[CTRL] Fw: [CTRL] VV: The Castration of Wayne DuMond
-Caveat Lector- I don't think this is at all funny, Mike. I find it rather horrifying. I suspect if you were DuMond and found yourself in his situation, you would not think it funny for even a moment. This is not the only person to be maimed by Clinton's Arkansas thugs, either. It is sadly typical of the treatment those who cross the Clinton/Gore gang receive. There are dozens of examples. At least he wasn't left dead on railroad tracks like the two teenaged boys. Amelia - Original Message - From: "MICHAEL SPITZER" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 7:11 PM Subject: [CTRL] VV: The Castration of Wayne DuMond -Caveat Lector- [This would be some *really* funny stuff, if it were satire:( --MS] http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0110/harkavy.shtml Published March 7 - 13, 2001 A Pardon That Clinton Didn't Grant The Castration of Wayne DuMond by Ward Harkavy As Wayne DuMond listened last week to billionaire fugitive Marc Rich's explanation that Bill Clinton pardoned him for "humanitarian" reasons, he couldn't help but darkly snicker. DuMond had been accused of raping a Clinton cousin in 1984 and was hog-tied and castrated before he even went to trial. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Jesse Jackson Scrambles
-Caveat Lector- The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News had much more information yesterday on this. Looks like Jesse is finally caught in his extortion schemes. $600K for travel last year alone! I would like to have the $2 Federal Grant money (taxpayer money) he has made disappear and now claims he did not even want! But most interesting is the huge amount of money and travel expenses paid by the Democrats to a person claiming non-partisanship. No wonder he was inventing "thousands of disenfranchised voters" while Bill Hill carted the furniture out the back door and sold pardons, etc. He has been a liar all of his political career, starting with his claim that it was he and not Ralph Abernathy with MKL when he was assasinated. And now it makes sense why these people were desperate enough to try to steal the election. Jesse needed protection from the IRS to continue and Clinton did not want his selling of pardons scrutinized. It is beginning to all make sense. Amelia Jesse Jackson Scrambles to Repair Damaged Reputation CNSNews.com Wednesday, March 7, 2001 Jesse Jackson's black empowerment conglomerate faced a media barrage Tuesday after his chief financial officer admitted there was a "high probability" that a 1999 financial disclosure form, filed by Jackson's Citizenship Education Fund, would need to be amended. Just last week, National Legal and Policy Center filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service, alleging that the CEF had violated tax code provisions applying to nonprofit organizations and asking the IRS to investigate Jackson's financial dealings. This week, Billy R. Owens, Jackson's chief financial officer, released a 102-page report to the Chicago Tribune detailing the finances of Jackson's four organizations. Owens said the section of a 1999 financial disclosure form, which asked for the names of CEF employees making more than $50,000, contained the answer "none" and was "probably" inaccurate. So many news organizations are now asking questions about Jackson's empire that his press secretary was scrambling Tuesday to schedule a news conference and to make copies of the Owens financial report available. "We want to also have on hand Janice Mathis [vice president of Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition] and some other persons that can speak to some of the services that are rendered, because some of the coverage we've been getting has not been balanced, and it only focuses on the finances, where there's another component, which is the service rendered," said Keiana Peyton, Jackson's press secretary. Peter Flaherty, president of National Legal and Policy Center, was swift with a response to Owens' report. "The fact that they will amend their tax returns indicates that our complaint had merit, and they're acknowledging that," Flaherty said. However, "the material he released, which concerns several organizations, not just the Citizenship Education Fund, raises more questions than it answers, and we plan to keep asking questions." The NLPC complaint, among other things, questions the tactics used by Jackson in negotiating with corporations that, at the time, were seeking federal approval of a merger. According to Flaherty, Jackson "blackmailed" major telephone companies, involved in three separate mergers, into donating funds to his charities, threatening the companies with organized protests if they did not contribute. The NLPC complaint alleges that, as a result, Jackson's organization acted "more like a fee-for-service consulting business rather than a charitable/educational organization." Flaherty also alleges that Jackson used the CEF to benefit friends and family, specifically threatening an economic boycott against Anheuser Busch Companies Inc. to help his two sons gain a lucrative beer distributorship in Chicago. "Jesse Jackson has attacked us as right-wing extremists, but the fact that he's now releasing more financial information indicates that the questions we have raised are legitimate," Flaherty said. The IRS has not yet responded to the NLPC complaint. However, according to Flaherty, "they'll probably acknowledge it very soon. ... As far as the audit and investigation, they are notoriously slow." Jackson's organization has not responded directly to the NLPC complaint either, according to Peyton. "As of right now, there has not been any. We did see the report that they were submitting to the IRS. ... Our posture is still the same. If they want to call on the IRS to take that action, then again, we will be in the position to have our books available and to have them reviewed and answer whatever questions are generated from their inquiry." Peyton promised more information would be released this week to answer Jackson's critics. "Any and every one that is now speculating what we do or questioning the way we run our operation, we want to clear whatever misconceptions or stereotypes or misinformation that's out there. We want to set the record straight." Copyright
[CTRL] It's OK for Democrats to Use Racist Terms
-Caveat Lector- Just imagine any Republican had made this comment!! Even an elderly one, like Strom Thurmond would have been lambasted by every major media. Talk about double-standards! And right after the Ashcroft hearings. This is why Demonrats have NO credibility. And remember just a couple of weeks ago, not one but two incidents of Clinton being overheard using this 'N' word. They seem to be particularly fond of it in the DNC. AKE It's OK for Democrats to Use Racist Terms Mike Gallagher Monday, March 5, 2001 Quick, someone explain to me how John Ashcroft gets blasted for giving an interview to Southern Partisan magazine but U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd survives calling people "niggers" on national television relatively unscathed. When I saw Byrd make the observation that "there are white niggers" on Fox News Sunday, I almost fell out of my chair. I figured that such an offensive, outrageous comment made on national television would be met with protests and demands for the 83-year-old senator's resignation. So far, there's been no such reaction. Of course, we all know what's going on here. The colorful senator from West Virginia is the oldest Democrat in the U.S. Senate. As a Democrat, he regularly toes the party line (he was on Fox to criticize President Bush's tax plan). But this Democratic senator has an embarrassing past when it comes to race relations: As a young man, he was actually a member of the Ku Klux Klan. So perhaps his bigoted, ignorant choice of words Sunday should come as no surprise. But we should again remember what John Ashcroft was put through. Here was a good and decent man, a religious conservative who was routinely called a racist. His crime? Granting an interview to the above-mentioned publication, a periodical that simply salutes and honors the proud and rich tradition of the South. Liberal Democrats love to portray conservative Republicans as bigots. And yet when was the last time you heard a Republican calmly suggest that there are "white niggers" in America? How many Republicans do you know of who are former members of the Ku Klux Klan? The fact is that racial bigotry and hatred should transcend politics. It doesn't matter if a senator has a "D" or an "R" behind his or her name, calling ANYONE a nigger in 2001 speaks volumes about the character of that person. It's shocking that the typical liberal activists are silent over Byrd's comments. But it proves that liberal Democrats can get away with anything. KRLA-AM in Los Angeles is now the 200th radio station in the country to carry Mike Gallagher's talk show. Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics: Media Bias Related Products: Get the video of Chris Ruddy vs. Mike Wallace - Blows the lid off media cover-ups! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Amnesty: Laws fail female inmates
-Caveat Lector- {It used to be that 7 of 10 females in prison were there for killing an abusive spouse or partner. Now that has changed with the war on drugs. More are there for drug charges. Remember that Clinton/Gore jailed more people on drug charges than Reagan and Bush combined, a 'crime' of which both are guilty themselves. And the Demonrats pretend to be such champions of Women's Rights! ha! I would rather have the GOP defend my rights any day. Amelia} Amnesty: Laws fail female inmates BY EUN-KYUNG KIM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Many states fail to protect female inmates from sexual abuse, according to an Amnesty International report Tuesday that says some laws are so weak a prisoner can be held responsible for her attacker's behavior. The human rights organization used its report to draw attention to problems affecting an increasing segment of the prison population. ``What we've shown here is that it's a systemic problem,'' not just a ``few bad apples'' in the correctional system, said William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA. In its report, the group examined laws in each state and the District of Columbia that deal with charges of sexual misconduct by guards and other workers. It found that some states consider only certain types of sexual assault as criminal, while other states apply their laws to the actions of correction officers and not other prison employees like kitchen staff or medical workers. Other laws specifically apply to state facilities, and not lower-level county jails, from where most cases of abuse are reported, the report found. More than 1,000 cases of abuse were reported over the last three years, according to the organization. It believes hundreds more go unreported, mainly out of fear of retaliation. ``The mistreatment of prisoners in this society -- even women prisoners -- is treated less seriously because there is among some people a bias that people in prison deserve what they get,'' Schulz said. Society should care because the women in prison are mothers to about 200,000 children under 18, he said. Many of those inmates were abused sexually early in their lives, and placing them in a system where they are continually abused limits their ability to ``reintegrate themselves into society and serve as satisfactory mothers,'' Schulz said. Amnesty International examined state laws and surveyed attorneys general and departments of correction to compile its reports. The group also searched media reports, interviewed activists and combed lawsuits. The most widely publicized finding in the report concerns a South Carolina prison chief who was fired after two guards were charged with letting inmates have sex at the governor's residence. Among other findings in the report: --A sheriff's deputy in California was fired for letting female inmates out of their electronic shackles in exchange for sex. --An inmate at a California prison received ``an abusive pelvic exam'' from the prison's doctor. When the woman asked to stop the exam, the doctor refused, saying, ``No one told you to come to prison.'' --A Massachusetts corrections officer was charged with two counts of providing gifts in exchange for sex. Amnesty International urged state legislatures to toughen existing laws against sexual misconduct and encouraged the government to begin taking statistics on such crimes. It wants all sexual contact between inmates and correctional staff be considered abusive and criminalized under the law. It also seeks to prevent any inmate from being held criminally liable for sexual contact with guards. The group's report also examined state laws dealing with pregnant inmates. It found that 18 states and the District of Columbia allow women to be restrained during labor. At least 33 states and the District allow restraints during the transport to a hospital. -- On the Net: Amnesty International USA: http://www.amnestyusa.org/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A
[CTRL] Interview with Mary Frances Berry, Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
-Caveat Lector- I watched or listened to both these hearings in their entirely and never have I seen and heard such a bunch of BS! Read MF Berry's words closely`~~"people denied the right to vote and SOME of them were registered" is typical of this nonsense. Not ONE duly registered voter was denied the right to vote who was listed on the registration rolls. Where are the "thousands of disenfranchised Blacks" who were denied their right to vote by the evil Republicans?? They are NON-EXISTENT! It was consistently Demonrats and usually BLACK DEMOCRATS causing the problem as proven in testimony. Over and over, the testimonies told of a voting system with a 65% increase in voter turnout that over-whelmed the system. I think this is perfectly understandable and would happen any time and any where this large of an increase is experienced. Only the lowest political hacks would try to make it a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. Any person interested in the truth certainly heard it loud and clear in these hearings! And the problem was NOT the Republicans at all but the local Democratic party people who have always been in control of things. I think this makes Jesse Jackson and the others blathering about this appear at utter fools at best but most likely just plain liars. Not ONE person could name any Republican that denied them the right to vote. Ms. Berry would love to blame Katherine Harris some how for this but she if far off base there. The Commission has already conceded that there is NO EVIDENCE of criminal wrong doing. And that would most certainly include violation of ANYBODY's civil rights. AND Gore lost the recount. So how about we stop with this worn-out propaganda and get on with things. Amelia - Original Message - From: "radman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 6:41 PM Subject: [CTRL] Interview with Mary Frances Berry, Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights -Caveat Lector- Democrats.com Exclusive: Interview with Mary Frances Berry, Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=1721 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Right Wing Populism: Too Close for Comfort
-Caveat Lector- I didn't see any mention of Al Gore Sr.being a staunch segregationist who even voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act that only passed because of the Republicans who backed LBJ and supported it. Just an oversight, I'm sure. No attempt to distort the facts or anything like that. You'd NEVER post anything untrue or giving history a little twist to the left, would you, Radman? Amelia - Original Message - From: "radman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 6:57 PM Subject: [CTRL] Right Wing Populism: Too Close for Comfort -Caveat Lector- RIGHT WING POPULISM: TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT: http://www.e-venthorizon.net/parallax/culture_constitution/ rtwing_populism.html An Interview with Chip Berlet Matthew Lyons by Elaine Wolff, editor, parallax views February 15, 2001 It's hardly news that the coalition that brought George W. Bush to power in the 2000 presidential election includes heavy representation by far right organizations with agendas to dismantle the gains of the civil rights movement over the past forty years, as well as impede any further improvement in social or economic equality by the working poor, feminists, gays and lesbians, immigrants or people of color. Unclear to many of us, however, is the roots of this coalition in the right-wing populism of George Wallace, who launched two unsuccessful presidential bids, as well as the remnants of Goldwater Republicans and evangelical Carter Democrats. The political influence exerted by these groups since Reagan's election was also responsible in large part for that public travesty known as "welfare reform" an attack primarily directed at women and children of color living well below the poverty line. To this day, many of us on the left are still shocked that the largest rollback of public assistance in the history of the U.S. was passed under a Democratic president. Politicians in both parties successfully created and preyed upon middle class fears that a large, idle underclass was the parasite that threatened their prosperity - during the largest economic boom in history. The truth, as author Matthew Lyons notes, is that the Reagan revolution "involved a massive redistribution of wealth from working-class and middle-class people into the coffers of the wealthy," while the lowest-income Americans are worse off in absolute and relative terms than they were twenty years ago, as reported by Brookings Institution economist Gary Burtless. How were the architects of the welfare reform movement so successful? In their new book, Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, Lyons and co-author Chip Berlet shed some much-needed light on the power behind the New Right coalition and its firm foundation in American history. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Incumbent Protection Bill Threatens GOA's Existence
-Caveat Lector- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 17:00:28 -0500 Subject: Incumbent Protection Bill Threatens GOA's Existence From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] McCain Incumbent Protection Bill Threatens Gun Owners -- Bill to keep gun owners in the dark, endanger existence of GOA Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.org (Tuesday, March 6, 2001) -- Irked by nettlesome groups such as GOA which threaten to expose their anti-gun activities, Arizona Senator John McCain (R) and Wisconsin Democrat Senator Russ Feingold (D) are pushing legislation which would eliminate the ability of groups like GOA to keep gun owners informed on how their legislators are voting. In the name of reforming campaign finance laws, this Incumbent Protection legislation would allow the government to seize the membership lists of groups such as ours -- and potentially outlaw our organization. The issue is scheduled to come before the Senate between March 19th and 26th. The Incumbent Protection bill, S. 27, would require legislative advocacy groups -- including Second Amendment organizations such as GOA -- to report to the government if they spend more than $10,000 preparing for and participating in TV and radio broadcasts which mention officeholder-candidates within two months of an election. If they wished, government bureaucrats could define virtually all of an organization's activities as "preparation" for TV and radio interviews. With GOA employees regularly appearing on TV shows such as Fox News, Crossfire, and other programs to discuss gun-related legislation, there can be little doubt that S. 27 would apply to this organization. If it did, GOA would be required to provide the government with its donor list. For the time being, this disclosure would be limited to contributors of $1,000 or more, but no one should assume this threshold would not be reduced or eliminated once the government's foot was in our membership door. It goes without saying that an activist who sends a check to GOA to help protect his Second Amendment rights doesn't want his name being registered with the government as a gun owner. And for that reason, GOA will fight this bill "tooth and nail." And if this bill were to become law, GOA would not comply. We would fight it in court, and exhaust every possible resource, because we are not going to turn over our members' names to the government. This underscores why it is SO VERY IMPORTANT that we defeat this bill in the Congress! GOA would rather spend its members' dollars defending 2nd Amendment freedoms, as opposed to spending hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting 1st Amendment battles in court. Finally, because the Incumbent Protection bill would define GOA's battles against anti-gun legislation as "electioneering" if they occurred during election season, these legislative activities could affect our tax-exempt status -- and ultimately, our existence. Urge your Senators to keep their distance from John McCain and Russ Feingold, and to respect the free speech rights of all Americans. ACTION: 1. Please call, fax or email your two Senators and ask them to filibuster and vote against the anti-gun McCain-Feingold bill, S. 27. You can call the Senate at 202-224-3121, or toll-free at 1-877-762-8762. See the GOA Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm for complete Senate contact information, and to send pre-written messages. 2. Forward this alert to as many gun owners as possible and ask them to contact their Senators in opposition to S. 27. - Pre-written message - Dear Senator: The anti-gun McCain-Feingold bill, S. 27, threatens to open the membership lists of Second Amendment organizations -- and even threaten their tax-exempt status. I urge you to oppose any bill that would limit the ability of outside groups such as Gun Owners of America to communicate with their members. I rely on groups like GOA to keep me informed when my rights are being threatened. I would consider a law to muzzle such groups as an attempt to avoid the accountability that an informed electorate provides. Please filibuster and vote against this anti-gun and anti-speech abomination. Let me know what you intend to do. Thank you. Sincerely, ** Do not reply directly to this message. To subscribe to free, low-volume GOA alerts, go to http://www.gunowners.org/ean.htm on the web. Change of e-mail address may also be made at that location. To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Problems, questions or comments? The main GOA e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] is at your disposal. Please do not add that address to distribution lists sending more than ten messages per
[CTRL] Fwd: ALERT: School Shooting in California....
-Caveat Lector- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization (Subscribe/UnSubscribe instructions near the end of the message) March 7, 2001 ALERT: School Shooting in California We pass on these thoughts from Randall N. Herrst about the school shootings on Monday March 5: Hi, Everyone! I would like to suggest a few issues that we can use to address the school shooting in San Diego, CA. today. 1. The other side has bragged that California has "the toughest gun laws in the nation", yet it is obvious that they have NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER and cannot prevent any crimes, even in a specially "protected" zone such as a school! Why? Because criminals are not deterred or prevented from obtaining firearms (mostly illegally) or prevented from committing even the most serious crimes. The San Diego murderer is apparently underage, so he could not have obtained his firearms legally. There is also a child-access-prevention law in California, which also did not work (although that law did cause 2 deaths and a serious wounding in the "Merced Pitchfork Murders"). In California, it is also illegal to bring firearms onto campus, and that didn't work either. Incidentally, in California I think it is also illegal to shoot people and murder them. Not to mention another dozen or so felony violations. I wonder why those laws didn't work, but new gun control laws will? 2. What would have worked in the short term? The "Israeli Solution" of arming some of the teachers and staff members. This has cut school murders to zero as soon as the policy was enacted and it has maintained that success over a two decade period. Go to http://www.jpfo.org/school.htm for an explanation. Note that the criminal in San Diego told several people, including adults, that he was going to commit these crimes. 3. What else might work? One of the main reasons why these criminals do these things is for notoriety. For this, we can ask why the media insists upon glorifying and promoting the criminals. Let us suggest that the media, IF IT WANTED TO ACT RESPONSIBLY, would glorify the victims and minimize the celebrity treatment of the criminals--even including a refusal to mention the name of the criminal and refusal to publish their photos and refusal to publish the ego-driven ramblings of these criminals . These criminals aren't doing these things so that no one will notice them. Of course, I am just fantasizing here, since I am fully aware that almost no one in the media ever acts responsibly or in the public interest. Still, it would be interesting to see whether the media might be willing to try it as an experiment. 4. Are there any long term solutions? Yes, but this will be difficult to accept and even more difficult to implement. The main reason, IMHO, that school mass murders by students were almost unknown prior to the 1990's (is it only coincidence that school shootings blossomed during the Clinton years?) is the fact that society as a whole had some concept of morality and taught those precepts to the children. Morality was taught, not just in the home, but in the schools, churches, neighborhoods, the courts, the news media, and even the entertainment media (remember when movies and TV shows had "a moral to the story" and the good guys won while the bad guys were punished?) Furthermore, the media did not lionize heinous criminals or make mass murder look like fun (did you know that half a dozen mass murderers have cited "Natural Born Killers" or "The Basketball Diaries" or "Taxi Driver" as their FAVORITE movies?) Up until the mid-1970's, it was not uncommon for even urban high schools to have shooting teams, with members bringing firearms and ammunition onto campus, sometimes via public transportation and school buses. In rural areas then, and in some small town and rural places even today, children brought their hunting firearms to school and either left them in their cars or gave them to the teachers for safekeeping during school hours. Morality was what kept us safe. 5. There is a consistent pattern of violence where it is hard for law-abiding citizens to obtain firearms, whereas there is less violent crime where firearms ownership is widespread and easy. My studies have shown that violent crime is lower in the small cities and rural areas of each state compared to the metropolitan areas (as much as 500% higher) of 42 of the 50 states; while it is comparable in 7 states and in only one state, Kentucky, is the pattern significantly reversed (~35% higher violent crime in small cities and rural areas). The pattern of firearms ownership and crime is an inverse relationship, which should not be possible if the other side were right when it claims that "easy availability causes crime". Why hasn't the media ever noticed that
Re: [CTRL] Doctor: White House is spinning Cheney's condition
-Caveat Lector- My husband had the same procedure in 1999 AFTER a heart attack, not before. Inserting a stent, a tube made of some hypoallergenic material I forget what, into the artery to keep it open, is much less risky than bypass surgery. It is done during catheterization. It also has a much shorter recovery time. There is no large incision, and the ribs and sternum are not broken like they are in bypass surgery. As for the medications they won't disclose, this is a likely scenario: An ACE inhibitor like captopril, a beta blocker like metoprolol, a calcium-channel blocker like inderal -- those 3 control blood pressure; a statin (Lipitor or Zocor) to control cholesterol; nitroglycerin for chest pains; a blood thinner, either aspirin or warfarin, to prevent clotting; possibly a diuretic like hydrochlorothiazide. No matter what he does with his weight, no matter what the numbers say, he will be on many of these medicines for the rest of his life. They don't seem to affect memory or intelligence, but they can cause mood swings, especially the metoprolol. Tenorlove __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- Wednesday 7 March 2001 Euro-court outlaws criticism of EU http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319rtmo=3SSxHwYMatmo= pg=/et/01/3/7/weuc07.html By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels THE European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the European Union can lawfully suppress political criticism of its institutions and of leading figures, sweeping aside English Common Law and 50 years of European precedents on civil liberties. The EU's top court found that the European Commission was entitled to sack Bernard Connolly, a British economist dismissed in 1995 for writing a critique of European monetary integration entitled The Rotten Heart of Europe. The ruling stated that the commission could restrict dissent in order to "protect the rights of others" and punish individuals who "damaged the institution's image and reputation". The case has wider implications for free speech that could extend to EU citizens who do not work for the Brussels bureaucracy. The court called the Connolly book "aggressive, derogatory and insulting", taking particular umbrage at the author's suggestion that Economic and Monetary Union was a threat to democracy, freedom and "ultimately peace". However, it dropped an argument put forward three months ago by the advocate-general, Damaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, which implied that Mr Connolly's criticism of the EU was akin to extreme blasphemy, and therefore not protected speech. Mr Connolly, who has been told to pay the European Commission's legal costs, said the proceedings did not amount to a fair hearing. He said: "We're back to the Star Chamber and Acts of Attainder: the rights of defendants are not respected or guaranteed in any way; the offence of seditious libel has been resurrected." Mr Colomer wrote in his opinion last November that a landmark British case on free speech had "no foundation or relevance" in European law, suggesting that the European Court was unwilling to give much consideration to British legal tradition. Mr Connolly now intends to take his case to Europe's other court, the non-EU European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Doctor: White House is spinning Cheney's condition
-Caveat Lector- Tenorlove the one thing that shocked me, on the day President Bush was sworn in - this man, Dick Cheney, stood in the cold with the others, and managed to get through it all - at that time I feared for his safety an believe he should had slipped quietly away from this scene. I think in a sense he proved his strength that day; he seems to be a man with control mentally but physically, he stil withstood a hard day. He has enemies in the administration of that I am sure; if he should resign, the last person I would want as VP would be this programmed Manchurian Candidate Colin Powell - for this man not only has inflated ego but this would be one confused guy - asian, black, jamaican, white blood - probably practices voodoo on the side with a needle in the heart of Cheney already..Powell identifies with the black blood choosing to ignore the Asian connection and I wonder, what is his real name? One generation out of Jamaica? Was he really even born in USA? We have all these Manchurian Candidates walking about who do not use their real names - even Jesse Ventura but then he is WWW NWO Wrestling star...Clinton Barak, Sharon, Ford, Jackson, King, Richie Rich, none of these people use their real names? Is it a matter of I Will Give You a New Name to help cover up a past that might prove to be a little more than embarrassing. The strangest thing to me was Gerald Ford, for long before he was Vice President, I knew his real name was Leslie Kinghe had this Hollywood touch in acquaintance, played football too long without helmet - and I swear looking at his face, the look of the Manchurian Candidate for that guy had this Powell look..then when he was made President, Walter Cronkite, CFR - announced "his real name is Leslie King" - only because now, he would be president...so we had two Leslie Kings. Then the REAL Leslie King, Ford's brother, shortly thereafter on a Thursday night - on a lonely road, like John D. Rockefeller and the curator who released King Tuts stuff to USA, th real Leslie King met with a strange accident and went off the road, and of course was killed, and then there was One. Clinton, his real name it is said isn't even the Blythe they offered; maybe this is of no consequence, but I keep thinking of that psalm, Mafia Stuff - Made Men, Kiss of Death, etec, and blotting names out of book - let his days be few, let another take his office - ritual murder stuffbut this one like, God set the solitary in FAMILIESthe Family. There are people now in our FBI who are traitors and Clinton opened the door to murder - his body bag count - this big fat slob, thi big fat head with his slovenly wife made President of the USwe already knew he was a bastard without a doubt, who's father would be nothing but calculated guess - who associated with thieves and murderers from all indications - this man sitting in our white house, a sodomist. Our kids murdering kids by maybe a flick of a switich or a word like K 9 Dogs = an suddenly a community is smiling in some instances for the TV cameras, like these kids in California who knew the killer - the druged up dare devil - lips that are asleep made to speak, like a Hinckley - and always the same story. This news media is number one killer but they know what they are doing..they sell a President like a pound of hamburger.heros now steal an have illegitimate children - and like Jackson threatens to turn loose all these blacks on the streets - suddenly two blacks murder 5 whites - slaughter of the innocents? My what control Sharpton and Jesse have but why not - they are paid well to instigate the riots - remember Washington Burning. I for one am sick of this stuff - no wonder MSNBC and CNN loses it ratings - their idea of entertainment to begin with, was watching the USA bomb the hell out of Iraq and the Balkans - waiting for the show to go on at Waco (for they had threatened to leave unless there was some action) but then who owns these people = Clinton had and still has some of these guys on payolla.. Maybe the kids are revolting at being taught sodomy in schools - maybe they do not want to run with homosexuals - maybe they look at their heros and ignore the laws because is anybody doing anything about the polluted blood Clinton sold where kids and adults are getting AIDS and HIV from this poison - his theft and sodomy in office as a role model. Nothing surprises me anymore - but the show put on in California was just that to many -for its Show Time - only the faces I notice the most, are the ones that come smiling throughthe first to talk on the TV to know it all.wonder if anyone from a closet called CNN instead of othe police this time. But be assured the evil ones are always envious of the righteous man -not necessarily a perfect man - but a plain righteous man - I still remember the Snow White and 7 Dwarves labael they came to the democrats one election - these 6 dwarves knew the
Re: [CTRL] Doctor: White House is spinning Cheney's condition
-Caveat Lector- As for the medications they won't disclose, this is a likely scenario: An ACE inhibitor like captopril, a beta blocker like metoprolol, a calcium-channel blocker like inderal -- those 3 control blood pressure; a statin (Lipitor or Zocor) to control cholesterol; nitroglycerin for chest pains; a blood thinner, either aspirin or warfarin, to prevent clotting; possibly a diuretic like hydrochlorothiazide. No matter what he does with his weight, no matter what the numbers say, he will be on many of these medicines for the rest of his life. They don't seem to affect memory or intelligence, but they can cause mood swings, especially the metoprolol. Your post is entirely correct, with the notable exception that Inderal is another beta blocker (the first one IIR). Most likely Ca+ channel blocker would be Cardizem (Diltiazem). Tenorlove __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om -- Best Wishes The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice. --Doug Larson A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: ALERT: School Shooting in California....
-Caveat Lector- This man is right Tenorlove - there are drugs where kids lose control and are easily controlled and suggestible. These horrible movies are being made deliberately - this kid's buddies goaded him for he was the Patsy - these kids had the same look as some of the kids and even parents at Littleton. Somewhere there was a controller who set him off..maybe if the school had let the kid play on a real basketball team or sit on bench in football? He seemed to love sports, or was it the attention he needed - no mother at home? Some of these stupid teachers and princpals should be horse whipped ..but they sure liked the spotlite is on you, on TV. This item I had on fluoride dating back so many years I would not use because it came from a "right winged element" and I was led to believe the right wingers killed JFK.so the name of this book is THE AGE OF TREASON Remember how Crest Toothpaste (proctor and gamble) introduced Crest Toothpaste, the first fluoride toothpaste - "in a little town in Texas named Waco" now remembered by me for more than just toothpaste.and they covered the old well with a statute which means something is in the water - maybe lots of oil underneath or something else - heavy water or something So I quote from this book which I thought so many years ago was outlandish.but I xeroxed a few pages: "When Fluorides are placed into water sytem thre is a continuous ingestion and this accumunates in the system The smallest possible amount ingested will in time become a desructive accumulation . Worst of all children like adults drink this sametoxically drugged water, perhaps more so than adults in dental preparations and dental firms have opening admitted it is dangrous to children from 6 and or 9.." Now Proctor and Gamble is making big bucks back in 50 period with the Crest Toothpaste And further the AGE OF TREASON reads: "BOTH the Germans under Hitler and the Russians (see Ana Pauker an others) advocated and made use of this method of mental deterioration .to reduce mental capacity in those already developed:" and then it goes on to explain the different types of fluoride. Look at the drug Ritilin - now being passed around by schools like MMs...look at the slop served they call food in schools with a Have Pepsi.schools get kick backs from vending machine companieslook at the denial of the kids to orange and grape juice - look at their blood sugar and add up all the excess baggage they carry about from junk food. Now throw in this crap and the drugs. Adolph Hitler had his own beer specially prepared and would not drink the water..unles specially prepared as well. Remember former President George Bush getting sick and vomiting at a Japanese dinner - later the CIA formed a school of Chefs. Who poisoned the Blue Danube with cyanide? During the 60 period these animals were going to put LSD in water and the truth was never told about the Legionaires Disease - My Name Is Legion, for we are manyhow many died thre? We had swine flu epidemic then and Gerald Ford took his swine flu shot for the public to promote this - and it was killing people. So THE AGE OF TREASON also mention "when the Nazis undr Hitler decided to go into Poland the GErman Staff and the Russian General Staff exchanged scientific and military ideas, plans, and personnel and the scheme of mass control through water medication was seized upon by the Russian Communities beaue it fitted ideally into their plan to comunize the world". This book at the time I read it I could not believe it all - I do now. So there is no difference between what Barak, Blair, Clinton, Sharon, Putin, etc. do than what this element did during WWIIit is all a game. The only thing I ever noted in America is this - those were not AMERICANS at Waco or Ruby Ridge - those were sadistic killers - and then look at our then Leader, Clionton. Sodomy has been in the game plan for birth control.let the dead bury the dead. Aids is the humanitarian's idea of birth controlsome will die before even given chance to live. Look at Waco and see combined intellignce of KGB and Mossad.. So what is in a name? We do not even know the names of some of our leaders - some of whom are obviously Manchurian Candidates. Maybe some people deserve what they get? Maybe it is time to get your kids in private schoolsmy grandson had a grandfather who was Catholic - St. Patrick bore his Coat of Arms, and this kid is going to be raised Catholic. On my father's side were nuns and priests - and the paddle seemed to make a greater impression than a gun, in those days. O'Saba Do Not Drink the Water - Our kids are so vulnerable now and if I had my way someone would drop a big H bomb on Hollywood. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed.
[CTRL] Fwd: Samuel Cabot, Jr. Ledger, 1814-1821
The archives available on Cabot opium trade and combination with Perkins look like a goldmine. Fascinating! I believe the Cabot family investments may be very significant in the funneling of that dirty money 2-3 centuries ago into the American Nazi-controlled military-industrial complex that we are fighting today. The money laundering arm of the Cabot family is intertwined with the Harvard endowment. http://www.newsmakingnews.com/lmharvardpart3.htm Moors Cabot, Inc. was founded in 1890 by John F. Moors and Charles Cabot. John F. Moors was the maternal grandfather of diplomat John Moors Cabot, and his partner was named for an uncle, Charles Codman Cabot, a 1922 graduate of Harvard, and a director of Old Colony Trust. He was the brother of Henry Cabot, born in 1894, who was an investor and Harvard trustee, and who also had a son named Henry B. Cabot, Jr. They had another brother named Paul Codman Cabot, who was born in 1898 and was in the Harvard class of 1921 and then worked for the First National Bank of Boston and helped to found State Street Research Investment Trust. He became treasurer of the Harvard Corporation in 1948. Moors Cabot was intended to handle the family investments of the two founders and their friends, but the firm has grown to include 22 branch offices and over 150 registered representatives nationwide. Headquartered in the heart of Boston's financial district, the company is the oldest independent member of the Boston Stock Exchange and one of the nation's oldest independent members of the New York Stock Exchange. Since its inception, the firm has participated in the retail sale of stocks and bonds to individuals and the institutional sale of stocks and bonds to most of Boston's money management firms. After making a fortune in drugs, the family then set up and took control of a quasi-government association that convinced the federal government to set up a separate military branch for the air force, and then later branched out into NASA with scientists imported from Nazi Germany. http://www.newsmakingnews.com/lmharvardpart3.htm Elise Cabot Forbes, wife of Ralph Emerson Forbes and daughter of Sam and Eliza Cabot, was the sister of Samuel Cabot who was an 1872 graduate of M.I.T., and who studied chemistry in Zurich, Switzerland while exploring various factories in Germany. He returned to Chelsea, Massachusetts where he set up a laboratory. http://www.nap.edu/books/0309054451/html/135.html Sam and his brother, Godfrey Cabot, who graduated from Harvard in 1882, bought a plant in Worthington, Pennsylvania to process coal tar into paints and other products. Godfrey also spent a year studying in Zurich and two years traveling in other parts of Europe. After his return they built a plant in West Virginia. Their biggest customer would become Standard Oil. In 1896, Godfrey returned to Europe and also visited Russia. In 1900, back in the U.S. he became fascinated with airplanes and became a pilot before World War I. After the war he founded the National Aeronautic Association in Washington, D.C., which would be the base on which the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) was founded with the use of the technology of the Operation Paperclip Nazi scientists rescued from war crimes prosecution in Germany. Godfrey Cabot's wife was Maria Moors (daughter of John F. Moors), and one of their sons, Thomas Dudley Cabot, born in 1897, received his bachelor's degree in engineering from Harvard in 1919. Their Cabot Corporation became the major producer of carbon black with nine plants in Texas and Oklahoma; establishing an inroad into synthetic rubber production and the manufacturing of paints and other chemicals. Thomas' son, Louis W. Cabot, also a Harvard graduate, was sent to England to build a carbon black plant in Stanlow, using technology the British had taken from the Germans after World War II ended. http://books.nap.edu/books/0309054451/html/index.html Thomas Cabot and his brother, John Moors Cabot, and another relative, Kermit Roosevelt--all graduates of Harvard--were involved in the coup in Guatemala in the 1950s. John Moors Cabot, born in 1901, a 1923 Harvard graduate, was a vice consul in Peru 1927-28, in the Dominican Republic from 1929-31, Mexico 1931-32, Brazil 1932-35, then to the Netherlands until 1938 and Sweden in 1939. From 1939-41 he was in Guatemala, becoming the chief of the division of Caribbean and Central American affairs in 1944. He was thereafter stationed in Argentina, Yugoslavia and Shanghai, China, before becoming minister to Finland, then Ambassador to Pakistan, Ambassador to Colombia (1957-59); Ambassador to Brazil (1959-61); and Ambassador to Poland (1962-65). In 1953 he was the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (all according to Who's Who in America 1954-55). Also see an excellent article by Dan Russell at http://www.drugwar.com/neocolonialism.htm and list of papers at
[CTRL] Fwd: dyncorp--sounds like CIA
Title: dyncorp Journal of Aerospace and Defense Industry News March 28th, 2000 Business News DynCorp has operations around the world by Leona C. Bullsenior staff writer Employee-owned DynCorp's expertise has spanned the computer revolution; the space age; the Cold War' and conflicts from Korea and Vietnam to Desert Storm. This Virginia based-company has more than 53 years of experience and 19,000 employees in the information and enterprise technology, operations, management support, aerospace and aviation services industry globally, who recognize and understand that it's not just important to win contracts, but that it's also important to be a responsible member of the community as well.DynCorp found its beginnings in 1946 at the end of World War II, when a group of returning military pilots recognized the business potential of shipping cargo by air. The idea become the California Eastern Airways, Inc., modeled after the Flying Tiger Airlines. The first contract for the company was awarded in 1949 by White Sands Missile Range. The Land and Air divisions of the company were formed at that time out at Alamorgodo, N.M. By 1947, the company logged 100,000 air miles per month nationwide and later, during the Korean Conflict, the company participated in the U.S. military airlift to the Far East.The company continued to grow at an amazing rate, but by 1957, the decision was made to phase out commercial air carrier activity and begin diversifying into defense and aerospace engineering, commercial electronics and data management. In 1961, the company's name was changed to the Dynalectron Corporation and by 1976, the company had made19 acquisitions and established four main operating groups: Specialty Contracting, Energy, Government Services and Aviation Services.The 1980s proved to be a time of explosive growth for the company as13 acquisitions were made to expand the company's aviation services into cargo handling and aviation fueling and to establish a new service business line-computer component repair.By 1986, Dynalectron Corporation was acknowledged as the fourth largest electrical contractor in North America and one of the largest defense contractors and independent aviation service companies in the United States. At this time, Dynalectron stock was traded on the New York stock exchange and the company was ripe for a hostile takeover bid, or so Victor Posner, the world renowned cooperate raider thought. In 1987 in a management-led buyout, DynCorp became privately held, sharing ownership with employees under an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Also at this time, operations became restructured into two core businesses - Government Services and Commercial Aviation Services. All other businesses were divested and the aviation maintenance business was expanded with the acquisition of a 285,000 square foot facility in Phoenix, Ariz. When the decision was made to take the company private, it was decided that a new moniker that would reflect its present and past business activities was needed. After more than 5,000 suggestions from employees, DynCorp was selected. The new name was launched in 1987.DynCorp president and chief executive Paul Lombardi, who has been with the company since 1992, says he was attracted to the company because of the robust history."Bringing technology solutions to the market place is what I do, and with my skills I felt like I could help bring it into the 21st century," he said. "I'm an engineer that spent a good portion of my life in the high end information technology services arena. "What I brought to the table is the technology capability and you marry that with to the normal conventional services or technical and mechanical services, you find more innovative solutions ways to get the old tired things done. That's what really distinguishes our company form other companies," he said."We [DynCorp] pride ourselves on the excellent safety record, in fact I have a safety officer that reports directly to me," said Lombardi. "He's not only involved with collecting the data and disseminating that data throughout the company but he also makes sure that our procedures and our policies are published and adhered to. "In fact, within the Department of Energy, we are probably best in class and certainly in our aviation and range side of the business, we have outstanding records, especially at our Fort Rucker division. We have more than three million flight hours without a maintenance-related accident. Those are hard numbers to come by," Lombardi added. "DynCorp, which took over the Aircraft Maintenance Support Contract more than 11 years ago, is the first contractor at Fort Rucker to reach this remarkable achievement."Lombardi adds," We live and breathe safety at every level in the company. Because safety frankly begins basically at the grass roots level. We spend an awful lot
Re: [CTRL] Welcome to the New World Order.
-Caveat Lector- Well here they are - coming out of the closet - they take up where Hitler left off. So this time we will show them how we keep our boys down on the farm - they can shove "Paree".. This bunch is doing what Hitler did - United Europe with a gun was HItler's idea, but they use big bucks here. This is Henry Kissinger's dream.corner the market on the food, which he could not do so corner the market on money and you control the food, heat, and even the air you breathe. Why so quiet about this EU.The Swiss just voted them out, is this right? The idea is to make Europe for the rich man and soon our shores will be overflowing with the refuse? Time to take down the Statute of Liberty and replace it with a Pit Bull. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Terror Threatens Russian Medias Future
So what is the difference between a Free Press and a Controlled Press? In America you would think none these days - for under Clinton he paid off some of the news commentators which is obvious and I know about this type of payoff for once I used to send out plain white envelopes to certain newsmen - this old man who was millionaire Sports Promoter - and t was payollaI was so shocked I said why do you do this.so he stopped and this one NBC newsman got ahold of a guy by the name of Barnhard and wanted to run this dear sweet man out of town and he said - it is easier to pay a few bucks and get the promo you need, than to battle - unknown to the newsman the guy he wanted to run my old boss out of town, was a friend.and this guy was a Mason? So it takes all kinds...Larry Flynt has the only Free Press in America and he can print what he pleases - he can use sodomy in advertising and he is a great American? Wonder how he would fly in Russia? Probably very well. So William Randolph Hearst used thugs to run his competition off the streets - this is how the politicians play today - do not want honest competition - they want to smear, slander, theaten and murder their way into office. George Bush took the high road - had he taken the low road he would have won by a landslidehow many illegan aliens voted for Gore? So Putin - take a good look here - this is your Mafia - remember Victor Reisiel - most do not; Johnny Torrio a hoodlum threw acid in his face and blinded ihm and it took JFK and RFK to try to throw this Mafia and in particular this Meyer Lansky Mafia, out of America - look what happened to them:? Ah but here you see from this article, the big bossthe big kahuna - the head of the KGB who like Clinton loved to torture children - Waco? Chechnya - Putin ordered his troops to refused medical treatment to two little 14 year old boy and their legs were amputated - for shock appeal they put pictures in newspapers as a warningfor the "iniquities of the fathers will be visited upon the children"/ And this Louis Freeh breaks bread with KGB as did this fat pig Madeine Albright? Pleading to builld up our defenses? KGB in our FBI - it too Bush to get elected to week that bastard out did it not? 16 years in the FBI and what about the Japanese sharpshooter in West Point hired by FBI to murder a little kid, his dog, and then blew face off his mother? Interesting article here - and remember EU - hey they have a making of a good Nazi Regime for lo and behold - it is the new Milleninium and they are all coming out of their closets - regular coming out parties, Gay Pride Flags and All sporting the Red Star. Give me the Southern Cross - these people are a minority and one of us is better than a 1000 of themfor the traitors have come home to roost - only its a bad year for migratng birds. This is Organized Crime - this is the Mafia and the 300 in Action - These are the people responsible for the murder of 55 illion people in WWII.these are the people who murdered the Kennedys, shot Wallace and Reagan and murdered MFL (who was nothing but a pawn and maybe did not know it - but he did take a new name) - in essense, this is your life NWO, Murder Inc..and Putin, We Hardly Knew Ye... Saba Advertise Your Banner Here March 07, 2001 Show It Off!: Get "The Map" Rush Talked About Terror Threatens Russian Media's Future NewsMax.com Wednesday, March 7, 2001 Russia's sole privately owned TV station is threatened by a rebirth of Soviet-style repression and may not survive. And the station is not alone in being victimized by President Vladimir Putin's bizarre view of the media's function, which he believes to be one of solely serving the government. Under any circumstances, NTV is a prime target of Russia's security forces because it is owned by Vladimir Gusinsky, the former oligarch whose arrest and imprisonment stirred international protests. Since his release he has fled Russia and is living in exile. NTV's bank accounts have been frozen, according to Britain's Sunday Telegraph, which reported that the offices of its parent company, Media-Most, have been raided by armed tax police. Journalists working for Media-Most, which owns newspapers, magazines and Moscow's only independent news radio station, Ekho Moskvy, report that have been harassed, denied admittance to government press conferences and even given unsolicited assignments from state-owned media groups that somehow have obtained their home telephone numbers. Most observers say it is only a matter of time before Media-Most and its NTV are seized by the government. Alexei Venediktov, the chief editor of the radio station, Ekho Moskvy, told the Telegraph that Putin told a recent meeting of Media-Most's journalists: "Your job is to support the state." Venediktov said he was stunned by Putin's "profoundly Soviet worldview." "I told him, 'We are not an instrument of the state,' " he told the Telegraph. "He didn't know
[CTRL] ZDNet: More on It (aka Ginger)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2693092,00.html David Coursey Wednesday, March 7, 2001 Ginger: Lots of hype, lots of hot air--and that's a good thing David Coursey Executive Editor, AnchorDesk Today we have new word on Ginger, the top-secret brainchild of noted inventor Dean Kamen, as investigative teams have narrowed down the possibilities of a technology that's been described as "bigger than the Internet" by those in the know. It turns out Ginger may be exactly what I said it was (though not here) when the speculation began: A bunch of hot air. Though what I meant and what Ginger may be are two different things. THE KEY TO GINGER may be literally hot air, used to power an ingenious, socially responsible new form of transportation. There had already been speculation that Ginger was a scooter of some sort; what's new is the likelihood that Ginger uses a Stirling Engine--the so-called "hot air" engine--for power, perhaps using hydrogen, the major component of air, as a fuel. http://idh.vita.org/pubs/docs/stirling.html [For more information regarding Stirling engines.] It's been nearly two months since Jesse brought us the Ginger story. (Click for more.) At the time I almost wrote a piece debunking the hype surrounding the mystery product, which almost immediately showed up as an item to be ordered someday, maybe, on Amazon.com. The world was awhirl with rumors and speculation about what Ginger might be--the hype machine in overdrive, so to speak. FORTUNATELY, KAMEN CALMED down the buzz on his own, blaming the author of a proposed book about him and his research company for stirring things up. Kamen's "enough already" earned him big points in my book. (Click for more.) AnchorDesk Science Correspondent Pete Deemer, my real-life big boss and a CNET Vice President, cut through the hype on his own early on. Almost immediately, he speculated that Ginger was based on something I'd never heard of: the Stirling Engine. The Stirling runs off heat and is more efficient and quieter than internal combustion engines. Its major flaw, at least for use in a transportation device, is that it takes a long time--like 20 minutes--to warm up enough to get something moving. The engine has been used in prototype cars and submarines as well as in cryogenics for its ability to create intense cold. You can read more and even purchase a Science Fair working model from the American Stirling Co. http://www.stirlingcycle.com/FAQ.asp [This site even has animations concerning the two main types of Sterling Engines.] SOMETHING ELSE PETE NOTICED: Some of the patent drawings show Ginger standing upright without a kickstand. He believes Kamen could make this possible by leaving the Stirling Engine running and using it to drive a flywheel to provide balance, employing the same principle that keeps a gyroscope or a moving bicycle upright. "How would you do this? By having a two-part wheel--an external hub (for riding on), and an internal hub (for stability), with ball bearings in between them that allow them to spin independently of each other," he explains. If you wanted to be really ingenious, the internal hub could be used like a flywheel, storing the energy from the external hub when the vehicle slows down, and delivering it back out when the red light turns to green. This could help the Stirling Engine reach full power more quickly. THE MAGAZINE THAT FIRST broke the Ginger story will be back out soon with its own new speculation, compiled by a private investigator. I won't name the magazine--which I think engaged in shameless hype and self-promotion--but I will quote their press release. "As many have guessed, 'Ginger' has to do with a ground-breaking, scooter-type vehicle that can balance on two wheels. But the real revelation is the power behind it--hydrogen, which runs basically emission-free. In subsequent iterations, Kamen intends to retrofit his scooters with his patented version of the Stirling engine, an almost perpetual motion machine that could be manufactured for any product that requires power." The magazine says Kamen has created a new company called ACROS, which aims to create a product line that features "motorized, self-propelled, wheeled personal mobility aids, namely wheel chairs, scooters, carts, and chariots," and that the company has begun building a factory in New Hampshire. I HAVE STAYED AWAY from the Ginger "story" because I've considered it to be overblown and self-serving hype for a book proposal. But it has also sparked tremendous interest and, now armed with some informed speculation, I'm happy to present what we think we know. And if Ginger lives up to its potential as a new, environmentally friendly, inexpensive means of transportation, it might live up to the hype. Which would be a neat turn, for once. - Two good links follow ... the latter makes a little more sense because
Re: [CTRL] Senate Debates Overturning Midnight Clinton Regulations
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/06/2001 6:32:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WASHINGTON â The Senate is scheduled to employ a rarely used legislative device to try to repeal a last-minute rule signed by President Clinton in the waning days of his administration. The resolution, being debated Tuesday, would do away with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's rule requiring businesses to respond to ergonomics complaints by workers. So it's a Republican House and for all practical purposes, a Republican Senate. The man assigned as president is a Republican, and the Supreme Court is also Republican. What's the challenge here? I don't know anyone who thinks the Republicans are concerned with worker health and safety. Get on with it. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Jesse Jackson Scrambles
-Caveat Lector- This federal funding he claims he did not want - one must apply for these funds - what were they, a payoff - remember years ago the casinos in Vegas when they wanted to make a payoff to someone they would let them win at the tables So who applied for these federal funds - they do not just give them away do they althought for omany years it occurred to me that some of these people travel on blank checks accountable to nobody but themselves? No wonder Jackson and Sharpton looked almost frightened at the thought of Gore losing election? Were their income tax records showing fraud being held in abeyance at the request of say someone like Clinton? Glad to see these people, these fine upstanding paragons of virtue - just plain caught in their own traps. Oh but a gift doth blind the eyes of the Judge? We shall see. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] AP: Woman Indicted in Bush Tape Release
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/06/2001 8:44:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted a former employee of a media company that handled ads for President Bush's campaign in connection with the release of a Bush debate tape to Vice President Al Gore's campaign. Juanita Yvette Lozano of Austin, Texas, was charged with mail fraud, false statements to the FBI and perjury. If convicted, she faces 15 years in prison and a $750,000 fine. The indictment was handed up by a federal grand jury in Texas This is really weird. I believe Robert Novak stole Carter's notes on the forthcoming presidential debate, and George Will used them to tutor Reagan. Neither Novak nor Will was indicted. I guess it's the same old, same old story. Republicans do it and it's youthful high spirits or whatever; Democrats do it and it's evidence of moral depravity. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] PC privacy 5
-Caveat Lector- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:49:43 - Subject: PC privacy 5 PC privacy 5.. Very difficult working conditions here. The firewall/blocking probing packets security subject is more complex than it may seem at first glance. Trojans get in but they have to send data out to complete their nasty mission. Zone Labs' Zone Alarm claims to be the best at blocking bad stuff coming in and going out. NeoWatch and Hack Tracer appear to be about the same although I prefer Hack Tracer. Hack Tracer catches some heavy probes which Zone Alarm does not report. Zone Alarm blocks stuff which Hack Tracer does not report so I use both. After much digging I'm back to square one: Zone Alarm and Hack Tracer. I mean a lot of digging and reading. I still doubt that any of these blocking programs are reliable. The net is a seething mass of treachery and deception. After you get the DNS, input the numbers to SmartWhois and you will know exactly who is attempting to violate your machine. A sure cure for negative penetration of your hard disk is to move about web sites while operating exclusively from RAM, temporary memory. There is a miraculous deliverance and it is known as the QNX demo floppy, available free download at www.qnx.com/ a Canadian outfit. The basic program was written by a miracle worker who died of cancer at age 37 years. That 1.44M floppy does brilliantly what Microbloat can't do with its 240MB. It is so fast on the web that it's mind-boggling. QNX is addictive, do not fail to try it. It is also handy in case you experience a total melt-down of your operating system. Boot with QNX and you'll be right back online.you don't even need a hard disk! E-mail can't be sent to QNX but you can get your mail at Yahoo, Excite, or whatever (free email service at www.ireland.com works fine with QNX both sending and receiving mail) QNX sends mail just jimdandy using some web based email services while others don't seem to like QNX. Experiment. It may be possible to send anonymous remailer email while running QNX in RAM. The hard disk and Microwhatever are completely out of the picture. When you back out and shut down the computer any traces of incoming nastiness evaporate into zero. QNX does not work with file systems in NT4 and NT5 (WIN2K). Many ISPs run servers using NT. www.qnx.com/ A good test site is www.oomph.net when everything is running properly the connection is almost instantaneous. It's an Apache server running Red Hat Linux. It is located in Seoul, South Korea. I __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] AP: Ex-CIA chief calls Clinton policy ''feckless,'' urges tougher ...
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/06/2001 9:38:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NEW YORK (AP) - Former CIA director R. James Woolsey called Tuesday for tough new policies toward Iraq, saying Saddam Hussein had expanded his power and credibility partly as the result of a ''flaccid and feckless'' approach by the Clinton administration. Among other things, Woolsey said, President Bush should demand the return of international weapons inspectors to Iraq, and expedite a ''boost phase'' missile defense system to intercept and destroy long-range ballistic missiles before they reach orbit. Baghdad is suspected of rushing development of long-range missiles along with nuclear weapons. Ah yes, back to making Kuwait safe for democracy. Wonderful to have the Bush family and their oil interests back in the saddle. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: SCHOOL SHOOTING: DAD TIED TO US NAVY, INTEL
March 6, 2001 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joni Ferris) Subject: URGENT!/SAN DIEGO SHOOTER'S DAD TIED TO US NAVY, INTEL!! PLEASE FORWARD AS FAR AND WIDE AS POSSIBLE SAN DIEGO SHOOTER'S DAD TIED TO US NAVY, INTEL!! EXACTLY as we've suspected! -- It turns out Charles Andrew Williams, the youth who murdered two and wounded 13 in a San Diego-area school shooting yesterday, DOES have a MASSIVE link to the U.S. military AND the intelligence agencies. The father of the shooter, Charles Williams Sr., is CURRENTLY working at the Naval "Medical" Center in San Diego: a location where a number of victims of US government mind-control experiments have testified they've been experimented on and subjected to various mind-control/manipulation procedures. It's ALSO noted that Charles Williams, Sr. moved to San Diego only a year ago from MARYLAND, where -- GUESS WHAT! -- he was associated with several of the U.S. intelligence agencies. ALSO: earlier news reports quoted eyewitnesses as saying Williams was using a what appeared to be some kind of RIFLE in his assault. NOW we are told Williams wielded a handgun. This excerpt is typical of the early news reports, which sure don't seem to be describing the weapon as a PISTOL. -- "Two killed, 13 wounded at San Diego-area high school SANTEE, California (CNN) -- A 15-year-old student killed two classmates at a California high school and wounded another 13 people before his arrest Monday, police said. ... A witness said the freshman boy arrested in the shooting was smiling when he allegedly emerged from a restroom with a LONG-BARRELLED GUN." So, WHICH WAS IT?? WHY did the story change?? It NOW turns out the father DID have a NUMBER of RIFLES in his home. It's highly likely the early news reports which quoted eyewitnesses were CORRECT about the weapon, and that the truth has been covered up because it would implicate the father -- and THUS by extension the US military and intelligence agencies -- too heavily in the incident. Dollars to doughnuts this unfortunate boy is yet ANOTHER of the MILLIONS of mind-controlled, "Manchurian Candidate" programmed assassins which our federal government has "created" in recent years all across the country. This nation MUST WAKE UP TO THE TRUTH!! We will be continuing to dig into this issue long and hard and will report further as the situation warrants. == Excerpt from: Shooting suspect's threats dismissed http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/03/06/school.shooting.03/index.html SANTEE, California (CNN) -- ... (Assistant San Diego County Sheriff) Tom Zoll said the .22-caliber weapon the suspect allegedly used in the shooting belonged to his father, Charles Jeffrey "Jeff" Williams, a lab technician at the Naval Medical Center-San Diego. "We believe the gun came from the house," Zoll said. "It was kept locked up there. He did somehow obtain a key and get the gun." Sheriff's and FBI officials searched the Williams home on Monday night, removing seven rifles, a computer, a plastic crate filled with papers and files, and about six more bags filled with evidence. ... ...(San Diego Sheriff's Department Lt.) Lewis said Williams and his father moved to Santee from Maryland about a year ago, the boy's mother, Linda Wells, told The New York Times, so that the elder Williams could follow a job opportunity. == **Why the School Violence?** http://www.co-freedom.com/2001/03/endviolence.html Libertarians Accuse Media of Anti-Gun Bias Covering School Shootings http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/3/6/173026.shtml SCHOOL SHOOTINGS HAVE A PATTERN THAT IMPLICATE THE PRESIDENT AND HIS GOVERNMENT -- GUN CONTROL IS THE OBJECTIVE! BLACK MAGICK WITCHCRAFT IS THE POWER! - CUTTING EDGE http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1344.cfm == White House E-Mail Addresses President George W. Bush - [EMAIL PROTECTED] VicePresident Dick Cheney - [EMAIL PROTECTED] First Lady Laura Bush - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Education System vs Christian Home Schooling Home School News, Info. Links http://www.ordination.org/homeschool.htm == THIS MESSAGE POSTED APFN MESSAGE BOARD: http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html Operation Condor: http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html CIA patching ECHELON shortcomings http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html Sheriff Wants ATF To Apologize http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html THE TRAIN DEATHS, THE COVER-UP, AND CLINTON http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3603d207324e.htm "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do." - Edward Everett Hale
[CTRL] The Orlando Sentinel's request for autopsy photos
-Caveat Lector- Newspaper's Request for Earnhardt's Autopsy Photos Angers Fans Wednesday, March 7, 2001 By Mike Schneider ORLANDO, Fla. - The Orlando Sentinel's request for the autopsy photos of Dale Earnhardt has brought a torrent of angry calls and e-mail from race fans and prompted an effort by lawmakers to prevent the release of such pictures in future cases. Over the past two days, Sentinel Editor Tim Franklin has taken about 3,000 of the almost 7,000 e-mails and calls. "Some of the e-mails have been quite ugly, but I understand it's an emotional issue," Franklin said. "While we feel sorry for the Earnhardt family and what they're going through, there's a big issue here about NASCAR safety and we're simply trying to provide more information about how Dale Earnhardt died." Franklin has said repeatedly that the newspaper has no intention of publishing the photos but wants to view them so that a head trauma expert can make an independent determination of the cause of death. The Sentinel ran a series last month that showed three NASCAR drivers who died last year suffered fractures at the base of the skull. "He's the fourth driver in nine months to die," Franklin said. "This isn't a fight that we seek or asked for, but we believe that there are big issues at stake here as far as NASCAR safety. There's also a big principle at stake, access to state records." Fans also have sent more than 12,000 e-mails to Gov. Jeb Bush and state lawmakers, asking them to intervene. Three Republican lawmakers are drafting legislation that would prohibit the release of any autopsy photographs. Such photos would be treated as private medical records. Several news organizations support the Sentinel's efforts to view the photos, the Sentinel said in a statement released Tuesday. The groups include the Society of Professional Journalists, The Associated Press Sports Editors, The Miami Herald, The Tampa Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and WFLA-TV in Tampa. "What's getting lost in this debate is whether government has a right to withhold records that are clearly public," said Ray Marcano, president of the Society of Professional Journalists. "And the answer is simple: Government does not and should not even try." Earnhardt was killed in a crash Feb. 18 at the Daytona 500. The race car driver's widow, Teresa, sued Volusia County four days later to stop release of the medical examiner's photos. The next day, an Orlando Sentinel reporter made a public-records request for the pictures. Judge Joseph Will issued a temporary injunction against the photos' release, saying they have no "bona fide newsworthiness" and could cause the family "additional anguish and grief." A hearing is set for Thursday. NASCAR fan Cheryl Mundy of Mocksville, N.C., wrote a letter to Bush warning him that "there a lot more NASCAR fans in the Southeast than there are Republicans." Mundy also said that she and several hundred other people plan to start a boycott of Sentinel advertisers. "When Dale Earnhardt fans spread their wings in Florida, they ain't seen nothing yet," said Mrs. Mundy, 51, who runs a contracting business. Lynn Cummings, an Orlando lawyer, has canceled her subscription to the Sentinel, in part because of the newspaper's decision to seek the photos over the objections of Earnhardt's widow. "It's sensationalizing Dale Earnhardt's death," she said. Barbara Petersen, executive director of the First Amendment Foundation in Tallahassee, said the restrictions contemplated by lawmakers would be a big mistake. She said the public records law provides for oversight over medical examiners who may feel political pressure to render a particular cause of death. "A total ban is clearly unconstitutional," Petersen said = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A
[CTRL] Favish: Re: New Filing in Vincent Foster FOIA Case (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 11:08:48 -0500 From: Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Allan Favish [EMAIL PROTECTED], Subject: Re: New Filing in Vincent Foster FOIA Case Hamilton's point #6 says that the OIC argues convincingly that the release of the pictures would not inform the public about government conduct and therefore the ruling referred to concerning the release would not apply. Since the OIC itself leaked the gun in hand photo to Reuter's and ABC, don't they negate that argument by the fact they used one of the photos to inform the public about government conduct? - Original Message - From: "Allan Favish" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 7:52 PM Subject: New Filing in Vincent Foster FOIA Case Foster's former wife and one of his sisters have filed a reply to my opposition to their motion asking the judge to reverse his decision to release five photos. It's in the Foster section of my web site. The direct link to the 628KB pdf file is: http://members.nbci.com/allanfavish/foster/lisarep.pdf _ Regards, Allan J. Favish http://members.aol.com/allanf8702/page1.htm = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Doctor: White House is spinning Cheney's condition
-Caveat Lector- You're right, mea culpa. My husband is not on Ca+ channel blockers, but does take the others. Tenorlove --- kl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your post is entirely correct, with the notable exception that Inderal is another beta blocker (the first one IIR). Most likely Ca+ channel blocker would be Cardizem (Diltiazem). __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] School Shootings and White Denial
-Caveat Lector- School Shootings and White Denial Tim Wise, AlterNet March 6, 2001 I can think of no other way to say this, so here goes: white people need to pull our heads out of our collective ass. Two more white children are dead and thirteen are injured, and another "nice" community is scratching its blonde head, utterly perplexed at how a school shooting the likes of the one yesterday in Santee, California could happen. After all, as the Mayor of the town said in an interview with CNN: "We're a solid town, a good town, with good kids, a good church-going town an All-American town." Yeah, well maybe that's the problem. I said this after Columbine and no one listened so I'll say it again: white people live in an utter state of self-delusion. We think danger is black, brown and poor, and if we can just move far enough away from "those people" in the cities we'll be safe. If we can just find an "all-American" town, life will be better, because "things like this just don't happen here." Well bullshit on that. In case you hadn't noticed, "here" is about the only place these kinds of things do happen. Oh sure, there is plenty of violence in urban communities and schools. But mass murder; wholesale slaughter; take-a-gun-and-see-how-many-you can-kill kinda craziness seems made for those safe places: the white suburbs or rural communities. And yet once again, we hear the FBI insist there is no "profile" of a school shooter. Come again? White boy after white boy after white boy, with very few exceptions to that rule (and none in the mass shooting category), decides to use their classmates for target practice, and yet there is no profile? Imagine if all these killers had been black: would we still hesitate to put a racial face on the perpetrators? Doubtful. Indeed, if any black child in America -- especially in the mostly white suburbs of Littleton, or Santee -- were to openly discuss their plans to murder fellow students, as happened both at Columbine and now Santana High, you can bet your ass that somebody would have turned them in, and the cops would have beat a path to their doorstep. But when whites discuss their murderous intentions, our stereotypes of what danger looks like cause us to ignore it -- they're just "talking" and won't really do anything. How many kids have to die before we rethink that nonsense? How many dazed and confused parents, Mayors and Sheriffs do we have to listen to, describing how "normal" and safe their community is, and how they just can't understand what went wrong? http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10560 - A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Dick Cheney-Reptilian?
-Caveat Lector- As Dick Cheney is being mentioned, I take the liberty to repost this article. Best, Ole Gerstrom, Denmark --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:55:09 -0400 (EDT) From: William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[CTRL] Dick Cheney-Reptilian? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Reptiles Could Be Watching You: by Jess Miller ___ Just after the Gulf War I was at my home, then in London, when the phone rang and a Canadian fishing guide - who I had never heard of - asked if I had one of the fishing reels named after his grandfather. I did indeed have one in my collection, but it was not for sale. However he continued to tell me how desperate he was to buy it and so I quoted him what I thought was a high price. Not having the money to be able to purchase it, he then offered to guide me for a week on British Columbia's Dean River in exchange for the reel. I had fished the Dean many years previously and a wondrous river and superbly powerful place it is too, with forested mountains rising from the often green, glacial river and Grizzly and Black Bears all over the place. Wild and powerful is how I would describe it and the Steelhead that run the Dean are some of the finest British Columbia has to offer. Well I was going to visit a friend in Vancouver anyway and so I agreed to the guide's proposition. So in time there we were camped in single tents on the banks of the Dean. We had flown in from Bella Coola to the tiny gravel airstrip and then had a drive over a really rough track up to where we had decided to camp and began to fish immediately. On the second day the guide said to me, "I want you to meet Dick Cheney." I was taken aback and looked at him for an explanation. "You know, Dick Cheney, the ex-U.S. Secretary of Defence." Well I of course knew who Cheney was, but we were miles into the wilderness of British Columbia in amongst the bears, so what the hell was this guy on about? "He's coming in as we go out and I want you to meet him." That was all that was said, I just shrugged and began to wonder whether the guide had a full set of marbles. We continued fishing and what with all the bear activity and releasing spectacular Steelhead back into the Dean, the Cheney proposition completely left my mind. So the week ended and we arrived back at the gravel airstrip to find a light plane being unloaded by a couple of guys and another fellow standing to one side, dressed in a sort of overcoat, not the type of thing you go into the wilderness of British Columbia wearing. This man made a beeline for my guide and they turned away from me and engaged in a seemingly deeply serious and somewhat animated discussion. Having been brought up to have manners I moved off two or three metres and stood patiently waiting until they had finished. Meanwhile the two who were unloading the plane were not happy about my doing this and one in particular kept eyeing me until eventually he stopped doing what he was doing and stood and looked at me. I just smiled, feeling a little awkward and also feeling that in a moment he was going to start something. His attitude was hostile and I was beginning to feel that something was really wrong when my guide and the other man turned to me. "Oh, and this is Jess Miller from London. Jess Miller, Dick Cheney." I held out my hand as it dawned on me that it was Cheney and said, "Pleased to meet you, Mr. Cheney. You'll be pleased to hear that I've left you some Steelhead in the river because that's what we Englishmen like to do for our fellow human beings." I don't know why I said it, it just came out, but I'm always joking when I'm fishing, that's the way I am. Cheney was facing me, but never looked me in the eyes, instead he looked steadfastly at my solar plexus, grunted at my remark and then looked at the ground at our feet. A few seconds later he walked over to his two companions and that was my one and only meeting with Dick Cheney ended and I must say I was glad that it was. I had felt awkward, uncomfortable and uneasy around him. I put it out of my mind and we flew out back to Bella Coola. It stayed out of my mind for the years afterwards as my life turned into a nightmarish procession of evil people ripping me off and gradually my finances waned to almost nothing. I was ill quite a lot and homeopathy helped me greatly. Finally I was poisoned in a murder attempt and the people made off owing me a large amount of money, which I will never see again. I survived full blown clinical depression, brought on by the arsenic based biological agent I had been administered, much to my toxicologist's amazement, but at least I am alive and happily starting out again from a zero financial base. Then, around June 1999, I
Re: [CTRL] School Shootings and White Denial
-Caveat Lector- I guess anothre case of monkey see monkey do? Remember in Columbus, Ohio I was so shocked years ago to be told blacks carried knives to school and some guns; a teacher who once taught in our small town schools was on staff and was going to resign because of the "quality of life" in the big city schools. So let us say, whites left the great city of Columbus and the suburbs were built - Columbus has their shoot-bys and it is not safe to be on streets after twilight - the stores which once thrived on the main street are dead - there is a shopping mall and one shooting - a gang of black thugs roaming about but the security was just tightened. Eastland once a favorite is not safe anymore - abut Lex Wexner has built a new center which is high enough and out far enough to avoid serious troubl and it is whiter than snow in this Easton a line has been drawn, naturally. A man wrote a book Spokes for a Wheel - sounds like Washington DC..but this book I would venture to say would be a way to white suburbs for blacks - when people moved here quietly to be with their own kind. So there seems to be a desire for whites to segregate just as jews segregate and blacks segregate only blacks on bottom of money pole. Whites kids started carrying arms to defend themselves from these blacks - and I still remembe with deep hatred this beautiful little blonde girl and this ugly 14 year old black, a girl, who took a sawed off shotgun and blew off bottom half of her facethe little girl was working in a convenient store when these animals came in to rob.. At that moment if they had only had a gun, maybe the little black 14 year old would have had her face blown off. You wonder why guns are popular - take a good look at Harlemn and then wonderyou wonder about crime in streets - so this guy is color blind. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NY POST TO PUT ENTIRE 200 YEARS OF ARCHIVES ONLINE
-Caveat Lector- [This announcement is an exciting step along the road to the broad availability of electronically searchable historical information ... there are similar initiatives underway related to hundreds of scholarly journals.] http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/022801n8.htm NY POST TO PUT ENTIRE ARCHIVES ONLINE Microfilm To Be Digitized By Canadian Company by Wayne Robins Alexander Hamilton's editorials online from the New York Post? The archives of America's oldest continually-published daily are going online, and may be accessible in time for the November bicentennial of the Federalists' paper, founded in 1801. "Our archives are really a treasure trove," said Post Editor Ken Chandler. "Over the years we've kept them intact on microfilm, but obviously that's a very cumbersome way to reach them." The digitizing is being done by Cold North Wind, a two-year-old company based in Ottawa, Ontario, with a division in Framingham, Mass. Last year the parent company of The Toronto Star bought a minority share in Cold North Wind, which is also digitizing the entire archives of that newspaper. "Newspapers are the only record of continuous daily life for the last 400 years," Cold North Wind's CEO Bob Huggins said in an interview with EP Online last week. The company says it has acquired digital rights to thousands of newspapers dating back to the 1700's. Its proprietary software, known as Paper of Record, scans microfilm to create digital images of the original newspaper pages. The archives will be searchable, and can be automatically updated with a streaming feed. Cold North Wind and the newspapers with which it works will share revenue. Neither Huggins nor Chandler of the Post knows how the numbers or percentages will play out. But Huggins expects that subscriptions will "eliminate the nonsense of paying $2.95 or whatever per article." Chandler added, "We don't look at it as something that's going to generate great revenues. But we're sitting on an asset we haven't been able to exploit until now, so it's all kind of gravy." = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] MYCOPLASMA VISNA: The Scientific Name of AIDS
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 12:21:51 -0500 From: Zygote Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:"MYCOPLASMA VISNA: The Scientific Name of AIDS" To: Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] March 7, 2001 DAY 97: WORLD WAR AIDS "MYCOPLASMA VISNA: The Scientific Name of AIDS" By Boyd E. Graves, J.D. We continue to meet our detractors with endless citations from their own scientific and medical jo urnals. We continue to see and hear from fewer and fewer of them and note none have signed our peti tion. We believe through our call for review of the Special Virus program the American people and t he people of the world have their best chance to completely understand the truth regarding the ethn ic biological landscape of humanity. We have found the federal virus program that made AIDS. AIDS is in actuality a mycoplasma (tiny cel l with no walls) that has a Visna (sheep disease) insertion. The documentation of the Visna evoluti on in the etiology of AIDS is located in the Proceedings of the United States of America at PNAS, V Ol 92, pp.3283 - 3287, April 11, 1995. We also have a citation that even Brian Foley's supercompute rs in Los Alamos could simply not get around. See, Sonigo, P. et. al., "Nucleotide Sequence of the VISNA Lentivirus: Relationship to the AIDS Virus", Cell 1985 Aug:42(1):369-82. We sincerely believ e the U.S. AIDS Databases should contain the Databases of the U.S. Special Virus program. We also b elieve the serum repositories affiliated with the Special Virus program should be reviewed to pinpo int the introduction of "junk DNA" into the Human Genome. Additionally, in 1995, the Israeli government confirmed that 'mycoplasmas regulate the heart of HIV ', See, FEMS MICROBIOL LETT 128 (1995) 63 -68. Neither of these papers has been renounced and quite the contrary, greater scientific relevance con tinues to build in light of the discovery of the 1971 Flow Chart document. The 1971 Flow Chart document allows for a technological, workman-like review of the 15 progress rep orts of the federal virus development program. We also believe we are entitled to a full review of all research, documents, experiments, symposiums, conferences and faxes and computer records regard ing the June 9, 1969 Congressional testimony of Dr. Donald MacArthur of the Pentagon. Dr. MacArthur 's testimony is archived as a portion of U.S. House Resolution 15090, Part VI. We believe Dr. MacArthur's testimony provides an additional missing link in the true laboratory bir th of AIDS. Specifically, on page 121, Dr. MacArthur concedes, "to keep the record straight" that, the DoD (contrary to DoD policy) had been "experimenting on synthetic biological agents that would lead to worldwide scourge and Black-death type plague in "certain geographical areas" and regions o f the world." It is our position a review of these specific experiments will further assist our collective unders tanding of the "Special Operations- X program which began by U.S. appropriation in 1957. The comb to vanquish the Black race has many teeth. We conclude since Visna (prior to HIV) had never before been seen in human disease according to the United States, that this peculiar homology alone, proves the laboratory birth of the Mycoplasma Vi sna, the U.S. hybrid chimera virus; AIDS. We conclude a review of the 1971 Flow Chart and the 15 progress reports of the U.S. Special Virus p rogram will definitively answer every question with regard to the origin of AIDS (Mycoplasma Visna) and its errant purpose. For Additional Information: www.boydgraves.com Please forward to interested persons, lists. Thanks. State Origin: The Evidence of the Laboratory Birth of AIDS. By Boyd Ed Graves, J.D. http://stateorigin.sun-city.net *** To remove from this message category click on the following link: http://login.postmasteronline.com/remove.asp?i=1527933- --- End of forwarded message --- ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] [radtimes] # 175
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 175 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- Send $$ to RadTimes!! -- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --Bush Reorganizes National Security Council --Pentagon's latest weapon: a pain beam --Britain, Australia top U.S. in violent crime --Revolution Finally Comes, But Timing Proves Inconvenient For Ruling Class --New Tools Emerge For Info War Battle --Who Owns Your Body? === SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy March 2, 2001 Bush Reorganizes National Security Council President Bush has placed his imprint on the structure of national security decision making with the issuance of his first National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD-1). The closely held document has not been formally released, but a copy was obtained by Secrecy News. The new Directive preserves the NSC Principals Committee and the NSC Deputies Committee, which are the top-level interagency forums for deliberation on national security policy. But it abolishes President Clinton's system of Interagency Working Groups. To replace them, the Directive establishes eleven Policy Coordination Committees (PCCs) on topics including Proliferation, Counterproliferation, and Homeland Defense; Intelligence and Counterintelligence; Counter-Terrorism and National Preparedness; and Records Access and Information Security. (The word "counter-terrorism" is hyphenated in the Directive, but "counterproliferation" and "counterintelligence" are not.) As a consequence of the new Directive, much of the Clinton Administration's prodigious security policy apparatus will be swept away, though portions of it will be reconstituted within the new Policy Coordination Committee framework. Thus, the functions of the Security Policy Board will be distributed among the new PCCs. The new series of National Security Presidential Directives will replace both the presidential decision directives and the presidential review directives of past Administrations. Although NSPD-1 is unclassified, the Bush Administration has declined to release it. But a copy of the seven page directive, obtained from a public-spirited source, is posted here: http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-1.htm === Pentagon's latest weapon: a pain beam March 2, 2001 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon on Thursday unveiled a new "non-lethal" weapon designed to drive off an adversary with an energy beam that inflicts pain without causing lasting harm. The weapon could be used for riot control and peacekeeping missions when deadly force is not necessary, officials said. The weapon, called "active denial technology," was developed by Air Force research laboratories in New Mexico and Texas as part of a multi-service program run by the Marine Corps. Will the Pentagon's new "non-lethal" stun weapon be safe? "This revolutionary force-protection technology gives U.S. service members an alternative to using deadly force," said Marine Corps Col. George P. Fenton, director of the program at Quantico, Virginia. The weapon is designed to stop people by firing millimeter-wave electromagnetic energy in a beam that quickly heats up the surface of the victim's skin. Within seconds the person feels pain that officials said is similar to touching a hot light bulb. Like being burned "It's the kind of pain you would feel if you were being burned," said Rich Garcia, a spokesman for the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. "It's just not intense enough to cause any damage." The Pentagon has made a strong push to develop "non-lethal" weapons in the aftermath of a humanitarian mission in Somalia in 1992-93 that put soldiers in the line of fire in urban areas where civilians were present. A prototype of the weapon will be tested on goats and humans at Kirtland in the next few months, Garcia said. "When it penetrates in, it activates the pain sensors, and you feel a lot of pain," Garcia said. "But there's no damage. It truly is a non-lethal device." The Marine Corps said $40 million was spent developing the weapon during the past decade. The Marine Corps plans to mount the microwave weapon on top of Humvees, the Jeep-like vehicles used by both the Marines and the Army. Later it might be used on aircraft and ships, officials said. The weapon could be fielded by 2009, officials said. Concerns remain William Arkin, senior military adviser to Human Rights Watch, questioned whether a pain weapon would be safe to use against civilians in combat situations. "What about children in the crowd? What about pregnant women and the elderly?" he
[CTRL] Konformist: euro-court outlaws criticism of EU (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:09:13 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Konformist: euro-court outlaws criticism of EU Wednesday 7 March 2001 Euro-court outlaws criticism of EU http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319rtmo=3SSxHwYMatmo= pg=/et/01/3/7/weuc07.html By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels THE European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the European Union can lawfully suppress political criticism of its institutions and of leading figures, sweeping aside English Common Law and 50 years of European precedents on civil liberties. The EU's top court found that the European Commission was entitled to sack Bernard Connolly, a British economist dismissed in 1995 for writing a critique of European monetary integration entitled The Rotten Heart of Europe. The ruling stated that the commission could restrict dissent in order to "protect the rights of others" and punish individuals who "damaged the institution's image and reputation". The case has wider implications for free speech that could extend to EU citizens who do not work for the Brussels bureaucracy. The court called the Connolly book "aggressive, derogatory and insulting", taking particular umbrage at the author's suggestion that Economic and Monetary Union was a threat to democracy, freedom and "ultimately peace". However, it dropped an argument put forward three months ago by the advocate-general, Damaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, which implied that Mr Connolly's criticism of the EU was akin to extreme blasphemy, and therefore not protected speech. Mr Connolly, who has been told to pay the European Commission's legal costs, said the proceedings did not amount to a fair hearing. He said: "We're back to the Star Chamber and Acts of Attainder: the rights of defendants are not respected or guaranteed in any way; the offence of seditious libel has been resurrected." Mr Colomer wrote in his opinion last November that a landmark British case on free speech had "no foundation or relevance" in European law, suggesting that the European Court was unwilling to give much consideration to British legal tradition. Mr Connolly now intends to take his case to Europe's other court, the non-EU European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. == SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station http://mprofaca.cro.net/mainmenu.html == *** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to SPYNEWS eGroup members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] US3899144:Powder contrail generation - For Non-believers
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! A HREF="http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US03899144__s_all=1"Powder contrail generation (US3899144)/A http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US03899144__s_all=1 US3899144:Powder contrail generation View Images (4 pages) | Collapse Details | View Cart | View INPADOC only | Derwent Record... -- -- Add to cart: PDF (~380 KB) | TIFF | Fax | SmartPatent | File History | More choices... -- -- Inventor(s): Werle; Donald K. , Hillside, IL Kasparas; Romas , Riverside, IL Katz; Sidney , Chicago, IL Applicant(s): The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC News, Profiles, Stocks and More about this company Issued/Filed Dates: Aug. 12, 1975 / July 22, 1974 Application Number: US1974000490610 IPC Class: B64D 1/16; Class: Current: 244/136; 040/213; 116/214; 241/005; Original: 244/136; 040/213; 116/114.F; 241/005; Field of Search: 244/136 040/213 241/5,29 222/3;4 239/171 116/28 R,114 R,114 F,114 N,124 R,124 B,124 C Legal Status: Gazette date Code Description (remarks) List all possible codes for US Aug. 12, 1975 A Patent July 22, 1974 AE Application data Abstract: : Light scattering pigment powder particles, surface treated to minimize inparticle cohesive forces, are dispensed from a jet mill deagglomerator as separate single particles to produce a powder contrail having maximum visibility or radiation scattering ability for a given weight material. Attorney, Agent, or Firm: Sciascia; Richard S.; St. Amand; Joseph M.; Primary/Assistant Examiners: Blix; Trygve M.; Kelmachter; Barry L. U.S. References: Show the 1 patent that references this one Patent Issued Inventor(s) Applicant(s) Title US1619183* 3 /1927 Bradner et al. US2045865* 6 /1936 Morey US2591988* 4 /1952 Willcox US3531310 9 /1970 Goodspeed et al. PRODUCTION OF IMPROVED METAL OXIDE PIGMENT USR0015771* 2 /1924 Savage * some details unavailable CLAIMS: [Hide claims]: What is claim is: 1. Contrail generation apparatus for producing a powder contrail having maximum radiation scattering ability for a given weight material, comprising: a. an aerodynamic housing; b. a jet tube means passing through said housing, said tube means having an inlet at a forward end of said housing and an exhaust at a rearward end thereof; c. a powder storage means in said housing; d. a deagglomeration means also in said housing; e. means connecting said powder storage means with said deagglomeration means for feeding radiation scattering powder from said powder storage means to said deagglomeration means; f. the output of said deagglomeration means dispensing directly into said jet tube means for exhausting deagglomerated powder particles into the atmosphere to form a contrail; and h. means for controlling the flow of said powder from said storage means to said deagglomeration means. 2. Apparatus as in claim 1 wherein said jet tube means is a ram air jet tube. 3. Apparatus as in claim 1 wherein an upstream deflector baffle is provided at the output of said deagglomeration means into said jet tube means to produce a venturi effect for minimizing back pressure on said powder feeding means. 4. Apparatus as in claim 1 wherein said deagglomerator means comprises: a. means for subjecting powder particles from said powder storage means to a hammering action to aerate and precondition the powder; and b. a jet mill means to further deagglomerate the powder into separate particles. 5. Apparatus as in claim 4 wherein pressurized gas means is provided for operating said deagglomeration means. 6. Apparatus as in claim 1 wherein said radiation scattering powder particles are titanium dioxide pigment having a median particle size of about 0.3 microns. 7. Apparatus as in claim 1 wherein said radiation scattering powder particles have a coating of extremely fine hydrophobic colloidal silica thereon to minimize interparticle cohesive forces. 8. Apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the formulation of said powder consists of 85% by weight of TiO2 pigment of approximately 0.3 micron media particle size, 10% by weight of colloidal silica of 0.007 micron primary particle size, and 5% by weight of silica gel having an average particle size of 4.5 microns. 9. The method of producing a light radiation scattering contrail, comprising: a. surface treating light scattering powder particles to minimize interparticle cohesive forces; b. deagglomerating said powder particles in two stages prior to dispensing into a jet tube by subjecting said powder particles to a hammering action in the first stage to aerate and precondition the powder, and by passing said powder through a jet mill in the second stage to further
[CTRL] AF News 8 Mar 01
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 0323. MilMod replaces current personnel system RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- In less than two months, military personnelists throughout the Air Force, Air National Guard and Reserve will begin using state-of-the-art technology to process "total force" personnel information. The Air Force Military Personnel Data System Modernization program, or MilMod, will be turned on May 1, replacing the 1970s technology currently being used with a relational database using the Oracle Human Resources software. It has been more than 20 years since the last major update. "We've been working hard for nearly five years building this modernized system to take Air Force personnel processing into the next century," said Lt. Col. Ed Oliver, MilMod program manager at the Air Force Personnel Center here. "Our folks have been working seriously long hours to get this new system up and running by the May 1 deadline. We're now in the final stretch and are building the world's largest, and we think the best, human resource system." This new system will support all "life cycle" personnel management functions from recruiting through job assignment and ultimately separation or retirement. It will provide real-time updating and reporting capabilities that are not available in today's Personnel Data System, Oliver said. "Current automation technology is being leveraged to improve support at all levels and is the foundation for building a robust integrated personnel system for the total force," he said. The new system has several inherent improvements over the current system. The most apparent improvement is the graphical-user interface, which will give personnel technicians online, real-time access to personnel information. "We've also standardized the support we're providing to the total force," Oliver said. "This will improve system support to the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve personnel processes." But, as with any new system, there will be a transition period where the normal personnel functions that people use will be unavailable, officials said. There will be a nine-day period prior to the implementation date where no personnel transactions will be accepted into the systems being replaced. All active-duty, Guard and Reserve members are urged to complete any personnel actions before April 21 to ensure the transactions are processed prior to the transition, or people can wait until MilMod comes online May 1. For more information, visit the MilMod home page at http://www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/modern. (Courtesy of AFPC News Service) 0324. New system makes resume updates easier RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Applying for civilian vacancies within the Air Force became easier with the latest state-of-the-art program, Resume Writer. The new automated system enables an applicant to prepare and submit a resume electronically from beginning to end. Resume Writer allows an individual to retrieve a previously submitted resume, update or change information on the resume, and submit the information as an update to the AF automated resume inventory database system, Resumix. Applicants can also electronically change any supplemental data related to a resume. The Resume Writer is very user-friendly and comes with complete instructions, information, and tips on preparing a resume, said Lee McGehee, delegated examining unit/recruitment branch chief at the Air Force Personnel Center here. "To ensure all required information is submitted with the resume, we strongly encourage applicants to use the Resume Writer when applying for Air Force positions serviced by the personnel center." Job seekers do not need to submit a resume for each position they are interested in applying for. By using the online Resumer Writer, applicants have the opportunity to make changes at any time to their resume. Information on how to prepare or update an resume can be found on AFPC's civilian employment Web site at https://www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/afjobsresweb/resume/resume.htm. (Courtesy of AFPC News Service) 0325. Korean War Service Medal still available WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- The Department of Defense's 50th Anniversary of the Korean War Commemoration Committee wants veterans to know that Korean War Service Medal is still available. During the Korean War, the United States disallowed the wearing of the Korean War Service Medal because of regulations at the time that prevented American servicemembers from wearing a foreign award. Congress changed that regulation in 1954, and now on the occasion of the 50th anniversary the Republic of Korea once again offers this medal. The Air Force is the lead agent for distributing the medal. People at the Air Force Personnel Center at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, are processing requests and distributing the medal to all Korean War veterans who qualify, regardless of branch of
[CTRL] Condoleezza Rices Chevron Service Could Pose Conflict
http://www.public-i.org/story_01_022801.htm Condoleezza Rice’s Chevron Service Could Pose Conflicts By Erin Bartels (Washington, March 7) Not everyone in the new Bush administration has an oil tanker bearing his or her name. But not everyone has had Condoleezza Rice’s depth of involvement in the oil industry. On Jan. 22, Condoleezza Rice assumed her duties as assistant to the president for national security affairs. For Rice, it’s her second tour of duty on the National Security Council; she served from 1990 to 1991 in the administration of the senior Bush, specializing in Soviet foreign relations. Between her stints at the NSC, she served as a director of Chevron Corp., a position that gave her experience in international relations far beyond the former Soviet states. The national security adviser inevitably will be confronted with decisions that directly affect the business of her former company. Chevron operates in 25 countries scattered over six continents, dealing in a product — oil — that’s been a major factor in U.S. foreign relations for the past 50 years. From containing Iraq in the Middle East to dealing with separatist movements in Southeast Asia to setting African policy, Chevron’s interests will come into play at almost every turn. Chevron christened the Condoleezza Rice, a 136,000 deadweight-ton, double-hulled ship, early on in Rice’s decade-long stint on the oil giant’s board of directors. Rice, a member of Chevron’s board of directors since 1991, explained on television’s Fox News Sunday in August that Chevron had a policy of naming tankers after its directors. "There’s also a George Schultz and a David Packard," she remarked. That honor is not the only compensation she has received: As a corporate board member, Rice was paid a $35,000 annual retainer, $1,500 for each board meeting attended, $1,500 for each board committee meeting attended, and $1,500 for each committee meeting chaired, according to Chevron’s 2000 proxy statement. She also holds 3,014 shares of Chevron stock, valued at approximately $241,000, her single largest asset. (According to a news release from the company, Rice has resigned from the board and will sell her stock in the company.) In 1999, Chevron, which recorded net income of $2.1 billion, had oil and natural gas exploration and production operations in 25 countries. From the Middle East to Africa to Southeast Asia to Latin America, Chevron flies its corporate colors on drilling platforms on six continents. As a member of the oil giant’s board, Rice has served on and chaired the board’s public policy committee. According to Chevron’s 2000 proxy statement, the public policy committee "identifies, monitors and evaluates domestic and foreign social, political and environmental issues" and "recommends to the board policies and strategies concerning such issues." The Public i attempted to contact Rice about her experience with Chevron, but she did not return calls. However, she said on the Fox TV broadcast, "I’m very proud of my association with Chevron, and I think we should be very proud of the job that American oil companies are doing in exploration abroad, in exploration at home, and in making certain that we have a safe energy supply." But it hasn’t all been smooth sailing for Chevron abroad. The oil giant has been accused of complicity with the Nigerian military and Mobile Police — a force so brutal it is known locally as the "Kill ’n Go" — in perpetrating human rights abuses, including extrajudiciary killings, beatings and detentions against local communities who have protested Chevron’s production activities in Nigeria’s delta region. The problems surrounding Chevron’s oil and natural gas production and exploration in the Nigerian delta have their roots in the country’s political and economic history. Oil revenue at all costs Prior to the democratic election of President Olusegun Obasanjo in May 1999, Nigeria was ruled by military regime for 16 years. Under Gen. Sani Abacha, and then under his successor, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, the government relied heavily on revenue from oil exports and pursued such revenue at all costs, often to the detriment of the environment and the social and political rights of its citizens. The vast majority of Nigeria’s oil reserves are located in the delta region of the country, a 7,700 square mile region that makes up Africa’s largest wetlands. Oil is the lifeblood of the Nigerian economy. That sector accounts for more than 80 percent of government revenue, more than 95 percent of total exports, and more than 90 percent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings. A member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries since 1971, Nigeria has estimated proven oil reserves of 22.5 billion barrels, and produced an average of 2 million barrels of crude oil per day in 1999. That same year, the country exported 623,000 barrels of crude per day to the United
[CTRL] OSPREY SCANDAL WIDENS
http://www.militarycorruption.com/osprey.htm OSPREY SCANDAL WIDENS - COMPUTER FILES OF TWO MARINE GENERALS SEIZED There isn't any one particular reason why the Marine Corps has had so many problems with the troubled V-22 Osprey aircraft program. But there are 40 billion reasons - all green - why the brass don't want to admit they have a lemon on their hands. The Marine Corps leadership want $40 billion of our tax dollars to buy 360 of the controversial aircraft even though there have been three crashes in recent years, killing 26 Marines and four civilians. And now a Defense Department Inspector general investigation has for the first time reached into the flag ranks with the seizure of computer records from two general officers. A Pentagon official said data from computer hard drives of Lt. Gen. Fred McCorkle, head of Marine aviation, and his deputy, Brig. Gen. James F. Amos are being studied to see if there is any evidence of a cover-up of the aircraft's deficiencies. Along that line, the Washington POST reports that another senior officer, Maj. Gen. Dennis T. Krupp is under the microscope to see if his actions soft-pedaled reports that "computerized maintenance records were making the Ospery look bad." Krupp commands the aircraft wing including the Osprey squadron at New River, N.C. Meanwhile, Col. Nolan Schmidt, manager of the Osprey program since 1997, has been informed he will not be promoted to brigadier general and plans to retire in June. Another officer whose career has been adversely affected by the V-22 controversy is Lt. Col. Odin F. Leberman, commander of the New River Osprey squadron. The veteran officer was reassigned to desk duty in January when an anonymous person claiming to be a Marine aircraft mechanic sent a letter and audio tape to the Pentagon. The tape was purported to be of Leberman urging his men to "lie" if necessary, to improve the Osprey's maintenance. Through his attorneys, the light colonel issued the following statement: "I am confident the pending investigation will prove the comments recorded on the tape were taken out of context and in no way compromised the safety of my Marines and airmen or the integrity of the Osprey program." The families and survivors of those killed in the Osprey crashes might differ with that view. But, an informed source told MilitaryCorruption.com that "Leberman is a good officer caught up in a bad situation. Everyone knows he was under intense pressure from above. A huge amount of money is wrapped up in the success of the V-22. If it fails, there's going to be some very unhappy Marine brass and defense contractors." So far, Leberman has "taken one for the team," meaning his beloved Corps. It is his hope, a colleague says, that he doesn't "regret" that posture after canceling his appearance at the last minute on the hard-hitting "60-Minutes CBS-TV news program. Those in the know say Leberman may have had something entirely different to say on the show until something made him change his mind.
[CTRL] Operation Condor: Cable Suggests U.S. Role
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010306/ Operation Condor: Cable Suggests U.S. Role March 6, 2001 On March 6, 2001, The New York Times reported the existence of a recently declassified State Department document revealing that the United States facilitated communications among South American intelligence chiefs who were working together to eliminate left-wing opposition groups in their countries as part of a covert program known as Operation Condor. The document, a 1978 cable from Robert E. White, the U.S. ambassador to Paraguay, was discovered by Professor J. Patrice McSherry of Long Island University, who has published several articles on Condor. She called the cable "another piece of increasingly weighty evidence suggesting that U.S. military and intelligence officials supported and collaborated with Condor as a secret partner or sponsor." In the cable, Ambassador White relates a conversation with General Alejandro Fretes Davalos, chief of staff of Paraguay's armed forces, who told him that the South American intelligence chiefs involved in Condor "keep in touch with one another through a U.S. communications installation in the Panama Canal Zone which covers all of Latin America." This installation is "employed to co-ordinate intelligence information among the southern cone countries." White, whose message was sent to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, is concerned that the U.S. connection to Condor might be revealed during the then ongoing investigation into the deaths of former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier and his American colleague Ronni Moffitt who were killed by a car bomb in Washington, D.C. "It would seem advisable," he suggests, "to review this arrangement to insure that its continuation is in U.S. interest." The document was found among 16,000 State, CIA, White House, Defense and Justice Department records released last November on the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, and Washington’s role in the violent coup that brought his military regime to power. The release was the fourth and final "tranche" of records released under the Clinton Administration's special Chile Declassification Project. "This document opens a pandora's box of questions on the U.S. knowledge of, and role in, Operation Condor," said Senior Analyst Peter Kornbluh, director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project. The Archive published a second document - a page from a CIA cable regarding Brazil's role in Operation Condor - that Kornbluh said contained information that could shed light on this issue. The undated page refers to "CondorTel" - the "communications network established by the Condor countries." Kornbluh pointed out that the entire next line has been censored by the CIA. The National Security Archive called on the U.S. Intelligence Community - NSA, CIA, DIA and other Defense Department bureaus at the U.S. Southern Command - to fully divulge their files on communications assistance to the military regimes in the southern cone.
[CTRL] URGENT!/SAN DIEGO SHOOTER'S DAD TIED TO US NAVY, INTEL!!
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! March 6, 2001 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joni Ferris) Subject: URGENT!/SAN DIEGO SHOOTER'S DAD TIED TO US NAVY, INTEL!! PLEASE FORWARD AS FAR AND WIDE AS POSSIBLE SAN DIEGO SHOOTER'S DAD TIED TO US NAVY, INTEL!! EXACTLY as we've suspected! -- It turns out Charles Andrew Williams, the youth who murdered two and wounded 13 in a San Diego-area school shooting yesterday, DOES have a MASSIVE link to the U.S. military AND the intelligence agencies. The father of the shooter, Charles Williams Sr., is CURRENTLY working at the Naval "Medical" Center in San Diego: a location where a number of victims of US government mind-control experiments have testified they've been experimented on and subjected to various mind-control/manipulation procedures. It's ALSO noted that Charles Williams, Sr. moved to San Diego only a year ago from MARYLAND, where -- GUESS WHAT! -- he was associated with several of the U.S. intelligence agencies. ALSO: earlier news reports quoted eyewitnesses as saying Williams was using a what appeared to be some kind of RIFLE in his assault. NOW we are told Williams wielded a handgun. This excerpt is typical of the early news reports, which sure don't seem to be describing the weapon as a PISTOL. -- "Two killed, 13 wounded at San Diego-area high school SANTEE, California (CNN) -- A 15-year-old student killed two classmates at a California high school and wounded another 13 people before his arrest Monday, police said. ... A witness said the freshman boy arrested in the shooting was smiling when he allegedly emerged from a restroom with a LONG-BARRELLED GUN." So, WHICH WAS IT?? WHY did the story change?? It NOW turns out the father DID have a NUMBER of RIFLES in his home. It's highly likely the early news reports which quoted eyewitnesses were CORRECT about the weapon, and that the truth has been covered up because it would implicate the father -- and THUS by extension the US military and intelligence agencies -- too heavily in the incident. Dollars to doughnuts this unfortunate boy is yet ANOTHER of the MILLIONS of mind-controlled, "Manchurian Candidate" programmed assassins which our federal government has "created" in recent years all across the country. This nation MUST WAKE UP TO THE TRUTH!! We will be continuing to dig into this issue long and hard and will report further as the situation warrants. == Excerpt from: Shooting suspect's threats dismissed http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/03/06/school.shooting.03/index.html SANTEE, California (CNN) -- ... (Assistant San Diego County Sheriff) Tom Zoll said the .22-caliber weapon the suspect allegedly used in the shooting belonged to his father, Charles Jeffrey "Jeff" Williams, a lab technician at the Naval Medical Center-San Diego. "We believe the gun came from the house," Zoll said. "It was kept locked up there. He did somehow obtain a key and get the gun." Sheriff's and FBI officials searched the Williams home on Monday night, removing seven rifles, a computer, a plastic crate filled with papers and files, and about six more bags filled with evidence. ... ...(San Diego Sheriff's Department Lt.) Lewis said Williams and his father moved to Santee from Maryland about a year ago, the boy's mother, Linda Wells, told The New York Times, so that the elder Williams could follow a job opportunity. == *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A
[CTRL] Annan seeks virtual UN
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=165679 Annan seeks virtual UN Tuesday, 6 March 2001 21:53 (ET) Annan seeks virtual UN By WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, March 6 (UPI) -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan laid out aplan Tuesday to transform the United Nations into a worldwide virtualorganization, with information seamlessly accessed and exchanged both withinand beyond the U.N. system. The Secretary-General's strategy is contained in a report which said thatwhile there has been major progress over the past 10 years, the UnitedNations "must establish an aggressive plan to build its ability to takeadvantage of new technologies and to keep up-to-date with the rapiddevelopments in the field. "By increasing the flow of information among its components, the UnitedNations can be transformed "from an aggregate of departments and officesthat are intellectually and often geographically separated, into acommunity, sharing the same objectives and benefiting from the collectiveknowledge of the staff-at-large, irrespective of their physical location orof the department to which they belong," Annan said. Without a global effort to focus on information and communicationstechnologies, he said the U.N. Secretariat "will rapidly fall behind, andoverall performance and program delivery will be affected." Under the plan, the secretariat will expand access to its documents andpublic information materials across all mediums and databases for staff,member states, U.N. system organizations and other target audiences. Theplan also calls for the implementation of systems to facilitate the searchand retrieval of materials in all official languages and to enable theorganization to exploit the interactive capabilities ofinformation-communication technology. Under the plan, communities of staff will be created in all departmentsand duty stations using web-based community-building and collaborationtools. With such tools, "the secretariat can overcome the boundary ofdistance, and save time and money in the process of bringing together peopleto work on various projects. "Online discussion forums and multi-point teleconferencing will enablestaff engaged in similar activities to share information --buildingdatabases of real world knowledge and helping each other regardless of theirphysical location, the report said.
[CTRL] Was the Seattle-Vancouver earthquake triggered by environmental war?
Was the Seattle-Vancouver earthquake triggered by environmental war? EcoNews Service VANCOUVER, BC - Was the Seattle-Vancouver earthquake of 28 February 2001 triggered - accidentally or on purpose - by new, secret electromagnetic weapons? The Vancouver-based author of "EARTH CHANGES" interprets events like this earthquake in the startling new light of Environmental War and Global Earthquakes. You can read from EARTH CHANGES at: http://www.universebooks.com/sampleearthchanges.html "EARTH CHANGES" explores the disciplines of catastrophic geology, seismology, vulcanology, parapsychology, and public interest policy analysis. Vancouver-based author Alfred Lambremont Webre develops a new field theory explaining how an age of global earthquakes might be fulfilled – not by earth system mechanics, but by the deployment of a new generation of electromagnetic weapons, used in environmental warfare. A Yakima valley, Washington researcher, writing about "EARTH CHANGES", agreed, "Like the weather and the oceans, the mantle beneath the floating tectonic plates also involve convection cells, but in a plastic medium that sets up wave patterns that may be modified by superimposition of additional waves." Electromagnetic (EM) weapons are a possible trigger of cataclysmic earth events. EM fields can superheat the ionosphere, devastating magnetic bands around the earth, and in turn causing massive disruption of the earth’s Tectonic plates. A January 17, 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan may have been triggered by clandestine deployment of EM weapons. EM strategic warfare includes weather, climate and earth event warfare. Researchers have reported the use of EM weapons in anti-population mind-control operations over major cities. Scientific observers and short wave radio operators now state that unusual electromagnetic (EM) broadcasts preceded the Seattle-Vancouver earthquake. One researcher who actually monitored the EM broadcasts prior to the earthquake states, "Could the abnormal activity on 3.39 MHz February 20 and prior be linked to the Seattle quake? If so, why would HAARP (supposedly funded by U.S. sources) be used to create quakes or other assorted EM mayhem on U.S. property? I picked up a signal so strong it went right off the S meter on my SW set at that frequency at 6:00 am on Feb 20th. Took an audio sampling of half an hour but can't make hide or hair of what HAARP is broadcasting, just that it's STRONG." One example of how earthquakes (and climate shift including so-called global warming) can be triggered is HAARP, a U.S. military electromagnetic EM installation located in Alaska, and part of a global network of U.S. military electromagnetic weapons. HAARP and its EM network are designed to turn the entire ionosphere into a giant anti-submarine and anti-missile antenna. Environmental impact studies show that HAARP could superheat the ionosphere, and substantially damage or destroy it in a runaway ecological process. A Seattle-based researcher notes EM activity just prior to and during the earthquake. "COINCIDENCE? Date: 2/27/01 9:54:34 PM Pacific Standard Time [hour prior to quake] . Washington, Yakima Valley: On the dial at WX Air VHF band around 153 we are getting the strangest signal. Anyone else hearing it or no what it is. HARRP maybe?" "Date: 2/28/01 7:21:39 PM Pacific Standard Time. Does anyone have recording of 153 MHZ signal? I helped install seismic monitoring stations in California in early 90's. They are designed as early warning system in detecting earth movements prior to big quake. Several of these were in the 153-154 band. They send data, but during a big shift they send a screeching sounding data burst. Let me know what you find out." The director of the ELFRAD group that monitors electromagnetic activity, including HAARP EM weapons writes, "Date: 2/28/01 1:55:52 PM Pacific Standard Time. Thought you might find this file interesting. It is a 21 hour recording starting this morning at 0001 hrs. We recorded intense activity from .02 to .036 hertz 473 minutes prior to the Washington quake. Actually this was a double boomer because 4 minutes earlier there was also a quake registering 5.4 off the coast of Central America. Also am including a [picture] during the same time period for yesterday so that you can compare with no major quake." Faced with the information on EM Environmental war and earthquakes, another researcher with the ELFRAD group wrote, "I take back my former statement that all earthquakes are natural. After reading the following article and tying this information in with Russian predictions of major earthquakes in Kamchatka this year, I'm ready to believe we're in for a lot of trouble..." The researcher then cites the information EARTH CHANGES covers on the possible tectonic warfare earthquakes: http://www.cheniere.org/misc/brightskies1.htm Other researchers have found that the HAARP electromagnetic (EM)
[CTRL] Defending America Newsletter 07 March 2001 Part 1
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Soldiers For The Truth Defending America Newsletter Situation Report - 07 March 2001 "Where is the Vision?" TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS SITREP From The President Through Zmanâs Gun Sight - Where is the Vision? HACKâs Target For The Week - Say It Isnât So The Big Picture: Article 1 - Nat'l Guard Teams Found Unprepared Article 2 - Bush concerned over Chinese aid to Iraq Article 3 - US crews Involved in Colombian Battle Voice of the Grunt: Article 4 - Many Awards arenât Earned Article 5 - Tomorrow's Army, "Interact, Build Trust" Article 6 - Air Force: Weâre working like every day is a day at War Article 7 - Navy: Too much Show and not much Substance Article 8 - First Give-away Berets, now free Aviation Badges The Sergeantâs Corner: Article 9 - The Truth about Guard Reserve Readiness Article 10 - Special Ops: Officers are driving the Critical NCOs out Article 11 - TRICARE - The Beat Goes On! Article 12 - Whistleblower complaint yields $2 million Update Special Report: - Black Beret Protest Closes on Washington G.I Humor: Article 13 - Tire Change brings College Credits Medal of Honor: Article 14 - Col. Hiram I. Bearss, USMC, Philippines, 1902 Admin / Log Editors Note Subscribe and Unsubscribe Information Printer Friendly Text Only Version SITREP: SITUATION REPORT: 07 MARCH 2001 A. Main topics: 1) Defense Vision 2) Retention 3) Guard Readiness 4) Awards and Decorations 5) Quality of Life B. HOT BUTTONS: * Better Comms!!! Wellâ¦we tried to overcome the technical difficulties youâve experienced with the website and created new ones during the last mailing. We apologize for the double and triple mailing and especially for some of the duplicate messages to Z, including some not so polite ones. Arenât you glad you arenât Zimm, Woody or Marv? Please remember that weâre not a multi million outfit like AUSA and others and that a handful of volunteers are fighting this high tech battle. We promise to do better in the future and hope you are still with us. * Question of the Week: Do you believe that the new President will be able to solve our crisis in National Defense? Will he be able to address the right priorities? !!! Feel free to send me hot topics directly if you canât get through the admin/log net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . * Keep the mail coming!!! We wonât reveal your true identity unless you give us your approval. We know how vindictive the "system" is. * WE NEED YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT 2000. EVERY DOLLAR MAKES A DIFFERENCE. THANK YOU to all SFTT warriors who are sending bucks for fuel ammo and beans. * How you can help: !!! Credit Card donation via our WEBSITE at www.sftt.org. !!! If you think we HIT a target, forward the newsletter to TV, radio and your local papers. YOU are the frontline recruiters and intel gatherers for SFTT. Check or Money order: Send to and make payable to: Soldiers For The Truth Foundation, PO Box 63840, Colorado Springs, CO 80962-3840. Important: Your donation is tax deductible! SFTT is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit educational foundation, IRS # 31-1592564. If you send us an E-MAIL address with your donation we can immediately mail you a RECEIPT. Multiple contributions: Please remind us when you submit your donation. We will send you a cumulative statement. Prepare for Action -- "Crew Ready! -- LOAD SABOT - DRIVER MOVE OUT!" R.W. Zimmermann President SFTT E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zman Through Zmanâs Gun Sight Where is the Vision? By R.W. (Zimm) Zimmermann President, Soldiers For The Truth SFTT Dateline USA - 7 March 2001 Listening to the President in his address to Congress and reading the latest about our military in transformation, Iâm asking myself where is the real vision beyond the service boundaries? A senseless competition for tax dollars still encompasses all the services, mainly motivated by the desire to protect jobs, leader promotions and questionable weapons. To save the services from themselves, the President and the Defense Department must reinvent the entire military within the next four years. Our Army needs help especially, since it is blindly following a course that espouses the ideas of former NATO Commander, "Sir" Wesley Clark, who in a publicized speech last year proclaimed, "The Army must change its mindset and be more aggressive in going after expeditionary missions, unless it wants to lose out to the other services in the fight for defense dollarsâ¦youâve got to want the missions, if you donât get the missions, you donât get the resources." With this compete-for-any-mission philosophy, you have to question what the Armyâs celebrated transformation is really all about. Has General Shinseki swallowed the notion that peacekeeping and peace enforcement, not war-fighting, are the norm for future conflicts? Taking this direction, the
[CTRL] Defending America Newsletter 07 March 2001 Part 2
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ARTICLE 1 Nat'l Guard Teams Found Unprepared Ed.: These anti-terrorism teams are probably more important than all the Star Wars gadgets combined. I sincerely hope the new administration will use our tax money better than the last one. A recent AP report. By MATT KELLEY WASHINGTON (AP) - After three years and $143 million, the Army National Guard has no anti-terrorism teams ready to respond to nuclear, chemical, or biological attacks because of defective safety equipment and poor training, an internal Pentagon review found. The Pentagon inspector general report said preparedness is so bad that Guard members at one point were given mobile labs with air filters installed backward and gas masks with incompatible parts. ``The (team) commanders and personnel lack confidence in the unknown, untested and unsubstantiated reliability of the equipment that they were issued,'' investigators said. Pentagon officials are ``moving as fast as we can'' to fix the problems, said Charles L. Cragin, who oversees the National Guard. ``All I can say is, everyone is working with great perseverance to resolve all the issues that the inspector general has identified,'' said Cragin, the acting assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs. Pentagon planners authorized 10 teams in 1998 with a goal that they be ready for duty in 2000. But the National Guard so badly bungled preparations that none met last year's deadline, the report said. An additional 22 teams authorized by Congress in 1999 and 2000 are in various stages of formation. After investigators presented their preliminary findings last fall, the Pentagon transferred management of the teams and launched an official review. Many of the problems arose because officials tried to get the teams ready very quickly, Cragin said. The National Guard units, each with 22 full-time members, are supposed to help local authorities respond to a terrorist attack by identifying what nuclear, chemical or biological agents were used. But Pentagon investigators concluded that defective safety equipment could put team members at risk of succumbing to the very weapons they were meant to identify. Investigators found that air filters had been installed backward in the teams' mobile laboratories and team members were given gas masks with parts that were not designed to work together. One team commander, referring to the gas masks, told investigators, ``It probably would work. I'm just not willing to bet my life on it.'' Cragin said that problem has been fixed. Plans originally called for the teams to be stationed near Air National Guard bases so they could be flown to the site of a terrorist attack. A second draft of those plans, however, called for team members to drive their personal cars to attack scenes, which could be hundreds of miles away. The guidelines have not been completed. Coinciding with the recent release of the Pentagon report, a congressional commission recommended focusing the National Guard on protecting U.S. territory from weapons of mass destruction. President Bush last week said he would like to see the Guard and Reserve ``more involved in homeland security.'' Frank Hoffman, a researcher for the U.S. Commission on National Security, said the problems with the National Guard response teams show the Pentagon is not paying enough attention to terrorist threats. "Everyone knows we're not prepared,'' said Hoffman, an officer in the Marine Corps reserves. Cragin said all safety problems identified by the inspector general will be fixed before he recommends that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld certify the teams ready for duty. Cragin said he did not know when he that would be. ARTICLE 2 Bush concerned over Chinese aid to Iraq Ed.: Justified concerns by our new President. But how do you deal with China when 90% of our goods are made there? A recent Reuters message. US President George W. Bush said on Thursday he was worried China had helped Baghdad enhance its air defense systems, risking the lives of US aircrews patrolling a "no-fly" zone over Iraq. Protecting pilots was the reason given for US-British strikes on air defense installations near Baghdad on Feb. 16. Bush said Washington was asking Beijing for an explanation of an issue that has clouded relations with the communist giant in his first month in office. "We're concerned about the Chinese presence in Iraq and ... my administration is sending the appropriate response to the Chinese," Bush told a news conference. "It's troubling that they be involved in helping Iraq develop a system that will endanger our pilots," he said. "It has risen to the level where we are going to send a message to the Chinese." His words were among the sharpest against China by Washington since relations recovered from a low hit in May 1999, when US jets on a NATO mission bombed China's embassy in Belgrade.
[CTRL] Billy Graham Evangelizing W/ U.S. Funds????
http://www.msnbc.com/local/wncn/m19771.asp Graham's ministry accused of evangelizing with U.S. funds CHARLOTTE, March 6 - A federal agency is investigating whether evangelist Franklin Graham's ministry used government money to seek converts among disaster victims in El Salvador. Samaritan's Purse of Boone has received $225,000 from the U.S. government to build prefabricated housing and distribute essential supplies after two recent earthquakes. The U.S. Agency for International Development will try to determine whether the group used some of that money to evangelize, spokesperson Kim Walz said Monday. Officials will also investigate whether Samaritan's Purse offered aid only to those who accepted conversion efforts. "An organization can't say, `You can't have this unless you convert,''' Walz said. Walz declined to say whether Samaritan's Purse is at risk of losing future funding. The ministry is in line to receive another $200,000 for El Salvador relief. Through a spokesman, the son of evangelist Billy Graham denied that his ministry used the money to proselytize villagers in the Central American nation. But spokesman Mark DeMoss also said Franklin Graham would sever his government ties before agreeing to stop preaching gospel around the world. ``If the U.S. AID or anybody else has a problem with the Christian nature or mission of Samaritan's Purse, he would forgo the money. It's not that big a deal. He's not dependent on it,'' he said. The Agency for International Development provided $3.9 million of the $134 million budget that Samaritan's Purse reported last year. The ministry draws primarily on private contributors to offer relief and evangelism in more than 100 countries. The New York Times reported Monday that residents of the predominantly Roman Catholic country said the Protestant ministry asked them to accept Jesus Christ. Villagers said ministry volunteers held half-hour prayer meetings before showing them how to build temporary homes provided by the U.S. government, the Times reported. In addition to its federally funded efforts, Samaritan's Purse has used private resources to distribute Christian tracts and urge individuals to accept Christ. The issue of mixing state aid with church outreach is especially sensitive as federal agencies try to adapt to President Bush's plan to provide government aid to religious groups involved in social services. Graham states his priorities in the Samaritan's Purse Web site: ``This gives them hope. That's the main thing -- to come into a community like this and give hope to the people that they can rebuild and get their lives back together. Most important, we want to give them eternal hope, and that's faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.''
[CTRL] Defending America Newsletter 07 March 2001 Part 4
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ARTICLE 7 Navy: Too much Show and not much Substance Ed.: Dumbing down EOD training could have deadly consequences. A former EOD Instructor Just read your piece about fun rides. I used to be an instructor at the Naval EOD School and boy have I seen a drastic decline in training! We got the best Powerpoint shows, the most awesome LRC ("techno-geek" term for Learning Resource Center) and 400 mghz Desktops, great for dog and pony shows that our 06 used for publicity tours. Unfortunately our students were about 10 percent as competent as their predecessors. The skipper was working so hard at eliminating our attrition rate. Talking about the Navy brass: I could easily see this sub incident happen again and again - The Navy and its 06s (and up) just plain frighten me any more⦠One of the instructors once grimly commented on our EOD memorial, which is a very solemn tribute to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. He felt that our present graduates should be given their EOD badge along with the gold nameplate that will be used to remember them once they're unleashed into the "real world." One instructor went so far to say that instead of having a memorial stone for each service - we should dedicate a stone for each graduating class, for the inevitable that follows poor training. Sad, but rue! NOTE: EOD is Explosive Ordnance Demolition or Explosive Ordnance Detachment. ARTICLE 8 First Give-away Berets, Now Free Aviation Badges Ed: This senior NonCom addresses the cheapening of aviation skills badges and recommends common sense solutions for the beret issue. Why isnât the brass asking grunts like him before jumping the gun? By a senior Army NCO About 14 years ago, I walked into a recruiterâs office and requested airborne infantry, with a slot in the 82nd Airborne. I got what I wanted, a chance to serve with an elite unit. I had always looked at the soldiers who wore berets as a cut above and they showed that pride. While in the 82nd, I always would stand in formation and smile when I looked at my beret or the 82nd patch. It drove me to be the best soldier I could be. 14 years later I cannot understand what the hell the top brass is thinking! They are so far from reality it scares me! I am now a SFC in Aviation and the ARMY of today is NOTHING like when I came in! Does the CofS really think the black beret giveaway will mold the army into a 21st century fighting force? What a bunch of crap. As a former airborne infantryman, I can just imagine the loathing for this idea that is going on in the SF community. This is just like the less known but just as degrading aircraft crewmember wings giveaway that just happened. Any schmuck who works "somewhere close to" or can I.D. Army aircraft 5 out of 10 times can get the new "Aviation Badge." This is a slap in the face to the few soldiers who actually were aircraft crewmembers and who flew daily to earn those wings. The heroes at the top tell us that these measures will bring the moral up and create a tighter force. In the case of the crewmember badge, while at ANCOC the branch CSM told the students that this change will bring the Aviation branch together. This is a bunch of crap. Out here in the real world where soldiers soldier, The people who earned the badge walk around with a sour taste in their mouth while the kids who are getting the badge all ask why? They don't even care. Initiatives like this sure sound good in the air-conditioned sanctuaries that the brass work at but it does nothing but divide those who earned it and those who were given it. If the CofS wants to go to an all-beret army then at least leave the SF community alone and go with berets that are different colors for each branch or standardize three non-SF colors; 1 for combat arms, 1 for CS and 1 for CSS while leaving ABN, SF and the Rangers alone. Keep up the good work SFTT, your newsletters are awesome. ARTICLE 9 The Sergeantâs Corner The Truth About Guard And Reserve Readiness Ed.: If these problems exist, someone needs to ram the readiness dipstick into certain outfits. By a California ARNG NCO I can sympathize with the author of the recent article on the California National Guard, but from the perspective of the Reserve Component. I am a soldier charged with the duty of ensuring the wartime readiness of our RC element by planning and resourcing their training. Succinctly put, if we're relying on National Guard and Reserve units in my part of the world to stave off an armed and determined enemy, we are going to get bloodied. Discipline is completely nonexistent, as is military bearing and appearance (these are the "professionals" we're going to send to Kosovo and Bosnia to represent America?). Noncoms and officers alike, constantly shop for their next job with little regard for their current lot in life. This often entails MOS and branch changes.
[CTRL] Defending America Newsletter 07 March 2001 Part 3
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ARTICLE 4 Many Awards arenât Earned Ed.: More first hand proof that our badges and wards donât mean much. If the skills badges for the most critical tasks, such as marksmanship or Expert Infantry skills are "doctored," how do we know who the real killers are? We need a desperate reform of the circus awards or weâll one day pay a serious price. The first step: Force the brass to stop the statistics games and pressures on subordinates. By an Airborne NCO I used to get your newsletter, but changed addresses and never sent you an update. I always remember how helpful it was to read that I was not alone out there in my loathing of military corruption, but now I find myself guilty of it. I cannot express the sorrow that I feel when I think of myself as part of the problem rather than the solution and I am trying to gain the courage to do something about it. I guess I should start at the beginning and explain myself. I am currently an infantry Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. I resigned a reserve commission as an infantry officer several years ago to enter onto regular army enlisted service. All of my career I have felt the pressure to earn the Expert Infantry Badge. My first opportunity was after I entered active duty,and was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division. In order to qualify to go out for the badge in the first place you must qualify expert with your M-16 or M-4. The first time I tried out we went to a non-computerized range, where your buddy fires and you score him, then you fire and he scores you. You are required to hit at least 36 out of 40 pop up targets at a mixture of ranges from 50 to 300 meters with 40 rounds. The guy I scored fired expert and then he scored me expert, although I had doubts about whether I hit all those targets or not. During testing, I failed out during task testing and was unable to go the following year because I was sent to jumpmaster school instead. Two years later I went out for it again. We went and fired at 25 meter range and did not engage the targets in the required manner, 20 rounds from the foxhole and 20 rounds from the prone. We were told to just fire all our rounds from the foxhole at once. I made the required number of hits, but as I mentioned, not in the manner prescribed in the manual. Again, I failed during the task testing. I was later transferred to Ft. Benning GA, where I hoped the firing would be more regimented and honest. I tested here twice. The first time, my unit didnât want me to go to the range and shoot. It seemed that the instructors just falsify their qualification results as a common practice. The attitude seemed to be "everyone shoots expert anyway, right?" Even after questioning the integrity of it, I was taken aside by my platoon sergeant and told that I needed to just "go along with it". I lost my spine and went along and then failed the last task I tested on. The second time that I tested there, I had a great First Sergeant, who coordinated for me and a fellow instructor to go shoot with a regular unit on post. We went and fired with them. After my colleague shot expert and left, I was still having trouble due to faulty targets and lack of practice. After firing several times, I was called to the range tower and given a score sheet showing an expert score that was not mine and was told by the range NCO to take that score back to my unit. The unit I was firing with seemed to want to get off the range no muss no fuss. I watched as soldiers would go to firing points and shoot the targets in the lane next to them to help their buddy qualify. I once again went along with what I was given. I breezed through testing and was awarded my EIB. Not a day goes by that I don't regret my decision. I wish I could go back and say no. The pressure in the army to attend this training and earn this badge is immense. You are expected to earn the badge as quickly as possible so that you won't have to take the time every year to test, and so that you will have credibility with the soldier you lead that you know what you are doing. They want everyone to score expert so that there will be a high number of soldiers on the testing site. They don't want you "getting out of training". The things I have seen in the 82nd and at Ft. Benning demonstrate the willingness of higher command to look the other way while ethics are destroyed so that they can say that a certain percentage of their soldiers earned the badge. The first time I stood for a class A inspection in the 82nd I was wearing the sharpshooter badge that I had earned. The inspecting Sergeant First Class told me I needed to go buy an expert badge, because "everybody in division scores expert". I have talked to several fellow NCOs who think that I am stupid to worry about this. It is very important to me to "do the right thing". I value honesty above personal gain and it is killing me to
[CTRL] URGENT!/SAN DIEGO SHOOTER'S
-Caveat Lector- This starts out with "Caveat Lector"--I have no idea if it's true or not, but it is interesting so I thought I'd pass it alongif someone else hasn't alredy done so. URGENT!/SAN DIEGO SHOOTER'S > DAD TIED TO US NAVY, INTEL!! > > PLEASE FORWARD AS FAR AND WIDE AS POSSIBLE> > > > SAN DIEGO SHOOTER'S DAD TIED TO US NAVY, INTEL!!> > > EXACTLY as we've suspected! -- It turns out Charles > Andrew Williams, > the youth who murdered two and wounded 13 in a San > Diego-area school > shooting yesterday, DOES have a MASSIVE link to the > U.S. military AND > the intelligence agencies. > > The father of the shooter, Charles Williams Sr., is > CURRENTLY working at > the Naval "Medical" Center in San Diego: a location > where a number of > victims of US government mind-control experiments > have testified they've > been experimented on and subjected to various > mind-control/manipulation > procedures. > > It's ALSO noted that Charles Williams, Sr. moved to > San Diego only a > year ago from MARYLAND, where -- GUESS WHAT! -- he > was associated with > several of the U.S. intelligence agencies. > > ALSO: earlier news reports quoted eyewitnesses as > saying Williams was > using a what appeared to be some kind of RIFLE in > his assault. NOW we > are told Williams wielded a handgun. This excerpt is > typical of the > early news reports, which sure don't seem to be > describing the weapon as > a PISTOL. > > -- "Two killed, 13 wounded at San > Diego-area high school > > SANTEE, California (CNN) -- A 15-year-old student > killed two classmates > at a California high school and wounded another 13 > people before his > arrest Monday, police said. > > ... A witness said the freshman boy arrested in the > shooting was smiling > when he allegedly emerged from a restroom with a > LONG-BARRELLED GUN." > > So, WHICH WAS IT?? WHY did the story change?? > > It NOW turns out the father DID have a NUMBER of > RIFLES in his home. > It's highly likely the early news reports which > quoted eyewitnesses were > CORRECT about the weapon, and that the truth has > been covered up because > it would implicate the father -- and THUS by > extension the US military > and intelligence agencies -- too heavily in the > incident. > > Dollars to doughnuts this unfortunate boy is yet > ANOTHER of the MILLIONS > of mind-controlled, "Manchurian Candidate" > programmed assassins which > our federal government has "created" in recent years > all across the > country. > > This nation MUST WAKE UP TO THE TRUTH!! > > > We will be continuing to dig into this issue long > and hard and will > report further as the situation warrants. > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - > > Excerpt from: > Shooting suspect's threats dismissed > http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/03/06/school.shooting.0 3/index.html > > SANTEE, California (CNN) -- > > ... (Assistant San Diego County Sheriff) Tom Zoll > said the .22-caliber > weapon the suspect allegedly used in the shooting > belonged to his > father, Charles Jeffrey "Jeff" Williams, a lab > technician at the Naval > Medical Center-San Diego. > > "We believe the gun came from the house," Zoll said. > "It was kept locked > up there. He did somehow obtain a key and get the > gun." > > Sheriff's and FBI officials searched the Williams > home on Monday night, > removing > seven rifles, a computer, a plastic crate filled > with papers and files, > and about six more bags filled with evidence. ... > > ...(San Diego Sheriff's Department Lt.) Lewis said > Williams and his > father moved to Santee from Maryland about a year > ago, the boy's mother, > Linda Wells, told The New York Times, so that the > elder Williams could > follow a job opportunity. > sno0wl www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NEWS: Bush team angry over EU pressure on death penalty
-Caveat Lector- UK London Telegraph ISSUE 2113 Thursday 8 March 2001 Bush team angry over EU pressure on death penalty By Toby Harnden in Washington THE European Union has angered the Bush administration by taking America to task for ignoring "human rights norms" in its refusal to abolish the death penalty. President Bush was a strong supporter of capital punishment while governor of Texas and White House sources said the EU's "preoccupation" with an American domestic policy matter could sour transatlantic relations. Gen Colin Powell, the Secretary of State and a supporter of the death penalty, gave a vigorous defence of the American position on Tuesday when Anna Lindh, the Swedish Foreign Minister, said there was "strong sentiment" in Europe on the issue. Javier Solana, the European high representative for foreign and security policy, and Chris Patten, commissioner for external affairs, were also at the Washington meeting. The death penalty had been tabled as an agenda item by the EU. Mr Patten said: "She [Mrs Lindh] referred to the continuing European concern about the use of the death penalty in the United States, as I have made clear when I have discussed this face-to-face in the European parliament." It was a "perfectly courteous exchange", he added, and Gen Powell had responded by saying "that this was an issue on which there was broad consensus in the US, that it was a matter for the states and that both presidential candidates had supported it". Gen Powell also told the EU foreign policy troika that he did not think there would be any change in the American position in the foreseeable future. Mr Bush grew exasperated during the election campaign over what he saw as the obsession of European journalists and officials with the death penalty. Last summer, a group of French legislators travelled to his headquarters in Austin, Texas, to meet him but were briefed by aides instead when he found out that the only matter they wanted to discuss was the death penalty. On the day of the election, the French and Swedish ambassadors and the head of the EU delegation in Washington wrote to Mr Bush protesting about the imminent execution of John Paul Penry, a rapist and murderer said to have a mental age of six. This was seen by some Republicans as an unwarranted interference in the election that could have damaged Mr Bush in the eyes of black voters. They are overwhelmingly against the death penalty because of the disproportionate numbers of blacks and Hispanics who are executed. Washington's irritation was compounded when, in December, a clause was inserted in the EU charter of fundamental rights stating that no prisoner could be extradited to a country that had the death penalty. Although the clause is not legally binding and individual cases have been left for member states to resolve, the European Court of Justice has already cited the charter as a text. If it became law no prisoner could be extradited to America because forms of restraint such as leg irons are judged to be human rights abuses. Jeff Gedmin, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute think tank who is widely tipped to be in line for a senior position in the Bush administration, said it was "odd that an American domestic issue has become so prominent in the foreign policy agenda" in recent months. "It's a club to beat America, an expression of Euro nationalism, a statement that while you may be a superpower we're far morally superior. But European populations from Poland to Great Britain are in favour of the death penalty so this is not a case of European values versus American values. It's a division of elite values." Thirty-eight of the 50 states have the death penalty on the statute books and decisions are generally not a federal matter. A Gallup poll this year found public support running at 67 per cent, much lower than previously. A Republican foreign policy specialist who served in the administration of George Bush Snr said a prominent EU official had told him that America rather than countries such as Iran was singled out on the death penalty because "we expect more of you". The Republican said: "I take exception to being lectured about our criminal justice system by the continent that gave us the guillotine, the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust." Willy Helin, spokesman for the EU in Washington, said the EU was opposed to the death penalty in principle but particularly highlighted cases involving people who were minors at the time of the offence, mentally retarded or foreign nationals. "We don't believe there is reason to start a major row on this across the Atlantic. We just don't believe the death penalty is a sufficient deterrent." __ EcoNews Service - Always online for Ecology, Consciousness Universe Exopolitics. Vancouver, BC V6M 1V8 EcoNews http://www.ecologynews.com/ Prague http://mujweb.cz/www/ecologynews/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION
[CTRL] Ashcroft Announces Voting Rights Initiative
-Caveat Lector- Ashcroft Announces Voting Rights Initiative http://washingtonpost.com:80/wp-dyn/articles/A35793-2001Mar7.html Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 7, 2001 Attorney General John D. Ashcroft announced a "voting rights initiative" today in the wake of widespread allegations of voter fraud in Florida, vowing to increase the number of federal monitors overseeing elections and to more aggressively prosecute violations of election laws. In addition, Ashcroft said he would hire a new senior counsel to oversee enforcement and recommend reforms to federal election laws. The official would likely report to Ralph Boyd Jr., a Boston attorney who has been nominated by President Bush to fill the politically volatile position of assistant attorney general for civil rights. "Enforcement of voting rights laws have opened polling places to the elderly, to the disabled, and to persons with limited proficiency in the English language," said Ashcroft, a former Missouri governor and senator. "Today's initiative will follow in this heritage and tradition established by this department. . . . We will take action if we find evidence of any American being excluded from polling places." Ashcroft's announcement comes amid thousands of complaints in Florida and other states from voters, many of them black, who say they were discouraged from voting or confronted unfair barriers at the ballot box during the tightly contested presidential election. The attorney general declined to comment on Justice Department investigations into those complaints, but said he would work with Congress and voting-rights advocates to ensure that "Americans' votes are not diluted by voter fraud." Ashcroft came under heavy attack during his confirmation hearings on a variety of minority issues, including vetoing two pieces of legislation as governor that were intended to boost black voter registrations in St. Louis. Since becoming attorney general, Ashcroft has made reaching out to African-Americans and other minorities the main theme of his public appearances. Ashcroft said eight attorneys will be added to the 36 attorneys now working in the voting rights section, and he will ask for extra money next year to hire more. He also said he would not limit the reviews to areas, mostly in the South, now covered under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Just this week, he said, the Justice Department sent monitors to watch elections in St. Louis, which is not covered by the act but where there had been complaints from voters. "Our recent voting irregularities have achieved national attention, and have focused the national will on voting reform," Ashcroft said. "We should take advantage of this opportunity. We will work with governors, with secretaries of state and the Congress to implement voting reform." A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] George Bush won. But at what cost to the law?
-Caveat Lector- Election 2000 George Bush won. But at what cost to the law? http://www.reason.com:80/0103/fe.mg.election.html The Supreme Court Shot Itself in the Foot While Shooting Down Al Gore By Mike Godwin REASON * March 2001 For any constitutionalist, the proper reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court's majority opinion in Bush v. Gore is dismay. In dispensing with the Florida high court's efforts to resolve a confusing election-code tangle, derailing the election-contest process in Florida, and sidestepping the constitutionally established mechanisms for deciding disputed elections, the U.S. Supreme Court has done more than exceed the bounds of limited judicial power, it also confirmed the most cynical view of how the nation's top court operates. At this point, if you suspect that I'm a Gore supporter, you're right. But before you dismiss my complaints as Democratic whining, let me explain that I haven't lost a moment's sleep over the fact that the other guy won. And it bothers me not a whit that the candidate who lost in the popular vote count won in the Electoral College. What's more, I don't even blame Bush or his team for what the Supreme Court did wrong I'd be first in line to defend the right and prerogative of both the Gore and Bush teams to take their election disputes to state or federal courts. In order to get a handle on what the Supreme Court did wrong in Bush v. Gore, it helps to look at the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Gore v. Harris, the 43 decision ordering a statewide manual recount of the "undervote" ballots in all counties in which those ballots had not already been manually tabulated. What you see in the Florida high court's opinions in Gore v. Harris, in both the majority opinion and in the dissents, are jurists laboring under excruciating constraints to get the right legal answers to a complex legal problem. The truth about the Florida Supreme Court justices' handling of Gore v. Harris runs counter to a couple of myths purveyed by partisans and pundits about that high court, whose justices were appointed by Democratic governors. But the partisans and pundits are off-base. To underscore where the U.S. Supreme Court went wrong in Bush v. Gore, let's clear away the prevailing myths about the supposedly partisan Florida Supreme Court and give its justices credit for what they, unlike their federal counterparts, did right. Myth One: The partisan, "Democrat-dominated" Florida Supreme Court screwed up its own state law in its eagerness to give the election to Al Gore, so the U.S. Supreme Court had to step in to correct the problem. In reality, the Florida legislature had presented the courts with a crazy quilt of ambiguous and/or self-contradictory election laws. Additionally, the Florida Supreme Court was faced with a decision in which a trial court judge (in the word of the majority opinion) "did not make any findings as to the factual allegations made in the complaint and did not reference any of the testimony adduced in the two-day evidentiary hearing, other than to summarily state that the plaintiffs failed to meet their burden of proof." Apart from seeming to dispense with his role as fact-finder, Judge N. Sanders Sauls also seemed to conflate the "protest" and "contest" phases of disputing an election in Florida (and the differing burdens of proof required in each phase). When a trial court judge reaches factual and legal conclusions in a summary, arbitrary, or legally questionable way, he creates the kind of issues that state appellate courts were created to sort out. And a fair-minded reading of the Florida Supreme Court's decision shows it struggling mightily to do so fairly and evenhandedly. Consider: Of the five arguments made by Gore's team, the Florida Supreme Court's four-justice majority accepted only three. Ruling against Gore on the other two arguments ensured that some additional Bush votes would be included in the final count, and that the additional 3,300 votes from Palm Beach County, most of which were thought to be for Gore, would not be counted. Also, three of the court's seven Democrat-appointed justices would have ruled against Gore altogether. If the Florida Supremes were really the judicial-activist, partisan-Democrat meddlers its GOP critics say they were, they would have come up with some chad-centric standard as to how to interpret ballots that vote-counting machines rejected. Unfortunately for Al Gore, it was the refusal of the Florida Supreme Court to legislate a new, precise, statewide standard for interpreting ballots, a refusal to be a judicially active, changing-the-rules-in-the-middle-of-the-game kind of court, that led the U.S. Supreme Court to decide that Florida's election-code provisions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Myth Two: The Florida Supreme Court usurped the prerogative of the Florida legislature to decide how its state's electors are chosen, in violation of both state and
[CTRL] Why The U.S.A. Dropped The A-Bomb on Japan
-Caveat Lector- The URL for his article is http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/stowell/a-bomb2.htm www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes] Why The U.S.A. Dropped The A-Bomb on Japan by Michael W. Stowell [2-27-2001] "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom." (Thomas Payne "Common Sense" 1776) On July 17, 1945, U.S. President Harry Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin met in Potsdam, Germany to discuss surrender terms for the Japanese and Russia's planned entry into the Pacific campaign. Stalin had received communications outlining a conditional surrender that would allow Japanese Emperor Hirohito to remain as a ceremonial functionary. Hours earlier, approximately 230 miles from Los Alamos, New Mexico in the Jornada del Mueto valley at the "Trinity" test site, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated. After viewing the horrific explosion the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoted the Bhagavad-Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Scientists working on plutonium production at the "Metallurgical Project" laboratory at the University of Chicago debated whether the atomic bomb should be used against Japan. A committee chaired by Nobel laureate James Franck urged the United States to demonstrate the new weapon on a barren island. Conversely, another all-civilian group named the "Interim Committee", chaired by Secretary of War Henry Stimson, advised that the weapon be used directly. However, Stimson also stated "I am inclined to think that there is enough such chance to make it well worthwhile our giving them a warning of what is to come and a definite opportunity to capitulate. We have the following enormously favorable factors on our side, factors much weightier that those we had against Germany: Japan has no allies; Her navy is nearly destroyed and she is vulnerable to a surface and underwater blockade which can deprive her of sufficient food and supplies for her population; She is terribly vulnerable to our concentrated air attack upon her crowded cities, industrial and food resources; She has against her not only Anglo-American forces but the rising forces of China and the ominous threat of Russia." "During his (Secretary of War Henry Stimson's) recitation of the relative facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings: first, on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly, because I thought that our country should avoid shocking the world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of "face." The secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude." (General Dwight D. Eisenhower) President Truman's private journal and correspondence written at the time of the bombings indicate that contrary to his public justification of the bombings as the only way to end the war without a costly invasion of Japan, Truman had already concluded that Japan was about to capitulate. Whether or not he was correct in this estimate of when the war would end, the fact that he held this view at the time he made his decision to use the atomic bombs is clearly set down in his own hand. "I cannot speak for the others but it was ever present in my mind that it was important that we have an end to the war before the Russians came in...Neither the President nor I were anxious to have them (the Soviets) enter the war after we had learned of this successful (atomic) test." (James Byrnes, Secretary of State 1945-47) "Mr. Byrnes did not argue that it was necessary to use the bomb against the cities of Japan in order to win the war...Mr. Byrnes view (was) that our possessing and demonstrating the bomb would make Russia more managable in Europe." (Leo Szilard, Nuclear Physicist) "The use of the atomic bombs was precipitated by a desire to end the war in the Pacific by any means before Russia's participation. I'm sure if President Roosevelt had still been there, none of that would have been possible." (Albert Einstein) According to Admiral William D. Leahy, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and President Truman's Chief of Staff: "The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... In being the first to use it [the atomic bomb], we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages." "It would be a mistake to suppose that the fate
[CTRL] [Fwd: [populist-talk] The United States of America - The best government that money can buy]
Original Message Subject: [populist-talk] The United States of America - The best government that money can buy Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:17:26 -0800 From: "Guy Herron" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: "Harold Young" [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jeff Miller" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS MONEY IN POLITICS ALERT Vol. 6, #9 March 7, 2001 tel: 202-857-0044, fax: 202-857-7809 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], web: www.opensecrets.org Tax Cuts: A Look at What Some Special Interests Want By Holly Bailey When the U.S. House tomorrow takes up President Bush's ambitious $1.6 trillion tax cut, corporations and trade groups once looking to attach a long list of tax breaks to the proposal supposedly will go home empty-handed. It's not that the plan doesn't include some plums for corporate America. Bush is asking for a permanent extension of the so-called Research and Experimentation tax credit, a corporate subsidy valued by almost every industry in the nation that will cost taxpayers about $50 billion over the next decade, according to the Office of Management and Budget. To hear business groups tell it, they are, in fact, thrilled about the wide reach of tax plan itself. >From its cut in tax rates for individuals to a proposed phase out of the estate tax, some of Washington's biggest trade associations contend they couldn't be happier with Bush's proposal. To prove so, they've organized nearly a half-dozen coalitions to lobby Congress and steer public opinion in favor of the bill. But while the White House reportedly has adopted a hard stance against including corporate subsidies in the tax plan, there's no guarantee that Congress will toe the party line. After all, the people who paid the estimated $3 billion tab for last year's record-breaking elections are looking for a return on that investment, and the tax bill provides an irresistible vehicle for achieving that goal. Here's a guide to what some of those interests want, including a breakdown of their soft money, PAC and individual contributions to federal parties and candidates during 1999-2000: Computer/Internet Industry Contributions Total: $38.6 million, 52 percent to Democrats In addition to pressing for an extension of the Research and Experimentation tax credits, the computer industry thinks software should be considered a depreciable asset, while Microsoft Corp ($4.5 million; 53 percent to Repubs) simply wants the cost of software to be written off as a business expense. Internet companies, meanwhile, are pressing for tax credits to expand high-speed Internet access networks around the country. Automotive Industry Contributions Total: $17.6 million, 79 percent to Republicans The auto industry is not only pressing for an overall tax cut in hopes of boosting sagging auto salesbut also for credits that would encourage consumers to purchase vehicles built using new technology, such as the gasoline-electric hybrid cars. Ford Motor Co ($772,125; 71 percent to Repubs) and General Motors ($688,803; 73 percent to Repubs) also are hoping to change the way the government taxes multinational companies. Oil Gas Contributions: $32.4 million, 78 percent to Republicans Electric Utilities Contributions: $18.4 million, 68 percent to Republicans Mining Contributions: $6.5 million, 86 percent to Republicans With two former oil industry executives in the White House, there's perhaps no other industry better positioned to gain financial favor from the government than energy companies. But you won't find any specific tax incentives for the industry in the Bush plan. Instead, it appears Congress will be the one stepping to the plate, which it did last week. One day before Bush delivered his budget to Congress, Senate Energy Committee Chairman Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) unveiled the National Energy Security Act of 2001, a bill that doles out billions of dollars in tax subsidies for energy companies, according to the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. Among the items: a much-sought-after reduction in the royalties that oil companies pay the government for drilling on public land and incentives for nuclear power plants to produce more energy. Restaurants Bars Contributions: $8 million, 71 percent to Republicans Almost six years after Congress repealed a tax deduction for the "three-martini" business lunch, the restaurant industry is pushing to reinstate that deduction. The write-off currently is 50 percent of the cost of a business meal, and the industry, led by the National Restaurant Association ($836,534; 86 percent to the GOP), wants the deduction increased to 80 percent. Finance/Insurance/Real Estate Contributions: $293 million, 59 percent to Republicans The financial sector is looking to increase the amount people can invest in private retirement accounts or 401K plans. They are also seeking a reduction in the capital gains tax, which is levied against the sale of stocks,
[CTRL] [HardGreenHerald] # 5
-Caveat Lector- [HardGreenHerald] # 5 "Unless someone like you cares a whole lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." --Dr. Seuss, 'The Lorax' --A RadTimes production-- --- Contents: --- --Focus shifts in battle for forests --Court drops contempt charge against self-proclaimed "green anarchist" --Animals Set Afire as France Fears Outbreak --Summary Of Pacific Northwest Treesits In 2000 --Foot-and-Mouth: Meat Starts Moving Despite New Cases --E-commerce: friend or foe of the environment? --Deer hunt meets goal, ends === Focus shifts in battle for forests http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/enviro02.shtml Once it was spotted owl; now global warming threatens Saturday, March 3, 2001 By JEFF BARNARD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EUGENE, Ore. - Ten years ago when Andy Kerr was getting together with other environmentalists to stop logging in the Northwest's ancient forests, efforts focused on protecting habitat for the northern spotted owl. With the owl battle largely won, his focus has shifted to global warming, but it's still about saving forests. At a panel discussion at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference yesterday, Kerr described the benefits of leaving trees standing as a way to draw excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, where most scientists say it contributes to the greenhouse effect. "Sometimes the way to solve problems is by going bigger, not smaller," Kerr said while relaxing between panel discussions in a student lounge at the Knight Law Center at the University of Oregon. "The problems of global warming, unsustainable farming and forest destruction can become solvable if you put them all together." The principle has been discussed for years. Trees breath carbon dioxide from the air the way animals breath oxygen. As the trees grow, they store more and more carbon drawn from the air, helping to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas. Not everyone on the global warming panel agreed with Kerr's argument that using forests to store carbon, a concept known as sequestration, should become part of the mix of tactics to reduce greenhouse gases. Last November, talks in The Netherlands on implementing the 1997 Kyoto Accords on reducing worldwide greenhouse gas emissions broke down over whether countries should be able to count the carbon dioxide absorbed by forests and farmlands towards their emissions reduction targets. Panama Bartholomy, a student at Humboldt State University who attended the negotiations, argued that using forests to store carbon will just allow industrial countries to continue burning the fossil fuels that are creating the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Kerr said to achieve the 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions some scientists say is needed over the next 20 years to stabilize global warming, promoting forests as carbon sinks will ultimately become part of the mix. "The problem is that it does a lot of good for the biosphere and little for the atmosphere if you keep pumping more carbon out of the ground," he said. Kerr said global warming creates much wider incentives to protect forests than the spotted owl ever did. Using forests to store carbon makes it attractive to protect the tropical rainforests of the Amazon as well as the temperate rainforests of the Northwest. "The last time I checked, money still talks," Kerr said in an interview. "Why are forests cut down? People want the money." "When we get serious about global warming, and there is a real market for carbon sequestration, I think it will be able to outcompete the market for timber." === Court drops contempt charge against self-proclaimed "green anarchist" http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?o0089_BC_OR--EnvironmentalActinewsnewsflash-oregon The Associated Press 3/5/01 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A criminal contempt charge against self-proclaimed "green anarchist" Josh Harper has been dismissed by a federal judge, a federal prosecutor said Monday. Harper was charged last year with criminal contempt for refusing to appear before a grand jury that was examining eco-terrorist attacks by the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front. U.S. District Judge Owen Panner has dismissed the charge against Harper, said Stephen Peifer, an assistant U.S. attorney. The trial was to start on Tuesday. Peifer said he could not elaborate because by law he can't talk about grand jury matters. "The rule that prohibits me from talking about this case is very broad. It stops a government attorney from discussing grand jury matters in any way, shape or form," he said. Harper appeared before the grand jury last month. At that time, Harper's attorney,
[CTRL] Fwd: Beating a Rigged Game!
Title: Beating a Rigged Game! For those of you who have never had the pleasure of reading Nikki Case's fine analysis of where we are today, and what we need to do about it, with great honor, I give you this ON-TARGET message. Beating a Rigged Game! By Nikki Case (a fine Californian Patriot) It's an open secret: Apparently, someone is doing more than just corner the market; they're trying to corner the world. Call them globalist, global capitalists, CFR, Bilderbergers, the Insiders, the Establishment, the Knights, the Illuminatti - they're all the same greedy bloodsuckers and they're all members of the same clubs. I call them elitists; a more exact name would be to call them what they are - the latest super bug: Millennium Parasites. They strive to enslave and feed on the world. They disguise themselves as friends of 'big business' or free enterprise. This is a lie. They loathe free enterprise and have all but destroyed it by cornering every market, swallowing every competitor and monopolizing all possible economies. It's all about 'the money, honey,' and they want it all. Other disguises include posing as actors, statesmen, diplomats, and politicians. It's still about money, translated 'power.' Satisfaction will elude these parasites, no matter the billions they amass, as long as there are free men with the potential to earn even a fraction of what these elitists spend on one Lear jet ride. Commoners are a threat. Threats must be neutralized. Threats demand control. Control can be accomplished easily: It calls for a rigged game. Rigged games have been around forever. In a game of Hearts, it's as simple as eliminating a certain suite of cards; there are also loaded dice; formulas for chess and other gimmicks. The parasites use these principles and similar gimmicks to achieve their 'global neighborhood' agenda, alias global control, alias-totalitarian world government, the 'New World Order, or Global Union.' They've attacked and all but eliminated morality, religion, any kind of free press, and robbed those protesting of hope. Why? Morality breeds discipline, responsibility, and order, thus freedom and independence. As for religion: Hope can't be allowed, or any kind of faith - these might inspire a fight ... a victory even. Better rig the game. How? The ultimate parasitic weapon has been television, newspapers, and magazines. Employing formulas of indoctrination through the now monopolized media, messages were sent: 'Everyone does it.' 'All kids have sex.' 'Religion is extreme.' 'Conservatives are extreme.' 'Commitment is bad - it's literally extreme.' 'Morality is relative.' 'Lies about sex are okay.' 'Parents are oppressors - disobey.' 'The government will do it all for you, if you're willing to sacrifice a large portion of your income, never smoke, wear a seatbelt, and use politically correct language.' 'Universal harmony can only be obtained through the sacrifice of sovereign nations, and the gobbling of their culture, religion, and individual rights.' 'Be nationality-less, culture-less, faceless 'Stepford' children - it's for the children.' 'Live for the moment, because AIDS only happens if you don't use a condom and abortion is available on demand - even if you're six months along.' 'Cheat, after all, this is the age of 'no fault' divorce.' 'Give your child a latch-key.' 'Guns kill all by themselves - never mind defending yourself or checking crime 'ban them.' 'Don't nurture your child - use day care! You need a BMW!' 'Materialism is everything. The government will fix anything else - with your money.' Originally, most thinking people objected to these formulaic messages acted out and sold via sitcoms, soap operas, drama series, and sensationalized movies. Thinking viewers objected to the violence, the lack of values, and the 'sleeping around,' done even by young teens. Sadly most of the protestors shut up, suffered, and then accepted the messages when the media refused to acknowledge the people's protests, flooding protestors with 'New World Order' messages instead. Here the people failed. They allowed indoctrination in their living rooms and in their children's ears. After all, who could give up TV? Magazines? The 'in' newspapers? And wasn't it probably true - most kids 'did it' at thirteen? Lawyers twisted the law to win cases, whether right or wrong? Powerful men 'slept around'? Women did too? Doctors were no exception? Immorality was normal, especially under certain circumstances? Heck, nobody's to blame, and blaming is extreme, right? It's out to be an 'extremist' and so many things are extreme, yeah? Distractions, like 'slight of the hand' in magic and poker, are another part of the game. Give the people 'Monica,' Kosovo, emphasize 'violence' and 'school shootings' rather than the documented fact that 'an armed society is a civil society' and people won't notice when you sell the country's security to Communists. They won't notice when you legislate 'thought
Re: [CTRL] AP: Woman Indicted in Bush Tape Release
-Caveat Lector- Does anyone remember "Watergate"? -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Prudence L. Kuhn Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] AP: Woman Indicted in Bush Tape Release -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/06/2001 8:44:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted a former employee of a media company that handled ads for President Bush's campaign in connection with the release of a Bush debate tape to Vice President Al Gore's campaign. Juanita Yvette Lozano of Austin, Texas, was charged with mail fraud, false statements to the FBI and perjury. If convicted, she faces 15 years in prison and a $750,000 fine. The indictment was handed up by a federal grand jury in Texas This is really weird. I believe Robert Novak stole Carter's notes on the forthcoming presidential debate, and George Will used them to tutor Reagan. Neither Novak nor Will was indicted. I guess it's the same old, same old story. Republicans do it and it's youthful high spirits or whatever; Democrats do it and it's evidence of moral depravity. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance not soap-boxing please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory' with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: GOP News Views - March 8, 2001
** Help Save the Tax Cut The left knows that tax cuts will stop them from feeding at the public trough. So they're pulling out all the stops to kill President Bush's modest tax cut proposal. The only way the president's program will pass is for the people of America to rise up in a massive grassroots movement and speak out. Put the pressure on by going to the following web site to send faxes to every one of the 50 Democrat U.S. Senators. The cost is only $15 to send 50 faxes and it will take less than 2 minutes of your time. Then send this message to as many people on your e-mail list as possible. We can't let the left win on this crucial issue. http://www.backbush.com/taxcut/faxgram.asp?ref=rn13 ** Armey Ups Ante "House Majority Leader Dick Armey said yesterday he will press for tax cuts in excess of the administration's $1.6 trillion plan, despite President Bush's insistence to go no higher." - Washington Times, 3/7/01 ** It's Not About Hunting; It's About Self-Defense "(B)efore we go running off to our congressmen demanding more and more gun laws, let's remember that over the past twenty-two (22) years, there have been a total of 86 children killed by guns in our schools. That figure includes the two that died yesterday (in San Diego). That's 3.9 children per year ... or about 16 fewer children than were killed by government mandated airbags last year. After recently having some family members visit Israel, I feel compelled to ask how many students would have been killed or injured had California's Santana High School shooter Andy Williams committed this same outrageous attack in an Israeli high school, where almost every teacher is armed?" - GOPNV reader Joseph G. Lolli, 3/6/01 ** Another Skeleton Pops Out of Pardon Closet "John Francis McCormick is a former Boston policeman, not a fugitive billionaire. He was convicted in a police-corruption scandal for accepting hundreds of dollars worth of gratuities, not stiffing the government on millions of dollars in taxes. He answered for his crime by serving more than a year in jail, not by fleeing prosecution. He started a new life and applied for clemency through the normal Justice Department process. He got his pardon from former President Clinton, (his lawyer Thomas) Dwyer says, 'by the numbers.' But is that the whole story? Mr. McCormick's advocate, Mr. Dwyer, has helped raise millions of dollars in campaign donations to benefit Bill and Hillary Clinton since 1992, including a 1999 dinner he co-hosted that reaped $450,000 for Mrs. Clinton's New York Senate campaign." - Wall Street Journal, 3/7/01 ** King of the Whoppers Strikes Again "In other pardon news, the Jerusalem Post reports that Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak insists he asked Clinton only once to pardon Marc Rich, not three or more times as the former president's aides have claimed." - OpinionJournal.com, 3/5/01 ** Hillary's Hissy Fit "By a 56-44 margin, the Senate votes to kill the Clinton administration's 11th-hour ergonomic workplace regulations. In a shrill floor speech, the ex-president's wife and junior senator from New York accuses her colleagues of dropping 'a legislative atom bomb against the ergonomic standard.'" - OpinionJournal.com, 3/7/01 ** Vampire In the Midst "Disillusioned Democrat Patrick Caddell says it was his party that was trying to steal the election. 'I know about stealing elections,' he told a lunch in Beverly Hills. 'I was involved in it for a long time. It appeared to me that George Bush won and that we clearly were trying to steal the election.' Caddell, who backed Ralph Nader in 2000, also says the selection of Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe as chairman of the Democratic National Committee is 'like having Dracula at the blood bank.'" - OpinionJournal.com, 3/5/01 ** Ex-Clintonite Tells D's to Take a Hard Left "Unless Democrats distinguish themselves more from moderate Republicans, the party is a goner, said Robert Reich, secretary of labor under former President Clinton. 'If they simply try to mimic the Republicans, then they shall fail and, more important, we shall fail,' he said at Duke University Friday. 'The Democratic Party, in many respects, is dead.' The new Democratic Party that Reich envisions should embrace the new economy but also support people trying to escape poverty, he said. Such support includes more money for health care, child care and job training." - Robert Reich, Herold-Sun, 3/2/01 ** Gore Some More in 2004? "When President Bush delivered his first address to Congress on Tuesday night, the man who thought he should be in his place, Al Gore, did not watch. Instead, Mr. Gore was in Manhattan, tending to political business of his own. Mr. Gore assembled more
[CTRL] John Glenn on Fraiser
-Caveat Lector- John Glenn on Fraiser http://www.artbell.com/johnglenn.html The following quote was taken from the Frasier TV show, aired on March 6th, 2001. Former astronaut and Senator, John Glenn said: "Back in those glory days, I was very uncomfortable when they asked us to say things that I didn't want to say, and deny other things. Some peple asked, you know, 'Were you alone out there?' We never gave the real answer. We've seen things out there, strange things. But we know what we saw out there. And we couldn't really say anything, the bosses were scared of this. They were afraid of 'War of the Worlds' type stuff, about panic in the streets. And so we had to keep quiet. And now we only see these things in our nightmares or maybe in the movies. And some of them are pretty close to being the truth." ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Body Snatchers
body snatchers bust prompts reforms --shm.com.au Stricter rules governing drug trialling are promised. But they shouldn't be necessary if doctors stick to their guidelines. Gerard Ryle reports. Embarrassment has done its work. Those who run the system always knew. Now that the public knows, they've promised reforms. That anyone was surprised by the news this week that doctors were getting paid by global pharmaceutical firms to do drug trials on their patients might be considered an extraordinary oversight for a profession that likes to stand on a platform of ethics. The response from authorities was immediate. The State Health Minister, Craig Knowles, announced two inquiries into the matter, one by his department and one by the NSW Medical Board. He also set about creating Australia's first publicly accessible register of clinical trials by ordering that all hospitals list all such trials - and moneys received from pharmaceutical firms - in their annual reports. The chief medical officer of Australia, Professor Richard Smallwood, said that an even more comprehensive register of clinical trials should be compiled at a national level. Meanwhile, the leader of the Australian Democrats, Meg Lees, said her party would ensure that laws were changed so that doctors would have to tell patients who volunteered for trials of financial arrangements the doctors had with pharmaceutical firms. But in view of doctors' own self-imposed rules, such legal reform should not be necessary. At least two medical codes of conduct in Australia refer to the commercial relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession. The guidelines attempt to moderate between the ever increasing needs of big business and the delicate patient-doctor relationship. The latest code of ethics issued by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians couldn't spell it out more clearly: "The nature of the compensation to be paid to the investigators or the institution should be declared to, and approved by, the ethics committee and this fact should be noted in the explanatory statement provided to potential volunteers." The fact is, this hasn't always happened. More ... THE EXPOSEAustralians used as guinea pigs for global drug marketThousands of Australian patients are being used as guinea pigs in drug trials for global pharmaceutical companies without explicit laws to adequately protect their rights.Full report Australians used as guinea pigs for global drug market A HERALD INVESTIGATION By Gerard Ryle Thousands of Australian patients are being used as guineapigs in drug trials for global pharmaceutical companies without explicit laws to adequately protect their rights. Intellectually disabled men and women, incapable of giving consent on their own behalf, are being included in the trials, which are largely aimed at getting new drugs to the United States and European markets. Pharmaceutical companies are paying private doctors up to $6,000 for every patient they recruit but the patients do not have to be told of the financial arrangement. The money covers trial expenses and allows a profit for the doctors. Drug trials are vital in bringing life-saving medicines to market but the number being conducted in Australia has risen 20-fold since 1990 and many never result in approval for the drug. Some trials are abandoned after reports of side-effects and deaths, either here or overseas, or because the drug simply does not work. The chairman of the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee, Professor Martin Tattersall, who is at the forefront of medical research in Australia, believes the protection of patients' rights in drug trials needs a major overhaul. "Basically most patients do what their doctors say," he said. "They do that because they want to trust their doctors. Some patients taking part in clinical trials don't appreciate that they are in a clinical trial." A Herald investigation has found that: Patients are being bought and sold like commodities by doctors and pharmaceutical companies but are not being told that money changes hands when they volunteer for new treatments. The Therapeutic Goods Administration, the main responsible Federal Government authority, was obliged to directly review only two of the 1,712 clinical trials done in Australia last year. Patients are not always given copies of the consent forms they sign and are often not in a position to question their doctor's suggestion that they join a trial. Nearly one in six of the 210 medical bodies which approve trials - known as ethics committees - are being run out of private organisations. One Sydney doctor who conducted trials on his patients got approval from an ethics committee that included, among others, his former lawyer, his former patient, his rabbi and his sister. Global pharmaceutical companies have rushed to Australia at a time when debates have arisen over
[CTRL] Hoofin' Mouth
-Caveat Lector- From www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : Europe Europe's foot and mouth disease outbreak was foreseeable and preventable By Paul Mitchell 8 March 2001 Back to screen version| Send this link by email New outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (FMD) continue to be recorded daily in Britain. From the first case on February 21, the total has now reached 81, with instances reported in all parts of the country. At least 80,000 animals have been earmarked for slaughter, nearly eight times the original estimates. With suspected cases in several European countries, the European Union has extended its ban on imports of any livestock, meat and milk products from Britain. Farms in France, Belgium and Germany have been ordered to destroy animals imported from the UK, or which have come into contact with such animals. The epidemic of foot and mouth disease (FMD) is another example of the re-emergence of a disease once largely confined to more economically backward areas in Latin America, Asia and Africa, and practically eradicated from the advanced countries. The last major epidemic in Britain was in 1967. But last year saw outbreaks of the disease in Japan for the first time since 1908 and in South Koreadisease free since 1934. Recognised as one of the most highly contagious diseases in animals, the virus rarely affects humans, but causes painful blisters around the mouth, nose, feet and teats of pigs, cattle and sheep. Most animals recover from the disease and its major impact is economic, with reduced milk yields and weight gain, abortions and the death of young animals. International animal health bodies have existed for decades, but it is has been left up to national governments to decide if, or how, to implement controls. The resulting piecemeal approach has hampered the global eradication of the disease and the anarchic operation of global markets in animals and food products have made matters worse. According to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) the movement of people, animals and animal products for trade is leading to an increased spread of animal diseases across national borders. Where the disease has been controlled, individual governments have generally first quarantined the affected area, with any animals showing signs of the disease being destroyed, and carried out vaccination programs in a wider area. Measures are then put in place to prevent infected animals or meat products entering the area. Although vaccines against FMD have existed for some 50 years, there are certain problems with relying purely on vaccination to combat the virus. The disease exists as seven different types, and immunity against one type does not guarantee immunity against another. Scientists have found that up to half of all vaccinated cattle can still carry the virus, and it is difficult to tell a vaccinated animal from one incubating the disease. The vaccine itself is sometimes unsafe and has caused outbreaks on occasions. Nevertheless, according to the FAO, in Europe, the introduction of compulsory, mass, annual vaccination of cattle [during the 1950s and 1960s] dramatically reduced the incidence of the disease such that during 1990 no outbreaks were recorded. Within two years, however, the routine vaccination of animals against FMD in the European Union was banned. To understand why requires an understanding of FMD in Britain. Whilst European countries have carried out extensive vaccination programmes, the UK has never done so. The measures employed to deal with FMD in Britain have changed little in 100 years. Until the end of the nineteenth century, because FMD was not fatal to adult animals, farmers put up with it. But then, under pressure from rich, aristocratic cattle breeders, the government brought in controls. At the time, Britain exported industrial goods and imported agricultural ones. The export of pedigree cattle for breeding purposes was one of Britain's few agricultural exports until after the Second World War. The government first imposed a policy of slaughtering all infected cattle, but exempted breeding stock. The cattle breeders also pushed for bans on imports from infected countries that had to eradicate the disease or lose their export market to the UK. After the war, Britain turned to a policy of agricultural self-sufficiency and exports, with countries importing British animals and meat demanding it be FMD free. Most European countries, where the disease was very widespread, started using vaccines in 1952 as an alternative to slaughtering their national herds. Britain continued to promote its mass slaughter policy through the European Commission for Foot and Mouth Disease (ECFMD) that it helped to set up in 1954. In 1985, the European Union (EU) had issued a Directive relating to FMD control that was weighted in favour of compulsory vaccination, but it was amended significantly in 1990. In order to establish the Single European Market by 1993, the EU sought
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Don't make me go get my meat cleaver... Coach fired for wielding meat cleaver at school March 7, 2001Web posted at: 1:28 PM EST (1828 GMT) ROCKFORD, Illinois (AP) -- A coach has been fired because she tried to take a meat cleaver into school after an argument at a junior high volleyball game. Toni Gay, a teacher's aide at the Rockford Environmental Science Academy, was arrested Saturday and charged with unlawful use of a weapon on school property and disorderly conduct. "We never would accept such behavior from students, and we shouldn't accept such behavior from staff who are here to set an example," said Rockford Public School spokesman Jim Jennings. Gay said things had gotten "just crazy" when she tried to take the weapon into Kennedy Middle School after exchanging heated words with a woman. Witnesses told police the argument started after a referee disqualified Gay's team over derogatory comments a fan made to the official. Gay got the cleaver from her car but was stopped at the school door by a park district worker, witnesses said. "I made a mistake," Gay said. "I had a really bad attitude." For The Rest of the "News" Visit The Mother Of All Newshoundsto see What Has Been Dug Up www.geocities/peatluke/watchdog.html To Join the Daily WatchDog Ezine Mailing List Info:For more information: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyWatchdogMy Chat Addresses: ICQ: 103814927 Y! Messenger: peatluke MS Messenger: Kazzmir AOL Messenger: xmulvax--
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First Star Of The Internet Retires Wednesday, March 7, 2001 By Joanna Bale E-mail This Story
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http://www.detnews.com/2001/schools/0103/04/c01-195135.htm School paper sparks uproarStudent piece on Black History Month lands teacher in troubleBy Craig Garrett / The Detroit News CANTON TOWNSHIP -- A Plymouth-Canton teacher faces discipline for letting a student column critical of Black History Month into the high school newspaper. Mary Lou Nagy, an English and journalism teacher at Plymouth-Salem High, should have pulled the column by a senior in the February issue of Perspective, a district spokeswoman said. "There's no question she should have used better judgment," district spokeswoman Judy Evola said. Student columnist Chris Mackinder wrote that Black History Month makes "race an issue once again." He added: "If it's a race war they want, keeping things the way they are will sure get them one." Nagy is staff adviser with final say on what appears in the paper. She couldn't be reached for comment, but a teachers' union spokesman said Nagy rarely pulls opinion columns. "Is she an adviser or a censor? Someone should ask (administrators) that question," union representative Chuck Portelli said. Mackinder's column angered black students and their parents, who met Friday with administrators. "This isn't something the district can dismiss," said Carmen Richardson, the mother of an 11th-grader at Plymouth-Salem. Nagy meets Monday with administrators to discuss her punishment, which could range from reprimand to suspension. Nagy already has said she'll apologize to staff and students offended by Mackinder's essay in a special issue of Perspective. Black students say racial issues are glossed over at the district's two large high schools. Enrollment at Plymouth-Canton and Plymouth-Salem high schools is nearly 5,000 students. About 200 of those students are black. Dozens more are of other ethnic backgrounds. Salem sophomore Amber Knight said a racist note was left under her desk after Mackinder's column ran Tuesday. She gave the note to the teacher. "He put it in the garbage. (You) feel lower" than the white students, she said. However, Salem senior Steve Lyons said relations between whites and blacks "are pretty good." Reaction to the column "might be slightly blown out of proportion," he added. For The Rest of the "News" Visit The Mother Of All Newshoundsto see What Has Been Dug Up www.geocities/peatluke/watchdog.html To Join the Daily WatchDog Ezine Mailing List Info:For more information: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyWatchdogMy Chat Addresses: ICQ: 103814927 Y! Messenger: peatluke MS Messenger: Kazzmir AOL Messenger: xmulvax-- dot.gif