Re: [CTRL] Ask questions later by Bill C. Davis
-Caveat Lector- http://onlinejournal.com/ = We need your continuing financial support to meet our monthly expenses. Please help us by becoming a Friend of Online Journal by going to the following link and donating whatever you can: http://www.applyweb.com/public/contribute?oj == 12-06-01: Ask questions later By Bill C. Davis December 6, 2001-Most citizens capitulated to the dubious outcome of a disputed election because there was little else one could do and-for the sake of the country-we were told to ask questions later. There was however an interesting reintroduction to a deeper patriotism. We asked questions about the roots of our country and we contrasted our answers to the rhetoric and policies from Bush and company. Something wasn't lining up and what the rest of the world was seeing many Americans also began to see. Only fear and terror could put aside those questions and put the will of the people behind the besieged administration. Fear and terror arrived. All questioning ceases; George is given dictatorial powers and Americans are being force fed a manic and pumped up sense of confidence. We're going to be fine-we're going to be fine-we're going to be just fine. No question. The war on terrorism offers an absolute evil for the population to rally against. It's simple and unambiguous. Ambiguity is not something George has the patience, historical perspective or attention span for and he represents and promotes this feature in the American sensibility. He says it's a new kind of war against evil. But it appears to be the same kind of war we've seen before against something much more complex. What we're watching we have watched before. A powerful military bombs a country that only has guerilla capabilities or an inferior militia. Many civilians are killed; rage grows; terrorism becomes the only weapon of reprisal. People will always organize to create chaos until there is no reason to organize and until chaos is no longer useful or necessary. The comparison has been made between the war on terrorism and the war on poverty, the war on drugs and the war on cancer. It sounds macho and forthright but these wars are fictions that by the heat of their own declaration must ignore root causes and questions. The war on terrorism has a particular reason for ignoring root causes since whatever grievance a terrorist attack may be addressing instantly becomes off limits, because addressing the grievance will be perceived as submission and reward. Asking why a terrorist attack happens almost implicates the person asking as an accomplice. Instead of being a dispassionate inquiry in search of a solution, asking why becomes tantamount to harboring a terrorist. Bush and Ariel Sharon believe violence is necessary-they believe in an eye for an eye. They believe military action will bring peace. It has been said that if violence could bring peace, Israel should be the safest place in the world. We are told that terrorists are being killed in Afghanistan. There's no way to know how true that is, but it is safe to assume that out of this new kind of war terrorists are being born. The terrorists America needs to be concerned about may not be in Afghanistan at all. The cunning and committed terrorist is the one we need to be searching for. A fighter in Afghanistan is surely committed, but he is most likely not a terrorist and he is certainly not cunning. By definition a terrorist uses surprise and secrecy. The soldiers/operatives being killed in Afghanistan are openly fighting a military. That is not the action of a terrorist whose most important weapon is secrecy. Bush, although not a fan of terrorists, is a big fan of secrecy. If one were suspicious, the accidental bombing of Al-Jazeera in Kabul could be interpreted as a measure by which secrecy was secured. More blatantly, if secrecy can be blatant, the suppression of the Reagan papers, the need for military tribunals, his drunk driving record, the sources for his energy policies, the Bush bin-Laden connection, the Carlyle group and now possibly American casualties, are all covered with a veil. Several Pakistani papers are reporting sixty-five Marine deaths in Afghanistan. The official word from the Pentagon is there has been only one casualty. No word that will encourage the opposition or discourage the shoulder to shoulder pro war sentiment will be uttered from the Pentagon. Keeping the price of a military solution secret must be considered necessary for success. No one should ask how many soldiers have been killed. We are told they most likely will be killed-but ask questions about that later. As veils are lifted in Afghanistan, the veil in America gets tighter. Even America's second lady, Lynne Cheney, is making the rounds encouraging college elitists to cool the critical rhetoric and acknowledge and declare that they are outside the mainstream, i.e., admit your opinion doesn't matter-really. Prime Minister Sharon announced to
Re: [CTRL] Hypocrisy re terror groups - Christopher Reilly
-Caveat Lector- http://onlinejournal.com/ 12-06-01: Bush administration hypocritical on terror groups; CNN remains silent By Christopher Reilly YellowTimes.ORG Journalist December 6, 2001 (YellowTimes.ORG) - The Bush administration has been completely hypocritical in its attempts to stop terror groups. The US president announced to CNN that he would be cracking down on financiers of the radical Palestinian group Hamas; however, he completely failed to mention Saudi Arabia and other moderate gulf states as being financial and verbal supporters of the Palestinian terror group. CNN reported Tuesday that the president froze the U.S. assets of a Texas-based Islamic foundationâ¦alleging that the organization acts as a front to finance the militant wing of the Palestinian group Hamas. The group, known as the Holy Land Foundation, is reported to have raised $13 million dollars in the United States; money allegedly used to help fund the militant Hamas. After condemning the foundation, Bush failed to even criticize Saudi Arabia, who according to Britain's The Guardian, recently gave a grant to Hamas amounting to over $140 million dollars; money which probably went toward purchasing more nail laden plastic explosives. Once again this highlights the Bush administrations hypocritical stance in the war against terrorism. Going after the assets of small foundations will do next to nothing in stopping terror groups when the main supporters are left immune to criticism, as in the case of Saudi Arabia and their support for Hamas. Bush even went so far as to say, The money raised by the Holy Land Foundation is used by Hamas to support schools and indoctrinate children to grow up into suicide bombers. The money raised by the Holy Land Foundation is also used by Hamas to recruit suicide bombers and support their families. But Bush still had nothing to say about Saudi Arabia, who gave over ten times that amount of money to Hamas. The Bush administration also failed to criticize Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, who have all given their support to Hamas in the past, despite the terror group's indiscriminate killings of Israeli and Arab civilians. These four countries have welcomed Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas, with open arms. Even more chilling is how CNN has continued to fail to address this hypocritical stance of the Bush administration. The article on Bush's crackdown, written by CNN correspondents John King, Kelly Wallace, and Susan Candiotti, mentioned nothing of the Gulf States contributing to Hamas and the failure of the Bush administration to address this issue. The article, titled Bush announces crackdown on alleged Hamas financiers, looked more like a press report from Bush spokesmen than an article from a non-governmental media agency. Concerns can be raised about the dangers of a large media outlet such as CNN becoming a mouth-piece for the Bush administration, despite their claims of objectivity. The links between CNN and the Bush administration are even stronger when considering how CNN chairman Walter Isaacson told his staff to balance their war reporting, according to Britain's The Times on November 1st, 2001. This order by Isaacson came shortly after journalist Michael Theodoulou reported Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah telling a group of newspaper editors, The vicious Western media attack against the Kingdom is only because of the ancient spite against Islam and Saudi Arabia's commitment to Islam. Much of the US media, led by CNN, have also been largely silent on accidental civilian killings in Afghanistan as a result of US bombs. Civilian deaths due to US bombs are now accepted to be in the hundreds, but much of the US media does not seem to consider this important news. Just yesterday, journalist Richard Lloyd Parry witnessed the remnants of the Afghan town Kama Ado, completely destroyed after American B-52s unloaded dozen of bombs that killed 115 men, women and children. Yet once again, the US media has remained relatively silent on Kama Ado, and the Pentagon has continued to deny the event even took place. Perhaps journalist Robert Fisk said it best, We are not supposed to know the details of these deaths. Christopher Reilly can be contacted at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YellowTimes.ORG urges its material to be reproduced, broadcast, or reprinted as long as a link to YellowTimes.ORG is included. Copyright © 1998-2001 Online Journalâ¢. All rights reserved. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content. == WEB SITE HOSTING: Why put your web site on any old server, when you can have the same reliability, performance and security we enjoy? Let Online Journal host your site for as little as $15 a month. For more information go to: http://www.onlinejournal.com/Hosting/hosting.html
Re: [CTRL] Monbiot Blasting Our Way to Peace
-Caveat Lector- http://www.monbiot.com/ Blasting Our Way to Peace The West's victory is a defeat for civilisation By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 15th November 2001 The armchair warriors have proved no more merciful in victory than the Northern Alliance. Yesterday's Sun turned over two pages to an editorial titled Shame of the traitors: wrong, wrong, wrong ... the fools who said Allies faced disaster. Christopher Hitchens raised the moral and intellectual tone of the debate in the Guardian yesterday with this lofty sentiment: Well ha, ha, ha and yah, boo. It was ... obvious that defeat was impossible. Such magnanimity suggests to me that it is not Afghanistan which we have bombed into the Stone Age, but ourselves. But almost everyone now agrees that this is the end of history, all over again. The sceptics have been routed as swiftly as the Taliban. George Bush and Tony Blair, with the help of their daisy cutters and cluster bombs, have ushered in a new, new world order, the long awaited golden age of democracy. But have the warriors of the West, both actual and virtual, really won? And if so, what precisely is the prize? There's no question that the advance of the Northern Alliance is a remarkable turnaround, which took the hawks as well as the doves by surprise. All of us -- warriors and sceptics -- overestimated the military difficulties of capturing Kabul. But the Telegraph's repetition of Mrs Thatcher's injunction -- just rejoice, rejoice -- may prove to be a little premature. It would be rather easier to measure the success of the West's war aims if those aims had not shifted with every presidential announcement. But a few key questions may help us to determine how much the B52s have achieved. The first and most obvious is: will the advance of the Northern Alliance lead to the overthrow of the barbarous Taliban? The answer is, almost certainly, yes; though they may persist as a guerilla force. The question this then begs is will it improve the lives of the Afghan people? Almost everyone appears to believe that it will. But we should be foolish to forget that just five years ago both Afghans and western diplomats welcomed the Taliban's capture of Kabul, as it relieved the inhabitants of the murderous dominion of the men who now run the Northern Alliance. Yesterday the Telegraph claimed that the NA's fearful violence towards Arab and Pakistani soldiers is a shocking reminder of the fact that bin Laden's zealots have been a hated army of occupation. Well, perhaps. But it is also a shocking reminder of the fact that the Northern Alliance can be just as brutal as the hated regime it has displaced. To the claim Polly Toynbee made on these pages yesterday that nothing could be worse than the Taliban, one can only respond: don't tempt fate. The Alliance's willingness to cooperate with western plans for Afghanistan is also questionable. Four days ago, we were told that its soldiers had been persuaded not to advance on Kabul, and this was judged a victory for the West. Now they have taken Kabul, and this too is hailed as a victory for the West. That the military action has not gone according to plan, in other words, is now presented as a vindication of the plan. Given that the Northern Alliance has so far shown little interest in doing as the West requests, why should we assume it would be prepared to abandon its military gains for a broad-based political settlement? Countless comparisons to the outcome in Serbia have been made, as if this somehow offers proof that armed intervention leads inexorably to democracy. But Serbia, unlike Afghanistan, already possessed a mature democracy movement. Where is the Afghan equivalent? Where are the moderate leaders with which the West wants to replace the Taliban? Who among all the named credible candidates does not have blood on his hands? And will the fiercely independent Afghans accept the writ of the United Nations? Or, given that both Russia and the West have strategic and energy interests in central Asia, will it come to be seen in the same light as the Soviet occupation? Will the advance of the Northern Alliance save people who are at risk of famine in Afghanistan? It will almost certainly save some of them. Much more aid is now entering the areas which have come under Northern Alliance control, though, like the retreating Taliban, the alliance fighters have been looting supplies and commandeering UN vehicles. But for thousands the help is likely to have arrived too late. The interruption of supplies during the eight weeks in which they should have been stockpiled for the winter means that many of those living in the valleys made inaccessible by snow will die before they can be reached. Will it lead to the capture or killing of Osama Bin Laden? Possibly. Will it free the world from terrorism? No. Will it deliver regional or global security? Probably not. The Northern Alliance's gains represented a bounty for Russia and a blow for Pakistan,
[CTRL] Secret US Plans for Next War on Iraq
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related New Paradigms Posts at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: All The News That Doesn't Fit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Secret US Plans for Next War on Iraq Date: Monday, December 03, 2001 12:12 PM Secret US Plans for Next War on Iraq Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit The Guardian/Observer - December 2, 2001 http://www.guardian.co.uk Secret US plan for Iraq war: Bush orders backing for rebels to topple Saddam by Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver America intends to depose Saddam Hussein by giving armed support to Iraqi opposition forces across the country, The Observer has learnt. President George W. Bush has ordered the CIA and his senior military commanders to draw up detailed plans for a military operation that could begin within months. The plan, opposed by Tony Blair and other European Union leaders, threatens to blow apart the increasingly shaky international consensus behind the US-led 'war on terrorism'. It envisages a combined operation with US bombers targeting key military installations while US forces assist opposition groups in the North and South of the country in a stage-managed uprising. One version of the plan would have US forces fighting on the ground. Despite US suspicions of Iraqi involvement in the 11 September attacks, the trigger for any attack, sources say, would be the anticipated refusal of Iraq to resubmit to inspections for weapons of mass destruction under the United Nations sanctions imposed after the Gulf war. According to the sources, the planning is being undertaken under the auspices of a the US Central Command at McDill air force base in Tampa, Florida, commanded by General Tommy Franks, who is leading the war against Afghanistan. Another key player is understood to be former CIA director James Woolsey. Sources say Woolsey was sent to London by the hawkish Deputy Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, soon after 11 September to ask Iraqi opposition groups if they would participate in an uprising if there was US military support. The New York Times yesterday quoted a senior administration official who admitted that Bush's aides were looking at options that involved strengthening groups that opposed Saddam. Richard Armitage, the Deputy Secretary of State, said that action against Iraq was not imminent, but would come at a 'place and time of our choosing'. Washington has been told by its allies that evidence it has presented of an Iraqi link to 11 September is at best circumstantial. However, US proponents of extending the war believe they can make the case for hitting Saddam's regime over its plan to produce weapons of mass destruction. A European diplomat said last week: 'In the past week the Americans have shut up about Iraqi links to 11 September and have been talking a lot more about their weapons programme.' The US is believed to be planning to exploit existing UN resolutions on Iraqi weapons programmes to set the action off. Under the pre-existing 'red lines' for military action against Iraq - set down by Washington and London after the Gulf War - evidence of any credible threat from weapons of mass destruction would be regarded as sufficient to launch military strikes along the lines of Operation Desert Fox in 1998, when allied planes made large-scale strikes against suspected Iraqi weapons complexes. Opposition by Blair and French President Jacques Chirac may not be enough to dissuade the Americans. One European military source who recently returned from General Franks's headquarters in Florida said: 'The Americans are walking on water. They think they can do anything at the moment and there is bloody nothing Tony [Blair] can do about it.' Bush is said to have issued instructions about the proposals, which are now at a detailed stage, to his Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, three weeks ago. But Pentagon sources say that a plan for attacking Iraq was developed by the time Bush's order was sent to the Pentagon, drawn up by Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, chairman of the joint chiefs General Richard Myers, and Franks. The plan is to work with a combination of three political forces: Kurdish rebels in the north of Iraq, radical Sunni Muslim groups in and around Baghdad, and, most controversially, the Shia opposition in the south. The most adventurous ingredient in the anti-Iraqi proposal is the use of US ground troops, Pentagon sources say. 'Significant numbers' of ground troops could also be called on in the early stages of any rebellion to guard oil fields around the Shia port of Basra in southern Iraq. (c) Guardian Newspapers Limited 2001 [In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research
Re: [CTRL] Let Me Tell You About My Family
-Caveat Lector- Well June, the ADL came out with this neo nazi crap and went after those two kids at Littleton and then they found out this Klebold kid came from a jewish family - another smaller 'foundation which is nice point for laundering dirty money. End of story .. Then they do not like to talk about these two kids wanting to hijack a jet plane and crashing it into New York City - now somehow this reminds me of the Twin Towers. Now tell me where were these loving parents when these two little hoods who were wearing black trench coats - these two alleged homosexual lovers - when they plotted and planned and bought enough explosives to wipe out a block area and their slaughter however due to their inability to provide more effective pipe bombs, etc., which did not go off, saved the lives of hundreds of people. What they planned was a real blast reminiscent to the Twin Towers? Tell me where were these loving parents? Well Klebolds decided to sue the Sheriff for their lack of control over their little animal. Do not know if the Harris kid's family did - but the minute it came out that Klebold was jewish - hey it sure stopped the ADL from complaining further for we had a good look as to from where some of this stuff was comingoh it was to celebrate Adolph Hitler's Birthday, and to bring Judgment Day or Megiddo on their little classmates. Such lovely parents - one suing the Sheriff blaming him - where the hell did these kids keep these arsenals - one drugged up half the time, the other boozing up so much vodka he took it as a nickname. Both these homes had fatherstell me where were they, the displinarian figure? but somehow that wanting to hijack a jet plan and crash it into New York City rang a familiar bell So one of the first guys to get the anthrax in the Senate? Why this man Dascle - was against gun control during this periodbut Clinton went after the guns because two little fascists, wanted to use propane gas tanks to take out an entire block - maybe he should have gone after the propane? Wonder, did they ever take these parents to juvenile Court for neglect after the fact - the kids were 17 and still under their legal control. But then like this 6 year old black kick who shot and killed a little 6 year old white girl we are to forgive and forget? Now where did these kids keep their arsenal? And to hijack and crash a jet plane? These other kids whom they called jocks these are the one's they were after.they were all Christians and targeted kids, no doubt active in Christian organizations But most of all their parents did not sue the Sheriff for neglect in their kids being slaughtered - not it took Klebold's parents to do that..hope they were heavily insured against the terrorist activities of their kids. Saba This is G o o g l e's cache of http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/14/columbine0214_01.html. G o o g l e's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web. The page may have changed since that time. Click here for the current page without highlighting. Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content. These search terms have been highlighted: klebold propane gas tanks Crime, Justice, Safety: 8 Channels -- 26 ProgramsNEWSCENTERCRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMSAFETY CENTERCRIMINAL JUSTICE PROFESSIONALSCRIME SOLVERSRESOURCE CENTERVIDEO CENTERMEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT Breaking NewsMissingInternet CrimeCan You Believe This?Major CasesIn Depth Free E-mail AlertLive Police ScannersForums Search My APB About APB Contact APB Newsletters Downloads APBNEWS.COM NEWSCENTER BREAKING NEWS STORY New Details of Columbine Attack: 95 Bombs Electronic Triggering Failures Prevented School Holocaust Feb. 14, 2000 Columbine gunman caught on video in school cafeteria DENVER (AP) -- Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were armed with 95 explosive devices when they launched their attack on Columbine High School last spring -- a much larger arsenal than originally reported. The explosives, enough to wipe out the school and hundreds of students, included 48 carbon dioxide bombs, 27 pipe bombs and 11 1.5-gallon propane containers. Most of the bombs did not explode. The two Columbine seniors also had seven devices with 40-plus gallons of flammable liquid and two duffel bags containing 20-pound liquefied-petroleum gas tanks. The extent of their arsenal was revealed last week when members of the Littleton Fire Department met with Gov. Bill Owens' Columbine Review Commission, The Denver Post reported today. 'Very, very lucky' Related Stories: Full Coverage: The Massacre at Columbine High School As bad as this was, we were so very, very lucky, said Chuck Burdick, operations chief of the Littleton Fire Department. It could have been so much worse. Following the April 20 massacre, authorities believed Klebold and Harris had made about 60 bombs. I look at Columbine High School as a
Re: [CTRL] Let Me Tell You About My Family
-Caveat Lector- I wrestle with this. I also homeschool ours. People worry me about socialization. We do ok with this. Either the responsibility is with my wife and I, or the State. I know I can't protect them forever, but we wanted them to be kids as long as they could. I think socialization makes kids adults before they're ready. They also don't watch the violence porn, mindless sitcoms, on the toilet vision. No Soma for our house! Bill From: Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well Bill, I have discovered one thing - the kids who have parents who care for them, and live decent lives, are always the victims of those who do not. Littleton is a classic example of kids left alone - drugs, guns, TV videos, and let us say the wrong kind of upbringing. It seems to me that the alleged perps in Littleton both came from caring, loving, decent, intact nuclear families who cared for them -- not a broken home in the lot... And the victims watched the same TV, movies and videogames as those who attacked them... June A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Let Me Tell You About My Family
-Caveat Lector- Well we know now what all the pornography is about - as this lesbian librarian said when displaying pornographic art in main entrance of the library it was to prove to Osama bin Laden we have freedom of speech. So maybe this is why the moves are so lewd and lascivicious and vicious for some people get thrills watching mutilation of others. I bought my little 3 year old grandson he new Fantasia - and all throughout this film were people like Beth Midler, or whatever her name is - interacting with the movie, but the worse was these two unknown jewish comedians, who came on the scene and suddenly the one cut off the hand of the other for a joke.it looked real but this is comedy? I ripped the thing out of the VCR and took it back and got a refund. Even Disney is being destroyed.but most parents get the message. Note people no longer are taking their kids to these Disney World gouging sites as they once did. If you don't protect your children, nobody else will. People are always envious and jealous of the good kids and they are the first targetsColumbine is a good example - the innocents were slaughtered - I always wondered why suddenly Disney was a free channel for I always had to pay for it. Today it is not fit for little kids to watch and has become vicious propaganda tool. This evil lewd and lascivicious element has even taken Mickey Mouse from the kids. But I tape all the old ones now and watch closely any cartoons he watches when here. 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] Bush administration hypocritical on terror groups
-Caveat Lector- http://onlinejournal.com/ 12-06-01: Bush administration hypocritical on terror groups; CNN remains silent By Christopher Reilly YellowTimes.ORG Journalist December 6, 2001 (YellowTimes.ORG) - The Bush administration has been completely hypocritical in its attempts to stop terror groups. The US president announced to CNN that he would be cracking down on financiers of the radical Palestinian group Hamas; however, he completely failed to mention Saudi Arabia and other moderate gulf states as being financial and verbal supporters of the Palestinian terror group. CNN reported Tuesday that the president froze the U.S. assets of a Texas-based Islamic foundationâ¦alleging that the organization acts as a front to finance the militant wing of the Palestinian group Hamas. The group, known as the Holy Land Foundation, is reported to have raised $13 million dollars in the United States; money allegedly used to help fund the militant Hamas. After condemning the foundation, Bush failed to even criticize Saudi Arabia, who according to Britain's The Guardian, recently gave a grant to Hamas amounting to over $140 million dollars; money which probably went toward purchasing more nail laden plastic explosives. Once again this highlights the Bush administrations hypocritical stance in the war against terrorism. Going after the assets of small foundations will do next to nothing in stopping terror groups when the main supporters are left immune to criticism, as in the case of Saudi Arabia and their support for Hamas. Bush even went so far as to say, The money raised by the Holy Land Foundation is used by Hamas to support schools and indoctrinate children to grow up into suicide bombers. The money raised by the Holy Land Foundation is also used by Hamas to recruit suicide bombers and support their families. But Bush still had nothing to say about Saudi Arabia, who gave over ten times that amount of money to Hamas. The Bush administration also failed to criticize Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, who have all given their support to Hamas in the past, despite the terror group's indiscriminate killings of Israeli and Arab civilians. These four countries have welcomed Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas, with open arms. Even more chilling is how CNN has continued to fail to address this hypocritical stance of the Bush administration. The article on Bush's crackdown, written by CNN correspondents John King, Kelly Wallace, and Susan Candiotti, mentioned nothing of the Gulf States contributing to Hamas and the failure of the Bush administration to address this issue. The article, titled Bush announces crackdown on alleged Hamas financiers, looked more like a press report from Bush spokesmen than an article from a non-governmental media agency. Concerns can be raised about the dangers of a large media outlet such as CNN becoming a mouth-piece for the Bush administration, despite their claims of objectivity. The links between CNN and the Bush administration are even stronger when considering how CNN chairman Walter Isaacson told his staff to balance their war reporting, according to Britain's The Times on November 1st, 2001. This order by Isaacson came shortly after journalist Michael Theodoulou reported Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah telling a group of newspaper editors, The vicious Western media attack against the Kingdom is only because of the ancient spite against Islam and Saudi Arabia's commitment to Islam. Much of the US media, led by CNN, have also been largely silent on accidental civilian killings in Afghanistan as a result of US bombs. Civilian deaths due to US bombs are now accepted to be in the hundreds, but much of the US media does not seem to consider this important news. Just yesterday, journalist Richard Lloyd Parry witnessed the remnants of the Afghan town Kama Ado, completely destroyed after American B-52s unloaded dozen of bombs that killed 115 men, women and children. Yet once again, the US media has remained relatively silent on Kama Ado, and the Pentagon has continued to deny the event even took place. Perhaps journalist Robert Fisk said it best, We are not supposed to know the details of these deaths. Christopher Reilly can be contacted at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YellowTimes.ORG urges its material to be reproduced, broadcast, or reprinted as long as a link to YellowTimes.ORG is included. Copyright © 1998-2001 Online Journalâ¢. All rights reserved. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content. 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] Ramadan TV Special: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
-Caveat Lector- MEMRI: Ramadan TV Special: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Special Dispatch - Arab Antisemitism December 6, 2001 No. 309 Ramadan TV Special: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion During the second half of Ramadan, a number of television stations, including Egyptian stations, will be screening the thirty-part series Horseman Without a Horse, starring the well-known Egyptian actor Muhammad Subhi and a cast of 400 others from Egypt, Syria, and France. The series, whose budget ran six to eight million Egyptian pounds, was produced by Arab Radio and Television (ART), established in 1993, which broadcasts to the Middle East, North America, Latin America, Australia, and Africa.(1) In a report on the series, the Egyptian weekly Roz Al-Youssuf(2) described it as the first of its kind - both artistically, as it is the first time a single actor plays 14 different characters, and in the way in which it deals with the issues it raises. The following are excerpts from a report on the series: For the first time, the series' writer courageously tackles the 24 Protocols of the Elders of Zion, revealing them and clarifying that they are the central line that still, to this very day, dominates Israel's policy, political aspirations, and racism... The series' first scene is set in 1948, after the retreat of the four Arab armies and the Zionist invasion of the land of Palestine.From this point, there is a flashback to the mid-19th century. The newspaper states that the idea of exposing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in a drama series took shape in Subhi's mind as the result of two events. The first of these was the London Convention [sic], which he considered the greatest single calamity ever to affect the Arab region. This agreement, Subhi claimed, was the work of three Zionist rabbis, promoters of the Zionist idea, who concocted an elaborate plot according to which Palestine would be annexed to Egypt, and Britain would subsequently conquer Egypt and hand Palestine over to the Zionists. Subhi stated that this is what sparked his desire to investigate the Zionist idea, which existed years before the London Convention, but emerged only at the first Zionist conference in Basle Switzerland, at which the Jews began to appear as a Zionist organization; previously, they had been active only in associations and large institutions throughout the world. Also motivating him, he said, was a book by the Egyptian author Abbas Mahmoud Al-'Aqqad on the Zionist movement. Al-'Aqqad said that, [In order to examine] whether the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are an invention - as [the Jews] claim - all we have to do is to trace the [implementation of the] 24 protocols; if we find that some of them have come to pass, we must expect that the rest also will. Subhi followed Al-'Aqqad's advice, and found that 19 of the 24 protocols had [already] been put into practice. By means of the series, Subhi adds, I am exposing all the Protocols of the Elders of Zion that have been implemented to date, in a dramatic, comic, historic, national, tragic, and romantic manner. The weekly also offered quotes from the Protocols that the series addresses: We will act to establish a state to be a superpower that will rule the world; [When we rule the world], we will damage its morality with pornography, prostitution, and drugs, and we will corrupt the world of the Gentiles; We must choose someone corrupt [for the presidency of the superpower] and when he resists us - we will expose him. In this context, Subhi noted, We all remember what happened to President Clinton and to other presidents throughout history. The series will also reveal advice reportedly taken from the Protocols, such as: Feed a dog, [but] not a Muslim or a Christian and Kill a Muslim or a Christian and take his house as your house and his lands as your lands. He also raises such questions as, How can a country like America collaborate with the Jews when it is familiar with the Protocols' directives against it [America]? Endnotes: (1) Al-Alam Al-Youm (Egypt), October 4, 2001. (2) Roz Al-Youssuf (Egypt), November 17, 2001. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is an independent, non-profit organization that translates and analyzes the media of the Middle East. Copies of articles and documents cited, as well as background information, are available on request. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) P.O. Box 27837, Washington, DC 20038-7837 Phone: (202) 955-9070 Fax: (202) 955-9077 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.memri.org A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by
Re: [CTRL] Let Me Tell You About My Family
-Caveat Lector- --- c. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: um, hanging around with 12 other single men and a prostitute is the perfect way to live? NOWHERE in the NT does it say that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. She is described variously as a sinner out of whom went seven devils. It is more likely that she was a priestess in an Astarte cult, which may or may not have involved sacred prostitution, but she was not the common streetwalker that the Christian Church has made her out to be. At any rate, she was closer to Jesus than any of his disciples, being the first to see him after the resurrection, which inspired envy in the disciples, who were the ones who made up church dogma. As for the 12 other single men this also is not supported by the NT. In Mark 1:31, Jesus heals the mother-in-law of the disciple Simon Peter. Outside of the Essenes, who cloistered themselves at Qumran, it is extremely rare for Jewish men -- or women -- to remain single. The rabbis at the time compared deliberate celibacy to murder. The disciple James, the brother of Jesus, was apparently the ancestor of the Desposyni, Jewish royal exiles in Southern France in the first century CE. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.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] Fwd: Saudi Shiek Linked to bin Laden
---BeginMessage--- Germans investigate claim that Saudi sheik tried to obtain weapons for al-Qaida Copyright © 2001 AP Online The associated Press BERLIN (December 5, 2001 3:22 p.m. EST) - Authorities in Germany are investigating claims by a businessman that he was approached by a Saudi sheik seeking to procure missiles and potentially dangerous substances for associates of Osama bin Laden, a spokesman said Wednesday. Juergen Stoltenow, a spokesman for Germany's Federal Criminal Office, said authorities questioned the German businessman in October and that an investigation was under way. He declined to provide further details or identify the businessman. But in an interview published Wednesday in the German newsmagazine Stern, the unnamed businessman said he met several times with a Saudi named Hassan Enany. During a 1993 meeting, Enany allegedly inquired about missiles, biological and chemical substances he said were intended for Arab friends with connections to bin Laden, the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The unnamed businessman told Stern that he met Enany in London, the Spanish resort town of Marbella and elsewhere and that he gave Enany documents about Russian missile systems and how to obtain them. It was not clear how the businessman came in possession of the documents. According to Stern, the FBI - which has had field officers working in Germany since Sept. 11 - is now trying to ascertain whether Enany was involved in financing bin Laden's al-Qaida network. Three of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers lived and studied in Germany where authorities believed they and at least three others hatched the worst terrorist attack in history. ---End Message---
Re: [CTRL] Info on Ashcroft Hearing: where/when
-Caveat Lector- Ashcroft will be in front of the Senate Judiciary today at 10AM EST. It will be aired live on CSPAN3 (yeah, like who has that channel?) To watch live on the internet, go to CSPAN.org and click on the CSPAN3 screen. There's a filler program at the site when CSPAN3 isn't live but the hearing will be live at 10AM. Sometime later, this estimated 3 hour Ashcroft portion will be at the 107th Congress page (http://cspan.org/congress/) - in the upper right hand corner click on Today's Feature. Paul at CSPAN said it should be there for about 24 hours. CSPAN2 will air the hearing sometime tonighton television. They don't post their schedule until after 5PM. Go to CSPAN2 after 5PM EST and click on the CSPAN2 screen for tonight's television replay schedule. CSPAN2 has live Senate coverage today and they don'tinterrupt Senate sessions for committee hearing ever, apparently, when the Senate is in session. Contact info for CSPAN.org: Telephone Contact C-SPAN about inquiries or offer comments: Front Desk (202) 737-3220 Jobs Line (202) 626-7983 Viewer Services: (765) 464-3080 (programming questions) C-SPAN Archives: (877) ON CSPAN, (877) 662-7726 (order videotapes) Washington Journal: Democrats (202) 737-0001 Washington Journal: Republicans (202) 737-0002 Washington Journal: Others (202) 628-0205 E-Mail Contact the C-SPAN Staff electronically regarding questions and suggestions. Viewing Questions Viewer Services: Questions about program air times and videotapes, as well as comments about C-SPAN programming. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Events: Suggest a public event that you think C-SPAN should cover. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Site Questions Community Manager: Questions and suggestions about participating in C-SPAN's online community ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Online: Questions and comments about the C-SPAN web site. Please use this address for web site-related questions ONLY ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). General comments should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Educational Outreach Questions C-SPAN in the Classroom: Learn about current C-SPAN educational initiatives and free resources ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The C-SPAN School Bus: Find out when the Bus is coming to your neighborhood or request a visit ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Programming Questions The Washington Journal: Ask C-SPAN Guests C-SPAN Radio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Book TV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Samantha 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: CNN: GW Bush says, I'm the dictator.
---BeginMessage--- ---BeginMessage--- If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. --President-Elect George W. Bush, CNN News, Aired December 18, 2000 - 12:00 p.m. ET http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html = NEWS YOU CAN USE = Government ESP: People magazine September 12, 2001 New York City http://people.aol.com/people/special/0,11859,174592-5,00.html How could they let this happen? They knew this building was a target. Over the past few weeks we'd been evacuated a number of times, which is unusual. I think they had an inkling something was going on. Ben Fountain, 42, a financial analyst with Fireman's Fund Insurance, was coming out of the Chambers Street Station, headed for his office on the 47th floor of the south tower http://people.aol.com/people/special/0,11859,174592-3,00.html We were the first ones in the second tower after the plane struck. I was taking firefighters up in the elevator to the 24th floor to get in position to evacuate workers. On the last trip up a bomb went off. We think there was bombs set in the building. I had just asked another firefighter to stay with me, which was a good thing because we were trapped inside the elevator and he had the tools to get out. Louie Cacchioli, 51, is a firefighter assigned to Engine 47 in Harlem http://people.aol.com/people/special/0,11859,174592-2,00.html In 1993 we had smoke, a little bit of shake. This was a lot scarier. Last time you got the sense that everything was going to be okay. This was like an action flick without the heroes. There's no happy ending. Richard Egües, investment banker I was in the Army during the Vietnam era. But this surpassed all of that. I just kept thinking, 'It's a terrible world.' David Schnitzer, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield manager, 24th floor of World Trade Tower 1 LIFE - a Commemorative - September 11 and After ($9.95, Softcover) [includes 2 pages of video shots of FIRST airliner hitting WTC] On February 23, 1993, six people were killed an a thousand were injured when bombs were detonated in the parking garage beneath the Center, leading to life-sentences for six Islamic extremists. But the building held. Much earlier, on July 28, 1945, a B-25 bomber got lost in the fog and slammed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building. Fourteen lives were lost and there was massive damage, but that building held, too. When the World Trade Center was in design, the Empire State incident was recalled, and the Twin Towers were built to withstand the blow from a big jetlinerthe biggest jetliner being flown at the time [a Boeing 747]. Terrorism works. It is a tool of the strong. The United States studied Nazi methods and picked up those methods, and these became US manuals for 'counterterrorism'. The US then recruited Nazi war criminals. 'Counterterrorism' and 'Low-intensity conflict' are the US definitions for its own acts of terrorism If I think that someone who robbed my house lives in a neighborhood across the street, I don't take an assault rifle and kill every innocent person in that neighborhood We organize and train terrorist armies 'Enduring' means 'suffer', and many nations have 'endured' US intervention. Dr Noam Chomsky, MIT, author of Manufacturing Consent, on Free Speech TV - Pacifica Radio in Exile, November 2001 http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/ramfiles/dnnoamchomsky.ram = MK/ULTRA US CIA MINDCONTROL TECHNIQUES KIDNAPPING, NARCOTICS, TORTURE TO CREATE INSANE ASSASSINS AND SUICIDE BOMBERS US SENATE HEARING DOCUMENTS FOIA REQUEST 5 JULY, 2001 Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavior Modification Joint Hearing Before the Select Committee on Intelligence and Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the committee on Human Resources August 1977 http://www.blackvault.com/documents/remoteviewing/hearing/hearing0.htm The Central Intelligence Agency drugged American citizens without their knowledge or consent. [page 3, paragraph 7] photocopies of government transcripts [hard to read - maybe it's in local libraries] = http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html CNN.com Transcripts Newsday Transition of Power: President-Elect Bush Meets With Congressional Leaders on Capitol Hill Aired December 18, 2000 - 12:00 p.m. ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. FRANK SESNO, CNN ANCHOR: In the nation's capital, it's all about George W. Bush -- he's here and doing business -- while in state capitals, it's the day the Electoral College meets and votes. And if all goes as planned, the electors will certify Bush's narrow victory in last month's election. He's already looking forward as he makes the rounds here in the nation's capital. A key item on his agenda today: meeting congressional
Re: [CTRL] Aide: Clinton Unleashed bin Laden
-Caveat Lector- I have to research this I seem to recall Clinton wanting to accept Sudan's offer, but the congress at the time was busy voting against anything he wanted, while pursuing a wotchhunt in order to have the republicans regain the white house Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate William of Occam NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew From: Bill Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 22:08:28 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Aide: Clinton Unleashed bin Laden -Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/5/153637.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Aide: Clinton Unleashed bin Laden Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com Thursday, Dec. 6, 2001 Bill Clinton ignored repeated opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist allies and is responsible for the spread of terrorism, one of the ex-president¹s own top aides charges. Mansoor Ijaz, who negotiated with Sudan on behalf of Clinton from 1996 to 1998, paints a portrait of a White House plagued by incompetence, focused on appearances rather than action, and heedless of profound threats to national security. Ijaz also claims Clinton passed on an opportunity to have Osama bin Laden arrested. Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, hoping to have terrorism sanctions lifted, offered the arrest and extradition of bin Laden and detailed intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas,² Ijaz writes in today¹s edition of the liberal Los Angeles Times. These networks included the two hijackers who piloted jetliners into the World Trade Center. But Clinton and National Security Adviser Samuel Sandy² Berger failed to act. ²I know because I negotiated more than one of the opportunities,² Ijaz writes. ²The silence of the Clinton administration in responding to these offers was deafening. Thank Clinton for 'Hydra-like Monster' ²As an American Muslim and a political supporter of Clinton, I feel now, as I argued with Clinton and Berger then, that their counter-terrorism policies fueled the rise of bin Laden from an ordinary man to a Hydra-like monster,² says Ijaz, chairman of a New York investment company and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ijaz¹s revelations are but the latest to implicate the Clinton administration in the spread of terrorism. Former CIA and State Department official Larry Johnson today also noted the failure of Clinton to do more than talk. Among the many others who have pointed out Clinton¹s negligence: former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, former Clinton adviser Dick Morris, the late author Barbara Olson, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iraqi expert Laurie Mylroie, the CIA and some of the victims of Sept. 11. And the list grows: members of Congress, pundit Charles R. Smith, former Department of Energy official Notra Trulock, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, government counterterrorism experts, the law firm Judicial Watch, New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler, the liberal Boston Globe and even Clinton himself. The Buck Stops Nowhere Ijaz's account in the Times reads like a spy novel. Sudan¹s Bashir, fearing the rise of bin Laden, sent intelligence officials to the U.S. in February 1996. They offered to arrest bin Laden and extradite him to Saudi Arabia or to keep close watch over him. The Saudis didn't want their home-grown terrorist back where he might plot to overthrow them.² ²In May 1996, the Sudanese capitulated to U.S. pressure and asked bin Laden to leave, despite their feeling that he could be monitored better in Sudan than elsewhere.² That¹s when bin Laden went to Afghanistan, along with Ayman Zawahiri, considered by the U.S. to be the chief planner of the Sept. 11 attacks; Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, who traveled frequently to Germany to obtain electronic equipment for al-Qaeda; Wadih El-Hage, Bin Laden's personal secretary and roving emissary, now serving a life sentence in the U.S. for his role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya; and Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Saif Adel, also accused of carrying out the embassy attacks.² If these names sound familiar, just check the FBI's list of most-wanted terrorists. The Clinton administration repeatedly rejected crucial information that Sudan had gathered on these terrorists, Ijaz says. In July 2000, just three months before the deadly attack on the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen, Ijaz brought the White House another plausible offer to deal with bin Laden, by then known to be involved in the embassy bombings. A senior counter-terrorism official from one of the United States' closest Arab allies
[CTRL] Fwd: Chinese Germ Warfare Ignored By State Dept.
---BeginMessage--- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/5/231538.shtml Super computers for Chinese Army nuclear/biowarfare labs http://www.softwar.net/atomic2.html Chinese Germ Warfare Ignored By State Dept. By Charles R.Smith The Bush administration has refused to name China as a major supplier of biological and chemical weapons despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The U.S. said that there may be some 'friendly countries' with biological weapons programs who would not be named, noted Michael Waller of the Center for Security Policy. The State Department considers Communist China a 'friendly country,' effectively providing diplomatic cover to continue to conceal Beijing's biological weapons program from the world, said Waller. The State Department did issue a recent report naming Sudan, North Korea, Iraq and Iran as countries known to be developing dangerous biological weapons. The refusal to name China as a seller of biological weapons reportedly drew intense criticism inside the Bush administration. RECENT CHINESE GERM WARFARE DEVELOPMENTS The internal dissent came after intelligence information confirmed that China was operating a major biowarfare development center in Xian. Chinese military labs are reported to be developing genetically altered Anthrax, Smallpox and Ebola virus weapons. There is no indication whatsoever that China has halted or cut back its weapons of mass destruction programs, stated Al Santoli, national security advisor to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R. CA. Equally troubling, the Chinese government has recently made military training mandatory for all high school and college students, under the combined control of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Defense. These types of national policies should set off alarm bells in neighboring countries and in the West, that despite efforts to integrate China into the world economy, Beijing continues to pursue belligerent military/political goals, said Santoli. CHINA SOLD GERM WARFARE EQUIPMENT TO IRAN Defense sources are also concerned because China has sold germ warfare equipment to Iran. In Jan. 1997, Madeleine Albright confirmed during a Senate hearing that China had shipped biological warfare equipment to Iran. The concern is that Iran may have passed germ warfare technology to terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah that have carried out recent suicide attacks in Israel. U.S. intelligence sources refused to confirm or deny that China may be the original source of recent Anthrax attacks in the United States. In 1997, the Clinton administration refused to identify the specific Chinese company that made the germ warfare shipments to Iran. The Clinton administration also refused to impose sanctions required by export laws against China. CLINTON AIDED CHINESE GERM WARFARE Instead, documentation obtained using the Freedom of Information Act shows that in 1997 Clinton officials approved super-computer exports to a known Chinese germ warfare lab without an end use inspection. In December 1997, U.S. Commerce officials sought permission to inspect Xian Jiatong University prior to the export of a high performance computer made by Digital Corp. American inspectors wanted to verify that the Chinese university would not use the computer for germ warfare research. However, all efforts to inspect the site were denied by the communist Chinese government. The Clinton administration approved the super-computer sale despite Beijing's refusal to allow inspections. Xian Jiatong University is a known center for Chinese Army biological and chemical warfare research. The Xian Jiatong sale is the only reported U.S. super-computer export associated with Chinese biological and chemical warfare. Pentagon sources are convinced that the Chinese Army is now using the U.S. made super-computer to develop a chemical cluster bomblet munitions to arm missiles and bombers. A bomblet warhead can disperse hundreds of miniature germ filled grenades over a vast area instead of a single large warhead, which would infect a smaller target zone. CHARLIE TRIE HELPED CHINESE GERM WARFARE LAB In addition, convicted China-Gate figure Charlie Yah Lin Trie confirmed in a March 2000 Congressional hearing that he helped China obtain germ warfare technology from the west. If they don't get it from me, they get it from someone else, testified Trie. They gonna get it. According to his testimony, Trie received thousands of dollars in commissions from the Chinese by arranging a deal with a Swiss biological equipment manufacturer. The Trie led deal allowed China to obtain a 500-liter fermenting machine used to cultivate microorganisms, viruses or biotoxins. The institute in China that received the fermenting machine is based in Xian, near the known Chinese germ warfare lab. OFFICIAL SOFTWAR COMMUNICATION SOFTWAR EMAIL NEWSLETTER COPYRIGHT (C) 2001 SOFTWAR INC.
Re: [CTRL] Virus Warning
-Caveat Lector- This is a hoax - http://www.europe.f-secure.com/hoaxes/perrin.shtml No virus can destroy your memory, speakers, sound card, or other hardware. Please check http://www.europe.f-secure.com/news/hoax.htm before forwarding virus warnings. You can also sign up for real virus warnings at http://www.mcafee.com as well as check for valid virus warnings on the front page of F-Secure: http://www.europe.f-secure.com/ - jt - Original Message - From: Bill Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 8:14 PM Subject: [CTRL] Virus Warning -Caveat Lector- This virus message (from Compaq Computer Corporation) Virus with no cure. Please, send this information to every person in your address book. If you receive an e-mail that reads Upgrade Internet do not open it, as it contains an executable file named perrin.exe it will erase all the data in your hard drive and it will stay in your memory. Every time that you upload any data, that data will be automatically erased and you will not be able to use your computer again. This information was published yesterday in the CNN web site. This is a very dangerous virus. To this date. There ! is no known anti virus program for this particular virus please, forward this information to your friends, so that they will be on the alert, also check the list below, sent by IBM with the names of some e-mails that, if received. SHOULD NOT BE OPENED and must be deleted immediately. Because they contain attached viruses. This way your computer will be safe. The Titles are: 1) buddylst.exe 2) calcul8r.exe 3) deathpr.exe 4) einstein.exe 5) happ.exe 6) girls.exe 7) happy99.exe 8) japanese.exe 9) keypress.exe 10) kitty.exe 11) monday.exe 12) teletubb.exe 13) The Phantom Menace 14) prettypark.exe 15) UP-GRADE INTERNET 16) perrin.exe 17) I love You 18) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs i9) CELCOM Screen Saver or CELSAVER.EX 20) Win a Holiday (e-mail) 21) JOIN THE CREW 0 PENPALS Subject: Virus Announced by Microsoft This is VERY SERIOUS!! Please forward to everyone you know There is a virus out flow being sent to people via E-mail! il. lt. is considered the A.l.D.S. VIRUS of computers. It will destroy your memory, sound card and speakers, your drive and it will infect your mouse or pointing device as well as your keyboards, making it so that you can't type and it will not register on the screen. It seIf-terminates only after it eats 5 MB of hard drive space and will delete all programs. It will come via an E-mail called (OPEN. VERY COOL!:) DELETE IT immediately'! It will basically render your computer useless. Pass this on QUICKLY AND TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE. Very Urgent, Must Read Please. If you receive an E-mail Titled Win A Holiday DO NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter out to as many people as you can. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft. Neil Ferrick Compaq Computer Corporation A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and
Re: [CTRL] Report-Taliban Kill 93 US Commandos and Capture Six
In a message dated 12/6/01 1:29:46 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: THIS IS: PURE BOVINE SCATOLOGY How do you know? Is it because FoxNews isn't reporting it? Or Limbaugh?? Is it not possible that we're not being told the truth about US casualties? Bill.
Re: [CTRL] Info on Ashcroft Hearing: where/when
-Caveat Lector- I'm watching it on MSNBC and on FOX News right now ... Just so you know you don't need to rely on C-SPAN3 (I have digital cable with hundreds of channels and don't have C-SPAN3) or their webcast - not sure if either FOX or MSNBC will show the whole 3 hours, though. - jt - Original Message - From: Samantha L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ashcroft will be in front of the Senate Judiciary today at 10AM EST. It will be aired live on CSPAN3 (yeah, like who has that channel?) To watch live on the internet, go to CSPAN.org and click on the CSPAN3 screen. There's a filler program at the site when CSPAN3 isn't live but the hearing will be live at 10AM. Sometime later, this estimated 3 hour Ashcroft portion will be at the 107th Congress page (http://cspan.org/congress/) - in the upper right hand corner click on Today's Feature. Paul at CSPAN said it should be there for about 24 hours. CSPAN2 will air the hearing sometime tonighton television. They don't post their schedule until after 5PM. Go to CSPAN2 after 5PM EST and click on the CSPAN2 screen for tonight's television replay schedule. CSPAN2 has live Senate coverage today and they don'tinterrupt Senate sessions for committee hearing ever, apparently, when the Senate is in session. Contact info for CSPAN.org: Telephone Contact C-SPAN about inquiries or offer comments: Front Desk (202) 737-3220 Jobs Line (202) 626-7983 Viewer Services: (765) 464-3080 (programming questions) C-SPAN Archives: (877) ON CSPAN, (877) 662-7726 (order videotapes) Washington Journal: Democrats (202) 737-0001 Washington Journal: Republicans (202) 737-0002 Washington Journal: Others (202) 628-0205 E-Mail Contact the C-SPAN Staff electronically regarding questions and suggestions. Viewing Questions Viewer Services: Questions about program air times and videotapes, as well as comments about C-SPAN programming. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Events: Suggest a public event that you think C-SPAN should cover. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Site Questions Community Manager: Questions and suggestions about participating in C-SPAN's online community ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Online: Questions and comments about the C-SPAN web site. Please use this address for web site-related questions ONLY ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). General comments should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Educational Outreach Questions C-SPAN in the Classroom: Learn about current C-SPAN educational initiatives and free resources ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The C-SPAN School Bus: Find out when the Bus is coming to your neighborhood or request a visit ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Programming Questions The Washington Journal: Ask C-SPAN Guests C-SPAN Radio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Book TV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Samantha A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL
[CTRL] Fwd: [trance-formation] Mind Control Out of Control
---BeginMessage--- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99Tiny Wireless Camera under $80! Order Now! FREE VCR Commander! Click Here - Only 1 Day Left! /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/75YKVC/7.PDAA/ySSFAA/TySplB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- Mind Control Out of Control Issue 6, 12/05/01 = MCOOC is sent out by free subscription only and is independently produced by TGS in conjunction with Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips. = http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Articles/LondonMail.html Well, here is a 'possible straw' that could legally break, or at worst, expose the camels/CIA dark backside involving mind control. Proving that the truth does live a wretched life..but always survives a lie. Much, if not all of aproximately 37000 (that's thousands!) files of the information (not heavily redacted!) that CIA's then Director a.k.a. head man Colsen handed over to Dr. Frank Olsen's now deceased wife we now make available in the PC/Mac friendly .gif file format on CD-Rom and reveal that which has never been seen publically before..anywhere. If you really want to be informed out of your socks choose to order these files on cd-rom for $30 plus SH you may do so by simply clicking the other products banner on our web site: www.TRANCE-Formation.com, or for the same initial cost..you can send a formal request, with your home address, directly to CIA/Langley Va. However, what they offer FOIA is in a impossible/difficult to sort through format called a .tiff program..or they will send you the files in print form for a mere $2000.00. Now, we thought you may be interested in getting the rest of the story while it is available..and a heads' up on the law suit being launched against the US Army CIA in New York, by Frank Olson's son. Thank you for your interest in the truth on gov mind control OUR governments' blantant abuse of power through covering up such crimes via the 1947 National Security Act..and for your support of our financially feeble whisleblowing efforts. Mark Cathy P.S. Now let's all see how our military controlled press Covers the stories of how three US citizens wound up defending the Taliban terrorist cell ...yep, global use of mind control is rampant..and the truth, for those who can still think for themselves is finally available..some of it anyway. Stay tuned.. for news at the top of the hour. If only one person knows the truth,it is still the truth ...GANDHI = New Reprint of Trance Formation of America The new reprint is out! If you had an order in already through the web page or the 800#, it's on the way to you. Thanks for your patience. Need more information? Wish to share with a friend? Trance Formation of America - the book Mind Control Out of Control - the video Mind Kontrol: The Proof - the CD All at: http://www.trance-formation.com/tranceformation/products.html Until next time, stay safe and keep your eyes open. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe by sending a message to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=Subscribe Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: [Fwd: Residents Express Outrage Over Howard Zinn (fwd)]
---BeginMessage--- William Mandel wrote: John Johnson wrote: This sounds about right for 1964 From: radtimes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Residents Express Outrage Over Howard Zinn Newton Residents Express Outrage Over Leftist Speaker at High School Howard Zinn Is Leftover from Radical '60s By Ed Oliver November 27, 2001 Newton residents lined up at a school committee meeting last night to express their anger over an incident at Newton North High School on November 9 where many students were forced to attend an anti-war assembly. On that day, a controversial leftist professor, who is a holdover from the 1960s named Howard Zinn, gave a speech to high school students saying US military operations in Afghanistan were morally equivalent to the September 11 terrorist attacks. News of the incident enraged townspeople already upset with the radical school system's disdain for traditional displays of patriotism such as flags in the classroom and the Pledge of Allegiance, in addition to its legendary embrace of the homosexual agenda. This post arrived as I was trying to think of how best to call to people's attention the parallels between the Ashcroft-Bush time and that of Joe McCarthy and Harry Truman. Johnson is mistaken in thinking of the event as about right for 1964. My identical experience was at the turn of 1946-7 when McCarthy wasn't yet on the scene, but Truman's Loyalty Oath and prosecution of a hero, Leon Josephson, who had entered Nazi Germany before World War II to make contact with the underground, led to an atmosphere in which my expression of dissent against the brand-new Cold War resulted in my being barred from lecture platforms outside the Left: Hazleton, Pennsylvania, cooked my goose. There, I had been booked into the Presbyterian Church and the Kiwanis Club, with radio broadcast. The response was splendid, and the superintendent of schools asked me to speak to the junior and senior classes of the high school. A few days later the Hazleton Sunday Times carried a very lengthy letter by a Naval SeeBee. He wrote of my 'active participation and campaign last November for the only Communist now seated in the U.S. Congress, Vito Marcantonio.' Marcantonio, who I later knew personally, was never a Communist. He was the only member of Congress to vote against U.S. entry into the Korean War. The Hazleton newspaper ran an editorial, which said, 'A front page story in today's Times tells how one William Mandel...after delivering TWO addresses in Hazleton [their emphasis here and below],...was permitted to lecture to the students at Hazleton High School, without even the pretense of proper rebuttal made availableWE call on the Hazleton city school board...to investigate the conditions which permit an ostensibly tainted propagandist to be foisted on the faculty and student body of our school system, and to inform the public why the incident was at all possible and what will be done to preclude any recurrence.' The news story was a classic example of the technique we wrongly call McCarthyite--wrongly because it antedated his use of it by several years. I quote: 'It has been learned through the offices of Plain Talk, a magazine for the purpose of disseminating information on Totalitarianism, that Mr. William Mandel, from 1945 to 1946 was an instructor at the Jefferson School of Social Sciences...New York City.' The article then specified that my two books were used in classes of the Jefferson School and were sold currently in Communist book stores. That was quite true. They were also sold in every serious bookstore in the country. The later one was in use as a text at Yale, Stanford, and elsewhere. The earlier one had actually found its way into use at a university in South AfricaI had been mentioned twice in the past five months in the Daily Worker. One was for a local speech I had given at a Communist-sponsored summer camp, the other for a statement I made on a national radio broadcast. In the latter case, I quote the Hazleton Times, I 'very vehemently and emphatically demanded that United States troops be recalled from China and other outposts of the world. Everyone immediately recognized this kind of chatter as regular Communist Party talk.' But it was also the view of the then Secretary of Commerce, Henry Wallace, who had been vice-president under Roosevelt and, earlier, his Secretary of Agriculture, and whose thirteen years in the U.S. cabinet amounted to more time spent there than any other non-president in American history before or since. -- from my autobiography, SAYING NO TO POWER, pp.139-141. So my lecture contract with the country's top management, which later managed Roosevelt's widow, was cancelled. A period of about 15 years began during which Americans could hear only proponents of the Cold War (regrettably, Eleanor
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Fwd: [trance-formation] Mind Control Out of Control
---BeginMessage--- AlMartinraw.com specifies that a training camp for a concentration camp currently is operating in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, including signs that :you will be shot on sight if you try to escape here in the United States.6 Black helicopters from Ft. Campbell made a practice run against sT. Louis last week. All this was done by the Rockefellers and Prescott Bush in German when they owned I.G. Farben in Germany in Nazi Germany.Checking for a national ID card and face scanning cameras went up everywhere after Spt 11...Also, Bush signed an executive order two months before Sept 11 forbidding the FBI and other federal agencies from investigating Al Qaida terrorists. Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99Tiny Wireless Camera under $80! Order Now! FREE VCR Commander! Click Here - Only 1 Day Left! /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/75YKVC/7.PDAA/ySSFAA/xYTolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---BeginMessage--- Mind Control Out of Control Issue 6, 12/05/01 = MCOOC is sent out by free subscription only and is independently produced by TGS in conjunction with Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips. = http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Articles/LondonMail.html Well, here is a 'possible straw' that could legally break, or at worst, expose the camels/CIA dark backside involving mind control. Proving that the truth does live a wretched life..but always survives a lie. Much, if not all of aproximately 37000 (that's thousands!) files of the information (not heavily redacted!) that CIA's then Director a.k.a. head man Colsen handed over to Dr. Frank Olsen's now deceased wife we now make available in the PC/Mac friendly .gif file format on CD-Rom and reveal that which has never been seen publically before..anywhere. If you really want to be informed out of your socks & choose to order these files on cd-rom for $30 plus S you may do so by simply clicking the other products banner on our web site: www.TRANCE-Formation.com, or for the same initial cost..you can send a formal request, with your home address, directly to CIA/Langley Va. However, what they offer FOIA is in a impossible/difficult to sort through format called a .tiff program..or they will send you the files in print form for a mere $2000.00. Now, we thought you may be interested in getting the rest of the story while it is available..and a heads' up on the law suit being launched against the US Army & CIA in New York, by Frank Olson's son. Thank you for your interest in the truth on gov mind control & OUR governments' blantant abuse of power through covering up such crimes via the 1947 National Security Act..and for your support of our financially feeble whisleblowing efforts. Mark & Cathy P.S. Now let's all see how our military controlled press Covers the stories of how three US citizens wound up defending the Taliban terrorist cell ...yep, global use of mind control is rampant..and the truth, for those who can still think for themselves is finally available..some of it anyway. Stay tuned.. for news at the top of the hour. If only one person knows the truth,it is still the truth ...GANDHI = New Reprint of Trance Formation of America The new reprint is out! If you had an order in already through the web page or the 800#, it's on the way to you. Thanks for your patience. Need more information? Wish to share with a friend? Trance Formation of America - the book Mind Control Out of Control - the video Mind Kontrol: The Proof - the CD All at: http://www.trance-formation.com/tranceformation/products.html Until next time, stay safe and keep your eyes open. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe by sending a message to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=Subscribe Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---End Message--- ---End Message---
[CTRL] The Poster Police
-Caveat Lector- ´from: http://www.indyweek.com/durham/2001-11-21/triangles.html Click Here: A HREF=http://www.indyweek.com/durham/2001-11-21/triangles.html;The Independent Weekly: The Poster Police/A - The Poster Police A Durham student activist gets a visit from the Secret Service B Y J O N E L L I S T O N A.J. Brown, a 19-year-old freshman at Durham Tech, was thanking God it was Friday. It was 5 p.m., the school week was over, and in an hour she'd be meeting her boyfriend to unwind. November 21, 2001 T R I A N G L E S Then: Knock, knock ... unexpected guests at Brown's Duke Manor apartment. Opening the door, she found a casually dressed man, and a man and woman in what appeared to be business attire. Her first thought, she says, was, Are these people going to sell me something? Photo By Alex Maness Threat or dissent? A.J. Brown and her anti-Bush poster But then the man in the suit introduced himself and the woman as agents from the Raleigh office of the U.S. Secret Service. The other man was an investigator from the Durham Police Department. Ma'am, we've gotten a report that you have anti-American material, the male agent said, according to Brown. Could they come in to have a look around? Do you have a warrant? Brown asked. They did not. Then you're not coming in my apartment, she said. And indeed, they stayed outside her doorway. But they stayed a while--40 minutes, Brown estimates--and gave her a taste of how dissenters can come under scrutiny in wartime. And all because of a poster on her wall. Though she's still a teenager, Brown is already more informed about political repression than most Americans. She's been politically aware and involved since grade school. In second grade, I saw the Gulf War on television, and seeing those bombs drop, it did something to me, she says. I knew from some news reports that there were innocent people dying. In middle school, Brown became interested in environmentalism and civil liberties. She made the shift to full-fledged activist at Jordan High School when she became involved with Youth Voice Radio, a media collective with a leftist bent. Most recently, she's been involved with the movement against the war in Afghanistan. Brown and fellow activists often discuss government encroachments on free speech and political organizing, she says, as do some of her favorite hip-hop artists. She loves her music--and that may have been what sparked the turn of events that brought the Secret Service to her door. Brown suspects it began with the noise complaints. On Oct. 22, a Monday evening, she stayed up late playing some new CDs for her boyfriend. By her own admission, she was playing them too loud. Around midnight, a Durham police officer came by to tell her to turn it down, and she obliged. Two nights later, someone from Duke Manor called in another noise complaint, and again a police officer came to Brown's door. This time, she says, her music wasn't playing at an offensive volume. The police officer speculated that the call may have been about someone else's stereo. During this visit, and unlike the first, the officer had a full view of the wall that faces Brown's front doorway, a detail that would become relevant two days later: On that wall hung The Poster. Brown got it at an anti-inauguration protest in Washington, D.C. Distributed to hundreds of activists, it depicts George W. Bush holding a length of rope against a backdrop of lynching victims, and reads: We hang on your every word. George Bush: Wanted, 152 Dead--a reference to the number of people executed by the state of Texas while Bush was governor. Brown believes that the message caused the Durham policeman who paid the second visit to her apartment to recommend a third. On Friday, Oct. 26, two Secret Service agents, along with Durham police investigator Rex Godley, came to Brown's apartment. Special Agent Paul Lalley, who did most of the talking, spoke first. Ma'am, we've gotten a report that you have anti-American material, or something like that, in your apartment, he said, according to Brown. Then the female agent asked if they could come inside. When Brown pressed them for a warrant and refused to allow them in, she says, They started to talk to me about how, 'We're not here to take you away or put you in jail.' They were like, 'We need to follow up on every report we get.' I said, 'That's understandable, but how would you even know what's in my apartment?' They just said they had gotten information from some place, she says. She speculates that it was from the police officer who visited for the second noise complaint. Godley, the Durham police investigator, won't say where the authorities got their tip about Brown's poster. The only thing I can tell you is that we were assisting the Secret Service on one of their cases, he says. Lalley referred questions about the visit to Special Agent Craig Ulmer,
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] P.D. Scott: Pre-1990 Drug Networks Being Restored Under New Coalition (12/5/01)
---BeginMessage--- http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/qf5.html FLASH 5 (A): Pre-1990 Drug Networks Being Restored Under New Coalition When we look at the Afghan leaders whom the US considers eligible to fill out an interim government, we see that many are figures implicated in drug-trafficking in the 1980s. The BBC compiled a list of these leaders in November 2001. Leading the list was President Burhanuddin Rabbani, whose home province of Badakshan became in the 1990s, while under his control, "the stepping stone for an entirely new means of conveying opiates to Europe, via Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia's Central Asian railway service" (Griffin, Reaping the Whirlwind, 150). Veteran General Rashid Dostum, in Mazar-i-Sharif, "was suspected of earning huge profits by exporting drugs via Uzbekistan" (Cooley, Unholy Wars, 155). Of the seven Pashtun leaders named, three (Pir Sayed Gailani and Gulbeddin Hekmatyar, and Hazi Bashir) have been linked in the past to drug-trafficking. A fourth, Younus Khalis, is a powerful figure from drug-rich Nangahar province, and is the man with whom Osama bin Laden made contact in 1996, before offering his riches to the Taliban. The restored leader of the Eastern Shura in Nangahar province, Haji Abdul Qadir (who withdrew from the Bonn leadership conference), became rich in former times as the Afghan source of a drug pipeline involving in Pakistan Haji Ayub Afridi, "the lord of Khyber heroin dealing" (Griffin, 142-43; cf. Cockburn, Whiteout, 267). Under the headline "US turns to drug baron to rally support ," Asia Times Online reported on 12/4/01 that "Afridi was freed from prison in Karachi last Thursday [11/29/01] after serving just a few weeks of a seven-year sentence for the export of 6.5 tons of hashish." In the 1980s, according to Asia Times Online, "All of the major Afghan warlords, except for the Northern Alliance's Ahmed Shah Masoud, who had his own opium fiefdom in northern Afghanistan, were a part of Afridi's coalition of drug traders in the CIA-sponsored holy war against the Soviets. Sources say that Afridi's constituencies in eastern and southern Afghan provinces have been revived following the withdrawal of the Taliban, and with them the drugs trade. Commanders such as Haji Abdul Qadeer, Haji Mohammed Zaman and Hazrat Ali are once again ruling the roost in these areas. These commanders used to be the biggest heroin and opium mafia in Afghanistan's Pashtun belt." (Hazrat Ali is currently directing the ground forces attacking the Tora Bora cave stronghold in search of Osama bin Laden. Meanwhile Haji Mohamed Zaman has complained about the US bombing of villages under his control.) Asia Times Online speculates that the US, sensing too much Russian influence being exerted on the Northern Alliance, has decided to cultivate support from within the majority Pashtun belt by reviving the old Afridi drug network. But the independent behavior of Haji Abdul Qadir and Haji Mohammed Zaman suggests that the true restorer of the Afridi network may be Pakistan, legitimately concerned by the increasing role played in post-Taliban Afghanistan by Rabbani, the Northern Alliance, and Russia. What we may be seeing is a revival of the Cold War games in which both the US and Russia sought control of the drug traffic, not just to fund their operations, but above all in order to deny it to their opponent. FLASH 5 (B): Developing US-Russian Tensions over Post-Taliban Government It has been clear that the Northern Alliance has spurned US guidance and listened to its backers in Russia, ever since the Northern Alliance seized control of Kabul in defiance of US policy. After hard bargaining at Bonn, the Northern Alliance has come away with the most important ministries in their control: defense, foreign affairs, and the interior. Eric Margolis argues in the Los Angeles Times on 11/28/01 that "The Russians have regained influence over Afghanistan, avenged their defeat by the U.S. in the 1980s war and neatly checkmated the Bush administration, which, for all its high-tech military power, understands little about Afghanistan. "The U.S. ouster of the Taliban regime also means Pakistan has lost its former influence over Afghanistan and is now cut off from Central Asia's resources. So long as the alliance holds power, the U.S. is equally denied access to the much-coveted Caspian Basin. Russia has regained control of the best potential pipeline routes. The new Silk Road is destined to become a Russian energy superhighway." Margolis' pessimistic analysis ignores the extent to which Russia has to fear, as well as hope for, developments in Afghanistan. Its client states in the CIS, above all Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, have suffered from serious Islamist terrorist movements funded by drugs. Other secession movements in Chechnya, Georgia, and Abkhazia have been tied in with struggles over the local drug traffic (Cooley, 161). Control over oil and control over drugs cannot be separated. A
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: CNN: GW Bush says, I'm the dictator.
-Caveat Lector- How could they let this happen re the towers? 7 billion dollars insurance tax free was enough to let it happen? After all nobody important was at work that day just like the plane that went down after dropping the tail and two engines - nobody important aboard. So come to the show..see the circus. GW Bush is a dictator? Not in this country. For you see our military began to revolt when Admiral Crowe came up with the anthrax vaccine for profit .. 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] THREE CHEERS FOR 15 EMPLOYEES OF THE CIA!
-Caveat Lector- http://emperors-clothes.com/news/ciasue.htm THREE CHEERS FOR 15 EMPLOYEES OF THE CIA! by Jared Israel [Posted 5 December 2001] === In April, 2000, when the State Department announced that a group of CIA employees were being punished for supposedly causing the supposedly mistaken bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, we republished Jared Israel's original analysis of the bombing, 'Lies, Damn Lies and Maps,' with an introduction including the following remarks: ...Now the CIA fires one guy and disciplines six. Isn't this a rather obvious attempt to scapegoat lowly employees? If it really was these seven people's fault - why did it take the government 11 months to figure it out? And since the mistake ended in death and destruction - isn't job discipline a mite weak for a punishment? Doesn't all this suggest that these seven have been bribed or coerced (or both) to take a fall? (From 'The Arrogance of Rome,' at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/arroganc.htm For original refutation of the official cover story, written in May, 1999, see 'Lies, Damn Lies, and Maps' at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/lies.htm ) Well, maybe they tried to coerce and bribe these people, but it doesn't look like it worked. I assume these employees will be accused of being unpatriotic. So let's talk about patriotism. The great sin of the Milosevic government was that it resisted an attack by terrorists - the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) - trained and financed by U.S. covert forces. (4) The U.S./NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was illegal (5) and without moral justification. Civilians were routinely slaughtered (6) and a beautiful country polluted with depleted uranium and hazardous chemicals. The goal was not moral, as the media rather ludicrously claimed, but geopolitical: the control of the Balkans, one of the key strategic regions in the world. The southern gateway to Russia. (7) The war criminals who attacked Yugoslavia stamped the attack MADE IN AMERICA. But who is America? Is it a handful of immoral billionaires with a crazy dream of controlling the world? Or is it the rest of us, decent people, who have no quarrel with the Yugoslavs. Many of us opposed the war. And most of the rest were tricked by war propaganda which barraged us with the lie that 'The Serbs were monstrous racists and that this war was needed to help oppressed people. The bombing of the Chinese Embassy was an act of murder. Moreover it might easily have led to a wider war. The U.S. Establishment ordered this crime with the purpose of warning the Chinese not to continue helping Yugoslavia and other countries targeted for punishment by the New World Order. But they wanted to deny it was deliberate in order to avoid worldwide censure. Hence the claim that incompetent employees at the CIA were responsible. Is it the patriotic duty of these employees to take the rap? Was the war against Yugoslavia patriotic? On the contrary, it further sullied America's name, convincing most people in the world that our country is a very dangerous bully, driven by a lust for profit and power and utterly unconcerned with international law, justice, or the harm it does to other people's countries. For the people that control America, patriotism means they get richer and conquor other countries and ordinary Americans get poorer and take the blame. Well, 15 employees at CIA have refused to take the blame. What do you know. Maybe there's some hope for us Americans, after all. Regarding the media coverage, two thoughts. First, we have yet to see this explosive story covered in the U.S. press or on TV. If any of our readers see some coverage, please let us know. -- Jared Israel Employees sue CIA for 'abuse of power' By Rupert Cornwell 04 December 2001 A group of CIA officers has brought a class-action suit against the agency, alleging abuse of power against employees including the cover-up of mistakes leading to the accidental US bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade in 1999, for which several lower-ranking employees were wrongly blamed. The case, filed by 15 past and present mid-to-upper level CIA employees, claims that the spy agency has used illegal tactics to prevent them pursuing legitimate grievances against the CIA, including altering and destroying documents, and eavesdropping on privileged discussions with their lawyers. Roy Krieger, a lawyer for the 15, said: What the agency is trying to hide is not its intelligence sources but its own dirty laundry about internal disputes, kangaroo disciplinary procedures, discrimination and who is to blame for blunders. Among those blunders was the mistaken bombing (2) of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia during the Kosovo war. One plaintiff alleges that he and other mid- and low-ranking officers were falsely blamed to cover up a mistake made by a senior officer. The former were disciplined, while the senior officer received only a verbal
[CTRL] Israel, Palestine and the U.S. war
-Caveat Lector- http://www.workers.org/ww/2001/israel1206.php Israel, Palestine and the U.S. war By Richard Becker What is the Bush administration really trying to accomplish at this time by sending a retired Marine general and an assistant secretary of state to negotiate between the Palestinians and Israel? After a decade of intensive but failed talks involving presidents and prime ministers, is it conceivable that a much lower-level delegation could achieve a just peace in the Middle East? No, a real peace agreement is not the objective here. The goal instead is pacification. What Washington is seeking is diplomatic cover for its war effort. Public opinion throughout the Middle East is highly inflamed over Israel's brutal repression of the Palestinian people, as well as the U.S./UN sanctions on Iraq. Even among Washington's European allies, there is strong popular opposition to Israel's use of U.S.-supplied helicopters and missiles to assassinate Palestinian leaders and wreak havoc on the people. Holding together the U.S. war coalition, especially if the Bush national security team decides to take the war to Iraq, Yemen or anywhere else in the Middle East, requires at least a feigned attempt to calm the struggle in Palestine. The soldier, retired general Anthony Zinni, and the diplomat, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs William Burns, landed in Israel on Nov. 26, one week after Secretary of State Colin Powell's major policy speech on the Palestine-Israel conflict. The level of representation was treated with editorial disdain by Israel's leading newspapers. Instead of Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has appointed a retired hard-line general, Meir Dagan, as his lead negotiator in the talks. Zinni and Burns arrived 14 months after the start of the second Palestinian Intifada (uprising). Since September 2000, more than 700 Palestinians have been killed and 20,000 wounded. Thousands of homes, offices and other buildings in the mere 5 percent of Palestine that is under the tenuous control of the Palestinian Authority (PA) have been destroyed. In the same time period, 190 Israelis have been killed, though Israeli deaths always receive far more attention in the corporate media here. Secretary Powell's Nov. 20 speech included the usual formulations, calling for the Palestinians to desist from the struggle and the Israelis to show restraint. Israel's war criminal prime minister, Sharon, showed his government's restraint two days later when the Israeli Army (IDF) assassinated Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, one of the top leaders of the Hamas-Islamic Resistance Movement. Abu Hanoud, along with two associates, was blown to bits by a missile fired at his car from a U.S.-provided helicopter. Then, on Nov. 24, an Israeli army booby-trap exploded in the Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza, killing five young boys from the same family. Both of these attacks took place inside Zone A, the tiny part of Palestine that is supposed to be exclusively controlled by the PA. Since September, IDF units have occupied large parts of Zone A. Huge Palestinian marches in the West Bank and Gaza protested these killings. Palestinian urban guerrilla units launched a mortar attack on an Israeli base in Gaza, killing an Israeli soldier, the first reported Israeli death from a mortar. When Israel struck back with massive firepower, it was called retaliation in the U.S. mainstream media, although the same term was not applied to the Palestinian mortar attack. Retaliation implies moral justification, something always conferred on the Israelis in the U.S. media and never on the Palestinians. What Bush wants, what Sharon wants The widely publicized stance of the Sharon regime is that there can be no resumption of negotiations until the Palestinians desist from the struggle. Sharon specifically says that there must be seven days of absolute quiet. Of course, the Israeli army doesn't have to end its occupation for the same week. Sharon restated his position immediately following Powell's speech, demanding again that the Palestinians halt their struggle--in essence, call off the Intifada--as a pre-condition for any further talks. At the same time, Sharon directed the Israeli Army to assassinate one of the top leaders of the Intifada. Such a high-level hit could only have been carried out with the prime minister's approval. The assassination of Abu Hanoud and the murder of the five Palestinian children in Khan Younis follow scores of other political murders. In August, U.S.-supplied helicopters and missiles were used by the IDF to assassinate Abu Ali Mustafa, the general secretary of the largest Palestinian leftist party, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The following month, the PFLP retaliated by shooting an extreme right-wing member of the Israeli cabinet. There is nothing more guaranteed to evoke Palestinian anger and action than the systematic campaign of murdering
[CTRL] The Stimulus Scam
-Caveat Lector- The Republican-sponsored economic recovery package currently before Congress isn't a stimulus -- it's a scandal. http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/commentary/opinion/stimulus.html The Stimulus Scam by Robert Borosage Nov 20, 2001 Layoffs are cascading across the country. The recession is spreading across the globe. The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates ten times with little effect. Everyone agrees it is time for the government to act immediately to help kick-start the economy, but Congress has adjourned for a holiday recess without passing an economic stimulus program. The reason: the largest corporations decided that the national crisis was their best shot to raid the federal treasury and Republicans immediately set out to help them. Much to their own amazement, Democrats in the Senate resisted the GOP effort. The question now is whether the president will bow to pressure from Congressional Republicans and try to finish the heist before the public catches wind of it. This caper all started in the days after Sept. 11, when Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan called for a $50-100 billion stimulus package to pump life into the staggering economy. In the bipartisan spirit of the moment, the president signed off on principles drawn up by leaders of both budget committees: that the stimulus package be balanced between spending and tax cuts, be temporary in duration to avoid running up permanent deficits, be targeted to those most in need, and have immediate effect. Then the business lobby kicked in. The lobbyists realized the growing support forming behind a stimulus package presented them with a great chance to pocket tax breaks that they'd sought for years -- to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. House Republicans eagerly assisted them, forcing through a package -- adopted in a party line vote -- that violated every one of the principles the president had previously embraced. The House bill isn't balanced; it consists almost entirely of tax cuts, most of them for corporations and the wealthy. It isn't temporary; the corporate and upper income tax breaks are permanent. It isn't targeted to those most in need; the working men and women who've lost their jobs in the downturn will get little if any aid. It will provide little immediate stimulus to the economy; the tax cuts will instead contribute to large deficits down the road. Moreover, the bill fails to meet basic economic criteria. Corporate tax cuts don't work very well in a recession, when businesses need customers, not capital. Congress just forked over $15 billion to the airline companies -- which still proceeded to lay off nearly 100,000 workers, citing a sharp downturn in the number of passengers. Permanently eliminating various corporate taxes doesn't pass the economic sniff test, either. A permanent repeal removes any incentive for companies to make new investments while the economy is in recession. For example, the largest single item in the House bill allows companies to write off new investments at a much faster rate. The assumption is that it will encourage companies to make investments now while the economy is in trouble. But the House bill extends the write-off for three years, removing any incentive for a company to make an early decision. The bill would also permanently legitimize the tax dodge -- worth $21 billion over 10 years -- that allows financial service corporations to avoid paying taxes on income made abroad, provided they don't bring the money home. This will be good for General Electric and perhaps for Germany, but it won't do anything to get our economy moving. The House bill also accelerates the upper income tax cuts passed in the original Bush tax relief bill. An estimated seventy-five percent of American households would get exactly nothing from this bauble. But that's not the worst of it. The House bill repeals the alternative minimum corporate tax, the tax signed into law by Ronald Reagan that ensures that profitable companies pay at least something in taxes no matter how clever their accountants. To add insult to that legislative injury, the bill doesn't only eliminate the tax permanently; it repeals the tax retroactively for 15 years. Sixteen major companies will pocket a cool $7.4 billion in instant tax rebates. IBM would get $1.4 billion; Ford $1 billion; General Motors and General Electric over $600 million each. Many of the big rebates -- no surprise here -- go to oil and gas interests. This isn't a stimulus, it's simply a scandal. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill initially dismissed the House bill as show time, for contributors and lobbyists. But Majority Leader Dick Armey and GOP Whip Tom DeLay, the House's conservative enforcers, marched up to the White House to get the Bush administration back in line. The president immediately abandoned the principles he'd signed onto, and announced he was pleased with the House bill. Senate Democrats on the Finance Committee
[CTRL] World opinion for Afghani war right? - WRONG!
-Caveat Lector- http://staff.stir.ac.uk/david.miller/publications/World-opinion.html World opinion opposes the attack on Afghanistan http://staff.stir.ac.uk/david.miller/publications/World-opinion.html By David Miller According to Tony Blair and George Bush respectively, 'world opinion' and the 'collective will of the world' supported the attack on Afghanistan. Yet analysis of international opinion polls shows that with only three exceptions majorities in all countries polled have opposed the policy of the US and UK governments. Furthermore there have been consistent majorities against the current action in the UK and sizeable numbers of the US population had reservations about the bombing. World opinion The biggest poll of world opinion was carried out by Gallup International in 37 countries in late September (Gallup International 2001). It found that apart from the US, Israel and India a majority of people in every country surveyed preferred extradition and trial of suspects to a US attack. Clear and sizeable majorities were recorded in the UK (75%) and across Western Europe from 67% in France to 87% in Switzerland. Between 64% (Czech Republic) and 83 % (Lithuania)of Eastern Europeans concurred as did varying majorities in Korea, Pakistan, South Africa and Zimbabwe. An even more emphatic answer obtained in Latin America where between 80% (Panama) and 94% (Mexico) favoured extradition. The poll also found that majorities in the US and Israel (both 56%) did not favour attacks on civilians. Yet such polls have been ignored by the media and by many of the polling companies. After the bombing started opposition seems to have grown in Europe. As only the Mirror has reported, by early November 65 per cent in Germany and 69 per cent in Spain wanted the US attacks to end (Yates, 2001). Meanwhile in Russia polls before and after the bombing show majorities opposed to the attacks. One slogan which reportedly commanded majority support doing the rounds in Moscow at the end of September was 'World War III - Without Russia' (Agency WPS 2001). After the bombing started Interfax reported a Gallup International poll showing a majority of Moscow residents against the US military action (BBC Worldwide Monitoring 2001) Polling companies. The questions asked by a number of polling companies such as MORI, Gallup and ICM have been seriously inadequate. They have failed to give respondents a range of possible options in relation to the war. When polling companies did ask about alternatives, support for war falls away quite markedly. In the UK prior to the bombing, all except one poll, which asked the question, showed a majority against bombing if it caused civilian casualties. After the bombing started the polling companies stopped asking about concern for civilians. From the start of the bombing to the fall of Kabul on 13 November there were only four polls on British opinion (by ICM (2001a, 2001b) and MORI (2001a, 2001b)) compared with 7 between the 11 September and the start of the bombing on October 7. None has asked adequate questions about alternatives to bombing. ICM did ask one alternative questions about whether bombing should stop to allow aid into Afghanistan and 54% said it should (Guardian October 30). Where questions about aid or alternatives to bombing are asked the results have been consistent: Clear and sometimes massive majorities against the bombing. In an ignored poll, the Scottish Sunday Mail found that fully 69% of Scots favoured sanctions, diplomacy or bringing Bin Laden to trial. Only 17% favoured his execution and a minuscule 5% supported bombing (21 October). The Herald in Glasgow also found only 6% favoured the then current policy of bombing alone (3 November). It is well known that Scottish opinion tends to be to the left of UK opinion, but not by more than a few points on average. Although the Press Association picked up on the Herald poll it was not reported in the British national press. Between the start of the bombing and the fall of Kabul, (with the exception of the single question in the Guardian poll showing 54% in favour of a pause in bombing) not a single polling company asked the British public any questions about alternatives to war. It is not altogether clear whether the lack of options given to poll respondents is due to the media or the polling companies. Certainly both UK and US polling companies have been guilty of misrepresenting their own data almost without exception overemphasising support for the war. For example Mori claimed that their polling in late October had 'extinguished any lingering doubt' that support was 'fading' (Mortimore 2001). Of course this completely ignores all the poll data which would give an alternative view and the fact that the polling questions have been inadequate. Furthermore, according to Bob Worcester of MORI, (in an address to an LSE meeting on the media and the war in November) the text of press reports on their polls are cleared by MORI
[CTRL] Fwd: I like to pass along methods
---BeginMessage--- Kris, I like to provide helpful hints to people for methods ... that is the deal behind getting a list of names of companies from Kleiner Perkins and matching it against a database of company names at the Stanford class action site. People may know of venture capital that went into a certain company, and not realize the class action website, where sometimes the complaints can be revealing and helpful. Realistically, it would be extraordinarily difficult to find client lists of other venture capital firms. But it is in "where did the money come from" behind these firms that you find who really benefitted ... often this very same "seeder" would on the other end of the line use a fund and direct certain investments, to benefit themselves in a way that no one can tell they are both "creator" and "an investor who made a killing". When Kleiner Perkins itself holds share in the company, then whoever is seeding Kleiner Perkins is benefitting, whoever that might be ... So, we aren't there yet, but we have certainly learned a lot about how this all came to be through the Kleiner Perkins realm - keiretsu. And that's where Microsoft and Paul G. Allen began all these years ... ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Gold prices and drug cartels??
---BeginMessage--- I don't believe any significant volumes of gold are in the hands of drugs barons or that such holdings as do exist in these hands have any appreciable impact on the world gold price. I believe that large volumes of gold have been accumulated over a fairly long time period. In saying this it is of interest to bear in mind that the actual quantity of gold extant in the world is probably closer to one million tonnes rather than the present above ground stocks of around 140,000 tonnes as per official figures. This in turn raises a number of questions. Who controls gold and why? Who can aford to acquire such vast amount and what mechanism do they use to do so. And, once under control how is the metal used and for what purposes. According to copy documents I have, the Corporation International sought to acquire 62,321 metric tonnes of gold from the late President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines in February 1986. This represented almost 50% of the total official world gold stock at that time -- albeit it in the form of non-existant black gold. Marcos refused to agree to the terms of the contract and was promptly overthrown. Significantly, Corporation International has been identified as the trading arm of the Trilateral Commission -- the same elite grouping of which Brzezinski is a leading light. The plans of men, rather than mice, take years and often decades to mature. David David Guyatt http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk THE PROJECT HAMMER FILE THE SECRET GOLD TREATY THE BILDERBERG FILE I was wondering about something. Is it reasonable to assume that the drug trafficking industry is involved in controling gold prices to accumulate large positions for themselves?? Would this explain the slow rise in gold prices despite the faltering western economy?? David Goldman Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99Quit now for Great American Smokeout /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/0vN8tD/9pSDAA/ySSFAA/xYTolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---End Message---
[CTRL] [2]Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Re: Gold prices and drug cartels??
---BeginMessage--- The reason gold prices are low is as follows: Banks have tons of it sitting in vaults doing squat. So they lend it to the guys pushing derivatives. You buy a gold futures contract expecting that wogs slamming jets into the WTC should get a steep rise in gold prices. Nothing happens. The gold lending bank books a couple percent interest on an otherwise wasted asset. To insure the price stays low, the very banks and institutions who lend the gold also short a bunch in order to drive prices down. So when your contract expires unexercised, the banks and institutions make out all around. A couple of years ago George Soros bought a bunch of futures contracts and said I want delivery. You could hear the assholes puckering in boardrooms all over the world. The Fed actually stepped in and allowed non-delivery on the gold futures contracts. Gold, which had spiked from about $271@oz. to about $330@oz., drifted back down to the subproduction cost price of $285@oz. Do you really think Gold is as important as Drugs, Oil and Arms in the big equation. I'll take the latter three over the former any day of the week and twice on Sunday. I think that if two or three generations of businessmen see no glitter in gold, the behind the scenes guys will hoard it all for themselves while the rest of us look upon it as a vestige of ancient commerce with about as much use as the appendix in the human body. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Goldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering about something. Is it reasonable to assume that the drug trafficking industry is involved in controling gold prices to accumulate large positions for themselves?? Would this explain the slow rise in gold prices despite the faltering western economy?? David Goldman Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99Quit now for Great American Smokeout /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/0vN8tD/9pSDAA/ySSFAA/xYTolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---End Message---
[CTRL] Hewlett prepares for proxy fight
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/12/05/011205hnhewlett.xml Click Here: A HREF=http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/12/05/011205hnhewlett.xml; Hewlett prepares for proxy fight/A - Hewlett prepares for proxy fight By Matt Berger December 5, 2001 12:42 pm PT STOKING THE FLAMES in a mounting shareholder battle to block the proposed merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer, Walter B. Hewlett filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday highlighting the poor financial performance of the two companies since the merger was first announced. In the three months following Aug. 31, the last trading day prior to the merger announcement, Compaq's share price has declined 17.8 percent from $12.35 to $10.15, and HP has seen its stock price fall 5.3 percent from $23.21 to $21.99, the filing said. The combined market value of the companies has been slashed by $6.2 billion. Meanwhile, analyst consensus estimates for earnings-per-share at both companies for the 2002 and 2003 fiscal years have declined significantly, Hewlett noted in his filing. Compared to forecasts prior to Aug. 31, analysts lowered their earnings-per-share estimates for Compaq by 77.3 percent for fiscal 2002 and by 60.2 percent for fiscal 2003. For HP, analysts lowered estimates 17.1 percent for fiscal 2002 and 20 percent for fiscal 2003. Hewlett, son of HP co-founder William Hewlett, is a board member at HP and has opposed the planned merger, once valued at nearly $25 billion. He hired proxy solicitation advisors MacKenzie Partners in November to aid in his opposition. Mr. Hewlett has been making his case to a number of Hewlett-Packard shareholders that the merger does not make sense, said Charlie Koons, assistant vice president of MacKenzie Partners in New York. At this point it's just preliminary. The proxy statement's filing date hinges on when HP is going to hold its annual shareholder meeting. The meeting is likely to be at the end of February, Koons said. HP hasn't yet set a date for the meeting. Hewlett -- along with his two siblings, Eleanor Hewlett Gimon and Mary Hewlett Jaffe, and The William R. Hewlett Revocable Trust -- opposes the merger. So does David Packard, the son of company co-founder David Packard. Walter Hewlett is the only party named in the latest SEC filings. Matt Berger is a San Francisco-based correspondent for the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate. RELATED ARTICLES FTC delves deeper into HP-Compaq merger RELATED SUBJECTS Business News SUBSCRIBE TO:E-mail Newsletters InfoWorld Mobile InfoWorld Magazine Home // News // Article ADVERTISEMENT SPONSORED LINKS Secure your servers with 128-bit SSL encryption! Act now and get special low prices on select HP products. Click here for FREE Oracle Portal eKit. Belarc's Intranet PC Management System- White Paper and Demo Sun Fire(TM) V880 server from Sun - Take a tour. SUBSCRIBE E-mail Newsletters InfoWorld Mobile Print Magazine Web-based trainingABOUT INFOWORLD | SITE MAP | EMPLOYMENT | PRIVACY | CONTACT US Copyright 2001 InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. - 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 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] Let Me Tell You About My Family
-Caveat Lector- well, you can look for references in the good book and discuss biblical accuracy til you explode- i was taking the piss more than actually referencing my sources for my take on jesus' lifestyle. it.was.a.joke.tenorlove.is that clear enough? but i think my version stands up- if only because it is an accepted truth in a way... that jesus was knocking around with 12 guys and a hooker- it is how it is seen- and in religious terms then that is enough really. the bible is a crock of shit if it is facts you are wanting from it. so my interpreation of what happened is as real as your version. or anyone's version. kinda. well, call me thomas but i still cannot remember him recommending dogma and beatings as the way to drag one's kids up. but i am sure someone can reference it for me. and tell me this, scholars, where does it say in the bible that TV is evil? eh? eh? - Original Message - From: Tenorlove [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Let Me Tell You About My Family -Caveat Lector- --- c. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: um, hanging around with 12 other single men and a prostitute is the perfect way to live? NOWHERE in the NT does it say that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. She is described variously as a sinner out of whom went seven devils. It is more likely that she was a priestess in an Astarte cult, which may or may not have involved sacred prostitution, but she was not the common streetwalker that the Christian Church has made her out to be. At any rate, she was closer to Jesus than any of his disciples, being the first to see him after the resurrection, which inspired envy in the disciples, who were the ones who made up church dogma. As for the 12 other single men this also is not supported by the NT. In Mark 1:31, Jesus heals the mother-in-law of the disciple Simon Peter. Outside of the Essenes, who cloistered themselves at Qumran, it is extremely rare for Jewish men -- or women -- to remain single. The rabbis at the time compared deliberate celibacy to murder. The disciple James, the brother of Jesus, was apparently the ancestor of the Desposyni, Jewish royal exiles in Southern France in the first century CE. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.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 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: The Revival of Russian Regional Hegemony
---BeginMessage--- Gary North's REALITY CHECK Issue 97 December 6, 2001 This is a follow-up report on the continuing threat of new viruses and worms. A new worm was discovered earlier this week. This one is more destructive than BadTrans. It destroys anti-virus software and firewalls. It's well-named: Goner. Its full ID is W32.Goner.A@mm. It uses the same distribution technique that BadTrans does: an e-mail attachment that sends itself to everyone in your list if you open it. If you receive an e-mail that says Hi, and then goes on to tell you that the sender has included a file for you to open, delete it. The attachment is named GONE.SCR. For more information on this worm, visit http://www.pandasoftware.com It is analyzed on the home page, upper left-hand corner. The good news is that Panda Software has already updated its PQremove freeware program to kill Goner. You have to download the new version, and then open and activate it. I did this today. It ran a quick check on my hard drive. So far, I have not been hit. Once Goner is gone from your hard disk, you're ready for the next test of your system. To test how secure your computer is from hackers, use Steve Gibson's free service, Shields Up! https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 If you find that your system is at risk, here is a good way to protect your system. Install Zone Alarm. It's free. http://www.zonelabs.com/products/za/pestpatrol.html You can buy Zone Alarm Pro, which updates your system as new threats appear. But the freeware version will increase your safety by orders of magnitude. THE REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN REGIONAL HEGEMONY We remember the fall of the Soviet Union a decade ago. I am one of those who believe that it really did fall. Communism is dead as an ideology in Russia. But this does not change the reality of Russian expansionism, nor does it change the fact of the desire of Russian leaders to re- establish Russia as a superpower. Only the ideology has changed. It is no longer messianic. Marxism is dead, but the competition for power is still alive. Russia has been striving for regional influence in the Indian subcontinent for two centuries. This has been called the Great Game. The competition between Russia and the Anglo-American West in this region has never ended. If you have ever read Kipling's book, KIM, or seen the movie with Errol Flynn, you know how long this competition has been in operation. In the last two months, Russia has made greater gains in the region than it did during the entire the twentieth century. The United States has opened the door the Russia for regional hegemony. Pakistan has now been sacrificed by American foreign policy. Pakistan was closely tied to the Taliban, which it funded in the 1980's with CIA money. For the last five years, the U.S. also made deals -- or attempted to -- with the Taliban. Now we have handed over control of the cities to the Northern Alliance, which is more closely connected to Russia. Pakistan and the United Front have been hostile from the beginning. THE OIL CARD Russia's client Muslim states in the Caspian Sea region are sitting on top of large oil reserves. This is common knowledge now. The implications for the West are enormous. Oil will flow into China and India when the pipeline is completed. Money will flow into Caspian Sea states. It will also flow to the nation and company that control the pipeline. This will undermine the oil-based economies of the Middle East. This will also put domestic political pressure on the governments of the Middle Eastern oil states. The public's dreams of wealth will be cut back -- a classic condition for creating a revolution. Downward pressure on oil has begun. This is recession-driven, but also the result of Russian oil output. Russia is making money, but it is also undermining the Middle Eastern Islamic kingdoms, which are perceived -- correctly -- as under America's domination. Canadian columnist Eric Margolis, who has spent time in Afghanistan, has written a perceptive analysis of the return of the Russian bear in the region. On November 25, he wrote: When Pakistan ditched its ally, Taliban, in September, and sided with the US, Islamabad and Washington fully expected to implant a pro-American regime in Kabul and open the way for the Pak-American pipeline. But this was not to be. In a dazzling coup, Russian leader Vladimir Putin stole a march on the Bush Administration, which was so busy trying to tear apart Afghanistan to find bin Laden it failed to notice the Russians were taking over half the country.
Re: [CTRL] Fear of fluoridation takes a left turn
-Caveat Lector- --- William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fear of fluoridation takes a left turn being careful what goes into the body is about as old as the discernment that came with the jump in human intelligence about ten thousand years ago... there are people spinning issues to the left and spinning issues to the right but this is not a political issue...it is one of health... __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.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] Hamas Founder Under House Arrrest
too bad no one is putting key Mossad figures under house arrest... Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- Hamas Founder Under House Arrrest .c The Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian police put the founder of Hamas under house arrest Wednesday, officials said, in Yasser Arafat's boldest move yet against the violent Islamic group. Witnesses said a Palestinian policeman entered Sheikh Ahmed Yassin's home in Gaza City and informed him that he was under house arrest. Yassin, spiritual leader of the militant group that has claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks against Israelis, is a quadriplegic who uses a wheelchair. Palestinian security officials said only relatives would be permitted to visit Yassin, and his telephone lines would be cut. Hamas claimed responsibility for two weekend suicide attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa that killed 25 people and the three bombers. In retaliation, Israeli planes and helicopters blasted Palestinian installations in the West Bank and Gaza, and Israel declared Arafat's Palestinian Authority an ``entity that supports terrorism.'' On Wednesday, the Israelis demanded that Arafat arrest leaders of the extremist groups. Yassin was in an Israeli prison for several years, but was released in 1997 in the aftermath of a botched Israeli attempt to assassinate a Hamas leader in Jordan. AP-NY-12-05-01 1622EST Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT = Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is the largest network of grassroots activists dedicated to Palestinian human rights. To subscribe to Al-Awda-News, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To find out how to join an Al-Awda action committee in your area, please visit our website at http://al-awda.org = FREEZE TERRORIST ASSETS! STOP US AID TO ISRAEL! Sign the petition letter online at: http://al-awda.org/terminate_aid_petition.htm = Unless indicated otherwise, all statements posted represent the views of their authors and not necessarily those of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---End Message---
[CTRL] Hamas beats off Arafat's forces
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- BBC World: Middle East Thursday, 6 December, 2001, 03:44 GMT Hamas beats off Arafat's forces Gunmen from the Palestinian militant group Hamas freed their leader soon after he was placed under house arrest by Palestinian security forces. Hamas gunmen and security forces exchanged fire outside Sheikh Ahmed Yassin's Gaza City home before the security forces retreated. The Hamas leader has been under Palestinian house arrest in the past Hamas has said it carried out the suicide bomb attacks on Israelis at the weekend which killed 25 people. The arrest attempt came as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat asked for more time from Israel, which has suspended its retaliatory air strikes, to clamp down on militants. Thousands of people came out onto the streets to demonstrate against Sheikh Yassin's arrest after a call from loudspeakers at a nearby mosque. The 62-year-old leader, who is paralysed and virtually blind, was believed to be still inside his house on Wednesday night after the arrest attempt. However, Palestinian security forces did successfully arrest a number of other Hamas members on Wednesday, and Mr Arafat reported detaining a total of 151 suspected militants in recent days. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT = Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is the largest network of grassroots activists dedicated to Palestinian human rights. To subscribe to Al-Awda-News, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To find out how to join an Al-Awda action committee in your area, please visit our website at http://al-awda.org = FREEZE TERRORIST ASSETS! STOP US AID TO ISRAEL! Sign the petition letter online at: http://al-awda.org/terminate_aid_petition.htm = Unless indicated otherwise, all statements posted represent the views of their authors and not necessarily those of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---End Message---
[CTRL] International Community Condemn latest Israeli
-Caveat Lector- http://www.palestine-pmc.com/news/newb-6-12-2001.html International Community Condemn latest Israeli Aggression December 5 2001 Palestine Media Center-PMC A considerable number of the world's nations have strongly condemned the recent Israeli attacks on the Palestinian People. According to news agencies, many governments have expressed their anger and disagreement with the latest Israeli military operation, which aims to destroy the Palestinian Leadership and was launched on 3 December. The French Foreign Minister, Mr. Hubert Vedrine slammed the Israeli Prime Minister's position, which alleges that the Palestine National Authority (PNA) a [terror-supporting entity]. He stressed that the Israeli government is adopting a policy that aims to weaken the PNA and render it incapable of doing anything to stop the violence. The French top diplomat also accused Ariel Sharon of trying to eliminate President Yasser Arafat. Turkey's Prime Minister, Mr. Bulent Ecevit warned Israel that its military strikes against Palestinians risked sparking a conflict that could be worse than the war in Afghanistan. He described the latest Israeli strikes as unjust actions against the Palestinian [National] Authority's territory. In addition, Mr. Ecevit appealed to the United States to step up its efforts to mediate between the parties in order to resolve the current crisis. He stated, I believe that it will be helpful, and that it is essential, for the United States to enter the arena in a more active and effective way. In another response, Pope John Paul II urged the international community to step in and help Israelis and Palestinians break this useless spiral of death. The Pope's comments came on 5 December during an address in the Vatican. Violence never resolves conflicts, but only increases the dramatic consequences, the Pope told the faithful. He added, With ever greater determination and courage, [the international community] can help the two sides to end the violence and resume peace negotiations. Meanwhile, in the United Nations yesterday, 4 December, the General Assembly adopted a resolution strongly criticizing Israel's policies toward the Palestinians. The key resolution supported Palestinian rights to an independent state on the basis of land for peace and called for an Israeli withdrawal and a return to negotiations on a final peace settlement. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.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] Fwd: TO APPEASE THE GUN LOBBY, ASHCROFT BETRAYS THE WAR ON TERRORISM
forwarded message ---BeginMessage--- A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY DECEMBER 6 Our Attorney General, who was recently featured as the monthly poster boy by the National Rifle Association, is selling out the war on terrorism to appease the gun lobby. He is willing to infringe on civil rights right and left, but he is prohibiting the FBI from checking on gun purchases and ownership of alleged terrorists. That's not even an infringement on anyone's civil rights. That's just a craven sell out to the gun lobby, at the expense of fully fighting the war on terrorism. Why is Ashcroft doing this? As a failed candidate for re-election to the Senate from Missouri in 2000, Ashcroft received more campaign money from the NRA than any other senate candidate. The NRA has longed been more concerned about protecting the gun industry than protecting the health, safety and security of Americans. Through other means, bypassing the Justice Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, has found that 34 guns seized in crimes had been bought at some point by people on the detainee list, according to the New York Times. But that is probably just the tip of the iceberg. The gun lobby doesn't want Americans to know how the porous gun purchasing system in the United States makes the whole country a virtual flee market for small arms trafficking by terrorists and others. Our Attorney General, who pompously justifies trampling on civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution, stands by the dangerous self-protective stance of the gun industry, rather than allow law enforcement officials from taking the first steps to identify terrorists involvement with firearms ownership in the United States. Whose side is the Attorney General on? The side of the American people in the war on terrorism, or the side of the gun lobby who doesn't give a damn if terrorists buy guns in the U.S.? If it weren't tragic in its implications for the nation, the Ashcroft/NRA effort to conceal the likely terrorist gun purchases from the American public and law enforcement officials would be the stuff of a dark comedy. The Justice Department is refusing to turn over potential terrorist gun purchase information to the FBI, because, one Ashcroft DOJ official, ruled that these checks were improper, reasoning that they would violate the privacy of these foreigners. F.B.I. officials said foreigners normally did not have privacy rights unless they have achieved permanent resident status. The NRA bragged, before the 2000 election, that if Bush won, they would have an office at the White House. Well, they must have one at the Justice Department too, to the detriment of the safety and security of the American public. A BuzzFlash Editorial Commentary New York Times Article Follows Here is the article from the New York Times that details the Ashcroft betrayal of our anti-terrorism effort to appease the NRA, his patron: Go To: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/06/national/06GUNS.html?pagewanted=print December 6, 2001 Justice Dept. Bars Use of Gun Checks in Terror Inquiry By FOX BUTTERFIELD The New York Times The Justice Department has refused to let the F.B.I. check its records to determine whether any of the 1,200 people detained after the Sept. 11 attacks had bought guns, F.B.I. and Justice Department officials say. The department made the decision in October after the F.B.I. asked to examine the records it maintains on background checks to see if any detainees had purchased guns in the United States. Mindy Tucker, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department, said the request was rejected after several senior officials decided that the law creating the background check system did not permit the use of the records to investigate individuals. Ms. Tucker did not elaborate on the decision, but it is in keeping with Attorney General John Ashcroft's strong support of gun rights and his longstanding opposition to the government's use of background check records. In 1998, as a senator from Missouri, Mr. Ashcroft voted for an amendment to the Brady gun-control law to destroy such records immediately after checking the background of a prospective gun buyer. That amendment was defeated. We intend to use every legal tool available to protect American lives, John Collingwood, an assistant director of the F.B.I., said, but he added that applicable law does not permit the background check records to be used for this purpose. The Justice Department's action has frustrated some F.B.I. and other law enforcement officials who say it puts the department at odds with its own priorities. Even as the department is instituting tough new measures to detain individuals suspected of links to terrorism, they say, it is being unusually solicitous of foreigners' gun rights. The International Association of Chiefs of Police, the nation's largest group of law enforcement executives, has already written one letter to the
Re: [CTRL] Report-Taliban Kill 93 US Commandos and Capture Six
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ILLUMINATI
-- To the tune of Eleanor Rigby
11-07-88
Steve Jackson, Joe Vail, Creede Lambard
Illuminati...
They put a thing made of tinfoil on top of my door...
What is it for?
Illuminati...
Shooting a ray at my cornflakes to make them turn green...
What does it mean?
The Illuminati... They're watching me, I know.
The Illuminati... They're everywhere I go.
Illuminati...
Doing unspeakable things in the night to a cow...
Where are they now?
Illuminati...
Sent an impostor in place of the Popsicle man...
What is their plan?
The Illuminati... They're watching me, I know.
The Illuminati... They're everywhere I go.
Illuminati...
They cancelled Star Trek, The Fonz, and My Mother, the Car...
Are they bizarre?
You can't escape them;
Even if you take a plane to Nepal or Peru...
They'll be there, too...
The Illuminati... They're watching me, I know.
The Illuminati... They're everywhere I go.
I know that they know all about me...
They know that I know all about them...
Illuminati...
Hide their assassins' instructions in newspaper text...
Who will be next?
They're all around us...
Underline every third word in the Times and you'll see...
How can it be?
The Illuminati... They're watching me, I know.
The Illuminati... They're everywhere I go.
They're in the attic and the cellar...
Bigger than Hunt or Rockefeller...
Illuminati...
Go through my garbage and count all the pop bottles there...
Why do they care?
They're out to get me...
They're fluoridating my water from their UFO...
What do they know?
The Illuminati... They're everywhere, I see.
The Illuminati... And no one knows but me.
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Re: [CTRL] Air Force DEEPLY Involved in Mind Control Projects
-Caveat Lector- (This is two years old, but hopefully worth repeating. ) Samantha http://web.archive.org/web/20010914080129/http://www.christianbiblestudy.org/M OS/_MOSOPS/Montau.htm PROOF!--Air Force DEEPLY Involved in Mind Control Projects-- According to Eric Harris's Air Force Controller AND Harris Himself © 1999 John Quinn/NewsHawk Inc. (The rights of UNALTERED reproduction/distribution hereby waived.) The Air Force--THAT is, those divisions of what USED to be the U.S. Air Force which are now under control of New World Order global governance masters, seems to have trouble keeping itself out of NewsHawk's press releases lately. We just issued a heads-up to our readers yesterday concerning the fact that KC-135s and other aircraft KNOWN to belong (at LEAST on paper!) to OUR U.S. Air Force are currently engaged in an extremely widespread campaign of continual, all-out, virtually round-the-clock bombardment of the people of North America (not ONLY U.S. residents) with chemical and biological materials known to be injurious to human health--and almost certainly to the health of most indigenous life forms on our planet (cloned reptoid-zomboid-android-Nazoid test-tube vermin such as those overrunning our entire governmental structure are obviously not affected by this most unwelcome crud being showered down on us daily.) We have also made note of the extremely interesting fact that mind-controlled Manchurian Candidate perpetrators of at LEAST four of the recent mass shooting nightmares in our country had/have SIGNIFICANT and HARD ties to the Air Force. In just the past two days, these articles of ours have stimulated additional responses from others with knowledge and/or direct experience which further confirms the high degree of involvement on the part of covert Air Force intelligence operatives at specific Air Force bases in the engineering, programming, indoctrination and training of those unfortunate subjects; picked to become mind-controlled mass killers. A wide variety of tactics and techniques are used in these utterly abusive and demonic programs, which are almost completely derived from the infamous MK-Ultra project, the Montauk Project and related intelligence agency mind-control projects. The genealogy of all these evil, grotesque activities leads DIRECTLY back to the death and torture slave camps of the Third Reich by way of the Nazi-infested CIA, NSA, DIA and other U.S. intelligence groups. This absolute, unqualified FACT. Check the records. These agencies funneled HORDES of high-level Nazi Party members, intelligence and military officers, scientists (yea right!) and vast quantities of Nazi technology information databases into the most fundamental levels of OUR United States government: after, DURING and even BEFORE WW2! Two of these recent communications to NewsHawk in fact pinpoint a particular Air Force base which has ALREADY been heavily outed by us in our articles (The Rocky Mountain Horror Show and Putting the Columbine Puzzle Together) on the Columbine High School massacre on April 20 . This corroborates information from other widely divergent sources regarding bizarre covert activities at this location. The location we refer to is PLATTSBURGH AIR FORCE BASE in northeastern New York State, roughly 80 miles south of the Canadian border. Beneath the Plattsburgh base is a VAST, 18-level deep subterranean facility. Eric Harris, whose father has been linked to covert AF intelligence projects going back nearly 20 years, lived with his family at Plattsburgh AFB for over 4 years right before moving to Littleton. We have previously received confirmation on the Plattsburgh base as (being) a location for severe, horrendous, outrageous and scientifically very advanced mind/consciousness-manipulation technologies and projects from a wide variety of sources: from other victims and from those who were in the employ of project operators. Plattsburgh AFB was by some reports linked in the 1960s the horrendous known Nazi-lover Ewen Cameron, president of the American Psychiatric Association, The Canadian Psychiatric Association AND the World Psychiatric Association, and Cameron's massive abuses in the CIA-contracted MK-Ultra (drug and neuro-electrically-based) mind-control project just over the border in Montreal. Firsthand accounts indicate that this legacy continued at Plattsburgh through the 1970s and beyond to present times with electromagnetic/radio-frequency and drug-based mind control activities tied to some of the experimentation at Montauk. As noted in earlier reports this Air force installation SUPPOSEDLY officially closed in 1994. However, thoroughly credible testimony from many sources provides clear proof the base remains quite active years after itâs official closure. Local residents and other firsthand eyewitnesses report that the base, though somewhat deserted, is currently in some level of operation even on the surface, AND EM/RF signal detection equipment
[CTRL] 1 - The National Center for Privatization
-Caveat Lector- this was sent to me by someone who has, time and time again, proven to be a reliable source - because of the sensitive nature of some of it i am afraid i cannot reveal anything more about my little birdie...this is the 1st in a series... The National Center for Privatization In 1983, Willard Garvey and other Wichita, Kansas businessmen founded the National Center for Privatization [NCP]. Its 1986 Board of Directors included Willard Garvey and Robert D. Love, a founding member of National Council of The John Birch Society who, according to a JBS publication cited by The Belmont Brotherhood, was a Thirty-second Degree KCCH Mason, a member of the Median Shrine. 4. The purpose of the National Center for Privatization was to educate Americans about the then-new concept of 'Privatization', which meant relieving the government of services which Garvey and his partners felt could be performed more efficiently and effectively within the private sector. Ostensibly, the objective was to eliminate government waste, reduce taxes, and government control of the U.S. citizenry. Therefore, the foremost objective of the National Center for privatization is to encourage by all practical and legal means, the transfer of activities and responsibilities now being funded with coerced tax dollars, to the private profit and voluntary sector of the economy. 5. Although privatization masquerades as relief for the overburdened taxpayer, a different picture emerges in real life scenarios where private enterprise and government have collaborated to profit at taxpayer expense. A practical illustration of how private enterprise often works involved Willard Garvey's profiteering at the expense of the taxpayer. Waste of the West: Public Lands Ranching discloses that ranchers, government and private entities have been working together for decades to convert our public land into profitable livestock ranches. 6. In 1934, private interests pushed through Congress the Taylor Grazing Act which created the Division of Grazing under the Department of the Interior. This legislation resulted in the establishment of federal, state and local grazing advisory boards staffed by the same wealthy ranchers who lobbied Congress for their creation: All these 'advisory' boards were composed mostly of the same large-scale, aggressive, politically savvy ranchers who helped create the Forest Service and Taylor Grazing Act and awarded themselves federal grazing permits (or else stockmen who followed in their place). Most members were also livestock association officials, and many were bankers, real estate dealers, lawyers, timber barons, merchants, and mining tycoons. Congress enacted regulations, created grazing allotments, and charged a nominal 5 cent grazing fee. Leases were issued to the privileged few, generally the most wealthy and powerful cattlemen, especially those who helped create the Taylor Grazing Act, often those who had illegally fenced off public land. . . In 1939, under close supervision of the grazing industry, the Division of Grazing was reorganized into the Grazing Service. . .They went out and radically turned it over to the big cowmen and the big sheepmen of the West Why they even put them on the payroll. . . It is common knowledge that they have been practically running the Grazing Service. . . Seven years later, in 1946, again under the influence of powerful stockmen, the Grazing Service and General Land Office were combined to form the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). . . 7. Chapter 7 titled Welfare Ranching describes Willard Garvey's illegal use of tax-funded public lands -- with a little help from fellow rancher, Ronald Reagan, who also happened to be President of the United States: In 1984 appraisers for both the BLM and Forest Service uncovered more than 2000 secret subleasing deals providing the original holder of the grazing permit 'the opportunity to profit at the expense of the Treasury' (Com. on Govt. Oper. 1986). A recent study by Colorado State University researchers found more than 900 cattle permittees were subleasing 'their' BLM allotments. Considering there are only about 19,000 BLM permittees altogether, 900 (almost 5% of the total) seems to indicate a serious problem. And one further wonders how many subleasers were not revealed. These 900 were subleasing at an average rate of $7.76/AUM -- more than 5 times the then-current $1.35/AUM grazing fee charged by the federal government. Most of the difference went into ranchers' pockets. For example, according to the 5-11-87 Reno Gazette-Journal, multimillionaire Willard Garvey collected $120,000 rent in 1986 from a Humboldt County, Nevada rancher, while the government received only $14,587 in grazing fees for that public land. In 1985. . .in a slick move that infuriated many reform advocates, rancher Ronald Reagan rode to the rescue and (while vacationing at his California ranch) promulgated an executive order directing the Secretaries of Agriculture
Re: [CTRL] Jim Collier: Only a Paper Moon?
-Caveat Lector- But he is basing his assumptions on supposed facts of science. You are arbritrarily deciding that science is lying about there being no atmosphere on the moon. Find a scientist who agrees with you. You cannot contradict something without evidence that it is false. You can of course make up any story you want to and using your rules so can everybody else. We'll never know what is true or false though using your methods. Gavin --- Dale Stonehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- http://www.thule.org/looksaucer.html How could there be diffused light on the moon? on the moon there is no prism of atmosphere to diffuse or bend light so the sky is totally black. Here we have a classic example of someone assuming a desired conclusion and fitting the facts to prove' that conclusion. I can do the same thing; all that is necessary is to change the assumed lie from we went to the moon to the moon has no atmosphere. The author, who is not willing to believe what he was told about the moon landing, is nonetheless unable to question the same authority which also told him the moon has no atmosphere. Did they lie about one and not the other? So if I assume then, that I have been lied to about the moon's atmosphere, I can conclude: 1. There is atmosphere on the moon. 2. Therefore light will be diffused and produce soft shadow and color. 3. Therefore the NASA photos are not faked (at least not for that reason). 4. Therefore NASA astronauts landed on the moon and the photos in question are genuine. See how easy it is? Not that I am happy about either lie; but this illustrates the trap of assuming we know anything or are even capable of knowing things as absolutes. At what temperature does film melt? I asked. One hundred and fifty degrees. But NASA video and film prove the astronauts to be on the moon's surface when the sun was at high noon; the temperature was +250 F. degrees. The film, in the uncooled cameras would melt, Kodak said. Once again the author does not question the accepted surface temperature of the moon but chooses to question other things. The film would indeed not survive that temperature, IF true. So it seems we pick and choose the things we wish to believe. This is a trap set for the human mind that works all too well. The only way out of the trap is to question each and every concept we have been conditioned to believe is real. Until we can conceive the possibility of frequency (electromagnetic) manipulation of our minds by earthly or other means, we have no way out of our present reality matrix. And we are so easily deceived as to make doing so child's play, even for lowly humans who have acquired the knowledge and methods. Can you tell the difference between reality and a holographic insert? Neither can I. Yet. 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 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.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
Re: [CTRL] Jim Collier: Only a Paper Moon?
-Caveat Lector- But he is basing his assumptions on supposed facts of science. You are arbritrarily deciding that science is lying about there being no atmosphere on the moon. Find a scientist who agrees with you. You cannot contradict something without evidence that it is false. You can of course make up any story you want to and using your rules so can everybody else. We'll never know what is true or false though using your methods. Gavin --- Dale Stonehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- http://www.thule.org/looksaucer.html How could there be diffused light on the moon? on the moon there is no prism of atmosphere to diffuse or bend light so the sky is totally black. Here we have a classic example of someone assuming a desired conclusion and fitting the facts to prove' that conclusion. I can do the same thing; all that is necessary is to change the assumed lie from we went to the moon to the moon has no atmosphere. The author, who is not willing to believe what he was told about the moon landing, is nonetheless unable to question the same authority which also told him the moon has no atmosphere. Did they lie about one and not the other? So if I assume then, that I have been lied to about the moon's atmosphere, I can conclude: 1. There is atmosphere on the moon. 2. Therefore light will be diffused and produce soft shadow and color. 3. Therefore the NASA photos are not faked (at least not for that reason). 4. Therefore NASA astronauts landed on the moon and the photos in question are genuine. See how easy it is? Not that I am happy about either lie; but this illustrates the trap of assuming we know anything or are even capable of knowing things as absolutes. At what temperature does film melt? I asked. One hundred and fifty degrees. But NASA video and film prove the astronauts to be on the moon's surface when the sun was at high noon; the temperature was +250 F. degrees. The film, in the uncooled cameras would melt, Kodak said. Once again the author does not question the accepted surface temperature of the moon but chooses to question other things. The film would indeed not survive that temperature, IF true. So it seems we pick and choose the things we wish to believe. This is a trap set for the human mind that works all too well. The only way out of the trap is to question each and every concept we have been conditioned to believe is real. Until we can conceive the possibility of frequency (electromagnetic) manipulation of our minds by earthly or other means, we have no way out of our present reality matrix. And we are so easily deceived as to make doing so child's play, even for lowly humans who have acquired the knowledge and methods. Can you tell the difference between reality and a holographic insert? Neither can I. Yet. 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 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.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
[CTRL] Giuliani Wants to Take Control of WTC Fund Billions
-Caveat Lector- --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], NY Transfer News [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - ARON KAY [EMAIL PROTECTED] NY POST - December 5, 2001 RUDY OUT TO MAKE IT HIS FUND by David Seifman and Maggie Haberman Mayor Giuliani is moving to convert the city's Twin Towers Fund into a private charity he'll control even after leaving office, sources told The Post yesterday. Mayoral aides have asked state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer about speeding up the process so it can be finished before Giuliani's term ends on Dec. 31, the sources said. Fund officials said the plan was always to transfer the assets to a charity with Giuliani at the helm. One source said the administration is trying to do this quickly. But it's tough to fast-track something like this. It usually takes months. The question is: What does [Mayor-elect Mike] Bloomberg think? Is this what Bloomberg wants to do? the source added. A Bloomberg spokesman declined comment. Another source said that Giuliani's team doesn't anticipate any problems with Bloomberg over the transfer, and that the process will go quickly. The move won't affect the families of firefighters, cops and other uniformed personnel who perished in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The fund has raised $113 million and distributed $46.7 million so far to 389 families. Creating a private charity would remove control from the city's Public-Private Initiatives, whose board is appointed by the mayor. If the changeover doesn't happen before Jan. 1, Bloomberg could replace Giuliani's appointees with his own. Twin Towers Fund spokeswoman Kim Serafin said the charity was created with the intent that Mayor Giuliani, in the future as Citizen Giuliani, would be in charge of this to make sure all the money is handled properly and goes to the families of the 406 fallen heroes. Spitzer spokesman Darren Dopp declined comment. Giuliani's aides have already established a tax-exempt group to which the funds would be moved, but the process entails petitioning the state Supreme Court and must be reviewed by Spitzer. Giuliani, who created the Twin Towers Fund, will serve as chairman of the board that will run the tax-exempt charity. A source said the transfer would have been completed by now if the administration hadn't been busy with other major events, such as the Flight 587 crash. ARON KAY http://www.pieman.org DON'T LET AMERIKKKA BECOME A NATION OF SNITCHES TERMINATE THE POLICE STATE = NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = --- End forwarded message --- 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] B. NESS: STOPPING THE PERPETUAL WAR
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/06/23000.html Pravda.RU:Main:More in detail 13:10 2001-12-06 B. NESS: STOPPING THE PERPETUAL WAR THE WAR ON (SOME) TERRORISM Anyone who believes that the United States is waging a "War On Terrorism," hasn't been paying attention. The United States is not waging a War On Terrorism. The United States is waging a War On (Some) Terrorism. Like its equally ill-conceived predecessor, the War On (Some) Drugs, it is doomed from inception to failure. One may as well wage war on "vice" or on "evil." The entire concept is ludicrous. It's like pouring corn down a rat hole. The rats don't come out and you don't get the corn back, either. But we are not pouring corn, we are pouring blood and treasure. With them spill away our civil rights, our way of life, and any chance at all of living in peace and safety. MUST AMERICA REPEAT ISRAEL'S MISTAKES? There is no protection, least of all military, from a determined terrorist. If torture, internment, racial profiling, and the brutal punishment of innocent bystanders were a viable defense against terrorism, Israel would be the safest place on the planet. This is most definitely not the case. If Israel is ever to have peace, it must be surrounded, not by victims, but by friends and allies. It is still not too late, but Israel's rulers still fail to see the obvious. Instead, they make more enemies, and they make their enemies more determined. Must Americans repeat Israel's mistakes? If the powers-that-be are permitted to have their way about it, that's exactly what is going to happen. A WAR ON ALL TERRORISM If this war were really a war on terrorism, it would be a war on all terrorism. Bombs would be falling on the terrorist training camp at Fort Benning and the terrorist headquarters in Langley, Henry Kissinger would be extradited to Chile and the men who wage biowar against Cuba would be answering for their crimes. This is not happening. The name of this war is just one more deception in a very long line. Deception is the essence of war. We should not be surprised. (Neither should we be complacent.) But let's not quibble over names. Whatever you call it, this war is a burgeoning disaster. How many more people must die before we make it stop? ALL QUIET ON THE AFGHAN FRONT? Anyone who believes this war will be over soon, just because the Taliban have executed a strategic withdrawal from some indefensible positions, has not read enough military history. Read military history. It's good for you. Specifically, read recent Afghan military history. All quiet on the Afghan front? Not any time soon. It ain't over till it's over, and it ain't over yet – not by a long shot. Even total destruction of the Taliban, and all of its foreign legion, would not bring an end to this war. The war is not being waged against them. The war is being waged against "terrorism," a term that can mean anything the powers-that-be want it to mean, a term so nebulous that it can even include dancing jaywalkers. A war on "terrorism" could go on forever. Think about it: perpetual war. ON TO IRAQ? The talking heads on network TV are already getting us ready for the next campaign: "Iraq -- Cakewalk or milk run?" is the depth of their debate. The possible extent of the potential consequences is not being adequately addressed. Here's one possible scenario: a cornered, Saddam Hussein orders a devastating counterattack launched by Iraqi sleeper agents already in place, and/or by their friends, also already in place. We can't know for sure, but it is exactly the sort of thing we have to consider. This is the nature of war in the 21st-century. Don't think it takes place "over there." BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE This war can be stopped before it's too late, but it is going to take a mass movement to do it. To build it, we must set aside that which divides us. This is no easy task, but it can be done. Thinking of politics purely in terms of a left, right and center gets in the way. Not only does it pit one against the other, it leaves out everyone else. It also fails to explain the many, many things upon which we do agree. Fortunately, some of our most divisive politics are so obviously irrelevant as to not be a problem. Guns, abortion, affirmative action and social security just don't factor into this war. The global economy presents thornier issues. As long as access to resources and trade routes are distributed by force, war will plague this planet. (This century, that means literal plagues.) If we are ever to put an end to war, let alone terrorism, sooner or later we are going to have to address global economics. But not right now. THE IMMEDIATE DANGER Right now we must focus on the immediate danger. Only fools bicker over how to slice up the pie while the bakery is being burned down around them by a hideous alliance of villains and fools. Right now we have to concentrate on building a movement powerful enough stop this war before we wake up
[CTRL] Fwd: BuzzFlash News Alert: 35 Shot at Indiana Factory
forwarded message ---BeginMessage--- http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-011206goshen.story?coll=chi%2Dnewsbreaking%2Dhed From the Chicago Tribune As many as 35 shot at Indiana factory Associated Press December 6, 2001, 2:39 PM CST GOSHEN, Ind. -- Police officers responded this afternoon to reports of as many as 35 people shot in a factory in an industrial park in northern Indiana, according to the mayor of Goshen, Ind. Mayor Allan Kauffman said he did not know whether anyone had been killed or how serious the injuries were. Police were working to secure the area, he said about 3:15 p.m. EST. ``They dont know if the shooter or shooters are still in the area, Kauffman said. ``As of this minute the area is still not secured, so they dont know if the shooter is still there or not. Roy Beaupain, president of Economy Offset Printers, said his business was a neighbor of Nu-Wood, where the shooting had occurred. He said he had not heard any gunshots. ``There are cops on the roof of a building east of Nu-Wood and the alley is filled with cops, with guns drawn, Beaupain said. Chris Barouska, parts manager at Ingersoll-Rand, said the shooting had occurred at the neighboring factory Nu-Wood. ``The place is smothered in cops, Barouska said. ``Completely surround. Goshen General Hospital went on alert and was preparing for multiple patients in need of medical treatment, said Virginia Forgey, a hospital marketing assistant. Forgey did not know whether anyone had come through their emergency facility. A Goshen police dispatcher would not provide any immediate information, but said that all officers were being called in. Officers from several departments were being sent to the scene, Indiana State Police said. Copyright © 2001, Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-011206goshen.story?coll=chi%2Dnewsbreaking%2Dhed ___ Powered by List Builder To unsubscribe follow the link: http://lb.bcentral.com/ex/manage/subscriberprefs?customerid=9353subid=CEEB8836B4F91C37msgnum=628 ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: Fw: via the board, Enron, the big daddy of them in keiretsu
---BeginMessage--- SPREAD THE WORD ON ENRON! Wait till they name names ... when we get a copy of the complaint filed yesterday ... Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:33 AM Subject: Fw: via the board, Enron, the big daddy of them in keiretsu - Original Message - From: Lois Battuello To: Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:30 AM Subject: via the board, Enron, the big daddy of them in keiretsu While below will seem remote without knowledge of the board members, trust me, they jump out from the Keiretsu model completely, and include Keiretsu preachers such as Richard Jaedicke, an accounting prof from Stanford GSB and then Dean of GSB 1983-1990, coupled with the Harvard Business School wired Pug Winokur, both on an Enron board since 1985, but whose names never showed up on anything until Nov. 8, 1996. This is the linking of the east and the west to influence peddle into the investment banking sectors on both coasts ... And who was doing a lot of the dealing in trading? Why Japan, and their top five funds took huge and crippling baths -- just how the laundering was going on, one never knows. But that whole thing is intell wired into Yakuza, that's for sure. Yesterday a lawsuit was filed, naming 29 individuals as defendants (see NY Times article below). I am just praying it was filed by Milberg in like the Southern District of New York, and that it names the directors individually -- like Richard Jaedicke and Pug Winoker (Herbert to the boys). Today I am going to look at Herbert Winokur's public issue involvements and see if other companies with which he is associated have filed class action Think of that "race to be first on the wire with real time and trading" -- were they controlling real time and skimming? Could that explain some of the $101 billion in revenues over the past 12 months? Could they have been reporting revenue in their profit and loss statementsfrom the obscure ops they didn't present on their balance sheet so they couldn't be caught as "tax cheats?" I mean, even the present day mob pays their taxes many times in the laundering fronts -- it's a very small cut of the deal to them these days, because of the trillions they manage. Think of the technology they have "leading edge" developed by Tadem Computing which Keiretsu chairman of Tandem Tom Perkins took into Compaq, providing him virtually a life-long position on the board of Compaq which set up in Houston and fed its leading edge tech into Enron for their trading program ... Tandem, which makes the equipment and software to drive 95% of all securities transactions (and I don't know if that means in the U.S. or world-wide). Someone has to take the trading programs away from Enron, or take the buggers out. I just have a feeling they may have been controlling real time and skimming for the cause -- a 5 second delay probably is all that it would take -- maybe even less December 6, 2001 Enron Paid Out 'Retention' Bonuses Before Bankruptcy Filing By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and KURT EICHENWALD ust days before Enron (news/quote) filed for bankruptcy and laid off 4,000 people, it paid out $55 million in bonuses to about 500 employees, according to several people who had dealings with the company. Yesterday evening, an Enron spokesman confirmed the bonuses, describing them as "retention incentives" for crucial employees. Bankruptcy experts said that the payments were almost certain to be closely scrutinized and probably challenged by Enron's creditors. Separately, the Labor Department said yesterday that it had opened an investigation into how Enron managed its employees' 401(k) retirement plans. Those accounts were heavily invested in Enron shares, and company rules prohibited many employees from diversifying their holdings. The Labor Department said that employees had lost up to 90 percent of the value of their accounts. "Enron's employees have gotten the short end of the stick in the sudden collapse of this company," said Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao. Enron has said that a temporary freeze that kept some employees from shifting retirement investments was long planned and allowed another company to take over the job of administering the plan. Enron declined to say how much was paid out in bonuses, who received the money or what the range of payments was. Executives of companies entering bankruptcy defend such payments as necessary if there is to be any hope of reorganizing as a going concern. But they often prove to be incendiary. For example, in 1990, when it was disclosed that Drexel Burnham Lambert had paid key executives some $250 million in bonuses before filing for bankruptcy, creditors and the government reacted with outrage. In the end,
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The power and problem of Enron
Arianna Huffington - Arianna Online
12.04.01 - The opponents of campaign finance reform keep trying to
convince us that it's a non-issue: a matter of inside-the-Beltway
baseball that no one cares about except a few money-hating policy
wonks.
Rep. Dick Armey derided it as the lowest thing on the American radar
screen while Sen. Mitch Money Is Free Speech McConnell took time
out from his busy fund-raising schedule to chastise the editors of
The New York Times for continuing to obsess about an issue that has
completely dropped off the list of the public's priorities. In
other words, No one cares, why should we?
The answer is simple. So simple, in fact, it can be summed up in one
word: Enron. Its chairman, Kenneth Lay, is the former 800-pound
gorilla of Washington power brokers who is looking more and more like
the spiritual offspring of Charles Ponzi.
Enron stands accused of, basically, cooking its books, fraudulently pumping up the
company's value by concealing massive amounts of debt in an array of complex
partnerships set up by Enron officers. Nudged into reluctant
action by a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, the company was forced
to admit that it had over-reported profit by nearly $600 million during the last four
years. These disclosures caused Enron's stock to p
lummet from a high of $90 to 26 cents, culminating on Sunday in the energy giant
filing for Chapter 11 protection, the largest corporate bankruptcy in history.
And it gets uglier. Much uglier. While all these financial shenanigans were going on
and the stock was flying artificially high, Lay, in his position as CPSO (Chief
Pyramid Scheme Officer), cashed in stock and options wor
th $150 million. And former Enron executive Jeff Skilling pocketed $62 million before
abruptly abandoning ship this past August.
Shareholders were not so lucky -- I mean market-savvy. Neither were some 20,000
current and former Enron employees whose retirement accounts evaporated as the company
nose-dived. It turns out that these employees were n
ot given the same opportunity as Lay and Skilling to cash out while the cashing was
good. The company froze the retirement fund, and employees could only watch helplessly
as their nest eggs cracked and turned sunny side d
own.
But the little guys weren't the only ones taken in. Big-boy bankers Citigroup and J.P.
Morgan lent Enron a total of $1.6 billion, $540 million of which is unsecured. Starved
for a good laugh? Try asking your friendly neig
hborhood banker for an unsecured loan and watch his reaction. So what was Enron's
secret? It was the aura of power that glowed around the company and Kenneth Lay -- a
key shaper of the administration's energy policy, and
an intimate FOG (Friend of George).
This aura doesn't come cheap. Enron and its executives doled out $2.4 million to
federal candidates in the 2000 election and were among George W.'s biggest donors. Lay
and his wife alone have donated $793,110 to the GOP s
ince W.'s dad was in office.
Enron has also spent big bucks lobbying Congress and the White House: $4 million in
the last two years. The money has bought the company a bipartisan who's who of
Washington insiders -- including James Baker, Mack McLarty
and Gore 2000 fund-raising director Johnny Hayes -- to help push its corporate agenda.
If the congressional investigations into Enron's collapse slated to begin this month
are to have any political impact, they need to focus on how much clout and protection
the energy giant was able to buy through lobbying
and donations.
Witness, for example, the unprecedented input Lay and Enron were given on the makeup
of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the agency charged with regulating
Enron's core business. Lay went so far as to brag
to one potential nominee about his friends at the White House. He also personally
put the screws to FERC chair Curtis Hebert in an effort to change his views on
electricity deregulation. Hebert didn't, and was soon the
former chairman of FERC, replaced by an Enron ally.
The Enron debacle has exposed the dark side of capitalism -- and the unseemly link
between money and political influence. Let's hope it also sheds a light on the
desperate need for fundamental campaign finance reform. Bec
ause trust in the fundamental decency of our political system is not
a trivial, inside- the-Beltway issue. Just ask the scores of people
who were being sold on the virtues of investing their golden years in
Enron -- right up until the stock crashed.
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[CTRL] Fwd: Fw: Kleiner Perkins is HARBORING!
---BeginMessage--- Again, and again, Yakuza - Original Message - From: Lois Battuello To: Linda Minor ; Catherine Austin Fitts ; katie ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 11:10 AM Subject: Kleiner Perkins is HARBORING! Check this out, down and out and to fully shut down, Excite@Home, while Kleiner Perkins harbors one of its keiretsu perps (last paragraph). CNET tech sites: Price comparisons | Product reviews | Tech news | Downloads | Site map News.context: Special Reports | Newsmakers | Perspectives Excite@Home and the lessons of hypeBy Ben HeskettDecember 6, 2001 When @Home Network Chief Executive Tom Jermoluk strolled into CNET News.com's offices in the winter of 1998 for an interview, he confidently dubbed the company's broadband business prospects a "no-brainer." Things looked promising for the company then, given the number of cable television subscribers in the country and the deals @Home was striking with operators like Cox Communications and Comcast. Clearly, Jermoluk was on to something. The lack of brain power exhibited during the rise and fall of what is now Excite@Home is truly striking--the broadband equivalent of the ongoing Enron debacle. You see, Jermoluk, or "TJ" as he's known to friends, is right. It is a no-brainer. Excite@Home, with 4.1 million subscribers as of its last quarter, was a slam-dunk. You take the homes passed by a cable network to deliver television, imagine that a certain chunk might like to add fast access to the Web, and what have you got? A bankrupt non-entity that drops service with little notice to hundreds of thousands of loyal customers and subsequently announces its intentions to disappear into thin air by the end of February 2002? It's crazy. Counting just the major strategic snafus, such as the bizarre $6.7 billion merger with Excite to "marry" broadband with Internet content and its Byzantine relationships with its cable partners--particularly ATT--Excite@Home may be best thought of as a triumph of that most hated of marketing words: synergies. Excite@Home has some assets, such as an Internet network. But it was also born in the Net era, when everything was "virtual" or otherwise represented by some PowerPoint cloud. As investors realized over time, the company was simply a middleman between stodgy cable companies and the Internet, taking a 35 percent toll for every customer along the way. Taking that basic, stable business and extending it to a broadband dreamland where someone would pay for a variety of services we haven't even thought about yet--as is often spoken in technology--and running the operations like the revenue possibilities are infinite was a prescription for disaster. But 4.1 million subscribers don't lie. The loser is, as usual, the typical person who simply wants a fast connection to the Net. What was once a healthy broadband market with a wide array of competition between phone companies, cable companies and start-ups has rapidly dwindled to next to nothing. Stodgy Baby Bell versus stodgy cable company? That hardly seems like a recipe for competition, pricing pressure or innovation. Excite@Home had a little more than 200,000 subscribers back in 1998, when Jermoluk--who now resides at original @Home investor Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield Byers--predicted smooth sailing for the venture. Now, with the dismantling of a 4.1 million subscriber broadband behemoth, millions of customers are left holding the broadband bag as executives and lawyers duke it out for the scraps. Analyzing failed businesses can often be like so much Monday morning quarterbacking--a day late and a dollar short. But no one in the Net era has failed quite like Excite@Home, and as we now see, its demise is the no-brainer. More Perspectives E-mail story|Print story|Send us news tips Bullpen pennerBen Heskett is CNET News.com's Communications department editor, guiding coverage of the networking and communications industries, which include such companies as Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, Excite@Home,
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] From The Wilderness - Damning New Evidence on Insider Trading Connected to 9-11 - More CIA Connections
---BeginMessage--- Title: From The Wilderness - Damning New Evidence on Insider Trading Connected to 9-11 - More CIA Connections Please distribute and repost widely. PROFITS OF DEATH -- INSIDER TRADING AND 9-11 (Part I of a special three-part Series) by Tom Flocco Edited by Michael C. Ruppert [ Copyright 2001. From The Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com. All Rights Reserved. May be recopied, distributed or posted on the worldwide web for non-profit purposes only.] FTW, December 6, 2001 -- On October 9th, FTW broke a story on insider trading connected to the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center that sparked worldwide controversy. In that story we reported how the Israeli Herzliyya Institute for Counterterrorism had documented that unknown individuals -- with accurate foreknowledge of the attacks -- had purchased an obvious and unusually large number of put options on United and American Airlines shortly before the attacks. Additional companies hit hard by the insider trading included Axa Re(insurance) and Munich Re as well as American investment giants Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. Put options are essentially a bet that a stocks price will fall abruptly. The seller, having entered into a time-specific contract with a buyer, does not need to own the actual shares at the time the contract is purchased. Therefore, if a holder of the put option has a contract to sell a stock such as American Airlines for (e.g.) $100 a share on a Friday and the stock falls to $50 on Wednesday, they can purchase the stock, sell it on Friday and double their money. The person on the other end of the contract (the call) has an obligation to buy the shares at the agreed upon price. The bank handling the transaction as a broker is the only entity knowing the identities of both parties. FTW also revealed that the A.B. Brown (Alex Brown) investment arm of the banking giant Deutschebank/A.B. Brown had been headed until 1998 by the man who is now the Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency A.B. Buzzy Krongard. In fact, Krongard is but one name in a long history of CIA interconnections to stock trading and the worlds financial markets. We also discussed, in detail, the evidence indicating that the CIA and other intelligence agencies monitor stock trading in real time for the purpose of identifying potential attacks of any nature that might damage the U.S. economy. The original FTW story is located at: http://www.copvcia.com/stories/oct_2001/krongard.html. Critics of FTWs initial story - not having read any of five related stories dating back to an October 2000 piece on PROMIS software - claimed that we had not made the links to establish culpability. But we knew that the links were there, that our case was solid, and that new evidence would not go undiscovered for long. Now, investigative reporter Tom Flocco digs deep and strikes pay dirt in a three-part series that reveals not only deeper links between the CIA, Wall Street and the insider trades of 9-11, but also discloses that a key executive at Deutschebank an American became, just weeks before the attacks, a convicted felon. His crime: conspiracy to launder drug money to arrange the purchase of U.S. weapons in association with two Pakistanis who also attempted to acquire nuclear bomb components for use by Islamic fundamentalist terrorists. MCR CIA Does Not Deny Stock Monitoring Outside U.S. (Part I in a series) In a returned phone call from the Central Intelligence Agency, press spokesman Tom Crispell denied that the CIA was monitoring real-time, pre-September 11, stock option trading activity within United States borders using such software as the Prosecutors Management Information System (PROMIS). That would be illegal. We only operate outside the United States, the intelligence official said. However, when asked whether the CIA had been using PROMIS beyond American borders to scrutinize world financial markets for national security purposes, Crispell replied, I have no way of knowing what operations are [being affected by our assets] outside the country. Extensive media reporting confirms that investors at Deutschebank-Alex Brown and other global financial entities may have profited from prior knowledge of the attacks while purchasing disproportionate pre-attack put option contracts on targeted U.S. airlines and related insurance or investment firms. All of these firms suffered serious losses resulting from the September 11th attacks and their stocks abruptly plummeted. Confirmation that the CIA or other U.S. intelligence agencies were monitoring financial markets and had seen these trades before the attacks would have staggering implications for thousands of victims families. The CIA official also declined to comment on the actual capabilities of PROMIS. The highly technical software has been described as a system that interfaces with any database...as police can input an alleged terrorists name or credit
[CTRL] Pre-1990 Drug Networks Being Restored Under New Coalition
-Caveat Lector- http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/qf5.html Pre-1990 Drug Networks Being Restored Under New Coalition When we look at the Afghan leaders whom the US considers eligible to fill out an interim government, we see that many are figures implicated in drug-trafficking in the 1980s. The BBC compiled a list of these leaders in November 2001. Leading the list was President Burhanuddin Rabbani, whose home province of Badakshan became in the 1990s, while under his control, the stepping stone for an entirely new means of conveying opiates to Europe, via Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia's Central Asian railway service (Griffin, Reaping the Whirlwind, 150). Veteran General Rashid Dostum, in Mazar-i-Sharif, was suspected of earning huge profits by exporting drugs via Uzbekistan (Cooley, Unholy Wars, 155). Of the seven Pashtun leaders named, three (Pir Sayed Gailani and Gulbeddin Hekmatyar, and Hazi Bashir) have been linked in the past to drug-trafficking. A fourth, Younus Khalis, is a powerful figure from drug-rich Nangahar province, and is the man with whom Osama bin Laden made contact in 1996, before offering his riches to the Taliban. The restored leader of the Eastern Shura in Nangahar province, Haji Abdul Qadir (who withdrew from the Bonn leadership conference), became rich in former times as the Afghan source of a drug pipeline involving in Pakistan Haji Ayub Afridi, the lord of Khyber heroin dealing (Griffin, 142-43; cf. Cockburn, Whiteout, 267). Under the headline US turns to drug baron to rally support , Asia Times Online reported on 12/4/01 that Afridi was freed from prison in Karachi last Thursday [11/29/01] after serving just a few weeks of a seven-year sentence for the export of 6.5 tons of hashish. In the 1980s, according to Asia Times Online, All of the major Afghan warlords, except for the Northern Alliance's Ahmed Shah Masoud, who had his own opium fiefdom in northern Afghanistan, were a part of Afridi's coalition of drug traders in the CIA-sponsored holy war against the Soviets. Sources say that Afridi's constituencies in eastern and southern Afghan provinces have been revived following the withdrawal of the Taliban, and with them the drugs trade. Commanders such as Haji Abdul Qadeer, Haji Mohammed Zaman and Hazrat Ali are once again ruling the roost in these areas. These commanders used to be the biggest heroin and opium mafia in Afghanistan's Pashtun belt. (Hazrat Ali is currently directing the ground forces attacking the Tora Bora cave stronghold in search of Osama bin Laden. Meanwhile Haji Mohamed Zaman has complained about the US bombing of villages under his control. A local loya jirga convened under control of Qadir's Eastern shura has requested that the bombing cease.) Asia Times Online speculates that the US, sensing too much Russian influence being exerted on the Northern Alliance, has decided to cultivate support from within the majority Pashtun belt by reviving the old Afridi drug network. But the independent behavior of Haji Abdul Qadir and Haji Mohammed Zaman suggests that the true restorer of the Afridi network may be elements in Pakistan, legitimately concerned by the increasing role played in post-Taliban Afghanistan by Rabbani, the Northern Alliance, and Russia. What we may be seeing is a revival of the Cold War games in which both the US and Russia sought control of the drug traffic, not just to fund their operations, but above all in order to deny the influence of the traffic to their opponent. FLASH 5 (B): Developing US-Russian Tensions over Post-Taliban Government It has been clear that the Northern Alliance has spurned US guidance and listened to its backers in Russia, ever since the Northern Alliance seized control of Kabul in defiance of Bush's public order, and refused to accept a multinational peace-keeping force. After hard bargaining at Bonn, the Northern Alliance has come away with the most important ministries in their control: defense, foreign affairs, justice, and the interior. (See the London Guardian, 12/6/01.) Eric Margolis argues in the Los Angeles Times on 11/28/01 that The Russians have regained influence over Afghanistan, avenged their defeat by the U.S. in the 1980s war and neatly checkmated the Bush administration, which, for all its high-tech military power, understands little about Afghanistan. The U.S. ouster of the Taliban regime also means Pakistan has lost its former influence over Afghanistan and is now cut off from Central Asia's resources. So long as the alliance holds power, the U.S. is equally denied access to the much-coveted Caspian Basin. Russia has regained control of the best potential pipeline routes. The new Silk Road is destined to become a Russian energy superhighway. Margolis' pessimistic analysis ignores the extent to which Russia has to fear, as well as hope for, developments in Afghanistan. Its client states in the CIS, above all Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, have suffered from serious Islamist terrorist
[CTRL] PROFITS OF DEATH -- INSIDER TRADING AND 9-11
-Caveat Lector- http://www.copvcia.com/stories/dec_2001/death_profits_pt1.html PROFITS OF DEATH -- INSIDER TRADING AND 9-11 by Tom Flocco Edited by Michael C. Ruppert [© Copyright 2001. From The Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com. All Rights Reserved. May be recopied, distributed or posted on the worldwide web for non-profit purposes only.] FTW, December 6, 2001 -- On October 9th, FTW broke a story on insider trading connected to the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center that sparked worldwide controversy. In that story we reported how the Israeli Herzliyya Institute for Counterterrorism had documented that unknown individuals -- with accurate foreknowledge of the attacks -- had purchased an obvious and unusually large number of put options on United and American Airlines shortly before the attacks. Additional companies hit hard by the insider trading included Axa Re(insurance) and Munich Re as well as American investment giants Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. Put options are essentially a bet that a stocks price will fall abruptly. The seller, having entered into a time-specific contract with a buyer, does not need to own the actual shares at the time the contract is purchased. Therefore, if a holder of the put option has a contract to sell a stock such as American Airlines for (e.g.) $100 a share on a Friday and the stock falls to $50 on Wednesday, they can purchase the stock, sell it on Friday and double their money. The person on the other end of the contract (the call) has an obligation to buy the shares at the agreed upon price. The bank handling the transaction as a broker is the only entity knowing the identities of both parties. FTW also revealed that the A.B. Brown (Alex Brown) investment arm of the banking giant Deutschebank/A.B. Brown had been headed until 1998 by the man who is now the Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency A.B. Buzzy Krongard. In fact, Krongard is but one name in a long history of CIA interconnections to stock trading and the worlds financial markets. We also discussed, in detail, the evidence indicating that the CIA and other intelligence agencies monitor stock trading in real time for the purpose of identifying potential attacks of any nature that might damage the U.S. economy. The original FTW story is located at: http://www.copvcia.com/stories/oct_2001/krongard.html. Critics of FTWs initial story - not having read any of five related stories dating back to an October 2000 piece on PROMIS software - claimed that we had not made the links to establish culpability. But we knew that the links were there, that our case was solid, and that new evidence would not go undiscovered for long. Now, investigative reporter Tom Flocco digs deep and strikes pay dirt in a three-part series that reveals not only deeper links between the CIA, Wall Street and the insider trades of 9-11, but also discloses that a key executive at Deutschebank an American became, just weeks before the attacks, a convicted felon. His crime: conspiracy to launder drug money to arrange the purchase of U.S. weapons in association with two Pakistanis who also attempted to acquire nuclear bomb components for use by Islamic fundamentalist terrorists. MCR CIA Does Not Deny Stock Monitoring Outside U.S. (Part I in a series) In a returned phone call from the Central Intelligence Agency, press spokesman Tom Crispell denied that the CIA was monitoring real-time, pre-September 11, stock option trading activity within United States borders using such software as the Prosecutors Management Information System (PROMIS). That would be illegal. We only operate outside the United States, the intelligence official said. However, when asked whether the CIA had been using PROMIS beyond American borders to scrutinize world financial markets for national security purposes, Crispell replied, I have no way of knowing what operations are [being affected by our assets] outside the country. Extensive media reporting confirms that investors at Deutschebank-Alex Brown and other global financial entities may have profited from prior knowledge of the attacks while purchasing disproportionate pre-attack put option contracts on targeted U.S. airlines and related insurance or investment firms. All of these firms suffered serious losses resulting from the September 11th attacks and their stocks abruptly plummeted. Confirmation that the CIA or other U.S. intelligence agencies were monitoring financial markets and had seen these trades before the attacks would have staggering implications for thousands of victims families. The CIA official also declined to comment on the actual capabilities of PROMIS. The highly technical software has been described as a system that interfaces with any database...as police can input an alleged terrorists name or credit card, and the software will provide details of the persons movements through purchases..., according to an
Re: [CTRL] TO APPEASE THE GUN LOBBY, ASHCROFT BETRAYS THE WAR ON TERRORISM
-Caveat Lector- --- Samantha L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forwarded message ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 Date: 6 Dec 2001 16:34:11 - To: List Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: BuzzFlash.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TO APPEASE THE GUN LOBBY, ASHCROFT BETRAYS THE WAR ON TERRORISM A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY DECEMBER 6 Our Attorney General, who was recently featured as the monthly poster boy by the National Rifle Association, is selling out the war on terrorism to appease the gun lobby. He is willing to infringe on civil rights right and left, but he is prohibiting the FBI from checking on gun purchases and ownership of alleged terrorists. the guns are in the hands of adrenaline junkies - militia recruits and police and military... adrenaline junkies are easy to manipulate good people that are misled...by militia icons that are excellent at the art of doublespeak...versed well in the methods of emotional arousal...liars... i suspect most such icons... __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.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] mixed muck 12-6
-Caveat Lector- Federal agents have gone out of their way to shut down Dr. Mollie Fry and attorney Dale Schafer of the California Medical Research Center in Cool. Their crime: providing marijuana to the seriously ill. They thought it was legal in California. http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2001-11-29/cover.asp A group of CIA officers has brought a class-action suit against the agency, alleging abuse of power against employees including the cover-up of mistakes leading to the accidental US bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade in 1999, for which several lower-ranking employees were wrongly blamed. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=108245 As I observe US foreign policy, especially as it pertains to this new war on terror, and especially as it pertains to our current economic destruction of Somalia, I am reminded of the basic tenets of satanism. There doesn't even seem to be any pretense that the current power brokers want anything EXCEPT the annihilation of the weak. If their methods weren't so effective, they'd almost be funny. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1287 Heres something from the Roundtable to add to the many bits of evidence regarding Zionists vs. jews (not all jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are jews!). http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ElitePower/message/3768 Somalia is being pushed toward ''economic collapse'' by drought, a livestock export ban, and the U.S. closure of a company that made major money transfers to residents in the impoverished country, a U.N. official said. http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap12-04-023709.asp?reg=AFRICA Scientific Facts on the Biological Effects of Fluorides http://www.all-natural.com/fleffect.html While two anti-aspartame web sites (1996) grew to tens of thousands (as of Oct, 2001, Google.com had over 80,000), and while Nutrasweet's 28 million pounds of aspartame sold during 1996 slipped to only 20 million pounds during 1998, Monsanto sought to counter the truth (and their negative good growth) with more pro-aspartame WEB sites. http://www.dorway.com/ The Organic Consumers Association is a public interest organization dedicated to building a healthy, safe, and sustainable system of food production and consumption. We are a global clearinghouse for information and grassroots technical assistance. http://www.purefood.org/ The mission of the Society is to stimulate the generation of new knowledge concerning nicotine in all its manifestations -- from molecular to societal. http://www.srnt.org/ Scorecard is the ultimate source for free and easily accessible local environmental information. Simply type in a zip code to learn about environmental issues in your community. Scorecard ranks and compares the pollution situation in areas across the US. Scorecard also profiles 6,800 chemicals, making it easy to find out where they are used and how hazardous they are. Using authoritative scientific and government data, Scorecard provides the most up-to-date and extensive collection of environmental information available online. Information is power - once you learn about an environmental problem, Scorecard encourages and enables you to take action - you can fax a polluting company, contact your elected representatives, or volunteer with environmental organizations working in your community. http://www.scorecard.org/ Food Not Bombs is one of the fastest growing revolutionary movements active in North America today and is gaining momentum all over the world. There are over 175 autonomous chapters sharing vegetarian food with hungry people and protesting war and poverty throughout the Americas, Europe and Australia. The first group was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1980 by anti-nuclear activists. Food Not Bombs is an all volunteer organization dedicated to nonviolence. Food Not Bombs has no formal leaders and strives to include everyone in its decision making process. http://home.earthlink.net/~foodnotbombs/ The Labeled Release (LR) life detection experiment aboard NASA's 1976 Viking Mission reported results which met the established criteria for the detection of living microorganisms in the soil of Mars. However, a variety of reasons led to the consensus of involved scientists that the positive responses at both Lander sites were caused by a chemical agent in the soil and not by microorganisms. In the years since Viking, new information from Mars and Earth has come to bear on this issue. Perhaps most spectacular are the analyses of SNC meteorites ALH84001 and EETA79001. The Viking LR experiment and each of the major chemical theories that have been proposed to explain it are reviewed in the context of these post-Viking developments, together with some Viking data hitherto unapplied to this important issue. Each of the theories attributing the LR results to chemistry is shown to have one or more key defects. It is concluded that the Viking LR experiment detected living microorganisms in the soil
[CTRL] White Slavery In Israel
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/12/02/Features/Features.39142.html Fighting the flesh trade By Marion Marrache (December 5) - Although new laws are in the works to stem the white-slavery trade into Israel, Marion Marrache explains why the authorities must do more to treat the prostitutes as victims rather than criminals "Woman's flesh for sale, woman's flesh for sale," yells a man in front of the Hamashbir department store in downtown Jerusalem, offering up to passers-by the young woman standing next to him. Although trafficking in women is very much a reality in Israel, this scene was a protest staged two weeks ago by the Jerusalem Women's Center as part of the International Day of Protest Against Violence Against Women. "Instead of just protesting rape and domestic violence as we do every other year, we could not ignore the terrible issue of thousands of women being trafficked annually into this country to be used as prostitutes," says Adi Kunstman, coordinator of activities at the center, adding "Trafficking is modern slavery." Local organizations dealing with the issue, such as the Hotline for Migrant Workers and the Awareness Center, believe that some 3,000 women are smuggled into the country every year for the purpose of prostitution. The majority of these women are from Moldavia, Russia and the Ukraine. They are approached in their countries of origin - where they earn $20 to $30 a month - with the promise of employment which will bring in a magical monthly $1,000. According to a report issued by the International Abolitionist Federation, an estimated one-fourth of these women are unaware that they will be working in the sex trade, believing instead they will be employed as waitresses, cooks, au pairs, models or masseuses. None are prepared for what they eventually encounter. Most suffer beatings and repeated rape. The women are viewed and bought at pimping auctions - during which they are forced to undress - at prices ranging from $4,000 to $10,000. According to attorney Nomi Levenkron of the Migrant Hotline, those who fetch the lower prices end up working in the slum area around Tel Aviv's old central bus station. Their passports are taken from them, and they are often kept locked up in apartments with barred windows. This was the case with the four prostitutes who were trapped and burnt to death when a religious fanatic torched a Tel Aviv brothel in August, 2000. That incident briefly raised public awareness of the issue, and sparked calls for the authorities to start treating the problem seriously. But it is only in the past month that two bills that might alleviate the situation began to make headway in the Knesset. Last week, a private member's bill entitling women who were sold into prostitution to public legal aid, passed its preliminary reading in the Knesset. Meretz MK Zahava Gal-On, sponsor of the bill and head of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into trafficking in women, notes that these women, when arrested, usually find themselves represented by their pimps' attorneys, an obvious clash of interests that goes against the principle of fair representation. Two weeks ago the Knesset passed, in its preliminary reading, a bill that mandates a four-year minimum sentence for traders in women. Currently, there is a 16-year maximum sentence, but no minimum jail time, and many white slavers end up getting off with relatively light sentences. "Israel has become a convenient center for pimps who trade in women," says Gal-On, who also proposed this bill. "It is modern-day slave trading, and the sentences for the pimps are not harsh enough, as judges still do not take this matter seriously enough. The courts give the criminals ridiculous sentences, rendering the current law meaningless. At the worst, the pimps spend a couple of years in jail, but they make a fortune. But from now on, criminals will know that you cannot trade in women and get off lightly." AN ILLUMINATED sign reading "Palace Club" flashes outside a seedy brothel in south Tel Aviv. A group of journalists joining Gal-On's committee on a recent fact-finding mission, head down a few flights of dark stone stairs to the reception area where three young women sit huddled in a corner waiting for clients. Beside them stands their portly pimp dabbing the sweat from his forehead with a large silk handkerchief. There are approximately 250 such brothels in Tel Aviv, an increase of 100 since last year. This is by far the largest number of brothels in the country; in other parts of the country trafficking exists, but it is less common and there is far less awareness of the problem. Some of the women live in brothels, others have a room elsewhere. If business is good, a shift can last from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m. They are paid at the end of the month after expenses and "fines" have been deducted - prostitutes can be fined by their pimps for almost anything. And this is only once the girls have paid back their purchase price,
[CTRL] Israel's True Intentions in Removing Arafat
http://www.fpif.org/commentary/0112arafat.html Israel's True Intentions in Removing Arafat By R.S. Zaharna December 4, 2001 It may be time--yet, then it may be too late--for Israel to confess to its true intentions in the Palestinian territories. The sustained and myopic focus on the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, has little to do with stopping "terrorism." What removing Arafat will do is induce a Palestinian civil war and, by extension, give Israel a pretext for re-occupying the Palestinian territories. The campaign behind this strategy has been ongoing, but it has rapidly intensified since the U.S. military action in Afghanistan. As the U.S. focuses its efforts on Osama bin Laden, Israel appears to be making parallel moves against Arafat. The collapse of the Camp David talks in July 2000 represented the initial steps in what has emerged as a sustained campaign directed at isolating and removing Arafat from power. The Palestinian leader himself was reluctant to attend the talks at Camp David because he knew the mood among Palestinians was unfavorable to doing so. Under intense pressure from Clinton, he did come to Camp David. Despite repeated American assurances that the Palestinian leader would not be held accountable for potential setbacks, that is exactly what happened. Arafat was personally singled out as the reason for the failure at Camp David. Only months later did American officials privy to the talks reveal that it was the Israeli delegation that stalled. However, by then the campaign against Arafat had already taken root and protests to the contrary fell on deaf ears. When a new Palestinian uprising began in late September 2000, again Arafat was labeled as the instigator of the renewed violence between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Analogies were made that, like a faucet, Arafat could turn Palestinian violence on and off. The Israelis, by intensifying the focus on Arafat and Palestinian “violence,” were able to downplay Israel’s continuing military occupation and Palestinian disenchantment with military occupation and the peace process that had perpetuated the occupation. The more Israel focused on Arafat and Palestinian “violence,” the more Israel was able to obscure the brutal realities of its military occupation. The shift in Israeli leadership from Ehud Barak to Ariel Sharon only intensified the campaign to isolate and remove Arafat as leader of the Palestinian Authority. The antagonism between Sharon and Arafat is not politically or militarily strategic; it's personal, going back to his founding of Unit 101 to eliminate the Palestinian "fadayeen" in the early fifties, to his attempts to "pacify" Gaza in the late sixties, and culminating with the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, where the PLO was headquartered at the time. What did appear to shift with the emergence of Sharon to power was the gradual substitution of Palestinian "violence" with Palestinian "terrorism." Undoubtedly terrorism carries much more emotional weight than violence. If Barak was fighting a "war," Sharon was fighting "terrorism." As has been seen in the U.S. post-September 11, the rules of engagement and the bounds of legitimate military action regarding affected civilian populations become irrelevant. By keeping the focus on Arafat and intensifying its focus through the new association of "terrorism," Israel was able to further downplay the role of its military occupation and the new measures introduced to control the Palestinian population. In fact, Israeli actions in early spring 2001 clearly suggest that Israeli actions to "maintain security," had a dual, longer-term, strategic purpose. First, the Israelis, by cordoning off the major Palestinian towns from each other and constructing a network of check points and trenches, were able to effectively isolate major segments of the Palestinian population from each other. The "power" of the Palestinian Authority was reduced to noncontiguous pockets of limited control. Second, the Israelis began incursions into Palestinian-controlled territories, bulldozing areas of land bordering on jointly controlled Palestinian-Israeli territory. Again, the pretext was security; the Palestinian homes and territory were being used as a staging ground for attacks against Israelis. The effect, however, was that Israel created a convenient staging ground for itself should it find it perhaps necessary to launch a more sustained military attack in the future. The repeated incursions into the Palestinian-controlled territory had the additional effect of numbing the shock factor of such military action within international public opinion. Third, the Israelis began a direct assault on Palestinian leaders. The first assassinations began as early as November 2000. After initial American and international pressure, they subsided briefly only to be renewed with greater intensity in the late spring. In August, after extensive reports of civilian deaths, again the
Re: [CTRL] Let Me Tell You About My Family
-Caveat Lector- Who said the Church follows the Bible??? ;-) Tenorlove = Make yourself at home. Clean my kitchen. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.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] Hamas Founder Under House Arrrest
-Caveat Lector- eric stewart wrote: too bad no one is putting key Mossad figures under house arrest... Why don't you do it? J2 Note: forwarded message attached. --- Subject: [AL-AWDA-News] Hamas Founder Under House Arrrest Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 22:52:32 -0500 From: Rima Anabtawi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al-Awda-News [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hamas Founder Under House Arrrest .c The Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian police put the founder of Hamas under house arrest Wednesday, officials said, in Yasser Arafat's boldest move yet against the violent Islamic group. Witnesses said a Palestinian policeman entered Sheikh Ahmed Yassin's home in Gaza City and informed him that he was under house arrest. Yassin, spiritual leader of the militant group that has claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks against Israelis, is a quadriplegic who uses a wheelchair. Palestinian security officials said only relatives would be permitted to visit Yassin, and his telephone lines would be cut. Hamas claimed responsibility for two weekend suicide attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa that killed 25 people and the three bombers. In retaliation, Israeli planes and helicopters blasted Palestinian installations in the West Bank and Gaza, and Israel declared Arafat's Palestinian Authority an ``entity that supports terrorism.'' On Wednesday, the Israelis demanded that Arafat arrest leaders of the extremist groups. Yassin was in an Israeli prison for several years, but was released in 1997 in the aftermath of a botched Israeli attempt to assassinate a Hamas leader in Jordan. AP-NY-12-05-01 1622EST Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT 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: The Revival of Russian Regional Hegemony --j2
-Caveat Lector- Kris Millegan wrote: Kris and all, A lot of stuff about Russia is coming out based on Margolis' story. Particularly this... In a dazzling coup, Russian leader Vladimir Putin stole a march on the Bush Administration, which was so busy trying to tear apart Afghanistan to find bin Laden it failed to notice the Russians were taking over half the country. The wily Russians achieved this victory through their proxy Afghan force, the Northern Alliance. Moscow, which has sustained the Alliance since 1990, re-armed it after 11 Sept with new tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, helicopters, and trucks. The Alliance's two military leaders, Gen Rashid Dostam and Gen Muhammed Fahim, were stalwarts of the old communist regime with close links to KGB. Frankly, I have never been impressed with Margolis' judgment. He was often wrong about the War on Yugoslavia. The paragraphs above seem to be just his speculation. I think he's wrong. We'll soon find out. My guess is that the country will be divided. The Americans will be happy with a pipeline going south/east to Pakistan and to the Arabian Sea. The Russians will get North/West access. We'll soon know. Joshua2 Subject: The Revival of Russian Regional Hegemony Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:30:00 -0500 From: Gary North Bill Bonner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RA Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gary North's REALITY CHECK Issue 97 December 6, 2001 This is a follow-up report on the continuing threat of new viruses and worms. A new worm was discovered earlier this week. This one is more destructive than BadTrans. It destroys anti-virus software and firewalls. It's well-named: Goner. Its full ID is W32.Goner.A@mm. It uses the same distribution technique that BadTrans does: an e-mail attachment that sends itself to everyone in your list if you open it. If you receive an e-mail that says Hi, and then goes on to tell you that the sender has included a file for you to open, delete it. The attachment is named GONE.SCR. For more information on this worm, visit http://www.pandasoftware.com It is analyzed on the home page, upper left-hand corner. The good news is that Panda Software has already updated its PQremove freeware program to kill Goner. You have to download the new version, and then open and activate it. I did this today. It ran a quick check on my hard drive. So far, I have not been hit. Once Goner is gone from your hard disk, you're ready for the next test of your system. To test how secure your computer is from hackers, use Steve Gibson's free service, Shields Up! https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 If you find that your system is at risk, here is a good way to protect your system. Install Zone Alarm. It's free. http://www.zonelabs.com/products/za/pestpatrol.html You can buy Zone Alarm Pro, which updates your system as new threats appear. But the freeware version will increase your safety by orders of magnitude. THE REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN REGIONAL HEGEMONY We remember the fall of the Soviet Union a decade ago. I am one of those who believe that it really did fall. Communism is dead as an ideology in Russia. But this does not change the reality of Russian expansionism, nor does it change the fact of the desire of Russian leaders to re- establish Russia as a superpower. Only the ideology has changed. It is no longer messianic. Marxism is dead, but the competition for power is still alive. Russia has been striving for regional influence in the Indian subcontinent for two centuries. This has been called the Great Game. The competition between Russia and the Anglo-American West in this region has never ended. If you have ever read Kipling's book, KIM, or seen the movie with Errol Flynn, you know how long this competition has been in operation. In the last two months, Russia has made greater gains in the region than it did during the entire the twentieth century. The United States has opened the door the Russia for regional hegemony. Pakistan has now been sacrificed by American foreign policy. Pakistan was closely tied to the Taliban, which it funded in the 1980's with CIA money. For the last five years, the U.S. also made deals -- or attempted to -- with the Taliban. Now we have handed over control of the cities to the Northern Alliance, which is more closely connected to Russia. Pakistan and the United Front have been hostile from the beginning. THE OIL
[CTRL] So Long It's Been Good To Know Ya
-Caveat Lector- REPORT: US-Israeli Sword over Arafat Eight years after US President Clinton engineered the Oslo Peace Framework Accord installing the exiled Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with self-determination for his people, George W. Bush has taken the lead in the effort to end his reign. The Palestinian may try last-resort maneuvers, but he cannot escape the joint American-Israel sword poised over his head. Neither can he hope for any world leader to reach out and rescue him. Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres and his dwindling pro-Oslo adherents may try, but they will do so in isolation. In the diplomatic flurry surrounding this terminal process, Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon sent a secret envoy to Cairo Wednesday night with a personal message to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The response was immediate: Egyptian foreign minister Ali Maher was dispatched to Jerusalem Thursday for urgent talks with the Israeli prime minister. Maher, after meeting foreign minister Shimon Peres, is to call on Arafat in Ramallah and goes on to Amman for talks with King Abdullah. DEBKAfile's political sources reveal that Sharon's messenger was Shin Beit Director Avi Dichter, who also set up the prime ministers' White House talks with Bush Sunday, December 2, that laid the groundwork for the current rush of diplomatic and military events. Our sources add: Both the Egyptian and Jordanian rulers, appreciating that Arafat's days as an effective leader are numbered, have moved forward to deliberations with Israel on the post-Arafat order. President Bush's strong and resolute stance against Arafat goes beyond his pledge of support for Sharon's fight to the finish against Palestinian terror. Firstly, the Bush team openly brand Arafat a cheat and liar and will not forgive him for mocking General Anthony Zinni's truce mission by blowing up the most brutal Palestinian terrorist assault ever in his face. But, most of all, Bush knows that government leaders the world over, especially in the Middle East, are watching to see how he follows through on his decisions. In this important respect, the Afghanistan war will be strongly influenced by America's handling of Arafat. Additional potential American targets, such as Saddam Hussein, Bashar Assad and Hassan Nasrallah, will be monitoring the US President's every move regarding Arafat's fate. Whatever the Palestinian leader may decide - a final, desperate round of terror strikes, or submission to America's demands - or even one of his cunning blends of the two - in the eyes of the Arab world and his own people, he is a goner. *** GAMLA: NEWS AND VIEWS FROM ISRAEL *** Volume 2 Issue 129Jerusalem, Israel 21 Kislev, 5762 ** December 6, 2001 Inside: 1. Ramadan Egyptian TV Special: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 2. REPORT: US-Israeli Sword over Arafat 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] So Long It's Been Good To Know Ya
-Caveat Lector- yes those two little freaks at Littleton I understand sang that as they slaughtered the Christians. Goodbye Israel is the ultimate ending. 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
Re: [CTRL] So Long It's Been Good To Know Ya
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED] yes those two little freaks at Littleton I understand sang that as they slaughtered the Christians. I simply do not understand why you keep harping that they were deliberately killing Xians - they were after the popular kids, who they say taunted them. The supposed religious/political agenda is your own invention, as is your contention that Klebold's religion had anything to do with it, or that he was somehow the leader. It's as bad as claiming they were neo-Nazis, as you properly denounced earlier, but then you turn around and do the exact same thing. - jt 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] Wiccan is new state prison chaplain
-Caveat Lector- http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/dec01/witch06120501a.asp Wiccan is new state prison chaplain By NAHAL TOOSI of the Journal Sentinel staff Last Updated: Dec. 5, 2001 The new chaplain at Waupun Correctional Institution is a Wiccan. (please visit site for full story) Samantha 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] Ivins - Destroying freedoms in order to save them
-Caveat Lector- http://web.star-telegram.com/content/fortworth/2001/12/06/opinions/fw010402-12 06-XB013-2.htm Destroying freedoms in order to save them Thursday, December 6, 2001 Molly Ivins AUSTIN - With all due respect, of course, and God Bless America too, has anyone considered the possibility that the attorney general is becoming unhinged? (please visit site for full article - it's GREAT!) --- Samantha 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] Pentagon Still Scapegoats Pearl Harbor Fall Guys
http://www.independent.org/tii/news/011203Stinnett.html Pentagon Still Scapegoats Pearl Harbor Fall Guys By Robert B. Stinnett 12-6-1 As we remember the roughly 2,400 persons killed in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor -- the worst one-day loss of American lives prior to Sept. 11th of this year -- recently declassified U.S. military documents authored more than 60 years ago compel us to revisit some troubling questions. At issue is American knowledge of Japanese military plans to attack Hawaii prior to Dec. 7, 1941. The first question is whether President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his top military chieftains provoked Japan into an "overt act of war." The second question is whether Japan's military plans were obtained in advance by the U.S. but concealed from the Hawaiian military commanders, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieutenant General Walter Short. Both Kimmel and Short were relieved of their commands, blamed for failing to ward off the attack, and demoted in rank after the Japanese raid. The latter question was answered in the affirmative last year on October 30, 2000, when President Bill Clinton signed a defense appropriations bill containing congressional findings that both Kimmel and Short were denied crucial military intelligence. However, despite the numerous pardons he issued shortly before leaving office, President Clinton deferred to the Pentagon's long-standing policy against posthumously restoring the commanders to their 1941 ranks. Nonetheless, the congressional findings should be widely seen as an exoneration of years of blame assigned to Kimmel and Short. But the other important question remains, looming ever larger in the inevitable comparisons made between Dec. 7, 1941 and Sept. 11th: Does the blame for the Pearl Harbor disaster revert to President Roosevelt? Before Walt Disney Studios released the movie "Pearl Harbor" earlier this year, the film's producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, commented on claims of FDR's foreknowledge by saying "That's all b___s___." Yet Roosevelt believed that provoking Japan into an attack was the only option he had to overcome the powerful America First non-interventionist movement. Though Germany had conquered most of Europe, and her U-Boats were sinking American ships in the Atlantic Ocean, Americans wanted nothing to do with "Europe's War." However, Germany made a strategic error. She, along with her Axis partner, Italy, signed the mutual assistance treaty with Japan, the Tripartite Pact, on September 27, 1940. Ten days later, Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum, a U.S. Naval officer in the Office of Naval Intelligence, saw an opportunity to counter the U.S. anti-war movement by provoking Japan into a state of war with the U.S., and triggering the mutual assistance provisions of the Tripartite Pact. Memorialized in a secret memo dated October 7, 1940, McCollum's proposal called for eight provocations aimed at Japan. President Roosevelt acted swiftly, and throughout 1941, implemented the remaining seven provocations. The island nation's militarists used the provocations to seize control of Japan and organize their military forces for war against the U.S., Great Britain, and the Netherlands. During the next 11 months, the White House followed the Japanese war plans through the intercepted and decoded diplomatic and military communications intelligence. At least 1,000 Japanese radio messages per day were intercepted by monitoring stations operated by the U.S. and her Allies, and the message contents were summarized for the White House. The intercept summaries from Station CAST on Corregidor Island were current -- contrary to the assertions of some who claim that the messages were not decoded and translated until years later -- and they were clear: Pearl Harbor would be attacked on December 7, 1941, by Japanese forces advancing through the Central and North Pacific Oceans. As I explained to a policy forum audience at The Independent Institute in Oakland, California -- which was telecast nationwide by C-SPAN on July 4th last year -- my research shows that not only were Kimmel and Short cut off from the Japanese communications intelligence pipeline, so were the American people. The coverup lasted for nearly 59 years. ___ *Robert B. Stinnett is Media Fellow at The Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif. and the author of Day of Deceit: the truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor (Free Press).
[CTRL] 2 - The Mont Pelerin Society
-Caveat Lector- The Mont Pelerin Society Milton Friedman is a Nobel Laureate in Economic Science [1976] and has for many years been a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, founded in 1947 in Mont Pelerin, Switzerland by Frederich von Hayek. The stated objective of the Mont Pelerin Society is to strengthen the principles and practices of the free society by encouraging market-oriented economic systems with minimal and dispersed government as opposed to government regulation of industry. Milton Friedman was president of the Mont Pelerin Society from 1970-1972. Edwin Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation, was president of the Mont Pelerin Society from 1996-1998 and is currently the Senior Vice President. The American membership of the MPS has included, besides Milton and Rose Friedman and the late journalist Walter Lippmann [CFR], influential conservatives affiliated with the Heritage Foundation: Michael Novak [CFR/American Enterprise Institute], Thomas Sowell [Hoover Institution] and Deepak Lal [Cato Institute]. Anther member of the Mont Pelerin Society is former CNP member Dr. John A. Howard, president of The Rockford Institute, Senior Fellow of the Howard Center for Family, Religion Society and a member of The Bohemian Club -- a group of high-powered elites whose retreats in the mysterious Bohemian Grove near San Francisco are reported to involve Satanic rituals. Friedrich Von Hayek is considered by libertarians to be the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century, an economist whose theories on free-market economics have supplanted John Maynard Keynes. Free market advocates claim that Keynes' theories of government regulation of the economy have been gradually discredited and Hayek's model of Spontaneous Order accepted which contends that social order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized fashion. Milton Friedman, who was profoundly influenced by Von Hayek, is the leader of what is called The Chicago Boys School of Economics. Promulgating Hayak's monetarist theories from the seat of Rockefeller power, the University of Chicago, Friedman had Chile declared a dictatorship in the mid-1970s in order to privatize the economy. Starting from a tiny embryo at the University of Chicago with the philosopher-economist Friedrich von Hayek and his students like Milton Friedman at its nucleus, the neoliberals and their funders have created a huge international network of foundations, institutes, research centers, publications, scholars, writers and public relations hacks to develop, package and push their ideas and doctrine relentlessly. They have spent hundreds of millions of dollars, but the result has been worth every penny to them because they have made neoliberalism seem as if it were the natural and normal condition of humankind. . . According to the Mont Pelerin Society, liberal in the European sense means broadly epitomized by a preference for minimal and dispersed government, rather than in its current American sense which indicates the opposite preference for an extension and concentration of governmental powers. In theory, diminishing the expansive power of government is appealing. However, the wisdom of deregulating the transnational corporations, thereby permitting them to amass sufficient economic power to cripple whole nations, has been discredited since the Asian crisis: The devastating social and economic impact of the global financial crisis triggered in East Asia in mid-1997 has led a growing number of civil society actors, UN bodies and governments to explore strategies to regain control over global finance, which many describe as a cause of increasing systemic instability and social regress. Many debates in this area have focused on critiquing the neoliberal rationale for unfettered financial liberalization as part of the conventional policy package ascribed to the so-called 'Washington consensus,' which has been thrown into question in the aftermath of the East Asian crisis. The stated purpose of the classical liberal academic, business and governmental leaders who comprise the Mont Pelerin Society is to prevent world domination by communist, fascist and socialist regimes. However, the fruit of this elite society of has been generally of the same variety. Roger Pearson, a British race scientist, united the ex-Nazis and Nazi sympathizers of the Europe in the World Anti-Communist League. In 1975, Pearson organized the North American neo-fascists into an American branch of the WACL called Council on American Affairs. The Council sponsored seminars and published monographs with such influential persons as Ed Feulner of Heritage, Ray Cline, former C.I.A. deputy director, and others who would later become high officials of the Reagan Administration. With the support of New Right leadership, Pearson became well integrated within the conservative network. His influence in the U.S. was demonstrable by his oversight of an organization that included
[CTRL] U.S. GOVERNMENT ASSASSINATION PLOTS
-Caveat Lector- http://members.aol.com/bblum6/assass.htm U.S. GOVERNMENT ASSASSINATION PLOTS 1949 - Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader 1950s - CIA/Neo-Nazi hit list of numerous political figures in West Germany 1950s - Chou En-lai, Prime minister of China, several attempts on his life 1950s, 1962 - Sukarno, President of Indonesia 1951 - Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea 1953 - Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran 1950s (mid) - Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader 1955 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India 1957 - Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt 1959, 1963, 1969 - Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia 1960 - Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq 1950s-70s - José Figueres, President of Costa Rica, two attempts on his life 1961 - Francois Papa Doc Duvalier, leader of Haiti 1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo (Zaire) 1961 - Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic 1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam 1960s - Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, many attempts on his life 1960s - Raúl Castro, high official in government of Cuba 1965 - Francisco Caamaño, Dominican Republic opposition leader 1965-6 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France 1967 - Che Guevara, Cuban leader 1970 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile 1970 - Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile 1970s, 1981 - General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama 1972 - General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence 1975 - Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire 1976 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica 1980-1986 - Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several plots and attempts upon his life 1982 - Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran 1983 - Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander 1983 - Miguel d'Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua 1984 - The nine comandantes of the Sandinista National Directorate 1985 - Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader (80 people killed in the attempt) 1991 - Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.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] Let Me Tell You About My Family
-Caveat Lector- From: Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well we know now what all the pornography is about - as this lesbian librarian said when displaying pornographic art in main entrance of the library it was to prove to Osama bin Laden we have freedom of speech. WHOA THERE! I challenge you to show any PROOF that this librarian is a lesbian -- in not one article I read did it ever mention the sexual preference of the woman who runs the library and approved the art show. I also challenge you to explain the difference between nudity in art and what you deem is 'pornography'... This post of yours amply demonstrates how you twist facts to fit your own twisted prejudices... Even Disney is being destroyed.but most parents get the message. Disney was ALWAYS 'destroyed', it's just become more obvious in recent years; AMC just had a documentary on regarding how CIA and Hollywood have always had a cozy relationship, and one of the prime producers they used -- going back to WWII -- was Walt Disney... Note people no longer are taking their kids to these Disney World gouging sites as they once did. Says who? I always wondered why suddenly Disney was a free channel for I always had to pay for it. It's always been free on my cable system, going back almost 20 years now...if you're being charged, that's a decision made by your cable provider, not by the Disney Channel... June A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FW: San Francisco Dismantles Huge Homeless Camp
-Caveat Lector- Wednesday December 05 04:27 PM EST San Francisco Dismantles Huge Homeless CampBy KPIX - Sharon Chin San Francisco work crews are dismantling a homeless camp, forcing 100 people to find a new place to say. Tammy Lombardo has lived underneath Highway 101 on Cesar Chavez Circle on and off for the last few years. Wednesday, the city swept her out. "They're just wrong, totally wrong," Lombardo said. "It's totally inhuman of them. Armed with masks and gloves, the San Francisco Public Works and Health Departments are closing down the tent city, and scooping up the biohazard waste left behind. "There are rats here. There are needles around here," said Mohammad Nuru with the Public Works Department. "This is a mess." Homeless advocates say the campers and the city had an understanding -- the homeless could stay on the Caltrans property if they cleaned up their trash each week. But the campers tripled in number, to about 100 people in the last few months, and city workers say the health hazard exploded. They slapped the encampment with a three-day eviction notice. "We have provided shelters, warm places for people," Nuru said. "We have storms. It's very cold right now. So I don't understand how they say it's inhumane." But the homeless and their advocates say shelters aren't the solution. "I'm not going to no shelter," said evicted camper Larry Robertson. "I don't like shelters." "They're going to move to other areas," said Mora Raider, with the Coalition on Homeless. "The problem won't have ended. It will just be moved to another location." An increasing number of homeless are seeking shelter, thanks to hard economic times. San Francisco has a third more homeless this year than last, and shelter space is going fast. "There's not enough work," said DeWitt Nunery, a shelter administrator. "A great need is being filled here." The homeless are filing shelters in San Jose and Oakland to capacity. Shelters report turning away several families a night. But the city of San Francisco says people looking for a place to say should not come back to the encampment under Highway 101. Wednesday afternoon, workers were building a fence to keep people out. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FW: New York Struggles with Burden of More Homeless
-Caveat Lector- New York Struggles with Burden of More Homeless By Grant McCool NEW YORK (Reuters) - For the first time in two decades, panhandlers, street sleepers and longer soup kitchen lines resurfaced noticeably in New York when the economy stalled this year, but the World Trade Center attacks have forced even more working families to seek charity. People sleeping in railroad stations, subways and on sidewalks have become a more common city sight again, but advocates for the poor say a less-visible group of victims -- mostly service workers who live paycheck to paycheck -- lost their jobs Sept. 11 and struggle to feed their families. ``We know from our surveys that 90 percent of people going to food pantries and soup kitchens are people who live in families with jobs or are senior citizens or children,'' said Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. ``The stereotypical, single male, substance-abusing guy on the street is a very small percentage of the people who are hungry in New York City ... the biggest problem is the so-called working poor,'' he added. A record number of people -- more than 29,000 -- were spending the night in shelters in New York, the largest U.S. city, according to a November report by the Coalition for the Homeless, another nonprofit advocacy group. Other advocates for the poor said city, state and federal agencies would need to create jobs in the effort to rebuild the financial district to avoid thousands more low income New Yorkers from being pushed back into poverty, homelessness and hunger. ``Unless they are willing to step up, you are going to see some very serious deterioration in quality of life issues for the city, obviously for the very poor but also for everybody,'' said David Jones, president of the Community Service Society of New York, a 150-year-old charity. ``All at a time when you are trying to attract tourists and businesses back.'' HOT MEALS Berg said those seeking free hot meals included maids, restaurant workers, messengers, drivers, delivery people and airport baggage handlers whose jobs disappeared with the hijacked plane attacks that destroyed the twin 110-story towers in lower Manhattan. ``It has worsened, although the point must be made that hunger and poverty were growing significantly before Sept. 11, so I don't want elected officials and others to let themselves off the hook by saying this is just a problem caused by Mr. bin Laden,'' Berg said. The United States has accused Saudi-born Islamic militant Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network of carrying out four hijacked plane attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania that killed more than 3,900 people. The attacks on the U.S. financial and military centers pushed the economy into steeper decline. In October, a total of 29,498 single adults and families spent the night in New York City welfare hotels and shelters -- the most in city history, the Coalition for the Homeless said. The figure had risen about 8,000 from October 1998, and was above the previous record of 28,737 in March 1987. Advocates for the poor said outgoing Mayor Rudolph Giuliani must share the blame for the increase in those seeking city shelter. Giuliani, carrying out changes in welfare policy that were made nationwide in the late 1990s, pushed too many people off welfare rolls and food stamps into low-wage, insecure jobs, they said. WELFARE HOTELS The Coalition for the Homeless said the eight-year Giuliani administration had spent too much on welfare hotels and privately-owned apartments and that money should be redirected. It urged new mayor Michael Bloomberg to provide more emergency grants, for instance, to help families at risk of eviction and legal aid to help low-income tenants in disputes with landlords. The new administration, which takes office Jan. 1, should also examine new ways of providing more affordable housing, it said. ``Nearly 80,000 New Yorkers, many of them low-wage workers, lost jobs in October,'' said Patrick Markee, policy analyst for the Coalition. ``The new mayor and the city council need to develop effective prevention and housing policies to stem the tide of newly homeless families and individuals. ``The dramatic rise in homelessness before Sept. 11th clearly demonstrates the high cost of failed policies and cutbacks in housing investments,'' he continued. Giuliani, who has clashed with the group over his ``quality of life'' policies that saw police prosecute street people more vigorously and herd them into city shelters, acknowledged the number of homeless people had increased. ``I don't know if it's at record levels, but in recent years it's the highest that it's been,'' Giuliani said in November in response to the coalition report. ``It's not quite over capacity yet, so we are going to have to expand the emergency system to make sure we don't get there.'' OUT OF SIGHT Some, like Jones of the Community Service Society, believe policing drove the
[CTRL] FW: RI Activists Ready for Round 2
-Caveat Lector- 12.6.2001 00:22 Ready for Round 2 Clergy, activists vow to start 'a second wave' of protests over money cut from affordable housing BY KAREN LEE ZINER and EDWARD FITZPATRICK Journal Staff Writers PROVIDENCE -- Perhaps homeless people should post themselves across the street from Governor Almond's home in Lincoln. Perhaps other clergy members should commit acts of civil disobedience. It was an agitated crowd that met at the Trinity United Methodist Church last night, less than 24 hours after the arrests of four pastors during a State House prayer vigil they had intended would last through dawn. That demonstration -- over the $5 million for the Neighborhood Opportunities Program that Governor Almond has ordered frozen in the state budget -- ended abruptly with their arrest three hours into the vigil. State police charged the ministers with misdemeanor obstruction of a police officer; they face arraignment in District Court, Providence, a week from tomorrow. Last night, other religious leaders, advocates for the homeless, grassroots groups, Sen. Thomas J. Izzo, D-Cranston, and Richard Godfrey, executive director of the Rhode Island Housing Mortgage and Finance Corporation, applauded the pastors for their actions on behalf of affordable housing, and urged that others build on that boldness. "We cannot let this go," said the Rev. Marlowe V.N. Washington, pastor of the Allen A.M.E. Church in Providence, and president of the Ministers' Alliance of Rhode Island. "I cannot accept this. I am not accepting this." Vowing to start "the second wave" of protests by the clergy and others, Mr. Washington said, "It grieves my heart to see how a governor can take away something at the very start that hurts so many people." Two of the four clergy who were arrested, the Rev. Duane Clinker, of Hillsgrove United Methodist Church in Warwick, and the Rev. Anne Grant, of Trinity United Methodist Church, spoke to the 50 or so gathered in the room. The other two, the Rev. Edward Farrell-Starbuck, of Barrington United Methodist Church, and the Rev. Jack Fitzelle-Jones, of the United Church of Christ in Warwick, were unable to attend. "The governor has made a very bad mistake," said Mr. Clinker. Explaining "why we felt we had to cross the line a little bit," Mr. Clinker said that "Christianity is not about politeness." The ministers did meet with Almond yesterday, and, according to Mr. Clinker, the governor said, " 'I just can't do any better.' " Picking up one from a pile of state budget books, Mr. Clinker read a line item for a University of Rhode Island athletic facility. "That's $23 million," he said. "It's a $5-million increase for an ice rink, friends. "Ice rink?" the minister asked, "Or people on the streets?" Ms. Grant spoke of the bitterness she felt toward Almond during the short-lived vigil as she and the others prayed for Almond, and the lessons that taught her about the human heart. "God loves the governor," Ms. Grant said. When people in the crowd began to boo, she added, "I don't like it either, but God loves the governor. And God does not want the governor to make this mistake." In an interview with The Journal yesterday, Almond said he is sympathetic to the cause of the housing advocates. But with a $70-million budget deficit, the state could end up cutting funding for human-service programs if it allows all of the $5 million to be spent on the affordable housing program. "Next year we may have to cut human services significantly," he said. Almond said he raised that issue when he spoke with the ministers yesterday. "They basically said they didn't want to hear it. Well, I don't want to hear it either, but we have to do something." Almond noted that he issued an executive order in October calling for state departments and agencies to avoid purchases, travel and new hires unless they're "absolutely essential," and that he has frozen $20 million in capital projects. But yesterday, Mr. Washington pointed out that a state pay board just approved a variety of raises for state employees. The board last week approved a new top tier of jobs that the Almond administration and lawmakers created for sheriffs, including a new $74,622-a-year executive high sheriff. To allow those raises when the state is facing a $70-million deficit "is not proper stewardship," Mr. Washington said. "We are not having a wild, wild West episode here in Rhode Island that we need to create a high sheriff position, especially when you just took $5 million from affordable housing." Eric Hirsch, a member of the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless, said, that "the shelters have been full to overflowing for more than a year. There have been more than 700 people sleeping on the floor of Travelers Aid." And, he said, a child "was discharged from the hospital," only to end up "on the floor of Travelers Aid." The Neighborhood Opportunities Program is at least a viable partial solution, he said, but construction has halted on several
[CTRL] A culture of life, a culture of death
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Globalization/Culture%20_Life_Death.html A culture of life, a culture of death by Katharine Ainger New Internationalist magazine, November 2001 It is the end of September and, as US war planes mass in dark swarms over the planet, in Bolivia it is spring. Fat humming birds thrust their heads deep into. the purple blossoms of the jacaranda trees that line the streets of Cochabamba. This is the city whose citizens rose up last year to reverse the World Bank-imposed privatization of its water system. In the hills surrounding the town, irrigation ditches built by the people were sold off by the Government to a US multinational, the Bechtel corporation - just one of many insults that instigated a popular insurrection here in defence of water and life'. The radical history of Cochabamba is written on its walls in the poetic graffiti and murals dotted around town. This place has become a symbol of resistance to globalization. I am here for the third conference of Peoples' Global Action (PGA), an international gathering of grassroots movements from North and South that have been a catalyst for the increasingly vociferous opposition to global capitalism. The PGA network is made up of an unlikely constituency: Asian peasant unions a million strong; European and Canadian anarchists; indigenous peoples - Mapuche, Maori, Aymara and many others; landless movements from everywhere; South African activists against privatization; Thai sweatshop unionists; Chilean human-rights workers; and a mind-boggling array of other assorted grassroots radicals of man: shapes, colours, sizes and beliefs. They were pioneers of global grassroots resistance to the World Trade Organization's free-trade agenda, and have been involved in the growing anti-globalization protests from Bangalore to Seattle to Genoa. This motley gathering is the embodiment of 'globalization from below'. In its multiplicity and chaos, in its opposition to hierarchy, capitalism, patriarchy and nationalism, and in its maddening contradictions, it challenges the basic premises of fundamentalists of all stripes. It challenges both the market fundamentalists and their pact with transnational finance, and the religious fundamentalists who, threatened by the power that pact has given to Western elites, respond with fascism and terror. But these are dangerous times to be fighting the free-trade agenda when one of its most potent symbols - the World Trade Center- lies in ruins. Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi noted the 'strange unanimity' between the movements resisting economic globalization and Islamic terrorists, who were both 'enemies of Western civilization'. In the British periodical New Statesman, Johann Hari went as far as to draw parallels between the writer Naomi Klein and Osama bin Laden. As George Bush has made clear: you are with him, or with the terrorists. The Governor of Cochabamba District absorbs these instructions rapidly and announces to the press that the PGA conference is a meeting of 'international terrorists'. Duly, on arrival in La Paz I am interrogated by an intelligence official. With the correct visas but the wrong political beliefs, dozens of us are threatened with deportation; many are trapped for a week in a bus on the border with Peru. Meanwhile, US Drug Enforcement officers take upon themselves the powers of local immigration officials and haul foreigners off the buses into Cochabamba to conduct on-the-spot identity checks. Stanis, an unflappable Papua New Guinean, has had possibly the most nightmarish journey to the conference. In a sense his journey began when he started using the internet connection of a friend who lived two hours' walk from his village. In this way he discovered, to his delight and astonishment, how many others around the world there are who, like him, oppose the policies of the World Bank. To come to this conference he made the long trek to his capital, Port Moresby, then took a plane to Sydney. Flight disruption after the attacks in the US delayed him there for three days. Despite the fact that he was in transit, in Los Angeles he was held in a hotel under armed guard for two nights - then sent on to La Paz. Here he was detained for two more days, sitting in a small office in the customs lounge with no bed, no food and $10 in his pocket. He demanded to be imprisoned, in the hope of having a bed to sleep on. Occasionally officials brought him hamburgers, which he refused, lining them up along the shelf 'I've been eating junk for eight days. I did not come to Bolivia to sit here,' he told them calmly. Finally he was released when they realized they didn't have a flight to send him home on. The conference is held in a local school while small children play around the 'terrorists'. The meetings and workshops concentrate on exchanging realities, developing strategy, and reshaping the PGA manifesto - workshops on Plan Colombia, campaigns over community control
Re: [CTRL] Self-Reported Memory for Abuse Depends Upon Victim-Perpetrator Relationship
-Caveat Lector- Self-Reported Memory for Abuse Depends Upon Victim-Perpetrator Relationship Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD Anne P. DePrince, PhD Eileen L. Zurbriggen, PhD, Journal of Trauma Dissociation, Vol. 2(3) 2001 by The Haworth Press, Inc. Betrayal trauma theory (Freyd, 1994, 1996) offers a theoretical perspective for understanding the psychological processes that underlie impaired memory for abuse. Analysis of evolution ary pressures and developmental needs suggests that victims of abuse may remain unaware of the abuse, not to reduce suffering, but rather to maintain an attachment with a figure vital to survival, development, and thriving (Freyd, 1994, 1996; DePrince Freyd, 1999; Freyd DePrince, in press). Results support our prediction that the greater the victim's dependence on the perpetrator, the more likely that memory for the abuse will be impaired or disrupted in cases of physical and sexual abuse. Multiple regression analyses revealed that age was not a significant predictor of memory impairment, while caretaker status was. These findings highlight the importance of obtaining information about specific aspects of the abuse experience, including details about the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator. excerpt from http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jjf/fdz.pdf 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] anthrax, saudi and al-Qaida, Iraq war, Afghan dead, protesters, media
-Caveat Lector- Also articles on military tribunals and Afghanistan oil and gas NYT December 3, 2001 THE SPORES Terror Anthrax Linked to Type Made by U.S. By WILLIAM J. BROAD The dry powder used in the anthrax attacks is virtually indistinguishable in critical technical respects from that produced by the United States military before it shut down its biowarfare program, according to federal scientists and a report prepared for a military contractor. The preliminary analysis of the powder shows that it has the same extraordinarily high concentration of deadly spores as the anthrax produced in the American weapons program. While it is still possible that the anthrax could have a foreign source, the concentration is higher than any stock publicly known to be produced by other governments. Anthrax Cloud¹s Silver Lining Bioport Corp. Lands Exclusive License to Produce Vaccine Adm. William J. Crowe Jr. is the most visible corporate director of the Bioport Corp., which manufactures the anthrax vaccine. (Gary Cameron/AP Photo) By Howard L. Rosenberg ABCNEWS.com Germans investigate claim that Saudi sheik tried to obtain weapons for al-Qaida Copyright © 2001 AP Online The associated Press BERLIN (December 5, 2001 3:22 p.m. EST) - Authorities in Germany are investigating claims by a businessman that he was approached by a Saudi sheik seeking to procure missiles and potentially dangerous substances for associates of Osama bin Laden, a spokesman said Wednesday. http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/features/news/totalwar_book.html On to Iraq? Novelist Simon Pearson predicted a US attack on Iraq in his fiction -- a scenario that is looking more and more like a potential fact. by Stephen Miller Nov. 29, 2001 Even as the conflict in Afghanistan rages on, power brokers in Washington are already debating where the US should open the next front in the war on terrorism. Such aggressive talk worries Simon Pearson, a novelist and retired British Royal Air Force pilot who finds himself living in a world disturbingly similar to the one he predicted in a 1999 novel. In that book, Total War 2006, Pearson envisioned a world in which the US finds itself in a global war against a range of countries and groups that resent the American-led West's economic and ideological world dominance. The flashpoint of Pearson's predicted conflict: A terrorist attack by a radical Islamic group, followed by a unilateral US assault on Iraq. A former fighter pilot who flew missions over Iraq after the Gulf War and now serves as a civilian military consultant to the British government, Pearson says the Bush administration must understand it cannot afford to act unilaterally in the post-Cold War world. With Washington conservatives arguing for an expansion of the offensive, Pearson says he worries the US might escalate the conflict in a way similar to that predicted in his book. Such action, he says, would shatter the fragile international coalition which has thus far backed the attacks in Afghanistan. On to Iraq? Novelist Simon Pearson predicted a US attack on Iraq in his fiction -- a scenario that is looking more and more like a potential fact. by Stephen Miller Nov. 29, 2001 Even as the conflict in Afghanistan rages on, power brokers in Washington are already debating where the US should open the next front in the war on terrorism. Such aggressive talk worries Simon Pearson, a novelist and retired British Royal Air Force pilot who finds himself living in a world disturbingly similar to the one he predicted in a 1999 novel. In that book, Total War 2006, Pearson envisioned a world in which the US finds itself in a global war against a range of countries and groups that resent the American-led West's economic and ideological world dominance. The flashpoint of Pearson's predicted conflict: A terrorist attack by a radical Islamic group, followed by a unilateral US assault on Iraq. A former fighter pilot who flew missions over Iraq after the Gulf War and now serves as a civilian military consultant to the British government, Pearson says the Bush administration must understand it cannot afford to act unilaterally in the post-Cold War world. With Washington conservatives arguing for an expansion of the offensive, Pearson says he worries the US might escalate the conflict in a way similar to that predicted in his book. Such action, he says, would shatter the fragile international coalition which has thus far backed the attacks in Afghanistan. http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/features/news/blast13.html#120501 An obliterated village where nothing happened -- Independent (UK) Despite the Pentagon's insistence that recent bombing raids in eastern Afghanistan have caused no significant civilian casualties, Independent reporter Richard Lloyd Parry found the mountain village of Kama Ado reduced to rubble, apparently by American bombs. The cemetery on the hill contains 40 freshly dug graves, unmarked and identical. And the
[CTRL] Fwd: [BIOWAR] re Anthrax mailings more likely Iraq then lone nut.
---BeginMessage--- I suspect that the anthrax mailings were neither Iraq nor the work of a lone nut. In 1998 the FBI had posted an Anthrax Advisory regarding letters that were mailed and contained written warnings that anthrax was contained within. I posed some old anthrax news and expert discussion of anthrax mailings circa 1998. This was far before the terrorist attacks on 9/11. I believe that if Iraq was going to take the risk of attacking America, the goal would have been to kill as many people as possible. The purpose of the anthrax mailings of 2001 was not to kill people but rather to create fear and to really create public awareness of the possibility of future bio attacks. The envelopes were event taped closed in order to prevent the anthrax from leaking out of the envelope. Furthermore, I suspect that the source of the anthrax was from supposedly destroyed bioweapon stock. I think that the FBI needs to look into the records and check those who were responsible for destroying our bioweapon's stores. If anthrax has been diverted, there is a strong possibility that other bioweapons, such as smallpox, etal could also have been diverted and not destroyed. The Govt. used Becton Dickinson Co as an outside contractor responsible for destroying Ft. Detrick's bioweapons. A good place to start backtracing those destroyed weapons, is with Becton Dickinson Co. I did find it interesting that in 1998, Michael Osterholm, bioweapons expert, made the statement that anthrax in letters would not transmit anthrax under any conditons. Had the sorting machines not punctured the envelopes or pressed out the contents, perhaps no one would have died? In summation, I believe that the anthrax attacks orginated in the US and the source was right from our own bioweapon's stock. Only someone with access to destroyed stock could have perpertrated the attacks. Patricia Doyle Patricia A. Doyle, PhD Please visit my Emerging Diseases message board at: http://www.clickitnews.com/emergingdiseases/index.shtml Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp PREPost to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info: www.topica.com/lists/biowar /PRE PRE==^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: A HREF= http://topica.com/u/?bz8Q0W.bAgsdR http://topica.com/u/?bz8Q0W.bAgsdR/A Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! A HREF= http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register/A ==^/PRE ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: New Laissez Faire City Times Now Online V5.49 - 12/3/01
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Re: [CTRL] Ivins - Destroying freedoms in order to save them
-Caveat Lector- AUSTIN - With all due respect, of course, and God Bless America too, has anyone considered the possibility that the attorney general is becoming unhinged? This begs the question of whether he was 'hinged' to begin with... ;-) June A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Stopping the Perpetual War
-Caveat Lector- Stopping the Perpetual War by B. Ness December 6, 2001 http://www.antiwar.com/orig/nessie1.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] The Bush Betrayal, by Tibor R. Machan
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.49/bush_betrayal.html Click Here: A HREF=http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.49/bush_betrayal.html;The Bush Betrayal, by Tibor R. Machan/A - The Bush Betrayal by Tibor R. Machan These are times that test all our souls because normalcy has been interrupted, and now we need to figure out some new ways to act without losing our integrity. In ordinary circumstances it is possible to rest on true and tried ways. These do not dispense with the need for alertness but there is no test of our integrity when routine prevails. We now have a country that has had a major assault upon it, and one that's been scared beyond anything it has known before. In response to this the guidelines that we are used to seem insufficient. Most of us have made some serious changes in our ways we've reduced flying and shopping, decided to live more for today than for a certain enough future, and, perhaps most importantly, stopped laughing heartily and smiling joyfully, and become more gloomy. Yet these changes do not have to be permanent. What will, however, remain with us for years to come are the changes in our government. President Bush, contrary to what many of his supporters expected and hoped, has decided to use the current emotional climate in America to engage in unabashed power grabbing. Yes, he has cast a figure of determination when it comes to dealing with the likes of Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and other foreign enemies. But he has done it at the expense of the civil and economic liberties we have been enjoying in America. Not that the USA has been a fully free, laissez-faire capitalist society, no. That is a myth created by those who do not want to admit that more and more statism, the philosophy of Alexander Hamilton (as opposed to that of Thomas Jefferson), has triumphed in America. But now even the moderate freedom we have enjoyed is in jeopardy. In a free society politicians would provide a specific kind of leadership. This would involve their clearly explaining how challenges can be met without the abrogation of the country's fundamental values. Even in times of crisis, leaders would not rob citizens of their liberty but teach them something about resisting the temptation to compromise. A principled political leader would not resort to abolishing the criminal justice system and trade it in for military law. Military law is actually a set of emergency rules suited to the task of the military. It requires haste and cutting of corners that is, the circumvention of due process. In a volunteer military this is understood and agreed to by those who sign up. But non-military citizens have not chosen to give up the procedures due them in the course of securing justice. A basic element of these procedures is the protection, without exception, of every citizen's fundamental, unalienable as well as derivative rights. All the basic rights mentioned in the US Declaration and partially laid out in the US Constitution and other legal documents would be guarded against corruption and distortion, even when challenges are unprecedented. It is, indeed, the task of political leaders, including those in the judicial branch of government, to make certain that the tried and true principles of a free country do not get ditched but become diligently deployed in the face of new, even drastic, circumstances. Instead we now find our government simply abandoning all pretense of due process and grabbing all the powers it can. Those who believed that George W. Bush would guard our liberties have been proven wrong. Financial privacy has been further eroded; the FBI is about to monitor the Internet and our e-mails will be randomly checked. In other words, the practice of prior restraint will be expanded so that its deployment in the futile and immoral War On Drugs will soon become the norm. After the September 11 attacks, George W. Bush, like his father after the Gulf War, enjoyed enormous popularity in the USA. But he is now squandering this asset on bad policies and precedents. I can only hope that he will be punished for this. Perhaps by the time the next presidential election rolls around, the people will have come to realize that casting a determined posture against our enemies isn't the most important thing a president must do. He must keep in mind what he must defend from our enemies, namely, the liberties of our citizenry. Not that I cherish the rise to power of the likes of The West Wing's fictional US president. But when someone fails to guard the most precious aspect of our society, the liberty of its citizens, and tries to face crises via shortcuts, he does not deserve another chance. Machan, who teaches at Chapman University in Orange, California, advises Freedom Communications, Inc., on public policy matters. His most recent book is Initiative Human Agency and Society (Hoover Institution
[CTRL] A secret that could destroy the CIA
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 18:47:00 -0800 (PST) From: Herb Jamieson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The son of the CIA officer head of the Houston office during the former Pres Bush presidency informed me that his father signed a nondisclosure statement that upon retirement,he would agree to be deprogrammed. He was brought to Washington,D.C. upon retirement, and brainwashed so badly that his mind turned him into a mental vegetable and it eventually killed him. CIA techniques are not mild mannered, and basically come directly from all the Nazi scientist brought here after WWII by Allen Dulles with Rockefeller money. Rockefeller heading a commission of CIA abuses. What a big joke!! Original Message Subject: [MCVE] THE OLSON FILE Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 12:08:20 -0800 (PST) From: eric stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dr. Frank Olson's life was a mystery, full of dubious experiments for the CIA, and unexplained trips to Porton Down. His death, in 1953, was stranger still. Was it suicide? A failed exercise in brainwashing? Or murder? And what did he know that made his death so convenient? Next week, a grand jury may finally hear the truth about the Cold War's darkest Secret. http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Articles/LondonMail.html THE OLSON FILE A secret that could destroy the CIA by Kevin Dowling and Phillip Knightley In the early hours of 28 November 1953, Armand Pastore, the night manager of the Statler Hotel, New York, was startled to hear a crash of breaking glass and then a sickening thump on the pavement outside his hotel. He rushed out to find a middle-aged man lying semi-conscious on the ground. Pastore looked up to see light shining from a shattered window of a room on the hotels thirteenth floor. He knelt down alongside the man, cradled his head in his arms and leaned closer as the man made an effort to speak, then died. He had obviously jumped out of the window, just another suicide in a city where the plunge from skyscraper to pavement was a shocking but not unusual event. Suicide was certainly the finding at the inquestDr Frank Olson, a United States Army scientist, for reasons no one could fathom, had taken his own life. And that was what the record showed for the next twenty-two years. Then in 1975 the Rockefeller Commission, set up by President Ford to examine the extent of the CIAs illegal domestic operations, revealed that an unnamed army scientist had died after CIA experts, experimenting with mind- bending drugs, had secretly slipped him a dose of potent LSD. During the ensuing uproar, the scientist was identified as Frank Olson. The US government moved immediately to show how sorry it was for what had happened. Congress passed a private humanitarian relief bill which authorised a payment of $750,000 to the widow, Mrs Olson, and her three children. Mrs Olson and her son Eric were invited to the White House where President Ford publicly apologised to them. And the then CIA director, William Colby, held a lunch for Mrs Olson and Eric in his office at the CIA, apologised and gave them the CIA file on the case. According to the file, Olson had suffered a chemically-induced psychotic flashback a week after he had been slipped the dose of LSD. So a CIA doctor, Richard Lashbrook, had been deputed to look after Olson until he was normal again. Lashbrook had been sharing the hotel room with Olson and was asleep in a bed next to him when, he said, he was awoken by the sound of breaking glass and realised that Olson had crashed through the window. Eric, who is now 54,was never very convinced by this version of events but kept quiet so as not to distress his mother. Then when she died in 1994 he decided to test the official story of his fathers death. Experts told him that in order to achieve the momentum needed to vault over a central heating radiator under the window, burst through the closed blinds and smash through the hotels heavy glass panes, Olson would have had to struck the window travelling at more than 30km per hour. A trained athlete takes about fifty metres to accelerate to that speed. But the hotel room was only 5.5 metres long. Next there was Dr. Lashbrooks strange behaviour when the hotel manager Pastore arrived in the room to tell him that his colleague was dead on the pavement below. Lashbrook went to the telephone, rang a number and simply said, Olsons gone. Then he hung up and retired to the bathroom where he sat on the lavatory with his head in his hands. Eric Olson, a Maryland clinical psychologist, began to spend every spare moment trying to get at the true story of what had happened to his father. Today he is convinced he is on the brink of doing so. But the story is so strange, so reminiscent of the TV series The X-Files, that despite compelling evidence, it is uncertain that anyone will believe it. THE TERMS of the $750,000 government settlement for Olsons
[CTRL] MAILED ANTHRAX FINALLY THE TRUTH?
MEDIUM RARE By Jim Rarey December 6, 2001 MAILED ANTHRAX FINALLY THE TRUTH? It has too often been the case in the last decade or so, the truth about important events is first published either on the Internet or in a foreign newspaper. And it usually is in direct contradiction to the (authorized) leaks from "knowledgeable" but unidentified government officials propagated by the "mainstream" media. The subject of mailed anthrax has followed this pattern. Many (too many) Americans will only accept "facts" when they see them on the eleven oclock network news or read them in the establishment newspapers, e.g. The New York Times, Washington Post or Los Angeles Times. One of the earliest bits of misinformation that probably resulted in several deaths was the assurance that those not in the vicinity where the envelope containing the anthrax spores was opened had nothing to worry about. That had to be revised when victims hundred of miles from the capitol came down with anthrax poisoning. Cross contamination was finally acknowledged, but the danger was downplayed contending that treatment with Cipro (and later other antibiotics) was 100% effective in those cases. We were told that inhalation of anthrax would require a concentration of eight to ten thousand spores in the lungs to be potentially fatal. We were told initially that the anthrax mailed was "crude" in form and could easily have been used by foreign terrorists. This was reinforced by repetitive showings of the crude lettering on the envelopes on TV. As test results began to filter out, the focus of the media changed to the "weaponization" of anthrax spores, i.e. milling them down to a diameter of one to three microns. (A micron is one millionth of a meter.) This required a degree of expertise beyond that of a single individual without access to a fairly sophisticated laboratory. After a spate of "speculation" in the media that a "right wing fanatic" might have been responsible, the FBI released a "profile" of its suspect. Predictably, they postulated a "loner" who may have worked in a laboratory and acquired a couple of test tubes of anthrax he kept in his basement for all these years. After the 911 tragedy this person, for his own reasons might have mailed the anthrax. As test results confirmed the (Ames) strain of anthrax used in the mailings, attention began to focus on the armys top-secret bioweapon laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The Ames strain is one of the most virulent (deadly) strains available and was in high demand both for developing weapons and vaccines to protect against all strains. Ft. Detricks records are incomplete but it is known to have furnished the Ames strain to Britains Porton Down laboratory, a number of university and private labs and probably to Iraq. During the cold war, Ft. Detrick, Britains Porton Down, Russia and South Africa produced and stockpiled large amounts of toxic biological and chemical weapons including anthrax. In 1969, in contemplation of a treaty signed in 1972, President Nixon ordered Ft. Detrick to cease production and destroy the stockpiles. Although research and development was done at Ft. Detrick, the actual production and storage was at the armys facility in the Pine Bluffs Redstone Arsenal in Arkansas. Now, some thirty years later, the U.S. Government appears to be relying on the expertise of two cold war bioweapon veterans, Dr.s William C. Patrick III, and Kenneth Alibek, President and CEO of Advanced Biosystems Inc. (ABS). Patrick was in charge of the anthrax "weaponization" program at Ft. Detrick. He developed a process that resulted in anthrax far more potent than that known to have been produced by Britain or Russia. He holds five secret patents on the process. The armys anthrax comprised up to one trillion spores per gram, double the amount other programs reached. To put that in perspective, if 10,000 spores is a lethal dose, then the two grams said to have been in the envelope addressed to Senator Daschle had enough for 200 million lethal doses. A gram is just one-twenty-eighth of an ounce. But even the 8 to 10 thousand spore number is misleading the public according to Edgar W. "Bud" Larson, one of several other Ft. Detrick veterans who granted on the record interviews to Scott Shane of the Baltimore Sun. Larson says that number (which he helped develop) is an average for lethal doses. Depending on several factors, 100 spores or less could be fatal. Larson was head of the aerobiology division at Detrick. Another veteran of the biowars, Norman M. Covert, adds that their experiments showed that spores of one to four microns easily escaped from ordinary envelopes, which have pores of ten microns. Another former Detrick expert is Manuel S. Barbeito who was in charge of decontaminating 75 to 100 buildings at Ft. Detrick after the program was shut down. He has doubts about the chlorine dioxide cleanup method that the EPA has
[CTRL] Explorers view lost city ruins under Caribbean (Alantis?)
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 15:47:59 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:IUFO NEWS: Explorers view lost city ruins under Caribbean (Alantis?) To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alantis?) Explorers view lost city ruins under Caribbean By Andrew Cawthorne HAVANA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Explorers using a miniature submarine to probe the sea floor off the coast of Cuba said on Thursday they had confirmed the discovery of stone structures deep below the ocean surface that may have been built by an unknown human civilization thousands of years ago. Researchers with a Canadian exploration company said they filmed over the summer ruins of a possible submerged lost city off the Guanahacabibes Peninsula on the Caribbean island's western tip. The researchers cautioned that they did not fully understand the nature of their find and planned to return in January for further analysis, the expedition leader said on Thursday. The explorers said they believed the mysterious structures, discovered at the astounding depth of around 2,100 feet (650 meters) and laid out like an urban area, could have been built at least 6,000 years ago. That would be about 1,500 years earlier than the great Giza pyramids of Egypt. It's a really wonderful structure which looks like it could have been a large urban center, said Soviet-born Canadian ocean engineer Paulina Zelitsky, from British Columbia-based Advanced Digital Communications (ADC). However, it would be totally irresponsible to say what it was before we have evidence, Zelitsky told Reuters. Zelitsky said the structures may have been built by unknown people when the current sea-floor actually was above the surface. She said volcanic activity may explain how the site ended up at great depths below the Caribbean Sea. In July 2000, ADC researchers using sophisticated side-scan sonar equipment identified a large underwater plateau with clear images of symmetrically organized stone structures that looked like an urban development partly covered by sand. From above, the shapes resembled pyramids, roads and buildings, they said. ULISES ASSISTS UNDERWATER ODYSSEY This past July, ADC researchers, along with the firm's Cuban partner and experts from the Cuban Academy of Sciences, returned to the site in their ship Ulises. They said they sent a miniature, unmanned submarine called a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) down to film parts of the 7.7-square-mile (20 square km) area. Those images confirmed the presence of huge, smooth, cut granite-like blocks in perpendicular and circular formations, some in pyramid shapes, the researchers said. Most of the blocks, measuring between about 6.5 and 16 feet (two and five meters) in length, were exposed, some stacked one on another, the researchers said. Others were covered in sediment and the fine, white sand that characterizes the area, the researchers said. The intriguing discovery provided evidence that Cuba at one time was joined to mainland Latin America via a strip of land from the Yucatan Peninsula, the researchers said. There are many new hypotheses about land movement and colonialization, and what we are seeing here should provide very interesting new information, Zelitsky said. ADC's deep-water equipment includes a satellite-integrated ocean bottom positioning system, high-precision side-scan double-frequency sonar, and the ROV. The company currently is commissioning what it calls the world's first custom-designed ocean excavator for marine archeology to begin work both at the Guanahacabibes site and at ship wrecks. ADC is the deepest operator among four foreign firms working in joint venture with President Fidel Castro's government to explore Cuban waters containing hundreds of treasure-laden ships from the colonial era. The Canadian company already has discovered several historic sunken Spanish ships. In an earlier high-profile find, ADC was testing equipment in late 2000 off Havana Bay when it spotted the century-old wreck of the American battleship USS Maine. The ship had not been located since it blew up mysteriously in 1898, killing 260 American sailors and igniting the Spanish-American War. The rush of interest in Cuba's seas in recent years is due in part to the Castro government's recognition that it does not have the money or technology to carry out systematic exploration by itself, although it does have excellent divers. American companies are prohibited from operating in Cuba by the long-running U.S. embargo on the Communist-run island. 11:11 12-06-01 Copyright 2001 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for
Re: [CTRL] FW: New York Struggles with Burden of More Homeless
-Caveat Lector- Thank you for posting these articles on increases in homelessness. They bring the administration's sickening economic pseudo-stimulus package into clearer focus. I can visualize Dubya waving a flag, jumping up and down and joyfully proclaiming Let's Make War on the Weak! Samantha In a message dated 12/6/01 6:58:07 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NEW YORK (Reuters) - For the first time in two decades, panhandlers, street sleepers and longer soup kitchen lines resurfaced noticeably in New York when the economy stalled this year, but the World Trade Center attacks have forced even more working families to seek charity. 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] FW: New York Struggles with Burden of More Homeless
-Caveat Lector- Hey maybe Hill and Bill would want to open up their mansions for which the taxpayers pay - and how much to house their Secret Service? They can Giuliani is about to become a billionaire re at the cost of others; however, it was a known fact prior to 911 that homeless lie in the streets of New York, in trash bags - but Larry Silverstein will receive 7 billion dollars in blood money for a lease on the World Trade Center which no longer exists. Why come to the Broadway shows, and to the theatre - but as Shakespeare once wrote I am sent with broom before to sweep the dust behind the door - for when Clinton used to visit our city they shooed the homesless off he streets - one in particular who used to lie in an American Flag for warmth. Now this Mayor's control center which was in with the CIA in Silverstein's building it is said cost 15 million dollars.this man lives oh pardon, his wife lives in the Mayor's Mansion and I wonder how much it costs to keep her in the style to which she has become accustomed though the Mayor moved in with a homosexual couple. New York - such a wonderful place to live. Blame that on Bush? Hey these people are so much refuse in the streets.but then this is what the Statute of Liberty calls for right? The refuse from the shores of others..but please, no rocket scientists or Europeans...for America is aboute to be recycled - like what was that the Garden Plot? Think Hitler called this The Final Solution? 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
Re: [CTRL] Stopping the Perpetual War
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/6/01 8:53:18 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stopping the Perpetual War by B. Ness December 6, 2001 http://www.antiwar.com/orig/nessie1.html Thirty Seconds Over Cuba is a helluva compilation of information. I don't think I've ever learned so much in twenty minutes before, and all entirely new. I feel a little sick, but informed. Thank you. Samantha 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] FW: New York Struggles with Burden of More Homeless
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/6/01 10:15:40 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New York - such a wonderful place to live. Blame that on Bush? Hey these people are so much refuse in the streets.but then this is what the Statute of Liberty calls for right? The refuse from the shores of others..but please, no rocket scientists or Europeans...for America is aboute to be recycled - like what was that the Garden Plot? I don't blame it entirely on Bush. Reagan increased the violent rape of the poor a thousandfold. Clinton didn't help by gutting the social safety net. But Bush is finishing off the middle class and the poor in a real hurry. And please no rocket scientists or Europeans? What does that mean? Is that a not-so-veiled reference to the objections to welcoming Nazis with expunged records? Samantha 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] Explorers view lost city ruins under Caribbean (Alantis?)
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/6/01 9:28:48 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In July 2000, ADC researchers using sophisticated side-scan sonar equipment identified a large underwater plateau with clear images of symmetrically organized stone structures that looked like an urban development partly covered by sand. From above, the shapes resembled pyramids, roads and buildings, they said. I've just been reading about Atlantis in Dolores Cannon's new book The Convoluted Universe. According to the book (with info gleaned through hypnotic regression and access to various dimensional storehouses of information) Atlantis is underwater in the Atlantic, and pyramids were common structures for them. Maybe the US military's psychotic preoccupation with Cuba has something to do with knowing about its proximity to the lost civilization, whatever it is. Samantha 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: Lies About Roosevelt?
---BeginMessage--- http://www.sobran.com/columns/991207.shtml Pearl Harbor Revisited December 7, 1999 World War II is raging again, at least in the press. Pat Buchanan has been called a Hitler-lover for suggesting the currently unthinkable: that entry into the war may not have been in the best interests of Americans. And Pope Pius XII is still being smeared for his ³silence² about Hitler during the war (though the greater mystery is his wartime silence about Communism). Sometimes the rhetoric of these controversies gets so heated that one wishes Hitler were still here to restore a little perspective. Now a new book argues that President Franklin D. Roosevelt probably knew in advance that the Japanese were about to attack Pearl Harbor. This ³sneak attack² by those ³sneaky Japs,² as we used to call them, may have been trumped by the sneakiness of our sneakiest president (current incumbent included). Everyone knows that FDR wanted to get into the war and lied to the American public in order to achieve this goal. But would he have gone so far as to allow the preventable slaughter of thousands of American soldiers and sailors? In Day of Deceit (Free Press), Robert B. Stinnett amasses circumstantial evidence that FDR knew what was coming. He shows that U.S. intelligence had broken the Japanese military code and that, contrary to official U.S. insistence, the Japanese fleet bound for Pearl Harbor did not maintain radio silence. Reviewing the book for the Wall Street Journal, Bruce Bartlett cites an even more suggestive piece of evidence: ³a memo from Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum, the top expert on Japan in naval intelligence before the war.² ³Dated October 7, 1940,² writes Mr. Bartlett, ³the memo outlines an eight-point plan to force Japan to attack the U.S. Among the recommendations were the relocation of the U.S. Pacific Fleet from San Diego to Hawaii and an embargo on all trade with Japan. Mr. Stinnett correctly notes that every item on McCollum¹s list was acted upon starting the day after Roosevelt received the memo.² Mr. Stinnett himself, amazingly, defends Roosevelt¹s deliberate inaction: ³Heinous as it seems to families and veterans of World War II, of which the author is one, the Pearl Harbor attack was, from the White House perspective, something that had to be endured in order to stop a greater evil the Nazi invaders in Europe who had begun the Holocaust and were poised to invade England.² Here, sad to say, is an extension of the standard defense of FDR: that he had no choice but to act cynically in order to achieve his noble goals. Such is ³the White House perspective,² not to be confused with the perspective of American boys and their anxious parents. To say that Pearl Harbor ³had to be endured² is to lose sight of who was doing the enduring. It wasn¹t FDR, who welcomed the opportunity Pearl Harbor gave him. With boundless cynicism, Roosevelt proceeded to scapegoat the military commanders of Pearl Harbor, stripping them of their rank for being unprepared for the attack he had failed to forewarn them of! The notion that Roosevelt was upset because the Nazis had ³begun the Holocaust² deserves a particularly coarse horselaugh. FDR never mentioned the persecution of Jews as a casus belli. As of December 7, 1941, all he knew was that the Nazis had rounded up and incarcerated people of Jewish ancestry a practice he emulated by rounding up and incarcerating American citizens of Japanese ancestry, a policy even FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, not exactly renowned as a civil libertarian, protested as unconstitutional. Roosevelt turned the U.S. Constitution into a charred ember and helped the Soviet Union win World War II, complete with the spoils of ten Christian countries which fell to the tender mercies of ³Uncle Joe² Stalin. After FDR¹s death, the United States, in partnership with Stalin, adopted Soviet jurisprudence by conducting show trials of German officials at Nuremberg. Roosevelt also deserves full credit for the terror bombing of German and Japanese cities and for launching the development of nuclear weapons. Killing millions of civilians, mostly women and children, may seem an odd way to oppose the Holocaust; but by now we have all learned to internalize ³the White House perspective.² Joseph Sobran -- http://www.pearlharbor41.com/bio.htm Biography Robert B. Stinnett's interest in news-making history began when he was growing up in his birth city, Oakland, California. He was the oldest of four children born to Curtis and Margaret Stinnett. A favorite activity of Robert while still a youngster was listening on the family radio to news reports from Europe by radio newscasters Hans V. Kaltenborn, Edward R. Murrow, and William L. Shirer. His interest in news and how it is processed formed his ambition to become a journalist. By age 16 Robert was shooting photographs and selling them to The Oakland Tribune. On the day of the Pearl Harbor attack, December 7,
[CTRL] Fwd: Isnt this terrifying?
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[CTRL] FW: INS detainee anthrax suspect
-Caveat Lector- FWIW, both Oxford (where Otilie Lundgren lived and died of anthrax) and Torrington are on Route 8; someone living in Torrington and commuting to NYC would take Route 8 south and pass by Oxford June [Original Message] Date: 12/6/01 8:11:29 PM From ZWire, http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3D2740823BRD=3D1652PAG=3D461; dept_id=3D12530rfi=3D6 - INS detainee anthrax suspect TRACY KENNEDY, Register Citizen Staff December 06, 2001 HARTFORD - A Hartford judge set bail Wednesday for one of four local men detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service since Nov. 25 for their suspected involvement in the deadly national anthrax mailings. At Immigration Court, Judge Michael W. Straus ordered Mohammed I. Khan, 46, of Torrington, to pay $12,000 bail during a hearing regarding his application for asylum. Kahn reportedly filed the application after arriving in this country from Pakistan in 1993. According to an INS representative, he had not posted the bail by late afternoon Wednesday. According to published reports, Khan and three other men, Najmul Hasan, 33, of Winsted, Ifran Ahmed, 36, and Ayazuddin Sheerazi, 32, both of Torrington, were arrested by local police and FBI agents after a tip from Torrington resident Robert Janco. Janco told authorities and America's Most Wanted, a nationally syndicated television show, that he believed Kahn and Hasan were involved in the recent anthrax scares. According to published reports, Janco told police he overheard the men talking on Sept. 8 about delivering letters to a Vietnamese immigrant in New York City named Kathy. When Janco heard of the death of 61-year-old Kathy Nguyen on Oct. 31, he reportedly contacted the police. According to source at the immigration court, charging documents have not been filed against Kahn or the other men and they are solely being detained on immigration matters. Gary Cote, acting deputy district director of INS in Boston, would not comment on the investigation or confirm the men were being detained by the immigration agency. I cannot discuss that or what action is being taken if any action is being taken concerning these men, he said Wednesday. Cote explained his office could not discuss any actions concerning immigrants that may be involved in national terrorist activities pursuant to a directive received from the Attorney General. However, according to prison records checked on Wednesday, Khan, Ahmed and Hasan are currently incarcerated in Osborn Correctional Institution in Somers, and Sheerazi is being held at Hartford Correctional Center in Hartford. Court dates have not yet been set for Ahmed and Hasan, and Sheerazi is scheduled to appear at a hearing on Wednesday in the immigration court in Hartford concerning his application to extend his visa. During Kahn's hearing on Wednesday, Assistant District Council Attorney John Marley indicated he would oppose Kahn's application for asylum based on Kahn's alleged failure to report his residence in Torrington. Kahn, a native of Pakistan, said that while he works in Torrington, he still maintains his reside 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: Lies About Roosevelt?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/6/01 11:22:59 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Stinnett. Not only has he uncovered the truth behind Pearl Harbor, but in so doing he has exposed one of the greatest cover stories, or con jobs, of all time American prewar naval intelligence and high command as keystone cop. My this sounds familiar. Samantha 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] FW: New York Struggles with Burden of More Homeless
-Caveat Lector- im sending you all the meds i can find saba hope its not too late -- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Sir Winston Churchill NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew From: Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 23:15:25 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] FW: New York Struggles with Burden of More Homeless -Caveat Lector- Hey maybe Hill and Bill would want to open up their mansions for which the taxpayers pay - and how much to house their Secret Service? They can Giuliani is about to become a billionaire re at the cost of others; however, it was a known fact prior to 911 that homeless lie in the streets of New York, in trash bags - but Larry Silverstein will receive 7 billion dollars in blood money for a lease on the World Trade Center which no longer exists. Why come to the Broadway shows, and to the theatre - but as Shakespeare once wrote I am sent with broom before to sweep the dust behind the door - for when Clinton used to visit our city they shooed the homesless off he streets - one in particular who used to lie in an American Flag for warmth. Now this Mayor's control center which was in with the CIA in Silverstein's building it is said cost 15 million dollars.this man lives oh pardon, his wife lives in the Mayor's Mansion and I wonder how much it costs to keep her in the style to which she has become accustomed though the Mayor moved in with a homosexual couple. New York - such a wonderful place to live. Blame that on Bush? Hey these people are so much refuse in the streets.but then this is what the Statute of Liberty calls for right? The refuse from the shores of others..but please, no rocket scientists or Europeans...for America is aboute to be recycled - like what was that the Garden Plot? Think Hitler called this The Final Solution? 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. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Hampshire College Condemns War in All-Community Vote
-Caveat Lector- http://www.counterpunch.org/hampshire1.html Hampshire College Condemns War in All-Community Vote CounterPunch Wire AMHERST, MA The students, faculty, and staff of Hampshire College have voted to condemn the War on Terrorism and propose alternative solutions. The vote, which was won by a margin of 693-121 (with 11 abstaining or ambiguous votes), is believed to the first such decision by a college community in the United States. (A majority of the students, faculty, and staff participated in the vote.) Our community has spoken, said Michael Sherrard, an organizer with Hampshire Students for a Peaceful Response, which sponsored the vote and authored the anti-war resolution. We refuse to fall into silent support for an unjust war that kills innocents overseas, and threatens our safety and civil liberties at home. However, organizers were quick to defend the right to free expression of those who disagreed with the vote. As a diverse community of strong individuals, there are some at Hampshire who do not support our views. Even if they are in the minority, their opinions, and rights to free expression, must be respected. We wish that politicians and the media would extend the same respect to those of us who oppose this unjust war, or who happen to bear the same skin tone as Osama bin Laden, said Donald Jackson, also a member of Students for a Peaceful Response. Hampshire has a precedent for trend-setting political statements. In the early 70s, students voted for the impeachment of President Nixon. The college was also the first to decide to divest from apartheid South Africa. With this vote, organizers hope to make a similarly strong public statement, and build a movement which can similarly change the course of U.S. foreign policy. Students for a Peaceful Response is a multi-campus coalition in Western Massachusetts formed in the wake of September 11, and active in the growing nation-wide student movement against the war. It is organized around six points of unity: mourning for the victims of the September 11 tragedies; a call for the peaceful pursuit of justice, rather than war and militarism; condemnation of religious, racial, and ethnic scapegoating and bigotry; opposition to the curtailment of civil liberties; desire to provoke discussion of the root causes of terrorism; and recognition of global justice as the condition for a true and lasting peace. Full text of the statement approved by the community: The tragic day of September 11, and the days following, have been a time of profound suffering for people everywhere: firefighters in New York, secretaries in Washington D.C., and farmers in Afghanistan. One indiscriminate act of violence has been followed by another, a pattern seriously endangering the prospects for a just and peaceful world. In such a time of loss, we must ask ourselves - is there a path out of this escalating cycle of violence? Yes, we can respond to the tragedy of September 11 as a crime against humanity, carried out by individuals, not as an act of warfare for which a nation must be held responsible. This path would proceed within a framework of genuine international cooperation and be designed to bring to justice those guilty of the crime - without destroying the lives of innocent millions. It would employ the proven tools of transparent and conclusive investigations, diplomatic and police efforts, and fair courts of law to achieve its goal. At home, we can meet the immediate need for effective security through common-sense solutions that apply fairly to everyone, while preserving our hard-won civil liberties. Instead, the Bush administration has embarked upon a very different path--with disastrous consequences: The death toll of innocent Afghan civilians killed by inevitably imprecise bombing is mounting. The U.S. military campaign has made it impossible for international relief organizations to deliver the food aid necessary to prevent the starvation of millions of Afghan civilians in the winter now beginning. The token and scattered aid efforts of the United States have been roundly criticized as insufficient, or even counterproductive, by such organizations. A massive humanitarian crisis remains. While the Northern Alliance has forced the Taliban from power (certainly a welcome development), they too possess a disturbing record of human-rights violations, especially against women and political dissidents. The current suffering in Afghanistan will only deepen the conditions of loss and desperation which foster international terrorism. Even the CIA has stated that strikes against Afghanistan are 100% certain to lead to terrorist reprisals. The recent U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act infringes upon everyone's First and Fourth Amendment freedoms. Rights to privacy, speech, and association remain as critical as ever and are, if anything, more so in times of trial. The proposed economic stimulus package provides billions of dollars in corporate giveaways and
Re: [CTRL] Sharon or Arafat: Which Is the Sponsor of Terror?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.counterpunch.org/ Dec. 6, 2001 Sharon or Arafat: Which Is the Sponsor of Terror? By Alexander Cockburn Arafat is guilty of everything here. Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon declared on television Monday night. Arafat has made his strategic choices: a strategy of terrorism. In sync with these fierce words, Israeli forces launched attacks close to the Palestinian leader's house and destroyed his helicopters, an onslaught that the US government conspicuously failed to condemn. So, in the wake of the last suicide bomb attacks launched by Hamas, the sky is now the limit for Israeli reprisals: the killing of Arafat, and, not so far down the road, perhaps forced expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank. In other words, the substitution of untrammeled military repression by Israel's forces, and a deaf ear by the US to all Palestinian calls for fair dealing. Write FINIS to all efforts across the past 35 years to secure a just settlement in Israel and some measure of satisfaction for Palestinian aspirations. But to be honest about it, is not that exactly what militant Israelis like Ariel Sharon have wanted all along? Can anyone claim with a straight face that Sharon and those like him actually want a just peace that would see an end to Israeli settlements on the West Bank, the rise of a Palestinian state in any guise other than pathetic little Bantustans ringed by Israel's security forces? There are those in Israel who outlined clearly a couple of weeks ago Sharon's plan to force matters exactly along the lines they have now taken. Alex Fishman is the main commentator on security matters for Israel's largest mass circulation paper, Yediot Achronot, a publication with right-of-center politics. Fishman is known for his excellent contacts in the military. On Sunday, November 25, Fishman issued a prediction based on the recent assasination on November 23 by Israel's security services of the Hamas leader, Mahmud Abu Hunud. It was featured in a box on the newspaper's front page. It began, We again find ourselves preparing with dread for a new mass terrorist attack within the Green Line [Israel's pre-'67 border]. Since Fishman was entirely accurate in this regard, we should mark closely what he wrote next. Whoever gave a green light to this act of liquidation knew full well that he is thereby shattering in one blow the gentleman's agreement between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority; under that agreement, Hamas was to avoid in the near future suicide bombings inside the Green Line, of the kind perpetrated at the Dolphinarium [discotheque in Tel-Aviv]. Fishman stated flatly that such an agreement did exist, even if neither the Palestinian Authority nor Hamas would admit to it in public. It is a fact, he continued, that, while the security services did accumulate repeated warnings of planned Hamas terrorist attacks within the Green Line, these did not materialize. That cannot be attributed solely to the Shabak's impressive success in intercepting the suicide bombers and their controllers. Rather, the respective leaderships of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas came to the understanding that it would be better not to play into Israel's hands by mass attacks on its population centres. In other words Arafat had managed to convince Hamas to curb its suicide bombers. This understanding was shattered by the assassination of Abu Hunud. Whoever decided upon the liquidation of Abu Hunud, Fishman continued, knew in advance that that would be the price. The subject was extensively discussed both by Israel's military echelon and its political one, before it was decided to carry out the liquidation. Now, the security bodies assume that Hamas will embark on a concerted effort to carry out suicide bombings, and preparations are made accordingly. Ever since September 11 Israel's leaders followed with deep trepidation the building of the coalition against the Taliban and Al Qaeda. The months of studious indifference displayed by the Bush administration towards the Middle East's crises suddenly gave way to President Bush's abrupt, post September 11 statement that he had always nourished the dream of a Palestinian state. Consequently the prime task of the Israeli government and of its suppporters here has been to turn back any serious pressure for accomodation with even the most modest of Palestinian demands. In parallel the faction mustered around deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle has been to push for the US to reopen direct hostilities with Iraq and settle accounts with Saddam Hussein, once and for all. The Wolfowitz-Perle group knows perfectly well that any serious new confrontation with Saddam Hussein would probably be a prolonged and bloody affair. There is no Northern Alliance ready and eager for US intervention in Iraq. The Shia in the south remember well what happened in 1991 when they rose against Saddam and
Re: [CTRL] The Bush Betrayal, by Tibor R. Machan
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/6/01 8:58:56 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After the September 11 attacks, George W. Bush, like his father after the Gulf War, enjoyed enormous popularity in the USA. But he is now squandering this asset on bad policies and precedents. I can only hope that he will be punished for this. Perhaps by the time the next presidential election rolls around, the people will have come to realize that casting a determined posture against our enemies isn't the most important thing a president must do. What in the world would make anyone think there will be a next election when there wasn't even an original election? What could possibly prevent Shrub from doing whatever it takes to hold the presidency by force? Scruples? Samantha 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] BAE Crash Lands
-Caveat Lector- From www.wsws.org First the auto industry and now the commercial airline industry ... hmmm WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : Britain Britain: BAE ends production of commercial jets at cost of 1,700 jobs By Richard Tyler 7 December 2001 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author Aerospace and defence manufacturer BAE Systems is ending all production of its short-haul commercial jets, with a loss of 1,700 jobs throughout Britain. This latest announcement comes after the company recently cut at least 2,000 jobs in other parts of its operation. The decision signals the end of production of the Avro Regional Jet, Britains last mass- produced commercial passenger plane. This brings to a close nearly 50 years of commercial jet production in the UK, where the worlds first passenger jetthe de Havilland Cometwas launched in 1952. The bulk of the jobs (1,000) will go at the companys Woodford factory, with 300 cut at Chaddertonboth near Manchesterand 219 BAE workers in Prestwick, Scotland will also be laid off. The rest of the sackings fall at facilities at Salmesbury (140) and Filton (18) in England. BAE has seen orders for its four-engine RJ jet, capable of carrying between 85 and 100 passengers plummet to zero and has failed to find any new customers for its modernised RJX version. BAE group finance director George Rose said, It was already marginal, but September 11 pushed it over the edge, adding, We had a list of prospective customers but after September 11 they all disappeared. Keith Hayward, research director of the Society of British Aerospace Companies estimates that at least 11,000 aerospace jobs have been lost in the UK recently, with a further 11,000 jobs destroyed at secondary manufacture rs and suppliers. Moreover, Hayward said the jobs of some 40,000 working in the aerospace sector were vulnerable, if further cuts in capacity were made. The job losses have affected all sections of the UK aerospace industry: * engine manufacturers such as BAE and Rolls Royce * components and systems suppliers such as TRW Aeronautical Systems, and GKN * services companies such as FLS Aerospace, Europes leading aircraft maintenance provider * GE Aircraft Engine Services, which overhauls and repairs heavy jet engines BAE chief executive John Weston said, Since September, the trading outlook in these [commercial aerospace] markets has changed substantially... the outlook for the regional aircraft has deteriorated sharply. Regrettably it has been concluded that our regional jet business is no longer viable in this environment. Producing just 25 of the RJ and RJX regional jets a year, BAEs output was well below that of its major competitors: Canadas Bombadier (delivering 370 business and regional jets this year) and Brazils Epresa Brasileira de Aeronautica (producing 160 aircraft). Financial analyst Howard Wheeldon said, The [BAE] aircraft had been in production since about 1968 and they never made any significant money on it. Unions representing workers at the stricken factories expressed their shock at the closure decision, and organised a lobby of parliament on December 5. Far from mobilising BAE workers to defend their jobs, the lobby was only attended by union bureaucrats and some 100 shop stewards, many of whom had been given time off by their employers, who also paid their travel expenses. The British union bosses are opposed to initiating a joint struggle by aerospace workers internationally, and particularly in the US where more than 100,000 workers in the airline industry alone have been laid off since S eptember 11. Instead, they are lining up with the employers in pleading that the government provides a financial rescue package for the airlines and to bring forward defence spending. If we can increase military spending, companies c an put work packages across their civil teams to ease the pressure in the short-term, said Alan Robson, general secretary of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, who had organised the lobby. MSF General Secretary Roger Lyons called the announcement a wake-up call for the government. Our civil aerospace industry is under threat. Its in danger of going the same way of our once proud motorcycle industry. The nationalist line of the unions was further underscored by their argument that without government support, Britain was in danger of falling behind its European aerospace competitors. British Aerospace, rebranded as BAE Systems this year, was originally founded in 1977 through merging the nationalised Hawker Siddeley Aviation with the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). With the ending of civilian aircraft production, BAE Systems is still left heavily involved in the defence industries. Half-year results to June 2001 saw over 70 percent of the companys sales and profits coming from its defence activities. The company is the main UK contractor
