[CTRL] Fwd: FEAR: Brant Hadaway's University of Miami Law Review article is now on FEAR-List
-Caveat Lector- Brant Hadaway's excellent law review article -- "Executive Privateers: A Discussion on Why the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act Will Not Significantly Reform the Practice of Forfeiture" -- recently published in the University of Miami Law Review, is now available in its entirety on the FEAR website. There is a link to it on the What's New at FEAR page, but if you want to link directly to it, the URL is http://www.fear.org/hadaway.html. -- Best Wishes You're an attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal and distort everything, and slander everybody. -Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) _The Madwoman of Chaillot_ [1945] A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: 21-gun Salute and Bible Astrology connotations?
Interesting item which I ran across - but note the biblical references to astrology and bible and jubilee, etc? By the way Jack he Ripper came alive during Queen's Jubilee...(Victoria) while Lenin was activating in England planning the murder of the Czar by vendetta. Found this item through West Point Site - but noting these connections to my bible calendar code - for instance, code word day Titanic went down was OLD MAN which was keyed to this strange bible code. Name of this particular very unusual bible, was one placed by Gideon Bible Society for 1954 - same year Russian Guard took Watchword bible code from the 7 Men of Spandau for you see then the cold war was becoming colder (as it is now, for MIR is coming down and Siberia's cold has returned to the way it was - in 1960 prior to this weather stuff).. Now during this period Albert Speer mentions in his diary this strange watchword code..for there are watchwords you often hear daily and do not realize it - but when you hear "Tiger Bright" for 3 days straight, one wonders. So my bible calendar code I call The Master Plan for Murder keyed to stars and testaments; it obviously has military links due to the very name of Gideon - for Gideon was not like Eisenhower - he took the gold and said keep the crown which he had been offered and obviously Eisenhower took the crown, the gold, and introduced Crest Toothpaste through Proctor and Gamble, making children of American human garbage disposals for the cause. Now my search has been to try to find out who in hell was the big brass who endosed the son of Meyer Lansky to West Point - his name, was Paul which I also thought strange, but then in bible, Paul was also known as Saul and also Paul and Barnabas as Jupiter and Mercury representing house of death? Boy that West Point - only knew one man from West Point who went big time - taught calculus, went to a party at his house with my relative at Pentagon Joint Chief and this guy was no great prizeparted hair in middle, ended up head of Task Force and wouldn't you know, his name was Booth? Old family name - Illuminati stuff maybe. So West Point has it become a school for assassins and I refer to this "catholic" Japanese sharpshooter who gunned down an 8th grader, shooting his dog to draw out the kid, and then this brave, warrior like a Arnold Schwartznegger shot of the face of the childs mother, while she held her 10 month old baby. Now anyone who blieves that Japanese Bastard was a Catholic then I am a zen Buddist? No wonder that guy gave up West Point to the English during the American Revolution..f for I think something really fishy here and I remember reading this Titanic stuff and wondering about the code word Old Man for these were the watchwords for date of sinking of Titanic...and Psalm 69 linked to sinking of Titanic.people had been eating, dancing and that last song, Those In Peril in the Sea, also known as Navy Hymn? And this psalm part of the Egyptian Book of Dead - Hymn to Atun ? There was music in the air then too - but when you consider the Constitution protects the "arts and sciences" under ARICLE I, Section 8 - a lot of this stuff begins to make sense - here a Boothe, there a Boothe from the Hells Fire Club in day of Hogarth to this General Boothe, a West Point Man - whose wife ran up $90.00 liquor bill on my relatives for 6 months, per month.l wondered why at the time my relative did not tust thisi man? More bones in the closets? So obviously JFK was a military type execution - grounds to execute murder or treason...a high tribunal who judges at midnight - using bible as authority to execute judgment? The word ORDNANCE comes to mind. Only these are imposters of course, linked to the new West Point - the Meyer Lansky endorsed West Point - the Japanese Sharpshooter FBI Agent from West point - a catholic, you know - and hired guns. Old movie or tv series on Palladin - this man remember the show or ever see re=run - the White Knight (these were code names used during JFK murder, Knight, Bishop, Page, etc..this show came out in early 50 periodremember Liddy's remark - hey, they got your Queen - such an intelligence shouldl not go by without notice?).so Palladin, man of West Point, served his country and then went to San Francisco where he hired himself out as This Gun For Hire - a hired killer, contract murderer - heavy mafia stuff..but only a contract killer like Lansky, Inc? Who paid for hit on Kennedy? So what did James Earl Ray have in common with such people other than he was a traveling man with a gun and a Mustang engaged in self hypnosis with escape route through Canda to England? Lived in YMCA's like a few other killers - safe house maybe? So wonder how this international maritime code fits into murder USA style.Old Man? Nght Hoover died - I wondered about the "old man" code, for that guy was taken before his time in Court was to come up and he
[CTRL] Fwd: Israel - What Should Now Be
One would think the Israelis would welcome the UN with Open Arms and kiss on both cheeks? (backside masonic style) ___ __ / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\http://www.MiddleEast.Org News, Information, Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! * * * * * * * IF YOU DON'T GET MER, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] WHAT SHOULD BE WITH ISRAEL MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 3/21: If the Arabs regimes were serious, indeed if they were truly independent, they would institute a Arab and Muslim regional boycott of Israel at this point, at least suspend all diplomatic and economic relations with Israel, and forcefully move to have the U.N. General Assembly suspend Israeli credentials (as was done with South Africa in the days of Apartheid) as soon as the U.S. again prevents the Security Council from acting in the days ahead. If the Jewish "liberals" and "progressives" were serious, along with their counterparts in Israel, they would be taking out a historic statement in the New York Times and other publications calling for a total suspension of all American economic and military assistance to Israel. If the co-opted Arab and Muslim organizations in Washington were serious, they would be organizing real and sustained demonstrations, pursuing peaceful civil disobedience, blanketing the talk shows, as well as building up real political and financial support for the Palestinian and Iraqi people, plus speaking out loudly against the U.S.-sponsored Arab "client regimes" who are also responsible for today's state of affairs, as well as Israel. But none of this is happening. And what is happening is far too little, far too late...at best analysis -- designed more to co-opt the activists and let off steam than to actually have any impact. And so Israel marches on -- now headed by the dymanic duo of Ariel Sharon and Shimon Peres, one a war criminal personality who has repeatedly massacred and told the big lie, the other an erroneous Nobel Prize laureate who has repeatedly schemed and deceived attempting to trap the Palestinians in an apartheid formulation agreed to by one of their own leaders. And so the U.S. marches on -- hypocrisy, repression, duplicity, covert CIA, and overt military, all working overtime to dominate and control the region; all against the overwhelming will of the people in the area, all blatantly disregarding professed American values, all at an ongoing cost of millions of Arab and Muslim lives and tremendous human suffering, all destined to have untold pay-back consequences in the future ahead of us all. These three regular news media articles from Reuters and AP yesterday and today help put the current situation in perspective. SHARON WARNS ANNAN ON SENDING U.N. OBSERVERS UNITED NATIONS (Reuters - 21 March) - Israel's new leader Ariel Sharon bluntly warned the United Nations Wednesday that sending any observer force to protect Palestinians could escalate violence in the West Bank and Gaza. But U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, during his one-hour talks with the Israeli prime minister, urged Sharon to ease restrictions on Palestinians and questioned plans to expand a Jewish settlement, known as Har Homa, U.N. officials said. The secretary-general also said it would be dangerous to let the Palestinian Authority collapse during the uprising that began in late September and has bled the economic life out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, sources close to the talks said. Israeli spokesman Raanar Gissin quoted Sharon as saying he was prepared to ease the restrictions, including those that prevent Palestinians from working in Israel proper. "We would even like to do more. But I have a problem here. We will continue with easing the restrictions but at the same time we will use a heavier hand toward terrorists, those who send them and those who abate them," Gissin quoted Sharon as saying. U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said Annan raised the issue of a proposed U.N. force and Sharon and said "that he would oppose any U.N. observers in the Palestinian territories." In rejecting the force, Sharon said "terrorists" could find shelter by hiding behind them and Israeli soldiers could then clash with observers, Israeli and U.N. sources said, The U.N. Security Council is currently mulling a Palestinian proposal to send the observers to the West Bank and Gaza. Europeans are currently searching for a compromise that the United States, Israel's close ally, would not veto. The vote is expected before an Arab summit next week, which Annan will address. Sharon asked Annan to use his influence toward
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-Caveat Lector- From http://www.antiwar.com/malic/pf/p-m032201.html As ever, embedded linques a site ... go visit ... }}Begin Balkan Express by Nebojsa Malic Antiwar.com March 22, 2001 Macedonian Maelstrom As many feared, the alleged demise of the "National Liberation Army" of Albanian militants two weeks ago was short-lived and grossly exaggerated. Forced out of their border base in Tanusevci, they struck deep into Macedonia and attacked its second largest city, Tetovo. After a week of heavy fighting, Tetovo is beginning to look like Bosnia in the early days of 1992. Many inhabitants have fled, buildings are on fire, and small-arms fire echoes in between mortar shells and sniper shots over largely abandoned streets. By Tuesday, Macedonias Army had brought up tanks, armored fighting vehicles and additional troops, shelling the militants positions and claiming to be preparing for a full assault. Dug into the hills above the city and controlling most of its mountainous hinterlands, the militants have no intention of giving up. They are demanding "peace talks," which would legitimize them as a force and internationalize their demands. Their actions have already had a profound effect, and further violence might nudge the crisis past the point of no return and into the hell of ethnic warfare. The Macedonian government is finding itself short of options and running out of time. Every minute that the NLA is allowed to exist only makes it stronger, but so does every bullet fired at it. Frustrated, Macedonia is looking elsewhere for help, mainly among the NATO powers occupying Kosovo, where the NLA was founded. That quest has been, and will remain, fruitless. For it was NATOs conquest of Kosovo that precipitated the militant actions of Albanians elsewhere, and directly caused Macedonias current predicament one from which it may not recover. EMPTY WORDS, HOLLOW PROMISES The European Union pledged all nonviolent means of support i.e. words. France actually called for Macedonia to improve the rights of Albanians, thus encouraging the militants. Germany is threatening action but only to defend its supply outpost in Tetovo, which came under fire the other day and prompted four panzers to arrive from Kosovo as protection. Macedonia also received extremely confusing signals from EUs foreign policy czar, former NATO political head Javier Solana. Agency reports quote him as saying there is no alternative to a political solution, but also that there can be no negotiations with terrorists. Macedonians heads must be spinning, trying to understand Solanas doublethink. Little has changed since 1999, after all. Just in time to excuse itself from Macedonias pleas for help, NATO suddenly remembered it "had no mandate" in Macedonia. Lack of mandate certainly never prevented it from launching a war over Kosovo, which earned its current leader George Robertson his life peerage. Indeed, the KLA can feel absolutely safe with NATO behind them... On the other side of the ocean, the US minced even fewer words. US Balkans envoy, James Pardew, showed his governments "support" for Macedonia by criticizing an insignificant, minor Kosovo party suspected of NLA ties. At the same time, KLAs masterminds Hashim Thaci and Ramush Haradinaj, and the prophet of Albanian separatism, Ibrahim Rugova, have not been disturbed in any way. The Bush administration claims to be "isolating" the militants by giving "unequivocal support" to Macedonias integrity. Yet it repeatedly and clearly pledges not to move a finger to address the root of the problem, in a province the very sector its troops occupy. Meanwhile, Albanians in the US are sending money, weapons and men to the militants. UN Balkan envoy Carl Bildt, who said Macedonia was standing on the precipice of war, and UN human rights envoy Jiri Dienstbier, who said Sunday that the current war was not about human or ethnic rights, but about creating a Greater Albania, were lone voices of sanity in a sea of indifference and obfuscation. DISTRACTION TACTICS As the Macedonian crisis heated up, President Bush ordered the withdrawal of some 800 Americans from Bosnia, where their heavy weapons were no longer needed to keep the locals under submission. This way, the US deflected questions about its inactivity in Macedonia. The GIs just came home; it would be un-American to want to send them to the Balkans again... Meanwhile, the media seemed intent to divert attention from the real causes of the conflict as well. The New York Times Carlotta Gall, famous for her outstanding work in glorifying the original KLA and the Chechen separatists, continued the tradition on Tuesday with an article filled with NLAs racist drivel. Though Western news agencies only made a passing note of KFORs arrest of five Albanians, suspected of the recent bombing that
[CTRL] Fwd: Gus Russo, The Nation, JFK Murder
-- From: copa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:29:46 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fwd: Article from The Nation] Lou, Gus Russo appeared in the late 80's claiming to be a JFK assassination researcher, and tapped many unsuspecting folks for information (I was always wary of him), then showed his true colors at a symposium in Chicago where he openly became an apologist for the Warren Commission version. Others in the research community kept dealing with him though. At the inception of COPA in 1994, we got word from some of them that Gus was lunching with the likes of Helms, Colby, etc. and that they were probing him about the first COPA national conference and whether we were going to blame their friend David Atlee Phillips for the murder. He was flattered to be among them, and clearly bought their line. "They call me Gus" he happily told one researcher. We had other names for him, of course. He was hired as a consultant for a History Channel series about Oswald, and he does keep exhaustive files. Of course the program came to the same conclusion, Oswald was a skill-less malcontent who shot the President. Russo wrote a book based on what the intelligence boys fed him (look again at the Nation piece sources for the interpretation that this is an assassination plot, even an unnamed CIA source - who needs the fucking New York Times, now the Nation can use the same smarmy "journalism" instead). It was originally titled Reap the Whirlwind. This is the thesis: There was no rogue element in the CIA or Mongoose, they were just following orders from JFK to kill Castro. The old hands at the CIA were not comfortable with these assassination plots, but they were forced to go along by the Kennedy brothers, who were "out of control". The plots to kill Castro, though unsuccessful, caused the "Commie" malcontent Oswald to kill JFK in retaliation. The Kennedy brothers "reaped the whirlwind" of their killing plots and were killed themselves instead. (i.e. Had it coming). David Corn, like Max Holland and Russo, are self-conceited intellectual arbiters from the circles around IPS (note they quote Halpern too) who despise the left and the counter-cultural movement. (Well, hell, all you need to do is think about your previous CAQ editor to know the fucking mentality, Lou.) Corn slammed me in print way back when I started the Mae Brussell Center, linking me to the paranoid right wing militia. Holland used to sleaze into the COPA meetings with Ben Franklin of Washington Spectator for no other purpose than to do hit pieces. No wonder they liked him at the Nation! Holland has a book coming that defends the Warren Commission. They fall in line behind I.F. Stone, Alexander Cockburn, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky and whatever else passes for left intellectuals in this culture, going beyond saying that it doesn't matter if there was a conspiracy to actually attacking those who say there was. The Nation has suppressed this information from inception, and one has to wonder about the money behind it, especially the proto-fascist Hamilton Fish, Sr. They hate the counter-culture and the grassroots left. Look at their defense of Gore and slamming of Nader during the last election for an example. I suggest the new book False Mystery by Vincent Salandria, a brilliant early critic, and also History Will Not Absolve Us by Martin Schotz for clear left analysis of the case and early indictments of The Nation. Russo is slick, full of "facts", and hard at work performing the second assassination of the Kennedy's, along with the CIA's old wonder boy, Seymour Hersh. Yes, there is a "dark side" to the Kennedy saga, all you have to do is look at the old man for that, but it was when the boys broke free that the trouble really started. They responded to the civil rights and anti-nuclear movements in a way no one before or after them ever did. Not because they were saints, but because they were clear headed politicians. Whatever "dark side" they had it has to be compared to the "black hole" of the forces that killed them first. Once we name the killers, then we can talk about the crimes of the victims. These "writers" will only address the latter. It's a lot safer, and they get to lunch with the CIA and be told the "inside story" that no one has ever heard before (yeah, right!). John Judge ps - The Nation piece was part of the email, hope you got it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John - I haven't read the Nation piece, but I did receive an inquiry last week from a reader as follows: "Who is Gus Russo?" So John, who is he? I've never heard of him previously. Is he a COPA hanger-on, a conspiracy freak (in the worser sense), or an apologist for those who want to continue the JFK coverup? Lou
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] John Pilger on Spin
John Pilger - In the freest press on earth, humanity is reported in terms of its usefulness to US power John Pilger Monday 19th February 2001 The New Statesman http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200102190008.htm Washington Long before the Soviet Union broke up, a group of Russian writers touring the United States were astonished to find, after reading the newspapers and watching television, that almost all the opinions on all the vital issues were the same. "In our country," said one of them, "to get that result we have a dictatorship. We imprison people. We tear out their fingernails. Here you have none of that. How do you do it? What's the secret?" The secret is a form of censorship more insidious than a totalitarian state could ever hope to achieve. The myth is the opposite. Constitutional freedoms unmatched anywhere else guard against censorship; the press is a "fourth estate", a watchdog on democracy. The journalism schools boast this reputation, the influential East Coast press is especially proud of it, epitomised by the liberal paper of record, the New York Times, with its masthead slogan: "All the news that's fit to print." It takes only a day or two back in the US to be reminded of how deep state censorship runs. It is censorship by omission, and voluntary. The source of most Americans' information, mainstream television, has been reduced to a set of marketing images shot and edited to the rhythms of a Coca-Cola commercial that flow seamlessly into the actual commercials. Rupert Murdoch's Fox network is the model, with its peep-shows of human tragedy. Non-American human beings are generally ignored, or treated with an anthropological curiosity reserved for wildlife documentaries. Not long ago, Kenneth Jarecke was talking about this censorship. Jarecke is the American photographer who took the breath-catching picture of an Iraqi burnt to a blackened cinder, petrified at the wheel of his vehicle on the Basra Road where he, and hundreds of others, were massacred by American pilots on their infamous "turkey shoot" at the end of the Gulf war. In the United States, Jarecke's picture was suppressed for months after what was more a slaughter than a war. "The whole US press collaborated in keeping silent about the consequences of that war," he said. The famous CBS anchorman Dan Rather told his prime-time audience: "There's one thing we can all agree on. It's the heroism of the 148 Americans who gave their lives so that freedom could live." What he omitted to say was that a quarter of them had been killed, like their British comrades, by other Americans. He made no mention of the Iraqi dead, put at 200,000 by the Medical Educational Trust. That American forces had deliberately bombed civilian infrastructure, such as water treatment plants, was not reported at the time. Six months later, one newspaper, Newsday, published in Long Island, New York, disclosed that three US brigades "used snow plows mounted on tanks to bury thousands of Iraqi soldiers - some still alive - in more than 70 miles of trenches". The other day, both the Washington Post and the New York Times referred to Iraq without mentioning the million people now estimated to have died as a direct result of sanctions imposed, via the UN, by the United States and Britain. That, writes Brian Michael Goss of the University of Illinois, is standard practice. Goss examined 630 articles on sanctions published in the New York Times from 1996 to 1998. In those three years, just 20 articles - 3 per cent of the coverage - were critical of the policy or dwelt upon its civilian impact. The rest reflected the US official line, identifying 21 million people with Saddam Hussein. The scale of the censorship is placed in perspective by Professors John and Karl Mueller, of the University of Rochester. "Even if the UN estimates of the human damage to Iraq are roughly correct," they write, sanctions have caused "the deaths of more people in Iraq than have been slain by all so-called weapons of mass destruction throughout history." A third of the people of East Timor were put to death by the Suharto dictatorship during Indonesia's 24-year occupation. Yet the American media skirted this epic crime until shortly before the 1999 referendum. Their silence was in striking contrast to the saturation coverage of the "genocide" in Kosovo, used to justify the Nato bombing campaign, and was in line with suppression of the post-bombing disclosure that there was no genocide. In East Timor, the United States helped Suharto execute his invasion, secretly and illegally, with weapons and aircraft. For most of the 24 years of bloody occupation, the US media maintained a virtual blackout on East Timor. In the freest press on earth, humanity is reported in terms of its usefulness to American power. Kosovo was a major story; it demonstrated the "credibility" of Nato and America's control over the
[CTRL] Fwd: Response to the Extended Playhouse Review of The Covert War Against Rock
Response to the Extended Playhouse Review of The Covert War Against Rock By Alex Constantine EXTENDED PLAYHOUSE is an Internet e-zine that bills itself as the newsletter that respects your intelligence in the morning, If so, it certainly molests its readers in the evening, as I recently discovered upon reading a review of my book The Covert War Against Rock (Feral House, 200), an analysis of rock musician deaths since the 1960s that finds the official versions lame and weighs suppressed evidence of fascist and organized criminal conspiracies objectively as the true cause. Conspiracy theory, EPs Rodney E. Griffith informs us, is a province in which the plausible is usually drowned out in the implausible, yet the concoction is swallowed whole by recipients. Uh-oh. After a decade of taking heat from reviewers who frown on all conspiracy research, Ive learned that this type is generally incompetent to form rational judgments anyone who does not understand that conspiracy has been commonplace throughout history is prone to ultra-conformity and engages in the type of status quo thinking that once equated vegetarianism with communist lunacy. Anyone who dismisses conspiracy research out of hand, and cannot distinguish legitimate research from Birch Society-type scare mongering, is intellectually molded by adhering to the vacant, self-serving reasoning of a controlled mass media. (am I going to fast for you, Mr. Griffith?) As a result, they ALWAYS get their facts wrong, even as they demand perfection from the theorists. (In fact, I have always written about fascism, largely, which is inherently conspiratorial, a fact most establishment thinkers find impossible to comprehend.) Griffith takes the book to task first for who it fails to mention: Stevie Rae Vaughn, Pete Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger, Brian Epstein, John Belushi, Karen Carpenter, Tom Fogerty, and especially Bill Hicks. Excuse me? Covert War discusses the deaths of more than a dozen major musicians: John Lennon, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, etc. Each was murdered. (In the case of Brian Jones, the founder of the Rolling Stones, I was recently denounced by a London talk show host as a conspiracy theorist for suggesting that he was murdered Joness killer confessed on his death bed, testimony acceptable by any court in the UK, and was supported by the eye-witness accounts of four witnesses to the murder.) It is not incumbent upon me to write about EVERYONE. If the book was about the death of John Lennon alone, should I expect to be criticized for not also discussing the shooting ot Tupac Shakur? And if I managed to squeeze in everyone Griffith mentions, would I not also be remiss for excluding Janice Joplin, Curt Cobain, or dozens of others? (Fact is, I have planned all along to write a second book on rock musician deaths, including some Griffith mentions, IF the first book finds a market.) Griffiths savage review of my book largely concerns my chapter on Michael Hutchence, who, I maintain, was the victim of organized crime. The chapter makes it clear that Hutchence was a Mafia hit. Yet Griffith misread the chapter entirely, noting falsely that it ends with speculations that the hanging death of INXS vocalist Michael Hutchence, officially ruled suicide, was a hit enabled by his girlfriends ex, Band Aid czar Bob Geldof. This gives the impression I blame Geldof. Many do, but I dont, and I havent written one word that suggests otherwise. Griffiths reference is to an afterword written by the head of a musicians union in the UK. Nowhere do I contend that Geldof had anything to do with Hutchenes death. Michael Hutchence was penniless on the day of his death, although on paper he was worth 28 million pounds. His wealth had been siphoned off by a crooked accountant, who stashed Hutchences millions into a mazework of financial blinds and trust funds controlled by the Mafia. Hutchence was killed for financial reasons. The chapter makes this clear, undisputably. Yet words are put in my mouth, a tactic often used by those who frown on conspiracy research, and I am ridiculed for statements about Geldof that I have never made. Whatever tenuous grip Covert War had is lost here, we are told. This might be true IF I had make the statements falsely attributed to me. But the most amusing accusation EP makes is the false claim that I hold Hutchences death to be politically motivated. As I say, Hutchence was bled financially and killed by the Calabrese Mob before he could figure it out. There was nothing political about it. Yet Griffith feels compelled to point out, as he became older, Hutchence was becoming more conservative, not less. Nowhere do I claim that Hutchence was killed for political reasons. Griffith is arguing against straw statements made by a straw man. Hutchence was also beset by numerous other personal problems, well documented by E! but mostly ignored by Constantine. Such as? It was reported by the Sydney Morning Herald that
[CTRL] Fwd: [RMNEWS] RMNEWS AGENTS EXPLAIN THE MARKET CRASH
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million registered high school alumni--chances are you'll find your friends! /FONTA HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/n4HqaC/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/xrOVlB/TM"BClick Here!/B/A -_- MESSAGE FROM RAYELAN, PUBLISHER RUMOR MILL NEWS http://www.rumormillnews.com There are a number of articles on the Rumor Mill News Agents Forum. Each is written by a different "Agent", but if you put all of them together, I think a picture of this stock market crash will begin to emerge. Agent WINTER has been stating for over a month now that the stock market crash was engineered by the CIA. The posts that are on the Forum today, (the ones mentioned here,) convince me that WINTER was right! (Here are the headlines, I will send the articles separately tonight. I have to go to work right now!) As you read these articles, and begin to realize that the stock market crash was engineered by the CIA (or other agencies), pay attention to NESARA. This is the legislation that will hopefully create a new money system in the United States. Rumor Mill News sources have told me that the only way to break the back of the beast -- AKA, the Federal Reserve and the New World Order -- is to do it financially. I have known for years that a plan was put into motion in the late 1960s. This plan was scheduled to "go online" at the turn of the century. Once the plan went on line, it would bankrupt the Federal Reserve System. The Sources who gave me this information once said, "To kill the well fed tick" -- meaning the Federal Reserve -- "we may have to damage the host" -- meaning you and me, the taxpayers of the United States that support the Federal Reserve with our Income Taxes. IF... and this is a BIG IF... if what is happening in the markets is the final stake in the heart of the Federal Reserve... then it is time for celebration! However, I don't know for sure if this is what is happening... once you look at the articles that are listed here, I think you will realize that there is something else going on in the market besides a bunch of greedy market managers who just wanted to get rich! R. GET OUT OF STOCKS http://home.flash.net/~rhmjr/index.html WARREN BUFFET COMPARES INVESTORS WITH CINDERELLA -- "They have stayed too long at the Ball! What actually occurs in these cases is wealth transfer, often on a massive scale. The fact is that a bubble market has allowed the creation of bubble companies...BUT A PIN LIES IN WAITING...And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons." a.. STOCKS FALL AGAIN! http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010321/bs/markets_stocks_dc_1872.html Stocks sank on Wednesday, pushing the blue-chip Dow to its lowest close since March 1999 a.. GREENSPAN THUMBS HIS NOSE AT WALL STREET -- STOCKS SINK a.. http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7726 The Ponzi Scheme that is called the Nasdaq Is an Organized Operation of the Intelligence Community BOTH FACTIONS! a.. "BUZZY" KRONGARD -- NEW #3-MAN AT THE CIA IS FORMER INVESTMENT BANKER a.. http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7720 According to Krongard, referring to the CIA's predessor, "the whole OSS was really nothing but Wall Street bankers and lawyers." a.. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE MEETS SILICON VALLEY a.. http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7736 "In-Q-It" -- a Venture-Capital Scheme created for the CIA by the new #3 man in the CIA, "Buzzy" Krongard! a.. OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER a.. http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7738 Created to drive initial public offerings out of the Elite controlled stock market, and cause the stock market to adjust to what it was, before all these new upstarts caused the market to reach all time highs. a.. IF YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT NESARA - YOU SHOULD! a.. http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7739 The National Economic Stabilization and Recovery Act (NESARA) is legislation that provides monetary and fiscal policy reform a.. BILLIONS FOR THE BANKERS: DEBTS FOR THE POOR a.. http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7737 REPUBLICANS BEWARE OF THE BANKRUPTCY BILL http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7331 It will lead to a Democratic Congress in 2002. Once again the Republicans have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory! WINTER IN DISCONTENT Over Alternative Minimum Tax. http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7566 Some may sell homes, tap savings to pay bill. The stock market collapse has left many employees -- from the executive suite to the rank and file -- facing AMT bills based on long-gone paper profits. Some who exercised incentive options
[CTRL] Fwd: BoNY stockholder case
http://www.moneylaundering.com (full text sent by subscriber) Posted March 21, 2001 Judge gives impetus to BONY stockholder case against board of directors A New York federal judge has ordered the chairman of the board of the Bank of New York, Thomas A. Renyi, to turn over his tax returns and personal telephone toll and credit card records to the attorneys for three stockholders who sued him and other members of BONY's board of directors in September 1999. On March 1, 2001, Judge Denny Chin told Renyi he had two weeks to turn over his records. The banker will also give his deposition in the next few weeks. Previously, Chin denied the motion of the board members' lawyers to dismiss the suit and to delay the case until the bank's "Special Litigation Committee" reviewed it. Money Laundering Alert says in its April edition that the stockholder derivative suit is "a ticking time bomb" for members of the boards of directors of financial institutions and businesses that encounter money laundering legal problems. The suit says Renyi and the board members inadequately supervised the officers and operations of the bank on the movement of $7 billion of dubious Russian origin. The alleged dereliction of duty, it says, "brought disgrace to the bank, exposed (it) to potential fines, judgments and forfeiture(s) in the tens of billions of dollars" and "caused irreversible harm to the bank's name and reputation." It is the first lawsuit against the board of directors of a publicly traded company based on money laundering control deficiencies and consequential institutional damage. (MLA, Nov. 1999). In February 2000, Lucy Edwards, BONY's former vice president of the Eastern European Division, and her husband, Peter Berlin, pleaded guilty in the same federal court to money laundering conspiracy linked to their facilitation of the movement of massive sums of Russian money through corporate accounts Berlin had opened at BONY. They are cooperating with the government and have not yet been sentenced. Posted March 21, 2001 U.S. ducks Russian roulette on entrapment, Casablanca banker gets soft deal The U.S. government avoids playing Russian roulette in a plea agreement that it has signed with the former head of Banco Industrial de Venezuela's Miami office who receives one-year probation, pays a $50,000 fine, has three years of supervised release, and has no duty to cooperate with the U.S. in the still-pending civil money laundering penalty case against BIV. Esperanza de Saad, who was convicted of money laundering by a federal jury in a case spawned by the undercover Operation Casablanca in Los Angeles, and was then acquitted by the trial judge on entrapment grounds, inked a plea deal with the government to which no person charged with laundering would object. In turn, as Money Laundering Alert reports in April, prosecutors gain the satisfaction of knowing that the appeal of the entrapment ruling will not set a bad precedent, which would have resulted if an appellate court had affirmed the trial court's decision. As it stands, there is now only an unpublished lower court opinion that will have little effect on other undercover laundering cases, of which many are in progress (MLA, Feb. 2000). Posted March 21, 2001 'Invisible Web,' other tools help bank's 'Financial Intelligence Unit' eye laundering Money Laundering Alert in April runs the second of a two-part interview with James R. Richards, the head of the "Financial Intelligence Unit" at FleetBoston Financial Corp. He shares some of the unique techniques the FIU uses to detect money laundering. One is the "Invisible Web," a group of search engines that look beyond text searches and delve into databases, many of which are open to the public. Richards says a very good source is www.pac-info.com, which permits search of public records around the world. This helps the unit look at the "contra party" of transactions. These days, the absence of Internet presence of a businessperson who does significant business is unusual, if not suspicious, says Richards. Richards and his colleague, Peter Richards, created the 17-person FIU in 1999 to increase the bank's protection against laundering. They say the unit can save money and reduce reputational harm. It has been cited as a "model" of due diligence in laundering control. Back to the top Posted March 14, 2001 Every spy case has a money laundering element. The incredible case of the alleged 16-year traitorous conduct of senior FBI Special Agent, Robert Philip Hanssen, is no exception. His Soviet and Russian handlers are alleged to have paid Hanssen several hundred thousand dollars in cash and diamonds during his long betrayal while working in the U.S. governments most sensitive area of counter-intelligence. He reportedly maintained nominee bank
[CTRL] Fwd: PFIAB DOCUMENTS RELEASED BY CLINTON
President's Foreign Advisory Board (PFIAB) The newly released records relate to U.S. and Cuban exile operations against Cuba between the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, said Prof. Anna Nelson, a historian at American University and a member of the JFK Assassination Records Review Board. "These are records that will give you new insight into that period," she said. "What is unique [about the records] is PFIAB's take on the world and how they presented it to the President," said Steven Tilley, a specialist at the National Archives who reviewed each of the several hundred pages of newly accessioned PFIAB documents, which are now open to researchers at the JFK assassination records collection at Archives II in College Park, Maryland. As a larger consequence of President Clinton's action, it may now become easier to win public access to other historical records of the PFIAB, whose arrogance is remarkable even by prevailing intelligence community standards. JFK News sent the following email regarding the release of more important documents in the JFK case: The ARRB Wins One. Yes, you read right. The defunct ARRB won one. The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board has had to release files. Thanks to Peter Dale Scott and Joe Backes for passing this on. SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy March 19, 2001 ** PFIAB DOCUMENTS RELEASED BY CLINTON ** REVISITING THE BAY OF PIGS PFIAB DOCUMENTS RELEASED BY CLINTON In a last-minute good deed that has gone entirely unnoted, President Clinton on January 19 rejected an appeal by the secretive President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) and directed that hundreds of pages of historical PFIAB records loosely related to the assassination of President Kennedy be released to the National Archives. Several years ago, the JFK Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) had identified excerpts of 17 PFIAB documents dating from 1961 to 1963 as "assassination records" that were subject to a 1992 law requiring their release to the fullest extent possible. Despite the clear language of the statutory requirement, however, the PFIAB objected to the ARRB action. PFIAB chairman Sen. Warren Rudman challenged the ARRB's authority to designate its records as assassination records or to dictate their release. The PFIAB waited until late 1998 when the ARRB was about to be disbanded and then filed an appeal to the President seeking to block disclosure of the designated PFIAB records. Due to the lateness of the appeal, the Review Board was unable to reply. But in an unprecedented repudiation of the PFIAB's habitual secrecy, President Clinton rejected the appeal the day before his term ended. The decision was disclosed last Friday by Clinton's chief of staff John Podesta, who spoke at a Freedom of Information Day conference at the Freedom Forum in Arlington, VA. The President also turned down an appeal by the US Secret Service to withhold assassination records, Mr. Podesta revealed. The newly released records relate to U.S. and Cuban exile operations against Cuba between the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, said Prof. Anna Nelson, a historian at American University and a member of the JFK Assassination Records Review Board. "These are records that will give you new insight into that period," she said. "What is unique [about the records] is PFIAB's take on the world and how they presented it to the President," said Steven Tilley, a specialist at the National Archives who reviewed each of the several hundred pages of newly accessioned PFIAB documents, which are now open to researchers at the JFK assassination records collection at Archives II in College Park, Maryland. As a larger consequence of President Clinton's action, it may now become easier to win public access to other historical records of the PFIAB, whose arrogance is remarkable even by prevailing intelligence community standards. The PFIAB, possibly confusing the United States with some other country, has contended that it "owns" its records and that they are beyond the reach of the law. In a December 2000 report to the Secretary of State, the State Department's Historical Advisory Committee warned it was "gravely concerned about the efforts of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) to block access to and to delay declassification of its documents. PFIAB seeks a permanent exemption of its records from the declassification statute on the dubious grounds that it provides personal and private information to the President." The PFIAB claim conflicts with the State Department's legal obligation to publish a thorough, accurate and complete record of U.S. foreign policy. A PFIAB spokesman was not immediately available for comment. Information about the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection at the National Archives is available here: http://www.nara.gov/research/jfk/index.html These
[CTRL] Fwd: info on RFK files in Kennedy library
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 05:39:06 GMT, John McAdams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G. McNally wrote: Gus and David have co-written an article for The Nation, titled, "The Old Man And The CIA: A Kennedy Plot To Kill Castro". Find it online at: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010326s=corn Fascinating, Jerry. One paragraph jumped out at me: Quote on There may be a definitive answer to the question, Did the Kennedys dabble in murder? Fifteen hundred linear feet and fifty boxes of Robert F. Kennedy's classified and confidential papers are stored at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, and most of the material is closed to the public. No other Attorney General walked off the job with such a trove of government paperwork. A partial guide to these records lists scores of intriguing files, including documents pertaining to Operation Mongoose, the CIA and Cuba, Edward Lansdale and Edward Murrow. (The guide also refers to Frank Sinatra files that contain "references to various gangsters, including [Sam] Giancana and others...including Judith Campbell," a JFK mistress.) But the Kennedy family considers these papers--many of which Robert Kennedy obtained from the CIA, the FBI or the State Department--the private property of his heirs. It strictly limits access to the records, which are being stored at government expense. Several eminent historians who have requested permission to examine this historical treasure--including Richard Reeves, Robert Dallek, Nigel Hamilton, Laurence Leamer and Seymour Hersh--have been turned away by the Kennedys. Evan Thomas was allowed to see only portions of the material. And Max Kennedy, a son of Robert and the person who oversees these records, did not respond to our request to look at the files for this story. Official papers RFK generated in the course of public business should be open to public inspection, and the release of classified government records that he took when he left office ought to be controlled not by the Kennedy family but by government declassifiers subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Quote off It seems that here, as with the medical evidence, the Kennedy family is above the law. An e-mail correspondent sent the following material, which is quite relevant in this context. http://www.fas.org/sgp/advisory/arrb98/part08.htm Chapter 6 Part I: The Quest for Additional Information and Records in Federal Government Offices ... 3. Presidential Library Collections... a. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library records. Augmenting the JFK Library's initial search and identification of assassination records, a joint team of Review Board staff and representatives from other agencies, visited the JFK Library in June 1996 to conduct a comprehensive review of JFK Library closed collections. The Review Board staff reviewed all of the Library's National Security Files containing records on Cuba from the Kennedy Administration. As a result of this effort, the JFK Library released thirty boxes of Cuba files to the JFK Collection. The Library also opened its Presidential recordings on the Cuban Missile Crisis and sent copies of these to the JFK Collection. Subsequent to this visit, the Library identified additional assassination records on Cuba. Of particular value were those records which discussed the Kennedy Administration's policy toward Cuba, proposed anti-Castro activities, and Operation Mongoose planning. Most of these records were generated by the Standing Group Committee of the National Security Council with additional CIA and OSD memoranda discussing sensitive Cuban operations. The Review Board staff also identified Cuban records in the JFK Library's closed papers of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Goodwin, and Ralph Dungan and in the Department of Justice Criminal Division microfilm collection. The Review Board discovered a wealth of Cuba material within the Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) papers, though it did not declare all of the records as assassination records. To ensure that the JFK Library opened the RFK papers, however, the Review Board designated those records which it believed to be relevant. This group of records was subject to a Deposit Agreement requiring the express permission of the RFK donor committee, then headed by Michael Kennedy, to authorize their release.12 The Review Board has not yet secured the final release of all of the RFK papers, but the JFK Library foreign policy staff is working with the Review Board to attempt to obtain the release of the RFK papers.13 Upon approval by the committee, the JFK Library will send these important records to the JFK Collection at NARA. next document http://www.fas.org/sgp/advisory/arrb98/part11.htm Chapter 8 Compliance with the JFK Act by Government Offices ... 22. NARA and the Presidential Libraries ... d. The John F. Kennedy Library The Review Board attempted to ensure that the Library had reviewed and identified all relevant records in its
[CTRL] Fwd: The Illuminati: Subverting the Body Politic
The Illuminati: Subverting the Body Politic Why this attack against our body politic? In 1785, a bolt of lightning struck a courier en route to Paris from Frankfort-on-the-Main. A tract written by Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati, "Original Shift in Days of Illuminations," was recovered from the dead messenger, containing the secret society's long-range plan for "The New World Order through world revolution". The Bavarian Government outlawed the society and in 1787 published the details of The Illuminati conspiracy in "The Original Writings of the Order and Sect of the Illuminati." In Adam Weishaupt's own words: "By this plan, we shall direct all mankind in this manner. And, by the simplest means, we shall set all in motion and in flames. The occupations must be so allotted and contrived that we may, in secret, influence all political transactions." There is disagreement among scholars as to whether or not the Illuminati survived its banishment. Nevertheless, the group had been quite successful in attracting members and had allied itself with the extensive Masonic networks. The Illuminati was publicly founded May 1, 1776 at the University of Ingolstadt by Weishaupt, Professor of Canon Law. It was a very "learned" society; Weishaupt drew the earliest members of his new order from among his students. On December 5, 1776, students at William and Mary College founded a secret society, Phi Beta Kappa. A second chapter was formed, at Yale, in 1780. The anti-Masonic movement in the United States during the 1820s held groups such as Phi Beta Kappa in a bad light. Because of pressure, the society went public. This is noted by some researchers as the direct cause of the appearance of Yale's Order of Skull and Bones. In "The Cyclopedia Of Fraternities", a genealogical chart of general Greek-Letter college fraternities in the United States, shows Phi Beta Kappa as "the parent of all the fraternal systems in [American] higher education." There is only one "side" lineal descendant: the Yale chapter of 1780. The line then continues to Skull and Bones in 1832, and on through the other "only at Yale" senior societies, Scroll Key and Wolf's Head. Phi Beta Kappa is the "first three Greek letters, for 'Philosophia Biou Kubernetes' or 'Love of wisdom, the helmsman of life'." A skull homophone is scull, a quick, gliding boat and part of Skull Bones first nomenclature. John Robison, a professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh University in Scotland and a member of a Freemason Lodge, said that he was asked to join the Illuminati. After study, he concluded the purposes of the Illuminati were not for him. In 1798, he published a book called "Proofs Of A Conspiracy": "An association has been formed for the express purpose of rooting out all the religious establishments and overturning all the existing governments the leaders would rule the World with uncontrollable power, while all the rest would be employed as tools of the ambition of their unknown superiors." "Proofs of A Conspiracy" was sent to George Washington. Responding to the sender of the book with a letter, the president said he was aware the Illuminati were in America. He felt that the Illuminati had "diabolical tenets" and that their object was "a separation of the People from their government." In "Proofs Of A Conspiracy", Robison printed the ceremony of initiation of the "Regent degree" in Illuminism. In it "a skeleton is pointed out to him [the initiate], at the feet of which are laid a crown and a sword. He is asked 'whether that is the skeleton of a king, nobleman or a beggar.' As he cannot decide, the president of the meeting says to him, 'The character of being a man is the only one that is importance'". This is, essentially, the same as the writing in the Skull Bones "tomb": "Wer war der Thor, wer Weiser, Bettler oder Kaiser? Ob Arm, ob Reich, im Tode gleich." Which reads: "Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death." Next: Skull Bones = Illuminati?
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Gold price-fixing lawsuit update from Reg Howe
By Reginald H. Howe
www.GoldenSextant.com
March 21, 2001
The schedule for responses described in my March 9,
2001, status report has been allowed by the court.
Pursuant thereto, on March 15 the Department of Justice
("DOJ") filed two motions, each with a separate
supporting memorandum, on behalf of the secretary of
the treasury: 1) to substitute Paul O'Neill, the
current secretary, for former secretary Lawrence H.
Summers; and 2) to dismiss the case both as against the
secretary of the treasury in his official capacity and
as against Mr. Summers individually.
The DOJ has advised me that it does not represent Mr.
Summers personally at this time, nor is the DOJ
currently representing any of the other federal
defendants. In addition, the DOJ has indicated that it
does not have any objection to its court filings being
posted online, although as yet it has not provided
electronic copies.
However, Adam Hamilton has taken hard copies of the
DOJ's memoranda, scanned them, and converted both into
PDF format for virtually exact online reproduction.
These memoranda may now be viewed at a special section
of Adam's site:
http://www.zealllc.com/howedef.htm
For a number of reasons, I am not going to comment upon
or otherwise discuss the motions and memoranda filed by
the DOJ or any other defendants until I file my
opposition papers on April 30. They will be posted at
www.GoldenSextant.com as soon after they are filed in
court as I can convert them to HTML format.
In the meantime, I intend to do whatever I can to
facilitate the posting at Adam's site of the
defendants' memoranda as they are received, and I
extend to Adam and his associates at Zeal LLC my
sincere thanks for their efforts to bring all sides of
this case to the public.
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[CTRL] Fwd: [RMNEWS] WARREN BUFFET COMPARES INVESTORS WITH CINDERELLA
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million registered high school alumni--chances are you'll find your friends! /FONTA HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/03IJGA/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/xrOVlB/TM"BClick Here!/B/A -_- BREAKING NEWS POLITICS NATIONAL NEWS WORLD NEWS ECONEWS SERVICE CYBERSPACE ORBIT SURFING THE APOCALYPSE GET OUT OF STOCKS WARREN BUFFET COMPARES INVESTORS WITH CINDERELLA -- "They have stayed too long at the Ball! What actually occurs in these cases is wealth transfer, often on a massive scale. The fact is that a bubble market has allowed the creation of bubble companies...BUT A PIN LIES IN WAITING...And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons." Fed Rate Cut is Sold, with Authority Here are some Important words from Warren Buffett The "Sage Of Omaha" Is Right Again While economists have separated into two camps on the severity of the economic downturn, the market is starting to listen to the non-economists at Intel, Cisco, Sun and Oracle, who are telling you loudly and clearly that we are most likely in a recession that will extend into the second half of the year. We have been repeating for a long time that the continually deteriorating sales and earnings picture would overwhelm Fed easing, and this is apparently happening now. Meanwhile this weekend was the occasion of Berkshire Hathaway's release of its annual report containing the usual words of wisdom from Warren Buffet.(berkshirehathaway.com) We thought we'd quote a few of them here. "Another negative ? which has persisted for several years ? is that we see our equity portfolio as only mildly attractive. We own stocks of some excellent businesses, but most of our holdings are fully priced and are unlikely to deliver more than moderate returns in the future. We're not alone in facing this problem: The long-term prospect for equities in general is far from exciting. .Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball. They know that overstaying the festivities ? that is, continuing to speculate in companies that have gigantic valuations relative to the cash they are likely to generate in the future ? will eventually bring on pumpkins and mice. But they hate to miss a single moment of what is one helluva a party. Therefore the giddy participants all plan to leave just seconds before midnight. There's a problem, though: They are dancing in a room in which the clocks have no hands. Last year we commented on the exuberance ? and, yes, it was irrational ? that prevailed, noting that investor expectations had grown to be several multiples of probable returns. One piece of evidence came from a . survey of investors conducted in December 1999, in which the participants were asked their opinion about the annual returns investors could expect to realize over the decade ahead. Their answers averaged 19%. That, for sure, was an irrational expectation: For American business as a whole, there couldn't possibly be enough birds in the bush to deliver such a return. Far more irrational still were the huge valuations that market participants were then putting on businesses almost certain to end being of modest or no value. Yet investors, mesmerized by soaring stock prices and ignoring all else, piled into these enterprises. It was as if some virus, racing wildly among investment professionals as well as amateurs, induced hallucinations in which the values of stocks in certain sectors became decoupled from the values of the businesses that underlay them. This surreal scene was accompanied by much loose talk about "value creation.".But value is destroyed, not created, by any business that loses money over its lifetime, no matter how high its interim valuation may get. What actually occurs in these cases is wealth transfer, often on a massive scale. The fact is that a bubble market has allowed the creation of bubble companies. At bottom, the 'business model' for these companies has been the old-fashioned chain letter. But a pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street.will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest". These comments from the "sage of Omaha" expound on many of the themes we have been mentioning in these comments (see Archives), and are particularly appropriate as we seem to nearing the capitulative market phase that we have been expecting. The chickens are now coming home to roost. Here's some helpful advice a new source .
[CTRL] Fwd: [RMNEWS] WORLD WAR III -- IT BEGINS
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million registered high school alumni--chances are you'll find your friends! /FONTA HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/03IJGA/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/xrOVlB/TM"BClick Here!/B/A -_- Rumor Mill News Forum http://www.rumormillnews.com WORLD WAR III -- IT BEGINS Posted By: GUEST [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, 22 March 2001, 1:44 a.m. Thu Mar 22, 2001 3:55am WORLD WAR III --- IT BEGINS By David Booth World War III began this month, and few of us noticed. Those that did know were, of course, those who started it. Depending, and rightly so, on a world consumed with to many matters/choices/etc. the forces of this conflict, having been arranged for the past quarter century, are now ready to consume us all in what is to them the ultimate sacrifice to powers and gods not known and most certainly not even thought about by any of us. But, that doesn't make it any less likely to occur. The 'simple' facts are these: Sheep...Mir...Mars...Koran...Pan...Antichrist The 'connections' are these: The current Foot and Mouth crises in Europe, and soon to be America, is a cover up to sacrifice to a god named Pan his 'due'. The timing of this sacrifice is meant to both fulfill and mock the Koran, and those who believe in it. This Fridays re-entry into the atmosphere of Mir is instead the beginning of a debris field from a collision this past year of a comet, 76P, and Mars. More to come too. The ultimate goal of this past months events is to herald the coming of the antichrist. I've included, below, some basic information, for anyone interested, like puzzle pieces, to 'fit' together. This site is one of the few left in the world where there are those who are able and willing to take the time to fit these pieces together too. As you do so though please remember, pass on to others what you know. Here is the start of your learning, learn well. As it turns out, we are visiting Iran at an important time. The animals in the street are a preparation for Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice. On this day, these animals will be sacrificed as a sign of faith in God. This may sound strange or barbaric to those in countries where animal sacrifice is illegal, but the meaning of the sacrifice is actually a reminder of Holy Scriptures and the importance of faith in God. This year, Eid al-Adha also falls just before the Persian New Year, so the ceremony will also serve as a good omen for the coming year. Two religious feasts in the Muslim calendar which are holy and very special are Eid Al Fitr and Eid Al Adha. Eid Al Fitr is known as the Festival of Fast-Breaking which signals the end of Ramadan (a month of daily fasting from sunrise to sunset) and it is a three day celebration. Although the celebration lasts for three days, the main activities occur on the first day which coincides with the first day of Shawwal in the Muslim calendar. During Eid Al Fitr, an obligatory charitable gift from every Muslim called Zakat Al Fitr is given to the poor and the needy. The purpose of Zakat Al Fitr is to purify the one who has committed any type of indecent act or speech while fasting. THE KORAN: TESTIMONY OF ANTICHRIST "The worst woes will come to those who heap their grief by blood of sheep." sheep- Sacrificed to Jupiter, Juno, Janus, Mars, Terminus, Faunus, and other deities, sheep were widely used by state religion. In cults, male lambs were offered to Divi, and females were offered to Divae. Ram blood was a popular ceremonial object. March 20, 2000, 10:04 AM The Egyptians do not all worship the same gods (excepting Isis and Osiris) or have the same religious practices. The Thebans sacrifice goats, but not sheep. In contrast to the Thebans, the Mendesians sacrifice sheep but not goats. Egyptians against the Egyptians--Lower against Upper: and Saitic against both. (See Isaiah 3:10). NEWTON refers it to the civil wars between Apries and Amasis at the time of Nebuchadnezzar's invasion; also between Tachos, Nectanebus, and the Mendesians, just before Ochus subdued Egypt. kingdom against kingdom--The Septuagint has "nome against nome"; Egypt was divided into forty-two nomes or districts. Now the reason why those of the Egyptians whom I have mentioned do not sacrifice goats, female or male, is this: - the Mendesians count Pan to be one of the eight gods (now these eight gods they say came into being before the twelve gods), and the painters and image-makers represent in painting and in sculpture the figure of Pan, just as the Hellenes do, with goat's face and legs, not supposing him to be really like this but to resemble the other gods; the cause however why they represent him
[CTRL] Fwd: [RMNEWS] BILLIONS FOR THE BANKERS DEBTS FOR THE POOR
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million registered high school alumni--chances are you'll find your friends! /FONTA HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/03IJGA/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/xrOVlB/TM"BClick Here!/B/A -_- http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7737 BILLIONS FOR THE BANKERS: DEBTS FOR THE POOR Posted By: Rixon Date: Wednesday, 21 March 2001, 2:50 p.m. (Note: I've altered what follows slightly for the benefits of my largely English readership. However what Pastor Emry says applies to banking across the planet and accounts for many of the problems facing humanity today. The article itself was written in 1989, so some of the figures refered too are somewhat dated; nonetheless what is said remains as valid today as it was 2000 years ago, as Paul Bond's last posting The 'Moneylenders v the Truth reveals. Rixon.} A Study by Pastor Sheldon Emry "For the love of money is the root of all evil..." 1 Timothy 6:10 THREE TYPES OF CONQUEST History reveals nations can be conquered by the use of one of three main methods. The most common is conquest by war. In time, though, this method usually fails, because the captives hate the captors and rise up and drive them out if they can. Much force is needed to maintain control, making it expensive for the conquering nation. A second method is by religion, where men are convinced they must give their captors part of their earnings as "obedience to God." Such a captivity is vulnerable to philosophical exposure or by overthrow by armed force, since religion by its nature lacks military force to regain control, once its captives become "disillusioned." The third method can be called economic conquest. It takes place when nations are placed under "tribute" without the use of visible force or coercion, so that the victims do not realize they have been conquered. "Tribute" is collected from them in the form of "legal" debts and taxes, and they believe they are paying it for their own good, for the good of others, or to protect all from some enemy. Their captors become their "benefactors" and "protectors". Although this is the slowest to impose, it is often quite long lasting, as the captives do not see any military force arrayed against them, their religion is left more or less intact, they have freedom to speak and travel, and they participate in "elections" for their rulers. Without realizing it, they are conquered, and the instruments of their own society are used to transfer their wealth to their captors and make the conquest complete. In 1900 the average American worker paid few taxes and had little debt. Last year payments on debts and taxes took more than half of what he earned. Is it possible a form of conquest has been imposed on our people? Read the following pages and decide for yourself. And may God have mercy on this once debt-free and great nation, in Christ, The Author. THE REAL STORY OF THE MONEY-CONTROL OVER AMERICA AND THE WORLD Americans, living in what is called the richest nation on earth, seem always to be short of money. Wives are working in unprecedented numbers, husbands hope for overtime hours to earn more, or take part-time jobs evenings and weekends, children look for odd jobs for spending money, the family debt climbs higher, and psychologists say one of the biggest causes of family quarrels and breakups is "arguments over money." Much of this trouble can be traced to our present "debt-money" system. Too few Americans realize why Christian Statesmen wrote into Article I of the U.S. Constitution: "Congress shall have the Power to Coin Money and Regulate the Value Thereof." They did this, as we will show, in prayerful hope that it would prevent "love of money" from destroying the republic they had founded. MONEY IS MAN'S ONLY "CREATION" Economists use the term "create" when speaking of the process by which money comes into existence. Now, "creation" means making something which did not exist before. Lumbermen make boards from trees, workers build houses from lumber, and factories manufacture automobiles from metal, glass and other materials. But in all these they did not "create." They only changed existing materials into a more usable and, therefore, more valuable form. This is not so with money. Here, and here alone, man actually "creates" something out of nothing. A piece of paper of little value is printed so that it is worth a piece of lumber. With different figures it can buy the automobile or even the house. It's value has been "created" in the true meaning of the word. "CREATING" MONEY IS VERY PROFITABLE! As is seen by the above, money is very cheap to make, and whoever does the "creating" of money in a nation can make a
[CTRL] Fwd: [RMNEWS] OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million registered high school alumni--chances are you'll find your friends! /FONTA HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/03IJGA/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/xrOVlB/TM"BClick Here!/B/A -_- OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER Created to drive initial public offerings out of the Elite controlled stock market, and cause the stock market to adjust to what it was, before all these new upstarts caused the market to reach all time highs. http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7738 OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER Posted By: tenavision Date: Wednesday, 21 March 2001, 3:01 p.m. In Response To: IN-Q-IT- CIA VENTURE-CAPITAL SCHEME - BY KRONGARD (Q) This is Rayelan's archive link for OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER. http://www.rumormillnews.com/archive/996.txt I think Q is trying to tell us what is coming down the pike to take away the value of our lives..at least economically. OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER RMNews Agency P.O. Box 1784 Aptos, CA 95001-1784 The Uncensored National Rumor Vol. 1 #4 September 1996 New Feature: Questions and Answers Operation Sledgehammer Q. In your story about TWA800, you mentioned an operation called Operation Sledgehammer. You said that this operation had nothing to do with sledgehammer missiles or the downing of TWA800. You said that it was an economic operation. Can you say more about it? A. Operation Sledgehammer was called into life during February of 1996. The operation is a joint operation by the Office of Economic Growth and Regulation due to the many new corporations that are being founded in the United States. The group responsible for IPO's (Independent Public Offerings) stock market certificates, otherwise known as open corporations, had been draining lots of funds from the various FUND management companies. The operation is being administered by the Federal Reserve Bank and the Securities Exchange Commission. They want to drive initial public offerings out of the Elite controlled stock market, and cause the stock market to adjust to what it was, before all these new upstarts caused the market to reach all time highs. The SEC is using the Company (CIA) to boot out all these upstarts--one way or another. Companies are being fire bombed and minor acts of internal terror have been registered in the last 4-5 months. Many service oriented companies' stock prices are being artificially depressed by the floor traders at the exchanges. The wave of church burnings, in the southern and south eastern U.S. are attributable to this policy, because an usually high number of black companies have gone public. The KKK doesn't have anything to do with the burnings. At the same time of the burnings, black business men have received a rash of letters telling them to shut their doors and let the price fall... or else. It is one of the most underhanded operation to come down the pike. The effect is multifold in nature! It removes the new smaller companies from the board; it will bring back a higher unemployment rate. Right now the rate is too low. It will also cause interest rates to rise, spurning a slightly higher rate of inflation. It will cause the value of the dollar to seek its own level again. Prices such as $15.00 at the opening bell (on these new start-ups) will fall drastically over the course of the first few days of trading. The DOW and DJIA will experience less capital moneys. That will cause older, larger and better funded corporations a better chance to survive, in a dog eat dog economy. The upstarts will quickly fold, because they are underfunded, and can't pump more money into their corporations. The end effect of all this is that the U.S. economy will stagnate and slip sharply downward. The beginning of the end for the U.S. economy. Their main and only problem is that its taking too long. A new wave of terror economics is about to be launched by a special operations group from the company. The effect will be felt by everyone. Messages In This Thread IN-Q-IT- CIA VENTURE-CAPITAL SCHEME - BY KRONGARD (views: 309) Q -- Wednesday, 21 March 2001, 2:02 p.m. OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER (views: 355) tenavision -- Wednesday, 21 March 2001, 3:01 p.m. RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY http://www.rumormillnews.com Rayelan Allan, Publisher Message From Rayelan: Many people have asked how I restored my health. Here is my secret: DEAD DOCTORS DON'T LIE. These are the products I used and continue to use. I am living proof they work! If you have questions, check out the chat room on Thursday nights, 7pm California time. Click the url for more information! http://www.deaddoctorsdontlie.com/agent/raye/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[CTRL] Fwd: [RMNEWS] MISSION IMPOSSIBLE MEETS SILICON VALLEY
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million registered high school alumni--chances are you'll find your friends! /FONTA HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/03IJGA/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/xrOVlB/TM"BClick Here!/B/A -_- MISSION IMPOSSIBLE MEETS SILICON VALLEY "In-Q-It" -- a Venture-Capital Scheme created for the CIA by the new #3 man in the CIA, "Buzzy" Krongard! http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7736 IN-Q-IT- CIA VENTURE-CAPITAL SCHEME - BY KRONGARD Posted By: Q Date: Wednesday, 21 March 2001, 2:02 p.m. Mission Impossible meets Silicon Valley http://www.davidignatius.com/092999WashingtonPost.html "The idea is for In-Q-It to fund promising technologies..." "The idea for the venture-capital fund was hatched in conversations between the new CIA director, George Tenet, and a former investment banker named A. B. "Buzzy" Krongard, who joined the agency in February 1998 as counselor to the director. Krongard had been CEO of Alex Brown, the investment bank that helped launch Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, AOL and dozens of other high-tech IPOs." "Tenet floated the venture-fund idea to his CIA colleagues in May 1998, referring to it simply as "The Enterprise." (Bill Clinton's CIA Director using Ollie North terminology? Could Bill have thought Tenet was a fox in the hen house? It's no wonder Bill asked Barak to kill him by targeting Arafat's office at the same hour Tenet was scheduled to meet Arafat. No wonder G.W. has kept him on. Are the lights starting to go on now? Do we have to draw you a picture?) " "In" for intelligence; "It" for information technology, and "Q" in the middle because it was the code name for James Bond's technology wizard, and it just sounded cool." (Isn't it a wee bit of a coincidence that "THE Q" uses the same initial? YOU DON'T SUPPOSE? Oh dear... is there a FOX in the Bush? No.. there is a FOX in Silicon Valley, and he is about to take what's left of the dot.coms home with him...to Mexico! Faction Three anyone?)" ONE WORD TO RUMOR MILL NEWS READERS WHO ARE "IN THE KNOW"! (Okay -- two words!) OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER Never heard of it? Use the search engines on the Forum, the main page and/OR the two Yahoo archives. I saw it somewhere.. on one of the archive pages connected to this webpage! And if you think this paltry story even comes close to telling you the truth -- think again. But those of you who have a nose will smell the coffee... but will you wake up? -- The Washington Post The CIA as Venture Capitalist By David Ignatius Wednesday, September 29, 1999; Page A29 If it were a Hollywood movie, the pitch would be: Mission Impossible meets Silicon Valley. But it's real life, and it's one of the oddest -- and most innovative -- things the Central Intelligence Agency has done in years. The CIA has decided to create its own venture capital firm, called "In-Q-It," to help the agency connect better with the Internet revolution. The fear at Langley is that in a world of start-ups and instant millionaires, the CIA isn't getting technology's best and brightest anymore. So the spymasters have opted to create their own start-up, with plans for an office on Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, where the leading venture capitalists hang out, and a $150 million kitty. The idea is for In-Q-It to fund promising technologies that can help the CIA keep pace with the information explosion. It will be small, with a staff of 20 to 25 people, and will operate much like a normal venture fund -- partnering with other companies and funds. In theory, its activities will be entirely unclassified. And though it will be a nonprofit organization, the goal is to invest wisely enough that after five years, it will be self-financing. As examples of the kinds of problems In-Q-It will work on, agency officials cite the need for smarter CIA search engines, better ways to visualize data, and better security for CIA web surfers. But the broader goal is to link an agency that can't give stock options with the cleverest minds in the tech world. The CIA plans to make a formal announcement of In-Q-It in a few weeks, but they've already chosen a board of directors -- including such tech luminaries as John Seely Brown of Xerox PARC, Jeong Kim of Lucent, Alex Mandl of Teligent and Norm Augustine of Lockheed Martin. And the board just hired the first CEO, an energetic 39-year-old named Gilman Louie. Louie's background gives a sense of what an unusual operation this is likely to be. A fourth-generation Chinese American (and son of a World War II veteran of the Army Air Corps), he made his name creating video
[CTRL] Fwd: [RMNEWS] IF YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT NESARA - YOU SHOULD!
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million registered high school alumni--chances are you'll find your friends! /FONTA HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/03IJGA/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/xrOVlB/TM"BClick Here!/B/A -_- IF YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT NESARA - YOU SHOULD! The National Economic Stabilization and Recovery Act (NESARA) is legislation that provides monetary and fiscal policy reform http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7739 IF YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT NESARA - YOU SHOULD! Posted By: WINTER Date: Wednesday, 21 March 2001, 3:23 p.m. Greetings, The NESARA Institute will be placing a quarter-page, black-and-white regional advertisement in the print edition of USA Today on Friday, March 23, 2001. For more information, see the web site. Thanks for your support to make this possible. We also recently rearranged a few things on the web site, and added a new FAQ category titled Inflation The National Debt. You can now download a PDF file to help you print business size cards announcing NESARA. Visit the Political Action page. The NESARA Institute http://www.nesara.com ~~~ The National Economic Stabilization and Recovery Act (NESARA) is legislation that provides monetary and fiscal policy reform, promises to double the standard of living for every American within one generation, and will restore economic and social prosperity across the land. For more information visit http://www.nesara.com. This is currently a one-way mailing list. That means you cannot directly post to this list, only the list owner posts to this list. You can reply to list messages and if you reply to any list message, your response will be forwarded to the list owner. Although other list subscribers will not see your response, your response might be used as a basis for the list owner to write another message to the entire group. Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List information: http://www.egroups.com/group/NESARA RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY http://www.rumormillnews.com Rayelan Allan, Publisher Message From Rayelan: Many people have asked how I restored my health. Here is my secret: DEAD DOCTORS DON'T LIE. These are the products I used and continue to use. I am living proof they work! If you have questions, check out the chat room on Thursday nights, 7pm California time. Click the url for more information! http://www.deaddoctorsdontlie.com/agent/raye/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] RMNews, The Uncensored National Rumor http://www.rumormillnews.com THE ONLY RUMOR YOU CAN TRUST RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY P.O. BOX 1784 APTOS, CA 95001 TEL 831 462 3949 FAX 831 462 2545 WHY WAS PRINCESS DIANA MURDERED? http://www.dianaqueenofheaven.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[CTRL] Fwd: [RMNEWS] BUZZY KRONGARD -- NEW #3-MAN AT THE CIA IS FORMER INVESTMENT BANKER
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million registered high school alumni--chances are you'll find your friends! /FONTA HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/03IJGA/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/xrOVlB/TM"BClick Here!/B/A -_- "BUZZY" KRONGARD -- NEW #3-MAN AT THE CIA IS FORMER INVESTMENT BANKER According to Krongard, referring to the CIA's predessor, "the whole OSS was really nothing but Wall Street bankers and lawyers." http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7720 CIA/OSS is Bankers and such Posted By: Noah Date: Tuesday, 20 March 2001, 1:07 p.m. NOW YOU HAVE IT STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES MOUTH OR BEHIND. CHECK OUT THE 11TH PARAGRAPH BELOW: _ Colorful Outsider Is Named No. 3 at the CIA By Vernon Loeb and Greg Schneider Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, March 17, 2001; Page A03 A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, a cigar-chomping former investment banker and martial arts enthusiast, was named yesterday executive director of the CIA, bringing a fast-paced management style to the agency's No. 3 job. Central Intelligence Agency Director George J. Tenet announced the appointment, saying he treasures Krongard's "wise counsel and 'no-nonsense' business-like views." Krongard, 64, former head of Alex. Brown Co., an investment bank based in Baltimore, joined the agency three years ago as a counselor to Tenet. He switched careers shortly after helping engineer the $2.5 billion merger of Alex. Brown and Bankers Trust New York Corp., gaining $71 million in Bankers Trust stock. Few of his former colleagues were surprised by his decision to trade a $4 million salary and stock options for the far less remunerative job of Tenet's consigliere. A graduate of Princeton and the University of Maryland Law School, Krongard has a fondness for extreme military-style activities. Even as a banking executive, he trained with police SWAT teams for recreation and worked out with a kung fu master. To impress -- or intimidate -- visitors, the former Marine officer would demonstrate lightning-fast moves for disabling an attacker. The purpose of his exercise regime was not just to stay fit, he once said, but to increase toughness and discipline. To that end, he would thrust his hands repeatedly into buckets of dried rice or absorb blows to the stomach from a heavy medicine ball. He maintained a shooting range on the park-like grounds of his home on the northern edge of Baltimore, and kept a walk-in safe stocked with Cuban cigars. His rhetorical style, blunt and colorful, sets him apart on the seventh floor of CIA headquarters. In an interview yesterday, Krongard described his past duties as those of a "minister without portfolio" whom senior managers felt comfortable talking to about "sticky subjects." "I really didn't have a dog in any fights," he allowed, "and I was able to broker some things." But Krongard exhibited the requisite secretiveness when asked to explain his interest in intelligence and how he came to land a job in Tenet's inner circle. If you go back to the CIA's origins during World War II in the Office of Strategic Services, he explained, "the whole OSS was really nothing but Wall Street bankers and lawyers." Given the CIA's insular nature, outsiders who assume top posts often arouse suspicion. That was certainly true in the case of Nora Slatkin, a Capitol Hill staffer and Pentagon official who served as executive director from 1995 to 1996 under then-CIA Director John M. Deutch. One former agency official said yesterday that he found it "absolutely astounding" that Tenet installed Krongard in such an important job. "When you meet him, he tells you to punch him in the stomach to see how tough he is," the former official said. But Krongard received a rave review from former deputy director of operations Jack Downing, an agency legend. "I have a lot of respect for Buzzy," Downing said. "He knows business and financial markets and all that. But he's been privy to everything since he's been there, sitting at George's right hand, so he certainly knows the agency. I personally would be very happy to serve in that agency with Buzzy as executive director." Krongard described his new role as that of a chief operating officer and vowed to keep everyone focused. "If you ask me, 'What is your one biggest priority?' it would be to do everything I can . . . to support our two basic missions here, operations and intelligence," he said. "If you don't worry about who gets the credit, you can accomplish an awful lot." 2001 The Washington Post Company Washington Post article RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY http://www.rumormillnews.com Rayelan
[CTRL] Fwd: [RMNEWS] GREENSPAN THUMBS HIS NOSE AT WALL STREET -- STOCKS SINK
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"We give away $70,000 a month! Come to iWin.com for your chance to win! /FONTA HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/olMXHC/BJVCAA/4ihDAA/xrOVlB/TM"BClick Here!/B/A -_- GREENSPAN THUMBS HIS NOSE AT WALL STREET -- STOCKS SINK The Ponzi Scheme that is called the Nasdaq Is an Organized Operation of the Intelligence Community BOTH FACTIONS! http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7726 GREENSPAN THUMBS HIS NOSE -- STOCKS SINK Posted By: WINTER Date: Tuesday, 20 March 2001, 3:55 p.m. GREENSPAN THUMBS HIS NOSE STOCKS SINK The Ponzi Scheme that is called the Nasdaq Is an Organized Operation of the Intelligence Community BOTH FACTIONS! Robert Reich, on FOX NEWS, just said that Alan Greenspan thumbed his nose at Wall Street! Greenspan is telling Wall Street that the FED will not bail them out -- they have to stand on their own two feet. Reich says the key is consumer confidence, which is very fragile right now. A lot of consumers have 401K accounts. They have seen their investments decline -- the loss of wealth effect. If the unemployment rate starts edging up -- then consumer confidence will plummet very fast. I believe the country is on the precipice of a GREAT DEPRESSION, and I believe that the PONZI scheme that was called the NASDAQ is to blame. If the people of the United States had men and women representing them in Congress instead of spineless jellyfish, there would be an all out investigation of the stock market and all the market fund managers. The first thing I would check is their covert ties with intelligence agencies. MARK MY WORDS -- this NASDAQ PONZI SCHEME will eventually be laid at the door of the CIA. The American people have been scammed once again. Maybe every 15 or so years, another generation needs to be taught a lesson in humility. The MBAs that got caught up in the stock frenzy of the 80s must be laughing their heads off right now as they see their dot.com clones losing their shirts and having to pack the U-Haul trailors and head home! Also remember the poor retired people that Charles Keating and Michael Milken fleeced out of their retirement savings with the junk bonds. The 401K funds that were invested in dot.com stocks are the junk bonds of the late 90s and the turn of the century! LISTEN AND LISTEN HARD! The same people that were behind the junk bonds and the wild market of the 80s are the ones that are behind the current melt down -- it is phase 3 or 4 of the bankrupting of America! Wake up! There is NO ONE in Congress brave enough to investigate this. The only thing Americans can do is desert both main parties -- en masse -- and form ONE NEW PARTY for 2002. Vote in good citizens! If there is a least one third OF US in Congress, there will be a chance that the little people can regain their sovereignty. Winter -- IN DISCONTENT! -- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010320/bs/markets_stocks_dc_1859.html Tuesday March 20 4:20 PM ET Stocks Resume Freefall As Fed Disappoints NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell sharply on Tuesday, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a two-year low after the Federal Reserve (news - web sites) cut interest rates by one-half a percentage point, the low end of expectations, and warned of weakness in the U.S. economy. Stock indexes serpentined immediately after the announcement at about 2:15 p.m., heading lower, then higher before deep and wide selloff took over. It is the third 50 basis-point cut by the Fed this year, as the central bank attempts to head off a recession with lower rates, which decrease the borrowing costs of businesses and consumers. The Dow finished with a 238.35-point loss, or 2.39 percent, to close at 9,720.76, a two-year low, according to the latest data, while the Nasdaq composite index dropped 93.77 points, or 4.8 percent, to 1,857.41. It was the lowest close for the Dow since March 24, 1999, and the Nasdaq closed at a low unseen since Nov. 13 1998. The Standard Poor's 500 index fell 28.19 points, or 2.41 percent, to 1,142.62, the lowest finish since Dec. 14, 1998. The central bank slashed its key federal funds rate, charged for overnight lending between banks, by 50-basis points to 5.00 percent from 5.50 percent. Wall Street had been hoping the central bank would cut rates by as much as 75 basis points. Messages In This Thread GREENSPAN THUMBS HIS NOSE -- STOCKS SINK (views: 526) WINTER -- Tuesday, 20 March 2001, 3:55 p.m. Re: GREENSPAN THUMBS HIS NOSE -- STOCKS SINK (views: 211) tau -- Tuesday, 20 March 2001, 5:45 p.m. Re: GREENSPAN THUMBS HIS NOSE -- STOCKS SINK (views: 188) Noah -- Tuesday, 20 March 2001, 6:08 p.m. RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY
[CTRL] Microsoft nein danke
-Caveat Lector- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17710.html [see related stories at link] Microsoft nein danke: snoop scares dog US IT in Europe By: John Lettice Posted: 19/03/2001 at 19:38 GMT IDG's Berlin bureau today secured a denial of Der Spiegel's 'Bundeswehr to ban Microsoft software' story. But actually, it looks to us like one of those denials - the ones that deny something slightly but materially different, while tacitly confirming the original story. And a closer examination of the role of Buckley, Colorado, does kind of suggest the Germans have a point. The Spiegel report, according to a German Defence Ministry spokesman, "is wrong." The Ministry has "a general licence contract" (presumably of the enterprise variety) with Microsoft, and that remains in force. So the German defence forces will continue to buy Microsoft software, as normal. But, ahem, the Spiegel report didn't say they wouldn't, actually. He went on to tell IDG that the German federal IT security agency, Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), was being consulted about the implementation of various security measures, but he declined to specify what they are. So, it would appear Germany is concerned about the security of its software systems, and is looking around for alternatives. If there are major contracts up for negotiation in this area it would be surprising if the two companies named by Spiegel, Siemens and Deutsche Telekom, weren't strong contenders, not would it be ludicrous to surmise that the reputations of US suppliers might get non-attributably blackened during the bidding process. On the other hand, it would be difficult to imagine a German Defence Ministry spokesman saying flat out: "That's right, we're dumping Microsoft software because the US government is using it to snoop on us." The claim that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has access to Microsoft source code does seem to have been bandied about too, and the NSAKEY 'back door' claim may have done service. Neither of these is directly relevant or important, but the (almost certainly correct) general European perception that US IT companies are too damn close to the NSA, and the US government is too damn cavalier about privacy, are. A Microsoft EMEA spokeswoman covered this for IDG in a positively world-weary tone. There are no back doors in Microsoft products, she said, adding that the old NSAKEY story kept coming back around every two or three months. "We are used to answering these questions." But she did say that Microsoft is talking to the French government (the other major European 'most likely to' when it comes to ditching Microsoft software) about granting it access to source code. Pause for thought there, team. Microsoft has been bashing the source code access drum for all it's worth for some months now, already gives numbers of its major customers 'look but not touch' access, and is now apparently willing to give the French access - also, presumably, on the basis that they can look, but have to ask Redmond for modifications. Under those circumstances is it in the slightest bit credible that the NSA doesn't have source access? (Which is meaningless, yes, we know that) One of the more plausible explanations of the NSAKEY incident, by the way, is that it was inserted by Microsoft at the NSA's behest so that the NSA could change secret US government CSP verification keys without having to go to Microsoft each time for a signature for the update. Perfectly reasonable in some lights, but the sort of buddies relationship other security services might look askance at. You don't even have to be the French security service, which a few years back was embarrasingly spotted spying on US IT execs on behalf of French IT companies, to be pretty convinced that when push comes to shove, US IT companies will strive to be special friends with the US government and US security agencies. This is perfectly plausible, even without statements from the likes of Congressman Curt Weldon (quoted here, a year ago, link below) that the then deputy secretary of defense John Hamre had briefed him that "in discussions with people like Bill Gates and Gerstner from IBM that there would be... an unstated ability to get access to systems if we needed it." It's perfectly rational for non-US security agencies to suspect US IT companies of being overly friendly with the US agencies, and those of our American readers who have difficulty grasping that might care to try to imagine the reverse. What if, say, France Telecom was lead supplier of videoconferencing technology to the Pentagon? Cast your mind back to France Telecom's and Deutsche Telekom's involvement with Sprint. Which leads us neatly on to Buckley. Spiegel cited the
Re: [CTRL] How it's done: When you write the laws... you can legalize theft.
-Caveat Lector- NUREV citing the Libertarians? What has the world come to? jeff --- Nurev Ind Research [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- === NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org === For release: March 22, 2001 === For additional information: George Getz, Press Secretary Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === U.S. House planning "sneakiest pay raise in history," Libertarians warn Americans WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. House is planning to give itself "the sneakiest pay raise in history," Libertarians warn: a tax-free, $165-per-day payment that would be activated the moment an obscure House panel declares their colleagues are "eligible." "These devious politicians have hatched another scheme to get rich quick at your expense, without accepting any blame," said Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party national director. "And if we don't speak out immediately, expect this raise to be approved faster than you can say 'pickpocket.' " Just two months after accepting a raise to an exorbitant $145,100 a year, House representatives are working behind the scenes to enact a "per diem" expense allowance of $165 per working day. With about 151 legislative days per year, the raise would amount to a $25,000-a-year, tax-exempt pay hike. But as the public finds out about the maneuver, House leaders "are getting nervous," according to Capitol Hill sources, and the proposal could be shelved -- or enacted -- at any time. "This episode demonstrates that the one word that should strike fear into the hearts of every American is 'bipartisan.' After all, there's nothing more dangerous, or expensive, than Democrats and Republicans working in harmony to funnel your money into their pockets," Dasbach said. As for the amount -- $165 per working day -- he quipped: "How much would we have to pay them just to stay home?" Dasbach predicted that taxpayers would have difficulty deciding what to dislike most about "the sneakiest pay raise in history": the sneakiness itself, the greed, or the hypocrisy. * The Sneakiness: "To avoid publicity, Congressional leaders agreed to delegate the power to approve the raise to the House Administration Committee, a low-profile panel that administers payroll and accounting," Dasbach said. "The panel of six Republicans and three Democrats can trigger the $165 per diem by simply declaring that their House colleagues are 'eligible' for it. "Why are politicians trying so hard to cover their tracks? Because they remember the public outcry over their last salary grab of $3,800 a year, which was opposed by 71 percent of the voters. But don't let them get away with delegating their dirty work to their cronies on the committee. There may be only nine conspirators, but there are 426 co-conspirators in the 435-member House -- and all of them should be held accountable." * The Greed: "If they pile a tax-free $25,000 raise on top of their lavish salaries, they will be raking in the equivalent of a $190,000 taxable salary, not including their lucrative pensions, a $3,000 tax exemption for a second home, and other benefits," Dasbach said. "And if this raise goes through, Congressional salaries will have risen an astronomical $80,600 over the last decade, meaning their raises alone will dwarf the median American family's income. It's time to stand up and say, 'Enough is Enough!' " * The Hypocrisy: "A $25,000 raise isn't enough for these money-grubbing politicians; they want a $25,000 tax-free raise!" Dasbach said. "It's obvious that House politicians have a love-hate relationship with the income tax: They love it when you pay yours, but hate having to pay theirs. You know the government is corrupt when an activity that can make politicians rich -- in this case, income tax evasion -- can get ordinary Americans thrown in jail. "That's why every American should help us combat Congress's latest salary grab. Think of it as preventing a Capitol crime." Sentby Paul E Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed.
[CTRL] What freshly censored hell is this?
-Caveat Lector- Online Journal - http://www.onlinejournal.com 03-22-01: What freshly censored hell is this? Keeping up with the junta's latest atrocities . . . and the mainstream media's enabling thereof By Tamara Baker SAINT PAUL, MN, March 21, 2001 (APJP)-The biggest problem with documenting all of the atrocities committed by the illegal junta currently squatting in the White House is simply where to begin. One person cannot cover it all. Every new day brings up some new tidbit of corruption or incompetence that makes one, after a time, resort to using Dorothy Parker's old telephone greeting: "What fresh hell is this?" Some progressive commentators have alleged that the mainstream press ran interference for Shrub over the past two years on the idea that once he was elected, his corrupt administration would provide factually-based and ratings-rich scandal-a-minute fodder. Unlike with the Clinton Administration, where the press and the RNC had to work very hard to create scandal where none existed (quick: How many Whitewater convictions did Kenny Starr get?), the Bushies had dozens of ready-made scandals of all varieties, just ripe for the plucking by a scandal-hungry press. There are some problems with this scenario: First off, George W. Bush did not win the election. Not only did he lose the popular vote by over half a million ballots, it is becoming increasingly clear, through both the results of the Florida media recounts and the stellar reporting of Gregory Palast, that he didn't win the electoral-college vote, either. It was only through the skullduggery of the Scalia Five that his nannies were able to steal the White House for him. Second off, the media, far from digging into the fraudulent Usurper Boy and his minders, has been going out of their way to prop him up. Since he can't open his mouth without embarrassing either himself or his cabinet members, the press has instead settled for virtually ignoring all but a fraction of his actions, preferring instead to build him up by continuing to trash the memory of his predecessor. This means that, instead of hearing on the nightly news about how Ralph Nader's group Public Citizen has exposed the California "energy crisis" as a fraud perpetrated by wholesale energy companies such as Bush's biggest lifetime backer, Enron, we instead are treated to yet another mythical "Clinton scandal" involving how Hillary's new office space is-quel horreur!-the most expensive of any Senator (what they don't tell you, until the very end of the story, is that New York City real estate, particularly that near the Mayor's office, is very expensive, period-and that she actually moved from Moynihan's old offices because staying there would have cost far more than does her new location!). To quote from the very last paragraph of the AP story in question, " . . . Clinton is saving taxpayers money by moving into 780 Third Av. rather than taking over the Chrysler Building offices of her predecessor, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He was paying $280,000 a year, but that would have jumped to $627,000 under a new lease . . ." Isn't it interesting that the networks could always find a way to broadcast sound bites of Ralph Nader and his associates attacking Al Gore, but somehow just don't feel that Nader attacking Bush, or Enron, rates any airtime? What was that again about the alleged "liberal media"? Another recent BushBaby atrocity, that of threatening to ignore the expert opinion of the American Bar Association when considering nominees for the federal judiciary, has alarmed even noted Republicans like John Dean. If this had happened under Bill Clinton, the press would be all over it like Rush Limbaugh on a cream pie, and in this case their fervor would be absolutely justified. But instead, we get. . . . virtual silence. And don't even get me started on the tax "cut" scam. The broadcast media dutifully reports the numbers given them by Paul O'Neill and/or the RNC as gospel, even though many conservative economists are aghast. And the media is shielding the American people from the awful knowledge that the folks overseas, both the people and their leaders, are shocked and horrified at how such a corrupt gang of half-bright hacks could be allowed to run the country. (You see, the folks overseas get more news about America than what we ourselves get from our own media. A quick scan of the BBC and the UK Observer and Guardian shows that.) In view of all this, Dottie Parker's old tagline needs an update. In America it should now read, "What freshly censored hell is this?" A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects
[CTRL] Fwd: Boeing, Jolting Seattle, Will Move Headquarters
Well 500 hundred more jobs at the top lost to Seattle? None were Union jobs - is Seattle being punished by what and whom? Remember, Albright and that UN Secretary who wears the $1,200 suits - were afraid to go to Seattleshowplace of Amerucan culture = Ninjh and all were out that day If they chop heads at top, not long before Union jobs go chop.now Unions are now controlled by CFR and in bed with CFR all but Hoffa's Teamsters presumably sold out at top..think they did not know this would happen? Big secret? Maybe 40 million Masons can keep a secret? Chamber of Commerce did not know? Look at all the titles below here before you get to story - they did not know? So he who troubles his own house will inherit the wind and that is what it is all about...and I wonder if the earthquake and electrical costs had anything to do with this..you can be sure they won't move to California. Saba Automobiles Job Market Real Estate All ClassifiedsQuick News NYT Front Page Arts Business Health International National New York Region Obituaries Politics Science Sports Technology Weather Corrections Special: Taxes Editorials / Op-Ed Readers' OpinionsAutomobiles Books Cartoons Crossword/Games Job Market Living Magazine Movies Photos Real Estate Travel Week in Review Special: Oscars Boston.com GolfDigest.com Learning Network New York Today NYT Store ShoppingArchives Screensavers Help Center Media Kit NYT Mobile Our AdvertisersHome Delivery Customer ServiceReview Profile E-Mail Options Log Out Text Version Welcome, saba22 Sign Up for Newsletters | Log Out Go to Advanced Search March 22, 2001 Boeing, Jolting Seattle, Will Move Headquarters By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK with LAURENCE ZUCKERMAN Larry Davis for The New York Times Rebecca Cranz works in company support at Boeing corporate headquarters in Seattle, which is moving out of the region after eight decades. Air Force Proposes Plan to Help Boeing With Sale of Planes (March. 19, 2001) Boeing to Build Freight Jet (March. 16, 2001) Airbus Flying Biggest, Boeing Flying Farthest (Jan. 21, 2001) Get Stock Quotes Look Up SymbolsSeparate symbols with a space.Portfolio| Stock Markets| Mutual Funds| Bonds| Currencies| Bank Rates| Industries EATTLE, March 21 After decades as a mainstay of the Seattle economy and a virtual emblem of the Pacific Northwest, the Boeing Company stunned its hometown today with an abrupt announcement that it would move its corporate headquarters out of the region. The company said it was evaluating the Chicago, Denver and Dallas areas as possible sites for a new base. The company's chairman and chief executive, Philip M. Condit, said he envisioned a "leaner corporate center" that would give Boeing greater "flexibility to move capital and talent to the opportunities that maximize shareholder value." Boeing said it had no plans to move its giant commercial aircraft unit, which manufactures ubiquitous passenger jets like the Boeing 737, 747 and 767, out of the Seattle area. And thus it is possible, as the company insisted today, that the impact on the Seattle economy will be modest, since about 500 jobs are scheduled to be moved to the new headquarters. Nonetheless, the announcement by Mr. Condit in Washington, D.C., was a sharp blow to Seattle's psyche and prestige, as stunning, say, as General Motors pulling out of Detroit or Coca- Cola abandoning Atlanta. While the 500 headquarters jobs that would be moved were primarily nonunion, many people here expressed fears that it was a precursor to a larger scaling back by Boeing. The company provides jobs for about 80,000 people in the Puget Sound region and is by far the area's largest private employer. Seattle's mayor, Paul Schell, said he was "totally blindsided." The state's governor, Gary Locke, describing himself as "surprised and deeply sorry," said loss of the headquarters "leaves a void in our economic and cultural life." Both pleaded with Boeing to reconsider. With the region recovering from a literal jolt last month, Dick Conway, a local economist, took a stab at gallows humor, saying, "Well, it has made us forget the earthquake all of a sudden." A local radio station, KIRO-AM, linking Boeing's possible relocation to Dallas with the move of the baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez from the Seattle Mariners to the Texas Rangers, played the country song, "All My Ex's Live in Texas." But the dominant emotions were shock and anger. Union leaders were furious at both the news itself and the five minutes' advance notice that Boeing gave them and the area's elected officials before the announcement. "This decision is a blow to our entire community," said Mark Blondin, president of the local chapter of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, representing about 25,000 Boeing workers. "Bill Boeing must be turning over in his grave to learn his company is being ripped from its roots and moved cross country." Mr. Blondin was referring to William
[CTRL] U. S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS - Status Report
-Caveat Lector-
STATUS REPORT ON PROBE OF ELECTION PRACTICES
IN FLORIDA DURING THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
http://www.usccr.gov/vote2000/flstrpt1.htm
U. S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS
March 9, 2001
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The Commission has undertaken a formal investigation into
allegations by Floridians of voting irregularities arising
out of the November 7, 2000 Presidential election. The
Commission has held two fact-finding hearings in Florida
to examine whether eligible voters faced avoidable
barriers that undermined their ability to cast ballots
and have their ballots counted in this closely contested
election. The probe is intended to uncover, for example,
who made the critical decisions regarding resource
allocations for Election Day activities, why were these
decisions made and what specific impact these decisions
had on distinct communities.
Voter disenfranchisement appears to be at the heart of
the issue. It is not a question of a recount or even an
accurate count, but more pointedly the issue is those
whose exclusion from the right to vote amounted to a
"No Count."
We emphasize that voting technology reforms and assurances
that uniform and accurate standards for counting and
recounting ballots shall be implemented are encouraging
and significant. These measures standing alone, however,
are insufficient to address the significant and distressing
issues and barriers that prevented qualified voters from
participating in the Presidential election. It is our hope
that Florida officials, as well as officials in other
jurisdictions, will promptly resolve these major problems,
which they allowed to occur, instead of hoping with the
passage of time the public will forget.
In total, over 100 witnesses testified under oath before
the Commission, including approximately 65 scheduled
witnesses who were selected for the two hearings due to
their knowledge of and/or experience with the issues
under investigation. The Commission heard testimony from
top elected and appointed state officials, including the
Governor, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General,
the Director of the Florida Division of Elections and
other Florida state and county officials. A
representative of Database Technologies, Inc.
[Choicepoint], a firm involved in the controversial,
state-sponsored removal of felons from the voter
registration rolls also testified.
We also heard the sworn testimony of registered voters and
experts on election reform issues, election laws and
procedures and voting rights. Also, the Chair and
Executive Director of the Select Task Force on Election
Reforms established by Governor Jeb Bush testified before
the Commission. Testimony was also received from the
supervisors of elections for several counties, county
commission officials, law enforcement personnel, and a
states attorney. In addition to the scheduled witnesses,
the Commission extended an opportunity for concerned
persons, including Members of Congress and members of the
Florida State Legislature, to submit testimony under oath
that was germane to the issues under investigation.
Significantly, the Commission subpoenaed scores of
relevant documents to assist with this investigation.
The evidence points to an array of problems, including
those in the following categories:
Key officials anticipated before Election Day,
that there would be an increase in levels of voter turnout
based upon new voter registration figures, but did not
ensure that the precincts in all communities received
adequate resources to meet their needs;
At least one unauthorized law enforcement
checkpoint was set up on Election Day resulting in
complaints that were investigated by the Florida Highway
Patrol and the Florida Attorney General;
Non-felons were removed from voter registration
rolls based upon unreliable information collected in
connection with sweeping, state sponsored felony purge
policies;
Many African Americans did not cast ballots
because they were assigned to polling sites that did not
have adequate resources to confirm voting eligibility
status;
College students and others submitted voter
registration applications on a timely basis to persons
and agencies responsible for transmitting the
applications to the proper officials, but in many
instances these applications were not processed in a
timely or proper manner under the National Voter
Registration Act ("motor-voter law");
Many Jewish and elderly voters received defective
and complicated ballots that may have produced "overvotes"
and "undervotes;"
Some polling places were closed early and some
polling places were moved without notice;
Old and defective election equipment was found
in poor precincts;
Many Haitian Americans and Puerto Rican voters
were not provided language assistance when required and
requested;
Persons with disabilities faced accessibility
difficulties at certain polling sites;
Too few poll workers were adequately trained and
too few funds were
[CTRL] After Kosovo, Macedonia (Article of Michel Collon in English
The Committee for National Solidarity Tolstojeva 34, Belgrade, YU From: "Michel Collon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: After Kosovo, Macedonia (Article of Michel Collon in English)Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2001, 2:25 pm Please find here an important article about Macedonia, Kosovo, Nato and their future.1. Is Macedonia a strategic area? 2. KLA attack: is it a surprise? 3. What is surviving of the official Nato version? 4. Is Washington playing double game? 5. Will KLA provoke a new war? 6. What do the US really want? 7. Will it be possible for Washington to keep playing with all sides? 8. Did they «forge a monster»? 9. What shall be the role of the rivalry between USA and EU? 10. Is Kostunica trapped? 11. Perspectives for Peace.-- Michel Collon[EMAIL PROTECTED] (For fair use only) After Kosovo, Macedonia. What is left of the explanations of NATO ? A sinister repetition? After the Albanian separatists of the KLA have attacked the villagesof the Presevo valley in Serbia, after they have killed 11 Serbiancivilians of Kosovo by throwing a bomb in a bus, they are waging now warin neighbouring Macedonia. And again refugees are on the roads. Is there anew escalation in the Balkans?In fact, these events allow to better understand what happened in 1999. Inthis complex situation (because everything is done to disorientate the publicopinion), let us answer clearly to the main questions.Michel Collon1. Is Macedonia a strategic region ? Yes, as we have explained in our book Monopoly by citing the general Jackson, commander of the NATO troops:"We will certainly stay here for a long time in order to guarantee thesafety of the energy corridors which cross Macedonia". (1) 'Energycorridors' ? We had presented the maps showing the projects of Europe(a whole net of oil and gas pipe-lines connecting Europe via the Balkansto the huge oil and gas resources of the former soviet Caucasus) and the onesof the US (a pipe-line Bulgaria-Macedonia-Albania-Adriatic which would giveto the US oil multinationals the control of this road of oil and gas). Theseprojects are in fact rival. This is why all the great powers attempt for tenyears to control Yugoslavia. The road of oil and gas passes by. We had alsostressed that as soon as 1992 it is in Macedonia - however very far awayfrom the conflicts zones - and nowhere else that Washington had decided tosend a division.We have to be frank: even in the left circles, some peoples foundexaggerated to suspect Washington to have so dark projects. But very recently,the respectable British newspaper Guardian confirmed: "A projectcalled the Trans-Balkan pipeline has been little-reported in any British, European or American newspaper. The linewill run from the Black sea port of Burgas to the Adriatic at Vlore, passing throughBulgaria, Macedonia and Albania. It is likely become the main route to the west for the oiland gas now being extracted in central Asia. It will carry 750,000 barrels a day. The project is necessary, according to a paper published by the US Trade and Development Agency, because it will "provide a consistent source of crude oil to American refineries", "provideAmerican companies with a key role in developing the vital east-west corridor", and "advance the privatisation aspirations of the US government in the region"." (2)Clear, isn't it ? Moreover, Bill Richardson, the former US energysecretary, declared in 1998, that is before the war: "This isabout America's energy security". When the US speak about 'energy security',one must know what it means: to preserve the world domination and theprofits of their oil multinationals. And Richardson continues:"We would like these newly independent countries reliant on Westerncommercial and political interests rather than going another way. We've made a substantial political investment in the Caspian, and it's very important to us that both the pipeline map and the politics come out right." (3)And The Guardian adds this essential comment: "On December 9, 98 (beforethe war), the president of Albania attended a meeting on this subject inSofia:"According to my personal opinion, no solution which will stay strictlyinside of the Serbian borders will bring a sustainable peace." The messagecould hardly be clearer: if you want the agreement of the Albanians forthe Trans-Balkans pipeline, you have to take the Kosovo away from the Serbs". (4)2. Is the offensive of the KLA a surprise?The US made thus a pact with the devil. Because many US diplomaticreports testified it: the separatist KLA murdered not only Serbianpolicemen or civilians, but also Albanians married with Serbs or simplyaccepting to live in the Yugoslav state. And the special envoy ofWashington in the Balkans, Robert Gelbard, had himself claimed three timesin front of the international press,
Re: [CTRL] U. S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS - Status Report
-Caveat Lector- So next I hope we go after illegal aliens who voted and Jesse Jackson and Sharpton who threatened turn loose their people in the streets - which also is contrary to law? As Martin Luther King once said - as he chased naked lady down hall in motel - hey, did they get that on film too? Saba A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Second-graders face charges for paper gun (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/03/21/studentscharged.ap/index.html Second-graders face charges for paper gun March 21, 2001 Web posted at: 5:07 PM EST (2207 GMT) IRVINGTON, New Jersey (AP) -- Two second-graders playing cops and robbers with a paper gun were charged with making terrorist threats. The boys' parents said the situation should have been resolved in the principal's office, but Police Chief Steven Palamara on Wednesday defended school officials and the district's zero-tolerance policy. "It may appear to some as though we went a little overboard because it was a paper gun, but what would those same people say if this incident was ignored and in a day, week or month the same student came to school with a firearm?" Palamara asked. Authorities said that 8-year-old Hamadi Alston stood up at his desk at Augusta Street School last Thursday, pointed paper folded to look like a gun at his classmates and said, "I'm going to kill you all." Hamadi said he was imitating what his friend, Jaquill Shelton, had done earlier that day. The police chief said Jaquill had given Hamadi the paper gun in the bathroom. The two boys were suspended and, under the district's zero-tolerance policy, school officials notified police, who charged the boys. "Although the paper handgun posed no immediate threat to the students in the class, the words spoken certainly and appropriately were recognized by school officials and police as warning signs to cause concern," Palamara said. The court can now determine whether either boy needs counseling or just a stern warning, he said. The parents, as well as the Essex County prosecutor's office, were involved immediately, he said. The prosecutor's office did not immediately return a message seeking comment on Wednesday. "This is just stupid, stupid, stupid," Ron Alston, Hamadi's father, told The Star-Ledger of Newark. "How can you take two boys to the police precinct over a paper gun? This is very bad judgment." Superintendent Ernest Smith said he believes the boys meant no harm, but district policy requires that police be notified of such incidents. "I thought this was unfortunate," Smith said. "But, being that kids are being shot in schools across the country, children have to be taught they can't say certain words in public." A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Doctors to prescribe gun control (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?j16668263 American doctors about to prescribe gun control By Mark Riley, Herald Correspondent in New York Doctors in the United States are preparing to add an unexpected new element to their traditional bedside manner by delivering discreet lectures to their patients on the risk of gun ownership. An ad hoc coalition representing about two-thirds of the country's practising doctors has recommended the move as concerns rise about the continuing incidents of gun violence in neighbourhoods and schools. The group, Doctors Against Handgun Injury, believes doctors have a responsibility to lecture on gun safety because of the heavy death and injury toll caused by shooting incidents. Doctors are being advised to ask regular patients whether they are gun owners and, if they are, to highlight the dangers and responsibilities of having weapons in their homes. The group, representing 600,000 doctors, is headed by Dr Jeremiah Barondess, the president of the New York Academy of Medicine. He says there is no particular political motivation behind the move, even though it would bring the group into direct conflict with the powerful conservative forces of the National Rifle Association. "We are neutral politically, academically and intellectually," he told the New York Observer. "Getting shot and being dead is certainly a clinical issue." The doctors expect that their move will receive strong support in the more liberal states, such as New York, but will encounter resistance in the pro-gun regions of the mid-west and the south. Doctors Against Handgun Injury also plans to engage more traditional methods of lobbying, using its voice to push for mandatory background checks of buyers at gun shows, limits on the numbers of guns a person can own and a cooling off period on gun purchases to allow exhaustive checks to be run before a buyer gets possession of a gun. The group circulated its first report to members last week, just days after the latest school shooting. Two students were killed and 13 other people injured when 15-year-old Andy Williams opened fire at a high school in Santee, California. The boy used a .22 handgun he had taken from his father's gun cabinet. A pro-gun group of 1,300 medical practitioners, Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, has accused the new gun-control doctors' lobby of being motivated by political activism rather than public health concerns. "Handgun ownership is not a medical issue and never has been," the head of the group, Dr Tim Wheeler, said. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] False IDs fool gun background checks (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/03/21/gun.checks/index.html False IDs fool gun background checks Government report says system can't keep guns away from felons March 21, 2001 Web posted at: 12:20 p.m. EST (1720 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A government report released Wednesday indicates that the nation's system of instant background checks for firearms purchasers stumbles when potential buyers use false identification. The General Accounting Office sent undercover agents with false IDs to gun dealers in five states. The undercover operation, requested by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, found that investigators equipped with false IDs were able to purchase firearms in every instance. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks potential buyers for a criminal record but has no requirements to determine if the buyer is using a false identity. Using off-the-shelf software to produce counterfeit identification for fictitious identities, the agents went to licensed gun dealers in Virginia, West Virginia, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona. The agents came away with rifles, handguns, semiautomatic weapons, pistols, ammunition clips and hollow-point bullets. The report concluded that NICS "cannot ensure that the prospective purchaser is not a felon." Earlier reports give mixed reviews NICS was established in 1998 by the 1993 Brady Act, a piece of gun control legislation named for Jim Brady, a former Republican White House press secretary. Brady was shot and permanently paralyzed in the 1981 attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. After the shooting, Brady and his wife, Sarah, devoted much of their time and energy to gun control, including promoting the Act, which required a waiting period and background check for purchase of a handgun. Gun control opponents fervently opposed the Brady Act both during congressional debate on it and after the vote was taken and the Act passed. Such opponents periodically issue statements and reports touting the ineffectiveness of the Act. But proponents are equally adamant in the law's defense. The FBI's own report on NICS' first 13 months in operation, from November 1998 to December 1999, indicated some success. That report said the background checks had legally kept handguns away from 2,400 people on various wanted lists, often ending in an arrest. Additionally, the report said that nearly 200,000 "felons, fugitives and other prohibited persons" were also denied permits. But a separate GAO report issued in early 2000 on the system's first year in operation noted that another 2,519 people were allowed to buy guns and later determined to be prohibited from doing so. Most of the problems with the system cited in that report centered around difficulties in joining state and federal information systems and an occasional lack of clear understanding of state procedures on the part of federal investigators. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL]
[CTRL] ALERT: Rx for Gun Control? (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization (Subscribe/UnSubscribe instructions near the end of the message) ALERT: Rx for "Gun Control"? In view of the increasing effort to "prescribe" "gun control", we thought we would resend the Alerts we sent NEARLY A YEAR AGO (May 3 and June 9, 2000) about this situation. We have also brought together on a new page on our web site old and new articles dealing with statistics, doctors, and victim disarmament: http://www.jpfo.org/doctors.htm Share this with as many people as you can so we can fight this assault on our rights and privacy! *** FIRST ALERT: Date: May 3, 2000 Is Your Doctor A Spy? Anti-self defense lobbyists have enlisted family-practice physicians and pediatricians into collecting firearms ownership data. Doctors have been receiving literature urging them to ask their patients a lot of detailed questions about firearms ownership. We received a first-hand report from an ardent JPFO supporter who recently underwent this very type of probing by his doctor. During a physical examination in April 2000, as part of obtaining a "medical history," the doctor asked the patient: * Do you have any guns? * If so, how many guns do you have? * Where are they located? * Where do you store the guns? * How much ammunition do you keep? This line of questioning presents three dangers. First, the "public health" argument for victim disarmament has successfully filtered from the lobbyists down to actual practitioners. Some doctors actually believe that firearms are dangerous like an open jar of smallpox bacillus. Second, patients generally trust their doctors and will submit to these intrusive questions. Not only that, many patients will think the questions are proper and justified ... because their doctor asked them. Our JPFO supporter refused to answer most of these questions -- but many other patients will simply comply. Third, although medical records are supposed to be confidential, that can all change in a heartbeat. There have been repeated moves in Congress to mandate a universal medical health system, or at least a universal medical identification chip. The chip would contain all of a person's medical records. In both plans the patient's medical data becomes part of a national data base. When doctors collect firearms ownership data, they are helping to build a national gun owner identification system. Even now senior citizens and others using Medicare and Medicaid are subject to having their medical records reviewed by government agents. Our JPFO supporter said "no" to this doctor's intrusive questioning, and asked why the doctor was asking all of these questions. The doctor said it was something the American Medical Association was now pushing. Our JPFO supporter complained to the hospital whose spokesperson said that the firearms questions were not hospital policy and that they would investigate the matter. What you can do: (1) Tell everyone you know to refuse to answer doctors' questions about personal firearms ownership -- even if they don't own a firearm. Doctors and other health care professionals have no business asking such questions, period. (2) If your doctor asks questions about your firearms ownership, ask why the doctor is asking, and then report the matter as an invasion of privacy to the hospital. (3) Encourage doctors to contact and receive information from: (A) Dr. Edgar Suter, Doctors for Integrity in Policy Research http://www.dipr.org Article: Guns in the Medical Literature: A Failure of Peer Review (B) Dr. Timothy Wheeler, Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership Book: Firearms: A Handbook for Health Professionals. http://www.claremont.org/1_drgo.cfm (C) Dr. Miguel Faria, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons http://www.haciendapub.com Article: Docs, Guns the CDC Subscribe to The Medical Sentinel (912) 757-9873 The Liberty Crew *** SECOND ALERT: Date: June 9, 2000 Is Your Doctor A Spy -- Part 2 Our May 3, 2000 Alert revealed how doctors are now starting to gather information about firearms and their owners as part of the medical history. We shared the experience that one of our supporters had in April during a physical exam. After our supporter refused to give the firearms information to the doctor, our supporter (the patient) contacted the hospital and lodged a complaint. The hospital has not yet returned with a response to the complaint, but the doctor did react. By letter dated May 15 to our supporter, the doctor withdrew "from further personal attendance" as his physician. Citing "our differentiating [sic] opinions on how to provide quality care," the doctor abruptly terminated his relationship with our supporter. Refusing to cooperate with the victim disarmament agenda put the pressure on the doctor, and the doctor ran away from the confrontation. If everyone refuses to give doctors their personal information about firearms
Re: [CTRL] WSJ: Politics and Prosecutors
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/22/2001 1:40:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Southern District is the most powerful federal crime-fighting office outside of Washington. It is critical for a President to have his own person in the post. Really! What a novel idea. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [radtimes] # 186
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 186 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- Send $$ to RadTimes!! -- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --U.S. in 1990s: Land of the unequal, home of the poor --Protesters, police prepare for ADB meeting --Field Guide to the FTAA Protest in Quebec City --Secret Service breaks up CD piracy venture --A Message to White America: "It's Time We Woke Up" --U.S. Continues to Dominate World Military Expenditures --Lawyers: Inaugural Protesters Abused --Hackers hit Sandia === U.S. in 1990s: Land of the unequal, home of the poor By Peter Cook The Globe and Mail (Toronto) March 12, 2001 BRUSSELS -- Foreign critics of the United States are starting to question just exactly what the world was supposed to admire in the once- unassailable, now-fragile, U.S. economy. As ever, the genesis of such thinking is Europe -- which, outside Britain, has never really been a fan. When the United States possessed the world's first self-styled recession-proof economy, the Germans, French and others stayed mute. Now that it is the home of haunted stock markets and craven consumers, Europe's economists are delving into the record books to discover what a decade of New Economy triumphalism has meant in real terms. Their first answer: Not very much. Yes, the United States acquired a lead in advanced technologies that others will have to copy. But catching up on invented technology is a process that is often easier and more rewarding because it generates fewer mistakes. Beyond that, if you look at the past 10 years of economic progress in the three areas that advance living standards most -- growth in output, gains in productivity and job creation -- there has actually been little to choose between the United States, Japan and Germany. There is some irony in this. When the 1990s opened, a humbled United States was worried that it was losing out on managerial and marketing supremacy to the Japanese, and on long-term investment to the Germans. A brash presidential candidate, Bill Clinton, exploited both these alleged faults to get elected. Since then, and certainly since U.S. consumers started out on history's biggest spending binge, we have not heard much about foreign economies. Instead, the story has been the amazing performance of the United States. Study the numbers closely, however, and no gap has opened up. Figures put out by Eurostat and the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) show the U.S. economy did better than the rest after 1992. But that discounts an earlier U.S. slowdown while counting several years of near-stagnation in Germany and Japan. Go back 10 years instead and both German and U.S. growth are the same, at an average annual 2.5 per cent, while Japan is not far behind at 2 per cent. This is a surprising figure because the increase in the U.S. population (and therefore in the economy's potential to grow) was much greater over the period. In terms of growth per capita, Germany outgrew the United States -- though this was a reflection of a political event, German unification, which overnight endowed former east Germans with the blessings of living in a German-mark economy. Anyway, if Americans think they got richer faster in terms of GDP (gross domestic product) in the past decade, they haven't. Both the Germans and the French did better. The same is true of productivity. Yes, the Americans remained ahead during the 1990s. But, contrary to the view that their technology revolution has greatly enhanced productivity, the U.S. lead over others has not widened at all. True, U.S. productivity gains in services may be understated. But even that does not explain why, in 1990-99, multi-factor productivity rose an average of 1.4 per cent in Germany, 1.6 in Japan and just 1 per cent in the United States. The one clear advantage Americans have enjoyed is in job creation. Their unemployment rate stands at an unbeatable 4.2 per cent, compared with 9.3 per cent in Germany. So, if the 1990s boom was a success, it was chiefly for reducing the jobless rate painlessly and without any rebound in inflation. But the critical thing to look at is not a long, stable economic expansion but at just who, beyond dot-com millionaires, benefited. A study done by three U.S. economists, Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater and Gary Burtless, and reported on by BusinessWeek magazine, looks at levels of pay inequality and absolute poverty. On both counts, it has not been a good decade for the United States. Using an after-tax income measure of poverty that includes cash and near-cash welfare payments, they found the
[CTRL] Demorats Have Failed Again To Return Their Illegal Foreign Campaign Contributions
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22126 DNC hasn't returned foreign campaign cash Judicial Watch says Riady, Lippo Group money still in coffers By Jon Dougherty 2001 WorldNetDaily.com The Democratic National Committee has yet to return illegal campaign contributions made by members of the Indonesian Riady family and the Riady-owned Lippo Group, contrary to assurances by DNC officials that the money had been returned. According to a statement released Wednesday by Judicial Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based legal watchdog group, Justice Department lawyers told a federal court Monday that "contrary to public statements, the DNC has never refunded or disgorged the illegal foreign contributions" received from James Riady. DNC officials could not be reached for comment yesterday. Riady pleaded guilty Monday to campaign finance violations. The court sentenced him to 400 hours of community service, two years of probation, and fined him $8.6 million -- the largest fine ever imposed for a campaign finance violation. The Lippo executive voluntarily agreed to return to the U.S. from Indonesia and face a court in exchange for the plea agreement. Had a trial ensued, if found guilty Riady could have faced a fine in excess of $17 million. He was facing 87 counts. Indonesia does not have an extradition agreement with the U.S.; had Riady chosen to do so, he could have remained there and escaped the charges indefinitely. "The issue arose under the [Justice Department's] plea agreement because in the unlikely event Mr. Riady receives the refunds back from the DNC, he must turn them over to the United States," Judicial Watch said in its statement. U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall accepted Riady's guilty plea over the objections of Judicial Watch, which argued that he was not being sufficiently punished for his crimes. The group submitted a legal brief outlining their position in court on Monday, but Marshall did not allow them to present oral argument in objection before she accepted the plea. Judicial Watch lawyers and officers remain displeased, not only with Riady's sentence but with the Clinton-era campaign finance scandal in general. "None of the fat-cat 'white guys' at the DNC or the Clinton-Gore White House have been held to account," said Judicial Watch chairman and chief counsel Larry Klayman, "nor have the politicians" involved. He said Sens. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., Carl Levin, D-Mich., Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (and husband to Labor Secretary Elaine Chao), "and others who received illegal monies from Riady and his operative, John Huang," have yet to be held accountable. "Indeed Chao arranged for [illegal] contributions from Huang to (former New York Republican) Sen. Alfonse D'Amato," Klayman said. "There is a dual system of justice, and the high Caucasian echelon of the Washington elite are currently above the law." Klayman and Judicial Watch are currently involved with 11 "Chinagate" lawsuits, the statement said. "Unlike the Bush administration, we will not be 'blackmailed' into failing to represent the American people," Klayman said. "The Bush administration seems afraid of the Republican involvement in the Chinagate scandal, and this has caused it not to bring about justice." Assistant U.S. Attorney Dan O'Brien said Riady's plea agreement and conviction came after a year of steadfast negotiations. "In return, you have a very high fine, the highest fine in the history of the United States," he told reporters Monday. "We felt that was an appropriate sentence because this is one of the more significant and egregious violations." WorldNetDaily DNC hasn't returnedbr foreign campaign cash.url
[CTRL] Two People Shot at High School Near San Diego
-Caveat Lector- Thursday March 22 4:53 PM ET Two People Shot at High School Near San Diego EL CAJON, Calif. (Reuters) - At least two people -- possibly teachers -- were shot and injured at a high school in this San Diego suburb on Thursday, less than three weeks after two students were killed and 13 injured in a gun rampage at another area high school, officials said. A Fire Department spokesman said there were reports of a third person being shot. Local television reported that the injured were two teachers and that one suspect has been arrested at Granite Hills High School in this suburb just east of San Diego. Another suspect was thought to be at large and, possibly armed with a shotgun. Residents were asked to stay out of the area while police searched for the second suspect. A witness said he heard six or seven shots and then saw students running out of the school via a back entrance, calling on their cell phones for help. Students at the school, which has 2,900 pupils, were taken to a nearby elementary school where their parents were called to pick them up. El Cajon is adjacent to Santee, Calif., where two students were killed and 13 others injured when a student opened fire with his father's gun at Santana High School on March 5. That was the worst act of violence in a U.S. school since April 1999 attack on Columbine High School in Colorado in which 15 people were killed, including two teenage gunmen who took their own lives. A middle school and elementary school adjacent to Granite Hills High School have locked their doors and are keeping students inside, officials said. Students described a frightening scenario that seems almost a repeat of what happened in Santee. One boy told CNN via telephone that he heard about seven shots fired: ``I was walking from the bathroom and I heard the shots rang out and it sounded like an explosion from a chemistry classroom. ... Then a couple more. When I heard the other ones go off I just ran to the car.'' ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] 357 Magnum scares off rapist
http://www.news-press.com/news/today/010319hero.html Man rescues his neighbor from attacker Intruder break-in awakens woman By SHARON TURCO, [EMAIL PROTECTED] CAPE CORAL Richard Peppers didnt hesitate when he saw a man beating and raping his neighbor he pulled out his Ruger .357 Magnum revolver and ordered him to stop. The threat of Peppers large frame and scruffy beard scared Rolando Mota off, saving his neighbors life, said Lt. Bill Rivers of the Cape Coral Police Department. A few more blunt traumas to the head would have put her out, Rivers said. If he didnt get involved the way he did, that woman would have been in a lot worse shape. Authorities say the 45-year-old Cape Coral woman was severely beaten when Mota broke into her Patterson Road house as she slept at 2:50 a.m. Saturday, molested her and then beat her unconscious. Peppers, 54, was awake, and thought the womans cries for help were from a neighbors television. As soon as he stepped outside the front door of his Alabor Lane house he knew that the cries were real. His neighbor was screaming, Help me, Im being raped. Somebodys trying to kill me. Peppers, who said he has a concealed weapons permit, ran back through his house, grabbed his gun pouch and headed out the back door toward the sounds of the victims screams. Peppers did not know her. As soon as he flipped on his backyard light, Peppers saw Mota using one hand to hold the naked womans hair, and the other to punch her, he said. They were just 50 feet away. Mota ran, with Peppers close behind, stopping only to cover to the woman with the red, white and blue cover that had been protecting his Harley-Davidson. Other neighbors came to the womans aid as Peppers chased the attacker. Ultimately it was Cape Coral police K-9s that sniffed Mota out of his hiding place at another neighbors house. If I had had a clear shot, I would have shot him, Peppers said. Mota beat the victim so badly, Peppers described her injuries as looking like hamburger meat. Officers say she does not know Mota. The woman was treated at Lee Memorial Hospital and released Sunday. She did not answer a knock at her door seeking comment. Officers arrested Mota, 20, of 1130 Patterson Road, on charges of burglary with a person present, battery and sexual battery with force. He is being held in the Lee County Jail without bail. With talk of the attack still fresh in the middle-class neighborhood mixed with rental trailers and homes, Peppers doesnt want to be called a hero. Its important to care, Peppers said. I would want someone to do the same thing if it had been my wife. Everybody who got involved should be commended, Rivers said. When communities get involved and stand up against the criminal element, everybody wins, he said. WorldNetDaily.url
Re: [CTRL] Second-graders face charges for paper gun (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Such sweet lovely children - where are they getting all this stuff - from the same place the 6 year old got the idiea to shoot a little 6 year old girl (he was black, she was white) and this little kid Clinton and his kind said we should hug? What an examplethat kid got away with murder and knew how to ditch a gun, lived in a crack house and his mother was a street bum who held "two" jobs, for the rich white made her work for a living - her second job probably provided curb service .for the Clinton trade no doubt.\ Stupid yesnow these little kids just had paper guns? Put the little bastards in jail for it is obvious they came from an under privileged area..then call civil rights attornies and sue. Now see if that kid had a real gun and shot somebody - he would have been praised and hugged but never punished .. Big wood paddle hanging on walls might serve as deterrantnow teachers are just too interested these days in teaching sodomy in classrooms than teaching manners. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] 'If I'd had a trigger lock, I'd be dead'
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_133822,00 .html Man faces suspects accused of attacking him after getting ride Victim had just fixed meal when he was assaulted and stabbed By Ellen Miller, News Staff Writer GRAND JUNCTION -- Chuck Harris, his right hand laced with stitches and his partially shaved head showing scars, came to court Tuesday to eyeball his attackers. It was the first time he had seen them since March 1, the day he was attacked and stabbed repeatedly by young hitchhikers he had befriended. Harris, a contractor, had picked up three young hitchhikers on his way home from work, taken them home and fixed them a steak dinner. He was preparing to offer them work when two of them attacked him, stabbing him repeatedly in the back, head and hands with knifes they had taken from Harris' kitchen. The assault stopped when Harris said he would get them money. Instead, he grabbed a .44-Magnum pistol he kept in a desk drawer and began shooting. He shot one in the torso. The two others tried to flee in Harris' car, so he shot out two tires. Police arrested the pair a short distance from Harris' house. That was more than two weeks ago. Tuesday, Harris was in Mesa County Court, watching the legal process unfold. "I plan to be here, every time," said Harris, 48, who came to court Tuesday with his mother and two of his three daughters. "I want them to get the maximum so they don't do this to anybody else." Tuesday's proceeding set May 25 for a preliminary hearing for the accused attackers -- Richard Barbee, 25, and Colleen McLean, 18, both of Bakersfield, Calif. The third suspect, Harold Scott, is in fair condition at St. Mary's Hospital. Charges are pending his release, police say. Barbee and McLean remain in jail, Barbee on $500,000 bail and McLean on $60,000 bail. Barbee faces 17 felony charges, including a first-degree kidnapping charge that could result in life in prison without parole. McLean is facing lesser charges. Harris, whose right hand remains swollen and bruised, said Tuesday that he will be off work for at least six weeks because four of his tendons were severed in the attack. "Working again is still a question," he said. "But I walked a mile today. I'm feeling stronger." Harris said the attack took him by surprise and that he was glad his pistol was easily available. "If I'd had a trigger lock, I'd be dead," he said. "If my pistol had been in a gun safe, I'd be dead. If the bullets were stored separate, I'd be dead. They were going to kill me." Denver Rocky Mountain News State.url
[CTRL] Three Injured in California High School Shooting
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Three Injured in California High School Shooting Thursday, March 22, 2001 E-mail This Story Gunfire erupted at a California high school for the second time in less than three weeks and as many as three people were reported shot and wounded. A suspect was in custody and was being taken to a hospital, police said. Two adults had minor injuries, police also said. "My information right now is that no one was seriously injured," said Granger Ward, superintendent of Grossmont Union High School District. "The school is locked down and they are going room by room to bring them out and evacuate the school. There may be some superficial injuries." Television news reported that an 18-year-old was in custody after shots were heard at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, Calif. The suspect was taken to a hospital with pellet wounds. He was not a student, although he may have graduated last year. News reports also said a 16-year-old who had been shot in the chest. The wounds appeared to be shotgun pellets. Both of the victims were conscious. Local news reports said two teachers may have been among the wounded. Police cordoned off the area surrounding the school and TV footage of the scene showed students being evacuated after the midday shooting amid confusion over the circumstances of the gunfire. Witnesses told KFMB-TV that the suspect, armed with a rifle and handgun, was wrestled to the ground by police. Television news reports also said police called SWAT teams to the neighborhood to search for possibly a second suspect. The shooting at Granite Hills was reported at 12:54 p.m. Granite Hills High, with 2,900 students, is just four miles south of Santana High School in Santee, where two students were killed and 13 other people were wounded on March 5. Both schools are in the same district 17 miles east of San Diego. Ryan Carrillo, a sophomore at the school, told KGTV-San Diego that he heard gunshots as he walked to a bathroom near the office. "It sounded like an explosion, like in a chemistry class or something," he said of the first two shots he heard. After hearing five more shots, he ran out of the school and into a nearby park. Students hugged and cried as they gathered in a park near the Granite Hills campus. Many parents ran about searching for their children. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Namibian President Orders Gay Purge
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Namibian President Orders Gay Purge NewsMax.com Wires Thursday, March 22, 2001 LONDON â Homosexuals in Namibia were in fear for their safety after President Sam Nujoma ordered police to "arrest, deport and imprison" them, the Telegraph of London reported Thursday. Nujoma told students at the University of Namibia: "We do not allow homosexuality or lesbianism here. Police are ordered to arrest you and deport you and imprison you, too." He blamed "foreign influences" for homosexuality in Namibia, which he said threatened to destroy the nation, the newspaper said. Independent legal experts in the capital, Windhoek, said they were unsure what action the police could take to carry out the presidential order. Members of the gay community predicted that they would be forced to flee the country, probably to neighboring South Africa, where freedom of sexual expression is protected by the constitution. Ian Swartz, coordinator of the gay lobbying group Rainbow Project, said his office had been swamped with inquiries about emigration. His movement had about 1,000 members but there were "many more Namibians who are afraid to reveal their sexual orientation." *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Defending America Newsletter 21 March 01 Part 1
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Soldiers For The Truth Defending America Newsletter SFTT Situation Report - 21 March 2001 "Waiting for Answers to the Issuesâ TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS SITREP From The President - 21 MARCH 2001 Through Zmanâs Gun Sight - The Anthrax Policy HACKâs Target For The Week - What Price PR? The Big Picture: Article 1 - China Increases Military Spending Article 2 - US Withdraws 750 Troops From Bosnia Article 3 - Alamo's Heroes Needed Today Voice of the Troops: Article 4 - The Combat Armor Badge Article 5 - The CIA's, Hired Albanian Army Article 6 - Political Legitimacy Depends Upon The Ethical Use Of Force Article 7 - Murphy's Law -- An Army of What? Article 8 - Navy: Distractions Add Up Article 9 - The Sergeantâs Corner: ...Return To Mother Earth Article 10 - Navy: Retirees Could Assist In Problem Solving, Recruiting and Retention Article 11 - Air Force: We Need New Manned Planes Article 12 - Sen. Dodd (CT) Questions Handling of Anthrax Complaints Beret Update: - Victory in TAN! G.I Humor: Article 13 - Top's Top 10 Reasons... Signal Geeks! Medal of Honor: Article 14 - PHILLIPS, LEE H., USMC, Korea 1950 Admin / Log Net Editors Note - Article Submission - Contacts - Service Editors Donations - Subscribe - Unsubscribe - Archives Text Only - Printer Friendly Version SITREP: SITUATION REPORT: 21 MARCH 2001 A. Main topics: 1) Combat Recognition 2) Cover-ups 3) Kosovo 4) Navy Leadership 5) Modernization 6) Anthrax B. HOT BUTTONS: Things are calming down again and weâre getting lots of mail from all over the world, a good indication that weâre back in business with all systems. Hope weâre on a road to steady improvement and not the roller coaster rides of the past. The Combat Armor Badge: many are complaining that I didnât mention all the other guys who are contributing to battlefield success. I would like to reiterate that I believe first recognition needs to go to those who are involved in the DIRECT/Line-of -Sight combat. These are normally the Grunts and Tankers. Iâm not excluding combat engineers and artillery forward observers with the Grunts and tanks but it canât be for folks who shoot stuff out of enemy range. Some aviators rightfully claim that they evacuated wounded under highly dangerous conditions, especially during Vietnam. No question about their heroism. But aviation HAS their medal - the air medal. Once again, the combat badges Iâm advocating are for confirmed direct fire involvement. My criteria would exclude many CIBs that were given away in Desert Storm for riding in the back of a Bradley or being an Infantry officer working in the Division Headquarters. I am not for more awards but select awards given under more stringent conditions. Questions of the Week: 1. From what you know, do you think that the Skipper of the USS Greenville should be held responsible for the recent collision with a Japanese fishing boat? 2. Do you believe that the US and NATO will be successful in staying out of the Macedonia conflict? Feel free to send me hot topics directly if you canât get through the admin / log net. I am at - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - On Net and at - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Off Net. * Keep the mail coming!!! We wonât reveal your true identity unless you give us your approval. We know how vindictive the âsystemâ is. * WE NEED YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT 2001. EVERY DOLLAR MAKES A DIFFERENCE. THANK YOU to all SFTT warriors who are sending bucks for fuel ammo and beans. * How you can help: - DONATE HERE - All donations to SFTT are tax deducatable. Secure Credit Card donations via the web at: www.SFTT.org/donations.html !!! If you think we HIT a target, forward the newsletter to TV, radio and your local papers. YOU are the frontline recruiters and intel gatherers for SFTT. Check or Money orde to: Soldiers For The Truth Foundation PO Box 63840 Colorado Springs, CO 80962-3840. Important: Your donation is tax deductible! SFTT is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit educational foundation, IRS # 31-1592564. If you send us an E-MAIL address with your donation we can immediately mail you a RECEIPT. Multiple contributions: Please remind us when you submit your donation. We will send you a cumulative statement. Prepare for Action -- "Crew Ready! -- LOAD SABOT - DRIVER MOVE OUT!" R.W. Zimmermann President SFTT E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zman Through Zmanâs Gun Sight The Anthrax Policy - Where Are the Answers? By R.W. (Zimm) Zimmermann President, Soldiers For The Truth Dateline SFTT - 21 March 2001 Two weeks ago a letter from the acting Special Assistant for Gulf War illness hit my mailbox. âDear Ralf,â the letter read (I guess they canât remember my rank), âbased on state of the art computer modeling technologyâ¦the models now predict that it is unlikely you were exposed to even low level chemical agents during Desert Storm.â I guess
[CTRL] Defending America Newsletter 21 March 01 Part 2
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ARTICLE 1 China Increases Military Spending Ed.: A developing confrontation or expression of Chinaâs desire to be taken more seriously? A recent AP report. By JOHN LEICESTER BEIJING (AP) - After announcing one of its largest hikes in military spending in 12 years, China sought Tuesday to deny weaponry to Taiwan, warning Washington that providing high-tech arms to the island would be dangerous and harm U.S.-China ties. Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan said selling upgraded Patriot missile batteries and warships with state-of-the-art radars would send ``a very wrong signal'' to Taiwan's government, inflame tensions and encourage Taiwanese who want to remain separate from China. ``It would only feed their arrogance,'' Tang said at a news conference on the sidelines of the Chinese legislature's annual meeting. ``The U.S. side should recognize the serious dangers involved and rein in its wild horse at the brink of the precipice.'' Tang's combative tone appeared aimed at dissuading the Bush administration from stepping up support for Taiwan, an island democracy China views as part of its territory. Beijing has threatened to attack if Taiwan refuses indefinitely to unify peacefully with China. In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. Craig Quigley declined to say whether the 17.7 percent defense spending increase announced by China exceeded U.S. expectations. But he said it was well known that China is modernizing its military. As for U.S. intentions to sell additional advanced weaponry to Taiwan, Quigley said, ``There is an ongoing debate both within the government of the United States and with the Taiwan authorities as to what are the defensive systems that need to be made available to the Taiwanese for their legitimate defensive needs.'' Tang's warnings came after China's finance minister told legislators that the government would boost military spending by 17.7 percent this year, the 12th straight year of double-digit increases for the People's Liberation Army. It was the third-highest increase since 1990, surpassed only by hikes of 21 percent in 1995 and 18 percent in 1994. Defending the increase, Tang said the United States' proposed $310 billion defense budget dwarfed Beijing's $17.07 billion. ``Although you could draw the conclusion from a couple of figures that China's defense spending has increased significantly, the defense budget is the smallest among major nations,'' Tang said. China's actual defense spending is thought to be up to five times the official budget. China is believed to be spending more than $1 billion a year on foreign weaponry, and has bought Russian destroyers that could threaten a U.S. Navy attempt to aid Taiwan in the event of Chinese attack. In turn, Taiwan is seeking decommissioned Kidd-class destroyers from the United States. It is also interested in Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, equipped with the formidable Aegis radar system which tracks more than 200 targets. Washington, which is obliged by U.S. law to sell Taiwan sufficient weapons to defend itself, is expected to announce a decision by next month. Acquiring the warships would be a significant diplomatic and military coup for Taiwan. In recent years, Washington has declined or deferred Taiwanese requests for submarines and destroyers for fear of provoking China and an arms race. Tang did not say how Beijing would respond to a sale. Asked whether China would station more missiles facing Taiwan or stop cooperating with the Unites States on arms control, Tang said: ``We have to look at the attitude of the U.S.'' ``I hope the U.S. will come to a sober-minded understanding of the serious dangers involved,'' he said. China and Taiwan separated amid civil war in 1949. Tang charged the island would already have reunited with China ``if the United States as an outside factor had not wreaked havoc at certain times.'' He said Taiwan would be discussed by Vice Premier Qian Qichen when he visits Washington and New York this month. Qian, the government's top foreign policy expert, will be the first leader to visit since President Bush's inauguration in January. On another irritant in China-U.S. ties, Tang said an official investigation had disproved U.S. reports that Chinese civilian and military workers helped improve Iraq's air-defense network in violation of U.N. sanctions. He accused the United States of raising the allegation to divert international attention from U.S. and British air strikes against military sites around Baghdad on Feb. 16. ``Chinese enterprises and corporations have not assisted Iraq in building the fiber-optic cable project used for air defense,'' Tang said. ARTICLE 2 US Withdraws 750 Troops From Bosnia Ed.: A step in the right direction. Hopefully this is a coordinated move. Nonetheless, we should keep an eye on this situation, so it doesnât turn out to be a shell game -
[CTRL] Defending America Newsletter 21 March 01 Part 3
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ARTICLE 4 The Combat Armor Badge Ed.: A lively discussion for which many veterans came up on the net. Please send copies of your letters to the Armor School and the Army Chief of Staff. Youâre Preaching To The Choir Jim Phipps, Tank Veteran I think that you are preaching to the choir other than the dude running the Armor Center The tanker's jacket needs to exist, tanker's coveralls, a decent small submachine gun (take your pick, there are plenty), a shoulder holster that doesn't get hung up every time you exist a hatch, decent magazine pouch for the pistol that is compact, a CVC helmet that doesn't give you a headache, an intercom that is 99% reliable, and etc. I am tickled that they finally grabbed a coax that worked after many years of a joke called the M73 and M219. If the M240 had never happened, many of us would have welcomed a Browning derivation. The Combat Tankers Badge or other similar term is an old argument that has been around a long time. The Armor School never had the fortitude at the Command Level to champion it. Typically the warriors rarely made to the Command Level post WW2 with a few key exceptions. Also, while I am on my band wagon, why is it important for a RA Armor Officer to attend Jump School, Pathfinder School, and Ranger School? It is a great Ph.D. thesis project to see what % of commissioned armor officers ever served a true blue Ranger. Also, how many combat (not training drops) have their been of light tanks by any U.S. Airborne unit? Air landing yes, but airborne, never. These are old arguments that old tankers gripe about. If anything, send every tanker (officer) to a challenging Scout Course and teach true recon in the air land battle. The Germans new this in WW2 as did, to a large extent the U.S. Army later. Lastly, create a true "Top Gun" program that is mandatory for new Platoon Sergeants and Platoon Leaders to re-learn gunnery and tactics to survive in tomorrow's battle. Also include new company commanders, S-3's and Battalion Commanders who have been out of tanks for 2 years. If I'm off base so be it, but the Army never needs Armor until after the 1st shot is fired and that is historically after young Grunts die in the dirt. Recognize Tankers Bob Murphy sends It's absolutely mind boggling how the US Army's timid leaders just can't get their minds around the great slashing pincer movements of the Wehrmacht, and later the Soviet Army. It takes balls and competency and the support of the system to allow such tactics. The US Army is lacking on all counts. I remember a senior Pakistani Armored General saying the US was going to be embarrassed by how quickly Saddam Hussein's army would fold when the fighting started after the way the US had huffed and demonized him and built him up in order to justify the huge, massive, dumb way they fought that war. He was proved right. Tankers should get the same sort of recognition for bravery under fire that infantrymen do. I was a 11B.2P in V Corps LRRP Co (Abn) from 1964-67 in Germany and I strongly support a CAB. The prattling General and his comments about non-combat troops feeling bad about not having a CAB is insane. Soldiers are there to kill the enemy. There is no test, no way to prove they can do what soldiers are supposed to do without them having done it. Having done it successfully, they are worthy of recognition. It is our duty to recognize that, and encourage people who put their butts on the frontline for our country. The Other Perspective: Weâre All Soldiers MAJ Thomas E. M. - Soldier, US Army Isn't "the right thing to do" simply being proud to be a soldier? I'm not all that old but my initial service was as an enlisted Marine when the only ornament on the utilities was an iron-on eagle-globe-anchor and USMC on the pocket. Later, when I went to Air Assault school as a soldier in Hawaii, some Marines attended our class. They graduated and learned the same stuff we did but didn't put the wings on. They weren't authorized to. I think that shows a desire to learn the craft of war, not simply being enrolled in âbadge-finder' schools. I haven't had any personal conversations with the Army Chief of Staff but I'm thinking he was trying to accomplish something similar with the beret issue. Isn't it odd that people claiming to be "old soldiers" of the "old Army" are attacking the Chief when they are the same who complain about a lack of discipline and respect with the "new Army?" Think about it I won't debate the Chief's decision. He made it. We execute. It doesn't matter, whether I like it or not. I learned along time ago that you don't have to 'like' the leadership but you damn well better respect the position and demand that your subordinates respect that authority as well. I am very fortunate (perhaps unfortunate is some viewpoints) that in over 25 years in uniform (USMC Artillery and USA
[CTRL] Defending America Newsletter 21 March 01 Part 4
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ARTICLE 8 Navy: Distractions Add Up Ed: Mark Crissman, our senior Navy editor examines the possibilities why the Navy and the other services are experiencing more and more mishaps. By Marc Crissman The recent bombing of five soldiers in Kuwait by the Commanding Officer of VFA-37 and the loss of the Japanese fishing boat by collision at sea with the submarine USS Greenville are tragic. Close air support and emergency submarine surfacing are drills that are practiced routinely. They are primary war fighting skills. Their Commanding Officers are highly trained warriors who do not take their training for granted. When enemy surface to air missiles or torpedoes are aimed their way, Americans must react instinctively or die. Yet today our sailors, soldiers and airmen live in a zero defect environment. Care and Consideration for Others takes precedent over harder combat training with live ordinance. The Marines are the only branch that do more with less. The brass task masters pony up to monotonous No Fly Zone patrols, nuclear power reactor inspections and peacekeeping missions that dull razor sharp reflexes. The visitors on the USS Greenville were only a small distraction to the crew of a multi-billion dollar submarine of war. A micromanaging schedule, complex weapon systems, pressure from the chain of command to get back to port all add up. Emergency surfacing in a crowded shipping channel and Close Air Support at low level, high speed and high gâs are tasks that require full attention or death will quickly result. A Navy Skipper who recently returned from the Arabian Gulf tells me that he was given clearance to release bombs on coordinates in the same bombing range in Kuwait that were a full kilometer North of where the target was. Was it a mistake by the range controller or too much dependence on GPS technology? Iâve flown low level training routes over the same Kuwaiti bombing range and there is little topography to discern in the flat open terrain. Moving at 9 miles a minute like CDR Zimmerman in an F/A-18 Hornet only add to the difficulty of properly identifying a target vehicle in a featureless desert. A Navy Warrant Officer aboard the USS Truman says that to walk around the hangar bay, step aerobics doesnât fit his image of a nuclear warship ready for battle. When I left the Navy, a squadron XO and Intel officer on our carrier were busted for cohabitation aboard ship. The rules that govern fraternization are as old as John Paul Jones yet they are still on the books to maintain good order and discipline. During my first tour of duty one aircrew nearly plowed into the dirt during an instrument approach in bad weather. The two were different gender, did not date, but one had a crush on the other. The pilot decided to wave off the approach because it was unsafe. When the flaps were retracted to clean up and fly away, the airspeed was too slow. An empty drop tank on one side and a full one on the other flipped their jet inverted. The emergency procedure for out of control flight at 1,200 ft is to eject. The flaps were put back down and the airplane barely recovered at 200 feet above the trees. When asked why didnât you eject the crew, the copilot responded I thought the pilot had it. Was it infatuation that nearly caused their demise? My father was the commanding officer of the 5th Aviation Detachment during his third tour in Vietnam. During his tenure, one of his top Huey Cobra Instructor Pilots was training a platoon of Rangers in close air support with two gunships in close in air to mud tactics. The Rangers were watching safely from a set of bleachers that were away from the direct line of fire. As the forward controller called in the rocket attack, 14 Rangers were killed when one of the rockets veered up and over and into the stands. The volley of five other rockets impacted straight ahead into their intended target. The Ranger Commander did not press for charges during the investigation because he felt his Battalion would be closer to the shooting in combat than they were in training. He believed that what the two units were doing was right and would prevent American casualties when the real rounds were being fired. Our troops make life and death decisions on a daily basis. They deal with joy rides, gender integration, micromanaging inspection schedules, boredom over hostile skies, and endless peace keeping missions. Our leaders send in the troops with unclear goals, mission creep, and aging equipment. The troops must deal with inadequate funding and a training and readiness matrix that is interrupted by senseless sensitivity lectures. Our troopers have a mission, its time that the Chain of Command defined that mission properly and focused more closely on the mission at hand. ARTICLE 9 The Sergeantâs Corner Some Senior Leaders Need To Return To Mother Earth Ed.: Are
[CTRL] Fw: Picture of the Week - WHETHER 6 YEARS OLD OR 25
http://www.gamla.org.il/english/pics/pic3.htm A six-year-old Palestinian boy holds a hand grenade during a protest against Israel in Gaza city March, 17, 2001. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
[CTRL] Defending America Newsletter 21 March 01 Part 5
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ARTICLE 12 Senator Dodd, Democrat from Connecticut, Questions Handling of Anthrax Complaints Ed.: Still no new position on Anthrax. Despite the odds, the two Air Force Reserve Majors are still fighting the good fight. Thatâs what civil courage is all about. A report from The Hartfort Courant, March 09 2001. By THOMAS D. WILLIAMS U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd is questioning how the Pentagon's Inspector General handled a complaint by two Connecticut Air Force Reserve majors that two high-ranking Army officers gave false or misleading testimony. The dispute centers on a drug manufacturer's application for a license to make the anthrax vaccination being given to service members to protect them against biological warfare. The military has been inoculating service members since early 1998, even though the manufacturer's existing license describes the vaccine's use for humans exposed to anthrax-infected animals. The license request, if granted, would officially cover use of the vaccine for humans exposed to airborne anthrax spores. Connecticut Air Force Reserve Majs. Russell Dingle and Thomas Rempfer say the application, filed in September 1996 and still pending, shows the vaccine has not been proved effective against airborne anthrax. They filed their complaint against two Army officers who they say misrepresented the status of the license application to cover up its significance in separate testimony before a Canadian military court and the Senate Armed Services Committee. Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, is asking the inspector general's office to explain why its officials forwarded the complaint against the two Army officers back to the very office that supports and lobbies for the program. "These allegations are serious," Dodd said, "and they need to be addressed." A spokesman for the inspector general said Thursday that Deputy Inspector General Robert J. Lieberman is taking Dodd's request "very seriously," and is preparing an answer. Three weeks after receiving the allegations against the two officers in January, Leonard Trahan Jr., assistant director of the IG's Hotline, forwarded the inquiry to the senior adviser to the deputy secretary of defense for chemical and biological protection. For the past three years, that office has defended against scores of claims that the vaccination program is causing sickness. Military members who resist taking the inoculations have faced punishment; many others, especially in the reserve and National Guard, have quit rather than take the anthrax vaccination. Dingle and Rempfer filed their complaint against Lt. Gen. Ronald Blanck, the former Army surgeon general who has since retired, and Col. Arthur Friedlander, an Army medical supervisor who has been closely involved in vaccine testing and administration. Blanck told the Senate Armed Services Committee in April 2000 that a 1996 license application for another protective use of the drug "is really for the [new BioPort manufacturing] facility, not for the vaccine per se." Blanck was referring to BioPort's pending application to operate a new manufacturing facility. Contacted by The Courant, Blanck continued to insist the license is for the facility, and not needed for the vaccine. He did not acknowledge the existence of a separate, pending 1996 license application renewed specifically for protection against biological warfare. Kim Root, a BioPort spokeswoman, said the 1996 vaccine license application is not a part of the application for a licensed new facility, and is still pending approval. Dingle and Rempfer say if Blanck had informed the senators the Pentagon had sought a new license application, it was highly likely the senators would want to know why the present license is insufficient, in turn leading to further investigation of the anthrax vaccine program. Friedlander testified before Canadian Military Judge G. L. Brais last March 30. He was then an expert witness at the court martial of a Canadian soldier for refusing to take the anthrax vaccine. A court transcript shows Friedlander denied knowing anything about the manufacturer's new license application, supervised in part by the Army medical office where he works. Friedlander refused to concede that the anthrax vaccine was licensed only for skin exposure to anthrax, and not for exposures through the lungs. UPDATE - Battle of the Black Beret Rangers Declare Win in Beret Battle Ed.: A victory and a Ranger approved, acceptable solution. The Rangers adopted Tan and find themselves in good company with the elite British SAS. One question remains to be resolved: How are we going to pull the contracts for made in China? By ROBERT BURNS WASHINGTON (AP) - Color matters. After months of wrangling with Army brass in the Pentagon, the elite Rangers have won approval to switch the color of their berets from black to tan. Col. P.K. Keen, commander of
[CTRL] Hall of Opium [Golden Triangle]
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.goldentrianglepark.org/?MarshaCode=BUHRO Click Here: A HREF="http://www.goldentrianglepark.org/?MarshaCode=BUHRO" Hall of Opium [Golden Triangle]/A - In 1988, Her Royal Highness Princess Srinagarindra the Princess Mother, late mother of His Majesty the King of Thailand, initiated the Doi Tung Development Project in the northernmost point of Thailand. This project aimed to rehabilitate the forests and the lives of people living in the heart of the Golden Triangle in Thailand, ending their dependence on opium growing and use. A few years later, Her Royal Highness initiated a project to help educate people on the history of opium in the Golden Triangle and throughout the world, and to build their commitment to join the fight against illegal drugs. It is important to make people aware that narcotics and other illegal drugs are a problem not just for the countries and people of the Golden Triangle but for societies and people throughout the world. The social, economic and physical costs of drug abuse, of the crime and corruption that surround it and the efforts to control it, have major impact on all levels of society, from individuals and their families, to their local communities, and their countries. The result of this initiative is the Hall of Opium in the Golden Triangle Park, scheduled to open in the year 2001. When fully complete, it will combine a museum on the history of opium and the impacts of illegal drugs, with an information center for research and extension education on opium, opiates, and other narcotics. Location. The Golden Triangle usually means the vast area of three countries - Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand - where opium has been grown, processed to heroin, and smuggled out. But the Golden Triangle also refers to the point where these three countries meet, where the Sok Ruak tributary flows into the mighty Mekhong River. Every year hundreds of thousands of tourists come to this site simply because of its name and association with opium. The Hall of Opium is currently being built near this site, 10 kilometers north of Chiang Saen in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, on a plot of about 40 hectares. The site will incorporate the exhibition and information center of the Opium Museum Hall within the landscape of the Golden Triangle Park. The total size of the exhibition area will be about 5,600 square meters. Objectives. To educate people on the history of opium in the Golden Triangle and throughout the world. To build their commitment to join the fight against illegal drugs. To build awareness that narcotics and illegal drugs are "not just a problem of the countries of the Golden Triangle but for countries and people throughout the world." The Tourism Authority of Thailand joined the Mae Fah Luang Foundation in preparing the Golden Triangle Park and the Hall of Opium. Funding for initial construction has been provided through a loan from Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund of the Japanese Government to the Tourism Authority of Thailand. The Mae Fah Luang Foundation began research for the exhibition in 1994. An initial exhibition storyline prepared by the research team and approved by the board of the Mae Fah Luang Foundation provided the basis for the architectural design of the exhibition space and buildings. The Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China has provided technical assistance for the section on the Opium Wars. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory
[CTRL] RMNEWS: BUZZY KRONGARD -- NEW #3-MAN AT THE CIA IS FORMER INVESTMENT BANKER (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- "BUZZY" KRONGARD -- NEW #3-MAN AT THE CIA IS FORMER INVESTMENT BANKER According to Krongard, referring to the CIA's predessor, "the whole OSS was really nothing but Wall Street bankers and lawyers." http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7720 CIA/OSS is Bankers and such Posted By: Noah Date: Tuesday, 20 March 2001, 1:07 p.m. NOW YOU HAVE IT STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES MOUTH OR BEHIND. CHECK OUT THE 11TH PARAGRAPH BELOW: Colorful Outsider Is Named No. 3 at the CIA By Vernon Loeb and Greg Schneider Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, March 17, 2001; Page A03 A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, a cigar-chomping former investment banker and martial arts enthusiast, was named yesterday executive director of the CIA, bringing a fast-paced management style to the agency's No. 3 job. Central Intelligence Agency Director George J. Tenet announced the appointment, saying he treasures Krongard's "wise counsel and 'no-nonsense' business-like views." Krongard, 64, former head of Alex. Brown Co., an investment bank based in Baltimore, joined the agency three years ago as a counselor to Tenet. He switched careers shortly after helping engineer the $2.5 billion merger of Alex. Brown and Bankers Trust New York Corp., gaining $71 million in Bankers Trust stock. Few of his former colleagues were surprised by his decision to trade a $4 million salary and stock options for the far less remunerative job of Tenet's consigliere. A graduate of Princeton and the University of Maryland Law School, Krongard has a fondness for extreme military-style activities. Even as a banking executive, he trained with police SWAT teams for recreation and worked out with a kung fu master. To impress -- or intimidate -- visitors, the former Marine officer would demonstrate lightning-fast moves for disabling an attacker. The purpose of his exercise regime was not just to stay fit, he once said, but to increase toughness and discipline. To that end, he would thrust his hands repeatedly into buckets of dried rice or absorb blows to the stomach from a heavy medicine ball. He maintained a shooting range on the park-like grounds of his home on the northern edge of Baltimore, and kept a walk-in safe stocked with Cuban cigars. His rhetorical style, blunt and colorful, sets him apart on the seventh floor of CIA headquarters. In an interview yesterday, Krongard described his past duties as those of a "minister without portfolio" whom senior managers felt comfortable talking to about "sticky subjects." "I really didn't have a dog in any fights," he allowed, "and I was able to broker some things." But Krongard exhibited the requisite secretiveness when asked to explain his interest in intelligence and how he came to land a job in Tenet's inner circle. If you go back to the CIA's origins during World War II in the Office of Strategic Services, he explained, "the whole OSS was really nothing but Wall Street bankers and lawyers." Given the CIA's insular nature, outsiders who assume top posts often arouse suspicion. That was certainly true in the case of Nora Slatkin, a Capitol Hill staffer and Pentagon official who served as executive director from 1995 to 1996 under then-CIA Director John M. Deutch. One former agency official said yesterday that he found it "absolutely astounding" that Tenet installed Krongard in such an important job. "When you meet him, he tells you to punch him in the stomach to see how tough he is," the former official said. But Krongard received a rave review from former deputy director of operations Jack Downing, an agency legend. "I have a lot of respect for Buzzy," Downing said. "He knows business and financial markets and all that. But he's been privy to everything since he's been there, sitting at George's right hand, so he certainly knows the agency. I personally would be very happy to serve in that agency with Buzzy as executive director." Krongard described his new role as that of a chief operating officer and vowed to keep everyone focused. "If you ask me, 'What is your one biggest priority?' it would be to do everything I can . . . to support our two basic missions here, operations and intelligence," he said. "If you don't worry about who gets the credit, you can accomplish an awful lot." © 2001 The Washington Post Company Washington Post article RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY http://www.rumormillnews.com Rayelan Allan, Publisher Message From Rayelan: Many people have asked how I restored my health. Here is my secret: DEAD DOCTORS DON'T LIE. These are the products I used and continue to use. I am living proof they work! If you have questions, check out the chat room on Thursday nights, 7pm California time. Click the url for more information! http://www.deaddoctorsdontlie.com/agent/raye/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [CTRL] Psychological Abuse May Cause Changes in Brain
-Caveat Lector- Dear List, Please find excerpts from this article below. Sincerely, Neil Brick Psychological Abuse May Cause Changes in Brain - Psychiatric News - 3/02/01 - Clinical Research News - By Joan Arehart-Treichel "it appears as if this psychological impact can hurt the temporal lobes, important for sound and spoken language, and the limbic systemâthe brain's emotional processing centerit appears as if the psychological impact of childhood physical abuse can damage the corpus callosumâthe major information pathway between the two brain hemispheresthe psychological impact ensuing from childhood physical abuse appears capable of damaging the cerebellar vermis, an area of the brain involved in emotion, attention, and the regulation of the limbic systemAn overview of the findings by Teicher and his colleagues, as well as of the implications of these findings for psychiatry, was published in the fall 2000 issue of Cerebrum." http://www.psych.org/pnews/01-03-02/abuse.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] RMNEWS: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE MEETS SILICON VALLEY (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- MISSION IMPOSSIBLE MEETS SILICON VALLEY "In-Q-It" -- a Venture-Capital Scheme created for the CIA by the new #3 man in the CIA, "Buzzy" Krongard! http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7736 IN-Q-IT- CIA VENTURE-CAPITAL SCHEME - BY KRONGARD Posted By: Q Date: Wednesday, 21 March 2001, 2:02 p.m. Mission Impossible meets Silicon Valley http://www.davidignatius.com/092999WashingtonPost.html "The idea is for In-Q-It to fund promising technologies..." "The idea for the venture-capital fund was hatched in conversations between the new CIA director, George Tenet, and a former investment banker named A. B. "Buzzy" Krongard, who joined the agency in February 1998 as counselor to the director. Krongard had been CEO of Alex Brown, the investment bank that helped launch Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, AOL and dozens of other high-tech IPOs." "Tenet floated the venture-fund idea to his CIA colleagues in May 1998, referring to it simply as "The Enterprise." (Bill Clinton's CIA Director using Ollie North terminology? Could Bill have thought Tenet was a fox in the hen house? It's no wonder Bill asked Barak to kill him by targeting Arafat's office at the same hour Tenet was scheduled to meet Arafat. No wonder G.W. has kept him on. Are the lights starting to go on now? Do we have to draw you a picture?) " "In" for intelligence; "It" for information technology, and "Q" in the middle because it was the code name for James Bond's technology wizard, and it just sounded cool." (Isn't it a wee bit of a coincidence that "THE Q" uses the same initial? YOU DON'T SUPPOSE? Oh dear... is there a FOX in the Bush? No.. there is a FOX in Silicon Valley, and he is about to take what's left of the dot.coms home with him...to Mexico! Faction Three anyone?)" ONE WORD TO RUMOR MILL NEWS READERS WHO ARE "IN THE KNOW"! (Okay -- two words!) OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER Never heard of it? Use the search engines on the Forum, the main page and/OR the two Yahoo archives. I saw it somewhere.. on one of the archive pages connected to this webpage! And if you think this paltry story even comes close to telling you the truth -- think again. But those of you who have a nose will smell the coffee... but will you wake up? The Washington Post The CIA as Venture Capitalist By David Ignatius Wednesday, September 29, 1999; Page A29 If it were a Hollywood movie, the pitch would be: Mission Impossible meets Silicon Valley. But it's real life, and it's one of the oddest -- and most innovative -- things the Central Intelligence Agency has done in years. The CIA has decided to create its own venture capital firm, called "In-Q-It," to help the agency connect better with the Internet revolution. The fear at Langley is that in a world of start-ups and instant millionaires, the CIA isn't getting technology's best and brightest anymore. So the spymasters have opted to create their own start-up, with plans for an office on Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, where the leading venture capitalists hang out, and a $150 million kitty. The idea is for In-Q-It to fund promising technologies that can help the CIA keep pace with the information explosion. It will be small, with a staff of 20 to 25 people, and will operate much like a normal venture fund -- partnering with other companies and funds. In theory, its activities will be entirely unclassified. And though it will be a nonprofit organization, the goal is to invest wisely enough that after five years, it will be self-financing. As examples of the kinds of problems In-Q-It will work on, agency officials cite the need for smarter CIA search engines, better ways to visualize data, and better security for CIA web surfers. But the broader goal is to link an agency that can't give stock options with the cleverest minds in the tech world. The CIA plans to make a formal announcement of In-Q-It in a few weeks, but they've already chosen a board of directors -- including such tech luminaries as John Seely Brown of Xerox PARC, Jeong Kim of Lucent, Alex Mandl of Teligent and Norm Augustine of Lockheed Martin. And the board just hired the first CEO, an energetic 39-year-old named Gilman Louie. Louie's background gives a sense of what an unusual operation this is likely to be. A fourth-generation Chinese American (and son of a World War II veteran of the Army Air Corps), he made his name creating video games, including the Falcon air-combat simulator, beloved by computer buffs around the world. He's a genuine Silicon Valley entrepreneur, who started his first company in his mother's garage in San Francisco when he was 22 and hangs out with other wealthy geeks. His favorite recent movie is "The Matrix," natch, which he has seen four times. Louie appears to know relatively little about the CIA and its venerable traditions -- which is probably a plus. He
[CTRL] RMNEWS: OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER Created to drive initial public offerings out of the Elite controlled stock market, and cause the stock market to adjust to what it was, before all these new upstarts caused the market to reach all time highs. http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7738 OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER Posted By: tenavision Date: Wednesday, 21 March 2001, 3:01 p.m. In Response To: IN-Q-IT- CIA VENTURE-CAPITAL SCHEME - BY KRONGARD (Q) This is Rayelan's archive link for OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER. http://www.rumormillnews.com/archive/996.txt I think Q is trying to tell us what is coming down the pike to take away the value of our lives..at least economically. OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER RMNews Agency P.O. Box 1784 Aptos, CA 95001-1784 The Uncensored National Rumor Vol. 1 #4 September 1996 New Feature: Questions and Answers Operation Sledgehammer Q. In your story about TWA800, you mentioned an operation called Operation Sledgehammer. You said that this operation had nothing to do with sledgehammer missiles or the downing of TWA800. You said that it was an economic operation. Can you say more about it? A. Operation Sledgehammer was called into life during February of 1996. The operation is a joint operation by the Office of Economic Growth and Regulation due to the many new corporations that are being founded in the United States. The group responsible for IPO's (Independent Public Offerings) stock market certificates, otherwise known as open corporations, had been draining lots of funds from the various FUND management companies. The operation is being administered by the Federal Reserve Bank and the Securities Exchange Commission. They want to drive initial public offerings out of the Elite controlled stock market, and cause the stock market to adjust to what it was, before all these new upstarts caused the market to reach all time highs. The SEC is using the Company (CIA) to boot out all these upstarts--one way or another. Companies are being fire bombed and minor acts of internal terror have been registered in the last 4-5 months. Many service oriented companies' stock prices are being artificially depressed by the floor traders at the exchanges. The wave of church burnings, in the southern and south eastern U.S. are attributable to this policy, because an usually high number of black companies have gone public. The KKK doesn't have anything to do with the burnings. At the same time of the burnings, black business men have received a rash of letters telling them to shut their doors and let the price fall... or else. It is one of the most underhanded operation to come down the pike. The effect is multifold in nature! It removes the new smaller companies from the board; it will bring back a higher unemployment rate. Right now the rate is too low. It will also cause interest rates to rise, spurning a slightly higher rate of inflation. It will cause the value of the dollar to seek its own level again. Prices such as $15.00 at the opening bell (on these new start-ups) will fall drastically over the course of the first few days of trading. The DOW and DJIA will experience less capital moneys. That will cause older, larger and better funded corporations a better chance to survive, in a dog eat dog economy. The upstarts will quickly fold, because they are underfunded, and can't pump more money into their corporations. The end effect of all this is that the U.S. economy will stagnate and slip sharply downward. The beginning of the end for the U.S. economy. Their main and only problem is that its taking too long. A new wave of terror economics is about to be launched by a special operations group from the company. The effect will be felt by everyone. IN-Q-IT- CIA VENTURE-CAPITAL SCHEME - BY KRONGARD (views: 309) Q -- Wednesday, 21 March 2001, 2:02 p.m. OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER (views: 355) tenavision -- Wednesday, 21 March 2001, 3:01 p.m. RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY http://www.rumormillnews.com Rayelan Allan, Publisher Message From Rayelan: Many people have asked how I restored my health. Here is my secret: DEAD DOCTORS DON'T LIE. These are the products I used and continue to use. I am living proof they work! If you have questions, check out the chat room on Thursday nights, 7pm California time. Click the url for more information! http://www.deaddoctorsdontlie.com/agent/raye/ RMNews, The Uncensored National Rumor http://www.rumormillnews.com THE ONLY RUMOR YOU CAN TRUST RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY P.O. BOX 1784 APTOS, CA 95001 TEL 831 462 3949 FAX 831 462 2545 WHY WAS PRINCESS DIANA MURDERED? http://www.dianaqueenofheaven.com = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CTRL] Conspiracy Con Discounts (Tickets abd Exhibits) (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 06:41:13 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: Conspiracy Con Discounts (Tickets abd Exhibits) Hi, We have had dozens of requests for ticket prices and for exhibitor information. We wish to share this information - as well as let you know that the receiver of this email - is eligible for discounts for both Conspiracy Con passes and for exhibitor space. This discount is valid until until Friday, April 13th. This will be the last dispatch until early April. Conspiracy Con May 26th and 27th, 200 Santa Clara Convention Center 5001 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 Speaker Lineup: David Icke Jordan Maxwell Leonard Horowitz William Thomas Kathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips Bill Lyne Brian Hall - Host TICKET PRICES Postmarked on or before Friday, April 13 One day Pass$59.00 Two Day Pass $99.00 Cocktail Party $25.00 Regular ticket pricing: (And "at door" if available) Postmarked after Friday, April 13 One day Pass$69.00 Two Day Pass $119.00 Cocktail Party $30.00 Make checks or money orders payable to: Brian Hall Mail to: Brian Hall c/o Conspiracy Con 1706 Hogar Drive San Jose, CA 95124 (408) 266-4749 FAX (408) 723-4149 [EMAIL PROTECTED] === EXHIBITOR SPACE PRICES Exhibit and sell your conspiracy related products in the most cost effective manner available. Sell your books, papers, audio video tapes, vitamins, herbs to an audience with high interest in your products. This is also an excellent opportunity for organizations to network, hand out free literature and expand their mailing lists. Prices include: 6- foot skirted tables, electricity, plus 2 entire days of selling to your target market. One-six foot table $250.00 Two-six foot tables $450.00 ($225 / each) Three-six foot tables $550.00 Just $183.33 per table! (Price valid until April 13th) $600.00 ($200 / each) (after April 13th) Brian Hall- make checks or money orders payable to: Brian Hall c/o Conspiracy Con 1706 Hogar Drive San Jose, CA 95124 (408) 266-4749 [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information check us out at www.conspiracycon.com = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [BIOWAR] US Military Biological Warfare Experiment Kills Mental Patients? (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 05:51:31 -0800 From: Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: home [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BIOWAR] US Military Biological Warfare Experiment Kills Mental Patients? Military Biological Warfare Experiment Kills Mental Patients by Ed Hohmann Joe Johnson, a former employee at the Austin State School in Austin, Texas, has revealed that military personnel based at the adjacent Camp Mabry have been apparently conducting biological warfare experiments on mentally retarded patients. Some of these experiments have resulted in death. Mr. Johnson reported that on the night of January 5, 2001, five patients at the school died. Military personnel arrived and froze the bodies using liquid nitrogen. The bodies were then loaded into large white vans to take them to the morgue. However, instead of going to the morgue, Mr. Johnson observed that the vans drove across the street onto the adjacent military base, Camp Mabry http://www.infowars.com/joejoe.html = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] School Shootings (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:35:06 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: School Shootings Painfully truthful speech given by Rachel Scott's father before the US Judiciary Committee just recently. Do what the media did not do. Let the nation hear this man's speech. On Thursday, May 27, 1999, Darrell Scott, the father of Rache Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to speak to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful. They were not prepared to hear what he was to say, nor was it received well. It needed to be heard by every parent, teacher, politician, sociologist, psychologist and every so-called expert. "Since the dawn of creation there has been good and evil in the hearts of men and women. We all contain seeds of kindness or seeds of violence The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher and the 11 other children who died must not be in vain. Their blood cries out for answers. "The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field. The villain was not the club he used. Neither was it the National Club Association. The true killer was Cain, and the real reason for the murder could only be found in Cain's heart "In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even own a gun. I am not here to defend or represent the NRA, because I do not believe that they are responsible for my daughter's death. Therefore, I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel's murder, I would be their strongest opponent. "I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy. It was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies. Much of the blame lies here in this room, behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. "I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best. This was written way before I knew I would be speaking here today. Your laws ignore our deepest needs, Your words are empty air. You've stripped away our heritage, You've outlawed simple prayer. Now gunshots fill our classrooms, And precious children die. You seek for answers everywhere, And ask the question, "Why?" You regulate restrictive laws Through legislative creed. And yet you fail to understand That God is what we need Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, soul and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual influences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact. What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God and in so doing we open the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine tragedy occurs, politicians immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties. We do not need more restrictive laws. "Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors. No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts. Political posturing and restrictive legislation are not the answers. The young people of our nation hold the key. There is a spiritual awakening taking place that will not be squelched! We do not need more religion, or more gaudy television evangelists spewing, out verbal religious garbage. We do not need more million-dollar church buildings built while people with basic needs are being ignored. We do need a change of heart and a humble acknowledgment that this nation was founded on the principle of simple trust in God. As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes he did not hesitate to pray in school. I defy any law or politician to deny him that right. I challenge every young person in America, and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back into our schools." "Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with him. To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA, I give you a sincere challenge. Dare to examine your own hearts before casting the first stone! My daughter's death will not be in vain. The young people of this country will not allow that to happen."
[CTRL] ENN: NEW DEVICE DETECTS FOOD-BORNE DISEASES ON THE SPOT
-Caveat Lector- Source: Environmental News Network http://enn.com/news/enn-stories/2001/03/03222001/food_42650.asp NEW DEVICE DETECTS FOOD-BORNE DISEASES ON THE SPOT No bigger than a car battery, a new device has been developed at the University of South Florida that can detect food-borne diseases in minutes, not hours. For details: http://enn.com/news/enn-stories/2001/03/03222001/food_42650.asp = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FOX: O'REILLY: Was Osama Bin Laden Involved in the Oklahoma City Bombing?
-Caveat Lector- FOX NEWS NETWORK THE O'REILLY FACTOR (20:20 ET) March 20, 2001, Tuesday Transcript # 032002cb.256 HEADLINE: Was Osama Bin Laden Involved in the Oklahoma City Bombing? THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. O'REILLY: Tonight, shocking testimony at the pretrial hearing of Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, who has been convicted in a federal court and now is facing state proceedings. Investigative reporter Jayna Davis, who worked for the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City, uncovered evidence that Nichols had ties to the terrorist Osama bin Laden before the bombing that killed 168 people. Timothy McVeigh has also been convicted in the case and will be put to death on May 16th. And Ms. Davis says there were other people involved beside him and Nichols. But when she took her information to the FBI, she says, well, here's what she told me. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) O'REILLY: Jayna, it seems the Department of Justice all along wanted to make the Oklahoma City bombing and investigation simply a domestic terrorist incident. But your information is different. Tell us about it. JAYNA DAVIS, FORMER KFOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: Well, back in spring of 1995, I was working for the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City and I was assigned to look into people responsible for the bombing. And what we discovered, an intelligence source at one of the highest levels in the federal government later confirmed, was a Middle Eastern terrorist cell living and operating in the heart of Oklahoma City just a few miles from the Alfred P. Murrah Building. And through the course of our investigation, we located several witnesses that we deemed very credible at the station and they testified and told us that they identified an Iraqi national, a former member of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard through his own admission later, as being in the company with Timothy McVeigh the day of the bombing, prior to the bombing in Oklahoma City, in the Ryder truck, in the passenger seat of the Ryder truck, stepping out of the truck in front of the Murrah Building just moments before the blast and speeding away from downtown in a brown Chevrolet pickup that was identified by the FBI as a possible getaway vehicle and an official all points bulletin that was identified the day of the bombing. O'REILLY: All right, let me stop you then. But the Justice Department has never caught anybody there, never brought anybody in or told the press that there was this man, correct? DAVIS: Yes, that is correct. From what has been publicly stated, they said that they did not believe that there was a foreign connection to the bombing. O'REILLY: Right, now, you do believe there is? DAVIS: Yes, I do. O'REILLY: Do you have any other evidence? DAVIS: Yes. We have 24 sworn witness affidavits that ties seven to eight Arab men to various stages of the bombing plot from the beginning all the way to the day in which the plot was executed. I have several police records, court records, public court documents that I've amassed, hundreds of documents. I've spoken to law enforcement officials. I've spoken to intelligence experts, terrorism experts, all who confirm various aspects, the most crucial aspects of the witness testimonies. O'REILLY: Who is behind, then, the bombing, in your opinion? Not McVeigh and Nichols? DAVIS: Yes. The evidence that we have gathered definitely incriminates McVeigh and Nichols. Let me make that clear. They were in it up to their eyeballs, according to the evidence we were able to look into. However, it really is a foreign conspiracy masterminded and funded by Osama bin Laden, according to my intelligence sources. O'REILLY: Do you have any other information other than, you know, anonymous sources to back up that bin Laden was behind McVeigh and Nichols doing this? DAVIS: I have what has been published on the court record the writ of mandamus that was filed just prior to McVeigh's trial by his defense team, that a witness in the Philippines, a member of Abu Sayyef (ph), a terrorist group that has been identified as being funded by Osama bin Laden, identified Terry Nichols in the presence of Ramzi Yousef, the convicted mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, and several of his coconspirators in that bombing, and that they were discussing bombing activities prior to the Oklahoma City bombing. That is on the court record. O'REILLY: Do we know that Terry Nichols was, indeed, in the Philippines? DAVIS: Yes, he was. He had a mail-order bride. And I did an undercover hidden camera interview with his ex-wife, Lana Padia (ph), in which she admitted to me ver openly that she felt as if his travels to and from the Philippines, his cover story was having a mail-order bride. But he would go down there by himself on many occasions without his bride. O'REILLY: So now let me recap. You found out that there was a Republican Guard from Iraq accompanying Nichols and McVeigh on the day of the bombing. You
[CTRL] MC: Spooks, Cyber-goons declare open season on whistleblowers/Fwd
-Caveat Lector- From John Quinn at Newshawk: Barbara Hartwell Legal Defense and Research Fund PO Box 832 Woodstock NY 12498 websites: http://www.ulster.net/~babs7/ http://www.homestead.com/barbarahartwellsurvivor/ SPOOKS AND CYBER-GOONS DECLARE OPEN SEASON ON WHISTLEBLOWERS I have just been informed by my new webmaster, Ron Garon, that the perps who have been hacking into my websites --ever since he put the first NEW one up several weeks ago-- have now TORN DOWN the latest new and improved site Ron constructed for me. If you look at my old site ( babs7) you will see that the perps have wiped out my hit-counter, so I now have no way to check how MANY visitors are coming to my site. Shortly before that, they hacked in and changed my password, so I could not find out WHO ALL was visiting my site. (A lot of spooks, for sure, the last time I was able to look.) If you check my newer site (homestead) you will see that the perps have hacked in and distorted the photo of me, wearing camo gear --taken on a nocturnal field mission-- by my friend Bruce Cornet. Bruce is an excellent photographer... but after the hackers' handiwork, I look like hell. And I guess they didn't much like my motto on the front page: DON'T TREAD ON ME. I thought the rattler, ready to strike, was kind of cute. But alas, along with his message, they wiped him out too. And who knows what else the cyber-vandals may have done--like destroying more of my links-- which continues to happen on a regular basis. Many people have told me that they have NEVER been able to access my websites -- ever since the first one was constructed last May. Ron has worked very hard and spent many hours --volunteering his time-- to help me because he supports my work and believes, as I do, that the criminals who are commiting human rights absuses, such as mind control and nonconsensual human experimentation must be EXPOSED --and STOPPED. Considering the fact that Ron holds a regular full-time job, as well as serving as a Christian minister in two different ministries, he doesn't have much free time to devote to the mind control websites he sponsors and related research he is conducting. I wonder how he even finds time to sleepAnd as if he doesn't have ENOUGH to deal with, he has been targeted for harassment with high-tech weaponsharassment which has been escalating ever since he became associated with me and other whistleblowers exposing the abuses of mind control. But AS USUAL the cyber-goons are on a rampage--running amok and destroying as MUCH as they can, as FAST as they can. ( I wonder, are they paid for overtime ?.for their sakes, I sure hope so.) For more details re computer hacking and intimidation tactics used against my previous webmasters, please see my December 2000 report on Rumor Mill News: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RMNEWS_DAILY_EMAILS/message/9917 I have also been informed by a fellow-whistleblower, Major Steve Young, that the perps have been tampering with my phone lines AGAIN (It's nothing new.) Steve has tried to reach me by phone numerous times in the past several weeks. On most occasions he got a recorded message saying that my phone # was "disconnected" and that no further info was available. And he is only one of several people who have told me the same thing: These folks also got the spooks' recording instead of the one on my answering machine. Steve is willing to be my witness and to make a formal complaint to the phone company, Verizon, in my local area. Ron, Steve, and many others have also had their phone calls with me disrupted by high-pitched signals, echo chambers, military-style radio transmissions and outright and repeated disconnections on the line. As I write this, I am trying to recover from a long night of sleep deprivation -- caused by an intrusive, pervasive, LOUD, high-pitched, pulsing "signal" in my home. I am not a technical researcher, so I don't know precisely WHAT type of technology is involved. But I DO know WHO has given the orders behind the scenes. And WHY this weaponry is being deployed against me. I may not be able to stop these perps from hacking my websites, tampering with my phone and computer lines and hitting me with their high-tech weaponry. But at least I can let EVERYONE know about their criminal activities. U.S. Constitution, Amendment 4 states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Although there is no specific mention of the word "privacy" in the 4th amendment, nor for that matter, anywhere in the constitution, it is certainly implied in the language, given that the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted this
[CTRL] RC: Clinton Gifts Spark Reform
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2001/03/news0322b.html March 22, 2001 Clinton Gifts Spark Reform By Damon Chappie The flood of expensive gifts to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in the weeks before she took office has prompted conservative and liberal lawmakers in the House to try to close a loophole in rules restricting gifts to public officials. Under current law and interpretations of House and Senate ethics rules, the tight limits on gifts imposed by both chambers take effect after a lawmaker is sworn into office. But the two-month period between the Member's election and oath is not covered. Clinton's acceptance of tens of thousands of dollars in gifts of fine china, flatware and furniture after her victory last November caused an uproar and focused attention on the obscure loophole. Now, Rep. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has introduced two measures extending the gift restrictions to Members-elect. His bill, H.R. 787, would simply add Members-elect to the list of officials covered by federal law. It would then be up to each chamber to decide how to implement specific gift restrictions. A separate Graham resolution, H.Res. 73, would extend the $50 limit on most gifts to newly elected House Members. The resolution would have no effect on Senators-elect. A separate Senate rules change would be required to impose gift limits on Senators-elect. Like House Members, sitting Senators are prohibited from accepting gifts valued at more than $50 and may take no more than $100 in gifts from any one source per year. Graham, speaking by telephone during a campaign trip in South Carolina, where he hopes to succeed retiring Sen. Strom Thurmond (R), said he was surprised to learn after the Clinton uproar that Members-elect are not covered by ethics rules. "You know, you're trying to restore public confidence in government, and when you find situations that cry out for a remedy, you try to do the best you can. "We need to make sure that the moment you are blessed by the voters that responsibility follows," he added. Graham, who gained fame for his folksy style in prosecuting then-President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial, said his office received an avalanche of calls after reports surfaced that a network of wealthy benefactors showered gifts on the Clintons and pitched in to furnish the couple's two multimillion-dollar homes. "The point in time when she was getting gifts wouldn't have been allowed a few days later. That's what prompted it," Graham said of the measures. Joining Graham in sponsoring the measures are House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the former chairman of the House ethics committee. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who steadfastly defended the Clintons during impeachment and other scandals, has also signed on as a co-sponsor. "That's both ends of the political spectrum between me and Barney," Graham noted. "It says that this bill just makes sense. It fills in the gap and says, once you are elected then your ability to affect public policy begins." Frank too was surprised to learn after the news of Clinton's gifts broke that newly elected Members are not covered. "The logic for the gift ban applies the day you get elected, not the day you take office," Frank said. "You are trying to prevent people from being unduly influenced. "I didn't initiate this,"Frank stressed. "When people send me bills, I evaluate them and decide whether I want to sponsor them or not, and when I saw this one, I thought, 'Yes, this makes sense.'" Across the Capitol, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who is now embroiled in the Senate's battle over campaign finance reform, expressed interest in the Graham proposal when he was asked about it Tuesday. "If that can be done constitutionally, I feel that it is best for Members to refrain from taking gifts," said Feingold, who bars gift acceptance in his office. Although Feingold said he is focused on campaign finance reform, he added that he will eventually turn his attention to examining whether Senators and staff are complying with the current gift-ban rules. "I have heard comments from people that the [gift rules] are not being taken as seriously," he said. In January, after Giftgate erupted, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) expressed support for changing the rules to cover Members-elect. Two other Senators who have fought for ethics reforms, Sens. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) and Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.), also showed tacit interest in the idea when asked about it Tuesday. "Clearly, there is reason to think about the time you are elected and the time you take office," Fitzgerald said. Graham's bill was referred to the House Administration Committee, and the resolution goes to the Rules Committee. Neither panel has scheduled hearings yet. Mark Preston contributed to this report.
[CTRL] USAT: Bush, aides boost access of conservative medi
-Caveat Lector- http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2001-03-22-media.htm 03/22/2001 - Updated 11:40 AM ET Bush, aides boost access of conservative media By Mimi Hall USA TODAY WASHINGTON On his fifth day in office, Vice President Cheney granted his first radio interview to Common Sense Radio and its conservative host, Oliver North. At his first news conference as president, on a trip to Mexico last month, President Bush skipped over the major TV network correspondents and turned to Fox News Channel's Jim Angle. "You're next," he told the cable network's correspondent after wire service reporters, who by custom go first at presidential news conferences, asked their questions. And this month, when Cheney gave his first vice-presidential interview to a Washington newspaper, the outlet he chose was not The Washington Post, the capital city's traditional must-read for politicians and journalists. Instead, Cheney talked to The Washington Times, a much smaller newspaper known for its conservative tilt and its access to important conservatives in government. In the Clinton White House, newspapers with conservative news or editorial pages, and broadcasters with conservative programming, were ostracized. How times have changed. West Wing television sets that were almost always tuned to CNN during the Clinton years are now on Fox News Channel, whose political talk shows are dominated by conservative commentators. And after eight years of feeling frozen out, reporters from news outlets with conservative programming are winning a much friendlier reception from Bush and his aides. The shift started on the campaign trail. Bush's audiences occasionally booed CNN reporter Candy Crowley and held up signs slamming the "Clinton News Network." Sometimes they cheered Carl Cameron of Fox News. "It was flattering and unsettling," says Cameron, whose fellow reporters say he's as objective as any of them. "It suggested a perception that I would often disabuse people of." Now that Bush is in the White House, the reporters warmly received on the campaign trail are getting more access to top aides. It's part of a strategy to get more coverage and more positive coverage by spending time with right-leaning and outside-the-Washington-beltway journalists. Talking to news outlets with conservative audiences, and to local newspapers and TV stations, "gives you an opportunity to take your message unfiltered to voters who are listening," says Cheney's press secretary, Juleanna Glover Weiss. Earlier this month, Bush gave interviews to three of the biggest newspapers that cover the White House The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA TODAY and to The Washington Times. Wesley Pruden says, editor of The Washington Times, says, "I think the Bush White House figures they're going to get a fair shot with us, and I think that's true." But Bush and Cheney have spent considerably more time talking to reporters from other parts of the country. Last week, Bush promoted his budget and tax proposals during an interview with a half-dozen regional newspapers, including The Indianapolis Star and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. White House aides say local reporters tend to be less jaded than their Washington counterparts, and local newspapers are more likely to print big stories even if Bush and Cheney don't say anything new. "You get more play, more column inches, more time on the evening news," Weiss says. Interviews with outlets favored by conservative voters are meant to energize the party faithful. Inside the White House, "now they're listening to me instead of NPR," North crows, referring to National Public Radio, which has a generally liberal audience. In the Clinton White House, press secretaries were sometimes dismissive of reporters from conservative newspapers and stations or they ignored them. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer says he calls on most everyone who raises a hand at his televised daily briefings. "I don't think the press secretary should pick and choose based on an agenda or ideology," he says. But North says the administration will turn to shows such as his, which he boasts has "2 million right-wing radio listeners," to help rally the Republican troops. North, who was a Reagan aide, says he doesn't "pitch softball" questions. But when he interviewed Cheney on Jan. 24 and Cheney noted that the U.S. military has a new commander in chief, North replied, "Thank God!" He called Vice President Gore's efforts to streamline the government a "colossal failure" and called Clinton's energy policy "incoherent." This month, after Cheney spoke to The Washington Times, the White House was rewarded with four-and-a-half pages of coverage and an editorial that began, "There is no doubt that Washington has benefited vastly from President Bush's first six weeks in office." But while conservative talk-show hosts gush, reporters bristle at the notion that they're playing into Bush's hand. Bush and his aides
[CTRL] NR: Why the media love the McCain-Feingold bill
-Caveat Lector-
Trillion-Dollar Loophole
Why the media love the McCain-Feingold bill.
By Ann Coulter
Ms. Coulter is also a syndicated columnist
March 22, 2001 10:45 a.m.
In a little-known section of the campaign-finance laws, oil
companies are completely exempted from spending restrictions.
They alone can donate as much money as they see fit, directly to
candidates, in thinly disguised "issue advertising," or
coordinated expenditures. And spend they do. Year in, year out,
oil companies lavish billions of dollars on advertisements
promoting their pet politicians and sponsoring vicious negative
attack ads on the politicians they oppose.
It is no accident that the very first bill taken up by the U.S.
Senate would extend the oil companies' restrictive covenant
prohibiting others from competing with these enormous, vile,
polluting conglomerates.
Except it's not really oil companies. The exemption is for a
much more powerful, vile, polluting conglomerate known as the
news media. Section 431(9)(B)(i) of the campaign-finance laws
wholly exempts from the definition of campaign expenditure: "any
news story, commentary or editorial distributed through the
facilities of any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine or
other periodical publication."
That's why the media love the McCain-Feingold bill. That's why
"campaign-finance reform" became the first order of business in
the U.S. Senate this term. That's also why the suppression of
political speech by anyone but the news media is popularly known
as "reform" rather than "anti-competitive legislation protecting
an industry cartel."
If campaign expenditures aren't "speech," why is an exception for
the news media necessary?
There can be no meaningful reform of campaign-finance laws until
this completely undeserved monopoly granted by law to a single,
repellant, self-serving industry is repealed. Strip the media of
their exemption from the campaign-finance laws under section
431(9)(B)(i). Then we'll see how enthusiastic they are about
such genius McCain-Feingold "reforms" as banning any mention of a
federal candidate for 60 days before an election.
More important, there can't even be meaningful debate of
campaign-finance laws until the Section 431(9)(B)(i) loophole is
closed. In the past week, a hard-news item in the New York Times
compared John McCain to Don Quixote ("the quixotic Arizona
Republican tilts at the political money establishment"); Time
magazine referred to McCain as "a chipper warrior," a man "who
forgave the Vietnamese despite his captors' hanging him by his
broken arms," and the New York Daily News called McCain simply
"the Vietnam War hero." Liberals can never just make a principled
argument. It has to be Bambi against Hitler.
Needless to say, with this sort of rigorous debate taking place
in the adversary press, the arguments have been sharpened to a
razor's edge. Sen. Joe Lieberman said the country needs
campaign-finance reform because the current system is
"discouraging a lot of people from coming out and voting."
Discouraging people from voting? Why not claim campaign-finance
reform will rescue the NASDAQ?
Even Bill Clinton's favorite journalist, Ron Brownstein of the
Los Angeles Times (as Clinton told Brill's Content), described
Lieberman's insane assertion as "a really hard argument to make."
But Brownstein said "the larger point the senator made" ?!51;
that we need campaign-finance reform "is correct."
That occurred on CNN Sunday in a program that presented a total
of three opinions: Two from enthusiastic proponents of the
McCain-Feingold bill and one from the guy who pronounced
Lieberman's "larger point" buried within an idiocy "correct."
On the same day, ABC's This Week had precisely one guest on
campaign-finance reform. Guess which side he was on?
Campaign-finance "reform" advocate Warren Buffett was hammered
with such tough questions from the adversary press as: "I love
your analysis" and "So it's a shakedown?" Also that day, CBS's
Face the Nation balanced two supporters of McCain-Feingold
against yet another supporter of campaign-finance reform albeit
not the McCain-Feingold bill.
Evidently, everyone supports the media's exalted role as the sole
disseminators of political information. Everyone, that is,
except a few self-serving and presumptively corrupt U.S.
senators. (No Don Quixotes they.) Americans are clamoring for
more restrictions on their speech. Stop us before we speak
again!
A typical news report on McCain-Feingold stated that the defeat
of the McCain-Feingold bill would preserve "a status quo that
might frustrate Americans but serve politicians." The news report
sadly continued that "despite the taint of scandal, the American
people might not care enough to force change."
But deep down, according to the media, the "American people"
support the media 100 percent!
Meanwhile, in endless polls of the long-suffering "American
people," campaign-finance reform has never ranked among their top
[CTRL] Damaged by the evils of the market
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4156032,00.html Damaged by the evils of the market The Guardian's campaign to revive public services is backed by George Monbiot George Monbiot Guardian (London) Wednesday March 21, 2001 All too often the education process is entrusted to people who appear to have no understanding of industry and the path of progress," the European Roundtable of Industrialists complained in 1998. "The provision of education is a market opportunity and should be treated as such." Companies have not been slow to respond. Some have donated free exercise books to British schools. Interleaved with the blank pages are such salutary exhortations as "Stand up for your beliefs and values; take responsibility for your own actions; [get] spot protection by simply washing daily [with] Clearasil". Others have handed out teaching materials. A pack about "puberty and menstrual health", kindly provided by Tampax, warns girls that sanitary pads are uncomfortable, unhygienic and environmentally damaging; Tampax tampons, by contrast, are good for you and good for the planet. A school newspaper partly sponsored by Nestl published a page of children's poems and stories about Nestl products, such as "Nestl chocolate is the best/ Eat it for a hairy chest..." A teaching pack from Coca-Cola instructs pupils that non-refillable bottles are more environmentally-friendly than returnable ones. But the sponsorship of teaching materials is the least of the market opportunities education now provides. The government's education action zones are clusters of schools run by committees on which businesses must be represented. Last year the government launched a network of "city academies": urban secondary schools partly run by the private sector. Next month schools in Leeds will be outsourced to a "joint venture company". The market, the champions of privatisation argue, is keener and leaner than the public sector. With a vested interest in cost-effectiveness, companies are more efficient than the bureaucracies handling other people's money. The opponents of commercialisation argue that market efficiency and social efficiency are very different matters. Company directors have a "fiduciary duty" towards their shareholders: they are legally obliged to put their interests first, even if these clash with the interests of society. Some parents fear, for example, that companies running schools will seek to exclude failing pupils in order to improve their ratings, and hence their market value. The firms involved in education action zones are likely to be more interested in training a pliable corporate workforce than turning out well-rounded citizens. This is not to say that public and private interests are always in conflict. Few would argue, for example, that telecoms worked better when they were controlled by the state. The government nationalised the railways in 1948 partly to avoid paying the compensation necessary for reinvestment after the war. They have been run down ever since. But reprivatisation in 1996 merely compounded the damage, as the operating companies were also relieved of the responsibility to invest. The problem is that market values are now intruding into almost every aspect of public life, whether or not they are appropriate. When aristocrats enjoyed inordinate power in Britain, they insisted that they were the only ones who had the expertise needed to run the country. Today business people make the same claim, and governments seem prepared to believe them. There are two principal means by which the market is coming to run the country. The first is the establishment of quasi-corporate systems in public services. Management structures and pay scales mimic those of the private sector. Public provision is tested according to "best value" criteria. If it's found wanting, it's sub-contracted to the private sector. New ac counting procedures, such as "capitation" in the NHS and "producer choice" in the BBC, enable public services to become interchangeable with private ones. Interestingly, many of the new accounting methods would never be tolerated in a real corporation, as staff who should be saving lives or making programmes are instead buried in paperwork. But the most effective means of subjecting public services to the rigours of the market is to privatise them. The "private finance initiative" was described by one of its architects as "the Heineken of privatisation - taking the private sector to the parts of the government machine not reached by previous privatisations". Though most of us have yet to notice, corporations are gradually taking over almost every public service in Britain. The government claims that by attracting private money it can start building more hospitals, schools, prisons, roads and underground stations than it could have funded by itself. The first problem is that the private sector will only invest in schemes which make money. It's not
Re: [CTRL] How it's done: When you write the laws... you canlegalizetheft.
-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke Nurev Ind Research wrote: -Caveat Lector- === NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org === For release: March 22, 2001 === HA! J2 posting a Libertarian party press release (and in a favorable light)?! Never thought I'd see the day In defense, I assume he'll come back with something along the lines of: even if a fool says the sun is shining, doesn't mean the moon's out. It's not in a favorable light. It's merely the truth. Even Libertarians are sometimes capable of truth. The problem is that they are incapable of the WHOLE truth. The government is half the problem. The Rich and their economic system is the REAL core of the problem. C'mon. Let me hear you shout it out Libertarians. Capitalism SUCKS!! "__" H. I thought so. Joshua2 = The title of the thread sure seems to hit the nail on the head. As what's-his-face long ago put it: "All the great governments of the world - those now existing, as well as those that have passed away - have been of this character. They have been mere bands of impostors, who have associated for purposes of plunder, conquest, and the enslavement of their fellow men. And their laws, as they have called them, have been only such agreements as they have found it necessary to enter into, in order to maintain their organizations, and act together in plundering and enslaving others, and in securing to each his agreed share of the spoils. "All these laws have had no more real obligation than have the agreements which brigands, bandits, and pirates find it necessary to enter into with each other, for the more successful accomplishment of their crimes, and the more peaceable division of their spoils. "Thus substantially all the legislation of the world has had its origin in the desires of one class of persons to plunder and enslave others These laws have continued in force for hundreds, and, in some countries, for thousands of years; and are in force today, in greater or less severity, in nearly all the countries on the globe. "The purpose and effect of these laws have been to maintain, in the hands of the robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands, and, as far as possible, of all other means of creating wealth; and thus to keep the great body of laborers in such a state of poverty and dependence, as would compel them to sell their labor to their tyrants for the lowest prices at which life could be sustained. "The result of all this is, that the little wealth there is in the world is all in the hands of a few - that is, in the hands of the law-making, slave-holding class; who are now as much slaveholders in spirit as they ever were, but who accomplish their purposes by means of the laws they make for keeping the laborers in subjection and dependence, instead of each one's owning his individual slaves as so many chattels. "Thus the whole business of legislation, which has now grown to such gigantic proportions, had its origin in CONSPIRACIES, which have always existed among the few, for the purpose of holding the many in subjection, and extorting from them their labor, and the profits of their labor. "And the real motives and spirit which lie at the foundation of all legislation - notwithstanding all the pretenses and disguises by which they attempt to hide themselves - are the same today as they always have been. The whole purpose of this legislation is simply to keep one class of men in subordination and servitude to another." -- Lysander Spooner (1876) ...and let's not forget that: "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it". Frederic Bastiat "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." --Tacitus "The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime." --Max Stirner "Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." --Herbert Spencer "What, then, is legislation? It is an assumption by one man, or body of men, of absolute, irresponsible dominion over all other men whom they can subject to their power." --Lysander Spooner "Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and
Re: [CTRL] FOX: O'REILLY: Was Osama Bin Laden Involved in the Oklahoma City Bombing?
-Caveat Lector- --- MICHAEL SPITZER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- FOX NEWS NETWORK THE O'REILLY FACTOR (20:20 ET) March 20, 2001, Tuesday Transcript # 032002cb.256 HEADLINE: Was Osama Bin Laden Involved in the Oklahoma City Bombing? And what we discovered, an intelligence source at one of the highest levels in the federal government later confirmed, was a Middle Eastern terrorist cell living and operating in the heart of Oklahoma City just a few miles from the Alfred P. Murrah Building. And through the course of our investigation, we located several witnesses that we deemed very credible at the station and they testified and told us that they identified an Iraqi national, a former member of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard through his own admission later, as being in the company with Timothy McVeigh the day of the bombing, prior to the bombing in Oklahoma City. Nakano Comments: Tim McVeigh was recruited into a secret undercover operation by a "black-ops" agency of the U.S. government while he was still on active duty in the Army. McVeigh wanted to be in the Army Special Forces. He volunteered and reported for a "try out". It was reported that he failed the try out and that his application was rejected. It is probable, that McVeigh didn't fail, but was recruited into the black-ops agency. He was hand-picked for a special assignment, because the BATF had a "look-alike" agent who was a dead ringer for McVeigh. This facilitated certain parts of the plan. It was the McVeigh double who was actually arrested north of Oklahoma City after the blast at the Murrah Federal Building. McVeigh's mission was to leave the Army and appear to return to civilian life. In reality, his assigned mission was to make contact with a group of former Iraqi soldiers (Republican Guards) who had been given asylum in the U.S. by Bill Clinton. McVeigh infiltrated the group (terrorist cell) which had settled in Oklahoma City. He reported on this group's plans and movements. Yes...McVeigh was "in it up to his eyeballs". He thought he was carrying out an important undercover mission for his country. What he didn't understand, was that he was the "fall guy" in case the government "sting" operation went sour. (Perhaps it was intended to fail all along). It is highly probable that McVeigh is a victim of "mind control" such as the type that was developed by the CIA's MKULTRA and similar secret programs. Throughout all of his trial, and since McVeigh exhibited the telltale characteristics. The strange robotic detachment and lack of any remorse or emotion. The lack of any effort to defend himself. The insistence on waiving all legal procedures of appeal. He probably still does not comprehend that his country used him... then abandoned him and now it is going to kill him. Nakano __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia by Michael Parenti
-Caveat Lector- Michael Parenti is what Noam Comsky would be if he'd have grown a pair. --- J2 -- The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia by Michael Parenti In 1999, the U.S. national security state -- which has been involved throughout the world in subversion, sabotage, terrorism, torture, drug trafficking, and death squads -- launched round-the-clock aerial attacks against Yugoslavia for 78 days, dropping 20,000 tons of bombs and killing thousands of women, children, and men. All this was done out of humanitarian concern for Albanians in Kosovo. Or so we were asked to believe. In the span of a few months, President Clinton bombed four countries: Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq repeatedly, and Yugoslavia massively. At the same time, the U.S. was involved in proxy wars in Angola, Mexico (Chiapas), Colombia, East Timor, and various other places. And U.S. forces are deployed on every continent and ocean, with some 300 major overseas support bases -- all in the name of peace, democracy, national security, and humanitarianism. While showing themselves ready and willing to bomb Yugoslavia on behalf of an ostensibly oppressed minority in Kosovo, U.S. leaders have made no moves against the Czech Republic for its mistreatment of the Romany people (gypsies), or Britain for oppressing the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland, or the Hutu for the mass murder of a half million Tutsi in Rwanda -- not to mention the French who were complicit in that massacre. Nor have U.S. leaders considered launching "humanitarian bombings" against the Turkish people for what their leaders have done to the Kurds, or the Indonesian people because their generals killed over 200,000 East Timorese and were continuing such slaughter through the summer of 1999, or the Guatemalans for the Guatemalan military's systematic extermination of tens of thousands of Mayan villagers. In such cases, U.S. leaders not only tolerated such atrocities but were actively complicit with the perpetrators -- who usually happened to be faithful client-state allies dedicated to helping Washington make the world safe for the Fortune 500. Why then did U.S. leaders wage an unrestrainedly murderous assault upon Yugoslavia? The Third Worldization of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia was built on an idea, namely that the Southern Slavs would not remain weak and divided peoples, squabbling among themselves and easy prey to outside imperial interests. Together they could form a substantial territory capable of its own economic development. Indeed, after World War II, socialist Yugoslavia became a viable nation and an economic success. Between 1960 and 1980 it had one of the most vigorous growth rates: a decent standard of living, free medical care and education, a guaranteed right to a job, one-month vacation with pay, a literacy rate of over 90 percent, and a life expectancy of 72 years. Yugoslavia also offered its multi-ethnic citizenry affordable public transportation, housing, and utilities, with a not-for-profit economy that was mostly publicly owned. This was not the kind of country global capitalism would normally tolerate. Still, socialistic Yugoslavia was allowed to exist for 45 years because it was seen as a nonaligned buffer to the Warsaw Pact nations. The dismemberment and mutilation of Yugoslavia was part of a concerted policy initiated by the United States and the other Western powers in 1989. Yugoslavia was the one country in Eastern Europe that would not voluntarily overthrow what remained of its socialist system and install a free-market economic order. In fact, Yugoslavs were proud of their postwar economic development and of their independence from both the Warsaw Pact and NATO. The U.S. goal has been to transform the Yugoslav nation into a Third-World region, a cluster of weak right-wing principalities with the following characteristics: incapable of charting an independent course of self-development; a shattered economy and natural resources completely accessible to multinational corporate exploitation, including the enormous mineral wealth in Kosovo; an impoverished, but literate and skilled population forced to work at subsistence wages, constituting a cheap labor pool that will help depress wages in western Europe and elsewhere; dismantled petroleum, engineering, mining, fertilizer, and automobile industries, and various light industries, that offer no further competition with existing Western producers. U.S. policymakers also want to abolish Yugoslavia's public sector services and social programs -- for the same reason they want to
Re: [CTRL] Oklahoma City blast linked to bin Laden (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- --- Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ?? NO Mc VEIGH AUTOPSY ?? The muzzled tiptop experts agree that the Murrah Building was NOT destroyed by a fertilizer bomb in a Ryder Truck, but by several contact charges INSIDE that building and positioned on the critical failed support columns. And very soon after the bombing the Murrah Building was hastily demolished (terminated) and without an independent forensic examination. We are now told that Mc Veigh wants to be speedily executed (terminated) and buried without an independent forensic examination (autopsy). Do we really believe that? Isn't that convenient for the federal power structure that Mc Veigh wishes to be hastily terminated without an independent forensic examination entirely analogous to the building he allegedly destroyed with his one "magic" bomb? (Kind of like Oswald's one magic bullet?) _ Nakano Comments: Yes, it is very much like Oswald and also much like Sirhan Sirhan. Consider the following: "a Middle Eastern terrorist cell living and operating in the heart of Oklahoma City just a few miles from the Alfred P. Murrah Building. We located several witnesses and they testified and told us that they identified an Iraqi national, a former member of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard through his own admission later, as being in the company with Timothy McVeigh the day of the bombing, prior to the bombing in Oklahoma City." Nakano Comments: Tim McVeigh was recruited into a secret undercover operation by a "black-ops" agency of the U.S. government while he was still on active duty in the Army. McVeigh wanted to be in the Army Special Forces. He volunteered and reported for a "try out". It was reported that he failed the try out and that his application was rejected. It is probable, that McVeigh didn't fail, but was recruited into the black-ops agency. He was hand-picked for a special assignment, because the BATF had a "look-alike" agent who was a dead ringer for McVeigh. This facilitated certain parts of the plan. It was the McVeigh double who was actually arrested north of Oklahoma City after the blast at the Murrah Federal Building. McVeigh's mission was to leave the Army and appear to return to civilian life. In reality, his assigned mission was to make contact with a group of former Iraqi soldiers (Republican Guards) who had been given asylum in the U.S. by Bill Clinton. McVeigh infiltrated the group (terrorist cell) which had settled in Oklahoma City. He reported on this group's plans and movements. Yes...McVeigh was "in it up to his eyeballs". He thought he was carrying out an important undercover mission for his country. What he didn't understand, was that he was the "fall guy" in case the government "sting" operation went sour. (Perhaps it was intended to fail all along). It is highly probable that McVeigh is a victim of "mind control" such as the type that was developed by the CIA's MKULTRA and similar secret programs. Throughout all of his trial, and since McVeigh exhibited the telltale characteristics. The strange robotic detachment and lack of any remorse or emotion. The lack of any effort to defend himself. The insistence on waiving all legal procedures of appeal. He probably still does not comprehend that his country used him... then abandoned him and now it is going to kill him. Nakano __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] How it's done: When you write the laws... you canlegalizetheft.
-Caveat Lector- Jeff Russo wrote: -Caveat Lector- NUREV citing the Libertarians? What has the world come to? jeff Even Libertarians are right twice a day. Joshua2 --- Nurev Ind Research [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- === NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org === For release: March 22, 2001 === For additional information: George Getz, Press Secretary Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === U.S. House planning "sneakiest pay raise in history," Libertarians warn Americans WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. House is planning to give itself "the sneakiest pay raise in history," Libertarians warn: a tax-free, $165-per-day payment that would be activated the moment an obscure House panel declares their colleagues are "eligible." "These devious politicians have hatched another scheme to get rich quick at your expense, without accepting any blame," said Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party national director. "And if we don't speak out immediately, expect this raise to be approved faster than you can say 'pickpocket.' " Just two months after accepting a raise to an exorbitant $145,100 a year, House representatives are working behind the scenes to enact a "per diem" expense allowance of $165 per working day. With about 151 legislative days per year, the raise would amount to a $25,000-a-year, tax-exempt pay hike. But as the public finds out about the maneuver, House leaders "are getting nervous," according to Capitol Hill sources, and the proposal could be shelved -- or enacted -- at any time. "This episode demonstrates that the one word that should strike fear into the hearts of every American is 'bipartisan.' After all, there's nothing more dangerous, or expensive, than Democrats and Republicans working in harmony to funnel your money into their pockets," Dasbach said. As for the amount -- $165 per working day -- he quipped: "How much would we have to pay them just to stay home?" Dasbach predicted that taxpayers would have difficulty deciding what to dislike most about "the sneakiest pay raise in history": the sneakiness itself, the greed, or the hypocrisy. * The Sneakiness: "To avoid publicity, Congressional leaders agreed to delegate the power to approve the raise to the House Administration Committee, a low-profile panel that administers payroll and accounting," Dasbach said. "The panel of six Republicans and three Democrats can trigger the $165 per diem by simply declaring that their House colleagues are 'eligible' for it. "Why are politicians trying so hard to cover their tracks? Because they remember the public outcry over their last salary grab of $3,800 a year, which was opposed by 71 percent of the voters. But don't let them get away with delegating their dirty work to their cronies on the committee. There may be only nine conspirators, but there are 426 co-conspirators in the 435-member House -- and all of them should be held accountable." * The Greed: "If they pile a tax-free $25,000 raise on top of their lavish salaries, they will be raking in the equivalent of a $190,000 taxable salary, not including their lucrative pensions, a $3,000 tax exemption for a second home, and other benefits," Dasbach said. "And if this raise goes through, Congressional salaries will have risen an astronomical $80,600 over the last decade, meaning their raises alone will dwarf the median American family's income. It's time to stand up and say, 'Enough is Enough!' " * The Hypocrisy: "A $25,000 raise isn't enough for these money-grubbing politicians; they want a $25,000 tax-free raise!" Dasbach said. "It's obvious that House politicians have a love-hate relationship with the income tax: They love it when you pay yours, but hate having to pay theirs. You know the government is corrupt when an activity that can make politicians rich -- in this case, income tax evasion -- can get ordinary Americans thrown in jail. "That's why every American should help us combat Congress's latest salary grab. Think of it as preventing a Capitol crime." Sentby Paul E Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CTRL] How it's done: A mind is a terrible thing to have.
-Caveat Lector- MADISON AVENUE GOES TO WASHINGTON! Effective Public Service Communication - Brought to you by the Ad Council The media has an extraordinary power to inspire positive social change. And no organization uses that power more effectively that the Ad Council. For the first time in its 59-year history, the Ad Council is sharing its secrets, at "The Art of Getting Attention," and exclusive two-day conference in Washington, D.C., May 14 15, 2001. This event is presented by the organization that brought you such memorable slogans as "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste" and "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires." It's your chance to learn from the best - from planning and research to creative strategies and getting exposure for your PSAs. Public attention is critical to your success. Find out how to get it. PROGRAM FEATURES: The State of Public Service Communications Know Your Audience: A Macro View of America Laying a Solid Foundation through Research Powerful Creative: The Key to Getting Results through Public Service Advertising Media Outreach and Distribution What Fulfillment Program is Right for You? Public Service Communications Online The Changing Media Environment What Makes the Gatekeepers Open their Gates? - Ad Council's 2000-2001 Gatekeepers Study Mobilizing Constituents to Maximize Your Work Beyond the Ad: Public Relations Options for Funding Public Service Advertising Campaigns For more information and to register, visit the Ad Council's web site (http://www.adcouncil.org/seminar/) or contact: The Advertising Council c/o Effective Public Service Communications Seminar 261 Madison Avenue, 11th Floor New York, NY 10016 Phone: (212) 984-1948 Fax: (212) 922-1676 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] WHO'S BEHIND THE STATEMENTS OF NONPARTISAN THINK TANKS?
-Caveat Lector- WHO'S BEHIND THE STATEMENTS OF "NONPARTISAN" THINK TANKS? Opinions and news commentary in the News Record, as well as other media, often come from persons identified with organizations that claim to be non-partisan. Readers need to know a bit more about where these statements are coming from and who is behind them financially. When the author is a corporate executive or a labor representative, one knows where his or her loyalties lie. When the connection is with a think-tank, however, that is less clear. These sources generally claim to be non-partisan research organizations, while actually slanting their writings toward one party or against another and showing little evidence of any objective research despite their tax-exempt status. When they are described as "conservative," "liberal" or "progressive," we have an idea of their orientation, but most have misleading or non-descriptive names that often sound similar. A study by California State University researcher Michael Dolny found that right-wing think tanks were quoted more often than liberal ones, and their ideology was identified less often. Over time I have been compiling the following information about think-tanks and other organizations that should be helpful to readers who "consider the source." Air Quality Standards Coalition is the main group lobbying against environmental protection rules. Made up of over 700 companies and housed at the National Association of Manufacturers, it is headed by C. Boyden Gray, heir to a tobacco fortune, lobbyist for a Utah steel company, and former counsel to the first President Bush. American Enterprise Institute, in four years for which information is available, received at least $1,714,000 from pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology and tobacco companies and corporate foundations interested in curtailing Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation, as well as financial support from billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, heir to the Mellon banking, manufacturing, and oil fortune. American Tort Reform Association (see Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse). Cato Institute, funded by corporations that oppose government regulation, is the leader of a coalition spending huge amounts for Social Security privatization, cochaired by William Shipman of State Street Global Advisors, an investment company that would benefit financially. Cato was also one of seven think tanks opposing FDA regulations that received at least $3.5 million from corporations interested in downsizing the agency. Center for Justice Democracy, formerly Citizens for Corporate Accountability Individual Rights, works with Public Citizen, an organization founded by Ralph Nader. Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (CALA) is the name used by fake grassroots organizations for "tort reform" opposing lawsuits against corporations. Litigation has revealed that the big tobacco companies and other major industries were behind CALAs as well as the American Tort Reform Association. Citizens for a Sound Economy is a business-backed lobby that opposes EPA air quality standards. It has also worked for a flat tax and lobbied against the FDA. Its chairman is the same C. Boyden Gray who heads the Air Quality Standards Coalition and has lobbied for biotech drug-maker Amgen, Inc. Coalition for Vehicle Choice argues against stricter auto fuel-economy standards. Its money comes from Detroit auto makers. Competitive Enterprise Institute is another of the seven think tanks opposing FDA regulations that received at least $3.5 million from corporations interested in downsizing the agency. Concord Coalition's president is Peter G. Peterson, who was commerce secretary to Nixon, an investment banker since then, and an advocate of a national sales tax. The Concord Coalition has proposed a ceiling on taxes for big business and the wealthy, but cuts in Social Security and Medicare. Contributions Watch, which studied political giving by trial lawyers nationwide, was set up by a PR firm hired by Philip Morris. Electric Consumers Resource Council is a Washington lobbying group whose "consumers" are big industrial users of electricity, such as General Motors, Texaco and Procter Gamble. Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) is funded by oil companies and conservative foundations. Douglas H. Ginsburg, a District of Columbia appeals court judge, sits on its board of directors and ruled as a judge against EPA air quality standards. FREE, which receives hundreds of thousands of dollars from corporations that have critical cases in the courts, has paid for hundreds of judges to attend anti-regulation seminars at luxury resorts. Free Congress Foundation, another group that received funding from Mellon heir Scaife, set up a toll-free hot line for women to claim they had been sexually
[CTRL] Attention Liberals: This is a battle for equal rights, you are needed to support another humanitarian war in the Balkans.
-Caveat Lector- LIBERALS === Poor NATO needs your help again to finish off the Former Yugoslavia. Won't you join with the brave National Liberation Army, and help them secure the sex slave and heroin routes they are desperately defending in the name of equality, peace , and goodness. Please remember. Greater Albania will be an open, warm, and accepting place. It will accept heroin from Turkey. White girls from Eastern Europe and Russia. And, most importantly, oil and gas from the Caspian region. You helped us liberate Kosovo from the Slavs. Won't you help us do it again in Macedonia? They are so evil, and we are so oppressed. Pleeeaaase. Warm wet fuzzies to you all, Faazie Da Bear U.C.K./ National Liberation Army J2 = US groups send arms to rebels The Guardian (London) March 20, 2001 Julian Borger in Washington Albanian-Americans are contributing recruits, money and weapons to the rebellion in Macedonia, believing it to be as important a struggle as the war in Kosovo two years ago, community leaders said yesterday. The rebel National Liberation Army (NLA) published advertisements in Albanian-language newspapers in the US on Saturday, calling for volunteers and donations, and held recruitment campaigns at the weekend. "About 20 people have gone already," Dervish Jahjaga, editor of Bota Sot, an Albanian-language newspaper in New York, said. "And if the fighting continues like this and spreads to western Macedonia, then hundreds will go .. More than went to Kosovo perhaps." Several hundred Albanian-Americans, mostly from New York, joined the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to fight the Serbs in 1998 and 1999. Some of the same volunteers, known as the Atlantic Brigade, are reportedly joining the NLA. Homeland Calling, the same organisation which raised money and bought arms for the KLA, is currently performing the same function for the new group. Members of Homeland Calling have also been browsing gun fairs, where regulations on weapons purchases are looser than in gun shops, in recent weeks. The NLA and Homeland Calling appear convinced that Nato will not intervene against the rebels in Macedonia. In the wake of troop withdrawals from Bosnia announced last week, the insurgents believe that George Bush's administration does not have the stomach to fight its former Albanian allies. Even if Nato were to make a concerted effort to stop arms flowing into Macedonia from Kosovo, Mr Jahjaga said, the guns would simply come across from Albania. "There are so many ways for weapons to go across. There are very high mountains for them to go across. And everyone in Albania has weapons," he said. "Weapons are not a problem. Peace is the problem." The New York Times yesterday reported that the NLA had succeeded in raising $500,000 (350,000) in donations from Albanian-Americans who view the situation of the Albanian community in Macedonia as comparable to the plight of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo under Yugoslav rule. Mr Jahjaga said reports were coming in to New York that Bulgarian paramilitary groups were intervening on the Macedonian side, aided by weapons supplies from both Greece and Bulgaria. He denied that the aim of the Albanian rebels was to partition Macedonia and create a greater Albania. "This is a battle for equal rights," he said. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Guardian: Rural myths catch military connection in their net
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,460962,00.html Rural myths catch military connection in their net Causes Stories dismissed as rumours and xenophobia but one may be true Special report: Foot and mouth disease John Vidal and Paul Brown Thursday March 22, 2001 The Guardian Rumours, conspiracy theories, urban myths and allegations about foot and mouth are now spreading through Britain even faster than the disease itself. Most are immediately dismissible, several impossible to check, and at least one is being investigated seriously by the authorities. Cover up Foot and mouth has been here months. Yesterday timber and railway sleeper dealers appeared on Radio 4's Today programme detailing calls from the Ministry of Agriculture before Christmas asking for the price of timber to burn foot and mouth diseased animals. Fact: Staffordshire animal health office, part of Maff, rang round merchants in the autumn asking for quotes for timber for pyres as part of an annual contingency plan on how to deal with swine fever and foot and mouth outbreaks. This is a requirement of all EU countries. It happens every year. Animal liberation It is rumoured that animal lib activists have deliberately spread the disease because they are so dissatisfied with industrial farming. Fact: The Hillside animal sanctuary near Norwich is Britain's leading animal sanctuary with more than 800 rescued farm animals. As a campaigning animal welfare organisation but with no history of militancy, several Hillside members went to Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland, in December to investigate the conditions animals were being kept in. However, they did not go into the pig farm. Following phone calls from farmers to the police alleging that Hillside members then went on to other farms and spread the disease, the sanctuary has been placed under a restriction order, and checked for signs of foot and mouth. None has been found. Military meat This theory centres on the fact that Ministry of Defence in Northumberland regularly imports cheap meat from countries round the world evading normal customs practices. It is said some of the meat - which may have carried the virus -was sold as pigswill to the farm at the centre of the outbreak. Fact: This, or a version of it might be true, and is under investigation. Certainly the main theory that MAFF is working on is that infected imported meat found its way into pigswill that was not cooked properly and then caused the outbreak. Porton Down The story going the rounds is that that the substrain of the type O virus now in Britain is not the same as any that hasbeen found elsewhere in the world. Fact: The Ministry of Agriculture says it is the same type and substrain. A spokesman at Porton Down, the biological and chemical defence section, said yesterday: "We have never worked on foot and mouth." Deliberate spread One rumour in south-west England is that sheep dealers re-sold animals they knew were infected. Fact: There is no evidence that dealers knew sheep were infected. Immigration It is said that illegal immigrants brought the virus with them, either on their clothing or in food, like dried meat. Fact: No evidence whatever. "Pure xenophobia" according to the Ministry of Agriculture. Vets and journalists The myth is that reporters as well as vets and farmers who have been to many farms with foot and mouth have passed on the disaese. Fact: Anyone in close contact with the disease could pass it on. Almost all cases have been directly linked to animal movements, or movement of vehicles or people between farms. Since the outbreak the most stringent disinfection regime has been operated and vets who have been close to infected animals have to wait three days before going on to another farm. Journalists are not allowed on infected farms. Biological warfare It is being said that foreign terrorists and specifically Saddam Hussein's agents have spread the disease. Fact: It seems unlikely and would require someone collect the virus, incubate it, place it in aerosols, come to Britain and spray the virus into cattle or pig pens. Wild animals It is said that wild animals - starlings, hedgehogs, wild boar, deer and foxes - are spreading the disease and are all to be wiped out by SAS marksmen. Fact: The chief vet has denied there is any connection between the spread of the disease and wild animals. Any bird feeding on a dead carcass could theoretically pick up the virus but it is extremely unlikely, because the carcasses are disinfected as soon as possible after death, and are not emitting any virus anyway. The military is keen to help with the outbreak but the Ministry of Defence has denied that the SAS is stalking wild boar in Essex or anyway else. Jim Scudamore, the chief vet, specifically ruled out trying to kill any wild animals because it was likely to disperse them, further increasing any chance of infection.
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Gus Russo, The Nation, JFK Murder
-Caveat Lector- For the record... I am not related to Gus. - Jeff Russo Gus Russo appeared in the late 80's claiming to be a JFK assassination researcher, and tapped many unsuspecting folks for information (I was always wary of him), then showed his true colors at a symposium in Chicago where he openly became an apologist for the Warren Commission version. Others in the research community kept dealing with him though. At the inception of COPA in 1994, we got word from some of them that Gus was lunching with the likes of Helms, Colby, etc. and that they were probing him about the first COPA national conference and whether we were going to blame their friend David Atlee Phillips for the murder. He was flattered to be among them, and clearly bought their line. "They call me Gus" he happily told one researcher. We had other names for him, of course. He was hired as a consultant for a History Channel series about Oswald, and he does keep exhaustive files. Of course the program came to the same conclusion, Oswald was a skill-less malcontent who shot the President. Russo wrote a book based on what the intelligence boys fed him (look again at the Nation piece sources for the interpretation that this is an assassination plot, even an unnamed CIA source - who needs the fucking New York Times, now the Nation can use the same smarmy "journalism" instead). It was originally titled Reap the Whirlwind. This is the thesis: There was no rogue element in the CIA or Mongoose, they were just following orders from JFK to kill Castro. The old hands at the CIA were not comfortable with these assassination plots, but they were forced to go along by the Kennedy brothers, who were "out of control". The plots to kill Castro, though unsuccessful, caused the "Commie" malcontent Oswald to kill JFK in retaliation. The Kennedy brothers "reaped the whirlwind" of their killing plots and were killed themselves instead. (i.e. Had it coming). David Corn, like Max Holland and Russo, are self-conceited intellectual arbiters from the circles around IPS (note they quote Halpern too) who despise the left and the counter-cultural movement. (Well, hell, all you need to do is think about your previous CAQ editor to know the fucking mentality, Lou.) Corn slammed me in print way back when I started the Mae Brussell Center, linking me to the paranoid right wing militia. Holland used to sleaze into the COPA meetings with Ben Franklin of Washington Spectator for no other purpose than to do hit pieces. No wonder they liked him at the Nation! Holland has a book coming that defends the Warren Commission. They fall in line behind I.F. Stone, Alexander Cockburn, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky and whatever else passes for left intellectuals in this culture, going beyond saying that it doesn't matter if there was a conspiracy to actually attacking those who say there was. The Nation has suppressed this information from inception, and one has to wonder about the money behind it, especially the proto-fascist Hamilton Fish, Sr. They hate the counter-culture and the grassroots left. Look at their defense of Gore and slamming of Nader during the last election for an example. I suggest the new book False Mystery by Vincent Salandria, a brilliant early critic, and also History Will Not Absolve Us by Martin Schotz for clear left analysis of the case and early indictments of The Nation. Russo is slick, full of "facts", and hard at work performing the second assassination of the Kennedy's, along with the CIA's old wonder boy, Seymour Hersh. Yes, there is a "dark side" to the Kennedy saga, all you have to do is look at the old man for that, but it was when the boys broke free that the trouble really started. They responded to the civil rights and anti-nuclear movements in a way no one before or after them ever did. Not because they were saints, but because they were clear headed politicians. Whatever "dark side" they had it has to be compared to the "black hole" of the forces that killed them first. Once we name the killers, then we can talk about the crimes of the victims. These "writers" will only address the latter. It's a lot safer, and they get to lunch with the CIA and be told the "inside story" that no one has ever heard before (yeah, right!). John Judge ps - The Nation piece was part of the email, hope you got it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John - I haven't read the Nation piece, but I did receive an inquiry last week from a reader as follows: "Who is Gus Russo?" So John, who is he? I've never heard of him previously. Is he a COPA hanger-on, a conspiracy freak (in the worser sense), or an apologist for those who want to continue the JFK coverup? Lou = Jeff Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat, college" -- Woody Allen __ Do You
[CTRL] Fwd: Independent Review Backs Bush's Florida Victory
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Re: [CTRL] RMNEWS: BUZZY KRONGARD -- NEW #3-MAN AT THE CIA IS FORMER INVESTMENT BANKER (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- When the old OSS was formed the brains seemed to be all masons, say Morgan, Mellon and their heirs - All CIA...hence, they were jokingly called in inner circles the Oh So Social group.but then who could you trust in times of war? It takes big bucks to fight and win wars, and one does not go to a pawn broker in good times; he goes to the banks. CIA tryng to build a Rambo Image? Face it, that Rambo guy wasn't too bright in fact was kind of stupid - ate rats? Sylvestor Stallone as Rambo made a better Rocky V. So it was C. Gordon Liddy who used to torture himself to prove how strong he was - that he could survive torturewhy bother with all that crap when a little truth serum, etc., one knows all, tells all, and it might take a code word to loose the memory floodgates..manchurian candidates. There was a man named Mitch Werbell years ago - trained what looked like Red Berets - he was homely but always had a klot of pretty girls surrounding him - now to check their pedigress, one might have been in for a joltthis man, was according to 60 Minutes Chief Executive Action Officer for CIA, whatever that meanshe chummed with Gordon Novel and Wee Gordy Liddy The team then linked up to Larry Flynt in Californa as security and that is where Flynt wanted to blow up supreme court.now if you or I had made such a plan and loaded a wheelchair with dynamite, we would have been put in slammer. So who was put into the slammer? Mitchel Werbell, who got caught in court house with what ws called a "swiss walking stick", a cane with a sword in it..he would have done better to take an umbrella. But Mr. Werbell was put into a jail cell, and dropped dead...Larry Flynt went before the Supreme Court with a T Shirt with the big one written on the front of shirt... Such is life of average CIA agent - no James Bond who looks like Roger Moore or Sean Connery or Pierce Bronson? Now from what I have gathered during those days most intelligence is collected from the newspapers Its like saying that Robert Redford who played The Condor - and then played Bob Woodward in the movie re Watergate - Bob Woodward is no Robert Redford, but then who was? Now some of the super spooks I have known, my brother in law was the most handsome - and wee Gordy Novel was a James Dean look alike though some thought he was also an Oswald look alike - and he worked for Guy Bannister? Tell me why did Oliver Stone omit this guy from his movie? Well Wee Gordy knew what a bum Garrison really was.but he did tell me once the Mafia in Louisiana was more honest, than the government down there. Novel married beautiful Playboy Bunny of Month - and if you look at him closely he has that "Don't Treat on Me you SOB" look about him. Now this Buzzi - how would you like that guy for a spy . Bet he gets a hat with CIA Spy written on front.for clandestine operations of course, for whoever would believe such a jerk could be recruited into this once Oh So Social, establishment comprised of the biggest thieves, but honest operating according to law, in the History of the Worldfrom Genesis to the Alpha and the Omega Man - hey Buzzi - what you got on your T Shirts - I Am That I Am? Saba All That Glitters Is Not Gold.Ever hear of the Rhinestone Cowboy? Wore fisherman hat with little rhinestone hooks, etc? A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Gus Russo, The Nation, JFK Murder
-Caveat Lector- On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:38:09 -0800 Jeff Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- For the record... I am not related to Gus. - Jeff Russo Can you be 100% certain? When people occasionally ask me something along the lines of 'are you brothers' or 'are you Jewish' or etc., and as is usually the case it isn't true, I simply answer 'not as far as I know'. Because a lot of people have to flap their gums constantly, and I guess because I'm such a magnetic and good-looking guy, they always want to talk to me. If I'm sitting (or standing) with a friend (who usually looks nothing at all like me) some bonehead is always liable to come up and ask 'are you brother?'. I tried to interrogate one as to why she we think me and another guy were brothers she claimed it was because we both had black hair. You can really bamboozle some people who ask inane questions with puzzling answers. Just my thought for the day, no need to read anything personal into it or start a flame war. Gus Russo appeared in the late 80's claiming to be a JFK assassination researcher, and tapped many unsuspecting folks for information (I was always wary of him), then showed his true colors at a symposium in Chicago where he openly became an apologist for the Warren Commission version. Others in the research community kept dealing with him though. At the inception of COPA in 1994, we got word from some of them that Gus was lunching with the likes of Helms, Colby, etc. and that they were probing him about the first COPA national conference and whether we were going to blame their friend David Atlee Phillips for the murder. He was flattered to be among them, and clearly bought their line. "They call me Gus" he happily told one researcher. We had other names for him, of course. He was hired as a consultant for a History Channel series about Oswald, and he does keep exhaustive files. Of course the program came to the same conclusion, Oswald was a skill-less malcontent who shot the President. Russo wrote a book based on what the intelligence boys fed him (look again at the Nation piece sources for the interpretation that this is an assassination plot, even an unnamed CIA source - who needs the fucking New York Times, now the Nation can use the same smarmy "journalism" instead). It was originally titled Reap the Whirlwind. This is the thesis: There was no rogue element in the CIA or Mongoose, they were just following orders from JFK to kill Castro. The old hands at the CIA were not comfortable with these assassination plots, but they were forced to go along by the Kennedy brothers, who were "out of control". The plots to kill Castro, though unsuccessful, caused the "Commie" malcontent Oswald to kill JFK in retaliation. The Kennedy brothers "reaped the whirlwind" of their killing plots and were killed themselves instead. (i.e. Had it coming). David Corn, like Max Holland and Russo, are self-conceited intellectual arbiters from the circles around IPS (note they quote Halpern too) who despise the left and the counter-cultural movement. (Well, hell, all you need to do is think about your previous CAQ editor to know the fucking mentality, Lou.) Corn slammed me in print way back when I started the Mae Brussell Center, linking me to the paranoid right wing militia. Holland used to sleaze into the COPA meetings with Ben Franklin of Washington Spectator for no other purpose than to do hit pieces. No wonder they liked him at the Nation! Holland has a book coming that defends the Warren Commission. They fall in line behind I.F. Stone, Alexander Cockburn, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky and whatever else passes for left intellectuals in this culture, going beyond saying that it doesn't matter if there was a conspiracy to actually attacking those who say there was. The Nation has suppressed this information from inception, and one has to wonder about the money behind it, especially the proto-fascist Hamilton Fish, Sr. They hate the counter-culture and the grassroots left. Look at their defense of Gore and slamming of Nader during the last election for an example. I suggest the new book False Mystery by Vincent Salandria, a brilliant early critic, and also History Will Not Absolve Us by Martin Schotz for clear left analysis of the case and early indictments of The Nation. Russo is slick, full of "facts", and hard at work performing the second assassination of the Kennedy's, along with the CIA's old wonder boy, Seymour Hersh. Yes, there is a "dark side" to the Kennedy saga, all you have to do is look at the old man for that, but it was when the boys broke free that the trouble really started. They responded to the civil rights and anti-nuclear movements in a way no one before or after them ever did. Not because they were saints, but because they were clear headed politicians. Whatever "dark side" they had it has to be compared to the "black hole" of the forces
[CTRL] WHY NOT BOYCOTT THE OSCAR AWARDS
-Caveat Lector- Watching garbage movies is not exactly my favorite way to pass my time; movie are getting so lewd and crude and obscene, but they made it from the bedrooms now to the bathroom and latest trend also is vomitting and men like Alec Baldwin and Bruce Wllis learning to cry in prime time Now another shooting at a schooland tonight this Christian Slater looking very old for such a yong age - almost like end of mispent life - was on TVall I could remember about this jerk was he played the kid with the black trench coat who murdered Heathrs - popular kids - with Wynona Ryder.who by the way, as I recall i this movie also tried to hang herself..so these kids killed their little classmates and wanted to blow up the schoolcults have been built about this movie and now they plan in Hollywood to do Heathers II..notice even Arnold Schwartnegger the Austrian guy with no shoulders and dinosaur brain - this guy played Kindergarten Kop and introduced shooting into little kids schoools for entertainment. So do not watch much TV anymore - even Disney Channel is getting contaminated with fruit cakes.. Now we know the only way to hurt these people is through their pocketbooks...now these people are protected it is said under the Consttution of he United States and I am beginning to wonder about that paper - Article I, Sectioni 8 is to do in part with Arts and Sciencesand I thought of the picture of the Black Madonna done in elephant dung, and called art.and then I thought of Hollywood, the biggest piece of dung in the Universe..and their somewhat face it, trashy movie stars - crude, lewd, pretending to be "stars" - engaged in mutual admiration societies, covering up like Clinton, their murders and crimes and setting such beautiful role models for our children. WHY NOT BOYCOTT THIS PIECE of GARBAGE called Oscar Night where these pepole heap upon themselves Oscars and wonderful words while some of these people with all their money, face it - are just plain white and black trash one step from hell. Today people hurt in scaffolding which fell - probably a bunch of underpaid workers who buid the big seats, etc., to set this heap of garbage on high? Have you see some of this stuff on TV lately; I had to have the HBO taken out I was ashamed to have it in my home. SO BOYCOTT OSCARthe sodomists have even taken MIckey Mouse away from our children and attempt to put Rosie O'Donnell into Sesame Street.by the way, anybody know how Rosie broke her hand? I keep thinking of her accident prone two year old who lost her front teeth in accident, and blasted her own nose which was bloodied...while that old bat sits on TV like a pig with apple in mouth and ring in nose. All now said, I hope that Oscar Show is a disaster; imagine Liz Taylor will be there with two security guards holding her up - Dame Liz Tayloranother paragon of virtue to be set up on high, but still pigs at trough only we pay through the nose? A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
