Re: [CTRL] AP: Woman Indicted in Bush Tape Release
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/07/2001 11:35:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone remember "Watergate"? Yes, I do, but I'm a bit thick this morning. How does it all hook together? 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] Corporations ubber alles: Kevin McCarthy, where are you now that we need you. -j2
-Caveat Lector- 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 EXPOSE Australians used as guinea pigs for global drug market Thousands 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 similar trials in Europe and the US, and
[CTRL] Palestinian double standard? Never!
-Caveat Lector- MEMRI: A CRITICISM OF PALESTINIAN INTELLECTUALS' DOUBLE STANDARD Special Dispatch - PA March 8, 2001 No.193 A Criticism of Palestinian Intellectuals' Double Standard Palestinian writer, Zakariya Muhammad, criticized Palestinian intellectuals for not denouncing Palestinian crimes while criticizing the Israeli peace camp: "These days, Palestinian intellectuals tend to blame the Israeli intellectuals who used to present themselves as peaceniks, for abandoning justice and peace, in favor of the [Israeli] 'consensus' that describes the Palestinians as aggressors and as a danger to Israel, instead of resisting the occupation, and demonstrating their understanding for the Palestinians' revolt. The gentlest thing that Palestinian intellectuals have to say about the Israeli intellectuals is that they are hypocrites; that the peace they spoke of was lip-service, and that deep inside - when the moment of truth came - they stood by the occupation." "In fact, these accusations are correct with regard to most of the intellectuals in the so-called [Israeli] 'peace camp,' they have displayed a nationalist tendency and have had a role in Sharon's rise to power." "However, this claim by Palestinian intellectuals, is weakened by their profound fear of dealing with the bad deeds that have occurred on the Palestinian side. None of them have denounced the criminal acts of murder that have been carried out by the Palestinian side. Although many of them denounce these acts in private, none have clearly written against them or published even a single communique condemning them." "In other words, these intellectuals are either afraid of their public and its reaction, or they are hypocritical in their approach to their public. They only try to please [this public] even if it breaks the scales of justice on which they claim to weigh things. This position serves the hypocrite peaceniks among the Israeli intellectuals, who use it [as an excuse] to join their 'national consensus.' As long as the Palestinians have a consensus of their own and as long as their intellectuals abandon the 'scales of justice,' - the Israelis have no reason not to do the same thing." "I cannot understand the attitude of the Palestinian intellectuals toward the abominable murder of the two [Israeli] captive soldiers in Ramallah. Nor can I understand the humiliating silence on the murder of two innocent Israeli citizens in Tul Karm after they were pulled out of a restaurant. They were killed only because they were Jews, in total contradiction to the Arab values of hospitality as well as human morals. In addition, I cannot accept the silence over the murder of the youth from Ashdod through the Internet..." "If the Palestinian intellectuals cannot denounce these acts of murder out of fear of their public or because they accept the widespread logic that we act as [the Israelis] act - then we have come to a point where we use their crimes to justify our own. If this is indeed the case - then these [Palestinian] intellectuals have no right to denounce the hypocrites among the Israeli intellectuals." "When I see a Palestinian intellectual sinking his teeth into the flesh of the Israeli intellectuals in his newspaper column without saying even one word of truth against the murders committed on our side - I sink into depression. Justice is one and cannot be divided. You cannot use the part that serves you and cast off the other part, because in so doing you destroy the very essence of justice, which is supposed to be the intellectual's principle weapon." "The Palestinian intellectuals left the condemnation of these acts of murder to the Palestinian Authority and its spokesmen, and thus hypocritically excused themselves [from taking a stance]. They hid behind the PA and easily rid themselves of the embarrassment of confronting their public with the truth." "The truth is that if we want to flog the hypocritical Israeli intellectuals, the only instrument we can use is adherence to the scales of justice; we cannot abandon or break them. By adhering to the scales of justice, we can make them walk on sword- blades and injure their feet, [undermine] their morals, and expose their hypocrisy." "There is no doubt that we are the oppressed. We are the persecuted and we are in the right, generally speaking. However, the oppressed and the persecuted are [also responsible] for sins and heinous acts. We must not be silent about these sins and crimes, even if it turns people's anger against us. For because justice is our demand; it is the roof that shades our heads, and without it we will stand naked like Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua and others, who, at the end of the day, justify murder and occupation and feel comfortable in the shade of their national consensus - the shade of the government of the murderer Sharon." (1) Endnotes: (1) Al-Quds (PA), March 1, 2001. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is an independent, non-profit organization
[CTRL] Why Liberalism and Progressivism is not enough to deal with the most serious issues.
-Caveat Lector- Radical - No. Not the wild eyed, Molotov slinging, variety. I'm talking about the real meaning of radical. From the word R-A-D which means _ ROOT. For most periods of societal existence, Progressives' function is to move the society forward and prevent stagnation. The function of Conservatives is to act as a societal flywheel by keeping stability. Both are necessary for a healthy society. But things are always changing. At certain points in societal development, both Conservatives AND Progressives perform the function of maintaining the status quo. Progressives take on the function of conservatives. They no longer move the society forward, but merely tweak the " system." This is because they are now comfortable within the system even if that system is indisputably harmful to themselves and others. At this point it falls to radicals to kick Progressives in the ass to remind them what it means to really be progressive. Radicals never lose sight of what roots are. It is in their nature to do so. For most of a society's existence, radicals are annoying. But at the birth, and more importantly in the decline period of a civilization/culture/society's transition, it's ONLY the radicals who have kept a clear vision. Tweaking the status quo is no longer the right tool for the job at hand. Progressives ( honest ones, anyway ) know what needs to be done. Eventually they will come around to do what needs to be done because like most of the others in their society, THEY WILL HAVE NO CHOICE IF THEY WISH TO SURVIVE. The root of almost all our most serious problems is our economic system. Capitalism is the first or second main reason for the wanton destruction of our biosphere. The one we need to live in. The lumberjacks cutting down the Amazon ( the "lungs" of our planet ) are not doing it for the exercise. They are being paid to do it by companies who will use the world's natural resources for personal profit. The economic system is why our political system is corrupt and primarily serves the Rich and their instrument of destruction, the corporation. The corporations in turn, now dominate EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE. What you eat. What you wear. What you play. How long you work. What your income will be. What music will reach your ears. Further more, it's the economic system itself, which has forced the destruction of this society, by forcing both parents to go to work for it. The results are what is happening to the new generations. Their schooling is designed to produce shallow consumers, and docile employees which are easily distracted by corporate owned sports, TV, movies, crappy books, and even the news. No one is being taught how to think. We are no longer Homo Sapiens Sapien. We have devolved into Homo Economicus. A creature too stupid to survive the changes that nature has in store for us. The story below is an example of why Progressivism has become useless. The economic system co-opts all. It IS the cancer of the planet. Progressivism is like taking aspirin for a brain tumor. I am very, very sorry to say. Joshua2 === Subject: German Greens 'Come Of Age': Back Bombing, Nuclear Waste Transport Thursday, March 8 2:01 AM SGT Germany's Greens, in new realpolitik, seek healthy coalition BERLIN, March 7 (AFP) - The junior partners in Germany's government, the Greens, will argue in a party congress this weekend against their Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's decision to permit the transportation nuclear waste but will nonetheless continue to back their coalition pertners. Like Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, a former radical turned Greens leader who is a leading member of the government of Social Democrat Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, the Greens have come of age politically. "The Greens have had a new conscisouness of themselves, since almost a year," their managing director Reinhard Buetikofer told a news conference ahead of a congress in the western city of Stuttgart from Friday to Sunday. Typical of their new realism and moderation, the party founded in 1979 out of anti-nuclear and pacifist movements backed NATO bombing in Kosovo in 1999. They have compromised also on a platform promise to see Germany abandon nuclear energy, accepting a new timetable for a switch from nuclear that was much slower than they had wished. In a press statement distributed Wednesday, the Greens leadership said their achievement has been to give the government "an ecological and social" slant, despite their inability to get everything they want under Schroeder. Renate Kunaest, currently party co-leader but due to be replaced in Stuttgart, is now agriculture minister, heading a government drive to increase organic farming in an effort to combat by-products of industrial farming such as mad cow disease. Radicalism remains strong among the rank-and-file, however, and Buetikofer said the congress will be aiming to resolve differences
[CTRL] The Hidden Meaning Of Marriage Tax Repeal
-Caveat Lector- The Hidden Meaning Of Marriage Tax Repeal March 7, 2001 by: Phyllis Schlafly Repeal of the marriage tax penalty was always good for a big round of applause in the campaign speeches of most political candidates last year. But it's scheduled for bumpy sledding in the drafting of this year's tax-cut bill. The marriage tax is not verbally expressed as policy in any statute but is buried in the numbers. It is a consequence of the fact that our income tax tables treat a married couple as only 1.67 persons instead of two whole persons. Few people understand how the marriage tax functions or how it should be remedied except the green-eyeshade number-crunchers. But dollars are not all that matters; ideology is at stake in the drafting of changes in the income tax law. Is the purpose of cutting the marriage tax to accord long overdue socio-economic respect for marriage as an institution fundamental to our society and to the raising of children? Or is the purpose to enable government to engage in national economic planning by using tax policy to influence human behavior? If the purpose is the former, then it follows that all married couples with the same income should be taxed equally. If the plan is to give a tax break to two-earner couples only, that will replace the marriage penalty with a new homemaker penalty. That's what's behind the controversy now going on behind closed doors in Washington. Even those politicians who don't particularly care about promoting marriage should be squeamish about discriminating against one type of married couples in favor of another. Last year's Congress dealt fairly with this issue by passing a bill that taxed one-earner and two-earner married couples equally. Bill Clinton showed which side he was on by vetoing the bill, and it did not become law. Unfortunately, the White House executive summary of the President's tax-cut proposal calls for "reducing the marriage penalty by reinstating the 10 percent deduction for two-earner couples." Not only does this proposal give less relief than the bill passed by Congress last year but, even worse, it would impose a new homemaker penalty on one-earner couples. Since the Bush tax cuts would be phased in over five to seven years, for simplicity, let's consider what they would accomplish after they become fully operative. Let's say a married couple is struggling financially and needs more income to support the family, perhaps because of the birth of a child. What choices are available? In one family, assume the wife takes a job and puts her children in daycare. This couple would get a marriage tax deduction of 10 percent of her salary up to $30,000; that chops as much as $990 off the family's federal income tax bill (at the new 33 percent top Bush tax rate). In addition, this couple qualifies for the existing tax credit for child-care expenses, which is worth up to $960. Now consider another family where the husband moonlights at a second job so his wife can care for their children at home. This family will not qualify for either the new Bush marriage tax break or the child-care credit that exists in current tax law. The husband and wife surely work just as hard in this second family as in the first. Why should they pay up to $1,950 more in federal income taxes on the same family income? Moonlighting at a second job is just one of several ways a husband can provide his children with the benefits of a fulltime mother, and avoid commercial daycare. The husband can work longer hours at his first job; he can make the extra effort required to get a higher paying job; he can go to school at night to train for a higher paying career. Who are the bureaucrats who presume to use the tax power to force traditional husband-breadwinner, wife-homemaker couples to subsidize two-earner couples who hire paid child care? The marriage penalty in the tax code is an immoral policy regardless of one-earner or two-earner households. Giving a tax cut only to two-earner couples would send the radical feminist message that the government sees no value in a homemaker's work at home, that the role of a "non-working" wife and mother is less socially beneficial (or less worthy) than paid employment. Disturbing emanations from the tax-writing process indicate that this discrimination is not inadvertent. A leading economic adviser praised the goal of inducing married women toward greater participation in the labor force because that would increase our Gross Domestic Product and yield a greater federal budget surplus. Let's get this issue out on the table instead of concealing it in the arcane depths of the tax tables. Let the American people decide whether they want income tax policy to bolster the institution of marriage OR to bolster the GDP by inducing more women to join the labor force.
Re: [CTRL] NEWS: Bush team angry over EU pressure on death penalty
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/7/01 6:44:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. This is great! Now maybe all our criminals who can afford a one way ticket to Europe will run there when the law is closing in on them. AND STAY THERE! Bill H 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: Trench Warfare
So straight out of Daniel the plan goes on, but MER has answered all my questions with regard to what the trench means as opposed to the building of a wall More terrorism and psychological warfare by the slaughtermen? Saba Ubber Alles? Shade of Hitler aka Heider aka Schicklegrubber aka Hister - a born again Ztonist who paved way to great state of Israel? Note the same tactics - and remember the Trench Coat Mafia and wonder Forward a message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AleishaSaba) To: Cc: Subject: Forwarded message: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sent: 8 Mar 2001 14:12:07 GMT From: MER [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "MER" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2001, 9:15am Subject: Trench Warfare Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: MiD-EasT RealitieS _ / |/ / /___/ / /_ // M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\ http://www.MiddleEast.Org News, Information, Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! * * * * * * * IF YOU DON'T GET MER, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TRENCH AND SIEGE WARFARE MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 3/08: The words, and the acts, go back before the bible itself -- trench warfare and siege. The Romans built walls and laid siege to Jerusalem and Masada. Trenches, though for a different purpose, became synonymous with World War I. Now to further inflict still more divisions and suffering on the Palestinians -- as well as to further enforce the new Apartheid, the new "separation" both from us and from themselves -- the Israeli army is digging trenches and laying siege around the already divided and controlled Palestinian "population centers". But actually, this isn't warfare at all. One side is overwhelming powerful and supported by the world's most powerful country. The other side is weak and increasingly enslaved, further diminished by a corrupt, repression, and impotent group of "Arab leaders", the "client regimes". What is really going on here is vanquishment and subjugation, oppression and occupation, dispossession and neo-apartheid -- a new stretched out and camouflaged form of ethnic cleansing Israeli-style. And one day, whenever that day comes, what is being done today will have to be undone, and those who do it today will have to be held accountable. IDF DIGS TRENCH TO KEEP 65,000 VILLAGERS OUT OF RAMALLAH By Amira Hass and Amos Harel Ha'aretz 8 March 2001: - Israel Defense Forces bulldozers left a ditch Thursday night which effectively closes off the large Palestinian city to some 65,000 residents of 25 local villages. Tearing into a road that runs north of Ramallah, the IDF digging damaged the water pipes and telephone lines used by one West Bank village, Surda, leaving residents there complaining of dry taps and disconnected phones. According to the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment, the IDF plowed a trench two meters deep, and dozens of meters in length. Army bulldozers worked on a stretch of road between the Bir-Zeit region and the "Wallerstein" road. The IDF plowing cut-off the Bir Zeit region, classified as a "B" area - under Israeli security control - from Ramallah "A" zones, which are under complete Palestinian Authority control. While the IDF had responded to five months of Al Aqsa Intifada violence by distributing concrete slabs on roads and digging up trenches to seal off a number of towns and villages in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, until now the army had refrained from placing any such obstructions on routes between Ramallah and outlying Palestinian communities. On occasion, the IDF set up temporary checkpoints which restricted the movements of some local residents. But by and large, residents moved freely on the road north of the Palestinian city, which was used as an alternative route for villagers who live west of Ramallah, whose own local roads (which pass by Jewish settlements such as Beit El and Ofra) have been shut down. The IDF sources say that the road north of Ramallah was blocked off in response to a number of terror attacks that took place in the region recently, including a gunfire attack on February 25 in which two settlers from the Ateret settlement were wounded. Tuesday's trench digging appears to have had two objectives: to contain terror units based in Ramallah and prevent them from carrying out attacks in regions to the north of the city; and to make it clear to Palestinian residents that there is a "price" to be paid for continued attacks against Jewish settlers in the region. One institution which is likely to suffer from the new road block is Bir Zeit University. Classes there have been conducted without interruption throughout the months of Intifada fighting. One Bir Zeit academic predicted yesterday that university students who have not so far
Re: [CTRL] The Hidden Meaning Of Marriage Tax Repeal
Title: RE: [CTRL] The Hidden Meaning Of Marriage Tax Repeal It's a shame they simply can't cut taxes... There's always some other hoop we'll need to jump through... In my opinion they (elitest losers) don't want the mother staying home to raise the children. Break up the family institution at any cost. Jamie -Original Message- From: Tenorlove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] The Hidden Meaning Of Marriage Tax Repeal -Caveat Lector- The Hidden Meaning Of Marriage Tax Repeal March 7, 2001 by: Phyllis Schlafly Repeal of the marriage tax penalty was always good for a big round of applause in the campaign speeches of most political candidates last year. But it's scheduled for bumpy sledding in the drafting of this year's tax-cut bill. The marriage tax is not verbally expressed as policy in any statute but is buried in the numbers. It is a consequence of the fact that our income tax tables treat a married couple as only 1.67 persons instead of two whole persons. Few people understand how the marriage tax functions or how it should be remedied except the green-eyeshade number-crunchers. But dollars are not all that matters; ideology is at stake in the drafting of changes in the income tax law. Is the purpose of cutting the marriage tax to accord long overdue socio-economic respect for marriage as an institution fundamental to our society and to the raising of children? Or is the purpose to enable government to engage in national economic planning by using tax policy to influence human behavior? If the purpose is the former, then it follows that all married couples with the same income should be taxed equally. If the plan is to give a tax break to two-earner couples only, that will replace the marriage penalty with a new homemaker penalty. That's what's behind the controversy now going on behind closed doors in Washington. Even those politicians who don't particularly care about promoting marriage should be squeamish about discriminating against one type of married couples in favor of another. Last year's Congress dealt fairly with this issue by passing a bill that taxed one-earner and two-earner married couples equally. Bill Clinton showed which side he was on by vetoing the bill, and it did not become law. Unfortunately, the White House executive summary of the President's tax-cut proposal calls for reducing the marriage penalty by reinstating the 10 percent deduction for two-earner couples. Not only does this proposal give less relief than the bill passed by Congress last year but, even worse, it would impose a new homemaker penalty on one-earner couples. Since the Bush tax cuts would be phased in over five to seven years, for simplicity, let's consider what they would accomplish after they become fully operative. Let's say a married couple is struggling financially and needs more income to support the family, perhaps because of the birth of a child. What choices are available? In one family, assume the wife takes a job and puts her children in daycare. This couple would get a marriage tax deduction of 10 percent of her salary up to $30,000; that chops as much as $990 off the family's federal income tax bill (at the new 33 percent top Bush tax rate). In addition, this couple qualifies for the existing tax credit for child-care expenses, which is worth up to $960. Now consider another family where the husband moonlights at a second job so his wife can care for their children at home. This family will not qualify for either the new Bush marriage tax break or the child-care credit that exists in current tax law. The husband and wife surely work just as hard in this second family as in the first. Why should they pay up to $1,950 more in federal income taxes on the same family income? Moonlighting at a second job is just one of several ways a husband can provide his children with the benefits of a fulltime mother, and avoid commercial daycare. The husband can work longer hours at his first job; he can make the extra effort required to get a higher paying job; he can go to school at night to train for a higher paying career. Who are the bureaucrats who presume to use the tax power to force traditional husband-breadwinner, wife-homemaker couples to subsidize two-earner couples who hire paid child care? The marriage penalty in the tax code is an immoral policy regardless of one-earner or two-earner households. Giving a tax cut only to two-earner couples would send the radical feminist message that the government sees no value in a homemaker's work at home, that the role of a non-working wife and mother is less socially beneficial (or less worthy) than paid employment. Disturbing emanations from the tax-writing process indicate that this discrimination is not inadvertent. A leading economic adviser praised the goal of
[CTRL] Anybody wanna take bets on the outcome? Campaign finance reform.
-Caveat Lector- Subject: Campaign Finance Crossroads Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 22:41:28 -0600 (CST) Please take a moment to read the following editorial on campaign finance reform that appeared in The New York Times. March 7, 2001 Campaign Finance Crossroads In 10 days the Senate will enter a period of maximum opportunity for campaign finance reform. At long last there is to be a full debate, free of filibuster threats, on the McCain-Feingold bill banning soft money and imposing other fund-raising controls. But the debate will also be fraught with peril. Though the bill has long had the full support of Senate Democrats, some of them are suddenly developing misgivings now that its enactment might actually take place. Today we urge all Democrats and Republicans who have supported the bill not to waver or push for amendments that would imperil the best chance in a generation to clean up American politics. Nobody is arguing that the McCain-Feingold bill is perfect or the last word in campaign reform. But by banning the unregulated donations to political parties by corporations, unions and rich individuals, the bill would take a giant step. Soft money has been at the core of most recent fund-raising scandals. You would think memories of the 1996 campaign alone would give any Democrat pause in slowing down the process of reform. There may be something to the argument that Democrats will find it harder than Republicans to adjust to a regimen that requires parties to raise money in smaller amounts from more individuals. But that is no reason to turn against a reform that, by banning gigantic donations to parties, will sharply reduce fund-raising abuses. Until this year, the main tactic of the majority leader, Trent Lott, and other opponents of campaign reform had been to block it with a filibuster. Now that there seem to be 60 votes to cut off debate, the Republicans will try to amend the bill with "poison pill" measures designed to repel the Democrats. One of these, the "paycheck protection" measure, would require members' permission for spending union money on political activities. Offering such an anti-labor provision is designed to drive Democrats away, and Democrats have to stand united to keep the bill free of such disabling amendments. A separate concern is the possibility that some Democrats, not always well intentioned, may try to broaden the bill in the name of reform and, in the process, repel Republican votes. Right now the McCain-Feingold bill has a provision barring independent groups from raising funds from unions and corporations for broadcast ads that mention the name of a candidate two months before an election. Some Democratic senators say they want to go further and impose restrictions on soft money for all political activity by independent groups. Many of these proposals have merit, but their inclusion as amendments might undermine the bill's chances. One of the most sensitive issues facing the Senate is whether, by banning soft money, the bill ought to raise the ceilings on regular "hard money" contributions to the candidates themselves from the level they have been at since 1974. There may be an argument for doing so. But the senators have to be careful not to raise these ceilings in such a wanton way that soft money is effectively legalized by being relabeled. The Senate Democratic leader, Tom Daschle, has been effective in holding the Democrats together for campaign finance reform. Now that victory is within sight, he needs to rally his troops and tell them not to falter. In 1993, the last time there was such an opportunity, some Democrats advised the newly elected president, Bill Clinton, that reform should not be a top priority. It was bad advice, and it ushered in a period of terrible excesses by Democrats and Republicans alike. The coming debate will serve as one of Mr. Daschle's biggest challenges to date. But if he and the Democrats can meet it, they will long be remembered for rising to the occasion and putting the nation's interest first. __ This mail is never sent unsolicited. You, or someone on your behalf, has subscribed to receive this information at Straight Talk America. To unsubscribe from Straight Talk America click here: http://www.StraightTalkAmerica.com/team/unsubscribe.cfm?[EMAIL PROTECTED]securecode=275969 Or click here http://www.StraightTalkAmerica.com/team/settings.cfm to review your subscriptions. Please do not respond to this email. To contact Straight Talk America please click here http://www.StraightTalkAmerica.com/feedback/feedback.cfm . 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
[CTRL] [Fwd: rkm The birth of capitalism]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: rkm The birth of capitalism Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 02:57:47 + From: "Richard K. Moore" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The birth of capitalism The story of capitalism begins in the late 1700s in Scotland and northern England, with the birth of the Industrial Revolution. Several particular ingredients came together there, which collectively launched the world onto its current path. One of those ingredients was an impressive series of mechanical inventions (e.g., the steam engine), leading to a multifold increase in the rate and scale of manufacture. Another ingredient was the nature of the British economy - which had for some time been organized around specialization and trade. Different regions of Britain had specialized in the production of different kinds of goods, first for the London market and later - as the British Empire expanded - for international markets. What this meant is that a more efficient producer could always find a market for his cheaper goods. Rather than being limited by the size of a local market, there was always the opportunity to capture a share of the huge trade that flowed through London. Thus when the tools of industrial manufacture came along, they could immediately be put to very profitable use. An enterprising entrepreneur who saw the potential of a new invention, and who invested boldly, was able to amass a huge fortune. He could set up a large-scale manufacturing plant, mass-produce goods below the cost of earlier methods, and rapidly capture a share of the large existing markets. A new way of creating fortunes had been born. Instead of slowly amassing wealth over a lifetime, or risking a voyage in search of treasure, there was now a systematic way to amass wealth relatively quickly. A person with money to invest could seek out the latest leading-edge inventions, develop a still-more efficient factory - and steal market share from his now-outdated rivals. A way had been found to use money to transform initiative innovation into wealth. Out with the old methods, in with the new methods - and behind it always the investor - driving the process while amassing a fortune. This method of amassing wealth was eventually given the name capitalism. A capitalist is someone who invests money in an enterprise with the objective of receiving more in return than was invested. The consequences of these developments were far reaching. The availability of cheaper products, and the wealth of a few entrepreneurs, was the least of it. People's livelihoods were destroyed, as their locally based enterprises were forced out of business. They moved to towns and became factory employees, usually under appalling conditions. The vitality of rural life was undermined and industrial cities arose, with their slums, crime, and diseases. Society is a system, and if one part changes, those changes ripple out and effect other parts - in ways both intended and unintended. The goal of entrepreneurs and investors was simply to amass wealth, but their initiatives led to profound societal changes. A third ingredient of British society - its hierarchical class system - contributed to the way in which these changes unfolded. Those at the bottom of the hierarchy were long accustomed to being exploited, and being subject to the will of their 'betters'. Their domestication to hierarchy prepared them well for living in slum conditions and working under the thumb of oppressive bosses. But those at the top of the hierarchy were also affected, and they were in a better position to protect their interests against the changes that were being brought about by capitalist investors and entrepreneurs. Although the nature of the British economy served to promote capitalist success, there were also aspects of the economic regime which placed limits on that success. The dominant economic doctrine of the day was mercantilism, whose static definition of wealth did not fit well with the dynamics of capitalist innovation. Tariffs, taxes, and various kinds of restrictions hampered the growth of capitalist development. The economic regime was designed to protect the wealth and power of the aristocratic class, and capitalist upstarts soon began to see the existing regime as an obstacle to their ambitions. The paradigm of capitalism had been wealth accumulation through initiative innovation, and it was only natural that the creative energies of capitalists would turn eventually from technology to politics. In the early days, when markets seemed inexhaustible, the creative focus was on new technologies and larger-scale production. But as markets began to saturate, and growth slowed down, creative attention turned to the political barriers that stood in the way of further wealth accumulation. Capitalism became in part a
[CTRL] Capitalism ubber alles: Who needs Monarchs anyway?
-Caveat Lector- Subject: Mexico loggers said to have deliberately wiped out 22 million Monarch butterflies Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:19:38 -0600 (CST) From: "Mark Graffis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: ? To: undisclosed-recipients:; Wednesday, March 7, 2001 By Elizabeth Fullerton To regain protected forest land, loggers may have deliberately wiped out some 22 million Monarch butterflies which migrate annually from Canada to Mexico for the winter, a top environmentalist said Tuesday. Homero Aridjis, head of the environmental lobby Group of 100, told Reuters loggers were believed to have sprayed pesticide on the orange and black butterflies in order to regain some 216 square miles of forest declared protected by the government. "There has been a massive slaughter of the butterflies in two sanctuaries," Aridjis said. "This will affect the reproduction process completely. Now we don't know how many butterflies will come this autumn." Millions of monarch butterflies migrate some 3,000 miles annually to flee the icy winter in Canada and the United States for the warmer fir forests in Mexico's central Michoacan state, some 70 miles west of Mexico City. For five months of the year, Michoacan's trees are turned into a flaming orange and the forest is carpeted with the delicate winged creatures. The migration has taken place for the past 10,000 years, Aridjis said. The butterflies normally arrive in early November and return north to lay eggs at the end of March. In November last year, the government of former President Ernesto Zedillo extended the land devoted to five sanctuaries. The move was in response to a study showing that farming and illegal logging had destroyed 44 percent of the original forest since 1971. Without drastic action, the study predicted the original forest would disappear in under 50 years. "The new decree could have prompted this," Aridjis said. "If there are no butterflies they can claim the trees without problem." But government environmental watchdog Profepa said it had not heard of the butterfly slaughter, according to inspector Joel Rodriguez. "We haven't ever registered people using pesticides. But it's one of the zones where they have the most illegal logging," he said. "It (the butterfly deaths) could also be a result of the freezing this winter which happens every four or five years." The U.S.-based nonprofit group Packard Foundation donated more than $5 million to the Worldwide Fund for Nature to help the Mexican government rent or buy logging rights from local residents to compensate for lost income while developing alternative job sources. Aridjis said the loggers had targeted two sanctuaries --Cerro San Andres and Las Palomas - in the past two weeks. "The wings of the butterflies found inert on the ground had a strange luster and there was a smell of pesticide and petrol in the sanctuaries," he said. Copyright 2001, Reuters Copyright 2001 Environmental News Network Inc. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread 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: Deutschland über alles
Hey Joshua - can't you get anything rght? Who needs Monarch Butterflies? Note Uber has one B, asshole. http://www.acronet.net/~robokopp/Lieder/deutschl.html
[CTRL] [endsecrecy] Black Vault TV Show
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Remy C." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "End Secrecy List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [endsecrecy] Black Vault TV Show Date: Sunday, February 25, 2001 7:40 AM From Cliff Capers: The Black Vault Television Series John Greenewald writes: It is with great pleasure to bring the news of a television series based about the subject matter of The Black Vault is coming to television! This is the biggest news I have ever been able to report, and hope that many of you will become as excited as I am regarding this! Stories that range from the subject matter of UFOs, to the lost nuclear weapon off the coast of Georgia, The Black Vault television series will not only fascinate those that are currently involved in the subject matter, but will also spark interest with those that may not know a whole lot about it! Online, I have put the shows premise, and information about the people currently involved. Read all about it, and then, discuss it online on my message board. This board has over 13,000 posts regarding all sorts of subjects, including discussions currently about the television show! Please, I want to urge everyone to log on, get an account (100% FREE) on the message board (guaranteed anonymity) and post away regarding our TV SHOW! :) Let us know your ideas, what you might like to see, what you might like NOT to see, anything you want... just come online, and join an already large community! The URL for the television show is located at: http://www.blackvault.com/television_series.html The Premise This is the real X-Files! Each episode of The Black Vault takes a candid and revealing look at how the U.S. Government really operates by examining and exposing recently declassified Top Secret documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act. The Content A half-hour episode will focus on a particular document or file that has been recently declassified and obtained by relentless research that pushes the Freedom of Information Act to the limits of its legal boundaries. The mind bending drama lies beneath the endless blacked out paragraphs of actual government papers. Viewers will be astonished to learn how vast the communications run secretly around the globe, and shocked at how the officials will elect our tax dollars - And never have to tell us! The Hook Billions upon billions of the everyday taxpayers money (our viewers hard-earned cash) is diverted into UFOs, Stealth Technology, Secret Military Projects, and Political Manipulations. The Black Vault will merely hold the only shreds of evidence up to the TV screen, pose the questions, and let the viewers draw their own suspicions and conclusions. The Production Values At the foundation of the production is an extreme amount of research, fact-checking, application processing, and government red-tape cutting in order to maximize the opportunities of the Freedom of Information Act. This extensive effort supports the document and file procurement that uncovers the segment stories. The on-camera presentation includes host introductions, lead-ins, and wraparounds possibly utilizing a virtual set with backdrops that help to set the mood or pace of the segment story. Innovative CG and Comositing technologies will stimulate the presentation and declarations of the government documents so they become the integral characters of the show, rather than typewritten papers. Segments will include sounbites from expert interviews and b-roll to support featured stories. Original scored music will subtly bring emotion and impact to the questions raised by uncovering these secret documents. The Convergence The Black Vault television program is completely based on an existing, successful website receiving millions of hits at a time. This built-in audience is cyber-savvy and ready to enhance their online experience. Interactively should include live-simulcasts, instant point-and-click additional information, post-show chat, volunteer research groups, and of course, ancillary ecommerce. The Black Vault is poised to be the most successful and interactive program broadcast through traditional television and internet distribution systems. The Targets At the heart of the potential and loyal The Black Vault viewers is the overwhelming population of conspiracy theorists, science-fiction fans, political activists, antigovernment cultists, whistle-blowers, veterans and public servants. In time, the content of this show can impact and reach most every taxpayer. Unlike Chris Carters hugely successful series The X-Files , where the dramatized story line is based on some true aspects of government dealings, The Black Vault will hold fast the viewers attention by dealing in the actual truths - explained and not
[CTRL] FOX: Pardon Inquiry Expands While Fugitive Tax Cheat May Pay Up
-Caveat Lector- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/030701/clinton_pardon.sml Pardon Inquiry Expands While Fugitive Tax Cheat May Pay Up Wednesday, March 7, 2001 The investigation into the controversial pardons issued by President Clinton in his last days in office is expanding in the wake of last week's testimony by top Clinton administration officials. The House Government Reform Committee investigating the pardon of fugitive tax evader Marc Rich will issue written questions to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. National Review Online first reported this development Tuesday night. Committee Chairman Dan Burton gave the go-ahead Tuesday night to his investigators. They are hoping to determine how often, and when, Barak lobbied President Clinton on behalf of Marc Rich. Last week's testimony by top Clinton administration officials chief of staff John Podesta, White House counsel Beth Nolan, and attorney Bruce Lindsay has prompted the interest in questioning Barak. Nolan testified before the Committee that "it certainly seemed that [Clinton] was not going to grant [the pardon], and then that Mr. Barak's phone call had been significant." That call came the night before Clinton left office. And several of Clinton's former aides said Barak made not one but several calls to Clinton. Clinton had earlier said that "I was asked by the government and the prime minister of Israel to look into this on more than one occasion." But aides to Barak have said that Barak made only one call to Clinton, mentioning the Rich case as a side. The Committee is hoping Barak's responses to their questions will clear up the disparities. Meanwhile sources close to Rich say that Rich's representatives are engaged in serious negotiations with the state of New York to pay Rich's massive bill for back taxes. State officials say he owes $137 million in back taxes and interest. Now sources say that Rich's representatives will propose a counter offer close to $100 million. Specter Wants Changes in Pardon Lobbying Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., says people who lobby presidents for pardons should be forced to register with the government. He says he's concerned that former White House counsel Jack Quinn lobbied Clinton for a pardon for fugitive financier Marc Rich without anyone knowing about it. Under current law, individuals don't have to register as lobbyists if less than 20 percent of their time within a six-month period is spent lobbying. Specter says he also wants legislation to force presidential libraries to disclose their contributions, and that he's not giving up hope that Clinton will accept his invitation to talk to the Senate privately about the Rich pardon. Investigators want to know if there was a money-for-pardons deal involving Rich. Fox News' Jim Mills, Rita Cosby, and The Associated Press contributed to this report = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [ourpolitics] Heinz Cans Lined With 'Sex Chemical
FWD via: AmbrovistaFebruary 11 2001Sunday TimesBRITAINHeinz cans lined with 'sex chemical'http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/02/11/stinwenws01009.htmlHEINZ has been criticised by environmentalists after admitting lining its food cans with a chemical thought to mimic female hormones, writes Jonathan Leake.In animal experiments researchers have found that the chemical, bisphenol A, can cause early puberty in females and may reduce the growth of reproductive tissues in young males."This chemical is a known endocrine disruptor and is found in a range of other common domestic products besides Heinz's tins," said Dr Michael Warhurst who is leading a Friends of the Earth campaign to highlight the issue. "It is one of many chemicals to which we are constantly exposed and which are increasingly linked with various illnesses."Heinz confirmed that it uses very small amounts of bisphenol A to line the lids of cans fitted with ring-pull openers, including baked bean cans. The chemical helps to prevent such tins from corroding or releasing tin into the food.Bisphenol A and most other endocrine disrupting chemicals are known toxins at high levels. The argument is about whether or not they are dangerous in very low levels, when they are known as micropollutants.Heinz says it accepts that tiny amounts of bisphenol A may leach into its foods, but says levels are far below what is needed to cause any biological effect. "The levels are in parts per million or parts per billion, so small as to be almost undetectable," said a spokesman.Tin cans are just one of many potential sources of bisphenol A. The metal is also used in soft plastics, pesticides, dental products and some baby bottles.A 1999 study by American researchers found that bisphenol A could mimic the sex hormone estradiol. Mice exposed before birth to the chemical, in amounts correlating with typical human exposures, suffered changes in postnatal growth and early puberty in females.[Forwarded For Information Purposes Only - NotNecessarily Endorsed By The Sender - A.K. Pritchard]--A.K. Pritchardhttp://members.ll.net/chiliast/http://rosie.acmecity.com/songfest/189/To subscribe to "The Republican" email list - just ask![EMAIL PROTECTED]"I call the present system "Post-Constitutional America."As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no seriousthreat to our form of government."--Joseph SobranHow Tyranny Came To Americahttp://www.ustaxpayers.org/how_tyranny_came.htm http://groups.yahoogroups.com/LLNews http://groups.yahoogroups.com/Parents_Against_Sexual_Perversion Yahoo! Groups Sponsor Register --- You are one of the freelance brainstormers helping the non-profit http://www.theEzine.org online portal and magazine facilitate an open political discussion between people from any region and with any political opinions --- To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[CTRL] Fwd: Serotonin and Judgment
So improper diet and too much junk food and Pepsi maybe mixed with drugs - tell me this kid at Santana - note the prosecutors backing off now - he was the patsy, no mother really, for she was not overly concerned with this child - essentially he seemed all alone. Had he had proper diet - maybe something as simple as this - you can eat a banana and potato and get the same (or is that potatoe) serotonin levels increased and sunshine and good lights are part of this stuff to do with neuroransmitters. Oh but we have the Sirhans's of the world, the Manson Family - drugged up until a mentor takes control for if you do not control your own children, someone else will... The title of the story Serotonin and Judgment is appropriate for this item.did you know that prolonged use of the common aspirin leads to blood dyscrasias (altered condition of blood leading to cancer), degeneration of the heart muscle, abolition of WILLPOWER and this was known in 1930?Also people with kidney problems were dying from use of aspirin - So if a tiny little pill like an aspirin through prolonged use can kill - why do we permit organied crime and now the schools to give little elementary children drugs - such as Ritilin? Wonder what the kids at Littleton ate that day and this kid from California - did he have a good breakfast? Fresh fruits and vegetablesan apple a day keeps the doctor away, but a banana and potato a day keeps the the-rapits (therapists) away.who long for the chance to gain a control over any child for that is big bucksClinton style - lots of dark mirrors into which some do not see - only but darkly? What is worse this is nothing new - there is a control out there making asassins out of the kids...refer to Manson and then ask, who was his Mentor? Two followers with fathers in Nasa and Pentagon - and this Bundy had my neice on his murder hit list when she lived in Florida? Her father was former Joint Chief and at Red Stone Arsenal as last assignment? Who is getting their hook in these kids - take a good look at the FBI - remember Littleton, the son of ann FBI Agent made the videon in advance of the deed..and KGB sat in FBI for 16 years while FreeH and Alblright broke bread with KGB.the enemy is within - and their target " - to engage children in sodomy and destroy their character and morals setting up for death by AIDS. Perhaps if every kid started the day with a good breakfast - next thing you know it will be Fluoride in the Pepsi? Saba Full size image available below Serotonin and Judgment Depression can hit at any age. More than the blues, the overall feeling of doom can trigger some people to kill themselves. Researchers now are looking at this behavior from a new angle. Studies show that low levels of the brain chemical serotonin can in part lead to an overall insensitivity to future consequences, setting off impulsive and aggressive behaviors and perhaps culminating in suicide. By selectively restoring the chemicals' activity researchers hope to prevent destructive behavior as well as head off suicide -- the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S. Grades are posted. Alex . . . 98 percent. Pam ... 85 percent. Nick...91 percent. Your grade? 20 percent. You're upset so you talk to your teacher to find out where you went wrong. But what if your feelings went out of control? You rip up the posted mid-term grades and glare at your teacher as you exit the classroom. In the days that follow you experience overwhelming feelings of sadness and thoughts of ending your life. Why would a person behave one way rather than another? For years, scientists have agreed that some behavior flaws can arise from environmental influences including how your parents raised you or from a traumatic life crisis such as the death of a loved one. Now a growing body of evidence suggests that a chemical dubbed serotonin (ser-oh-TOE-nin) also may play a part. Some scientists believe that low activity of the chemical in the brain can lead to an underlying inability to handle powerful feelings, which can result in impulsive acts, aggressive behaviors and suicidal tendencies. This new line of research may lead to: The use of brain imaging techniques for identifying those who may be impulsively aggressive or suicidal. A method to monitor the serotonin medications given to suicidal depressed patients. New insights on the mechanisms of serotonin. Serotonin is one of a group of chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters that carry out communication in the brain and body. The message molecules flow from a nerve cell or neuron onto other neurons that act as receivers. There, they attach to a distinctly shaped area on the neuron called a receptor site. This union, which is like a key fitting into a lock, triggers signals that either allow the message to be passed on to other cells or prevent the message from being forwarded. Since the discovery of serotonin in the 1950s, researchers are
[CTRL] Fwd: Morris Dees, Millard Fuller et al.--Hidden Agenda of Illuminati?
The land in Idaho seized by the Southern Poverty Law Center, run by Morris Dees, after its successful lawsuit again Aryan Nation, has been sold to a group funded by Gregg Carr's foundation, which is a part of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Interestingly, Dees has also taught at Harvard. Before founding the SPLC, Dees was a partner of Millard Fuller, who gave up his wealth (supposedly) to found Habitat for Humanity after becoming religious--a convert to a group which ran a commune in Georgia--the same group which is headquartered in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, next to Aryan Nation! Sounds like both sides are being funded and controlled by the same hidden agenda--called "gang, counter-gang warfare," another name for Hegel's dialectic. The information and sources below are not endorsed by me. I have extracted bits from the sites to show that there is indeed a strange connection between these groups and individuals which must make one ask, "Just what is going on, and who is behind it all?" Linda Minor + http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/07/national/07IDAH.html March 7, 2001 New Future for Idaho Aryan Nations Compound By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK Jeff T. Green for The New York Times Photographs of Hitler were displayed in the interior of the compound. SEATTLE, March 6 A silver bust of Hitler and stained-glass swastikas adorned the "church," and Nazi flags flew over the guard tower. German shepherds patrolled the grounds. And for 28 years, ever since he moved to the woods of Northern Idaho to escape what he once called the "alien scum" in Southern California, Richard Butler held sway as the self-proclaimed pastor of the Aryan Nations. That was the past at Mr. Butler's 20-acre compound near Hayden Lake, Idaho. The future, it seems, will be very different. Just weeks after Mr. Butler was forced by the courts to turn over the compound to a mother and son who were beaten by young Aryan Nations members there, an Internet millionaire said today that he had bought it from the victims. ... The millionaire, Greg Carr, an Idaho native who is the founder and former chairman of the Internet service Prodigy, said he and others had first thought of having a giant fire at the compound. ... Idahoans, responding to a challenge grant from the 41-year-old Mr. Carr, have already raised nearly $1 million to erect the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in Boise. Mayors and school officials have established human-rights task forces and school curriculum plans and even created a coordinating job that Mayor Steve Judy of Coeur d'Alene once gave the title "Aryan buster." Rallies by the Aryan Nations and other groups have been dwarfed by of protesters. Yet there is still plenty of evidence of white supremacist groups in Idaho, a state where barely half of 1 percent of its people are black and few Jews live as well, though there is a growing Hispanic population. Boise's public-access television station is about to run two new white supremacist shows. And the Aryan Nations' leader, the 82-year-old Mr. Butler, is still around. Vincent Bertollini, a former Silicon Valley millionaire investor who moved to north Idaho and became one of Mr. Butler's staunchest supporters, has bought Mr. Butler a small bungalow in the town of Hayden, not far from the old compound. In September, a state jury in Coeur d'Alene ordered Mr. Butler and other leaders of the Aryan Nations to pay more than $6 million to the victims of a 1998 attack by three men who were security guards at the compound. The victims, Victoria Keenan and her son, Jason, were beaten and shot at as they drove along a road at the edge of the compound one night; two of the men later said they were so drunk they did not remember the incident. The jury concluded that Mr. Butler had been negligent in training and supervising the so-called security guards and ordered him to pay damages so large that they bankrupted the Aryan Nations altogether. Mr. Carr, speaking in a telephone interview from Cambridge, Mass., where he now lives and where he has financed the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, said he had paid $250,000 from his personal foundation to the Keenans, who had taken title to the property last month in bankruptcy court and announced their desire to sell it to a group promoting human rights. http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ksgpress/ksg_news/press_releases/press_carrcenter .htm KENNEDY SCHOOL ANNOUNCES CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY CAMBRIDGE---Joseph S. Nye, Jr., dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, announced during Commencement exercises today the establishment of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. The center, to be based at the Kennedy School, is expected to be among the worlds most important venues for research into human rights policy. It is made possible by an $18 million gift from the Gregory C. Carr Foundation, Inc. Gregory C. Carr holds a masters degree in public policy from the school, and
[CTRL] AP: U.S. Embassy in Israel To Be Moved
-Caveat Lector- U.S. Embassy in Israel To Be Moved by TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush intends to keep a campaign promise to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Secretary of State Colin Powell asserted Wednesday. The State Department later insisted Powell was only restating what has been U.S. policy for some time. The embassy move would lend support to Israeli claims to the city as its undivided capital. Powell, appearing before the House International Relations Committee, was asked about the status of Bush's campaign promise. ''President Bush is committed to moving our embassy to Jerusalem,'' Powell said. ''The process is ongoing. We have not started any actions yet. And in light of the very difficult situation that exists right now, we'll continue to examine how that process should start. ''But it does remain his commitment to move the embassy to the capital of Israel, which is Jerusalem.'' Not long after Powell spoke, State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said, ''There has been no change in U.S. policy. The secretary described the situation on the ground.'' A senior State Department official later said U.S. policy has been and continues to be that the front-line parties, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, have agreed that the status of Jerusalem is to be resolved between them. Asked how that policy affects decisions on the location of the embassy, the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said only that Powell's comments do not imply any change in the U.S. view of Jerusalem's status. One of the bitterest schisms in any peace talks over the last decade has been Jerusalem, which the Palestinians insist also should house the capital of a Palestinian state. Negotiations currently are suspended because of violence in Palestinian-controlled areas. When former President Clinton first ran in 1992, he, too, advocated moving the embassy from Tel Aviv. Clinton never acted on the promise, even though Congress several times tried to force his hand by approving money for the move. The issue resurfaced in August 2000, when then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak told Israel television he understood that Clinton planned to move the embassy on his last day in office. Again, the move never materialized. Israel long has considered Jerusalem its capital, but only a few countries have accepted its claim to the whole city. AP-NY-03-07-01 2343EST = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Who is Morris Dees?
Well he hooked up to ADL (Anti Defamatin League) and is responsible for FBI Hate List while the FBI had a KGB Agent on their payroll. It was this bunch that called the FBI and BATF and one Judge to stay home that day in Oklahoma..he put with ADL Militia and Christians and Moslems on FBI Hate List. Dees recently made a movie in one scene he is standing by a Christmas tree (he is jewish) and his daughter beside him - acccording to web search engine and his divorce trial Dees engaged in homosexual actvity and molested his daughter . So Littleton - no hate crimes here huh? Just a bunch of Christian kids killed by a real hater and his buddy - descended from Jewish Mafia. The Meyer Lansky has a movie now with Richard Drefus - Lansky got his son in to West Point and you can see why West Point is now just another school of assassins when you consider the Japanese sharpshooter who murdered the little 8th grader and shot his dog and then murdered his mother holding a baby...what no Dees Hate List here? So the ADL is in hiding - got caught attempting to force pardon of Richie Rich aka Reich - who ws connected not only to organized crime but the Mossad and Barak - so remember the USS Liberty here. Aryan Nations - what a set up - its a land grab, and this pig Dees is the biggest pig of the lot; there is a lot of information coming up on him. Tell me was the Church of Satan ever on hate list when Anton LaVey who was jewish, Anton Levy - that creep ever put on hate list? Hey what about this Mark Lane aka Mark Levy he was with Dorothy Kilgallon before she died, he was at Jonestown, he was with Larry Flynt and Meyer Lansky henchmen got him, he got to Rick Strawcutter and then lo and behold Heavens Gate people were murdered without a doubt and then Oklahoma connected to this Lane toobut it was Dees and ADL who called FBI and BATF and a Judge to say stay at home this day - and let the babies in the cradle Oh this Jewish Mafia in Columbus - one lawyer was involvled and ended up in Vegas where he took submachine gun and shot up place in robbery attempt - he was Chairman for Campaign of a Jewish Judge and ran with the doctors one of whom was in prison with Hoffa and it is said this doctor either had him murdered (for he was tied to Lansky too) or got him away in his boat The Great Escape Last night I saw Amos Lynch on TV of the C oumbus Call and Post, publisher - he was the only publisher who had the guts to print the story that a black doctor (Amos is black0 was murdere by this bunch and they set up a black kid for it - for their intent was just to "castrate" this black doctor and the Hit Man who was later let out of prison by CFR Richard Celeste Govenor (who no doubt got a wad of dough to do that) named Ralph DeLeo..how many people did the murder, into drugs primarily.and they had neo nazi literatuare stashed away and I bungled onto that. So check out this Dees and see their connection to murder and mayhem of their own makingsee Clinton and who surrounded him and the FBI with their hate list oh so carefully prepared by ADl - what the hell is this greedy bunch of bastards doing providing hate lists while they try to clean up this garbage Jewish Mafia full of murderers..and this Klebold kid?Well his tracks lead to this bunch through his grandfather. So who is Morris Dees? Well why is he noit on a Hate List Has the ADL come out of hiding yet and does Zionism really rule high today as it did under Clinton? I think not. Saba Who is Morris Dees? by DeesWatch Staff and Associates The son of a farmer, Morris "Bubbah" Seligman Dees Jr. (SS# 424-46-7003) was born on December 16, 1936 in Alabama. After receiving his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Alabama he made a fortune selling cook books through the mail. In 1971 he founded a nonprofit organization known as the Southern Poverty Law Center, its stated purpose to fight racism, prejudice, discrimination, anger, hatred, anti-Semitism and to educate children through a program called Teaching Tolerance. In 1981, Dees organized Klanwatch to combat organized racist activity through innovative lawsuits. Dees most heralded victory was a large judgment against a California television repairman because of the content of the man's public access talk show. The man could not afford a lawyer, while Dees has 70-90 million dollars. After gaining his audience's trust by showing he has gone after Aryan Nations and the Ku Klux Klan, Dees lumps in conservative non-racist, nonviolent "antigovernment patriot groups," such as the old-line anti-communist John Birch Society and "militia groups" loosely affiliated with the National Rifle Association as a legitimate part of his broad "anti-hate" campaign. An open supporter of the "one world movement," Dees derides those who believe the federal government has grown too large and far beyond its constitutional mandate as "dangerous psychos." Like the '50s red baiters who
[CTRL] Fwd: Rabin Assassination and Current Political Situation in Israel/Commentary: 1) LAST THOUGHTS BEFORE I TRAVEL; 2) LITTLE SYMPATHY FOR HAR SHEFI; 3) JERUSALEM POST DELETES RADIO INTERVIEW by Barry Chamish
-Caveat Lector- Please visit our web site at http://www.rb.org.il, now in the TOP 21st (21.26%) percentile (no. 232,132) out of OVER ONE MILLION (1,092,121) websites worldwide ranked by WebsMostLinked.com as of March 7, 2001. Rabin Assassination and Current Political Situation in Israel/Commentary: 1. LAST THOUGHTS BEFORE I TRAVEL 2. LITTLE SYMPATHY FOR HAR SHEFI 3. JERUSALEM POST DELETES RADIO INTERVIEW by Barry Chamish [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] urgent messages: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] http://www.webseers.com/rabin BARRY CHAMISH U.S. SPEAKING TOUR: MARCH 10-11 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Salt Lake City, UT MARCH 13 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Denver, Colorado MARCH 16 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Tyler TX APRIL 3 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Honolulu, HI SECOND ROOT BRANCH ASSOCIATION JERUSALEM CONFERENCE ON THE RABIN ASSASSINATION The Second Root Branch Association Jerusalem Conference on the Rabin Assassination will take place on Rabin Remembrance Day on Monday, October 29, 2001 MODI'IN, Yom Chamishi (Fifth Day -- "Thursday"), 13 Adar, 5761 (Gregorian Date: March 8, 2001) (Hijri Date: 12 Thul-Hujja, 1421), Root Branch: 1. LAST THOUGHTS BEFORE I TRAVEL HAR SHEFI: The Rabin murder is enjoying a revival thanks to Margalit Har Shefi's impending imprisonment and the postponement of Avishai Raviv's trial until June 2, when it will be postponed again. A campaign has been organized to pressure President Katzav into pardoning Har Shefi. A word of advice: If the organizers of this campaign insist on arguing that Har Shefi couldn't read Amir's mind and thus didn't take his threats against Rabin seriously, their campaign is doomed. Har Shefi is innocent because Amir didn't murder Rabin...period. Will the campaign organizers find the courage or will to base their plea for Har Shefi's freedom on the truth, for a big change? COLIN POWELL: Here it comes. People are confused and surprised by the supposedly sympathetic new U.S. Secretary-of-State Colin Powell's call for "even-handedness" in the Israeli/Arab conflict. Same old policy: press Israel into retreat. Now how many times must I repeat the same message? Powell is a member of the Council On Foreign Relations (C.F.R.). Powell owes his power to them and he takes his orders from them. There is no individualistic Secretary-of-State, there is only the C.F.R. Powell, like all his predecessors at the post, are front men and nothing more. EITAN HABER: Remember him? He is the journalist-cum-Rabin's-office-manager who, on the assassination night, absconded with Rabin's belongings at the hospital and then emptied Rabin's file cabinets of their incriminating contents. Remember Ehud Barak? Before he left his Interior Ministry office after the 1996 Netanyahu victory, Barak gutted the file cabinets of all "sensitive" records. Well, as a final gesture to Haber, Barak opened the government's "sensitive" Rabin files to Haber exclusively because Haber is writing a book about the murder. Haber will, of course, write himself out of the plot. THE VILLAIN: If anyone wonders how I acquire high-level intelligence, look at the following letter from a long-loyal correspondent, as a fine example of how you help get the truth out: "Listen to this, I met Jack Kemp last week. I was at this function and he [Kemp] was there. I spoke to him for 5 minutes. He's a good supporter of Israel. So listen to what he [Kemp] told me: The person who was most anti-Israel and who works for the Council on Foreign Relations is RICHARD N. HAASS. This idiot is a self-hating Jew. Do you [Barry] know anything about RICHARD N. HAASS? He [Kemp] told me, he [Haass] was the person directing U.S Policy in the Middle East, even today. He [Kemp] also told me, when he was in the Bush Administration, 1989 to 1983, this guy Richard Haas was the Anti-Israel guy and was directing the policy". Jack Kemp is a high level source. He has identified Israel's top enemy in the C.F.R. I had planned to run a deep search on Haass but time doesn't permit me right now. So, maybe, someone else will. ANOTHER VILLAIN: Now look at the following new item: New York Times News Service February 22, 2001 ROME -- Pope John Paul II on Wednesday installed 44 new cardinals in a ceremony combining pageantry with the purpose of molding the institution that will someday pick his successor. It was the largest single investiture of cardinals. After the cardinals recited an oath of fidelity to the pope and his successors, the
[CTRL] Scientists To Release GM Killer Moth in Arizona
-Caveat Lector- Scientists Create GM Killer Moth To Control Pests - Trials Begin By James Meek Science Correspondent The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk 3-5-1 Scientists are preparing to start trials of the world's first genetically modified insect, an unnatural born killer moth that will fly over cotton fields, passing a deadly gene on to its pestilent kin as an alternative to pesticide. Although the GM moth will be released in Arizona, the technology used to create the killer gene has been developed by a British team led by Luke Alphey, of Oxford University. The scientists believe that the chances of the killer gene spreading beyond the species it is intended to harm, the pink bollworm, is very small, and would do no harm if it did. But the US department of agriculture still has to give consent for the first part of the trial, which would involve a tightly controlled release of moths with another gene inserted to track any possible cross-species transfer. Scientists need to target the bollworm larvae, which feed on cotton plants, before developing into moths. The idea is to take insect eggs in the lab and insert into their DNA a gene from a fruit fly which would normally damage their metabolism so badly that they would die. In the lab, however, the larvae survive, because they are dosed with an antidote to the effects of the killer gene. They will grow into adult moths, which are naturally immune to the effects of the gene, and will then be released over the cotton fields in huge numbers. Unaware that by mating they are both creating and assassinating the next generation, the GM moths will mate with wild moths and each other. The female moths will lay their eggs as normal. But their offspring will have inherited the killer gene. In the wild, the larvae will find no antidote and will die. In the initial trial, which could take place next year, 3,600 moths will be given a jellyfish gene that glows under special light instead of the killer gene. This will show what happens to GM insects when they encounter their wild counterparts and other species. = 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] USAToday: Conspiracy theorists read between lines in the sky
-Caveat Lector- http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010307/3117139s.htm Page 4A Conspiracy theorists read between lines in the sky By Traci Watson USA TODAY A new conspiracy theory sweeping the Internet and radio talk shows has set parts of the federal government on edge. The theory: The white lines of condensed water vapor that jets leave in the sky, called contrails, are actually a toxic substance the government deliberately sprays on an unsuspecting populace. Federal bureaucracies have gotten thousands of phone calls, e-mails and letters in recent years from people demanding to know what is being sprayed and why. Some of the missives are threatening. It's impossible to tell how many supporters these ideas have attracted, but the people who believe them say they're tired of getting the brush-off from officials. And they're tired of health problems they blame on ''spraying.'' ''This is blatant. This is in your face,'' says Philip Marie Sr., a retired nuclear quality engineer from Bartlett, N.H., who says the sky above his quiet town is often crisscrossed with ''spray'' trails. ''No one will address it,'' he says. ''Everyone stonewalls this thing.'' The situation Marie and others describe is straight out of The X-Files. He and others report one day looking up at the sky and realizing that they were seeing abnormal contrails: contrails that lingered and spread into wispy clouds, multiple contrails arranged in tick-tack-toe-like grids or parallel lines, contrails being laid down by white planes without registration numbers. Believers call these tracks ''chemtrails.'' They say they don't know why the chemicals are being dropped, but that doesn't stop them from speculating. Many guess that the federal government is trying to slow global warming with compounds that reflect sunlight into the sky. Some propose more ominous theories, such as a government campaign to weed out the old and sick. Exasperated by persistent questions, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration joined forces last fall to publish a fact sheet explaining the science of contrail formation. A few months earlier, the Air Force had put out its own fact sheet, which tries to refute its opponents' arguments point by point. ''If you try to pin these people down and refute things, it's, 'Well, you're just part of the conspiracy,' '' says atmospheric scientist Patrick Minnis of NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. ''Logic is not exactly a real selling point for most of them.'' Nothing is ''out there'' except water vapor and ice crystals, say irritated scientists who study contrails. Some, such as Minnis, are outraged enough by the claims of chemtrail believers that they have trolled Internet chat rooms to correct misinformation or have gotten into arguments with callers. ''Conspiracy nonsense,'' snorts Kenneth Sassen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Utah. ''These things are at 30,000 to 40,000 feet in the atmosphere. They're tiny particles. They're not going to affect anyone.'' The cloud-forming contrails that conspiracy theorists find so ominous are ''perfectly natural,'' Minnis says. The odd grid and parallel-line patterns are easily explained as contrails blown together by the wind, scientists say. USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. = 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
[CTRL] Fwd: FEAR: Arkansas: Another fatal raid
-Caveat Lector- Government to unveil new details of fatal ATF raid CATHY FRYE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE The federal government has agreed to release a more detailed account of the events leading to an Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Bureau raid that left a man dead in his bedroom. Carl Wilson, 60, was killed in a shootout with federal authorities when they arrived before dawn on Jan. 12 at his rural Faulkner County home. They were searching for an old Winchester rifle. The documents explaining why the ATF wanted the gun have remained sealed in federal court. The Democrat-Gazette filed a motion Feb. 15, asking that the case file be made public. The government initially objected to the newspaper's request. But at a hearing before U.S. Magistrate J. Thomas Ray on Friday, prosecutors agreed to unseal the documents. However, they want to redact, or "black out," portions of the file beforehand, saying witnesses and informants need to be protected. The judge's ruling, expected next week, will likely challenge the constitutionality of the way in which search-and-seizure warrants are handled in the Eastern District of Arkansas. It could eliminate the automatic sealing of all warrants and accompanying documents, and instead require a specific request from prosecutors to keep the paperwork from public view. At Friday's hearing, attorneys haggled not only over the Wilson case but also the First Amendment versus search warrants -- namely, how much information should remain secret and why. "We are an open society," said lawyer Jess Askew, who is representing the Democrat-Gazette. "As Justice [Warren] Burger has said, 'People in an open society do not demand infallibility from their institutions, but it is difficult for them to accept what they are prohibited from observing.'" U.S. prosecutor Michael Johnson, citing concerns about the names of witnesses that appear in some of the sealed documents, countered the newspaper's argument: "The First Amendment is not the sole societal interest at stake here." The current debate over the secretive manner in which search warrants are obtained and filed in court emerged from what happened in the early morning darkness when ATF agents carried out a surprise raid at Wilson's home. They were looking for a .30-.30 Winchester rifle, model 94, serial number NRA 8315. Wilson's widow, Tammy, wants to know why her husband was being investigated. And how, she asks, did the raid turn deadly? Much to her anger, the answers have remained secret. Until Friday, the only items that had been unsealed were the search warrant and an inventory of what was seized at the Wilson home. Both of those documents had been given to the family at the time of the raid. Friday, the court unsealed two more documents -- the Jan. 10 application for the search warrant and an exhibit, which was an aerial photograph of Wilson's isolated home. Still sealed, however, is the probable-cause affidavit, which would explain what kind of investigation the ATF was conducting and why a no-knock raid was necessary. No-knock raids allow officers to enter a home without announcing themselves. The Wilson raid was to occur "in the daytime," according to the warrant. Federal law defines "daytime" as between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. ATF agents raided Wilson's home at 6:30 a.m. Sunrise that day was around 7:15 a.m. In documents filed with the court, the Democrat-Gazette argues: "A man was shot and killed in his own bedroom by state and federal authorities with a federal search warrant, and the press wants to know why the authorities were there. The government seeks to conceal this information. In doing so, the government seeks to avoid accounting to the people for its conduct in this most unfortunate episode. "By failing to account, the government engenders dark suspicions about its conduct." In its initial response to the newspaper's motion, the government argued that unsealing the case file would compromise confidential information related to the investigation and make public the names of witnesses involved in the ATF investigation. They also cited an ongoing investigation into the shootout by state police, arguing that this unfinished inquiry should be grounds for keeping the documents sealed. The judge said Friday, however, that the state police investigation has no bearing on whether the case file should be made public. Although prosecutors are withdrawing their objections to unseal the file, they want the names of witnesses and any information that would identify those witnesses blacked out before the documents are made public. The importance of these witnesses is unclear. Authorities have said their investigation of Wilson ended with his death and that no one else will be charged in the case. Prosecutors' reasons for requesting that portions of the documents be censored aren't known because the government's response to the
[CTRL] CIA Think Tank to Head Bush Religion Initiative
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Lloyd Miller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CIA Think Tank to Head Bush Religion Initiative Date: Saturday, February 24, 2001 12:44 PM http://baltech.org/lederman/spray/bush-religion-1-29-01.html CIA Think Tank to Head Bush Religion Initiative by Robert Lederman (718) 743-3722 [EMAIL PROTECTED] January 29, 2001 The NY Times article below describes the two men Bush is putting in charge of his religion plan, John J. DiIulio Jr. and Stephen Goldsmith. Both men are senior fellows of the CIA's Manhattan Institute and are colleagues of Charles Murray, author of the classic text of scientific racism, The Bell Curve. Most of Bush's advisors are also associated with the Bell Curve. As just one of many examples, Murray was a consultant on Tommy Thompsons' Wisconsin Welfare Reform program, which Bush will make the national model Following the Times article you will find quotes from the NY Times and the Manhattan Institute's own website to substantiate the CIA origin of the Manhattan Institute, its influence on GW Bush and its very close decade-long association with Charles Murray, who wrote The Bell Curve while a research fellow at The Manhattan Institute. Whether you are a fundamentalist Christian, an Orthodox Jew, a devout Muslim or an atheist you might question what part the CIA rightfully has in a multi-billion dollar "religion initiative" or in any domestic US policy decisions. The best known modern example of government sponsored religion-based initiatives is Nazi Germany. NY Times January 29, 2001 New Bush Office Seeks Closer Ties to Church Groups By FRANK BRUNI and LAURIE GOODSTEIN WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 President Bush has selected a University of Pennsylvania professor of political science to head the first federal office intended to promote the integration of religious groups into federally financed social services, several Bush advisers said today. The advisers said the opening of the office and the appointment of John J. DiIulio Jr. to fill it would almost certainly be announced at a White House event on Monday, and they acknowledged that it would draw heated opposition from organizations and religious groups that advocate a strict separation of church and state. But the encouragement and government financing of faith-based programs was a signature campaign issue for Mr. Bush, who has said he reads the Bible every day. And the decision to entrust the new federal office in charge of that effort to Mr. DiIulio, a widely published expert on juvenile crime with impressive academic credentials, is an example of the political caution with which the Bush administration will proceed. The choice of Mr. DiIulio, in fact, is only one of several ways in which Mr. Bush and his aides are trying to blunt any impression that what the president is doing amounts to an evangelical endeavor. "John is a social scientist who believes in empirical evidence," said one Bush adviser, stressing Mr. DiIulio's focus on provable results from faith-based social programs that address problems like substance abuse, youth violence and teenage pregnancy. The adviser also emphasized that Mr. DiIulio does not see faith-based programs "as a panacea," but rather as one arrow in a quiver with plenty of others. In addition to Mr. DiIulio, the other central figure in the effort is Stephen Goldsmith, the former mayor of Indianapolis who was the chief domestic policy adviser for Mr. Bush's presidential campaign. Several Bush advisers said Mr. Goldsmith would be the chairman of a new national advisory board whose work will complement that of the new federal office. Mr. Goldsmith will also serve as an official adviser to Mr. Bush on the issue. Mr. Bush and his aides do not want the proposals related to faith-based programs that they unveil to seem too driven by religion. Indeed, the president's goal is to find new ways for the federal government to encourage private charities including but not limited to religious groups to provide more social services. To that end, the title of the new federal office will allude not just to faith-based programs but also to community initiatives, although several advisers said the order in which the words "faith" and "community" would be placed was under debate. Additionally, Mr. Bush has invited not only leaders of faith-based groups but also the heads of other not-for-profit organizations to meet on Monday morning at the White House to kick off a week of events intended to describe and promote the president's vision. The guest list, according to one of the people on it, includes the Rev. Stephen E. Burger, executive
Re: [CTRL] USAToday: Conspiracy theorists read between lines in the sky
-Caveat Lector- I have had a bronchitis that I have NEVER had before but about a week and a half ago as I left this establishment there they were contrails as I have never seen before. Two days later I became ill, my son became ill, and small two year old grandson for I had warned my daughter to keep him inside when she saw these things...some were so low looked like rocket trails. Now back in the 70 period they had meningitis bacteria, germ warfare - Russia and USA had this stuff - now as I recall and I believe I am correct in saying, there were two containers or cannisters - they were not deadly until mixed. Otherwise alleged to be "harmless".this was about the time anthrax epidemic in Brazile, Mafia was buying up bad and imported some meat to USA and there were three air force bases where meningisit broke out - my two year old got this new strain the called it, of meningitis noto the worst kind, but a virus and it took a day to get the antidoteduring this time frame an officer from Lockbourne AFB where they had an outbreak came into my room, and stood there and looked at my son, who was beautiful - golden curls and blue eyes - then he looked down at me, for I was sitting by his side - and his eyes were eyes that I have seen before - well trained shall be say, and intimidating - so my son later had to have a security guard watch him due to something else which I will not go into now - So I believe now some 30 years later they have found a way to dump this poison and they are doing it by dumping in the skies - I imagine thre are other deadly bacteria or this germ or chemical warfare that until combined with other substances, are not at peak kill performance. Look at New York City - they dumped this phoney West Nile Encelphalitis stuff in the air and Encephalitis and Meningitis and Anthrax are related - in the hospital I looked up meningitis in the mdical library and it said "see Anthrax"...suddenly two hands came over my shoulder and said "give me that - you will never understand it anyway"well I read enough I got the message. Remember when they dumped JFK coffin in the ocean - this was the one damaged in Dallas - oh so long to dispose of this, but what was in it? Remember they place cement in ocean full of radio active stuff and God knows what elseso where does usually end - cement is so poorly made my driveway going bad after 3 years and the city put it in - they say the "salt from streets" is causing itnow we have all this stuff in salt water right - any of that stuff falling apart like some of our freewawy bridges where bad cement was used? So that is what I think - Lockbourne AFB is now a refueling station...do not know much about these planes but what if this refueliong stuff is loaded with something else and this is how they do the dumping. I am between Lockbourne and Wright Patterson maybe short jump from here and planes from Wright Patterson involved as well? What did they do with all these germs - are they dump it separately in the skies - the last time my little grandson was seriously ill, my daughter had ridden him ovr on her bicycle in a little seat, lhe had on a helmet and I noted these contrails but at time did not really know that much of them...he ended up in hospital the next day - breathing or respiratory problems. Might add too those candles - pine scent - at Christmas time set off the fire alarm and made us all sick..now they say they are deadly. Mass serial poisonings.Mayor Guiliano approved this Nile Enephalitis stuff = birds are dying by the thousands, and our govrnment remainds silent? They are liars if they say the tic tac lines are accidental - there is a pattern.how do we know for sure these are not Russian planes for they have let the enemy within for training = remember the flight of Tutmosis II - the Egyptian plan from Edwards where a pilot is alleged to hae gone berser.something in the air get to him? Saba 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] Votescam Action Alert!
-Caveat Lector- Votescam Action Alert! http://www.votescam.com/Greenteaparty.html (This action alert was recently posted on the Green Party website http://www.greenparty.org ) From The Teller-Woodland Green Tea Party (Inspired by The Boston Tea Party and The Green Party) http://www.votescam.com/Greenteapartyactionalert!.html As of January 30, 280-400 bills have been introduced in at least 40 states regarding the issues of Internet voting, standardizing vote counting procedures in each state, and increasing the use of computers to count votes, according to Jennie Drage at the National Conference of State Legislatures. The Florida vote count fiasco, especially the US Supreme Court's decision, has pressured each state to make vote counting uniform and computerized. New legislation would increase the use of computers to count votes and would move decision making power about how votes are counted from the county and municipal level to the state level across the US. For thirty years the computerized vote count has functioned as the perfect tool for those who seek to fraudulently manipulate elections! In a nutshell, when computers are used to count votes, poll watchers, election officials, even the Secretary of State, are not allowed to actually see the vote count. All they can see are ballots being fed into a computer, or no ballots at all, just a receipt from the computer at the end of the election day. Nor are they allowed to examine the computer software, which is what determines how the votes are counted. This amounts to an illegal secret ballot count. Only the private corporations, which are paid millions of taxpayer dollars to program the software, know whether the votes will be counted accurately. The newer computers even have modems enabling them to be accessed by other computers, telephone, satellite, or even a cell phone. The rigging of computer counted elections is essentially impossible to detect, or to prove. Internet voting leaves no paper trail, making it impossible to have a recount. Internet voting is even more riggable, less secure and unverifiable than counting votes by computer. Another "innovation" already in use, now being considered for standardized procedure, is touch screen voting. This system is also computerized and also leaves no paper trail. Canada, Britain, Switzerland, India and Israel count their paper-ballot votes by hand. During the last election Canada counted 13 million votes in 4 hours. Forcing us to have our votes counted by unverifiable and riggable computers violates the US Constitution and the State constitutions. For more information on computers and vote counting see the article below titled, "Does Your Vote Count? Computer Voting Machines vs. Hand Count" http://www.votescam.com/Doesyourvotecount.html and the web pages: http://www.votefraud.org http://www.votescam.com http://www.nypress.com/print.cfm?content_id=3261author_id=309 And refer to the book: "Votescam: The Stealing of America" by James and Ken Collier. (212) 809-9090 or www.votescam.com Without an accurate and verifiable vote count no other important issues are likely to have a fair chance. This is not a partisan issue. The oligarchy, the plutocracy, the corporate dictators, and the US media oligopoly are attempting to make their control of this country even more complete. We need a grass roots uprising similar to the anti-war movement and the anti-nuclear movement. We really need to win this battle if the flame of freedom is going to continue to burn in this country. It is time for another Boston Tea Party!! Suggestions: 1. Call up your local state rep or senator, or visit your state's web page, and find out what bills have been introduced having to do with vote counting, election reform, and new voting technologies. 2. Provide educational materials to your rep, senator, and members of the committee each bill is in. 3. Contact others across your state, and the rest of the US, who are likely to be concerned about our vote count being accurate and verifiable: political parties, the ACLU, local boards of elections in each county and municipality, labor unions, environmental groups, magazines, consumer groups, churches, farm organizations, etc. 4. Write letters to the editor. 5. Call in or get on radio talk shows. 6. Contact independent computer experts in your state and ask them to look at these materials. We need lots of computer experts to come forward on this issue. 7. Send this letter to news organizations all over the Internet. 8. Start an initiative petition campaign to stop computerized vote counting in your community. 9. Have your local public access TV station show the Votescam Video; show it to groups. 10. Take a video camera to your local polling place on election day and demand to watch the vote count. 11. Find out what state statutes enable the use of computers in your state. 12. Have your local rep and senator introduce
Re: [CTRL] Teen sues DeMolay organization over molestation by leader
-Caveat Lector- Dear List, Below please find info about this article. Sincerely, Neil Brick Teen sues DeMolay organization over molestation by leader -The lawsuit claims the boys organization knew or should have known about the sexual proclivities of one of its leaders. - By Anita Kumar - St. Petersburg Times, 2/23/01 - A teenager is suing a worldwide boys organization whose youth leader in St. Petersburg was sentenced to life in prison for molesting 14 teenagers he supervised. from http://www.sptimes.com/News/022301/news_pf/SouthPinellas/Teen_sues_DeMolay_org .shtml A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are 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] Cosmic smack encourages life to go forth and multiply
-Caveat Lector- http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/impact_rebound_010309.html Cosmic Smack Encourages Life To Go Forth and Multiply By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 02:00 pm ET 08 March 2001 A discovery that earthly flora and fauna rebound and advance rapidly after catastrophic collisions by space rocks highlights the resourcefulness of life and bolsters a growing suspicion that evolution does its best work in extreme crises. When a comet or asteroid smacked Earth 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs bid farewell. They could not adapt to a world remade by the extreme ecological violence. They were not alone. Roughly two-thirds of all life on Earth vanished. But new species sprang forth from the catastrophe, evolving quickly to fill new niches of climate, water and soil conditions. A new study examined extraterrestrial dust to pin down just how quickly. In a mere 10,000 years -- the blink of an eye on a geologic time scale -- the planet was repopulated by newly evolved versions of tiny critters that had been mostly wiped out by the impact, according to a study published in the March 9, 2001 issue of the journal Science. "We simply don't get significant evolutionary change without an extraterrestrial cause." -- Luann Becker, University of Washington Around the globe, layers of sediment deposited by ancient seas hold a record of what has lived and died on Earth going back billions of years. And when scientists dig, they usually find a layer less than an inch (2 centimeters) thick that contains virtually no fossils and is thought to correspond to the time of the mass extinction. Careful analysis recently yielded a surprisingly short estimate for the period of time represented by those fossil-free layers, and the new thinking is that new species arise and evolve much more quickly than scientists had imagined. The mass extinction came, the thinking goes, after a cosmic impact in what is now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula shook the planet and sent up a choking mix of dust and chemicals that darkened the global skies for possibly decades. Most plankton and many tropical marine invertebrates, especially reef-dwellers, perished in the event, along with many species of land animals and plants. Until now, some researchers have supposed it took hundreds of thousands of years for many species to die out as the impact combined with other killing mechanisms, such as long-term volcanic activity or changing sea levels. Clues in space dust The new research measured space dust laid down in the ancient sediment. Packed inside the dust, and revealing its extraterrestrial origin, was helium 3, an isotope of helium that is rarely found on Earth except when it originated from space. The dust, deposited at a steady rate over millions of years, revealed how much time passed -- just 10,000 years -- between the demise of vast numbers of marine organisms and the rebirth of new ones. "These types of severe mass extinctions seem to pave the way for life to more or less reinvent itself and come back even stronger and more capable of adapting to extreme environmental change," said the University of Washington's Luann Becker, who was not involved in the study. "We simply don't get significant evolutionary change without an extraterrestrial cause." Becker, who in February provided evidence that an earlier mass extinction was caused by a space rock, said the new study is consistent with what paleontologists have been suggesting in recent years: The worst extinctions seem to be rapid events. And she said the ability of organisms to re-emerge quickly might shed light on how life evolved on Earth in the beginning, billions of years ago, when the planet was regularly pummeled by comets and asteroids. Ruling out other causes of extinction The evidence for the short recovery is recorded in exposed layers of Earth that formed at the bottom of ancient seas about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of what is now Rome. Prior to the impact, marine organisms lived and died in droves, and their corpses helped create a global coffin of limestone that built up over the eons. Abruptly, the limestone layers stop, covered over by thin layer of clay that formed in the virtual absence of marine life. Above that clay the limestone sharply resumes, which means marine organisms had repopulated the Earth, and had done so in a rather sudden manner. Researchers have long known the thickness of this relatively fossil-free layer of clay, but they have argued over how much time passed during its creation. The clay layer marks the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary Eras of geologic time. "And now we know how far apart they are in time," said Kenneth Farley, a Caltech geochemist and coauthor of the Science paper discussing the research. The finding implies that the impact itself, along with the severe climatic and geologic effects it generated, was the primary reason the dinosaurs and other species perished.
Re: [CTRL] Capitalism ubber alles: Who needs Monarchs anyway?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/08/2001 10:34:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The U.S.-based nonprofit group Packard Foundation donated more than $5 million to the Worldwide Fund for Nature to help the Mexican government rent or buy logging rights from local residents to compensate for lost income while developing alternative job sources And there you have the problem. Does anyone think the Mexican government did anything for the local residents or loggers? Of course it did not. The people with money said, "What would these peasants do with a little extra money? They don't need it. We important people would like new Mercedes. Let the peasants starve; they will get used to it." If groups took money to the local residents and/or loggers, the results would be a lot better. I remember when the mountain top slid into the reservoir of the Vaiont Dam in Italy about thirty years ago. I think there were about eight survivors. Eight or ten million dollars were collected to help the survivors and rebuild the city of Longaron that had been destroyed. It was decided not to try to rebuild. I'll bet the survivors never saw a dime of that money, but I'll bet some very rich Italian politicians got a lot richer. 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] GOP v. Recount, Take Two
-Caveat Lector- GOP v. Recount, Take Two http://www.tnr.com/031201/crowley031201.html Media Hounds by Michael Crowley Issue date 03.05.01 BROOKSVILLE, FLORIDA - Brooksville is a dreary rural town about an hour north of Tampa that greets visitors from the interstate with a dilapidated bowling alley, a septic-tank dealership, and a string of old cars rotting by the side of the road. Ordinarily it's a sleepy, out-of-the-way place. But it's home to the Hernando County election office, and so, for a few hours last week, Brooksville was ground zero in the ongoing inquiry into exactly who won a majority of the roughly six million Florida votes cast for president of the United States. On a humid Wednesday morning, Hernando's tiny election office is crowded with visitors: four researchers from the consortium of major media organizations (including The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and the Associated Press) reexamining all 180,000 Florida ballots that registered no vote for president; two reporters from The Miami Herald, which is conducting its own recount; and four Republican activists observing the proceedings. All stare solemnly as county election workers gingerly hold up Hernando's rejected ballots for examination one by one. What they see is at once funny and sad. The county uses a fill-in-the-bubble "optical scan" system, and dozens of ballots show two, three, or more bubbles filled in the presidential column. On some ballots the entire column is filled in. More than a few contain votes for every candidate except one. Some absentee voters apparently tried in vain to white-out reconsidered votes. One patriot wrote in "Bart and Homer Simson [sic]"; another scrawled the words "Terrible Choice!" across the page. But amid the mass of incoherent ballots, election workers turn up several that express a clear preference for one candidate, usually Al Gore. By my count, Gore picks up a net total of ten votes here: a small dent in George W. Bush's official 537-vote statewide margin of victory but potentially significant given Hernando's tiny voting population of about 91,000. All in all, Brooksville seems to be playing its role in a tedious but sober and fair-minded effort to discern the intent of the Florida voters on November 7, 2000. But not according to Frank Colletti, chairman of the Hernando County Republican Executive Committee. "It's absurd," he booms, waving his hand toward the stacks of ballots in the county election office. "There's everything in the world [on the ballots]. They're going to find whatever they want to find." A Republican colleague of Colletti's whose name I don't catch adds his two cents: "All those papers fit together with the same political bent." Sound familiar? It should. In order to discredit a media survey they fear will discover enough missed Gore votes to undermine Bush's tenuous claim to presidential legitimacy, GOP activists are reopening the anti-recount playbook that helped put their man in office in the first place. Their goal: to transform a deliberate, comprehensive ballot review conducted by unbiased outside researchers into a chaotic, corrupt, and unfair process, a circus of fallen chads and incompetent methodology conducted by partisan hacks seeking to overturn the election. And the Republicans are doing a pretty good job. After all, they've done it once before. The media consortium has gone to great lengths to make its count professional and unbiased. Rather than dispatch their own reporters, consortium members hired the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), a nonprofit social science institute at the University of Chicago, to run the ballot review. Norc designed an elaborate classification system, giving its researchers standardized forms and codes to categorize ballots as objectively and in as much detail as possible. Researchers in counties using punch-card ballots not only note, for instance, which chads are detached from a ballot and by how many corners. They can also choose from more nuanced descriptions such as "Dimpled chad, no sunlight," "Dimpled chad, sunlight," or "Dimple with or without sunlight, off chad, on border above." In the case of optical-scan ballots, the options include "Circled party name," "Other mark on or near candidate name," and "Arrow/oval marked other than fill, then erased or partially erased." Every ballot is examined independently by three researchers, all of whose conclusions will be entered into norc's final database. In order to be hired, researchers cannot have worked for or donated money to a state- or national-level political candidate in the past ten years. They're even required to pass eye exams. Moreover, unlike other recent ballot reexaminations, the consortium is statewide and counts both "undervotes," which result when a machine fails to detect any presidential choice on a ballot (an undetached chad, for instance, or a bubble circled rather than filled in), and "overvotes," which result when a machine detects
[CTRL] AF News 9 Mar 01
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! America's Air Force... No One Comes Close 0329. Air traffic controllers hone skills with virtual reality by Jennifer Valentin 12th Flying Training Wing Public Affairs RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Senior Airman Shahid Gill "looks out" over the airfield from the east control tower here. He maintains surveillance of aircraft and ensures they maintain separation and assigned ground tracks. After making sure all aircraft land safely, he removes his head-mounted display and takes a seat to review his performance with his trainer. Gill and other air traffic controllers here are using the high-tech advantage of virtual reality to develop their job skills. The focus of the training is the safe handling of aircraft. Randolph is the first Air Force base to test the prototype Air Traffic Control Virtual Reality Simulator, said Master Sgt. Steven May, chief of air traffic control training for the 12th Operations Support Squadron here. Three other bases, Altus and Vance Air Force Bases in Oklahoma, and Luke AFB in Arizona, are scheduled to receive the virtual reality device for evaluation by the end of march. The simulator is designed to reduce the time it takes to effectively train tower air traffic controllers, May said. Under an evaluation that will last through 2001, controllers at the four test bases will put the virtual reality trainer through its paces to determine if the simulator saves time and money, while providing better training for controllers. So far, it's lived up to billing, May said. It will provide more realistic training for apprentice controllers before they actually step into the tower. Two controllers are involved in the process, a trainer and a trainee. The trainer operates a computer to generate maneuvers for the virtual reality aircraft. The maneuvers are then merged to form a flight profile. Several profiles are combined to form a training scenario. The trainee wears the head-mounted display, which provides a virtual presentation, as if the trainee were standing in one of Randolph's two towers. The trainer and trainee communicate with each other through headsets. "We feel very fortunate to be the first Air Force base to have this opportunity," said Staff Sgt. James Shad, chief of standardization and evaluation for the 12th OSS. "I believe our apprentice air traffic controllers will be able to use the simulator to enhance their training, and it should help to fully certify them in a shorter amount of time." The high-tech system has met with approval among 16 Randolph controllers who have used it so far. "I like the virtual reality trainer because it is just what new trainees would need to get over the initial stage of fright," said Airman 1st Class Paul Polanco, an air traffic controller with the 12th OSS. "I have a feeling now of what to expect." 0332. What's in a name? Plenty, when it's your doc's by Army Sgt. 1st Class Kathleen T. Rhem American Forces Press Service ARLINGTON, Va. (AFPN) -- Gone are the days when you go to a military treatment facility and see whoever is available. By June, most TRICARE Prime enrollees should know their doctor's name. TRICARE policy used to be to assign patients to a group of primary care providers. Now, patients are being assigned to an individual to manage their health care, said Army Dr. (Lt. Col.) Scott Goodrich, a project officer at the TRICARE Management Activity here. "Previously, people would be looking for physicians to call their own. They'd request the same physician each visit," he said. But the system was not set up to ensure that would happen. Goodrich, a family practitioner himself, said people have often asked him to be their doctor. He said he would always agree, but outdated computer systems and inadequate infrastructure sometimes kept patients from getting appointments with him. "I've never been able to guarantee that promise could be kept," he said. "This is something patients always wanted, but we're just now able to deliver." Managers in the various TRICARE regions are currently assigning patients to specific providers, Goodrich said, noting several regions are already finished. Many beneficiaries have already been notified by mail who their assigned provider is, he said. The initial migration from the group system to by-name assignments should be complete by June, he said. After that, TRICARE's ideal would be that 100 percent of newly assigned patients receive a provider-by-name notification100 percent of the time, Goodrich said. Goodrich asked for patience, though -- beneficiaries should expect localized glitches. Until the migration is done, those who want to know their assigned providers should contact their local clinic staff or appointment clerk, he said. "This is a huge burden on medical treatment facilities, but many have been very good about notifying patients all the same," he
[CTRL] Why the rush to get US Vice President Cheney back on the job?
http://wsws.org/articles/2001/mar2001/chen-m08.shtml Why the rush to get US Vice President Cheney back on the job? By Patrick Martin 8 March 2001 Under the US Constitution, the vice president of the United States has no prescribed duties except the largely formal one of presiding over the Senate, where he exercises only the power to cast a deciding vote in the event of a tie. Otherwise, the vice president is held in reserve, to succeed to the presidency in the event of death or incapacity of the president. Something very different is at work in the Bush administration, as evidenced by the obscene haste in rushing Richard Cheney back to work after his angioplasty, the second serious heart procedure the vice president has undergone in four months. Cheney left George Washington University Medical Center Tuesday morning and returned directly to work in his official residence. He was back at his desk in the White House the following day. Angioplasty is a medical procedure with serious consequences even in the best of circumstances, and Cheney's are hardly the best. The vice president is 60 years old and has had heart disease for at least 20 years, including four heart attacks—the first of which occurred when he was 37—and a quadruple bypass operation, one of the most complicated and intrusive of surgical procedures. Medical authorities commenting in the press were careful not to openly criticize Cheney's quick return to work, but it is clear that no conscientious cardiologist would advocate that a recovering heart patient plunge back immediately into a stressful job. A boss who ordered a subordinate back to work under such conditions would be considered inhumane. Such an action is both extraordinary and reckless. Cheney, of course, does not occupy just any job. He plays a central—or, more precisely, the central—role in the Bush administration, at the summit of the American government and the center of world politics. According to his own doctors, there is a 40 percent chance that he will suffer another such episode of chest pain from scar tissue forming around the metal brace, or stent, which holds open his artery. According to the Duke Data Bank for Cardiovascular Disease, there is a 1 in 10 statistical probability, given his medical condition, that Cheney will die before completing his four-year term in office. The statements about this episode coming from Bush administration spokesmen range from the silly to the bizarre. They have uniformly downplayed the significance of the heart problem, described the emergency operation as a “precautionary measure,” and dismissed any concern over Cheney's immediate return to work. Perhaps the strangest comments came from Bush himself, who first avowed that he was no doctor, then pronounced the opinion that Cheney was fully recovered and capable of performing his duties. (This from the man who concealed Cheney's heart attack last November—or perhaps was not even informed of it by his handlers.) For any modern American administration, the incapacity of the vice president would constitute a significant political problem, simply because the vice president is next in the line of succession to the presidency. Eight vice presidents—John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson and Gerald Ford—have succeeded to the presidency on the death (or in Ford's case resignation) of a president. After Johnson succeeded the assassinated John F. Kennedy in November 1963, the office of vice president lay vacant for 14 months. This prompted passage of the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1967, providing that in the event of such a vacancy the president nominates a new vice president, with the approval of a majority of each house of Congress. The importance of this provision became clear when Ford replaced Nixon's disgraced vice president, Spiro Agnew, in 1973—clearing the way for the ouster of Nixon himself and Ford's assumption of the presidency. President Ford in his turn named Nelson Rockefeller as vice president. In the present case, the possible incapacity of the vice president constitutes a full-blown political crisis because, as the media is well aware, Vice President Cheney is the man actually running the country. According to press accounts of the internal functioning of the Bush administration, Cheney has assumed the following roles: * chief of personnel, heading up Bush's transition team which selected his cabinet, White House staff and lower-level appointees. * chief authority on national security matters, working with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Cheney's mentor in Republican politics, and Secretary of State Colin Powell, his partner in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. * chief arbiter of budget matters, as chairman of the budget review board, the group of senior officials who reviewed budget requests from cabinet members and federal agencies.
[CTRL] 'CIA worked with Pak to create Taliban'
http://www.indiaabroaddaily.com/2001/03/06/06taliban.html 'CIA worked with Pak to create Taliban' Sanjay Suri, London March 06, 2001 11:40 Hrs (IST) THE CENTRAL Intelligence Agency (CIA) worked in tandem with Pakistan to create the "monster" that is today Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, a leading US expert on South Asia said here. "I warned them that we were creating a monster," Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars said at the conference here last week on "Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia." Harrison said: "The CIA made a historic mistake in encouraging Islamic groups from all over the world to come to Afghanistan." The US provided $3 billion for building up these Islamic groups, and it accepted Pakistan's demand that they should decide how this money should be spent, Harrison said. Harrison, who spoke before the Taliban assault on the Buddha statues was launched, told the gathering of security experts that he had meetings with CIA leaders at the time when Islamic forces were being strengthened in Afghanistan. "They told me these people were fanatical, and the more fierce they were the more fiercely they would fight the Soviets," he said. "I warned them that we were creating a monster." Harrison, who has written five books on Asian affairs and US relations with Asia, has had extensive contact with the CIA and political leaders in South Asia. Harrison was a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace between 1974 and 1996. Harrison who is now senior fellow with The Century Foundation recalled a conversation he had with the late Gen Zia-ul Haq of Pakistan. "Gen Zia spoke to me about expanding Pakistan's sphere of influence to control Afghanistan, then Uzbekistan and Tajikstan and then Iran and Turkey," Harrison said. That design continues, he said. Gen. Mohammed Aziz who was involved in that Zia plan has been elevated now to a key position by Chief Executive, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Harrison said. The old associations between the intelligence agencies continue, Harrison said. "The CIA still has close links with the ISI (Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence)." Today that money and those weapons have helped build up the Taliban, Harrison said. "The Taliban are not just recruits from 'madrassas' (Muslim theological schools) but are on the payroll of the ISI (Inter Services Intelligence, the intelligence wing of the Pakistani government)." The Taliban are now "making a living out of terrorism." Harrison said the UN Security Council resolution number 1333 calls for an embargo on arms to the Taliban. "But it is a resolution without teeth because it does not provide sanctions for non-compliance," he said. "The US is not backing the Russians who want to give more teeth to the resolution." Now it is Pakistan that "holds the key to the future of Afghanistan," Harrison said. The creation of the Taliban was central to Pakistan's "pan-Islamic vision," Harrison said. It came after "the CIA made the historic mistake of encouraging Islamic groups from all over the world to come to Afghanistan," he said. The creation of the Taliban had been "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," he said. "Pakistan has been building up Afghan collaborators who will sustain Pakistan," he said.
[CTRL] From welfare rolls to federal payroll, Clinton hired 50,000-plus off dole
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! -- -- -- -- From welfare rolls to federal payroll Clinton hired 50,000-plus off dole; Bush may nix 'make-work' program -- -- By Paul Sperry 2001 WorldNetDaily.com The Bush administration has tagged for possible defunding a little-known government program started by former President Clinton, which has moved more than 50,000 people off welfare rolls and onto the federal payroll, WorldNetDaily has learned. Federal agencies have hired a total of 50,417 welfare recipients through Clinton's "welfare-to-work" initiative -- exceeding the program's goal by nearly five times, according to data compiled by the Office of Personnel Management through Dec. 22. Clinton set a target of 10,638 total hires in 1997, when he ordered agencies to recruit those on the dole to soften the blow from welfare reform. The GOP-led measure set limits on cash aid to able-bodied poor. It's not immediately clear how much the program has cost, but it certainly hasn't been cheap. Many of the government's welfare hires hold jobs paying around $25,000 a year, not including federal health benefits. The Clinton administration also kicked in transportation and child-care subsidies, as well as scholarships, for many of its welfare employees. Critics of the program say it should be abolished. "That's been a complete waste of money," said Heritage Foundation welfare analyst Robert Rector. According to one Bush administration official, the program is on the chopping block. "It's one of the policies the Bush White House is looking at discontinuing" under the new budget, said the official, who wished to go unnamed. White House spokesman Christopher "Jimmy" Orr stopped short of confirming that the program will be nixed. But he stressed that President Bush would rather see welfare handled outside of Washington. "The president has discussed the need to make federal assistance more effective and more tailored to local needs," Orr said, referring to Bush's faith-based charity initiative (which, ironically enough, will be run by a new, full-time government staff working out of a separate White House office). Rector says Clinton's welfare-to-government-work plan is welfare by another name -- and costlier. Welfare by another name "There's nothing wrong with make-work, but you don't want to make it [pay] more than the existing welfare benefit," he said. "If a single mother on welfare is making $6,000 a year under the new TANF [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families], a state can make her do, say, 20 hours a week of community-service work for that benefit," Rector explained. "If in lieu of that, you suddenly give her a make-work government job that pays double that, or even $20,000 or more a year, you actually run the possibility of attracting people to come into welfare to get that kind of sinecure." What's more, federal jobs offer health care and other benefits and pay more than many of the private-sector jobs available to low-skilled people on welfare. Rector says those who are moved into the government will probably become "entrenched" there. Mike Orenstein, who's been monitoring the Clinton program for the Office of Personnel Management, says the welfare hires hold government jobs ranging from mail clerks to secretaries to truck drivers. "It's not a make-work program," he argued -- although he admitted that many of the welfare hires have been paid while enrolled in lengthy job-training programs that teach basic skills such as how to answer a telephone. The number of welfare recipients working as federal employees ballooned in Clinton's last year, rising from slightly more than 14,000 to more than 50,000. But Orenstein says the Census Bureau, staffing up for the 2000 population survey, accounted for most of the increase. "Most of them were temporary jobs -- you know, knocking on doors, providing staff support -- for the census," he said. However, "there were some conversions" into full-time government jobs, he said. Besides Census, the IRS and Defense Department absorbed the lion's share of the welfare recruits. Goading contractors The Clinton administration also goaded government contractors into hiring welfare recipients. Under the welfare-to-work program, contractors bidding for government projects get extra points for submitting a plan for hiring people off the dole. The Energy Department, for one, got its contractors -- including ones working at Los Alamos National Laboratory -- to train and hire more than 60 welfare takers. Those numbers were not counted in the 50,417 tally. Interestingly enough, former Vice President Al Gore -- who boasted of cutting the federal payroll under his
[CTRL] Russia relying on arms-sales diplomacy
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! -- -- -- -- WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS Russia relying on arms-sales diplomacy Moscow intent on renewing old alliances with military hardware -- -- By Jon Dougherty 2001 WorldNetDaily.com The Russian government -- economically challenged through much of the 1990s and frustrated with its declining influence around the world -- has launched a new diplomatic effort aimed at reinvigorating old Cold War alliances and making new friends by increasing its arms sales. In many cases, Moscow is hawking its most sophisticated weapons systems at bargain prices. And though much of its arms trade has been focused on two nations, Russia is beginning to cultivate many new clients who are unable to manufacture their own weaponry or are starved for technology. Worse, Moscow is increasingly willing to sell sophisticated weaponry to countries that have been historically opposed to the U.S. or could become peer competitors to Washington in the next decade. From the top The decisions being made to revamp Russia's once-ailing military-industrial complex are not necessarily being made within the industry. Rather, they are coming from the top of the Russian government, as President Vladimir Putin has adopted a much more aggressive foreign policy approach than his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin. "Since his election as president of Russia in March 2000, Vladimir Putin has embarked on an intense effort to enhance Russia's international status and return it to the ranks of the world's great powers," said a Jan. 18 paper authored by Dr. Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., research fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies in the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at The Heritage Foundation. "This effort includes strengthening Russia's influence with its neighbors, states in the Middle East, and the Europe Union," Cohen said. "Heavily influenced by the agenda of former Prime Minister Evgeny Primakov, who advocated creation of a 'multipolar' world in which America's status and power decline, Putin is using arms sales and energy exports to expand Russia's spheres of influence," said the Heritage expert. "Moscow continues to value arms and technology sales as a major source of funds," CIA Director George Tenet said in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee Feb. 7. Russia "is increasingly using them as a tool to improve ties to its regional partners ..." he noted, adding that Moscow is supplying all kinds of conventional weapons technology -- including ballistic missile technology -- to client states. Burgeoning arms sales Most of Russia's "arms-sales diplomacy" has focused on China and India, who buy 70 percent of Moscow's arms exports. However, Russia is expanding its influence by way of such sales throughout Asia and the Middle East. China has become a top importer of Russian military equipment and systems, which is ironic given the historical animosity between Beijing and the former Soviet Union. Russian warship fires the supersonic Sunburn missile during naval exercises. Nevertheless, Russia has agreed to sell China sophisticated Sovremmeny-class destroyers, "Sunburn" anti-ship missiles, and advanced Sukoi Su-30 MKK fighter aircraft. Also, both nations have agreed to cooperate on the joint development of new military technologies, including so-called "asymmetrical" warfare (cyberwarfare) technology aimed at curbing U.S. dominance in this area. The second largest Russian military customer has been India. New Delhi has managed to purchase everything from tanks to fighter aircraft, to completely refurbished aircraft carriers. Iran has also become a top Russian military arms customer. Specifically, Russia is assisting Iran in building a nuclear reactor in the 1,000-megawatt range at the Persian Gulf port city of Bushehr -- the project is 90 percent complete and should be finished by 2003. The Bushehr reactor is one of two Russia is helping Iran build; Moscow is also constructing two in India and another pair in China. Also, Iran has purchased anti-ship missiles and Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines from Moscow, and is considering a new $7 billion arms deal that includes modern short-range air-defense missiles and other equipment. Russia has also sold weapons to Libya and last week signed a new military "cooperation agreement" with its old ally, Vietnam. To underscore Russia's renewed commitment to diplomacy through arms sales, Moscow's sales figures rose 22 percent last year alone to $4.5 billion (by comparison, the U.S. sold $11.8 billion in weapons in 1999, making it the largest arms seller in the world). That number, said a Knight-Ridder report on Wednesday, is
[CTRL] Israel denies search for sub base
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! -- -- -- -- WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS Israel denies search for sub base Sources say Eritrea turned down Red Sea nuke-haven request -- -- By Jon Dougherty 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Israeli government officials have denied an Ethiopian press report that said the Jewish state had held negotiations with neighboring Eritrea to construct a Red Sea base to berth its three Dolphin-class submarines. Ethiopian daily newspaper The Telegraph said Israel's negotiations for a base located on an Eritrean-held island were unsuccessful, but Israeli officials said the report was "totally unfounded." Quoting Arab sources, WorldNetDaily reported March 1 that Israel was searching for a Red Sea base in which to locate its German-built submarines, which are reportedly capable of firing nuclear-tipped surface-to-surface missiles with a range of about 1,000 miles. But Israeli officials, the Telegraph said, denied any negotiations with Eritrea and in particular denied reports that the Jewish state is searching for a Red Sea sub base at all. Arab sources reported that Israel -- concerned about the growing power of Iran -- had decided it could not build a strategic sub base in the Persian Gulf or surrounding waters because the base would fall within range of Iranian ballistic missiles. Also, a Red Sea location would put Israeli subs out of range of current Iranian missiles but still allow Israel to hit targets in the Islamic republic using its sub-launched missiles. The Israeli press reports that the Jewish state had successfully tested the missiles off the coast of Sri Lanka in May of last year. All missiles hit their respective targets. In particular, the Jewish state is alarmed over Tehran's successful test firing of its latest ballistic missile -- the Shahab-3 -- which is said to have a range of 1,200-1,500 kilometers (720-930 miles). Intelligence reports said the missile is based on the North Korean NoDong I. Iran successfully tested the Shahab-3 July 15, 2000, followed by another test firing Sept. 21. Tehran is also working with the North Koreans to develop the Shahab-4 and Shahab-5, the latter having intercontinental capabilities. Arab sources, quoted in the Ethiopian-based Telegraph, say Israel has loaded its Dolphin subs with four surface-to-surface missiles capable of delivering nuclear payloads. Israel has long been suspected of being a nuclear state, but has never publicly admitted it possessed nuclear weapons and the delivery systems for them. Israel's Dolphin submarines can remain submerged for up to 30 days, and if capable of launching nuclear missiles, could provide the deterrent factor against Iran and other regional enemies being sought by Israel Defense Force commanders, experts say. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Counterintelligence Run Amok
http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20010307/t20148.html Counterintelligence Run Amok By JAY TAYLOR Fear of foreign spies was already inordinately high in the United States when the sensational espionage charges against Robert Philip Hanssen hit the headlines. The media and the public, always starved for drama, have been captivated. The executive branch is planning tough-sounding remedies, including new super organizations. Existing counterintelligence bureaucracies have exploited the "crisis" to grow and expand. And counterspy measures, resources and personnel are already greater than they were during the height of the Cold War. President Bush is expected soon to approve establishment of a new counterintelligence policy board headed by a counterintelligence czar who will report to a new counterintelligence board of directors. This, despite the fact that there is no more KGB, no more Soviet Union. Judging by discussions in the media, the new so-called proactive measures being planned are those that monitor our own people and control sensitive documents. An example of one of these measures is the explosion in job opportunities for internal security agents in the State Department. If former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's plan is carried out, State will hire 500 new security agents, bringing the total of such officers in the foreign service to 1,500. This compares with a total of only 2,500 foreign service officers who perform the department's core work of diplomacy--reporting, analysis, advocacy and negotiation on bilateral and international issues--including ambassadors, their deputies and other program direction officers. While security expands, some 700 other foreign service positions remain vacant because of lack of funding. Some of the work normally done by diplomats is now being performed by officers in our foreign missions from the CIA and the Pentagon, neither of which have a comparable budget problem. Yet the current danger we face from foreign espionage is a mere fraction of that posed from the 1930s to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The mighty KGB's successor, the SVR, like the Soviet Navy and all the other wings of the old Communist regime's security establishment, is a shadow of its former self. For eight years, the SVR did not even contact Hanssen, one of the best-positioned moles in the United States the old KGB ever had. Except for Cuba, the SVR has lost all of the KGB's sister services, including the once extraordinarily effective East German Stasi. Moreover, since the emergence of Russia as a relatively open but very strained society, the ability of Western services to penetrate the SVR has geometrically increased. The double agent in the SVR who exposed the apparent double-crosser Hanssen apparently handed over the entire KGB file. The deeds of our counterspy turncoats resulted in the deaths of some of our Russian moles and are deserving of harsh punishment, but the consequences of their actions had no critical impact on vital U.S. interests. Notably, the FBI tunnel under the Russian Embassy in Washington reportedly revealed by Hanssen apparently produced no major intelligence. (Likewise the previous big American tunneling exercise, the famous 1950s CIA dig in Berlin, was a bust from the start. A Russian mole in London tipped off the KGB to the project before it even began.) To declare to the press, as some intelligence sources are doing, that Hanssen and Aldrich Ames brought about the "greatest losses in the history of American intelligence" is to focus on damage to the counterspy organizations themselves and not to basic national interests, as for example was the case in the theft of nuclear secrets or submarine codes. The massive spying and internal security apparatus of the KGB did not save the Soviet Union. Why now, when we face no such monolithic monster, do we need a counterintelligence czar, expanded polygraphs, more intrusive monitoring of personnel, a draconian "official secrets act" and many more internal security agents in the State Department and elsewhere? We won the hot and cold wars the old way, by maintaining a reasonable level of internal controls but concentrating on offense--penetration, mole implantation and communications intercepts. We need to safeguard counterintelligence and other sensitive information, but the possibilities and the consequences of both foreign espionage and counterspying should be kept in perspective. As George F. Kennan, architect of America's Cold War containment policy, once observed, counterintelligence takes on aspects that cause it to be viewed as a game, played in its own right. The fascination it exerts, he concluded, tends wholly to obscure, even for the general public, the original reasons for it. - - - Jay Taylor Was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Coordination in the
[CTRL] Boy Scouts may see a windfall
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Scouts may see a windfall Gwyneth K. Shaw of the Sentinel Staff Posted March 8, 2001 The controversy about the Boy Scoutsâ anti-gay policy appears to be helping the local council -- at least with donors to Heart of Florida United Way. When itâs all added up, the charity thinks the Scouts will receive more than $330,000 from people who earmarked all or part of their United Way donation for the group. The council asked only for $325,000. "Theyâre going to get slightly more than they requested for their programs," United Way spokeswoman Michelle Herbold said. Donors made their decision to give directly to the Boy Scouts last fall, when it looked as though the organization might be completely cut off from future United Way money because of the charityâs policy barring any of its agencies from discriminating. While the Scouts still donât meet those requirements, last month the United Way board agreed to allow the group to continue to receive only dollars dedicated by donors. A bigger windfall has come from Dr. Phillips Inc., home to two of the regionâs oldest and most generous foundations. For the next three years, the investment proceeds earned by nearly $1.5 million Dr. Phillips has handed to the United Way will go to the Scouts. Dr. Phillips didnât make a contribution to United Wayâs fall campaign because of the boardâs initial decision to pass the nondiscrimination policy. Jim Hinson, president of Dr. Phillips, said he hopes the fund will yield 5 to 6 percent of the original sum for the Scouts. That could be more than $225,000 over three years. The combination has the Scouts smiling -- but top officials know that when the publicity from the United Way flap fades, so could the flood of designations. For example, during the fall 1999 campaign, donors pledged $80,000 directly to the Scouts. But the organization got $310,000, with the difference coming from the general pool of donor dollars. That kind of gap wonât be made up under the terms agreed to by the United Way and the Scouts last month. Beginning this fall, United Way will take the money donated straight to the Scouts, take 13 percent for overhead, then hand it over. Even though the 2000 campaign -- which raised $20 million in Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties -- ended in November, the amounts designated by donors are only now becoming available. Tico Perez, president of the local Scouts council, said he is pleased at the money coming in. But the Scouts have to plan for a time when that river runs dry, he said. "The key to that is going to be that the people who designated to this campaign continue to designate to us in the future," Perez said. "Hopefully, our donors will continue to remember us. We certainly hope that people will not forget." Nationally, pressure is building on the Scouts from governments and a number of organizations that give grants. Locally, Orlando Sentinel Communications, parent company of the Orlando Sentinel, said it will no longer give grants to programs run by the Scouts that discriminate because of sexual orientation or religion. The company gave $16,000 to the Scouts last year through money raised by the newspaperâs Sentinel Santa program. The company encouraged the Scouts to reapply for grant money, but only for programs that do not discriminate. Hinson said helping the Scouts build a nest egg was the intent of the Dr. Phillips board in offering the proceeds from the $1.5 million. "They need to take these new dollars that are coming in and begin to create their own longstanding endowment to create income for themselves over the years," he said. Gwyneth K. Shaw can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 407-420-5540. *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.
[CTRL] Russian Army Speaks Out Against Chechen War
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Russian Army Speaks Out Against Chechen War NewsMax.com Wires Friday, March 9, 2001 The Russian army is breaking ranks â and breaking its long silence â over the hated war in Chechnya. In an interview published in Obshchaya Gazeta, Maj. Gen. Vladimir Dudnik concludes that Russian President Putin "may need this war, but Russia does not." Dudnik challenges the orthodoxy that this is a guerrilla war, comparing it instead to the battle against the Baltic nationalists who fought on against Soviet rule after World War II. "The Baltic region was conquered only in 1956," Dudnik notes, and even then the Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian resistance was so deep-rooted that Moscow had to accept their independence in 1991. The parallel with the Chechens is striking â and the Russian army has had enough. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] School Shootings and White Denial
http://www.alternet.org/story.html%3FStoryID%3D10560IDLink=10361 School Shootings and White Denial Tim Wise 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? I'll tell you what went wrong and it's not TV, rap music, video games or a lack of prayer in school. What went wrong is that white Americans decided to ignore dysfunction and violence when it only affected other communities, and thereby blinded themselves to the inevitable creeping of chaos which never remains isolated too long. What affects the urban "ghetto" today will be coming to a Wal-Mart near you tomorrow, and unless you address the emptiness, pain, isolation and lack of hope felt by children of color and the poor, then don't be shocked when the support systems aren't there for your kids either. What went wrong is that we allowed ourselves to be lulled into a false sense of security by media representations of crime and violence that portray both as the province of those who are anything but white like us. We ignore the warning signs, because in our minds the warning signs don't live in our neighborhood, but across town, in that place where we lock our car doors on the rare occasion we have to drive there. That false sense of security -- the result of racist and classist stereotypes -- then gets people killed. And still we act amazed. But listen up my fellow white Americans: your children are no better, no nicer, no more moral, no more decent than anyone else. Dysfunction is all around you, whether you choose to recognize it or not. According to the Centers for Disease Control, and Department of Health and Human Services, it is your children, and not those of the urban ghetto, who are most likely to use drugs. That's right: white high school students are seven times more likely than blacks to have used cocaine; eight times more likely to have smoked crack; ten times more likely to have used LSD and seven times more likely to have used heroin. In fact, there are more white high school students who have used crystal methamphetamine (the most addictive drug on the streets) than there are black students who smoke cigarettes. What's more, white youth ages 12-17 are more likely to sell drugs: 34% more likely, in fact than their black counterparts. And it is white youth who are twice as likely to binge drink, and nearly twice as likely as blacks to drive drunk. And white males are twice as likely to bring a weapon to school as are black males. And yet I would bet a valued body part that there aren't 100 white
[CTRL] Dick Cheney's suicide mission
Maybe it's me but I'd swear that Arianna has become more attractive since shunning the ugly politics of ignorance and the fattening tactic of parroting the lazy Limbaugh legion...she's actually come into her own as both a thoughtful pundit AND an attractive woman...seems FREETHINKING has physical as well as intellectual benefits!! Keep it up babe! Bill. http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/03/08/cheney_health/index.html Dick Cheney's suicide mission It's time for the vice president to resign. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Arianna Huffington March 8, 2001 | OK, everybody, listen up: The time has come for the nation to stage an intervention. We need to come together and convince the vice president that he needs to step down. And not just to save his life, but potentially to save the lives of millions of Americans. More important than presiding over the creation of the new budget or chairing the administration's energy task force, this responsible act could be his greatest contribution to the country. It would be compassionate; it would be conservative. Coronary heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death in America today. Roughly 1.1 million Americans will have a heart attack this year -- with around 400,000 of them dying as a result. About 12.2 million people have a history of heart attack, chest pains or both -- with many of them, like Cheney, proudly, but irresponsibly and unwisely, soldiering on, denying the significance of the warning signs. And now, while the whole world watches, the message the vice president is sending to his fellow sufferers is that power and position are more important than life itself. In fact, in so many cases, such pursuits become just another addiction. And like any addiction, this one is rife with denial and self-delusion. The vice president began experiencing chest pains on Saturday. You'd think after suffering not one, not two, not three, but, yes, four heart attacks -- the last of which was just three months ago -- this might have set off a few alarms. But not for Cheney, who not only kept to his arduous work schedule but his arduous social schedule as well -- partying with Washington lawyer Roderick Hills on Saturday night and Alan Greenspan on Sunday (and you know how the Fed chairman likes to get down). In the midst of all this, he told Wolf Blitzer on CNN: "I feel great." He exhibited the same bonhomie when leaving the hospital Tuesday morning, telling reporters he felt "good." Come on, Mr. Vice President, you've just had a catheter tube inserted into your leg and run up to your heart to reopen the same clogged artery that'd been propped open by a metal stent back in November, and you feel "good"? What would it take before you admit to being "a little under the weather" -- the onset of rigor mortis? The problem is that, like all addicts, he's not just lying to us, he's lying to himself. Cheney's doctors say there is a 40-percent likelihood that he'll have another episode like the one he just suffered -- not great odds. Nevertheless, Cheney has already resumed his supercharged work schedule. "There is an increasing amount of scientific evidence," Dr. Dean Ornish told me, "that stress plays a large role. All these bypasses and angioplasties only temporize the problem. It's important to address the underlying causes of the condition rather than literally and metaphorically bypassing them." Underlying causes, like, you know, the vice presidency. When asked if he thought his ailing No. 2 should cut back on his responsibilities, our compassionate president said no: "He's plenty strong and plenty capable of carrying the workload that he's been working in the past." Of course, to the Bush family, Cheney is just a political version of the help. The question remains: Is the vice president on a suicide mission -- or just unable to overcome his type-A addiction to the adrenaline highs of his lofty position? After his last heart attack, he was asked if he was worried about having another one. "I don't operate that way," he replied. No, you just put the gun to your head and see if the next chamber is the one with the bullet. Which is why you would have hoped that the people who love him the most -- his wife, his daughters, his close friends -- would have intervened by now. But they haven't -- and clearly the enablers he works with are not likely to. President Bush called this week's cardiac catheterization, which Cheney's cardiologist termed "urgent" and "significant," a "precautionary measure." To me "precautionary" suggests adding some extra fruit and vegetables to your diet, not having a balloon inflated inside your heart. Of course, this is not the first time the seriousness of the vice president's condition has been obscured in a cloud of euphemistic understatement and out-and-out lying. "Dick Cheney is healthy. He did not have a heart attack," Bush told reporters last November when Cheney was hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. And the obfuscation beat
[CTRL] First biotech insect to be released in U. S.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/03/08/biotech.insect.ap/index.html First biotech insect to be released in U. S. March 8, 2001 Web posted at: 11:51 AM EST (1651 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- By tinkering with genes, scientists have made tomatoes that stay fresher longer, crops that are immune to weedkillers and fish that grow faster. Now, a genetically engineered insect is emerging from the lab. The first field trial of a biotech insect -- a pink bollworm moth that contains a jellyfish gene -- is planned for this summer. The gene gives the moth larvae a fluorescence that allows scientists to more easily track them and monitor their behavior. If the experiment involving a major pest to cotton growers goes as planned, scientists are ready with their next step: testing a biotech version, called the "Terminator" by farmers, that is sterile, but sexually active; it is designed to mate with wild relatives and eliminate their offspring. Some 3,600 moths with the jellyfish genes are to be set free under screened cages in a government-owned cotton field near Phoenix. The next step would be to add genes that make the moths sterile. "We're being very, very careful about what we're doing," said Robert Staten, an Agriculture Department scientist who will run the field trial. The experiment is being conducted and regulated by department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service because of its authority for controlling plant pests. Staten expects the agency to grant approval this spring for the release. "We're going to take as conservative an approach as we can and still move forward," he said. Some biotech critics are alarmed while some scientists who support the technology say the government is not prepared to properly regulate biotech insects. Under development, for example, are disease-preventing mosquitoes that could deliver vaccines to the people they bite or carry their own antibiotics. "When you're talking about insects you're talking about extremely promiscuous organisms that will mutate and breed quite uncontrollably," said Charles Margulis, an anti-biotech activist with the environmental group Greenpeace. He said there is no guarantee that an insect designed to be sterile will turn out that way. The pink bollworm moth infects about 500,000 acres (200,000 hectares) of cotton in the Southwest. Farmers currently have three options to control them: spraying a lot of insecticide; planting an expensive variety of genetically engineered cotton that makes its own insecticide; or by releasing moths sterilized by irradiation. Irradiated moths are less effective in areas with heavy infestation because the treatment damages the insects so much that they are slow to mate. The genetically engineered moth is designed to have the same sexual prowess as its wild cousins. "He'd be fully sexually aggressive and go out and meet and breed. He'd be the first guy in the bars at night," said John Benson, a farmer in California's Imperial Valley and a member of the California Cotton Pest Control Board, which has funded the research through producer fees. "We see this as the one sure way to get eradication," he said. It takes 60 irradiated moths for every wild one to make sure there are enough to mate and eliminate the chance of offspring. With the biotech moths, a 5-1 ratio is sufficient, said Thomas Miller, a University of California-Riverside entomologist who developed the moth. The biotech moths would be cheaper for farmers to use than the gene-altered cotton, Miller said. The biotech cotton, although highly effective, costs farmers up to $30 an acre (0.4 hectare) more than conventional cotton. Some biotech critics are concerned that overuse of the gene-altered cotton, known as Bt for the insecticide it contains, will lead to an increase in insect resistance to Bt sprays, which are used on fruit and vegetable crops. Use of a biotech moth to control pink bollworm infestations makes that resistance less likely to develop, said Charles Benbrook, an agricultural consultant to environmental groups. This summer's experiment with the biotech moths will be conducted in three cages, each about 12-feet wide by 24-feet long. The cotton field in which they are placed is surrounded by a 6-foot chain link fence to deter vandals. There is little chance of the moths escaping "barring a major weather catastrophe," according to the application for the release. As a precaution, the moths containing the jellyfish genes will be irradiated to ensure that even if they do escape they can't reproduce. The gene-altered moths will then be studied to see if there is any unusual behavior.
[CTRL] NEWS STORY - Update March 8, 2001
-Caveat Lector- http://www.ecologynews.com/cuenews12.html 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 (Universebooks.com), environmentalist Alfred Webre, believes the deep, magnitude 6.8 earthquake may have been triggered by electromagnetic (EM) events. Other researchers, including members of the ELFRAD Group, which monitors electromagnetic (EM) events, note that HAARP, a U.S. electromagnetic (EM) weapons system in Alaska, - or some other EM source piggy- backing on HAARP's signal - may have inadvertently or intentionally affected the earthquake. In the mid-1990s, despite the strong opposition of Congressman Ronald V. Dellums (Dem.-Calif.) the U.S. Congress narrowly approved HAARP, in the face of studies showing HAARP's negative environmental impacts. The U.S. Navy assured Congress that HAARP would not trigger climate change or seismic events like the Seattle-Vancouver earthquake. Now, if it can be established that HAARP - or some other EM installation - had a role in causing this earthquake, the U.S. domestic and international repercussions of this finding could be profound. In the aftermath of the Seattle-Vancouver quake, a Yakima valley, Washington researcher, writing agreed with Webre's analysis that earthquakes can be triggered by electromagnetic EM warfare. He stated, "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 can possibly trigger cataclysmic earth events. EM fields can superheat the ionosphere, devastating magnetic bands around the earth, and in turn causing massive disruption of the earths 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. (and other nations') 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 - and EM environmental weapons deployed secretly by many nations - could superheat the ionosphere, and substantially damage or destroy it in a runaway ecological process. Seattle-based researcher Kent Steadman 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. HAARP maybe?" Steadman continues, "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." Ominously, two earthquakes along the North American-South American Pacific Rim occurred just following the electromagnetic EM environmental war signals - The Seattle-Vancouver earthquake, and an earthquake off Central America. Were these triggered by the same signals? The director of the ELFRAD group that monitors EM electromagnetic activity, including HAARP and other 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
[CTRL] [radtimes] # 176
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 176 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- Send $$ to RadTimes!! -- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --The Fall of a Hells Angel Leader --US urged to create new space-spying office --Private US firm training both sides in Balkans --The Zapatista Army Marches through all America --Killer Nation --Sudanese children trade in guns for schoolbooks === The Fall of a Hells Angel Leader http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15406-2001Mar2.html?GXHC_gx_session_id_FutureTenseContentServer=e2215344abdef117referer=email Indictment Alleges Spokesman's Charity Masks Drug Ring By Jeff Adler Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 3, 2001; Page A07 VENTURA, Calif. - George Christie Jr., national spokesman for the Hells Angels biker group, ran the 1984 Olympic Torch Relay to raise money for charity. He once poured cash into a children's museum to rescue it from financial collapse. But prosecutors here say his philanthropy has been nothing more than a front for a criminal organization that targeted teenagers to sell and buy drugs. Christie, 53, also president of the local biker chapter, appeared in state court here this week asking a judge to lower the $1 million bond authorities are holding him on while he awaits trial on a variety of drug and racketeering charges. The judge refused Christie's request and sent him back to jail. The charges Christie faces, fraud, theft, selling drugs to benefit a street gang, firearms possession and tax evasion, are the culmination of a four-year investigation during which prosecutors used wiretaps and informants to penetrate the Ventura County chapter of the Hells Angels. Last week, a county grand jury indicted 28 members and associates of the Hells Angels, including Christie's wife, Cheryl Christie, 53, the couple's son, George Christie III, 24, and their daughter, Moriya Christie, 29, a lawyer who sometimes represents Hells Angels in court. The family faces more than 50 criminal counts altogether. The 197-page indictment details how the local chapter of the international biker group allegedly funneled hundreds of thousands of tranquilizer and painkiller pills from the Los Angeles Air Force Base through a group of teens called "The Outfit" who were recruited to sell the drugs to high school students here. "We're alleging that the Outfit kids sold drugs on campus and that they were associated with the Hells Angels street gang," said Jeff Bennett, chief deputy district attorney for Ventura County. The drugs initially came from Joshua Adams, 23, an airman who worked in a medical clinic at the air base, Bennett said. Adams allegedly stole about 700,000 pills of Valium and the pain medication Vicodin, which he sold to a Hells Angel, according to the indictment. Christie's attorney, Barry Tarlow, declined to comment on the case. Tarlow is a former federal prosecutor who won an acquittal for Christie in a 1987 murder-for-hire case. That trial notwithstanding, Christie has spent more than two decades trying to improve the image of the oft-maligned Hells Angels, all while keeping members' rugged, tattoo-covered exteriors. For many years, he has owned a tattoo parlor in Ventura called The Ink House, the same one prosecutors allege was a front for Christie's criminal enterprise. Some neighbors are reluctant to talk about Christie. But other merchants describe him as "polite" and "very friendly." In 1984, Christie raised $3,000 for the Special Olympics when he ran in the torch relay and later took officials of the charity to court to ensure that the money benefited mentally retarded children, not administrators. He has lectured in colleges and high schools about ethics. When the nearby Gull Wings Children's Museum faced bankruptcy in 1997, Christie and his motorcycle brethren organized a concert that raised more than $5,000. "Had they not done that, the museum would have closed," said Leana Bowman, the museum's executive director. Law enforcement officials dismiss these acts as infrequent stabs at improving the bikers' public relations. But Christie has caused many in this beach community to rethink their opinions of the Hells Angels. "I think most people see the Hells Angels today as a radical group from the past that's aging and now more interested in doing something good," said merchant Doug Halter. "I guess the concern is whether that's strictly a facade or that's who they are." Christie's public image has suffered setbacks, none more noteworthy than the 1987 trial, in which prosecutors charged that he solicited the murder of a former Angels associate who had turned informant. Tarlow argued that law enforcement set up
[CTRL] [HardGreenHerald] # 6
-Caveat Lector- [HardGreenHerald] # 6 "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: --- --Protests But No Violence at Climate Talks --Greens say farmers will pay price for genetic pollution --Timber Subsidies: This Price Isnt Right --Greens blast developed countries for energy double-talk --Altered Grain Discovered In Corn Seed --Becoming genomic: Just what does it mean anyway? --Timber Subsidies Reach Record Levels --No End In Sight To Foot And Mouth Crisis === Protests But No Violence at Climate Talks http://sierraactivist.org/2001/03/03/protest.html Los Angeles Times - March 2, 2001 By PHILIP PULLELLA TRIESTE, Italy - Several thousand demonstrators protested on Saturday as environment ministers from G8 countries got down to the nitty-gritty of how to fight climate change. The anti-globalization demonstrators staged a loud but mostly peaceful protest near the venue of the talks, throwing colored smoke bombs and sending flares into the sky over the heads of security forces. But police, who were decked out in riot gear and brandishing tear gas guns, stayed calm as the demonstrators passed within about half a kilometer from the venue and then moved on to hold a rally near the train station. More than 3,000 police and special bomb and marine units moved into the area over the past two days to prepare for possible clashes. The talks have been marked by concerns that uncertainty over the U.S. position may weaken consensus when they end on Sunday. The new administration of President George W. Bush, represented in Trieste by environment policy head Christine Todd Whitman, has said it wants to move ahead in tackling global warming and will attend key talks in Bonn in July. Far less clear is how much baggage the United States wants to carry over from failed U.N. global warming talks in The Hague last November, where it fell out with the European Union, forcing the talks to be suspended. "It was a very frank and open discussion. It's clear there's a consensus among everyone at the table that global climate change is enormously important issue that has to be confronted in each country's policy discussions," Whitman told Reuters as she left the discussions on climate. FIRST ATTEMPT SINCE NOVEMBER The Trieste meeting is the first time ministers have met since the session at The Hague, which tried to move the world forward on implementing the 1997 Kyoto agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Italian Environment Minister Willer Bordon, speaking during a break in the closed-door meeting, tried to put a positive spin on uncertainty surrounding the U.S. position. "I can say with certainty that there will not be a negative message coming out of Trieste. There will be no backtracking. That doesn't mean that everything that happened at The Hague (before talks were suspended) will be accepted en masse," he said. "This means that there will be no rethinking of the principal objective, the reduction of greenhouse gases. This is the fundamental point and today everyone confirmed their maximum commitment and Whitman made a very positive contribution," Bordon said. Whitman said on Friday the United States planned to completely review the Clinton administration's stance on global warming before re-entering international climate talks in Bonn. She said Bush would not automatically offer the same compromises the Clinton camp hammered out with European countries at The Hague. A U.N. scientific panel has said the average global temperature is likely to rise by between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees Celsius (2.5-10.4 Fahrenheit) over the next 100 years. Sea levels could rise by as much as 88 cm (35 inches). Such a change in temperature, which many scientists believe is being caused by pollution trapping heat in the atmosphere, would mean widespread droughts and floods and massive economic and natural damage, experts say. While most countries are refusing to ratify the Kyoto deal until rules on how to implement the cuts are in place, environmentalists see the accord as the best chance to save the planet from rising sea levels and massive weather changes. === Greens say farmers will pay price for 'genetic pollution' http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/03/03032001/upi_starlink_42343.asp Saturday, March 3, 2001 By United Press International Word that StarLink has been found in seed corn shipped for the 2001 crop Friday had environmentalists warning that U.S. farmers will pay the price for "genetic pollution." StarLink is the genetically engineered corn that was approved only for animal consumption but accidentally made its way into the human food chain, prompting overseas
[CTRL] 21 Gun Salute - Goodbye to the Chief?
-Caveat Lector- This may be a little severe, but here is the latest one I guess going around - Saba MADAMBUTTERFLY6 I sat last month, as did millions of other American's, and watched as our government underwent a peaceful transition of power. I was proud as Mr. Bush took his oath of office. I was sad, as I watched Mr. Clinton board Air Force One for the final time. It may surprise you that this made me sad, but let me explain. Watching this part of the days festivities, I saw 21 U.S. Marines in full dress blues with rifles deliver a 21 gun salute to the outgoing president. It was then that I realized what was wrong with America's military. They need more target practice and time on the range with their weapons. Every last one of them missed! 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] First Star Of The Internet Retires
-Caveat Lector- And this relates to conspiracy researchHOW? June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] John Glenn on Fraiser
-Caveat Lector- On 8 Mar 01, at 10:22, Nurev Ind Research wrote: A TV writer wrote this. This is no different from the X-files. Get with it man. Joshua2 But why would John Glen make this statement on TV? The writer did not make him say it and one has to wonder why he chose to say it. He is an former astronaut and a Senator. Nobody makes him say anything he does not want to say. You get with it. Steve ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: UNDERNEWS MAR 8
March 8, 2001 THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW Editor: Sam Smith Washington's most unofficial source 1312 18th St. NW #502, Washington DC 20036 202-835-0770 Fax: 835-0779 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB SITE: http://prorev.com READERS FORUM: http://prorev.com/bb.htm - WORD The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently. - Gustav Landauer MISSION CREEP UPI: Claims by US military officials that a new skin-heating weapon causes no permanent health problems are exaggerated and highly suspect, experts told United Press International on Tuesday. Possible long-term side-effects could include cancer and cataracts, they said. "Their claims are a bunch of crap," said Professor W. Ross Adey, professor of physiology at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif. "We've known that many forms of microwaves at levels below heating can cause significant health effects in the long term." . . . Military officials say the device sends brief pulses of electromagnetic energy 1/64 inch deep into skin, agitating water molecules in the skin and causing thermal agitation, or a feeling of heat. The pain is similar to touching a hot light bulb but stops once the waves stop. The idea is to generate enough heat on the skin that the individual retreats from the beam . . . "The principles set forth in international law say that you can't use weapons that cause irreparable damage or irreversible injury and we think there just hasn't been enough testing here," said Joost Hiltermann, arms division director for Human Rights Watch in Washington. "They've tested on volunteers who are probably healthy, but what happens when they aim it at pregnant women or children or people who already have a disease that could be worsened by exposure?" ELABORATIONS Santee High School RICK JAHNKOW, PROJECT ON YOUTH AND NON-MILITARY OPPORTUNITIES: I thought you all might be interested in these facts about the gun attack yesterday by Andrew Williams, a 15-year-old student at Santana High School. Some of this information I picked up from news reports, the rest is based on my own experience with, and personal knowledge of, the community and the school: --Santee, the town where Santana H.S. is located, is in a semi-rural part of eastern San Diego County. It is a very conservative area with lots of gun advocates. Some people refer to it as "Klantee." --In the last two years, Santee has been in the local news because of racist fliers circulated at the high school and a near-fatal hate-attack on an African American Marine who was attending a party in the community. --As of March 6, there had been no explicit statement from Andy Williams that he was targeting any particular people when he killed two and wounded 13 others at Santana H.S. Nor had there been any stories indicating that he belonged to any hate groups. However, while Blacks, Latinos and Asians make up only 15% of the Santana H.S. student body, 40% of the list of people who were shot have Spanish surnames. --Project YANO has attended the career fairs at Santana H.S. regularly (except for last year) to counter the presence of military recruiters. The military, especially the Marine Corps, swarms all over the school. The career fair coordinator has frequently used the p.a. system to urge students to visit military exhibits. She has never plugged Project YANO as an alternative. Santana is one of the very few schools where Project YANO has seen overt hostility from students to its counter-recruitment message. --The school district, Grossmont UHSD, had to be sued in the 1980s to allow peace groups equal access to its schools. Grossmont was the plaintiff in the 9th Circuit appellate court ruling that is now used as a lever for access by counter-recruitment groups. --Before Andy Williams packed his gun and left for school on the morning of March 5, he put on his Navy SEAL sweatshirt. That's what he was arrested in. Clearly it was part of the statement he was making. Everyone is looking for individualistic reasons to explain this tragedy (bad parents, lack of counseling for the student, school bullies, etc.). Very few seem willing to look at the value system, including militarism, that encouraged Andrew Williams to think it was proper to resolve his problems this way. [EMAIL PROTECTED] FEEDBACK PROFESSOR JOAN ROELOFS ON THERAPY: Seligman is good but he turned me off because he devised his system to help life insurance salesmen, who should give up. I enjoy, and have passed along to friends and family, "Constructive Living" by David K. Reynolds (all his books are pretty much the same, titles vary). This is an Americanization of Morita therapy, based on Zen Buddhism. It is cheap, and avoids spiritual talk. NEWS FROM THE COLONIES DIETMAR HENNING, WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE: Germany's Social Democratic - Green party
[CTRL] Clinton connected to Marcellos to Lansky - and he visited Moscow?
-Caveat Lector- This item is interesting but was not aware of Clinton connection to Marcellos if this be true through his "family"yet Clinton's name, is not Clinton and there are stories that this Blythe was in Germany or overseas in timeframe where he was declared father of William Jefferson Clinton. This Clinton evidenty has always been part of murder inc. and that is why he has a longer body bag count than Jack the RipperManchurian Candidate? By their fruits you shall know them. Have no way to verify this information and not familiiar with Roger Morris credentials..are the people of America now so corrupted by money they do not now care? Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Marc Reich aka Rich and his wife who took 350 million dollar settlement in divorce? Keeping in mind we have KGB in our FBI and in Kissinger, we have KGB with us always (Kissinger, Code Name Bor Soviet Agent).. What is Bill Clinton's real name? Bill Juke? Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Thu, Mar 8, 2001, 10:01pm Subject: ROGER MORRIS: Don't pardon corruption To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Clinton's 11th-hour pardons cap a seedy career that Americans should be ashamed of, says biographer ROGER MORRIS Wednesday, March 7, 2001 There is an emblematic moment at the start of Bill Clinton's political life. It is January, 1974, and the 27-year-old future president, only months out of Yale Law School, is back in Arkansas eager to run for Congress. A relative unknown, he faces an imposing field of rivals in the Democratic primary, and beyond, in the general election, a powerful Republican incumbent. Yet as soon as he enters the race, Mr. Clinton enjoys a decisive seven-to-one advantage in campaign funds over the nearest Democratic competitor, and will spend twice as much as his well-supported GOP opponent. It begins with a quiet meeting at his mother's house in Hot Springs. Around the kitchen table, as Virginia Clinton will describe the scene, avid young Billy meets with two of his most crucial early backers -- uncle Raymond G. Clinton, a prosperous local Buick dealer, and family friend and wealthy businessman Gabe Crawford. As they talk, Mr. Crawford offers the candidate unlimited use of his private plane, and uncle Raymond not only provides several houses around the district to serve as campaign headquarters, but will secure a $10,000 loan to Bill from the First National Bank of Hot Springs -- an amount then equal to the yearly income of many Arkansas families. Together, the money and aircraft and other gifts, including thousands more in secret donations, will launch Mr. Clinton in the most richly financed race in the annals of Arkansas -- and ultimately onto the most richly financed political career in American history. Though he loses narrowly in 1974, his showing is so impressive, especially in his capacity to attract such money and favours, that he rises rapidly to become state attorney-general, then governor, and eventually, with much the same backing and advantage, president of the United States. Those obscure origins have been a ghostly echo amid the pall of scandal that now hangs over Mr. Clinton's last days in the White House. The gush of lavish gifts from retainers, the fat contributions to the Clinton presidential library, his legal defence fund, Mrs. Clinton's own senatorial war chest, the favours to and from relatives and old friends, and, of course, the notorious 11th-hour pardons of criminal financier Marc Rich, drug kingpin Carlos Vignali and others whose allies variously funnelled money to the Clintons: There is a sense in which we have seen it all before, though a sense, too, in which most Americans still don't grasp what they are looking at. Around his mother's kitchen table that winter a quarter of a century ago -- like so much that happened over the course and climax of the Clinton presidency -- nothing was quite what it seemed. No mere businessman with a spare plane, Gabe Crawford presided over a backroom bookie operation that was one of Hot Springs' most lucrative criminal enterprises. And just as Marc Rich, with his sordid international trafficking from Manhattan to Tripoli, was no ordinary investor, the inimitable uncle Raymond -- who had also played a pivotal behind-the-scenes role in keeping young Bill out of the Vietnam draft -- was far more than an auto dealer. In the nationally prominent fount of vice and corruption that was Hot Springs from the 1920s to the 1980s (its barely concealed casinos generated more income than Las Vegas well into the 1960s), the uncle's Buick agency and other businesses and real estate were widely thought to be facades for illegal gambling, drug money laundering and other ventures, in which Raymond was a partner. He was a minion of the organized crime overlord who controlled the American Middle South for decades, New Orleans boss Carlos Marcello or "Mafia Kingfish" as his biographer John Davis called him. It was in this milieu, this shadow, that Bill
[CTRL] Armies Of Compassion: GW Bush's Compassionate Fascism
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Lloyd Miller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Armies Of Compassion: GW Bush's Compassionate Fascism Date: Saturday, February 24, 2001 12:38 PM http://baltech.org/lederman/spray/bush-religion-2-06-01.html Armies Of Compassion: GW Bush's Compassionate Fascism by Robert Lederman (718) 743-3722 [EMAIL PROTECTED] February 2, 2001 "As President, I will lead the federal government to take bold steps to rally America's armies of compassion." GW Bush January 30, 2001 from his introduction to the agenda for his faith-based initiative, "Rally the Armies of Compassion." On the surface it sounds like a good idea. Let faith-based religious organizations compete with government programs for funds to service the homeless, the hungry, drug addicts, welfare recipients, children and prisoners. The notion of a Federally-funded "army" making war on social evils is not new. We've had the war against drugs and the war against poverty, programs which have consumed trillions of dollars in a failed attempt to eradicate poverty and drug use. Their main success? The creation of a huge Federal bureaucracy. Making religious groups compete with government agencies for Federal funds also sounds good - until you really think about it. Since many of these groups use non-salaried volunteers or psychologically-coerced recruits as employees, they will have no trouble delivering services less expensively than a government program which provides relatively qualified employees with a salary and health benefits. As President of an artists' rights group, which rejects funding and government interference of any kind, I've observed the creativity and freedom of millions of American artists compromised through a similar system of competition for government money. Art and religion have much in common. You can make art without First Amendment freedom - Nazi Germany, the USSR and Communist China had vast art programs involving millions of exceptional artists. You can also have religion without religious freedom. All history will remember about such religious or artistic efforts are how spiritually dead they were. Millions of contemporary American artists now divide their time between applying for government grants and making art. Their ideas are conditioned by the grant requirements. Rather than helping America's artists, the NEA created a vast beauracracy of art lawyers, program administrators, curators and museum directors who serve as the gateway to government money. These administrators are the high priests of the art world. American museums, art galleries, television stations and theatrical companies must modify and self-censor their works every day thanks to this dependency on Federal funds. It's ironic to see the conservatives who led the fight against the NEA leading the fight to enslave religious institutions in this same money trap. Art and religion are the conscience of humankind, the voice which stands up to tyranny at great risk when all others have been silenced and compromised. America is a religious nation with thousands of sects and denominations that are substantially free of government control or regulation. Do we want our religious institutions to modify their messages as American artists have been forced to do? Do we want official religion the way we now have official art? It's worth noting how official art came about in the US. Most Americans have a dismissive attitude towards so-called modern art imagining that its abstract imagery is due to artistic preferences. In fact, it has far more to do with the CIA and America's ruling elite - in particular the Rockefeller family. [1] In the nineteen thirties and forties American artists were heavily involved in protests against poverty, racism and corporate control. They used figurative art, murals and realism not only to express their feeling about these social problems but to rally the public to do something about them. Then the State Department, the CIA and the Rockefellers stepped in and began promoting abstract art, beginning with the Rockefellers' Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Ever wonder why America's wealthiest families spend billions on giant paintings and sculptures that represent nothing and why the government erects huge museums to display these non-wonders? In the fifties and sixties the government created public school programs to brainwash American children about art. Millions of these children then grew up to become artists specializing in abstraction and non-figurative art. The CIA and these same ruling families are also behind President Bush's Army of Compassion, which hopes to make religious organizations as dependent on government funding as arts
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-Caveat Lector- From http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2001/3/8/145044 }}Begin NewsMax.com Is Bush Green? Diane Alden March 8, 2001 I am just wondering why the Bush administration is about to take the plunge into junk science, the Kyoto Protocols, Al Gore lite, and a total misunderstanding of the CO2 factor in the ever so trendy notion called "global warming." This is a theory that Frederick Seitz, past president of the National Academy of Sciences, and original prophet of global warming James Hansen say cannot be conjured out of the best computer models or the information available for even a hundred years. No one knows why climate changes as it has over the last 4.5 billion years. Ice ages as well as deserts and tropical conditions come and go. Some blame sunspots, some blame volcanic activity or say changes on the ocean fl oor set up new currents of cold or warm ocean waters that in turn affect the environment. El Nio and La Nia, factors in the same cold and warm ocean currents, have NOTHING to do with global warming. Just as the prophets of doom were so sure of a "new ice age" 25 years ago, the notion of global warming and its causes is far from being science-based. But regardless, the Bush administration wants to make a stab at tweaking the environment and putting in its two cents' worth on the issues made "important" by the Club of Rome, U.N. Agenda 21, the various green groups and bad science from the Paul Ehrlichs and Barry Commoners of the world. No one calls these two bozos on the numbers of predictions they made that not come true but sure created a climate for the sky-is-falling crowd. As Y2K became a cottage industry for some, global warming, endangered species and whatever statist scam the Sierra Club is promoting seem institutionalized even among Republicans of the moderate and green persuasion. It would seem that the Bush administration wants to establish the re-energized vampire known as the Kyoto Protocol which Congress decided was Al Gore Druidism on an international scale. The only difference is that Bush and Christie Todd Whitman will effectively establish the Kyoto Protocol one carbon atom at a time. The biggest mistakes Bush has made so far have to do with his attitude on environmental policy. His mistakes extend from his failure to rescind Clinton's land grabs to appointing Christie Todd Whitman as head of the Envir onmental Protection Agency. The woman knows more about taxes than she does about environmental problems. The environmental movement loves her. Since environmental concerns are, in the words of one sage at Fox News, a "Republican throwaway issue," no one on the Hill or in the Bush administration cares much about that topic ex cept to hope it goes away. Thus we get Christie Todd Whitman, who, like her predecessor Carol Browner, never knew an unscientific environmental policy she didn't swallow whole. Just like Browner, Whitman may create envir onmental mandates for the states that will be budget-busters and more reason to raise state taxes in order to keep up. Fox News reports, "Whitman also said the Bush administration is considering imposing limits on carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's power plants. ..." Amazing, considering her lack of expertise on the environment. W hen asked for her thoughts on global warming several months ago, Whitman responded, still somewhat uncertain. "Clearly there's a hole in the ozone, that has been identified. But I saw a study the other day that showed tha t it was closing. It's not as clear, the cause and effect, as we would like it to be." Whoops! A slip of the tongue perhaps, but neither global warming nor the ozone hole can definitely be pinned on anything mankind has done. Frederick Seitz, past president of the National Academy of Sciences, and 18,000 of his fellow scientists have stated: "Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmenta lly helpful." These scientists were not funded by a left-leaning foundation or a government study, but have done the research on their own. There is a danger in government-funded science it can come up with "proof" to go along with t he "plan" or preconceived notions that government has in place. From global warming to wolf reintroduction, government science is no better now than it was when it placed forest health way down the list of important issue s. All it knew is that the environmental community demanded a pristine, museum approach to nature, and that is what they got. Nothing much has changed, and apparently there will still be top-down foolish government centra l planning to accomplish a green-based agenda. Government science is rarely if ever held accountable when it turns out to be phony and very unscientific; therefore, pronouncements based on government science should be looked on in
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-Caveat Lector- Amen Aleisha! -- Michael The Outlawlady The Joshua Report http://members.spree.com/education/2302410/ Aleisha Saba wrote: -Caveat Lector- This may be a little severe, but here is the latest one I guess going around - Saba MADAMBUTTERFLY6 I sat last month, as did millions of other American's, and watched as our government underwent a peaceful transition of power. I was proud as Mr. Bush took his oath of office. I was sad, as I watched Mr. Clinton board Air Force One for the final time. It may surprise you that this made me sad, but let me explain. Watching this part of the days festivities, I saw 21 U.S. Marines in full dress blues with rifles deliver a 21 gun salute to the outgoing president. It was then that I realized what was wrong with America's military. They need more target practice and time on the range with their weapons. Every last one of them missed! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
