date:20010212


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Cell Phones May Tap Vital Signs

http://www.iht.com/articles/10339.htm

Nicola Jones IHT
Monday, February 12, 2001

A bomb has reduced a shopping mall to rubble, leaving rescue workers
desperate to know if anyone inside is still alive. Thanks to a remarkable
discovery at Bell Labs in New Jersey, they could one day find out simply by
calling the cell phone of someone lying unconscious inside.
That is because the signal from a cell phone reveals two vital signs: a
person's pulse and breathing rate. Better still, the person does not even
have to answer the phone.
The Bell Labs engineers, led by the husband-and wife team of Victor Lubecke
and Olga Boric-Lubecke, noticed that some of the microwaves transmitted by
a cell phone's antenna bounce back to the phone from the user's chest,
heart and lungs.
As those organs move, the frequency of the reflected radiation is Doppler
shifted by a tiny amount. If the lung is expanding, the radiation bouncing
off it is pushed closer together, slightly raising its frequency. A
contracting lung lowers the frequency.  The variation is tiny: one hertz in
a billion.
Bell Labs - owned by Lucent Technologies Inc. - now plans to modify the
mobile phone with a circuit that detects the Doppler shift in the reflected
signal picked up by its antenna. The phone then sends this data on to the
base station, where further processing extracts the user's vital signs.
"We're talking about very low-frequency signals," Mr. Lubecke said. "They
are easy to separate from a voice."
To pick up the reflected signals, the cell phone has to be held steady for
a few seconds, Mr. Lubecke said. That is very likely what will happen if
its owner is trapped or unconscious.
Doctors could also use the Bell Labs technology routinely to monitor a
patient's heart or breathing - just by phoning the patient's mobile.
Mr. Lubecke has been working with James Lin of the University of Illinois
in Chicago to test his ideas. The researchers used a radio with similar
frequency and power to a typical mobile phone to demonstrate the effect in
their lab. Now they are building a prototype detector.
Today's cell phone networks treat the interference information as unwanted
noise and discard it. For the new system to work, the network will have to
be modified to retain and interpret the signals, Mr. Lubeck said.
While the phone must be switched on, you do not have to answer it for the
system to work: just making it ring generates enough of a signal to allow
the heart and lung data to be piggybacked onto the signal that tells the
caller your phone is ringing.
Some experts say the technology faces major challenges. Alan Preece, who
investigates mobile phone health effects at the University of Bristol, said
that the heartbeat signal would be so much weaker than the main signal that
it risks being swamped.
If the Bell Labs discovery can be reliably exploited, it could also help
you get remote diagnoses just by phoning your doctor. So while the jury is
still out on cell phone safety, pending the results of a five year study by
the World Health Organization, it looks like cell phones may have at least
some potential health benefits on the horizon.

This article is excerpted from New Scientist, a weekly science and
technology magazine based in London. Distributed by the New York Times
Syndicate.

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Boeing May Look to Military, Space To Offset Drop in Commercial Sales

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/business/boeing_outlook_010118.html?Enews=y
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Sat. Jan 20, 2001

Boeing May Look to Military, Space To Offset Drop in Commercial Sales By
Emily Woodward

Special to Spacenews.com posted: 06:11 pm ET 18 January 2001

WASHINGTON - Seattle-based Boeing Co.'s prospects beyond 2001 are
clouded by a slowing demand for commercial aircraft, which may force the
company to rely more on its military and space businesses to sustain the
earnings gains made in 2000, according to Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, an
investment research firm.

In a Jan. 18 release, the New York-based firm downgraded its investment
rating for Boeing [BA], despite the company's Jan. 17 announcement of a
22-percent increase in earnings per share for 2000.

The investment downgrade is based on projections that commercial
aircraft sales will hold steady through 2001 and decline slightly in
2002, Chris Mecray, an analyst at Deutsche Banc, told Spacenews.com Jan.
18.

In a Jan. 17 statement accompanying the release of its 2000 earnings,
Boeing revealed a 19-percent drop in commercial aircraft revenues. It
predicted sales in this sector would hold constant through 2002.

Mecray emphasized sales of military aircraft and missile systems, as
well as space and communications technology could constitute a higher
percentage of Boeing's overall revenues if the commercial sector does
not improve or becomes increasingly sluggish.

The Deutsche Banc report noted sales of military aircraft and missile
systems for Boeing were approximately $12.1 billion in 2000, on par with
the company's revenues the previous year. However, the report predicted
Boeing would experience net gains in this sector in 2001, thanks to the
company's long-term contracts for F/A-18 fighters, C-17 transport
aircraft, AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters and T-45 trainer aircraft.

Net revenues from the defense and space sectors are expected to increase
from $20.2 billion in 2000 to $23.2 billion in 2001, said Mecray.

While "it is too early to say what...the program-by-program outlook will
be" under the new administration of President-elect George W. Bush,
Boeing looks forward to a net gain in the value of federal defense
contracts given the administration's commitment to national missile
defense and key platforms, Larry McCracken, a company media
representative, told Spacenews.com Jan. 18.

According to a performance review released Jan. 17 by Phil Condit,
Boeing chairman and chief executive officer, and Mike Sears, chief
financial officer, net sales will rise from $51.3 billion in 2000 to $57
billion in 2001, reaching $62 billion in 2002.

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[CTRL] Beheading the Great Messiah

2001-02-12 Thread M.A. Johnson


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   In our government-controlled schools we are taught that
   Lincoln was our greatest president because his war
   ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the other
   side of the story -- the side that reflects poorly on the
   government -- somehow gets lost.
 -- Richard J. Maybury, The Abe Lincoln Hoax

~~for educational purposes only~~
[Title 17 U.S.C. section 107]

Beheading the "Great Messiah"
by Karen De Coster

Abraham Lincoln, as most of us were told in Mr. Smith's
9th-grade history class, was a God-sent savior, a
brilliant, articulate, and diversity-loving individual,
and the Messiah of the great "Union." Most of us were
brainwashed on enchanting quotations from the "great man
from the little log cabin." This week celebrates his
birthday, and may he be remembered for what he truly was.
So let me begin a short and biased Lincoln diatribe,
and may it rattle Abe's grave and leave him forever
unsettled.

Lincoln was a ruthless dictator of the most contemptible
sort. A conniving and manipulative man, and a scoundrel
at heart, he was nowhere near what old guard historians
would have us believe.

Lincoln has been transformed into the indomitable icon
of the American Union. But yet, this beast ruled the
country by presidential decree, exercised dictatorial
powers over a free people, and proceeded to wage war
without a declaration from Congress. Lincoln blocked
Southern shipping ports, justifying his actions by
saying "he would enforce all laws and collect all revenues
due the North." The blockades were an act of war. He set
his Northern Army upon the South at Fort Sumter, and set
in motion one of the most brutal attacks ever upon freedom
by maneuvering the South into firing the first shot at their
Northern aggressors.

However, Mr. Smith's textbook would have us believe that
Lincoln was a preservationist of sorts, a man dedicated
to preserving the grandeur of State ideals. Most 9th-graders
don't have the intellect to ask what is so glorious about
State ideals. Instead, they absorb just enough to make it
into ignorant adulthood. In fact, if they had questioned
these teachings, they would have discovered that Lincoln
was a consummate con man, manipulator, and a State-serving
miscreant.

In the march through Georgia during Lincoln's War of
Northern Aggression, he and Sherman carved out a murderous
campaign, maiming innocent civilians and setting a precedent
for the next century's bloody genocides that followed. A
fine exemplar was he, the Communists might say.

As if the pure evil of the war to subjugate the Southern
states stuggling for independence was not unscrupulous
enough, Lincoln was hardly the watchman of the black race
as portrayed by Mr. Smith's ninth-grade history text,
either. Lincoln had no fondness for the black man, and
in fact, often spoke with the candor of that which would
make him a modern-day racist of satanic proportions.

As Lincoln scholar Tom DiLorenzo points out, Lincoln
believed there was an inherent inequality between the
black and white race, and held a conviction that a
"superior position" should be assigned to the white man
over the black man due to this political and social
inequality. David Duke was forever browbeaten for
muttering anything even resembling this.

Any good historian at least understands that his goal
was not to free the slaves, as DiLorenzo correctly states.
In 1862, Lincoln published a letter stating, "My paramount
object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is
not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save
the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and
if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do
it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving
others alone, I would also do that. What I do about
slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe
it helps to save the Union."

Lincoln was the darling candidate of the moneyed
industrialists of the North. At the core of his political
tenets was a government of high import taxes, and his
Republican party, whom he lead, passed the Morrill
tariff into law soon after taking office. To quote
DiLorenzo, Lincoln "even promised in his First
Inaugural Address to launch an invasion of any state that
failed to collect its share of tariffs." He was committing
himself to collecting customs in the South, even if that
meant they would secede. The free-market economics of
the South were up for assault.

Lincoln signed ten more tariff-raising bills. He
manipulated the American public into the first income
tax, he handed out huge land grants and monetary subsidies
to transcontinental railroads (corporate welfare), and he
took the nation off the gold standard, allowing the
government to have absolute control over the monetary
system. Then, he virtually nationalized the banking
system under the National Currency Acts in order to
establish a machine for printing new money at will and
to provide cheap credit for the business elite. This
mercantilist

[CTRL] Dishonest Abe - Statist Corporate Welfare King

2001-02-12 Thread flw


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Beheading the "Great Messiah"
by Karen De Coster

Abraham Lincoln, as most of us were told in Mr. Smith's 9th-grade history class,
was a God-sent savior, a brilliant, articulate, and diversity-loving individual, and 
the
Messiah of the great "Union." Most of us were brainwashed on enchanting quotations
from the "great man from the little log cabin." This week celebrates his birthday, and
may he be remembered for what he truly was. So let me begin a short and biased
Lincoln diatribe, and may it rattle Abe's grave and leave him forever unsettled.

Lincoln was a ruthless dictator of the most contemptible sort. A conniving and
manipulative man, and a scoundrel at heart, he was nowhere near what old guard
historians would have us believe.

Lincoln has been transformed into the indomitable icon of the American Union.
But yet, this beast ruled the country by presidential decree, exercised dictatorial
powers over a free people, and proceeded to wage war without a declaration from
Congress. Lincoln blocked Southern shipping ports, justifying his actions by saying
"he would enforce all laws and collect all revenues due the North." The blockades were
 an act of war. He set his Northern Army upon the South at Fort Sumter, and set in
motion one of the most brutal attacks ever upon freedom by maneuvering the South
into firing the first shot at their Northern aggressors.

However, Mr. Smith's textbook would have us believe that Lincoln was a
preservationist of sorts, a man dedicated to preserving the grandeur of State
ideals. Most 9th-graders don't have the intellect to ask what is so glorious about
State ideals. Instead, they absorb just enough to make it into ignorant adulthood.
In fact, if they had questioned these teachings, they would have discovered that
Lincoln was a consummate con man, manipulator, and a State-serving miscreant.

In the march through Georgia during Lincoln's War of Northern Aggression,
he and Sherman carved out a murderous campaign, maiming innocent civilians
and setting a precedent for the next century's bloody genocides that followed.
A fine exemplar was he, the Communists might say.

As if the pure evil of the war to subjugate the Southern states stuggling for i
ndependence was not unscrupulous enough, Lincoln was hardly the watchman
of the black race as portrayed by Mr. Smith's ninth-grade history text, either.
Lincoln had no fondness for the black man, and in fact, often spoke with the
candor of that which would make him a modern-day racist of satanic proportions.

As Lincoln scholar Tom DiLorenzo points out, Lincoln believed there was an
inherent inequality between the black and white race, and held a conviction that
a "superior position" should be assigned to the white man over the black man due
to this political and social inequality. David Duke was forever browbeaten for
muttering anything even resembling this.

Any good historian at least understands that his goal was not to free the slaves,
as DiLorenzo correctly states. In 1862, Lincoln published a letter stating, "My
paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save
or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it,
and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it 
by
freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery
and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union."

Lincoln was the darling candidate of the moneyed industrialists of the North.
At the core of his political tenets was a government of high import taxes, and
his Republican party, whom he lead, passed the Morrill tariff into law soon after
taking office. To quote DiLorenzo, Lincoln "even promised in his First Inaugural
Address to launch an invasion of any state that failed to collect its share of tariffs.
" He was committing himself to collecting customs in the South, even if that meant
they would secede. The free-market economics of the South were up for assault.

Lincoln signed ten more tariff-raising bills. He manipulated the American public
into the first income tax, he handed out huge land grants and monetary subsidies to 
transcontinental
railroads (corporate welfare), and he took the nation off the gold
standard, allowing the government to have absolute control over the monetary system.
Then, he virtually nationalized the banking system under the National Currency Acts
in order to establish a machine for printing new money at will and to provide cheap
credit for the business elite. This mercantilist tyrant ushered in central banking, our
greatest economic curse to this day.

Furthermore, his "New Army" and the slaughter effort on the South put into motion
an unprecedented profusion of federal coercion against free citizens, both North and
South. By way of conscription, he assembled a vast army by presidential decree, an
 act of flagrant misconduct which drafted individuals into

[CTRL] No Pardon Petitions as Required?


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Why in American they seem to be behind every tree.now tell me
someone, what is Mark Rich's real name?  What is David Duke's real name?
Always remember the Walker Spies and the sabotage into our space
program.

And what is Larry Flynt's real name?
Who are these people - all imposters?

Saba

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For the story behind the story...
Sunday Feb. 11, 2001; 9:29 p.m. EST

Barr: Susan McDougal's Pardon May be 'Void'

Georgia Congressman Bob Barr, one of ex-President Clinton's staunchest
critics, said Friday that nearly a third of his last-minute pardons,
including one for Clinton's former Whitewater business partner Susan
McDougal, could be invalidated because he circumvented proper procedure.

"A serious question has been raised about some 44 of the pardons," Barr
told former Congressman John Kasich, who substituted for Bill O'Reilly
on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor."

Barr said certain Clinton pardons "might be void because there were no
formal petitions even submitted to the president, yet he granted pardons
to some 44 people, including Henry Cisneros and Susan McDougal."

"So their pardons may not even be valid," he added.

In 1998 former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros pleaded guilty to
misleading investigators about illicit payments to his mistress.

Barr serves on the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee,
which plans to seek immunity for million-dollar Clinton contributor
Denise Rich next week.

Rich cited her Fifth Amendment protection against self incrimination
when asked to answer questions last week, a development that has
Washington buzzing about what she's trying to hide.

Barr told Kasich the procedural error that could void the McDougal and
Cisneros pardons would not effect Clinton's controversial pardon of
Rich's ex-husband, fugitive-billionaire Marc Rich.

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[CTRL] Fwd: Holy War Is Forever


I thought only Diamonds Are Forever?

How easy for those who want the war in the Holy Land to begin to - well
Remember the USS Liberty? Israelie's bombed and murdered 34 of our
sailors, wounded 171 and napalmed and bombed this great ship for 45
minutes but it did not survive alone to tell the truth of the matter but
their voices were still silenced?  Remember the USS Cole - oh so quiet
as to who did what?

Zionists want terror in the Holy Land and it is the oil they are after -
for the diamonds now, they already got

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Fifty four years ago when an international commission of that day was hearing
from Jews and Arabs about what the new U.N. should do about Palestine there
was testimony from very credible and very establishment Jewish Zionist sources
opposing creation of a "separatist Jewish State" precisely because it would
bring about an unending conflict with the Palestinian Arab population.  The
representative of the Zionist enterprise in Washington, and the former President
of the World Zionist Organization, Nahum Goldmann, subscribed to this view
and pleaded with David Ben-Gurion to put off declaring a "Jewish State" when
the British left and to hold talks with the Palestinian Arabs about a "bi-national"
unified State.  But the combination of the Nazi Holocaust and the ideological
convictions of Ben-Gurion (precursor to today's Labor Party) prevailed.  And
true enough, the conflict has not only continued unto this day but now threatens
to spiral far beyond its political and social origins into a religious war
which in turn threatens another, though very different, holocaust for the Jewish
people.


 IRAN-BACKED GROUP WARNS SHARON "HOLY WAR" IS FOREVER

  GAZA  Middle East News Line, 11 February:
  The Islamic opposition to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat has
threatened
  to continue a bombing campaign against Israel.

  The Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad warned that its "holy war" against Israel
will never
  stop and is meant to create terror in the Jewish state. The Jihad said this
would be a
  Palestinian response to the election of Ariel Sharon as Israel's new prime
minister.

  "The choice of holy war will never stop," Islamic Jihad leader Abdullah Shami
said.
  "The choice of carrying out explosive attacks in the heart of the enemy will
continue,
  not only within the 1967 lands, but in all of Palestine, from the Nile to
the sea and
  from the north to the south. We confirm that the bombing missions will continue
to
  create a balance of terror. The destruction of the enemy's cities and villages
and the
  killing of settlers is the choice. So, be ready, Sharon."

  The threats were issued as a Jewish settlement was again attacked by a mortar
  believed to have been fired by Palestinians. On early Sunday, an Israeli
military
  troop carrier was bombed in Gaza. Nobody was hurt.

  Meanwhile, Egypt and Syria are reported to be in sharp disagreement during
the
  current meeting of Arab League foreign ministers.

  Syria has called for a renewal of the Arab boycott against Israel in wake
of Sharon's
  election as prime minister. Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk A-Shaara has called
  Sharon a threat to regional security.

  Egypt and Jordan have counseled patience. They said the Arabs should not
rush to
  respond until Sharon's policy can be determined.

  The foreign ministers also disagreed on how to distribute up to $1 billion
pledged to
  the Palestinians. The Palestinians said only $50 million has been received
so far.

  Shami was addressing a rally of about 2,000 supporters in Gaza on Friday.
This, as
  PA officials vowed to continue attacks on Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip.

  "The uprising is an outcome and a natural reaction to the Israeli aggression,
murder
  and assassination of the Palestinian people," PA Cabinet secretary Ahmed
Abdul
  Rahman said.

  In Gaza, Palestinian sources said 22 Palestinian families living in an Israeli
enclave
  near Khan Yunis were given orders to evict their homes on Sunday. The sources
  said the Israeli order was based on security reasons and that the homes would
be
  destroyed.




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Re: [CTRL] Disorderly Conduct

2001-02-12 Thread Marilyn Wright


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On 10 Feb 01, at 10:41, Prudence L. Kuhn wrote:

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 Those of us who are old enough to remember when the use of seat belts
 began might also recall that early on there was no penalty for not
 remembering to use one.  Then after an interval, we were advised that
 if a police officer stopped us for something else and it was
 discovered that we were not using the seat belt, we wouldbe given an
 additional fine for a seat belt violation ($l0 I think).This
 morning's paper advised that police were going to get tough on seat
 belt requirements, and if they saw that you did not have your belt on,
 they would stop you and you would receive a fine of $50.00.  This is
 just to mention that things escalate, for the following article also
 appeared in the same paper:

 POLICE CHARGE CORRY HITCHHIKER, CLAIM SHE MADE OBSCENE GESTURE AT
 PASSING DRIVER

 A Corry hitchhiker accused of making an obscene gesture to a driver
 who passed her by has been charged with disorderly conduct.

 Corry police identified the woman as KA. M__, 43,
 (address). Police said an officer was watching on Tuesday about 11:20
 a.m. when M___ made the gesture to a driver who passed her by on
 East Main Street. End of quote.

 I thought you might like to know the direction that "law and order" is
 taking.  Its purpose no longer appears to be to protect our citizens
 from harm.  I'm not sure how many places an "obscene gesture"  amounts
 to disorderly conduct, but I just thought we should all be aware of
 the enthusiasm with which our nation's finest are applying the law.
 In several years an offense as grevious as this one may put you in the
 slammer for five or ten years.

Yes, and a six-eight year-old kid who points a finger at another kid
in school and says "bang bang" gets suspended or expelled from
school and probably scheduled for years of psychiatric treatment.

And this after years of Cowboys and Indians/ Cops and Robbers.
Is this still a free country?
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Subject: Patents/WTO: Drug companies sue S. Africa over cheap Aids drugs
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:05:07 -0600 (CST)
From: Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Two articles below from the Observer showing how to translate `free
trade' into English.

On the price difference between generic and patented drugs:

  To buy a Pfizer pill over the counter in South Africa would cost about
  9. In Thailand, Achmat scored the same generic drug for 15p.

A factor of 60!

-Sanjoy

Drugs giants sue to cut HIV lifeline

Nick Mathiason

Observer (London)
Sunday January 14, 2001

The might of the world's drugs industry, including GlaxoSmithKline of
the UK, is suing South Africa over alleged violation of intellectual
property rights.

The action will reignite a furious row between African countries,
where 25 million people are infected by the HIV virus. Only 25,000 of
these have access to the drugs they need to stay alive.

In a case to be heard at the Pretoria High Court in March, companies
will try to prevent South Africa from making or buying abroad huge
quantities of cheap, generic drugs to treat patients.

Anti-HIV drugs from countries such as Thailand can cost as little as a
tenth of the price of buying them from the multinationals. Drugs firms
refuse to grant price cuts to developing countries until their health
systems are deemed 'sophisticated'.

Whoever loses the case in South Africa won't incur damages but will
have to pay costs running into tens of millions of pounds. The action
will tarnish recent progress made by African governments and the
pharmaceuticals industry in relieving this massive health crisis.

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http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4116798,00.html

South Africa fights Aids drug apartheid

Access  to cut-price HIV pills would save millions of lives worldwide.
Why do rich pharmaceutical firms refuse them, asks Nick Mathiason

Sunday January 14, 2001
The Observer (London)

Zackie Achmat a 38-year-old black South African, is probably the
world's most extraordinary drug smuggler.

As far as anyone can tell, he's the only illegal importer of drugs who
has ever voluntarily handed himself in, offered a video of himself
clearing Customs and given over all receipts of his transactions to
the authorities.

Last October, Achmat, who has the Aids-related virus, HIV, flew to
Thailand and bought 5,000 pills to treat people dying of Aids. He then
flew back to South Africa and handed his drugs over to his country's
government.

The drug was Biozole, an anti-fungal treatment whose patent is owned
by pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer.

To buy a Pfizer pill over the counter in South Africa would cost about
9. In Thailand, Achmat scored the same generic drug for 15p.

In trade-law-speak, Achmat's 'parallel importation' of Biozole is a
vivid symbol of a growing healthcare scandal of epic proportions. Aids
is sweeping through Africa much like the Black Death plague that wiped
out so much of medieval Europe. Eminent African doctors are now saying
that HIV will do more harm to Africans than slavery did.

Of the world's 34 million people infected with HIV, 25 million live in
sub-Saharan Africa. Yet only 25,000 Africans (0.001 per cent of those
infected) receive the drugs known as anti-retrovirals which prolong
the lives of people with HIV and are freely available in the developed
world.

Last week, Achmat was badly ill. Speaking in a whisper from his home,
he said: 'Hundreds of people are dying every day in our country
because they can't get access to the right drugs. The only thing that
is stopping them is the price. I think it's immoral that people are
dying just because they're poor.'

Controlling the distribution of HIV drugs are some of the world's most
powerful pharmaceuticals companies which, combined, make profits
running into tens of billions of pounds.

But in a move that will make Achmat's 'crime' seem utterly
insignificant, the might of the world's drug industry, including the
UK's GlaxoSmithKline, will, on 5 March, take the South African
Government to court over alleged violation of intellectual property
rights - essentially, the same principle that got Achmat into trouble.

The constitutional case, which has been rumbling since 1997, will be
heard at the Pretoria High Court and could, if appeals are exercised,
run for years.  Whoever eventually loses will not face damages, but
costs running into tens of millions of pounds.

At the heart of the case is a law passed by former President Nelson
Mandela giving his country the right to buy huge amounts of generic
drugs and sell them cheaply in South Africa. In addition, South Africa
could compulsorily license HIV drugs and manufacture them within its
borders, undercutting the multinational pharmaceuticals companies. The
threat of legal action has so far prevented South Africa acting on
this right.

[CTRL] Elites ubber alles: how it's done. Blair and Pinochet deal.

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Subject: Secret UK deal freed Pinochet (Observer, 7 January)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:54:44 -0600 (CST)
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http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4113538,00.html

Secret UK deal freed Pinochet

A  new  book  alleges  the  former dictator's release from Britain was
brokered between Chile and Downing St.

Hugh O'Shaughnessy
Sunday January 7, 2001
The Observer (London)

Augusto  Pinochet,  the former Chilean dictator, was allowed to escape
extradition  to Spain on 2 March last year because of plans worked out
over  many  months  by  Tony Blair and Foreign Secretary Robin Cook in
collaboration with Eduardo Frei, then President of Chile, according to
leading  Chilean  sources.  Jos  Mara  Aznar, the conservative Prime
Minister of Spain and his Foreign Minister Abel Matutes, were involved
in the planning.

'The freeing of Pinochet was a political decision taken by the British
Government,'  Hernn Montealegre, Chile's leading human rights lawyer,
told  The  Observer  yesterday.  If  the  medical  report  which  Home
Secretary Jack Straw used to justify the former dictator's release had
been tested in the courts, it would not have stood up, he claimed.

Pinochet  faces  summary  arrest  today  for contempt of court, having
refused  to  submit to the medical examination ordered by Juan Guzmn,
the  examining  judge  dealing  with the 1973 Caravan of Death case in
which  the former dictator is implicated. Pinochet faces an additional
202 charges which relate to other crimes.

The  Blair-Frei  plan  was  to  prevent  Pinochet's  extradition while
observing  the  law. Instead, the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary
relied on Britain's wide discretion on extradition matters.

The plan was conceived in 1999 after it became clear that the Pinochet
affair  was  dragging on far longer than governments expected and came
to  fruition  when  British  doctors examined the General at Northwick
Park  Hospital  in Harrow, north London, on 5 January last year. Their
report allowed Straw to exercise his discretion to release Pinochet on
humanitarian grounds even though the former dictator had never said he
was too ill to stand trial.

The  medical  report  was  leaked  in February after the High Court in
London  forced  an  unwilling  Straw to disclose it to the Spanish and
other governments. It was widely criticised as skimpy and unconvincing
by experts in geriatrics in Britain and on the continent, particularly
by the Belgian government which, with Switzerland and France, was also
seeking Pinochet's extradition on grave charges.

The  plan  evolved in discussions round the world - in London, Madrid,
Santiago,  Rio  de Janeiro, at United Nations headquarters in New York
and in Auckland, the capital of New Zealand.

The  Observer  has  reconstructed  the  moves which allowed a dictator
notorious for murder and torture to escape trial in Spain last year.

On  2  November  1998,  shortly  after  Pinochet's  arrest when it was
expected  that he would be speedily sent to Spain, Blair and Aznar met
in  Downing  Street  and it was announced that Spain would collaborate
fully  with  the  extradition  proceedings.  'We  will  apply judicial
decisions,'  said  Francisco Alvarez Cascos, Aznar's deputy. The legal
wrangles continued into 1999.

By  mid-1999  a  new stratagem emerged when Frei, had a long telephone
conversation  with  Blair  in which the Chilean sought help in getting
Pinochet  released back to Chile on humanitarian grounds. According to
a book just published in Santiago, Augusto Pinochet: 503 Dias Atrapado
en  Londres  (Augusto  Pinochet: 503 Days Trapped in London) by Monica
Prez,  a  leading  Chilean  TV  journalist  and Felipe Gertdtzen, the
son-in-law  of  Frei,  the  Chilean  President  was  keen  to  achieve
Pinochet's return to Chile before his term ended in 2000.

Frei argued to Blair that neither government would benefit if Pinochet
were  to  die in England and that he could be tried in Chilean courts.
According  to  the  book,  Blair  emphasised to Frei that the case was
before  the courts and the Government could not interfere, adding that
any  British leader would court grave problems at home if he were seen
to  interfere  with  the  course  of justice. If there were any powers
which  Government  could  exercise  they  would be exercised by a Home
Secretary not a Prime Minister, he said. Blair undertook to do what he
could  within  the  law provided the exchanges between the two leaders
were  kept secret. The authors claim that Blair suggested setting up a
'back  channel',  with  two  people  appointed  to  liaise between the
leaders' private offices.

Frei's phone call followed a discussion on the Pinochet case in Rio at
the  Europe-Latin America summit between Chilean Foreign Minister Juan
Gabriel Valdes and Cook. The two had got on well.

Valdes  and Cook continued their

[CTRL] [Fwd: Review of NameBase in ALA journal]

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 Original Message 
Subject: Review of NameBase in ALA journal
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 21:59:14 -0600 (CST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NameBase)
Organization: CompuServe (http://www.compuserve.com/)
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

From: College  Research Libraries News
  October 2000, Vol.61 No.9
HTML version at: http://www.ala.org/acrl/crlnew2.html
 (click on "Internet Reviews" under Departments,
  and then on October 2000)

_

TITLE: NameBase: A Cumulative Index of Books and Clippings

ACCESS: http://www.namebase.org/ or http://www.pir.org/nbhome.html

NameBase is an index of people influential in politics, the military,
intelligence, crime, business, and the media since WWII. It started in
the late 1960's when New Left activist Daniel Brandt began clipping
magazine and newspaper articles and collecting investigative books
about the power structure. He combed each book and article for the
names of individuals, groups, corporations, and countries - developing
a name authority file along the way. In the early 1980's, he
incorporated Public Information Research to continue the work.
NameBase includes close to 100,000 names from approximately 260,000
citations. The names are drawn from over 700 books and serials, plus a
handful of documents recovered using the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA). While the index does draw from the mainstream and right wing
press, most books and articles come from a leftist perspective. Based
on the democratic concept that the people have a right to know, the
publications are generally investigative reports designed to uncover
secrets or conspiracies in high places.

The simplest search available is the name search. Enter an individual
or organizational proper name and NameBase displays a list of
publications and the page numbers on which the name appears.
Unfortunately, there is no synopsis describing who the people are or
why they were mentioned. There is only a brief annotation describing
the contents and politics of the publication. Instead, the user will
need to track down the original source, either at a library or by
ordering the material for a fee from Public Information Research.
Fortunately, NameBase does more than list names - it also uses data
mining techniques to list other names that appear on the same pages.
This proximity feature, available under each name as well as a
separate search, is the most valuable aspect of the database. If names
appear on the same page of an investigative report, then logic
dictates that the people named have some kind of relationship. The
database creates a social network diagram by using cluster analysis to
help the user visualize the data. Joseph Lieberman, for example, is
most closely associated with Sybase chairman Mitchell Kertzman, Jeane
Kirkpatrick, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

NameBase offers two other ways to search the index. The country search
lists names associated with a non-U.S. country during a specified time
frame. The document scan allows the user to submit a URL. NameBase
extracts names from the web page (English language only) and looks
them up in the index. As part of a brief tutorial
(http://www.pir.org/tour1.html), NameBase gives an example of looking
up the web page that lists the Board of Trustees at a University to
find out their affiliations.

For those who like to browse, it is useful to start on the Public
Information Research web page (http://www.pir.org). Browsing
collections include FOIA documents, essays, and the source list for
the index. 550 of the essays and source materials are also broken down
into 20 broad subject categories such as Big Business (lobbying,
corporations, intelligence) and Repression (federal, police). A search
engine is hidden within the essays and source list browsing
collections. NameBase offers limited access to non-registered users
during peak hours and periods of high load on the server. During these
times, users might retrieve only partial lists of names. Registering
by paying $49 for two years provides unrestricted access and entitles
the user to order photocopies or faxes of cited pages. Libraries may
purchase library accounts for $199 for two years that identify users
by IP address and eliminate the essays and editorial cartoons.
NameBase is most useful to journalists and students tracking down
investigative reports and looking for connections between names. It is
also useful to students looking for an alternative perspective on
topics like the Kennedy assassination, the overthrow of Allende, the
Iran Contra affair, or the CIA role in the crack cocaine crisis.
NameBase also provides unique access to the intelligence community,
boasting "the largest collection of CIA names . . . publicly available
anywhere in the world." NameBase is a fascinating one-of-a-kind index
that belongs in every librarian's repertoire of name resources.

The telnet version of NameBase was previously reviewed for

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Subject:

[IMC-DC] Iran-Contra operative Richard Armitage is now Colin Powell's
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Date:

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Iran-Contra operative Armitage
is Powell's No.2




Secret Agent Man
Iran-Contra operative Richard Armitage is now Colin Powell's No.2

By Jim Naureckas

http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2507/naureckas2507.html

The last time a Republican administration was put together, there were only
two political appointees who didn't make it through the confirmation process.
One was John Tower, the elder President Bush's ill-fated pick to head the
Defense Department. The other was Richard L. Armitage.

Armitage, who served as an assistant secretary of defense under President
Reagan, was to be the new administration's secretary of the Army. Before his
nomination could come to a vote, however, he withdrew his name, citing the
traditional need to spend more time with his family. Perhaps more relevant
was the draft of an article of mine that had just been shown by a right-wing
Republican senator to a top Pentagon official. Co-authored by Richard Ryan,
this article never appeared in print, but the threat that it would soon be
published apparently convinced Armitage and the administration that the
confirmation process would not be worth the trouble.

The article was about Armitage's relationship with a woman named Nguyet Thi.
O'Rourke, a Vietnamese immigrant convicted of running a gambling operation in
Northern Virginia. Armitage had already attracted the attention of the
President's Commission on Organized Crime by writing a glowing character
reference for her in conjunction with her trial, on Pentagon stationery no
less. What our article added was the juicy personal angle that has become a
requirement for killing a nomination. It seemed that when the Arlington
Police raided O'Rourke's house, they discovered some unusual photographs:
They showed a nude O'Rourke holding another photo, which depicted her and
Armitage wearing swimsuits.

The most obvious motive for taking such photos was to give O'Rourke some kind
of leverage over Armitage; even though they didn't prove anything in
themselves, they certainly implied an intimate relationship between a
high-ranking government official and an organized crime figure. At the very
least, they raised the question of why the official had put himself in a
position where a mobster might think she could blackmail him.

Why was a Republican senator showing this article to the Pentagon? There were
people on the right, like Ross Perot, who were deeply suspicious of Armitage
and his involvement in MIA negotiations. Many conservatives believed that
Vietnam still held U.S. prisoners in secret camps, and Armitage's failure to
press the Vietnamese harder was seen as evidence of collusion.

Ryan and I, who personally thought it likely that the MIAs were all dead,
nonetheless cultivated these conservative sources because their distaste for
Armitage was much more intense than any liberal politician's. Perhaps
unwisely, we shared an advance copy of our article with them, which became
exhibit A in the senator's case against Armitage.

We were interested in Armitage because of his prominent role in the Christic
Institute lawsuit. The lawsuit--which was eventually thrown out of court,
with sanctions that crushed the nonprofit law firm--alleged that members of
the secret Contra resupply effort like Richard Secord were part of a
long-standing "Secret Team" of military and intelligence operatives that had
been involved in various illegal activities going back at least to 1959.

According to the Christic Institute's affidavit, Armitage was a key player in
this team, helping to funnel drug profits from Laos and Thailand into
assassination programs in Vietnam and Iran. The Christic Institute's charges
have never been proven, or fully investigated, for that matter. But
Armitage's documented history and associations do tantalizingly track the
Christic allegations (see "Pentagon Aide Linked to Drug Ring," July 8, 1987).

Armitage did come under investigation for his role in the Reagan
administration's Iran-Contra scandal. Though he testified that he didn't know
about the administration's secret sale of arms to Iran until November 1986,
when they became public knowledge, independent counsel Lawrence Walsh's
report laid out extensive evidence that he knew about them a year earlier.

In fact, Armitage apparently opposed the arms sales as early as December
1985, on the grounds that Iranians were "sleazebags." Secord later testified
that he met with Armitage then in an effort to change his mind. Armitage
claimed not to remember meeting with Secord, though Armitage's own meeting
logs show that he did. Armitage kept a December 6, 1985 document describing
the legal ramifications of the Iran arms sales, entitled "Possibility for
Leaks," locked in his

[CTRL] [radtimes] # 155


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[radtimes] # 155

An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.

"We're living in rad times!"
---
How to assist RadTimes-- (See ** at end.)
---
Contents:

--RI Lawmakers Consider Ballistic Fingerprinting
--Cyber scams threaten integrity of the market
--Computer And Internet Security
--Surveillance In A Digital Age
--Terror groups hide behind Web encryption
--Monsanto CEO outlines strategy for next year
--Porto Alegre Call for Mobilisation

===

RI Lawmakers Consider Ballistic Fingerprinting

http://www.jointogether.org/jtodirect.jtml?U=83952O=265915

A bill proposed in the Rhode Island legislature would
require handgun makers to provide the state with a shell
casing and bullet fired from each new weapon sold in Rhode
Island.

===

From: internetcrimenews [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SURVEY - FTIT: Cyber scams threaten integrity of the market
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001

SURVEY - FTIT: Cyber scams threaten integrity of the market

ONLINE STOCK FRAUD by Stephen Phillips in San Francisco: The US Securities
and Exchange Commission has now assembled a formidable arsenal of
technology to combat the menace of online stock fraud

By STEPHEN PHILLIPS

While the internet has revolutionised stock trading, democratising access to
   the public markets, it has also empowered online criminals, handing them the
   most devastatingly effective tool for defrauding investors.

False information posted on the web last year lured scores of investors into
   decisions that cost them tens of millions of dollars. The US Securities and
   Exchange Commission fields about 400 e-mails a day from concerned investors
   flagging potential wrongdoing on the web.

 With cyber crime posing a significant threat to market integrity, Richard
   Walker, director of enforcement, has branded online stock manipulation
the SEC's "greatest concern".

 Using bulk e-mails or chat room postings, a lone conman armed with an
   internet-connected home computer can accomplish in hours what took
months for
   the notorious boiler rooms of telephone canvassers run from places such as
   Amsterdam in the 1980s and 1990s.

 The power of the internet to manipulate stocks was shown to most chilling
   effect in two spectacular stings last year. In separate incidents, Lucent
   Technologies, the telecoms network equipment giant, and Emulex, a computer
   network hardware vendor, saw Dollars 7.1bn and Dollars 2.6bn wiped off their
   respective stock market values within hours of bogus press releases
appearing on the web.

 Both companies swiftly recovered their valuations after the announcements,
   designed to sabotage their stock, were exposed as phony. However,
out-of-pocket investors were left facing protracted legal battles to seek
redress.

 The increased incidence of online financial fraud tracks the internet's
   explosion as a popular share-trading platform. Assets in US online brokerage
   accounts totalled about Dollars 415bn in 1998, and are expected to reach
Dollars 3,000bn by 2003, according to the internet market researcher Jupiter
   Communications. The amount of money held in US online accounts totalled
roughly Dollars 1.2bn at the start of last year, it says.

Nevertheless, while the internet imparts a patina of sophistication to online
   stock fraud, classic web cons are as hoary as the three-card trick. In
the most ubiquitous online stock scam, the so-called "pump- and-dump",
owners of
shares in an unheralded company promote a stock to drive up its value.

 Once it is sufficiently inflated, the stock is quickly sold, leaving the
   price to collapse and investors out of pocket.

 Anonymity

 To promote stocks online, criminals gravitate to the slew of websites that
   have sprung up to service teeming online investors. At investor chat
rooms and bulletin boards, they tout stocks using anonymous postings.

 Stocks may also be promoted using a barrage of internet press releases
   trumpeting technology breakthroughs, marketing pacts or featuring glowing
   testimonials from "experts".

 Conmen also direct potential investors to impressive corporate websites
   easily created with off-the-shelf software tools. "You can create
substance on the internet far faster and more easily than in real life,"
says web
stock fraud sleuth Bob Davis, who tracks suspicious stocks in popular
online investor
   newsletter, 'The Napeague Letter' (www. napeague.com).

 Tricksters send unsolicited e-mails touting hollow stocks that are
dressed up as exclusive investment tip-offs, sent to recipients "by
mistake", to
encourage investors to think they are privy

Re: [CTRL] secret weapons book

2001-02-12 Thread Smart News


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Dear List,

Here's amazon ordering info on this book.

Sincerely,  Neil Brick


This may be heavy for survivors of abuse.


Secret Weapons : Two Sisters' Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and
Sabotage - by Cheryl and Lynn Hersha with Dale Griffis, Ph D. and Ted
Schwartz. New Horizon Press, P O Box 669 Far Hills, NJ 07931 - ISBN
0-88282-196-2.

Our price: $20.76 (20% off)*

Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours*

To view this item, go to:
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*price and availability are subject to change.

Quotes from the book: "By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility,
knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how
the mind separated into distinct ego states, each unaware of the other.
First, the person traumatized had to be both extremely intelligent and under
the age of seven, two conditions not yet understood though remaining
consistent as factors. The trauma was almost always of a sexual nature..." p.
52
"The government researchers, aware of the information in the professional
journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric
dissociation). They decided to use selective trauma on healthy children to
create personalities capable of committing acts desired for national security
and defense." p. 53 - 54
The book also contains a variety of documents on mk-ultra and different
projects as well as reports to the Presidential Committee on Radiation and
Mind Control, including information on the Canadian lawsuit against the U.S.
Government.

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[CTRL] Fw: [ENWL-eng] AntiNuclear

2001-02-12 Thread Mrs. Jela Jovanovic

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Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 1:49 AM
Subject: [ENWL-eng] AntiNuclear

 February 9, 2001

 Dear Colleagues,

 We are writing to ask for your support in preventing the import of
 dangerous nuclear waste into the Russian Federation. The Russian
 government has recently announced its intention to import and store
 twenty thousand tons of nuclear waste primarily from East Asia and
 Central and Western Europe. Consumed with the potential profits from
 this transaction-profits which we feel will ultimately prove
 illusory-the government has thus far shown little regard for the
 potentially dire environmental consequences of bringing in so much
 nuclear waste.

 We are of course advancing what we feel is Russia's best interest with
 respect to this question. However, preventing the importation of
 nuclear waste into Russia is in the interest of the entire world. We
 therefore feel that this is not just an internal problem for Russia,
 but an international issue of grave importance. We are accordingly
 asking anyone and everyone-both inside and outside of Russia-to appeal
 to the lower house of our parliament, the State Duma, which on
 February 22 will begin the second reading of a bill allowing the
 import of nuclear waste. (This bill was passed in its first reading on
 December 21 of last year.)

 Attached you will find an already composed letter urging the Duma to
 reject this bill. This letter can be faxed to the following numbers:

 Speaker of the Russian State Duma, fax: 7-095-292-32-49,  7-095-292-85-08
 Communist Party of the Russian Federation, fax: 7-095-292-56-85
 Unity, fax: 7-095- 292-34-76
 Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, fax: 7-095-292-97-69
 Fatherland-All Russia, fax: 7-095-292-85-00
 Union of Right Forces, fax: 7-095-292-18-18
 Yabloko, fax: 7-095-292-93-79
 Agrarian Deputy Group, fax: 7-095-292-89-00
 People's Deputy Group, fax: 7-095-292-87-15
 Russia's Regions Deputy Group, fax: 7-095-292-91-69

 If this bill is passed in its second reading, it will undergo a third
 and final reading (or vote) later in the spring. If the State Duma
 ultimately decides to support this measure, the bill will then go to
 the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament. If
 they approve the measure all that remains is the President's signature
 before it becomes policy. If necessary, we intend to issue new appeals
 at every juncture in this process, and we hope that we will have your
 support.

 Perhaps the biggest obstacle facing the Russian environmental movement
 is governmental indifference to the importance of safeguarding the
 environment. It is our hope, then, that enough organizations will
 express their misgivings about importing nuclear waste that our
 government will pause to examine the environmental consequences of the
 proposed transaction and ultimately change this harmful policy. Time
 is of the essence, so we entreat you to mail the attached letter in
 time to influence the debate over the second reading of this bill.
 Please let us know if you do send a fax.
 We greatly appreciate any efforts you undertake in support of our
 mutual cause. We are in the process of adding English materials to our
 web-site (www.wildfield.ru/env/nuc/zakon/) about this campaign. In the
meantime,
 please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions or
 concerns.
 Please, distribute this letter as widely as possible.

 Yours Sincerely,

 Olga Pinstunova Brian Kuns
 Coordinator of the Anti-Nuclear Resistance Campaign Assistant
Coordinator
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 Natalya MironovaNadezhda Kutepova
 Movement for Nuclear Safety Agency of
Information Cooperation
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**

 An Appeal To:

 the Speaker of the Russian State Duma
 and the Chairmen of the following Duma fractions:
 Communist Party of the Russian Federation
 Unity
 Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
 Fatherland-All Russia
 Union of Right Forces
 Yabloko
 Agrarian Deputy Group
 People's Deputy Group
 Russia's Regions Deputy Group

 Dear Deputies of the Russian State Duma,

 Save your beautiful country from becoming a nuclear wasteland!

 As representatives of ___,
 and as world citizens, we urge you to reject the law on "Special
 Ecological Problems on the Environmental Rehabilitation of
 Radioactively-Polluted Regions of the Russian Federation, Financed
 from Revenue from International Trade in Nuclear Fuel," and the
 related amendments to the law on "The Use of Nuclear Energy," and to
 the law on "The Protection of the

[CTRL] The REAL Truth About Vietnam The POW/MIAs Part IVb

2001-02-12 Thread Outlawlady


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The REAL Truth About
Vietnam  The POW/MIAs

"KILLING OUR OWN"
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[CTRL] Richard Armitage-Secret Agent Man

http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2507/naureckas2507.html


Secret Agent Man
Iran-Contra operative Richard Armitage is now Colin Powell's No. 2

By Jim Naureckas

 
The last time a Republican administration was put together, there were only 
two political appointees who didn't make it through the confirmation process. 
One was John Tower, the elder President Bush's ill-fated pick to head the 
Defense Department. The other was Richard L. Armitage. 
Armitage, who served as an assistant secretary of defense under President 
Reagan, was to be the new administration's secretary of the Army. Before his 
nomination could come to a vote, however, he withdrew his name, citing the 
traditional need to spend more time with his family. Perhaps more relevant 
was the draft of an article of mine that had just been shown by a right-wing 
Republican senator to a top Pentagon official. Co-authored by Richard Ryan, 
this article never appeared in print, but the threat that it would soon be 
published apparently convinced Armitage and the administration that the 
confirmation process would not be worth the trouble. 
The article was about Armitage's relationship with a woman 
O'Rourke, a Vietnamese immigrant convicted of running a gambling operation in 
Northern Virginia. Armitage had already attracted the attention of the 
President's Commission on Organized Crime by writing a glowing character 
reference for her in conjunction with her trial, on Pentagon stationery no 
less. What our article added was the juicy personal angle that has become a 
requirement for killing a nomination. It seemed that when the Arlington 
Police raided O'Rourke's house, they discovered some unusual photographs: 
They showed a nude O'Rourke holding another photo, which depicted her and 
Armitage wearing swimsuits. The most obvious motive for taking such photos 
was to give O'Rourke some kind of leverage over Armitage; even though they 
didn't prove anything in themselves, they certainly implied an intimate 
relationship between a high-ranking government official and an organized 
crime figure. At the very least, they raised the question of why the official 
had put himself in a position where a mobster might think she could blackmail 
him. 
Why was a Republican senator showing this article to the Pentagon? There were 
people on the right, like Ross Perot, who were deeply suspicious of Armitage 
and his involvement in MIA negotiations. Many conservatives believed that 
Vietnam still held U.S. prisoners in secret camps, and Armitage's failure to 
press the Vietnamese harder was seen as evidence of collusion. 
Ryan and I, who personally thought it likely that the MIAs were all dead, 
nonetheless cultivated these conservative sources because their distaste for 
Armitage was much more intense than any liberal politician's. Perhaps 
unwisely, we shared an advance copy of our article with them, which became 
exhibit A in the senator's case against Armitage. 
We were interested in Armitage because of his prominent role in the Christic 
Institute lawsuit. The lawsuit--which was eventually thrown out of court, 
with sanctions that crushed the nonprofit law firm--alleged that members of 
the secret Contra resupply effort like Richard Secord were part of a 
long-standing "Secret Team" of military and intelligence operatives that had 
been involved in various illegal activities going back at least to 1959.
According to the Christic Institute's affidavit, Armitage was a key player in 
this team, helping to funnel drug profits from Laos and Thailand into 
assassination programs in Vietnam and Iran. The Christic Institute's charges 
have never been proven, or fully investigated, for that matter. But 
Armitage's documented history and associations do tantalizingly track the 
Christic allegations (see "Pentagon Aide Linked to Drug Ring," July 8, 1987). 
Armitage did come under investigation for his role in the Reagan 
administration's Iran-Contra scandal. Though he testified that he didn't know 
about the administration's secret sale of arms to Iran until November 1986, 
when they became public knowledge, independent counsel Lawrence Walsh's 
report laid out extensive evidence that he knew about them a year earlier. 
In fact, Armitage apparently opposed the arms sales as early as December 
1985, on the grounds that Iranians were "sleazebags." Secord later testified 
that he met with Armitage then in an effort to change his mind. Armitage 
claimed not to remember meeting with Secord, though Armitage's own meeting 
logs show that he did. Armitage kept a December 6, 1985 document describing 
the legal ramifications of the Iran arms sales, entitled "Possibility for 
Leaks," locked in his Pentagon safe until June 1987, when it was belatedly 
turned over to Walsh and the congressional Iran-Contra committee. 
Armitage also attended a Pentagon meeting in August 1986 in which Oliver 
North outlined the covert activities in support of the Contras that he had 
been

[CTRL] Class warfare is over: The richest won

http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/opinion/shields.shtml


Class warfare is over: The richest won

Monday, February 12, 2001

By MARK SHIELDS
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST

Now that President Bush's tax bill has been sent to Congress, at least two
conclusions can be fairly drawn: 1) Bush is desperately seeking to close the
widening and socially dangerous gap between the Rich and the Super-Rich; 2)
class warfare is now over -- the richest won.Don't take my word for it.
Listen to Leon Panetta, the son of Italian immigrants who became a U.S. Army
captain, a truly respected California congressman, director of the Federal
Budget and White House chief of staff. For the 35 years I have known Panetta,
I have never heard anyone, even in the backbiting precincts of Washington
politics, question the man's integrity, independence or courage.Recalling
President Reagan's 1981 tax cut and the uninterrupted federal budget deficits
that followed it, and the countless budget summits, spending caps and freezes
after that, Leon Panetta is blunt: "It took us 20 years to dig ourselves and
our nation out of the hole we dug in 1981. ... The American people have a
profound sense of fairness; the Bush tax cut constitutes a windfall for the
best off. ... Fiscal responsibility will be a casualty. This thing (tax bill)
is going to escalate with every interest making sure its own special tax
break is included. They all know there is no way even if it doubles in size
to $3 trillion that Bush will ever veto his signature tax bill."Panetta is
not an infallible prophet. But he was right in 1993 when he helped President
Clinton -- in an ultimately successful effort to stem the hemorrhage of
budget red ink -- to raise income tax rates on the richest 1.2 percent of
Americans. Wrong in 1993 -- and now backing Bush's 2001 tax cut -- was The
Wall Street Journal editorial page, which declared: "This administration gave
up on deficit reduction even before it started. Its 'plan' consists almost
entirely of tax hikes. It would certainly be an upset of historic proportions
if higher taxes actually led to lower deficits" -- exactly what the
Panetta-backed plan did lead to.William F. Buckley's National Review waved
the custom-made shirt of class warfare in 1993: "The income tax rate hike
aimed at the nation's most productive citizens will damage investment, reduce
national savings, slow business and job creation and most importantly, fail
to add a penny of revenue to the federal treasury." The Journal echoed this
defense of the Deserving Rich: The Democratic plan was "designed to punish
success" through "this witch's brew of taxes and mandates, (which is) poison
for the economy."Wrong. Federal income tax revenues accelerated up 40 percent
in the first four years after 1993. But what about that overtaxed top 1
percent? According to an analysis of IRS data done by the Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities, in 1992 "the average after-tax income of the 1 percent
of tax filers with the highest income" was $398,000. By 1997 (the last year
for which full data is available) and long after the punitive increased tax
burdens was placed on them, the top 1 percent of tax filers had an average
after-tax income of $518,000. That amounts to an average income increase for
the richest 1 percent of 30.1 percent.During that same period, the average
after-tax income for the bottom 90 percent of tax filers rose a modest 3.6
percent. So to whose aid does the new Bush tax plan come? That "persecuted" 1
percent who would receive $39,000 each and approximately 40 percent of the
overall tax cut. According to a U.S. Treasury Department study, the top 1
percent of the population under existing law pays 20 percent of all federal
taxes. It doesn't take the master of a Palm Pilot to figure out the top 1
percent would be getting back, in the Bush cut, about twice the portion of
the federal taxes they pay.Panetta, who has been through the frenzied bidding
war of a big tax cut before and who has nursed the fiscal wounds inflicted
upon the nation, fears the fiscal discipline will be the very first
casualty.Just maybe Bush will find time to explain to that single mom of whom
he speaks -- the one who earns $22,000 a year and has two children -- just
why the U.S. government cannot assure that her kids will learn in a safe,
clean and superior school or why their grandmother cannot get her
prescription filled because we need the money to give a tax break to a
billionaire.


Mark Shields is a Washington, D.C., columnist. He is a regular commentator on
CNN's "Capital Gang." Distributed by Creators Syndicate.

[CTRL] The Melting Antarctic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1162000/1162806.stm


Sunday, 11 February, 2001, 15:40 GMT

Ice surprise for sailor


By environment correspondent Alex Kirby in Nairobi

 A part of the Antarctic normally icebound in February is now virtually clear
water, a sailor has reported. He said he had also found an ice shelf in
"dramatic" retreat. The reports will fuel concern that the Antarctic is being
seriously affected by climate change. But they will be dismissed by those who
question the evidence that global temperatures are rising.

Blake's progress

The sailor, Sir Peter Blake, was talking via satellite telephone with the
conference here of the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep), which
ended on 9 February. In his yacht Seamaster, he is currently off the
Antarctic Peninsula, at 69 degrees 15' South.


"We are in an area that normally is solid ice at this time of year," he told
Unep's director, Dr Klaus Toepfer, and several ministers attending the
conference, "now it has many bergs in it, but is essentially a free waterway,
an almost unheard-of occurrence". "The captain of a cruise ship that has been
coming to the Antarctic Peninsula every year since the mid-1970s told us he
has never seen the area so free of ice, and that the average temperature in
that time has increased by about 1.4 degrees C." Sir Peter reported that he
had sailed to the King George VI ice shelf that normally fills the channel
between Alexander Island and the mainland at the base of the peninsula. The
indications are that it has retreated dramatically, especially over the past
eight to ten years. "We weren't able to make it to the face of the ice shelf,
because it is dropping so much old ice into the sea as it recedes," he said,
"the channel is full of it".



Sir Peter, a winner of the Whitbread Round the World yacht race and a former
setter of the record time for circumnavigating the world non-stop under sail,
said he and his crew had sailed through seas that would not have been
navigable in the era of early Antarctic explorers such as Sir Ernest
Shackleton.

Eroding ice shelf

In reply, Dr Toepfer said analysis of whaling records and modelling studies
showed that Antarctic sea ice had retreated south by 2.8 degrees of latitude
between the mid 1950s and the early 1970s. He said recent reports by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has estimated the
possible global temperature rise by 2100 as 5.8 degrees C, had confirmed a
"spectacular" retreat and collapse of ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula.
"Climate change in polar regions is expected to be among the greatest of any
region on the Earth, and it will cause major physical, ecological,
sociological and economic impacts," Dr Toepfer said. The Canadian Environment
Minister, David Anderson, who was also taking part in the link-up, said: "In
Canada's north, we are seeing dramatic changes that affect permafrost and sea
ice, which has major implications for species on which traditional Inuit life
depends, such as polar bears and seals." Sir Peter's report is consistent
with IPCC predictions of what will happen as climate change progresses. But a
report last year that an expedition had found open water at the North Pole
was dismissed as largely meaningless by critics who said it happened every
year. While the IPCC recently said it was more certain that climate change
was happening, and that human activities were at least partly to blame, the
sceptics say it has failed to explain several anomalies. In particular, they
say measurements taken near the Earth's surface, which show a steady rise in
global temperatures, are not supported by measurements taken at higher
altitudes.

[CTRL] The extortion of California: The wrath of Bush and the Texas power cabal

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Chin021101/chin021101.html



The extortion of California: The wrath of Bush and the Texas power cabal


By Larry Chin   
 

February 11. 2001—California teeters on the brink of darkness. The state is 
threatened with daily power blackouts. Natural gas may be cut off in the 
coming weeks. With a predicted hot and dry summer approaching, state 
politicians are scrambling for eleventh hour remedies.
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the consortium of Texas power companies could 
not be more pleased.
The state that overwhelmingly rejected Bush and the Republicans at the polls 
is being brought to its knees. The Democrats of California—-which include 
many of Bush's staunchest foes—- are being embarrassed and politically 
damaged.
As Governor Gray Davis struggles with bailout plans, Bush's Texas power 
supplier friends and campaign contributors, led by Kenneth Lay of Enron 
Corporation, are raking in billions of dollars by selling power at inflated 
prices into the sputtering California power system. Enron reported a record 
fourth quarter profit. Now, California has become its own power buyer (and is 
in the process of signing long-term contracts locking in power prices at 
historic highs), and "fast tracking" new power plant construction. Texas 
suppliers will make billions more in the years ahead.
Extorting California is even more fun than Florida election fraud. And 
considerably more profitable.

Bush's Partners in Crime: Follow the Money


Enron, TXU, Dynergy, AES, Reliant and other oil-soaked Bush corporate 
surrogates are holding a gun to the head of California, whose economic and 
political future are at stake. Governor Davis has branded the Texas power 
players as 'pirates and plunderers.' He was being kind.
Two of the big Texas energy operatives, Enron's Kenneth Lay and TXU's Earl 
Nye, have served on the energy team of Bush's transitional administration and 
were major campaign contributors. Enron contributed over $555,000—-the most 
of any Bush corporate donor.
Lay, a former Pentagon operative, is a long time friend to the Bush crime 
family. Enron, which has done business throughout the developing world with 
CIA assistance, was involved with the George H.W. Bush administration in a 
number of questionable Middle East business deals after the Gulf War. Lay 
employed two of former president George H.W. Bush's closest friends and 
cabinet operatives, James Baker and Robert Mosbacher, to hustle contracts 
after they left office.
Lay's residence is a stone's throw from Bush Jr.'s Texas ranch The two have 
shared many beers and Houston Astros games (at Enron Field). According to the 
Center for Responsive Politics, Lay and Enron president Jeffrey Skilling 
personally donated $100,000 to Bush. Lay personally lobbied other top Enron 
executives to give at least $1,000 to Bush. The Bush campaign borrowed 
Enron's corporate jets eight times in 2000.
W's cozy business alliance with Lay and the Texas energy cabal is not news. 
While governor, Bush pushed aggressively and successfully for relaxation of 
environmental and consumer protection regulations. This in turn allowed the 
companies to post record profits, while polluting the skies and water of 
Texas.
Lay was rumored to be Bush's first choice to be energy secretary, prior to 
the appointment of Spencer Abraham. Many believe Lay serves in this capacity 
today, from behind the scenes. Although Lay has denied a quid pro quo 
relationship with the new administration, his denials are as believable as 
Jeb Bush's recusal during the Florida vote "recount."
When you are a friend of the Bush family, you are a friend for life.


Call It What It Is: War


The Bushes are old hands when it comes to staging, waging and benefiting from 
war.
War is force designed to compel an adversary to submit to one's will. In wars 
of attrition, isolation (political, geographic and economic), and the choking 
off of supplies (including electricity, light, gas and heat) are standard 
techniques designed to inflict maximum suffering. Over an extended period, 
frustrated populaces (be they Iraqi, Nicaraguan or Californian) are softened 
to the point that they will accept whatever ends the torture.
With California, Bush/Cheney pursue a number of "divide and smash" end games. 
They are attacking on three fronts:
1) Open doors to power companies to pillage California itself. By selling the 
severity of the crisis, and the myths of the benefits of deregulation and the 
free market, Bush and the Texans seek to rip apart environmental laws, and 
open up markets.
2) Use corporate media to promote, exploit and exaggerate the "power crisis" 
to justify other parts of the Bush corporate/right wing agendas—including 
drilling in Alaska ("it will help relieve California's supply problem) and 
even the tax cut plan ("a tax cut will help pay higher energy bills").
3) Inflict maximum political damage to Democrats and other opposition, and 
fuel

[CTRL] Risk of Indo-Pak conflict unacceptably high: CIA

http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/090201/detFOR01.asp


Risk of Indo-Pak conflict unacceptably high: CIA
S.Rajagopalan
(Washington, February 8)

THE CENTRAL Intelligence Agency (CIA) has painted a grim picture of the
situation in the Indian sub-continent, saying it believes that the risk of
war between India and Pakistan remains "unacceptably high". It also talks of
"a good prospect of another round of nuclear tests" in the sub-continent,
notwithstanding India's repeated and solemn affirmations to the contrary. CIA
director George J. Tenet, in a testimony before the Senate's Select Committee
on Intelligence on Wednesday, asserted: "I must report that relations between
India and Pakistan remain volatile, making the risk of war between the two
nuclear-armed adversaries unacceptably high." Tenet, who had painted a
similar picture last year on nuclear proliferation and missile development
issues, said there was no sign of improvement in the potentially
destabilising competition between the two countries. "We still believe there
is a good prospect of another round of nuclear tests," he maintained.
"Pakistan may respond in kind," he said, while talking about last month's
Agni test. The CIA chief's remarks on South-Asia were part of an omnibus
statement, titled: "World Threat 2001: National Security in a Changing
World". As for the military balance in the sub-continent, he said India
continued to enjoy advantages over Pakistan in most areas of conventional
defence preparedness. "This includes a decisive advantage in fighter
aircraft, almost twice as many men under arms, and a much larger economy to
support defence expenditures. As a result, Pakistan relies heavily on its
nuclear weapons for deterrence." In Tenet's view, the deep-seated rivalry,
frequent artillery exchanges in Kashmir and short flight times for
nuclear-capable ballistic missiles and aircraft all contribute to an unstable
nuclear deterrence. Dwelling on Kashmir, he claimed both sides "seem quite
willing to take risks". This, along with their "deep animosity and distrust",
could lead to decisions that escalate tensions, Tenet said. He conceded that
the recent telephonic conversation between Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee and Gen. Pervez Musharraf has opened the doors for high-level talks,
but added the process was still fragile. "Neither side has yet agreed to
direct, unconditional talks. Tension can easily flare up once winter ends or
by New Delhi or Islamabad manoeuvring for an edge in the negotiations.
Leadership changes in either country also could add to tensions." The CIA
chief also spoke of Pakistan's internal problems, especially the economy,
complicating the situation and threatening whatever room Gen. Musharraf might
have for manoeuvre.

[CTRL] W.'s Risky Foreign Policy

http://www.consortiumnews.com/021201c.html


W.'s Risky Foreign Policy

By Sam Parry


The election of Ariel Sharon as Israel’s prime minister – and heightened 
tensions in the Middle East – could present George W. Bush with his first 
foreign policy challenge, though it's certain to be only one of many tests 
for Bush’s limited understanding of the world.
Despised by the Arab world for the bloody 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Sharon 
has vowed to crack down on Palestinian protests and to bring security to 
Israeli territory. Sharon's hard-line stance means at least a short-term 
suspension of comprehensive peace talks and possibly worse.
Further complicating the Middle East picture is Bush’s indication that he 
intends to take a harder line against Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, his father’s 
old nemesis whose survival apparently is viewed as an affront to the Bush 
family. A confrontation with Saddam could be seen as a way for Bush to prove 
his mettle in foreign affairs and cement his bond with the American people.
But Bush’s basic ignorance of the world – its geography, its peoples, its 
leaders and the delicate geopolitical balances that exist in region after 
region – could be a more long-lasting danger. Consider just some of the 
foreign policy issues that Bush will face in his term: the choice between the 
anti-ballistic missile treaty and an anti-missile "shield"; nuclear 
proliferation in the developing world; global resource depletion; the threat 
of global warming; the complex balance between free trade and fair trade; and 
the U.S. role in regional disputes, such as the Balkans and Colombia.
Consider, too, that Bush will confront a credibility problem in promoting 
what has long been a hallmark of U.S. foreign policy: advocacy of the 
democratic process. Bush’s decision to grab the presidency even though he 
lost the popular vote by more than a half million ballots and only then by 
having five political allies on the U.S. Supreme Court stop the counting of 
votes in Florida makes America’s high-toned lecturing to others about 
democracy sound especially hollow.
Given these complexities and drawbacks, there’s a fundamental question about 
whether Bush is up to the task. Even Bush’s handlers have acknowledged his 
limited first-hand experience with the world, with only a few overseas trips 
under his belt. His ignorance about foreign countries – inhabited by 
"Grecians," "Kosovians" – became campaign jokes.
During the campaign, Bush got a break since the national press corps did 
little to pin him down on how he would conduct foreign policy. When quizzed 
about international details, however, Bush did not fair well.
Asked early in the campaign to name the leaders of four hot spots – Chechnya, 
Taiwan, Pakistan and India – Bush could only identify "Lee" as the president 
of Taiwan. On the Pakistan question, he stumbled "I do know his name … the 
leader of Pakistan … General … His name is General."
Beyond that, Bush has offered only a sketchy vision of his foreign policy, 
more slogan than substance.
During the second presidential debate, he said:

I think we ought to be forgiving Third World debt under certain conditions. 
I think, for example, if we're convinced that a Third World country that's 
got a lot of debt would reform itself, that the money wouldn't go into the 
hands of a few but would go to help people, I think it makes sense for us 
to use our wealth in that way.
Or to trade debt for valuable rain forest lands. Makes that much sense. 
Yes, we do have an obligation to the world, but we can't be all things to 
all people. We can help build coalitions, but we can't put our troops all 
around the world. We can lend money, be we've got to do it wisely. We 
shouldn't be lending money to corrupt officials. So we gotta be guarded in 
our generosity.



The press generally let Bush get away with his practice of stating the 
obvious. Few leaders would endorse spending money unwisely or trying to be 
all things to all people or putting troops everywhere in the world.
The Bush campaign also defused concerns about the candidate’s wide swaths of 
international ignorance with assurances that Bush would surround himself with 
qualified experts. The fact that Bush will have qualified advisers is not in 
dispute, though one would expect as much for any president. The question 
remains, however, what will Bush do with their advice and how will he settle 
differences that inevitably will arise among his advisers.
When faced with a foreign-policy question during the transition, Bush resumed 
his practice of offering reassuring bromides. At one news conference, he said 
the United States "will be a nation of free trade" and a model of free 
enterprise. Then, seeming to struggle for the right words, he announced that 
his foreign policy would be "present, but humble." To late-night comedians, 
it might have sounded like U.S. foreign policy was raising its hand at an 
attendance check.
Whatever Bush meant by a

[CTRL] Bush Tax Cuts: Friendly Fascism

2001-02-12 Thread DIG alfred webre


-Caveat Lector-

 Bush Tax Cuts - There are at least 4 pre-designed outcomes of the Bush Tax
cuts, IMHO:

- Massive transfer of wealth to the energy-petroleum-nuclear oligarchy
- Programmed mpoverishment of lower 50% of USA population
- Shredding of social and physical (education; transportation)
infrastructure in USA
- Shredding of "safety nets" (health  human welfare) for large percentage of
population.

Goal: Destabilization of USA and stealth imposition of "friendly fascism"
regime.

Bush tax cuts already being felt in Texas (see below)

EcoNews Service
http://www.ecologynews.com
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February 12, 2001

Some Fault Bush Tax Cuts for Lean Days in Texas

By JIM YARDLEY

 OUSTON, Feb. 11  While President Bush is lobbying Congress to pass his
$1.6
 trillion tax cut proposal in Washington, lawmakers in his home state are
struggling
with budget problems that some critics are tracing to tax cuts Mr. Bush
passed here as
governor.

For the last week, state legislators have grown increasingly testy about
budget projections
showing that the state will have little, if any, money to spare. Lawmakers in
both parties
are talking of possible cutbacks after the projections showed that the
state's once-healthy
surplus might be nearly erased by budget overruns, particularly from health
care costs like
Medicaid.

"There's no doubt in my mind that George W. Bush's tax cuts have put us in
the situation
we're in right now," said State Senator Mario Gallegos, a Houston Democrat
who regularly
criticized Mr. Bush in the presidential campaign.

Mr. Bush's record of cutting taxes in Texas was a centerpiece of his
presidential
campaign. In 1997 and 1999, Mr. Bush shepherded a total of $2.9 billion in
tax cuts
through the State Legislature, much of it in the form of property tax
reductions for
homeowners. At the same time, budget surpluses enabled lawmakers to expand
financing
for education and some other services.

But the legislative session that began last month in Austin is shaping up
very differently.
Last week Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, hinted that his ambitious program
for higher
education and improving the state's roads and highways might have to be
scaled down.

Bill Ratliff, the acting lieutenant governor, said that there would not be a
tax increase, an
idea floated by a handful of legislators, and that any predictions of budget
cuts were
premature.

"I'm not prepared to start pushing any panic buttons," said Mr. Ratliff, a
Republican, noting
that the real work on the budget would begin next month.

The Texas Legislature meets every other year, and the projected state budget
for the next
two years is $108.2 billion. While this reflects a $5.1 billion increase in
revenue, the
growing cost of programs like Medicaid will swallow nearly all the extra
money. One
estimate shows that the state will have only $300 million to pay for any new
initiatives.

The growing cost of health care for the poor, largely Medicaid, is the
biggest budget
problem. Projections show that an additional $650 million is needed just so
that Medicaid
and other health care services will be financed for the current fiscal year,
which ends on
Aug. 31.

During the presidential race, Al Gore criticized the Texas tax cuts and
accused Mr. Bush
of mishandling the state's budget after news reports last July gave details
of cost overruns
for Medicaid. Mr. Gore's aides also seized on an off-the-cuff remark made by
Mr. Bush
about the state budget. "I hope I'm not here to deal with it," Mr. Bush said,
alluding to his
presidential hopes.

Scott McClellan, a White House spokesman, said today that Mr. Bush's agenda
in Texas,
including his tax cuts, "enjoyed strong bipartisan support."

"Texas is in strong, sound fiscal health," Mr. McClellan said.

The real impact of the tax cuts in Texas has been a subject of debate. Mr.
Bush's plan
allocated more state money for education, allowing local school districts to
cut property
taxes. But, in fact, many districts simply took the extra state money without
cutting rates. In
other cases, rising property assessments offset any savings. Studies have
shown that a
majority of Texans have not seen their taxes go down.

Garnet Coleman, a Democratic state representative from Houston, said part of
the current
Medicaid problems resulted from an accounting trick in which lawmakers in 1999
provided money for only 23 months. He said the decision not to finance the
24th month of
the two-year budget cycle helped provide a cushion that enabled the tax cuts
to be
passed.

The question now is whether the Medicaid costs will prevent lawmakers from
expanding
the program. Texas already has 1.5 million uninsured children, including an
estimated
600,000 who are eligible for Medicaid but are not enrolled.

After a legislative hearing last week on the rising Medicaid costs, State
Senator Chris
Harris, a Republican from Arlington, criticized the tax cuts. "We made tax
cuts because we
thought we had this huge surplus," he said, according

Re: [CTRL] The Melting Antarctic

2001-02-12 Thread John Cone


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--- William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 "A part of the Antarctic normally icebound in
February is now virtually clear
water, a sailor has reported. He said he had also
found an ice shelf in "dramatic" retreat. The reports
will fuel concern that the Antarctic is being
seriously affected by climate change."

"...a "spectacular" retreat and collapse of ice
shelves on the Antarctic peninsula.
"Climate change in polar regions is expected to be
among the greatest of any region on the Earth..."
__

Nakano Comments:

Read the above quoted material carefully.
This is confirmation the polar regions,
and especially the South Pole, are specifically
being targetedintentionally targeted for
climate modification.
The technology for accomplishing this has been
in place for about 20 years.
The cause isn't any of the things you hear about
in the popular media...and not what the environmental
wackos like to protest about.
It isn't CFCs or HCFCs.
It isn't Freon.
It isn't spraycans.
It isn't greenhouse gases.
It isn't "cow farts" as Ronnie Reagan told us.

It is HAARP and similar "ionospheric heating"
technology.

 Regards to All
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[CTRL] Historian: IBM not used in Auschwitz

http://www.salon.com/books/wire/2001/02/12/ibm_nazis/index.html


Historian: IBM not used in Auschwitz
 
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By Monika Scislowska
Feb. 12, 2001 | WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Poland's leading Holocaust historian 
said Monday that there was no evidence to support the claim that the Nazis 
used technology made by the U.S. computer giant IBM at Auschwitz, although he 
does believe it was used in other concentration camps. 
Franciszek Piper, the Auschwitz museum's historian, said that contrary to a 
claim made by U.S. researcher Edwin Black in a book entitled "IBM and the 
Holocaust," punch-card machines made by IBM were not used in the camp. 

"Black maintains that the punch-machines were used in Auschwitz, but we have 
no sources to confirm that," Piper said in a telephone interview with The 
Associated Press from his home in the city of Oswiecim, in southern Poland, 
where Nazis built the Auschwitz camp during World War II. 
According to Piper, documents from survivors of Mauthausen, the Nazis' most 
notorious concentration camp in Austria, show the machines were used there to 
organize information on inmates' personal data. Such files can be seen at the 
Auschwitz museum exhibit, he said. 
The Nazis killed some 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, in the 
Auschwitz-Birkineau camps between 1940-1945. 
The release of the book Monday coincided with a lawsuit accusing IBM of 
providing technology to the Nazis -- knowing it could facilitate persecution 
and genocide. 
IBM's German subsidiary during the Nazi era, Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen 
GmbH, was taken over by the Nazis. A machine made by the company -- believed 
to have been used in the German census in 1933, the year the Nazis took power 
-- is on display at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. 
The company hasn't yet seen either the book or the lawsuit and isn't 
commenting in detail, Ian Colley, IBM's European spokesman in Paris, said 
Monday.

[CTRL] [ENWL-eng] [Fwd: New and improved censorship]

2001-02-12 Thread DIG alfred webre


-Caveat Lector-

 Published on Thursday, February 1, 2001 in the Guardian of London
 It's Official: I'm a Menace to Society
 by George Monbiot

 I'm beginning to feel unwelcome. On Monday a letter in the Guardian
 revealed
 that staff from the Bookmarks bookshop trying to reach the World
 Economic Forum
 were refused entry to Switzerland. Their offence? Carrying copies of my
 book,
 Captive State, and Naomi Klein's book, No Logo, which were deemed too
 dangerous
 to be allowed into the country at such a sensitive time. Now I discover
 that,
 alongside such threats to civilisation as the World Development
 Movement,
 Jubilee Plus, Friends of the Earth and the human rights lawyer Louise
 Christian,
 my presence has become a "security risk", which major venues around the
 country
 have been asked to forestall.
 On Friday, a speaking tour called Globalise Resistance begins in
 Glasgow.
 Organised by greens, socialists and student activists, it brings
 together
 liberal and radical critics of globalisation. It involves no
 demonstrations, no
 rallies, no riots: it is simply a series of conferences. Yet almost
 everywhere
 we're going, people have called for the tour to be restricted or banned.

 On Friday, the Scottish Conservative party asked the Home Office to
 review its
 decision to grant a visa to a speaker from the US. The SNP warned that
 our
 conference in Glasgow "must be closely monitored". In Manchester, we
 were booked
 to speak at the university. A few weeks ago, it cancelled the booking.
 Having
 spoken to the police, it had decided that we were "a potential security
 risk".
 So the organisers hired a hall in the Co-op's headquarters instead. A
 fortnight
 ago, the security company running the hall annulled the contract on the
 advice
 of the police. After some discussion, the firm, to its credit, reversed
 its
 decision.

 The tour's organisers encountered similar problems when they tried to
 hire a
 venue in London. They had agreed a price with Imperial College, but it
 backed
 away just as the contract was about to be signed. So instead they booked
 the
 conference facilities at Goldsmiths College, whose principal is the
 Labour
 historian Ben Pimlott. On January 22, Goldsmiths wrote to confirm a
 booking for
 1,000 guests. Soon afterwards, the college pulled out.

 I have spent much of the past week trying to find out why. When, after
 days of
 trying, I managed to raise Ben Pimlott, he insisted that I shouldn't
 quote him.
 This wasn't hard, as he refused to answer most of my questions, such as
 whether
 the event had been cancelled because of its political complexion. An
 administrator told me that the conference was too big for the college,
 and had
 been booked in error. But Goldsmiths' brochure reveals that the two main
 auditoria alone seat 1,040 people, and "over 50 additional rooms" are
 available
 for hire. The organisers offered to restrict the number of guests; but
 the
 college refused to negotiate. The conference had to find another venue.

 So what on earth is going on? Nobody knows, but when the Socialist
 Alliance,
 which is one of the groups involved in the current tour, booked rooms
 from
 Brighton and Hove Council for a meeting coinciding with the Labour party
 conference last September, the council tried to cancel on the grounds
 that it
 would "offend our major customer": namely the Labour party. It backed
 down only
 when the press began phoning.

 It is certainly becoming harder to challenge the neo-liberal consensus
 to which
 nearly all the world's major political parties now subscribe. The global
 deregulation which allows big business both to seize trade from smaller
 companies and to dump its costs on to people and the environment can
 proceed
 only if it is accompanied by the reregulation of the people it
 threatens. All
 over the world, governments are trying to stamp out peaceful protest and
 dissent.

 In Britain, the new terrorism and investigatory powers acts enable the
 security
 services both to characterise protesters as terrorists and to ransack
 their
 communications without a warrant. In the US, peaceful demonstrators are
 now
 being arrested en masse before their protests begin. After the
 demonstrations in
 Seattle in 1999, some of us took bets as to where the next world trade
 talks
 would be held. Someone suggested Burma, another Bahrain. Someone else
 hazarded
 Qatar. Sure enough, last week we heard that November's trade talks will
 be held
 in Qatar. New market "freedoms" will be implemented with the help of
 old-fashioned authoritarianism.

 Institutions behave like this when they are frightened. The more the
 politics
 and economics of globalisation are exposed to public scrutiny, the more
 they are
 found wanting. When power has to hide from the people, you know it's
 illegitimate.

 Ê Guardian Newspapers Limited 2001

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[CTRL] OBRL - Humans Have Fewer Genes Than Rats, or Rice

2001-02-12 Thread DIG alfred webre


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In a message dated 01-02-12 20:06:18 EST, you write:


 Orgone Biophysical Research Lab [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 http://www.orgonelab.org
 Forwarded News Item

 Please copy and distribute to other interested individuals and groups

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  Humans Have Fewer Genes Than Rats, or Rice

 If, after reading this, you feel the gene-biologists don't know what they
 are talking about, you are not alone.
 JD.

 +

 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:37:38 EST
 Subject: Humans have fewer genes than rats

 What does this do to the theory of evolution?  What about the 98% amount of
 genes we share with chimpanzees?  Was that just an estimate?  Where is the
 integrity of all this?  When are they telling us good guesses and when are
 they telling us the truth?  Fred Cline, S.F.

 San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, February 11, 2001

 Genome Discovery Shocks Scientists

 Genetic blueprint contains far fewer genes than thought -- DNA's
 importance downplayed

 Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer

 Deepening the mystery of what makes us human, two scientific teams will
 publish the first maps of the human genome this week, revealing that the
 human genetic blueprint contains only a third as many genes as had been
 supposed.

 The publication of the maps is a milestone in the decadelong,
 multibillion-dollar effort to decipher the DNA that carries the set of
 instructions, passed on from parents to children, for making a human
 being.

 Until recently, scientists had expected to find as many as 100,000 genes
 in the genome. But the two scientific teams, reporting their findings
 this week in the journals Science and Nature, independently found only
 about 30,000 genes.

 The paucity of genes left scientists struggling to understand how humans
 could be so much more complex than other animals with essentially the
 same number of genes.

 "We have only 300 unique genes in the human (genome) that are not in the
 mouse," said Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics, the Maryland
 firm that led one of the mapping teams. "This tells me genes can't
 possibly explain all of what makes us what we are."

 Francis Collins, leader of the U.S. contingent to the Human Genome
 Project, a consortium of publicly funded scientists from around the
 world, said the findings will force scientists to look for other factors
 to explain many aspects of health, disease and behavior.

 "We had a hard time explaining the (genetic) control mechanism when we
 thought there were 100,000 (genes)," Collins said. "Now we have only a
 third as many."

 Celera and the public scientists of the Human Genome Project have been
 rivals in the race to map the genome. In June, the two teams announced
 at a White House ceremony that they had read most of the 2.91 billion
 chemical letters found in each strand of human DNA.

 This week, in dozens of articles in the journals Science and Nature,
 Celera and the public team will publish their first efforts to
 unscramble the genetic secrets captured in that jumble of chemical
 letters.

 In an unusual move signaling the importance of the findings, Nature and
 Science planned to hold a press conference tomorrow. However, after some
 British newspapers violated a publishing embargo, the journals hastily
 gave the media the green light to run their stories today. Venter's team
 will publish its findings in Science, and the public project will
 publish theirs in Nature.

 The publications include other surprising findings, such as the
 discovery that vast stretches of noncoding regions in human DNA -- what
 has been called "junk DNA" -- may actually play an important role in
 driving and recording evolution.

 Eric Lander, a geneticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 and a scientific leader of the Human Genome Project, sounded awestruck
 as he summarized the article he and his scientific allies published in
 Nature.

 "I think the junk is the biggest surprise in the genome," Lander said.

 Lander said half of our genome seems to consist of repeating elements of
 DNA that have copied and inserted themselves into the sequence. Lander
 said scientists used these repetitive sequences to study how the genome
 evolved.

 They analyzed how the repeated sections became garbled as they were
 copied over and over, much as the original message gets garbled in a
 children's game of telephone. The more garbled the sequence, the older
 the repetition. Based on computer analyses of this garble, Lander said,
 scientists have dated when various sections of the genome were created.

 "It's as if we've found this ancient history that contains many
 legendary stories," Lander said. "We have just dug up the fossil record
 for 700 million years of evolution."

 The genome consists of 23 pairs of chromosomes, which are present in the
 nucleus of almost every human cell. Each chromosome hosts thousands of
 genes, strings of DNA letters that carry instructions for making one or
 more of the

[CTRL] Fwd: FTW SUBSCRIBER BULLETIN 01-04 - FTW INVITED TO INT'L FINANCIAL CONFERENCE, MOSCOW

2001-02-12 Thread Kris Millegan






"FROM THE WILDERNESS" INVITED TO ATTEND EXCLUSIVE GLOBAL FINANCIAL
CONFERENCE, MARCH 6-7, 2001 IN MOSCOW. http://www.ffo.ru/eindex.html.

CRISIS IN THE U.S. ECONOMY

FTW - (2/12/01) - Because of previous writings on world economic and
political developments as influenced by the drug trade and organized
criminal behavior, as well as our coverage of money laundering out of the
Russian financial system, FTW has been invited to attend a special financial
conference in Moscow next month. The conference organizers which include the
Russian Ministry of (Economic) Appraisal and other endorsing partners,
including Reuters News Service, are seeking to address important
"pre-crisis" issues attached to a potential crash of the U.S. stock market,
Federal Reserve System and serious weakening of the U.S. dollar.

Statements by the organizing committee indicate that attendance is severely
limited to top financial executives from around the world and FTW is humbled
to have been among those invited to attend. Apparently our economic and
political map is shared by others. This event represents a quantum leap
forward in the making of a more accurate map of how money really works in
the world.

Two of the many topics on the table for discussion include possible
conversion to the Euro dollar as a means of oil pricing and "Unmotivated
armed conflicts as the regulator of financial and stock market
fluctuations." This is the first time that FTW has ever seen an open
reference to an economic strategy that we, who were on the fringes, have
been writing about for years.

A complete description of the event and the agenda is available on the world
wide web at http://www.ffo.ru/eindex.html.

The estimated cost for me to attend this conference is $3,000. Within 48
hours of receiving this notice and verifying the authenticity of the
sponsors we had received unsolicited pledges for $1,600 of that amount. This
conference is too important not to attend and several of our academic
subscribers have strongly encouraged us to go.

But we still need to raise $1,400.

FTW has already committed to go and we have begun the process of
registration and Visa applications. We do this because we know how important
it is to bring you the best information available in a highly fluid world
picture.

If you would like to help FTW get to Moscow and bring you back information
you will not get anywhere else please send your contribution immediately to:

FTW - Conference
P.O. Box 6061-350
Sherman Oaks, CA 91413

All subscribers who contribute more than $200 to this effort will be given
automatic five year extensions to their subscriptions as a means of saying
thank you. All monies contributed for this trip will be set aside and used
for no other purpose. If - for any reason - FTW is unable to attend all
monies will be promptly returned.

Thank you all,

Michael C. Ruppert
Publisher/Editor
"From The Wilderness"
www.copvcia.com

[CTRL] Fwd: UK Satanic Killer Gets Life

2001-02-12 Thread Kris Millegan






Times of London
MONDAY FEBRUARY 12 2001

Life for Covent Garden occult killer

A satanic-worshipper was sentenced to life at the Old Bailey for the murder
of 12-year-old Diego Pineiro-Villar.
Edward Crowley, 53, admitted to stabbing the boy to death in Covent Garden,
London, last year. Diego's stepbrother Roberto was also injured.
Crowley murdered the boy after becoming obsessed with him and with the works
of his namesake, satanist and writerAleister Crowley.
He first met Diego in local gardens in Central London in 1999.
He stalked the boy and was charged with harassement, but was released on
bail. Two months later he stabbed Diego to death as part of an apparent
satanic sacrifice.
Mark Ellison, QC, prosecuting, said Crowley had pleaded guilty to murdering
the schoolboy at an earlier hearing.
The prosecution decided it would not be in the public interest to try
Crowley on his pleas of not guilty to the attempted murder and wounding of
Roberto, 15.
The child had been greatly affected by his ordeal when he had courageously
tried to stop the attack on Diego.

Re: [CTRL] Disorderly Conduct

2001-02-12 Thread Ynr Chyldz Wyld


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From: "Marilyn Wright" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Yes, and a six-eight year-old kid who points a finger at another kid
 in school and says "bang bang" gets suspended or expelled from
 school and probably scheduled for years of psychiatric treatment.

 And this after years of Cowboys and Indians/ Cops and Robbers.
 Is this still a free country?

You think that's bad?  Last week I was listening to a local news show, and they 
mentioned that it is illegal
here in Connecticut to leave your car unlocked

So the day before, when I parked 7 feet from my local library's door and just ran in 
to renew a book, leaving
my car unlocked because I was only going to be there less than 2 minutes, I apparently 
was breaking the law...
:-7



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Re: [CTRL] Disorderly Conduct

2001-02-12 Thread Mark McHugh


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Ynr Chyldz Wyld wrote:

 -Caveat Lector-

 From: "Marilyn Wright" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Yes, and a six-eight year-old kid who points a finger at another kid
  in school and says "bang bang" gets suspended or expelled from
  school and probably scheduled for years of psychiatric treatment.
 
  And this after years of Cowboys and Indians/ Cops and Robbers.
  Is this still a free country?

 You think that's bad?  Last week I was listening to a local news show, and they 
mentioned that it is illegal
 here in Connecticut to leave your car unlocked

 So the day before, when I parked 7 feet from my local library's door and just ran in 
to renew a book, leaving
 my car unlocked because I was only going to be there less than 2 minutes, I 
apparently was breaking the law...
 :-7

 June


It was/is the same way in Germany.  Back in the early 80s a friend got
a DM5,00 fine for leaving his car unlocked in West Berlin.

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[CTRL] Fwd: {slick-d} How to tell if your cow has mad cow disease


For J2 and Bill Shannon:  Do either of you have symptoms of attached?




I'm sorry but I couldn't resist;^}

 http://www.ats.com.au/~philip/madcow.htm

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0204.  Emblem removed on C-9 aircraft

WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- The Air Force directed the removal of the Red Cross
emblem from the service's C-9 fleet in a move expected to expand the use of
the aircraft.

International law under the Geneva Convention limits the use of C-9 aircraft
bearing a Red Cross to fly only medical missions.

Based on this, the Air Force will remove the emblem so the C-9 fleet can be
used for other missions; however, the area will be left uncovered to allow
the emblem to be reapplied in support of a contingency or wartime operation.


Units have until January 2002 to conduct the removal process in the most
efficient and cost effective manner, Air Force officials said.



0205.  Air Force tax filing assistance now available

WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- More than 95 tax assistance offices Air Force-wide,
staffed with about 5,000 volunteers, opened their doors and kicked off the
2001 income tax preparation and filing season.

The free service is organized annually by the office of the staff judge
advocate at their respective bases. Legal offices, in conjunction with the
Internal Revenue Service and volunteers from the military community, set up
tax office facilities and recruited and trained volunteer unit tax advisers.

Last year, the Air Force tax program saved the military community more than
$11 million in tax preparation filing fees, said Maj. Melinda
Davis-Perritano, deputy chief and tax program manager for the Air Force's
legal assistance division.

More than 125,000 federal income tax returns were electronically filed.
Electronic filing improves the quality-of-life for people by enabling them
to receive their income tax refunds in a fraction of the time it takes to
process a paper return, and without paying an electronic filing fee, said
Davis-Perritano.

Electronic income tax filing services for Air Force members were introduced
as part of the "People First" initiative, a quality-of-life program
announced by the secretary of the Air Force in 1994. Tax assistance is
considered "mission-related" legal assistance under Air Force Instruction
51-504, Legal Assistance and Preventive Law Program.

"Air Force commanders like the dividends paid by the tax program because it
is a great quality-of-life convenience that takes the worry out of tax
preparation and puts money quickly back into their members' pockets," said
Lt. Col. Walt Skierski, chief of the legal assistance division.

People can contact their local base legal office for more information on the
Air Force tax program office nearest them.



0203.  Logistics review begins for Air Mobility Command

SCOTT Air Force Base, Ill. (AFPN) -- The recently completed Chief of Staff
Logistics Review is moving into the implementation phase for Air Mobility
Command.

"In essence, the CLR is an end-to-end analysis of how we conduct our
logistics activities at the unit level in support of the expeditionary air
force," said Col. Jeffrey Ackerson, chief of the transportation division at
AMC's directorate of logistics.

Implementation of the CLR will refine and test key logistics concepts,
processes and some organizational constructs. The core areas of the review
include enlisted technical training and officer development, material
management, sortie production and fleet management, and contingency
planning.

"The implementation of the review requires a minimum of turbulence, works
within our current resources and ensures support to the EAF," Ackerson said.


Air Mobility Command is participating fully at the headquarters staff and
unit level in this process. Concepts of operations are under development
that will drive how the studies are accomplished Air Force-wide.

Several of AMC wings will assist in developing and carrying out tests of CLR
activities. Major areas of study and test locations are:

-- Material management -- including the merger of supply and transportation
squadrons at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J, and Fairchild AFB, Wash.

-- Sortie production and fleet management -- including placing the
Maintenance Aircraft Coordination Center under the wing logistics group at
Pope AFB, N.C., McConnell AFB, Kan., and Travis AFB, Calif.

-- Contingency planning -- including moving logistics plans under logistics
at Grand Forks AFB, N.D., and Charleston AFB, S.C.

Besides these tests, the CLR will examine revisions to Air Force logistics
instructions and policies. AMC is represented on all of the Air
Staff-directed action teams for each area.

"We will also look at training issues for our enlisted force and the
development of a dual career track for logistics officers," Ackerson said.

Officer development will evolve to a maintenance-munitions track and a
supply-transportation-logistics plans track. It will also include a "weapons
school" for selected logistics officers. Finally, the CLR will include the
development of pipeline metrics and methods for

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What did I miss?

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READ OUR LIPS: Taxes cost Americans more than food, clothing, and shelter
combined; an average in excess of $10,000 for every man, woman, and child in
the nation. The latest figures from the Congressional Budget Office project
that the federal government will run a budget surplus -- collecting more tax
money than it needs to fund all projected spending -- of $5.6 trillion over
the next 10 years ($3.1 trillion not counting Social Security surpluses).
Which is why President Bush has proposed an across the board tax cut, which
many democrats predictably demagogue on the basis of their usual
class-warfare rhetoric of "tax cuts for the rich" -- and how come nobody ever
asks Tom Daschle or Dick Gephardt to define "the rich", anyway? As it is, the
top 5% of income earners pay 54% of all taxes, the top 50% of income earners
pay 95.8% of all taxes, and those percentages have been going up for at least
a decade; while the bottom 50% of income earners pay only 4.2% of all taxes,
and that percentage has been going down for at least a decade. That's right
-- five percent of taxpayers pay more than half of all taxes, while half of
the American population pays virtually no taxes at all. Of course those who
pay more in taxes will realize a larger dollar benefit from a tax rate cut
than those who pay less. Or those who pay none. And according to the tax cut
plan submitted by Bush to Congress, upper income earners will shoulder an
even larger percentage of the tax burden. But even most democrats agree with
the need to cut taxes. So amid all this, what is President George W. Bush
proposing to do? Raise taxes.

Mr. President Dubya, read our lips -- Are you nuts?

With the government collecting trillions of dollars more than it needs,
financing bloated federal bureaucracies and enormous federal programs that
have no Constitutional legitimacy whatsoever; with Americans under an
enormous tax burden, the highest as a percentage of GDP since World War II;
with a "progressive" tax structure that punishes fiscal prudence, saving,
investing, and high income earners; Bush is reportedly considering a plan to
collect even more taxes from long-suffering taxpayers. According to the Wall
Street Journal, Bush is contemplating increasing taxes by imposing a capital
gains tax on the appreciated value of assets that are inherited -- in order
to mollify tax-and-spend democrats into accepting his overall tax cut
package. Bush's plan already over-weights the benefits of his tax cuts for
those who pay very little in taxes as it is, in Bush's words, ".the bottom
end of the economic ladder receives the biggest percentage cuts.". Or, to
paraphrase the democrats, "tax cuts for the poor". And now, because there is
one aspect of wealth accumulation that has escaped the grasping claws of the
Tax Man, there may be a huge new tax bill for heirs of appreciated assets.
This tax will probably not be payable until that investment is sold (the way
an ordinary capital gains tax is applied), and might be offset if the estate
tax is reduced or eliminated, as is being proposed, although that reduction
is now in question. However, given the current status of the budget and the
current level of taxation, is it really necessary to say that a tax can only
be reduced or eliminated if it is replaced by another tax?

There is one additional, philosophical problem with the Bush tax cut plan --
the exacerbation of the trend for a smaller and smaller percentage of the
population to bear the burden of taxation, while increasing numbers of people
bear little or no tax burden at all. In effect, there is a growing army of
what can only be called "freeloaders", who are being told that they can have
something for nothing. All of the services provided by government -- and
those have grown legion -- are received by many for little or nothing. And
when benefits cost the recipient nothing, it is human nature to continue to
demand more and more. That army of takers look upon their benefits as
entitlements, rather than as the gifts from the taxpayers that they really
are. Bush's tax cut plan only expands that army of takers who suck up from
the public trough while giving nothing back in return. Americans are a
compassionate people, which is clear from the nearly $200 billion dollars
contributed to charities every year, even clearer from the hundreds of
millions of hours of unpaid voluntary work performed every year by millions
of Americans to benefit their communities. And there is no question but that
the recipients of individual, private, and personal compassion are thankful
for what they receive; but many who receive largess from the impersonal
government have the attitude -- cultivated by pandering politicians -- that
the nation "owes them". That attitude shone forth in all its ugly glory
during the Medicare debates several years

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FTW 1/24/01 - HR 19, Introduced by Republican Georgia Congressman Bob Barr on
January 3, 2001, the first day of the new 107th Congress, would legislatively
repeal sections of three Executive Orders specifically prohibiting
assassinations by the United States Government.

Entitled the "Terrorist Elimination Act of 2001", the bill, submitted to the
House International Relations Committee, would specifically nullify sections
of three previous Executive Orders including one initiated by Ronald Reagan
in 1981. It is interesting to note that acts of Congress are not required to
nullify previous Executive Orders (EOs) which are, by definition, orders
issued by the President and Commander in Chief to all federal employees
(including military) under his authority. All that is necessary to reverse
one EO is another EO. This is exactly what President George W. Bush did with
respect to EOs issued by President Clinton on the environment in the last
days of his administration.

Section 3 of HR 19 specifically states:

"The following provisions of Executive orders shall have no further force or
effect:

(1) Section 5(g) of Executive Order 11905.
(2) Section 2-305 of Executive Order 12306.
(3) Section 2.11 of Executive Order 12333." [By Ronald Reagan]

Section 5 (g) of Executive Order 11905, signed by Gerald Ford on 2/18/76
specifically prohibited "political" assassination. Section 2-305 of Executive
Order 12036, signed 1/24/78 by Jimmy Carter renewed the ban. Section 2.11 of
Executive Order 12333, signed by Ronald Reagan on 12/4/81 renewed the ban on
assassinations, or conspiracy to commit assassinations, as part of a broader
package which gave virtually complete control of the American National
Security apparatus to then Vice President George H.W. Bush.

The full text of HR 19 may be viewed at http://thomas.loc.gov. Enter a search
in the 107th Congress for 19 and it will take you straight to the bill

The bold move, unreported and ignored by any major media, offers a chance for
an early referendum on the new administration's full-speed run at a more
violent and brutish foreign policy.

The current bill, introduced by staunch Bush supporter and Clinton
impeachment leader Barr, indicates that the Bush administration is seeking to
add legitimacy to the move by implying that Congress and the American people
support the action. This can only mean that there is quite likely a list of
people the Bush Administration wants to start killing fairly quickly. The
appointment of career covert operative and Annapolis graduate Richard
Armitage as Deputy Secretary of State under Colin Powell only underscores the
clear message that the Bush Administration is sending to the world.

Armitage, who was denied a 1989 appointment as Assistant Secretary of State
because of links to Iran-Contra and other scandals, served as Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan years.
U.S. Government stipulations in the Oliver North trial specifically named
Armitage as one of the DoD officials responsible for illegal transfers of
weapons to Iran and the Contras. But Armitage's dirty past goes much deeper.

A Vietnam veteran and graduate of Annapolis, Armitage's roots have been
thoroughly intertwined with the likes of CIA veteran Ted Shackley, Richard
Secord, Heine Aderholt, Elliot Abrams, Dewey Clarridge, Edwin Wilson and Tom
Clines. All of these men have been directly linked to CIA covert operations,
the drug trade, the abandonment of U.S. prisoners of War after Vietnam and/or
Iran-Contra. Armitage has also been routinely discussed in FTW as a Bush-era
covert functionary who has been linked to covert operations, drug smuggling
and the expansion of organized crime operations in Russia, Central Asia and
the Far East.

In 1986 a private dispute between POW activist Ross Perot and Armitage went
public as photos of Armitage with a topless Vietnamese nightclub owner Nguyet
O'Rourke brought allegations of gambling and prostitution very close to
Armitage's doorstep. The stories went public when TIME and "The Boston Globe"
wrote lengthy stories on the feud in 1986 and 1987. That scandal arose as a
result of 1984 investigations by President Reagan's Commission on Organized
Crime in which the photo and documentation of gambling charges and
prostitution led directly to Armitage's close association with O'Rourke. Then
LAPD Assistant Chief Jesse Brewer, a former Commanding Officer of this
writer, served on the Reagan Commission.

The 1992 best-seller "Kiss The Boys Goodbye" by former "60 MINUTES" producer
Monika Jensen-Stevenson details Armitage's role as Reagan point man on
Vietnam POW-MIA issues and describes why Armitage has earned the enmity of
many POW activists. However, in a 1995

[CTRL] The Exit Poll Competition on Election Night between ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN is a Hoax and They Know It is a Hoax!

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from:
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NETWORK AMERICA

 See explanation below
this picture.



  The Exit Poll Competition on
Election Night between
 ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN
is a Hoax 
  and They Know It is
a Hoax!

 ( This addendum, in red, was added on November 11, 2000. This page has been
on our website since mid 1996, shortly after we
 took the video and snapped the pictures you see. Thanks to the efforts of
all of our associates across the nation in getting this
 word out -- as of election day, 2000 -- we have forced all five Big TV
Networks to "go to confession" on their own national TV
 networks -- admitting the truth of the significance of these pictures and
what we posted in 1996. The TV Networks have
 admitted they all get their exit polls from Voter News Service in numerous ar
ticles and TV spots aired around election day,
 November 2000. These pictures and this article explain why, on election
night 2000, ALL the networks called  Florida for Gore,
 then all reversed the call; then a few hours later ALL called Florida for W.
Bush, then all TOGETHER reversed the call; and so
 on. This page and these pictures explain why.  Now let's all go forward and
completely destroy the credibility of the five Big TV
 Networks, - on the way to restoring verifiable, honest elections and control
over our nation's future.) End of addendum added
 November 11, 2000.


This is a picture of a Voter News Service Exit Poll Box. This box shows that
the "exit poll" competition which ABC, CBS, NBC,
and CNN pretend to have on election night is a total hoax. Furthermore, it
proves they know it is a hoax. You will notice that
the box has Voter News Service on top, but then shows the logos of ABC, AP,
CBS, CNN, and NBC, indicating that Voter News
Service is working for All four Big TV networks and the wire service which
keeps the world's newspapers informed.

These boxes are used to hold "exit poll" ballots filled out by citizens at
the (very rare) polling places where Voter News Service
show up on election day and conduct "exit polls." (An exit poll is when
voters are asked to fill out a form revealing who they
voted for, why they voted for them, etc. as they leave the polls.) Citizens
for a Fair Vote Count caught up with VNS in 1996 (only
the 2nd time we have been able to do so in the last ten years.) This picture
was snapped at a high school outside of Manchester,
New Hampshire on February 20, 1996 during the GOP Presidential Primary.
beneath this explanation is a picture of the same
box at a distance as it sits next to the Voter News Service Exit Poll lady
who is talking to a citizen.

For the last quarter century the 4 Big TV Networks have pretended to be in
hot competition to predict the "winners" and "losers"
in national elections based on the so-called exit polls. I had imagined 30 or
40 accountants in the back room sweating and
crunching numbers so that their Anchorman could go on the air first and
predict the winner. Now we know it was all a hoax.
Now we know that all four Big TV networks get the exact same "exit poll"
information, at the exact same time, from the exact
same company  Voter News Service. (This is confirmed by Margaret Sims in a
1994 Federal Elections Commission report, and by
Time magazine in the 1992 issue immediately following the February 18th New
Hampshire Primary of that year, among other
sources. The exit poll scam being run by the Big 4 TV networks is treated
exhaustively in Votescam: The Stealing of America by
Jim  Ken Collier in chapters 15, Piece of the Puzzle, and chapter 16, The
Thirteenth Floor. Incidentally, the mysterious and
super-arrogant Voter News Service has frequently changed its name over the
years. It was former called News Election Services,
among other names.)

We also have a picture of a badge worn by a Voter News Service worker on
election night 1988 which was snapped at one of the
regional center phone banks in Cincinnati, Ohio. This badge again shows the
logos of the same news organizations plus UPI
(now out of business) and minus CNN which is still very young at that time.

So the competition between the networks is a hoax. Furthermore, there are
VERY few exit polls, most Americans have never seen
one, and do not know anyone who has ever seen one. Next, at each exit poll,
only about 1 out of 15 people will talk to the exit
poller. People are busy. They are running to work, picking up the kids,
coming home from work, etc. etc. etc. Finally, the exit
pollers in the two we have caught up with MISS the rush hour periods in the
morning and evening! They show up about ten
o'clock in the morning, and finish about 5 PM ! We have video footage of the
exit poll lady pictured below (next to box) sitting on
the phone from 5 PM to about 7 PM

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Cui Bono Bill?   Domestic sabotage and political espionage - who sold
Clinton to the public like a pound of ground round?

Who blackmails and boycotts and from where did they learn these tactics?

IBM once was a great country; and when the day comes more people will be
out of work, steel plants in Ohio once proud out begging, 100,000 jobs
to be lost at Chryslelr - Huffy Bikes down in Mexico..

And while people were being subjected to little Elian the UN Secretary
was meeting with Fidel Castro to figure out how to dump the refuse from
their shores to USAin Africa, any immigrants must have AIDS.and
Cuba, we will get more of their drug runners and criminals to
feedwhile the Star of David flew ouside Elians house?

Cui Bono - Clinton was sold to the Americans like a pound of ground
round in collusion with sale of Blair and Barak.

Now illegal drug money channeled through foundations coming out of
closet with the homos...reparations now for negros like Jews - same
tactics?   What about reparations for the citizens of Amrica who are
being victimized by these criminals.

Remember US Steel, Westinghouse, Western Electric, North Amrican,
Chrysler going busto.Zenith TV, and have you bought any Philllips
Magnavox stuff lately that was any good?

Airplanes with maybe bad bolts, etc.,  with Made in Japan stamped on
rear?

Worse yet, made in China?

So who is sabotaging IBm.well who was sabotaging Bill Gates?

Dirty money - see Mark Rich and his floosie wife who looks like
something out of Soho..billions of dollars from what?

Drugs - see foundations and start with mob in Columbus Ohio which is
major laundering areaand see Columbus today, buried and held
hostage...even Lex Wexner came to my town which is just a little
town.

Anybody check out these big planes from Mexico or why drugs buried in
sand at Key West or check out the old Odessa Route which is a known drug
route - or theft of diamonds and sales of diamonds now from Israel who
will now run the diamond cartel - maybe not if it is true, Holy War is
Forever.

So who is sabotaging our giants?   Rockefellers two were murdered within
6 months, Nelson and John and we then had Kissinger step into their
shoes - the servant?

What was it Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were servants of Godwell
believe me, there was the day God was an Englishman in America.today
what do we have but - well see Sodomists vs. the Boy Scouts and see all
that America was being destroyed.

And in those days when America thrived, there were giants - who is
murdering our giants?

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I hate to waste my time writing about people like Terry McAuliffe, the new
chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

He's so corrupt, it almost seems pointless in its self-evidence.

But he's been saying some things recently that, I believe, are important to
the future of our country.

While President Bush has been reaching out to Teddy Kennedy and including
Clinton appointees in early Cabinet meetings, McAuliffe and the Democratic
Party leadership have been setting the stage for a slash-and-burn political
war that is certain to last the next four years -- at least.

We all heard his acceptance speech last week when he was selected to steer
the DNC, a position from which he can and will maintain Clinton's position as
the dominant figure in the party.

"If Katherine Harris, Jeb Bush, Jim Baker and the U.S. Supreme Court hadn't
tampered with the results (of the presidential election), Al Gore would be
president, George Bush would be back in Austin and John Ashcroft would be
home reading Southern Partisan magazine," he said.

That's right. The new head of the DNC accused Harris, Jeb Bush, Baker and the
U.S. Supreme Court of "tampering" with the election results. He attacked the
very legitimacy of the presidential election.

Now, after Al Gore's concession speech, I thought the Democrats weren't going
there?

But it gets worse. Appearing on "Meet the Press" last week, McAuliffe said
something else that went practically unnoticed by Tim Russert and the rest of
the establishment press.

In a discussion about why he does not believe Hillary Clinton will seek the
presidency in 2004, he said, "Two, three, four weeks from today, it will be
clear that Al Gore won the state of Florida. â¦ He certainly has a right to
argue that he will be the front-runner, you bet."

Now, ask yourself, why will it be clear to us two, three, four weeks from now
that Al Gore won Florida? What do Terry McAuliffe and the Democrats have up
their sleeve? Does this statement not strongly suggest that the leadership of
the Democrats plan to continue to attack the legitimacy of the presidential
election for the next four years?

Personally, I think there are many grounds for challenging the legitimacy of
the American political system. America is far from its constitutional
moorings in many ways. But, if anyone "tampered" with the 2000 election -- or
attempted to -- it was the Clinton-Gore-McAuliffe team. Their overtly illegal
activities date back not only to that campaign, but to 1996 and 1992.

This is the political team that took money from China, that broke every
campaign finance law known to man, that registered illegal voters and worked
hard to disqualify military votes.

As if that wasn't bad enough, now this same team is attempting to subvert the
legitimacy of the U.S. election in a way that is, as far as I know,
unprecedented in American history.

As many of us have recognized for years now, these folks will say anything
and do anything to achieve their goals of political power. The best interests
of the country are not even a consideration to them.

Remember, I say this as someone who sat out the 2000 election. I did not vote
for Bush, and I certainly didn't vote for Gore. Yet, the lying and the
deception and scandal of the Clinton-Gore-McAuliffe team continues at such a
ferocious pace and with such intensity of purpose that I cannot just stand by
and fail to comment.

It's no secret that I don't have very high expectations for the Bush
administration. But, at the same time, I recognize it is not in this
country's best interests to attack the legitimacy of the election with lies
and emotional rhetoric.

It sounds like McAuliffe and his band of subversives have a February or March
surprise in store for America. They are about to drop a political bomb on the
national landscape -- one that continues to call into question whether George
W. Bush is actually the legitimate president of the United States.

They will not let go. They will not get over it. They will not work with the
new president. They will never give up. They will not live up to their own
promises. They will remain in full campaign mode for the next four years.
They will not recognize that the election is over. They will never admit that
they lost.

This is a taste of the next four years.



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CLINTON ERA FEMINSTS STILL REPRESENT BUSH AMINISTRATION AT UN MEETINGS

In recent weeks at least two radical feminists have represented the new Bush
Administration at UN meetings. Among many holdovers from the Clinton era, the
Friday Fax has learned some are attempting to receive jobs as permanent
members of the US federal bureaucracy.

It surprised many pro-family conservatives last week to see Ambassador Betty
King serving on the delegation to the preparatory committee meeting for the
upcoming Child Summit. King, a Clinton political appointee to the UN Economic
and Social Council, was one of the leading advocates in advancing the radical
feminist cause through a number of UN conferences. King has been a fixture at
UN meetings for years and had been at the center of Clinton Administration
attempts to use UN documents to advance "abortion rights" into the developing
world. It is reported that King expects a reappointment to the Bush
Administration.

Representing the Bush Administration at the executive board meeting of the
United Nations Population Fund last week was Margaret Pollack, a career
foreign service officer who heads the Office of Population in the US State
Department. Pollack served as the chief negotiator for the Clinton
Administration at a number of UN conferences including the five-year review
of the Beijing Women's Conference (Beijing+5) and the Cairo Conference on
Population and Development (Cairo+5).

Pollack sat in the lead chair at meetings where the Clinton Administration
attempted to strike down all conscience clauses that protected medical
personnel from having to participate in abortions. At Beijing+5 Clinton
negotiators also attempted to make it mandatory that all medical personnel
learn the abortion procedure.

Peggy Kerry continues to serve as the non-governmental (NGO) liaison officer
for the US Mission. Kerry came from the world of radical feminist activism
and as one career officer at the US Mission put it, "she never learned that
she did not represent her ideology but the US government." Kerry came under
fire last spring when she allowed the pro-abortion group "Catholics" for a
Free Choice to hold a press conference at UN headquarters under US government
auspices at which they bashed the Catholic Church and called for the ouster
of the Catholic Church from its seat as Observer to the UN General Assembly.
At the time presidential candidate George W. Bush criticized the press
conference.


During a budget hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a few
weeks ago, US Ambassador Richard Holbrooke went out of his way to praise the
work of the relatively low-level Kerry. After the hearing Holbrooke could be
seen huddling with Kerry's brother who sits on the committee. Kerry was
recently given a six-month extension on her contract and has told friends she
wants a permanent appointment.

Sharon Kotok, a political appointee in the State Department, is said to want
a job advising the Bush Administration on women's issues. Like King and
Pollack, Kotok was at the center of the Clinton team at most UN conferences
dealing with abortion in the past several years.

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Nakano never thought I would read the truth so well put.

All this to warm up Siberiaand also they can use these heat
intensifiers and burn out a city with rays - like when you were kids you
would take a magnefying glass and set paper on fire?

One interesting case which was such a myster, unexplained fires in this
house - turned out a fish bown was magnifying sun and setting little
fires...they moved the bowl, no more fires?

Now imagine we have another space craft just sent up.but Russia -
idea is to warm up Siberia and suddenly when MIR goes out, their weather
is oh so cold, as it was 30 years ago

Remember the Reagans told people to wear sun glassesBush tried to
tell us but could not.

They are virtually slaughtering the American Farmers and if Kissinger
has his way we will be dependent upon the charity of others, aliens, for
food.

What a bunch of bastards - but I still have a picture of a poor cow,
with this idiot from MIT smiling, stating that these cows were cause of
Global Warming - methane gas emitted by the cow - now wonder the cows
are mad.

Note how propagandna machines work overtime to destroy farmers -
spreading rumour milk is poisoned?   Eggs no good for you, and cheese no
good for you.

Must have your strawberrrie grown with manure or they are not a health
food/

As they say in the younger circles - what a crock.

Who is murdering our cows and cattle - did youknow they take the pineal
gland now from cattle in experiments?

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[CTRL] How the Clintons do it


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How the Clintons do it

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Do you care about the gifts the Clintons received while inhabiting the White
House? I don't.

If people want to give the first couple stuff, that's fine with me. But if
they then turn around and do the old "quid pro quo routine" and allow those
gifts to influence public policy, that's when I start caring.

The Clintons have always been bold in their dubious dealings because they
fully understand the short attention span of the American public and the
reticence of the elite media to investigate the powerful -- especially the
powerful with whom they ideologically agree.

Therefore Mrs. Clinton gladly accepted an $8 million dollar book advance,
even though she knew full well that Senate bylaws require ethics reviews of
such business transactions. However, she took the cash a few weeks before
being sworn in. So technically she did not break any Senate rules.

What about ethics you ask? Well you can keep asking until the earth melts,
but you'll never get an answer from Hillary. And if you ask in public, you'll
immediately be labeled a "Clinton hater."

Everybody knows there is something fishy about the Marc Rich pardon President
Clinton signed at 4 a.m. on his last day in office. Mr. Rich, a fugitive
living in Switzerland, spread plenty of cash around to various charities and
political people. It has been well documented that his ex-wife was a big
Clinton donor.

Yet Mr. Clinton will not explain himself, saying only that the pardon was
legal. He also will not explain why he wants to rent an office in Manhattan
that would cost the taxpayer about $700,000 a year. Of course, once there's
an outcry over something the Clintons do -- they reverse strategy. They are
now returning the gifts they took during their last year in office, and Mr.
Clinton's "library fund" will pay part of his office rent.

This "library fund" is another very questionable enterprise. The former
president spent a considerable amount of time during his last year in office
running around the country raising money for his presidential library that is
to be built in Little Rock, Ark. Dollar Bill has raised far more money than
he needs to build the library, so now he can pay some rent in Manhattan with
the "surplus." Bill Clinton loves that word "surplus." It has been very, very
good to him.

The point here is that the Clintons are ethically challenged, but you already
knew that. The larger question is why they remain so popular. The answer lies
in their acceptance by the elite media. Recently, the New York Times
editorialized about Hillary: "We applaud her decision to forgo the gifts. We
accept it as sincere. It gives her a chance to start in a new direction that
will encourage voters to feel that she will put public service ahead of
personal gain."

Now, why would the Times editorial board feel that Mrs. Clinton would put
public service ahead of personal gain? Is there anything on the record in the
past eight years to demonstrate that?

Here's the sad record. The independent counsel said Mrs. Clinton misled the
Justice Department during her testimony on Whitewater and the Travelgate
affair. You may remember the missing Whitewater billing records were found in
the White House residence with her fingerprints on them but she denied
knowing how they got there.

Mrs. Clinton still has not explained how she made nearly $100,000 in the
commodities market and, indeed, one of the last-minute pardons her husband
doled out was for a convict represented by a lawyer who also represents the
man who made Mrs. Clinton the 100 grand. Ah, serendipity.

Hillary also snookered the system by using taxpayer money to campaign for a
New York Senate seat. As first lady she cited security reasons, and flew
around the state on government aircraft. But when the bills rolled in she
only reimbursed the taxpayer for a commercial fare. She gained a huge
monetary and logistical advantage by using Air Force jets.

Mrs. Clinton's many trips overseas also cost the taxpayers tens of millions
of dollars. The expense was staggering -- so much so that when I called the
General Accounting Office for an exact accounting of the junkets, employees
there actually laughed. There is no accurate expense report on Hillary's
trips because the money came from many different government agencies and
there is no central oversight. Once again, Mrs. Clinton and her various
entourages lived large at the expense of the taxpayer.

So why would the New York Times accept Mrs. Clinton's decision to give back
some gifts as an expression of "sincerity"? The answer is because Hillary and
the Times' editorial people think alike on abortion, taxes and a variety of
other subjects.

Ideology trumps honesty. That is the new reality in the new century: "Think
like me, and I'll let you

[CTRL] Arms Sales Fuel Russia's Military Spending


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Arms Sales Fuel Russia's Military Spending
NewsMax.com
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2001
Russia is spending far more on building its military strength than Moscowâs
official estimates of its defense expenditures reveal, a top British defense
official says.
Moreover, a rearming Russia either represents a serious threat to U.S.
national security, as CIA Director George Tenet says, or represents no threat
at all, according to Moscow.

At the heart of the dispute lies Russiaâs desperate financial situation and
its solution: sales of sophisticated weapons systems to all comers.

After nearly dropping out of sight in the early 1990s, when defense outlays
plunged from $130 billion in 1992 to a low point of $42 billion in 1998,
spending on the Russian military establishment has now climbed back up to
about $50 billion, according to Britainâs Ministry of Defense.

After a prolonged dispute between officials of Russiaâs strategic nuclear
forces and the heads of the nationâs conventional forces over which arm of
the military would get the most funding, President Vladimir Putin decided
that the cash-strapped ground forces would be the beneficiaries of increased
military spending.

Putin has made clear that he intends to modernize Russiaâs crumbling
conventional forces and put less emphasis on the nuclear deterrent.

As a result, about two-thirds of military funding went to regular forces last
year, with the remainder split between paramilitary organizations such as
border guards, internal security troops and the like, and defense ministry
employees, according to a briefing by Dr. Christopher Hill of British
Ministry of Defense sponsored by Russian and Eurasian Program of Washingtonâs
Center for Strategic  International Studies.

According to Hill, "the tendency, evident in recent years, for the strategic
[nuclear] forces to secure a greater proportion of defense resources started
to be questioned in 2000 as the continuing challenge of Islamic militants in
Chechnya and the near abroad emphasized the requirement for better trained
and equipped ground and air forces.â

Other details revealed by Hill concerning the thrust of Russiaâs defense
spending included such details as:


A major shift in the distribution of military funds to personnel items (pay,
allowances, pension, food, clothing, accommodation, etc.) where spending has
jumped from about 25 percent to over 50 percent.
Hill notes that while this has not prevented military salaries from falling
sharply and, in some cases, actually being deferred for long periods, it has
also had a "catastrophic impact on the amount of money available for
equipment procurement and maintenance. Orders for new weapons dried up and,
despite continuing overseas purchases, particularly by China and India, the
total value of weapons production had, by the late 1990s, fallen to less than
a tenth of what it was at the start of the decade.â


In the late 1990s Russiaâs defense industries, lacking orders from the
government, were in shambles and by the end of the decade "effectively
bankrupt.â
This perhaps explains the Putinâs frenzied efforts to sell advanced military
equipment to all takers, including sworn enemies of the U.S., a development
that led to Tenetâs warning that Russia is one of the major threats to U.S.
national security and is a menace to Americaâs efforts to limit nuclear
proliferation.

According to a statement issued by Russiaâs Foreign Ministry, however, Tenet
is merely waving the bloody shirt to get increased funding from Congress.

"The 'dark revelations' of George Tenet about Russia and our relations with
the US could help the hawks in the US Congress and help boost the CIA budget,
but they in no way correspond to the true state of affairs," the statement
alleged.

"When you consider that the CIA's [status] soared in the Cold War era, it
would be difficult to expect a balanced assessment of Russia-US relations
from its leadership. But even considering this fact, a series of
pronouncements made by George Tenet provoke, to put it mildly, bewilderment."
In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Tenet expressed
concern at Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy views,
particularly his efforts to build a closer alliance with China and India,
possibly at Washington's expense. Moreover, Tenet charged that Putin is
clamping down on human rights and trying to restore Moscow's Soviet-era
sphere of influence. "There can be little doubt that President Putin wants to
restore some aspects of the Soviet past - status as a great power, strong
central authority and a stable and predictable society - sometimes at the
expense of neighboring states or the civil rights of individual Russians,"
Tenet told the committee. Russia, he said, "continues to value arms and
technology

[CTRL] Fwd: Dozens of Palestinians Wounded, 2 Killed, in Fierce Gun Battles


Holy War is Forever.so now Israelies using poison gas?Well,
that can work two ways

Note the similariaty between Waco and what is going on over there and
then remember it seems they all hve the same teacher




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 PALESTINIANS SHOT DEAD AS SHARON SEEKS UNITY GOVT
   By Deborah Camiel

JERUSALEM (Reuters - 12 February) - Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians
in the
West Bank Monday as Israel's rightwing Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon sought
to
forge a unity  government.

Sharon's right-wing Likud party was due to hold new talks with the center-left
Labor
party to try to forge a broad coalition to try to contain the  violence.

But the latest killings underlined the challenges facing Sharon, who won a
crushing victory over outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Barak (news - web sites)
in elections last Tuesday.

 Soldiers killed Ziad Abu Sway when they opened fire on a bus carrying
 Palestinian laborers near the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Palestinian
 witnesses and hospital sources said.

 Atef Ahmed al-Nabulsi was shot dead near the West Bank city of Ramallah
 and was taken by Israeli soldiers to a military base. Israeli security sources
 confirmed Nabulsi had died.

 The deaths followed the killing by Palestinian gunmen of Jewish settler Tsahi
 Sasson, 35, as he drove along a road outside Jerusalem Sunday.

 The death toll in more than four months of confrontation has risen to at least
 321 Palestinians, 53 Israelis and 13 Israeli Arabs.

 The violence erupted in late September when peace talks reached deadlock
 and Sharon visited a site in Jerusalem sacred to both Muslims and Jews.

Violence Overshadows Talks

 Sharon, 72, has demanded that Palestinians end their protests against Israeli
 occupation before peace talks resume, but some Palestinians have vowed to
 step up their struggle.

 ``The Middle East region is on the verge of more violence and confrontation
 and Sharon's criminal history represents only one episode of the bloodshed
 and massacres,'' Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder of the militant Islamic
 organization Hamas, told Saudi Arabia's Arabic-language newspaper
 al-Watan.

 Likud party lawmaker Moshe Arens told Israel Radio there would be no
 negotiations as long as there was violence.

 ``Sharon says it clearly -- there will be no peace talks as long as there
is
 violence,'' he said.

 But Jibril Rajoub, a senior Palestinian security official, said it was up
to
 Sharon to make reconciliatory moves such as lifting a blockade of Palestinian
 areas.

 ``The Palestinian Authority has the capability and the desire to keep control
 and it is not true that we have lost control in the field,'' Rajoub told Israel
 Radio.

 ``I think the ball is in the court of the government of Israel, which must
 encourage the Palestinian Authority.''

 Palestinian officials said they expected Israel to allow flights to resume
 from Gaza International Airport for nine hours to allow Palestinian
 pilgrims to travel to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

 Israel has overriding security responsibility for Gaza's only international
 airport. It has closed it as part of the blockade, intended to stop guerrilla
 attacks in Israel. But Palestinians view the shutdown as collective punishment
 for the unrest.

 Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) has said he is keeping
 a close eye on Sharon's coalition talks and will give the Israeli leader a
 chance to prove he was serious about peace.

 Arabs regard Sharon as a war criminal because he orchestrated Israel's 1982
 invasion of Lebanon. Hundreds of Palestinian refugees were massacred in
 Beirut by rightwing Lebanese gunmen backed by Israeli forces.

 In Cairo, Arafat and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (news - web sites)
 discussed the future of the Middle East peace process following Sharon's
 election.

 Presidential sources said Arafat was expected to meet visiting Spanish Prime
 Minister Jose Maria Aznar later on Monday. Spain hosted the 1991 Madrid
 peace conference which launched talks between Israel and four of its Arab
 neighbors.

   Coalition Talks To Resume

 Sharon aide Eyal Arad said teams from Sharon's Likud and Barak's Labor
 Party would resume their efforts to forge an alliance which some party
 members believe is the best chance to pursue Middle East peacemaking.

 Failing the formation of a government with Labor, Sharon would have to join
 forces with extreme nationalist and

[CTRL] Small Start-Up Helps CIA Mask Its Moves on Web


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Small Start-Up Helps CIA Mask Its Moves on Web

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Monday, February 12, 2001
By Neil King Jr., Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

How's this for a curious pairing? Stephen Hsu and his partners at SafeWeb
Inc. launch a Web site offering the utmost in Internet privacy -- and then
hook up with the notoriously intrusive Central Intelligence Agency.

The new alliance between the Oakland, Calif., entrepreneurs and the spooks
from Langley, Va., shows how serious the CIA is about improving its
spycraft. The agency two years ago set up its own venture-capital firm,
known as In-Q-Tel, to search out just the sort of innovations that SafeWeb
offers.

The CIA, in this case, wants to use a SafeWeb program to mask its own
movements on the Internet, so it can gather information incognito. SafeWeb
suggests that the CIA also might use its technology to allow its far-flung
agents and informants to communicate home, without the countries they are
spying on ever knowing.

What's puzzling is why a tiny, year-old start-up would want to link up with
an agency that is the nemesis of privacy buffs everywhere.

'I'm sure we'll take a hit from the 5% of our most paranoid customers,' says
Mr. Hsu, SafeWeb's 34-year-old co-founder and a theoretical physicist by
training. But the CIA connection, he says, is deliberately distant. SafeWeb
will provide the agency with customized software, but the CIA will have no
access to the company's Web computers or to the workings of its core
software, he insists.

And who better to test the power of its privacy software than the world's
top spies? 'If our technology can satisfy them,' Mr. Hsu says, 'it can
satisfy just about anyone.'

The technology is a clever piece of software called Triangle Boy that
SafeWeb plans to post free this month on the Web. The CIA, through In-Q-Tel,
is investing in a revved-up version of the software, which can bounce
digital traffic around the Web anonymously, as well as rights to an equity
stake in SafeWeb should the company go public. Neither side will disclose
financial details.

The CIA has been slow to mine the riches of the Internet for fear of
exposing its own vast computer network to viruses or hacker attacks. It also
worries that others will monitor its activities if it roams the Web without
proper disguise.

What SafeWeb offers is a chance to move about the Internet without leaving
any trace. Users simply go to the company's Web site (www.safeweb.com) and
type in the address of the actual site they are seeking. SafeWeb's site acts
as an intermediary; anyone monitoring the activity would see only the
traffic between the user's computer and SafeWeb -- and not the user's
ultimate destination. The site recorded more than one million unique visits
last month.

But what really caught the CIA's fancy was Triangle Boy, a software package
that can turn any personal computer into a surrogate Web server. The system
allows users to navigate to any number of innocuous PC addresses, and then
go to the actual Web site they are seeking -- without leaving a trace.
Triangle Boy works by forwarding the request for the desired Web site on to
SafeWeb's site, which then makes the connection. SafeWeb developed Triangle
Boy to deter companies or countries from blocking access to its site, as
Saudi Arabia did last November.

CIA specialists say their core interest in Triangle Boy is anonymous
Internet browsing. 'We want to operate anywhere on the Internet in a way
that no one knows the CIA is looking at them,' says a senior CIA official
with connections to the In-Q-Tel team.

But the possible uses go way beyond that. SafeWeb says the agency also could
use the technology as a secure way for its 'assets,' or contacts, to
communicate with CIA headquarters. The CIA also suggests that it may one day
build a global network made up of Triangle Boys and servers equipped with
SafeWeb-style software to communicate with employees and informants. CIA
Director George Tenet told the Senate last week that one of his chief
ambitions is 'to take modern Web-based technology and apply it to our
business relentlessly.'

The SafeWeb technology could prove just as handy in getting information
covertly into other countries. It was this application that originally
inspired Mr. Hsu to reach out to the CIA last summer. 'I imagined them
wanting to use Triangle Boy to get Voice of America or something like that
into countries where it was blocked,' he said.

Others suggest more devious possibilities. An application like Triangle Boy,
if scattered among hundreds of PCs, could be a way to cloak a multipronged '
cyber attack' on someone else's computer system. The CIA, along with the
Pentagon, has worked for years to perfect ways to electronically meddle with
other countries' banking systems or electricity grids, and Triangle Boy
could allow them to do it without the target ever knowing who was behind the
attack. ' It

[CTRL] Geopolitical fascism, led by the US

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Fascism today is not just skinheads and an Austrian political thug.
There is also a geopolitical fascism, led by the US

http://www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?newTemplate=OpenObjectnewTop=200102050013newDisplayURN=200102050013

by John Pilger
5th February 2001
Washington

Former President Bill Clinton, having bombed and blockaded civilians on
several continents, and doubled America's prison population while
accelerating the number of mostly non-white executions by limiting federal
appeals, finally signed off by pardoning a coterie of suspects and crooks,
including a convicted Wall Street embezzler who reportedly is to give $135m
to Clinton's presidential library.

In Britain, liberals at Tony Blair's court wrote obsequious farewells to
Clinton, whom they loved. They mock Dubbya. Manufacturing difference between
the two is as important as the Westminster correspondents' arduous task of
running a cigarette paper between Blair and Hague, and Straw and Widdecombe,
suggesting democratic choice where there is none.

Thus, the dumping of Peter Mandelson was hot political news. In truth, it
was merely a useful exercise for the government to pretend it is opposed to
lying. Real political news was a week earlier. This was the despatch by
Blair of two of his senior people to Washington, including Jonathan Powell,
his chief of staff and a leading member of the semi-masonic British American
Project. "The Prime Minister is pitching hard to be the first European
leader to travel to Washington," reported the Guardian. "Mr Blair is
determined to prove that he can be as close to the Republican George Bush as
he was to the Democrat Clinton."

The reason that increasing numbers of people have stopped voting in Britain
is the same as in the United States. There is no one who speaks for them.
The two parties speak for big business and the supremacy of American-led
economic power. The rest is Monica Lewinsky, Peter Mandelson and other lies.
A current lie spun by the Secretary of State for Defence, Geoffrey Hoon, is
that the government has not yet decided to support Washington's "missile
defence system", the Son of Star Wars insanity, of which the Fylingdales
early warning base in north Yorkshire is a vital component. "It's too soon,"
says Hoon, when there is not the slightest doubt that the government has
made clear to the Americans, though not to the British people, that they
can, as always, rely on their "closest ally".

Whitehall may not like the old Reagan nonsense about a "missile shield for
freedom", but servility to America is a divinity, and Foreign Office
"strategy" is to promote Britain as a "bridge builder between Europe and the
US". What politicians must not do is provoke a wide debate, alerting the
public. Last week, Peter Hain was demoted to junior energy minister not
because he was at odds with "policy", but because his aggrandising, public
verbosity on Africa and in defence of infanticide in Iraq was becoming an
embarrassment.

Support for Son of Star Wars is treacherous of true British interests, which
lie in a peaceful and secure world, not one manipulated by economic conquest
and violence. Politicians genuinely speaking up for these interests, and the
human rights of the British people, would condemn any collaboration with a
missile programme whose dangers cannot be overstated. It will trigger
another nuclear arms race. It will disturb and distort development
priorities in much of the world. For Washington, it will serve to "contain"
the growing economic power of China by forcing the Chinese to compete and,
like the Soviets before them, to spend themselves into submission. The
Pentagon's obsession is the control of space. Satellite technology was used
extensively in both the Gulf war and the Nato attack on Yugoslavia. The
rationale of a threat from "rogue states" such as Libya and North Korea is
drivel.

These are surreal times. War plans are policy and there is no enemy.
Piratical corporations are afforded the rights owed only to humans, while
inhuman concepts go unrecognised. Umberto Eco tells us why fascism is still
latent, warning us that it is merely a diffuse form of totalitarianism. He
defines its characteristics: delusion of advanced knowledge, disregard of
rational and humane principles, state machismo, racism, a consuming sense of
insecurity, televised populism and the use of newspeak with its unstated
limit on ideas.

Modern fascism is not merely skinheads and an Austrian political thug. There
has long been a geopolitical fascism overseen by the United States, assisted
by Britain. Its record is truly blood-drenched: Vietnam, Indonesia, Chile,
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Palestine, Turkey and
Colombia. Remembering them is as important as remembering the Holocaust.
Globalisation, the advance of rapacious capital, is another phase, with a
new militarism known as "humanitarian intervention". Within a space of 18
months, the Blair government used armed force three

[CTRL] Fwd: David Duke is Home Again


Now this David Duke, who is David Dukeas a Klansman he tried to sell
members names and was dumped?   The ADL seems obsessed with David Duke -
but then they are in the top three of Hate Mongers of the Century.

So David Duke has come home from Russianow I see why some equate
Ezekial 38 and 39 to Russia as the enemy but in this chapter (38) you
find symbolism of the President of the United States (the eagle and the
bough and the arrows - symbol of US Presidential Seal)and Daniel,
and the three Presidents..for it is all in the game plan.

So just how does Mr. Duke figure into this?   Two Grand Dragons in the
70 period told me this man was an imposter; and when I look back and
knowing as a FACT that the Jewish MAfia in Columbus had neo nazi
literature by stackswho knows.   Is this his real name?   The ADL
said Duke formed the KKK - big lie for duringa this period the KGB was
forming KKK's and the old Dragons were awakened to weed out the
imposters and some years later came up with the Walker Spies in their
own little KKK formed by KGB and then we had Jonathan Pollard, more Navy
connections.

So set a thief to catch a thief.for they all use masonic rituals and
hand grips..Mafia and Masons and FBI have secret grips and seem
almost all alike - ever shake hands with one and catch them off
guard?

So here we are the Return of David Duke and read his return in his own
words and then wonder - is David Duke a creation of the ADL?
He is number 1 on their hate list, while Clhristians, Moslems, and
Militia follow thereafter.

ADL seems to have their nose into a lot of business that is none of
their businessthey would have us singing all out of the same psalm
book or song book - singing praises to Zion Peasants in Russian Mafia?

Saba


Is Russia the Key to White Survival?
By National Organization For European American Rights National
President, David Duke
David Duke speaks at the Mykovsky Museum
Everyone reading the David Duke Report understands the crisis faced by
the White World. All White nations have a severe non-White immigration
crisis. Every White nation has a critically low birthrate that will
result in a greatly diminished White population. In America, even the
U.S. Government has officially projected that those of European descent
will become a minority in four or five decades. We will be outnumbered
and outvoted in the nation our forefathers built!
When that happens our people will be politically prostrate at the feet
of those who have envied and hated us for generations, and the result
will be similar to the wide scale murder and dispossession White farmers
now face in Zimbabwe. If the dispossession of our people would occur
only in our beloved America, at least our genetic and cultural heritage
would survive elsewhere, but every White nation on earth is undergoing a
racial transformation similar to America's.
Even a nation such as Italy, traditionally famous for its large
families, now has a catastrophically low birthrate that projects a
reduction of its White population by 40 to 50 percent over the next 50
years. Every White nation is saturated with equalitarian propaganda
spawned by a Jewish-dominated news and entertainment media around the
world. Not only are White numbers dwindling, but racial intermarriage
has risen dramatically among the remaining Whites. Also, within our race
itself, as is true among the non-White minorities, the brightest and
most successful have the fewest children, while the least intelligent
and responsible have the highest reproductive rates. So even those
Whites left are being dumbed-down.
Our race faces a world-wide genetic catastrophe. There is only one word
that can adequately describe it: genocide. It is a relentless and
systematic destruction of the European genotype. It is not the genocide
of fire and sword (although such is likely to occur in the final
stages). Neither is it as emotionally evocative as the death of
displacement of millions of Germans in Eastern Europe with the onslaught
of the Soviet armies in the winter of 1945; Stalin's starvation of the
Ukrainians through forced collectivization; the displacement and death
of many Jews in Second World War; or the 1838 westward relocation of
15,000 members of the Cherokee nation in the "Trail of Tears." Yet,
though it lost millions, the German people survived the war, the
Ukranians survived Stalin's murders, the Cherokee people persevered, and
the Jews, despite their losses in the Second World War, emerged from it
more powerful than ever before in their long history.
Unchecked, low White birthrates, massive non-White immigration and
intermarriage will mean the complete genetic destruction of the great
European race that produced an overwhelming share of the world's great
art and literature, scientific and economic advancement. Make no mistake
about it: unless our people wake up and act courageously, our very
genotype; our people as a unique, living breed of life upon this planet
-

[CTRL] NYDN: Two-Week Reprieve for Denise


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Two-Week Reprieve for Denise

By RICHARD SISK
New York Daily News
Washington Bureau


WASHINGTON enise Rich will get at least a two-week slide before
being forced to talk about possible links between her political
contributions and former President Bill Clinton's pardon of her
ex-husband, Marc Rich.

The Senate Judiciary Committee, which will hold hearings on the
Rich pardon Wednesday, has no plans to call Denise Rich to
testify, and the House committee that has been hounding her will
not meet again until the end of the month.

But a spokesman for the House Government Reform Committee said
Denise Rich probably would be hit this week with a grant of
immunity and a subpoena to testify.

The move was triggered by her citation of the Fifth Amendment
Thursday.

The committee struck back by releasing a fat file of e-mail and
internal memos from Rich partisans that a House source described
as telling "a classic Washington tale of power, money and
access."

The irony in the tale is that Marc Rich's wealth put kings, prime
ministers and a presidential lawyer in his pocket, but the tycoon
was coming across as a pardon deadbeat on Capitol Hill.

"The impression is that this was all paid for by DR [Denise
Rich]," a member of Rich's legal team moaned in an e-mail after
Clinton pardoned Marc Rich.

Denise Rich gave $1.3 million to Bill Clinton, Sen.  Hillary
Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats, in addition to
another $450,000 for the Clinton presidential library, The
Washington Post reported yesterday.

The internal communications show a Marc Rich team struggling to
paint its client as a reclusive philanthropist wrongly accused.

But, in the process, friendships and reputations were destroyed,
and allies who were no longer needed  including the husband of
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg  were tossed
overboard.

Martin Ginsburg, a Georgetown University tax professor and
lawyer, along with a colleague, had told the Rich team how to
counter the charges of evading $48 million in taxes.

But Rich lawyer Jack Quinn, a former White House counsel, said in
an e-mail that he was going to tell the media about the role that
Ginsburg and his friend played  against their wishes.

"The tax professors don't want to be too far out front," Quinn
said. "The tail is wagging the dog."

Another key figure caught up in the fiasco was former Deputy
Attorney General Eric Holder, who signed off on pardon petitions
that went to Clinton.

Quinn and Holder admitted last week to having several
conversations about Quinn using his influence to get Holder the
attorney general's post if former Vice President Al Gore won the
presidential election.

The internal memos also disclosed that in December Holder sent
Quinn the résumés of two Justice Department aides who wanted jobs
with Quinn's firm.

The Rich partisans sometimes got their signals crossed.  In a
Jan.  3 e-mail, attorney Robert Fink told Avner Azulay, head of
the Rich Foundation, about the search for a "rabbi" to push the
pardon inside the White House.

Azulay replied, "I don't understand the comment about the rabbi."
He already had recruited dozens of Israeli rabbis to support the
Rich pardon.

Fink messaged back that "by 'rabbi' I meant someone inside who is
in favor of the pardon.    Sorry about the lack of clarity."


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[CTRL] Clinton to Move To Harlem -



Well there goes the neighborhood

Saba


Former President Bill Clinton

Clinton opts out
of pricey digs

Former president now wants
to open office in Harlem

MSNBC

Feb. 12  Former President Clinton canceled lease negotiations
Monday for high-rent offices in midtown Manhattan. Instead, sources
close to the negotiations told NBC News, Clinton will take "state of the
art" office space in Harlem.
 




February 12  "A letter has gone out  the Carnegie Towers deal is
off," reports MSNBC's Brian Williams.
   THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, which is handling
negotiations for Clinton's post-presidential offices, issued a statement
late Monday confirming the initial report by NBC's Brian Williams that
"a letter has gone out  the Carnegie Towers deal is off." Clinton's
staff also sent NBC News a copy of its letter to the GSA canceling the
negotiations.
   Rent at Carnegie Hall Tower on West 57th Street, where
Clinton had hoped to occupy the entire 56th floor, reportedly would have
cost as much as $800,000 a year, a price that led to weeks of sharp
criticism.
   NBC News reported that Clinton would announce Tuesday
that his new offices would be in a much less expensive 14-story building
at 55 W. 125th St., the street known worldwide as home to Harlem's famed
Apollo Theater. The New York Times reported in Tuesday's editions that
the asking rent is $30 a square foot, compared with $89 at Carnegie Hall
Tower, for a total annual lease of $210,000.
   Representatives from Clinton's staff and from the GSA
toured upper-level floors of the building earlier Monday, sources said.
   Clinton is believed to be seeking about 7,000 square feet
of space in the building, which has undergone extensive renovation in
the last two years and has what is described as a panoramic view of
midtown Manhattan and the Triborough and George Washington bridges.
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   Among his neighbors in the building would be a U.S.
military recruitment station, the uptown Manhattan office of the
Internal Revenue Service and the New York State Human Rights Division's
Office of Lesbian/Gay Concerns.
   
CRITIC PRAISES MOVE
   One of the harshest critics of Clinton's office search,
Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., said in a statement Monday: "I hope this
will be a much more reasonable price for the American taxpayer. And I
know Harlem will be proud to have another Globetrotter.
   "Mr. Clinton has listened to what the public was saying,"
added Istook, chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee with
jurisdiction over federal support for former presidents, "and I know
we'll all be just as interested in the new details."
   The former president believes "this move shows that Bill
Clinton has his political footing back," sources close to Clinton told
Williams.
   "This makes sense on all levels," one of the sources
said. "It's where Bill Clinton belongs. He'll be happy. It's a beautiful
facility. This will add greatly to Harlem's renaissance."
   Clinton "wanted to go to a place where he could be a good
neighbor and be welcomed by the neighborhood as well," Julia Payne, a
spokeswoman for Clinton's Washington transition office, told The
Associated Press.
   
BENEFICIARY OF OWN PROGRAM
   The new building is in a section of New York that is part
of the Harlem Urban Development Corporation, itself part of a Clinton
administration program to revitalize urban business districts.
 New office for ClintonLatest news on Rich
pardonThe double life of Marc RichNewsweek: Criminal probe
of Marc Rich pardon?Flap over Clinton libraryPresidential
pensionsThe districts, known as Empowerment Zones, receive direct
federal funding and tax breaks to coordinate the efforts of public,
private and nonprofit organizations. The bill that created the
Empowerment Zone program was introduced in Congress in 1993 by Rep.
Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.
   Empowerment Zones by law were to get $100 million in
federal funds, but the New York Empowerment Zone, of which Rangel is a
board member, was an exception, receiving more than $300 million in
direct funding and credits when it was created in 1995.
   Clinton's new office is in Rangel's congressional
district, and Rangel welcomed Clinton to Harlem on Monday night.
   "Bill Clinton is no stranger to Harlem," Rangel said in
an MSNBC interview in which he called on Republicans to let the former
president get on with his life. "I hope the critics of the president can
find a way to get over Bill Clinton."
   The Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist, also
welcomed Clinton's arrival on West 125th Street, the heart of a
neighborhood famed as a center of black culture. But in an interview
Monday with MSNBC's Lester Holt, Sharpton said it was important that the
neighborhood take care to preserve its historic character amid its rapid
economic revival.
   "We

[CTRL] NYDN: Both Sides Deny Bubba Office Deal Falling Apart


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Both Sides Deny Bubba Office Deal Falling Apart

By DAVE SALTONSTALL
New York Daily News
Staff Writer


Bill Clinton's plan to move his office to the 56th floor of the
posh Carnegie Hall Tower in Manhattan remains under discussion 
despite published reports to the contrary.

Both sides in the discussion denied a front-page report in The
New York Post yesterday that Clinton's office plan was "falling
to the ground" after a meeting Friday between the General
Services Administration and Clinton's representatives.

In fact, there was no meeting Friday between the federal agency
and the former President's advisers, and no decisions have been
reached about Citizen Bill's future office, representatives said.

"There was no meeting yesterday, period," said Clinton
spokeswoman Julia Payne.  "The negotiations are still ongoing."

And a spokeswoman for Rep.  Ernest Istook (R-Okla.), who has been
leading efforts in Congress to scale back Clinton's office plans,
also said there was no meeting and that efforts to reach a
compromise continued.

"I talked to the Post several times [Friday] and basically told
them that we didn't know anything," Istook spokeswoman Micah
Swafford said of the story, which relied on a single unnamed
source "close to the Clinton camp."

Clinton still hopes to sign a $790,000 annual lease on the
8,300-square-foot space with drop-dead views of Manhattan.  He
has offered to have his foundation pay as much as $300,000 of
those costs annually, Payne said.

Istook would like to see Clinton kick in something closer to
$500,000, thereby bringing Clinton's rent into line with what
other former Presidents receive.  The office rent of former
President Ronald Reagan, for instance, is expected to rise to
$357,000 next year.

General Services has sole authority over negotiating the lease
with Clinton, although Istook leads a subcommittee that oversees
the agency. Talks are expected to resume sometime this week.


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[CTRL] Fwd: George Soros and the Rothschild/MARC RICH connection


Interesting item here - Marc Rich and his floosie wife - billions of
dollars and this Russian Mafia (Meyer Lansky was Russian Jewish Mafia =
and his son went to West Point?   Ever try to get your son to West Point
like the japanese Sharpshooter at Ruby Ridge and Waco - got to have
political drag  Or big bucks?)

Regardless here is Zionist Marc Rich connection to Rothschild/Russian
Jewish Mafia - and yet they all scream Italian Mafia?

Russian Jewish Mafia had strangle hold on Cuba and Castro kicked out -
Meyer Lansky ws resposible and some said actually murdered Sir Harry
Oakes (his wife had Hogarth paintings and engnravings, Lady Eunice
Oakes, which exposed jewish Illuminati connection)...

So here we have this sleaze Marc Rich playing world wide games but the
big money is made in drugs because is all tax free - so this sleeze,
Marc Rich holes up in Switzerland alleged to be worth billions?

Confiscate their properties if they have money stolen from American
people - these are the low life - the ones who would steal America and
buy it up with their dirty money which is laundered through foundations
- while ADL serves as chieg white washer of these assassins.

So see Kissinger connectioni and see why Balkans was bombed by the
butcher Albrightthese are war criminals profitting by slaugher of
the innocents.

Jewish Mafia Lansky order execution of JFK - along with
Marcellos..and then they got Bobbyand under new leader,
murdered little John John, but the Clinton connections do not show here
- this item is several years old, which Marc Rich was alleged to be
somewhat unknown.to whom does Israel sell all  the diamonds -
billions and billionds of dollars?

See what happens when Mafia gets into our energy and coal and oil and
gas fields.Meyer Lansky started this recruiting in Ohio and in
Kentucky and West Virginiathink they ought to confiscate all
property bought with dirty money and start with head Jewish Mob leaders
and their descendants...I demand reparations.

Saba

 George Soros and the Rothschilds Connection
By Jan Von Helsing ("Secret Societies and their Power in the 20th
Century")
Special Note : The author of this book is German. He claims he has
several jewish friends and is
not racist or prejudice, but often cites the Talmud as a guide book for
certain Jews and discusses a
Jewish Conspiracy that involves elements of Zionism and other conspiracy
issues as well. I do not
agree wholeheartedly with the author's entire beliefs, however alot of
the research on a variety of
other topics is VERY GOOD. We are seeking truth here and not Hatred or
prejudice, as a matter of
FACT, I was raised Jewish myself. For my views on the Jewish Conspiracy,
you will have to go Here
to find out, this is not the forum.
 The now 64 year old Hungarian with a U.S. passport is the
superstar amidst the great speculators.
When the last "Forbes" list of the best paid managers and financiers was
published, Soros was in the
lead by a huge margin. In the last year he earned 550 million US$,
twenty times as much as the
Disney Boss. When Soros opens the hunt, the international money markets
get moving and the
reserve banks start worrying. In Sept. 1993 he succeeded over the Bank
of England. He was
certain the Bank would have to take the pound that came under pressure
out of the European
exchange mechanism and devalue it. He gambled 10 Billion US$ --with
success. He made 1 Billion
US$, which the British taxpayers now have to come up with. He himself
likes to be openly known
as the man who wants to influence the big money markets of the world.
This is a very unusual stance
for an investor to take, who should rather be interested in using
situations unobservantly that the
competitors have not yet discovered. In March 1993, Soros' activities
became known when he
predicted a rise in the price of gold. It is assumed --since this
started a buying spree in precious
metals --that this drove the price up 20% over the highest price since
the Gulf War. In the beginning
of June 1993, he wrote an open letter to the business editor of the
London Times, Anatole
Kaletsky, announcing that he intented to urge the money markets to sell
large amounts of German
government bonds in favor of French stocks. Which means: Down with the
German mark and
attack on the Bundesbank!
 In several newspapers across the world Soros is praised as a
kind of "Robin Hood of the Computer Age", since by speculation he takes
from the rich nations in grand style to hand out to
Eastern Europe and Russia via several Soros Foundations, to prepare the
way for "Democracy" in
those "poor" countries that had been bled dry by communism.
 Who then is Soros? The official story says that he was born in
1930 to Jewish parents and as a
teenager had been chased from Budapest by the Nazis. He enrolled at the
"London School of
Economics" and in the mid-50's came to the U.S. There he was magically
drawn to Wall Street, but
his career until 1969 was

[CTRL] LAT: Drug Kingpin's Release Adds to Clemency Uproar (fwd)


-Caveat Lector-

SUNDAY REPORT Drug Kingpin's Release Adds to Clemency Uproar

An outcry ensued when Clinton honored the longshot request of a cocaine
dealer.  His father's political donations increased sharply after the
1994 conviction.

By RICHARD A.  SERRANO and STEPHEN BRAUN
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

WASHINGTON--In the waning days of his presidency, Bill Clinton
promised to use his clemency powers to help low-level drug
offenders languishing in prison.  When Carlos Vignali walked out
of prison on Jan. 20 and returned home to his family in Los
Angeles, he appeared to fit the broad outlines of that profile.

But the 30-year-old Vignali, who had served six years of a
15-year sentence for federal narcotics violations, fit another
profile entirely.  No small-time offender, he was the central
player in a cocaine ring that stretched from California to
Minnesota.  Far from disadvantaged, he owned a $240,000
condominium in Encino and made his way as the son of affluent Los
Angeles entrepreneur Horacio Vignali. The doting father became a
large-scale political donor in the years after his son's arrest,
donating more than $160,000 to state and federal
officeholders--including Govs.  Pete Wilson and Gray Davis--as he
pressed for his son's freedom.

The grateful father called the sudden commutation of his son's
sentence by Clinton "a Hail Mary and a miracle."

The improbability that such a criminal would be granted
presidential clemency, as well as the younger Vignali's claim
that he alone steered a pardon application that caught the
president's attention and won his approval, has sparked disbelief
and outrage from nearly everyone involved in his case.

"It's not plausible; it makes no sense at all," said Margaret
Love, the pardon attorney who oversaw all Justice Department
reviews of presidential clemency applications from 1990 to 1997.
"Somebody had to help him.  There is no way that case could have
possibly succeeded in the Department of Justice."

Because it is a hard-edged criminal case, Vignali's commutation
adds another dimension to the wave of eleventh-hour Clinton
clemencies and raises new questions about the influence of
political donors and officials on different stages of the
process.

As criminal justice authorities in Minnesota learned of Vignali's
sudden freedom, they reacted with the same indignation that has
greeted several other beneficiaries of the 140 pardons and 36
commutations Clinton granted in his last hours as president.

The Vignali case also illustrates the secrecy that enshrouds the
clemency process.

A federal prosecutor who had urged Justice Department superiors
to reject clemency for Vignali demanded an official
explanation--only to be denied information from his own
department.  The judge who sentenced Vignali is openly aghast at
the decision, which was made without his knowledge.  And they
all--from defense attorneys to street detectives to former pardon
attorney Love--scoffed that Vignali could have walked free
without the intervention of politically connected helpers.

Key details of the case remain a mystery.  Did political
officials and other authoritative figures appeal for Vignali's
freedom to the president or high-ranking Justice Department
officials?  What action, if any, did the Justice Department
recommend to the White House?

Vignali could not be reached for comment.  But his father
strongly denied that he or anyone else in the family asked
politicians to press their case with Clinton.

"I didn't write him a letter, I didn't do anything," Horacio
Vignali said. "But I thank God, and I thank the president every
day."

For now, the Vignali case is a curious tale of how an inmate
buried deep in the federal penal system won presidential help
while others in more desperate straits remained behind.

"Go figure," said an exasperated Craig Cascarano, the lawyer for
one of Vignali's 30 co-defendants, many of them poor and black.
"How is it that Carlos Vignali is out eating a nice dinner while
my client is still in prison eating bologna sandwiches?"

Clinton Concerned About Drug Sentences

Clinton and his White House staff have not fully explained why he
granted certain clemencies, including the highly controversial
pardon of fugitive commodities broker Marc Rich.

But in recent months, the president had expressed concern about
mandatory federal sentences imposed on some small-time drug
offenders.

"The sentences in many cases are too long for nonviolent
offenders," Clinton said in a November interview with Rolling
Stone magazine.  ". .  . I think this whole thing needs to be
reexamined."

His comments prompted a flurry of last-minute clemency requests
to the White House, said the former president's spokesman, Jake
Siewert, particularly since Clinton believed that Justice was not
moving fast enough in making clemency recommendations to the
White House.

"Most of the drug cases involved people with a sentence that the
prosecutor or the sentencing judge felt was excessive,"

[CTRL] LAT: Drug Kingpin's Release Adds to Clemency Uproar