. "He seemed to think the more people he killed, the better it'd be, the more media attention." Deputy Police Chief Mike Miceli said DeGuzman talked a lot about Columbine, according to his friends. "He was fixed on Columbine," Miceli said. "Eric Harris is God," DeGuzman allegedly proclaimed on one Web site. "He's my savior." The site has been taken down by its administrator. While a specific motive remained unclear, investigators found angry writings on DeGuzman's computer. DeGuzman, who is of Filipino descent, lashed out against politicians, social classes and people of all ethnic groups _ including his own, police said. "He hated everyone," Miceli said. DeGuzman's attorney, Craig Wormley, said he had yet to see the police reports and would not comment on the case or his client's alleged fascination with Columbine. Wormley disputed authorities' assessment of DeGuzman's hatred of others. "That's an absolute falsehood. There are many people he cared about and loved," Wormley said. "Both his parents are in an extreme state of shock." DeGuzman's family refused to comment Wednesday. DeGuzman was in jail without bail, undergoing a routine psychological examination and awaiting a court appearance Thursday on a variety of weapons and explosives charges. His previous bail of $100,000 was removed Wednesday at the request of prosecutors, Assistant District Attorney Karyn Sinunu said. The plot to blow up the school unraveled Monday night when a photo lab clerk called police after developing pictures of DeGuzman allegedly posing with the arsenal. Nothing suspicious turned up during a daylong search on De Anza's campus Tuesday and the school reopened Wednesday. Police said they had determined no one else was involved in the plot. 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] CA Blackouts Used To Extort Higher Payments From Consumers?
-Caveat Lector- CA Blackouts Used To Extort Higher Payments From Consumers? From Brasscheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2-1-01 (sent in by a reader) For a written confirmation of what we all assumed, that the blackouts the week of January 15 were a pressure tactic by the utilities to get the taxpayer to pay their debts, see Harvey Rosenfeld's Foundation for Taxpayer Consumer Rights Press Release of 1/25/01 at: http://www.ftcr.org/utilities/pr/pr001077.php3 Pertinent paragraph states: Referring to the rolling blackouts that shut down portions of the state last Wednesday and Thursday, the memo by Credit Suisse First Boston concludes that the blackouts were likely "intended to soften up the Legislature and the voters to the need for rate increases." A copy of the memo is attached. The Los Angeles Times today reported that the firm has been advising Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg on the energy crisis. Consumer advocates said that the memo confirms their analysis that supply shortages were not responsible for the blackouts: "We didn't have blackouts until the utility companies, unable to win a $10 billion ratepayer bailout by threatening bankruptcy, decided to stop paying their power bills last Tuesday. The next day, the blackouts began, and the day after that, the Legislature approved the Governor's emergency request for an additional $400 million for the state to buy electricity. Then the blackouts stopped." MainPage http://www.rense.com ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com 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] CBS News On Mad Deer - 'Wasting Away In The West'
-Caveat Lector- CBS News On Mad Deer - 'Wasting Away In The West' By Vince Gonzales CBS News Correspondent http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,268241-412,00.shtml http://www.purefood.org/meat/cbsmaddeer.cfm 1-31-01 * Disease Similar To Mad Cow Is Affecting Wild Deer, Elk In U.S. * Chronic Wasting Disease Is In Wild Herds In Neb., Colo., Wyo. * The Disease Was First Noticed In Colorado In 1967 (CBS) - In the second report in a three-part series, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports on a mad cow-like disease that destroys the brain and is killing deer and elk in the American West. Although there's never been a case of mad-cow disease reported in the United States, a very similar disease that destroys the brain is killing deer and elk in the American West and it's spreading. Wyoming state veterinarian Tom Thorn said that mad cow disease drew a lot of attention to it. "What we watch for in an affected deer is kind of a hollow look in their eyes, they drink a lot. They don't eat very much." They waste away, which is why the always-fatal disorder is called Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD. The animals also behave strangely, losing their fear of humans as CWD destroys their brains. But an infected animal can look totally normal in the early stages of the disease, when an autopsy can detect it. CWD was first noticed at a Colorado research facility in 1967. Mike Miller with the Colorado Division of Wildlife told a government committee recently, "What we are seeing is an epidemic occurring in slow motion." Scientists say the epidemic is slowly spreading among wild deer and elk in Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado, where at least 15 percent of some wild herds are infected. It's also been found on game farms in five states and one Canadian province. In a video produced by wildlife officials in Colorado and Wyoming, hunters are told, "relatively little is known about chronic wasting disease." And they're warned to wear gloves and avoid touching or eating parts of the animal where the disease is concentrated: the brain, spinal column, lymph nodes, tonsil, spleen and bone marrow. When it was detected in Montana, drastic measures were taken. Scores of game farm elk were incinerated. Dozens of deer on nearby land were hunted by helicopter, killed and tested to keep this highly contagious disease from spreading. Hunters are being used to control the spread of CWD in the wild. In Colorado the hunting season was extended this year in some disease areas as a way to try and lower the diseased animal population. Hunters in some sections of the state must drop off deer heads for CWD testing. Testing is voluntary in Wyoming and Nebraska. Wildlife officials insist that as long as hunters are informed about CWD and take precautions, the disease is not a human health threat. Thorn argues, "You cannot say with 100 percent
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Rejected posting to CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM]
-Caveat Lector- Bill Howard wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/31/01 5:06:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nationalize the electric companies. Problem solved. Joshua2 This will just give us a whole new set of problems. Anytime the government gets involved in enterprise, it winds up taking longer and costing more than if private industry did it. Bill You mean like now? In California? I guess we don't live on the same planet. Joshua2 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] Biotech Quotes of the Month
-Caveat Lector- http://www.purefood.org/newsletter/biod30.cfm Quotes of the Month: "Agricultural biotechnology will find a supporter occupying the White House next year, regardless of which candidate wins the election in November..." Monsanto's electronic newsletter www.monsanto.com 10/06/00 "The [StarLink corn] protein, known as Cry9C and not found in other crops that are genetically modified, is safe for animals but may trigger allergic reactions in humans, including fever, rashes or diarrhea, according to government scientists." Washington Post, "Corn Woes Prompt Kellogg to Shut Down Plant" 10/21/00 "I think they ought to leave nature alone. There is a reason food grows like it does.'' A consumer, Krista Beddo, shopping in a supermarket near Monsanto's headquarters in St. Louis, Associated Press, "Concern Surfaces Over Taco Recall" 10/25/00 "U.S. grain exporters expressed relief on Friday after the government lifted export restrictions on shipments tainted with traces of an unapproved biotech corn, allowing shipments of previously banned corn to Latin America, Asia and Europe. While the Clinton administration action removes some legal liability for exporters, companies said they are still worried about losing overseas sales to other nations... Archer Daniels Midland executives said its [StarLink-tainted] corn shipments would be traveling to South America, Europe, [and] Mexico, but not to Japan. 'I think we are going to have to wait a little bit on Japan,' an ADM spokesperson stated.' " Reuters 10/27/00 __ ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com 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] Favish: Vincent Foster's Sister and Widow File Declarations in FOIA Lawsuit to Stop Release of Photos (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:42:18 -0800 From: Allan Favish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Vincent Foster's Sister and Widow File Declarations in FOIA Lawsuit to Stop Release of Photos The sister and widow of Vincent Foster have filed documents to intervene in my Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over photos of Vincent Foster's body. They are represented by James Hamilton of Swidler, Berlin, Shereff Friedman, and G. Andrew Lundberg and Belinda S. Lee of Latham Watkins. Their motion, including the new declarations of the sister and widow, are available at my web site. The direct link to the 13-page document, which is a 1.2MB PDF file is: http://members.nbci.com/allanfavish/foster/family.pdf Regards, Allan J. Favish http://members.aol.com/allanf8702/page1.htm = 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] Court Battle for Presidency Rages On in Legal Circles
-Caveat Lector-
February 1, 2001
Court Battle for Presidency Rages On in Legal Circles
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/01/politics/01LEGA.html?ex=982052224ei=1en=a24b54424cd37dd5
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
After the seemingly interminable election battle, most people have gone on
with their lives.
But not in the legal world. Among lawyers, judges, law students and law
professors, it is almost as if the frenzy of rulings and appeals has not ended.
On the Internet, in legal conferences, scholarly journals, trade
newspapers, law school classes and pretty much anywhere lawyers get
together, the election battle is still Topic A.
"There's a beehive of activity in the legal world" related to the election,
said Howard A. Gillman, an associate professor of political science at the
University of Southern California who is writing a book about the election
and its aftermath. "I haven't seen anything quite like it," Mr. Gillman said.
Immediately after the colossal legal fight, lawyers and scholars seemed as
worn out as everyone else. But they are getting a hurricane- force second
wind of second-guessing, re-examinations and attacks.
Liberal and conservative legal experts are beginning a vituperative
exchange of manifestos and articles. Bar associations and law schools are
holding forums to sort through the issues.
In record time, three law professors from Columbia, Stanford and New York
Universities produced a textbook on the legal war over the election, "When
Elections Go Bad: The Law of Democracy and the Presidential Election of
2000." It was ready even before President Bush was inaugurated, and its
publisher, Foundation Press, said the book was already in use at law
schools at Harvard, Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Georgetown and other universities.
And for true fans of the 2000 election, lawyers around the country recently
received an offer from a Washington legal printing company to "own a piece
of history!" For $385, they could buy their very own copy ("in an
attractive foil-stamped display case") of the legal briefs in the cases
that decided the election.
At the country's law schools, some professors say, the ferment has the
flavor of the teach-ins of the Vietnam War era, when professors spurred
their students to political action.
More than 660 law professors signed a statement comparing the majority of
the Supreme Court justices to propagandists who suppressed the facts and
acted as "political proponents for candidate Bush, not as judges."
The law professors' statement was published as an advertisement in The New
York Times on Jan. 13. Margaret Jane Radin, a Stanford law professor who
helped organize the group, said the professors hoped to keep reminding the
public of what they saw as flaws in President Bush's path to the White House.
"I know the administration can behave as if it is legitimate," Professor
Radin said, "but that doesn't make it so."
Interviews with conservative law professors showed that such sentiments
were not unanimous.
Charles Fried, a Harvard law professor who was solicitor general in the
Reagan administration, said the law professors' statement was a
"preposterous" declaration by people "in the grip of partisan excitement."
"The only thing that is beyond the pale," Professor Fried said, "is this
kind of ridiculous rhetoric about the court disgracing itself."
Scholarly journals are getting into the fray, too. This spring's issue of
the Supreme Court Review, a journal about the court's rulings, will include
an article that has already been circulated at some law schools by a
conservative federal appeals judge, Richard A. Posner.
His article said the justices in the Supreme
Court minority who dissented from the ruling that led to Mr. Bush's
becoming president were guilty of "what is called fouling one's own nest."
By accusing the majority of undermining confidence in the courts, Judge
Posner wrote, the minority undermined confidence themselves. The dissenting
justices engaged in "self-fulfilling prophecy," he wrote.
Liberal legal scholars are not shy about expressing tart sentiments
either. This month, The American Prospect is publishing an article by a
liberal Yale law professor, Bruce Ackerman.
Professor Ackerman said the Supreme Court majority "betrayed the nation's
trust," and he argued that the Senate should refuse to approve any Supreme
Court nominees by President Bush even if that meant leaving seats vacant
throughout the Bush presidency.
The Internet has been similarly alive. This week the buzz centered on a
proposal for a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College.
The draft, by Bryan H. Wildenthal, an associate professor at Thomas
Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, and posted in an electronic
discussion group for constitutional law professors, attracted special
attention because it included unusual suggestions, including moving
Election Day to the summer.
"The weather would be better," Professor Wildenthal explained.
One of Mr. Wildenthal's electronic correspondents,
[CTRL] [radtimes] # 140
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 140 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- How to assist RadTimes-- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --Poverty and inequality fuel globalization backlash --Anti-Davos group, Brazil farmers storm biotech plant --Man accused of spiking trees for radical environmental group --Anti-nuclear protester sets himself on fire --Discovery of Bones May Close O'Hair Case --Ogoni Wars: Arms Were Sponsored By Shell --Statement by Leonard Peltier --Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs === Poverty and inequality fuel globalization backlash By JOHN ZAROCOSTAS DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The globalization backlash could swell and trigger violent confrontations unless its economic benefits are distributed more fairly and solutions are found to stem growing poverty and inequality, civil society and political leaders warned Sunday. "The ultimate test is whether globalization increases freedom, promotes democracy, and helps to lift the poor from poverty; whether it is empowering the many and, not just the few whether its blessings a re widely shared; whether it works for working people," John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO told political and business leaders at a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF). The global market, said Sweeney, that has been forged in the last decades, "fails that test," and went on to caution that if we do not do better and the system continues to generate growing inequality, environmental destruction and a race to the bottom: "Then it will trigger an increasingly volatile reaction from workers, farmers, human rights activists and environmentalists. " The AFL-CIO chief said: " we can no longer allow multi-national corporations to scavenge the world for cheaper and cheaper sources of labor, pitting workers against workers in a cruel, contest to increase profits. " South African President Thabo Mbeki said there is a " structural fault of poverty with on the one side the powerful and the wealthy and on the other the powerless and the poor, " and said this needs to be corrected. The President of the World Bank James Wolfensohn, noted that 80 percent of the world's population, or 4.8 billion people, enjoy only 20 percent of the world's income, and the remaining 20 percent enjoy 80 percent of the income. Looking ahead, Wolfensohn pointed out that in 25 years time the world's population will reach 8 billion and all but 3 percent of this increase would go to developing countries, which will have a population of 6.8 billion. Poverty and inequality, he said, "are not just an issue for the poor " but for the entire world and is an issue of peace. "Many have benefited from globalization but there is a need to address poverty, and there was a need to improve equity and justice, but he also said it would not be realistic to stop flows of investment, technology, communications and trade," Wolfensohn said. The forces of globalization, he said, are there and its a question of how we deal with them through democracy, rights, and equity and suggested ways to deal with some of the problems would be country by country, through proper laws, human rights, and dealing with the issues of corruption and devise policies for education, health, and rural and urban policies. Vandana Shiva, director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, lambasted rich countries spending $343 billion a year in farm subsidies and then dumping their agricultural products on poor countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, destroying millions of poor farmers , while at the same time limiting access to their markets. A decrease in farm subsidies by rich countries and lowering barriers to agricultural counties from poor nations could add about $55 billion for developing countries. Charles Holloway, chairman and chief executive officer of Dupont said globalization is the free flow of goods, technology, and ideas, which like a river brings positive benefits but also has hazards which must be minimized. Holloway said that over 150 corporations are trying to enhance their corporate responsibility and are interacting with civil society leaders to try and approach problems from different perspective. === Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 From: Neil Tangri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Davos group, Brazil farmers storm biotech plant By Marco Sibaja NAO ME TOQUE, Brazil, Jan 26 (Reuters) - More than 1,000 poor Brazilian farmers, bolstered by foreign activists from the international "Anti-Davos" summit, stormed a U.S.-based Monsanto biotech plant and
[CTRL] Bush's Ties to Monsanto
-Caveat Lector- Franken Shrub--Bush's Ties to Monsanto http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0104/ridgeway.shtml Bush's Ties to Monsanto Franken Shrub by Jim Ridgeway The Village Voice Jan. 2001 One way conspiracy buffs can get a handle on the new Bush administration is by examining the many ties between the president's team and Monsanto, the big Missouri chemical company that promotes genetically engineered foods. For starters, consider the fact that Bush Sr. appointed Clarence Thomas, a Monsanto attorney, to the Supreme Court. Thomas cast a key vote in the decision that handed the White House to George Jr. In addition, John Ashcroft, Dubya's choice for attorney general, was the top recipient of Monsanto contributions during his losing reelection campaign for the U.S. Senate. While he was in the Senate, Ashcroft fought hard for Monsanto. He was active abroad in convincing hesitant nations to accept genetically engineered crops and is credited with persuading the British to push for European Union acceptance of Monsanto's Roundup Ready corn. Other links include Donald Rumsfeld, the new secretary of defense, who was president of Searle Pharmaceuticals, now owned by Monsanto, and Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman, who was on the board of directors of Calgene Pharmaceuticals, another Monsanto affiliate. Over at HHS, there's new secretary Tommy Thompson. While he was governor of Wisconsin, Thompson was a good friend to Monsanto and other biotech firms. He received $50,000 from biotech companies in his election campaign, and got the state to set up a $37 million biotech zone in Wisconsin. Organic Consumers Association - Home 6101 Cliff Estate Rd., Little Marais, MN 55614, about us Activist or Media Inquiries: (218) 226-4164, Fax: (218) 226-4157 If you support this web site, send a tax-deductible donation to OCA ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com 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] USAT: Ex-president's first speaking fee: $100K
-Caveat Lector- 01/31/2001 - Updated 11:05 PM ET Ex-president's first speaking fee: $100K By Bill Nichols USA TODAY WASHINGTON Bill Clinton's vacation is over in record time. Just two weeks after leaving the White House, the former president will give his first paid speech Monday in Boca Raton, Fla., to a Morgan Stanley Dean Witter convention. His fee: about $100,000. Aides say Clinton also plans to give his first post-presidential interview today to Israel's television Channel 2 from his home in Chappaqua, N.Y. Spokesman Jake Siewert said Clinton agreed to talk to the station as part of a series on the Middle East peace process. Questions are sure to arise in Israel about the timing of the interview and whether Clinton is attempting to boost the chances of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Polls show Barak badly trailing hard-line candidate Ariel Sharon in next Tuesday's election. Clinton, who plans to spend all of next week in south Florida, also will give a speech Feb. 10 on the Middle East at a synagogue in Miami. Aides said they weren't sure whether Clinton will be paid for that speech. A spokeswoman for the synagogue declined comment. Aides say Clinton turned down a more lucrative offer, a $2 million deal to appear in a Super Bowl commercial last Sunday. Clinton staffers wouldn't say whom the offer was from. Aides say Clinton also passed on a request to appear on a prime-time edition of NBC's Saturday Night Live. Previous presidents have also cashed in. Ronald Reagan received $2 million in 1989 for two 20-minute speeches and some public appearances in Japan. "This is not out of line," American University presidential historian Allan Lichtman said of Clinton's speaking schedule. "This is America. Everything is for sale." Previous presidents, however, have waited a bit longer before launching their speaking careers. Former president George Bush gave his first paid speech on May 24, 1993, four months after leaving office. Reagan didn't start making paid speeches until March 1989, two months after he left office . Clinton's speeches come after a two-week barrage of bad publicity for him and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. : The last-minute pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, whose former wife is a big Democratic fundraiser. The Clintons' acceptance of $190,000 in gifts just before they left the White House. Clinton's rental of prime Manhattan office space at a cost to taxpayers of about $700,000 a year. = 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] WP: Ray: Face-to-Face Talk Led to Clinton Deal
-Caveat Lector- Ray: Face-to-Face Talk Led to Clinton Deal By Bill Miller Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 1, 2001 ; Page A05 It was a tactic independent counsel Robert W. Ray had used in his days as a federal prosecutor: Meet face to face with the target of an investigation, lay out the facts, and explore chances of a deal. This time, the target was the president of the United States, and the meeting occurred Dec. 27 in the Map Room of the White House. Until that day, Ray said in an interview yesterday, there were no discussions with Clinton about an agreement that would preclude an indictment for Clinton's role in the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal. Ray, who said he had requested the meeting, wanted "to communicate directly, without any filtering," so that Clinton clearly understood his position. He spoke to Clinton for 15 minutes. Although Clinton said nothing in response, the deal began to take shape. "To cut to the chase, it was important to go directly in," Ray said. "That was all that was necessary -- one time to communicate directly with the president." That was their only meeting. From that point on, Ray said he dealt with Clinton's lawyer, David E. Kendall. Ultimately, Ray agreed not to pursue an indictment of Clinton for alleged perjury and obstruction of justice in Clinton's testimony during a deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. In return, Clinton agreed to acknowledge that he had made false statements under oath about his relationship with Lewinsky, give up his Arkansas law license for five years and pay a $25,000 fine, and promised not to seek reimbursement for legal fees. But the paperwork wasn't signed until 9:30 a.m. Jan. 19, Clinton's last day in office. The agreement was made public hours later. Ray insisted that until the deal was struck, he hadn't made a judgment about whether to seek Clinton's indictment. He said he was deliberately following two paths at the same time: one preparing for prosecution, one considering options that could resolve the matter without charges in a fair way. Indeed, Ray interviewed Lewinsky on Dec. 8 at his office, a move that her lawyer Plato Cacheris believed was a prelude to calling her before a grand jury. Kendall declined comment on the Map Room meeting or other aspects of the negotiations. The session at the White House was first reported in Time magazine. Others at the meeting included Kendall's co-counsel, Nicole K. Seligman, then-White House counsel Beth Nolan, deputy independent counsel J. Keith Ausbrook and investigator Kim Widup. Ray said numerous factors went into his decision to strike the deal, including his studies of the nation's experience during the Watergate scandal and President Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard M. Nixon. Asked to weigh the strength of the case he could have brought against Clinton, Ray responded: "It's just like poker. You don't get to see my cards unless the decision had to be made." A former federal prosecutor from New York, Ray took over the Lewinsky probe and other investigations from Kenneth W. Starr in October 1999. He said he determined early in his tenure to be in position to come to a resolution on Lewinsky soon after Clinton left office. He said he did not consult Starr about the negotiations with Clinton or otherwise seek his advice. Ray said he believed he built credibility with the public by wrapping up other investigations to clear the decks for the Lewinsky matter. Ray announced in March that his office had determined that no crimes were committed by Clinton administration officials who obtained hundreds of FBI personnel files of employees hired in the Reagan and Bush administrations. In June, he said he would not pursue charges in the firings of seven White House travel office employees in 1993. And in September he announced that he would not prosecute Clinton or Hillary Rodham Clinton on charges stemming from the Whitewater real estate deal and other Arkansas business transactions. Ray said that impaneling a grand jury in July was another critical step toward the recent windup. "My job was to put a grand jury in place six months beforehand," he said, adding, "Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst." Ray said he attempted to time his announcements so they would not unfairly interfere with last year's elections. Under the law, Ray's office still must submit written reports detailing its findings to the special three-judge panel that oversees its work. The court will give key players in the investigation time to file written responses before determining whether to make the reports public. = 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
[CTRL] NYDN: Fugitive Rich, Partner Got Bolivia Citizenship
-Caveat Lector- Fugitive Rich, Partner Got Bolivia Citizenship By RICHARD SISK New York Daily News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON ollowing the trail blazed by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, pardoned wheeler-dealer Marc Rich and partner Pincus Green first found haven in Bolivia when they went on the lam, a former prosecutor said yesterday. Rich and Green "became citizens of Bolivia. They had a trading office down there," said former Assistant U.S. Attorney Morris Weinberg. The assertion about Bolivia by Weinberg, the one-time lead prosecutor in the massive criminal tax fraud case against Rich and Green, raised the question of whether former President Bill Clinton may have relied on false information in the petitions of pardon for the two commodities traders. In their separate petitions, Rich and Green, both 66 and living in Switzerland, made no mention of Bolivian citizenship. Rich listed himself as a citizen of Spain and Israel, while Green claimed Swiss, Spanish and Israeli citizenship. Weinberg said Rich and Green hit on Bolivia, where Wild West outlaws Cassidy and Sundance fled at the turn of the 20th century, to gain quick citizenship as a hedge if they had to fight extradition back to the U.S. when they went on the run in the early 1980s. "They needed some quick cover" while seeking citizenship elsewhere, said Weinberg, who will be one of the first witnesses next week when the House Oversight Committee begins hearings on the 176 pardons and commutations Clinton granted on his last day in office. Adding to the confusion, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said yesterday that Rich was still considered a U.S. citizen. Although Rich at various times has said he renounced his U.S. citizenship, Boucher cited a December 1991 ruling by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that "Rich had failed to show the necessary intent to abandon his U.S. citizenship." Boucher said, "We have found no records or information that would contradict that court's findings." U.S. citizenship could pose a costly problem for Rich, who might be liable for millions in back income taxes while a fugitive. His main lawyer has flip-flopped on the citizenship question. On NBC-TV's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, lawyer Jack Quinn said of Rich: "He is a U.S. citizen. He has his passport." But Quinn spokesman Peter Mirijanian said yesterday that Quinn misspoke and Rich "is not a U.S. citizen. He is a citizen of Israel and Spain, as stated in the pardon petition." When asked about Rich's possible Bolivian citizenship, Mirijanian at first said, "We're not clear on that." He called back to say Rich "may have been" a Bolivian citizen at one time and he was unsure whether Rich still was. A spokesman for the Bolivian Embassy said he did not know whether Rich and Green had ever been, or still were, Bolivian citizens. Meanwhile, in addition to the House hearings, the Senate Judiciary Committee has set a hearing for Wednesday on the Rich pardon. Among those invited to testify were Mayor Giuliani, who was the federal prosecutor in the Rich case, and Denise Rich, the fugitive financier's ex-wife. Original Publication Date: 2/1/01 = 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] Newsmax: U.S. Pays for Clinton-Riady-China Connection
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/1/31/185632.shtml
U.S. Pays for Clinton-Riady-China Connection
By Charles R. Smith
"SOFTWAR"
Bill Clinton shares a close financial relationship with Moctar
Riady, the Indonesian billionaire owner of the Lippo Group.
According to testimony before Sen. Fred Thompson, the Lippo Group
is in fact a joint venture of China Resources, a trading and
holding company "wholly owned" by the Chinese communist
government and used as a front for espionage operations.
In 1993, before Bill Clinton was sworn into office, Lippobank
Vice Chairman John Huang sought out DNC chairman Ron Brown. John
Huang, a major Riady backed Clinton fundraiser, sought to leave
his six-figure job at Lippo to work as an underpaid U.S.
government employee under Brown.
In a Jan. 1993 letter addressed to DNC headquarters, John Huang
wrote to Brown for a meeting with Lippo CEO Moctar Riady. The
letter was obtained from the U.S. Commerce Department using the
Freedom of Information Act.
"Daer Ron," wrote Huang in a poorly written letter filled with
broken English. "Congratulations for great performance during
yesterday Senate hearing. I was watching it in the Senate
Russell Building and came away with the strong feeling that you
will do an outstanding job as the Secretary of the Department of
Commerce in the coming years."
"I was trying to reach you. But there were too many people there
and I was not successful to do it," noted Huang. "What I really
want to do is to identify a convenient time in the coming week to
arrange a meeting between you and Dr. Moctar Riady, our Group
Chairman."
Shortly after the letter, Huang took a pay-cut, entered his new
position at the U.S. Commerce Department and accepted a huge
bonus check from the Lippo Group. It was during his stay at
Commerce that Huang received 37 secret briefings with the CIA.
In August 1994, CIA agents attended the "TPCC" or "Trade Policy
Coordinating Committee" meeting with John Huang. The subject of
the CIA meeting was U.S. government financed trade deals that
contained "first family involvement" or illegal payments made to
relatives of then Indonesian dictator Suharto.
According to documents obtained using the Freedom of Information
Act, one project - the Edison/GE coal fired "Paiton" power plant
- had problems with a $50 million dollar payment to Suharto's
youngest daughter, Titek Prabowo and her brother-in-law, Hashim
Djojohadikusumo. The power plant had encountered difficulties
with financing because the "Asian Development Bank (ADB)" knew it
contained money for a Suharto family member. Directly after
meeting with the CIA, Huang proceeded to place a three-hour call
to his former employer, the Lippo Group.
The newly released Commerce Department documents show that Huang,
James Riady, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, and "brother-in-law"
Hashim all met together in November 1994 - after Huang made the
long distance phone call to Lippo in August. The meeting took
place inside Indonesia and was sponsored by James Riady and
Hashim Djojohadikusumo.
Directly after that meeting, Bill Clinton endorsed the Edison
project and he signed a trade agreement to supply Indonesia with
electric power using U.S. taxpayer loans. The trade agreement
was worth billions to U.S. corporations such as Mission Energy
and General Electric.
"As markets expand, as information flows, the roots of an open
society will grow and strengthen and contribute to stability,"
stated President Clinton during the 1994 signing in Jakarta.
It is no co-incidence that the Lippo Group was also Hashim's
financial backer in his sulfur-free coal mine. Hashim obtained a
no-cut, no-bid contract to supply the coal to the Edison/GE
Paiton power plant. According to State Department cables,
Hashim's no-bid contract was characterized the "Achilles Heel" of
the power plant, forcing the Paiton plant to sell electricity at
a huge loss.
In the end, the Suharto corruption quietly killed the $50 million
financing and the Asian Development Bank refused to make the
instant loan to Suharto's daughter. Lippo partner Edison Mission
Energy convinced the Clinton administration to financially back
the project. In 1995, the Brown led Commerce Department found
financing for the power plant through the U.S. taxpayer.
In April 1995, The Export-Import Bank of Japan, the Export-Import
Bank of the United States, the Overseas Private Investment
Corporation ("OPIC") of the United States, and eight commercial
banks provided $1.82 billion in limited recourse project debt to
Edison's Paiton project. According to State Department cable's,
the financial support by OPIC was not without risk.
"OPIC's (Overseas Private Investment Corporation) combined
exposure in Indonesia is close to USD 1 billion, or 5 percent of
OPIC's global exposure, all in the electric power sector. As
such, resolution of potential insurance claims and/or actions
could result in 'an adverse material impact' on
[CTRL] WP: Pentagon: Deutch Did No Harm
-Caveat Lector- Pentagon: Deutch Did No Harm By Vernon Loeb Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 1, 2001 ; Page A10 A Pentagon investigation has concluded that former CIA director John M. Deutch did not compromise U.S. national security by storing classified information on unsecure computers while serving at the Defense Department, a senior Pentagon official said yesterday. As he prepared to leave office last month, President Bill Clinton pardoned Deutch for writing and storing hundreds of pages of highly classified intelligence and defense information on unsecure home computers as CIA director and, before that, as undersecretary and deputy secretary of defense. The pardon came one day after Deutch had agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor for unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents, and it caught prosecutors by surprise. The new Pentagon report, which defense officials hope to release today, represents a postscript to years of controversy over Deutch's security lapses. Because his unsecure laptop, desktop and home computers were linked to the Internet, the classified material he mishandled was subject to possible compromise by computer hackers. In the damage assessment, however, Pentagon computer security experts found no evidence that any of the information contained in a 1,000-plus-page journal kept by Deutch on his computers and stored on a portable disk had been compromised. "There was plenty of classified stuff in there," the official said. "But we've had the techies look for trap doors, and there is no evidence that anything like that occurred." CIA investigators have reached a similar conclusion, saying they have no evidence that any classified CIA material mishandled by Deutch was obtained by hackers or other unauthorized people. A report by the Defense Department inspector general concluded late last year that Deutch committed a "particularly egregious" violation by using unsecure computers at home and in his Pentagon office from 1993 to 1995 while he was serving as undersecretary and deputy secretary of defense. As part of the inspector general's review, investigators found seven desktop and laptop computers that Deutch used at the Pentagon but found no classified information stored on their hard drives. But the review did not include an assessment of whether Deutch's journal had been compromised by hackers. Within days of Deutch's departure from the agency in December 1996, CIA computer security employees discovered classified material on his home computers and began an investigation. The Pentagon inspector general later determined that Deutch mishandled defense data by using unsecure computers linked to the Internet. Long before his pardon, Deutch had been stripped of all of his security clearances by the CIA and the Pentagon as punishment for violating computer security procedures. = 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] President Jackass: Stupid George loses more votes
-Caveat Lector- President Jackass http://laweekly.com/news/ Stupid George loses more votes by John Seeley February 2 - 8, 2001 It's becoming clear just how solidly George W. Bush lost the election in Florida. The media's ongoing examination of Florida ballots last week increased Al Gore's edge in the popular vote. Among the findings: The Chicago Tribune and its Florida newspapers studied more than 15,000 ballots that elections officials in 15 small counties had said lacked a presidential pick. The paper easily determined the voters' choice on 1,700 of the ballots. The ballots would have given Gore a net gain of 366 votes wiping out the 154-vote Bush margin established by the Florida Supreme Court, and canceling two-thirds of the statewide 537-vote Bush margin certified by Katherine Harris and finally sustained by the 5-4 Supreme Court decision. The Palm Beach Post examined thousands of dimpled ballots from Palm Beach County. The ballots had been set aside by the canvassing board for court review. By the newspaper's count, Gore would have picked up 682 votes. This Democratic dividend would have eliminated Bush's cushion under the standard of either court's calculation. The Palm Beach Post also found that Bush would have received six more votes if 10,600 rejected punch-card ballots had been tallied in Miami-Dade County. The Democrats in December had expected to uncover hundreds of Gore ballots, but found fewer than 500 discernible votes. The Miami Herald reported the findings of a U.C. Irvine professor who concluded that about 1,700 Miami-Dade ballots had been invalidated because of misalignment between card and ballot holder. If properly aligned, these cards would have given Gore 316 more votes than Bush, Irvine political scientist Anthony Salvanto said. As data comes in from an array of jurisdictions using different voting machinery and varying ballot formats, some tentative conclusions can be drawn about the causes of bad ballots. To hardly anyone's surprise, spreading presidential candidates' names across two pages tended to confuse voters, leading some to cancel out their actual preference with a vote for a minor-party candidate on the second page. In Duval County, where voters were wrongly advised in sample ballots to "vote on every page," more than 20,000 "overvotes" were recorded. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the punch-card system hanging chads and all was not the worst offender in disenfranchising Floridians. The proportion of void ballots was even higher in counties using optical scanners without reading machines at the precinct, research by the Orlando Sentinel shows. Tabulating machines were generally unable to discern votes cast by pen or marker (instead of the prescribed pencils) and often counted a mark the voter had made every effort to erase. And some literal-minded voters mistakenly thought the phrase "write-in candidate" was an order to spell out their candidate's name. The scanners rejected such ballots as overvotes. The bottom line on the state's count is still to be revealed. Under the sponsorship of a broad consortium of media including CNN, the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times/Tribune Publishing and the Associated Press the National Opinion Research Center continues to inspect all 180,000 rejected Florida ballots. The Miami Herald expects to complete its separate examination of the state's "undervotes" later this month. Results to date tend to sustain the claim of Democratic National Committee chair Joe Andrew that "If all the votes [are] counted, Al Gore wins the presidency." Though the state Republican Party has had observers on hand for the media-sponsored counts, GOP officials have taken issue with the results. "To somehow suggest that a ballot that is dimpled provides us some sort of [look] into a voter's mind is ridiculous," GOP spokesman Ken Lisaius told the Palm Beach Post. The Rehnquist-Scalia-Thomas opinion, he added, points out that voters must follow directions. Another critic of the process is a Democrat who has been in the eye of the electoral storm since the first Tuesday in November Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections Theresa Le Pore. "You got different people looking at different criteria there," Le Pore told the Post. "Some are not even looking at the cards. They're yawning, talking on cell phones. I think it's unfair to put out any numbers that are inaccurate." But Le Pore herself has now come under attack from an unexpected quarter, her predecessor in the office, Jackie Winchester. "Just about every decision she made favored Bush," said Winchester, a fervent Gore supporter. If Le Pore had followed the office's previously established recount guidelines, she suggested, Republican count observers would have had fewer chances to make the frivolous challenges that overwhelmed the canvassing board and stopped it from meeting the court-imposed November 26 deadline to complete the count. Instead of
[CTRL] WP: Jackson's Group Paid Ex-Aide
-Caveat Lector- Jackson's Group Paid Ex-Aide By William Claiborne Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 1, 2001 ; Page A03 CHICAGO, Jan. 31 -- A woman with whom Jesse L. Jackson fathered a child during an extramarital affair had approval to use funds from one of Jackson's tax-exempt charitable organizations to buy a house in Los Angeles, according to correspondence confirmed by a Jackson aide today. According to a Sept. 10, 1999, letter from a top Jackson aide to Karin Stanford, former head of the Washington office of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, Jackson's Citizenship Education Fund (CEF) approved a "draw" of $40,000 for Stanford against future consulting fees "for the purpose of acquiring residential real estate financing." Stanford, 39, gave birth to a daughter in May 1999, months after Jackson began counseling then-President Bill Clinton over the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal. Jackson, who is married, has acknowledged fathering the child and has asked forgiveness of his supporters. A copy of the letter, signed by Janice L. Mathis, CEF board member and Rainbow/PUSH general counsel, appears in the upcoming edition of the National Enquirer, due out Friday. It was the Enquirer that first broke the story last month about Jackson's extramarital affair. Previously, spokespersons for Jackson had offered various explanations for the payment, describing it as moving expenses, an advance on contracted work and as severance pay. But none of the explanations included assistance in buying a house as a reason, and Jackson aides have consistently and emphatically denied that Stanford bought a $365,000 house in Los Angeles with money from Rainbow/PUSH-affiliated charities. Mathis did not return phone calls today, but John Scanlon, a Jackson spokesman in New York, confirmed that Mathis wrote the Sept. 10 letter. But he said the amount was changed from $40,000 to $35,000 and "therefore the letter was never acted upon." In addition, Jackson is paying Stanford $3,000 monthly of his own money in child support, aides say. Scanlon provided a copy of a CEF disbursement record showing an "employee reimbursement" of $15,000 to Stanford and another $20,000 payment for "consulting services." With some other expense reimbursements, the total for that pay period was $36,181.30. Scanlon said the $15,000 was for moving expenses and the $20,000 was payment for contracted research work, which he said has been completed by Stanford. The work, he said, included writing papers on the digital divide between whites and blacks and on Federal Communications Commission licensing in minority communities. Scanlon said the question of how Stanford spent the money was irrelevant because she was free to dispose of it as she wished. However, he said she insists she did not use the money on the house. "If she wanted to buy a car, a house or take a trip to the moon, whatever she chose to do with the money was her business," Scanlon said. The Enquirer article includes a reproduction of another letter from Mathis to Stanford, dated November 1999, which is almost identical to the Sept. 10 letter except that it omits the reference to an advance against consulting fees and simply says the money is for securing house financing. Scanlon said that letter was never sent because it was "redundant" and that in any case the issue had been resolved in the meantime with the agreement to change the $40,000 payout to $35,000. He said there had been a disagreement over the amount to be paid to Stanford, but he did not provide details of the dispute. Rainbow/PUSH tonight also released a copy of a consulting contract between CEF and Stanford, dated Dec. 15, 1999, calling for $20,000 in compensation for research work on a "media and telecommunications project." = 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:
[CTRL] CAUS: BREAKING: FACE ON MARS RE-IMAGED (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:06:58 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BREAKING : FACE ON MARS RE-IMAGED BREAKING : FACE ON MARS RE-IMAGED FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Electric Warrior : Mars Online February 1, 2001 http://www.electricwarrior.com/mol/MarsOnline008.htm CYDONIA 2001 NASA has released seven new images of the Cydonia region on Mars, including a close-up of the Face. "This is the area where popular books, magazine articles, tabloids and other news/infotainment media have speculated that some of the hills and mesas were artificially-shaped by extraterrestrial intelligence into forms such as a pyramid, a cone, and, most publicized, a face," says Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS). Last April NASA released all images of the region that had been taken by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) until that time. The new set of images, released January 31, includes all images acquired since April 2000. According to MSSS, continuing public interest in the region prompted them to command the Mars Orbital Camera (MOC) to take a picture whenever the Global Surveyor spacecraft flew over the region. Michael Malin of MSSS designed and developed the MOC for JPL. The new close-up of the Face captures a large portion of the western side of the famous Martian landform. The eastern side has never been adequately imaged by either MGS or Viking missions, having been either obscured from view or unresolved in deep shadow. The western side of the Face covers an area where the eye socket should be, if the mile-long mesa was indeed intentionally designed to look like a face. The 'artificiality hypothesis' put forth by advocates of the Face predicts that more face-like features should appear as higher resolution images capture more detail. Enigmatically, the new image renders features that might be interpreted as an eyeball and pupil. Another anomaly known as the Cliff was also imaged in the past year. This feature can be described as a strait, wall-like landform, which rises inexplicably in the midst of the ejecta from a nearby crater. Mars anomaly researchers have asked how it was that the Cliff was not covered by the crater ejecta on impact, speculating that the anomaly may be an artificial structure constructed some time after the crater was formed. The new image of the Cliff is marred by data loss, but may provide researchers with enough information to resolve their questions. To help resolve the Martian enigmas, Mars researchers have been clamoring for new, high-resolution images of the Face on Mars and other Cydonia anomalies like the Cliff. They just got them. IMAGES http://www.electricwarrior.com/mol/ewFace2001Zoom.jpg http://www.electricwarrior.com/mol/ewCliff2001Zoom.jpg CAUS P.O. Box 2443 Sedona, AZ 86339 520-203-0567 http://www.caus.org = 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] [radtimes] # 141
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 141 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- How to assist RadTimes-- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --Divide and conquer (Hells Angels) --GM Criticism Growing Worldwide --[freeradical] MILITANTS MODERATES --Israeli commandos training with US Marines --Mad Cow Disease Called International Threat --Invisible eco-warrior `elves' of ELF wage stealth campaign --Caught in the Cold (Davos) --When Do Demonstrators Become--Terrorists? === Saturday, January 27, 2001 Divide and conquer http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSBikers0101/27_biker2-sun.html TORONTO, QUEBEC 'The Hells Angels? What are they fearing? They hide in plain sight.' - Ontario cop By ROB LAMBERTI and JACK BOLAND, Toronto Sun Like an army, the Hells Angels made a pincer move through Ontario to try to surround its rival the Bandidos. In a bloodless manouevre, the Hells swallowed up four biker gangs in late December to contain the former members of the Rock Machine, who had become probationary members of the Bandidos. Police say the military-like moves are all about the Hells Angels securing its underworld market share in the province. At the same time, bike gang leaders really hope the "business move" doesn't become an act of war. Biker warfarelike that in Quebec which to date has killed 156 people since 1994 -- is bad for business. Too much public outcry and police attention interferes with biker interests in drugs, extortion, strippers, prostitutes and other operations. "We don't want to start a war in Ontario like we did in Quebec," said a former Rock Machine member turned Bandido. "We are still working for peace. We don't want the shto happen again. It's not fun for anybody." Sgt. Guy Ouellette, the Surete du Quebec's expert on bike gangs, agrees that gang leaders are trying to avoid largescale bloodshed in Ontario. He noted the Hells spearheading the move into Ontario weren't involved in the Quebec war. "The guys who are making the expansion want the peace. They want to make big bucks," he said. However, Ouelette said it's unreasonable to expect just friendly rivalry with the Bandidos "because it's major league. "They are pissed because they lost the monopoly of the country and having another international organization ... trying to choke them," he said. "If the Bandidos can keep their heads out of the water, they will survive and they will become stronger after that, because those who will not be happy with the way the Hells Angels do business will go on the Bandidos side." The Hells have a history of killing, he said. "If they want to take over your territory, they won't hesitate to kill you. "The Hells Angels don't care. They are self-sufficient. The worst thing in Ontario is that they opened 168 different franchises the same day." --- Ontario's biker brotherhood underwent an abrupt change last month, with former enemies becoming friends, and friends becoming adversaries. The process had started last summer with the rapid expansion of the Quebec-based Rock Machine into Ontario. Then, the Bandidos and Hells Angels roared into the province. For decades, Ontario's bikers had operated in relative peace. The Hells Angels peddled in Franco-Ontario communities, particularly in the north. The Vagabonds, Para-Dice Riders, Outlaws, Red Devils, Last Chance, Lobos, Satan's Choice and Loners were based primarily in southern Ontario. Then, last year, the Rock Machine opened three Ontario chapters within three months, Eastern, Toronto and Western, bolstering its numbers with defecting Outlaws. Younger Outlaws embraced the upstart Quebec-based gang, which was then warring with the Hells Angels. But Outlaws national president Mario Parente was incensed at the Rock Machine for raiding his membership. Last month, the brotherhood of bikers changed again when the Bandidos swallowed the Rock Machine. The new Bandidos were hit Dec. 7 as Quebec City's Integrated Regional Task Force nabbed 15, including chapter boss Fred Faucher, Marcel Demers, and Simon Bedard, a Quebec chapter founder and thought to be its drug supplier. The Hells Angels, in turn, assimilated four Ontario gangs. The changes ushered in new relationships. Everywhere in the world, the Bandidos and Outlaws are allied, but in Ontario that alliance would become strained, while the global animosity between the Hells and Outlaws would be tempered here. The Hells' Ontario network will get even larger, police believe, with more than 40 Red Devils in Hamilton, Canada's first outlaw biker gang, expected to don the Death's Head. Toronto's Vagabonds are also viewed as future members, despite internal strife, which saw the removal of
[CTRL] Bones 2000
-Caveat Lector- From Rumpus April 2000 Yale New Haven, CT - Manuel Berrelez Benjamin Blake Luca Borghese Anana Charles Kelly Denit Elaine Dimopoulos Jennifer Heikkila Hrishikesh Hirway Andrew Hongo Ayanna Johnson Mike Kunitake Celine Mizrahi Daphna Renan Kevin Schelenski Christopher Walker - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End 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] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger
In a message dated 2/1/01 12:21:13 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He did the right thing in regard to Judge White because of the heinousness of the crime involved. After all, sheriffs are our only elected law enforcement and deserve better What a HUGE statement of your lack of understanding of the issue involved regarding the whole White debacle. NOBODY EVER said that the criminal involved was a great guy, was innocent OR was undeserving of the death penalty...what White DID maintain was that the criminal, like ALL AMERICANS deserved a FAIR TRIAL and a COMPETENT defense...that's ALL he said, but you won't hear that in the right-wing, pro-Ashcroft press that you seem to rely upon. Bill.
[CTRL] Secret Cameras Scanned Crowd at Super Bowl for Criminals
http://www.latimes.com/news/front/20010201/t09525.html Secret Cameras Scanned Crowd at Super Bowl for Criminals Surveillance: Faces were cross-checked by new technology in bid to catch terrorists, other suspects. Privacy concerns are raised. By LOUIS SAHAGUN, JOSH MEYER, Times Staff Writers Unknown to the 100,000 people who passed through the turnstiles at Sunday's Super Bowl, hidden cameras scanned each of their faces and compared the portraits with photos of terrorists and known criminals of every stripe. In a command post at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., the digitized images of fans and workers were cross-checked against files of local police, the FBI and state agencies at the rate of a million images a minute. The cameras identified 19 people with criminal histories, none of them of a "significant" nature, Tampa authorities said. But the undisclosed first test of the technology at a major U.S. sporting event raised arguments about privacy versus security and questions about the future of such spying and its uses. "Oh my God, it's yet another nail in the coffin of personal liberty," said Bruce Schneier, founder and chief technical officer of Counterpane Internet Security Inc., a security monitoring company. "It's another manifestation of a surveillance society, which says we're going to watch you all the time just in case you might do something wrong," said Schneier, whose book "Secrets Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World" warned of the increasing encroachment on civil liberties in high-tech society. But USC law professor Erwin Chemerinsky, a nationally recognized authority on constitutional law, said the right to privacy doesn't extend to places quite so public. "I'm troubled by the extensive use of cameras to monitor us when we're in public places, but that doesn't mean it's illegal or unconstitutional," Chemerinsky said. "People have no reasonable expectation that when out in public, they cannot be photographed." Tampa police spokesman Joe Durkin said the department jumped at the chance to borrow the technology after Graphco Technologies Inc. approached it and allowed it a tryout for free. "It's just another high-tech tool that is available," Durkin said. "We used it for a week to test it, evaluate it and see if we liked it. And yes, we did like it. Very much so." Durkin said the department wanted to screen for pickpockets and other potential scam artists drawn to the huge event and for potential terrorists who wanted to use its worldwide TV and radio audience to make a political statement. "Clearly, the vast majority of citizens would applaud our efforts to make Super Bowl XXXV as safe as we did," he said. "And I'll tell you, had this system identified some known terrorist because of the size of the event and the eyes of the world on Tampa, and the police stopped the terrorist act, the system would have proved priceless." No arrests were made that day. But, Durkin said, "it alerted us that they were there. It confirmed our suspicions that a crowd of this magnitude would attract people trying to take advantage of the situation." Oakland Raiders Senior Assistant Bruce Allen agreed with the need. "Whatever they want to do to protect this country, I'm for. . . . So anything we can do to help, I can't imagine anyone disagreeing with that." Critics warn, however, of the potential for error. "What if I have the same shaped nose as John Dillinger? Am I going to get frisked?" asked Clifford Stoll, author of books questioning the applications of technology and their benefits to society. Although advocates insist such technologies are reliable, he added, "that's what J. Edgar Hoover said when he measured the head shape of criminals to determine the standard appearance of a criminal." Other applications are expected to include ATM machines and public events such as the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The popularity of facial-recognition technology is also spreading in Las Vegas, where a growing number of casinos employ it to identify criminal suspects or unwanted gamblers--including card counters and those listed in the "Black Book" of banned casino guests. But not everyone who enters a casino, where "eye-in-the-sky" surveillance cameras are a long-accepted feature, is automatically photographed, according to the corporate spokesman for three of Las Vegas' largest casinos using the technology. Rather, a person is photographed, and his facial features scanned, only if he is suspected of being a criminal or otherwise unwanted at the casino, said Alan Feldman, vice president of MGM Mirage. What happened at Sunday's Super Bowl, however, sig
[CTRL] Bush's Faith Based Program Builds GOP Army
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/01/31/diiulio/print.html Bringing faith to the West Wing John DiIulio, who once spread fear about juvenile "superpredators," will now run President Bush's faith-based charity programs -- and build an army from GOP patronage. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Bruce Shapiro Feb. 1, 2001 | Back in the mid-1990s, John DiIulio, an ambitious Princeton political scientist and scholar of prison management and crime, made a stir with what turned out to be one of the most disastrously wrong predictions in the annals of public intellectuals. Relying upon reams of supposedly irrefutable data, DiIulio predicted a massive coming wave of crime by children and teenagers -- crime of unprecedented brutality. Situating this prediction in the erosion of family and faith, DiIulio warned of a "generational wolf pack" of "fatherless, Godless and jobless" teens wreaking havoc on the American landscape. "Superpredators," he called them. The tidal wave of superpredators never arrived. Instead, juvenile crime plummeted. But seizing upon DiIulio's incendiary predictions and prescriptions, politicians in both political parties created their own tidal wave -- a tidal wave of unforgiving punishment. Harsh juvenile prison sentences, the incarceration of teenagers, massive expansion of juvenile prisons: All were propelled forward by DiIulio's superpredator theory. Now John DiIulio -- his academic chair shifted from Princeton to Penn -- is back, in a public-policy role at least as controversial: He is director, and the intellectual guiding force, behind the Bush administration's new White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. His job, as he put it on CBS's "The Early Show" this week, is to cultivate "a little government friendliness" toward social-service programs based in communities of worship. I have my own minor history with DiIulio. Back in 1995 I wrote a long article critical of his "wolf pack" theory and his analysis of crime; DiIulio responded with a furious letter to the editor, denouncing me as anti-Italian because I compared his theories to the views of a liberal police chief who also happened to be of Italian-American extraction. Then a few months later I met DiIulio at a public-policy forum in which he talked about finding common ground between liberals and conservatives on crime -- a stance that startled me given his inflammatory rhetoric up to that point. Afterward I introduced myself, expecting the usual sardonic dance between a journalist and aggrieved subject. Instead he smiled warmly: "God bless you," DiIulio said, and it was without a trace of sarcasm. I've watched DiIulio's evolution -- that search for common ground -- with interest. By the end of the 1990s, he was disillusioned by the national punishment regime he had helped inspire, arguing in the Wall Street Journal and scholarly publications for investment in community-based youth programs instead of more prison cells. His conservatism turned away from penology and instead into research promoting the success of social service outreach by African-American churches. Last year he edited a book on religion in American life with the decidedly liberal Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne. DiIulio's new White House appointment prompts an interesting question: Are his new policy prescriptions -- for broader government partnership in social services by churches, synagogues and mosques -- any better founded or any more reliable than his wolf-pack predictions? What the new DiIulio calls "a little government friendliness" toward religious charities has civil libertarians -- and some religious denominations -- alarmed about breaches in the church-state wall. DiIulio says the plan is designed to "level the playing field" between sacred and secular; Laura Murphy, the ACLU's Washington office director, calls the new plan "a faith-based prescription for discrimination." The Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, warns that the Bush-DiIulio plan threatens to create "a giant, new kind of conglomerate bureaucracy of church and state sitting in the White House." I'm a die-hard civil libertarian. But I've also lived and reported in inner cities for the last two decades and find the question more vexed -- and vexing -- than either DiIulio's reassuring rhetoric or the ACLU's abstract invocation of principle. It's a simple fact, for instance, that in New Haven, Conn., the city where I live and the seventh-poorest municipality in the United States, religiously affiliated outfits are the social-service providers of last resort, keeping their feet firmly planted in the asphalt during the years that government -- thanks to Republican presidents and Congresses -- cut back and left the poor to fend for themselves. Jewish Family Services provides post-traumatic counseling to kids who've witnessed violence. My stepdaughter's Catholic church runs a soup kitchen. Low-income housing
[CTRL] Is there a war crimes case against Kissinger?
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=156568 Analysis: Is there a war crimes case against Kissinger? Wednesday, 31 January 2001 18:25 (ET)Analysis: Is there a war crimes case against Kissinger?By JEREMY RABKINITHACA, New York, Jan 31 (UPI) -- The current issue of a respectableAmerican magazine (Harper's) carries a long article by a respectablejournalist (Christopher Hitchens) arguing that Dr. Henry Kissinger should beprosecuted for war crimes. Can this be serious?At first glance, Hitchens himself does not seem entirely serious about hiscall for a prosecution. He opens his indictment by pointing to "the verdictsof the International Tribunal at the Hague"-without explaining whichverdicts or indeed which tribunal he has in mind. As it happens, there areseparate tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, neither ofwhich seems to have any jurisdiction over anything done by Kissinger. Heinsists that "there is now no reason why a warrant for the trial ofKissinger may not be issued in any one of a number of jurisdictions"-withoutbothering to specify a single one, much less explain the basis of itspurported jurisdiction. Whatever.Yet at some level, Hitchens and his editors at Harper's seem very much inearnest. "The Case Against Henry Kissinger" is the featured cover story inthe February issue of the magazine. It lumbers along for 26 pages ofminutely sifted evidence. And for all that, it is only the first installmentof a promised two-part series. The "case" turns on decisions made byKissinger more than 30 years ago, when he served as National SecurityAdvisor in President Nixon's first term.What is the news hook for this expose? Hitchens does not highlight anysensational new revelations. For the most part, his article simplyreassembles known facts and previous allegations to sustain the most damninginterpretations. But even scalding interpretations of Kissinger's record arenot exactly hot news. If there is no chance that Kissinger might actually beput on trial, what is the point of devoting so much space to the indictmentin a current affairs magazine?In fact, it is not entirely beyond the realm of possibility that Kissingercould be arrested and put on trial. As Hitchens, himself, says,"The Houseof Lords ruling in London, on the international relevance of General AugustoPinochet's crimes, added to the splendid activism of the Spanish magistracy... has destroyed the shield that immunized crimes committed under thejustification of raison d'etat"Pinochet was seized by British authorities in September of 1998, while hewas recuperating from back surgery in a London hospital. A Spanishmagistrate had sought his extradition to stand trial in Spain for crimescommitted in Chile, while Pinochet was head of state in that country in the1970s. Judge Garzon claimed that Pinochet was guilty of "genocide," on thetheory that the international treaty on the punishment of genocide must beextended to cover killings of political groups (which it does not mention)and must authorize trials in national courts of outside countries (which italso does not mention).In months of wrangling in British courts, three panels of judges rejectedJudge Garzon's reasoning, but the judges who did favor extradition offeredrather different rationales for it - invoking different legal standards,covering different periods of Pinochet's time in office. In the end, theBritish government announced that Pinochet was too sick too stand trial onany grounds and sent him back to Chile.But the precedent here-whatever it is-was applauded by the EuropeanParliament and by national governments throughout western Europe. IfPinochet was a criminal, perhaps Kissinger was an accomplice to his crimes,by covertly assisting the military coup or the previous conspiracy thatbrough Pinochet to power in 1973? That is part of what Hitchens argues --and the Internet is already teeming with similar claims set out byspecialized advocacy groups. It was persistent lobbying by Chileanleftists which first got a Spanish judge interested in prosecuting Pinochet.Perhaps another prosecutor will respond to this clamor for a follow upeffort.No country would try to seize Kissinger? Less than a year ago, the FBIissued a discreet warning to former American officials about traveling incountries where they might be seized for trial and there were some Europeancountries (not publicly identified) on the list of danger sites. Meanwhile,the pending U.N. treaty to establish an International Criminal Court, farfrom discouraging such ad hoc prosecutions, contains an admonition in itsPreamble that "it is the duty of every State to exercise its criminaljurisdiction over those responsible for international crimes" -- withoutbothering to lay down any limiting definition for such "crimes."This is more of a legal foundation than the British judges had to workwith and, after all, as those judges showed, we aren't so picky any moreabout the bases for such ventures in international justice.Mr.
[CTRL] Possible Ashcroft Campaign Violation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10431-2001Jan31.html Possible Ashcroft Campaign Violation By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 1, 2001; Page A04 A political action committee established by Attorney General-designate John D. Ashcroft gave its fundraising list to Ashcroft's 2000 Senate campaign, a possible violation of campaign finance law by both the PAC and the campaign, according to documents and election officials. The "in-kind" contribution to Ashcroft's campaign was a list of 100,000 donors that the PAC "Spirit of America" turned over to Ashcroft's 2000 Senate campaign committee. The campaign committee, in turn, made more than $116,000 by renting out the list to other fundraisers. Under federal law, PACs may give candidates only $10,000 per campaign. Neither the PAC nor the Ashcroft campaign reported the transfer of the list, which occurred after the campaign had already donated $10,000. Kelly Huff, a spokeswoman for the Federal Election Commission, said that "anything given that is considered something of value would be an in-kind contribution." The law requires that in-kind contributions be reported in the same manner as cash contributions. Huff said a review of the agency's files revealed no advisory opinions on cases with similar circumstances. Lawrence Noble, former FEC general counsel and director of the Center for Responsible Policy, said yesterday that use of the list by the campaign "clearly raises a question as to the value of the list and whether it is a contribution to the committee." Ashcroft spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said that "all activities involved in handling the list were in accordance with FEC guidelines." She declined to answer other questions. In 1999, the PAC itself had rented out the list to more than 30 list-sellers and other groups, including the Paula Jones Legal Defense Fund and the Linda Tripp Legal Defense Fund, raising a total of $83,751, according to FEC records. The $1,922 rental payment from the Tripp fund came on Feb. 9, 1999, three days before Ashcroft voted to convict President Bill Clinton on two impeachment counts. Ashcroft, asked about that arrangement in writing by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) as part of the confirmation process, responded: "These donor lists were rented without my knowledge or approval. Once I became aware that the list had been rented to these organizations, I directed that the lists no longer be rented to these organizations." No written questions were asked, however, about the PAC transferring the list to Ashcroft's Senate campaign or the campaign's rental of it to other users. Spirit of America, which is still a functioning PAC, was formed by Ashcroft in 1996 to raise money for conservative candidates at a time when the Missouri Republican also wanted to explore his own prospects for a presidential run. The list was developed between 1997 and 1999, at a cost of more than $2 million. During that period, the PAC contributed $10,000 to Ashcroft 2000, along with about $100,000 to other conservative candidates. In 2000, according to FEC reports, the Ashcroft campaign committee received payments throughout the year -- totaling $116,922 -- from Precision Marketing Inc. for "rental" of the list. An official with Precision Marketing refused to discuss the list or to whom it was rented. PACs of national political candidates often sell their donor lists to "list vendors" when the PACs fold. However, the Clinton-Gore committees of 1992 and 1996, for example, have remained in business, and each still rents its list, using the income to pay outstanding bills, according to a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee staff member.
[CTRL] Invisible Warfare
http://www.davidicke.com/icke/index1c.html From The Body Electric, 1985 - Reproduced for research purposes only. Invisible Warfare The Soviets have led the way in learning about the risks of electropollution, and, as we have seen, they've apparently been the first to harness those dangers for malicious intent. However, the spectrum of potential weapons extends far beyond the limits of the Moscow signal, and Americans have been actively exploring some of them for many years. Most or all of the following EMR effects can be scaled up or down for use against individuals or whole crowds and armies: The crudest of these armaments would be a sort of electromagnetic flamethrower with a greater range than chemical types. Dogs were cooked to death in experiments at the Naval Medical Research Institute as long ago as 1955, and high-power transmitters using short UHF wavelengths can severely burn exposed skin in seconds. Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is a term designating the immensely powerful, near-instantaneous surge of electromagnetic energy produced by a nuclear explosion. It was first discovered in the late 1960s. The EMP from one detonation a few thousand miles above the earth would destroy all electrical systems throughout an entire continent. In the early 1970s new types of EMR generators emitting power levels ten or twenty times higher than ever before were developed in an effort to simulate EMP and help devise communications systems shielded from it. In 1973 these transmitters were described in an invitation-only seminar at the Naval Weapons Laboratory in Dahlgren, Virginia, where their use for antipersonnel and anti-ballistic-missle energy beams were discussed. No information about their subsequent development has since been made public, and the difficulties of long-range missle tracking argue that ABM beams haven't yet become feasible, but there are no such difficulties in the way of EMR beam weapons for use against unshielded people. At some UHF power densities there's an insidious moth-to-the flame allurement, which would increase such a weapon's effectiveness. As discoverer Sol Michaelson described it in 1958, each of the dogs used in his experiments "began to struggle for release from the sling," showing "considerable agitation and muscular activity," yet "for some reason the animal continues to face the horn." Perhaps as part of the same effect, UHF beams can also induce muscular weakness and lethargy. In Soviet experiments with rats in 1960, five minutes of exposure to 100,000 microwatts reduced swimming time in an endurance test from sixty minutes to six. Allen Frey's discovery that certain pulsed microwave beams increased the permeability of the blood-brain barrier could be turned into a supplemental weapon to enhance the effects of drugs, bacteria, or poisons. The calcium-outflow windows discovered by Ross Adey could be used to interfere with the functioning of the entire brain. In the early 1960s Frey found that when microwaves of 300 to 3,000 megahertz were pulsed at specific rates, humans (even deaf people) could "hear" them. The beam caused a booming, hissing, clicking, or buzzing, depending on the exact frequency and pulse rate, and the sound seemed to come from just behind the head. At first Frey was ridiculed for this announcement, just like many radar technicians who'd been told they were crazy for hearing certain radar beams. Later work has shown that the microwaves are sensed somewhere in the temporal region just above and slightly in front of the ears. The phenomenon apparently results from pressure waves set up in brain tissue, some of which activate the sound receptors of the inner ear via bone conduction, while others directly stimulate nerve cells inthe auditory pathways. Experiments on rats have shown that a strong signal can generate a sound pressure of 120 decibels, or approximately the level near a jet engine at takeoff. Obviously such a beam could cause humans severe pain and prevent all voice communication. that the same effect can be used more subtly was demonstrated in 1973 by Dr. Joseph C. Sharp of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Sharp, serving as a test subject himself, heard and understood spoken words delivered to him in an echo-free isolation chamber via a pulsed-microwave audiogram (an analog of the word's sound vibrations) beamed into his brain. Such a device has obvious applications in covert operations designed to drive a target crazy with "voices" or deliver undetectable instructions to a programmed assassin. There are also indications that other pulsed frequencies cause similiar pressure waves in other tissues, which could disrupt various metabolic processes. A group under R.G. Olsen and J.D. Grissett at the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory in Pensacola has already demonstrated such effects in simulated muscle tissue and has a continuing contract to find beams effective against human tissues. In the 1960s Frey also reported that he
[CTRL] Pollitt-No Olive Branch
http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20010219s=pollitt
COLUMN | February 19, 2001
KATHA POLLITT
No Olive Branch: Subject to Debate
How many times did we hear during the endless campaign that Bush wouldn't go
after abortion if elected? Republicans, Naderites and countless know-it-alls
and pundits in between agreed: Pro-choice voters were too powerful, the
country was too divided, the Republicans weren't that stupid and Bush didn't
really care about abortion anyway. Plus whoever won would have to (all
together now) "govern from the center." Where are all those smarties now, I
wonder? Bush didn't even wait for his swearing-in ceremony to start repaying
the immense debt he owes to the Christian right, which gave him one in four
of his votes, with the nominations of anti-choice die-hards John Ashcroft for
Attorney General and Tommy Thompson to head Health and Human Services.
On his first full day in office, Bush reinstated the "gag rule" preventing
international family-planning clinics and NGOs from receiving US funds if
they so much as mention the word "abortion." (This action was widely
misrepresented in the press as being a ban on funding for performing
abortions; in fact, it bans clinics that get US aid from performing abortions
with their own money and prohibits speech--whether lobbying for legal changes
in countries where abortion is a crime or informing women with life- or
health-threatening pregnancies about their legal options.) A few days later,
Thompson announced he would look into the safety of RU-486, approved by the
FDA this past fall--a drug that has been used by half a million European
women over twelve years and has been more closely studied here than almost
any drug on the market. In the wake of Laura Bush's remark to NBC News and
the Today show that she favored retention of Roe v. Wade, both the President
and the Vice President said the Administration has not ruled out a legal
challenge to it, placing them to the right of Ashcroft himself, who told the
Judiciary Committee he regarded Roe as settled law (at least until the makeup
of the Supreme Court changes, he did not add).
Don't count on the media to alert the public. The press is into champagne and
confetti: Who would have thought "Dick" Cheney would be such an amiable talk
show guest! Time to move on, compromise, get busy with that big tax cut. "Who
in hell is this 'all' we keep hearing about?" a friend writes, "as in 'all
agree' that the Bush transition has been a smashing success?" An acquaintance
at the Washington Post, whose executive editor, Leonard Downie Jr., claims to
be so objective he doesn't even vote, says word has come down from "on high"
that stories must bear "no trace of liberal bias"--interestingly, no
comparable warnings were given against pro-Bush bias. So, on abortion, look
for endless disquisitions on the grassiness of the anti-choice roots, the
elitism of pro-choicers and the general tedium of the abortion issue. Robin
Toner could barely stifle a yawn as she took both sides to task in the New
York Times ("The Abortion Debate, Stuck in Time," January 21): Why couldn't
more anti-choicers see the worth of stem cell research, like anti-choice
Senator Gordon Smith, who has several relatives afflicted with Parkinson's
(but presumably no relatives unwillingly pregnant); and why can't more
pro-choicers acknowledge that sonograms "complicate" the status of the fetus?
In an article that interviewed not a single woman, only the fetus matters:
not sexuality, public health, women's bodies, needs or rights.
Now is the time to be passionate, clever, original and urgent. I hate to say
it, but pro-choicers really could learn some things from the antis, and I
don't mean the arts of arson, murder and lying to the Judiciary Committee.
Lots of right-wing Christians tithe--how many pro-choicers write significant
checks to pro-choice and feminist organizations? Why not sit down today and
send President Bush a note saying that in honor of the women in his family
you are making a donation to the National Network of Abortion Funds to pay
for a poor woman's abortion (NNAF: Hampshire College, Amherst MA 01002-5001)?
March 10 is the Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers--send your local
clinic money for an abortion "scholarship," flowers, a thank-you note, a
bottle of wine, a Nation subscription for the waiting room! (Refuse Resist
has lots of ideas and projects for that day--call them at 212-713-5657.)
The antis look big and powerful because they have a built-in base in the
Catholic and fundamentalist churches. But (aha!) pro-choicers have a built-in
constituency too: the millions and millions of women who have had abortions.
For all sorts of reasons (privacy concerns, overwork, the ideology of
medicine) few clinics ask their patients to give back to the cause. Now some
providers and activists are talking about changing that. "My fantasy," Susan
Yanow of the Abortion Access Project wrote me, "is that every woman in this
Re: [CTRL] SEVENTEEN QUESTIONS FOR JOHN ASHCROFT
-Caveat Lector- Where are the questions for hypocrit )(*)(* Kennedy and (*)(*()(* Klinton and Jessejack and Rynoreno and Hellary and ... GO ASHCROFT! --- On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 20:08:35 EST William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://tompaine.com/news/2001/01/30/index.html SEVENTEEN QUESTIONS FOR JOHN ASHCROFT Unasked and Possibly Excruciating Queries That Should Be Posed Morton Mintz is a former chairman of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. He was a Washington Post reporter for nearly thirty years before departing in 1988. Editor's Note: During the 2000 presidential campaign, Mr. Mintz produced a A HREF="http://www.tompaine.com/news/2000/08/17/4.html" series/A of articles for TomPaine.com outlining questions that reporters -- on behalf of the nation -- should be asking the candidates. In the same spirit, this article poses questions for John Ashcroft, George Bush's nominee for attorney general. Justice Department Policies and Priorities Q. To evade U.S. income taxes, Americans are transferring cash, securities and other assets to foreign tax havens in an amount equivalent to, by one unofficial but reliable estimate, the sum of "every tax dollar paid by everyone in New York State and New Jersey who earns less than $200,000 a year. " What will you do to halt this massive tax evasion? Q. In August 1993, the National Law Journal surveyed the counsels of major corporations, of which there are tens of thousands, and found that 66 percent of them believed that their companies had violated federal or state environmental laws during the previous year. There were very few prosecutions. Do you believe this suggests that there is sufficient enforcement of the environmental laws against corporate violators? Q. As Attorney General of Colorado, Gale Norton, chosen by President Bush to be Secretary of the Interior, favored letting corporate environmental violators police themselves. Do you favor self-policing for corporate environmental violators? Q. The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the number of fatal work injuries each year between 1992 and 1999 at between 6,023 and 6,632 -- an average of 6,247 annually. Over the decades, obviously, there have been hundreds of thousands of fatal on-the-job injuries. According to David Burnham, an expert monitor of Justice Department data, perhaps five to ten percent were "a result of a knowing violation of the law." Yet by the early 1990s, "one businessman had gone to prison for violations of federal occupational safety and health law." What will you do about this situation? Corporate Crime v. Street Crime Q. Are there two standards of criminal justice? Is there one standard for men and women -- mostly poor and minorities -- who knowingly and willfully commit crimes, often trivial ones like possession of tiny amounts of illegal drugs? Is there another standard for corporate executives who knowingly and willfully: market defective products that injure or sicken hundreds or thousands of innocent people; pollute in grave violation of environmental protection laws; seriously endanger workers in violation of occupational safety and health laws, or lie to the Food and Drug Administration about prescription drugs that cause injuries or deaths or were inadequately or fraudulently tested? Q. Do you favor the death penalty for corporate executives who knowingly and willfully market lethally defective products, such as tires, SUVs, and IUDs? Q. Can you name any corporate executives who have been indicted, prosecuted, convicted and/or incarcerated for having knowingly and willfully marketed a gravely or lethally defective product, gravely violated environmental or occupational safety and health laws, or lied to the FDA? Death Penalty Q. Would you yourself be willing to administer a lethal injection or other form of capital punishment to a person on death row? Q. As governor of Texas, was George W. Bush "a man of no mercy"? In 1983, Karla Faye Tucker, a drug-addicted prostitute, and her boyfriend brutally murdered two people. On death row in Texas, she became a born-again Christian, began a prison ministry that reached out to prisoners in other states and countries as well as a great many in Texas, and admitted and expressed remorse for her crime. Tucker's lawyers asked the Board of Pardons and Parole -- all of whose members were appointed by Governor Bush -- to commute her death sentence to life in prison without parole, but the Board never met with her or her attorneys, never met to consider the plea, and turned it down in private, and without explanation. In 1998, your close friend and backer, the Reverend Pat Robertson, pleaded with Governor Bush to spare Karla Faye Tucker, saying that were he to refuse to do so he would be "a man of no mercy." She was
Re: [CTRL] (Fwd) Re: [tHenEwTriBe] Would your Dr like $20000?
-Caveat Lector- Oops!! I forwarded this to another list and don't know why it showed up here. Maybe I was careless about the box I checked Hmmm. Sorry. sno0wl 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] [HELP!! Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger
-Caveat Lector- My strategic thinking is not always so hot. So I'm puzzled. These are the guys--Bush and Co.--who want to whittle the earth's population down to something like 1/5th of the present population. If we think conspiratorially, we may agree that some of these very same folks are behind genocidal programs like a man-made AIDS virus which is decimating most of the world and killing millions even as I speak.. And other biochemical cancer-causing viruses capable of wiping out many more. Not to mention all those chemtrails which may or may not be designed to wipe out most of the rest of us-- eventually. They are not beyond using poisonous materials in war that will wipe out their own military forces and even bring the contagion home so more will die. So why are they so against the dissemination of birth control information and family planning? So extremely so that some, like Ashcroft want to put doctors and nurses in jail if they so much as mention contraception to their patients. Let alone give information or provide abortion services. And brand as murderers medical personnel who participate in abortion services. They want the people presently on earth to die. But they want to protect fetuses so they will be born. What do they think all these fetuses are going to do for them? There is a perverted logic to this I know. Will someone point it out to me? I'm not really stupid. Just strategically impaired. sno0wl 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] Would your Dr like $20000?
-Caveat Lector- ***PRESS RELEASE*** THE FOLLOWING OFFER is made to U.S.-licensed medical doctors who routinely administer childhood vaccinations and to pharmaceutical company CEOs worldwide. Jock Doubleday, president of the California nonprofit corporation Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc., hereby offers $20,000.00 (U.S.) to the first medical doctor or pharmaceutical company CEO who publicly drinks a mixture of standard vaccine additive ingredients in the same amount as a six-year-old child is recommended to receive under the year-2000 guidelines of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mixture will not contain viruses or bacteria dead or alive, but will contain standard vaccine additive ingredients in their usual forms and proportions. The mixture will include, but will not be limited to: thimerosal (a mercury derivative), ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol (a disinfectant dye), benzethonium chloride (a disinfectant), formaldehyde (a preservative and disinfectant), and aluminum. The mixture will be prepared by Jock Doubleday, three medical professionals that he names, and three medical professionals that the participant names. The mixture will be body weight calibrated. The participant agrees, and any and all agents and associates of the participant agree, to indemnify and hold harmless in perpetuity any and all persons, organizations, or entities associated with the event for any harm caused, or alleged to be caused, directly or indirectly, to the participant or indirectly to the participant's heirs, relations, employers, employees, colleagues, associates, or other persons, organizations, or entities claiming association with, or representation of, the participant, by the participant's participation in the event. Because the participant is either a professional caregiver who routinely administers childhood vaccinations, or a pharmaceutical company CEO whose business is, in part, the sale of childhood vaccines, it is understood by all parties that the participant considers all vaccine additive ingredients to be safe and that the participant considers any mixture containing these ingredients to be safe. The event will be held within six months of the participant's written agreement to the above and further elaborated terms. This offer, dated January 29, 2001, has no expiration date unless superceded by a similar offer of higher remuneration. Contact Jock Doubleday at [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * Permission is granted to all parties to reproduce all or any part of the above text in any media. Jock Doubleday President Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc. A California Nonprofit Corporation P.O. Box 1453 Nevada City, CA 95959 http://www.gentlebirth.org/nwnm.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jock Doubleday is author of the soon-to-be-published book "Spontaneous Creation: 101 Reasons Not to Have Your Baby in a Hospital." sno0wl 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] Truncated posts
-Caveat Lector- Well, something is truncating my posts, either aol or the new yahoo list. How fun. Om K 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] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger
-Caveat Lector- One can twist and spin words in any direction one wants. It's over, and good has prevailed-a rarity in this country these days. After the pure slop we had in so many high offices over the last 8 years this is VERY refreshing. Perjury? Where have I heard that before? - - On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:27:48 EST "Samantha L." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/1/01 12:21:13 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't this a shame! Ashcroft and his supporters have answered every charge and there is no proof of any of their claims. The proof is in the public record. CSPAN has audio/visual recordings of the hearings in its archives (CSPAN.org). I have watched the hearings and the floor debate. Ashcroft has used the powers of public office to further an ideological agenda and ignored what during the hearings he has called "settled law" in order to do it. Furthermore, he has 'misrepresented' facts while under oath during the hearings. Golly gee, that's perjury. Good thing the right wing doesn't have a double standard by which to judge such things. Samantha 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 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: [toeslist] Deregulated California Utilities are Electrocuting the Public]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: [toeslist] Deregulated California Utilities are Electrocuting the Public Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:43:43 -0600 (CST) From: "Drusha L. Mayhue" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: ? To: undisclosed-recipients:; From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:26:24 EST Subject: Deregulated California Utilities are Electrocuting the Public TO: Ohio Committee on Corporations, Law and Democracy / others interested NOTE: This is a email message service on the "relationship between democracy and corporations", with an emphasis on Ohio. The goal from this end is to forward a maximum of 2-3 messages per week -- thereby increasing the chance that the message will be read, reflected on and, if need be, acted on. It you wish not to receive these postings, please sent a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Greg Coleridge The article below is from Columbus resident Harvey Wasserman. One should remember Cleveland Mayor Tom Johnson's warning at the turn of the last century: "I believe in the municipal ownership of all public service monopolies... for if you do not own them they will, in time, own you. They will rule your politics, corrupt your institutions, and finally destroy your liberties." [from Citizens over Corporations, p 31] - Published on Thursday, January 25, 2001 in Columbus Alive Unnatural Disaster: Deregulated California Utilities are Electrocuting the Public by Harvey Wasserman Electric utility deregulation has become a spectacular catastrophe, starting in California and stretching deep into our economic and ecological future, here in Ohio and nationwide. To keep it simple, we'll start with the top 10 truths about this unnatural disaster: 1. There is no electric supply shortage threatening California (or the nation), only a series of complex, cynical manipulations that have ramped prices sky high, yielding enormous profits for a few distributors and generators. 2. The deregulation bill at the root of this crisis was drafted by the California utilities now facing bankruptcy and was rammed through the California legislature (unanimously, in 1996) by the utilities' own lobbyists. 3. The Natural Resources Defense Council, through its chief energy spokesperson Ralph Cavanagh, and with support from the Energy Foundation, played a key role in drafting, passing and then defending that bill. 4. But the California bill's catastrophic outcome was accurately predicted in intricate detail by a wide range of grassroots, consumer and environmental groups that challenged the deregulatory scheme in a 1998 statewide referendum. 5. The utilities now screaming for help spent at least $40 million to defeat the referendum that would have saved the state and nation from the current crisis. 6. The utilities now screaming for help walked off with more than $20 billion in "stranded cost" bailouts as part of deregulation, but nobody seems to be able to account for where the money went, nor is there a concrete plan for getting that money back. 7. The consuming public would gain, not lose, if the utilities now threatening to go bankrupt actually did go bankrupt, and the public then took over the utilities. 8. The public-owned utilities that supply Los Angeles and Sacramento are prospering in the midst of this crisis, proving once again that public power is the answer to the nation's long-term energy needs. 9. Those municipal utilities are deeply invested in energy efficiency and renewable sources (wind and solar), which has provided them with a stable supply in the midst of the crisis. 10. Any new electricity production added to the state and national grid should come from wind, which is the cheapest and fastest-to-build new power source, and from solar power, which can be installed on rooftops and at industrial sites, freeing homeowners and businesses from the lethal fluctuation of monopoly manipulations. The core of the California power crisis is simple: The utilities got greedy. They thought they were taking the electricity business into a brave and profitable new millennium. Instead, they threw it back to a chaotic old century. In the 1880s, when Thomas Edison and others first made electricity a salable commodity, rampant competition created chaos. Wires were strung everywhere, power plants popped up in bad places, service was abominable. But as the Morgans and Rockefellers inevitably swooped in to create stable monopolies, the public rebelled against price gouging and centralized private control. The barons who gobbled up the revolutionary new technology were confronted with the threat of being taken over by angry consumers. So Samuel Insull, the godfather of the new industry, came up with a compromise --regulation. From 1907 through 1920, virtually every state established its own regulatory commission to set rates and monitor growth and service in the electric power business. But the state commissions were rapidly taken over by
[CTRL] Jesse's Finances~~Mystery Solved
-Caveat Lector-
{{Well, the mystery is solved as to how Jesse can afford his
wardrobe and limousine and mistress, etc. Looks like he has
been shaking down the phone companies pretty regularly, too.
The CEO or CFO of Quaker Oats complained that Jesse tried to
extort money from that company, too, with his standard
claims of discrimination, etc. Now we know why he was so
very concerned about the election. It wasn't the voters in
Florida at all but rather his position as a "Friend of Bill"
which prevented the IRS from auditing him as they did other
charities. Note the one $55,000 federal grant unaccounted
for. The $12 million in and $47 THOUSAND out for the
educational charity really does need to be explained. I am
sure there is a perfectly good explanation for all this.
AKE}}
"Let's get right to the Jesse Jackson situation in the
Talking Points memo.
As you may know, The Factor has been trying to get financial
information from Jackson for more than a year. We are not
accusing him of anything, we just want to know where
Jackson's tax-exempt money goes. By law the public has a
right to know that.
Jackson has set up four organizations: two are tax exempt
and two are not. Millions of dollars annually pour into
these concerns. Where that money goes is difficult to figure
out.
The Washington Post is reporting that a document from
Jackson's tax-exempt Citizenship Education Fund addressed to
his mistress, Karen Stanford, after she became pregnant
details how she would get money from the fund.
Apparently, The National Enquirer has this document. Of
course it is illegal to use tax-exempt dollars for private
use.
Jackson's people say the document was never approved.
The Factor has obtained tax returns for the Citizenship
Education Fund from 1998 and 1999. In those years the fund
took in nearly 12 million tax-exempt dollars but paid only
$1.5 million in salaries and wages and spent - get this -
only $47,000 on education
Let me repeat that. Out of the $12 million the Citizenship
Education Fund received, just $47,000 went for actual
education.
Now, Jackson's mistress, Ms. Stanford, worked for the fund.
But her salary isn't listed.
Jackson's people will not tell us how much she made and they
will not tell us how many people work for the Citizenship
Education Fund. Jackson himself is not listed as receiving
any salary.
By the way, Stanford conceived Jackson's baby sometime
around August of 1998 and subsequently moved to California
to live in a $365,000. Jackson's people tell us Ms. Stanford
received $35,000 in severance pay and published reports say
Jackson pays her a considerable amount in monthly support.
Once again, tax-exempt organizations are supposed to be
accountable to the public. So why we cannot find out Ms.
Stanford's salary history remains a mystery.
Also remaining a mystery are Jackson's travel expenses for
the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition in 1998.
He has listed $1,242,854 dollars for travel and conference
expenses. But the specific charges - that is where the
travel was to - are not provided.
Another major question is, why hasn't the IRS looked into
Jackson's finances - considering he reportedly has a history
of financial problems in this area:
. In 1983, the Chicago office of the Department of Education
questioned or disallowed more than $2 million in
expenditures for operation Rainbow/PUSH.
. In 1984, a Federal Election Commission audit of Jackson's
presidential campaign showed it under-reported donations of
$826,000.
. In 1988, PUSH Excel agreed to pay the federal government
$550,000 in undocumented expenses of federal grant money.
That's tax money from you and me.
Also in 1988, an audit of Jackson's '88 presidential
campaign resulted in a record $150,000 fine for accepting
excessive campaign contributions.
Once again, Jackson's finances have not been investigated
for 12 years - since 1988. The question for the IRS is, why
not?
In 1999, The Factor has learned, that Jesse Jackson had a
huge year. He accepted the following donations:
. $500,000 dollars from SBC Ameritech
. $375,000 dollars from Bell Atlantic
. $625,000 from GTE
. $377,000 from Viacom
and $142,000 from ATT.
And there are many more.
It is obvious to anyone - including our federal government -
that there is big money coming in to Jesse Jackson's
organizations. And it is obvious that he has had past
problems accounting for some of the money. Once again, The
Factor is stunned that there is not more oversight.
We will continue our investigation.
And that's the memo."
"Time now for the Most Ridiculous Item of the day.
It didn't take long for Bill Clinton to start cashing in. He
has just signed to give a speech to Morgan Stanley Dean
Witter and will be paid - are you ready - $100,000.
Now he only has to make $7,900,000 more to catch up to
Hillary.
Ridiculous? You make the call."
[CTRL] Corporations ubber alles: How Corporations are Taking Over Canada's Health Care System
-Caveat Lector- C A R I N G F O R P R O F I T How Corporations are Taking Over Canada's Health Care System by Colleen Fuller, 1952-. Vancouver: New Star Books 1998 (copublisher: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ottawa), 321 pages, bibliographic references, index. ISBN 0-921586-59-0 --reviewed 2001 01 28 by Dale Wharton, Montreal [EMAIL PROTECTED] WORLD WAR 2 ended the Great Depression, laying bare one result: health so bad that it caused 44% rejects among young men called to Canada's forces. (The Sickness Survey of 1951 exposed two other effects of poor health: lost production--millions of worker-days each month--and the "welfare" outlays that emanate from illness, injury, and early death.) After the war Ottawa feared socialism might expand beyond its usual haunts, British Columbia (BC) and Saskatchewan (SK). Polls showed 80% of Canadians craved a national health plan, so health pushed to the top of policy agendas. Premier Tommy Douglas, following a 1945 outline from Ottawa, led SK to adopt universal hospital insurance in 1947. BC did it two years later. Ottawa took until 1957 to pass the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Act (HIDS) over the protest of groups united against state regulation, social spending, corporate taxes, etc. HIDS marked federal funds for provinces with universal hospital insurance as long as they met--a crucial proviso--uniform terms and conditions. Incomes of physicians in SK were the highest in Canada. Douglas, seeing $13 million coming into his province from HIDS, announced plans to shift all health care expenses from the private to the public sector. His mission: remove financial or other obstacles from access by any resident to any health service. Battle ensued, led by Sifton newspapers in Regina and Saskatoon. The press declared 1 July 1962, when the plans went into effect, "the day when Freedom died" in SK. Author Colleen Fuller follows and writes about health matters from Vancouver. Her research yielded 16 pages of notes for this book. Its 14 chapters address historical alliances, a BC and SK freak, the fight for national medical insurance, medicare 30 years down the road, recreating health care, the politics of privatisation, the market gets another leg up, those who pay the piper, managing care, dealing drugs in Canada, traffic on the information highway, outsourcing the hospital sector, MDS Inc--Canada's home-grown behemoth, and solutions. The book has no graphics: neither picture, chart, nor table. Ottawa marched on. In 1966 the Medical Care Insurance Act (medicare as diluted by organised medicine and private insurers) swept through the House of Commons. But a federal deficit loomed over the economy. A pillar of Lester Pearson's minority government, Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp, stood against medicare. He contrived to delay its launch to July 1968--a year beyond the symbolic target, Canada's centennial. (In 1977 Sharp became deputy chairman for North America of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission. In 1993 he became personal adviser to Prime Minister Jean Chretien.) Provincial plans had to be publicly managed (to qualify for federal funds) but care might be delivered in the private sector. Hospitals and doctors could not charge patients more than they got from the province. Complex, yes, but Canadians knew and cherished one thing: the secure feeling the new regime granted. Since 1971 they need not endure the pain and damage of malady left untreated. Nor risk- assessments, means tests, and denial by insurers. Nor financial ruin by market medicine. Canada's single-payer health insurance proved itself person by person, day in and day out, a mari usque ad mare. In 1977 Ottawa passed EPF (Established Programs Financing Act). It broke the 50-50 health cost pact: cash transfers became unconditional. That pleased the provinces, but reduced the federal role in social services. It shook the balance of medicare. EPF let Ottawa cut future transfers via the budget rather than via policy. (This would lessen public haggling with the provinces.) Activists built the Canadian Health Coalition (http://www.healthcoalition.ca) to fight back. The Canada Health Act of 1984 decreed medicare 1) PUBLIC, nonprofit, funded and managed by government; 2) COMPLETE, insuring all medically necessary services; 3) UNIVERSAL, covering all residents without regard to age, gender, state of health, or income; 4) PORTABLE, available outside one's home province; and 5) ACCESSIBLE--no extra billing, no user fees, no means tests, no other barrier to access. The US public curses the insurance industry, yet Congress and state commissions favour it. The sector (worth about $2 trillion) is least regulated among major US industries. It remains free, in effect, from antitust law and from control of price-fixing, monopoly, and bundling unwanted extras. In 1988 Chrysler found that health benefits cost $700 for every car made in the US versus $223 for every car made in Canada.
[CTRL] re : Shriners Scandalized by Sex Bash
-Caveat Lector- Dear List, Below please find info on the article. Sincerely, Neil Brick Shriners Scandalized by Sex Bash - Reuters - 2/1/01 - WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - "A group of Shriners has sparked a major uproar in Winnipeg after it was reported the fez-festooned members held a men-only fundraiser for sick children that featured nude dancers and public sex acts." at http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010201/od/shriners_dc_1.html 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: [mil-corp] US Support for Latin America's Armed Forces Soaring]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: [mil-corp] US Support for Latin America's Armed Forces Soaring Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:27:17 -0500 From: International Network on Disarmament and Globalization [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mil-corp [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network members - US military aid to Latin America now outstrips development aid by nearly 100 percent. As the NAFTA countries engage the rest of Latin America for the Free Trade Area of the Americas, it seems that the US is busy training and arming the security forces of every country in the Americas (except Cuba). Many would consider this military aid a bid to protect the expected rise in US corporate investments as a result of free trade. Thanks to Alice Slater for this. Steve http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0119-01.htm Published on Friday, January 19, 2001 by the Inter Press Service Going Backwards: US Support for Latin America's Armed Forces Soaring by Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - At a time when still-fragile civilian governments are trying to consolidate their hold in Latin America, the United States is pouring unprecedented amounts of aid and other forms of support to the region's armed forces, according to a new report released here Thursday. In the year 2000, Washington provided well over a billion dollars' worth of training, equipment, weapons and other kinds of support to Latin American military and police - almost twice as much as it provided the region in bilateral development aid. It marked the first time since the winding down of the civil wars in Central America that the United States supplied more military and security assistance than economic or development aid, according to Adam Isacson of the Center for International Policy and co-author of the new report, 'Just the Facts: A Civilian's Guide to US Defence and Security Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean'. Moreover, that trend looks likely to increase over the next two years at least, especially in light of recent statements by senior officials of the incoming George W. Bush administration who have suggested that US military aid to Colombia's neighbours may figure high on their agenda as Bogota carries through its US-backed army offensive into the southern part of the country to challenge guerrilla control there. "If I were the neighbouring countries, I'd worry about the spillover as well," warned Defence Department Secretary-Designate Donald Rumsfeld during confirmation hearings here last week. The new report, a close look at all US aid to military and police forces in the region, is the third in its annual series and covers mostly 1999 data culled from State Department, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Pentagon documents. The Pentagon, which is not bound to disclose nearly as much information about its training and other programmes as the State Department, released its relevant 2000 documents only in the past week, after the report went to press. "2000 was an especially busy year for the Pentagon in Latin America," according to Isacson, who cited in particular the appropriation of 1.3 billion dollars in support of 'Plan Colombia,' the US-backed effort to reduce coca and opium production in southern Colombia by training and equipping the army and police to battle the leftist insurgency which controls much of the region where the plants are grown. Under the plan, Washington provided some 950 million dollars in military and police aid to Colombia alone, as well as tens of millions of dollars more to the armed forces of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, including the refurbishment of a key air base in Ecuador to be used by US spy planes, as well as Ecuadorean aircraft in Washington's "war against drugs". Indeed, the same four countries - which constitute the drug war's "ground Zero" - accounted for more than 90 percent of all military and police aid Washington provided to Latin America last year, according to Joy Olson, the second co-author and director of the independent Latin American Working Group (LAWG) here. Virtually all of the equipment and weapons supplied to Latin American countries are provided under Washington's counter-narcotics programmes, she said. But US military training in the region has also grown at a spectacular rate in recent years, according to the report. On the basis of recently released documents, the two co-authors concluded that Washington changed between 13,000 and 15,000 Latin American military police personnel in 1999 - up from about 10,000 the previous year. For 2000, they said, the total has almost certainly risen substantially beyond the 1999 level, as a result of the initiation of Plan Colombia which, among other things, called for the training of two new anti-drug battalions for the Colombian army. "The United States trains more military personnel from Latin America than from East and South Asia, the Middle East, and the former Soviet
[CTRL] Public Statement by the Rev. Jesse Jackson
-Caveat Lector- Public Statement by the Rev. Jesse Jackson Due to the great consternation caused by the revelation of my act of procreation, I accept my obligation to give an explanation to the population for my act of copulation. I gave in to temptation, for the anticipation of sexual gratification, that I could not obtain through masturbation, resulted in my fornication. I accepted her invitation, and provided her with excitation, stimulation, penetration, replication, and liberation. She provided lubrication (to avoid inflammation) and I wore condoms to avoid contamination. She cried for duplication but I insisted upon termination, in spite her fascination with variation. This has caused me great aggravation, and the agitation and provocation of the media has resulted in my humiliation, denigration, and degradation. My wife is considering castration, which would require my hospitalization. Pray that this matter will find culmination in my sanctification and rehabilitation so that my plans for nomination to my ultimate vocation will not result in revocation and termination. I hope this proclamation has provided illumination and verification and will prohibit further provocation. Sincerely, The Rev. Jesse Jackson 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] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger
Bill, Actually, I got it from watching/listening to the actual hearings as I am not leaving my house until my Westie has her first litter of puppies. The criminal was represented by a multi-partnered law firm with prior experience in capitol cases and an excellent reputation.He was well represented but apparently White did not like the verdict. There was a preponderance of overwhelming evidence like the eight year old girl who watched the accused shoot her mother and other eyewitnesses.BTW, if you have any url's for that right-wing press to which you refer, will you please send them to me? Amelia - Original Message - From: William Shannon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger In a message dated 2/1/01 12:21:13 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He did the right thing in regard to Judge White because of the heinousness of the crime involved. After all, sheriffs are our only elected law enforcement and deserve betterWhat a HUGE statement of your lack of understanding of the issue involved regarding the whole White debacle. NOBODY EVER said that the criminal involved was a great guy, was innocent OR was undeserving of the death penalty...what White DID maintain was that the criminal, like ALL AMERICANS deserved a FAIR TRIAL and a COMPETENT defense...that's ALL he said, but you won't hear that in the right-wing, pro-Ashcroft press that you seem to rely upon. Bill.
[CTRL] [Fwd: [toeslist] Public Citizen: It's Greed, Stupid! Debunking the 10 Myths of Utility Deregulation]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: [toeslist] Public Citizen: It's Greed, Stupid! Debunking the 10 Myths of Utility Deregulation Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:58:43 -0600 (CST) From: Michael Givel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: ? To: undisclosed-recipients:; Jan. 30, 2001 It's Greed, Stupid! Debunking the 10 Myths of Utility Deregulation WASHINGTON, D.C. - Proponents of deregulation have developed a repertoire of excuses for why electricity deregulation is failing miserably. Rather than admitting that a speculative market for a life-sustaining commodity such as electricity does not work, they have cultivated such myths as, "California just didn't deregulate enough." In fact, if the retail price for electricity was completely deregulated as the industry suggests, the average consumer's electric bill would be $600, rather than the approximately $55 charged before deregulation, according to Public Citizen's calculations. This is just one of ten myths debunked by a Public Citizen report released today (available at http://www.citizen.org/cmep/restructuring/deregreport012601.htm). The report examines in detail arguments that deregulation proponents are making and explains why these contentions are false. "Already, consumers and small businesses have been hijacked because California's deregulation law, which has allowed so-called 'free market' forces to reign in California's electricity market, has allowed power suppliers to rake in billions in excess profits," Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook said. By both exerting market power and manipulating the next day's spot market for electricity, these suppliers keep electricity supplies low and prices high, for instance by employing unscheduled power plant closings. They have created a crisis in California that may drive the state into a recession and has done nothing to ensure that consumers have affordable, reliable electricity. In keeping with their long-range business plans to dramatically expand sales, power suppliers blame the current problems on too few power plants. Their solution is to repeal power plant and transmission line siting laws and to suspend environmental regulations that protect people's health, so that they can engage in a building frenzy. "If the power suppliers selling electricity in California have their way and retail prices for this important commodity are left to the vagaries of the market, the average consumer could be paying 12 times more for electricity than they were before deregulation," said Wenonah Hauter, director of Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program. The myths include: Prices are high because California's strict environmental standards have slowed power plant construction. In fact, there is currently more than enough capacity to meet maximum demands. Power demand during four of the past six months in California was lower than during the same period in 1999. However, power producers under deregulation have strong incentives not to run plants at full capacity or to shut them down altogether to manipulate prices. Even so, since April 1999, the state's Energy Commission has approved nine major new power plant projects, six of which are under construction. The purpose of deregulation was to lower costs for consumers. To the contrary, deregulation has resulted in higher prices for consumers. Even if long-term contracts are entered into with suppliers, as is being discussed by state officials, consumers will still be paying an average of three times more for the price of electricity than they would have under sensible regulation. Deregulation is good for the environment. Market forces driving deregulation will only encourage cost-cutting measures that will result in more pollution. In fact, deregulation creates incentives to produce power from the cheapest source - dirty coal plants. Suppliers want to continue operating these older plants as long as possible, because it costs less than building new, more efficient plants. (The new plants being proposed would run in addition to existing plants.) Deregulation thus provides no incentive for conservation, which produces no profits for power producers. California's energy crisis is best resolved through state, not federal, actions. Under the deregulation law, California's utilities sold most of their fossil fuel power plants to out-of-state power wholesalers who are profiting at the expense of consumers. To remedy this situation requires federal action. The best short-term solution for the crisis would be for the federal government to impose cost-based rates on these power suppliers, who now are charging utilities outrageous prices and far more than utilities are permitted to charge consumers. The federal government is the sole entity with the power to do this. This action would give California time to thoughtfully restructure its electric industry. California's utilities are close to bankruptcy
[CTRL] [Fwd: Genuflecting at the altar of the free market]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: Genuflecting at the altar of the free market Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:52:11 -0600 (CST) From: Michael Eisenscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: ? To: undisclosed-recipients:; Genuflecting at the altar of the free market by Molly Ivins AUSTIN -- Haven't had so much fun reading a book since I was 12 and found `The Three Musketeers.' Thomas Frank's `One Market, Under God' is a populist romp over the most delicious idiocies of the past decade. The obligatory subtitle is `Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracy,' which doesn't sound promising, but this is a ring-tailed tooter. The book is a delicious chronicle of the hubris of capitalism in our time, and it contains some of the most savagely funny cultural criticism I have ever come across. Of course, it's really not fair -- all Frank has to do is quote them: business as God, technology as divinity, the New Economy as the end of history. We live in a culture that produces books like `God Wants You to Be Rich' and `Jesus, CEO.' What's startling about this book is the extent to which we're so surrounded by this nincompoopery but don't even notice it. How many TV ads for stock brokerages do you suppose you've seen in the past 10 years? Anything about them strike you as funny? It should have. The specific subtext of the IBM-is-God ad is so outrageous that it could gag a maggot. But I, for one, never even thought about it until I read Frank's dissection of it. Much of this book has the charm of the child who pointed out that the emperor was wearing no clothes. It's been a long time since anyone commented on the obvious with such gleeful disrespect: "Very little of the `New Economy' is new. What the term describes is not some novel state of human affairs but the final accomplishment of the long-standing agenda of the nation's richest class. . . . Once Americans imagined that economic democracy meant a reasonable standard of living for all -- that freedom was only meaningful once poverty and powerlessness had been overcome. "Today, American opinion leaders seem generally convinced that democracy and the free market are simply identical. . . . What's `new' is this idea's triumph over all its rivals: the determination of American leaders to extend it to all the world; the general belief among opinion-makers that there is something natural, something divine, something inherently democratic about markets." One of his most useful observations concerns why politics in the '90s was so often surreal -- populism got stood on its head. Anyone who questioned the Great God Market was held to be an "elitist." Pointing out that the majority of American workers either lost ground or barely kept up with inflation during the '90s was considered bad form, like belching in church. While the likes of Rush Limbaugh and George Gilder raged against "elitists," CEO compensation during the decade went from 85 times more than what average blue-collar employees received in 1990 to 475 times what blue-collar workers received in 1999. Any old populist can rage against the gross maldistribution of wealth; Frank's special contribution is his mordant examination of the cultural snow job that accompanied the redistribution of wealth to the rich. Just one symptom of how deeply this nonstop propaganda has affected us lies in the fact that the new president and Congress are on the verge of repealing the estate tax. Gee, taxing estates -- what an un-'90s notion. The tax affects the 1.5 percent of Americans with estates of more than $2 million; they can pass along the first $2 million tax-free but have to pay now-lowered taxes on the rest. The people who brought us welfare reform on the grounds that getting $8,000 a year to raise three kids is very bad for a mother's moral fiber now tell us that Junior, who never worked a day in his life, needs to inherit $200 million tax-free. And anyone who thinks otherwise is an elitist. The redistribution of wealth upward keeps getting worse. Under President Bush's tax proposal, the richest 10 percent of Americans will get 60 percent of the benefits of the tax cut. And this is at the end of a decade in which the rich have made out like bandits while everyone else stalled. We all know why such decisions are made: The political process no longer represents the people -- it represents money. It's been bought. While we were being sold a bill of goods about how the market "empowers" us because we get to choose between the mint-flavored and the cinnamon-flavored toothpaste, thus expressing our individuality, we lost something important in our vision of a just society. Frank, being a good populist, is also an optimist. He doesn't think we've really lost the vision of economic democracy -- it just sort of got buried beneath the bull. Molly Ivins is a columnist for the `Star-Telegram.' You can reach her at 1005 Congress Ave., Suite 920, Austin, TX 78701;
[CTRL] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger
-Caveat Lector- The "settled law" to which Ashcroft referred was the fact that the abortion laws were already on the books, ergo "settled" and not being currently debated. He enforced those laws without regard to his personal beliefs. Please present your proof of his perjury. If it is anything like your concept of what was being said with the "settled law" issue, I am not too worried about it. If any proof there had been, that pack of jackals would have been all over it. After all, the man has been in public service for 38 years. I think his record has been checked out a few times already. Amelia - Original Message - From: "Samantha L." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/1/01 12:21:13 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't this a shame! Ashcroft and his supporters have answered every charge and there is no proof of any of their claims. The proof is in the public record. CSPAN has audio/visual recordings of the hearings in its archives (CSPAN.org). I have watched the hearings and the floor debate. Ashcroft has used the powers of public office to further an ideological agenda and ignored what during the hearings he has called "settled law" in order to do it. Furthermore, he has 'misrepresented' facts while under oath during the hearings. Golly gee, that's perjury. Good thing the right wing doesn't have a double standard by which to judge such things. Samantha A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, 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"Archiv es 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 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] {OT}Candles: a burning controversy
-Caveat Lector- Candles: a burning controversy Ban on certain types proposed as links to toxic emissions emerge The growth in sales of candles, some say, is presenting new problems in an industry that has been operating without mandatory standards. By Francesca Lyman SPECIAL TO MSNBC Jan. 31 - Candles bring warmth and fragrance into a room, create a shimmering, romantic ambiance and soothe frayed nerves. But some can also carry dangerous toxins and soot into your home. And now, the government has even proposed a ban on certain types of candles. IT'S HARD not to succumb to a call to "Awaken and lift your spirit" or "Bathe your senses in pure joy." So, with other guests at a candle party, I took a turn inhaling the lavender, pine and ocean mist fragrances of dozens of tea lights and votives, pillar candles and tapers - all infused, the show presenter boasted, with "essential oils." What could be more magical than candles? They're associated with birthdays, incantations, secret wishes and prayer. While inspecting rows of candelabras, at this decade 's version of a Tupperware party, we chatted about favorite scents, exchanged notes on home design and got lessons in pre-19th century technologies like snuffing and wick-trimming. But no one ever mentioned the controversies over burning candles that have flickered in the news throughout the last year: That candles with lead wicks can give off toxic emissions. One study, by researchers at the University of Michigan, found that such candles give off emissions that exceed Environmental Protection Agency-standards for outdoor air. Another study, conducted by Public Citizen and published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that smoke from the candles contained alarming levels of lead, prompting the Washington, D.C.-based consumer group to petition for a ban on wicks containing the metal and a recall of all metal-wicked candles. The Consumer Product Safety Commission, which began testing candles several months ago, found even greater evidence of harm: Forty percent of candles on the market use metal wicks, and of these, up to 10 percent pose high lead emissions. Some of these candles release five times the amount of lead considered hazardous for children younger than 6, CPSC found. Exposure to high amounts of lead, which can cause brain and central nervous system damage, is especially harmful to children. As a result of the accumulating evidence, the government agency this week proposed banning lead candle wicks, although it did not address the issue of a recall. The commission may vote on the ban, which would apply to both U.S. candles and imports, as early as next week. "People believe in so-called aromatherapy," the homeopathic practice based on scent, Dr. Jerome Nriagu, author of the University of Michigan study, told MSNBC.com. And, they "sit and breathe the stuff, when they could be poisoning themselves and their families." Safety tips To cut down on candle smoke: . Don't burn candles with a shiny metal core in the wick unless you know it's lead-free. . Keep wick trimmed to ¼ inch height. . Keep candles away from drafts, which cause sooting. . Buy candles from reputable companies. . Know what's in the wax you're burning. . Be aware of candles that have been recalled by the CPSC. Candles have been used for hundreds of years without problems, said Marianne McDermott, a representative of the National Candle Association, a trade group that represents 95 percent of U.S. candle manufacturers. But the explosion of interest in aromatherapy products and scented candles, say critics, is presenting new problems in an industry that has been operating without mandatory standards. In 1974, American candle makers agreed to voluntarily stop using lead wicks, after the CPSC was first petitioned to ban them. Recently though, Jane Francis of CPSC said, "lead has been creeping back into candles." The reason, some speculate, is that wax has gotten softer as candle makers began adding more fragrances and additives, necessitating metal wicks that can stand firmly above the pool of wax. Others point to imported candles as the culprit. Meanwhile, sales have exploded, from under $1 billion annually in the early 1990s to an estimated $3.2 billion in the most recent year for which statistics are available. The American candle industry endorses a mandatory ban on lead wicks, according to McDermott. While acknowledging that the popularity of aromatherapy has fanned the growth of candles, she added, "Nobody in the candle business should be using the word aromatherapy, because it has nothing to do with candles. I don't even know if candles could be made with essential oils." THE DARK SIDE OF BURNING CANDLES Besides emitting lead, candles are also a source of soot, particulates and other, as-yet unidentified substances. "Candles are a
[CTRL] Peru Arms Dealer Arrested in Miami
-Caveat Lector- Click Here! Peru Arms Dealer Arrested in Miami Updated 5:49 PM ET January 29, 2001 By CATHERINE WILSON, Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) - A Peruvian arms dealer suspected of multimillion-dollar corruption under former President Alberto Fujimori has been arrested in Miami. Victor Alberto Venero Garrido, reportedly a close associate of former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos, was taken into custody Friday. He is charged with stealing $100 million in pension funds, taking kickbacks and selling overpriced arms to the Peruvian military. In a court appearance Monday, Venero Garrido, 47, asked to be freed because he suffers from cancer. Defense attorney Walter Reynoso said, "He's maintained his innocence. He's a very sick man." A hearing is scheduled for Friday. Venero Garrido deposited about $15 million in a Miami bank account several weeks ago and recently withdrew some money, the FBI said. The account has been frozen. Peru issued an arrest warrant for Venero Garrido on Jan. 19 and an Interpol alert Jan. 22. The U.S. State Department expects to receive an extradition request from Peru. Venero Garrido ran the military and police pension fund and allegedly took a cut of interest payments as kickbacks on the bank deposits he made. Montesinos, once the top adviser to Fujimori, and Venero Garrido also allegedly set up their own companies to buy apartment complexes, hotels and other buildings to be sold to the pension fund at inflated prices, the warrant said. Venero Garrido also allegedly sold substandard arms and supplies to the Peruvian armed forces at "wildly excessive prices," the warrant said. Purchases included defective Soviet-made MiGs as well as arms from Belarus, Ukraine, and Bulgaria, Peruvian authorities charged. Peruvian and Swiss authorities are investigating at least $70 million in suspected arms profits linked to Montesinos in now-frozen Swiss bank accounts. Montesinos is believed to have fled Peru in October, after a video showed him apparently bribing a congressman. He is wanted on charges ranging from money laundering and influence peddling to directing death squads. The scandals surrounding Montesinos forced Fujimori into self-imposed exile in Japan in November. Peru Videos Show Alleged Corruption (Previous story) Galapagos Tanker Options Considered (Next story) U.S. Oilman Found Dead in Ecuador ©2001 At Home Corporation. All rights reserved. Excite, @Home, and the Excite and @Home logos are service marks or registered service marks of At Home in the U.S. and other countries. Disclaimer | Privacy Policy 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] Ronnie White's Dissents was ....Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/1/01 8:40:43 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The criminal was represented by a multi-partnered law firm with prior experience in capitol cases and an excellent reputation. In an attempt to find more details about the Johnson case, I came across another interesting case where Ronnie White dissented (along with another justice). It is quite revealing. http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/ABOLISH/rick-halperin/apr00/0204.html (one of several articles on page) This editorial is the 4th in a week long series by Bill Freivogel of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on executing the innocent in Missouri. Coffee with a dead man DEATH ROW Robert Morgan had coffee with his friend Leonard Walters on Thursday morning, Feb. 20, 1997. Later that day Mr. Morgan saw Mr. Walters standing next to his car. What happened that winter day wouldn't matter except that Leonard Walters and his wife, Lena, were supposed to be dead. Missouri plans to execute Dannie Wolfe for murdering the Camden County couple shortly before Mr. Walters and Mr. Morgan were having coffee. Despite the discrepancy, the Missouri Supreme Court recently affirmed Wolfe's death sentence. Judges Michael A. Wolff and Ronnie White dissented, saying there was "substantial doubt" about Wolfe's guilt. The case has many telltale signs of the 13 wrongful convictions discovered in Illinois -- no physical evidence, police and prosecutorial irregularities, a self-interested witness and a jailhouse snitch. Not a drop of blood was found on Wolfe's clothes though he allegedly shot Mr. and Mrs. Walters at point-blank range. The story actually began the night before Mr. Morgan and Mr. Walters met for coffee. That evening, at a pool hall, Jessica Cox met Wolfe, a house painter with a 20-year criminal record. Ms. Cox ended up at Wolfe's motel. Ms. Cox's fiance testified she called him at 7 a.m. He checked the time on his Caller ID. She said she had been kidnapped, was at the hospital for tests and that the kidnapper had been arrested. The fiance and most of town quickly figured out the story was false. Ms. Cox admitted involvement in the Walters murders. She made a deal to testify against Wolfe in return for immunity. Police did not record her first statement and erased another, which is irregular police conduct. At the trial, Ms. Cox testified she and Wolfe had left the motel around 4:30 a.m., going to buy the Walterses' Cadillac. On a test drive, Wolfe shot Mr. Walters in the head from behind. Then Wolfe went into the house, murdered Mrs. Walters and emerged carrying a large safe. But Mr. Morgan was having coffee with Mr. Walters at about the same time and saw him again, later that day. This suggests the murder occurred a day later, which is more consistent with autopsy results. Ms. Cox also testified she called her fiance from the hospital around 9:30 a.m., two and one-half hours after he got the call. Moreover, she had said in a pretrial statement that "they" -- not he -- carried the safe out of the house. That pronoun is significant because a roommate filed an affidavit saying Ms. Cox had told her that 2 men, Brian and Eric, had committed the murder. The roommate did not show up at trial and the judge denied a recess to find her. The judge also kept from the jury evidence impeaching Ms. Cox. Ten years before the trial, when Ms. Cox was about 12, her false claim of having been kidnapped caused a man to be arrested. The other witness against Wolfe was a jailhouse informer who cut a deal. The prosecution violated court rules by failing for six months to disclose the informer as a witness. When the defense found out, it discovered another prisoner who said a man named "Terry" had planned to rob Mr. and Mrs. Walters. Terry and Ms. Cox were seen together near the time of the murders. The judge excluded mention of Terry. The state Supreme Court said it had to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the jury's verdict. Judge Wolff, in dissent, said the court should look at all the evidence, not just the evidence supporting the verdict. If the court finds the evidence weak, it should reverse the death penalty. "This review is not just for the defendant, it is for ourselves," he wrote. "The honorable reputation of our legal system is tarnished by ordering the execution of those who may not be guilty." (source: Editorial, St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Rick Halperin AI-Texas Samantha 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
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Anglo-American bids for DeBeers
By Edward West South Africa Business Report www.busrep.co.za February 02 2001 Cape Town - De Beers' share price rocketed 17,37 percent, or R44,40, to close at a new 12-month high of R300 yesterday on the surprise news that Anglo American had made a takeover bid for the diamond group. The proposed deal could unlock potential in De Beers and dismantle a complicated series of cross-holdings with Anglo American, the mining and resources group. It could also lead to a proposal being put to the holders of De Beers' linked units at $40 per linked unit, De Beers said in a cautionary statement. The offer represented a slight premium (about R8 a share) to yesterday's share price, based on the currency at R7,72 a dollar. The announcement of the proposed $11 billion deal propelled the all share index on the JSE Securities Exchange to a record year high, gaining 1,7 percent, or 155,7 points, to end at 9227,5. The index is now less than 100 points away from an all-time high. Anglo American said it had made a fair offer in its bid for De Beers. The $11 billion deal would benefit shareholders of both groups, an analyst said yesterday. Anglo American shares were up 1,33 percent, or 640c, to R488,40. The proposed deal between De Beers and the founding Oppenheimer family, Anglo American and Debswana - De Beers' joint venture with the Botswana government - led to about a million of De Beers' 400 million shares being traded on the JSE yesterday. "We had been expecting this news over the past 12 to 18 months, but we were still taken by surprise at how fast it has all happened," said one analyst. Tony Trahar, the chairman of Anglo American, "has certainly surprised us over the 10 months he has been in office". The consortium with which De Beers is in talks is 45 percent represented by the Oppenheimer family holding company Central Holdings Limited, 45 percent by Anglo American and the remaining 10 percent by Debswana. Anglo American already holds a 32,3 percent stake in De Beers, while De Beers holds 35,4 percent of Anglo. The offer, likely to comprise a combination of Anglo shares and cash for De Beers minorities equivalent to $40 a share, was expected to result in the effective delisting of De Beers, the analysts said. Central Holdings Limited would pitch for the remaining 68 percent of De Beers, in the ratio of the shareholders' stakes in the Central Holdings Limited, with Debswana likely to resell its shares back to Anglo later. "The elimination of this cross-holding will not only be to the benefit of Anglo's rating, but also to De Beers' shareholders. Anglo has always said it liked De Beers' mining operations; it fits in with Anglo's focus on mining and resources," one of the analysts said. Anglo had been divesting itself of its non-core assets - yesterday's conclusion of the conditions precedent for a share swap with Remgro for Anglo's 15,3 percent of FirstRand was a case in point - but the deal would tidy Anglo's shareholding structure and improve its share rating, analysts said. -END- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/126/_/981081715/"BClick Here!/B/A -_-
[CTRL] When Will America Grow Up, Globally?
-Caveat Lector- Published on Wednesday, January 31, 2001 in the Palo Alto Weekly When Will America Grow Up, Globally? http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0201-02.htm by Sally Schuman Last time I wrote about global warming in this paper, it was in a letter to the editor. I was congratulating three Stanford scientists who'd asked the university to cut its ties with companies in the Global Climate Coalition, whose agenda is to deny global warming and climate change and to obstruct efforts to combat them. My letter inspired a local reader to respond. He wrote, with all due snideness, that I should not "worry my pretty little head" about the whole issue, because those Stanford pinkos (led no doubt by Comrade Gore) would deliver us soon enough into a terrifying new world of--let's see, what might it be?--solar panels, high-mileage cars, public transit, wind power, and long-lasting lightbulbs. Sounds pretty nightmarish, I admit. Global warming is a Communist plot! How did I miss that? Every schoolchild knows how the Soviet Union tyrannized its citizens with pristine cities, clean factories and sparkling rivers. Enough sarcasm. It's fun but not my strong suit. I would like to reflect on the "pretty little head" comment, however. First I laughed. I am SO not the type. When you're six feet tall at age 14, certain feminine stereotypes just don't fit, no matter how much a girl might wish to wear them. But in a twisted way, the expression called to mind a tender thing my father used to say when I was little. I can't recall what childish tragedies drove me to seek comfort in his arms--maybe the matched pair of skinned knees I'd gotten rollerskating. Rejection by the three sisters who lived over the fence--yesterday they liked me! Or a bad dream. But I recall his words: "Everything's gonna be a-l-l-l right." He smiled as he said them, maybe had to suppress a laugh at the depth of my misery, but he offered solace and I took it. It's a fiction to tell a child that everything will be all right. Who can say? There's so very much that's not all right. But it's part of the parent's job, to let their children know that bigger shoulders than theirs will carry the burden, that they don't face their problems alone, that this too shall pass. For my father, everything really didn't turn out all right. One day at work, an alien growth in his brain knocked him down. A few weeks later, not long after JFK's assassination, he died, at age 47. He deserved more time, but he had completed a good deal of essential parenting, bringing my brother and me safe and prepared almost to the border of adulthood. I took his simple reassurance with me, to comfort myself and later my kids during hard times--"Everything's gonna be all right." It helps. But I can get pretty nostalgic for the days of childhood when I really didn't have to worry my pretty little head. When I had a loving dad to stand between me and the world's troubles. When I could say I don't have to worry about this bad thing, or that--someone strong and good is in charge. Or even now, to say, I'm just one woman, "just" a mom--I don't have to worry about the future, the planet, the well-being of our kids and coming generations. Denial and child-like ignorance are so very comfortable. But I'm nobody's child now. I've got these soon-to-be-adults I'm rearing, and it's not enough to tell them, or myself, what my father told his little girl. As children grow, the parent's job description expands--to include taking responsibility for the way things are and for making them right. (Sure, it's a hell of a job, but that's why they pay us the big bucks.) About the Global Climate Coalition, Ford and British Petroleum and some other companies have dropped out. A number of corporations are positioning themselves to take part in the clean-energy revolution; they'll proceed exactly as fast as their self-interest and stockholders allow. Our government remains mired in gridlock and denial about global warming and climate change. After America's performance at the international climate negotiations in The Hague last fall, resentment is growing against the United States for its greedy, "me-first" attitude toward this whole-earth problem. George "What, me worry?" Bush and his crowd, for all their crowing about responsibility and moral behavior, are passive deniers at best, aggressive obstructionists at worst, about something that could very well hit our children and grandchildren very, very hard. So when does America grow up? How much irreversible damage will climate change wreak before we face our responsibilities? Are we really content leaving this legacy to the rest of the world and future generations? Like it or not, I'm stuck--cursed might be a better word--worrying my pretty little head about these questions. My dad would be proud, though. Sally Schuman is a freelance editor and writer who lives in College Terrace. Sally can be contacted at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A
[CTRL] Why is the PLO tunneling under the Temple Mount
-Caveat Lector- Passed on from the Konformist: http://www.konformist.com Saturday, January 27, 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] WHY THE PLO IS TUNNELING UNDER THE TEMPLE MOUNT by Barry Chamish The following is a brief extract from very long article I completed for Fate Magazine. I wish I could send the full text but I have a hard copy career to preserve. Nonetheless, in light of the revelation that the PLO is tunneling under the Holy Mount, I'd like to give my faithful readers at least a clue as to why. Let us begin with a compelling history of the Knights Templar written by two Freemasons, Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, called The Second Messiah. Summarized is their history of the organization: The Templars were a poor chivalric order which disdained materialism until their arrival in Jerusalem in the early twelfth century on a papal crusade. Eleven knights dug under the ruins of Solomon's Temple for nine years and hit paydirt. Under the Temple Mount the Templars discovered a network of tunnels where the Jewish priests hid their treasures from the marauding Romans in 70 AD. The knights not only uncovered some of the gold and silver described in the Copper Scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls but the records of the first Jerusalem church of Christianity. This according to Knight and Lomas is precisely what they went digging for. The first Bishop of the Jerusalem Church was Jesus' brother James. He was aided by Jesus' other siblings, five brothers and two sisters. After the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and dispersed the Jews, James and his family fled to France, a fact confirmed by the bestselling book Holy Blood, Holy Grail. These descendants of the holy Davidic line had the wherewithal to gain wealth throughout Europe and buy vast properties. Over time they constituted a good chunk of European royalty. While professing whatever religion the state demanded, first worshiping the pantheon of Roman Gods and later papal Christianity, they secretly practised the Christianity of the early Jerusalem church. These descendants of the priestly line, now called themselves Rex Deus, and passed on their traditions throughout the royal courts of Europe where they ruled. The original Celt church was founded by the Rex Deus, and St. Patrick of Ireland was a Jew. Other Rex Deus included the Habsburgs, the Stuarts of Scotland and today's King Juan Carlos of Spain, who includes among his titles, Protector Of The Holy Places Of Jerusalem. The Templars returned from their Crusade with vast wealth uncovered under the Temple Mount and initiated a monumental building program in Europe, which ultimately resulted in the construction of over 250 castles and Gothic churches. They now challenged the papacy for political control of Europe, yet the usually jealous Vatican allowed their power to grow unabated. Knight and Lomas insist this is because the Templars had a huge advantage over Rome. According to their version of events, the Knights uncovered the original records of the Jerusalem Church and they proved that the Vatican was not practising Christianity as its founders intended. For example, a pope with exclusive rights of divine interpretation was not part of G-d's plan. If the scrolls were made public, they would jeopardize Rome's legitimacy. In the fourteenth century, the French king known as Philip the Fair coordinated a purge of the Templars in coordination with the Holy See. Their properties were seized and their leader, in fact the last Templar leader, Jacques de Molay was brutally tortured by crucifixion until he confessed to the alleged sins of his Order. He survived the first round of torture and a linen cloth was placed over him to absorb his blood and keep him warm. This cloth became known as the Shroud of Turin and the authors arguments for this claim are superbly grounded in fact. A group of Templars led by the St. Clair clan escaped the French siege by ship and landed in Scotland, a safe port since it was ruled by the Rex Deus member, Robert the Bruce. It must be noted that at his death, Robert the Bruce's heart was transported to Jerusalem for burial. Two versions of what happened to it exist. The first says the deliverers of the heart were captured in Spain, the second insists they made it and the heart lays buried in Jerusalem to this day. According to Knight and Lomas, the French Templars brought with them the damning scrolls from under the Jerusalem Temple Mount and built a chapel in Rosslyn, near Edinburgh to house them. The chapel, built by William Sinclair (1415- 1482), which exists today, was built according to the specifications of the Herodian Temple and an exact duplicate of the Western Wall was constructed alongside it. To hide their now-banned Templar roots, the Knights formed a new organization, Freemasonry, whose rites were precisely those set down in the scrolls recovered from beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Scottish rite Masonry spread throughout Europe and according to Knight and Lomas,
[CTRL] Fwd: Cashing In on the Energy Crisis
"Energy crisis" quotes for the day: (1) Comparing California's blackouts to a Third World afffliction, consultant Peter Fox-Penner of the Brattle Group said: "There is no parallel to this episode in the history of the developed world." (2) Sen. Diane Feinstein speaking to the Senate Energfy and Natural Resources Committee on January 31, 2001: "When spot power at 3 a.m. in the morning is [FIFTY THOUSAND PERCENT] higher than it would be normally, that to me ... is price gouging." (From news article "Senate Powerless on Power" by Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle, February 1, 2001.) PGE Execs Cashed In Before Crisis Pair made $118,000 selling stock options "It's more malicious than just insider trading. They traded California's economy and the welfare of its citizens for their own personal gain." by David Lazarus San Francisco Chronicle, February 1, 2001 Two senior PGE executives pocketed more than $118,000 by cashing in stock options last August, just weeks before the company's shares tanked on news that the utility was racking up billions of dollars in debt, The Chronicle has learned. The stock profits are the first suggestion that PGE officials may have benefited from their inside knowledge of the company's precarious financial condition before the full scope of the crisis was made public. The transactions came to light just a day after an independent audit of PGE's books criticized the utility's top executives for being "slow to respond" to the company's financial woes, failing to implement cost-cutting measures until year-end. It is also significant --and potentially illegal-- that senior PGE executives were enriching themselves the same month that the utility's parent company, PGE Corp., retained outside bankruptcy attorneys to advise on the possibility of financial ruin. Ron Low, a PGE spokesman, said it would be "inaccurate and wrong" to suggest a correlation between the exercising of the stock options and the subsequent downturn in PGE's share price. According to financial records, Gordon Smith, PGE's chief executive officer, exercised 7,500 options on Aug. 11 at an average $24.38 per share. He sold off the shares the same day at $28.53, earning $31,140 in profit. Richard Clarke, a board member of PGE Corp. and former CEO of the utility, exercised 25,000 options on Aug. 24 at an average $24.75 a share. He immediately sold the shares at $28.25, earning $87,512. "The fact that they were unloading shares at the same time they hired bankruptcy counsel is indefensible," said Steve Sidener, an attorney who specializes in insider-trading cases at the San Francisco law firm of Gold Bennett Cera Sidener. "You can't trade on the basis of inside information," he said. "If they already knew that bankruptcy counsel was being hired, they can't sell shares based on that information." Helane Morrison, district administrator for the San Francisco office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said investigators would have to determine whether the hiring of bankruptcy attorneys can be considered "material" to any insider trading. "People are not permitted to trade on material inside information if they have a duty to keep that information confidential," she said. It is not clear whether the options were exercised before or after the bankruptcy lawyers were brought in. PGE officials refused to specify the exact date yesterday, saying only that the New York firm of Weil, Gotshal Manges was retained in August 2000. If the bankruptcy lawyers were hired before Aug. 11, it could be argued that Smith and Clarke were acting on inside information when they exercised their options and sold off the resulting shares. They also could be accused of insider trading even if they knew in advance that PGE planned to hire outside bankruptcy counsel, lawyers said. Sidener said a flood of lawsuits from institutional and individual shareholders would be a certainty if it could be shown that senior company executives were cashing in on privileged information. "I know of a number of financial firms that are very angry," he said. A stock option is the right to purchase shares at a fixed price in the future. As long as PGE's shares were trading at a higher level than the options' exercise price, the options remained profitable. But as soon as the share price fell below the exercise price, the options became worthless. PGE's stock, after holding steady near $30 for much of the year, fell to $22.81 on Sept. 20 -- below the August exercise price of Smith's and Clarke's options. The company's shares subsequently went into a tailspin as bankruptcy fears sent investors fleeing for cover. PGE's stock closed yesterday at $14.25. According to the company's financial
[CTRL] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger
-Caveat Lector- So you are now contending that Johnson was INNOCENT? That would be the only application for this "revealing" article to this situation. Incredible! There were eyewitnesses--the sheriff's wife was shot in front of her own daughter and a room full of women setting up for a social event. But I am sure you know best. It's too bad White could not get Johnny Cochran for Johnson, isn't it. The man charged with this shooting of not one but four sheriff's and deputies and one of their wives had adequate counsel and there were a number of eyewitnesses. He did not shoot them all at one place. One he only wounded and he listened to the wounded sheriff groaning until it got on his nerves and he went outside and shot him repeatedly in the head again. Hardly self-defense. He shot the wife because he could not locate her husband after driving all around looking for him. That sounds premeditated. But you are most likely right as usual~~Johnson didn't even do it! Amelia - Original Message - From: "Samantha L." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Ronnie White's Dissents was Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/1/01 8:40:43 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The criminal was represented by a multi-partnered law firm with prior experience in capitol cases and an excellent reputation. In an attempt to find more details about the Johnson case, I came across another interesting case where Ronnie White dissented (along with another justice). It is quite revealing. http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/ABOLISH/rick-halperin/ap r00/0204.html (one of several articles on page) This editorial is the 4th in a week long series by Bill Freivogel of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on executing the innocent in Missouri. Coffee with a dead man DEATH ROW Robert Morgan had coffee with his friend Leonard Walters on Thursday morning, Feb. 20, 1997. Later that day Mr. Morgan saw Mr. Walters standing next to his car. What happened that winter day wouldn't matter except that Leonard Walters and his wife, Lena, were supposed to be dead. Missouri plans to execute Dannie Wolfe for murdering the Camden County couple shortly before Mr. Walters and Mr. Morgan were having coffee. Despite the discrepancy, the Missouri Supreme Court recently affirmed Wolfe's death sentence. Judges Michael A. Wolff and Ronnie White dissented, saying there was "substantial doubt" about Wolfe's guilt. The case has many telltale signs of the 13 wrongful convictions discovered in Illinois -- no physical evidence, police and prosecutorial irregularities, a self-interested witness and a jailhouse snitch. Not a drop of blood was found on Wolfe's clothes though he allegedly shot Mr. and Mrs. Walters at point-blank range. The story actually began the night before Mr. Morgan and Mr. Walters met for coffee. That evening, at a pool hall, Jessica Cox met Wolfe, a house painter with a 20-year criminal record. Ms. Cox ended up at Wolfe's motel. Ms. Cox's fiance testified she called him at 7 a.m. He checked the time on his Caller ID. She said she had been kidnapped, was at the hospital for tests and that the kidnapper had been arrested. The fiance and most of town quickly figured out the story was false. Ms. Cox admitted involvement in the Walters murders. She made a deal to testify against Wolfe in return for immunity. Police did not record her first statement and erased another, which is irregular police conduct. At the trial, Ms. Cox testified she and Wolfe had left the motel around 4:30 a.m., going to buy the Walterses' Cadillac. On a test drive, Wolfe shot Mr. Walters in the head from behind. Then Wolfe went into the house, murdered Mrs. Walters and emerged carrying a large safe. But Mr. Morgan was having coffee with Mr. Walters at about the same time and saw him again, later that day. This suggests the murder occurred a day later, which is more consistent with autopsy results. Ms. Cox also testified she called her fiance from the hospital around 9:30 a.m., two and one-half hours after he got the call. Moreover, she had said in a pretrial statement that "they" -- not he -- carried the safe out of the house. That pronoun is significant because a roommate filed an affidavit saying Ms. Cox had told her that 2 men, Brian and Eric, had committed the murder. The roommate did not show up at trial and the judge denied a recess to find her. The judge also kept from the jury evidence impeaching Ms. Cox. Ten years before the trial, when Ms. Cox was about 12, her false claim of having been kidnapped caused a man to be arrested. The other witness against Wolfe was a jailhouse informer who cut a deal. The prosecution violated court
Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger
-Caveat Lector- Several Senators, including but not limited to Kennedy, Boxer, Reid and Leahy pointed out where Ashcroft misrepresented the facts and was "just plain wrong." They did this by refuting his sworn testimony with quotes from his own former speeches, and from the public record, including court records. If you listened to their presentations and ignored their validity, then you are simply not able to absorb these plain facts. He misrepresented Ronnie White's record on death penalty cases. He misrepresented the facts when he said he did not vote against Hormel due to his sexual preference - in an earlier interview about the case he revealed his opinion that Hormel's lifestyle was not conducive to the position in Luxembourg. He lied when he said that the State of MO was not a party to the desegregation cases re St. Louis. The record on the matter is plain. He lied when he said he felt Roe v Wade was settled law. He has vowed to do everything in his power for the rest of his life to see that it is overturned. It is the defining issue of his life, apparently. He said he didn't know what The Southern Partisan was all about when he granted the interview. Not knowing what they were about, how is it that he could have praised them for their ability to "set the record straight" on important issues? His reply was that one of his assistants had praised the magazine to him beforehand, and so he said what he said. I do not find that answer credible at all. These and other points were all covered very well in the hearings and on the Senate Floor. Every single one of the points made against Ashcroft were supported by the public record, including his own speeches, interviews and court cases. It's amusing that you would use the argment that if he lied, the pack of jackals would have been all over him. The "pack" was all over him during the hearings and on the floor. Case after case and point after point were made and supported by facts in the public record. Your argument is weak and silly, and similar to the bizarre argument made by several Senators, including Hatch, that if John Ashcroft were so terrible, why would the good people of MO have voted for him so often? Turn that argument around on the so-called liberals the right wing defames constantly. Why have the good people of Massachusetts, Vermont, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few, repeatedly voted for them? Your arguments in defense of Ashcroft are laughable, as were the arguments of the Senators who supported him in defiance of the very plain and substantial public record. What is not laughable is that this very weird and vicious man is now Attorney General. By the way, do you have to "forward" every time you reply to something? It pushes the subject title into oblivion. Samantha In a message dated 2/1/01 9:32:00 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The "settled law" to which Ashcroft referred was the fact that the abortion laws were already on the books, ergo "settled" and not being currently debated. He enforced those laws without regard to his personal beliefs. Please present your proof of his perjury. If it is anything like your concept of what was being said with the "settled law" issue, I am not too worried about it. If any proof there had been, that pack of jackals would have been all over it. After all, the man has been in public service for 38 years. I think his record has been checked out a few times already. Amelia 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] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger
-Caveat Lector- Amelia, no offense, but you're really an idiot. Samantha In a message dated 2/1/01 11:28:00 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So you are now contending that Johnson was INNOCENT? That would be the only application for this "revealing" article to this situation. Incredible! There were eyewitnesses--the sheriff's wife was shot in front of her own daughter and a room full of women setting up for a social event. But I am sure you know best. It's too bad White could not get Johnny Cochran for Johnson, isn't it. The man charged with this shooting of not one but four sheriff's and deputies and one of their wives had adequate counsel and there were a number of eyewitnesses. He did not shoot them all at one place. One he only wounded and he listened to the wounded sheriff groaning until it got on his nerves and he went outside and shot him repeatedly in the head again. Hardly self-defense. He shot the wife because he could not locate her husband after driving all around looking for him. That sounds premeditated. But you are most likely right as usual~~Johnson didn't even do it! Amelia 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] Walk Softly and Carry a Big Gun?
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:03:57 -0800 From: "eWarrior (Kurt Jonach)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Walk Softly and Carry a Big Gun? To: Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] TERRORIST ELIMINATION ACT OF 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Electric Warrior : News January 30, 2001 http://www.electricwarrior.com/news/ewNews0008.htm OPINION : WALK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG GUN? It was Teddy Roosevelt, the Rough Rider, who said, "Walk softly and carry a big stick." It's such a good quote, you may have wished you'd said it yourself. Roosevelt's renowned international diplomacy, which earned him the Nobel Peace prize in 1906, laid the foundation for what became known as the 'American Century'. He became vice-president under William McKinley in 1900, and ascended to the presidency the following year, when McKinley was assassinated. This has vulgar poignancy, when you consider a bill introduced in the first session of the 107th Congress, entitled "Terrorist Elimination Act of 2001". The bill seeks to nullify past Presidential Executive Orders "which severely limit the use of the military when dealing with potential threats against the United States of America." The remedy that this bill suggests is so shocking, you'd expect to find on the Internet backwaters that discuss conspiracy theories: the United States government should target individuals for assassination. "As the threat from terrorism grows, America must continue to investigate effective ways to combat the menace posed by those who would murder American citizens simply to make a political point... "Actions by the United States Government to remove such persons is a remedy which should be used sparingly and considered only after all other reasonable options have failed or are not available..." How such a scenario might be executed -- by a government of the people, by the people, and for the people -- isn't quite clear. Do they shoot first, and hold a press conference later? Or, perhaps it's an act of war? Roosevelt's policy regarding international diplomacy was unambiguous. The United States would attempt to negotiate a peaceful settlement, and failing that, protect its interests with the use of military force. The Terrorist Elimination Act of 2001 sounds like a policy of desperation, the wringing of hands over a world gone wrong. The bill has been introduced for hearing by committee, prior to action on the floor by the House of Representatives. In my opinion, the House Committee on International Relations should let it be known, far and wide, that the American government does not engage in political assassination. RELATED RESOURCES X-PPAC UPDATE - Terrorist Elimination Act of 2001 http://www.electricwarrior.com/news/ewNews0007.htm Thomas, Legislative Information on the Internet Search Full Text of Bills - 107th Congress http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c107query.html THE ELECTRIC WARRIOR January 30, 2001 Silicon Valley, CA Permission is granted to reproduce or redistribute this article or any portion thereof, provided The Electric Warrior is cited as the source. Images are created exclusively for the Electric Warrior Website. They can be downloaded and cached for individual use, but may not be reproduced or used in any other context without permission. Web developers, the URL address for this content is: http://www.electricwarrior.com/news/ewNews0008.htm [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- End of forwarded message --- ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com 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
[CTRL] HOW MANY PATRICK HENRY'S DO WE HAVE IN AMERICA TODAY?
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! HOW MANY PATRICK HENRY'S DO WE HAVE IN AMERICA TODAY? Here in Tennessee we are holding a RALLY against the UN/NWO government - taking place NOW in all 50 states. Here in Tennessee we are protesting the STATE GROWTH PLAN LAW (yes, your state has one, too). The Rally is in Nashville, TN in front of the Capitol Steps at Noon Saturday, Feb. 3, noon until 3 PM. BE THERE if you love America!!! The following message is ONE to remember. If you READ the following message, how can you SIT AT HOME? The AVIDD called yesterday in support of our RALLY. Dot Bibee ++ JURY OF PEERS Give "Me" Liberty or Give Me Death! "Without Liberty 'We the People' have no Freedom" Forwarded by the American Veterans for Domestic Defense Young Christian attorney Patrick Henry saw why a JURY of PEERS is so vital to FREEDOM! It was March 1775 when he rode into the small town of Culpeper, Va. He was totally shocked by what he saw! There, in the middle of the town square was a minister tied to a whipping post, his back laid bare and bloody with the bones of his ribs showing. He had been scourged mercilessly like JESUS, with whips laced with metal. Patrick Henry is quoted as saying: "When they stopped beating him, I could see the bones of his rib cage. I turned to someone and asked what the man had done to deserve such a beating as this." Scourge for not taking a license! The reply given him was that the man being scourged was a minister who refused to take a license. He was one of twelve who were locked in jail because they refused to take a license. A license often becomes an arbitrary control by government that makes a crime out of what ordinarily would not be a crime. IT TURNS A RIGHT INTO A PRIVILEGE! Three days later they scourged him to death. This was the incident, which sparked Christian attorney Patrick Henry to write the famous words, which later became the rallying cry of the Revolution. "What is it that Gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!" Later he made this part of his famous speech at St. John's Episcopal Church in Williamsburg, V.   â¦Reprinted from the Citizens RuleBook, page 15, Whitten Printers, 1001 S. 5th St., Phoenix, Arizona 85004. 602-258-6406. Editorial work by Webster Adams, Paper-House Publications. Reminder of the cause by Donon Von Billings of Iowa. FORWARDED BY AVIDD American Veterans In Domestic Defense 220 Meadowfern, Suite 158, Houston, Texas state usA [77067] 281-875-4445 281-872-0706 Fax A HREF="http://www.avidd.org/"http://www.avidd.org//A A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A *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
[CTRL] Daschle to South Dakota: Drop Dead
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Daschle to South Dakota: Drop Dead Will Vote Against Ashcroft Despite State Legislature's Resolution WASHINGTON--Despite a plea from the South Dakota state Legislature, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) yesterday announced his plan to vote against the confirmation of John Ashcroft, President Bush's selection for U.S. Attorney General. The South Dakota House of Representatives passed a resolution January 24 "petitioning South Dakota's United States Senators to vote in favor of the confirmation of Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft." The resolution went on to say "the integrity, experience, and qualifications of John Ashcroft are unquestioned." Senator Daschle announced his intention to ignore the South Dakota Legislature in what the Washington Post referred to as a "harsh floor speech." Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, made the following statement: "Senator Daschle's upcoming vote against John Ashcroft is a slap in the face to the people of South Dakota, sixty percent of whom voted for George W. Bush. "The people of Daschle's home state have endorsed the platform of President Bush, and the state Legislature has requested he vote in favor of the president's nominee for U.S. Attorney General. Tom Daschle has made the decision to ignore South Dakota and represent Washington interest groups instead. "If I were Senator Daschle, I would be more than a little worried about distancing myself from my constituents so flagrantly, but he apparently believes nobody in South Dakota will notice." Americans for Tax Reform is a non-partisan coalition of taxpayers and taxpayer groups who oppose all federal and state tax increases. For more information or to arrange an interview please contact Chad Cowan at (202)785-0266 or by email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . *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
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Unseen but Very Real Protests at Washington (off topic)
Trevor Edmond wrote:"These incidents point to larger truths about the upsurge of pro-democracy and anti-capitalist protest taking place in the United States and around the globe. Those in power are truly alarmed by these movements' rising strength - but the key challenge now is for radicals and reformers to find ways to work together." The issue of violent and non-violent demonstrations has divided the prodemocracy movement. This article gives hope for a way of working together. The article is long but worth reading. It also makes me wonder whether the major economic powers are the keeper of democracy and freedom or is it going to be the people in the street who are willing to take a stand? Cheers Trevor FREE RADICAL: chronicle of the new unrest by L.A. KAUFFMAN www.free-radical.org (This issue is archived at www.free-radical.org/issue15.shtml) MILITANTS MODERATES . . . . . . . . . . . . Issue #15 Two images from the Washington, D.C. counter-inauguration protests capture, for me, the promise of this moment in time. The first is the TV footage of George W. Bush's motorcade accelerating, with Secret Service agents jogging to keep up, as it approached the largest concentration of protesters along Pennsylvania Avenue. No matter how much the corporate media underestimated our numbers or marginalized our message, the inaugural demonstrations achieved a major goal: They marred Bush's coronation and unnerved those who made it happen. The commander-in-thief sped past the angry crowd at Freedom Plaza out of fear, no small thing for a protest to accomplish. The second image was nowhere to be found on television or in corporate news accounts; you had to be there or read about it on Indymedia. Right about the time when Bush was taking the oath of office, the police had boxed in hundreds of protesters on 14th Street between K and L Streets - most, though not all, members of the anarchist Black Bloc. Some people managed to push their way out, but mass arrests were looking likely. Then, as if in a dream, thousands of demonstrators from the reform-oriented Voter March and the National Organization for Women came down 14th Street, smack into the police line. Initially, the police surrounded some of them as well, but they were feistier than the cops anticipated. Ultimately the police bowed to the force of numbers and backed off, letting the trapped protesters go free. There's a street-action technique used by some radicals called "unarrest," where folks acting in concert literally snatch their comrades from the arms of the police. In this powerful and unlikely inauguration drama, the most moderate participants in the day's demonstrations ended up mass-unarresting the most militant. These incidents point to larger truths about the upsurge of pro-democracy and anti-capitalist protest taking place in the United States and around the globe. Those in power are truly alarmed by these movements' rising strength - but the key challenge now is for radicals and reformers to find ways to work together. What better sign of the jittery state of the global ruling class than the recent decision to hold this year's World Trade Organization meeting in the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar, an absolute monarchy where protests are illegal? (Even the U.S. State Department notes, with bland understatement, that "restrictions on the freedoms of speech, press, assembly, association, religion" are "problems.") No other country was willing to host the WTO, because protesters have successfully made it a global pariah: The security risks for the sponsoring nation are too great, the publicity too bad, the expense too high. Time and again over the fourteen months since the WTO was shut down in Seattle, the authorities have taken extreme measures to prevent or limit protest, only to see demonstrators prevail through a mix of stubbornness, fearlessness, and anger. It happened in Prague last September, during the meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. There, despite heavy fortifications, demonstrators not only besieged the conference center but actually managed to break into it, leading officials to suspend the talks a day early. It happened this past weekend at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where demonstrators defied a total ban on protests and faced off against police armed with tear gas, rubber bullets, and water cannons. And it happened at the Bush inauguration, where - in another almost totally unreported episode - the Black Bloc, using a cart pilfered from a construction site, flattened one of the government's vaunted security checkpoints, allowing hundreds of protesters to breeze through. Meanwhile, a few blocks away in Freedom Plaza, other demonstrators matter-of-factly took over bleachers
[CTRL] Church and Synagogue Leaders ask Bush to protect Nation's Forests
-Caveat Lector- Subj: Fwd: Church and Synagogue Leaders ask Bush to protect Nation's Forests Date: 01-02-02 02:11:38 EST From: Lightparty To:Lightparty BCC: Ecotoday FYI: What is the significance of this new environmental awareness? Press Release Religious Campaign to Nation's Capital on Mission to Save America's Forests Church and Synagogue Leaders ask Bush to protect Nation's Forests Taking its crusade of forest preservation to Congress and a new Administration, the Religious Campaign For Forest Conservation begins a round of meetings in Washington, D.C. this week with Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton, members of Congress, and other Bush Administration officials Long dismayed over industrial logging in the National Forests, the assembled coalition of clerics and laypersons will press for legislation to end commercial timber harvesting on America's public lands. Founded three years ago against a backdrop of disappearing ancient forests, the Religious Campaign For Forest Conservation represents a broad swath of America's religious groups making common cause to convince lawmakers that logging public land is a moral and spiritual affiance Campaign Coordinator Fred Krueger, of Santa Rosa, California, said, "We have requested a meeting with President Bush so that we may explain that religion carries a profound moral obligation to protect the Creator's forests. Americans of faith are reaching out to the new President to help him and his Administration realize that protecting God's final forests is a vital concern to large numbers of Christians and Jews." At a Monday morning prayer breakfast, Chief of the U.S. Forest Service Michael Dombeck will receive an award from the group in recognition of his efforts to save what remains of America's pristine forests. Throughout the week, delegates from the Religious Campaign will meet with members of Congress to urge passage of legislation protect all National Forests from continued clear-cutting. Mr. Krueger stressed that his group also aims to be heard by the incoming Administration. "President Bush must recognize that America's religious communities are heartsick at the way our nation's forests are being logged to obliteration by a few unaccountable corporations. He has the responsibility to halt the rampant destruction going on in the Creator's forests. Ours is a spiritual message that we pray he will hear and take to his heart." As industrial logging has reduced old-growth forests in the United States to a fraction of their former glory, there has been a corresponding upswing in the number of religious leaders speaking out for strong governmental protections. Stressing that their campaign is a religious one rather than a gathering of environmental activists, the Reverend Owen Owens, recently retired as director of racial and environmental justice for the American Baptist Churches' Office of National Ministries, said, "Must we destroy tomorrow to live today? No! Jesus calls us to live so that we lay the foundation for better days to come. Today, vast clear-cut wastelands cry out for Christ's stewards to save the remnants of ancient forests so they may continue to glorify their Maker." Affirming the religious message, Connie Hanson, national president of Christians Caring for Creation, stated "The commercial logging and destruction of our National Forests, God's creation, is an outrage, and a wrong that must be righted. This is a moral and a spiritual issue! That is why we are calling for protection and restoration of our forests." Recognizing that cessation of timber harvesting can cause economic dislocations, Mrs. Hanson also wants what she calls "restoration jobs for forest communities and their workers." Speaking for many of the Campaign's Jewish members, Rabbi Warren Stone, Chair of the Environmental Affairs Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, stated that "As a Jew and a Rabbi, preserving and protecting God's creation of forests, wilderness and diverse species is a moral and spiritual mandate of my Jewish tradition. How important it is to join other faith traditions who share this common vision." Additional comments: Endorsing the position that their national effort is part of Jewish belief, Dr. Barak Gale, chair of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Coalition for the Environment and Jewish Life, said that "Our campaign in Washington coincides with Tu B'Shevat, our New Year of the Trees, and we will recite blessings over the fruit of the trees and the earth. The work of the RCFC in advocating for responsible stewardship of our National Forest is a major blessing for the earth." Highlighting the group's belief that forests are one of God's unique creations, Brother Keith Warner, ofm, a Roman Catholic Franciscan friar at Mission San Juan Bautista, California, relates that "St. Francis of Assisi sang of the beauty of Creation, and found God in it. The destruction our society is
[CTRL] A TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
-Caveat Lector- A TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing. America: The Good Neighbor. Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record: "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When the France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at .. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those." Stand proud, America! + This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the United States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of the world would realize it. We are always blamed for everything, and never even get a thank you for the things we do. I would hope that each of you would send this to as many people as you can and emphasize that they should send it to as many of their friends until this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just a single American that has read this, I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A
[CTRL] Tora, Tora, Tora ? ? ?
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U.S. Facing 'Catastrophic Attack'
NewsMax.com
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2001
National security experts Congress commissioned to examine America's vulnerabilities
in a changing, hostile world warn of a crippling assault upon its homeland within 25
years.
According to the Associated Press, the United States Commission on National
Security/21st Century, chaired by former Sens. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., and Gary Hart,
D-Colo., reported Wednesday that:
"Weapons proliferation [and] the persistence of international terrorism will end the
relative invulnerability of the U.S. homeland to catastrophic attack.
"A direct attack against American citizens on American soil is likely over the next
quarter century."
The 14-member panel listed as a close-second threat what it described as the
nation's inadequate scientific research and education.
The nation's entire education system, it said, is "in serious crisis."
It warned that this actually poses "a greater threat to U.S. national security ...
than any potential conventional war that we might imagine."
One commission member, Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker of the House of
Representatives, said:
"We put science, and science and math education, second ... because we believe it's
second only to the threat of a weapon of mass destruction [hitting] one of our cities."
The panel concluded the United States is not prepared adequately to meet either of
those challenges:
"The risk is not only death and destruction but also a demoralization that could
undermine [America's] global leadership.
"In the face of this threat, our nation has no coherent or integrated governmental
structures."
It offered these steps the United States should take:
Assign the National Guard primary responsibility for domestic security and
reorganize, train and equip it to undertake that mission.
Overhaul the Defense Department, where excessive laws have hobbled weapons
acquisition and the failure to privatize some support activities "wastes huge sums of
money."
Reduce by up to 15 percent the staffs of the defense secretary, Joint Chiefs of
Staff and regional commands, where growth has "created mounting confusion and delay."
Create an independent National Homeland Security Agency.
Pattern it along the lines of the current Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Assign it responsibility to protect American lives and infrastructure, such as the
highway system and information technology, and to plan, coordinate and integrate
domestic security activities.
Reorganize the State Department, a "crippled institution that is starved for
resources by Congress" and weakened further by many of its core functions, such as
foreign assistance, being parceled out to other agencies.
Double spending on scientific research and development over the next seven to
eight years.
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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
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International Criminal Court is the Latest U.N. Outrage
The Clinton administration, working overtime during the eleventh hour to consolidate
its pitiful "legacy," has taken another step toward imposing global government on
U.S. citizens. On New Year's Eve, only hours before a United Nations midnight
deadline, the President ordered a U.S. ambassador to sign the 1998 U.N. Rome treaty.
This treaty purports to establish a worldwide U.N. criminal court, demonstrating the
brazen willingness of global-government proponents to move forward with their plans.
Once created, the international court will give the U.N. the mechanism it needs to
enforce its global "laws" against American citizens. The legal apparatus represents
the logical next step for ever-expanding U.N. power: first the phony "international
laws" were created, and now a court system is needed to give teeth to the laws.
International prisons in Geneva or Brussels cannot be far behind. All Americans
concerned with our sovereignty as a nation should be very alarmed by this latest
development. In fact, U.N. expert Henry Lamb recently stated that Clinton's
endorsement of this treaty "may be the most egregious act of his entire tenure."
The proposed court will be made up of 18 "judges," elected by an Assembly of member
nations ratifying the Rome treaty. Should the U.S. Senate ultimately ratify the
treaty, America will have only one vote among hundreds of nations vying to decide
which global visionaries will be anointed to judge us (perhaps Kofi Annon? Bill
Clinton??). The court will claim international jurisdiction over "crimes against
humanity" and the "crime of aggression."
The Assembly, of course, is left to define such crimes and aggression. Undoubtedly,
leftist political correctness, socialist economic philosophy, and environmentalist
falsehoods will decide the definition of a crime with
the new court. It clearly is no stretch to predict that the court will attempt to
continually expand its jurisdiction in both the civil and criminal realms. 20 years
hence, will we see U.S. corporations dragged before
the court to answer for "environmental crimes?" Or will U.S. soldiers be prosecuted
for their actions in wartime? What about rights guaranteed to all U.S. citizens by
the Constitution, such as due process, jury trials, t
he right against self-incrimination, and the prohibition against unreasonable searches?
The clear conflict between American life under our Constitution and life under a U.N.
world government is intensifying. Although the Rome treaty perhaps is unlikely to be
ratified by the Senate, the creation of the inter
national tribunal undoubtedly will move forward regardless of our participation. Once
the court is in place, there is every reason to believe it will attempt to assert its
jurisdiction over all nations, even those that ha
ve not ratified the Rome treaty. The U.N. never has hesitated to exert its authority,
militarily or otherwise, over non-member nations; surely the international court will
follow suit. Remember, precedents set by the U.N
. 40 and 50 years ago, such as engaging in "peacekeeping" wars across the globe,
were controversial at the time. Today those precedents have become commonplace U.N.
practice, despite the objections of many Americans.
The Clinton administration has set a terrible new precedent. Even if the Rome
treaty ultimately is not ratified by the U.S., Clinton's signing it further
demonstrates our acquiescence to the global-government planners. Many Americans,
rightfully concerned by this trend, have begun to question our participation in the
U.N. They have begun to question the influence of global elites. The Clinton
administration has used secrecy, stealth, and misinformation to thwart the will of
the majority of Americans, who still wish to live in a free sovereign nation. In
response, I will reintroduce the American Sovereignty Restoration Act in the new
107th Congress. This bill will end U.S. taxpayer support of the U.N., remove the
organization from U.S. soil, and guarantee that no U.S. soldier ever serves under
U.N. command. I urge all Americans opposed to world government to ask their
Representatives to support my bill, while also asking their Senators to vote against
ratification of the U.N. Rome treaty.
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