Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft, Racism and the Democrats
-Caveat Lector- Time for you to do some homework. That old canard of Racism and the JBS was disproven back in 1963 -- that's 38 years ago. I'm sure that the Black members of the JBS would be delighted and most interested to hear of their organization's "racism." When all else fails, accuse the enemy of racism. And refer to them as "ilk." _ I guess for John Farmer, you're not a racist unless you're a leader of the Ku Klux Klan, John Birch Society or their ilk. His moderation in defense of racism is all too typical of those in the corporate media and those in leadership of the two corporate parties. Which brings me back to the 42 Senate Democrats who voted against Ashcroft. 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] Ashcroft vs White
-Caveat Lector- Here are the details as to why Sen. Ashcroft opposed Ronnie White's nomination to the Federal Bench. The entire discussion and background appear below. This is a transcript of a broadcast by Sean Hannity on Thursday, Jan 18, 2001. White was rejected largely because of his dissent in the case of the state of Missouri vs a guy by the name of James Johnson, when White voted in '98 to overturn - he was the only one out of 7 justices - he was the only dissenting voice to overturn the death penalty convictions of this 4 time murderer who killed in cold blood 3 law enforcement officers and the wife of one of these sheriffs. Here - let me give you the facts. Here are the facts. The deputy of the local sheriff's departmnent went to James Johnson's house to investigate some domestic dispute, that he and his daughter were involved in, after the Sheriff talked briefly with members of the family he was going back to his car, Johnson shot this guy, this Sheriff, twice, including in the back of the head - when Johnson heard that this Sheriff was moaning, well then he shot him in the forehead, killing him instantly. Johnson then loaded his car with guns and ammunition, and drove to Sheriff Kenny Jones's house, where the Jones family, by the way, was celebrating Christmas. What did he do? He fired a semi-automatic rifle through the window, he hit Jones's wife 5 times including the face, the neck and the back of the head - she died in front of her family on Christmas day. Next, Johnson arrived at the home of another Sheriff, by the name of Russell Bortz, and he shot Bortz multiple times through the window, hitting him in the chest, and in the face, as Bortz was on the telephone. Bortz survived. Then he went to the Sheriff's office. As Cooper County Sheriff Charles Smith was leaving his office, Johnson then shot him 4 times including in the face and the head - he killed him. And as Miller County Deputy Sandra Wilson arrived later at the Sheriff's office Johnson shot her through the heart, as she was climbing out of the car - she died on the pavement. So eventually, he's apprehended, convicted of 4 counts of 1st degree murder, incontrovertible evidence was in the case, sentenced to death, his primary defense wasn't that he didn't do it - but that he suffered from post traumatic stress disorder resulting from his service in Vietnam. He then appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court, claiming a myriad of constitutional violations, on and on and on, -- oh, by the way, one particular persuasive point, as the other 6 justices pointed out, Mr. Johnson confessed to the crimes - never said he didn't do it - he just said that Vietnam caused the post traumatic stress disorder. He made a confession, in which he recalled every single detail - and it was because Judge White was willing to remand this back to the courts - it calls into question a confession - incontrovertible evidence and testimony of the people involved, it calls into question NOT HIS RACE, but his JUDGMENT - and his sense of whether or not because of his lack of judgment in this case if he deserves a LIFETIME appointment to the court. That's what this case was and is about - we ought to be thanking Senator Ashcroft for what he did. He was showing great judgment, and yet the mainstream media has refuse to focus in on what this case has actually been about. It's just amazing. It shouldn't surprise us. Here's the entire discussion. I don't know how many of you had an opportunity to watch Ronnie White this morning, Judge Ronnie White, as he testified before the Senate Judiciary committee. This is the judge that the left has been focusing in on, these left-wing groups, since they announced their opposition to the nomination of ex-Senator John Ashcroft for Attorney General. And they claim it was Ashcroft's opposition to Ronnie White, who is a Missouri supreme court justice, nominated to the federal bench by Bill Clinton, that his opposition was based on the fact that Ronnie White was an African American, despite the fact that they ignored the entire record of Senator Ashcroft, which was that he supported 26 of the 27 African Americans that were appointed to the federal bench. 26 of 27 he confirmed the judicial nominees that were brought before him. Of the approximately 1686 Clinton presidential nominees, both judicial and non-judicial, voted on by the Senate when Senator Ashcroft was there, he voted to confirm all but 15. That fact not brought out by Senator Ted Kennedy, nor was it brought out that he himself, while the Governor of the great state of Missouri signed Missouri's first hate-crime statute. It wasn't pointed out that by executive order that he made Missouri one of the first states to recognize Martin Luther King day, that he led the fight to save Lincoln University, the Missouri university founded by African American civil war veterans.
[CTRL] This is religion - Profiteering?
-Caveat Lector- This is an interesting item re Jesse Jackson's investments and friends doing the work of God. Now it would seem to me that by the words of the leader of this Church the Church lost its non profit status. What about the little church in Indianapolis the Feds are trying to take away - were they bad or something - did they try to "stuff Christ" down people's throats - is this why it is being destroyed and why Jackson and garbage like Al Sharpton were involveld in tax monies - did this center ever get off ground - this one particular center and can a white church take advantage of alla these free giveaways - is this separation of Church and State Jackson style? Seems to me the little Church in Indianapolis needs a good attorney to investigate some of this stuff.Jesse Jackson - is he guilty of blackmail as some seem to believe? Maybe these little Christian churches should all unite and threaten to boycott or is the word BLACKMAIL, which is surely still a crime in this country Seems to me these people lost that non profit status a long, long time ago I wonder, does the Catholic Church have the right to federal funding too? And the true Arabs - ISLAM..The Catholic Church built their own schools didn't they...because it seems there is something called separation of Church and State - ever hear of kick backs? As taxpapers we should demand a complete investigation into these matters - no wonder Jesse could afford a $350,000 for his prostitute paramour and $10,000 a month for his little bastard daughter(that is the legal term, bastard)...wouldn't it be fun now to go into Al Sharpton's financial interests who too has lived off the kindness of others? Like a Hill and Bill Clinton whostole more than just the silverware from the taxpayers. So I had a dream these were a bunch of thieves - do we have an interest in this venture, after all it is our tax money?? And street people only got a pack of cigaettes for voting for the democrats - Saba 'Dream' shopping center proposed for Newark 01/17/00 By Nikita Stewart STAFF WRITER Metropolitan Baptist Church unveiled its "dream" for Newark yesterday as Mayor Sharpe James and the Rev. Jesse Jackson joined the Rev. David Jefferson Sr. in announcing plans for a major shopping center on Springfield Avenue. The church is teaming up with the city and the nonprofit New Community Corp. to develop a $16.6 million "Newark Towne Center" to be anchored by a Kmart department store. The announcement followed a 21/2-hour tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Jefferson, pastor of Metropolitan Baptist, called the plan "the most expansive development by a black institution in the history of Newark." In an earlier interview, Jefferson defined King's dream as not just social equality but "economic liberation." "I think we've done the dream an injustice by going to the church and singing," said Jefferson, who works as an executive at ATT. "We need to act on it." Springfield Avenue, ground zero for the 1967 riots, is being resurrected by the church's development arm, Resurrection Urban Development Corp., Jefferson said. Resurrection and New Community Corp. will develop a 115,000-square-foot Kmart, a service station and a family restaurant, James said. The shopping center will be bounded by Springfield and South Orange avenues and Jones and Broome streets. James and Jefferson signed two enlarged contracts, one for Kmart and one a promise by the church to develop more projects, with a giant pen a little larger than the length of a lower human arm. Newark's development corporation will provide about $5.9 million in federal funds and another $500,000 will come from state environmental funds, said Al Faiella, Newark's deputy mayor for economic development and housing. Faiella said the other $10 million could come from Prudential, which has signed a letter of intent to put up loans for the development. Kmart also signed a letter of intent last month, Faiella said. Kmart would actually build and operate its store while the two nonprofits would be responsible for other operations, such as security, he said. The development has been a long time coming, Faiella said. "The city has cleared the site over the last 10 or 11 years," he said. "Supermarkets were poised to start construction, but things fell through." Construction could begin in six months and would take another year to complete, Faiella said. The original developer of the Newark Towne Center was K. Hovnanian Enterprises Inc., which signed a 1986 contract with the city to build the shopping center. The city dropped Hovnanian as the developer last year because the city felt Hovnanian was taking too long to develop the property. The president of Hovnanian said his firm should be reimbursed more than $1 million for blueprints, marketing studies and environmental assessments. Faiella said the city has come up with a "gentleman's agreement" to settle the dispute. He would not
[CTRL] Croc Tears
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Note: We archive similar "assassination posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Lloyd Miller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Croc Tears Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 6:12 AM Tuesday Jan. 23, 2001, 12:41 a.m. EST Dubya Consoles Jesse on 'Love Child' Woes During Florida's post-election crisis, Rev. Jesse Jackson charged that President Bush won the White House using "Nazi tactics." Then he threatened to disrupt Bush's inauguration. But the civil rights leader's belligerent behavior didn't stop Bush from telephoning Jackson on Friday to tell him, "You're in my prayers." The Bush consolation call came two days after the National Enquirer blew the lid off news of Jackson's 20-month old love child, conceived during an illicit affair with a 39-year-old Rainbow Coalition staffer. The embarassing report caused Jackson to drop out of public life for four days. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said Monday that Bush "had noted the stories" about Jackson's sex scandal and then decided to make the call. In December, the Rainbow Coalition founder was reportedly urged to telephone Bush by several of his financial backers who worried that his harsh rhetoric might alienate the new administration. The conversation took place but it seemed to have little apparent impact on Jackson's attitude towards Bush. No word yet from conservative black leaders who might have hoped the divisive reverend's days as the nation's racial ombudsman would be numbered after Bush took over. Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics: Bush Administration Related Products: Express your opinion about this to top leaders, Congress and the media -- send an Urgent PriorityGram -- it`s as easy and powerful --Click Here now Return Archibald Bard Pro Libertate - For Freedom ICQ 83834746 Keep And Bear Arms http://www.keepandbeararms.com INFOWARS.com, a Presentation of the Energetic Alex Jones http://www.infowars.com/index.html In the immortal words of Yeshua the Messiah (most call Him Jesus) "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that you might have life, and that you might have it more abundantly." -- St. John 10:10. Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.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: The Clinton Team and Blackmail [Free Republic]
Flynt, Carville, Clinton, Stone (Oliver) - now what could these people possibly have in common? Well Oliver Stone was ARRESTED on a hash charge...Carville worked up Ehud Barak's campaign.Flynt was front for drugs through his pornography - and Clinton was the most obscene president we ever hadthe movie JFK was the biggest story every told but much of it was plagiarized from the old Assassination Committee which was designed to lead people away from the truth.and the truth is the KGB ordred the execution of JFK - and the Jewish Mafia (Russian Mafia) did the hit..for many different reasons. What do all of the above have in common? DRUGS.DRUGS.and more DRUGS - the movie JFK was almost laughable because this was the crap the committee put out over 30 years ago.see Clinton when young standing in JFK limelight and little John's limelight - putting him out of the picture - this was the KGB Manchurian Candidate - the attempted look alike President..the traitor and the liar and the sodomistthese are lessor charges compared to the murder of the innocents through the sale of polluted AIDS infested blood around the world by this man.will someone make a movie of this - well, believe it or not I got word tonight someone isthis should be the deal of the century ...anyone for golf? Saba The Clinton Team and Blackmail Crime/Corruption News Source: Insight Magazine Published: 06/19/2000 Author: By J. Michael Waller Posted on 05/26/2000 12:58:07 PDT by JeanS Intelligence and security experts are outraged at the Clinton administration's probable use of blackmail and susceptibility to it as the Congress fails to investigate. Catching people with their pants down was a prime way of compromising and recruiting them," recalls former KGB general Oleg Kalugin, who was decorated for, among other things, recruiting Americans to spy for Moscow. The Russians call it gathering "compromising material," or kompromat. In the West, it's known as blackmail. After the 1994 elections, when the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives, the Clinton administration ran an alleged dirt-digging operation out of the Office of the White House Chief of Staff, says Gary Aldrich, a former senior FBI special agent on White House duty at the time. "They hired upwards of 36 lawyers to staff the operation to handle 40 different cases," Aldrich tells Insight. "Once it became known that they had such an operation, then the blackmail itself took place." It all came in handy when the House impeached President Clinton. "People like [James] Carville and [George] Stephanopoulos said in the media that there would be a 'scorched-earth policy' and that everyone who had skeletons in their closet would be exposed if they didn't back off the impeachment policy," Aldrich says. These threats allegedly were carried out during the 1998 impeachment trial of Clinton, when White House operatives and allies such as pornographer Larry Flynt not only dug up dirt on their Republican opponents but openly threatened them with releasing it if they persisted. House leaders who didn't submit found themselves swamped by embarrassing revelations about their past or present personal lives. Some, such as House Government Reform Committee Chairman Dan Burton of Indiana and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde of Illinois, went public to preempt the revelations. Others, such as House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston of Louisiana, otherwise an able and honorable man, saw their political careers destroyed. They wouldn't be blackmailed, but their fates would be an example to others. According to Capitol Hill insiders, some Senate Republicans caved under the implicit threat. "One of the things that always bothered me was why senators we thought might be willing to do the right thing [and vote to convict Clinton] backed off," David Schippers, the Democratic Chicago lawyer who led the impeachment investigation, tells Insight. "I still have in the back of my mind some thought that Filegate had something to do with it." Filegate is, of course, the still-unresolved scandal of the FBI's illegal transfer to Clinton political operatives in the White House of the secret, personal background files of at least 900 Republican former officials. Those files, security experts say, are filled with raw, unverified information of the most personal and often lurid kind. Schippers says he believes the White House or its designees used leads from some of those files to blackmail lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Congress, despite his urging, has failed to probe the matter. Blackmail, whether by political hacks or foreign spies, can be crude or sophisticated. Some consists merely of confronting the targeted victim with compromising documents, photos or videotapes. But it's usually done more subtly. Dan Moldea, who was one of pornographer Flynt's lead investigators, denies blackmail in a rambling self-defense: "No member of our team ever
Re: [CTRL] aol e-mail virus
-Caveat Lector- On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 14:13:21 EST, Smart News [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted article [EMAIL PROTECTED], which said: The e-mail comes with an attachment MINE.ZIP Activating this worm requires that you first open the e-mail, and then either use AOL's automatic unzip feature, or another utility to extract the zip file. MINE.ZIP unzips into two files: MINE.EXE and README.TXT. README.TXT is not significant, but can be used to identify the presence of the virus, as it contains the message, "Did you like it? Write Back ok?=" Heh... My aunt was hit by that one. I told them what it was and it took my dad forever to talk his sister into cleaning her system and changing her password. My sister ran a virus once on her computer and started getting phone calls at all hours of the night. This virus can be used for more purposes than just pranks. This guy logged in to my sister's account and got her address, phone number and everything, then said he was going to be in the area, and said he was going to stop by the house since he had her address. Some people are just plain sick. Damaeus 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] Gifts Were Not Meant for Clintons
http://www.wnd.com/frame/direct.asp?SITE=www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/polit ics/A26094-2001Feb4.html Gifts Were Not Meant for Clintons, Some Donors Say By George Lardner Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 5, 2001 ; Page A03 Among the gifts that former president Bill Clinton says he is keeping as personal presents he accepted last year are $28,000 worth of furnishings that documents and interviews indicate were given to the National Park Service in 1993 as part of the permanent White House collection. The Park Service serves as a steward for the White House and, according to the White House curator's office, is the only unit with the legal authority to accept gifts for the White House. A gift meant for the current White House occupants, by contrast, is routed through the White House gifts office, a separate unit. Two of the furniture makers whose donations Clinton took with him on leaving the White House last month say they gave them to the White House as part of a widely publicized, $396,000 redecoration of the executive mansion and not to Clinton personally. "When we've been asked to donate, it was always hyphenated with the words, " 'White House,' " New York manufacturer Steve Mittman said of his family-owned business, which gave two sofas, an easy chair and an ottoman, worth $19,900 and listed by Clinton as part of the gifts he took with him. "To us, it was not a donation to a particular person." A spokesman for the Clintons, Jim Kennedy, rejected the notion that the gifts in question had been made to the White House rather than to the Clintons. He said it was his understanding that the furnishings in question were on the White House gifts office list and that the Clintons were entitled to rely on that in deciding each year which gifts they were going to keep. In the case of the furnishings, Kennedy said, the Clintons postponed a decision until 2000. He said "all of the items" listed on Bill Clinton's final financial disclosure report "were considered by the gifts office to be gifts to the Clintons that they could keep or leave behind." When the redecoration project was completed in the fall of 1993, the White House distributed a four-page summary of the work, saying it had been "financed by private donations of money to the White House Historical Association, including a donation from surplus funds of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, as well as donations of goods and services to the National Park Service." Attached was a National Park Service list of "contributors to the National Park Service" and what they had given. In addition to furniture from Mittman, the document listed "Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ficks, Cincinatti, OH., furniture; David Martinous, Little Rock, AR., rug; Mr. Brad Noe, High Point, NC., furniture; and Stuart Schiller, Hialeh, Tx., furnishings." Clinton also listed these five in his Jan. 19 disclosure report, saying he was keeping a kitchen table and four chairs, worth $3,650, from Lee Ficks; a sofa, worth $2,843, from Noe; lamps, worth $1,170, from Schiller; and a needlepoint rug, worth $1,000, from Martinous. All were merchants and manufacturers whose high-end gifts, according to those contacted, had been solicited by the interior decorator for the 1993 project, Kaki Hockersmith of Little Rock. Hockersmith, who used a Park Service pass at the time, did not return phone calls. Like Mittman, Joy Ficks, whose late husband headed the Ficks Reed Co., said she thought the custom-finished rattan chairs and breakfast table installed in the private quarters would remain there as government property. She was puzzled when she learned the Clintons had taken the set with them. "We gave it to the White House," she said. "I wondered what happened to it." Noe, who worked at Henredon Furniture Industries at the time, and Schiller, who heads Cambridge Lamps Inc. of Hialeah, Fla., did not respond to phone calls. Martinous, who operates an Oriental rug company in Little Rock, said he wanted the Clintons to keep the handwoven needlepoint he gave. Two former Internal Revenue Service commissioners, one a Republican and the other a Democrat, said that Clinton's taking the furnishings under such circumstances would appear to be an improper "conversion of government property" that could require the Clintons to pay taxes on them. They said they were not suggesting criminal wrongdoing by the president. "It's the intent of the giver that counts," said Sheldon S. Cohen, who headed the IRS under president Lyndon B. Johnson. "If it was given to him [Clinton], it's his. But if it was given to the United States, then it is improper for it to end up in his hands unless he buys it." Donald C. Alexander, who was IRS commissioner under Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, said: "If someone gave something of value to the White House as the White House and not to the president, that is a gift to the government of the United States . . . a charitable contribution." The Clintons, he said,
[CTRL] Clinton's travel left military overextended -- The Washington Times
http://washingtontimes.com/national/default-200125232748.htm Clinton's travel left military overextended By Rowan Scarborough THE WASHINGTON TIMES Top military officers have expressed concern that an excessive number of military cargo planes were required to take former President Clinton and his large entourage last year to India, Vietnam and other distant places. Top Stories These officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the Air Force Air Mobility Command's ability was perilously stretched to supply airlifts for exercises, as well as troop deployments in the Persian Gulf, South Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo and South Korea. Unofficial internal estimates show that Mr. Clinton's trip to Vietnam in November cost the military about $60 million. Air Force Air Mobility Command deployed 26 C-5, 33 C-17 and 4 C-141 cargo jets as well as 10 refueling tanker aircraft and one C-130 propeller jet. Estimated costs for Mr. Clinton's trip last March to India and Pakistan ranged from $25 million to $50 million. One Marine officer said the number of planes required to support Air Force One, code name for the Boeing 747 carrying the president, strained a recent exercise. "We are in the midst of exercising one of our regularly scheduled incremental training exercises with the [South Korean military]," said the officer. "Unfortunately, the nonavailability of lift in the theater has severely retarded the deployment of a single reinforced infantry battalion. . . . It seems most of the available [strategic] lift is tied up with a president of the U.S. event." Another officer told of special operations commanders redrafting contingency plans for getting troops overseas in the event that at the same time the president was traveling overseas. The Air Force, following established policy, referred presidential travel questions to the White House. A Bush spokeswoman declined to comment. P.J. Crowley, a retired Air Force officer and former Clinton White House spokesman, defended the need for a large air armada to accompany the president to distant destinations. He said the Air Force and Secret Service not the president dictate aircraft requirements based on the travel itinerary, air field availability and threat assessment. "The logistics are actually driven by the Secret Service in terms of what the security requirements are," Mr. Crowley said. "When the president travels, we're going to bring our own planes, our own helicopters and our own vehicles. These are requirements so the president can travel safely and has the ability to communicate with his government any place he goes in the world. This is not a question of luxury. It's a question of security." However, Mr. Crowley said, "I know there have been concerns expressed in military circles about the cost of travel, but the trips to India and Africa and Vietnam were both historic in nature and reflective of the need of the Untied States to engage in a part of the world we need to improve relations with. And each of those trips will pay huge dividends for the United States in the long term." It's not only presidential trips and peacekeeping that strain airlift capabilities. The Air Force's aircraft mission-capable rates have declined 10 percent in 10 years. This means no more than 75 percent of the fleet is able to fly as grounded aircraft await spare parts or maintenance. "Both of these components," Gen. Michael Ryan, Air Force chief of staff, told Congress last year, "have contributed to our current concern and one of the primary reasons is the average age of our current aircraft fleet. It's now almost 22 years old." One of the oldest is the C-5 Galaxy, a giant fuel-guzzling cargo jet wide enough to ferry tanks, armored vehicles, trucks and troops to overseas deployments. Its combined mission-capable rate for 126 active, Guard and Reserve jets last year was below 60 percent. However, new cargo jets have been trickling in. The Air Force has 70 operational C-17s, about half the total purchase of 130 of the jets . In a statement to The Washington Times, Air Mobility Command said, "The primary limitations to our airlift capability are too few C-17s . . .; the retirement of the C-141, which gives us fewer airframes to operate and reduces our flexibility; poor C-5 reliability, which has hampered our largest airlifter; and a need to invest in en route infrastructure. . . . It is clear that the combination of increased operations tempo and missions around the world, combined with declines in force structure, have significantly increased operational challenges for Air Mobility Command." A military source told The Times that the average number of aircraft missions each month increased from 76 in 1992 to 140 in the first eight months of 2000. During the time that Vice President Al Gore was running for president, Hillary Rodham Clinton was campaigning for the U.S. Senate and Mr. Clinton was
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 02/04/2001 8:37:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any chance that this power situation is the new administration's punishment for California? sno0wl I'd bet money on it. Some stuff that's come through has mentioned that the companies from which Californiae lectricity providers formerly bought power cheaply were out of Texas and were all cronies of the Bushies. The Bush family is famous for its vindictive ways. I think that's why the Democrats in Congress are rolling over and grinning every time the new prez and co. allow them to vote on a new goodie. 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] Khomeini fatwa 'led to killing of 30,000 in Iran'
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 02/04/2001 9:24:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CHILDREN as young as 13 were hanged from cranes, six at a time, in a barbaric two-month purge of Iran's prisons on the direct orders of Ayatollah Khomeini, according to a new book by his former deputy. More than 30,000 political prisoners were executed in the 1988 massacre - a far larger number than previously suspected. Secret documents smuggled out of Iran reveal that, because of the large numbers of necks to be broken, prisoners were loaded onto forklift trucks in groups of six and hanged from cranes in half-hourly intervals. Gruesome details are contained in the memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, The Memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, one of the founders of the Islamic regime. He was once considered Khomeini's anointed successor, but was deposed for his outspokenness, and is now under house arrest in the holy city of Qom. Just goes to show you what happens when a real right-wing religious extremist gets all the power to make reforms that he wants. 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] Warning shot on EU army by White House
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 02/04/2001 9:35:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: THE Bush administration has given a tough warning that plans for a European Defence Force could undermine Nato and provoke a dangerous rift between America and its allies. Guess the world better do what the Bushies say or there will be hell to pay. 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] Clinton's travel left military overextend
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 02/05/2001 6:14:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Top military officers have expressed concern that an excessive number of military cargo planes were required to take former President Clinton and his large entourage last year to India, Vietnam and other distant places. Top Stories These officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the Air Force Air Mobility Command's ability was perilously stretched to supply airlifts for exercises, as well as troop deployments in the Persian Gulf, South Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo and South Korea. This is a really strange admission. For our Air Force to be so "unready" demonstrates that their planning, operations and logistics are way below standard. A simple thing such as presidential travel should serve only as a kind of "maneuver" or exercise. This kind of admission is worrisome, and has nothing to do with funding. It has to do with poor management. The higher ranked individuals in the military have been less than we might wish for a long time, but this strange thing is scarey. This is the Air Force that is going to protect us on two fronts, and it cannot handle a few deployments and a presidential travel requirement. This country is in big trouble, and it has nothing to do with Clinton's travel requirements. It sounds as if the brass is spending too much time and money on the golf courses, and too little time and attention on mission. 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] Gifts Were Not Meant for Clintons
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 02/05/2001 6:14:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Among the gifts that former president Bill Clinton says he is keeping as personal presents he accepted last year are $28,000 worth of furnishings that documents and interviews indicate were given to the National Park Service in 1993 as part of the permanent White House collection. The Park Service serves as a steward for the White House and, according to the White House curator's office, is the only unit with the legal authority to accept gifts for the White House. A gift meant for the current White House occupants, by contrast, is routed through the White House gifts office, a separate unit. Anybody know how all that stuff Nancy Reagan took was routed? If she had to pay a million in back taxes, there must have been a bale of it, and I'm really curious. Still I wouldn't give anything to anyone at the White House or to the White House either. They can afford to buy their own stuff, and if I were Mrs. Clinton I would send every piece of junk on the list back to the White House or to the original doners. What did they do with the old kitchen table and chairs by the way? That interests me. Are the things given to Good Will or are they burned as religious objects? 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] Clinton's travel left military overextend
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/5/01 6:48:03 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a really strange admission. For our Air Force to be so "unready" demonstrates that their planning, operations and logistics are way below standard. A simple thing such as presidential travel should serve only as a kind of "maneuver" or exercise. I take this less as fact and more as propaganda. As mixed as my feelings are about Clinton, what is clear to me is that the barrage of hate-press will never stop. Just like JFK, it's not enough that a president is dead or otherwise out of power. They keep pounding and pounding with the slander and innuendo because these men did the one unforgivable thing: they secured the admiration and affection of a large number of people. 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
Re: [CTRL] Gifts Were Not Meant for Clintons
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/5/01 5:14:36 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was not clear how the Clinton furnishings might have been included on the White House gifts office list when the Park Service had them on its list. A former White House aide who asked not to be named said inclusion of the items may have been a clerical error by someone at the gifts office, but not one for which the Clintons should be faulted. This is an important point. So far, the Clinton's have been responsive to recent criticism: they are going to pay half for the gifts taken, and half for the rent of Bill's office. If they took gifts intended for the WH but which were wrongly added to the White House gifts office list, then they will likely correct the error once it is sorted out. But the damage has already been done - they are made to appear as greedy grasping trailer trash. I am almost forced to like and admire them in spite of the faults of the administration simply because they are so relentlessly harangued. Samantha 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] Fwd: U.S. May Try to Curb Diamond Trade That Fuels African Wars
So Diamonds feed wars? Now I know why Israel is selling billions of dollars in diamonds, allegedly-maybe the mines of King Solomon have been seeded? So now the Africans, it looks like these bastards ae going to leave "nothingn of value" - the Africans are dying from aids, and have no money..they butchered white farmers and in a local African paper now complain of a brain drain because whites are moving out. Diamonds - this cartel married someway into the Borman famly and they wonder how they got the name of being "nazis"?DeBeers sells 70% of diamonds - our Pentagon had a billoin dollars worth of diamonds and got caught 15 yers ago and said "hey, they were a good invesment -" for they were worth bigger bucks then.. Me I prefer the emerald or the rubyit is said youo have to have a diamond when you get married? Who says so? I prefer a ruby, or a saphire or emerald.BOYCOTT DIAMONDS So deBeer now moves into Canada to mine diamonds.or will they seed the mines there? So the leave Africa with something of Value - AIDS and Disease - and note they will be sure the Congo does not sell diamonds for they say they are getting out of the business. You see Clinton did not give a damn about the white farmers and their black employees being slaughtered (by the way Ezekial in the bible you find word slaughter over and over and over..no othr chapter has such slaughteringsee the Schemites and wonder why it was deleted and taken from King James BibleMaccabees.) So much for that for now America will receive 18 thousand AFRICAN AIDS victims yearly and more - like those diamonds, American will be seeded with more aids from the Africans. When those English Rhodes Scholars left, oh I imagine they left a bible or two - one in particular for now it is harvest time - cutting down of the flowers.slaughter of more innocentsbut DeBeers go to Canada. Watch Out Canada - The Life You Save May Be Your Own... Someone ought to write a song -"When Its Slaughter Time in the Congo..." And suddenly Israel is the home of King Solomons mine = is that why they tunnel like rodents under this beautiful heap of rocks? Like say, when the English left the pyramids - well remember the Titanic and never get aboard a ship with any members of the diamond cartel or these Rhodes Round Table bunch And buy rubies - Americans can break this diamond cartel...Thailand has beautiful gems - see the old Sing ah Store on on Bankok Road - good spot, my relative put BMEWS and Missile site in the area when we were friends.. Saba Wonder when these people leave Canada will they leave something of value? But then they are not dealing with Zulu and Ubangi Kingdom - Clinton is a Rhodes Scholar, CFR and Round Table of Cecil Rhodes - who the hell did that bastard think he was..they are now coming in for the kill on South Africa and use Jesse Jackson's of the world to push it through? Let Africa keep their AIDS victims and let the English pick up the Tab or let Clinton take a few in their new big homesthose diamonds in the right hands would feed a lot of starving Africans and help with the medicines - so Pzifer is donating AIDS treatments - why, with all those natural resources Africa is dying and all they think of is diamonds causing a war? Get that bastard Clinton off the public welfare sysem... August 8, 1999 U.S. May Try to Curb Diamond Trade That Fuels African Wars Forum Join a Discussion on Africa in Transition By RAYMOND BONNER WASHINGTON -- Concerned that diamonds are financing and perpetuating wars in Africa, the Clinton administration is considering actions aimed at halting the illicit-diamond trade, administration officials say. [Note so Canadians will now go to war??? and end up like Angola with the DeBeers Machine.] The flow of uncut diamonds from rebel-held mines to market centers around the world -- valued at hundreds of millions of dollars a year -- is keeping rebel armies in Angola, Congo and Sierra Leone supplied with tanks and assault rifles and even uniforms and beer, U.S. and European officials say. [Saba Note - now here is the bigest crock of all.so now comes Clinton like Jesse Jackson to save Africa from themselves-wanting to stop endless killing like Israelie peace efforts - only diamonds end up in Israel] Control of these mines has been an obstacle to peace efforts in African hot spots, and officials hope that by cutting off the gray-market diamond trade they can also choke off the flow of arms, stop the endless killing and hasten peace efforts. Diamonds are not the only way in which rebels pay for weapons, but experts in Africa and the trade say cutting it off would have a substantial impact. [Good thing they do not have a potato or potatoe crop to worry about as did the Irish once) The administration is likely to propose a global marketing system, by which diamond sales must be accompanied by documents declaring the source of
[CTRL] Fwd: The Standard.com: A Web Site Is Forever
So DeBeers went into business the same year as Jack the Ripper - 1888my old MI6 friend told me years ago that a Borman who was a Nazi had married into the diamond cartel family - if this was same cartel.. So we see now why Diamonds are a girl's best friend - but hey, that market is a little shakey - see why Africa dies and the same old cartel at work - if they want to stop wars they stop diamonds from being sold in Africa and yet in the Holy Land for over 2,000 years they have been fighting - yet now they have billions of dollars in diamonds to sell - we got a new "cartel" in the making? Tunneling in Israel - like Jesse Jackson and his friends said when opening the new shopping center to be "people are tired of having Christ shoved down their throats:.. Now is the time to get sick.and wonder who is stealing what, but now we know why Africa is dying. Wonder if Jack the Ripper was Rhodes Scholar? Saba Now I have a huge emerald an saphire ring (2) bought in what was once Persia and by today'[s standards are worth quite a big..each weigh 5 carats and I never wore them until I found out how much they were worth...always disliked jewellry. I see now ancient Persia must be loaded withds of rubies, diamonds, saphires, etc, etc, etc...Natural resources belong to the people? Back:http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,4877,00.htmlJune 11, 1999 A Web Site Is Forever DeBeers, the South Africa-based diamond cartel, is adding a clever new service to its Web site that could strengthen its distribution in North America. By Jacob Ward DeBeers, the world's dominant supplier of diamonds, is launching a Web site this week to help diamond buyers design their own engagement rings. Founded in 1888 and headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, DeBeers has aggressively marketed the diamond engagement ring in an effort to boost diamond sales. It's tempting to say that the company's new Web site, which shows customers designs by a few manufacturers and directs them to retailers, is little more than a cute marketing gimmick. But the company's history suggests it's something more than that. The DeBeers diamond cartel, controlled by Chairman Nicholas Oppenheimer and his family, once controlled upwards of 75 percent of the world's diamond production. In other words, three-quarters of the stones in display cases and on fingers around the United States were either mined, processed or distributed by DeBeers. Of late, however, the cartel has been slipping. DeBeers' market share has dropped to about 50 percent. Observers attribute the company's decline to decisions made by the operators of mines in the Congo, Australia, Brazil, Venezuela, Canada and Russia. Mines in those countries have terminated, refused or renegotiated their contracts with DeBeers, opting instead to market diamonds independently. DeBeers' diamonds arrive in the United States via a labyrinth of intermediaries, in part to avoid getting snared by Justice Department antitrust lawyers scrutinizing DeBeers' dominance of the diamond market. Diamonds are unearthed, processed, polished and then shipped to London, where brokers buy them from DeBeers, carry them to the U.S. and sell them to jewelry manufacturers, who then set the diamonds in rings and sell them to retailers. All that happens without DeBeers ever technically doing business in the United States. DeBeers' concern about antitrust law stretches back more than 50 years. During World War II, the U.S. government voiced antitrust concerns about the company after rumors surfaced that it was colluding with Axis powers. While the rumors were deemed false, antitrust heat on DeBeers intensified, and the company pulled up stakes in the U.S. The company's only recent antitrust trouble was a Justice Department indictment against General Electric in 1994 for conspiring with DeBeers to raise industrial diamond prices. DeBeers and other international witnesses refused to testify, and the case was thrown out. [billions of dollars in diamonds in Israel being mined - is there some conspiracy involved here] The company's intermediaries, such as the brokers who stand between DeBeers and American retailers and manufacturers, keep DeBeers at a safe remove from Justice Department scrutiny. These brokers, called "site holders," travel 10 times a year to DeBeers' offices in London to receive their allotment of diamonds, which they then sell to manufacturers and retail clients around the country. When a certain diamond cut becomes too popular to maintain its value, DeBeers reduces the supply of gems of that type, which enables the company to control prices without money ever changing hands on U.S. soil. DeBeers keeps its hand in the U.S. diamond market via J. Walter Thompson, the New York-based ad agency owned by the London-based WPP Group. Thompson runs a variety of diamond-related services for DeBeers, including the Diamond Information Center, which was responsible for the latest Web
[CTRL] Fw: [FP] Brain fingerprinting
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: "ScanThisNews" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "ScanThisNews Recipients List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:46 AM Subject: [FP] Brain fingerprinting == SCAN THIS NEWS 2.5.2001 -Original Message- From: Light Network Subject: Brain fingerprinting Greetings from Holland The following information I received may interest you. Perhaps a next tool for the "Thought Police" during coming times. Regards, Jan http://www.brainwavescience.com/index.html Brain Fingerprinting: A New Paradigm in Criminal Investigations Executive Summary Farwell Brain Fingerprinting is a revolutionary new technology for investigating crimes and exonerating innocent suspects, with a record of 100% accuracy in research on FBI agents, research with US government agencies, and field applications. The technology is proprietary and patented. Brain Fingerprinting fulfills an urgent need for government, law enforcement agencies, corporations, and individuals. Over a trillion dollars are spent annually on crime fighting worldwide. Brain Fingerprinting solves the central problem by determining scientifically whether a suspect has the details of a crime stored in his brain. It has received extensive media coverage around the world. The technology is fully developed and available for application. Larry Farwell, PhD President Chief Scientist Brain Wave Science Human Brain Research Laboratory, Inc. Former Harvard Faculty Member Breaking News... Dr. Farwell testified in the case of Terry Harrington, convicted of murder and serving a life sentence in Iowa. Dr. Farwell's Brain Fingerprinting test on Harrington showed that the record of the evening of the crime stored in Harrington's brain did not match the crime scene, and did match his alibi. Click for information on the Harrington Case, Press release, downloadable documents and photos SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY Iowa " It seems to me that if we are interested in making sure that the innocent go free, and that the guilty are punished, any technological instrument that can help us make a determination of guilt or innocence, we ought to know about it." Senator Charles Grassley From interview with Mike Wallace about Brain Fingerprinting on CBS 60 Minutes Click here for highlights TV News ReportsNewspaper Magazine Reports Scientific Research Reports CBS 60 Minutes December 10, 2000 KTVO: Brain Fingerprinting Catches a Serial Killer Scientists are scanning the brain for traces of guilty knowledge Fairfield Ledger: Farwell's Brain Fingerprinting Traps a Serial Killer Dr. Lawrence Farwell tests serial killer James B. Grinder Dr. Lawrence Farwell tests Terry Harrington Contact Us For information on applying Brain Fingerprinting to exonerate innocent suspects and falsely convicted people, click here. For information on applying Brain Fingerprinting in law enforcement, investigations, and corporations, click here. For investment information or Investor Relations, click here For information on tax deductible donations, click here: http://Truth-Justice.org Brain Wave Science Human Brain Research Laboratory, Inc. P.O. Box 176 Fairfield, IA 52556, USA Tel: (641) 469-5649 Fax: (208) 692-5884 To send email to us click here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Social security is the bane of individual liberty. - SAM == Don't believe anything you read on the Net unless: 1) you can confirm it with another source, and/or 2) it is consistent with what you already know to be true. == Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == This is a copy of ScanThisNews, sent to contributors. For information on contributing, please visit our contributions web page: http://www.networkusa.org/fingerprint/page1b/fp-contribution s.html To subscribe to the free ScanInReview abbreviated newsletter, send a message to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and type "subscribe scan" in the BODY. Or, to be removed type "unsubscribe scan" in the message. For additional instructions see www.efga.org/about/maillist.html -- "Scan This News" is Sponsored by S.C.A.N. Host of the "FIGHT THE FINGERPRINT!" web page: www.networkusa.org/fingerprint.shtml == 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
Re: [CTRL] Clinton's travel left military overextend
-Caveat Lector- Yes Sam - they (Hill and Bill) secured the admiratian of every sodomist across the country ..why, because they thought there were going to have the little boy scouts to feed upon. and someday they will find out that Carville and Larry Flynt have received stolen property - the old FBI files on all congress and senate people Clinton - ever see his medical report? Herpes is the least of his worries. 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: GOP News Views - February 5, 2001
Evidently the press very graciously did not note the weight Mrs. Clinton has gained - too many pig outs perhaps with her husband. She looks like a Taco Bell - Further while it takes 90 minutes at least to prepare Liz Tayor for a camera take, it must have taken 3 times 90 to make Mrs. Clinton presentablehre plastic surgery left her eyes open so wide - well that deep stare into one's eyes was almost scarey. All that money she paid for plastic surgery and now she is alleged not to care about her appearance?You got to be kidding - bet she sues her plastic surgeon who seemingly has done a bit of a job on Chelsie too for they saythese days her appearance has improved with the near black lipstick.And by the way, Clton doesn't look so hot without his makeup man either and those bags under his eyes (and I do not mean Hill and Chelsie) he must be back to the pottie. * Catch Us On the Web Our cyber-address: http://www.GOPNewsAndViews.com. Comments, suggestions, letters-to-the-editor, rants, chants, curses and verses should be sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Treating Adults Like Kids Went to the Pro-Bowl yesterday at Honolulu Stadium. Didn't drive; took a cab. Great weather, good game, packed stands, very salty popcorn. Got thirsty. Held baby while spouse ventured down to pick up two beers. Only brought one back. Then had to go back down for the other. Lots of stairs. Lots of walking. Lots of nanny-state stupidity. Seems Hawaii's Democrats determined that a 36-year-old adult mom living in a supposedly free country can't responsibly purchase two beers at a time. So Gia was only allowed to buy one beer. She then had to walk all the way back up to our seats, drop off the first beer, walk all the way back down, buy the second beer and then walk all the way back up again. Did I mention our seats were in the top row at the top of the stadium? To quote the immortal words of 4th-grader and political philosopher Eric Cartman of "South Park": "Democrats piss me off." Good thing Gia's not pregnant again ... or I might have had to make the beer run MYSELF. Then I'd have REALLY been mad! - Chuck Muth, Editor * Hillary's Hair "The cry of the unkempt echoes across town, wafting into the Senate chambers where the loss of one of her White House perks has left former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton looking a bit less perky these days - at least when it comes to her hair. While she exuded a polished look during her Senate campaign, New York's junior senator has sent tabloids and tongues a-wagging of late with her sagging commitment to her image. Without the help of a 24-7 stylist, one of the world's most visible women is slogging it alone, displaying her own very public version of wash and wear that has some political observers shouting frump. 'There's no fingernail polish on the nails. There have been Senate sessions without even any lipstick. It's pushing it to the Janet Reno, Donna Shalala crowd,' opines Internet scribe Matt Drudge, who weighed in on Mrs. Clinton's style crisis in a recent column. 'Even Patty Murray is more glamorous than Hillary,' giggles Mr. Drudge, on the phone from his Miami newsroom." - Washington Times, 2/2/01 Three Stooges: Bill, Jesse Mel "Columnist Michelle Malkin blasts Clinton for commuting the sentence of former Rep. Mel Reynolds, who had two years to go in his prison sentence on a 1997 fraud conviction. Two years earlier an Illinois jury convicted Reynolds of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography. Earlier this week the New York Post's Rod Dreher reported that Jesse Jackson has hired Reynolds 'as a Rainbow/PUSH consultant for--are you ready for this?--prison reform!' Reynolds's old congressional seat is now held by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr." - OpinionJournal.com, 2/2/01 * Gipper's Stock Continues to Rise... "As the family of Ronald Reagan prepares to mark his 90th birthday Tuesday, 'the former president's stature and his influence in the capital seem to be growing rather than fading away,' USA Today reports. 'The national missile defense plan championed by the newly inaugurated President Bush? It's a version of an idea that Reagan unveiled to considerable skepticism. Partial privatization of Social Security? Reagan was hammered for hinting at the notion, now supported by most Americans. Welfare reform and the expanded use of religious institutions to provide social services? Reagan themes that were embraced by both presidential candidates last year,' reporter Susan Page writes. Presidential biographer Richard Norton Smith told the reporter: 'There is a growing perception of Reagan as an historically important president. There are legitimate debates about Reagan the administrator, but in terms of the large historic challenges he confronted, I suspect he'll only go up in
[CTRL] Fwd: What's Left of Israel's Left
Bet Ehud takes something of value with him - lots of diamonds .. maybe he can hire out as somebody's hit man again, but those who remember the assassination of the late Israelie leader - will think twice before loading up agains this Sharon, whom the Palestinians call "the fat slob". And this corner we have the one, the only, Potentate - Arafat - who survived to maybe write a book? ___ __ / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\ http://www.MiddleEast.Org News, Information, Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! * * * * * * * IF YOU DON'T GET MER, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISRAEL'S FRACTURED AND DEMORALIZED LEFT Israeli Prof Urges Blank Vote MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington, DC - 2/5/01: What's left of Israel's left is in a fractured and demoralized state of affairs. Not only is Ariel Sharon about to become Israel's Prime Minister, but in all likelihood he is to be swept into power tomorrow in a landslide unprecedented in Israel's history. Worse yet, many on the left are reduced to having General Barak and Shimon Peres as their champions. It's a cruel twist of fate; but it is also one that has been nurtured for decades now by the failure of Israel's left, coupled with "liberal" American Jewry, to come together and present a credible and principled alternative. For some on the left like Uri Avneri, they have been doing what they could to rally the vote for Barak and for Oslo. They've failed miserably. But then Avneri, while an insightful and even courageous journalist, has been largely discredited by his fronting for the Arafat regime no matter what, not to mention by his decades of building a reputation as someone not to be personally trusted. Indeed just some 20 months ago Avneri was jumping up and down cheering and partying upon the election of Ehud Barak and shouting how the era of peace had finally come. We've written before about the dark contrast between Avneri's energetic activism and his lack of personal integrity and credibility. For others on the left, like Professor Tanya Reinhart, integrity and credibility are high, but following very limited. Rather than cheering when Barak was elected, Reinhart was writing profound articles explaining that Barak had created a government of retired army generals and top intelligence agents; that Barak's policies were deceptively treacherous, dangerous, and that war clouds were already gathering. MER published many of those articles back in the days when applauding Barak and proclaiming the new era of peaceful relations between Israel, the Palestinians, and the Arabs was near universal in the major media. The likelihood is that the what's left of the left will be rejuvenated by the coming of Sharon. There will be articles, demonstrations, protests, dialogue meetings with Palestinians. But don't expect any of this to amount to very much very soon. The "BullDozer" (that's Sharon's latest nickname for those who may have forgotten) isn't going to be stopped by what's left of the left; a left which needs a total ideological as well as political facelift and makeover, not to mention a new champion. THE VOTE THAT CAN DECIDE Tanya Reinhart* [Yediot Aharonot - Feb 1, 2001]. Beneath the surface, there is deep anxiety in Israeli society: The media is full of reports of war preparations: "Home Front Command to stage 'mother of all exercises' " (JP, Jan 22); "Ministry tells purchasers to prepare for emergency" (Ha'aretz, Jan 25); "U.S. sends Patriot missiles s to Israel" (AP, Jan 27). The feared war is of a new and unfamiliar kind, as the region is loaded with missiles and nonconventional weapons. It is enough, for example, that one missile will manage to penetrate the nuclear plant in Dimona, despite all the defence patriot missiles to send us all to Chernoville. Even if no one seriously intends this, in the tension generated the last few months, even one single spark can ignite the whole region. Only a sane and responsible leadership will, perhaps, still be able to prevent the deterioration into a regional war. But the leadership standing for elections is the same leadership that brought us to this situation: Sharon has always proposed to withdraw from Lebanon, wait for some incident, and then respond with total war. Barak has left Lebanon, but he insisted on keeping areas of conflict, like Har Dov, or Ghajar, which continue to be a source of tension and potential incidents. Ever since 1967, all Israeli governments were careful to keep the holy sites (Temple Mount/ Al Aksa) out of the public discourse, and in collaboration with the Israeli
Re: [CTRL] Judicial Watch Will Work Closely With Attorney General Ashcroft
In a message dated 2/4/01 8:37:25 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Judicial Watch Will Work Closely With Attorney General Ashcroft Oh THAT'S a relief...NOT. Both JW and Ashcroft ought to be more thouroughly investigated...has Klayman sued any other family members recently?? Or did he stop with his mother... Bill.
[CTRL] Welcome to Overlawyered.com
-Caveat Lector- Interesting site with lots of good resource links. AKE http://www.overlawyered.com/ begin 666 Welcome to Overlawyered.com.url M6T1%1D%53%1=#0I"05-%55),/6AT=' Z+R]W=WN;W9EFQA=WEEF5D+F-O M;2\-"@T*6TEN=5R;F5T4VAOG1C=71=#0I54DP]:'1T#HO+W=W=RYO=F5R L;%W65R960N8V]M+PT*36]D:69I960]03 S1D-"1CY-SA0S P,3@X#0H` ` 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] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Unseen but Very Real Protests at Washington (off topic)
-Caveat Lector- June, I have heard this stated on TV news and commentary shows several times recently. I suppose I should have tried to recheck it myself and not just take them at their word but these were national shows, and I assumed they were at least accurate. Can you, from memory as it is not worth going to trouble, cite which party was in control of congress for these years? Maybe that is what they mean by "in charge." I believe Robert Novak has stated this and a lesser known Fox News guy, not as an item unto itself but in the course of a sentence about other things as "blah, blah since the Democrats have been in power most of the last 50 years, blah, blah." To me, that was the part I picked up on and would like to know about congress if you know and have time. Thanks. Also, I think the "owners" of the stable and the horses do at times try to undermine each other and bicker among themselves. It is all too true that this only results in different ways of enslaving the masses. I think at times the powers that be act in concert but at other times, without revealing themselves or the "system," thwart each other possibly because of uncontrollable greed for more money and power for their own individual interests. Sort of like the RuMills factions but I would probably align them slightly differently. In the end, we lose, they win. Exposure seems to be our best defense although not very effective. Amelia - Original Message - From: "Ynr Chyldz Wyld" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Unseen but Very Real Protests at Washington (off topic) -Caveat Lector- From: "Amelia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] One thing I do not understand is why people who otherwise seem to grasp the concept of the ruling elite seem to think keeping one side (Democrats) in power most of the last 50 years is such a good thing. Well now, let's look at the actual figures of the years the Administrations were either Democrat or Republican... DEMOCRATREPUBLICAN - - 1951-52: 3 years 1953-60: 8 years 1961-68: 8 years 1969-76: 8 years 1977-80: 4 years 1981-92: 12 years 1993-00: 12 years - -- 22 years28 years So one can see from the above that one can hardly claim that the Democrats were 'in power most of the last 50 years)... Not that it matters..."Democrat" and "Republican" are only names for the stables whose racehorses have the same owners... June 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
[CTRL] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Flags (was: Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger)
-Caveat Lector- June, Well, the Southern states were not the only states where the institution of slavery was practiced. I believe all states had it prior to TWBTS, some a few years back from that time/event. They cleverly sold theirs into the South just prior to the outbreak of the war. Some gave them letters of freedom but many just "dumped" them right before the outbreak of conflict. Also, remember the Emmmancipation Proclamation was not signed until 1864, after a state of general starvation existed in the South. Then the slaves were freed with no way to feed themselves, etc. other than trying to take from people who were already starving. This was careful timing to ensure maximum harm being done to all parties. Slavery is certainly a crime against humanity but all parties here were guilty of practicing it. So have many "civilizations" such as Egyptian, et al. But I do not care if you and Bill burn the Stars and Bars because if we were going to protest too much, something should have been done to stop the KKK from using it so much. They also use the American flag but nobody protests that either. I have seen other strange flags waved around by the KKK that I do not recognize, either. Some look rather "original" and I suspect are of their own design or lack thereof. It (SB) was not a design in the original state flags, either, but incorporated around the time of desegregation, so removing it should not create a big problem. In Montgomery, there is the former capitol of the Confederacy where it flies and people often mistakenly think it is the state capitol. I think it should remain over the historic capitol of the Confederacy, however. Someone on this list mentioned the KKK flag-wavers not being descendents of original slave owners and that is for sure. The KKK hates former slave-owning class and blames them for the presence of Blacks in general It never occurred to me that people do not realize this. They contend "We picked our own cotton and they could have , too." They are by-and-largely two different groups entirely. Of course having married a Latin American and failing to keep the race "pure" qualifies me for special hatred by this particular group. Guess they are not into widening of the gene pool and all of that. I know I live around some members of the KKK but they have shown any sign of being concerned about my presence in any way. Hopefully, it is me in theory and not personally to whom they object. Also, the SB often appears on beach towels and swimming trunks, etc as does the British Union Jack. This is not especially respectful display and has made it into more of an icon of trivia. Re: WWII and civilian populations. If it was collateral damage originally aimed at military targets, I suppose it could not be helped. If, however, civilians and human suffering of same was the object I think it was very wrong. I can think of one incident, Dresden, where this would apply. I am sleep depraved today and the "detail police" who ignore the big picture and concentrate on details may get me on this but my memory from reading long ago only says the civilian population of Dresden tried for three days to surrender and Allied troops ignored this attempt and bombed the hell out of them, retribution and rage. I think that was wrong, if accurate. More recently, the Balkans come to mind where some of our actions were highly questionable like the "enemy tractor" and train bombings. Amelia - Original Message - From: "Ynr Chyldz Wyld" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Flags (was: Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger) -Caveat Lector- From: "Amelia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] These things are considered war crimes by civilized people. Perhaps. But what about the crimes against humanity the Confederate States of America sought to perpetuate in the 'institution' of human slavery. The Allies burned much of Germany in WWII, also...including "homes, mostly, crops in fields, schools, churches, hospitals and every mile of railroad track existing at the time as well as all civilian food reserves"... Do you consider them guilty of war crimes, too? June 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
[CTRL] The Florida Overvote: Tragic Mistake, or Katharine Harris with Tweezers?
-Caveat Lector- The Florida Overvote: Tragic Mistake, or Katharine Harris with Tweezers? http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=1220 by Sharman Braff [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You say overvote, I say Katharine Harris with tweezers" (from a website I could not find again or I'd give credit). It is a crime that the Republican Party stopped the counting of Florida's 60,000 undervotes. But perhaps the real crime is in the overvote. There were 110,000 overvotes in Florida, ballots rejected because more than one choice was marked for president. Overwhelmingly, the spoiled ballots were Gore votes. It was the overvote, much more than the dangling and dimpled chads of undervote, that cost America the president we really elected. Did tens of thousands of voters screw up their ballots by mistake, or was the second hole punched by someone other than the voter? 1) Now it's official: Gore won by 50,000. But for the overvote, that is. Just six counties, Duval (22,000), Palm Beach (19,100), Miami-Dade (18,000), Broward (8,000), Hillsborough (5,000) and Pinellas (4,000), account for 76,000 of the overvotes. We'll call them the suspicious counties. [1] The Washington Post was able to secure computer records from the machine counts of all the suspicious counties except Duval, together with three other small counties. This is the first time we've been able to learn, not just how many overvotes there were and what precincts they came from, but specifically which candidates are marked on the double-punched ballots. The Post determined that 46,000 Gore votes were spoiled by double-punches, compared to 17,000 Bush votes. The article also reported that 5,800 overvotes showed punches for both Gore and Bush. If all the 5,800 Bush/Gore ballots were altered Gore votes, that's 46,000 spoiled Gore votes to 11,000 of Bush's. If you split that bunch 50/50, that's 43,000 Gore votes to 14,000 of Bush's. (I assume the 5,800 Bush/Gore ballots were included in the 46,000 and 17,000 totals. The numbers add up correctly (79,000 total with Duval)-see Footnote 1.) [2] The ratio of spoiled ballots ran more than 4:1 to Gore's detriment. If Duval's 22,000 overvotes went in approximately the same ratio (say, 18,000/4,000), that's 64,000 spoiled Gore votes to 15,000 for Bush. Almost 50,000 net. Remember the Miami-Herald's statistical analysis of the rejected ballots, which showed Gore winning by 23,000 votes? Al did much better than that. If you wanted to spoil 50,000 of your opponent's votes, you might also double-punch 15,000 of your own (then another 15,000 of his), to make the overvote look less suspicious. And tell me this, is there any other state in the country that saw 5,800 ballots marked for both Gore and Bush? 2) 76,000 is an extraordinarily high number for punchcard overvote The public now knows that many votes go uncounted in every election. But most rejected ballots are undervotes. Overvote is relatively rare, and it is particularly rare with punchcard ballots. All six of the suspicious counties use punchcard ballots. One expert put the normal rate for punchcard overvote at 0.1% of total ballots cast, [3] while another expressed the rate as 2% of total rejected ballots. [4] By either measure, one would expect only a few thousand such ballots out of Florida's 6,000,000 total. In the words of the two experts, Florida's punchcard overvote was "phenomenal," "outrageous." 3) However much the Republican Party tries to downplay the overvote numbers, no one disputes that the overvote in Duval (22,000) and Palm Beach (19,100) is remarkable. As the overvote anomalies came to light during the election contest, the Bush campaign spun a number of arguments to minimize its significance. A common ploy was to recite statistics about total rejected ballots, for example, comparing Palm Beach's 14,000 rejected ballots in 1996 (combined over and undervote) with its 19,100 overvotes in 2000. My personal favorite was the GOP chairman who cited the overvote in Duval, a Republican county, as proof that there was nothing suspicious about the overvote in Democratic Palm Beach. [5] (Duval is in fact Republican by majority. But it has a large black population in urban Jacksonville, which is-surprise-where the overvote came from.) No one really disputes that the overvote numbers in Duval and Palm Beach are extraordinary. This has been the subject of many a news report. And no one disputes that the rejected ballots came disproportionately from Democratic precincts. (And as the Washington Post now confirms, were overwhelmingly Gore votes.) In some black precincts, the spoilage rate ran as high as 30%. [6] But the public has been given an explanation for the unfortunate disenfranchisement of these voters: Confusing ballot designs, coupled with inexperienced and uneducated first-time voters. The get-out-the-vote effort (raising Afro-American participation in Florida's election from 10% in 1996 to 15% in 2000) was impressive, but tragically undermined by voter error. I
[CTRL] My Conclusions - Tenavision Publishing
-Caveat Lector- I really like this site and with my limited time today went all over it but could not find the name of the author. Is it deliberately anonymous or am I just missing it? Amelia - Original Message - From: "Kris Millegan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 1:09 PM Subject: [CTRL] My Conclusions - Tenavision Publishing -Caveat Lector- from: http://www.geocities.com/macroburst/program_power/MyConclusi ons.html Click Here: A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/macroburst/program_power/MyCo nclusions.html" My Conclusions/A - An interesting site. Many active links at site. 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
[CTRL] Brain Fingerprinting: A New Paradigm in Criminal Investigations
-Caveat Lector- Brain Fingerprinting: New Paradigm in Criminal Investigations http://www.brainwavescience.com/index.html Farwell Brain Fingerprinting is a revolutionary new technology for investigating crimes and exonerating innocent suspects, with a record of 100% accuracy in research on FBI agents, research with US government agencies, and field applications. The technology is proprietary and patented. Brain Fingerprinting fulfills an urgent need for government, law enforcement agencies, corporations, and individuals. Over a trillion dollars are spent annually on crime fighting worldwide. Brain Fingerprinting solves the central problem by determining scientifically whether a suspect has the details of a crime stored in his brain. It has received extensive media coverage around the world. The technology is fully developed and available for application. Executive Summary: http://www.brainwavescience.com/OnePageSummary004.htm For information on applying Brain Fingerprinting in law enforcement, investigations, and corporations: http://www.brainwavescience.com/FAQLawEnforcement001.htm For investment information or Investor Relations: http://www.brainwavescience.com/investor.htm Larry Farwell, PhD President Chief Scientist Brain Wave Science Human Brain Research Laboratory, Inc. Former Harvard Faculty Member Brain Wave Science Human Brain Research Laboratory, Inc. P.O. Box 176 Fairfield, IA 52556, USA Tel: (641) 469-5649 Fax: (208) 692-5884 To send email to us click here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity 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] RUSSIA HOSTS LARGEST HUMAN RIGHTS EVENT
-Caveat Lector- The following item first appeared in the Democracy News list of the National Edowment for Demcoracy [EMAIL PROTECTED]. RUSSIA HOSTS LARGEST HUMAN RIGHTS EVENT The All-Russian Extraordinary Congress in Defense of Human Rights was held on January 20-21 in Moscow. It was the largest human rights event in the history of Russia. The Congress was organized by representatives of major Russian human rights organizations, including the Andrei Sakharov Foundation, the Moscow Helsinki Group, Memorial, the "Za Prava Cheloveka" Foundation, the Glasnost Public Foundation, and the Glasnost Defense Foundation, in response to their concern that basic rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Russian constitution are under increasing threat. More than 1,000 human rights activists from throughout the Russian Federation took part, and a number of prominent Russian political figures addressed the Congress's plenary sessions. Among these were noted human rights activist, Duma Deputy and former Human Rights Ombudsman of the Russian Federation, Sergei Kovalyov; current Human Rights Ombudsman Oleg Mironov; and current Duma Deputy and chairman of the Yabloko political party, Grigorii Yavlinskii. articipants in the Congress divided into working groups to prepare resolutions on a variety human rights topics, including the Russian constitution, freedom of the press, the rights of entrepreneurs, citizens' right to information about the government, and the war in Chechnya. The Congress received financial support from a variety of Russian and foreign sources, including the Yabloko political party, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, and the Open Society Institute. The Congress was the subject of widespread coverage in the Russian media. Material on the congress is available at http://www.hro.org/ngo/congress. For further information on the Congress, or to receive copies of related articles from the Russian press, please contact John Squier, Program Officer for Russia and Ukraine at the National Endowment for Democracy, at John [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Tel: 202-293-9072. *---* CivilSoc is a service provided to more than 2,000 subscribers worldwide by Center for Civil Society International in association with Friends Partners. For more information about civic initiatives in Eurasia, please go to: http://www.friends-partners.org/ccsi/ CivilSoc archives: http://www.friends-partners.org/~ccsi/archives.htm There are no restrictions on copying messages. We only ask that you credit Center for Civil Society International, or CCSI, as the source. ___ CivilSoc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fpmail.friends-partners.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/civilsoc -- - * ENWL (English) * Ecological North West Line * St. Petersburg, Russia E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.enwl.net.ru --- __ 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 PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Bush: A place where political satirists dare not go
-Caveat Lector- Sunday, February 4, 2001 A place where political satirists dare not go By Karen Heller INQUIRER STAFF WRITER In the satirist's world, political correctness equals death. If politics in the new Bush order appears astonishingly genteel and bipartisan, this won't deter comics, cartoonists, pundits and post-prime-time jesters who circle elected officials like vultures regarding fresh kill. So it was not surprising when Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park - either the funniest people in television or the crassest, depending on your sensibility - announced that their live-action sitcom That's My Bush! would take weekly potshots at the First Family. The show, billed as a road-rage version of the Dick Van Dyke Show, is scheduled to debut on Comedy Central in the spring. "Our big thing that we're really excited about is the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara," Parker said last month, "because we're just going to find the two hottest . . . girls and make them always just about to make out for some reason." Well, no. Politicians are one thing. Politicians' children are another. In short order, executives at Comedy Central, owned by Viacom and AOL Time Warner, received a barrage of incensed calls from corporate, Viacom's Washington lobbyist, and watchdog groups, though not the White House. And a very short while later, four weeks to be exact, Stone and Parker retrenched. "If we felt creatively that we needed them in, we would fight it," Parker said. "It's just not something worth fighting." "We aren't comfortable with them being in the show," Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox said about the 19-year-old college freshmen. "There's some question about their status as public figures." President George W. Bush has already made that clear. His daughters, who appeared at the inauguration, are not public figures. They did not campaign. They have not, and will not, speak publicly, following in the tradition of the sphinxlike Chelsea Clinton, who appeared everywhere without uttering a sound. "I am going to be angry at people mistreating my girls in the public arena. I'm going to let people know if they do, too," the President has said. The majority of the press, though not the tabloids, has agreed to honor his wishes to be "respectful of these two girls." Jay Leno, Dave Letterman and Saturday Night Live's Will Ferrell have been content to focus exclusively on their father. Laura Bush, unlike her predecessor, has also been exempted from their barbs. Presidential progeny stumble into celebrity through the accident of birth and, for the most part, have been left alone to lead fairly private public lives, Alice Roosevelt Longworth and John Kennedy being two notable exceptions. Some presidential children, such as the logorrheic Patti Davis/Reagan and Dolley Madison's alcoholic, inveterate-gambler son, John Payne Todd, embarrassed their parents on their own. Margaret Truman sang at White House recitals, and was reviewed savagely. Her father made it clear, in language unprintable here, what he would do to these critics and banned them from the premises. During the Vietnam War, Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl ridiculed the conservative daughters of Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. Saturday Night Live skewered Amy Carter, as did many cartoonists, after her father said he had discussed the threat of nuclear war with her. "Gentility has little to do with political cartooning. I remember [cartoonist] Mike Peters making fun of poor little Amy," says Ohio State University professor Lucy Shelton Caswell, a historian of political cartoons. "In some ways, maybe the Amy Carter situation provided some lessons." For all the viciousness in politics during the last decade, humor was often kinder. The most dominant comedian of the Clinton era was the apolitical Jerry Seinfeld, whose favorite subject of ridicule is himself. Despite the public airing and tensions of the adult Reagan children, they were largely left alone. But early in the Clinton presidency, SNL poked fun at adolescent Chelsea's appearance, and Rush Limbaugh was merciless, inviting the wrath of her mother. In June 1998, Sen. John McCain made a malicious joke at Chelsea's expense at a Republican fund-raiser. The satire backfired. "You ought to assail the wicked and powerful, not the weak and innocent," says Randy Cohen, a former writer for David Letterman and the Ethicist columnist for the New York Times. "Another, you attack what is volitional, not something about which the subject had no choice. You can attack Henry Kissinger for being a blood-soaked war criminal - something he chose to do - but not for being less than a handsome man, something about which he had no say." Cohen adds: "More to the point, private citizens, even a president's kids, ought to be allowed to remain private citizens. Unless
[CTRL] Newspaper studies confirm Democrat Gore won Florida vote
-Caveat Lector- World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : North America : US Politics Newspaper studies confirm Democrat Gore won Florida vote By Patrick Martin 5 February 2001 Two newly published studies of the ballots cast in the US presidential election confirm that Democrat Al Gore was the choice of more Florida voters than Republican George W. Bush, who was installed as president after an unprecedented and anti-democratic intervention by the US Supreme Court. One study was conducted by the Washington Post, the other by Tribune Co., which owns the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel, and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. The Post endorsed Gore editorially in the November election, while the Tribune endorsed Bush. The Post reviewed computerized records of 2.7 million votes in eight of Florida's largest counties to examine the pattern of the so-called overvotes, those ballots on which computer scanners or other vote-counting machines detected votes for more than one presidential candidate and discarded the ballots as invalid. The newspaper did not recount individual ballots, but relied on reports from county officials based on machine tabulation of the invalid ballots. The analysis found that of the more than 60,000 ballots in the eight counties showing overvotesthe bulk of the statewide totalGore's name was marked on 46,000, while Bush was marked on only 17,000. This includes several thousand ballots in which both Gore and Bush were marked. The 3-1 Democratic to Republican ratio among the overvotes was confirmed in the analysis of other votes cast by those voters further down the ballot. Three quarters of those who improperly cast a presidential overvote marked their ballots correctly for US senator. Of these, 70 percent voted for Democrat Bill Nelson, only 24 percent for Republican Bill McCollum, while 6 percent voted for third-party candidates. The nearly 30,000-vote margin for Gore among the overvotes dwarfs the 537 votes which was Bush's official margin of victory in Florida. On the basis of that minuscule and highly dubious number, the Republican-controlled state government, headed by his brother, Governor Jeb Bush, awarded him the state's 25 electoral votes and a four-vote margin in the Electoral College nationally. The eight counties examined by the Post included Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Broward (Fort Lauderdale), Pinellas (St. Petersburg), Hillsborough (Tampa), Marion (Ocala), Highlands and Pasco. Four of these counties went for Gore and four for Bush. The pattern of more overvotes for Gore prevailed in all the counties, however, regardless of who won the county overall. The notorious butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County accounted for 8,000 of the Gore overvotes, most of them double votes for Gore and far-right Reform Party candidate Patrick Buchanan, who was listed across from Gore on the ballot, with his punch-hole close to the names of Gore and Lieberman. Gore-Buchanan voters in Palm Beach County voted 10-1 Democratic in the US Senate race. In the other seven counties, the largest group of overvotes were for Gore and the candidate who followed immediately after him on the ballot, Libertarian Harry Browne. Such a combination is incomprehensible as a protest vote, especially one supposedly chosen by 6,800 voters. It more likely reflects confusion among voters who thought they had to cast votes for president and vice-president. Confirming the notion that the overvotes were largely intended for Gore is the fact that most of the third-party candidates on the ballot for president received more votes paired with Gore as overvotes than they did in their own right. In the eight counties, Socialist Workers Party candidate James Harris received a total of 300 votes, but his name was punched 12,600 times on ballots with Gore, Bush or another presidential candidate42 inadvertent votes for each intentional vote. The Republican head of the Florida Division of Elections, Clay Roberts, dismissed the Post analysis with an argument of stupefying cynicism, claiming that overvotes were intentional political choices. People who are engaged in politics can't understand why people would overvote, he said. But there are valid reasons for undervotes and overvotes. For some voters, that undervote or overvote is their decision. The Post also found more than 15,000 voters in the eight counties who cast no recorded votes for any office or referendum. This suggests widespread difficulty with voting equipment, or major errors in the computerized count, or both, since it is impossible to believe that so many people turned out at the polls, many of them waiting hours in line, only to cast a blank ballot. The Tribune Co. study examined ballots in 15 smaller countiesnot including any of the eight in the Post studythat used paper ballots that were marked in pencil and then read by optical scanners. While much public attention has been given to the punch card ballots that proved
[CTRL] (Fwd) Day to Remember Leonard * Feb. 6 * 25 Years of Unjust Imprisonment
-Caveat Lector- Post Cassini Flyby News Editor - Jonathan Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O. Box 1999 Wendell Depot, MA 01380 USA Re: http://www.bartjordan.com 05 February 2001 This Tuesday marks the 25th year of the unjust imprisonment of Leonard Peltier. Please respond to this injustice by contacting Congress and asking your Representative to investigate inappropriate actions by the FBI and the Prosecution in the case of Leonard Peltier. The telephone number to reach the Congressional Switchboard is (202)224-3121. Specifically ask your Representative for help in the declassification of the 6000 documents pertaining to the Peltier case still being withheld by the FBI. Supporters believe these documents contain evidence that will further expose misconduct in the gaining of Leonard Peltier's conviction. Their disclosure, they say, could lead to Peltier's acquittal. 12,000 FBI documents were released in the early 1980's pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Among them was a ballistic test reflecting Peltier's innocence and prompting the Eighth Circuit to conclude: "There is a possibility that the jury would have acquitted Leonard Peltier had the records and data improperly withheld from the defense been available to him in order to better exploit and reinforce the inconsistencies casting strong doubts upon the government's case." == == = From: Paul D Burton, 103125,320 To: Jonathan Mark, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, Jan 29, 2001 5:16:12 PM RE: Letter from Cong. John W. Olver Jonathan here is text of letter Olver sent me I've misplaced the original letter but I think the date was 1/24 or 1/25. I think it shows we are having an impact and Olver knows LP has a lot of supporters in our region. We should get R. Neal to get on board and check with Boston LPSG re: other Mass Congressmembers who could present a united front in the effort re: declassification of documents, hearings, etc. Also called Kennedy and Kerry several times over the last two months but got no written response. .. Dear Paul Thank you for contacting me with your support for the plight of Leonard Peltier. As you are aware, prominent human rights activists and government officials have called for a retrial and even amnesty for Leonard Peltier. I fear that due to the chaotic nature of the moment and radically different perspectives of those involved, we may never know the truth about what happened the day two FBI agents were killed in Oglala. What is clear is that the circumstances surrounding Mr. Peltier's conviction reflect very badly on the FBI, and should not be tolerated in a free and equitable society. Though I respect the feelings of law enforcement officials after losing two of their comrades, I am extremely disturbed by the tactics they used to secure his conviction. I also believe that the political lobbying campaign that the FBI has undertaken to ensure that Peltier stays in jail is entirely inappropriate. Sadly, Mr. Peltier has lost his appeals and is left to await either a presidential pardon, or a parole hearing in 2009. Please know that I am sympathetic to your concerns. I have lobbied the Justice Department in the past on behalf of Mr. Peltier, and I will continue to look for any opportunity to address the inequities highlighted by his case with your views in mind. Thank you again for your correspondence. Please feel free to contact my office if vou have any further questions or concerns Sincerely, John W. Olver Member of Congress End Forwarded Message STATEMENT BY LEONARD PELTIER Greetings Friends and Supporters: January 20, 2001, was a sad day for all of us. I know that this denial of clemency has affected many of you as much as it has affected both my family and myself. It is a terrible feeling and disappointment knowing that this nightmare has not ended and will continue for many months to come. When I received the news, I felt my stomach curl and a feeling of nausea rolled over me. It took a while for me to refocus. For some reason I had thought I might be having dinner with my family that night. It was an especially disappointing day for all of us. What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. For eight years he ignored my clemency petition despite the major campaign that was waged. Then, just months before leaving office he publicly promised to make a decision on my case, one way or the other. He said he was aware of its importance. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied. The LPDC bought me clothes, my grandson prepared his bedroom for me to sleep in and other
Re: [CTRL] Global Warming Map now on the web
-Caveat Lector- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Global Warming Map now on the web Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:08:19 -0800 (PST) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; This Announcement is posted via the EdGateway EE Electronic Newswire. Funded through EETAP, it is presented as a service of WestEd and of the North American Association for Environmental Education. Global Warming: Early Warning Signs Map is a poster-sized map of the world, which illustrates global climate change. It includes global warming Fingerprints (places with direct manifestations of widespread and long-term trend toward warmer global temperatures) and global warming Harbingers (events that foreshadow the types of impacts likely to beomce more frequent and widespread with continued warming). In addition to viewing the entire global map, you can click on individual continents to explore the current local indicators of global warming. The map was produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists with 6 other environmental groups. The website also includes a link to a Curriculum Guide to use with the global map. The guides consists of four different activities that can be downloaded using Adobe acrobat. The site also contains a link to the findings from the first US National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. All of these can be accessed at: http://www.climatehotmap.org. If you have information of interest to environmental educators that you would like posted, please contact Art Sussman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas R. Hudspeth Environmental Program and School of Natural Resources, University of Vermont 153 S. Prospect St., Burlington, VT. 0540l (802) 656-4055 FAX: (802) 656-8015 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ 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 PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [radtimes] # 146
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 146 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- How to assist RadTimes-- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --FBI believes remains are missing atheist leader, family members --Going Backwards: US Support for Latin America's Armed Forces Soaring --Tao Of Gun --History Says Eradicating Drug Crops Doomed to Failure --No Human Cloning -- Exploratory Initiative Bulletin #1 --Davos - State of war --When Davos Meets Porto Alegre: A Memoir --Broken Promises === FBI believes remains are missing atheist leader, family members By JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press CAMP WOOD, Texas (January 28, 2001 http://www.nandotimes.com - Investigators unearthed a metal artificial hip and three skulls at a ranch Sunday, and strongly believe they have found the grave of atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair and two family members. Roderick Beverly, special agent in charge of the FBI's San Antonio office, stopped short of confirming the identity of the bodies, but he said officials believe the nearly 6-year-old mystery is over. Investigators believe O'Hair, her son Jon Garth Murray and the granddaughter she had adopted, Robin Murray O'Hair, were killed, dismembered and dumped on the private, 5,000-acre ranch in 1995. O'Hair had a hip replacement operation several years before her disappearance. "The bones indicate three sets of human remains," Beverly said. "All appeared to have their legs cut off. The remains and the ground around the bones were charred, indicating a fire at the scene. "The likelihood of three individuals walking around here, one of which has a hip replacement, and the trauma and marks we see on the bones, it's a better than even chance" that the remains belong to the O'Hair family, he said. Beverly said investigators also expect to find partial remains of Danny Fry, who was a suspect in the family's disappearance. His body was found in the Dallas area, but the head and hands had been severed. Beverly said they expected to finish digging by dark Sunday. Beverly said investigators would try to match the serial number on the metal hip to O'Hair's medical records. DNA tests and dental records also will be used to confirm the identities of the victims. David Glassman, a forensic anthropologist at Southwest Texas State University, will take the remains to the university for analysis. Autopsies could take a week to 10 days. As law enforcement officers came and went through the ranch gate Sunday, a man walked down the road pulling an 8-foot wooden cross. "I'm not doing it for her, I'm doing it for her family," said Bob Hanus, 35, a self-described Christian missionary. "I said, 'What better place to go and pray.'" Investigators got their break in the O'Hair disappearance on the eve of the trial of David Roland Waters, who faced kidnapping and extortion charges in the case. Waters made an agreement with investigators Wednesday that was ordered sealed by a federal judge in Austin. A law enforcement source who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity confirmed that Waters was taken to the ranch Saturday. His two lawyers also were present. A hearing is scheduled Monday to hear objections from The Associated Press on the judge's decision to seal the agreement. Waters' attorneys had made the request. O'Hair, who was 77 and suffered from diabetes and heart disease when she disappeared, enjoyed calling herself the most hated woman in America. She was involved in successful court battles in the 1960s to ban prayer and Bible-reading in public schools. O'Hair, Jon Garth Murray and Robin Murray O'Hair left their Austin home in August 1995 under mysterious circumstances. Breakfast dishes were still on the table and O'Hair's medication was left behind. The family's beloved dogs were left at the house. They were later seen in San Antonio but dropped from sight along with about $500,000 in gold coins from one of O'Hair's atheist organizations. Prosecutors contend the victims were dismembered at a public storage shed in Austin, placed in 55-gallon drums and dumped on the ranch property under Waters' directions. He worked as O'Hair's office manager before being convicted of stealing $54,000. He is serving 60 years in prison on weapons charges. Last August, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks sentenced Gary Paul Karr, 52, a former jailmate of Waters, to life in prison for extorting money from the O'Hair
[CTRL] EBay: Air Force 1 China
-Caveat Lector- Airforce 1 Pikard China Clinton Presidential Item #550438531 Collectibles:Memorabilia:General Currently $81.00 (reserve met) First bid $25.00 Quantity 1 # of bids 3 bid history Time left 2 days, 7 hours + Location West Texas Country USA Started Jan-27-01 20:11:06 PST mail this auction to a friend Ends Feb-06-01 20:11:06 PST watch this item Seller (Rating) abuela4 (110) view comments in seller's Feedback Profile | view seller's other auctions | ask seller a question High bid [EMAIL PROTECTED] (36) Payment Visa/MasterCard, Discover, Money Order/Cashiers Checks, Personal Checks, See item description for payment methods accepted Escrow Accepted. Buyer will pay for escrow. learn more Shipping Buyer pays fixed shipping charges, Seller ships internationally (worldwide), See item description for shipping charges Item Revised Before First Bid To review revisions made to this item by the seller, click here. Seller assumes all responsibility for listing this item. You should contact the seller to resolve any questions before bidding. Auction currency is U.S. dollars ($) unless otherwise noted. Description Up for auction is this Pikard China ashtray. This set of china was ordered by Hillary Clinton for Airforce 1. This is the real thing, not from the hanger gift shop. I have another piece, a bowl, and a "Member US Congress" wine bowl to listed in the near future. I guarentee authenticity of these pieces. There is a gold ring around the outside of the blue that did not show well in the picture. This is in excellent condition and has never been used. I ship Priority Mail with a fixed rate of $5.50. This includes insurance. OVERSEAS will be more. I take major credit cards through PayPal. Personal checks take 7-10 days to clear. On Jan-27-01 at 20:13:39 PST, seller added the following information: I accept PayPal, the #1 payment service in online auctions! I am proud of what I sell and leave feedback upon receipt of payment. Thank you for looking and please view the other fine collectibles I have listed this week Bidding Airforce 1 Pikard China Clinton Presidential Item #550438531 Current bid: $81.00 (reserve met) Bid increment: $1.00 Your maximum bid: (Minimum bid: $82.00) = 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] Fwd: U.S. government revises HIV treatment guidelines
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Re: [CTRL] Clinton's travel left military overextend
-Caveat Lector- So ahwho was the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF? -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Prudence L. Kuhn Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 7:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Clinton's travel left military overextend -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 02/05/2001 6:14:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Top military officers have expressed concern that an excessive number of military cargo planes were required to take former President Clinton and his large entourage last year to India, Vietnam and other distant places. Top Stories These officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the Air Force Air Mobility Command's ability was perilously stretched to supply airlifts for exercises, as well as troop deployments in the Persian Gulf, South Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo and South Korea. This is a really strange admission. For our Air Force to be so "unready" demonstrates that their planning, operations and logistics are way below standard. A simple thing such as presidential travel should serve only as a kind of "maneuver" or exercise. This kind of admission is worrisome, and has nothing to do with funding. It has to do with poor management. The higher ranked individuals in the military have been less than we might wish for a long time, but this strange thing is scarey. This is the Air Force that is going to protect us on two fronts, and it cannot handle a few deployments and a presidential travel requirement. This country is in big trouble, and it has nothing to do with Clinton's travel requirements. It sounds as if the brass is spending too much time and money on the golf courses, and too little time and attention on mission. 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 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: Final Poll - Monday Night 5 February 2001 Sharon 56% Barak 37%]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: Final Poll - Monday Night 5 February 2001 Sharon 56% Barak 37% Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:45:08 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Final Poll - Monday Night 5 February 2001Sharon 56% Barak 37% Aaron LernerDate: 5 February 2001 The following is a Dahaf Poll of a representative sample of adult Israelis (both Jews and Arabs) on the evening of 5 February broadcast on Channel 2 Television at 10:10 PM INCLUDES ONLY THOSE WHO SAY THEY ARE CERTAIN TO VOTE: 5 February 2001 Barak 37% Sharon 56% Undecided/No reply 7% 4 February 2001 Barak 38% Sharon 56% Undecided/No reply 6% 1 February 2001 Barak 35% Sharon 56% Undecided/No reply 9% Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review Analysis) (mail POB 982 Kfar Sava) Tel 972-9-7604719/Fax 972-3-548-0092 INTERNET ADDRESS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pager 03-6750750 subscriber 4811 Website: http://www.imra.org.il IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis Website: www.imra.org.il For free regular subscription: Subscribe at no charge: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For free daily digest subscription: Subscribe at no charge: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For a copy of all reports distributed for a given day please send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: {slick-d} Fwd: Child Porn, Ecstasy,and Pardons [ADV2-3-01]
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From: "Aleisha Saba" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: 04 February 2001 15:57
Subject: [CTRL] Fwd: {slick-d} Fwd: Child Porn, Ecstasy, and Pardons
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you are not meant to be posting hate literature on this list- it is foul.
". Proselytizing propagandic
screeds are unwelcomed"
doesn't this posting come under that?
just in first couple of paragraphs the true subtext emerges.
here,
GOD Bless the poor Children.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
here, where the creed is of no context but it is mentioned
. The Jewish boss
of the news department of the government-owned television network
here the distinction of race is made. why? it implies that it is worse to be
killing white kids?
. Can you imagine anything more
horrible than kidnapping White children
here,
the Jews who run the business
here, another hate lie
. But
homosexuals make up the majority of the paying customers
and it goes on and on and on.
saba is a hatemonger and should not be sending this shit to the list- is it
not against the rules?
Saba is a very special person. She is the poster girl for Mad Cow disease.
She is permitted to write her nonsense and be a shining example to others
with many worm holes in their brains. This gives then hope.
It's a beautiful thing.
Joshua2
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[CTRL] They Love Us: The Anti-Libertarian Press
-Caveat Lector- What a bunch of uadulterated crap. Talk about puffing up. The very BEST thing about Libertarians is that they are so irrelevant. They don't even show up in political poles. Because Libertarians are essentially anti democratic, they will never get a majority backing. This is the second best thing about Liberatrians. I love Libertarians. They are so obnoxiously cute. Joshua2 = kl wrote: -Caveat Lector- They http://www.lewrockwell.com/delemos/delemos11.html They Love Us: The Anti-Libertarian Press by Michael Gilson De Lemos Libertarians see a certain amount of crazy press. That goes with the territory if you seem new, are refining your message, and take on the dark side of social institutions. The system will alternately say your message is crazy, marginal, not new. Youll be identified with those you oppose. Youll be blamed for every ill. Your triumphs will be blandly ascribed to others. Others inanities will be ascribed on you. Youll be a social Rorschach Blot test. Well-meaning people will latch on to a portion of your message, and on the rest unwittingly project provincial ignorance, foolishness, or fear. Things ho-hum for others, associated with you, are scandals. Aristotle had a technical term for this in his political theory. He called it: "Thats life in the big city." Still, Libertarians have noticed loony rhetoric and well-meaning mangled explanations reaching new levels with strident attacks and smears by establishment and government-licensed media. Libertarians are being shot at, big time. The reason? While many newer Libertarians are unclear on what Libertarians have accomplished, the Establishment is very aware that Libertarians were key players in every major positive development in the last generation. From the collapse of the Soviet Union to the fact that it must now figure out how to control 200 TV stations and the internet (instead of 4 well-behaved networks and home presses), the Establishment views Libertarians as a headache at best harbingers of an uncontrollable new era at worst. While a prominent Republican politico stated he felt Libertarians were the shock troops of a the second phase of the American Revolution, the question in his mind was not whether Libertarians would endure. It was whether either Libertarians would be a large third force in two generations or the militant second party facing a last ditch union of the shattered major ones. Like Waiting for Godot, another admitted, uncertain policymakers are now "Waiting for the Libertarians." What can they make of Libertarian Governor Bush advisor like Dr. Randall Holcombe saying Libertarians have won the war of ideas? Libertarians must coolly realize growing attacks are a positive development, and refocus on their strengths and positive contributions. That is what it means to be a profound moral discipline and international social-political movement not just against international war, but that silent and demeaning war of citizen against citizen built on the obsolete and dying institution of coercive, non-rights based government. And that is why were seeing, now in one week, near-identical attacks from Right and Left, with frantic associations of Libertarians with every ill created by the government and its pet "necessary" monopolies and rah-rah foundations even as Libertarians are dismissed as minor irritants. The day is still to come when unless a Libertarian inspector is there, the public will know the alleged privatization, deregulation or rights-restoration is a fraud. Thus, in the last week, three amazing anti-Libertarian articles. Well see more. From the populist-Right Liberty Lobby, Libertarians are not only blamed for the energy crisis in California, about whose phony privatization Libertarians actually sounded the alarm, but magnified as conspirators of titanic economic collapse that would make James Bond envious. From the Left Village Voice, an attack that says the exact same thing, in denouncing Libertarian anarchists (yay!) who will Godzilla- like destructively control (huh?) one-third of the U.S land mass via the Interior Department. The local-communitarian Left suddenly loves distant bureaucracy when Libertarians annoyingly sympathize with Indian and local eco-claims to "government" lands Both identify Libertarians with coercive government-sweetheart crony-capitalists who, often, are actually Democratic Contributors. More: In a third article, officials unaware of their superiors new line that Libertarians are now the powerful, sinister destroyers controlling the US economy, dismiss Libertarians as "inconsequential crackpots" especially when their politicians defect. Libertarians have no shadowy agenda, merely one a decadent society has trouble grasping. Libertarians message is simple. Government is an auto-toxic institution, reinforcing the petty thievery people
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- Ynr Chyldz Wyld wrote: -Caveat Lector- From: "Theodor Parada, MD" [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are such an idiot. You are starting to rival Saba in your stupidity. Unlike the Arctic, the Antarctic ice is mostly on solid land. Whet it melts it becomes additional water running down to the sea. I REALLY hope you are not a doctor for humans or pets. Joshua2 LOL!! Then have them prove it mathematically, they won't be able to. What's to "prove", mathematically or otherwise? Common sense would tell you that when LAND-BASED ice melts off of bedrock, the runoff would cause a rise in sea level. June I don't believe that this guy is a doctor. I wouldn't want him writing a script for me. Would you? J2 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] George W. - you don't have to be Jewish.
-Caveat Lector- George W. said to an aide. "I gotta see what all this Jewish stuff is about." So off they went to a kosher restaurant. The first course was set in front of them: Matzo ball soup. George W. was grossed out and hesitant to taste this strange looking brew. Gently, the aide said, "Just have a taste. If you don't like it, you don't have to finish it." George W. dug in, spooning up a small piece of matzo ball with some soup, and quickly finishing it off the entire bowl and all of the matzo ball. "That was delicious," George W. said. "Do they eat any other parts of the Matzo, or just the balls? 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] Support Your Local Faith-based Capitalist!
-Caveat Lector- Support Your Local "Faith-based" Capitalist! http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010205faithbased.html Confessional Press Release: Greed is good. God is good. Greed is God. Viola! by David Stewart Dedicated to George W. Bush, MBA, a man who understands the business of being President. Feb. 5, 2001 (APJP) -- We humbly confess that we have been bad, very bad, and hereby renounce our Satanic works of political satire directed against the Bush campaign over the past eight months. May our Corporate Masters and God, we can no longer tell them apart, have mercy on our souls. We have finally understood that when we believed America was a democracy we were as pathetic as when we believed it was a republic. America is neither; it is a Capitalist. Incorporated. Writ hugely for the jealous world to envy. The only important political principle worth going to war over is that what's profitable today can be made even more profitable tomorrow, with a little streamlined workmanship or service, or thriftier materials, or job exporting, or corporate downsizing. In Election 2000, the Supreme Court did not rob Al Gore of the Presidency. The Supreme Court protected Al Gore from himself and his rabble of economic hillbillies intent on blocking a $1,800,000,000,000,000,000 tax cut and thus preventing the highly compassionate redistribution of wealth back to corporations and the rich from whence it came. After a recent discussion with our own corporate taskmasters, a discussion during which, in the fashion of George W. Bush, we looked into one other's hearts, we came to realize that our Beloved Employer needs Hard Ass Republicans in charge of the World in order to operate profitably and still have enough to pay us our hourly wage. Furthermore, when Clinton and the other godless Democrats were in power, not only did labor unions, those enemies of the people and of peaceful capitalist society, begin threatening to organize workers over just-take-the-pain medical benefits but consumers started getting uppity with anti-trust, anti-tobacco, anti-tread-separation, and other anti-discomfort lawsuits. Such frivolousness cost business billions of dollars that could have been used to pay bonuses to upper management. To demonstrate our absolute support for all things corporate, we now donate all of our Saturdays to Corporate Faith-based Workfare, a George W. Bush program designed to clear the rolls of Corporate Welfare, smoke two packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day, wear a "Joe Camel is Kool for Kids" t-shirt around town, and refuse to drive on any tires but Firestones, which, we might add, are a pretty good buy at the moment. The bottom line? We believe George W. Bush, Vice President Cheney, Attorney General Ashcroft, that Commerce Secretary guy, and all those other kick-ass Republicans will soon put the whiners and complainers in their place and God back in business. We plea with anyone who obtained a copy of our blasphemous BUSH COUP D'ETAT jpeg to make certain no children see it and then to obliterate the electrons from which it is made, disposing of them permanently so that they do not contaminate anyone else's thinking as they did ours. Support Your Local Faith-based Capitalist! 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] British Study - Working mothers 'damage childrens education'
-Caveat Lector- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000143789351982rtmo=psQeNb1e atmo=pg=/et/01/2/4/nma04.html ISSUE 2081 Sunday 4 February 2001 Working mothers 'damage childrens education' By Martin Bentham, Social Affairs Correspondent Institute for Social and Economic Research - Essex University British Household Panel Survey - ISER Working Mother National Family and Parenting Institute AllAboutParents.com Parents Online Parent News CHILDREN under five whose mothers work go on to achieve exam results inferior to those whose mothers stay at home, according to the latest research measuring differences in achievement between siblings with separate upbringings. The study, by Essex University, found that for every year that a mother works before her child starts school, the prospects of gaining at least one A-level fall by as much as nine per cent. The greatest impact is felt when the mother works full-time. But the research shows that even part- time employment during a child's pre-school years is detrimental to its academic prospects. The study calls into question the Government's strategy of pressuring mothers to go back to work and will add weight to those who argue that they should be given greater encouragement to stay at home with their children. It states: "There is strong evidence of an adverse effect of a mother's full-time employment on her children's probability of achieving one A-level or more. "The effect ranges between a seven and nine per cent lower probability. There is also evidence of a negative effect on education of the mother's part-time employment, but this is smaller in magnitude." The findings, which are drawn from an analysis of families taking part in the Government-funded British Household Panel Survey, are significant because they have been reached by measuring differences in achievement between siblings whose mothers worked during the childhood of one but not the other. That means that the only variant in the children's upbringing is the amount of time which their mother spent with them. By contrast, previous research, which has tended to suggest that children benefit from their mothers working, has compared the performance of children from different familiies. This has allowed other factors, such as the mother's social class and educational background, to distort any assessment of how a child performs in later life. John Ermisch, the professor of economics at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Essex University and co-author of the study, said his research suggested that the Government's approach of pushing women back to work was wrong. He said: "For every extra year that the mother worked there was a reduction of seven to nine percentage points in the probability of getting an A-level. That's a big difference." Professor Ermisch said that the negative impact of working upon children was less for highly educated mothers, probably because they could afford high-quality childcare. There was also limited evidence that raising the family income could help children. This was the case, however, only where there was a significant long- term increase in income. For most women, the extra money could not compensate for their absence. He said: "If you are only pushing women into jobs at McDonald's then you may not be doing anybody any good, particularly the kids." -- Q: Why are French highways lined with trees? A: The German army likes to march in the shade. 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] Bush Turns Grey
-Caveat Lector- Since taking office, Bush's hair has suddenly turned grey. Usually it takes several years for a President's hair to turn Grey. Some, like Ronald Regan, never turn grey. Did Bush dye his hair grey? Is the stress getting to him sooner than usual for a President. Or is he beginning to shape-shift into some type of strange Reptilian being? Steve 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] Times Report Shows Why Chinagate Must Be Ashcroft's Top Priority
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/2/5/114228 .. Monday, Feb. 5, 2001 12:42 p.m. EST Times Report Shows Why Chinagate Must Be Ashcroft's Top Priority With the ascension of John Ashcroft to the attorney general's spot, suddenly long-dormant investigations seem to be heating up again. After years of stalling, U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District Mary Jo White has finally indicted Ron Carey, the former Teamsters Union president who was booted out two years ago amidst charges of corruption. More intriguing still is Sunday's report in the Washington Post suggesting that Justice Department officials have developed a new round of questions for suspected Chinese nuclear spy Wen Ho Lee. On the same day, the New York Times recapped some of the evidence against Lee, in an article so dauntingly long that many readers no doubt skipped it. But for those who presumed Dr. Lee was more or less framed by the FBI in the wake of U.S. District Judge James Parker's apology last year for imprisoning him unjustly, the report was a real eye-opener. Though the probe never turned up smoking-gun evidence that Lee spied for Beijing, his behavior over the course of the last two decades raises questions that Attorney General Ashcroft simply can't ignore. The curious incidents reported by the Times include: Lee's attempts to foil the FBI's "Operation Tiger Trap," a 1982 probe that had targeted a suspected Chinese spy at California's Lawrence Livermore laboratory. Out of the blue, Lee turned up on tapes of the suspect's wiretapped phone calls. He was offering his compromised colleague help in learning just who had "squealed" on him. Lee later denied making the call. When probers confronted him with the tapes, he changed his story. In 1994 Lee turned up, completely uninvited, at a Los Alamos meeting between top-level U.S. and Chinese nuclear scientists. Dr. Hu Side, Beijing's leading nuclear bomb development expert, was among the select group invited to the exclusive conclave. "We had very tight controls on access," one laboratory official told the Times. "The door was closed. The session was not advertised." Still, somehow, Lee found out about the meeting, showed up, and was warmly received by Dr. Hu. One of those present told the Times he was shocked that the relatively obscure Lee, who was actually on the verge of being laid off due to lab budget cuts at the time, seemed to have a personal relationship with China's chief nuclear scientist. A translator on hand during the encounter between Lee and the Beijing bombmaker remembered key details of the conversation. "They were thanking him because the computer software and calculations on hydrodynamics that [Lee] provided them have helped China a great deal," he told another lab official interviewed by the Times. Lee never told his superiors that he had met Dr. Hu six years earlier while on a trip to Beijing. Shortly after Lee's Los Alamos reunion with Hu, American intelligence officials learned that the Chinese had made startling progress in miniaturizing their nuclear weapons. "It's like they were driving a Model T and went around the corner and suddenly had a Corvette," one scientist told the Times. In 1996, the FBI opened a secret investigation into Wen Ho Lee, but the Clinton Justice Department didn't make it a top priority. The case was passed from one agent to another like an unwanted stepchild, while the bureau pursued other investigations deemed more important by Washington officials. Due to the lack of focus, investigators never searched the suspected scientist's computer. They believed they lacked the authority to do so. But that presumption turned out to be wrong. Lee had signed a waiver in 1995 that would have permitted such a search. Meanwhile, allegations tying the Clinton campaign finance scandal to China's quest for U.S. military technology erupted. Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung testified in 1998 that the daughter of a Chinese military official sought him out and arranged a meeting with the chief of Chinese military intelligence. "We like your president. We want to see him re-elected," Gen Ji Shengde told Chung over dinner, before pledging $300,000 to help keep Clinton in the White House. Other, perhaps even more chilling, aspects of the FBI's Chinagate probe were overlooked in the Times and Post updates. As Wen Ho Lee's story slowly unfolded, for instance, the Clinton Justice Department nearly broke its neck looking the other way on potential evidence of a connection between the money Beijing agents funneled to Democrats and the U.S. technology the Chinese suddenly had access to. When FBI agents in Little Rock were assigned to surveil Charlie Trie, they observed the Clinton money man shredding documents like there was no tommorrow. The agents begged their superiors in Washington for a search warrant. Nothing doing, came the answer. Trained investigators were forced to watch helplessly as
[CTRL] 'E-mail wiretap' method exposed by privacy group
-Caveat Lector- 'E-mail wiretap' method exposed by privacy group By D. IAN HOPPER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (February 5, 2001 5:29 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Many of the most popular e-mail programs are subject to a form of online spying via embedded scripts that can send your comments to unintended recipients, a privacy group said Monday. This newfound method - called an e-mail wiretap - works when someone receives a note with the hidden scripts and forwards the message to others. As the e-mail moves from one person to another, their messages are secretly sent to the original sender. E-mail wiretaps could be used to note off-color remarks from governmental officials, by a spamming company to gather e-mail addresses, or by a boss to find out what you're saying about him. "You really would never know that this is occurring, unless you could view the source code and know what it meant," said Stephen Keating, executive director of the Privacy Foundation. The foundation, associated with the University of Denver, and its chief technology officer Richard Smith, found out about the situation from computer engineer Carl Voth, who discovered it in 1998. Though Voth posted an explanation of what he calls the "Reaper Exploit" on his Web site, he kept quiet about it until contacting the Privacy Foundation recently. Smith said e-mail wiretaps may become even more common than viruses. "People like to snoop," he said. "Most people won't send viruses to their friends, because that's over the line. But they might want to see what people say behind their backs." Keating said that while publicizing the method may lead people to use it, the effort also will educate the public on how to stop it. "There is an arms race aspect with the Internet and privacy and security. If there weren't really a fix for it, we might be more hesitant in pointing it out," Keating said. "But I don't think there's really anything gained by not acknowledging that it exists." If an e-mail recipient disables the Javascript programming language in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, or Netscape 6 mail, the added comments are no longer forwarded to the e-mail originator. But if a user does remember to disable Javascript, only he is protected. If he forwards the message, the tap will continue to work if the recipient doesn't also disable Javascript. The problem doesn't affect people who use Eudora, America Online's e- mail program or Web-based e-mail, such as Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail. Microsoft has also made a downloadable software patch available for Outlook - intended for another security issue - that takes care of the wiretap problem as well. The Privacy Foundation notified both Microsoft and Netscape about the issue before coming forward. Microsoft spokesman Ryan James said the newest downloadable update to Outlook Express, version 5.5, is not affected because JavaScript is off by default. Netscape spokeswoman Catherine Corre said the company is working on a patch to stop the wiretaps, which will be available "within the next several days." In the interim, Corre said Netscape users should disable Javascript in the Messenger program. Smith suggested that someone may use the wiretap method to change e- mails, too. The ability exists, he said, for an e-mail sender to change its contents each time it's forwarded, causing havoc for each new sender who finds new words put in his mouth. Last year, Smith brought attention to the use of "Web bugs," invisible images embedded in e-mail or Web sites that can be used to track viewers. While it was thought to be a new discovery, it was later found that a man had used it to see who viewed his online resume, and many companies now use them to surreptitiously monitor Web traffic. "Once you identify it, then it becomes easier to tell who's using it," Keating said. 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] Fwd: BBC Casts Doubts on Pan Am Convictions
___ __ / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\http://www.MiddleEast.Org News, Information, Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! * * * * * * * IF YOU DON'T GET MER, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEWSFLASH: BBC CASTS CONSIDERABLE SKEPTICISM ABOUT PAN AM 103/LOCKERBIE CONVICTIONS MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 2/05: In advance of whatever the Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is going to produce as "evidence" of innocence today, the BBC has published the following story quoting the very Scottish law professor who arranged the trial in The Netherlands casting great doubt about the veracity of the verdict reached: "Robert Black, the Scottish law professor who devised the format of the Netherlands-based trial, was quoted on Sunday as saying he was 'absolutely astounded' that Al Megrahi had been found guilty. Mr Black said he believed the prosecution had "a very, very weak circumstantial case" and he was reluctant to believe that Scottish judges would "convict anyone, even a Libyan" on such evidence." Over the weekend MER published commentary by American journalist William Blum casting similar skepticism and providing considerable background. GADDAFI TO GIVE LOCKERBIE "EVIDENCE" [BBC News - 5 February] : Libya came to standstill in anticipation of Gaddafi's statement Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is due to reveal fresh evidence on Monday, which he says will clear the Libyan agent convicted last week of the Lockerbie bombing. Colonel Gaddafi says the evidence will prove that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi is innocent of the 1988 bombing in which 270 people died. Libya's defence of Al Megrahi - a former Libyan intelligence agent who received a life sentence for the bombing of the Pan-Am aircraft over Lockerbie - received a boost after a Scottish legal expert said the verdict was obtained on "very, very weak" evidence. A Libyan official said the opinion showed that the case was a "racist pretext" to prolong nine years of sanctions against the country. The three Scottish judges who heard the case found Al Megrahi's alleged accomplice, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, not guilty. Colonel Gaddafi said last week that the judges had three options - to acquit Al Megrahi, resign or commit suicide. Libyans flocked to public meetings on Monday in anticipation of Colonel Gaddafi's statement, leaving the country at an almost complete standstill. The announcement coincides with Libya holding three days of meetings known as basic people's congresses. Correspondents say two possible scenarios are being discussed in Tripoli: Colonel Gaddafi could produce evidence that Washington put pressure on the Scottish judges to convict Al Megrahi Or he could produce evidence that another non-Libyan perpetrator carried out the bombing. However, there is scepticism outside the country that hard evidence will emerge at this late stage. 'Astounded' Robert Black, the Scottish law professor who devised the format of the Netherlands-based trial, was quoted on Sunday as saying he was "absolutely astounded" that Al Megrahi had been found guilty. Mr Black said he believed the prosecution had "a very, very weak circumstantial case" and he was reluctant to believe that Scottish judges would "convict anyone, even a Libyan" on such evidence. The view, published in British newspapers, echoes that of some of the families of UK victims of the Lockerbie bombing, who are calling for a public inquiry to find "the truth of who was responsible and what the motive was".
[CTRL] Newspaper studies confirm Democrat Gore won Florida vote
http://wsws.org/articles/2001/feb2001/flor-f05.shtml Newspaper studies confirm Democrat Gore won Florida vote By Patrick Martin 5 February 2001 Two newly published studies of the ballots cast in the US presidential election confirm that Democrat Al Gore was the choice of more Florida voters than Republican George W. Bush, who was installed as president after an unprecedented and anti-democratic intervention by the US Supreme Court. One study was conducted by the Washington Post, the other by Tribune Co., which owns the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel, and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. The Post endorsed Gore editorially in the November election, while the Tribune endorsed Bush. The Post reviewed computerized records of 2.7 million votes in eight of Florida's largest counties to examine the pattern of the so-called overvotes, those ballots on which computer scanners or other vote-counting machines detected votes for more than one presidential candidate and discarded the ballots as invalid. The newspaper did not recount individual ballots, but relied on reports from county officials based on machine tabulation of the invalid ballots. The analysis found that of the more than 60,000 ballots in the eight counties showing overvotes—the bulk of the statewide total—Gore's name was marked on 46,000, while Bush was marked on only 17,000. This includes several thousand ballots in which both Gore and Bush were marked. The 3-1 Democratic to Republican ratio among the overvotes was confirmed in the analysis of other votes cast by those voters further down the ballot. Three quarters of those who improperly cast a presidential overvote marked their ballots correctly for US senator. Of these, 70 percent voted for Democrat Bill Nelson, only 24 percent for Republican Bill McCollum, while 6 percent voted for third-party candidates. The nearly 30,000-vote margin for Gore among the overvotes dwarfs the 537 votes which was Bush's official margin of victory in Florida. On the basis of that minuscule and highly dubious number, the Republican-controlled state government, headed by his brother, Governor Jeb Bush, awarded him the state's 25 electoral votes and a four-vote margin in the Electoral College nationally. The eight counties examined by the Post included Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Broward (Fort Lauderdale), Pinellas (St. Petersburg), Hillsborough (Tampa), Marion (Ocala), Highlands and Pasco. Four of these counties went for Gore and four for Bush. The pattern of more overvotes for Gore prevailed in all the counties, however, regardless of who won the county overall. The notorious “butterfly ballot” in Palm Beach County accounted for 8,000 of the Gore overvotes, most of them double votes for Gore and far-right Reform Party candidate Patrick Buchanan, who was listed across from Gore on the ballot, with his punch-hole close to the names of Gore and Lieberman. Gore-Buchanan voters in Palm Beach County voted 10-1 Democratic in the US Senate race. In the other seven counties, the largest group of overvotes were for Gore and the candidate who followed immediately after him on the ballot, Libertarian Harry Browne. Such a combination is incomprehensible as a protest vote, especially one supposedly chosen by 6,800 voters. It more likely reflects confusion among voters who thought they had to cast votes for president and vice-president. Confirming the notion that the overvotes were largely intended for Gore is the fact that most of the third-party candidates on the ballot for president received more votes paired with Gore as overvotes than they did in their own right. In the eight counties, Socialist Workers Party candidate James Harris received a total of 300 votes, but his name was punched 12,600 times on ballots with Gore, Bush or another presidential candidate—42 inadvertent votes for each intentional vote. The Republican head of the Florida Division of Elections, Clay Roberts, dismissed the Post analysis with an argument of stupefying cynicism, claiming that overvotes were intentional political choices. “People who are engaged in politics can't understand why people would overvote,” he said. “But there are valid reasons for undervotes and overvotes. For some voters, that undervote or overvote is their decision.” The Post also found more than 15,000 voters in the eight counties who cast no recorded votes for any office or referendum. This suggests widespread difficulty with voting equipment, or major errors in the computerized count, or both, since it is impossible to believe that so many people turned out at the polls, many of them waiting hours in line, only to cast a blank ballot. The Tribune Co. study examined ballots in 15 smaller counties—not including any of the eight in the Post study—that used paper ballots that were marked in pencil and then read by optical scanners. While much public attention has been given to the punch card ballots that proved so
[CTRL] Anti-gun 'Million Mom' Shoots Wrong Man, Not Son's Killer
-Caveat Lector- Those gun-control people only mean gun control for others, not themselves. Tenorlove MONDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2001 Million Mom activist convicted in shooting Bereaved mother shot wrong man after son killed 'Million Mom' activist convicted in shooting By Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com A bereaved mother whose son was shot and killed nearly two years ago -- and who spoke out against gun violence and memorialized shooting victims at the "Million Mom March" rally in Washington, D.C., last Mother's Day -- was herself convicted of shooting a man she wrongly believed was her son's killer. Barbara Graham, the Washington Post reported Thursday, "was found guilty in D.C. Superior Court of trying to avenge her son's death by shooting a young man" last year that "she blamed for the killing." Graham, who lost her own son in 1999 in a shooting death at a Martin Luther King, Jr. rally, became active in a Washington-area group, "Mothers on the Move Spiritually," in the months following her son's death. The group helped sponsor the MMM event, where Graham "spoke out and helped memorialize the dead," the paper said. The Million Moms March, which becomes nine months old as an organization Feb. 14, has become one of the nation's leading advocates of stringent gun control. The group, which promotes gun-control activism among the nation's mothers, says it is "dedicated to preventing gun death and injury and supporting victims and survivors of gun trauma." Specifically, the organization promotes nationwide gun registration and wants to "close gun show loopholes." Also, it supports a "one gun purchase a month" program, and "strict oversight of the gun industry," among other measures. Officials with the group, which has its main office in San Francisco General Hospital, did not return phone calls on Friday seeking comments about Graham's involvement with the Mother's Day speech or her conviction. According to the Post, jurors last week returned guilty verdicts on nine counts against Graham, 49, for her Jan. 26, 2000, shooting of Kikko Smith, age 23. The shooting has left Smith paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair for life. Smith has spent most of the past year in a hospital, said the Post account. Witnesses said Graham, who has three living children and who was distraught over the loss of her son and frustrated with police efforts to catch her son's killer, went to Smith's house with her son's .45-cal. handgun and 30-year-old Erskine Moorer, the boyfriend of one of Graham's daughters. When they arrived at about 6 p.m., Graham twice asked Smith -- who had been called outside by friends and was talking to them as they sat in their car -- his name. Prosecutors said Graham and Moorer then pulled out guns and began shooting at Smith as he ran from them. However, the Post said, Moorer's attorney, Douglas Wood, told the jury that his client had left the neighborhood before the shooting. "Asked who confronted him with a gun, Smith pointed emphatically to Graham, who sat still and somber. At another point, he pointed firmly at Moorer, saying Moorer joined the ambush as he ran from Graham," the paper said. Prosecutors said during the trial that Graham likely confused Smith with another young man with a similar-sounding name, and that Smith was not the one who shot her son in 1999. "Prosecutors suggested that the grieving mother probably misunderstood Smith, thinking he said the name 'Teacco,' a young man she blamed -- also mistakenly, prosecutors say -- for her son's slaying," said the Post. One bullet fired by Graham is still lodged in Smith's spine. He told jurors during testimony that doctors say he will likely never walk again. "From a mother to a mother, she knew better," said Smith's mother, Mary Ann Smith, after jurors reached their decision. "You can't tell the kids to stop the violence with the mothers running around like this." Graham faces 15 years to life in prison for three of the most serious charges against her. She will be sentenced March 29, the paper said. According to information published by MMM, in 1998 a total of 30,708 people were killed by guns in the U.S. Of those, 17,424 were gun suicides, 12,102 were gun homicides, 886 were unintentional or accidental shootings, and 316 were shooting deaths of undetermined intent, the group said. Meanwhile, the Second Amendment Sisters, a pro-gun rights organization that also caters to women, says more gun laws and restrictions are "anti-self defense" and actually serve to put more women at risk of violence and injury. Also, the SAS said federal crime statistics show that twice as many children die each year from non-gun homicide, and that eight times as many children die from non-gun violence, indicating that "the problem is violence, not guns." Jon E. Dougherty is a staff writer for WorldNetDaily.
[CTRL] Drug War Very Effective At Bloating Police, Prison 'Industries'
http://toogoodreports.com/column/general/suprynowicz/020301.htm Drug War Very Effective — At Bloating Police, Prison 'Industries' [Saturday, February 3, 2001; 12:01 a.m. EST] Back in 1990, federal officials had what seemed like a modest idea for a new program: The U.S. Office of Drug Control Policy would identify a few areas — all in the worst inner cities or along the Mexican border — where local authorities were having trouble keeping the flow of illicit drugs under control. Some $25 million — chickenfeed by federal standards — would be parceled out to these "High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas" in hopes of helping beef up local drug law enforcement. Guess what happened? Seeing a new source of funds for local police equipment, staff and operations, "Every congressman has raised their hand and said, 'I need relief from this problem, too,' " explains UCLA public policy professor Mark A.R. Kleiman. If Sioux Falls, S.D. and Dayton, Ohio haven't yet been named "High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas" ... just give them time. U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., recently announced Las Vegas as one of the latest cities to win the coveted "HIDTA" designation, which could mean $800,000 in new federal moneys in the first year alone, supposedly to "coordinate local narcotics investigations." However, both the volume of drugs moving through this area — and their purity — have actually increased in recent years, despite the existence of five previously established drug task forces. What kind of results can officials show for those operations? Just this week, Las Vegas police and federal officials both refused to so much as disclose the names of the five pre-existing task forces — let alone what they've cost or whether they can demonstrate any palpable success. Insisting on keeping secret any evidence of their effectiveness — or, who knows, the complete waste of every dollar allocated to them on bachelor parties and sports cars — FBI Special Agent Daren Borst cited unspecified "operational concerns." This does not instill a lot of confidence in the arrival here of a federal program which is quickly becoming known around the nation as the "SWAT Team Full-Employment Act." HIDTA funding has expanded from $25 million in 1990 to $140 million in 1997 to a projected $205 million in 2001. But Eric Sterling, executive director of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation in Washington, D.C., says that growth has been largely attributable to the desire of local congressmen around the nation to elbow a place for their constituents at this latest federal feeding trough — not on any evidence that HIDTA does any good. A HIDTA designation for anti-narcotics efforts in a town like Las Vegas amounts to little more than "a new set of lights and whistles you put on the old vehicle to make it look fancier," Sterling told Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Glenn Puit last week. With a decade of experience under their belts and 26 HIDT areas now designated across the nation, one would think the federal government would by have gathered some evidence of the program's usefulness. But Professor Kleiman at UCLA says no independent, in-depth study of the effectiveness of the HIDTA designation — and the federal funds that flow in its wake — has ever been conducted. A spokeswoman for the Office of Drug Control Policy responds that HIDTA's executive board is still "customizing performance measurement tools" for the added funds justified by the Trafficking Area designations. That is to say: Not only do they not know whether the $1.2 billion spent so far has done any good ... they haven't even figured out how to measure whether it's done any good. It's tempting to say the War on Drugs isn't working. In fact, it's working very well as a justification for allocating billions of additional tax dollars for police equipment and staffing and tracking systems — in what would otherwise be a shrinking industry, as the aging of the American population has caused the rate of virtually every non-drug crime to actually plummet in recent years. Oh, the "War on Drugs" is working very well if your goal is to track where even law-abiding Americans go and who they call on the telephone and what they do with their money. It's only "not working" if we naively suppose the purpose is to stop people from voluntarily ingesting drugs — which was actually given up as a lost cause in this country when they legalized "demon rum" in 1933. At this point, it may even be legitimate to ask whether the folks rolling in the clover in the law enforcement and criminal defense and prison industries really want to see drug use reduced in this country. Imagine the kind of unemployment that would then ravage those "growth" industries if that were ever to happen. Why, the drug warriors might even have to figure out some new "demon" to pursue — just the way Harry Anslinger and a small group of other soon-to-be-unemployed Prohibition
[CTRL] NAZI CONNECTION TO FRANCISCAN ORDER UNCOVERED
http://www.centrexnews.com/news_archive/2001.02/05vatican.html NAZI CONNECTION TO FRANCISCAN ORDER UNCOVERED Siroki Brijeg, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Near the site of a World War II wartime massacre of Serb women and children by Croatian Nazis stands a Franciscan Monastery. It’s just down the road from Medjugorje or "Miracle City" where the Virgin Mary is said to put in nightly appearances for the tens of thousands of Roman Catholic pilgrims who flock there each year. The Franciscan Monastery at Sirkoi Brijeg and its controversial contents are at the center of an international scandal involving the Franciscans, Croatian ultra nationalists and the Vatican Bank. A lawsuit, Alperin v. Vatican Bank, filed in San Francisco Federal Court in November 1999 by Serb, Jewish, and Ukrainian Holocaust survivors against the Vatican Bank and Franciscans seeks return of Nazi loot stolen from wartime Yugoslavia. According to a 1998 US State Department report, the money known as the Ustasha Treasury, is thought to have been concealed in the Vatican and used in part to fund the escape of Nazi and Croatian war criminals to South America. The Franciscans acted as facilitators and middlemen in moving the contents of the Ustasha Treasury from Croatia to Austria, Italy and finally South America. The Franciscans have denied their wartime ties to the Ustasha regime in Croatia, which slaughtered over 700,000 Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies and set the stage for today’s ethnic battles in the Balkans. However, in Siroki Brijeg, plaintiffs’ attorneys have obtained tangible proof of the Nazi Franciscan connection. Cameramen working for Phillip Kronzer, a staunch foe of Medjugorje and its Marian apparitions obtained entry to the Monastery and filmed a secret shrine honoring the Ustashe. A plaque dedicated to Franciscan monks who were Ustasha members was filmed along with a massive shrine lining the walls complete with photographs of Ustasha soldiers some in Nazi uniforms. The admonition, "Recognize us, We are yours" can clearly be discerned in the video footage. On a later visit to the monastery the shrine had been dismantled but the videotape preserved the evidence and has now been made available by the Kronzer Foundation. Just as in World War II, Medjugorje in the 1990’s was the site of brutal ethnic cleansing by Croat nationalists. Alperin plaintiffs have alleged that Medjugorje and its facilities are connected with the Ustasha Treasury and the monastery at Siroki Brijeg seems to provide hard evidence of the connection.
[CTRL] Bush LIED About Executive Order
http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/02/05/bush.question/index.html Democrats claim Bush confused about executive order February 5, 2001 Web posted at: 2:40 AM EST (0740 GMT) FARMINGTON, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Several House Democrats who attended a private retreat at which President George W. Bush spoke Sunday said the president appeared confused about one of the first executive orders he signed after taking office. The White House, in turn, called it a simple disagreement over policy. According to Democrats in the room, Bush stumbled as he answered the last of a series of nine questions by House Democrats. "He was boxed into a corner," said Rep. Allen Boyd, D-Florida. Others said the president seemed uncomfortable, with one noting, "He turned bright red." The question came from Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California, who asked Bush about an executive order banning U.S. funding for international aid groups that provide abortions or abortion counseling, even if the U.S. funds are not directly used for the abortion work. Bush signed the executive order January 22. Pelosi asked the president if it was a "double standard" to prohibit that funding because the administration opposes the groups' abortion activities, but allow funding to faith-based charities which conduct religious activities using private funds. Bush's response, Democrats said, implied he thought his executive order had outlawed only the direct financing of abortions. Pelosi, according to Democrats in the room, corrected the president. Aides to Pelosi say she explained existing law and how the president's order changed it. But the White House rejected any suggestion the president was confused or unaware of what is banned under the executive order, describing the encounter with Pelosi as a "disagreement over this issue." "The president has made it clear that federal funds should not go to international organizations that provide abortion services or promote abortion" abroad, Bush spokesman Scott McClellan told CNN. "There's just a disagreement over this policy." McClellan said Bush fielded questions from House Democrats for 35 to 40 minutes, and that there were some questions where he and the lawmakers disagreed. "This was one where there is just a disagreement on policy," he added.
[CTRL] How Ashcroft Happened
http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/4/green-j.html How Ashcroft Happened Joshua Green If all had gone according to George W. Bush's original plan, Marc Racicot would today be our attorney general. Racicot, who was, until recently, governor of Montana, would have been a solid choice. Though he's enough of a GOP loyalist to satisfy the party faithful (he earned his partisan spurs working on Bush's behalf during the Florida recount), he is moderate enough to have pleased the suburban voters who turned out for Bush based on his claim to be a "uniter, not a divider." At one point recently, Racicot had the highest approval rating--87 percent--of any governor in the country. Liberal groups still might have opposed Racicot based on his official stance against abortion, for example, but he would not have been a provocation to them. John Ashcroft, on the other hand, is a brazen provocation: He's a hard-core conservative on race, civil rights, abortion, and a host of other issues. As is by now quite well known, he has a history of blocking African-American judicial appointments and making controversial comments about the Confederacy. Racicot may not be as liberal as a northern Republican like Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont, but he and Ashcroft hail from opposite wings of the Republican Party. So why did Ashcroft supplant Racicot? Shouldn't Bush, as a new president with a shaky claim to legitimacy and a desire to be perceived as moderate, have gone for the less controversial choice? Lost in all the brouhaha over Ashcroft's confirmation hearings is the story of how Ashcroft came to be nominated in the first place. In that story lies a glimpse of who is influencing the Bush administration and how they go about it. Three days before Bush announced his nominee for attorney general, a small group of intellectual Catholic and Protestant conservatives--unhappy with what they perceived to be Racicot's moderate views on abortion, homosexuality, and school choice--recruited Princeton University professor Robert P. George to draft a paper detailing the case against Racicot. George was ideally suited to the task. A rising conservative star who made a name for himself defending Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearing, George is a prominent natural-law theorist who holds Woodrow Wilson's old chair at Princeton. He is also a staunch Roman Catholic and ardent pro-life activist; he once penned an amicus brief for Mother Teresa asking the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade. Furthermore, he has written extensively on the need for conservative Catholics and Protestant evangelicals to employ "interfaith cooperation in pursuit of operational objectives in the culture war." (By "operational objectives," George means stopping gay rights and banning abortion.) George's report on Racicot quickly circulated among conservatives and made its way to Karl Rove, Bush's top political adviser. Rove tried unsuccessfully to convince the group of Racicot's conservative bona fides, both in conference calls and in face-to-face talks. Two days after George's report began to circulate, Racicot withdrew from consideration. "We're still not clear what exactly happened," a spokeswoman for Racicot confided. Two related phenomena combined to derail Racicot--and George and his fellow conservative religious intellectuals would rather those phenomena not come to light. The first was religious conservatives' tacit agreement to stay out of the spotlight during Bush's presidential campaign in order not to frighten off moderate voters, as many believe they had during the 1992 Republican convention in Houston. The second is the decline over the past decade in the animosity between evangelicals and Catholics, and the subsequent movement, of which George is a prominent member, to form what he calls a "pan-orthodox alliance" between Catholic social conservatives and evangelical Protestants to exert greater influence over public affairs. This movement has been most visible in the religious academic journal First Things, where George is on the editorial advisory board. It was this group of predominantly Catholic intellectuals (usually understood to include such people as Russell Hittinger, Michael Novak, George Weigel, and Richard John Neuhaus, the Lutheran-minister-turned-Catholic-priest who edits First Things) who were most upset by Racicot's impending nomination. Abortion--the primary issue uniting Catholics and evangelical conservatives--was the motivating factor. George's patrons believed that Bush's attorney general needed to be "square" on abortion. And though Racicot was endorsed by the National Right to Life Committee and his official statements were well in keeping with the conservative position on abortion, his informal comments did not meet this standard. Also, conservatives didn't like his decision to advocate broader hate-crime laws following the murder of Matthew Shepard in neighboring Wyoming. The conservative intellectuals associated with this
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Unseen but Very Real Protests at Washington (off topic)
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - I have heard this stated on TV news and commentary shows several times recently. I suppose I should have tried to recheck it myself and not just take them at their word but these were national shows, and I assumed they were at least accurate. Can you, from memory as it is not worth going to trouble, cite which party was in control of congress for these years? Sorry, I really couldn't say, going back 50 years...I do know much was made of the 'Democratic Congress' during the Reagan years...but it seems most dems just laid down and let whatever the Reagan admin want, get...so while they may have nominally been in control during those years, they rarely exercised it... Not sure what the makeup of the Congress was during the Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford admins...but I believe that every Democratic administration also enjoyed a predominantly Democratic-majority during their tenure... Maybe that is what they mean by "in charge." Perhaps...but it is the administration in power which sets policy. Even if there was a Democratic majority during Nixon's administration (and I'm not sure there was), until the Watergate scandal Nixon enjoyed basically unchallenged power. Prior to Watergate, the only thing I know that Congress and the public balked at was Nixon's desire to change the uniforms of the White House guards...remember the crazy design he wanted, better suited for a small Balkan country perhaps? Congress didn't call him on the carpet over continuing the war in Vietnam, neither did they do anything substantive in regards to his incursions into Cambodia... Also, I think the "owners" of the stable and the horses do at times try to undermine each other and bicker among themselves. The horses and the stables may try to undermine each other, but their owners encourage this, so that the public is given a show of a 'two party system' that in fact does not exist. The bottom line is, you have the same backers putting money on ALL the horses in the race...and they also put their money into the 'up and comers' back in the stables... June 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] Anti-Chavez Sentiment Builds With Appointment
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Anti-Chavez Sentiment Builds With Appointment 05 February 2001 Summary The surprise appointment of Foreign Minister Jose Vicente Rangel as Venezuela's new defense minister may lead to increased tensions with Colombia and the United States. Rangel's appointment, however, is also the beginning of the end of President Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian revolution. High oil prices, plus more than $21 billion in foreign exchange reserves, will keep Chavez afloat economically for a while, but public confidence in his government has dropped significantly in the past year. Meanwhile, conservative elements of the armed forces are increasingly unhappy with Venezuela's growing international isolation. Analysis President Hugo Chavez recently reshuffled his Cabinet, appointing Foreign Minister Jose Vicente Rangel as Venezuelaâs first civilian defense minister in nearly 50 years. Rangel replaced army Gen. Eliecer Hurtado, who was appointed minister of infrastructure. Chavez said he appointed Rangel to signal the âunionâ of the armed forces and civil society in his democratic Bolivarian revolution. In actuality, relations between Chavez and the armed forces have reached their lowest point since he was elected president in December 1998. During a Feb. 4 military parade to celebrate the ninth anniversary of his failed coup attempt in 1992, Chavez also said Venezuela never again would experience a military coup. Chavez, however, may have been putting a positive spin on a bad situation. Chavez put Rangel in the Defense Ministry shortly after Venezuelan newspapers reported senior and mid-level military officers recently held several closed-door meetings in different parts of Venezuela â without Chavezâs prior knowledge. Chavez may have appointed Rangel as defense minister to show his government will not tolerate clandestine meetings within the military â meetings such as those Chavez conducted during his career in the military. More likely, Chavez tapped Rangel because he no longer trusts his senior military commanders and he is hobbled by a shrinking pool of trusted political allies. In effect, his Cabinet reshuffle was an exercise in circling a handful of wagons. Venezuela's new Defense Minister Jose Vicente Rangel. In addition to putting Rangel in the Defense Ministry, Chavez brought septuagenarian leftist Luis Miquilena back into his government as interior and justice minister (MIJ), and moved Luis Alfonso Davila from MIJ to the Foreign Ministry. Davila, a former military officer, is an inflexible âchavistaâ who as interior and justice minister failed to contain the terrible rise in violent crime that Venezuela has suffered since 1998. With this reshuffle, Chavez has peopled all of his key political, security and economic ministries with Marxists who oppose free-market policies and view the United States as an enemy. The choice of Rangel, a lifelong anti-American Marxist who admires Fidel Castro and is despised widely within the Venezuelan armed forces, may be Chavezâs greatest political mistake since he launched his Bolivarian revolution in 1998. Typically, the active-duty military establishment has not responded publicly to Rangelâs appointment as defense minister. The response from retired senior officers, however, was strongly negative. Retired army Gen. Fernando Ochoa Antich, a former defense minister and foreign minister, warned Rangelâs appointment was âcounterproductive for the armed forces and for the government.â Vice Adm. Ivan Carratu Molina dismissed Rangel as âa genetically anti-American Marxistâ and a longtime enemy of the Venezuelan armed forces who will widen the breach between Venezuela and the United States and create security problems with Colombia. Rangel dismissed these criticisms but acknowledged strengthening security along Venezuelaâs border with Colombia will be his first priority. Rangel said he will immediately tour all of the military bases and outposts on the border with Colombia and, within a month, will convene a bilateral Venezuelan-Colombian military commission to develop a joint response to border security problems. Rangelâs relations with Colombian defense and military officials will be frosty at best. As foreign minister of Venezuela, Rangel sympathized openly with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), providing guerrilla representatives with transportation, office space and security details in Venezuela. Additionally, Rangel often has sparred verbally with the government of President Andres Pastrana. Moreover, Gen. Fernando Tapias, the commander of Colombiaâs armed forces, has publicly accused the Chavez government of arming FARC and ELN rebels. Rangel said he would maintain close relations with Venezuelaâs new foreign minister because foreign policy has a security and defense component. If
[CTRL] Times Report Shows Why Chinagate Must Be Ashcroft's Top Priority
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/2/5/114228 .. Monday, Feb. 5, 2001 12:42 p.m. EST Times Report Shows Why Chinagate Must Be Ashcroft's Top Priority With the ascension of John Ashcroft to the attorney general's spot, suddenly long-dormant investigations seem to be heating up again. After years of stalling, U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District Mary Jo White has finally indicted Ron Carey, the former Teamsters Union president who was booted out two years ago amidst charges of corruption. More intriguing still is Sunday's report in the Washington Post suggesting that Justice Department officials have developed a new round of questions for suspected Chinese nuclear spy Wen Ho Lee. On the same day, the New York Times recapped some of the evidence against Lee, in an article so dauntingly long that many readers no doubt skipped it. But for those who presumed Dr. Lee was more or less framed by the FBI in the wake of U.S. District Judge James Parker's apology last year for imprisoning him unjustly, the report was a real eye-opener. Though the probe never turned up smoking-gun evidence that Lee spied for Beijing, his behavior over the course of the last two decades raises questions that Attorney General Ashcroft simply can't ignore. The curious incidents reported by the Times include: Lee's attempts to foil the FBI's "Operation Tiger Trap," a 1982 probe that had targeted a suspected Chinese spy at California's Lawrence Livermore laboratory. Out of the blue, Lee turned up on tapes of the suspect's wiretapped phone calls. He was offering his compromised colleague help in learning just who had "squealed" on him. Lee later denied making the call. When probers confronted him with the tapes, he changed his story. In 1994 Lee turned up, completely uninvited, at a Los Alamos meeting between top-level U.S. and Chinese nuclear scientists. Dr. Hu Side, Beijing's leading nuclear bomb development expert, was among the select group invited to the exclusive conclave. "We had very tight controls on access," one laboratory official told the Times. "The door was closed. The session was not advertised." Still, somehow, Lee found out about the meeting, showed up, and was warmly received by Dr. Hu. One of those present told the Times he was shocked that the relatively obscure Lee, who was actually on the verge of being laid off due to lab budget cuts at the time, seemed to have a personal relationship with China's chief nuclear scientist. A translator on hand during the encounter between Lee and the Beijing bombmaker remembered key details of the conversation. "They were thanking him because the computer software and calculations on hydrodynamics that [Lee] provided them have helped China a great deal," he told another lab official interviewed by the Times. Lee never told his superiors that he had met Dr. Hu six years earlier while on a trip to Beijing. Shortly after Lee's Los Alamos reunion with Hu, American intelligence officials learned that the Chinese had made startling progress in miniaturizing their nuclear weapons. "It's like they were driving a Model T and went around the corner and suddenly had a Corvette," one scientist told the Times. In 1996, the FBI opened a secret investigation into Wen Ho Lee, but the Clinton Justice Department didn't make it a top priority. The case was passed from one agent to another like an unwanted stepchild, while the bureau pursued other investigations deemed more important by Washington officials. Due to the lack of focus, investigators never searched the suspected scientist's computer. They believed they lacked the authority to do so. But that presumption turned out to be wrong. Lee had signed a waiver in 1995 that would have permitted such a search. Meanwhile, allegations tying the Clinton campaign finance scandal to China's quest for U.S. military technology erupted. Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung testified in 1998 that the daughter of a Chinese military official sought him out and arranged a meeting with the chief of Chinese military intelligence. "We like your president. We want to see him re-elected," Gen Ji Shengde told Chung over dinner, before pledging $300,000 to help keep Clinton in the White House. Other, perhaps even more chilling, aspects of the FBI's Chinagate probe were overlooked in the Times and Post updates. As Wen Ho Lee's story slowly unfolded, for instance, the Clinton Justice Department nearly broke its neck looking the other way on potential evidence of a connection between the money Beijing agents funneled to Democrats and the U.S. technology the Chinese suddenly had access to. When FBI agents in Little Rock were assigned to surveil Charlie Trie, they observed the Clinton money man shredding documents like there was no tommorrow. The agents begged their superiors in Washington for a search warrant. Nothing
[CTRL] HUGE Middle East WAR looms in near future!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.williamcooper.com/vnsexclusivesarchives.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! HUGE Middle East WAR looms in near future! William Cooper Predicts Veritas News Service - Exclusive, January 18, 2001 -- The following indicators point to a major Middle East war erupting in the very near future. When reading this remember that Bush is an oilman like his father. 1. Israel has told its Citizens to prepare for a real war and has asked for a call-up of all reserves. 2. Arab States have entered into a mutual defense pact. 3. Palistinian/Israeli/Arab relations are at the lowest point since the 6 Day War. 4. President Clinton's Middle East interference increased tensions and destroyed what peace had existed. 5. Price of oil at this time is fluctuating around $29 per barrel and predicted to plunge. 6. Although the present price of oil is not high enough to be profitable for American drillers, and the experts are predicting a price plunge, Texas and Oklahoma insiders are drilling like crazy. They are spending money on oil drilling equipment and new exploration like the old "Burkburnett field" had just been discovered. 7. The only place the drillers could have obtained inside information that would make such ventures profitable is from the mouth of George W. Bush himself, a seasoned oil business professional who is now President. 8. The only information that Bush could give them that would make them believe that the price of oil is going to go up instead of down is that he will engage the United States in a major war in the Middle East. 9. Bush has a score to settle on behalf of his father ex-President George H. W. Bush the man who engaged us in the Gulf War but failed to take down Saddam Hussein... a failure for which he has been severely criticized. 10. The economy is in trouble with a recession predicted. 11. Every time in the last 30 years the economy has been in trouble there has been an oil crisis, or an oil shortage with accompanying inflation. The problem was always blamed on the oil crisis that always proved later to have been a lie. 12. If there is a major war in the Middle East you can expect to see oil to soar to a bare minimum of $80 per barrel, possibly much higher. 13. The US military is gearing up for a war in the Middle East. 14. All US forces in Europe and the Middle East have been placed on alert. 15. Patriot Missiles are being readied for deployment to Israel. 16. The Federal Reserve has shifted back to Keynesian economics according to Greenspans last speech. 17. Bush has pledged to rebuild the military and the best way to do it is to create a need i.e. WAR. 18. I have been informed by several military officers that we will be involved in a major war in the Middle East within one year of Bush taking office as President of the United States. 19. The goal of the war will be to solve the Palistinian/Israel problem with finality, completely destroy the Arab capability to make war upon Israel, and to capture or kill Saddam Hussein. 20. Raw materials and defense industry stocks will replace tech stocks as the big money makers on the stock exchange for the next few years. *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] The truth about Militias
-Caveat Lector- http://www.williamcooper.com/vnsexclusivesarchives.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! The truth about Militias by William Cooper, and Betty Schier, with quotes from Jon Roland VERITAS News Service, Exclusive -- Words have meaning. There is a process we may use to determine the specific meaning of the word Militia both in the language and under the law. The 1971 edition of The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary defines: Militia - 1. A system of military discipline, organization, and tactics; manner of conducting warfare; the arts of war. 2. The control and administration of the military and naval forces of a country. 3. A military force esp. the body of soldiers in the service of a sovereign or a state; in later use employed in more restricted sense to denote a "citizen army" as distinguished from a body of mercenaries or professional soldiers. 4.b. U.S. "The whole body of men declared by law amendable to military service, without enlistment, whether armed and drilled or not." Militia - To call out as Militia Militiaman - A member of a military force. Black's Law Dictionary further defines these terms. Bear in mind that words have meaning. Under the law the words may not mean what you think. Also, you will note in the following definition that the Militia is not subordinate to the state or any other body. The body of citizens constitutes the body of authority to which the Militia answers. Militia - The body of citizens in a state, enrolled for discipline as a military force, but not engaged in actual service except in emergencies, as distinguished from regular troops, or a standing army. State v. Dawson, 272 N.C. 535, 159 S.E.2d 1, 9 Militiamen - Comprehends every temporary citizen-soldier who in time of war or emergency enters active military service of the country. Critchlow v. Monson, 102 Utah 378 131 P.2d 794, 798 The first U.S. document in law is, "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America". It sets out the reasons and justifications for our separation from England and the Revolutionary War that followed. The document places the decision and the power in the hands of the people, and was clearly meant to be enforced by the Militia, a citizen1s army. That army, the Continental Army of the Republic, won our Independence. The Declaration of Independence (http://www.williamcooper.com/DecInd.htm) clearly states: "That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such from, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness... But when a long train of abuses and usurpation's, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security." It becomes much clearer. Our Founding Fathers frequently discussed the meaning and purpose of the Militia. I suggest you read the Federalist Papers, No. 24 through 34. You will find a complete argument for the Militia as a "citizens army" consisting of "the whole of the people," designed to allay the public fears of a despotic central government. The following statements may be found: "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government." ... Federalist Papers, No. 28, Section 8 "It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system that the state governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford complete security against the invasions of public liberty by the national authority." Federalist Papers, No. 8, Section 8 The Constitution for the united States of America (http://www.williamcooper.com/contxt.htm) is the Supreme Law of the land. It recognizes the Militia as an already existing force outside the control of the federal government but allows for the Congress to call forth the Militia for three very specific occurrences. The Militia cannot be called up to perform any other acts outside of the three specifically stated in the Constitution. The Militia cannot be called upon to do anything unconstitutional, illegal, or unlawful. Indeed, the commanders must refuse any unconstitutional, illegal, or unlawful order. The Constitution for the United States of America states in Article 1, Section 8: "To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrection and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of Officers,
[CTRL] Powell Sees NATO in Balkans for Years - Maybe Powell should resign!
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Sunday February 4 1:57 PM ET Powell Sees NATO in Balkans for Years By Jonathan Wright WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NATO (news - web sites) troops will probably stay in the Balkans for years and U.S. troops will not leave Bosnia or Kosovo ``in the immediate future,'' Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. ``There is no exit date for the whole force either in Bosnia and Kosovo. Those will be long-term commitments,'' he told ABC's ''This Week'' program. ``Although we would like to see all of the troops come out, ours and others, this is not going to be the case in the immediate future,'' he added. Asked what he meant by a long-term commitment, he said: ``I think NATO is going to be there in both places for years. The situation does not seem to indicate to me, anyway, that in the near future we can simply pull out all of the NATO troops.'' His comments were another indication that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) has had second thoughts about any abrupt withdrawal from Bosnia and Kosovo, where U.S. troops are part of NATO-led peacekeeping forces. Washington's European allies believe that a U.S. withdrawal from the Balkans would weaken the Atlantic alliance and mark a shift toward isolationism in U.S. foreign policy. Powell, giving his first lengthy television interview since taking office on Jan. 20, was also conciliatory toward Europe on U.S. plans for a national missile defense (NMD) opposed by Russia, China and some of Washington's European allies. ``It is not something that is going to happen without full consultation with our friends and allies and full consultation with the Russians, and beyond that, full consultation with other nations that have an interest in this is Asia -- Japan, Korea and China,'' he said. Moving Embassy To Jerusalem If necessary, the United States would negotiate with Russia on possible modifications to the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty of 1972, which bans the kind of system Bush wants. But Powell added: ``We have to hold out the possibility that it may be necessary to leave that treaty if it is no longer serving our purposes or if it's not something that we can accommodate our programs within.'' Powell was equally cautious on Bush's campaign pledge to start ``the process of moving the U.S. ambassador to the city Israel has chosen as its capital''. Moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would anger Arab public opinion and damage the ability of the United States to act as a mediator in Arab-Israeli peace talks. Powell said: ``At this time of tension ... we will continue to examine when that process will begin... We are always examining it, but there is no move yet to move the embassy, although that remains the goal of the United States and it remains the commitment made by President Bush (news - web sites).'' He said the word ``process'' -- the word Bush used during his election campaign last year -- could have different meanings. ''Sometimes it means stall. Sometimes it means move right ahead,'' he said. On mediation in the Middle East, Powell said the United States would be an ``honest broker'' and that Bush would be ''involved'' after Israelis vote in premiership elections on Tuesday and the winner forms a government. Relations With China ``We will always be committed to the security of Israel, but we also will be anxious to see what we could do in every way possible to achieve the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people,'' the secretary of state added. In the meantime he urged both sides to avoid violence and provocations. ``What matters to the peace process is that we enter this election period and come out of it with violence kept down,'' he added. Powell said the United States had not made decisions on two issues likely to affect relations with China -- whether to sell Aegis-type destroyers to Taiwan and whether to support a resolution critical of China at the annual meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva this spring. ``We have an obligation to Taiwan to make sure that their level of defense capability remains constant over time and they are in a position to defend themselves against any threats that might come their way,'' he said. He denied he disagreed with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the level of support the United States should give to the opposition Iraqi National Congress (INC), which hopes to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) with U.S. support. Iraqi opposition sources say they believe that Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) favor more support for the INC, while Powell is lukewarm about the group's prospects. ``We are in the process of discussing what our policy with respect to Iraq should be, and there is no disagreement at this point that I am aware of
[CTRL] Even Clinton Apologists are Beginning to Reject the Clintons' White Trash Beha
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Even Clinton Apologists are Beginning to Reject the Clintons' "White Trash" Behavior Even Clinton Apologists are Beginning to Reject the Clintons' "White Trash" Behavior The "Heart" of the Democrats Concern for Others is Questioned By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com) February 5, 2000 It's amazing how fast the American people can change their minds sometimes. I think if the election were held today, and it was an honest election, the margin of victory for George W. Bush, instead of it being merely an Electoral College victory, would probably be a 60-40 victory for him. Somehow, just by being themselves, the contrast between the style of the Clintons and the style of the new Bush Administration is so stark that all the sudden a lot of Americans who believed all politicians were the same, and all of them were corrupt, are realizing that's not true. Even some ardent Clinton apologists, like Maureen Dowd of the New York Times are beginning to see the light. In a column yesterday written from the Clintons new home town, Chappaqua, New York, entitled "Fork it Over, " Dowd illustrates my point: "It was much more than a tempest over teapots, a debate about demitasse spoons and sauce boats. "The kerfuffle about Hillary Clinton's great White House gift heist had a serious subtext. "We found ourselves grappling with the same nettlesome issue we have been dealing with for the last decade, and we will have to deal with for the indefinite future. "What is Hillary owed? "Reparations must be made, clearly, for what she has suffered in her marriage and what she has sacrificed by going into public service. But when will it be enough, for Pete's sake? "Hillary and Bill will be multimillionaires from their book deals. For two speeches in Florida this week, Bill will earn about the same amount as the $190,000 cost of the gifts that the Clintons took from the White House - a cheesy grab that dearly cost them in prestige. "So why did the Clintons have to be stoned into admitting that greed is not good? "Because Hillary wanted to make a point: The Clinton haters - the vast right-wing conspiracy and the media mob - will not cow them into giving up what is rightfully theirs. "And what is rightfully theirs is anything they choose to take. Bill could have given Hillary all the silver and china and chandeliers she craved just by doing what comes naturally - talking - and it would never have been an issue. "In the end, she had to succumb and write checks for $86,000 worth of tainted loot. But now we know the junior senator from New York has terribly flawed judgment. And her sense of entitlement knows no bounds. "How do you even suggest that someone give you two coffee tables? "Hillary: 'Oh, Denise, I just love that coffee table of yours.' "Denise: 'I'll get you one'. "Hillary: 'Two.' "I heard about the Hillary secret 'shower' just before Christmas. The story was that Rita Pynoos, the wife of a Beverly Hills businessman, Morris Pynoos, was talking to other wealthy Clinton supporters about contributing $5,000 each so Hillary could have all the things she never had a chance to accrue during her years in public housing. "There were lists of Hillary's china and silver patterns, available at Borsheim's in Omaha and other stores. Time was of the essence because Hillary, who had been elected to the Senate, could take expensive gifts only until she was sworn in and the Senate gift ban went into effect." Dowd even, incredibly, took potshots at Bill Clinton's $750,000 per year penthouse office, that he expected the taxpayers to pay for indefinitely, noting that: "He didn't stop Hillary from pigging out because he couldn't. She gets to decide how they live in this next chapter of their lives. Their neurotic dance keeps repeating: He acts up. She sends him to his room. But no sooner does she take charge than she messes up, and he has to clean up the mess. But as soon as he fixes the politics, he messes up the personal stuff, and the cycle starts all over again." I suspect that some of those folks Maureen Dowd has long labeled "Clinton Haters" and members of the "vast right wing conspiracy" were just ordinary folks who saw the light long ago, while Maureen and her fellow travelers were still mesmerized by the glitter of their political position. The minute they were no longer powerful figures, residents of the majestic White House, she was able to see that they were, to use an old Southern expression, "just white trash" in their behavior. The much touted "caring" that the Democrat leadership, the Clintons and people like Ted Kennedy, supposedly had, or have, for the poor, the neglected, the mistreated and the struggling taxpayer is suddenly looking like so much blather. New Democrats on the political horizon may find themselves looked at in a very different light is, as Jean Carnahan has done,
[CTRL] China adding missiles aimed toward Taiwan
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! China adding missiles aimed toward Taiwan By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES China is continuing a destabilizing buildup of short-range missiles opposite Taiwan and now has up to 300 missiles deployed, according to a senior military official. Top Stories ⢠Bush must cut U.S. spending, adviser says ⢠Clinton's travel left military overextended ⢠Pardoned Rich still in legal jeopardy ⢠Rogue football scores with fans ⢠Gilmore faces fight in Senate The senior official, who spoke to The Washington Times on the condition of anonymity, also said Russia is supplying China with advanced ballistic-missile technology and strategic nuclear warhead know-how. "The candy store appears to be open," the official said. "The Russians will sell anything to the Chinese that the Chinese want to buy, and that's what bothers me." On China's massing of short-range missiles, the official said Chinese military leaders have refused to draw down the force, despite U.S. protests that the missiles are increasing instability and the danger of conflict across the Taiwan Strait. "They keep on building," the official said. He noted: "If the Chinese keep on doing what they're doing, we're going to make theater missile systems available to the Taiwanese. Taiwan currently has deployed the most-advanced U.S. missile defense available, a version of the Patriot system known as GEM PAC-2. The systems are deployed around Taipei, the Taiwanese capital. Other more advanced regional missile defenses will be fielded with U.S. forces in the next several years. Asked about growing Russian-Chinese military cooperation, the official said missile and nuclear warhead transfers are troubling. Intelligence reports indicate the Russians have begun "helping Chinese ballistic missile programs and nuclear programs, which are of course targeted on Russia," the official said. "It's one thing if they want to help [the Chinese] screw the United States, which is in their common interest right now, but this just seems to be mindless," the official said. "I think it's stupidity on the Russians' part; it is going to hurt them in the long term." He said Russia's state-owned arms-export company, Rosvooruzheniye, is becoming China's major supplier. China also is seeking to purchase an advanced airborne warning and control (AWAC) jet from Russia, after Israel canceled a similar deal at U.S. insistence in July. On the missile buildup, the official said the growing numbers are only one aspect of the problem. The Chinese also are deploying highly accurate "precision" weapons in addition to older, inertially guided missiles. "They are in the 200 to 300 category," the senior official said. "And just as important as the number, is the accuracy. Right now they are mostly inertial [guidance], which give them [circular error probabilities] in the Scud range. But they are working on more precision guidance, which will make a big difference." Between 600 and 1,000 short-range missiles could be in place in the next several years. The official said the United States has informed China it is considering sales to Taiwan of advanced Aegis-equipped warships. If the $1 billion warships are sold, they will be equipped with "fleet air defenses" capable of countering China's current arsenal of Sunburn anti-ship missiles and other anti-ship weapons, but they will not be outfitted with the Navy's two regional missile defense systems, which have not yet been fielded. The Aegis-ships "would give the Taiwanese the ability to survive with their surface ships," he said. U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and the building of a national missile defense systems are two issues expected to cloud U.S.-China ties, the official said. However, China is not likely to increase the size of its strategic nuclear missile buildup in response to a U.S. missile shield, he said. "I see no indication that anything we do really affects the Chinese building program." The missile buildup has been tracked by Pentagon intelligence agencies for the past several years. In 1998, China had fewer than 50 short-range missiles deployed near Taiwan, and in 1999 the number had increased to 150. The senior official identified the missiles as CSS-6s and CSS-7s âmissiles also known by the designations M-9 and M-11, respectively. China unveiled an advanced CSS-7 Mod 2 in late 1999. The missiles have enough range to hit targets in Taiwan with little or no warning. The lack of warning time increases the risk of conflict, U.S. military officials said. Last year, the State Department privately protested Beijing's missile buildup, U.S. officials said. Publicly, the department has described the buildup as worrying and said it could lead to future sales of U.S. anti-missile defenses to Taiwan. According to the senior
Re: [CTRL] HUGE Middle East WAR looms in near future!
-Caveat Lector- Wow. What a prediction. This guy is a prophet. Gee. One day before the election of Ariel Sharon. Genius! I predicted this SIX YEARS AGO. On CTRL and several other lists. Joshua2 === Bill Richer wrote: -Caveat Lector- http://www.williamcooper.com/vnsexclusivesarchives.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! HUGE Middle East WAR looms in near future! William Cooper Predicts Veritas News Service - Exclusive, January 18, 2001 -- The following indicators point to a major Middle East war erupting in the very near future. When reading this remember that Bush is an oilman like his father. 1. Israel has told its Citizens to prepare for a real war and has asked for a call-up of all reserves. 2. Arab States have entered into a mutual defense pact. 3. Palistinian/Israeli/Arab relations are at the lowest point since the 6 Day War. 4. President Clinton's Middle East interference increased tensions and destroyed what peace had existed. 5. Price of oil at this time is fluctuating around $29 per barrel and predicted to plunge. 6. Although the present price of oil is not high enough to be profitable for American drillers, and the experts are predicting a price plunge, Texas and Oklahoma insiders are drilling like crazy. They are spending money on oil drilling equipment and new exploration like the old "Burkburnett field" had just been discovered. 7. The only place the drillers could have obtained inside information that would make such ventures profitable is from the mouth of George W. Bush himself, a seasoned oil business professional who is now President. 8. The only information that Bush could give them that would make them believe that the price of oil is going to go up instead of down is that he will engage the United States in a major war in the Middle East. 9. Bush has a score to settle on behalf of his father ex-President George H. W. Bush the man who engaged us in the Gulf War but failed to take down Saddam Hussein... a failure for which he has been severely criticized. 10. The economy is in trouble with a recession predicted. 11. Every time in the last 30 years the economy has been in trouble there has been an oil crisis, or an oil shortage with accompanying inflation. The problem was always blamed on the oil crisis that always proved later to have been a lie. 12. If there is a major war in the Middle East you can expect to see oil to soar to a bare minimum of $80 per barrel, possibly much higher. 13. The US military is gearing up for a war in the Middle East. 14. All US forces in Europe and the Middle East have been placed on alert. 15. Patriot Missiles are being readied for deployment to Israel. 16. The Federal Reserve has shifted back to Keynesian economics according to Greenspans last speech. 17. Bush has pledged to rebuild the military and the best way to do it is to create a need i.e. WAR. 18. I have been informed by several military officers that we will be involved in a major war in the Middle East within one year of Bush taking office as President of the United States. 19. The goal of the war will be to solve the Palistinian/Israel problem with finality, completely destroy the Arab capability to make war upon Israel, and to capture or kill Saddam Hussein. 20. Raw materials and defense industry stocks will replace tech stocks as the big money makers on the stock exchange for the next few years. *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
[CTRL] [Fwd: FNN: Is the CIA Involved in Drug Smuggling?]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: FNN: Is the CIA Involved in Drug Smuggling? Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:58:58 -0600 (CST) From: Colombian Labor Monitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: ? To: undisclosed-recipients:; [NOTE: Both Fox News and Bill O'Reilly are standard-bearers of the right-wing in the U.S. The following story seems to aim at absolving the CIA and the U.S. government from institutional responsibility for the role they play in the narcotics trade and the conflict in Colombia. Nevertheless it is a sobering discussion of the more sinister operations that the U.S. is involved in. -DG BUCCHI: Well, and that's the thing, and what differentiates this story, really, from what Maxine Waters is saying is that I believe that what happened with Maxine Waters, or that story from "The San Jose Mercury News," was really a fractioned -out part of the CIA, and I don't think necessarily was sanctioned by our government. _ FOX NEWS NETWORK Monday, 29 January 2001 *** * THE O'REILLY FACTOR * *** Is the CIA Involved in Drug Smuggling? -- GUESTS: Ken Bucchi HOST: Bill O'Reilly O'REILLY: In the "Unresolved Problem" segment tonight, a couple of years ago radical California Congresswoman Maxine Waters accused the Central Intelligence Agency of being involved with drug smuggling, especially crack cocaine. Now, many Americans just shrugged that off because Ms. Waters can be extreme in her positions. But now, a former CIA operative is making similar charges. With us is former CIA operative, as I just said, Kenneth Bucchi, author of "Operation Pseudo Miranda: A Veteran of the CIA Drug Wars Tells All." Tells all about what? What did you do? What did you see? KEN BUCCHI, AUTHOR, "OPERATION PSEUDO MIRANDA": Well, what I saw, and this predates long before what Maxine Waters was purporting, there was basically a decentralized organization in Colombia. Anybody with a pint of chutzpah and a Cessna could fly in half a ton of cocaine and there was really no way of stopping them. What they tried to do, and they did very successfully, was centralize it, give a small cache of drug lords the means by which, which is is intelligence and weapons, to basically destroy the numerically larger number of smaller dealers. O'REILLY: All right, so in the country of Columbia... BUCCHI: Yes? O'REILLY: You had all kinds of free lance cocaine smugglers. BUCCHI: Yes. Hundreds. O'REILLY: The CIA said this is out of control. BUCCHI: Yes. O'REILLY: We want to wipe the little guys out and in order to do that we're going to cooperate with the big guys? BUCCHI: Exactly. O'REILLY: All right, so the big guys wiped them out themselves... BUCCHI: Right. O'REILLY: ... killed them or whatever it had to do. BUCCHI: And so now you've basically increased their drug traffic to the -- let's say, 10-fold. And you set up corridors now by which they can fly those drugs into the country. O'REILLY: All right, now, let me stop you again. So the CIA was actually helping... BUCCHI: Yes. O'REILLY: ... big cartels in... BUCCHI: And so was the... O'REILLY: ... Colombia fly drugs into the United States... BUCCHI: Yes. O'REILLY: ... in return for them knocking the little guys out. half to us. O'REILLY: Ah. BUCCHI: So now we stop half the drugs. O'REILLY: So that the cartel people harvesting the coca plant, turning it into cocaine, primarily, we're talking about here... BUCCHI: Right. O'REILLY: ... gave the CIA 50 percent of it? BUCCHI: Well, it wasn't give on that level. We -- there was a game, in a sense, where we will develop the corridors, and if we intercept them, And once that represented half the drugs for a certain period, we'd let the other half go free. O'REILLY: Really? So if you got a certain amount of drugs in any period of time, you would let the rest fly in? BUCCHI: We'd not only let it fly in, we'd facilitate it, in that we would... O'REILLY: Help it fly it? BUCCHI: We would help it fly in... O'REILLY: Who was behind this? BUCCHI: Well, and that's the thing, and what differentiates this story, really, from what Maxine Waters is saying is that I believe that what happened with Maxine Waters, or that story from "The San Jose Mercury News," was really a fractioned-out part of the CIA, and I don't think necessarily was sanctioned by our government. This -- I worked directly for the State Department. I had -- you know, Bill Casey was three people out of my chain of command, and I was person... O'REILLY: William Casey, the director of the CIA at the time...
Re: [CTRL] Flags (was: Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger)
-Caveat Lector- From: "Amelia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, the Southern states were not the only states where the institution of slavery was practiced. I believe all states had it prior to TWBTS, some a few years back from that time/event. No, that is wrong. Free states admitted under the Missori Compromise never allowed slavery within their borders... And those northern states that had at one time had slavery had outlawed it long before the war. Also, in northern states slavery had been utilized in a much different manner than in the south...in the north, a slave could redeem him or herself, either by buying their freedom (if they were lucky enough to be able to save enough), or by serving as a slave for a set period of time; I believe this varied from state to state, but was usually from 7 to 12 years. At the end of their term of service, the slave was ruled to have redeemed his or her worth and was then set free. In many northern states, slave owners were also required to pay their slaves wages, albeit much lower wages than required of a free man or woman... They cleverly sold theirs into the South just prior to the outbreak of the war. Some gave them letters of freedom but many just "dumped" them right before the outbreak of conflict. This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. If these imaginary northern slaveowners gave their slaves letters of freedom, that can hardly be considered 'dumping' them. And if these imaginary slaves had letters of freedom, how could they be sold into slavery in the south? Also, remember the Emmmancipation Proclamation was not signed until 1864, after a state of general starvation existed in the South. Then the slaves were freed with no way to feed themselves, etc. other than trying to take from people who were already starving. So you wish us to believe that prior to the Emancipation Proclamation, all those starving white massas gladly gave up what little food they had to their black slaves? I hardly think so! And the freed black slaves had as much, or little, opportunity to feed themselves in the same manner their ex-masters did... This was careful timing to ensure maximum harm being done to all parties. Slavery is certainly a crime against humanity but all parties here were guilty of practicing it. So have many "civilizations" such as Egyptian, et al. So do the Kuwaitis today...doesn't make it right... June 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] Gifts Were Not Meant for Clintons
-Caveat Lector- From: "Prudence L. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody know how all that stuff Nancy Reagan took was routed? If she had to pay a million in back taxes, there must have been a bale of it, and I'm really curious. If I'm not mistaken, the majority of Reagan's haul (and believe me, I'm on your side when it comes to the Reagans) consisted of the designer outfits donated to her by designers who, unless they thought the outfit was going to end up in The First Ladies Collection at the Smithsonian (there IS such a collection there, BTW), probably intended for Nancy to keep the 'donation'... That is quite different from someone donating something to the White House itself, thinking that it will become a permanent part of the White House collection...only to find that their gift to the nation was usurped by the departing First Couple as a personal gift... I could understand someone in that situation being understandably peeved... Still I wouldn't give anything to anyone at the White House or to the White House either. I think it's considered an honor to have an item accepted to be part of the White House collection...it's considered a gift to the country as a whole, not to any one person who happens to be president at the time... What did they do with the old kitchen table and chairs by the way? That interests me. Are the things given to Good Will or are they burned as religious objects? Prudy I couldn't say for sure, but years ago I read an article (in The Smithsonian magazine, as it turns out) regarding a major auction house in the DC area, that specialized in auctioning off old stuff from federal property, and the occasional gift to a congresscritter or First Couple that under law could not be accepted as a person gift... The majority of auctions were your old empty file cabinets, etc. But according to the article, usually there were at least a handful of choice items which could possibly be gotten for a song...retired china sets, old furniture, etc. I believe that according to the article, the proceeds went to the GAO... June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: U.S. May Try to Curb Diamond Trade That Fuels African Wars
-Caveat Lector- From: "Aleisha Saba" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Me I prefer the emerald or the rubyit is said youo have to have a diamond when you get married? Who says so? DeBeers...they are the ones responsible for making the diamond the only stone now considered 'proper' for an engagement or wedding ring... It used to be that a man gave his intended a 'promise ring', which was usually her birthstone, or a stone that she favored...and was rarely a diamond...and wedding rings were just plain gold bands, rarely with any stones set into them. I prefer a ruby, or a saphire or emerald.BOYCOTT DIAMONDS You may already know this, Aleisha...but an emerald is worth more than a diamond of the same weight, clarity, cut, etc. I'm with you on this, Aleisha (altho I'd rather have a nice, large, natural alexandrite of deep color...and I'm also fond of good amber and pearls)...I only like diamonds as accents, to show off other stones... June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- From: "Nurev Ind Research" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't believe that this guy is a doctor. Oh, I don't know...he has the same cocksure, holier-than-thou-since-I'm-next-to-God attitude one unfortunately finds in the majority of allopathic AMAers... ;-) June 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] George W. - you don't have to be Jewish.
-Caveat Lector- Methinks this is an urban legend which resurrects itself occasionally... I heard the same tale, but with Marilyn Monroe as the one inquiring about other parts of the matzo... ;-) June 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] Newspaper studies confirm Democrat Gore won Florida vote
-Caveat Lector- Well we AL know that we can believe EVERYTHING these particular newspapers say. Sure we can-just like we can believe Willy and company. Strangely absent is any info about all the illegals and convicts who voted, the many people who voted more than once, the 'assisted' votes, etc etc. Notice, too, that the conclusions are based on 'analysis'-not counting-i.e, someone's interpretation. That's certainly reliable. Not worth my time to read it all thru. The only thing worthwhile in the Wash COMPOST is the cartoons and the advertisements!!! The rest is pure, predictable crap. That's why CNN and the rest of this ilk is going down the tubes. Can't fool us any more. Blab on, blab on. I walk part the Wash Post boxes every day and see the left over papers, while the Wash Times box is empty! On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:26:35 EST DIG alfred webre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Caveat Lector- World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : North America : US Politics Newspaper studies confirm Democrat Gore won Florida vote By Patrick Martin 5 February 2001 Two newly published studies of the ballots cast in the US presidential election confirm that Democrat Al Gore was the choice of more Florida voters than Republican George W. Bush, who was installed as president after an unprecedented and anti-democratic intervention by the US Supreme Court. One study was conducted by the Washington Post, the other by Tribune Co., which owns the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel, and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. The Post endorsed Gore editorially in the November election, while the Tribune endorsed Bush. The Post reviewed computerized records of 2.7 million votes in eight of Florida's largest counties to examine the pattern of the so-called overvotes, those ballots on which computer scanners or other vote-counting machines detected votes for more than one presidential candidate and discarded the ballots as invalid. The newspaper did not recount individual ballots, but relied on reports from county officials based on machine tabulation of the invalid ballots. The analysis found that of the more than 60,000 ballots in the eight counties showing overvotesthe bulk of the statewide totalGore's name was marked on 46,000, while Bush was marked on only 17,000. This includes several thousand ballots in which both Gore and Bush were marked. The 3-1 Democratic to Republican ratio among the overvotes was confirmed in the analysis of other votes cast by those voters further down the ballot. Three quarters of those who improperly cast a presidential overvote marked their ballots correctly for US senator. Of these, 70 percent voted for Democrat Bill Nelson, only 24 percent for Republican Bill McCollum, while 6 percent voted for third-party candidates. The nearly 30,000-vote margin for Gore among the overvotes dwarfs the 537 votes which was Bush's official margin of victory in Florida. On the basis of that minuscule and highly dubious number, the Republican-controlled state government, headed by his brother, Governor Jeb Bush, awarded him the state's 25 electoral votes and a four-vote margin in the Electoral College nationally. The eight counties examined by the Post included Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Broward (Fort Lauderdale), Pinellas (St. Petersburg), Hillsborough (Tampa), Marion (Ocala), Highlands and Pasco. Four of these counties went for Gore and four for Bush. The pattern of more overvotes for Gore prevailed in all the counties, however, regardless of who won the county overall. The notorious butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County accounted for 8,000 of the Gore overvotes, most of them double votes for Gore and far-right Reform Party candidate Patrick Buchanan, who was listed across from Gore on the ballot, with his punch-hole close to the names of Gore and Lieberman. Gore-Buchanan voters in Palm Beach County voted 10-1 Democratic in the US Senate race. In the other seven counties, the largest group of overvotes were for Gore and the candidate who followed immediately after him on the ballot, Libertarian Harry Browne. Such a combination is incomprehensible as a protest vote, especially one supposedly chosen by 6,800 voters. It more likely reflects confusion among voters who thought they had to cast votes for president and vice-president. Confirming the notion that the overvotes were largely intended for Gore is the fact that most of the third-party candidates on the ballot for president received more votes paired with Gore as overvotes than they did in their own right. In the eight counties, Socialist Workers Party candidate James Harris received a total of 300 votes, but his name was punched 12,600 times on ballots with Gore, Bush or another presidential candidate42 inadvertent votes for each intentional vote. The Republican head of the Florida Division of
Re: [CTRL] Newspaper studies confirm Democrat Gore won Florida vote
-Caveat Lector- Interestingly, these newspapers were counting OVERvotes, when even the Florida Supreme Court never gave an order to count overvotes. Their order concerned undervotes. World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : North America : US Politics Newspaper studies confirm Democrat Gore won Florida vote By Patrick Martin 5 February 2001 Two newly published studies of the ballots cast in the US presidential election confirm that Democrat Al Gore was the choice of more Florida voters than Republican George W. Bush, who was installed as president after an unprecedented and anti-democratic intervention by the US Supreme Court. One study was conducted by the Washington Post, the other by Tribune Co., which owns the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel, and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. The Post endorsed Gore editorially in the November election, while the Tribune endorsed Bush. The Post reviewed computerized records of 2.7 million votes in eight of Florida's largest counties to examine the pattern of the so-called overvotes, those ballots on which computer scanners or other vote-counting machines detected votes for more than one presidential candidate and discarded the ballots as invalid. The newspaper did not recount individual ballots, but relied on reports from county officials based on machine tabulation of the invalid ballots. The analysis found that of the more than 60,000 ballots in the eight counties showing overvotes?the bulk of the statewide total?Gore's name was marked on 46,000, while Bush was marked on only 17,000. This includes several thousand ballots in which both Gore and Bush were marked. The 3-1 Democratic to Republican ratio among the overvotes was confirmed in the analysis of other votes cast by those voters further down the ballot. Three quarters of those who improperly cast a presidential overvote marked their ballots correctly for US senator. Of these, 70 percent voted for Democrat Bill Nelson, only 24 percent for Republican Bill McCollum, while 6 percent voted for third-party candidates. The nearly 30,000-vote margin for Gore among the overvotes dwarfs the 537 votes which was Bush's official margin of victory in Florida. On the basis of that minuscule and highly dubious number, the Republican-controlled state government, headed by his brother, Governor Jeb Bush, awarded him the state's 25 electoral votes and a four-vote margin in the Electoral College nationally. The eight counties examined by the Post included Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Broward (Fort Lauderdale), Pinellas (St. Petersburg), Hillsborough (Tampa), Marion (Ocala), Highlands and Pasco. Four of these counties went for Gore and four for Bush. The pattern of more overvotes for Gore prevailed in all the counties, however, regardless of who won the county overall. The notorious ?butterfly ballot? in Palm Beach County accounted for 8,000 of the Gore overvotes, most of them double votes for Gore and far-right Reform Party candidate Patrick Buchanan, who was listed across from Gore on the ballot, with his punch-hole close to the names of Gore and Lieberman. Gore-Buchanan voters in Palm Beach County voted 10-1 Democratic in the US Senate race. In the other seven counties, the largest group of overvotes were for Gore and the candidate who followed immediately after him on the ballot, Libertarian Harry Browne. Such a combination is incomprehensible as a protest vote, especially one supposedly chosen by 6,800 voters. It more likely reflects confusion among voters who thought they had to cast votes for president and vice-president. Confirming the notion that the overvotes were largely intended for Gore is the fact that most of the third-party candidates on the ballot for president received more votes paired with Gore as overvotes than they did in their own right. In the eight counties, Socialist Workers Party candidate James Harris received a total of 300 votes, but his name was punched 12,600 times on ballots with Gore, Bush or another presidential candidate?42 inadvertent votes for each intentional vote. The Republican head of the Florida Division of Elections, Clay Roberts, dismissed the Post analysis with an argument of stupefying cynicism, claiming that overvotes were intentional political choices. ?People who are engaged in politics can't understand why people would overvote,? he said. ?But there are valid reasons for undervotes and overvotes. For some voters, that undervote or overvote is their decision.? The Post also found more than 15,000 voters in the eight counties who cast no recorded votes for any office or referendum. This suggests widespread difficulty with voting equipment, or major errors in the computerized count, or
[CTRL] The REAL Truth About
-Caveat Lector- The REAL Truth About Vietnam The POW/MIAs Part IVa Also a New Court Ruling on AGENT ORANGE The Joshua Report http://members.spree.com/education/2302410/ -- Michael The Outlawlady The Joshua Report http://members.spree.com/education/2302410/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Love Bug author says bug created in cyber gang war
Love Bug author says bug created in cyber gang war By: John Leyden Posted: 05/02/2001 at 17:24 GMT The suspected author of the Love Bug computer virus has re-emerged as a security pundit. Onel de Guzman, who faced charges relating to spreading the Love Bug in the Philippines before they were dropped for insufficient evidence, has taken time out to talk to a reporter at the Chicago Tribune "over a cup of coffee at the Old Manila Cafe" about the nature of virus writing. The Love Bug spread like wildfire last May causing an estimated $10 billion damage, largely in lost productivity, as it brought down email servers worldwide. De Guzman - the prime suspect in the case - was detained under a law relating to gaining passwords to defraud banks and credit cards, largely because of lack of a specific Philippines law covering computer crime. He was later released without charge. During the interview de Guzman, who has been lying low since his release, admitted he did write, or as he put it "cook", the Love Bug virus, but he still continues to deny releasing the virus. Much of the rest of the Tribune piece documents a mixture of braggadocio and posturing from de Guzman, or "The Terminator", as he tells the Tribune he's nicknamed. He suggests the Love Bug was released during a war between local cyber gangs that went wrong, something security experts insist is "cobblers", and possibly an attempt by de Guzman to duck any blame for the spread of the virus, if the authorities, in the Philippines or elsewhere, file further charges. He also states that you don't need to be a genius to write a virus, about the only thing we're in complete agreement with de Guzman about. However the piece contains a star-quote from Nataniel Cuasay, a graduate student at AMA Computer College, where de Guzman himself studied. Cuasay or the "Wizard" told the Chicago Tribune: "Hackers create viruses to knock out the opposition. It's a war game. It's fun. It's better than sex." No lads, it's not - and you really, really need to get out more. ® Need a Daily Pep Talk? Subscribe at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dpt Get Current Events, Politics, News, Issues, Views Opinion... A Wholelottaotherlinx in your inbox daily subscribe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~My Chat Addresses: ICQ: 103814927 Y! Messenger: Kazzmir MS Messenger: Kazzmir AOL Messenger: xmulvax
[CTRL] USNWR: Another dubious pardon. Why did Clinton forgive a felon under fresh investigation?
-Caveat Lector- U.S. News and World Report 2/12/01 Another dubious pardon Why did Clinton forgive a felon under fresh investigation? By Douglas Pasternak On his second-to-last day in office, Bill Clinton signed a master warrant wiping out the felony convictions of 140 people. One of them was for a 57-year-old Florida businessman named Glenn Braswell, who was convicted in 1983 of mail fraud, perjury, and tax evasion in connection with selling herbal supplements purporting to promote hair growth, remove cellulite, and increase bust size. As with Clinton's controversial last-minute pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, the U.S. Justice Department was not consulted. If the pardon process had taken the customary route, officials at Justice would have quickly pointed out that Braswell, who did seven months in jail for his 1983 conviction, is once again under investigation by the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, and several state attorneys general. Sources say he is also the target of a federal grand jury in Los Angeles investigating what a former Justice Department official called "massive money laundering" and tax evasion. "It is hard for me to imagine that whoever was responsible for his pardon knew what he does now," says Stephen Barrett, an independent health fraud investigator who runs the respected www.quackwatch.com. "Did they know the facts? Did they even care?" Well connected. Bill Clinton is not answering that question, and neither Braswell nor his attorneys have returned numerous telephone calls. Others can only speculate about why Braswell was among the nearly 30 people granted executive forgiveness outside the normal process. Like others seeking pardons, Braswell was represented by some very well-connected legal talent, in this case Kendall Coffey, the former U.S. attorney who represented Al Gore in his Florida recount efforts. Another Washington lawyer, Gerald Feffer of the high-powered firm of Williams Connolly, is representing Braswell in the tax-evasion and money-laundering investigation. Feffer said that Williams Connolly played no role in helping Braswell obtain a pardon. The firm would have a conflict of interest, he said, because partner David Kendall is Clinton's personal lawyer. According to the Justice Department, a pardon is granted "on the basis of the petitioner's demonstrated good conduct for a substantial period of time after conviction and service of sentence." Applicants are also expected to have made some contributions to the public good. Braswell appears to have made some efforts toward the latter requirement, just three months before he was pardoned, by establishing the A. Glenn Braswell Foundation "to educate the public on the latest scientific advances in the field of longevity." California accountant Kevin Romano is listed as the foundation's agent, but when U.S. News asked him about the organization, he said, "I have no idea what it is." Likewise, an attorney with the law firm at the address of the foundation declined to answer questions about it. Whether Braswell has changed his ways, according to a number of his former associates, remains an open question. Last year, Braswell settled a lawsuit filed by several sports celebrities, including car-racing champion Richard Petty and baseball great Stan Musial, who alleged that he had unlawfully used their names to endorse products to maintain prostate health. In August, Albany, N.Y., arthritis specialist Joel Kremer sued two of Braswell's companies, G.B. Data Systems and Gero Vita International, alleging that they used his name in an advertisement without permission and made it appear that he endorsed the company's antiarthritis supplement. Unlike others pardoned, Braswell was not a Clinton supporter; instead he gave $25,000 to the George W. Bush campaign and $150,000 to the Florida GOP. Shortly thereafter, he managed to persuade Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to write an article on healthcare reform for his Journal of Longevity. The article was then altered so that it appeared to endorse Braswell's supplements. Bush returned the contributions. "I don't think it's the money that makes [Braswell] do it," says one former employee. "It was the game. He liked to try to outsmart or outwit anyone he could." Because the Justice Department was never given a pardon application, it is not clear why Braswell wanted the pardon. Braswell's longtime business consultant, John Andrews, said Braswell's record was hindering the sale of his companiesa transaction even more pressing since Braswell recently agreed to pay out $42 million in a divorce settlement. Said Andrews: "He felt the blemish on his record really hurt." = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy
[CTRL] NYT: The 14 day Honeymoon?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/04/opinion/04SUN1.html February 4, 2001 EDITORIAL Mr. Bush's Smooth Start Many Washington Democrats acknowledge with grudging admiration that the word "honeymoon" does not really capture the atmosphere of the first two weeks of the Bush presidency. Despite the understandably bitter reaction to John Ashcroft and to President Bush's anti-abortion stance on foreign aid, Democrats in Washington admit to being impressed by the new president's charm offensive, nicknames and all, and by the tactical dexterity of the White House's presentation of its agenda of issues. Mr. Bush's use of soothing words and symbolic acts has not been matched since Ronald Reagan's first days. In addition, the new president has surpassed both Mr. Reagan, his own father and Bill Clinton in making Congressional diplomacy an opening priority. But it is important that the admiration of Mr. Bush's salesmanship not blind us to the sharply ideological policies he is offering in a kind of personality bubble-wrap. Despite his charm, Mr. Bush has laid out legislative approaches or made appointments that represent a direct threat to abortion rights, to more than three decades of environmental progress and to the basic fairness of the tax system. In an echo of the Reagan era, Mr. Bush's combination of big tax cuts and missile defense plans could wreck a hard-won fiscal stability. There are other Reagan echoes in these first days. Like the Great Communicator, Mr. Bush is benefiting from diminished expectations. Democrats who had envisioned him stumbling into town are now admiring him for staying "on message," even if they dislike the message. Mr. Bush has also seemed smarter and verbally sharper than they expected. If not quite the policy maven that Mr. Clinton was, Mr. Bush has come across as a credible defender of his goals and programs. But we will know more about this new president when the time comes for switching from style to substance. One advantage of Mr. Bush's tireless talk of bipartisanship is that his own words can serve as a benchmark for evaluating his actions in the future. As Senator Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, said after the closed meeting with Mr. Bush, "It will all be talk until we get the specifics." In a promising sign on education, Mr. Bush said that he would be willing to negotiate over vouchers. He also said he would be mindful of the constitutional problems in financing social programs through "faith based" organizations. Notwithstanding signs of flexibility, Democrats have to take seriously Mr. Bush's tough's opening positions and the influence of hard-line Republicans. The Democrats will have to persuade the newcomer in town to compromise on taxes and budget issues if he really wants comity on Capitol Hill. The tax package will be a crucial guide to Mr. Bush's philosophical commitment to rewarding the most affluent Americans. Democrats, while remaining open to cooperation, must not let Mr. Bush's charm offensive create an aura of legislative inevitability around his excessive tax cut. New estimates by the Congressional Budget Office put the 10-year surplus at $5.6 trillion, but that means only $2.7 trillion is really available if you assume, as most in Congress do, that the Medicare and Social Security surpluses are off- limits. As Democrats pointed out last week, the true cost of Mr. Bush's proposed tax cut plan is $2.3 trillion, and that does not count the inevitable add- ons for the corporate sector that are almost certain to be included in a final bill. No matter how agreeably he behaves, Mr. Bush simply cannot increase defense spending and education aid ó and also privatize Social Security ó without throwing the budget back toward the huge deficits created by the Reagan tax cuts. In the palmy atmosphere he has created in Washington, it is probably hard for him to realize that the tax cut and budget issues could determine the success of his presidency. As Representative Richard Gephardt, the House Democratic leader, pointed out to Mr. Bush in their meeting last week, both the president's father and Mr. Clinton had to raise taxes to close that deficit, and they paid for it dearly. The biggest mistake Mr. Bush could make is for him to talk bipartisanship and then try to pick off conservative Democrats to push through a tax cut that gives 43 percent of the benefits to the wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers. Mr. Bush has already done quite a lot for the right wing of the Republican Party with his environmental moves and the Ashcroft appointment, a political mistake that we are betting Mr. Bush privately regrets. Even so, it would be only human for him to believe the magical good luck of his first two weeks will last forever. Everything has broken his way. Mr. Clinton's pardoning mania made Mr. Bush's arrival seem doubly refreshing. Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, created a friendly climate for cutting taxes. The California energy crisis
[CTRL] White House laments DNC chief's remarks
-Caveat Lector- 02/05/2001 White House laments DNC chief's remarks http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20010205_1059.html WASHINGTON (AP) _ A White House spokesman fired back at the new head of the Democratic Party for questioning the legitimacy of President Bush's election, saying such remarks hurt efforts to build unity in Washington. Terry McAuliffe was picked Saturday as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. In his acceptance speech, he said of the election: "If Katherine Harris, Jeb Bush, Jim Baker and the U.S. Supreme Court hadn't tampered with the results, Al Gore would be president, George Bush would be back in Austin, and John Ashcroft would be home reading Southern Partisan magazine." White House press secretary Ari Fleischer on Monday called the remarks "disappointing." "I think that continuing to question the legitimacy of an election _ I'm not certain that even the Democrats in the Congress would share that point of view _ is not a wise way to begin tenure," Fleischer said. McAuliffe's comments reflected an "old Washington" mindset, he said. Bush, in contrast, is trying to bring a new climate marked "by principled disagreements and by civility," he said. DNC spokeswoman Jenny Backus said McAuliffe said nothing inappropriate, and she reiterated the party's view that Bush stole the election. "President Bush may be disappointed by Terry's speech, but he's not nearly as disappointed as the tens of thousands of Floridians whose votes weren't counted in the last election," she said. 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] School Vouchers
-Caveat Lector- Is there a particular reason you removed the CONTEXT? What are you talking about? What context? MJ You do comprehend Statism? Nessie Yup. What of it? MJ Your PREVIOUS comments when compared with the above remarks would indicate otherwise. How so? Be specific. What exactly do you mean by statism? Define your terms. MJ Perhaps you can refresh our memories since the literacy rate pre-socialist schools exceeds the post socialist schools. (1.) Life is short. I dont plan to waste any of it duplicating my effort for your benefit, simply because you are too lazy to scroll back. (2.) What do you mean socialist schools? What socialist schools? Define your terms. Be specific. (3.) Exceeds? By how much? According to whom? Cite your sources. MJ How will an education through 'cooperation' be WORSE than an education by force? Nessie I didn't. I said that if corporations seize control of public education, it will be worse. MJ I am well aware of your statement. Then why did you intentionally distort it? Are you a congenital liar, or merely an inept debater? How will corporations be able to FORCE students to attend (1.) I didnt say that they will. Stop putting words in my mouth. Its rude. Its dishonest. (2.) What are you trying to say here, that privatizing education, or even instituting a voucher system, will simultaneously eliminate truancy laws? Do you want to eliminate truancy laws? If so, why? or taxpayers to pay as our Government does now? Where do you think that voucher money is going to come from? How is it possible for corporations to 'seize' control without FORCE? Through politics. The armed might of the state is the cats paw of the corporations. What is one's 'fair share'? As much as you can possibly spare. It shouldnt impact your ability to survive. But, the more you can spare, the more you should contribute. Are you saying that you do not consent to contributing your share of the expense of public education? A simple yes or no will suffice. MJ I have no choice in the matter currently ... it is taken by force. HERE is where the Statism from above comes into play. That wasnt a yes or a no. That was a very lame attempt at evasion. Answer the question I asked, not a question I didnt ask. Do you or do you not consent to contributing your share of the expense of public education? Yes or no? It is the height of arrogance for you to lecture others as to their "moral duty". It is the height of arrogance for you to presume that you dont need to be lectured. You are a moral cripple. You extol selfishness, and you do it in public, where even innocent children can read you. Have you no shame? Above you suggest one contribute 'their fair share' to your education goals. Any meaning OTHER than a parent paying for their responsibilities -- ie their child or those children they have chosen such a role -- involves theft of someone's funds ... the enslavement of individuals in order to provide. You have it backwards. Were all in this together, all of humanity. We are totally dependent on, and responsible for, one another. To withhold ones share of the effort that is needed to keep civilization happening, and yet to reap its benefits, is theft. To propose denying any child the very best education possible is unspeakably despicable. People who do so should be ostracized, shunned by all humanity until they reform. However, in your case I would like to make an exception. With your permission, I would like to continue to use you as a foil. Youre a great foil. Nothing I could ever say could discredit your sick and evil philosophy as well as the obvious deficiencies of a mind that embraces them. What better illustration than your own inarticulate debate style? God just told me that you are full of shit. Then yours is a false god. Only my god is real. Ask anyone but a pagan about god and theyll tell you the exact same thing. This is simply ANOTHER religious tenet that you would force on others. Im not forcing anything on anybody. I attempting to use persuasion to convince you, and our audience, of the error of your ways. If I was using force, youd know it. Im perfectly capable of using force, and do so whenever the occasion warrants. Im not using it on you, in part because youre not worth the effort. It would be too time consuming even to find you, because you hide like a coward behind the internet. I seriously doubt that you have ever out spouted this crap F2F to parents at a PTA meeting. Maybe you should. Youd learn a thing or two. It is Fascistic to attempt to impose your concept of "moral duty" on others by threat of force through government intimidation. I dont. Neither do I propose it be done. In fact, this is precisely why I object to vouchers. Vouchers would mean that the government would take my money from me by force and use some of it to promote
[CTRL] WT: Pardoned Rich still in legal jeopardy
-Caveat Lector- February 5, 2001 Pardoned Rich still in legal jeopardy By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES Billionaire financier Marc Rich, a fugitive from justice for 17 years until his Inauguration Day presidential pardon by Bill Clinton, is under investigation by Swiss authorities in connection with suspected money-laundering violations. While House and Senate committees in the United States prepare to hold hearings this week on the controversial Rich pardon, Swiss officials confirmed yesterday that their investigators also have focused on the former fugitive. Swiss authorities said they want to know if Mr. Rich's trading firm, known as Marc Rich Co., failed to control and verify the origin of large cash transactions in accordance with Swiss money-laundering laws. The firm, located in Zug, Switzerland, is required under legislation passed last year to adhere to strict banklike reporting guidelines when handling large sums of money. The Swiss probe, first reported by the Associated Press in Geneva, resulted in threats yesterday from Mr. Rich to move his multimillion-dollar operation out of Switzerland. The threats were dismissed by Swiss officials, who said Mr. Rich was "free to relocate to wherever he pleases. . . . We're not impressed at all when we hear threats." Mr. Rich, who fled to Switzerland after his 1983 indictment in the United States in what federal prosecutors described as the biggest tax-fraud case in U.S. history, has argued through his attorneys that his commodities trading firm should be exempt from newly instituted Swiss regulations because the company operates differently than banks. The argument has been rejected by Swiss authorities who steadfastly refused to extradite Mr. Rich to the United States because Switzerland does not recognize tax evasion as a crime. Since the Jan. 20 pardon, several newspapers in Switzerland have questioned the propriety of that country's continued support of the former fugitive. Mr. Rich is listed by a Swiss financial monthly magazine as having a personal wealth of about $1.2 billion. Mr. Clinton has taken "full responsibility" for the pardon and has denied that it was politically motivated. He told reporters last week in New York the pardon was decided "on the merits" and that he had handled it "in what I thought was the most appropriate way." The Rich pardon was among 140 Mr. Clinton signed less than two hours before leaving office. Questions have been raised over possible connections between the pardon and Mr. Rich's ex-wife, songwriter Denise Rich, who donated $1.3 million to the Democratic Party, including Mr. Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. Mrs. Rich personally lobbied the president for the pardon and donated more than $7,000 worth of furniture for the Clintons' New York home. House and Senate investigators are trying to determine how Mr. Clinton reached the decision to grant the pardon. They want to know if Mr. Clinton's last-minute pardon was based on improper motives; if law enforcement authorities were consulted; and if any regulations governing the lobbying of the president were violated. Mark Corallo, spokesman for the House Government Reform Committee, which will begin hearings into the Rich pardon on Thursday, yesterday stopped short of saying whether the Swiss money-laundering inquiry would be incorporated into the congressional probe. However, he stressed that Mr. Rich's finances were of concern to the committee. "The committee intends to look into all of Mr. Rich's financial transactions as they may relate to his criminal conduct," Mr. Corallo said. Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who will chair the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, has threatened to call Mr. Clinton to testify, along with Mrs. Rich and her ex-husband's attorney, Jack Quinn, the former Clinton White House counsel who also lobbied the president for the pardon. The Senate's hearings begin on Wednesday. Mark Levine, former chief of staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese III, said Congress has a "legitimate legislative oversight function" to investigate Mr. Rich's finances. "For those who say we need to get the Clinton administration behind us, I would remind them that the biggest tax cheat in this country's history was granted a pardon by one of the most corrupt presidents in history," he said. "We are either a nation of laws or we're not." Mr. Rich fled the country after his indictment on charges of racketeering, tax evasion and violating federal energy regulations for trading oil with Iran while Americans were being held hostage in that country. He was accused of diverting $70 million in illegal profits to Swiss banks from the resale of crude oil. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~
[CTRL] WT: China adding missiles aimed toward Taiwan
-Caveat Lector- February 5, 2001 China adding missiles aimed toward Taiwan By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES China is continuing a destabilizing buildup of short-range missiles opposite Taiwan and now has up to 300 missiles deployed, according to a senior military official. The senior official, who spoke to The Washington Times on the condition of anonymity, also said Russia is supplying China with advanced ballistic-missile technology and strategic nuclear warhead know-how. "The candy store appears to be open," the official said. "The Russians will sell anything to the Chinese that the Chinese want to buy, and that's what bothers me." On China's massing of short-range missiles, the official said Chinese military leaders have refused to draw down the force, despite U.S. protests that the missiles are increasing instability and the danger of conflict across the Taiwan Strait. "They keep on building," the official said. He noted: "If the Chinese keep on doing what they're doing, we're going to make theater missile systems available to the Taiwanese. Taiwan currently has deployed the most-advanced U.S. missile defense available, a version of the Patriot system known as GEM PAC-2. The systems are deployed around Taipei, the Taiwanese capital. Other more advanced regional missile defenses will be fielded with U.S. forces in the next several years. Asked about growing Russian-Chinese military cooperation, the official said missile and nuclear warhead transfers are troubling. Intelligence reports indicate the Russians have begun "helping Chinese ballistic missile programs and nuclear programs, which are of course targeted on Russia," the official said. "It's one thing if they want to help [the Chinese] screw the United States, which is in their common interest right now, but this just seems to be mindless," the official said. "I think it's stupidity on the Russians' part; it is going to hurt them in the long term." He said Russia's state-owned arms-export company, Rosvooruzheniye, is becoming China's major supplier. China also is seeking to purchase an advanced airborne warning and control (AWAC) jet from Russia, after Israel canceled a similar deal at U.S. insistence in July. On the missile buildup, the official said the growing numbers are only one aspect of the problem. The Chinese also are deploying highly accurate "precision" weapons in addition to older, inertially guided missiles. "They are in the 200 to 300 category," the senior official said. "And just as important as the number, is the accuracy. Right now they are mostly inertial [guidance], which give them [circular error probabilities] in the Scud range. But they are working on more precision guidance, which will make a big difference." Between 600 and 1,000 short-range missiles could be in place in the next several years. The official said the United States has informed China it is considering sales to Taiwan of advanced Aegis-equipped warships. If the $1 billion warships are sold, they will be equipped with "fleet air defenses" capable of countering China's current arsenal of Sunburn anti-ship missiles and other anti-ship weapons, but they will not be outfitted with the Navy's two regional missile defense systems, which have not yet been fielded. The Aegis-ships "would give the Taiwanese the ability to survive with their surface ships," he said. U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and the building of a national missile defense systems are two issues expected to cloud U.S.-China ties, the official said. However, China is not likely to increase the size of its strategic nuclear missile buildup in response to a U.S. missile shield, he said. "I see no indication that anything we do really affects the Chinese building program." The missile buildup has been tracked by Pentagon intelligence agencies for the past several years. In 1998, China had fewer than 50 short-range missiles deployed near Taiwan, and in 1999 the number had increased to 150. The senior official identified the missiles as CSS-6s and CSS-7s missiles also known by the designations M-9 and M-11, respectively. China unveiled an advanced CSS-7 Mod 2 in late 1999. The missiles have enough range to hit targets in Taiwan with little or no warning. The lack of warning time increases the risk of conflict, U.S. military officials said. Last year, the State Department privately protested Beijing's missile buildup, U.S. officials said. Publicly, the department has described the buildup as worrying and said it could lead to future sales of U.S. anti-missile defenses to Taiwan. According to the senior military official, China's military remains backward by American standards but is building up its forces both strategic and conventional through purchases of high-technology arms, mostly from Russia. China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) views the United States as its main threat and is highlighting the perceived danger to win more funds for military programs.
[CTRL] New surveillance technology
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[CTRL] McAuliffe promises hearings on Florida vote
-Caveat Lector- McAuliffe promises hearings on Florida vote http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/02/04/dnc.florida.recount/index.html WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pushing an electoral reform agenda in his first full day on the job, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe said Sunday he would hold hearings into charges of voter intimidation and suppression during last November's presidential election in Florida. "I have been meeting with the civil rights groups, and they have depositions from thousands of people that they have spoken to that had a problem with the voting, with the ballots, had intimidation issues where people were required to come up with three or four forms of identification," the former Democratic fund-raiser told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer." A similar probe is already under way. On January 11, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission heard complaints from black voters in Florida who said they were wrongly turned away from the polls in November's presidential election. Since the November 7 vote, many black voters in Florida have complained that they were turned away from the polls, alleging that they were intimidated by police roadblocks or found their names wrongly stricken from voting rolls. Florida voting officials have denied that any such incidents took place. The commission is scheduled to issue a final report on their probe this summer. Election practices have come under close scrutiny because of the slim margin of the Bush victory. Bush won Florida's valuable 25 electoral votes and as a result the national Electoral College, by a margin of just 537 votes, according to certified results announced by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. That result was upheld by a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision, which halted any Florida vote recounts. Recount predictions On Sunday, McAuliffe predicted an ongoing unofficial recount of Florida ballots by news organizations would show President Bush as the loser had he not been helped by the nation's high court. "The Supreme Court stopped the counting of votes, and if they'd let the count go on, (Democratic candidate) Al Gore would have got the necessary votes," McAuliffe told NBC's "Meet the Press." Although Gore lost the Electoral College, he won the national popular vote by just 539,947 votes. But McAuliffe, a major fund-raiser for former President Clinton, acknowledged, "George Bush was elected. He's the president today. So we have to deal with that." GOP responds McAuliffe's Republican counterpart showed little sympathy. "The votes were cast legally," shot back Virginia Gov. James Gilmore, who heads the Republican National Committee. "They have been counted properly," Gilmore added. "And we don't need to go back to all that old thing. You know what? This election was held on its proper day and counted properly and, you know, frankly, to go back now and try to undermine the legitimacy of this election is very troubling." McAuliffe promised to stop talking about the election, but only after Congress enacts, and Bush signs, a bill on electoral reform. "People ought to be entitled to vote and the vote ought to be counted," he told CNN. "So let's just make sure we have electoral reform." 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] DUm-DUm
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/519/re4.htm }}Begin Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 1 - 7 February 2001 Issue No.519 Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Current issue | Previous issue | Site map A cancerous web of deception By Ashraf El-Bayoumi* Efforts over recent years by human rights activists to expose the disastrous health consequences of using depleted uranium (DU) weapons were for the most part unsuccessful. Weapons containing DU made their debut in combat during the 1991 Gulf war, when more than 300 tons were used -- substantially more than the 12 tons subsequently dropped on Kosovo and Bosnia. Large areas of southern Iraq, and parts of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, have as a consequence been contaminated. Thousands of Iraqi civilians and soldiers were exposed to DU. An unprecedented number of deadly cancers and unusual deformities has since been documented amongst them. Babies born to these victims are more likely to be severely deformed than is statistically normal. Thousands of Kuwaiti and Saudi Arabian civilians were also likely to have been exposed to DU dust, as were thousands of US, UK and Arab soldiers who participated in the war. Egyptians were undoubtedly exposed as well. DU weapons were used in Bosnia in 1994 and then Yugoslavia in 1999. Reports of widespread outbreaks of cancer related to radioactive DU among Iraqi civilians and soldiers were met with repeated denials. Ailments among thousands of US and UK soldiers who participated in the Gulf war, known as Gulf War Syndrome, received a persistent "lack of evidence" argument, as did initial reports of "the Balkan Syndrome" among NATO soldiers and civilians. However, when 15 European peace keepers who served in the Balkans suddenly died from leukaemia, the catastrophic effects of DU weapons became front-page news. Several European leaders expressed their alarm and called for the identification and clean-up of areas targeted by DU weapons and for medical screening of those who were exposed to it. So the wall of silence and denials has slowly begun to crumble. Previously concealed official reports that clearly warned in advance of potential health hazards are now being openly written about in the media. One example is a confidential paper issued by the UK Atomic Energy Commission that warned of radioactive contamination as a result of the use of DU. Another is a letter issued by the US Army Surgeon General's Office requiring more d etails about DU, "because the effects on soldiers from exposure to DU dust include a possible increased risk of cancer (lung and bone) and kidney damage." Shells tipped with DU are highly effective in piercing armour due to uranium's high density (1.7 times that of lead) and inflammable properties that make it ignite instantly and, therefore, roast alive anyone inside the a rmoured vehicle it penetrates. DU is the byproduct of the enrichment process to produce weapons-grade nuclear material and nuclear fuel. As a result of 50 years of nuclear weapon and nuclear fuel production in the US, there are now in excess of one million tons of DU in existence. Storing large amounts of radioactive and poisonous material presents a probl em for the US government, which, therefore, provides it free to arms manufacturers -- who reap huge profits as a result. Despite its name, the percentage of fissionable (and more radioactive) uranium isotopes in DU is roughly fifty per cent of that present in natural uranium. The name "depleted" is deceiving, since DU remains radioactive. M oreover, as a heavy metal, DU is highly toxic. Upon impact, it burns and produces tiny aerosolised particles of oxidised uranium that become airborne and can spread for 40 kilometres or more. This radioactive toxic dust e nters humans by inhalation and by the ingestion of contaminated animals, water and plants. There is, for obvious reasons, tremendous resistance at the Pentagon to the release of any information that may eventually lead to a ban on those effective "wonder" weapons. The Pentagon wants to protect DU weapons for fu ture wars. A main concern is the possibility that compensation amounting to billions of dollars would be paid to hundreds of thousands of victims, along with billions more to finance clean-up operations. Admission that th ere is a link between DU weapons and cancer would also have damaging political fallout, since several scholars have already determined that DU weapons are illegal according to international law. All these considerations help explain the official denial campaign aided by a general blackout by the Western media on the subject. One can compare this to the years of effort undertaken by many activists to expose the us e of the highly toxic Agent Orange in Vietnam. Last week it was reported that traces of Uranium-236 have been found in spent DU shells retrieved from the battlefields of Kosovo. This has resulted in alarm and anxiety in Europe,
[CTRL] Group Provides Names Of Anti-Ashcroft Organizations To IRS
-Caveat Lector- Landmark Launches 501-C Project 2/2/2001 - Landmark today launched its 501-C Project to ensure that liberal nonprofit organizations who lobby against presidential appointments comply with U.S. tax and lobbying laws. Landmark also provided to the IRS the names of organizations involved in lobbying against the nomination of John Ashcroft for attorney general. Contact: Eric Christensen 703-689-2370 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 2, 2001 Legal Group Provides Names Of Several Anti-Ashcroft Organizations To IRS Herndon, VA) Landmark Legal Foundation today forwarded to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) the names of numerous 501-C tax-exempt organizations that were involved in lobbying against the confirmation of John Ashcroft for attorney general. Lobbying by 501-C organizations that is intended to influence presidential appointments is political activity under the Internal Revenue Code and must be reported to the IRS. These groups may also be required to pay income taxes on these expenditures. In addition, 501(4) organizations that receive federal awards, grants or loans are prohibited from lobbying altogether. Landmark President Mark R. Levin stated, "Published reports reveal that scores of liberal, 501 tax-exempt groups spent the last month, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, in a well coordinated and highly organized lobbying campaign against the Ashcroft nomination. They have also announced that they will lobby against future nominees who they consider too conservative. The IRS must look at these activities very carefully to ensure that these organizations are not skirting the law or failing to pay their taxes." Landmark has learned that: * On January 9, 2001, dozens of liberal 501-C organizations met at the offices of the American Association of University Women where they hatched a comprehensive lobbying campaign against the Ashcroft nomination. In attendance were several Democratic congressional staffers, including individuals from Senator Barbara Boxer's office. * On January 13, 2001, Senator John Kerry attended a meeting organized by Massachusetts NARAL in which approximately forty (40) organizations lobbied Kerry against the Ashcroft nomination. Landmark has an ongoing lawsuit against the IRS over the agency's audit practices of non-profit organizations. Today, Landmark is launching its 501-C Project to monitor the lobbying activities of liberal, non-profit groups to ensure that they comply with federal law. Landmark is a public interest law firm founded in 1976 with offices in Kansas City, MO and Herndon, VA. 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] Beetle Overboard!--SF Gate
Beetle Overboard! VW hung off GG Bridge in prank Jonathan Curiel, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, February 5, 2001 A group of Canadian engineering students is taking responsibility for dangling a Volkswagen Bug off the Golden Gate Bridge this morning -- causing a huge commuter tie-up, halting ship traffic under the span and infuriating authorities, who say they will prosecute. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/02/05/MN60371.DTL FOR PIC: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/sfgate/object.cgi?object=/chronicle/pictures/2001/02/05/bridge-car.jpgpaper=chroniclefile=MN60371.DTLdirectory=/chronicle/archive/2001/02/05type=news Need a Daily Pep Talk? Subscribe at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dpt Get Current Events, Politics, News, Issues, Views Opinion... A Wholelottaotherlinx in your inbox daily subscribe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~My Chat Addresses: ICQ: 103814927 Y! Messenger: Kazzmir MS Messenger: Kazzmir AOL Messenger: xmulvax bridge-car.jpg
[CTRL] [radtimes] # 147
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 147 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- How to assist RadTimes-- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --Big Brother goes global --Panel urges better security at Defense agencies --Nice doesn't cut it in the face of the rabid Right --Manifest of Anti-capitalist Youth --Waging War on Dissent (NLG Report) --Hackers become more militant --ELF Making Good on Threat --Cloning Reality: Brave New World here we come === Big Brother goes global http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21556 By John W. Whitehead WEDNESDAY JANUARY 31 2001 The Internet, like no other technology in history, is truly a global medium.. In a way that was only dreamed of 10 years ago, communication is now possible from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world. But criminals have latched onto this global presence, too, creating viruses that wreak havoc on hard drives from Moscow to Malaysia to Minnesota. With the birth of the global criminal, it was inevitable that there would be a global response. That time has come. A group known as the Council of Europe has drafted an international treaty on cybercrime, which could go into effect as early as this summer. The Council, made up of 41 nations, has worked on the treaty since 1997, although recent global viruses lent urgency to its proceedings. The problem is that in its eagerness to lay a snare for the global cyber-criminal, the treaty has trapped basic civil liberties in its net. Reflecting what some observers have called "a law enforcement wish list," the document threatens to short-circuit fundamental civil rights. First, any international agreement purporting to deal with criminal activity on a global scale is fraught with problems from the beginning. What might be a crime online in some countries may be protected First Amendment speech in the United States. What might be a crime serious enough to warrant online surveillance by law enforcement would likely differ from country to country, depending on the severity with which cultures view certain behavior. This latter concern was one of the animating forces behind the protests of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign, an international coalition of cyber-liberties and human rights groups from countries as diverse as Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The GILC points out that, under the treaty, interception of online communications by law enforcement is only to be used for "serious offences to be determined by domestic law." However, many countries define serious crimes very broadly when police seek to wiretap a suspect. Of course, the unique global nature of the Internet means that even if the United States chooses not to use surveillance (although efforts like Carnivore, the FBI's online surveillance program, suggest this won't be the case), other countries could interfere with the expression of American citizens online, violating both their First Amendment rights to free speech and their Fourth Amendment rights prohibiting unreasonable searches. The treaty would also force Internet users to turn over decryption keys to government officials. Long a point of heated debate between the Internet community and law enforcement, decryption keys could give the government personal information it cannot access through lawful means. In some cases, it could even violate an Internet user's right not to self-incriminate, a fundamental due process liberty recognized throughout American history. In essence, the treaty on cybercrime, drafted behind closed doors and stuffed with goodies for eager law enforcement officers, threatens to respond to global crime online with a global assault on civil liberties. It is a maxim of modern life that the less connected police are to the community which they serve, the more likely they are to violate the civil liberties of the citizens. In most cases, the policeman who lives next door is unlikely to search your home without a warrant, to violate your free speech rights or to interfere with your basic freedoms. Why? Because he knows you as a human being, not a faceless member of the mob he's been sent to control. In America, we know that sending federal law enforcement to do a job often results in serious violations of our basic liberties. Whether it's the legal immigrant boy shot by federal officers while herding sheep or the victims of an overzealous Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the further we remove law enforcement from the community, the more we court serious damage to the Bill of Rights. It almost goes without saying, then, that a global response to crime online will inevitably result in an assault on
[CTRL] Three students arrested in plot to attack Kansas school
Three students arrested in plot to attack Kansas school February 5, 2001Web posted at: 9:32 p.m. EST (0232 GMT) HOYT, Kansas (CNN) -- Three students have been arrested in connection with a plan to carry out a Columbine-style attack on Royal Valley High School, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office said Monday. Richard Bradley, Jr., 18, and two juveniles, ages 16 and 17, were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and conspiring to criminally use explosives, the statement said. They were students at the school. Officials searched two of the suspects' houses and seized a hand-drawn floor plan of the school indicating "strategic locations throughout the school," firearms, ammunition, a book and computer disks containing instructions on how to make and set off explosives, a statement from the sheriff's office said. Also seized was white supremacy paraphernalia, it said. A sheriff's spokeswoman said the plot was uncovered last week, when a student overheard two of the youths talking about their plan. She took that information to the principal, who told the school's security officer, a deputy with the sheriff's office. The teen-agers had not set a date to carry out their plan, but had discussed having it coincide with a major school event, such as the prom, the spokeswoman said. In the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado, two teen-age gunmen killed 13 students and faculty members before killing themselves. "They wasn't like outcasts or anything," she told a local television reporter. "Everybody at this school is friends with everybody. You wouldn't think that somebody like that would be prone to do that. They were all everybody's friend." But the threat carried the potential for harm, said school superintendent Marceta Reilly. "It's always the balance between 'Is this just a hoax or a prank or is this this something serious?' But in this case it turned out to be serious." Reilly credited a crisis plan put into place after the 1999 attack at Columbine High School in Colorado that left 15 people dead, including the two teenage gunmen. The plan included setting up the school help line that received the anonymous tip and hiring the school resource officer, she said, adding that the arrests show the system worked. "I think our schools are very safe; I think they're safer than they ever have been, because we do take things seriously," she said. "We do have programs and procedures in place that help us make the school a safe place for our kids." But Diane Traicoff, the parent of a student at the school, said her daughter was not convinced. "At this point, she's so very upset, she doesn't want to return to school; she'd rather do home schooling." Classes for the school's 275 students will be held Tuesday as scheduled, Holloman said. Most of the planning for the attack occurred off school property, he said. "We're just a quiet community," said Holloman, who has served as principal for eight years. "We've got a good school and good kids." Last week, police in San Jose, California, arrested a 19-year-old student, Al DeGuzman, who allegedly planned a killing spree at his college campus. Need a Daily Pep Talk? Subscribe at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dpt Get Current Events, Politics, News, Issues, Views Opinion... A Wholelottaotherlinx in your inbox daily subscribe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~My Chat Addresses: ICQ: 103814927 Y! Messenger: Kazzmir MS Messenger: Kazzmir AOL Messenger: xmulvax
[CTRL] Iowa eatery urged to free 'Wally Gator'
Iowa eatery urged to free 'Wally Gator' The Associated Press BURLINGTON, Iowa (February 6, 2001 12:13 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - For years, Gator's Restaurant and Lounge has had a reptilian mascot on display in a large glass tank by the cash register. But Amy Rhodes has complained to the restaurant that it is cruel to keep Wally Gator penned up. Rhodes, of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, wrote to the restaurant Friday saying Wally should be sent to a sanctuary where he can live among his own kind. Rhodes' organization said restaurant patrons had complained about Wally's captivity. "Nobody has said anything to me in 12 1/2 years," said restaurant owner Wally Day, for whom the toothy 2-foot reptile is named. Rhodes' letter said alligators can live to be 50 years old and are "incredibly intelligent and sensitive animals." Day said Wally isn't even an alligator. He's a dwarf caiman, a member of the crocodile family, and he was purchased from a pet store. "If I'm in trouble with one caiman, then the pet store must really be in deep trouble," Day said. Professionals come in regularly to bathe Wally and check his condition. They also clean his new 6-foot tank, Day said. "He's got his own heat rock and everything. He seems happy - really happy." Need a Daily Pep Talk? Subscribe at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dpt Get Current Events, Politics, News, Issues, Views Opinion... A Wholelottaotherlinx in your inbox daily subscribe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~My Chat Addresses: ICQ: 103814927 Y! Messenger: Kazzmir MS Messenger: Kazzmir AOL Messenger: xmulvax copyright.pl
[CTRL] Many young gays may ignore safe-sex message
Many young gays may ignore safe-sex message One in three black homosexual males in major cities has HIV, federal study findsBy Charlene LainoMSNBC CHICAGO, Feb. 5 Nearly one in three young gay black men in major U.S. cities is infected with HIV, according to a troubling new government study that suggests homosexuals may be becoming increasingly dismissive of messages to practice safe sex. http://www.msnbc.com/news/526720.asp Need a Daily Pep Talk? Subscribe at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dpt Get Current Events, Politics, News, Issues, Views Opinion... A Wholelottaotherlinx in your inbox daily subscribe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~My Chat Addresses: ICQ: 103814927 Y! Messenger: Kazzmir MS Messenger: Kazzmir AOL Messenger: xmulvax
[CTRL] Extreme Science
Extreme Science What if Researchers Duked Out Their Ideas on TV?CommentaryBy Nicholas Regush Feb 5 Heres an idea for a let-it-all-hang-out network TV show that would make the new XFL seem downright boring and tired. Lets simply call it XS, for Extreme Science. STORY HIGHLIGHTSWeek 1: Mad Cow Disease Week 2: AIDS Week 3: Alzheimer's Disease Mainstream scientists and doctors who cling to cherished beliefs about how things work would be screened and reviewed by those on the outer edge holding new and challenging views. This would be a no-mercy debate, featuring any sort of name-calling and perhaps even kicking and screaming. XS would reveal how science is rife with the type of back-stabbing and conflicts of interest that rule the manner in which so-called knowledge is spread. Unlike in the daily world of science where the Established View dominates and works tirelessly with duped media to censor the competition, those on the outer edge of science would now have the full opportunity to present their views and stir things up, without fear of immediate retaliation, such as losing access to research funds and having their academic employment terminated. Of course, those holding mainstream scientific views would also be encouraged to feel guilt-free in publicly trashing the ideas of their accusers. Each team would have an on-air support/research staff of near-naked assistants. Armed guards would be on hand to prevent extra extreme encounters. XS would focus on a single topic each week. Here are three debates that would head my list: WEEK 1: MAD COW DISEASE As fears about mad cow disease spread across continents, including North America, scientists on the outer edge would love to take a strong public poke at current theory about what causes the disease. The conventional wisdom is that the culprit is a rogue protein called a prion. It has been found in brain tissue in people affected by the human form of the disease. So? Have the prion researchers jumped the gun? Being there in tissue doesnt necessarily mean it does anything. Some outer edge scientists think the scientific world is becoming infused with prion nonsense. Some believe that a microorganism, possibly bacteria, may trigger the disease process. Others believe that certain toxic chemicals used in farming may contribute to a prion attack. Week 2: AIDS DRUGS Government scientists who have ferociously championed the prescription of highly toxic AIDS cocktails to HIV-positive people with relatively intact immune systems and no sign of symptoms would be reviewed by scientists who have referred to this practice as lacking scientific basis, downright stupid and, in some cases, murderous. The debate peg would be the recent flip-flop on AIDS treatments by the government scientists who now claim that mostly only those whose immune systems have been damaged should receive these drugs. The outer edge scientists and doctors would hammer home questions to the government scientists about the near half-decade of unnecessary suffering experienced by many thousands of people due to the widespread hype surrounding the need to prescribe these toxic drugs to anyone who solely turned up HIV-positive. I see this particular debate as possibly requiring an extra unit of armed guards to prevent extreme hostilities, given the long history of tensions surrounding this issue. WEEK 3: ALZHEIMERS DISEASE Is Alzheimers disease really triggered by insoluble lumps of amyloid protein that accumulate on nerve cells in the brain? And does this accumulation lead to the build-up of thread-like protein, referred to as tangles? Well, thats the hallowed mainstream view that has dominated research and funding for years. This debate would feature those well-funded mainstream scientists who wont budge an iota on this issue. The outer-edge scientists and doctors who have serious questions about this theory would review the conventional science and also point to recent research, including a study with chimps, gorillas and orangutans - that shows no signs of tangles in the presence of amyloid deposits in the brain. Furthermore, a study with 100 patients who died of dementia showed very few had brain plaques. Perhaps Alzheimers causation needs some re-thinking. Im sure the debate would make this very plain to see. Possible flash points for
[CTRL] As the president eats, so eats Washington
As the president eats, so eats Washington By DANTE CHINNI, Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON (February 6, 2001 12:01 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - If the nation's cattle knew enough to lift their heads from the clover and sniff the political winds, they'd be trembling by now. They are, you see, back in culinary vogue here in Washington -- meaning the power-brokering that goes on in restaurants across town is increasingly likely to occur over a plate of rib-eye. So far, the shift is a subtle one. But then again, George W. Bush -- whose affinity for his home state of Texas seems to extend to that state's cuisine - has been in the White House only a few weeks. But history shows that where the city's food culture is concerned, a change in the Oval Office is the biggest change of all. While Bush has kept a low profile mealwise, those watching the new foodscape can count on one rule: The party in power sets the table. "Republicans tend to eat more beef, and Democrats tend to eat more free-range chicken," says Sally Quinn, doyenne of the Washington party scene. Now that the GOP controls all three branches of government, the implications for all those cattle are, well, you know. In this town, that's no small thing. For most Washingtonians, food is much more than simple nourishment. http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500306977-500492517-503439879-0,00.html Need a Daily Pep Talk? Subscribe at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dpt Get Current Events, Politics, News, Issues, Views Opinion... A Wholelottaotherlinx in your inbox daily subscribe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~My Chat Addresses: ICQ: 103814927 Y! Messenger: Kazzmir MS Messenger: Kazzmir AOL Messenger: xmulvax
[CTRL] Fw: Energy police
-Caveat Lector- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 7:51 PM Subject: Energy police If there is anything to be learned from the history of tyrannical governments, it is that they all started out, little by little, creating situations to justify their involvement in alledged "solutions." This is followed by the creation of more and more layers of police-state laws, rules, licenses, permits and regulations with the eventual goal being to take away ALL of the liberties of the people and enslave them. And, it should be noted, ALL governments have supposedly "good" reasons for the new laws, permits and other tools of tyranny. One can point to the "creation" of the massive crime waves and the growth of the mobs early in the last century to the government's outlawing booze. Prohibition not only made super millionaires out of the likes of Joe Kennedy and many others; it was used as an excuse for a whole slew of new laws, supposedly enacted on the behalf of the people, but in reality, on behalf of the growth of the socialist state and big government. One of the most dangerous laws was the landmark infringement of the Second Amendment with the passing of the first antigun bill, requiring that owners / purchasers of automatic weapons must purchase a permit from, (read register with) the government. That law was supposed to force Al Capone, Baby-Face Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde, and a whole slew of other mob thugs of the time to race to their nearest Treasury Department Office to buy a permit for their "Tommy" guns so they could be arrested. Hello, out there! Does anyone know of a single incident in history where the crook has gone to the government to register a firearm?? Though the law was worthless with respect to reducing crime or the use of automatic weapons by crooks, it did serve the purpose of giving government more control and power over the people and, of course, forcing a major crack in the Second Amendment. OK... nuff said on that subject. Last night, Governor Gray (RED) Davis of California was featured on the evening news, announcing his executive orders to combat our State of California-created energy crisis. Was it to restore the status quo by forcing the purchasers of the power plants in California to sell them back to the power generating companies; which were forced by the State of California to sell them in the first place? Not hardly. What Red Davis has announced is a new bureaucracy to determine what lights you and I "need" versus what lights we do not "need." This applies in spades to businesses and industry. Under the new, Socialist, "Davis" plan, the governor is setting up "Energy Police" operations. According to the governor, guidelines will be drawn up over the next week or so and sent out to all police agencies in the state; whereby the police will be empowered to determine if you or I are burning lights that we do not need and issue tickets (only a puny $1,000 fine for each ticket) to the evil users of light. The more I've been reading up on this fiasco, the more it stinks to high heaven. Pardon my paranoia, if I dare to suggest that this whole energy crisis situation appears now to have been a carefully crafted plan to destroy the privately owned utilities in such a way that the State and Federal Governments could get into the act, seize power companies, natural gas transmission facilities, etc., and further increase the government's stranglehold on us as another step towards the NWO / One World Government Socialist Police State. A year ago, if anyone in California were asked if they thought a police-state energy saving policy would eventually be put in place in California, the answer would have been a resounding "NO WAY!" WAKE UP, AMERICA.as CA goes, so will go the nation. As a former Electrical Superintendent and Plant Engineer in industry, I can tell you that the State of California's energy policy, with respect to lighting, is a total disaster; designed and run by idiots. As the ranch resident lamp lighter, I'm going to write up a special report on good energy policy versus the State of California's ridiculous nonsense. I'll also write up some valuable information for consumers so that they can easily determine their own cost of lighting and ways to save both energy and money. Remember that CA has been the "proving grounds" for many decades for the Communist Party USA and the socialist fellow travelers. The first major riot in a university occurred at U. of CA Berkeley. The first major riot in a city was the Communist Party planned and orchestrated Watts Riot of 1965. California is the blueprint prototype for the socialist-police state one world government that is fast becoming a reality. For years, we have heard a small but very vocal minority in this country, whining that Americans should be paying five bucks a gallon or more for gasoline and
[CTRL] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Flags (was: Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger)
-Caveat Lector- June, What a lovely fairy tale you have concocted concerning slavery in the northern states! Reread my sentence, too. I said they EITHER gave them letters of freedom OR just dumped them. meaning sold them in the South in an especially timely manner, only when it was evident they were going to be freed anyway. Ditto those letters of freedom--only after it was imminent anyway. Hardly the magnanimous gesture you attempt to fabricate. If my sentence makes no sense to you, it is your reading deficiency as it is perfectly clear what I have stated. You often use the "no sense" tactic when you do not like what you are reading. There were not that many states admitted in the Missouri Compromise and they were Midwestern with low populations at the time. I have personally seen a slave auction house in Illinois. New England where you live is where the most slaves were. Talk about your revisionist history! Southern slaves were often given letters of freedom also and many did not leave their original homes even after receiving their letters. It had become economically unfeasible in the South to maintain large slave populations on individual farms and would have been eliminated anyway but Lincoln wanted the credit, so it became a pretext..And "freeing" them with no means to provide for themselves was not the best way this could have been handled. The factories of New England wanted the adult slaves to replace the children they were using as slaves in their factories without the expense of having the cradle to grave responsibility of slaves. Here was their chance to have former slaves without having any investment in them. They paid them a sub-slave wage and hoped to lure them there with false promises to work in their factories instead of the children they employed at the time. I always wonder why so many Blacks stay in the evil South. One would think they would escape by any means. The latest census confirms that since 1970 they have been returning in large numbers now that there are jobs in the area. Of course NAFTA has eliminated lots of those. But I cannot help but wonder why they stayed right after TWBTS in such large numbers. They could have all left the region and come to live in the Northeast but most did not and stayed. The treatment and conditions varied greatly from situation to situation in the South also and there was no standard just as there was no standard for the way people were treated within families. And yes, that is exactly what I am saying, that whites shared what food they had with blacks for whom they were responsible. That is well documented and you are the first person I have ever heard claim otherwise. But you fabricate a nice story. And it is a way to project the national guilt onto one section instead of all guilty parties facing up to their own participation in a system that was morally wrong. How convenient! Amelia - Original Message - From: "Ynr Chyldz Wyld" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Flags (was: Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger) -Caveat Lector- From: "Amelia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, the Southern states were not the only states where the institution of slavery was practiced. I believe all states had it prior to TWBTS, some a few years back from that time/event. No, that is wrong. Free states admitted under the Missori Compromise never allowed slavery within their borders... And those northern states that had at one time had slavery had outlawed it long before the war. Also, in northern states slavery had been utilized in a much different manner than in the south...in the north, a slave could redeem him or herself, either by buying their freedom (if they were lucky enough to be able to save enough), or by serving as a slave for a set period of time; I believe this varied from state to state, but was usually from 7 to 12 years. At the end of their term of service, the slave was ruled to have redeemed his or her worth and was then set free. In many northern states, slave owners were also required to pay their slaves wages, albeit much lower wages than required of a free man or woman... They cleverly sold theirs into the South just prior to the outbreak of the war. Some gave them letters of freedom but many just "dumped" them right before the outbreak of conflict. This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. If these imaginary northern slaveowners gave their slaves letters of freedom, that can hardly be considered 'dumping' them. And if these imaginary slaves had letters of freedom, how could they be sold into slavery in the south? Also, remember the Emmmancipation Proclamation was not signed until 1864, after a state of general starvation existed in the South. Then the slaves were freed with no way to feed themselves, etc. other than trying to take from people who were already starving. So you wish us to believe that prior to the
