[CTRL] Pleading the 16th

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 SUNDAY QA
 Inside Oklahoma's 16th Amendment lawsuit
 Geoff Metcalf interviews attorney Larry Becraft on ratification challenge
 Editor's note: In January, Geoff Metcalf interviewed Devvy Kidd regarding her
 organization, the Wallace Institute, and its recent lawsuit filed in Oklahoma
 challenging the legitimacy of the ratification of the 16th Amendment that gave
 Americans the income tax. Attorney Larry Becraft, co-founder and chief counsel of the
 Wallace Institute, provides the following update on that lawsuit, which was based on
 the research of former tax man Bill Benson.

 Once a criminal investigator for the Illinois Department of Revenue, Benson undertook
 a year-long research project that took him to all 48 contiguous states. His efforts
 resulted ultimately in the publication of "The Law that Never Was," which contends
 that the 16th Amendment was never legally ratified.


 The April edition of WorldNet magazine, WND's monthly print magazine, will be devoted
 entirely to the issue of the 16th Amendment, the IRS and income taxes. Readers may
 subscribe to WorldNet at WND's online store.


 Metcalf's daily streaming radio show can be heard on TalkNetDaily weekdays from 7
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 By Geoff Metcalf
  2001 WorldNetDaily.com

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repeatedly and in depth that not only the emperor but even the
"democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist
by exploitive rule over the public; and that such rule is the reverse
of objective necessity.  He strives to show that the existence of
taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between
the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled.  He seeks to show that
the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State
has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to
accept State rule and that these intellectuals obtain, in return, a
share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded
subjects.
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[CTRL] Skirting What the First Amendment Says

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18247-2001Mar17.html

Skirting What the First Amendment Says
By George F. Will
Sunday, March 18, 2001; Page B07
With this week's beginning of Senate debate on campaign finance
reform, we will reach the most pivotal moment in the history of American
freedom since the civil rights revolution 3 1/2 decades ago. The debate
concerns John McCain's plan to broaden government limitations on
political spending in order to intensify government supervision of political
speech, which depends on that spending.
McCain's attempt to expand government abridgement of the First
Amendment's core concern comes in the context of rapidly multiplying
rationales for vitiating First Amendment protection of political speech. In
recent years law school journals have featured many professors'
theories about why the amendment -- "Congress shall make no law . . .
abridging the freedom of speech" -- should not be read as a limit on
government. Rather, they argue, the amendment empowers -- indeed, in
today's world it requires -- government to regulate, limit and even
"enhance" political speech.
Consider a symptomatic new book, "Republic.com," by University of
Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein, whose ingenuity deserves better
employment. He vigorously attacks a nonexistent problem, to which he
proposes a solution that is only, but very, useful as an illustration of the
hostility that a portion of the professoriate has toward the plain text of
the First Amendment.
The supposed problem that Sunstein wants government to address is a
maldistribution of information and opinion. He begins with a truism, that
a heterogeneous society needs the glue of a certain level of common
experiences. Then he postulates a problem. It is that the very richness
of today's information and opinion environment -- the Internet, cable, etc.
-- allows people to design a personalized menu of communications,
deciding what they want to encounter and what they want to filter out of
"a communications universe of their own choosing."
Sunstein says unplanned, unanticipated, even -- perhaps especially -- unwanted 
encounters are "central to democracy." They help us understand one another and prevent 
social fragmentation and the extremism that ferments in
 closed cohorts of the like-minded hearing only "louder echoes of their own voices." 
Sunstein worries especially that the Internet, by bestowing on individuals the power 
to customize what they encounter, enables people to
 bypass "general interest intermediaries" such as newspapers and magazines.
Not so long ago, intellectuals worried that mass media were homogenizing American 
culture into uniform blandness. Now Sunstein worries about new technologies allowing 
people to "wall themselves off" from differences of op
inion, forming isolated enclaves.
What makes Sunstein's book pertinent to campaign finance reformers' current assaults 
on the First Amendment is not the plausibility of his diagnosis -- who in cacophonous 
contemporary America feels insufficiently exposed
to differences? But note the audacity of his prescription. He would have government 
use various measures -- from "must carry" requirements for broadcasters to mandatory 
links connecting Web sites to others promoting diffe
rent views -- to manage "the scarce commodity" of the public's attention. Government, 
he thinks, should actively "promote exposure to materials that people would not have 
chosen in advance."
Now, never mind the many practical problems implicit in Sunstein's theory, such as how 
government will decide which views are insufficiently noticed, and how government will 
"trigger" (Sunstein's word) public interest in
them. But mind this:
Sunstein is an ardent campaign finance reformer for the same reason he recommends 
government management of the information system. He thinks the First Amendment 
mandates this. He does not read the amendment as a "shall no
t" stipulation that proscribes government interference with individual rights. Rather, 
he reads it as a mandate for active government management of the public's "attention."
To Sunstein, and to many similar academic advocates of speech-management through 
campaign finance reform, what is important about the First Amendment is not its text 
but the "values" they say the amendment represents. The
y say those values -- vigorous debate; deliberative democracy; political
heterodoxy -- require that the amendment's text be ignored as an
anachronism that modern life (the Internet, the costs of campaigning in
the age of broadcasting, etc.) has rendered inimical to the amendment's
values.
Politicians who, in the name of campaign finance reform, favor increased
government supervision of political communication are not motivated by
such recondite reasoning. They simply want to tilt the system even
more toward the protection of incumbents, or of their ideological
interests, or of their ability to control their campaigns by controlling 

[CTRL] FW: [cp] Text Version-New Mexico to Consider Radical Drug Reform

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Gov. Gary Johnson - Don Quixote of WOSD


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Legalized Marijuana?

— The war on drugs is about to take a monumental new turn in New
Mexico.  Proposed legislation would put the state on the map as the
first in the nation to formally shift drug control policy from
incarceration to treatment.

The Legislature is now considering, and will vote on this weekend, a
sweeping package of laws that amount to a dramatically different
approach for dealing with the problem of drugs — including legislation
that would decriminalize the possession of marijuana for personal use.

Other states may soon follow suit.  The legislation is being
aggressively promoted by the state's Republican governor, who
acknowledges he may be committing an act of political suicide.

Gov.  Gary Johnson has defied his own party to spearhead the proposed
new laws.  "This is a medical problem," he insists.  "This is not a
criminal justice problem."

A Risky Political Move

Among the bills being debated is a measure that would make the
possession of an ounce of marijuana a civil infraction — like a parking
ticket — not a crime.  It would also legalize medicinal marijuana.

It will give judges discretion in how they issue drug-related
sentences.  And first- and second-time offenders convicted of
possession of small amounts of narcotics — everything from heroin to
cocaine — would be sentenced to treatment, not jail.

"The time has come in this country that we stop arresting individuals
for doing arguably no harm to anyone other than themselves," says
Johnson.

At the heart of the governor's philosophy is the idea that locking
people away in prison for drug possession simply doesn't work.  He
pushes his radical approach, knowing full well it will likely cost him his
political future.

Republican state Rep.  Ron Godbey thinks it is extremely dangerous
legislation.  He says the governor has betrayed his party.

"Any time drugs have been readily available, consumption increases,
addiction increases and crime goes up," says Godbey.

Treatment Over Incarceration

The governor counters with the argument drug experts have pressed for
years: Tough enforcement alone doesn't work.

"We have more drugs available, they're more easily available, they're
purer and less expensive than they were 30 years ago when we started
the war on drugs," says Katherine Huffman of the Lindesmith Center.

Anna-Mare Perez, a 32-year-old mother of four, is a prime example of
the governor's belief.

She is an addict, first locked up for possession of a small amount of
heroin.  It was the beginning of many arrests and more prison.

"They just wanted to warehouse me," says Perez.  "Put me in prison
and detain me for a little while."

Under the proposed legislation, Perez's first drug arrest would have
landed her in a clinic instead of a cell.

With these new laws, the governor and others are convinced Perez's life
—
and thousands like hers — could have turned out differently.

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drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly
a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not,
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[CTRL] Fw: Irradiated foods

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 Chemical Formed in Irradiated Food Damages DNA, Recent
Study Reveals

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/InformationNewChemicalF
ormed.htm


   In a rare opportunity to speak publicly about food
irradiation before
 a
 captive audience of government officials and food industry
executives,
 Public Citizen this week released the world's first
English translation
 of
 a recent German study revealing that a chemical formed in
irradiated
 food
 can damage DNA.

   The study confirmed what safe-food advocates and many
pioneering
 researchers have known for more than 30 years: Exposing
food to ionizing

 radiation can lead to the formation of bizarre new
chemicals called
 "unique radiolytic products" that can cause serious health
problems. One

 such chemical, known as 2-DCB, caused "significant DNA
damage" in the
 colons of rats that ate the substance. The chemical - -
which,
 ironically,
 is a well-known "marker" for determining whether food has
been
 irradiated
 - - has never been found naturally in any food on Earth.

   The study was conducted in 1998 under the auspices of
two prominent
 pro-irradiation organizations. It was performed at one of
the most
 prestigious food irradiation labs in the world, the
Federal Research
 Center for Nutrition in Karlsruhe, Germany. And it was
co-funded by the
 International Consultative Group on Food Irradiation, a
United
 Nations-sponsored organization that promotes food
irradiation worldwide.

   Public Citizen released an English translation of the
study at a Feb.
 13
 meeting at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in
Washington, D.C. The

 meeting was held to preview an upcoming meeting of the
Codex
 Alimentarius
 Commission, which sets food safety standards for most
nations of the
 world. Codex officials, meeting March 12-16 in The Hague,
will consider
 a
 proposal to completely remove the maximum dose of
radiation to which
 food
 can be exposed. The current maximum dose is 10
kiloGray - - the
 equivalent
 of 330 million chest x-rays and enough radiation to kill a
person 2,000
 times over.

   At this week's FDA meeting, Public Citizen told
government officials
 and
 food industry executives that health authorities have used
a variety of
 excuses to dismiss dozens of studies conducted since the
1950s that
 suggest irradiated food may not be safe for human
consumption. In these
 studies, lab animals have suffered premature death, a rare
form of
 cancer,
 fatal internal bleeding, stillbirths and other
reproductive problems,
 chromosomal aberrations, liver damage, nutritional
deficiencies and low
 weight gain. The excuses most commonly given are that the
studies are
 old,
 inconclusive or poorly designed.

   None of these excuses apply to the German study,
however, which was
 conducted three years ago, yielded conclusive results, and
was performed

 under the guidance of cutting-edge scientific protocols.
Despite the
 study's clear findings and high quality, it was distorted
and dismissed
 by
 the World Health Organization, which has endorsed the
irradiation of any

 food at any dose - - no matter how high. And, because it
had never been
 translated into English, FDA officials never reviewed it.

   Now, FDA and WHO officials have no excuse. Now they know
that
 irradiated
 food holds the true potential to harm people who eat it.
Now they know
 that if they continue to approve the food industry's
requests to
 irradiate
 food - - such as the pending request to irradiate
ready-to-eat foods
 such
 as deli meat and pre-cut salads - - they will be defying
the truth. Now
 they should know better.

   The question is: Will they?







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[CTRL] Missing Chemical Weapons at Redstone

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{{I found this additional article at the site posted by Bill
Shannon on the subject of corruption at Redstone Arsenal.
Now I am concerned about the pollution mentioned here!
Oddly, there is little or no coverage of this locally.  And
the author keeps referring to it as 'Huntsville' corruption
when it is military as those facilities are closed to the
public.  That may explain why there is no local coverage but
I will forward these two articles by Martin to a local TV
station and see if there is any response.  I shall not be
holding my breath as I wait for one.  Thanks, Bill.  Please
post or send to me anything you run across on this as I am
naturally highly interested and there is little info
locally.  Amelia}}

by Al Martin

Missing Chemical Weapons at Redstone

  Huntsville-based FBI agents have discovered that
chemical weapons are being sold illegally out of the
Redstone Arsenal. Apparently older chemical weapons systems
which have been retired and scheduled for destruction are
illegally being sold out the back door.

  In fact, even the FBI couldn't get over the fact that
there's virtually no security regarding these stockpiles of
chemical weapons. They are completely unprotected. They're
not in secure bunkers like they're supposed to be. Even the
doors are unlocked. There's not even a lock on the door,
even though the Department of Defense own internal edicts
require the chemical weapons to be stored in special high
security storage facilities. These protocols are not being
followed. And there is virtually no inventory control of
retired chemical weapons.

  The FBI has just found out. It was an extension of
their original investigation of illicit weapons systems
sales (See "Fraud as Usual at Redstone Arsenal") Then they
got into the fraudulent double-dipping pensions, as we have
mentioned before. (See "FBI Angst")

  The FBI was evidently just bumbling along and they
happened to stumble into these things. It should be noted
that the FBI has no jurisdiction at Redstone Arsenal. They
need to be invited onto the base as a matter of fact. They
have no power of arrest on what is considered military
jurisdiction. So what happens? Nothing. Ultimately a report
will be filed and it will end up in the hands of the
Attorney General. Then the Attorney General will send a
letter to the Secretary of Defense saying that this is what
we've discovered and you ought to do something about it. But
then nothing is ever done.

  The conditions that these retired chemical weapons are
being kept under are so deplorable and lack of security is
so egregious that FBI agents have quickly realized that they
would have to ask for a transfer to get away from the place.

  The notion that these chemical weapons systems were
being sold illegally to other countries through nefarious
unregistered weapons brokers was appalling enough. What the
FBI agents were upset about was living in such close
proximity to it. In other words, people are aware that
chemical weapons are being stored there, but the same people
believe that DoD guidelines are being followed for storing
hazardous weapons.

  They just were not prepared for what they saw. Barrels
full of dangerous chemicals that are rusted and leaking. No
locks on the door. Nobody knows how much of anything there
is or how much is missing. If anyone ever got in there with
a bomb intent on some terrorist activity, all they'd have to
do is blow the place up. And God knows how far the
contamination would spread.

  Evidently some dangerous chemicals were stolen. When
the FBI checked into it (it's a federal crime), they found
that the missing chemical weapons were enough to eliminate
about three states.

  Nobody would admit to what it is or what it isn't.
This theft or disappearance of these chemical weapons is
usually called "shrinkage" in stores. At Redstone Arsenal,
they call it "inadvertent evaporation." Of course, that
might refer to the chemical itself but not the canister in
which it's stored. At Redstone Arsenal, however the
canisters are also missing.

  Apparently the supervisor said something to the
brigadier general in charge of Redstone about the chemical
weapons missing and about the chemical weapons leaking into
the soil and not being properly protected or properly
disposed of. They're actually lying. They're saying that the
weapons are being disposed of in a timely fashion when in
fact they're not.

  The supervisor said to the brigadier general, "Aren't
you concerned about the health of your own troops?"

  The brigadier general laughed and said, "Oh, don't
worry. Exposure to toxic chemicals builds character."


Previous Columns:
What will it be like with George Bush Jr. as president?
More Skeletons from the Bush Dynasty Closet
Hitting America Below the Beltway...
From Cradle to Cabal: The Secret Life of Gale Norton
DoJ: The Old Conspiracy and Coverup Crowd
Fraud-As-Usual at the Redstone Arsenal
FBI Angst  the 

[CTRL] Vatican Art goes to Britain, not U.S.

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I got this in my email this morning. I'm not registered with the NYT
web site, so I can't access the whole article.

Tenorlove

  from today's NYT...
 
  "Had it not been for a lawsuit brought in California against the
  Vatican Library in Rome, a much-coveted exhibition of 92 drawings
 by
  the Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli illustrating Dante's
 "Divine
 
  Comedy," seven of which belong to the Vatican, would be ending a
  three-month tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 
  "But because of the Vatican's fear of exposing its drawings to
 legal
  claims the exhibition never came to New York. Instead, it went to
  London, where it opens today at the Royal Academy. "The arrival of
  this show in London is a triumph of curatorial diplomacy for which
  British art lovers should be grateful," trumpeted a preview in The
  Times of London this week.
 
  "Thank the lord," said Norman Rosenthal, exhibitions secretary at
 the
 
  Royal Academy, who for decades had been in pursuit of an exhibition

  of the Botticelli cycle, which he described as "one of the divine
  meetings in the history of Western culture."

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[CTRL] The Fed's Con Game by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

[Amelia]

-Caveat Lector-

The Fed's Con Game
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

The Federal Reserve and Wall Street agree that the stock
market needs a big confidence boost. Fed policy, and brokers
around the country, are trying to provide it, with their
exhortations to stay calm and keep holding stocks. The idea
is that if we all work together, we can keep the ship
afloat. Just don't notice those huge holes in the hull!

Implicit in this view is a grave falsehood that nothing in
the real world is responsible for falling stock prices. The
business cycle, in this view, reflects nothing but waves of
emotion that sweep through markets. Not only stock analysts
but also many economists have bought into this convenient
error.

Where does this leave the Fed? Instead of doing what it can
do, which is refraining from manipulating the money supply
and interest rates, it is playing psychological games with
the public. As Pace University economics professor Joseph
Salerno argues, Fed policy is nowadays dealing not with
concrete reality but with "the meta-economy of impressions,
anxieties, perceptions and anticipations."

Underneath it all, the Fed appears to be pursuing an
outrageously reckless policy. It is attempting to push
through the impending recession by printing as much money as
possible. The latest numbers from the Fed show monthly money
increases reaching as high as 20 percent per annum (as
measured by MZM).

But the Fed can't win at this game. We've already seen how
dramatic attempts to gin up the market by lowering interest
rates have been greeted with a huge ho-hum from investors.
At best, the effect is short term. The Fed seems to have
learned nothing from the Japanese experience, where even
interest rates of zero failed to bring back the boom. Lower
rates also threaten to revive serious price inflation, which
is already looming.

Salerno further argues that Alan Greenspan, a legendary
lover of data, has lost sight of the underlying relationship
between cause and effect in economic events. The cause of
the business cycle is not mysterious or emotional. It is
economic imbalances that correct themselves during
sell-offs, imbalances brought about by misguided Fed policy
to begin with.

If we seek an explanation for the stock sell-off, we must
first explain how it is that valuations became so wildly out
of line. Looking back, it is clear that Greenspan need look
no further than his own monetary policy. He enjoys a
reputation as a hard-money man, but that is far from the
case.

The problem began in the early days of the Clinton
presidency, when the Federal Reserve gunned the money supply
in late 1992 under the belief that this was the only way to
get us out of the Bush recession. Also, Greenspan, contrary
to the idea that Fed chairmen are "independent" of politics,
was cozying up to the Clinton administration, ostentatiously
escorting Hillary to the State of the Union speech.

In a modern economy, newly created money enters the economy
through the credit system, so it is borrowers who end up
receiving the initial blessings. They invest in projects
that would be too expensive in the absence of the newly
created money. These investments may lead the economy to new
heights, but they tend to be unviable over the long term.

In the following two years, through 1994 and early 1995, the
Fed reversed itself and held money flat. But beginning in
mid 1995, the Fed began taking us on a wild ride. Money
supply increases were between 7 and 9 percent for 1996 and
1997. Beginning in 1998, they shot up to 10 percent, and
reached an astonishing 15 percent annual rate in early 1999.

All told, between 1996 and last year, the Federal Reserve
worked with the banking system to inject more than $100
billion in new money (as measured by M2) into the economy.
So much for Greenspan the tight-money man!

Now, $100 billion would have distorting effects with or
without a stock market, new technologies, and complex new
financing techniques. Replicate this same monetary policy in
any time period, injecting new money through credit markets
at double-digit rates, and you can create amazing investment
imbalances.

Indeed it did. Real private investment soared from 12
percent of GDP in 1991 to a remarkable 20 percent of GDP by
last year, with a pause in the increases taking place in the
tight money years of late 1993 through early 1995. It so
happened that all this new money hit at a time of
extraordinary technological gains, particularly as related
to the Internet. And it was the dot-coms and information
technologies that were left holding the bag.

Why haven't you heard about the spectacular monetary
inflation of the late 1990s? One reason is that most people
think there's nothing to worry about so long as overall
prices are not rising. But stable prices can often conceal
underlying rot, and they did in the 1990s as they did in the
1920s. Besides, looking at money supply numbers has been
distinctly unfashionable for many years.

A few economists 

[CTRL] Fw: [FP] Italy poised to roll out chip-based ID cards

[Amelia]

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 Italy Poised To Roll Out Chip-Based ID Cards

 Source:

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 d=5428eventId=7145#Bulletin8

  [Coming to a police state near you very soon]

 The Italian government plans to start a rollout of
chip-based citizen ID
 cards in 2002, following pilots in about 100 cities and
towns, according to
 reports. Public Administration Minister Franco Bassanini
earlier this month
 reportedly confirmed the Italian government planned to go
ahead with the
 smart card project, which would replace paper ID cards
Italian citizens
 carry. The cards will not only store citizenship data,
which cardholders
 will use to do business with municipalities and federal
agencies, but are
 also expected to absorb Italy's nascent chip-based health
card. It means
 the ID would also store insurance and some medical
information, say
 potential vendors on the project. Card readers are to be
installed at
 public offices and in mobile units, such as police
vehicles. Later, the
 cards likely would also store digital certificates, which
would allow
 citizens to digitally sign government documents on the
Internet. Besides
 the chips, the ID cards being tested also carry about 1
megabyte of optical
 memory, which store digitized versions of cardholder
photographs on the
 front of the cards. This memory could also store other
large files,
 including digitized fingerprints. About 100,000 cards are
in the field, but
 at present are little used, sources tell Card Technology.
(2/15)

 (News item from http://www.ct-ctst.com/  aka Card
Technology News)

 

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[CTRL] {OT} Umbilical Cord Blood: Secret to Brain Repair?

[Amelia]

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Umbilical Cord Blood: Secret to Brain Repair?
By Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
Umbilical cord blood, often discarded after birth, may offer
a vast new source of repair material for fixing brains
damaged by strokes and other ills, free of the ethical
concerns surrounding the use of fetal tissue, researchers
said.
In animal experiments, at least, cells from umbilical cords
appear to greatly speed recovery after strokes. They work
with a simple infusion into the blood stream without the
need for direct implantation into the brain.


Although many details need to be worked out, Dr. Paul R.
Sanberg of the University of South Florida said he hopes to
try the approach on stroke victims within the next year or
two.


Sanberg described the research at a meeting in San Francisco
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
It was financed by the state of Florida and Cryo-Cell
International Inc. of Clearwater, Fla.


Many experts believe that primitive tissue called stem cells
will someday be routinely used to make human spare parts.
They might replace tissue damaged by many different
diseases, especially such brain ailments as strokes and
Alzheimer's disease. These generic cells can be nudged to
develop into all sorts of specialized tissue to repopulate
every part of the body from head to toe.


One source of stem cells is aborted fetuses or fertility
clinics' discarded embryos. However, this is especially
contentious since anti-abortion groups oppose fetal and
embryonic stem cell research, and federally funded
scientists cannot use stem cells from these sources.


Sanberg said his research suggests that umbilical cords
could be an excellent source of stem cells without the
ethical headaches of fetal tissue. He noted that 4 million
babies are born in the United States each year, and 99
percent of their cord blood is tossed away.


He said one or two cords could probably provide enough stem
cells to treat one human stroke victim, if the current
approach proves useful. The cells could be frozen for use
when needed.


In experiments so far, his team removed stem cells from
cords and then used retinoic acid and growth hormones to
transform them into immature nerve cells. They then injected
3 million of these cells into the bloodstreams of rats that
had suffered strokes.


In experiments on about 60 rats, the team found that after
one month, those given the cells had recovered about 80
percent from their strokes, compared with about 20 percent
in untreated rats.


Sanberg said the treatment works best when given within 24
hours of a stroke but still helps up to a week later. Just
how the new cells rewire the damaged parts of the brain is
unclear, although the cells can take on the form of
distinctly different types of brain tissue, and they also
appear to prompt damaged cells to repair themselves.


"They are attracted to the stroke part of the brain more
than the normal brain," he said. "Some signal is being sent
that attracts them."


Sanberg cautioned that many questions remain, such as
whether the cells should be given in several doses, how many
should be infused, and whether the treatment will require
suppression of the immune system, since the body might
otherwise reject the foreign tissue.


"This is very exciting," said Dr. Sandra Chapman of the
University of Texas at Dallas.

"The potential of this will be an exponential improvement in
our chance of treating all sorts of brain disorders."


Associated Press February 19, 2001

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[CTRL] Fwd: Catholic Bones

[Kris Millegan]

Railroad telegraphers were the computer nerds of the 1870's. They
controlled the distribution of news, financial information, and the
importation of essentials into the cities of the continental interior ,
whose very existence was made possible by the railroad.
Thomas "Al" Edison was taught the business by his friend John A. Thomas,
then in Detroit and not much older than Edison although, at 22, he was a
creaky old geezer to the telegraphers. Thomas had got a good position
the minute the golden spike was driven due to the influence of his
prominent and liberal minded father, William O. Thomas of Macomb
,Illinois, my great-great grandfather- at least that's how the family
tells it.
Cyrus McCormick - "... a whirlwind in size 55 trousers..." -,of Chicago
had ,literally, revolutionized the world; for the first time, the
majority of the population did not have to be farmers. The railroads
completed the process; cities erupted in the interior, surrounded by a
sea of wheat, with the rockies in the background.
All of that was controlled to the tiniest nuance by the teen aged geeks
with a knack for electricity. It was just like the computer geek-dom of
today. Really was.
Taft was an appointed president
TR, by this time Elbert H. Gary's slave, made a deal with the hierarchy
( read SkullBones ) that he would not run again if he could pick his
successor, subject to approval by SB.
He surprised them by choosing WH Taft, a thoroughly likeable
incompetant, totally devoid of ambition, who just wanted to golf and
party...sort of like Quayle.. or Dubya.
WH was the son of Alphonso Taft, cofounder of the skulls, and he
cheerfully carried out whatever orders he was given, whether from his
wife or from his skull overseer, JOHN HAYS HAMMOND.


 


  


   
 
 
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[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] german armed forces pulls plug on microsoft

[Kris Millegan]

German armed forces ban MS software, citing NSA snooping
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17679.html

By: John Lettice
Posted: 17/03/2001 at 18:59 GMT

The German foreign office and Bundeswehr are pulling the plugs on Microsoft
software, citing security concerns, according to the German news magazine
Der Spiegel. Spiegel claims that German security authorities suspect that
the US National Security Agency (NSA) has 'back door' access to Microsoft
source code, and can therefore easily read the Federal Republic's deepest
secrets.

The Bundeswehr will no longer use American software (we surmise this
includes Larry and Scott as well) on computers used in sensitive areas. The
German foreign office has meanwhile put plans for videoconferencing with its
overseas embassies on hold, for similar reasons. Under secretary of state
Gunter Pleuger is said by Spiegel to have discovered that "for technical
reasons" the satellite service that was to be used was routed via Denver,
Colorado.

According to a colleague of Pleuger's this meant that the German foreign
services "might as well hold our conferences directly in Langley." We're not
entirely sure whose interesting video conferencing via satellite service has
a vital groundstation in Denver, but we note that Pleuger seems to have
gleaned this information from a presentation held earlier this month in
Berlin by, er, Deutsche Telekom.

Which just happens, along with Siemens, to have picked up the gig. The two
companies have supplanted Microsoft (and anything else American) and will be
producing a secure, home-grown system that the German military can be
confident in.

===

17. Mrz 2001
Bundeswehr verbannt Microsoft-Programme
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,123170,00.html

Aus Angst vor US-Geheimdiensten wollen das Auswrtige Amt und die Bundeswehr
Sicherheitslcken schlieen. Statt amerikanischer Software werden auf den
staatlichen Rechnern knftig deutsche Programme arbeiten.

In Computern, die in sensiblen Bereichen eingesetzt werden, soll demnach
keine Software der Firma Microsoft mehr verwendet werden. Nach Erkenntnissen
deutscher Sicherheitsbehrden verfgt der amerikanische Spionagedienst NSA
ber alle einschlgigen Quellcodes der US-Firma und kann so selbst
verschlsselte Daten lesen. Um Geheimnisse zu schtzen, setzt das
Verteidigungsministerium daher auf Verschlsselungstechniken der heimischen
Firmen Siemens und Telekom.
Das Auswrtige Amt hat unterdessen seinen Plan zurckgestellt,
Video-Konferenzen mit seinen Auslandsvertretungen einzufhren.
Staatssekretr Gunter Pleuger erfuhr bei einer Telekom-Prsentation in
Berlin Anfang Mrz, dass smtliche Satelliten-bertragungswege aus
technischen Grnden ber die amerikanische Stadt Denver im Bundesstaat
Colorado laufen.

Pleuger war der Umweg ber die USA zu unsicher. "Dann knnen wir unsere
Konferenzen ja gleich in Langley abhalten", spttelte ein
Pleuger-Mitarbeiter. In Langley (Virginia) residiert der amerikanische
Geheimdienst CIA.

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[CTRL] Bush casts shadow on Korean 'sunshine policy'

[William Shannon]

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Bush casts shadow on Korean 'sunshine policy'

By Mary McGrory, Globe Staff, 3/17/2001 WASHINGTON

PRESIDENT BUSH'S shabby treatment of Kim Dae Jung of South Korea remains a
mystery, but the first political returns are in: North Korea, obviously bent
on rubbing in Kim's humiliation in the Oval Office, has canceled scheduled
peace negotiations with Seoul.

Outside the White House, Kim Dae Jung is much admired. He is seen as a great
man, in a class with Nelson Mandela, another valiant visionary who endured a
lifetime of sacrifice and suffering to realize a patriotic dream. Kim's
breakthrough visit to North Korea won him the Nobel Peace Prize - but not,
for some reason, the regard of George W. Bush.

Not only did the president withhold his endorsement of Kim's risky but
promising ''sunshine policy'' to bring the two Koreas together, but he went
out of his way, in body English, to convey how cross and bored he was with
his visitor.

It was a day for a double whammy: The president also felled his own secretary
of state, Colin Powell, who had announced the day before the meeting that he
expected to pick up where the Clinton administration left off in its talks to
persuade Kim Jong Il, the paranoid chief of North Korea, to renounce
production of nuclear weapons. There would be no negotiations, Bush said
icily, until his administration has reviewed the North Korean situation.

Baffled observers on Capitol Hill speculated that Bush was really mad at
Powell for nudging him into a position he was not ready to take. But others
think he was sore at Kim Dae Jung over a joint declaration he issued in Seoul
with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin in defense of the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty -which of course Bush longs to shred because it
forbids the deployment of the foreign policy project closest to his heart,
the nuclear missile defense system.

Arms control advocates accuse Bush of turning his back on a rare opportunity
to stabilize the wildly rocking North Korea, which puts manufacture of
nuclear weapons ahead of feeding its people. Spurgeon Keeney of the Arms
Control Association says Bush is ''trying to build up the case for building
an extremely expensive and provocative system that doesn't work - it's
madness.''

Democrats who were startled and puzzled by the diplomatic debacle of March 7
had nothing to say. They are cowed these days, and only Democratic Senator
Joseph Biden of Delaware, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, protested. He said he was disappointed at Bush's failure to signal
that he is ''willing to talk and negotiate if certain things happen as
opposed to emphasizing that these guys are bad guys, period.''

North Korea's cancellation of further talks with the south, Biden thinks, is
dangerous and could ratchet up the situation ''to the point where it could
get out of hand.''

President Clinton's first national security adviser, Tony Lake, thinks there
has been a good deal of ''overthinking'' in theories about Bush's motives and
strategy in the put-down of Kim Dae Jung. He thinks that what it all means is
that the Bush team, despite its vaunted reputation for management expertise,
just hasn't got its act together on Asian policy. He thinks in the end that
Powell's sensible suggestions about exploring ''the many promising aspects
that turned up'' in the Clinton talks should be pursued.

Sandy Berger, Clinton's national security adviser during the hectic final
weeks in office, thinks that what the commotion signifies is what he
delicately calls ''the instinct against continuity that new administrations
suffer from.'' In this case, that involves a tacit admission that Clinton
might have been on the right track. Berger says that Bush's suspicions about
bristling, bellicose North Korea are well-founded.

Kim Jong Il is universally regarded as a piece of work - he is
psychopathically secretive, and his country is a shambles. But he trusts that
Powell will prevail, and that in time the Bush administration will settle
down with his formula.

Kim Jong Il will take a great deal of hand-holding and schmoozing - something
Clintonites were superlatively good at, but not very viable options in an
administration that prides itself on being tough with commie tyrants. In the
last hours of his term, Clinton was torn between a dash to Israel and a dash
to Korea, and in the end went to neither place. ''We were not close to an
agreement,'' Berger says.

Bush has gotten bad reviews for his first major foreign policy encounter. If
he is to redeem himself from charges of making policy in a petulant and petty
manner, he will have to say something nice about Kim Dae Jung and his
''sunshine policy.''

It won't be enough not to be Bill Clinton if he's seen as prizing a gadget in
outer space over world peace.

[CTRL] Fw: CONGRESS ACTION: March 18, 2001

[Butch]

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Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 9:14 AM
Subject: CONGRESS ACTION: March 18, 2001


CONGRESS ACTION: March 18, 2001
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GONE -- AND FORGOTTEN: This week (March 
16) marked the 250th birthday of the man who had more to do with the 
establishment of our Constitutional republic than any other single individual, a 
man known as the "Father of the Constitution" -- James Madison. It is 
sadly fitting that, in this modern age of widespread Constitutional ignorance, 
in this time when the individual rights that our Founders fought to protect are 
under daily assault and our individual liberty is being subsumed by a massive 
and ever expanding government, that the birthday of the father of our 
Constitution should be subsumed in that catch-all travesty called "President's 
Day", a day better known for school vacations and sales at local car dealerships 
than for honoring the giants of the 18th century who preserved our 
liberty.
Liberty doesn't mean very much to us any more these days. We take it for 
granted while we give it away with both hands. From our front row seat to the 
decline of America as a free nation, we can see that liberty has come to mean 
freedom from responsibility, freedom from the necessity inherent in a 
self-governing republic to keep ourselves educated and informed, freedom from 
the burden of thinking for ourselves. The preservation of individual liberty is 
hard work. Dependency and whining about unfairness are so much easier. What we 
want is to be taken care of, to absolve ourselves of all responsibilities. We 
see this in California's current energy crisis, caused by the extreme policies 
of radical environmentalists who are now trying to blame anyone but themselves. 
We see this in our current economic slowdown, caused in large part by burdensome 
regulations, legal impediments, and high taxes, instituted by left-wing 
democrats who are now pretending that they are nothing but innocent bystanders 
and ludicrously trying to blame Bush for "talking down" the economy. Given the 
dismal state of critical thought today, these claims are likely to be 
believed.
The absence of any public celebration of Madison's 250th birthday 
is in keeping with our modern-day preoccupation with small matters, while we 
ignore the great dangers that confront us. We don't want to be reminded of how 
far down the road to serfdom we have traveled, from those heady days when our 
liberties were clearly understood and valiantly defended. Our hypersensitivity 
has invented a right not to be offended, and so freedom of speech has been 
banished from most college campuses by politically correct totalitarians. Our 
self-obsession has invented a right to slaughter over a million innocent unborn 
babies every year and has eliminated the concept of morality from public 
discourse, and so our most fundamental right to defend our own lives is slowly 
being regulated out of existence. Our arrogance has convinced us that we have 
the power to drive entire species to extinction and to alter the very climate of 
the planet, and so we have lost the right to use and enjoy private property, 
which is at the root of all liberty. When Constitution Day rolls around on 
September 17, the great intellectually vacuous American public will miss that 
one also. 
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the 
people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and 
sudden usurpations." -- James Madison
SPEAKING OF EUROPE: James Madison 
observed that "In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. 
America has set the example...of charters of power granted by liberty." It is a 
distinction that many people no longer even understand, a distinction that we 
forget at our peril, as Europe drifts closer to totalitarian socialism, and as 
American politicians drift closer toward following the lead of the European 
Union in matters ranging from the Kyoto Treaty on Climate Change to the 
International Criminal Court.
In one of his late steps toward globalism, Bill Clinton directed the United 
States to sign the treaty agreeing to join the International Criminal Court, 
claiming that joining the ICC would be a "profound contribution" to combating 
human rights abuses around the world. Nice sounding words from the former 
president, and as we have come to expect from the former president, utterly 
false. As the Europeans themselves have been proving. For years, the globocrats 
at the United Nations have considered the use of the death penalty in the United 
States to be an abuse of human rights. In 1998, the World Court at the Hague had 
the temerity of ordering that the United States not carry out a legally 
set execution of a legally convicted murderer in the State of Virginia. And just 
last week, a delegation of three European officials proceeded to lecture 
Secretary of State 

[CTRL] Fwd: ACLU News 03-18-2001: Flag Desecration, Religious Liberty, More!

[William Shannon]

03-18-2001
ACLU Newsfeed -- ACLU News Direct to YOU!

IN THE ACLU NEWSROOM

   **The Latest News Can Always Be Found At:**
  http://www.aclu.org/news/pressind.html

* ACLU Endorses Improvements to
  Pennsylvania's Election Laws
  http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n031501b.html

* ACLU Says "Unborn Victims of Violence Act"
  Threatens Reproductive Freedom
  http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n031501a.html

* Citing 30-Year Pattern of Racial Profiling, ACLU
  And Rights Group Sue Cincinnati Police Officials
  http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n031401c.html

* Flag Desecration Amendment Reintroduced;
  ACLU Vows to Renew Grassroots Campaign Against Measure
  http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n031301b.html

* ACLU Joins Religious Leaders in Fight To Protect
  Religious Liberty and Stop Discrimination
  http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n031301a.html

* In First-Ever Challenge, CA Court of Appeals Upholds
  Library's Right to Provide Uncensored Internet Access
  http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n030701e.html

* ACLU Endorses New Legislation To Protect
  The Innocent on Death Row
  http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n030701c.html

* Other Recent ACLU News Releases

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 ACLU Endorses Improvements to
 Pennsylvania's Election Laws

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, March 15, 2001

PHILADELPHIA--Furthering its commitment to protecting the fundamental
right to vote and the right to have one's voted counted fairly and
accurately, the American Civil Liberties Union today endorsed significant
changes to Pennsylvania's election law.

"These changes, if fully implemented, would help insure that the right to
vote is a meaningful right in Pennsylvania," said Larry Frankel, Executive
Director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania in testimony today at a hearing of
the Pennsylvania House of Representatives State Government Committee in
Doylestown.

In his testimony, Frankel described how Pennsylvania could improve its
voter registration system and its procedures for insuring that registered
voters are permitted to exercise their rights on election day.

The ACLU called on the General Assembly to support Governor Thomas Ridge's
proposal to create a centralized voting registration system. Frankel
indicated that such a system should greatly enhance the implementation of
Pennsylvania's Motor Voter law by making it easier for new voters and
mobile voters to be registered.

"Such a system would enhance the ability of all registered voters to
exercise their franchise on election day," Frankel said in his testimony.
"We urge the General Assembly to include funding for the Governor's
initiative in the upcoming budget."

To complement a centralized registration system, the ACLU suggested that
Pennsylvania follow the lead of several other states and enact provisional
balloting procedures. Such procedures permit voters, whose names have been
mistakenly omitted from the voting lists sent to a polling place, to cast
their votes. After the polls are closed, election officials determine
whether these voters were eligible. If so, their votes are then counted.
Provisional ballots would prevent the disenfranchising of voters whose
registrations have not been properly recorded due to bureaucratic
inefficiencies.

Addressing the problems encountered by voters with disabilities was
another recommendation of the ACLU. "Many polling places are not
accessible to people in wheel chairs," Frankel noted. "Even those places
that are accessible may have machines that are difficult to use by people
with physical limitations. Little consideration is given to those with
impaired eyesight who may have trouble seeing the information on a ballot
or clicking in the correct place to cast a vote."

Today's public hearing is one in a series being held throughout
Pennsylvania to investigate what changes should be made to the state’s
election law in light of last year's election. While Pennsylvania does not
appear to have suffered from the extensive problems encountered in
Florida, both Governor Ridge and the General Assembly have committed to
reviewing and updating Pennsylvania's laws and procedures.

Frankel’s testimony can be read online at:
http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n031501b.html

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 ACLU Says "Unborn Victims of Violence Act"
 Threatens Reproductive Freedom

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, March 15, 2001

WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union today denounced the
"Unborn Victims of Violence Act," saying its supporters seek to undermine
the constitutional underpinning for reproductive freedom, rather than
protect pregnant women.

"Although proponents claim that this bill is intended merely to punish
violent offenders, it is in reality a dangerous attempt to separate a
woman from her fetus in the eyes of the law," said Laura W. Murphy,
Director of the ACLU 

[CTRL] Freud,Zionism,and Vienna

[William Shannon]

http://www.counterpunch.org/



March 16, 2001



Freud, Zionism,
and Vienna

By Edward Said

This is a parable worth a few lines here, although it derives from a rather
peculiar personal experience of mine which has attracted unusual, if
undeserved, media and public attention. Ordinarily, I don't use myself as an
example, but because this one has been so misrepresented and also because it
might illuminate the context of the Palestinian-Zionist struggle it took
place in, I have permitted myself to use it.
In late June and early July 2000, I made a personal family visit to Lebanon,
where I also gave two public lectures. Like most Arabs, my family and I were
very interested to visit South Lebanon to see the recently evacuated
"security zone" militarily occupied by Israel for 22 years, from which troops
of the Jewish state were unceremoniously expelled by the Lebanese resistance.
Our visit took place on 3 July, during which day-long excursion we spent time
in the notorious Khiam prison, built by the Israelis in 1987, in which 8,000
people were tortured and detained in dreadful, bestial conditions. Right
after that we drove to the border post, also abandoned by Israeli troops, now
a deserted area except for Lebanese visitors who come there in large numbers
to throw stones of celebration across the still heavily fortified border. No
Israelis, neither military nor civilians, were in sight.
During our 10-minute stop I was photographed there without my knowledge
pitching a tiny pebble in competition with some of the younger men present,
none of whom of course had any particular target in sight. The area was empty
for miles and miles.
Two days later my picture appeared in newspapers in Israel and all over the
West. I was described as a rock-throwing terrorist, a man of violence, and so
on and on, in the familiar chorus of defamation and falsehood known to anyone
who has incurred the hostility of Zionist propaganda.
Two ironies stand out. One was that although I have written at least eight
books on Palestine and have always advocated resistance to Zionist
occupation, I have never argued for anything but peaceful coexistence between
us and the Jews of Israel once Israel's military repression and dispossession
of Palestinians has stopped. My writings have circulated all over the world
in at least 35 languages, so my positions are scarcely unknown, and my
message is very clear. But, having found it useless to refute the facts and
arguments I have presented and, more important, having been unable to prevent
my work from reaching larger and larger audiences, the Zionist movement has
resorted to shabbier and shabbier techniques to try to stop me.
Two years ago they hired an obscure Israeli-American lawyer to "research" the
first ten years of my life and "prove" that even though I was born in
Jerusalem I was never really there; this was supposed to show that I was a
liar who had misrepresented my right to return, even though -- and this is
the stupidity and triviality of the argument -- the invidious Israeli Law of
Return allows any Jew anywhere the "right" to come to Israel and live,
whether or not they had even set foot in Israel before.
Besides, so crude and inaccurate were this lawyer's methods of investigation
that many people whom he interviewed wrote in and contradicted what he said;
none of the journals, except one, that he approached for publication accepted
his article because of its misrepresentations and distortions.
Not only was this campaign an effort to discredit me personally (the editor
of the journal that published it said openly that he had printed the silly
rubbish produced by this hired gun simply because he wanted to discredit me
personally precisely because I have a lot of readers) but quite amazingly it
was meant to show that all Palestinians are liars and cannot be believed in
their assertions about a right to return.
Fast upon the heels of this orchestrated effort there came the business of
the stone-throwing. And here is the second irony. Despite Israel's 22-year
devastation of south Lebanon, its destruction of entire villages, the killing
of hundreds of civilians, its use of mercenary soldiers to plunder and
punish, its deplorable use of the most inhuman methods of torture and
imprisonment in Khiam and elsewhere -- despite all that, Israeli propaganda,
aided and abetted by a corrupt Western media, chose to focus on a harmless
act of mine, blowing it up to monstrously absurd proportions that suggested
that I was a violent fanatic interested in killing Jews. The context was left
out, as were the circumstances, i.e. that I simply threw a pebble, that no
Israeli was anywhere present, that no physical injury or harm was threatened
to anyone. More bizarrely still, a whole, again orchestrated campaign was
mounted to try to get me dismissed from the university where I have taught
for 38 years. Articles in the press, commentary, letters of abuse and death
threats were all used to intimidate or silence 

[CTRL] Alaska health officials worried about rash of suicides (HAARP Perhaps??)

[William Shannon]

http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500464406-500708969-503897065-

0,00.html



Alaska health officials worried about rash of suicides

The Anchorage Daily News

By MARTHA BELLISLE and S.J. KOMARNITSKY, Anchorage Daily News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (March 16, 2001 5:22 p.m. EST) - Suicide has long been a
serious problem across Alaska, with the state's suicide rate about double the
national level for the past decade. But recently health officials have found
even greater reason to worry.

"But in the last two to three years, clusters of suicides have appeared in
certain areas," said Susan Soule, a state official who oversees alcoholism
and drug abuse services in rural Alaska, where the rates are especially high.
she said. The Mat-Su area north of Anchorage and the six villages of the
Yukon-Koyukuk region of the western Interior have been hit hardest, she said,
with dramatic jumps in the numbers of young people killing themselves.

Suicide attempts in those areas are increasing as well, she and other people
said.

"Suicide is infectious," said Diana Weber, director of the Yukon-Koyukuk
Mental Health Center in Galena, one of the six villages suffering a virtual
epidemic of suicides. "The more it happens, the more it becomes a normal way
to solve a problem."

In recent village meetings, when elementary-age children were asked whether
they ever thought of suicide, many hands went up, she said.


"We don't know when the epidemic ends," she said.

About 1,700 people live in the region. Last year, of the 18 deaths in the
villages, six were suicides and all of the suicides were alcohol related, she
said.

"And it seems to be escalating," she said. Between October 2000 and last
month, three people in the region killed themselves.

In one village of about 250 people, which state officials would not name, two
young people killed themselves in fall 1999, three killed themselves in 2000,
and one, a 15-year-old boy, shot himself earlier this year, according to the
state health department.

This year alone, mental health workers have responded to 17 suicide attempts
in the region.

"The impact? Words can't express," Weber said of these close communities.
"People have traveled from one funeral to another. They're walking around
numb. For such a small area, this is pretty dreadful."

[CTRL] Up Stethoscope!

[Chris Case]

The patient will see you now
The BIG MEDICINE MAILING LIST is in the slips, and you are hereby invited
to be on board
when her bow hits the water, churning up metaphors, insights, and analyses
for those battling malignant corporate power, at least those wise enough
to explore Big Corporate Bodies as evolving living systems, eco-social
pathogens and/or our morbid rivals for control of the world.
Here we will strategically examine these Big Bodies as true living systems,
eco-social pathogens, and our virulent rivals for control of the world.
Let us just suppose Big Bodies: are real superorganisms that dominate,
shape and synchronize their members' lives and minds; generate a monstrous
share of the poison, pain and havoc in the world; have overtaken humans
as Earth's new dominant species and hijacked our evolutionary course; may
yet be thwarted if we wake up, and miniaturize/localize/democratize their
premises in time.
We ask you not to debate these assumptions, just briefly pretend they
are true. If indeed we presume they are, what kind of contest would we
face, what would we have to learn and do?
OUR BASIC HYPOTHESES:
- Big Corporate Bodies are alive, in charge and out of control;
- They must be miniaturized, localized and democratized across the board
to restore human sovereignty and humane evolution;
- Thanks to new people-power tech, the thousands now aware of Big Body
rule (and our historic right to subvert it), and a hundred groups already
building the post-corporate future, we are well begun.
- Now we simply have to "persuade" our Big Brethren to liberate their
people, give up power and melt down.
This is going to take carrots, sticks, guile, and one hell of a wake
up call. That's why we're here, and why we hope you will be also.
So if you have any seductive, intimidating or communicative arts, please
join us and put them to a collective effort.
We hope you will use this list to broadcast any ideas, recon or tactics
that might profit the resistance as a whole. (While we certainly sympathize
with rants and raids against particularly malignant corporations, we conspire
here to shrivel and supplant their kind as a whole, NOT promote single-issue
reprisals.) We seek a final solution to the worldwide corporate plague,
and that means victims on every front must recognize their common nemesis,
and learn to think Big.
Big Med thus asks you to provision this list with the following
aid:
Diagnostic - facts that illuminate the singular corporatist cause behind
most eco-social ills.
Remedial - broad-spectrum tactics to boost popular resistance locally
and wither Big Bodies globally.
Prognostic - self-fulfilling prescriptions for a spirited, sensual
post-corporate world.
We seek wise and witty contributions in any of these fields, particularly
those that strengthen everyone's hand to belittle BIG's rampant power.
In sum, we ask your aid in chronicling and quickening the coming Big
Devolution. Grand surprises await once you start to think BIG.
You have been invited because we already know of your interest in related
issues. If you have friends of whom you can say the same, please send them
the link below and invite them to
join.
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[CTRL] Robertson's Tammany Christians 11/97 Prog Pop

[Kris Millegan]

-Caveat Lector-

from:
http://www.populist.com/97.11.mcgrath.html
Click Here: A HREF="http://www.populist.com/97.11.mcgrath.html"Robertson's
Tammany Christians 11/97 Prog Pop/A
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'Boss' Pat Robertson's
Tammany Christians


Keeping the IRS at bay while trying
to flex newfound political muscle

By CRAIG MCGRATH

Special to The Progressive Populist

"We are the servants of God. Our righteousness is of him," thundered Rev.
Earl Jackson from the podium of the annual meeting of the Christian Coalition
in Atlanta in early September.

Jackson, director of the Samaritan Project, a Christian Coalition program
advocating the use of local charities and churches across the country to
replace government programs for the poor, had been hand-picked for his post
by Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed in January. Reed, who had announced his
departure from the Coalition earlier that month was headed for the political
consulting business. His departure, to take effect at the September meeting,
would leave a gap in the Coalition's leadership.

Jackson, revving up the crowd for the new president, couldn't resist pouring
on the harsh rhetoric. He announced with happy anger that he was "dedicating
the weapons of our warfare to the calling down of injustice, bringing every
thought under the kingship of Christ." The crowd roared back its approval as
Jackson continued his wandering introduction.

Finding a president for the Coalition had been a long process. Through the
winter, as Robertson ruminated on his options, a search was underway inside
the Washington Beltway to recruit a new public spokesman for the
organization.

But before that decision could be made, the spring brought bad news for
Robertson. Robert Hinkle and Tahir Brohi, two pilots in Robertson's overseas
humanitarian program known as Operation Blessing, told the press in late
April that most of their flights around central Africa were not to deliver
humanitarian assistance.

Hinkle and Brohi told the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot newspaper that they had
instead been flying for African Development Co., Robertson's diamond mining
business inside Zaire. Hinkle maintained that of the 40 flights he had
supposedly made for Operation Blessing during a six month stay in Zaire --
now the Congo -- only one or two could be considered humanitarian or medical
relief flights.

A Robertson spokesman in Virginia Beach first denied the charge and then
later said that the planes were unsuitable for humanitarian relief and that
Robertson had reimbursed Operation Blessing for the time the mining operation
had used them.

ROBERTSON IS THE PRESIDENT and lone shareholder in African Development, which
is located in the Congo capital of Kinshasa. Robertson's plan was to dredge
diamonds and other precious stones from jungle riverbeds in remote areas of
the country. It is unclear what effect the civil war earlier this year had on
the diamond mining operations of African Development. In the end the company
turned out to be a financial disaster, with Robertson suing the company that
had sold the mining equipment to him.

With that bit of bad news more or less behind him, Robertson, by mid-June,
had decided to sell his Family Channel to Australia-born media magnate Rupert
Murdoch's Fox Network. The $1.9 billion deal under which Fox bought the
network allows Robertson to stay on as co-chairman of the parent company,
International Family, while at the same time netting Robertson a $126-million
profit from the sale of his 3.6 million shares of International Family stock
to Fox. Robertson's 700 Club will stay on the channel for at least the next
five years.

The African Development diamond mining operation and the sale of the Family
Channel were only the beginnings of maneuvers by Robertson in his attempts to
reposition himself in the American corporate mainstream. This new strategic
thinking of Robertson would be underlined by his choice to head his
fundamentalist Christian group as a means to take his organization into a new
partnership with politically and economically connected corporate players on
the hard right.

So after the extended and raucous introduction, the foot soldiers of what
Earl Jackson had called "our warfare" were primed for the arrival of Donald
Hodel, Robertson's choice to head the Christian Coalition. By contrast,
Hodel's inaugural speech was a mostly low-key, feel-good recitation of
Christian right ideology and recommendations of "hating the sin, but loving
the sinner," when it came to political opponents of the Coalition. Hodel, a
corporate executive with a background in Western oil and gas companies, had
been Energy Secretary and later Interior Secretary in the Reagan
administration. And his ascendancy to the presidency of the Christian
Coalition represented a high-profile victory for the right's foundation and
think-tank apparatus.

How the selection of Hodel was made is revealing of Pat Robertson's growing
connections to the Washington right political labyrinth. Robertson had 

[CTRL] : REICH: Corporate Power in Overdrive

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

-Caveat Lector-

March 18, 2001

Corporate Power in Overdrive

By ROBERT B. REICH

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ó With last week's reversal of his campaign
pledge to limit power plants' emissions of carbon dioxide, a key
contributor to global warming, President Bush surrendered to coal
companies and utilities dependent on coal. He had little choice.
It's payback time, and every industry and trade association is
busily cashing in.

There's no longer any countervailing power in Washington.
Business is in complete control of the machinery of government.
The House, the Senate and the White House are all run by
business-friendly Republicans who are deeply indebted to American
business for their electoral victories. If corporate America
understood its long-term interest, it would use this unique
moment to establish in the public's mind the principle that
business can be trusted. But it's doing the opposite, and the
danger for American business as a whole is profound.

Credit-card companies are getting a bankruptcy bill that will
make it harder for overstretched people who succumbed to these
companies' blandishments ever to get out from under the resulting
debts. Oil companies are on the way to obtaining rights to drill
on Alaska's coastal plain. Cigarette manufacturers are confident
the administration will drop the federal lawsuit against them.
Pharmaceutical companies are hoping to get longer patent
protections. Big, labor-intensive businesses want to get rules
that weaken unions, and they've already killed the Labor
Department's ergonomics rules, which would have protected workers
against repetitive-stress injuries. Airlines with labor problems
can count on White House actions to ward off strikes. And so on.

In normal times ó when business has to cope with some political
resistance ó its leaders are forced to set strict priorities.
There is only a fixed amount of political capital to spend. The
Business Roundtable, comprising the chief executives of large
American companies, typically establishes at the start of a new
Congress a legislative agenda reflecting what its members
consider the most important issues. The United States Chamber of
Commerce, after canvassing its mostly small and medium-sized
member businesses to determine their priorities, also develops a
strategy. The National Association of Manufacturers weighs in
with its wish list. And the National Federation of Independent
Business, composed of small firms, sets its goals.

These groups do not always see eye to eye, but under normal
circumstances they understand that legislative success requires
coordination. Separately, they lack the political clout to
overcome determined resistance in one or both houses of Congress
or from a president at least partly dependent for his political
future on organized labor, environmentalists and other interests
besides business.

The trade associations representing specific industries ó
coal-powered utilities, pharmaceuticals, hospitals, electronics,
securities, oil and gas, for example ó typically play supporting
roles. Their own parochial legislative goals can't interfere
directly with the priorities of business as a whole because the
industries often have to depend on the larger business groups to
be heard. Specific firms may retain their own Washington
lobbyists, but they, too, have to work with others in order to
have significant effect.

Political resistance, in other words, forces the business
community to decide what's most important to it. It thereby
enables corporate America to exert some discipline over itself.
Business leaders can prevent or at least distance themselves from
excesses by any single company or industry that might otherwise
taint business as a whole in the minds of the public.

American business notably did not come to the aid of cigarette
manufacturers when lawsuits against them began several years ago.
Nor has corporate America as a whole fought on behalf of the gun
lobby. Labor and environmental rules with broad consequences
typically become high priorities for legislative attack, but not
all such rules. In the first Clinton administration, the business
community was quite happy to let the Labor Department target
apparel manufacturers and major retailers in its crackdown on
sweatshops. I recall a number of White House meetings in which
the leaders of major business organizations quietly assented to
the administration's plans to block subsidies flowing to a
particular industry, or to impose new clean-air rules on another
industry, or to move aggressively with an antitrust complaint.

With political resistance gone, the business community can,
paradoxically, no longer discipline itself. Every business
lobbyist on K Street is under enormous pressure from clients to
reap something from the new bonanza. Every trade association must
demonstrate to its members large returns from their investments
in getting an all-Republican business-friendly government. And
the pressure only ratchets upward: Every time 

[CTRL] Pat Robertson And Rome

[Kris Millegan]

-Caveat Lector-

from:
http://www.whidbey.net/~dcloud/fbns/patrobertson.htm
Click Here: A HREF="http://www.whidbey.net/~dcloud/fbns/patrobertson.htm"
PAT ROBERTSON AND ROME/A
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Interesting aside, A Robert Robertson from Norfolk, VA was a member the first
 year of Skull  Bones at Yale.

Om
K
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PAT ROBERTSON AND ROME
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Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Pat Robertson,
founder of the 700 Club and Regent University, is an ardent ecumenicist who
has long worked and fellowshipped with Romanists. He exemplifies what is
happening widely in Evangelical-Charismatic circles today. In fact, the
Evangelical-Roman Catholic alliance which is led by men such as Robertson is
drawing in pastors who profess to be fundamental Baptists. An example of this
is Jerry Falwell’s close and uncritical relationship with Robertson. Falwell
is pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, a church
which is aligned both with the Southern Baptist Convention and the Baptist
Bible Fellowship. Earlier this year, Falwell helped sponsor a birthday party
for Robertson in Washington D.C. It is not surprising, therefore, to learn
that the president of Falwell’s Liberty University is a Roman Catholic, as is
the coach for the school’s football team (Frontline, May-June 2000, p. 6).
Robertson is a very talented and personable man. He grew up in the well-to-do
home of a U.S. senator and obtained a doctorate in law from Yale University.
In the late 1950s he became involved in the Pentecostal movement and began
"speaking in tongues." He established the Christian Broadcasting Network in
1960, and that same year was ordained by the Freemason Street Baptist Church
in Norfolk, Virginia, a Southern Baptist congregation. A few years later he
formed the "700 Club," which spread ecumenical and charismatic doctrine far
and wide. Later Robertson formed the Christian Coalition to promote political
and social activism, and ran an unsuccessful political campaign in 1988 to
seek the Republican nomination for President of the United States.
Robertson gives no warning about Rome’s false gospel and blasphemous errors.
In 1985, Robertson "revealed that during 25 years of broadcasting, he has
‘worked for harmony and reconciliation between Protestants and Catholics’ and
‘refrained from airing major theological differences.’ He told Roman Catholic
Bishop Sullivan, ‘I have been your friend and booster. ... It has been my
pleasure to assist on repeated occasions the church you serve’"(Christian News
, July 22, 1985).
In February 27, 1986, the Catholic publication Wanderer published an
interview with Robertson. When asked about the supposed miracles that have
occurred at the Mary shrine at Lourdes, Robertson gave this amazing reply: "I
understand there have been some tremendous healings. ... Again, the nice
thing is that so many Roman Catholics believe in miracles. They believe in a
God who answers prayer. Miracles are part of the warp and woof of the
Church." Does Pat Robertson really believe that it is acceptable to pray to
Mary for healing and to set up shrines in her honor?
Robertson frequently appears at radically ecumenical forums such as Full
Gospel Business Men’s meetings. For example, he was a speaker at the 1981
Full Gospel convention in Philadelphia, which had as its theme, "Bridges, Not
Barriers." The Catholic presence at the meeting was 

[CTRL] OPEC Members to Cut Output by 4 Percent

[Bill Richer]

-Caveat Lector-

WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War!

OPEC Members to Cut Output by 4 Percent
Saturday, March 17, 2001
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VIENNA, Austria — The world's major organization of oil-producing nations on
Saturday agreed upon stiff reductions in how much oil they will produce, in
hopes of raising prices for crude.


Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries members will cut 4 percent of
their targeted oil output — which amounts to about 1 million barrels a day
starting April 1, or double the most analysts predictions. The cartel hopes
the decrease in oil supply will keep prices steady even as oil prices begin
their traditional seasonal dip and the world suffers an overall economic
slide.

"The present weaker world economy and the traditional sharp downturn in
demand associated with the second quarter both clearly point to the need for
a correction in oil supply, and the conference has taken the decision to
stabilize the oil market," OPEC announced after a two-day Vienna conference.

The decision will affect the daily lives of people in the United States and
other oil-importing nations. The cartel's members pump almost 40 percent of
the world's oil and their product can be found in everything from the
gasoline used to power cars, the oil to heat homes and even the plastic in
some children's toys.

In Washington, D.C., the Bush administration said it was disheartened with
the decision and that it further showed the need for more domestic
production.

"In light of the current world economic conditions, OPEC's decision ... is
disappointing," Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said in a statement. The
action "demonstrates the importance of increasing America's domestic
production and developing a national energy policy that will ensure a stable,
reliable, affordable and diverse supply of energy."

Because hotly competing OPEC members typically overproduce, some analysts
said the actual decrease in oil production could be as little as half the
official number.

Unlike previous OPEC meetings in recent years, this one unfolded against a
backdrop of economic fragility, with stock markets from New York to Tokyo
registering steep losses Consumer confidence has suffered, and fears of a
recession are growing.

"We have to follow continuously this situation," OPEC secretary general Ali
Rodriguez told a news conference. "The slowdown in the economy was entirely
present in our analysis."

The unusually long time it took OPEC to reach a decision attests to the
difficulty delegates faced in working out the specifics.

OPEC will trim its output quota to 24.2 million barrels a day from its
current level of 25.2 million barrels.

Markets were closed Saturday, but they had surged higher, then retreated
Friday on the likelihood of a cut. Contracts of light, sweet crude for April
delivery closed at $26.74 a barrel, up 19 cents, on the New York Mercantile
Exchange.

May contracts of North Sea Brent crude ended 4 cents higher at $25.05 on the
International Petroleum Exchange in London.

Mehdi Varzi, a senior oil analyst at the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort
Wasserstein in London, and Lawrence Eagles, head of commodity research at
London brokerage GNI Ltd., were unconcerned with the cuts, saying that after
a short rebound in crude prices, they would decline over the next year or
two.

But Bill Edwards, an energy consultant based in Houston, was worried.

"I think OPEC will be surprised at how steeply the price rises," he said.

Edwards predicted that crude prices could increase by as much as $6 a barrel
and gasoline prices by as much as 30 cents a gallon.

But others analysts said markets would react with much less alarm to OPEC's
decision.

The production cut will be OPEC's second of the year so far. OPEC members
agreed in January to lop 1.5 million barrels off their previous quota, a
decrease that took effect Feb. 1. The current global economic weakness
appears to have reinforced the case within OPEC for deeper cuts.

The organization also was anticipating a slowdown this spring in seasonal
demand for heating oil and gasoline as the weather starts to warm in many
importing nations.

Saudi Arabia's oil minister Ali Naimi said OPEC expects non-OPEC producers
such as Russia, Mexico and Angola to cooperate by holding back some of their
own oil from the market.

Iran's oil minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh said non-OPEC countries will
probably trim their supply by 200,000 barrels a day, but he gave no further
details.

OPEC is trying to stabilize prices at around $25 a barrel for an average of
seven benchmark crudes. The OPEC average price has slid in recent months from
more than $30 a barrel.

"I think they've done the best they can," Eagles said, calling the challenge
of stabilizing prices "an impossible task" for OPEC to achieve on its own.

The cut will apply to all of OPEC's 11 members except for Iraq, which does
not participate in the group's production agreements 

[CTRL] Holy war rages, Russia profits

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© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com


From the Balkans in Europe, through the strategic Caucasus region, and into
the vast reaches of Central Asia, a holy war rages between the militant
followers of the prophet Mohammed and established secular governments.

The struggle is over a large area that is both rich in natural resources and
possessing great strategic value.

In the Balkans, the struggle is expressed in terms of a fight for a "Greater
Albania;" in the Caucasus, the struggle is to establish an emirate
reminiscent of medieval Islam; and in Central Asia, Islamic rebels seek to
revive the khanate of Kokand, a territory governed by Islamic law until
conquered by Czarist forces in the 19th century.

At first glance, these Islamic fighters may seem to be merely extremists bent
on an impossible quest -- reminiscent of Don Quixote – but malevolent and
heavily armed.

Islam, however, has a long history of conquest.

Since the death of Mohammed in 632 AD, the prophet’s followers have waged a
continuous -- and often successful -- series of wars against the
"unbelievers." Shortly after Mohammed’s death, Moslem armies swept away most
of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the old Roman Empire.

In 1453, the armies of Islam finally captured the Byzantine capital of
Constantinople, one of the largest cities in the Christian world. Islamic
troops marched to the gates of Vienna, the southern gate to Central Europe.
Moslem soldiers even occupied part of Italy during the height of the
Renaissance.

During most of Europe’s history, Islam represented an extreme danger, an
immediate threat to the entire continent.

Far from being romantics lost in history, today these Islamic fighters are
using history, along with present political circumstances, to further their
ends.

A divided Balkans

Ethnic Albanians remember that their rule in the Balkans once reached far
into present-day Greece, but modern attempts to unite all Albanians into one
nation have been consistently blocked by the major European powers. The
present struggle in and around Kosovo is aimed to finally achieve this long
desired unity -- and under Islamic law.

The establishment of the envisioned "Greater Albania" would extend across the
center of the Balkan peninsula, fundamentally changing the borders of the
always-volatile region. It would represent the first major increase in
Islamic geopolitical power in Europe since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in
the early 20th century.

The Islamic fundamentalists have already achieved the first steps toward
their goal.

Kosovo, nominally a province of Serbia, is, for all practical purposes,
independent of Belgrade. The German mark has replaced the Yugoslav dinar as
Kosovo’s currency; United Nations-sponsored elections in Kosovo were
conducted without any authorization from Belgrade; and the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA), the rebel group that fought for Kosovo’s independence against the
Yugoslav military, is now the core of the U.N.-sponsored Kosovo Protection
Corps.

Since the end of NATO's 78 day air war against Yugoslavia in June 1999, Serb
refugees have poured out of Kosovo, and those still living in the province
consistently report harassment from their ethnic Albanian neighbors.

Another rebel ethnic Albanian group has gained prominence within the last
year. This new rebel formation operates within the so-called demilitarized
zone between Kosovo and southern Serbia, and is called the Liberation Army of
Presevo Medvedja, and Bujanovac. This group seeks to extend the area
controlled by ethnic Albanians from the border of Kosovo into the southern
region of Serbia. The group acquired its name from three villages in the
area.

The Presevo group numbers about 1600, and has initiated multiple ambushes of
Yugoslav police units in the area.

Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica has consistently sought aid from the
international community for the Serbs within Kosovo, and for the suppression
of the Presevo rebels. Kostunica remains firm regarding ultimate Yugoslav
authority over Kosovo, demanding that the international community observe
U.N. resolution 1244, which recognizes Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia.

No substantial assistance from the international community has thus far
appeared.

The prospect of a new Islamic republic appearing on Balkan soil ignites
strong emotions in the region.

Albania, although Moslem dominated, is a secular government. An independent
Kosovo would not only be Moslem, but would be established as an Islamic
republic. This event would arouse memories of centuries of savage domination
by the Turkish Ottoman Empire, and would be certain to bring the region to
the brink of all-out war.

The Ottoman Empire held 

[CTRL] PC privacy 7

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 Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:43:32 +
 Subject: PC privacy 7
 From: byron r wahl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Some odd developments following the probe from Mr
 Big Bank, Osaka. I'd
 been pinging or attempting to snoop around the NSA
 HQ address
 144.51.101.73 (mil, Fort Meade, MD) when, very soon
 thereafter, BlackIce
 Defender reported a suspicious, not-ordinary, probe
 from Haifa. This
 turned-out to be 194.90.104.134
 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Haifa,
 Israel. The site www.netvision.net.il  is entirely
 in Hebrew with no
 place to click on "English." Doubly cryptikk.

 Descriptions by some users at www.downloads.com/
 report that BlackIce
 Defender used in conjunction with Tiny Personal
 Firewall provide
 excellent "security" (inspite of Microbloat being
 one huge backdoor leak
 to fedbeast 666 in the District and Langley
 according to German
 government investigators who have decided to banish
 MS from their
 Teutonic operations).

 There is nothing "tiny" about the Tiny Personal
 Firewall. It may be the
 best available for a free download but requires a
 lot of know-how in
 order to set the port priorities and a million other
 things which the
 ordinary human has never heard of let alone
 adjusted. BlackIce Defender
 doesn't let much pass that's of significance (one
 hopes). Ice gets the
 numbers, SmartWhois gets the exact details
 concerning who's up to what
 and where www.tamos.com/ .

 There certainly is a backdoor at my location in
 Vermont. At times when I
 log on to sover.net or juno.com the browser IE4.03
 simply will not access
 the internet. (via local Northland Telephone Co.
 lines == a joke) This
 occurs after I have fired-off very resistant-type
 emails to whomever
 fedbeast loathes the most. There is also,
 apparently, an adjustable
 slow-down mechanism which makes everything on the
 web move at less than a
 snail's pace. This procedure is often accompanied by
 threatening violent
 door-bangings in this apartment building -- the
 "Green Mountain State"
 crawling with very green secret police imbeciles and
 multi-billionaires
 who have taken over. The locals are mere servants.

 For those who don't already know about it, useful
 free scans of your
 internet connection in every aspect are available
 from
 www.dslreports.com/scan  but it's best to connect
 there during quiet
 times like 3 or 4 am. There's often a waiting line.

 Reported in an earlier post, the QNX Demodisk
 wonderworker which runs out
 of RAM exclusively, will not work with Winmodems --
 it's no wonder:
 another Microbkloat aberration. You should try it
 www.qnx.com/

 An easy way out of the horrors of setting-up a proxy
 server may be to
 simply use anonymous surfing. A choice of four are
 available at
 www.all-nettools.com/
 and on the same page are two anonymous remailers.
 One (above the other)
 is Riot (an MIT operation) which actually works.
 Below it is Freedom
 which is not reliable. Use both and something may
 get through. So far, I
 don't think Riot remailer has ever failed. Test them
 both.

 As mentioned in an earlier post KleenIt from
 www.overware.com/  will
 purge your hard disk of pesky little files
 downloaded unbeknownst to you
 while on line -- stuff that anti-virus scans can't
 scan. Juno seems to
 plant at least one every time and that makes any
 other access almost
 inoperative. Of course Microbloat packs in crap all
 the
 timeapparently essential to making all the bloat
 work at all -- or
 work around the pipeline to Langley.


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[CTRL] US frowns on Opec cut

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US frowns on Opec cut



Opec Secretary General Ali Rodriguez breaks the news

The United States has expressed disappointment at Opec's decision to cut oil
output by one million barrels a day in an attempt to drive up prices.
US Energy secretary Spencer Abraham said the decision underlined the need to
step up American oil production.



Opec's decision demonstrates the importance of increasing America's domestic
production and developing a national energy policy

Spencer Abraham
Opec energy ministers announced their decision, which will come into effect
from 1 April, at an Opec meeting in Vienna on Saturday

Mr Abraham said: "Opec's decision demonstrates the importance of increasing
America's domestic production and developing a national energy policy that
will ensure a stable, reliable, affordable and diverse energy supply."

An Opec statement had earlier stated: "The conference has taken the decision
to stabilise the market. The present weak world economy and the traditional
downturn in demand... both clearly point to a need for a correction."

Close monitoring

The 11-member grouping added that it would monitor the market closely, and
would take "immediate" further action if necessary.



This is a good price for both producers and consumer

Opec Secretary General Ali Rodriguez
A reduction of one million barrels a day represents a 4% cut in Opec output -
the cartel pumps 40% of the world's oil.

The production cut comes despite warnings by analysts that a substantial
reduction in oil supply could cause a world recession, with both industry and
consumers suffering under higher prices.

Some oil ministers had demanded an even bigger cut, but Opec countries were
under huge political pressure not to go any further.

Mr Abraham noted that President George W. Bush wanted to increase US energy
security by reducing reliance on imported oil.

Added taxes

Opec Secretary General Ali Rodriguez downplayed concerns that a
larger-than-expected cut would hurt consumers and industrialised countries by
pushing up crude prices.

"This is a good price for both producers and consumers," he said.



Oil prices have tumbled from a high of $35 last year

Opec's Algerian president Chakib Khelil meanwhile renewed the cartel's
criticism of governments for levying high taxes, while blaming Opec for the
price of end products like petrol.

"Consumers do not pay only the cost of crude oil. They pay also the cost of
taxes, and taxes are a heavy burden on the citizens of the EU and the US and
other countries," he said.

Oil prices have remained relatively low, despite the prospect of a cut in
supplies.

But analysts say there is a good chance that this latest deal will do what
Opec wants, adding two or three dollars a barrel to the price of crude oil
over the next few months.

Protecting revenues

The cartel is anxious to protect the revenues of its member governments.

Only two years ago, they were struggling with oil prices at less than half
their current level.

And prices have fallen more than 25% since touching a 10-year high - above
$35 a barrel - late last year.

It is also an important issue for many oil importing countries outside Opec.

Several sent delegates to the meeting, including Mexico, Kazakhstan and
Angola.

Russia was also represented. Its recovery after the financial crisis of 1998
owes a great deal to the relatively high oil price of the last year.




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[CTRL] SURVEY FINDS NATION'S HAD ITS FILL OF HILL

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Saturday,March 17,2001

By DEBORAH ORIN


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 LOOKING DOWN:
Only 39 percent like Sen. Hillary Clinton in a recent poll - and unlike New
Yorkers, most Americans wouldn't want her husband as mayor of their town.
- Mary Altaffer

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton's image across the country has hit a new
low in the wake of Pardongate - with most Americans now having a negative
view of the ex-first lady, a new national poll shows.
A total of 51 percent of Americans now have an unfavorable view of Clinton
and only 39 percent view her positively, according to the Fox News/Opinion
Dynamics poll.

She had a much better image on Jan. 12, just before the Clintons left the
White House amid controversy over pardons and gift-grabbing. Then she had a
rating of 52 percent positive and 38 percent negative.

The poll also suggests New York City is really out of whack with the rest of
the country regarding Bill Clinton.

Asked "if Clinton ran for mayor in your city, would you vote for him?" the
poll found 65 percent wouldn't and only 30 percent would.

Other surveys have found Bill Clinton could win if he ran for Big Apple
mayor.

President Bush did well in the Fox poll - 56 percent said he's doing a good
job while only 23 percent disapprove. The nationwide poll of 904 registered
voters was taken Wednesday and Thursday and has an error margin of 3
percentage points either way.

The Clintons' increasingly negative national image dims, at least for now,
any chance that Sen. Clinton will become a national leader of her party or a
2004 presidential contender against Bush.

Asked for comment on the bad-news poll, Clinton spokeswoman Karen Dunn
replied: "Senator Clinton is more concerned with numbers that matter to real
people, like the number of new teachers in our classrooms."

A recent Post poll in New York found Sen. Clinton has a better image in her
new home state. It showed 51 percent viewed her positively even though 58
percent believed she lied when she denied knowing about her brother Hugh
Rodham's role in Pardongate.

Hugh Rodham got $400,000 to lobby Bill Clinton for two convicted felons who
got pardons. Despite his pledge to repay the money, The Post yesterday
revealed he has yet to repay $100,000 because he spent it.

Meanwhile, Sen. Clinton yesterday continued her attack on Bush and criticized
his decision to fire three of the four U.S. attorneys in New York. Only
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, who's probing Pardongate, will stay on
indefinitely.

"I think it's more efficient and serves the cause of justice not to disrupt
the term of someone who is performing well," said the former first lady,
whose husband fired all U.S. attorneys far faster, just two months after
taking office.

Bush is phasing out Clinton appointees over a longer period of time. Most
will be asked to leave by June, but 12 to 15 handling sensitive
investigations will be staying on.

In White's case, Justice Department officials say the prime reason for
keeping her is the terror trial of Osama bin Laden, although it also leaves
her time to see if laws were broken by Clinton's controversial pardons of
people like fugitive billionaire Marc Rich.






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[CTRL] US Congress gets glimpse of Taiwan's arms request

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NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON
The Bush administration officially told Congress for the first time on Friday
the details of Taiwan's request for advanced weapons, and appeared to be
paving the way for a package of arms sales to Taiwan that China vigorously
opposes.

The Taiwan shopping list was unveiled a few days before the arrival of
China's deputy prime minister, Qian Qichen (`), whose explicit purpose
is to impress upon President Bush his country's opposition to one of Taiwan's
major requests: guided-missile destroyers equipped with the Aegis radar
system.

The Chinese have argued that the sale of the Aegis system fitted to
Arleigh-Burke-class destroyers would give Taiwan a precursor to a theater
missile defense for Taiwan and, thus, would significantly sour relations
between Beijing and Washington.

Some conservative Republicans in Congress are stepping up the pressure on the
White House to go ahead with the sale and are casting the decision as a test
of the new administration's resolve on China.

The Bush administration, which includes senior officials who have advocated a
more robust US defense of Taiwan, has begun the decision-making process on
the Taiwan sales. The decision on what to sell Taiwan is usually made every
year in mid-April.

Several major players in the administration, including Richard Armitage,
nominated to be deputy secretary of state, as well as Deputy Secretary of
Defense Paul Wolfowitz, signed a 1999 letter calling for a more vigorous
defense of Taiwan.

At Friday's closed-door session on Capitol Hill, a senior State Department
China expert, Darryl Johnson, and a senior Pentagon official, Fred Smith,
told Republican and Democratic staff members that among Taiwan's requests
were the Aegis-equipped destroyers, P-3 Orion aircraft used for detecting
submarines, and sophisticated command and control communications.

The Aegis system is particularly distressing to the Chinese because they see
it as leading to a missile-defense system that could provide a shield over
Taiwan. Taiwan seeks the Aegis system to counter Chinese missiles aimed at
Taiwan from China.

The Clinton administration deferred a decision last year on selling Taiwan
the Arleigh-Burke-class destroyers equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles and
Aegis radar systems. Although it declined to sell the Aegis system, the
Clinton administration sold Taiwan US$20 billion in arms, according to the
Congressional Research Service.

Beijing, believing that the Bush administration appears inclined to make a
big sale to Taiwan this year, has unleashed a diplomatic effort and Qian's
visit is seen as a crucial part of its strategy.

If the administration decides to sell the Aegis systems and persuades
Congress to go along, it would be the most significant sale of weaponry to
Taiwan since former president George Bush sold 150 F-16 aircraft to Taiwan
during the 1992 presidential campaign.

Aside from the Aegis systems, other Taiwan requests that were discussed today
at the Capitol Hill briefing were Kidd-class destroyers, P-3 Orion aircraft
and high-speed anti-radiation missiles, known as HARM.

According to Taiwanese press accounts, the military wants four Kidd
destroyers. Some military experts point out that Kidds could be sold to
Taiwan immediately.





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[CTRL] Blockbuster cover story exposes Federal Reserve

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How your money -- and life -- are controlled by America's banking system

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 2001 WorldNetDaily.com


"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking
and monetary system, for if they did, I believe that there would be a
revolution before morning." --Henry Ford

A major investigative expos of the Federal Reserve System will lead off the
upcoming March edition of WorldNetDaily's sister offline print publication,
the monthly WorldNet magazine.

Veteran journalist Anne Williamson, who has written for the Wall Street
Journal and the New York Times, has authored a definitive and eye-opening
analysis of the nation's banking system for WorldNet.

The in-depth, 11,000-word report begins this way:

"Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act on the 22nd of December 1913, and
from that day forward the United States of America ceased to be a Republic."

From that jarring opening salvo, Williamson launches into a critical history
of money, banking, the Federal Reserve, how the Fed manipulates elections and
markets, who is behind the Fed, and much more.

Typically, press treatment of the Federal Reserve -- an organization shrouded
with mystery since its inception in 1913 -- amounts either to establishment
propaganda or conspiracy-mongering hysteria. So WorldNet sought out a true
expert -- a journalist who has testified before Congress -- to write this
startling cover story.

Beginning with the March issue, WorldNet is featuring each month a major
"big-picture" cover story exploring one of the truly crucial issues of the
day -- often ignored, distorted or downplayed by the establishment press --
but which directly affect Americans' lives.

The April issue, for example, will explore whether the 16th Amendment -- the
one that introduced the income tax -- was ever actually ratified. It will
examine major issues and controversies surrounding the income tax today, and
will also focus on the many citizens who are openly challenging the Internal
Revenue Service.

The May issue will feature another major expos, this one on the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Future issues will cover the
drug war, abortion, the United Nations and globalization, radical
environmentalism, evolution, gun control, secret societies, education, and
Christian persecution in the U.S., among others.

The editorial staff of WorldNetDaily and WorldNet urges readers not to miss
these critical editions slated for the next year. Although individual issues
sell for $7.50, a one-year subscription costs only $36 for 12 monthly issues.




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[CTRL] United Empire Loyalist Settlement at Long Point

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Chapter 2
Political Aspect of the Revolution  Next  The Acts of the Imperial
Parliament by which direct taxes were imposed on the American colonies are to
be regarded as the culmination of the series of causes which brought on the
revolution.

In this series of events the most important is, no doubt, the renewal of the
restrictions on colonial trade, enforced soon after the third George began
his reign.  Under the old "navigation laws" and "laws of trade" the colonial
produce had to be exported directly to Britain, and thence by British vessels
only, carried to tis destination.  Similarly, goods for the colonies had to
be brought to Britain and thence to the colonies in British ships.  The
American colonies were not allowed to trade even with other colonies
directly.  For nearly a century these odious Acts had been evaded by an
organized and well arranged system of smuggling.  The revenue officers of the
Crown were lax in their enforcement of the letter of the law; consequently
the merchants of various states, and chiefly those of Massachusetts, had
grown rich by the illicit traffic, and were exasperated beyong measure by the
attempts of the revenue officers, under fresh orders, to enforce the laws.
Fourteen of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were engaged in
trade which was affected grievously by these restrictions.*  At the time of
the Declaration of Independence John hancock was a respondent in suits of the
Crown to recover 100,000, or over, for alleged infractions of the trade
laws.  Thus the questions relative to trade and commerce are to be regarded
as a primary cause of the revolution.

Another primary cause was the fact that colonial industry and manufacture
were restricted.  The colonists were denied the use of natural advantages,
such as waterfalls; they were forbidden the erection of sundry kinds of
machinery, particularly spinning and weaving machines; the king’s arrow was
placed on trees in the forest, which were two feet or over in diameter, at a
height of twelve inches from the ground; the manufacture of sawn lumber,
except for home consumption was interdicted; the market for dried fish was
cut off; the commerce in sugar and molasses was rudely interrupted; the most
important and profitable avenues of trade were closed to them.  Hence one of
the aims of the revolution was to take off the shackles which bore heavily on
the rising colonies.

The explanation, or excuse it may be called, for these impositions lies of
course in the opinion held by all Imperial governments at that time, that
colonies existed for the benefit of the Mother Country only.  The world has
at last outgrown that doctrine, and we are to-day reaping the benefit of the
removal of restrictions which was accelerated by the shock of the loss of
half a continent.  But all nations and governments are to be judged according
to the general standard of enlightenment at the time of the events under
consideration.  It is easy to criticise a public policy when the result of a
chain of events has demonstrated it to be wrong.  Before the issue, its
wisdom or foolishness is for the most part a matter of opinion.  Had we been
a member of Lord North’s Government we would have, no doubt, thought the
existing colonial policy a natural and necessary one; had we made a fortune
smuggling tea, wine, or molasses, we would have, no doubt, thought that same
colonial policy vile and inhuman.  Living as we do with a century and a
quarter of added experience, we neither commend its wisdom nor criticise too
harshly its application.  Let us be merciful.  If we cannot be merciful let
us be fair, and give the devil, on both sides, his due.

We now come to that question which, as an apple of discord, was rolled around
the parliamentary table for ten long years, and at last plunged the nation
into warfare and led to the dismemberment of the empire: "Has the British
Parliament power to tax the colonies without giving them representation in
the Imperial Parliament?"

This question may be considered: Firstly, from a purely legal aspect;
secondly, from the standpoint of expediency; and thirdly, from the moral and
ethical side.

As a matter of abstract right, the Mother Country has never parted with the
claim to ultimate supreme authority of legislation on any matter whatever.
This has always been acknowledged by constitutional lawyers.  If the Imperial
Parliament were to resign this ultimate right, the tie that binds the empire
would be dissolved, and the colonies would forthwith become independent
states.  It is that right which, along with the acknowledgement of the common
head, makes us a part of the British Empire of which we are so proud.  The
question of the abstract right of taxation was never disputed; simply that of
taxation without 

[CTRL] German armed forces ban MS software, citing NSA snooping

[Bill Richer]

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Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War!

German armed forces ban MS software, citing NSA snooping
By: John Lettice
Posted: 17/03/2001 at 18:59 GMT


The German foreign office and Bundeswehr are pulling the plugs on Microsoft
software, citing security concerns, according to the German news magazine Der
Spiegel. Spiegel claims that German security authorities suspect that the US
National Security Agency (NSA) has 'back door' access to Microsoft source
code, and can therefore easily read the Federal Republic's deepest secrets.

The Bundeswehr will no longer use American software (we surmise this includes
Larry and Scott as well) on computers used in sensitive areas. The German
foreign office has meanwhile put plans for videoconferencing with its
overseas embassies on hold, for similar reasons. Under secretary of state
Gunter Pleuger is said by Spiegel to have discovered that "for technical
reasons" the satellite service that was to be used was routed via Denver,
Colorado.

According to a colleague of Pleuger's this meant that the German foreign
services "might as well hold our conferences directly in Langley." We're not
entirely sure whose interesting video conferencing via satellite service has
a vital groundstation in Denver, but we note that Pleuger seems to have
gleaned this information from a presentation held earlier this month in
Berlin by, er, Deutsche Telekom.

Which just happens, along with Siemens, to have picked up the gig. The two
companies have supplanted Microsoft (and anything else American) and will be
producing a secure, home-grown system that the German military can be
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Re: [CTRL] Vatican Art goes to Britain, not U.S.

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Here is the whole article...


March 17, 2001


A Botticelli Wonder, Bypassing U.S. Museums

By CELESTINE BOHLEN

Had it not been for a lawsuit brought in California against the Vatican
Library in Rome, a much-coveted exhibition of 92 drawings by the Renaissance
master Sandro Botticelli illustrating Dante's "Divine Comedy," seven of
which belong to the Vatican, would be ending a three-month tour at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.

But because of the Vatican's fear of exposing its drawings to legal claims
the exhibition never came to New York. Instead, it went to London, where it
opens today at the Royal Academy. "The arrival of this show in London is a
triumph of curatorial diplomacy for which British art lovers should be
grateful," trumpeted a preview in The Times of London this week.

"Thank the lord," said Norman Rosenthal, exhibitions secretary at the Royal
Academy, who for decades had been in pursuit of an exhibition of the
Botticelli cycle, which he described as "one of the divine meetings in the
history of Western culture."

Not that the British are gloating, but the Americans are certainly
chagrined. "As an institution, we are very disappointed," said Harold
Holzer, spokesman for the Metropolitan Museum. "This was something that was
extraordinary, perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

The show, which originated last year at the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin
and moved later to Rome, unites the 92 extant drawings from Botticelli's
Dante cycle for the first time in 500 years.

Until 1993 the 85 drawings now at the Kupferstichkabinett were divided among
museums in East and West Berlin. Because of their sensitivity to light, they
are rarely exhibited, and the current tour is strictly limited. The
illustrations — of which four are in color and the rest are drawn in a faint
golden brown ink — offer "a breathtakingly intimate glimpse of Botticelli's
creative process," according to a December 1998 description of the proposed
show written by the Met's staff.

But in the spring of 1999 lawyers for the Met were told that the Vatican was
not willing to make loans to the United States for fear that the drawings
could get ensnared in the lawsuit pending in Federal District Court in
central California. As it turned out and as the Metropolitan said it learned
only this week, the lawsuit against the Vatican Apostolic Library was
resolved last August, said the library's Los Angeles lawyer, John
McNicholas.

"The lawsuit is over," Mr. McNicholas said. "I thought this Botticelli
exhibition had long been forgotten but at this point, I can see no reason
why the Vatican could not participate from a legal point of view."

The lawsuit centered on a controversial contract signed by the Vatican's
chief librarian and Elaine Peconi, a California businesswoman and onetime
holder of a master license for the sale of reproductions from the library's
collections. Among other things, the contract provided that all disputes
would be resolved by courts in California, which was the point on which Mr.
McNicholas said he thought the Vatican loan might be vulnerable. New York
lawyers, however, argue that artworks on loan to museums in New York are
protected from forfeiture under a 1968 law signed by Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller.

But Mr. McNicholas said he was not convinced. `'I was cautious, maybe too
cautious, maybe not," he said.

He said his advice was not influenced by the well-publicized seizure of two
paintings by Egon Schiele from the Museum of Modern Art in 1998 on a
subpoena issued by Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morganthau. Those
works were seized pending an investigation into claims by heirs of the
works' original owners, whose art collections had been seized by the Nazis.
The paintings had come to New York on a loan from the Leopold Foundation in
Vienna; one, "Dead City," was returned to Vienna after the New York State
Court of Appeals quashed Mr. Morganthau's subpoena in 1999.

The other Schiele painting, "Portrait of Wally," is still in storage at the
Museum of Modern Art, pending the outcome of a subsequent federal case
brought by Mary Jo White, the United States attorney in Manhattan, who has
argued that the painting is stolen property. That case was dismissed by
Judge Michael B. Mukasey of Federal District Court last July, but in
December he gave the federal prosecutors another chance to amend their
arguments. A final decision is expected this year.

The case has been closely watched by American museum officials, who worry
that foreign lenders will be wary of making loans to the United States. So
far, cases like the one involving the Botticelli drawings are rare.

Several museums, including the Metropolitan, have filed "friend of the
court" briefs in support of the Museum of Modern Art. They hold that museums
are not the proper place to resolve ownership disputes. "It is critically
important to reassure lenders that their art is safe in every respect in
American museums," said 

[CTRL] Why Johnny Can't Come Home

[Kris Millegan]

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WHY JOHNNY CAN'T COME HOME
By Noreen Gosch
Finally, after all these years, Noreen knows the "WHO, HOW AND WHY" of her
son's kidnapping. She vowed she would do something about it. Noreen wrote
"Why Johnny Can't Come Home" which will be available in bookstores in
November 2000. It is the story of her eighteen-year journey to solve Johnny's
case.
Noreen's continued goal is to bring out the truth on Johnny's kidnapping and
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[CTRL] What Happened to Johnny Gosch....

[Kris Millegan]

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What Happened to Johnny Gosch..
On September 5, 1982, Johnny Gosch was abducted while doing his Sunday
morning paper route, for the Des Moines Register. This day began an 18 year
search for Johnny, and the truth. Johnny's abduction was not by chance.
Evidence indicates Johnny's picture was shown to several people the night
before, as the child they would abduct in the morning.

In 1989, Paul Bonacci provided his attorney, John DeCamp, with information
indicating he had participated in the abduction of a Des Moines, Iowa paper
boy. This paper boy was Johnny Gosch. Bonacci's testimony provided a great
deal of information about Johnny and his case, however local authorities
refuse to interview him, questioning his credibility.

According to numerous reports by Paul Bonacci, Michael LaVey (son of Anton
LaVey), and Johnny Gosch himself, Johnny was taken by a highly organized,
very corporate global pedophile/pornography ring. Evidence links this same
porno/pedophile ring to the 80's 'congressional call boy scandal', money
laundering, drug running, illegal arms deals and more.

Like so many others, before and since, Johnny was subjected to severe trauma
and torture of a satanic and sexual nature, in order to intentionally destroy
the conscious personality brainwashing. This intentional application of
trauma is a systematic procedure used to control these victims, in order to
use them in sexual slavery, pornography and more.

In February 1999, in Federal Court testimony in Omaha Nebraska, Noreen Gosch
testified that Johnny Gosch came to see her in 1997, providing information
about his experience, asking for his mother's help and pleading for her to
not reveal his visit.

Johnny is now 31 years old. After years of suffering tremendous torture and
pain at the hands of his captors, being used and abused, he and several
others escaped. They have been living in hiding under new identities... they
fear for their lives.

People ask ... why is it necessary for someone to hide and live this way.
It is simple, Johnny can identify many of the people involved and would be a
threat to the very people who took him. He is known as the "chameleon". Why?
Because he can so completely change his appearance.

He would like to be a part of his family once again but it isn't safe. The
people who take these children also do a thorough job of brainwashing.
Telling these young children that if they try to resume any kind of life with
their families they will be killed. It is enough of a threat and fear to
these young people that they do not try to contact their families.

Johnny took a chance to come and see his mother for a very short time. He
wanted to give her information, in the hope she could bring it out to the
public. Information about this network of pedophiles and how they operate. He
is very angry about what has happened to him and the years with his family
which have been taken from him. Who could blame any of these young people for
being angry at the system.

A number of the other victims who Noreen has had the opportunity to know...
have given her a lot of information about Johnny and the times they were with
him. She was told he would try to calm some of the others when they would be
upset and afraid. That would be so like him due to the kind nature he had as
a little boy.

The sadness and pain which is felt by Johnny, and for Johnny by his family,
is something difficult to describe to others who have not experienced it.
People who take children Pedophiles are the most dangerous predators on
our planet. It is Johnny's hope that one day he can walk as a free man
free to see his family again without threat of harm to himself and others.


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Q: Is Johnny's case solved... what happened to him?
A: We have learned through private investigators that he was taken into a
pornography/prostitution ring which operates nationally and internationally.
He is no longer captive by the people who took him. He is currently living in
hiding to protect his life.


Q: Do they know who kidnapped Johnny?
A: We have reports and court testimony from Paul Bonacci, Jimmy Gibson and
Rusty Nelson regarding the people involved in kidnapping Johnny.


Q: Was Johnny's kidnapping a "random" act.
A: A witness saw Johnny being photographed on his way home from school, by a
man, two weeks before the kidnapping. She reported it to police,with a
license number, however, taking photos are not a 

[CTRL] About Noreen Gosch

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About
Noreen Gosch
and her
18 year fight for Justice and Protection
for Johnny and MANY other missing children...

On September 5, 1982, Noreen's son Johnny was delivering his Des Moines
Register Sunday edition paper, when two men approached him. He was thrown
into a vehicle and was kidnapped.
To find her son, Noreen has fought a long hard battle, and with the help of
many others, has helped make the world a safer place for children
unfortunately, the battle is far from over!
Noreen founded "THE JOHNNY GOSCH FOUNDATION", a month after the kidnapping
and developed a program called "IN DEFENSE OF CHILDREN". She has presented
more than seven hundred speeches all over the United States, reaching
thousands of people. She wrote the "JOHNNY GOSCH BILL", which was passed into
law in Iowa on July 1, 1984. A year later, Missouri as well as seven other
states adopted the bill and passed it into law. This law, which is still
called "THE JOHNNY GOSCH LAW", provides the immediate involvement of police
when a child is missing, instead of the previous 72-hour policy of waiting.

The past eighteen years have been dedicated to trying to locate Johnny, but
also to make the world safer for other children. During her programs, she
shares the "PROFILE OF A PEDOPHILE", which enables many parents to be more
aware of who may be in contact with their child and how to detect abnormal
behavior. In many communities, following her program, arrests have been made
due to the "new awareness of the informed public".

Her work has led her to Washington D.C. in August 1984, to testify at the
"ORGANIZED CRIME SENATE HEARINGS", with Senator Specter. During hearings she
shared the information gathered by her and private investigators as to the
type of kidnapers that took her son and the relationship to organized crime.
By going public with this information, she began to receive many death
threats. These threats have continued throughout this investigation.

Noreen testified before the Justice Department, the result of which was the
agreement of the Justice Department to make available the first $10,000,000
to establish the "NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN" in
Arlington, Virginia. Noreen was invited by President Regan to the White House
for the opening and dedication of the National Center.
The State Department arranged for her to do a documentary on "AMERICA'S
MISSING CHLDREN" for the country of Japan. This was shown throughout Japan
and other countries over and over. Many Americans living in those countries
took the time to either write or call Noreen and her family, as they were so
moved by the tragic loss of her son.

HBO also produced documentary called "MISSING", which included the story
about Johnny and three other children who were missing, some were found dead
and the others are still missing. That documentary was released in 1983 and
has shown on HBO many times throughout the years.

Noreen has made 50 Network TV appearances and has written articles for USA
Today a number of times. A number of other publications also feature Johnny's
story. Please watch for upcoming appearances or schedule a seminar in your
area.

Noreen continues to work with her State Legislature and the Governor of Iowa,
and remains involved on the Federal level. Great progress has been made in
the United States, since the kidnapping of her son. It is due to the efforts
of not only Noreen, but countless other parents, who are still working so
very hard to locate their children and bring to justice the people
responsible.
One of the greatest accomplishments is to see the second "NATIONAL CENTER FOR
MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN" being founded in Lee Wood, Kansas by Sgt.
Craig Hill, who will be the director; the opening is scheduled for the Spring
of this year. This is an example of the progress, which has been made over
the past fifteen years.

In 1989, Paul Bonacci confessed to his attorney, his part in the kidnapping
of her son. In later meetings with this young man, Noreen learned that her
son was taken into a "ritual abuse/mind control program called the Monarch
Program". The children taken were used for pornography, prostitution and
various other forms of abuse and control.

Johnny himself came to see his mother in March 1997. At this time he
confirmed all that Paul Bonacci had told her of the case and asked for her
helping bringing justice. He shared the names of people who were responsible.
Finally after all these many years, Noreen knows the "WHO, HOW AND WHY" of
her son's kidnapping. She vowed to her son she would do something about this
and set about in a plan to bring the entire story out. It took a few months
to organize this and develop a plan, which would be successful. She realized
that she must keep her promise to her son and not reveal that he had been to
her home. He had begged 

[CTRL] DesMoinesRegister.com | News- Noreen Gosch: I saw Johnny

[Kris Millegan]

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Noreen Gosch: I saw Johnny


Mother of missing carrier didn't tell police because she feared for son's life

By FRANK SANTIAGO
Register Staff Writer
02/07/1999

Noreen Gosch said Saturday that her missing son, Johnny, visited her at her
West Des Moines apartment in 1997. She said she never told authorities
because Johnny said it would put their lives in danger.

"I had no warning," she said. "He just showed up."

She said she didn't call police right away because her son - who would have
been 27 years old at the time - arrived with another man, and she thought
others might be outside in the car.

She said Johnny told her not to disclose that he was alive "and I haven't
done so because it was in his best interests."

Gosch said she immediately recognized the long-haired visitor who knocked at
her door about 2:30 a.m. in March 1997. He opened his shirt to show a
birthmark on his chest.

"We talked about an hour or an hour and a half. He was with another man, but
I have no idea who the person was. Johnny would look over to the other person
for approval to speak."

West Des Moines police said the case remains under investigation and would
not comment further. Polk County Attorney John Sarcone said he is happy for
Noreen Gosch if her son is alive, but said he thinks Johnny Gosch would be
safer coming to police than trying to hide.

The reported visit was yet another odd twist in the bizarre disappearance of
newspaper carrier Johnny Gosch, who was 12 years old when he vanished without
a trace Sept. 5, 1982, in West Des Moines. His wagon was found about two
blocks from his home, filled with copies of The Des Moines Sunday Register he
was to deliver.

On Aug. 12, 1984, Eugene Martin, 13, who was also delivering The Des Moines
Sunday Register, vanished from a south Des Moines neighborhood, also without
a trace.

Dozens of people, as far away as Africa and Canada, have claimed to have seen
the boys, individually or together. Police have been skeptical and haven't
established a motive. But Noreen Gosch has insisted her son was taken by a
ring of international pornographers who abuse children.

Although investigators say they have been unable to link the abductions,
there is a suspicion they are connected because of the boys' ages, the fact
the incidents happened on an early Sunday morning and because both victims
were carriers.

Noreen Gosch disclosed the early morning meeting with her son while under
oath in federal court in Lincoln, Neb., during a hearing on a civil lawsuit.
The suit was brought by Paul A. Bonacci against Larry King, a manager of the
defunct Franklin Credit Union who Bonacci says sexually abused him. Bonacci
has said he took part in Johnny Gosch's abduction, but Sarcone said
investigators concluded any involvement by Bonacci was not credible.

Noreen Gosch said she doesn't know the whereabouts now of her son. "He didn't
say where he is living or where he was going."

She said she did not tell her former husband, John Gosch, of the meeting.
John Gosch could not be reached for comment Saturday.
















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[CTRL] Contaminated Food Makes Millions Ill Despite Advances

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March 18, 2001

Contaminated Food Makes Millions Ill Despite Advances

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/18/health/18FOOD.html

By GREG WINTER

Tapeworm and botulism have been all but eradicated in this country, and new
technologies from freeze-drying to irradiation have been developed to make
food safer. But because of changing eating habits and more choices of
foods, Americans may be more likely to get sick from what they eat today
than they were half a century ago.
The frequency of serious gastrointestinal illness, a common gauge of food
poisoning, is 34 percent above what it was in 1948, according to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Not all scientists agree with
that conclusion  some say that food poisoning is as common as in the
immediate postwar years, but not necessarily more so, yet there is no doubt
about the scale of the problem.
Every year, the agency says, 5,000 deaths, 325,000 hospitalizations and 76
million illnesses are caused by food poisoning.
One of those sickened was Taylor Lake Holt, a cheerful 7-year-old boy from
Anchorage. Taylor, a cancer patient who had just ended a yearlong ordeal
with chemotherapy in 1999, celebrated with a smoothie made with
unpasteurized Sun Orchard orange juice. Within a day, he had to be rushed
back to the hospital, where it took him four more days to recover.
The juice, it turned out, contained salmonella. The company later explained
that it had met rising demand by bringing from Mexico a tanker truck of
unpasteurized orange juice, chilled with contaminated ice. The company and
regulators agree that this probably caused an outbreak that infected more
than 400 people. One elderly man died.
Why, in an age of technologies that protect food, is food poisoning at
least as common as it was a half- century ago?
For one thing, people are eating more fresh fruits and vegetables without
cooking them, increasing the chance of infection through bacteria or
viruses. For another, people are eating more precooked foods, like seafood
salads and deli meats, which are more dangerous than traditional sit-down
meals served right off the stove or out of the oven.
What is more, the variety of foods available has expanded considerably
faster than the government's ability to inspect them. In the last decade,
grocery stores have doubled the number of items they stock, from every
corner of the world, some carrying new organisms that scientists still
cannot identify, much less treat.
In fact, the amount of contaminated food that reaches store shelves only to
be recalled for posing health risks has reached its highest level in more
than a decade.
"We do have a real problem," said Joe Levitt, food safety director for the
Food and Drug Administration.
Amid the proliferation of foods, the F.D.A.'s resources to scrutinize them
have scarcely changed, often making consumers the first to test a product's
safety. A healthy person can withstand most infections, but older people
have weaker immune systems and the population is aging, leading many
scientists to worry that more Americans are becoming more susceptible to
food-borne illness.
"We are the canaries in the coal mines," said Dickson Despommier, a
professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
"The moment someone gets sick, we say,  'Don't eat that food.' It's a
miracle that the system doesn't break down more."
Unappealing though they may be, many contaminated products recalled last
year, from batches of moldy Gatorade to ammonia-tainted ice cream, do not
pose serious threats to health, manufacturers say. When outbreaks do occur,
the food industry adds, better surveillance has quickened the ability to
track down the cause, helping to make the nation's food supply, already the
safest in the world, more trustworthy than ever.
And the industry says it has made much progress in making food safer. In
fact, the illnesses caused by contaminated juice came in spite of stringent
new F.D.A. rules for the juice industry in the wake of earlier
outbreaks. And Sun Orchard, an Arizona company, had already increased
safety by steam-cleaning oranges and bathing them in chlorine to kill bacteria.
Although much of the fear surrounding food safety focuses on meat and
poultry, especially beef, the General Accounting Office estimates that 85
percent of food poisoning comes from the fruits, vegetables, seafood and
cheeses that are regulated by the F.D.A. and claim a larger share of the
American diet each year. And poisoning from such foods can be every bit as
deadly as that from meat and poultry.
Still, the F.D.A. has less than a tenth of the inspectors of the Department
of Agriculture, which regulates the meat and poultry industry. So while
U.S.D.A.  inspectors examine meat before it gets to grocery freezers, the
F.D.A. must increasingly rely on the companies it regulates to keep their
factories clean and their products safe.
Now, with slightly more than 400 inspectors to ferret out violations in
57,000 

[CTRL] Thou Shalt Not Tolerate

[William Shannon]

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10599




Thou Shalt Not Tolerate
Knute Berger, AlterNet
March 13, 2001

Earlier this month, the Taliban -- the Islamic fundamentalist sect that
controls Afghanistan -- ordered the destruction of Buddhist statues and
relics throughout the country, including several large 3rd and 5th century
statues that stand over 100 feet high.

 "These idols have been the gods of the infidels," the Taliban declared, "and
are respected even now and perhaps may be turned into gods again." Despite
howls of protest from western countries, museums curators, UNESCO, and many
fellow Muslims, the Taliban's armed forces commenced the destruction of the
Buddhas, blasting away at them with canons, tanks, and bombs. In doing so,
they were carrying our the irreversible orders of their religions and
political leaders.

The Buddhas are being destroyed not because they are unimportant or
disrespected, but precisely because they are seen by the Taliban -- and
nearly the entire international community -- as powerful and important
religious images. While the voices of tolerance argue that they should be
preserved, the forces of religious fundamentalism have prevailed.

Many in the West have decried the Taliban's vandalism. One museum
professional I know called the acts of destruction a form of "savagery."
Others have said it is typical of Muslim intolerance. Islam, said the Rev.
Jerry Falwell recently, is a faith that "teaches hate."

Before joining the chorus of those condemning the Taliban, let's consider
religious intolerance closer to home. Christian intolerance for one. There is
a strong move in America to post the Biblical 10 Commandments in courtrooms,
schools and other public places and civic spaces. In fact, in 1999 Congress
passed the 10 Commandments Defence Act amendment that would permit this --
though the law is Constiutionally questionable. Many Americans consider the
10 Commandments a no-brainier -- basic rules of behavior we can all agree
upon. Pope John Paul II calls them "the universal moral law valid in every
time and place."

But the 10 Commandments are first and foremost a religious document. The 1st
Commandment states "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," clearly saying
that there is no room for worship of any other than the Judeo-Christian god,
a statement of intolerance that hardly is inclusive of other religions,
including Buddhism, Hinduism and many other of the world's faiths.

The 2nd Commandment goes further: "Thou shalt make unto thee no graven
images..." God goes on to pledge to punished those who worship such graven
images "visiting iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the 3rd and
4th generation."

So let's see, if you don't worship the Old Testament God, and if you make
religious idols, God's wrath will be brought down upon you, your children,
your grandchildren and your great grandchildren. Sounds a lot like the
Taliban to me. Perhaps, indeed, they are simply doing God's work.

The tension between the religious tolerance that we profess, and the
religious doctrines we are taught is palpable. Examples are everywhere, and
they're not just the Jerry Falwells. Earlier this year, a Presbyterian
minister from Chicago dared to suggest at a religious conference that, while
good Christians would attain salvation and go to Heaven, perhaps a merciful
God had also designed other paths to salvation for Jews, Muslims, and other
non-believers. His tolerant, broad-minded remarks uncorked a firestorm of
controversy within the church and he was accused of heresy, for Presbyterian
doctrine teaches specifically that salvation is only possible for Christians:
the earth's other four billion inhabitants are on the fast-track to hell.

So when we consider Islamic "savagery" related to Buddhist relics, I suggest
we also consider another phrase found centuries ago on the wall of a ruined
fort on the frontier of New France: "Nous somme tous sauvage" an anonymous
French Indian fighter had carved. "We are all savages."

Instead of focusing our moral outrage on a cult in Afghanistan, we ought to
consider the ramifications of creeds that support our own potential for
"savagery" here at home. I think that would be a useful "faith-based"
initiative

[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Address of Michael Ruppert - Moscow Financial Congress, March 7, 2001

[Kris Millegan]

STATEMENT OF MICHAEL RUPPERT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CONGRESS AT THE
BOR PRESIDENTIAL HOTEL AND RETREAT - MOSCOW, RUSSIA  --  DELIVERED MARCH 7,
2001

March 12, 2001

[On March 7, 2001 I was asked by the Chairman of the International Financial
Congress, Igor Tolstoshein, to make a 10 minute presentation to an
assemblage of approximately 40 of Russia's top economic and financial
experts. Also included in the group were experts from Germany and the
Maylasian Ambassador to Russia, His Excellency Datuk Yahya Baba. I had
traveled to the Congress at the Bor Presidential Hotel and Retreat not
planning on speaking and had not prepared a written statement in advance. My
presentation therefore was not made from a written text but rather from some
hastily assembled notes.

There were only individual translators available that day and I did not tape
record my remarks. The following is the most faithful recreation of my
statement that I can make relying upon the original notes I made just before
speaking.

A full report on the Congress and my evaluations of the current Russian
situation will appear in the March 31 issue of my newsletter From The
Wilderness. That newsletter is available to paid subscribers only and may be
subscribed to through our web site at www.copvcia.com.  I am happy however,
to share this freely with so many of my newfound Russian colleagues and
concerned fellow residents of this very troubled planet. I thank all of the
Russians I met on this trip for their wonderful hospitality, courtesy and
genuine concern in these perilous times. - MCR]

-

Thank you and good afternoon. I would like to thank the Chairman for this
opportunity to speak to this august group and begin by saying that I am not
an economist or a financial expert but rather a former police investigator
turned journalist. My newsletter, "From The Wilderness" is now read in 16
countries and by 15 members of the U.S. Congress as well as the intelligence
committees of both Houses of the US Congress. We are also read by professors
at 11 universities in the US, Canada and Great Britain. We have a free
research web site at www.copvcia.com.

It is an honor to be in Russia as my mother was, as a cryptographer,
connected with operations of the US Secretary of State Cordell Hull who
visited Moscow in October 1943 to discuss matters regarding the war against
Nazi Germany.

I have spoken out for more than twenty years about the CIA's involvement in
the international drug trade. While in Russia I have listened closely now to
outstanding presentations by many experts and if I have anything significant
to add to this discussion it is to agree clearly with other opinions I have
heard expressed that the study of economics and international finance, if it
is to be effective, must be connected to political and social undercurrents.
A mere study of numbers and graphs often leads to erroneous conclusions
because it does not take into account the unseen events which truly guide
and determine the economic symptoms which are then measured by numbers.

This congress has focused on what many here believe is the imminent collapse
of the U.S. dollar. I do not agree with this concept and I have heard others
here express the same sentiment. While I do not think that the collapse of
the US dollar is imminent I absolutely do believe that the collapse of the
US stock markets is. Too many countries around the world rely upon the US
dollar as a reserve currency. This fact alone, I believe, would prevent the
dollar's collapse. However, as all of the experts here have so clearly
pointed out, the US economy is in serious trouble and I believe that the US
stock market is in immediate peril.

In order to understand this it is essential to study the role of money
laundering in international finance. As much as $200 billion US has been
looted out of Russia in the last ten years and much of it laundered through
US financial institutions like the Bank of New York. I wrote about this in
the fall of 1999. But to place this in context it is necessary to note that
in 1994 the UN estimated that $440 billion a year in illegal drug money was
moved through the world's banking system. Just 18 months ago "Le Monde
Diplomatique" estimated the annual drug flow at $500 billion with the total
annual proceeds of criminal activity amounting to $1 trillion US. And just
two weeks before I came here the "San Francisco Chronicle" cited the
International Monetary Fund as stating that the amount of criminal money
moving through the world economy is $1.5 trillion US each year.

Criminal activity and money laundering has become the world's largest free
enterprise and it is also determining political, economic and military
action around the globe. $1.5 trillion is larger than every national GNP
except for the five largest industrial economies in the world. Now I have
heard the experts here cite truly astounding figures like the $30 trillion
in derivatives in the US market and the overall 

[CTRL] Federal Worker Is Fired in Wildlife Refuge Map Flap

[William Shannon]

latimes.com

Thursday, March 15, 2001
 
Federal Worker Is Fired in Wildlife Refuge Map Flap

 
By LISA GETTER, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON--
Last week, Ian Thomas posted a map on a U.S. government Web site of the
caribou calving areas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an area the
Bush administration wants to open up for oil exploration.
 
This week, Thomas is looking for a new job.
 
"I'm really flabbergasted," Thomas said Wednesday. "After putting out 20,000
maps with no problem and then putting out one where baby caribou like to hang
out, I got fired."

Thomas, a contract employee for the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent
Wildlife Research Center in Maryland, says he is a victim of politics. His
offense: drawing attention to wildlife that might be affected by drilling.
 
"They're firing him in a real public way as a message," said Eric Wingerter,
the national field director for Public Employees for Environmental
Responsibility. "Frankly, it's a bit Orwellian."
 
Government officials say he was fired for working outside of his assigned
duties. And besides, some of the map information was wrong.
 
But the episode illustrates the political sensitivity of the refuge proposal
as Congress and the administration prepare to deal with the issue.
 
Thomas had worked for the Patuxent facility for three years, helping
researchers track the changing distribution of birds across North America.
 
But he also helped create a global environmental atlas on the Web site. Last
week, he posted 1,000 maps on every national wildlife refuge and national
park in the mainland United States, including the "postcard-sized" Alaska map.
 
Within days, he was out of work. "The reason they gave me was that I didn't
follow standard review procedures before posting research information to the
Web, especially on a very sensitive topic," Thomas said. But he said no one
had mentioned that to him before. And by his estimation, he had posted about
20,000 maps on the same site.
 
President Bush wants to open up part of the 19.2 million acres of the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, a move opposed by
environmentalists. 
And just as Thomas was posting his map, other officials from the USGS from
Alaska were briefing Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton in Washington on the
very issue. Thomas' map, based on outdated wildlife data, conflicted with
information presented to her.

"The fallout would not have been so great had the subject matter not been one
of the . . . super hot topics with the new administration and had we not been
briefing the Secretary at the nearly exact time your website went up," Brad
Griffith, of the USGS biological resources division in Fairbanks, Alaska,
wrote in an e-mail to Thomas on Monday. "Everyone is nervous and as I
mentioned earlier, consistency in presentation is paramount."

Thomas said he believes the USGS overreacted, though he added, "I definitely
made a mistake in using maps that were inaccurate."

Jay Hestbeck, chief of research at Patuxent, said Thomas' contract was due to
expire in three weeks anyway. He said he was let go because he was "doing
work outside of his task order" and posting it on the Web site without
approval.
 
"Ian's task is real clear," Hestbeck said. "He's to be working on migratory
birds."
 
Thomas said he saw his posting of the maps as a public service.
 
"I basically thought I could give the public a better map of the area so
people could know what they were talking about when they were debating the
issue," he said. 

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 Here we will strategically examine these Big Bodies as true living systems,
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 Let us just suppose Big Bodies: are real superorganisms that dominate, shape and
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 We ask you not to debate these assumptions, just briefly pretend they are true.
 If indeed we presume they are, what kind of contest would we face, what would we
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 OUR BASIC HYPOTHESES:

 - Big Corporate Bodies are alive, in charge and out of control;

 - They must be miniaturized, localized and democratized across the board to
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 our historic right to subvert it), and a hundred groups already building the
 post-corporate future, we are well begun.

 - Now we simply have to "persuade" our Big Brethren to liberate their people,
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[CTRL] Fw: [piml] UK Farmers are REVOLTING!!

[Butch]

- Original Message - 
From: Larry Lawson 

To: mailto:Undisclosed-Recipient:@comet.bluemarble.net 

Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 4:22 PM
Subject: [piml] UK Farmers are REVOLTING!!

SUNDAY03-18-2001 
Copies going to archivenews13 AND: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Out:04:28pm

I wish to point out that the 
prediction/prophecy from 'Linda' passed on by Byron Weeks has FAILED. At 
least in its timing. The CONDITIONS for war in the MidEast and HERE 
however are still very much in place. I for one am always grateful for 
each day I have here.

Skies here in SW Indiana appear CLEAR today. It's been 
obvious to ME that the cloud cover the past few days was heavily laden with 
SPRAY from above. No rain per se, only occasional light 'misty drizzle' or 
a few snow flakes.


COLORADO HEPA 
BIOLOGICALS CONFIRMED
http://www.carnicom.com/hepa2.htm
(PLEASE SEE THE PHOTOS HERE!! The only thing I 
can compare this to is being overwhelmed by the enemy in superior NUMBERS. 
This crap has a CUMMULATIVE EFFECT. As our bodies try to fight off these 
invasions entering our lungs, ears, stomache etc. it can eventually become 
OVERWHELMED by superior numbers. I believe Clifford is RIGHT ON in 
publishing these photos. That Ermini Cassani is a LYING SACK OF CRAP 
sympathetic to the U.N. and its causes. SEE WHAT YOU'RE BREATHING 
HERE!! Also, this is NOT a hard thing to duplicate YOURSELF. Collect 
the material visible under a BLACKLIGHT, stain it and view it under a high 
powered microscope. Perhaps you know a veteranarian or doctor that would 
help. PASS THIS LINK ALONG. WE 
ARE UNDER DIRECT BIOLOGICAL ATTACK BY OUR OWN STINKING 
GOVERNEMENT!!)

CHEMTRAILS
http://www.kosmosltd.net/chemtrailupdate.htm

All-White Plane At NW Airport Said 
Sub Communications Platformhttp://sightings.com/general9/chemplane.htm 


EUREKA!" (I think I've found it...in 
black lite?)
http://pub8.ezboard.com/fchemtrailsphysicalsamplesresearch.showMessage?topicID=6.topic


Concerns, criticism follow climate 
forecasts
http://www.nando.com/healthscience/story/0,1080,500461312-500703059-503836245-0,00.html

Epidemic of 
legal disease
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22062

2nd Autoworker 
Dies of Legionnaires 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010317/aponline021039_000.htm

A second employee of a Ford 
Motor Co. casting plant died last night of Legionnaires' disease, 

the Cleveland Clinic said.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1549656BRD=1699PAG=461dept_id=46371rfi=6



Repost: Larry I still feel that all need to get the Miracle II soap and 
neutralizer out to all, so we have some viable way to decontaminate. We are 
selling them @ $50.00 per gallon plus $6.00 per gallon shipping. All who are 
interested please send M.O. to Sue Liuzzo P.O. 249 Lake George Michigan 48633. 
We need to get this out as I feel we are very close. YHWH be Praised Tony (517)-539-5033



(Your RAPIDLY VANISHING FOOD 
SUPPLY!!)

Repost: I have my suspicious too Larry. We are 
farmers. Milked cows for years. Several years ago the greenies 
suggested eliminating all cows from the planet because they produce methane gas 
because they are ruminants. Well so do some of those endangered 
species. And so do decaying marshes, and so do many other things including 
that which emanates from their own behinds. Pardon the pun! Yes I think there is 
something behind it. NWO, money trail, import/export scams. 
WHY NOT JUST VACCINATE IN LIEU OF ALL THE MEDIA HYPE?
(Gee isn't THAT a GOOD question! They're so eager to stick US 
with needles to 'save' us but NOT the animals. H! Please also 
NOTE that the 'threat' from farmers SLOWED the Brit fiends down a bit. 
This was the REAL reason for taking the farmer's GUNS and NOT to prevent their 
'SUICIDE.' We should mobilize HERE and protect U.S. livestock from a 
similar fate BEFORE the food supply is DESTROYED. Yes that's right 
kiddies, STOP THE FEDs FROM DESTROYING THE ANIMALS 
NOW!!!)

Government presses 
slaughter casehttp://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/top_story.html?in_review_id=371833in_review_text_id=317577

Mass slaughter begins 
Scottish 
farms first to destroy healthy animals to prevent infection --ITN 

Britain Mass Slaughter Sets Off Farm Revolt 

http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/starticles/2001/mar/arrt031601.htm

U.K. Farmers Oppose 
SlaughterLivestock farmers warn that London's planned destruction of up to 1 
million healthy animals because of foot-and-mouth disease may set off a "rural 
revolt." 

Farm revolt wins sheep cull reprieve
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-100769,00.html

Farmers in revolt 
over mass cull
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000118613908976rtmo=qxKLeXb9atmo=qxKLeXb9pg=/et/01/3/17/nfnm17.html

FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE IN BRITAIN 
AND EUROPE -- 
ABSOLUTE UNREASONING PANIC HITS 
WITH FULL FORCE 
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1479.cfm

Britain 
Warns of Long Haul to Defeat Foot-And-Mouth 
(Reuters)...More than 
170,000 sheep, cows and pigs have been 

[CTRL] [Spy News] CIA Declassifies Its Records On Dealings With Ex-Nazis]

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 CIA Declassifies Its Records On Dealings With Ex-Nazis
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:21:28 +0100
CIA Declassifies Its Records On Dealings With Ex-Nazis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20686-2001Mar17.html

Documents May Give Clues About Obstacles in Hunt for War Criminals

By George Lardner Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 18, 2001; Page A04


The CIA is finally getting around to declassifying the records of its
dealings with former Nazi spies after World War II.

It says it has found 251 boxes and 2,901 file folders of potentially
relevant documents -- apparently more than 250,000 pages -- and that it will
take about two years to complete work on them.

Carl Oglesby, a political writer and researcher, has been seeking the
records since 1985 in connection with a study of Reinhard Gehlen, a German
general who had been head of Nazi intelligence for the eastern front.

After the war, at the request of U.S. occupation forces in Europe, he set up
"the Gehlen organization," a counterespionage network that supplied the
Pentagon and the CIA with the bulk of their intelligence on the Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe. The organization, which employed thousands of people,
many of them former Nazis, was the forerunner of West Germany's secret
service, the BND. It was formally recognized in 1956 and Gehlen headed it
until he retired in 1968.

When Oglesby got only a smattering of documents from the Army and the CIA,
he sued in 1987, emphasizing meetings that Gehlen held in the summer of 1945
with U.S. officials at Fort Hunt, Va. He and some other researchers believe
that the post-war hunt for Nazi war criminals was severely compromised by
American intelligence demands for help in meeting the new Soviet menace.

A retired CIA official who dealt with Gehlen's organization for seven years
says those suspicions have been exaggerated into conspiratorial nonsense and
that Gehlen and his top aides came out of the German army general staff that
tried, several times, to overthrow Adolf Hitler. But he, too, expressed
frustration that so much of the true story remains classified.

"I've lived with this for 50 years," said James H. Critchfield, the CIA
officer assigned to the Gehlen organization from 1949 to 1956. "Almost
everything negative that has been written about Gehlen, in which he has been
described as an ardent ex-Nazi, one of Hitler's war criminals -- this is all
far from the fact."

Critchfield said CIA records may turn up the names of six to 10 veterans of
the SD, Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler's intelligence service, who joined
Gehlen's network in 1950. But he said Gehlen took them on reluctantly, under
pressure from German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to deal with "the avalanche
of subversion hitting them from East Germany."

By contrast, Critchfield said, Gehlen's top command consisted of 30 to 40
young staff officers trained under Gen. Ludwig Beck, who was executed in
1944 for conspiring to assassinate Hitler, and Gen. Franz Halder, who was
imprisoned until the war ended. "They weren't really a bunch of Nazis," he
said.

Oglesby's lawsuit sputtered for 13 years with the CIA refusing to confirm or
deny that it had any records reflecting a relationship with Gehlen. The
litigation survived two trips to the U.S. Court of Appeals here, but last
August, Chief U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson issued an order
indicating she was about to dismiss it at the government's request. She
rejected the idea that the CIA or any other agency had "unreasonably
delayed" the case.

Weeks later, the CIA formally acknowledged that Gehlen had at the end of the
war turned over what remained of his intelligence collection efforts against
the Soviet Union and started spying for the United States; the Army
"supervised" his work until 1949, when the CIA stepped in for a seven-year
stint.

The CIA told the court it was compelled to speak up in response to the Nazi
War Crimes Disclosure Act, which Congress passed in 1998 to require public
release of U.S. records related to war criminals and crimes committed by the
Nazi government and its allies between March 1933, when Hitler acquired
dictatorial powers, and May 1945, when the war in Europe ended.

"General Gehlen himself is not considered an alleged Nazi war criminal," the
CIA said in an affidavit, but records of its dealings with him and his group
include documents that are covered by the law.

The Army's dealings with Gehlen's group were chaotic at first, with the
Army's counterintelligence corps frozen out of the operation. Critchfield
said there may have been some imprudent contacts with German war criminals
early on, particularly while Gehlen was being debriefed in Virginia. In the
fall of 1948, the CIA assigned Critchfield to report on whether to liquidate
the operation or take it over.

With the Berlin airlift in full swing, Critchfield found a station Gehlen
had organized near Wiesbaden, manned by 12 Germans intercepting Soviet Air
Force 

Re: [CTRL] PC privacy 7

[Bond]

- Original Message - 

From: "byron wahl" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Subject: [CTRL] PC privacy 7

  I'dbeen 
pinging or attempting to snoop around the NSAHQ address  
144.51.101.73 (mil, Fort Meade, MD) when, very soonthereafter, 
BlackIce  Defender reported a suspicious, not-ordinary, 
probe  from Haifa. Thisturned-out to be 
194.90.104.134  ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
Haifa,Israel. The site www.netvision.net.il
 is entirelyin Hebrew with noplace to click on 
"English." Doubly cryptikk.

*** If you lookup netvision.net.il there's this 
under the DNS:

dns.netvision.net.ilnypop.elron.netrelay.huji.ac.il

*** Then a lookup 
ofElron.net:

Elron Technologies850 Third AveNew York, NY 10022US

Group, WAN
[EMAIL PROTECTED]NetVision 
LTD.Omega Center Advanced Technology Center MATAMHAIFA, IL 
31905ISRAEL

*** Now a check of Elron 
Technologies:

http://www.ipo.com/venture/vcprofile.asp?p=IPOvc=732

Corporation Profile:

Elron Electronic Industries, Ltd.
The Triangle Building, 42nd Floor3 Azrieli CenterTel Aviv, NON-US 
67023Israel

Company Description Elron is a multinational high technology holding 
company.
Elron participates in the manufacturing of defense 
electronics, communications,
semiconductors and, increasingly, information technology.

Regional Investment HistoryFlorida 
50%NON-US 50%

Sector Investment HistoryTelecommunications 
100%Internet 50%

*** And so we see the "Defense" connection. Note 
also "The Triangle Building" (Pyramid reference?)

*** Now.. a little more digging finds a 
subsidiary:

Elron Software

Company Overview 

ProfileSince 1997, Elron Software has been the leading provider of 
Internet Policy Management (IPM) solutions, which enable organizations and 
service providers to maximize the productive use of the Internet and minimize 
risk. Over 3,500 organizations utilize Elron Software's award-winning family of 
solutions for web access control, electronic messaging, content filtering, virus 
protection and network security. With worldwide headquarters in Burlington, 
Massachusetts, Elron Software has 120 employees and is a private company whose 
investors include Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: 
ELRNF) and Critical Path (NASDAQ:CP)

ProductsThe Internet 
Manager (IM) family of solutions - including IM Web 
Inspector, IM Message 
Inspector, IM 
Anti-Virus and IM Firewall 
- enables companies to develop, implement and manage comprehensive Internet 
Usage Policies. The recipient of numerous awards, including PC Magazine's 
prestigious Editor's Choice Award and Network Computing Editors' Choice Award, 
as well as IDC's #1 Selling Stand-alone Web Access Solution, the Internet 
Manager family of solutions empowers organizations of all sizes to: 

  Align Internet usage with business priorities 
  Increase employee productivity 
  Protect confidential information 
  Reduce network congestion 
  Limit legal liability by managing web access, reducing recreational 
  surfing and blocking spam, viruses and junk e-mail
*** Firewall experts among 
other things huh.

ClientsJoin the growing number of 
organizations who have aligned Internet usage with their business 
priorities:
20th Century Fox, Wal-Mart, Texaco, Lucent 
Technologies, Time Warner and many 
more. 

*** Hmm... a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES connection... 
how surprising. ;-)

Executive Team Ray 
BoeligPresident and Chief Executive 
Officer Larry 
DeranyChief Operating Officer and Vice 
President of Engineering Duncan G. 
PerryChief Financial Officer and Vice 
President of Information Systems Adam 
BosnianVice President of Marketing 
Michael J. 
CrismondVice President of North American 
Sales Mark 
UickerVice President of Business 
Development

*** I think 
there may be some further things of interest here, however this data is a 
good start.

Bond.

[CTRL] Capitalism ubber alles: Pay heed DemocRATS. It's time for fundamental changes.

[Nurev Ind Research]

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British Labour's `class war' against the poor.

REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON

  Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous
  By Nick Cohen
  Verso, 2000 247pp, $35(pb)

 “I appreciate there were some people who voted for us
 who thought we would make a difference. They didn't
 understand” — it is unguarded candour like this from a
 newly elected MP in Tony Blair's 1997 New Labour
 landslide that gets straight to the heart of Labour Party
 politics in Britain.

 The above quote was from a woman Labour MP who, once
 in government, pushed through cuts to single mothers'
pensions. When she was in opposition, she had maintained
that you do not help the poor by plunging them
further into poverty.

This is just one of the illustrations of New Labour's
enlistment in the class war against the poor drawn by
Nick Cohen, a “left-of-centre” reporter for the liberal
capitalist Observer magazine.

The recanting of this politician, whose opposition
rhetoric did not survive election night, has been repeated
across the board, from welfare policy to foreign policy.
“Joining New Labour is like joining the Mafia”, says
Cohen, “you must kill what you love to prove your loyalty”.

When Cohen listens to Tony and the Blairites, he hears
them “singing every song in the Tory songbook,
and composing new numbers of their own”. The New Labour
arias have the same melody as old
conservatism, despite the different lyrics of Blair's
“New Way”, which is supposedly “beyond left and right”
of the tired old ideological and class divide. The “inclusive”
Blair is bridging the divide by “governing for all”,
a libretto that certain Australian Labor premiers and would-be
prime ministers are smitten with.

Despite the “Under New Management” sign hung outside Whitehall,
however, a closer examination of
Labour's new “ideology-free political zone” shows that it is
business as usual for established capitalist
concerns such as Britain's arms exporters.

Tough talk against human rights abusers such as Burma and
Indonesia is cheap when in opposition, to be
quietly abandoned when governing a country which is the second
largest arms exporter in the world.
Anything — like human rights — that gets in the way of trade
and investment overseas, and repatriating
the profits back to British capitalists, is a luxury that
Labour must do without.

Opening up new areas of society to the invigorating broom
of profit-making is a particular Blairite crusade.
New Labour's “inclusiveness” means a “punishment boom”.
With one new prison being opened each
fortnight in Britain in 1998 (not that far behind the
three a week in President Bill Clinton's USA), the
privatisation of prisons has created a strata of capitalists
with an appetite for jailing people.

Their boast is that they can do it cheaper than the old,
inefficient state system. Cutting prison staff to
achieve this certainly helps. Without a lot of burdensome
conditions to adhere to from a government which
barely pretends to retain its regulation role, crime is
paying handsomely for some. Prisoners' rights, which
are human rights after all, might have been eroded in
this but “law and order” is too valuable as an
election jingle to be ditched.

As well as crime, a racist-based “alien invasion” is
also a valuable weapon in Labour's populist arsenal.
Criminalising asylum-seekers is a Blair specialty.
Imprisonment without trial in detention centres pays
political dividends to the right-wing populist, and
when the refugees riot to assert their civil liberties, that
only “proves” their unsuitability to be in the country.

Cohen reminds us that we should closely watch how
politicians treat refugees because it is how they would
like to treat the rest of us if they could get away with it.

Another frontier being opened up by Blair is education.
While McDonald's are selflessly helping with English
lessons by teaching children to spell Chicken “McNuggetts”,
in the US the experiment has gone further, with
private corporations running entire schools.

The results in Britain's test schools — teacher numbers
down, class sizes up, a collapse in standards,
fiddled exam results, creative accounting and the delivery
of a captive youth market to advertisers — have
not phased Blair a bit because the other result — a fresh
source of profits — is the only one that counts.

If Cohen doesn't offer any ideas on what to do about Blair's
Britain, he does spare us the fantasy that good
men and true women can regain control of the party and guide
it to better things.

Cohen makes it plain enough that Labour's behaviour is a
consequence of capitalism. Labour cannot make
a difference as long as capitalism exists.

There is an answer — a socialist and a revolutionary one —
lurking in there. It is an answer that is beyond
the liberal political scope of Cohen's book, but the
question is at least raised with some satirical bite.

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[CTRL] Chemtrails over N. California

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There are numerous billowing chemtrails over the skies of Northern
California in an otherwise mostly clear sky. You can clearly see the extent of
the chemtrails in the satellite photo:

http://kauai.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat-bin/epac_westcoast.cgi

Click on Northern Cal. VIS.

Steve

ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES
http://www.anomalous-images.com

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[CTRL] Spy satellites

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From the ever-updated pages of

http://leviathan.weblogs.com


http://www.latimes.com/news/state/updates/lat_spysat010318.htm


Massive Spy-Satellite Program to Cost Billions
Aerospace: Southland firms will get a major boost from top-secret, two-decade effort. 
Its scope could dwarf the Manhattan Project.


By PETER PAE, Times Staff Writer


 A team of Southern California aerospace companies is covertly recruiting 
engineers across the country for a new generation of spy satellites under what 
analysts believe is the largest intelligence-related contract ever.
 The supersecret project for the National Reconnaissance Office is estimated to be 
worth up to $25 billion over two decades, providing a major boost to the Southland's 
aerospace industry and solidifying the area's dominance of high-tech space research.
 Equipped with powerful telescopes and radar, the nation's newest eye in space is 
expected to form the backbone of U.S. intelligence for several decades, analysts said. 
The satellites will be farther out in space and harder to detect than the massive spy 
probes that currently orbit the Earth. They will also be able to fly over and take 
pictures of military compounds anywhere in the world, in darkness or through cloud 
cover, with far more frequency.
 Company officials are restricted from talking about the highly classified 
contract, but Roger Roberts, general manager of the Boeing Co. unit in Seal Beach 
overseeing the project, gave a hint of its scope.
 The endeavor will require 5,000 engineers, technicians and computer programmers 
over the next five years, and that will just be for the initial design and development 
of the satellites, he said.
 That figure doesn't include thousands more who will be required to assemble the 
satellites, most likely at Boeing Satellite Systems in El Segundo, and thousands of 
workers employed by hundreds of subcontractors and parts suppliers such as the 
1,900-employee Marconi Integrated Systems in San Diego. Sending the satellites into 
space will also require new rockets, which should also bolster the launch industry.
 The need for engineers has been so great that two months ago Boeing opened a 
recruitment office in Sunnyvale, where it is targeting both dot-com survivors and 
Lockheed Martin Corp. engineers who built many of the spy satellites now in orbit. 
After dominating that business since the 1950s, Lockheed lost the new contract to 
Boeing.
 John Pike, a Washington, D.C.-based military space consultant, believes that in 
all, the work could eventually mean jobs for at least 20,000 people in California.
 "Lots of kids will be sent to college, lots of swimming pools are going to get 
built and a lot of people will spend their career working on this project," Pike said.
 Still, most state officials said they know little about the project.
 "I don't think most people are aware of how big this is," said Mike Marando, 
spokesman for the California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency. "We know 
California benefits substantially, but by exactly how much we just don't know."
 The National Reconnaissance Office hasn't helped. The enigmatic agency announced 
the contract in a three-paragraph news release posted on its bare-bones Web site 
little more than a year ago. The project is officially known as Future Imagery 
Architecture.
 Despite slowly opening itself up in recent years, the NRO still remains one of 
the most secretive government agencies. Even its innocuous logo--a space probe 
circling the globe--was a secret until 1994.
 Besides saying it awarded the contract to Boeing "to develop, provide launch 
integration and operate the nation's next generation of imagery reconnaissance 
satellites," not much else has been revealed.
 Virtually everything else about the contract--its dollar amount, the number of 
satellites to be built, who is doing what and where, and the capabilities of the 
satellite--is secret. Even the duration of the contract is deemed classified.
 "This program is so secret that most of the people who work on it won't have a 
good sense of what they are doing," said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the 
Arlington, Va.-based Lexington Institute.
 Still, aerospace analysts have been able to draw some conclusions through past 
reconnaissance programs based on public information gleaned from different sources, 
such as watching the size and frequency of rocket launches carrying secret spy 
satellites.
 Analysts generally agree that the number of satellites involved in the new 
program will be at least a dozen to two dozen, compared with roughly half a dozen spy 
satellites now in orbit. The new models are likely to be significantly smaller and 
cheaper than the current generation of spy satellites, which cost about $1 billion 
each, weigh 15 tons and can take up to 18 months to build.
 With a bigger constellation of satellites, the probes 

[CTRL] LIVE POWs: GARWOOD TRANSCRIPT

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Timeline of Treason
IN THEIR OWN WORDS...70s ptIVg

Senate Report (conclusion).
Racism: Global Style.
10 Regions of the NWO.

LIVE POWs: GARWOOD TRANSCRIPT

can be read at:
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You can use Unknown News' registration, it's

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They encourage everyone to use it.

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[CTRL] Vote Fraud in Tennessee: Worse than Florida?

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Vote Fraud in Tennessee: Worse than Florida? Catherine Danielson

Black voters were told to get behind the white voters. They
were told to remove NAACP stickers from their cars, or leave the
polling  place without voting. "You know what it is to stand at the
back of the bus," said one election volunteer. Some Blacks were
intimidated by police standing around polling places. Others stood
in lines over a mile long to use ancient punch-card machines on the
verge of falling apart. Sometimes, they'd stand for five or six hours.
Once, they complained. Minutes later, two police cars came screeching up.
It all sounds like a promo for "Mississippi Burning," or maybe a
documentary about egregious civil rights violations in some Deep
South backwater fifty years ago.  But it happened in November 2000.
Well, then, it's got to be about Florida. Massive voter disenfranchisement
in Florida has gotten some coverage, especially overseas the people
who weren't felons illegally scrubbed from voting rolls, the police
roadblocks in Black neighborhoods, the Republican operatives illegally
filling out absentee ballots.  But no. All these things -- and much,
much more -- happened in Tennessee.
Don't be surprised if you haven't heard anything about any of it.
Every newspaper, every radio station, every television news program
has been silent. Even Nashville's Tennessean, where both Al and
Tipper Gore once worked, has zero to say on the subject. On the
other hand, it's not as if it's been kept secret. Solid coverage
has come from the Black press, newspapers like the Tennessee Tribune,
Nashville Pride, and Urban Flavor. And yet there is massive evidence
that thousands --  perhaps even tens of thousands --  of people were
disenfranchised the vast majority of whom were Black. How to explain
the mainstream media's silence? "People want to sweep this under the
rug," says Rev. Neal Darby, head of the Greater Nashville Black Chamber
of Commerce. "They don't want to think it could have happened here."
Indeed, Nashville was one of the birthplaces of the civil rights movement.
It's one thing to see films of Black students getting iced tea dumped
over their heads by a jeering white mob, as they try to get served at
Woolworth's in the early 1960's.  It's quite another to picture it in
the year 2000. It isn't just the outrageous racial incidents, such as
the way that  Black Nashville college students weren't permitted to vote
even though they were registered, or the way that Tennessee State
University, a historically Black college, was the only university
in Tennessee that didn't get a satellite voting place or election
office workers harrassing Black citizens who requested voter registration
forms, or election commission officers refusing to give registration forms
to NAACP representatives and sometimes (as in  Chattanooga) actually
taking them back. It's the inexplicable things, such as the way that
polling places all over West Tennessee opened one to two hours late,
or disappeared and reappeared somewhere else without telling anybody
-- but, seemingly, only in areas that were Black and/or poor. Or the
missing pages from election rosters all over Nashville. Or the county
where ballot boxes were opened and ballots handled. So many vote
irregularities were reported that the mind starts to numb after awhile,
to get buried under the sheer avalanche and grasp for some sort of meaning
and order. So it's instructive to note that there were three areas of
evidence that are more disturbing than any other. The first was what NAACP
officers generally refer to as "the Motor Voter disaster." This was the
first election year in which Tennessee's Motor Voter bill took effect.
Citizens could register to vote at Department of Motor Vehicle offices
statewide. The problem is, an unknown number of those applications never
went through. There have been nearly 2,000 complaints to date. Allegedly,
this occurred because the department failed to deliver completed forms to
county election commissions. It's worth noting that there is no  standard
of delivery, nor supervision of any kind, when the applications are
delivered from the Department of Safety to the counties -- and that the
DMV blames the voters. The second was the disenfranchisement of former
felons. In the town of Bolivar, former felons illegally lost their voting
rights. Clifton Polk, head of the local Black Chamber of Commerce, was so
infuriated that he filed official complaint with the EEOC. Since felons
don't automatically lose their voting rights in Tennessee the same way
that they do in Florida, this issue remains a murky mess. However, this
was the first year it had happened in the state. The third -- and maybe
the strangest -- is the way that certain voting precincts all over the
state had a small fraction of the voting machines they should have had,

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The Friends of Robert Philip Hanssen
Mark Hosenball
Apart from his clandestine relationship with the Soviet KGB, accused FBI
mole Robert Philip Hanssen had a curious friend in Washington: investigative
author James Bamford. Bamford, who is about to publish "Body of Secrets," a
sequel to "The Puzzle Palace," his best-selling expose about the hyper-secret
National Security Agency, told NEWSWEEK he knew Hanssen for several years
during the 1990s and was close enough to the disgraced FBI agent that Hanssen
attended Bamford's wedding.

In retrospect, Bamford is now looking for hidden meanings in his various
contacts with Hanssen. Several years ago, Bamford, then working as a producer
for ABC News,
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 2  February 1, 1999
Ever Faithful?
Brook Larmer
With Alan Zarembo and Paige Bierma in Mexico City, Steven Ambrus in Bogota,
Sharon Stevenson in Lima, Greg Brown in Santiago and Tom Masland in New York
Ever Faithful?

Pope John Paul II has a lot to say to the women of Latin America. But how
many of them pay attention to--much less obey--the traditional rules of the
Roman Catholic Church?By Brook LarmerWith Alan Zarembo and Paige Bierma in
Mexico City, Steven Ambrus in Bogota, Sharon Stevenson in Lima, Greg Brown in
Santiago and Tom Masland in New YorkThe day before Pope John Paul II arrived
in Mexico City last week, Berenice Nevarez Moreno was walking across the
street from the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the sacred site where His
Holiness would say mass on Saturday.
[View the full-text article, approx. 7 printed pages]
 3  February 1, 1999
'Are You Not Catholic?'
Silvana Paternostro
Paternostro, the New America Foundation fellow at the World Policy Institute,
is the author of "In the Land of God and Man: Confronting Our Sexual Culture."
'Are You Not Catholic?'

Rejecting a stamp bearing the image of a priest, and other acts of
rebellion.By Silvana PaternostroPaternostro, the New America Foundation
fellow at the World Policy Institute, is the author of "In the Land of God
and Man: Confronting Our Sexual Culture."A few years ago I went to post a
letter in Bogota, Colombia, and was sold a stamp with the image of a robed
priest. It was Msgr. Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer, the founder of the Opus
Dei, a secretive and elitist movement within the Roman Catholic Church.
Conservative and small--73,000 adherents, mostly in Spain and Latin
[View the full-text article, approx. 3 printed pages]
 4  June 5, 2000
Reviewing the New Spain

Many readers of our May 8 on the new faces of Spain were grateful for our
coverage. But, questioning the government's policies, they challenged our
claim of a renewed nation and listed Spain's many problems. "Aznar has not
purged the party of Franco stalwarts," charged one letter writer. Another
added, "Aznar is following the well-trodden path of '80s Thatcherism,
privatizing everything." In short, one critic summed up, "Sad to say, the old
ways remain."

The Rebirth of Spain?As a regular reader of NEWSWEEK, I am glad that at last
you paid attention to the events that are taking place in Spain ("The
[View the full-text article]
 5  January 22, 2001
Periscope
Susannah Meadows, Bret Begun and Katherine Stroup
RELIGION
New Red Hats--And the Next Pope?

Pope John Paul II is expected to name 25 to 30 new cardinals this week, and
one of them could be his successor. Some names to look for:Italian Giovanni
Battista Re, 66, head of the Congregation of Bishops and former deputy
secretary of State. A papal loyalist, Re works so hard he often answers his
office phone on Sundays and reads the pope's mind so well he has written the
pontiff's Sunday speeches. All the other cardinals know him personally, and
most respect him, making Re a prime candidate for pope.Nigerian Archbishop
John Onaiyekan, 58, politically
[View the full-text article]
 6  March 12, 2001
Prayers to Save a Spy's Soul
Flynn McRoberts and Evan Thomas With Mark Hosenball and Steve Tuttle in
Washington
Bonnie Wauck married alleged Soviet spy Bob Hanssen more than three
decades ago, said her sister Liz Rahimi, because "he treated her like a
queen." The parents of six children, Bob and Bonnie "were the picture of a
perfect family. He was always devoted to them--completely. He was never
gone." So on the afternoon of Sunday, Feb. 18, Bonnie Hanssen was naturally
worried when her husband failed to return from Dulles Airport, where, he had
told her, he had gone to drop off a friend. Bonnie, 

[CTRL] Lawsuit against the United States for the use of Torture and Mind Control

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

-Caveat Lector-

U.S. SUPREME COURT  DOCKET NO.

IN THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

 CHARLES AUGUST SCHLUND, III
  and RANDY D. LANG,
 Petitioners

  vs.

  THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al,
Respondents.

ON APPEAL FROM THE JUDGMENT OF THE UNITED STATES

COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

C.A. NO. 00-15-126

(D.CT. NO. CIV-98-1875-PHX-RCB)

PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Charles August Schlund, III
8520 N. 54th Drive
Glendale, AZ   85302
(602) 670-2017 (M)
Petitioner In Pro Per

Randy D. Lang
11024 N. 28th Dr., Ste. 200
Phoenix, Arizona   85029
(623) 878-7270 (O)
Petitioner in Pro Per

I. QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW.

 A. Was the joint failure and refusal of the Central District
Court and Appellate Court to issue, per Petitioner's repeated
written requests, findings of fact and conclusions of law a gross
departure from the normal and customary course of procedure any
of the Questions for Review stated below, justifying the Supreme
Court's supervisory review? (See, Appendix Nos. 3,4,5, and 7-12).

 B. Did the Central District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals violate Petitioners' constitutional due process rights by
continuously failing and refusing to make any findings of fact
and conclusions of law, despite Petitioners' repeated written
requests for the courts to do so?  (See Appendix Nos. 3,4,5 and
7-12).

 C. Did the District Court's failure and refusal to make any
findings of fact and conclusions of law, in disregard of the
Federal Rules of Civil Procedures, Rules 43, 52(c), and 65 and
Petitioners' repeated written request and Petitioners' request
per Federal Rules of Evidence 201 (to take mandatory judicial
notice of such requests) and such rules cause prejudicial error
by eliminating Petitioners' factual and legal basis for review by
the Supreme Court under Supreme Court Rule 14(i)(h)(i)(ii) and
(vi)?  (See Appendix Nos. 3,4,5 and 7-12).

 D. Whether the District Court's satisfaction of the Government's
fabrication of facts and no affidavits or any other evidence but
mere attorney ipse dixit opinion to support its two-page Motion
for summary Judgement result in prejudicial error, violating
Petitioners' constitutional rights.  Likewise, the Ninth Circuit
Appellate Court's notification causing same result?  (See
Appendix Nos. 6, 9, 10, and 12).


 E. Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' refusal and
failure to issue findings of fact and conclusions of law on any
of Petitioners' appellate motions on appeal, per their i
continuous written requests, caused prejudicial error and
violated their constitutional due process rights, leaving them
without an adequate record for review by the Supreme Court?
(See, U.S. Sup. Ct. Rule 14 (h)(i)(vi) [...findings of fact and
conclusions of law...]).

ii
II. LIST OF ALL PARTIES

All parties and the Solicitor General of the United States have
been served by First Class Mail (U.S. Sup. Ct. Rule 29) this 14th
day of March, 2001 as follows:

 Charles August Schlund, III
 8520 N. 54th Drive
 Glendale, AZ   85302
 (602) 670-2017 (M)
 Plaintiff/Appellant/Petitioner In Pro Per

 Randy D. Lang
 11024 N. 28th Dr., Ste. 200
 Phoenix, Arizona   85029
 (623) 878-7270 (O)
 Plaintiff/Appellant/Petitioner in Pro Per

 Richard G. Patrick
 Assistant U.S. Attorney
 4000 United States Courthouse
 230 North First Avenue
 Phoenix, AZ   85025
 (602) 514-7500
 Attorney for Defendant/Appellees/Respondent
 U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration

 Solicitor General of the United States
 Room 5614, Dept. Of Justice
 950 Pennsylvania Ave.
 N.W. Washington D.C.   20530-0001
 Interested Non-named Party (U.S. Sup. Ct. Rule 29(4)(a))

 by:
   Randy D. Lang

iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS

   Page

I. QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW i

II. LIST OF ALL PARTIES   iii

III. INTEREST OF PETITIONERS  v

IV. TABLE OF AUTHORITIES   vi

V. PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI 1

VI. OPINION BELOW1

VII. STATEMENT OF JURISDICTION  1

VIII. UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, STATUTORY PROVISIONS, 1
 AND THE PROTECTION AGAINST TORTURE AND HUMAN
 RIGHTS ACT

IX. STATEMENT OF THE CASE AND THE FACTS 2

X. LEGAL ARGUMENTS

 A. The Court Erred in Interpreting The Supreme Court's Decision
11 of Celotex Corp. V. Catrett And Failed to Make Findings of
Fact And Conclusions of Law, Despite Petitioners Requested Such
For Review on Appeal.

 B. The District Court Greatly Departed From The Accepted And 14
Usual Course of Judicial Proceedings, Which The Appellate Court
Ratified When it Accepted The Government's Fabrication of Fact to
The Doran Case And Then Refused to Make Findings of Fact And
Conclusions of Law, Requested by Petitioners, Requiring The
Exercise of The United States Supreme Court Supervisory Power to
Protect Petitioner's Constitutional Rights.

XI. CONCLUSION16

XII. NOTICE OF CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE 18

XIII. PROOF OF SERVICE   19

v
 III. INTEREST OF PETITIONERS

All the 

[CTRL] ST: Clinton to talk his way out of debt in 7 months

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/sneed/sneed181.html


Clinton to talk his way out of debt in 7 months

March 18, 2001
BY MICHAEL SNEED
SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST


In case you're wondering, former President Bill Clinton figures
it will take about seven months of public speaking fees to pay
off his legal debts . . . and he's furious Al Gore lost the
election.

"He's also angry that Pardongate has been misunderstood and, in
some ways, thinks he is still president of the United States,"
said a top Dem source. There ya go.


Gulp . . .

Did you know there is a strip club in Iceland called Club Clinton
with a champagne bar called . . . the Monica Lewinsky?


Write 'em . . .

The Hill-and-Bill saga continues.

A local magazine near the Clintons' new New York hometown has
launched a short-story contest about the duo.

The Westchester WAG, run by Mary Ann Liebert, a native Chicagoan,
is asking its readers to write a 1,200-word fictional piece about
"the professional and/or personal lives of former President Bill
Clinton and wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, during their years
in New York."

* The prize: 500 bucks. Only Westchester County residents are
eligible--for now.

* The kicker: There have been so many requests to open the
contest to those living outside Westchester County, Liebert says
she's thinking of expanding it and giving nonresident winners an
honorary mention.

The Chicago native might even expand it to Chicago, seeing as how
Hillary lived in Park Ridge.

* The denouement: Liebert has fielded phone calls from media all
over the country, and major networks have asked to interview the
winner. "Some nonresidents might be looking at establishing a
pied a terre in the county in order to compete," Liebert quipped.


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[CTRL] ADG: $200 million Clinton project goes far beyond library itself

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

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http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/ark/A_13xclintonsidew18.html

"The foundation will spend almost $1 million on a lakeside estate
that belonged to the late Raymond Clinton, the former president's
stepuncle, and turn the Victorian home into a meeting place for
world leaders."

Sunday, March 18, 2001

$200 million Clinton project goes far beyond library itself

ELISA CROUCH
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

Bill Clinton's presidential library will be the most expensive in
history by far. Even after inflation adjustments, the $100
million facility makes the other 11 presidential libraries look,
well, frugal.

In January, Clinton announced his presidential library project
would be a whopping $200 million investment.

The figure is a long-range goal. All the money doesn't have to
(and likely won't) be raised by the time the library is built in
2003 or 2004, said Skip Rutherford, president of the library
foundation.

Either way, the project, in constant dollars, is expected to
outspend every other one since Franklin Roosevelt dedicated his
facility in 1940.

Presidential libraries range from the modest Harry S. Truman
Museum and Library in Independence, Mo., to Lyndon Johnson's
grandiose facility in Austin, Texas.

Half of the $200 million would cover the library's construction
costs. The general contractor and the New York architectural firm
Polshek Partnership are working toward a specific figure.
Rutherford predicts the $100 million price could increase once an
estimate for museum exhibits arrives.

Only Johnson's presidential library comes close to the Clinton
project in constant dollars. The $18 million spent on the
facility in 1971 would amount to $78.4 million today. Those costs
were paid by the oil-rich University of Texas.

Despite its name, the Clinton library won't be a library in the
traditional sense. It will house thousands of papers and items of
memorabilia Clinton collected during his eight years in office.
Historians will pore over documents in a climate-controlled wing.
The general public will walk through a glass-enclosed museum to
learn about Clinton's administration and the 1990s.

If the Clinton library follows the lead of its predecessors, it
will display names of its top contributors in a prominent place,
with their permission. Richard Nixon's has them in gold leaf;
Truman's has a donor board; Bush's are engraved on a wall inside
the library entrance and on bricks lining outdoor walkways.

Like other presidential libraries, Clinton's is expected to draw
speakers from around the world for lectures and seminars. On the
top floor, a 5,000-square-foot penthouse will give Clinton a
place to stay while in Little Rock.

So why raise $200 million?

The Clinton library entails costs beyond the building itself,
including several other multimillion-dollar projects.

Because a 1986 law limits the amount the federal government may
spend on presidential libraries, their maintenance endowments
must equal 20 percent of their construction costs. The George
Bush Presidential Library and Museum was the first to fall under
this rule.

So if it takes $100 million to build the Clinton library, it
would take another $20 million to endow it.

Other costs include:

$5 million to renovate the rust-encrusted Rock Island Bridge
stretching from the library site across the Arkansas River.
Little Rock's contribution to the work is $1 million. The bridge
will become a pedestrian walkway connecting the library to a
planned nature center in North Little Rock and will be part of a
14-mile bicycle trail system that extends upriver to Murray Lock
and Dam.

$5 million to $10 million to landscape the Clinton Presidential
Park surrounding the library. Rutherford said he has no solid
estimates from landscapers.

A multimillion-dollar retreat planned for Hot Springs. The
foundation will spend almost $1 million on a lakeside estate that
belonged to the late Raymond Clinton, the former president's
stepuncle, and turn the Victorian home into a meeting place for
world leaders.

The foundation has yet to close that sale. The Little Rock
architectural firm of Polk Stanley Yeary is expected to present
design plans to the Hot Springs Planning and Development board
within weeks. Total estimates for the project have not been
announced.

If the foundation reaches $200 million, it could avoid shaking
the money tree for future work, such as revamping exhibits and
paying increased programming costs.

Recently, the Truman library spent $10 million on structural
renovations and new exhibits. Another $12.5 million is budgeted
for work expected to continue through next year.

"It sounds like a lot," said Scott Roley, acting director of the
Truman library, "but it's not. We're finding out how expensive
these things are."

Members of the Clinton library foundation apparently are, too.

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In This Issue:

NAFTA Can Overturn Supreme Court


NAFTA Can Overturn Supreme Court

An international panel claims it can overrule the Supreme Court—and the
United States, under NAFTA, is obligated to comply.

Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT

By James P. Tucker Jr.

It may soon be demonstrated, for all to see, that a NAFTA panel is superior
to U.S. federal courts.

The outcome of The Loewen Group Inc. v. U.S.A. is less important than the
fact that it will be decided by the International Center for Settlement of
Investment Dis putes—a NAFTA panel.

NAFTA, the panel ruled, has jurisdiction over complaints from foreign
countries about court decisions in the United States. It also claims
jurisdiction over complaints about state and federal administrative agency
actions.

While the landmark case involves a state court ruling, the panel claims
power to overturn U.S. Supreme Court decisions as well.

The panel scheduled a hearing Oct. 15 on whether the United States is liable
for “damages” caused by a Mississippi jury’s verdict against a Canadian
company. The Canadians claimed that a hefty appeal bond was an “expropriation.”

The panel’s decision will be final and un appealable except on very limited
grounds. Under NAFTA, U.S. courts are com pelled to enforce the panel’s
decisions.

UNBELIEVABLE

It “is a very shocking and broad-based decision,” Mary Bottari of Public
Citizen, a Ralph Nader group based in Washington, told The National Law
Journal. “We now have a level of review for the U.S. court system that is
above that of the U.S. Supreme Court . . . and it is three international
arbitrators who operate in secret and whose decisions cannot be appealed.”

NAFTA allows foreign investors to escape liability for all sorts of
negligent acts, such as deadly manufacturing de fects in automobiles or
medical supplies, by transferring a jury’s damage awards from the
corporation to the U.S. taxpayers, she said.

A three-member panel of the Interna tional Center, interpreting Article 1105
of NAFTA, made the ruling on Jan. 5. The panelists are Sir Anthony Mason, L.
Yves Fortier and Abner Mikva, a former U.S. circuit judge.

The case involves a Canadian corporation’s claim that it was victimized by
racial and national prejudice on the part of a Mississippi judge, jury and
plaintiff’s counsel—all of whom are black.

The Loewen Group argued that Missis sippi law made it impossible to appeal a
$500 million verdict on grounds of discrimination. The requirement for
posting 125 percent of a damage award as bond amounts to “illegal
expropriation” of a foreign investor’s property, the company argued.

Loewen argued that it is entitled to protection even though a domestic
corporation would have faced the same bond requirement. It is seeking $725
million in damages from the American taxpayers.

This establishment of an international court superior to the Supreme Court
of the United States or the highest courts in Canada and Mexico is the first
of a series of dramatic steps that are designed to establish an American
Union similar to the European Union—long on the common agenda of Bilderberg
and its brother group, the Trilateral Commission.

As NAFTA expands as the Free Trade Area of the Americas to include the
entire Western Hemisphere, its 90-man commission is to expand accordingly,
evolving into the American Union Parliament. “Dollari zation” is to produce
a common currency like the European Union’s euro.


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[CTRL] GLOBAL 2000: EARTH FIRST! FOR THE MASTER RACE

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A-albionic Research Weekly Up-Date of 03-18-2001


From: Brian Redman [EMAIL PROTECTED]


  Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3  Num. 43
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("Quid coniuratio est?")


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Subject:  GLOBAL 2000: EARTH FIRST! FOR THE "MASTER RACE"

My transcript of a recent episode of a public access show,
originating in Chicago, called "Broadsides". This episode
featured independent researcher Sherman Skolnick, and author Mark
Sato. Note that in the following I neither necessarily agree nor
disagree with some or all of the views expressed.

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[...continued...]

SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
All right. So that the ultra-rich, then, have introduced dope, on
a big scale, into the United States. Why? First of all, they want
to enrich themselves. But secondly, they have genocide in mind,
right?


MARK SATO:
That's right.


SKOLNICK:
Because I...


SATO:
To give you an example: they are perfectly aware that narcotic
drug use is very dangerous. Thirty-one percent of all New Yorkers
who were murdered last year were murdered because of drug use!


SKOLNICK:
Do you believe it's a...


SATO:
So it's a very dangerous thing -- not only that they're using
drugs, but also it tends to make them become dead. I mean...


SKOLNICK:
But tell me if this generality is suitable: that sometimes the
(what is the word?), some of the better-educated people in the
black community somehow get onto the drugs. Is that a generality
that makes any sense?


SATO:
Well it makes sense...


SKOLNICK:
..way to get rid of 'em.


SATO:
Well, here. Here's an interesting question: why is it that these
drug dealers, whose (at the lowest level, anyway), whose main
idea is, "I wanna make some money!" All right? "I wanna make some
money, dealing drugs." *Why* do they go to the poorest
communities to try and make money? Does that make sense?


SKOLNICK:
No, they're not sellin' it there. They're sellin' it to
suburbanites...


SATO:
Well then, how...


SKOLNICK:
..who come to a certain corner.


SATO:
Sherman, now they are, finally. They are now. But what you just
said before -- "They go into a black neighborhood and they sell."


SKOLNICK:
To kill 'em.


SATO:
*Why* would a profit-seeking entrepreneur, drug dealer, want to
go into the *poorest* neighborhoods -- a black neighborhood, an
hispanic neighborhood -- and sell drugs!? That doesn't make a
whole lot of sense, does it? *Unless* their philosophy is exactly
like the British was, back when they introduced opium into China
for the purpose of...


SKOLNICK:
To subdue 'em.


SATO:
..for the purpose, not necessarily of profit -- although they
*did* make a profit, because they rolled over the Chinese economy
-- but it was to control the Chinese.

It is that...


SKOLNICK:
Through the opium dens...


SATO:
It is that purpose which is causing the introduction, wholesale,
for this century, into the black communities and hispanic
communities of narcotic drugs. That's what *I* see it as. It is a
form of eugenics. It is a form of getting rid of people,
purposely, using narcotics *as* *a* *weapon*.


SKOLNICK:
What you're saying, which is borne out by the census reports...
And that there seems to be an *attack* on black males between the
age of, what? Fifteen to thirty-two?


SATO:
Go younger: as soon as they get out of the womb -- *if* they come
out of the womb -- from that time, they are targets.


SKOLNICK:
What bothers me is, that occasionally the media tells you the
truth, but not in a proper context. For example, they interview
some people... They interviewed some kids in Roseland that were
eleven years old, twelve years old, in this recent flare-up there
[i.e., circa November, 1994, the story of the eleven year old
alleged gunman who, in turn, was murdered in Chicago]. And some
of these young people said, "I..." (in so many words), "I live
from day to day. And I don't know if I'll get killed on the way
to school or..." In other words, they're actually...


SATO:
Always at risk.


SKOLNICK:
Yeah. They're always at risk. As if...

But you see the problem is, the media has you believe that it's
just another black causing the risk, when it's the introduction
of dope into the black community that's causing the genocide.


SATO:
*And*, along with the introduction of guns -- which always
follows the drugs. And so you have this lethal combination of
drugs and guns which is introduced into the community.


SKOLNICK:
But in other words, is the thesis of your research that the
United States has taken over where Hitler left off?


SATO:
Not the United States, necessarily.


SKOLNICK:
Is it the American aristocracy?


SATO:
Yes. The American and the British aristocracy, which has taken
this over.


SKOLNICK:
Who *have* 

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Job 
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House 
Prepares U.N. Bailout;
Calls 
of Protest Urgently Needed
 
Washington, D.C. -  Despite broken promises and phony 
reforms, the  House International 
Relations Committee is preparing on Wednesday, March 21, to vote to send $582 
million to the United Nations. If approved by the full House, the money would 
be 
immediately sent to other nations that provide troops to failed and 
mismanaged 
U.N. military operations.
“The American people should not be fooled by talk of 
a U.S. ‘debt’ to the U.N. This is a taxpayer rip-off, pure and simple. ” 
stated 
Cliff Kincaid, president of the public policy group America’s Survival. “The 
bailout of the world body comes at a time when the U.N. pension fund claims a 
positive return in 17 straight years, its assets have increased more than 39 
percent over the last two years, and is now worth $25 billion.  “Not bad for 
an organization supposedly 
going broke,” commented Kincaid 
If you want to stop 
the dangerous International Criminal Court and other U.N. schemes, you need 
to 
stop further U.N. funding NOW. Calls of protest have jammed International 
Relations Committee chairman Henry Hyde’s telephone at 1-202-225-4561. 
Indeed, 
the telephone number has been emitting a constant busy signal because of the 
overload of calls. But you can also call the staff office of the committee at 
1-202-225-5021.
This is the 
committee make-up: 
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The U.N. financial bailout, which 
comes at a time of massive layoffs in the U.S. and an economic slowdown, if 
not 
recession,  is being promoted on the 
pretext that the money is “dues” owed to the U.N. by the U.S.  But Rep. 
Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) has 
demonstrated through his “U.N. Erroneous Debt Act” that it is the U.N. which 
actually owes the U.S. billions of dollars for peacekeeping expenses never 
credited or reimbursed to the U.S. Dozens of House members have co-sponsored 
Bartlett’s legislation and almost 200 have voted for it in the past. “If 
enough 
House members understand the nature of the U.N. ‘debt’ issue, said Kincaid, 
“this bailout could still be stopped.”   
The money has passed the Senate under a deal 
brokered by Senators Jesse Helms and Joseph Biden. The U.N. is supposed to 
get 
the money in exchange for reducing the U.S. share of the U.N. operating 
budget 
from 25 to 22 percent, and the U.S. share of the peacekeeping budget from 31 
to 
25 percent. However, the U.N. only allowed the U.S. share of peacekeeping to 
decline to 26.5 percent. 
“They kicked us in the teeth and we’re 
still sending them our money,” Kincaid noted. “They’re laughing at us all the 
way to the bank.”
The transfer is going forward 
despite the fact that the top budget analyst at the U.S. mission to the U.N., 
Linda Shenwick,  has been out of her 
job for more than a year, having been fired by the Clinton-Gore 
Administration 
for telling Congress about corruption at the world body. Shenwick, who is 
seeking her old job back through legal action, says no significant reforms 
have 
been carried out at the U.N. Without Shenwick back in her job, Congress has 
no 
effective way of monitoring where the money goes.
Supporting the bailout under these 
questionable circumstances will not look good to American taxpayers, some of 
whom are now losing their jobs. “But there are no lay-offs at the U.N.,” 
Kincaid 
noted. “Indeed, no one at the U.N. has lost a job under Boss Kofi Annan’s 
‘reform’ plan.”  
   

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[CTRL] [Fwd: Open Letter to Magistate Judge Cynthia Imbrogno]

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Just at what point have the nations police become a
   vicious enemy of the citizens who employ them for
   the purpose of their own protection?

  Just at what point has the militarization of local police
 forces become a national program, whereby every
 town has a "swat" team ready to burst into a citizens
 home, 30 strong, screaming and cursing, throwing
 elderly and children alike to the floor with automatic
 weapons pointed at them.

  They just love to play soldier and explode concussion
 grenades, explosives of various kinds, the latest tech
 weapons, against the very citizens which they are sworn
to protect.  It now seems that some no longer require
any mention of the Constitution or the support thereof.






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Subject: Open Letter to Magistate Judge Cynthia Imbrogno Re: The arrest
   of Mark Alan, (Rabenold)

Source:
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March 2001

Open Letter to Magistate Judge Cynthia Imbrogno
Re: The arrest of Mark Alan (Rabenold)
http://proliberty.com/observer/20010307.htm

Federal Judge Imbrogno, this is going to be an open letter to you and to the
people of Washington State.

It has come to my attention that Mark Alan (Rabenold) of Okanogan County is
now being declared a danger to the community. I just have to ask, declared by
whom?

I don't claim to know all of Mark's ideas and can not say they are right or
wrong,
but I need to let you know what I do know of the man. Last year while having
lunch in a local drive-in, Mark came in and sat down next to us. We got into a
conversation and I asked him about a rumor I had heard about his past
employment as a police officer and was it true, and if true, why did he
quit the
force. Mark told us about being on the local city police force, and the
requirement of going to the Washington State Patrol Academy to be a
commissioned officer, of which he attended.

Mark told us about a class he was attending at the academy where the instructor
was (as a standard matter of procedure) instructing the class on how to harass
and detain any citizen any time, anywhere, for no reason what ever. In class,
Mark said he challenged the instructor about creating a legal issue with a
private
citizen where none was and that he thought this action by a police officer was
totally wrong.

The instructor's response was to bark at him in front of the class with "Do you
wanna be a cop, or do you wanna be a lawyer?" Realizing what was going on in
law enforcement training, at this point, Mark told us that he responded with "I
sure as hell don't want to be your kind of cop" he then stood up, left the
class
and went home. The very next day, he quit the city police force.

Now I think we had better chew on that for about five minutes or so. Every
policeman who is a commissioned officer has been required to be trained by the
state to know how to harass people they don't like, or maybe to just to
shore up
their arrest record they know what to do to achieve a given arrest goal.
The main
goal in law enforcement seems to be promoting the image of the agency, their
own promotions, pad that old retirement. Make the points whenever possible,
often regardless of whom gets hurt. Many in law enforcement just call this a
"Tool" that is sometimes needed to bring in the bad guys. I'm sorry Judge
Imbrogno; I just don't buy it!

The people of Okanogan County have no fear of Mark Alan, what they do fear,
and with damn good reason, is law enforcement that no longer respects our civil
liberties under our state and federal constitutions. They fear that they
could be
charged with a phony crime and they will be simply wiped out financially as
they
can not afford a lawyer. As they simply can not trust a court appointed lawyer
because these lawyers have only one function, plea bargain or lose for the
victim,
not to mention the back room star chamber wheelin-an-a-dealing.

The court rules are so twisted and confusing that no man on this planet can
stay
on top of them. I have to ask what chance does the everyday citizen have in
your
court or any other court for that matter. You very well know the answer to this
question. NONE!

Authorities lie, and or exaggerate all the time. I am 52 years old. Over
the years I
have seen some authorities make up things to hassle people that they simply
just
did not like, and it happens all the time, and we all know it.

To show 

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[CTRL] NM: Pardongate Flashback: Michael Chertoff Grills Dan Lasater

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

-Caveat Lector-

http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/3/16/121156

For the story behind the story...

Friday, March 16, 2001 1:08 p.m. EST

Pardongate Flashback: Michael Chertoff Grills Dan Lasater

The appointment of former U.S. attorney Michael Chertoff to head
up the Bush Justice Department's criminal division could spell
big trouble for the Clinton family, especially former first
brother Roger, who's up to his eyeballs in swirling Pardongate
allegations.

Chertoff spent the better part of 1995 and 1996 as lead
Republican counsel to the Senate Whitewater committee, where he
investigated the Clintons' involvement in everything from a
possible cover-up of Vincent Foster's mysterious death to Bill
and Roger's connection to swaggering Little Rock bond dealer
Danny Ray Lasater.

Chertoff's May 1, 1996, grilling of Lasater is particularly
pertinent right now, with the latest twist in the Pardongate
probe focusing on Roger Clinton's dealings with Lasater's former
business partner, fellow cocaine convict George E. "Butch" Locke.

Excerpts from Lasater's testimony that day show that Chertoff
already has a lot of background on Lasater and Locke, information
that could be crucial to the pardons-for-cash probe currently
being spearheaded by U.S Attorney for New York's Southern
District Mary Jo White.

CHERTOFF: You had a degree of involvement certainly in
facilitating Roger Clinton's problem with drugs in the early
'80s. Did you ever wonder if [then-Gov. Clinton] was going to
take it out on you - was going to get angry at you for it?

LASATER: Ah, ah, you know, I had a serious drug problem at the
time. And I really wasn't making good judgment calls at that time
or I wouldn't have been using cocaine in the first place.

CHERTOFF: Well, that goes without saying. But you were capable of
exercising enough judgment to be the principle in a
bond-underwriting business, right?

LASATER: Yes, sir.

Chertoff soon began to read from the deposition of Arkansas State
Trooper Barry Spivy, who guarded then-Gov. Clinton during the
1980s and sometimes served as his driver.

CHERTOFF: (Quoting Spivy) "I probably took Bill down there by
Dan's office to see Butch Locke, who had gotten into some legal
problems and had to serve a little stint in the joint. Locke,
Lasater - Butch Locke, Dan Lasater - and then Lasater bought them
all out."

Is that correct, by the way? Did Butch Locke go to jail?

LASATER: Yes.

CHERTOFF: So that part is correct.

WHITEWATER COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN SEN. AL D'AMATO: Who is this
fellow, Butch Locke?

CHERTOFF: That was the partner with Collins, Locke and Lasater

LASATER: Are you asking me that, Senator?

D'AMATO: Yeah, OK. Yeah, I wanted to get a frame of reference. I
don't know this fellow, Butch Locke.

LASATER: He's a past state senator. He was also a partner in
Collins, Locke and Lasater, and he was also indicted at the same
time I was.

Seconds later, Chertoff explored a trip Lasater took to South
America where a business associate discussed a plan to
assassinate a local official.

CHERTOFF: You in fact did take this trip to Belize.

LASATER: I did.

CHERTOFF: And what was the reason for this trip?

LASATER: There was a 12,000-acre cattle ranch that was shown to
us by a man named Carver, I think it was, or Garver or something,
out of Oklahoma ...

CHERTOFF: You went down with a guy named Jim Alexander?

LASATER: Yes.

CHERTOFF: And he was walking around with a nightscope or
something - one of these things you can use to see in the dark at
night?

LASATER: Right.

CHERTOFF: I mean, that really happened, you're acknowledging
that?

LASATER: Well, thatís what I was told happened ...

CHERTOFF: Did this fellow, Jim Alexander, also make some comment
about taking the local land commissioner out and killing him or
something like that?

LASATER: Did what, now?

CHERTOFF: Did this guy, Jim Alexander, who you flew down with,
did he make some kind of a comment that it might be a good idea
to take one of the local land commissioners out and get rid of
him in some way?

LASATER: There was a statement - something like that - made at
dinner.

CHERTOFF: Dinner with who?

LASATER: We were with a group of local government people and my
people.

CHERTOFF: And what did Mr. Alexander say?

LASATER: He said something to the effect that we just need to
take him out.

CHERTOFF: "Him" being some local official?

LASATER: Right.

CHERTOFF: And "take him out" you understood to mean kill him.

LASATER: That was my interpretation. I got up and left the table
immediately.

CHERTOFF: Did Mr. Alexander fly back with you?

LASATER: He did.

While Roger Clinton didn't go on Lasater's trip to Belize,
Chertoff discovered that the first brother was no stranger to
Lasater's private jet. Chertoff questions Lasater here based
again on the deposition of State Trooper Spivy.

CHERTOFF: (Quoting Spivy) "I knew that [Bill Clinton] and Dan
were friends, that they had visited socially. I had flown on his
plane."

Did troopers ever fly 

[CTRL] AP: Sen. Torricelli Loan Probe Continues

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

-Caveat Lector-

Sen. Torricelli Loan Probe Continues

by JOHN SOLOMON

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A prominent New Jersey contributor arranged
and guaranteed a $100,000 loan for Sen. Robert Torricelli that
helped earn him a $144,000 profit in the stock market, a deal
that sparked six years of federal investigations into the New
Jersey Democrat's finances.

Prosecutors opened a preliminary inquiry into whether the loan
arrangement was an illegal gift and whether Torricelli provided
favors to the donor in exchange for it. They interviewed the
lawmaker in 1995 under oath, telling him his rights before asking
questions, law enforcement officials and lawyers told The
Associated Press.

But prosecutors turned down FBI requests for subpoenas, gave
Torricelli time to voluntarily turn over all his financial
documents, and eventually ended the inquiry. One prosecutor told
Torricelli the U.S. attorney's office was ''going out of our
way'' to keep the investigation quiet ''to protect your
interest,'' documents show.

At the time, Torricelli was a congressman preparing to run for
the Senate.

Though conducted and closed without public knowledge, the inquiry
led the FBI to new allegations that eventually spurred the
Justice Department's current investigation of fund raising during
Torricelli's 1996 Senate campaign, the officials said.

Six people have pleaded guilty to making illegal donations to
Torricelli's campaign, and one current and two former aides have
been told they could be indicted. Torricelli denies knowledge of
any wrongdoing.

''The U.S. attorney's review of this nine-year-old transaction
ended quickly for the most basic reasons -- every rule and
regulation was considered and complied with at the time,''
Torricelli's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said Sunday.

The 1995 inquiry focused on Torricelli's relationship with Grover
Connell, a New Jersey businessman who provided speaking fees and
free trips to dozens of members of Congress over the past two
decades. His family and business have donated $1.8 million to
politicians, mostly Democrats. That includes more than $100,000
to Torricelli's campaigns, legal defense funds and political
action committee.

Connell's business interests have ranged from rice and sugar to
tractors and real estate.

''The government affects any business in any number of ways, and
not many Americans understand how the government works,'' Connell
told the AP. ''Nor do they have any interest. Well, we have an
interest, and we do understand it.''

He and Torricelli struck up a friendship in the 1980s. ''We
consider him virtually part of our family,'' Connell said.
Torricelli told prosecutors Connell was a close friend who even
accompanied him to his mother's funeral.

In 1992, Connell helped Torricelli hit it big in the stock
market.

The lawmaker was offered a chance to buy preferred stock in First
Savings Bank of Perth Amboy, N.J., a savings and loan owned by
Torricelli friends.

Torricelli said he sought Connell's advice on the investment and
wanted to borrow the money from his home equity loan to make the
purchase, but did not have enough time to get the necessary home
appraisal before the stock option expired.

Instead, Connell helped arrange a $100,000 unsecured loan for
Torricelli at a New York investment firm. Connell's company put
up a guarantee for the loan, meaning the company would assume the
debt if Torricelli defaulted.

Torricelli told prosecutors he cleared the arrangement in advance
with two personal lawyers who specialized in ethics, paid Connell
market rates -- about $800 -- for the guarantee, and paid the
loan interest and principal. The guarantee was never invoked.

Connell said he would have given the guarantee for free, but
Torricelli insisted paying for it.

''We'd do this for any friend,'' Connell said. ''It was a
favor.''

Law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity,
said the fact that Torricelli sought legal advice before the
transaction weighed heavily in their decision to close the
inquiry, though they questioned the accuracy of some of the
lawmaker's answers.

The senator's spokesman, Dale Leibach, said Sunday that
Torricelli wanted ''to avoid even a question of special treatment
by a close personal friend'' and had the transaction reviewed by
Lowell. ''As the inquiry found there was no legitimate cause for
concern, then and now,'' he said.

Lowell said he ''reviewed and confirmed that the investment, loan
and guarantee were arms-length, at market rates and properly
documented. This was not even a close call.''

Torricelli bought $100,000 of nonpublic stock with the loan
proceeds, eventually selling it for $244,000.

Torricelli disclosed the loan and stock purchase on his
congressional financial disclosure form. But Connell's role
remained a secret; Torricelli had no obligation to disclose it on
ethics form required of lawmakers.

Prosecutors questioned Torricelli about whether he tried to
mislead reporters about the transaction, why he contacted

[CTRL] Observer: Microwave Weapon Considered For Civilian Control

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

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US Military Microwave Weapon Considered For Civilian Control

By Nick Paton Walsh
The Observer
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,458681,00.html
3-18-1

Riot shields and water cannon may soon be made obsolete by a
revolutionary weapon that can stun a hostile crowd with invisible
microwaves.

The US Vehicle Mounted Active Denial System (VMADS), a radar dish
mounted on the back of a tank or jeep, is interesting British
police forces.

The VMADS, or 'people zapper', uses a 'directed energy beam',
according to a Pentagon spokesperson. 'When it comes into contact
with skin it causes a sensation of heat to an uncomfortable
level.' The Pentagon insists the beam causes no permanent damage
- no one gets hurt, but the crowd or enemy soldiers retreat
hastily.

The weapon harnesses the beams found in kitchen microwaves.
Travelling at the speed of light, the energy of the beam
penetrates less than a millimetre under the skin, quickly heating
the skin's surface. This triggers the body's defence reaction:
pain. When the subject moves out of the beam, the pain stops.
Scientists will start testing the weapons on goats and humans
soon.

Jane's Defence Weekly said recently the 'non-lethal' nature of
some weapons 'might ... encourage military forces to use them
directly against civilians and civilian targets'.

'It's part of this new political correctness on the battlefield,'
said a spokesperson. 'The problem today in situations like
Palestine is that you have adversaries mixing with innocent
civilians. Forces now need a suite of weapons for different
situations. You can score so many own goals by killing innocent
civilians.'

Scientists have spent $40 million developing the weapon at the
Air Force Research Laboratory, New Mexico. Demand for non-lethal
weapons grew after the disastrous US military mission to Somalia
in 1993, when marines died because they could not shoot back
without hitting civilians.

The VMADS is the most sophisticated development in the search for
the ultimate non-lethal weapon. The SAS recently began training
with 'glue guns' that fire a web of resin from a gun-mounted
aerosol. The resin hardens around opponents, paralysing them.


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[CTRL] The Truth about the Chemtrails

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This shows the scale of the chemtrail thing today off the coast of California. Can't 
have too much clear weather these
days :(  Must enhance clouds to make room for more globlal warming. Aluminum is not a 
good mineral for people to
consume. Scientists do not add aluminum to vitamins, for good reason. But if you are 
G.W. Bush and Energy Inc.
you might have an interest in allowing more CO2 emmissions and then covering up the 
mess. Some of you voted
this thing who looks good only because he is compared to Clinton. Like a f**t compared 
to a pile of s**t. But(t) who
is who?

It's an old game... :|

But the truth is the truth, Bu$h is bull$**t.

http://kauai.nrlmry.navy.mil/archdat/pacific/eastern/pacus/vis/20010318.2100.goes-10.vis.x.pacus.x.jpg

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[CTRL] Mad Cows and Feet in the Mouth of the Meateaters

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In a way this mad cow / food in mouth disease is a good thing. Especially if
it wipes out all of the heards in the world (and perhaps, beyond).

Maybe it is a way of telling the meateaters that their luxuries are not needed
by Mother Earth. That will make the conservatives and oil barrons shudder.
:)

But seriously, a diet of fish, free-range poultry, and a lot of organic
vegetables are the diet for a healthy, prosperous planet. Or we can make it
for a few more decades on the present course and then the reptilians can
take over after the few surface survivors die off (sounds like an idea for a
TV series. :)

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