[CTRL] George W. Bush: Statesman or Dog Trainer?
-Caveat Lector- George W. Bush: Statesman or Dog Trainer? David Turnley, AlterNet April 11, 2002 President Bush, April 4: Enough is enough. President Bush, April 6: Withdraw without delay. President Bush, April 8: I meant what I said. You have to give President Bush credit. Whereas politicians are known for saying whatever it takes to win over a crowd or sway a voter, Bush's vernacular is consistently simple, even when he's on the international stage addressing something as complex and awful as the current Israeli/Palestinian nightmare. That he has nothing of substance to say is beside the point. To his credit, he uses language and tone that most of us can relate to. Unfortunately, it's the language and tone people use when talking to their dogs. Dogs only understand a few, oft repeated words and phrases, such as sit, fetch and, for particularly bright canines, I meant what I said. Dog-haters in the Middle East and Bush-haters in Europe may take Bush's approach the same way one takes condescension from an autistic cousin. It's cute, a little disturbing, but mostly laughable. But the fact that Bush has addressed the issue at all -- delivered in his patented cadence of disdain, which is usually reserved for members of the press who have the nerve to ask questions that require thoughtful answers -- actually indicates how seriously he takes the situation. Bush is trying to scold and shame the combatants. If he were able, he would probably punish them by leaving them out in the cold while the rest of us eat dinner inside. The meal finished, he'd invite them back in, look for contrition in their eyes, and then -- maybe -- let them lie on the couch, lesson learned. If only being leader of the free world in a time of international crisis were that simple. The problems in Israel demand a president that can articulate, to both sides, sympathy rooted in comprehension of the situation. Instead, the president is acting as if the dogs' incessant barking has awakened him from a nap. For the first year of his tenure, Bush was satisfied to stay on the sidelines of the peace process while deriding his predecessor for having gotten involved at all. Then on September 11, he was forced to acknowledge that domestic security relies on global security. So he demanded that the world help us hunt down terrorists. But when the Mideast section of the globe requested that we help secure peace in the region, they were given little more than a contemptuous pat on the head. The recent events have prompted a change in policy, though not in heart. Both Press Secretary Ari Fleischer and Bush himself have recently suggested that the failings of the Clinton administration led to the current spate of violence in Israel. Both then clarified their statements, sorta kinda saying they didn't mean it. Few people other than the rabid Clinton-haters buy it, since it's like blaming the steaming pile of shit in the living room on the previous owner's Labrador. But what really seems to bother Bush is that he had wanted to use the public confidence gained from the success in Afghanistan to remove Saddam Hussein, but cannot while the world is focused elsewhere. Now Saddam is humping Bush's leg by stopping oil production for a month. And with the current situation in Israel, Arab and Muslim countries are now even less likely to publicly support any US action against the Iraqi regime. Unfortunately for Bush, the Middle East is composed of and led by people, not dogs. Understanding and responding to their problems requires a little more than a yank on a leash and a command. As the carnage piles up, maybe Bush will eventually feel obliged to scamper onto Air Force One, fly to Israel, grab Sharon and Arafat by their fat, scruffy necks and rub their snouts in the rubble of Ramallah and Bethlehem. But until that happens, we'll just hear more irritable but impotent remarks from a president who expects warm and fuzzy obedience in a complicated world full of self-interest, greed and religion. David Turnley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is a frequent contributor to AlterNet. If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and
[CTRL] September 11, 2001: No Surprise
-Caveat Lector- The US has the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Secret Service, and a host of other intelligence and security agencies. These agencies employ Echelon, which monitors the majority of electronic communication in the world; Carnivore, which intercepts email; Tempest, a technology that can read a computer monitor's display from over a block away; Keyhole satellites that have a resolution of four inches 1; and other spy technologies, probably most of which we don't know about. In 2001, the US spent $30 billion on intelligence gathering and an additional $12 billion on counterterrorism.2 With all of these resources, and more, we're supposed to believe that the government didn't have the slightest inkling that terrorists were planning to attack the United States, much less hijack planes and send them careening into major landmarks. As we'll see in this article, the facts just don't support the ignorance excuse. At the very least, the success of the 911 attacks reveals gross incompetence, criminal negligence, and general stupidity on the part of intelligence and other aspects of the government. Remember, this is truly the most charitable interpretation that can be given. A darker scenario - and one that, as we shall see, is quite supportable by the facts - is that some parties in the government knew what was about to happen but failed to act. More: http://www.loompanics.com/Articles/September11.html If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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[CTRL] Which One ?
-Caveat Lector- From http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfetimes/blood_brothers.htm To give you a hint: It's not the one on the ten dollar bill who inspired the American holocaust (OKA the Trail of Tears) AER }}}Begin Brothers in Blood Guess Which President This Is by Russell Madden Back when I was wee tyke usin' a bit of charcoal to scratch my lessons on a broken piece of slate, I was set the task of learnin' all the U.S. Presidents, in order. 'Course, twarn't near as many of those buggers then as now. A couple handfuls of fingers and a toe or two sufficed for the job. Nowadays, I got better things to 'member, sech as what I et for breakfast or what my name is. Still, I had a passin' ability onect upon a time to recite out loud the names of all those leaders of this great nation of ourn, the United States of America. Seems, however, though, that some things were missin' from my edukation. Nothin' critical, mind you. Just like facts and sech. Oh, we learned stuff and all. In my advancin' years, howsomeever, I wonder where in thunder my teachers got all that information they larded into our heads. Cain't say most of that pile I had crammed twixt my ears had a whole lot in common with, ya know, the truth. Still, those what seem to know better'n me (least that's what they tell me) claim there ain't no sech thing as reality or truth. Leastwise, what's real or true varies from person to person like mules' hind legs. Whatever opinion you're spoutin', why, no one darest criticize, oppose, or judge that fountain of verbiage emergin' betwixt your flappin' gums. Always wondered some, though, why they had the gall and the gumption to tell me I was wrong to disagree . . . Anyways, mustn't badmouth my superiors . . . As I was asayin', those presidents were interestin' folks, least some of 'em were. So, I thought, hey, maybe you folks'd enjoy a bit of a quizz. Nothin' too taxin'. (Hah!) The test is easy. Entertainment, mostly. What I'm gonna do here, ya see, is spill the beans on what happened sometime during the terms of all those presidents I usta have memorized. All you have to do is tell me which president I'm talkin' 'bout. Ready? Good. I knew ya were . . . O.K. Which president believed in, encouraged, was, or did the followin': -- A master at logrolling. -- A liar for political gain. -- Made a mockery of the notion of equality before the law. -- Said one thing for public consumption but did the opposite; a consummate hypocrite. -- An orator who excelled at weasel words so he could have it both ways in order to gain political support. -- Blasted extremists who opposed his policies. -- Was a lawyer who never let the truth stand in the way of a good case and a good fee. -- Lionized by Marxist and liberal historians and commentators who did all they could to spin his faults into virtues. -- Promoted a strong, centralized federal government above the governments of the various states. -- Ignored the Constitution without any qualms. -- Believed in the Constitution as a living document. -- Waged war without seeking a declaration of war from Congress. -- Issued arbitrary presidential degrees binding on state and local governments. -- Was not overly concerned about collateral damage, i.e., the deaths of noncombatant men, women, and children, and the destruction of their homes and property; such destruction was simply a fact or war. -- Blieved noncombatant men, women, and children brought their deaths or injuries upon themselves because of their beliefs and actions, i.e., their opposition to the will of the federal government. -- Believed that the military draft was justified in the interests of national security. -- Pitted blacks against whites. -- Made many promises to blacks but actually left them worse off. -- Believed the best way to achieve national prosperity was the creation of government-business partnerships. -- Thought that subsidies to business and public expenditures for internal improvements such as roads and railroads were economically sound. -- Imposed tariffs and quotas to protect U.S. businesses from foreign competition. -- Promoted federal management of the money supply. -- Defended income taxation as good for the country. -- Used inflation of the money supply to obscure the true state of government debt. -- Used the power of the federal government to redistribute wealth from one section of the country to another and from one group to another. -- Had compliant intellectuals obscure the reality of his policies in the eyes of the public. -- Supported federally-funded and government-directed public education. -- Used public education to miseducate children. -- Made full use of political pull and favors for his supporters. -- Granted monopolies to certain businesses. -- Mislabeled his policies as capitalism. -- Passed massive amounts of legislation to implement his economic and social ideas. -- Politicized economics and made the poorer citizens he
[CTRL] (Fwd) Inspirational Statues
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[CTRL] Tales of Two Demonstrations
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Protests in US against Israeli atrocities
By a correspondent
16 April 2002
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Thousands of opponents of Israels current military campaign against the
Palestinians rallied on April 13 in several US cities. In New York City a crowd
estimated at several thousand assembled in Manhattans Times Square to oppose
the Sharon governments assault on the West Bank. The protesters waved
Palestinian flags, chanted slogans and held signs charging the Israeli prime minister
with murder.
In San Francisco hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators rallied in front of the
Israeli consulate. Demonstrations were also held in Chicago and two cities in
Michigan.
In Ann Arbor, Michigan more than 1,200 people marched from the federal building to
City Hall to protest the continuing attack on the Palestinians. The demonstration,
consisting largely of Muslims and Arab-Americans, also included Jewish-Americans
opposed to the atrocities, as well as students, professors and local residents. It was
loud and spirited, expressing a rising tide of outrage.
Taurus Colvin, a leader of the march, told the WSWS that the situation in Palestine
and the occupied territories had gotten out of hand. Peoples lives have been taken,
homes have been demolished. Peoples blood is being spilled. Kids, six-year-old girls
are being murdered, shot in the head.
Jenin, he said, is just one of a long series of attacks on the Palestinian people.
It is
the worst of the attacks so far. We want to show our solidarity with the rest of the
world.
Mahya, a student at the University of Michigan, also spoke to the WSWS. I am an
Israeli Jew, she said, and I am out here to support my cousins. Mahya also made
a plea to Jewish Americans: We must oppose this and find out what is really
happening. Most of the hundreds of dead are innocent. If we say it is not right to kill
innocent civilians and then we go in and kill a whole bunch of innocent civilians, it
is
hypocritical. We have to open our eyes, speak out against this and support our
cousins.
One student spoke of her familys plight, caused by the Israeli occupation. Alma, a
sixth-year student at the University of Michigan, has family in Ramallah and lives with
her husband and mother-in-law. During the occupation, my aunts mother-in-law was
confined to her home without being able to leave, Alma said. She had no access to
a phone or electricity and it was difficult to get her food. She is 90 years old and
was
unable to leave her home for 10 days.
Khalid, an Arab-American, said, The situation for the Palestinians in Jenin and the
camps is devastating. The situation there has reached the boiling point.
The military position of Sharon is creating a situation where there will be more of a
crisis in the region, Khalid stated. What he is doing is creating more violence in
the
region. Israel needs to establish good relations with its neighboring countries rather
than rely on the US to give it more military aid.
About 50 students, professors and others protested at Georgetown University in
Washington DC. They waved signs, chanted, Free, free Palestine! and denounced
US government support for Israeli aggression. Protesters posing as Israeli soldiers
attacked students representing Palestinians. Some 40 students joined the Muslim
Spiritual Support Network at the University of Cincinnati to protest lethal force being
used by Israelis against Palestinians.
On April 11, 20 people, including Harvard University professor Cornel West and
Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun magazine, were arrested outside the State
Department in Washington after they blocked the road in protest over US support for
the policies of Sharon. West and Lerner had earlier participated in a larger rally
across the street.
In San Francisco, police made arrests on April 10 outside the Israeli consulate when
protesters locked arms and blocked the street, denouncing the Israeli military
occupation of West Bank cities and towns. The protest was sponsored by the Jewish
Voice for Peace, a group opposed to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
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Well, we know Wiesel is on a par with Peres as far as being a Nobel laureate.
If Gephardt, Reid or Armey (this last soon to go anyway) or Pataki or any of the
others belong to you, I hope you're making sure they're heads are being kept out of
Bubu's behind. AER
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Wolfowitz Booed at Pro-Israel Rally
Mon Apr 15, 3:14 PM ET
By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - A top administration official was interrupted and booed Monday
when he told thousands of people gathered at the Capitol for a pro-Israel rally that
[CTRL] U.S. Aerospace Vehicle Where ?
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After the coup, Venezuelan president ponders mystery of American plane
Reuters in Caracas
Tuesday April 16, 2002
The Guardian
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said yesterday he would investigate the
mysterious presence of a US plane at the island prison where he was briefly detained
during last week's abortive military coup.
The military high command took Mr Chavez and demanded his resignation last
Friday, blaming him for the deaths of at least 11 unarmed protesters killed during a
massive anti-government demonstration on Thursday.
But power slipped from the inexperienced grasp of a newly appointed civilian
government over the weekend as Chavez supporters demanded his return and army
units came out in favour of the colourful president.
Mr Chavez said he was fascinated by the presence of a plane with US markings on
the Venezuelan Caribbean island of Orchila where he was held after Friday's coup.
At the time the military were trying to persuade him to resign and fly into foreign
exile.
I saw the plane. It bore the markings of a private plane from the United States, not
an official plane. This is being investigated. What was it doing there? Mr Chavez
asked at a news conference.
But Mr Chavez, who was democratically elected in 1998, said he was prepared to
give Washington the benefit of the doubt over its ambiguous statements appearing to
welcome his shortlived downfall.
I think they were victims of misinformation, he said, adding that he guaranteed no
interruption of Venezuelan oil supplies to the US.
American officials made it known they were not unhappy to see the back of Mr
Chavez, a close friend of Cuba's Fidel Castro who is fond of anti-American rhetoric.
They greeted his swift return to the helm of the world's fourth-largest oil exporter
with
reservation.
A US state department spokesman, Philip Reeker, said yesterday: We want to see
a return to democracy.
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[CTRL] GOP Cops Out on Shrub
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Robert Novak (back to story)
April 15, 2002
The GOP for Sharon
WASHINGTON -- Conservative sage William J. Bennett, blunt as ever, last Thursday
said publicly what elected Republican officials say privately. President Bush's new
Middle East peace initiative, said Bennett, is making very angry ... his entire
political
base. A firestorm is starting to build -- a firestorm of criticism. That defined the
political threat to the president for seeking peace between Israel and the
Palestinians.
The transcript of Bennett's remarks (in his new role as a CNN contributor) was
perused, but not officially commented on, by senior aides at the White House. They
are concerned. Bennett may have exaggerated a little, but not much. I telephoned
several prominent Republican conservatives, some of them elected officials, who
were in unanimous agreement with Bennett while declining to go public.
The implications for George W. Bush are horrendous. From his first day in office, he
has tried to avoid his father's alienation of the conservative Republican base.
Nevertheless, his aides tell me, the president intends to proceed with peacemaking
even if it means undermining his political game plan. It does cause Bush to tread
carefully, however.
That reality is appreciated in Israel. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been able to
brush off, with impunity, U.S. demands for military withdrawal without delay from
the Palestinian territories. When Sharon refused at their meeting Friday to give Colin
Powell any timetable for ending the military offensive, the secretary of state did not
publicly insist. Sharon has called Washington's bluff.
Congressional criticism of the Bush peace initiative has publicly come from the usual
suspects -- partisan Democrats with large Jewish constituencies, such as Sen.
Charles Schumer of New York. (We're telling Israel, which is simply trying to defend
herself, to pull back, Schumer complained last week.) Bush doesn't worry about the
Chuck Schumers. What bothers the White House are the Bill Bennetts.
Bennett represents gradual but accelerating escalation of support for Israel from the
Republican Party's dominant conservative wing, especially from the Christian
religious right. When 46 years ago a Republican president in the midst of his re-
election campaign took a tough stand against the Israeli attack on Egypt, Dwight D.
Eisenhower did not have to worry about his party's base. Conservatives then tilted
toward the Arabs. The move by the American right, overwhelmingly non-Jewish,
toward Israel has intensified over the last 10 years.
Some Israeli policies are more popular with Republican conservatives than others.
The Oslo agreement and the former Prime Minister Ehud Barak's failed peace
initiative are not. Sharon's Bismarckian policy of settling the Palestinian question
with
blood and iron are.
Even more popular than Sharon is former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who
was lionized by Republican lawmakers in Washington last week during an apparent
campaign trip to get his old job back. Netanyahu is even tougher than Sharon in his
stated intent to bring peace by destroying the Palestinian Authority and exiling Yasser
Arafat. When Netanyahu pleaded with Republican senators not to pressure Israel
to stop defending itself in an implicit criticism of Bush, no senator spoke in defense
of
the president.
Nor did White House spokesman Ari Fleischer question the propriety of Netanyahu's
electioneering on Capitol Hill. Instead, Fleischer -- echoing what senior aides are
saying -- contradicted reality and what Sharon himself told Powell by insisting that
the
Israelis really are obeying the president's demand, however slowly. In a calculated
White House hedge, Fleischer stressed that Powell's Israeli-opposed meeting with
Arafat was the secretary of state's idea, not the president's.
Since hedging won't get Bill Bennett back on the president's side, Bush might
consider the words of a distinguished Israeli Knesset member: former Justice
Minister Yossi Beilin. In a PBS interview Thursday, he asserted this operation has
cost us a lot, not only in our international image, which has deteriorated, but I
believe
that mainly we increased ambitions on the Palestinian side to take revenge, and we
increased the hatred toward us. Beilin also called the Palestinians not a group of
terrorists like al Qaida but a big nation with several millions of people who long
ago
chose Arafat as their leader.
Middle East specialists at the State Department agree with Beilin. For President
Bush to publicly concur would feed Bennett's firestorm.
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-Caveat Lector- http://library.northernlight.com/ED2002041154049.html?cb=0dx=1006sc=0#doc Feds Link Anti-Terrorism Databases Story Filed: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:18 AM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered federal agencies Thursday to link the databases of local and federal law enforcers with foreign intelligence sources to lower bureaucratic barriers and rivalries that could stand in the way of fighting terrorism. ``Information is the best friend of prevention,'' Ashcroft said in a statement accompanying the directive. ``To meet this continuing threat, law enforcement officials at all levels -- federal, state and local -- must work together.'' Justice Department officials said the order was designed to form something of a link between domestic and international law enforcement agencies. Ideally, a local police officer making a traffic stop would key in the driver's name and receive database information about whether the driver is a known or suspected terrorist, possible aliases and instructions on how to handle the situation, officials said. Other law enforcement officials, such as border guards, also would be able to access the information. The database would be created from State Department, FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service files on the identities and aliases of thousands of known or suspected terrorists, both foreign and domestic, officials said. Much of the information is from intelligence gathered on individuals connected to the 31 foreign terrorist organizations listed by the State Department. An agency head, however, can choose to withhold a name from the database to protect national security, Justice Department officials said. The information-sharing could be completed within weeks, because some of it already has been shifted between agencies. Civil libertarians have objected to some of the Justice Department's counterterror measures, saying they go too far toward suppressing personal freedom. In response to the agencies' own analyses, the Justice Department directed them to take several steps to better share intelligence and other information. The steps include: --Adding terrorist information in law enforcement databases. The government maintains several databases that provide real-time information to diplomats and law enforcement personnel. The order directs that more information be shared among them, including the names, photographs, and other information about known terrorists to prevent them from entering the country. The information will be shared among databases maintained by the State Department, the FBI and U.S. Customs Service, according to the Justice Department. --Sharing more foreign terrorist information among nations. Ashcroft directed the FBI, through legal attaches, to establish procedures to obtain on a regular basis identifying information on terrorists known to other countries. In addition, the FBI and the Defense Department must gather on a regular basis to share information on terrorists known to the military establishment. --Establish a secure system for sharing information with state and local agencies. Ashcroft directed Justice Department officials to develop a secure but unclassified web-based system to enable local, state and federal users to post and retrieve information on counterterrorism that is now only accessible to federal officials with appropriate clearance. Copyright © 2002 Associated Press Information Services, all rights reserved. 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) Reese: Language Of The Middle East
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- From http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20020415/index.php Recently, one of the Fox Network's foxy blondes belligerently demanded of a Palestinian spokesman why Yasser Arafat had not made a speech in Arabic demanding an end to terror. You know? This Torques my bolts considering John Gibson harangued the Palestinian guest about this same issue. As a result, I sent you a copy of news story that stated the same things. Let's put it this way: This is NOT our fight. I haven't seen nor heard any reportage about Gephardt and Armey and Reid out there with their pom-poms for Netanyuhu when the United States is supposed to be a mediator. And I hope the Kansans give ol' Dick a hat to keep the sun off his head just before they unelect him and the same goes for Reid. Armey is on his way out, anyway. Then I haven't heard that Wolfowitz has been fired yet for violating his bosses' positions for leading the cheers. And then there's Albert Jr; the fellow who didn't have the gumption to tell Bill Jeff to either quit or accept his (A Jr's) resignation during BJ's rank amateur roue' expose' scandal. Now he's out there sniping at W for trying to even-handedly deal with the Democrats' payback for Flouridia. This Mid East thing can be tied directly to their having been aced out. They're acting completely unAMERICAN and should be exposed as such. With the positions these leaders are taking, it'll be no wonder that Sharon finally gets to go to the ICC (with Netanyuhu right on his heels as a co-conspirator) come July. These idolisers of the Reformed Terrorist (Peace) Prize winner Begin will undoubtedly bring Armageddon to that part of the world. AER Red River Rover of the North }}}Begin For Monday, April 15, 2002 Language Of The Middle East Many Americans are confused and misled about the facts of the Middle East because they don't understand the language of Israeli propaganda. A terrorist is any Palestinian who wants to end the Israeli occupation. A militant is anyone the Israelis kill. If they shoot you, you are, by definition, a militant, even if you're only 6 months old or 10 years old or 80 years old. The Israelis never kill anybody but militants, so all of the more than 70 Palestinian children 15 and younger shot dead by Israeli soldiers are militants. Most civilized countries don't think militancy is a capital offense. Unfortunately, members of the press often adopt the language of propaganda. They report that the Israelis have killed 20 militants. In fact, they don't know that. They themselves have never seen the 20 dead people. For all they know, they might be Palestinian nuns or pacifists. A good reporter will just report what he knows: The Israelis say they have killed 20 Palestinians. Recently, one of the Fox Network's foxy blondes belligerently demanded of a Palestinian spokesman why Yasser Arafat had not made a speech in Arabic demanding an end to terror. When the Palestinian finally got a chance to talk, he told her what everybody who follows the Middle East already knows: Arafat has condemned terrorism in speeches made in Arabic. The spokesman even gave the blond cutie two specific dates and occasions. But what's important to us, as consumers of this bilge on television, is this: I think it is a most safe assumption that the lady, ordinarily quite pleasant and giggly, does not speak Arabic, does not understand spoken Arabic and does not monitor radio and television broadcasts in Arabic. So the question is, how would she know whether Arafat had ever made a speech in Arabic on any subject? The answer is that she doesn't, yet she adamantly and obnoxiously asserted that he had not condemned suicide bombings in Arabic. Where did she get that information? From Israeli propaganda. It could be that these younger folks who are in-studio types are just naive. Perhaps I can help them. All governments lie. Some governments lie on some occasions, some lie on many occasions, and some lie on all occasions. The Israeli government is a world-class liar. You can count on almost anything it says as being all false, or partly true and partly false, or true but out of context. The members of the Israeli government are also the most self-centered people on earth. To them it is unacceptable for any Israeli to die, but perfectly OK if any number of Palestinians die. How little value they place on Palestinian life is illustrated by a sentence an Israeli court gave a Jewish settler. His sentence was a fine and community service. What was his crime? He had knocked down a 10- year-old Palestinian boy, put his booted foot on the child's neck and beaten him to death with the butt of his military pistol. But as one of the right-wing rabbis is now saying openly, a Jewish life is more valuable than a gentile life. President Bush, perhaps the most naive American, wants everyone to call suicide bombers murderers. I won't. They are martyrs. Those young
[CTRL] ECTV/Breaking News - Earth Directed Coronal Mass Ejection Alert...04/16/02
-Caveat Lector- (You can see the comet on SOHO now. If I was a bookie I would take bets on whether it will hit the sun. I'll give it 2/1 it survives. (see SOHO C3 http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/rtmovies.html ) BTW, could the unannounced HAARP transmission last night contributed to the storm that hit Nevada today described by Art Bell tonight? --SW) --- Forwarded message follows --- Earth Directed Coronal Mass Ejection Alert...04/16/02 by Mitch Battros (ECTV) NASA has just published a geo-magnetic storm alert. A full halo CME (coronal mass ejection) was unleashed yesterday afternoon which is determined to be Earth directed. NASA has declined response as to why we are witness to such severe solar activity, which is now 1 1/2 years past the predicted Cycle 23 maximum. Watch for M-Class and X-Class flares to continue most likely from Region 9906 sunspot group. Currently a M-Class flare has been reported. More are expected to follow. Watch for freak storms and record breaking temperatures to occur. On a lighter side, we should see a beautiful performance of the Nothern Lights tonight. NOAA's current announcement... Global Temperature For March Warmest On Record Arctic air brought in by the jet stream in March kept temperatures relatively low throughout the United States, making it the first cooler-than-average month since March 2001. However, it was the warmest March for the globe since reliable records began in 1880, according to NOAA scientists. Equation: Sunspots = Solar Flares = Magnetic Shift = Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents = Extreme Weather and Human Disruption (mitch battros) New Comet Discovered... It is named SOHO-422, discovered just last week by an amateur astronomer, is heading for our Sun. The icy comet will pass a mere 0.08 AU from the Sun on April 17th. Coronagraphs on board the SOHO satellite are recording the event. This will be one in an apparent sharp increased number of comets captured by the SOHO satellite. Comet SOHO-422 will hit or graze the Sun on April 17th. Thought For The Day When we talk about forces with shifting charges (humans) we are, in fact, talking about forces acting on charges which are moving in a magnetic field; this is known as the Lorentz force. Mitch Battros Herbal Magnetic Therapies of America Research has now confirmed the wisdom of ancient text in relation to the Sun-Earth Connection. When solar activity hits our Earths magnetic field, it in turn has a direct effect on human behavior and anatomy. Now we have uncovered the secret to maintaining health and well being during our current times of unprecedented solar magnetic activity and its effect on human tissue, blood flow, and brain wave activity. ~ Revolutionary Transdermal Magnetics With Traditional Chinese Herbs ~ http://herbalmagnetic.com ECTV One Year Subscription: http://www.earthchangestv.com/subscribe.htm Mitch Battros Producer - Earth Changes TV http://www.earthchangestv.com --- End of forwarded message --- If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] MR. BUSH COMES OUT OF HIS NEOCON TRANCE
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Trifkovic/NewsST041202.htm }}}Begin Friday, April 12, 2002 MR. BUSH COMES OUT OF HIS NEOCON TRANCE by Srdja Trifkovic It seemed as if George Bush had been sleepwalking for weeks on end, mesmerized by some neocon spell, and finally woke up on April 4, to the undisguised shock and horror of his handlers. After weeks of kowtowing to Prime Minister Sharons doomed policy of solving the Palestinian question by military means and doing nothing, last Thursday Mr. Bush suddenly declared that Israel had to end its occupation of Palestinian citiesRamallah included, where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been besieged at his headquarters for over a weekand to stop building Jewish settlements. The President also condemned innocent Palestinians daily humiliation and asserted the Palestinians right to statehood. Speaking in the Rose Garden he further said that the storms of violence cannot go on and declared, Enough is enough! Mr. Bush quite properly also asserted Israels right to exist and defend itself, and criticized Mr. Arafat for failing to prevent the recent wave of suicide bombers, saying that [t]he situation in which he finds himself today is largely of his own making He has missed his opportunities and thereby betrayed the hopes of his people. Nevertheless, after days of mounting international criticism of his apparently immutable pro-Israeli stand as violence spread and escalated, Mr. Bushs statement was a breath of fresh air. Secretary of State Colin Powell will travel to the area to pick up the pieces left over by General Anthony Zinni, Washingtons failed special envoy. He will have to convey to Sharon that Israel is a small foreign country, albeit friendly and emotionally especially close to some 2.5 percent of Americans, and that U.S. policy in the region will be conducted accordingly. He will have to tell Arafat that unless he stops being a would- be statesman one day and a freedom fighter the next the United States will look for his replacement among his less compromised top aides. There is no shortage of candidates for succession, and several would be better able to strike the right balance between defying Sharons irrational, self-defeating policies and imposing discipline and authority in the Palestinian camp. The fact that he is now criticized by both sides in the Middle East indicates that Mr. Bush is finally doing something right. In Israel editorials expressed predictable resentment of President Bushs demand that the IDF incursions be reversed. The Jerusalem Post bristled at the rank paternalism of his remarks about distinguishing between the terrorists and ordinary Palestinians, and other papers fretted that IDF withdrawals would presage a victory for Arafat. The Arabs, for their part, were offended by the presidents heightened criticism of PA leader Arafats passivity in fighting terrorism. Many likewise fumed that Bush had overlooked the death and destruction in the territories caused by the Israeli military offensive. In Europe the reaction to the Presidents retreat from the neocon trance was invariably hailed as a rare piece of good news in the gloomy Middle Eastern landscape. Finally! proclaimed a Paris daily, Engagement at Last headlined a London paper. Nearly all media let out a collective sigh of relief that America has spoken with a strong and decisive voice and acknowledged its unique responsibility to broker an end to the violence. Bushs speech was welcomed in Europe as a turning point, marking a shift from what had been widely criticized as an irresponsible wait-and-see approach. It was politely acknowledged but not over- emphasized that European pressure contributed to Mr. Bushs turnaround. In the first few weeks after September 11 President Bush had wisely avoided neoconservative pressure to broaden the war and to use terror as a pretext for the final showdown with Saddam Hussein and indeed any other regional player disliked in Israel. In the first few months in this year the pendulum apparently swung to the other side, most notably with the Presidents awful State of the Union address that seemed to herald a new era of unrestrained, brazenly triumphalist global imperialism of the worst neocon kind. Right now it is to be hoped that we are witnessing the re- birth of the real George W. Bush, who understands the need for the United States to reject the permanent bias in Middle Eastern affairs that breeds anti-Americanism and Islamic fundamentalism. As an oilman he understands that it is vitally important to the United States to have permanent access to secure and affordable sources of energy; as a down-to-earth pragmatist he should come to see that it is not vitally important to the U.S. who rules the Temple Mount. The neocons now feel betrayed and may yet turn nasty, but it does not matter. They can and should be challenged. In the past one could be forgiven for
[CTRL] Israel 'usurping Arab water resources'
-Caveat Lector- http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=47733 Israel 'usurping Arab water resources' Abu Dhabi |By Nissar Hoath | 15-04-2002 A two-day international conference began here yesterday to discuss water resources and how to meet future challenges. Dubbed Challenges and Future of Water Resources in the Middle East, the conference kicked off at the Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up, under the sponsorship of Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is also the chairman of the Centre. Mohammed Khalifa Al Murar, executive director of the Centre, stressed the depleting water supply in the region, saying he welcomes recommendations from participants on how to remedy this situation. Ali Sha'ath, Under-secretary at the Planning and International Cooperation Ministry of Palestine State, presented in absentia a paper dealing with the Palestinian struggle to augment water resources. Titled Palestine Waters: A Struggle for the Overground and Underground Water, Sha'ath's paper said that Israel has not only occupied the Arab land, but also seized their water supply and other natural resources. Israel is also desperate to deplete and destroy such resources, although they are very scarce, Sha'ath said, noting that Israel has started destroying a number of water wells since September 2000. Sha'ath stressed that 85 per cent, or 483 million cubic metres, of underground water in the West Bank is being exploited by the Israelis. Israel also draws 50 million cubic metres of water from Gaza Strip, he said, adding that this covers 25 per cent of Israel's water consumption. He said Israel has also been exploiting the water resource of the Jordan river at a much higher degree than that allowed by the Johnston Plan. He said the Palestinian Authority has been struggling to win rights over these water resources, as provided for in the Fourth Geneva Convention which states that the use of water by the occupier is illegal. The conference observed a minute of silence before it started, to praise and express gratitude to the martyrs of Palestine who have lost their lives in the Israeli attacks. Al Murar said that Amnesty International has come out with a report condemning all types of atrocities against the Palestinians. The report, he added, described such dastardly act as group punishment, indicating that if such an action had been committed in any country other than Israel, it would have already been referred to an international tribunal. Dr Mona Mustafa Al Qadi, a representative from Egypt, offered some insights on the water crisis in the Arab world while Professor Ilyas Salama of Jordan University highlighted the water resources in Arab countries. 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] UN rights body condemns Israel for 'mass killings'
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/mideast-rights-resolution.html UN rights body condemns Israel for 'mass killings' By REUTERS Filed at 9:19 a.m. ET GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations top human rights body condemned Israel on Monday for ``mass killings'' of Palestinians and demanded it end its military offensive in the occupied territories. The annual session of the Geneva-based Commission on Human Rights approved a resolution from Arab and Muslim states that blasted Israel for ``gross violations'' of humanitarian law and affirmed the ``legitimate right of Palestinian people to resist.'' The motion, backed by some European Union states including France, expressed grave concern at ``the killing of men, women and children'' in West Bank refugee camps, among them Jenin where Palestinians accuse Israeli troops of massacring Palestinian women and children as well as fighters. But it made no mention of particular incidents when referring to ``acts of mass killings perpetrated by the Israeli occupying authorities.'' Israel says around 70 Palestinian militants were killed in the camp, which saw some of the fiercest fighting of its 17-day incursion into Palestinian controlled areas -- billed as a drive against suicide bombers. But Israel's reluctance to let aid workers into Jenin and other camps has stirred suspicions and triggered protests from humanitarian groups. The Jewish state has also not yet given the green light for a special mission of inquiry, which the Commission asked U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson to lead, to visit the region. The 53-state Commission passed the motion by 40 votes to five, with seven states abstaining and one member not present for the ballot which came as Secretary of State Colin Powell pursued his bid to negotiate a cease-fire in the conflict. Britain and Germany voted against, while Italy abstained. Canada, Guatemala and the Czech Republic also voted no. NOT BALANCED Explaining their decisions, the British, German and Italian delegations said that the text was not balanced and did not speak out clearly enough against ``terrorist'' acts such as suicide bombings by Palestinian militants against Israeli civilian targets. ``Germany remains deeply concerned at the extremely serious human rights and humanitarian situation in the occupied territories,'' German ambassador Walter Lewalter said, adding that it backed calls for an immediate Israeli military withdrawal. But he said Germany could not back the resolution because ''the text contains formulations that might be interpreted as an endorsement of violence.'' Diplomats had indicated on Friday that the motion would get significant European support after Arab and Muslim states softened some of the language, removing references to Israel committing acts of ``state terrorism'' and to the Palestinians' right to use ``any means'' to fight military occupation. ``It is just window dressing,'' said Israel's ambassador Yaakov Levy. ``Not only does it not condemn it (suicide bombings), it gives them a license to continue this policy of terrorism. That's why it is so wrong.'' Israel, which has been denied the support of the United States in the forum after Washington lost its seat on the Commission last year, is routinely criticized at the annual Commission sessions for its treatment of Palestinians. But last year, EU states all abstained when the Commission voted to accuse Israel of using ``disproportionate'' force in the occupied territories and deplored its carrying out of ''extra-judicial'' killings of militant Palestinians. At least 1,272 Palestinians and 452 Israelis have been killed since a Palestinian revolt against Israeli occupation began in September 2000 after peace talks stalled. 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
[CTRL] Survivors of Jenin Massacre Creep Home to See Destruction
-Caveat Lector- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285084 The Independent (London) April 15, 2002 Survivors of Jenin Massacre Creep Home to See Destruction By Phil Reeves, outside Jenin refugee camp A giant Israeli military bulldozer, mounted with a machine-gun, was crashing through her neighbour's house, reducing it to dust, close to the edge of the killing fields of Jenin refugee camp. We had arrived in time to see 65-year-old Rashida Raji Ahmed's trauma as she examined what was left of her house after an 11-day invasion by the Israeli army into Jenin, which has left hundreds dead and injured. The Palestinians and international humanitarian organisations were still trying yesterday to establish how many people had been killed; how many were still lyingwounded, and how many were buried beneath the rubble. Rashida wanted to see her home. She had crept back, for the first time in days. She was crying uncontrollably when we arrived at her door. The upper floor of her home had been destroyed by a rocket, and chewed up by machine-gun bullets, like many other homes in the area. The house had then been taken over by the armed forces as a sniper's nest. Her misery was one small part of the misery of Jenin that continued yesterday. Israel again barred Red Cross and United Nations ambulances and aid lorries from entering the camp, as it continued systematically to cover up the atrocities under the nose of Colin Powell, the visiting US Secretary of State. And the stories of the death and destruction inside the camp of 15,000 also continued. Palestinians, ecstatic at the arrival into the no-go area of foreign journalists to whom they could tell their stories, described how camp residents had leapt from window to window to escape the advancing bulldozers; how some, equipped with mobile phones, had survived beneath the rubble; how some people had been cut in half by tanks. The reports were, of course, impossible to verify, and will be denied by the Israeli army, which says that no atrocities have occurred, and that the dead were terrorists killed in fighting. But the horror stories keep on coming, rising steadily from the camp, like the fine haze of dust that hung over its ruins yesterday as the bulldozers continued their work. One week ago, nine Palestinian policemen had been bound hand and foot, stripped to their underpants, and executed against a wall, said Mai Ziyad, a 21-year-old student. The relatives, who had been forced to watch, had come to her house deeply distraught. She could remember several names, the Abu Jamda and Abu Hjab families had both lost men. The wives and children of those who were killed were here. They told us all about it, she said, as we hid in a courtyard with an Israeli Merkava tank passing close by. They say that only a few hundred people were killed in there, but we think it was far more. The noise was enormous. The soldiers were all around us. According to the Jenin municipality authorities, two-thirds of the homes have either been flattened or rendered uninhabitable. Adnan al-Sabah, their spokesman, said there were about 5,000 people still inside the camp, surrounded by tanks and snipers. Many are still under the houses. We have seen a few bodies, one burnt inside a house, some buried in rubble, and one lying on the floor with his hands tied. But we still do not know how many were killed. One woman cradled her dead son in her arms all night. Their children kept on coming up to their father and trying to wake him up, asking for food and milk. His version of the execution story differed slightly: seven had been executed. Residents around the edge of the camp say their water supplies were running out. In al-Razi Hospital, Dr Mahmoud Abu Eslieh said the staff had taken about 15 calls from worried mothers saying that they had been feeding their babies powdered milk mixed with sewage water. Inside his hospital, Ali Abu Sariah, 42, who said he was a teacher, was lying in bed with a bullet in his left leg. He said the Israeli forces used him as a human shield to go house-to-house through the camp, ahead of an Israeli patrol. They ran into another patrol, which shot him in the leg, he said. They left me on the ground, bleeding. He said that he had spent five days in houses, still injured, before he was carried to the hospital on a ladder. Half of the camp has been flattened. I am not talking about bullets and rockets. It is totally destroyed and they have driven a highway through it. Alleyways that were three metres wide are now 20 metres wide. We pressed him for more, warning of the importance of not exaggerating but getting it right. He did not waver for a second. The bodies will tell you if we are lying or not, he said quietly. ___ http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/020415/168/1eghl.html PHOTO:
[CTRL] Bush Welcomes Big Pro-Israel Rally
-Caveat Lector- http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=14375 16 April 2002 / 3 Safar 1423 Bush welcomes big pro-Israel rally By Barbara Ferguson, Arab News Correspondent WASHINGTON, 16 April Tens of thousands of demonstrators, encouraged by a message from President George W. Bush, chanted and cheered solidarity with Israel at the US Capitol yesterday, equating the military onslaught on Palestinian militants with Bushs war on terrorism. The rally, held as US Secretary of State Colin Powell struggled to mediate between the historic enemies and secure a cease-fire after months of violence, heard emotional speeches from US and Israeli politicians and Jewish activists. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, representing Bush, told the crowd the president wants you to know that he stands in solidarity with you. We stand with you in this time of trial. Wolfowitz, a staunch advocate for Israel, was interrupted and booed when he said Palestinians have also been victims of Mideast violence. Israelis are not the only victims of violence in the Middle East. Innocent Palestinians are suffering and dying in great numbers as well, he said. It is critical that we recognize and acknowledge that fact. But he added that Palestinians must also recognize another fact that suicide bombers are the single greatest obstacle to ending their suffering and to realizing the Palestinian state that the whole world is prepared to recognize. He said since Sept. 11 the United States had one more thing in common with Israelis: Americans now know what it is like to be attacked by suicide bombers and why it is essential to fight terrorism. Wolfowitz, the second-ranked official at the Pentagon, was one of dozens of speakers at the massive gathering. Hours after the rally began, people continued to stream. They came in on charter planes from New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Boston. Jewish groups also brought in more than 1,200 busloads of supporters from more than 15 states and Canada to gather in the warm sunshine on the west side of the Capitol. What is surprising to us is the widespread response we received, said Mortimer Zuckerman, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of US Jewish Organizations, and editor-in-chief of US News World Report. This rally is to show the president our support of his Mideast policy and to show our support for Israel in defense of its citizens in the wake of Palestinian terrorist attacks over the past year and a half. Other speakers, including former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, and members of Congress, who all drew the link with the hijack airliner attacks on America. Netanyahu, a hard-liner seen as a prospective challenger for the premiership in elections next year, declared: Israel and the United States are today fighting the same battle, waging the same war, confronting the same evil. The people of Israel will see today that we stand with them at this difficult time when so many have been victims of terrorist outrages including scores of suicide bombings. Jews and non-Jews who care about Israel and the global fight against terrorism stood together in Washington and let their voices be heard, said United Jewish Communities Chairman James Tisch. Most of the speakers conveyed similar messages: We cant expect Israel to stand idle while its citizens are being slaughtered, said Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senates No. 2 Democrat. House Republican leader Richard Armey of Texas said: We reject any theory of moral equivalence that would compare a homicide bomber with her victim, that confuses an act of self defense with the act of terror that provoked it. Terrorism must not be supported, condoned, or rewarded as we work for a resolution to this conflict, added House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri. Desperate attempt The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a statement calling the rally a desperate attempt to put positive spin on (Israels) brutal occupation of another people. Council Director Nihad Awad said the rally would not convince ordinary Americans that complicity in Israel's denial of Palestinian rights is anything but a strategic liability. Powells mission came amid Israels 17-day offensive in the West Bank and a string of deadly Palestinian suicide bombings. His meetings with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have yielded little progress. Bush has declined to label Arafat a terrorist, citing his participation in the Middle East process after the Palestinian leader signed the historic 1993 Oslo peace accords. Observers say Bush will be unable to ignore the message from yesterdays rally. With elections in November in both the House and Senate, his main supporters are said to be conservative pro-Israel Jews and right-wing Southern Christian groups. A
Re: [CTRL] Survivors of Jenin Massacre Creep Home to See Destruction
-Caveat Lector- The questions remain. Did it occur as the Palestinians said it did or as the Israelis said it did? Why Jenin and not other places? Had the people people of Jenin stood by and let atrocities be committed in their name? Evil exacts a high price from those who are seduced by it whether Palestinians or Israelis. It stomps on the faces of those who let it happen. The full picture is not in our hands but in the hands of another. 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] Democrat Implies Sept. 11 Administration Plot
-Caveat Lector- Maybe the paramedics hospitals and firemen in NY were in on the conspiracy also. Look at all the extra work they got... Nothing better to do than throw more money at an Investigative committee They were really effective at Oaklahoma, and how about JFK... Samantha L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- Yeah McKinney http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34565-2002Apr11.html By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 12, 2002; Page A16 excerpt Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) is calling for an investigation into whether President Bush and other government officials had advance notice of terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 but did nothing to prevent them. She added that persons close to this administration are poised to make huge profits off America's new war. continued 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 -- Ed Raymond __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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] U.S. Organized Coup of Venezuela Fails
-Caveat Lector- http://www.zmag.org Venezuela: Not a Banana-Oil Republic after All Gregory Wilpert The Counter-Coup It looks like Venezuela is not just another banana-oil republic after all. Many here feared that with the April 11 coup attempt against President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela was being degraded to being just another country that is forced to bend to the powerful will of the United States. The successful counter-coup of April 14, though, which reinstated Chavez, proved that Venezuela is a tougher cookie than the coup planners thought. The coup leaders against President Chavez made two fundamental miscalculations. First, they started having delusions of grandeur, believing that the support for their coup was so complete that they could simply ignore the other members of their coup coalition and place only their own in the new government. The labor union federation CTV, which saw itself as one of the main actors of the opposition movement to President Chavez, and nearly all moderate opposition parties were excluded from the new democratic unity cabinet. The new transition cabinet ended up including only the most conservative elements of Venezuelan society. They then proceeded to dissolve the legislature, the Supreme Court, the attorney general's office, the national electoral commission, and the state governorships, among others. Next, they decreed that the 1999 constitution, which had been written by a constitutional assembly and ratified by vote, following the procedures outlined in the pervious constitution, was to be suspended. The new transition president would thus rule by decree until next year, when new elections would be called. Generally, this type of regime fits the textbook definition of dictatorship. This first miscalculation led to several generals' protest against the new regime, perhaps under pressure from the excluded sectors of the opposition, or perhaps out of a genuine sense of remorse, and resulted in their call for changes to the sweeping democratic transition decree, lest they withdraw their support from the new government. Transition President Pedro Carmona, the chair of Venezuela's largest chamber of commerce, immediately agreed to reinstate the Assembly and to the rest of the generals' demands. The second miscalculation was the belief that Chavez was hopelessly unpopular in the population and among the military and that no one except Cuba and Colombia's guerilla, the FARC, would regret Chavez' departure. Following the initial shock and demoralization which the coup caused among Chavez-supporters, this second miscalculation led to major upheavals and riots in Caracas' sprawling slums, which make up nearly half of the city. In practically all of the barrios of Caracas spontaneous demonstrations and cacerolazos (pot-banging) broke out on April 13 and 14. The police immediately rushed-in to suppress these expressions of discontent and somewhere between 10 and 40 people were killed in these clashes with the police. Then, in the early afternoon, purely by word-of-mouth and the use of cell phones (Venezuela has one of the highest per capita rates of cell phone use in the world), a demonstration in support of Chavez was called at the Miraflores presidential palace. By 6 PM about 100,000 people had gathered in the streets surrounding the presidential palace. At approximately the same time, the paratrooper battalion, to which Chavez used to belong, decided to remain loyal to Chavez and took over the presidential palace. Next, as the awareness of the extent of Chavez' support spread, major battalions in the interior of Venezuela began siding with Chavez. Eventually the support for the transition regime evaporated among the military, so that transition president Carmona resigned in the name of preventing bloodshed. As the boldness of Chavez-supporters grew, they began taking over several television stations, which had not reported a single word about the uprisings and the demonstrations. Finally, late at night, around midnight of April 14, it was announced that Chavez was set free and that he would take over as president again. The crowds outside of Miraflores were ecstatic. No one believed that the coup could or would be reversed so rapidly. When Chavez appeared on national TV around 4 AM, he too joked that he knew he would be back, but he never imagined it would happen so fast. He did not even have time to rest and write some poetry, as he had hoped to do. So how could this be? How could such an impeccably planned and smoothly executed coup fall apart in almost exactly 48 hours? Aside from the two miscalculations mentioned above, it appears that the military's hearts were not fully into the coup project. Once it became obvious that the coup was being hijacked by the extreme right and that Chavez enjoyed much more support than was imagined, large parts of the military decided to reject the coup, which then had a snowball-effect of changing military allegiances. Also, by
Re: [CTRL] Democrat Implies Sept. 11 Administration Plot
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 4/16/02 6:37:07 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe the paramedics hospitals and firemen in NY were in on the conspiracy also. Look at all the extra work they got... There's a reason why firefighters and paramedics top the list of the most admired professionals in the country. There's a reason why politicians are at the bottom of the list. These firefighters and paramedics were murdered. Nothing better to do than throw more money at an Investigative committee They were really effective at Oaklahoma, and how about JFK... True that any real investigation would be frustrated if there were inside aspects to the crime. And if a genuine investigation does not take place, it is reasonable to ask why. Better that we drop the whole thing? Much was learned by watching the 'powers that be' obfuscate the investigations you mentioned. I suppose you'd prefer we saved that investigative money and spend it on something more important. Yeah, let's channel that saved money to DARE. 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: A COMPELLING COMMENTARY FROM THE TIMES
forward Manila Times commentary ---BeginMessage--- A compelling commentary on Bush from the Times? No, silly wabbit, not the New York Times! It's from the Manilla Times. This is one of the best sardonic commentaries on Bush BuzzFlash has read. http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/apr/16/opinion/20020416opi5.html SOUTHPAW By Inday Espina-Varona Georgie goes to school The word from Washington is, that Georgie, the Texan princeling who so badly yearns to be the man Dad wants him to be, is finally hitting the books and doing his homework. About time. Half a dozen chiefs of states have just told Colin Powell the world is not behooved to behave like patriotic Americans. Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat, not to mention rich Saudis and Bahrainis, have just shown how little Georgie knows about Abrahams children. Even the Northern Alliance warlords have taken to killing each other again, in full view yet of their blonde peacekeepers. But friends will tell you Georgie was a late bloomer. So perhaps we should just say a prayer of thanks that Georgie is slowly learning, that hi-tech war toys and chiseled patrician features are not enough to earn genuine respect. No, change that. Let us give thanks that Georgie is finally realizing that respect from equals may be more rewarding than the groveling that merely masks smirks and dirty fingers, or the condescending prattle dished out by shifty-eyed father figures like Donald Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney, the latter well on his way to becoming a caricature of a simpering, vanishing Alfred Hitchcock. Maybe one day soon a lil ol steel magnolia will march up the White House steps, brush aside those Secret Service hunks, sweep into the Oval Office, dump tomes on that glistening desk, and lecture Georgie on the dangers of being such a pompous dunce. Hopefully, one of those books will be a copy of the US Constitution, now under siege by both terrorists and the protectors of the people. Maybe Georgie, now that hes in between sophomoric speeches, could be stirred into studying the real things that make his country great like the belief that all men (and nations) are created equal, despite differences in color, creed, facial hair, or per capita incomes. He just has to look in his own backyard. While hes at it, Georgie could pull Ali Flietcher from the White House Press Room for a review of simple English. Spell coup, boys. Never mind the Frenchy appendage. The simple verb says, overturn, upset. The longer noun means a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics; esp: the violent overthrow or altercation of an existing government by a small group. Now spell Venezuela. Spell Chavez. You remember Chavez, Georgie? PRESIDENT Hugo Chavez, chief of state of an independent republic, and one elected in a democratic manner, was arrested last week by a small cabal of generals and taken to an island. While all that was underway, the same cabal installed Pedro Carmona, the leader of a band of oligarchs, as president, and started a manhunt for Chavezs aides and supporters. A move presumably made to quell violence snowballed into something Latin Americans thought lay buried in their collective nightmare dissolution of the National Assembly and the Supreme Court amid a vague promise of elections a year hence. Spell commitment. Oops. Your turn, Ali. Figures. If you cant spell, you probably cant define. A commitment, gentlemen, is an agreement or pledge. In case your advisers havent told you yet, Georgie, the US signed last year the new Democracy Charter of the Organization of American States. It says, among other things, that all members of the group would act strongly against military coups. All OAS members condemned the Venezuelan coup and refused to recognize the new government all but one the US, whose president (thats you, Georgie) loves to declaim on moral rectitude (no, Ali, rectum is a different word). Do you remember what you said, Georgie? It aint a coup. It aint a coup because he deserves it. He deserves it because I, Georgie, dont like his mug and his pals. And because Uncle Otto Reich says hes bad and you dont argue with a man who saved Nicaragua from the Sandinistas. And because Dads amigos arent too fond of ex-parachutists who threaten to close a third of our oil taps. And because I know how to spell hegemony, and it means you can be an SOB but you have to be our SOB! Spell Venezuela again. Remember that word, Georgie. Ten years down the road, unless youve succeeded in redefining archives, that word is going to be an embarrassment. Ah, that one you got right. I told you, practice makes perfect. http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/apr/16/opinion/20020416opi5.html ___ Powered by List Builder To unsubscribe follow the link:
[CTRL] Grisly evidence of a war crime in Jenin
-Caveat Lector- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285413 Amid the ruins of Jenin, the grisly evidence of a war crime From Phil Reeves in Jenin 16 April 2002 excerpt A monstrous war crime that Israel has tried to cover up for a fortnight has finally been exposed. Its troops have caused devastation in the centre of the Jenin refugee camp, reached yesterday by The Independent, where thousands of people are still living amid the ruins. -- 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] Grisly evidence of a war crime in Jenin
A couple of days ago, I remember being puzzled about the relatively recent flurry of clearly (in my mind at least) anti-Israeli or anti-Semitic e-mail flowing through this list. People whose posts I'd been reading for years--people whom I would normally have classified as being liberal and consequently pro-Israeli--were taking a disturbing turn toward the classic dislike or even hatred of the Jewish state and it's people in a manner which I had grown accustomed to seeing as stereotypically right wing. I have seen this turn not only among members of this list, but also among a few of my closest friends. I was at a loss to explain or understand this phenomenon--until reports such as the one excerpted below began to find their way into the mainstream media. I may remain perplexed about the ancient hatreds between Israelis and Arabs in general, but I am no longer confused about the cause for the current outrage. Israel has become the monster it most reviled. The victim of great horrors has become the perpetrator great horrors. Other accounts: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-268533,00.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$IWRB3RYAAF115QFIQMGSFF4AVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2002/04/16/wmid16.xmlsSheet=/portal/2002/04/16/ixport.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,685133,00.html At 09:54 AM 4/16/2002 -0400, you wrote: -Caveat Lector- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285413 Amid the ruins of Jenin, the grisly evidence of a war crime From Phil Reeves in Jenin 16 April 2002 excerpt A monstrous war crime that Israel has tried to cover up for a fortnight has finally been exposed. Its troops have caused devastation in the centre of the Jenin refugee camp, reached yesterday by The Independent, where thousands of people are still living amid the ruins. -- Edward + If you have fifty problems and one of them is government, you have only one problem. http://www.global-connector.com/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reality_pump/
Re: [CTRL] [ctrl] Snooping On Neighbor
-Caveat Lector- There are plenty of reasons to worry about the attorney general's neighbor-against-neighbor approach, which harks back to Cold War days and fear-mongering. Because untrained members of watch programs lack the expertise to identify terrorists, it probably means they would snoop on every Arab or Muslim in a given neighborhood. That's racial profiling in the extreme, guaranteed to encourage ethnic scapegoating. That's the least of it; I foresee these untrained people also using their position to get back at neighbors with whom they have problems... About 10 years ago the tenants' group (now defunct) where I live kicked around the idea of forming a sort of neighborhood watch for the complex; those of us proposing the idea only envisioned a program where people would make it a point to keep an eye out for what was going on around them, and a sort of 'phone tree' of others to call if a member saw something suspicious. This would require no extensive training, and even elderly ladies could easily take part... But then some guys started talking about the neighborhood watch group as if it would be some sort a paramilitary venture; where we originally were thinking of members taking strolls about the complex in the evening as a way to not only keep one's eye out, but to create a presence of neighbors socializing amongst themselves, these guys talked about forming armed patrols to specifically 'look for trouble', and started mentioning certain tenants they thought should be specifically watched...tenants who had no criminal history, who weren't a threat to anyone, but whose sole 'crime' was having a spat with one of these paramilitary-wannabees The idea of a neighborhood watch group was therefore abandoned, even though it was sorely needed and still is...a REAL neighborhood watch group, and NOT a paramilitary revenge group... So I agree that these Homeland Security neighborhood watch groups are fraught with danger, not only for those who may be racially profiled, but for ANYONE who may be unfortunate enough to not get along with one of the members of such a group and who will therefore find themselves targeted just out of spite...as will any person in the neighborhood is thought 'strange', a loner, etc. In this war, President George W. Bush has even given children a role. To find out what stories the White House is feeding your kids about what good citizens are supposed to do to thwart terrorism, go to www.whitehouse.gov/kids. There you'll meet Lydia, a Philadelphia woman who foiled a sneak British attack -- we didn't call it terrorism then -- against our country on Dec. 4, 1777. She overheard British military leaders planning the assault when they were guests in her home. She mentioned this to nobody, not even her husband. Instead, she crossed British lines to alert Gen. George Washington's army. Arriving for what it had expected to be a sneak attack at Valley Forge, the British Army canceled the operation after finding Washington's men armed and waiting. One point of this story seems to be that all of us, youngsters included, have a duty to spy on others for Uncle Sam. Another more disturbing message seems to be that youngsters need not tell their parents what information they have gathered to pass on to the government, just like Lydia. What is also disturbing is the Orwellian doublespeak spin the government puts on this incident... First off, in December of 1777 the rebellious colonials were what we would today deem 'terrorists', and the British were the rightful ruling power. Indeed the British considered the sniping they were subject to by certain rebelling colonials to be an act of terrorism on a par with murder, and not 'real fighting' as they had been trained to fight in a war... Therefore Lydia was guilty of treason against the rightful government of colonial America, and was guilty of consorting with a terrorist group, namely George Washington and his army... Conversely, if the government wishes to portray the British army as akin to terrorists, then Lydia and her husband were guilty of aiding and abetting terrorists, and under the current Homeland Security rules, would be deemed as guilty as the terrorists... A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] Fw: 245(i) RETURNS!
-Caveat Lector- ab - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 10:11 AM Subject: 245 I RETURNS! THEY NEVER GIVE UP -- NOR WILL WE SENATE MAY CONSIDER 245 I AMNESTY TODAY STOP 245 I --- AGAIN Sen. Brownback (R-KS) and Sen. Hagel (R-NE) are still threatening to attach Section 245(i) amnesty to the security bill later today. They are the point men for the White House's continuing effort to reward about a half- million illegal aliens with permanent residency. Anti-amnesty Senators may try to filibuster the amendment, while pro-amnesty forces push for a cloture vote to speed the amendment through. CALL AND FAX YOUR SENATORS TODAY!! Find your Senator http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm Contact the Senate Toll Free (877) 762-8762 OR (800) 648-3516. (I just used both numbers and they worked fine. I told Sentaors Boxer and Feinstein of California that if they want more Californians to flee for South Carolina, just vote for 245 I) Demand that they vote against any 245(i) amendment or any cloture (stop filibuster) vote. If you can, do it before 2 PM Pacific time today, but do it. Glenn Spencer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Boston Priest Bought Gay [Homosexual] Resort {PalmSpringsCA)
April 15, 2002 Sent to California on Sick Leave, Boston Priest Bought Racy Gay Resort By NICK MADIGAN PALM SPRINGS, Calif., April 12 When Boston church officials granted the Rev. Paul R. Shanley a medical leave 12 years ago and allowed him to move here, they saw it as a chance for him to heal various physical ailments, primarily allergies, in the desert air, and to do a little pastoral work if and when he was well enough. At his insistence, Father Shanley's Boston superiors arranged for regular checks to be sent to him for living expenses and medical bills, and sent laudatory letters of recommendation to their counterparts at the Diocese of San Bernardino, carefully avoiding mention of a swirl of accusations that he had molested more than two dozen young boys in Massachusetts going back to 1967. What his superiors appeared not to know, however, was that the address to which they were sending Father Shanley's checks for most of his time here was the Cabana Club Resort, one of the many hotels that cater to the town's gays. Father Shanley became an owner of the hotel, along with the Rev. John J. White, another Boston priest who was also on sick leave and receiving money from the Boston Archdiocese. Father White was the sole owner of a second hotel, the nearby Whispering Palms. Neither remains in business, although the scene they were part of is thriving, with 40 such hotels and bed-and-breakfasts, mostly in the Warm Sands enclave. These clothing-optional places, protected from prying eyes by walls and towering bougainvillea, do year-round business for gay men from around the world. Interviews with some of his acquaintances in Palm Springs paint a picture of a man who immersed himself in the local gay scene soon after his arrival in 1990, although most people who remember him said he was quieter and less outgoing than Father White. On occasion, he helped out at St. Anne Church in San Bernardino, celebrating a weekend Mass or leading youth retreats. "My biggest surprise was that Paul was a priest at all," said John Kendrick, 47, co-owner of Inn Exile, a hotel that he expanded after buying the Whispering Palms, next door, from Father White in 1994. "I didn't know you could be a part-time priest." The disclosures about Father Shanley, 70, who vanished from his San Diego apartment building almost three weeks ago, have added heat to the controversy surrounding Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston, depicted in documents released on Monday as being consistently supportive of priests like Father Shanley and John J. Geoghan. Both were shuttled from parish to parish, even as evidence of abuses gathered against them, without regard to whether they had further contacts with children. Father Geoghan was later defrocked and convicted of indecent assault. Father Shanley has not been charged with a crime, although the Boston Archdiocese has settled at least three lawsuits against him. Officials at the San Bernardino Diocese who were supposedly watching over Father Shanley during his sojourn in Palm Springs said last week they had known nothing of his activities in Warm Sands. Kevin Rice, 46, who has lived in Palm Springs for 14 years, got to know Fathers White and Shanley after he sold them space in Frontier News magazine for advertisements promoting the two hotels. "I knew Jack was a priest and thought he wasn't practicing," Mr. Rice said. "Jack introduced Shanley as someone he knew from his days in the seminary." Mr. Rice said that Father White "seemed to be a little off the wall" but that Father Shanley was a "very nice guy, personable." Father Shanley was "more of the business person," Mr. Rice said. "He had his head on straighter. There's no question about it, he's a very charismatic man." Having once stayed at the Whispering Palms, Mr. Rice described the resort as "one of the friskier places." Nude sunbathing was encouraged, and sex by the pool was permitted, he said. The two priests sold the Cabana Club Resort for $185,000 in 1997, three years after Father White had disposed of the Whispering Palms for $389,000. It is not clear how much they profited from the sales of the hotels, or at which point they stopped receiving money from the Boston Archdiocese. Father Shanley seemed unable to understand that he had hurt anyone in his years as an active Roman Catholic priest, and painted himself as a victim. "I have done nothing wrong," he wrote in a letter dated March 14, 1991, to Father John B. MacCormack, then a senior aide to Cardinal Law and now bishop in Manchester, N.H. In the letter, he also wrote: "Do the decent thing. Allow me, quietly, to retire, or put me on permanent disability. Remove the unpredictability and my health will return. This is cruel and unusual punishment." Yet diocesan officials went out of their way to help him. In 1995, they transferred Father Shanley to New York, where he became acting director
[CTRL] HOMOSEXUALS hijacking of public education
Tuesday, April 16, 2002 The hijacking of education Posted: April 16, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Eric Hogue © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com The "Day of Silence" should speak loudly to America's culturally concerned. The gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender politicos organized another "hijacking" of public education on April 10, 2002, and their plans call for more to come. By using an oxymoronic ploy called a "Day of Silence," GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Educational Network), orchestrated a silent protest encouraging middle-school and high-school students to protest the prejudice and discrimination of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. That's right, no talking for nine hours, which included the school day. GLSEN, an adult-run advocacy group led predominantly by gay and lesbian current and former educators, used the recently created GSA Clubs (Gay-Straight Alliances) on campuses to coordinate the event. GLSEN provided posters, flyers, signs and the all-important "speaking cards" that students were to offer their teachers during the school hours. These cards explained the silence and challenged the reader to "think about the voices that are silenced today. ... What are you going to do to end the silence?" This attack upon the educational day stimulated much-needed outrage from parents, citizens and taxpayers. Many parents and students have been motivated to turn toward the legal system, yet others are demanding a day for the messages of pro-life, abstinence and creation science. No matter the immediate response, the question on the "speaking cards" should ring loudly for the future battles to come: "What are you going to do to end the silence?" The ridiculous aspect of this recent demonstration is, if there ever were a social agenda that does not need a day of silent protest, it's the homosexual agenda. Yet, on a day where "the agenda" was willing to be silent, an appropriate question for the rest of us to consider was asked: "What are you going to do about the silencing of equal speech?" What are you going to do about the silencing of "free speech" and open debate? What are you going to do about truth that has been silenced by political pressure? Will you organize to simply attack or will you have the determination and the knowledge to respond with intellectual debate and open forum? Many still believe in today's youth. Teen-agers want to be told the truth. They long for the absolutes that define life's morality and liberty. Nobody sets out to learn from "truths that have been lied about and lies that have been truthed about." Students can handle the truth, and maybe it's time we organized to give them just that the absolute truth and debate on an equal playing field. This Day of Silence needs to be taken as an open invitation for more creative means in this fight. Student groups are organizing "Teens for Life Clubs," "Virtue/Abstinence Clubs," "Creation and Evolution Clubs," as well as "Free Speech Clubs" to demand a place in the educational/cultural debate. Some local schools are seeing the creation of "Parents Rights Groups" that meet once a week. They monitor social and political activities inside of the schoolhouse. They build confidential relationships with traditional and conservative faculty members, offering them the support they need. These "Parents Rights Groups" also act as a steering committee, asking for regular school board meeting agenda placement to discuss their findings and announce their method of response. False agendas need "truth serum" and an antidote of free speech in the forum of open debate. Students on the "inside" are looking for help from the "outside." The left agendas stop at nothing to see that their message is propagated. The right seems to be asleep in the light of the truth! Yeah, it's easier to call an attorney and bring a lawsuit against the school board, the school administration and even the state board of education and in some instances this is appropriate and needed. But this doesn't weed out the deep-seated lies that have been planted. Why can't the right receive the same creative energy that supports the left? If it's a battle for the mind and the soul, the engagement from all fronts is needed in this war. Since Sept. 11, we all know what to do if the airliner we are traveling on is hijacked. The message used to be compliance but not any longer. If the hijacking of a plane can turn it into a smart bomb, think of what the hijacking of education can do when left unchallenged. It's not enough to feel happy about winning a few lawsuits. In a roundabout way, maybe this Day of Silence is what we all needed. A break from the
Re: [CTRL] Grisly evidence of a war crime in Jenin
16/4/02 BBC TV news at 6 report '50 palestinain dead' at janine ... I listened on in disbelief then we quickly got onto the england soccer teams new captain michael owen. andrew hennessey
[CTRL] Opium Lords- Israel, the Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination
-Caveat Lector- Introducing the on-line book that solved the mystery of the Kennedy assassination: Opium Lords Israel, the Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination by Salvador Astucia Ó April 2002 Table of Contents Order Opium Lords Book (400 pages) About the Author Contact Salvador Links - Om K 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] Illuminati Symbols Page 2
http://www.conspiracywatch.com/symbols2.html Title: Illuminati Symbols Page 2 Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Like I said earlier... the Illuminati symbols are everywhere. You just have to open your eyes. Most of the time the symbols are right underneath your nose. Like just recently I had to take a look at my birth certificate and sure enough I saw one there too. Which of course I scanned and placed directly above this paragraph. So let's see, now, we have Masonic symbols on the U.S. dollar bill, the logo for British Intelligence, in the center of the meeting table for the G-7, on the Federal Governments Y2K Page, the Washington Monument and Ben Franklins Fugio and of course my Birth certificate. Chances are pretty good that they are on yours as well. I will be putting new symbols on this page as often as I find them and can get them up. Remember keep an open eye you just might surprise yourself by what you see! Korean Tank on parade(symbol on front of tank) Great Seal of the United States Russian Masonry Grand Council, KnightMasons U.S.A. Fidelity Investments Illuminati Online Masonry Master Mason Symbol Symbols Page 2 SYMBOLS PAGE 3 E-MAIL THE WATCHMAN CONSPIRACY WATCH MENU
[CTRL] Enduring War and Infinite Battles
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.bushwatch.net/bush.htm Last year the Coca-Cola Company received an award from the Israeli Government for its sustained support of Israel. According to the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz also Danone, Nestle, Kimberley Clark, Nokia, Sara Lee, Lovable, Hanes, Douwe Egberts, Kiwi, Wonderbra, Playtex, Nur Die, General Electric, Raytheon, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, AOL Time Warner, Microsoft and many other companies worldwide are proud business partners of Israel!! }}}Begin TODAY'S COMMENT April 16, 2002 Dear Dubya, Another week of Enduring War and Infinite Battles for unabashed, unashamed, and unlimited Compassion the world over. Remember, how Halliburton under the leadership of Dick Cheney engaged in a lot of deals with the Saddam Hussein- regime? From 1997 until the summer of 2000 Dick worked with Dresser Industries, Inc. and the Ingersoll-Rand Co. to sell spare parts for oil facilities and pipeline equipment to Iraq. Although the UNO and Clinton were hammering on their boycott of the Saddam Hussein-regime, those deals were perfectly legal. Not just legal, to the contrary: would Dick ever care about any human rights abuses of some phoreign regime, if the sweet smell of oil is in the air? Sure, not!! Via this joint venture with Dresser Industries, Inc. and the Ingersoll-Rand Co. Dick's Halliburton managed to sell $73 million worth in equipment to the Iraqis. Not only is Dick a true blue businessman, he also stood up for American interests, when it comes to do business. Time and again he attacked that softy Clinton government and its whining about human rights in Iran, Iraq, China or Afghanistan. With you as the President of the Christian Corporation of America that whining is finally over. Would you ever care for human rights abuses in Afghanistan, Tibet, China, Iraq or Iran? Sure, not: the sweet smell of oil covers everything and anything! Let this be a lesson to all those softy human rights activists: Compassionate Conservatives don't give a damn if there is oil in a country!! Did you notice that Enron has totally disappeared from the national radar screen? Not only is your Government and U.S. Congress full of well-paid Enroni, the financial industry of this country is deep into Enronizing its operations. The Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase, Merill Lynch, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse First Boston were all proud Enron-insiders!! Soon all of America will become one big Enron!! Thanks to the secret cooperation of Kenny Boy Lay and Dick Cheney the U.S. economy will soon be completely Enron-ified and Dubyanomics will become the rule worldwide. Never before we saw such a smooth confluence of Bush-iosi and Enroni!! Senators Frank Murkowski and Ted Stevens, and their Alaska Jihadi's are still fighting for oil and gas drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). They are now negotiating with Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia to buy his support. Frank and Ted promised to add health care coverage for former steel industry workers to their energy bill. After all, the bush-iosi of the oil industry will build pipelines in Alaska with American Steel. That sure will boost our National Steel Security Industry, right? Remember, how the Alaska Jihadi's tried to woo the unions by suggesting that drilling in the ANWR would generate 46,300 new jobs. To woo those environmentalists the Alaska Jihad suggested that drilling the oil and gas out of the ANWR would use only 2,000 acres of land. That means 46,300 workers would be crammed into a space one fifth the size of Dulles National Airport!! The ANWR will be sooo crowded that all its snow and ice will melt, thanks to the body heat of all those workers. So, while the Alaska Jihadi's enhancificate our energy future they also joined your Global Temperature Enhancement Plan. No more whining about Global Warming and our National Energy Security, Right? While we were celebrating the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the government of Israel decided that it was time for a little Spring Cleaning. So, the Israeli Army targeted the refugee camp of Jenin. Some 15,000 people live there; that means lots of cleaning, right? No army in the whole world is sooo well equipped as the Israeli Army. Thanks to your Compassionate Conservative budget the Israeli Government receives per year military aid worth $2.04 billion from our dear U.S. Taxpayers. The Israeli Government sure put that money to good use! Israel has a standing Army of 630,000 men and women in uniform; they have 4,000 tanks (most of them Made in the USA!), almost 8,000 armored vehicles, 600 ultramodern fighter jets, 80 heavy duty transport planes, 290 helicopter gunships (our good old Apache's!), 6 submarines and more than 30 surface ships. During the past week our Compassionate Conservative spirits soared and soared while we watched the supreme performance of our Weapons of Mass Compassion in the hands of the Israeli Army. Because
[CTRL] Don't Just Get Mad, Get Smart
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.bushwatch.net/partridge.htm }}}Begin Don't Just Get Mad, Get Smart Ernest Partridge The Online Gadfly www.igc.org/gadfly If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. Sun Tzu, The Art of War Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead If Ari Fleischer Karl Rove, Karen Hughes or some other such Bushista operative, were to read a sample of the progressive websites, would they be particularly concerned about what they saw? They just might not. Instead, they might reflect, this is a small cabal of discontents spouting off to each other, but not really going anywhere. There was a time, not too long ago, when such a brush off might have been justified. But the progressive internet is alive, robust, and apparently growing. (Some progressive sites, I am told, gather several million hits a month). So it is the task of this and like-minded websites to give the Bushista media-wonks something to worry about. To do so, we must assuredly work diligently to spread the word and attract many more visitors to the dissenting internet. And the message must be aimed beyond the choir of like-minded individuals. So it is past time that the web writers, editors and publishers ask themselves: do we wish merely to rage, rage, against the dying of the light, or do we wish instead to re- ignite the torch of liberty and take back our democracy? If the latter, then we must understand that these two objectives are often at cross purposes, and that if we are prevent our rage from getting in the way of our objectives, we will often have to apply some self-discipline and employ some tactical intelligence. For example, in the progressive websites you will find demands by some correspondents and occasionally some writers that such wing-nuts as Ann Coulter, Pat Robertson, and the like be taken off the air. Bad move! On the contrary, the more the public is exposed to these crazies, the greater the benefit for the progressive cause. True, in the past, Robertson, Falwell and the religious right have done great harm to our body politic. But now they are proving to be their own undoing. No amount of left-wing criticism of Robertson and Falwell could possibly damage them as much as they besmirched themselves with the inane post 9/11 comments (its all the fault of the gays, the feminists and the ACLU). And every time Ann Coulter opens her pretty fascist mouth, she drives away droves of fair-minded citizens from the Republicans ranks. So please, just hand them the mike and let them rant. By and large the editors of the progressive internet are well aware of the capacity of right-wing crazies to self-destruct, and thus are wisely more than willing to give them ample space to do so. Another cross purpose: rage leads to incivility and abusive language, while a soft answer turneth away wrath. Remember that CNN's Aaron Brown cited the incivility of his critics as his excuse for ignoring the substance of their complaints. As I read some of the e-mails that he received, I must concede that he has a point. In contrast, Tom Daschle's soft, sweet and unruffled demeanor is driving the GOP bonkers. Lott, DeLay and the others would like nothing more than for Cool Tom to pop his cork. So long as he refuses, he stands out as the one who keeps his head while all about are losing theirs. (Kipling) Of course, the Democrats in Congress and beyond are in urgent need of a backbone implant. But their message should be strong, passionate, eloquent and focused, without being shrill and vituperative. The public has had quite enough of the politics of personal destruction. Here, for your consideration, are a few tactical guidelines for progressives: Don't alienate Republicans recruit them. To win back our government, we must assemble a sizeable majority sufficient to overwhelm Florida-style election fixes. This means we must win the votes of most independents and more than a few Republicans. Many Republicans are sorely offended by the takeover of their party by right-wing crazies. So don't insult these moderate Republicans by calling them Repugs, or by attributing the outrages of a few right-wing nut cases to all Republicans. Instead, flatter our Republican fellow citizens with calm and reasoned arguments. Remember that Nixon remained safe in his office until he lost the support of Republicans such as Howard Baker and John Dean. Then he was finished. Even now, there are some noteworthy defections from Bush's Republican party; among them Arianna Huffington, David Brock, Kevin Phillips, John Dean (again), Jonathan Turley, and even (Gawd help us!), Larry Klayman and Dan Burton. There is good reason to
[CTRL] Medical Experiments Without Informed Consent
-Caveat Lector- ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) www.researchprotection.org Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav Tel: 212-595-8974 FAX: 212-595-9086 [EMAIL PROTECTED] FYI A bill has been introduced in the California state Assembly, AB 2328, that would allow human beings to be subjected to medical experiments without their informed consent. This is not a prank, if adopted, Californians would be able to earn easy cash by consigning their aged or infirm relative for medical experiments. A similar assault on the dignity of human beings, not to mention family values, was foiled in Maryland. Unless Congress enacts legislation explicitly prohibiting nonconsensual human experimentation--and spells out penalties to ensure compliance--we might wake up one morning and find ourselves consigned for experiments by a feuding sibling, spouse, child, even grand child. p://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_23012350/ab_2328_bill_20020221_intro duced.pdf BILL NUMBER: AB 2328 INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Wayne (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Aroner) FEBRUARY 21, 2002 An act to amend Section 24178 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2328, as introduced, Wayne. Medical experiments. Existing law, the Protection of Human Subjects in Medical Experimentation Act, prohibits any person from being subjected to any medical experiment unless the informed consent of the person is obtained. This bill would authorize certain persons to give surrogate informed consent for a person to be subjected to a medical experiment when conducted within an institution that holds an assurance with the United States Department of Health and Human Services in accordance with specified regulations, if that person is unable to give that consent. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 24178 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 24178. (a) Except for this section and the requirements set forth in Sections 24172 and 24176, this chapter shall not apply to any person who is conducting a medical experiment as an investigator within an institution which that holds an assurance with the United States Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to Part 46 of Title 45b of the Code of Federal Regulations and who obtains informed consent in the method and manner required by those regulations. (b) For purposes of obtaining informed consent required for medical experiments pursuant to subdivision (a), if a person is unable to consent and does not express dissent or resistance to participation, surrogate informed consent may be obtained from a surrogate decisionmaker, who shall include any of the following persons: (1) The person's agent pursuant to an advance health care directive. (2) The conservator of the person. (3) The spouse of the person. (4) The domestic partner of the person. (5) An adult son or daughter of the person. (6) Either parent of the person. (7) Any adult brother or sister of the person. (8) Any adult grandchild of the person. Status of bill: http://www.sen.ca.gov Visit our website, check a chronolgoy of experimentation: http://www.researchprotection.org/chronologyofHumanResearch.htm ++ M. F. Abernathy -- [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- 04/16/02 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] IS: Big Hack Attack
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Israel under hack attack
Cyber-war mirrors conflicts in the offline world
Israel has been suffering a barrage of hack attacks since the start of the Palestinian
uprising in September 2000.
According to security firm mi2g, the Israeli domain .il has been the biggest victim of
web defacements over the past three years, suffering 548 of the 1,295 attacks in the
Middle East.
As violence escalates in the region, cyber attacks on Israel are also on the rise.
In the past 14 days, Israel has suffered about two-thirds of the significant web
defacements in the Middle East.
Online threats
The tense situation in the Middle East is reflected in both covert and overt hack
attacks
DK Matai, mi2g Chief Executive
The most active anti- Israeli hacker group claims to be Egyptian and started its
activities just weeks after 11 September.
Cyber warfare can be used as a barometer for political tensions around the world,
said mi2g Chief Executive, DK Matai.
The tense situation in the Middle East is reflected in both covert and overt hack
attacks, he said.
Israel is vulnerable not just because of its action against the Palestinian Authority,
but
also because it has the largest number of internet connections in the Middle East.
Israel has 2.4 million net connections, more than any of the 22 Arab countries.
Attacks on infrastructure?
So far hacktivism has been limited to web defacements and denial of service attacks.
This is where a web server is bombarded with messages causing it to fall over.
Violence has escalated in the Middle East
It is possible for the political hackers to intensify their campaign, said Peter
Sommer,
senior fellow at the Computer Security Research Centre at the London School of
Economics.
It is entirely feasible to mount an attack on critical national infrastructure, he
said.
From a pro-Arab point of view it would be far more effective than sending in a
suicide bomber.
Cyber-politics
Hacktivism is a growing problem on the internet as activists utilise the web to get
across their political messages.
One of the most prolific hacktivists is a group of Pakistani hackers calling themselves
GForce Pakistan.
Soon after the 11 September, the group defaced a server belonging to the US
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency.
It also threatened to target US and British military sites unless the US withdrew from
Saudi Arabia and ended its bombing campaign in Afghanistan.
Similar attacks were seen during the Serbian conflict, the US-China spy plane
incident in April 2001 and the China-Taiwan standoff in August 1999.
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[CTRL] Operation Final Solution
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:19:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Labour Welfare Party [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Hidden Agenda From http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_apr14.html Why Bush dances to Sharon's tune America's media is strongly pro-Israel and averse to dissenting views. A coterie of hawkish, Israel-first neo-conservatives dominates media opinion-making and the Pentagon, leading the charge for a war against Iraq, Iran, and Syria. One even helped to write Bush's foolish axis of evil speech. - It is all leading to Sharon ordering a US invasion of Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and all surrounding countries. Kale 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] MONKEYS OF EDEN chapter 5
-Caveat Lector- CHAPTER 5: LIZARD BLIZZARD IN SKOTLAND I'm sorry, but what you are about to read happened and is happening. There are reasons for that - but they only fit together if the events are constructed in terms of Reptoids, World Dominion, Telepathy - and the poor little humans that they keep picking on. I'm apologising because the truth is hurtful and that our establishment is truly anti-human and anti-life. This is where I can really see what happened to the Beautiful Mind of Nobel Prize winner Nash - our stories are actually quite similar - although with little or no academic credibility - my re-invent of Tesla's Free Energy 'Theory of Environmental Energy' is never going to go through into being implemented. Only God knows what Nash might have achieved if he had understood the full picture. Lets hope that I gave them more than they bargained for. This all started for me some very long time ago. Somewhere and somewhen I came to the attention of the establishment. It may have been because my sister worked for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine, or, it may have been that as a young man over 20 years ago, I naively joined the Scottish Knights Templar which at that time was being hijacked by Pretenders to the Scottish Throne, or, it may have been that I had the potential to be an excellent exponent of Scottish music and culture -unfortunately - another option destined for the dustbin of the New World Order, or it may have been that as a young student of Biology, I took two Government Laboratories to an Industrial Tribunal for breaches in the Health and safety at Work Act. However it all got started - it all became very unpleasant very fast from 1980 onwards. Initially harassed at my place of work, and at my home and during my leisure pursuits, I soon found out what the Great in Great Britain meant. Some of the anecdotes I wrote down and kept a diary of - and yes its painful how the matters progressed - for I was always the innocent and pained party attempting to apologise and 'work something out'. My crimes then became less obvious as the various goalposts they decreed changed over the decades. Initially I was to them a Scottish Activist and Separatist attempting to spread anarchy and division by playing Scottish fiddle music too well and too fast. They didn't want me to become . 'a Bonny prince Charlie Folk Hero .' [Nobles Bar 1993] Then after nervous collapse and a wasted family and a ruined career [1993] - they changed their tack - I was still a criminal but I was some sort of genius that balanced his left brain with his right brain, and that I had redeveloped Tesla's Free Energy Theories and a musician as well . my achilles heel appeared to be my sensitivities - so they all came in with their nazi boots on to sort those out. I formed a research group based at the Theosophical Society in Edinburgh Scotland in 1996 - and then the swooping vultures of feminaziism came in to roost - and there my true introduction to the Circus that was and is the British Security Service became more and more like some surreal comedy script. I discover that well balanced left and right brained geniuses like myself make very good fodder for nazi mind control and 6th root race experimentation - and as bad luck would have it I actually started to meet the nazi hermaphrodites who had some sort of passing interest in myself. They came in from all angles however - trying to get me into some gender bending trip - but I tended to take it all very seriously - what I didn't realise is that such garbage ideologies are absolute bog standard chit chat for the lost souls of the wannabe Illuminati. The British Security Service had found a new line in Bullshit to use to intimidate and control with - sexual persecution. They keep phoning me up, approaching me on empty trains and this bunch of people around me keep telling me that fate worse than death awaits me. They wish to abduct me, rape me and mind-control me. Over the past few years I have had people telling me that they are going to surgically alter me and enslave me - only last night I got a phone call from an illuminati spook who tried to put her dirty and somewhat licentuous ideas into my head - she said [I'm a musician etc] that I should come on stage with her and play Lady Macbeth, that I should wear female clothes and 'feel powerful' - or that I should play the fool for King Lear, or Bottom:- We know that the Beautiful Mind of Nobel Prize Winner Nash was messed around with as regards to gender roles. Another who suggested that I should be reconstructed and made to wear a pink dress:) [not my colour] and be humiliated in front of butch men - keeps coming over with this crap - she says 'you will salute me in my Gestapo uniform' etc They believe that the human race could be improved by following the nazi and theosophical 6th root race ideal of hermaphrodism by creating the ideal 'Aryan' - this is just control psychobabble - It is more than likely
[CTRL] McKinney:Bush must answer Sept. 11 questions
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/0402/0415equal.html The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 4/15/02 EQUAL TIME Bush must answer Sept. 11 questions By CYNTHIA McKINNEY The need for an investigation of the events surrounding Sept. 11 is as obvious as the need for an investigation of the Enron debacle. Certainly, if the American people deserve answers about what went wrong with Enron and why (and we do), then we deserve to know what went wrong on Sept. 11 and why. Are we squandering our goodwill around the world with what many believe to be incoherent, warmongering policies that alienate our friends and antagonize our allies? How much of a role does our reliance on imported oil play in the military policies put forward by the Bush administration? And what role does the close relationship between the Bush administration and the oil and defense industries play, if any, in the policies being pursued by this administration? We deserve to know what went wrong on Sept. 11 and why. After all, we hold thorough public inquiries into rail disasters, plane crashes and even natural disasters in order to understand what happened and to prevent them from happening again or minimizing the tragic effects when they do. Why, then, does the administration remain steadfast in its opposition to an investigation into the biggest terrorism attack upon our nation? News reports from Der Spiegel to the London Observer, from the Los Angeles Times to MSNBC to CNN, indicate that many different warnings were received by the administration. In addition, it has even been reported that the United States government broke Osama bin Laden's secure communications before Sept. 11. Sadly, the United States government is being sued today by survivors of the U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa because, from court reports, it appears clear that the United States had received warnings, but did little to secure and protect the staff at our embassies. Did the same thing happen to us again? I am not aware of any evidence showing that President Bush or members of his administration have personally profited from the attacks of Sept. 11. A complete investigation might reveal that to be the case. For example, it is known that President Bush's father, through the Carlyle Group, had -- at the time of the attacks -- joint business interests with the bin Laden family's construction company and many defense industry holdings, the stocks of which have soared since Sept. 11. On the other hand, what is undeniable is that corporations close to the administration have directly benefited from the increased defense spending arising from the aftermath of Sept. 11. The Carlyle Group, DynCorp and Halliburton certainly stand out as companies close to this administration. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld maintained in a hearing before Congress that we can afford the new spending, even though the request for more defense spending is the highest increase in 20 years. All the American people are being asked to make sacrifices. Our young men and women in the military are being asked to risk their lives in our war against terrorism while our president's first act was to sign an executive order denying them high deployment overtime pay. The American people are being asked to make sacrifices by bearing massive budget cuts in the social welfare of our country, in the areas of health care, Social Security and civil liberties for our enhanced military and security needs arising from the events of Sept. 11. It is imperative that they know fully why we make the sacrifices. If the secretary of defense tells us that his new military objectives must be to occupy foreign capital cities and overthrow regimes, then the American people must know why. It should be easy for this administration to explain fully to the American people in a thorough and methodical way why we are being asked to make these sacrifices and if, indeed, these sacrifices will make us more secure. If the administration cannot articulate these answers to the American people, then the Congress must. This is not a time for closed-door meetings and secrecy. America's credibility, both with the world and with her own people, rests upon securing credible answers to these questions. The world is teetering on the brink of conflicts while the administration's policies are vague, wavering and unclear. Major financial conflicts of interest involving the president, the attorney general, the vice president and others in the administration have been and continue to be exposed. This is a time for leadership and judgment that is not compromised in any fashion. This is a time for transparency and a thorough investigation.
[CTRL] Bush Officials Met W/ Venezuelan Coup Leaders
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/16/international/americas/16DIPL.html Bush Officials Met With Venezuelans Who Ousted Leader By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS WASHINGTON, April 15 — Senior members of the Bush administration met several times in recent months with leaders of a coalition that ousted the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, for two days last weekend, and agreed with them that he should be removed from office, administration officials said today. But administration officials gave conflicting accounts of what the United States told those opponents of Mr. Chávez about acceptable ways of ousting him. One senior official involved in the discussions insisted that the Venezuelans use constitutional means, like a referendum, to effect an overthrow. "They came here to complain," the official said, referring to the anti-Chávez group. "Our message was very clear: there are constitutional processes. We did not even wink at anyone." But a Defense Department official who is involved in the development of policy toward Venezuela said the administration's message was less categorical. "We were not discouraging people," the official said. "We were sending informal, subtle signals that we don't like this guy. We didn't say, `No, don't you dare,' and we weren't advocates saying, `Here's some arms; we'll help you overthrow this guy.' We were not doing that." The disclosures come as rights advocates, Latin American diplomats and others accuse the administration of having turned a blind eye to coup plotting activities, or even encouraged the people who temporarily removed Mr. Chávez. Such actions would place the United States at odds with its fellow members of the Organization of American States, whose charter condemns the overthrow of democratically elected governments. In the immediate aftermath of the ouster, the White House spokesman, Ari Fleischer, suggested that the administration was pleased that Mr. Chávez was gone. "The government suppressed what was a peaceful demonstration of the people," Mr. Fleischer said, which "led very quickly to a combustible situation in which Chávez resigned." That statement contrasted with a clear stand by other nations in the hemisphere, which all condemned the removal of a democratically elected leader. Mr. Chávez has made himself very unpopular with the Bush administration with his pro-Cuban stance and mouthing of revolutionary slogans — and, most recently, by threatening the independence of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, the third-largest foreign supplier of American oil. Whether or not the administration knew about the pending action against Mr. Chávez, critics note that it was slow to condemn the overthrow and that it still refuses to acknowledge that a coup even took place. One result, according to the critics, is that in its zeal to rid itself of Mr. Chávez, the administration has damaged its credibility as a chief defender of democratically elected governments. And even though they deny having encouraged Mr. Chávez's ouster, administration officials did not hide their dismay at his restora tion. Asked whether the administration now recognizes Mr. Chávez as Venezuela's legitimate president, one administration official replied, "He was democratically elected," then added, "Legitimacy is something that is conferred not just by a majority of the voters, however." A senior administration official said today that the anti-Chávez group had not asked for American backing and that none had been offered. Still, one American diplomat said, Mr. Chávez was so distressed by his opponents' lobbying in Washington that he sent officials from his government to plead his case there. Mr. Chávez returned to power on Sunday, after two days. The Bush administration swiftly laid the blame for the episode on him, pointing out that troops loyal to him had fired on unarmed civilians and wounded more than 100 demonstrators. Mr. Fleischer, the White House spokesman, stuck to that approach today, saying Mr. Chávez should heed the message of his opponents and reach out to "all the democratic forces in Venezuela." "The people of Venezuela have sent a clear message to President Chávez that they want both democracy and reform," he said. "The Chávez administration has an opportunity to respond to this message by correcting its course and governing in a fully democratic manner." On Sunday, President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, expressed hopes that Mr. Chávez would deal with his opponents in a less "highhanded fashion." But to some critics, it was the Bush administration that had displayed arrogance in initially bucking the tide of international condemnation of the action against Mr. Chavez, who was democratically elected in 1998. Arturo Valenzuela, the Latin America national security aide in the Clinton administration, accused the Bush administration of running roughshod over more than a decade of treaties and agreements for the
[CTRL] Ashcroft-He's Making a List...Checking It Twice
http://www.strike-the-root.com/columns/Bottoms/bottoms15.html He's Making a List...Checking It Twice by John Bottoms A. G. Ashcroft announced that the Justice Department plans to place the names of more than 100,000 Americans onto a database available to law enforcement nationwide. A spokesman insisted the new databases were simply “to make sure the distribution of potential terrorists' names to law-enforcement agencies is systematic and thorough.” Just what we need, a systematic and thorough government. Seems to me the only thing that governments have ever been “systematic and thorough” about is murder. Ashcroft has lots of help collecting and collating data on us. Silicon Valley's techno-geeks are falling over each other in a stampede to collect their share of federal loot for supplying “technologies that would allow the CIA to monitor and profile potential terrorists as closely and carefully as Amazon monitors and profiles potential customers.” So let's see, if there are about 200 million Americans who are in an age group to be potential terrorists, then 1 in 2,000 would be on that list! Well, fellow readers and internet newshounds, what are the chances that, in a random group of 2,000 of your fellow Americans, you would stand out as the most likely “terror” suspect? For me as a regular internet commentator, the chances might be pretty good. Just try this Google search on “John Bottoms” anarchist and find out how easy it is to achieve even more than one's allotted 15 minutes of digital notoriety on the internet. Nay, you say, they're only after Muslims, and Bottoms isn't a Muslim name. Since there about 7 million Muslims in the US, about 1 in 70 of them might be on Ashcroft's list. So, for you Muslim readers, what are the chances that you would be the most likely suspect out of 70 of your fellow Muslim-Americans? Our highly efficient justice department wants this information available to working cops so your “suspect” status would become known during a regular traffic stop. But what, exactly, is officer McPorcine going to do when his computer comes back with a “terror suspect” hit on you? He'll probably ask you a bunch of nosy questions, request to check your vehicle for weapons and “evidence” and write a report on the “incident.” But what if you're an uncooperative “privacy nut” like a lot of people these days and refuse to “cooperate,” or what if you do have a legal weapon in the car or even on your person? Or what if you’re carrying a book by green anarchist Edward Abbey? The situation could easily escalate and you find yourself “detained.” Even more ominous, once their backdoor national ID driver's license complete with digital fingerprint gets rolling, will you be denied service when you try to do your banking, check out a library book, enroll your child in school, pick up your prescription, board a flight, buy a firearm, or use your credit card? After a few officially denied reports of this type, how many future John Bottoms will be willing to put their everyday lives on the line by publicly criticizing the state? Intimidation is clearly at the heart of the state's campaign, most explicitly when unofficial propaganda czar Bill Bennett says, “It's your constitutional right to criticize. But when you criticize, you take the consequences for your words. Your words may be responded to and your words can be interpreted in such ways that they hurt the national resolve.” What can that mean except that, if what you say gets in the way of government's plans, the Bill of Rights won't protect you? But why would Ashcroft and company stop at a list of 100,000? Once the system is up and operating, they can make it as big as they want, and add to it anybody they’ve decided “hurts the national resolve.” Who’s going to stop them? “You’ll be at tomorrow’s Terrorism rally, won’t you?” asks your friendly federally funded Neighborhood Watch representative. If you make excuses too often, this Party Member may get your name placed on I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"The List. It doesn’t take a conspiracy nut to fit the pieces together and recognize a police state under construction. I'm sure that some would call me paranoid for having these fears, but actually it's the government, which is spending billions of our dollars to track and profile us, which is paranoid. I'm just scared. And other critics would insist that there really are terrorists out there and we can't just let them blow us up. The short-term response is that an alert, engaged public (starting with armed airline pilots), combined with good police intelligence is what's required to stop and apprehend terrorists and other criminals. But our centralized, authoritarian way of doing things discourages public participation in crime-prevention, and police intelligence will be an oxymoron as long as it's run by those bureaucratized morons in government. The long-term solution is to ask why terrorists are so intent on blowing us up, and
[CTRL] Jenin
http://www.fpp.co.uk/docs/Irving/RadDi/2002/160402.html David Irving April 16, 2002 (Tuesday) London -- Eastbourne -- London HORRIFYING pictures are spread across the front pages all major British newspapers today of the destruction inflicted by the Israeli invaders on the Palestinian village of Jenin. The stories related by Arabs to the British journalists who have penetrated the Israeli cordon are too harrowing to read right through, at least if you have children of your own. It is Deir Yassin all over again. One wonders what madmen can have ordered such crimes, and what went through the minds of the murderers carrying out the orders -- just as Daniel Goldhagen and others have often pondered about the "ordinary men" who killed the Jews in World War II. As I told Goldhagen, when he lectured at New Orleans, the question that would occupy me, if I were a Jew, is not whose finger was pulling the triggers of the murder squads, but why? At risk of being accused of racism, I suggest that there seems to be a bug in the Jewish brain, a historic bug that needs fixing: the inability to relate cause to effect. They recognise this, because for anybody to suggest that they bring their misfortunes upon themselves is now commonly regarded as the height of anti-Semitism; but those of us who venture to suggest it do so in the interests of the Jewish people, in the urgent desire to prevent these things ever happening again. And now this. Mr Ariel Sharon is an indicted war criminal whose trial before a Belgian court has yet, we hope, to come (we hope, that is, in the ever-fainter belief that at such a trial he may yet be able to establish his own complete innocence). He is the same Ariel Sharon whose catastrophic invasion of southern Lebanon killed 80,000 civilians in a space of weeks. I published one awful photograph at the time, 1982, in my printed newsletter Focal Point, infuriated that the British newspapers would not. The Jews who surround him share his blind and racist hatred of the Arabs whose land they have stolen and are, in the eyes of the United Nations and the civilised world, illegally occupying even now. The Arabs are the new Untermensch. To my dismay several British press barons, who know which side their bread is buttered on, chortle with glee at each new Israeli adventure. (As indeed do the most hardened anti-Semites, because they see it as bringing the ultimate perdition of the Jews one step closer.) IN the old days of the Berry family and Lord Camrose, who owned The Daily Telegraph, I used to reflect that one thing made living in all the disagreeable turbulence of Britain bearable -- the comforting knowledge that there were still 2,000,000 people who bought and read that newspaper. Now that it is owned by Conrad Black and his creepy spouse Barbara Amiel, it has become pro-Zionist to a jaw-sagging point of laughability. This morning's most disturbing news (for me), was that almost alone in Europe, Tony Blair's Britain had voted against a United Nations human rights resolution condemning Israel for "mass killing" and "gross violations of human rights." The Telegraph tucks it away in a two-square inch paragraph on page 12. The only other European country which sided with Britain in this disgraceful vote was Germany, who built and effectively donated those monster tanks which Israel has used in its rampage (the American taxpayers provided the Apache helicopter gunships). Support for Sharon is almost as heinous as committing this monstrous crime: in my view, his claqueurs should not escape their punishment either. Let us start a little list. To adopt a recent phrase, those who don't condemn this terrorist, and in the most unmistakeable terms, are with him: they are no less criminal. Those nations which provide shelter and succour to these terrorists should be made the enemies of the free world. The civilised nations should apply at very least the same sanctions against them as have been hesitatingly agreed against Robert Mugabe's Marxist gang: no airline should agree to fly the representatives of these nations: they should be barred from the shores of every civilised country: their funds should be hunted down and frozen: metaphorically speaking, their shoes should be taken off and searched at every airport barrier. They should be made the new outlaws of the world, and forced to recognise and atone for their own criminality. That includes a sizeable slice of the European politicians, and most of those officiating in Washington too, from the nice Mr Wolfowitz downwards (I have been sent a list, yesterday, of the Israeli connections of leading members of the Bush administration and it is almost as eye-opening as during the Clinton years). THE lavishly-funded Board of Deputies of British Jews is one accomplice, of course: their articles of association identify their principal task as being to represent Israel's interests in Britain. So the Board is a foreign agent in Britain. Their director
[CTRL] Congress Chooses The Jewish Political Establishment Over Truth, Justice And The
http://www.blackelectorate.com/articles.asp?ID=590
Congress Chooses The Jewish Political Establishment Over Truth, Justice And The "Rule Of Law"
Last week, while in Washington D.C. we were told by many on Capitol Hill of how constricting and intellectually rigid the environment has become in the U.S. Congress. Many members of Congress we learned, who have expressed their sympathies with, and lent their voice to the Palestinian cause, in the past, are feeling too insecure to make the same contributions in the present climate. Others, who don't necessarily have a vested or constituent-related interest in either side of the Middle East conflict told us that they recognize many human rights and U.S. treaty violations committed in the occupied territories but will not lift their voice to condemn such unless they are joined or preceded by other members of Congress. No one, it seems, is willing to publicize a dissenting view of U.S. foreign policy relative to Israel and the occupied territories, or disagreement with the Israeli government itself. Only a terrorist attack on American soil; a mainstream media guided by "breaking news" rather than the context of history; and the influence of the Jewish political establishment - in America and Israel - could produce this degree of bipartisanship.
But that does not change the reality that truth is on the side of those who would dare to criticize and point out Israel's transgression of U.S. law in not only its most recent actions in Palestinian-populated areas, but in its militarized conduct, throughout the past year. The Israelis are in clear violation of a stipulation in the Arms Export Control Export Act that allows the use of weapons purchased from the U.S. only for "legitimate self-defense".
Israel, as a sovereign nation and one of the biggest purchasers of US weapons, with the $2 billion a year it gets from Washington in military aid, certainly has a legitimate claim and capability to defend itself. Its vast arsenal consists of such US-made helicopters as AH 64As, AH 1Fs, AH 1Gs and hundreds of M-60 tanks and armored personnel carriers. And if that weren't enough, Israel is home to the largest collection of American fighter jets outside of the United States. That of course would be an impressive array of "made in the U.S.A." F-15s, F-16s, F-4s and A-4s.
But the argument that Israel's "legitimate self-defense" is all that has been at work in the recent escalation of the conflict is fallacious and simply inaccurate. On the surface, the weekend news of the detention of 4,185 Palestinians (announced by the Israeli Army itself) while only 121 of them were previously-listed as "wanted" by the Israelis, should raise eyebrows at the claim that the Israeli military has exercised surgical precision in its past and present military operations in the West Bank and other areas - supposedly detaining and killing only terrorists and armed belligerents. For any interested member of the U.S. Congress, the truth remains that according to the U.S. government the actions of Israel's security forces have violated human rights and U.S. law. The fact also remains that the U.S. government is obligated to do something in response to such a scenario.
Section 556 of the FY 2002 Foreign Assistance Appropriation bill ("Leahy Amendment") prohibits U.S. security assistance to "any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State has credible evidence that such unit has committed gross violations of human rights, unless the Secretary determines and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that the government of such country is taking effective measures to bring the responsible members of the security forces to justice." The State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2001 released on March 4, states "Israeli security forces committed numerous, serious human rights abuses during the year." The report goes on to state that, "The IDF [Israel Defense Forces] generally did not investigate the actions of security force members who killed and injured Palestinians under such circumstances, leading to a climate of impunity."
Section 4 of the Arms Export Control Act prohibits the use of American weapons supplied to its allies for any purpose other than "legitimate self-defense." The State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2001 released on March 4, cites numerous examples of Israeli security forces targeting civilian areas and institutions. Beyond these examples, the Report states that Israeli forces fired tank shells, heavy machine-gun rounds, and rockets from helicopters and F-16s at targets in residential and business neighborhoods located near the sites from which the Palestinian gunfire was believed to have originated. Such Israeli actions during the year killed at least 93 Palestinians, most of whom were noncombatants, injured at least 1,500 persons, and caused significant damage to buildings, schools, and
Re: [CTRL] Opium Lords- Israel, the Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination
-Caveat Lector- Uh, Kris, is there a URL? You did say ONLINE book. ;-D Tenorlove --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- Introducing the on-line book that solved the mystery of the Kennedy assassination: Opium Lords Israel, the Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination by Salvador Astucia Ó April 2002 Table of Contents Order Opium Lords Book (400 pages) About the Author Contact Salvador Links - Om K __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.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] 911 The Road to Tyranny Video Online!!!
-Caveat Lector- 911 The Road to Tyranny (48 minute RealPlayer Video Clip) http://www.defendersoffreedom.org/videos/9-11.ram Source: Defenders of Freedom http://www.defendersoffreedom.org/ The government not only had prior knowledge of the terrorist attacks of 9-11 and allowed them to happen, the national security dictatorship publicly funded, trained and shepherded the terrorists into the United States -- and went so far as to protect them from the FBI and Defense Intelligence. Now the government is going to use SCAREorism to turn America into a cross between Communist China and Nazi Germany. 9-11 The Road to Tyranny (48 minute RealPlayer Video Clip) The film in it's entirety is 2 hrs and 20 minutes long http://www.defendersoffreedom.org/videos/9-11.ram Click below to order this video from the Alex Jones web site. http://www.infowars.com/resources.html More video clips from the Defenders of Freedom web site. 1984 The classic negative utopia from George Orwell, is portrayed in this chilling film filmed in 1984. This particular scene illustrates the use of torture and mind control. http://www.defendersoffreedom.org/videos/1984.ram Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove Witness the movers and shakers of government supporting pagan rituals. Hidden camera video along with documentary information. http://www.defendersoffreedom.org/videos/Dark_Secrets.ram Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports Exposed The Biggest Game in Town exposes the two-tiered accounting of all federal, state, county governments. Find out how the issue is confused by focusing on the budget and not discussing the investments. There is no reason for continued taxation. http://www.defendersoffreedom.org/videos/CAFR.ram Click below to download the Free RealOne Player http://forms.real.com/real/realone/realone.html?dc=31131039type=dlsrc=downloadr,020305r1choice_c1 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] Silicon Valley's Spy Game
-Caveat Lector- http://cryptome.org/sv-spy-game.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/magazine/14TECHNO.html The New York Times Magazine April 14, 2002 Silicon Valley's Spy Game The post-boom high-tech industry has found a new backer -- the Office of Homeland Security. The mission is to help the government track its citizens the way Amazon tracks its customers. By JEFFREY ROSEN Jeffrey Rosen is an associate professor at George Washington University Law School and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. His last article for The Times Magazine was about the growth of surveillance. Gilman Louie is one of the most successful computer-game developers of all time. ''I'm your classic entrepreneur,'' he told me recently. ''I started my first business with my fraternity brothers at San Francisco State.'' Louie, an amateur fighter pilot, had his first big success in 1987 with a game called Falcon, which allowed players to simulate the flight of an F-16. Falcon sold millions of copies, not only to teenage boys but also to pilots in the United States Air Force, who found it so realistic that it helped them learn to fly real fighter jets. Louie's biggest success came in 1988, when he imported from the Soviet Union an unexpectedly addictive game called Tetris, which became the best-selling computer game ever. ''Between Nintendo sales and PC sales, 70 or 80 million copies of that game sold,'' Louie says. ''We even found out that Hillary Clinton loved playing Tetris on the Game Boy.'' Lots of companies were impressed by Louie's success, including Hasbro, which put him in charge of creating its games Web site. And then in 1998, Louie was recruited by an even more powerful employer: the Central Intelligence Agency. ''The C.I.A. actually thought that my computer-game background was a valuable asset,'' Louie recalls. ''I look at the world as one big system -- one big game.'' The C.I.A. had just founded an unusual venture-capital firm called In-Q-Tel, and the agency wanted Louie to be the C.E.O. ''The 'Q' stands for the 'Q' factor -- it's named after the character in James Bond,'' says Louie. In-Q-Tel was the brainchild of George Tenet, the C.I.A. director, who believed that by investing $30 million a year in Internet startups in Silicon Valley, the C.I.A. could encourage the development of cutting-edge technologies that might be useful for national intelligence. Louie's marching orders were to provide venture capital for data-mining technologies that would allow the C.I.A. to monitor and profile potential terrorists as closely and carefully as Amazon monitors and profiles potential customers. The valley has long indulged its own antiestablishment mythology -- rebellious, libertarian hackers in their parents' garages, bucking the system by inventing world-changing, personally empowering technologies -- and Louie was worried that persuading programmers to collaborate with the C.I.A. would be ''borderline ludicrous.'' Despite his doubts, Louie agreed to open one In-Q-Tel office in Menlo Park, Calif., and another near Washington. He quickly discovered that far from recoiling at the idea of working with the C.I.A., Internet entrepreneurs flocked to his door. The chance to play with the government's cool toys trumped their fears of Big Brother. After the dot-com crash, Silicon Valley, desperate for venture capital, began to depend more and more on the federal government. Then came Sept. 11, and the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. In-Q-Tel now finds itself just one of several deep-pocketed federally financed investors that are eager to back technological solutions to our new security challenges. The Bush administration is asking Congress for $38 billion for homeland security, and much of this money will be parceled out among competing federal agencies -- including the Defense Department and the F.B.I. -- which can then use the money either to invest directly in security technologies or to follow In-Q-Tel's model of providing venture capital to young companies in the private sector. Like the C.I.A., the Office of Homeland Security has concluded that the same technologies that were useful before Sept. 11 for tracking, profiling and targeting potential customers can be turned today on potential terrorists. In the wake of the bursting of the tech bubble and in the thick of the war on terrorism, Silicon Valley is reinventing itself as the new headquarters for the military-technological complex. As always, the entrepreneurs are following the money. In January, this led them to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, the largest trade show of futuristic gadgets in North America. After Sept.11, the conference organizers decided to sponsor a special exhibition hall at the Riviera Hotel for technologies that are especially well suited to homeland defense. That old familiar gold-rush feeling was in the air at the Riviera: one speaker estimated that federal spending on security technologies would grow
[CTRL] Fw: [cp] Global Control - who is accountable for redress now? Tennessee funds welfare jobs in India
- Original Message - From: A Voice For Children To: A Voice For Children Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:36 PM Subject: [cp] Global Control - who is accountable for redress now? Tennessee funds welfare jobs in India Watching how Enron was taking over the world, is nothing more than seeing the fact that the corporate government and what we think of as "corporations" are one and the same. Government and courts act in the corporate interest/money, which is their own interest/money. Interviews on the news recently showed Indian officials testifying that they were threatened politically if they refused Enron contracts - billion dollar fraud. Right now Andersen accounting is manipulating a plea bargain so that there will be no trial where the facts come out about their racketeering, fraud and violations of the public trust. This is how the bar ALWAYS keeps the facts hidden from the people, these are crimes certain individuals have commiitted and they must be prosecuted. The courts throw out the counter claims, and th Supreme Court refuses to hear cases that would expose the rampant systemic public rights violations. Thnking you are dealing with local business is as wrong as thinking you are in a constitutional court. You are not told who you are really dealing with. In America as it is you cannot get redress against the state, who thinks you will ever find accountability with the person you are dealing with across the world? The corporations call the banking and accounting fraud "business as usual", and now it is ccoming out that the only way all this has come to this point is that it has been kept secret. In Oregon, when you call for DMV information you are routed through the prison. The uniformed people at the metal detectors in the Marion County Couthouse do not work for the state of Oregon - they are privately hired from Washington state. Our jobs are being sent overseas or prison labor, KEVIN MANNIX prison industry - the bar member agenda is corporate - and they figured out a way to get Americans to work for slave wages, and the rest ships overseas where they volunteer to work for slave wages. And right now they are talking about open borders, new money called the AMERICO for Mexico, US and Canada .. we are being forced into slavery to this corporate "state", if we don't stand up to all this NOW .. With all the immigration allowed in the last ten years it has changed the face of our Nation. Other countries do not have a Bill of Rights or sovereignty, won't fight for it and don't expect it. Freeborn Natural People have to stand against this and excercise our rights.we are the only ones who can It is our RIGHT, DUTY, OBLIGATION and RESPONSIBLIITY to protect this Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the foundation of God given Inherent Rights. -Original Message-From: Bill Mayhar protecor@...To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@... Undisclosed-Recipient:;@...Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:06 PMSubject: Fw: Tennessee funds welfare jobs in India Some of you have seen this and some have not. For those who have not, this is interesting reading. Bill - - Original Message - From: Raymond "Mike" Clausen, Jr. Cc: Steve Foley* (P) Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:13 PM Subject: Tennessee funds welfare jobs in India Bob this is interestingDBD_Mike Tennessee funds welfare jobs in IndiaThis is a story you need to read. It's by Lynn Redmon and it appeared in the Powell Post, a weekly paper in Knox County. Since the Post doesn't have an internet link, I have copied the column here, by permission.This is an example of your Tennessee tax dollars at work, creating jobs in India. After you read it ask yourself a question. Could this company be required, as part of the contract, to locate the call center in Tennessee? http://www.frankcagle.com By Lynn RedmondWhen a welfare recipient in Knox County calls a toll free number asking for help with food stamp problems, the representative of the state of Tennessee who answers the phone is located in Bombay, India. Tennessee's Department of Human Services has entered into a contract with a large international company, eFunds, to provide round-the-clock call centers to help food stamp recipients across Tennessee work out problems with their benefits. At the program's beginning in 1999 Tennessee's callcenter was located inMilwaukee, Wisconsin. In 2000 eFrunds closed the Milwaukee center and moved all call operations to Bombay, India.A spokesman for eFunds said of the closing "It was a matter of staying competitive. It cost us $12 an hour for an employee in Milwaukee and only $3 an hour for an employee in India."These actions of the Department of Human Services stand in stark contrast to the goal of Tennessee's much ballyhooed Families First welfare program which is to get people off the
[CTRL] Landowners sue DuPont, alleging herbicide damage
-Caveat Lector- Landowners sue DuPont, alleging herbicide damage Copyright © 2002 AP Online By MARK WARBIS, Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (April 16, 2002 9:33 p.m. EDT) - More than 100 farmers and ranchers in Idaho are suing E.I. duPont de Nemours and Co., seeking potentially hundreds of millions of dollars for crop damage allegedly done by the herbicide Oust. Aerial and ground applicators of the DuPont chemical also were named in the 5th District Court lawsuit, and a claim raising the same allegations was filed against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The precise amount of damages is to be determined at trial, including loss of profits, land value, production capacity, rental income and reputation. Boise attorney Walter Bithell, representing the landowners, said the total could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The complaints allege more than 100,000 acres in 11 counties were affected by Oust. The chemical allegedly was carried by the wind from burned-off rangeland where the BLM had the herbicide applied in 1999 and 2000 to prevent the emergence of noxious weeds. Bithell said some of the farmers have defaulted on loans or been driven to the brink of bankruptcy by losses in potato, sugar beet, grain and other crops in 2000 and 2001. The Idaho Department of Agriculture investigated the crop losses and reported in January that the BLM violated state law by applying Oust near agriculture property to dusty, highly erodible rangeland that had been denuded by wildfire. DuPont spokesman Dan Goicoechea said the company was reviewing the complaint but that the fault was not with the chemical's manufacturer. Any alleged crop damage occurred from BLM's failure to follow product label instructions and its own environmental analysis requirement, Goicoechea said. The BLM instituted a statewide moratorium on Oust use last June 22. Agency spokesman Barry Rose said Tuesday that the claim would be assessed. The BLM has 120 days to review the claim and determine whether to offer compensation or possibly face a lawsuit. We feel the situation was not caused by carelessness on our part, but by environmental conditions that were extreme and unanticipated, namely a prolonged drought, Rose said. We believe we applied the herbicide Oust in accordance with label directions which had been approved by EPA and the state of Idaho. The lawsuit alleges negligence by DuPont and the applicators, and that Oust is a defective product. If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] supreme court, underwager, clergy abuse, mckinney, jenin
-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors. Supreme Court strikes down ban on virtual child pornography - Anne Gearan 4/16/02 The Supreme Court struck down a law banning virtual child pornography Tuesday, ruling that the First Amendment protects pornography or other images that only appear to depict real children engaged in sex. The 6-3 ruling is a victory for both pornographers and artists such as moviemakers. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/04/16/national1 009EDT0583.DTL Mr_ Bubbles and Ralph Underwager on Australia 60 Minutes - Witness for Mr. Bubbles Transcribed from Australia 60 Minutes, Channel Nine Network (Aired on August 5, 1990 in Australia) Produced by Anthony McClellan; Reported by Mike Munro Reporter: Let me read it to you, this is what you said in court: Children up to age ten or eleven simply do not have the capacity to think abstractly. . . Underwager: Right Reporter: and to consider what's true Underwager: Yes. Reporter: So in effect, you're saying that, these children, in the Bubbles case, aged three and four, were too young to understand the truth. Underwager: No, not at all. What you are doing is distorting and twisting the language that a psychologist would use. Reporter: In relation to the Bubbles hearing, there were statements from children saying -- which I'm sure you read -- what happened to them, there was positive ID of Tony Deren as Mr. Bubbles, by a number of children, plus the fact that at least five of the children, and all girls, were positively physically abused. Where you aware of the medical evidence? At the time? Underwager: I have not reviewed the file that I had at that time... http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/MrBubbles.html Ralph Underwager Expert Testimony - State of Minnesota v. Deloch, 1990 WL 48536 (Minn.App.), April 24, 1990 The trial court did not err in excluding Dr. Underwager's testimony about learned memory. The record does not establish that the scientific basis for his theory is reliable and broadly accepted in its field. Furthermore, the basic rule is that expert testimony, to be admissible, must be helpful to the jury, and we conclude that Dr. Underwager's testimony. would not necessarily be helpful. Dr. Underwager's testimony would tend to inappropriately interfere with the role of the jury in assessing credibility. No evidence exists that Dr. Underwager's testimony would add precision or depth to the jury's conclusions Dr. Underwager's testimony was excluded precisely because its helpfulness to the jury was seriously questioned. The trial court correctly excluded Dr. Underwager's testimony. The evidence is sufficient to support the convictions. http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Underwager4.html Lawyers: More Abuse Victims Surface By GREG SUKIENNIK .c The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) - More than 450 people have come forward claiming they were sexually abused by Boston-area priests as a widening scandal engulfs the nation's fourth-largest Roman Catholic diocese, lawyers said. http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/0402/12mckinney.html The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 4/12/02 McKinney implies Bush knew of Sept. 11 plot The Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) is calling for an investigation into whether President Bush and other government officials had advance notice of terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 but did nothing to prevent them. She added that persons close to this administration are poised to make huge profits off America's new war. In a recent interview with a Berkeley, Calif., radio station, McKinney said: We know there were numerous warnings of the events to come on September 11th. ... What did this administration know and when did it know it, about the events of September 11th? Who else knew, and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who were needlessly murdered? ... What do they have to hide? McKinney declined to be interviewed Thursday, but she issued a statement saying: I am not aware of any evidence showing that President Bush or members of his administration have personally profited from the attacks of 9-11. A complete investigation might reveal that to be the case. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285413 Amid the ruins of Jenin, the grisly evidence of a war crime Phil Reeves in Jenin 16 April 2002 A monstrous war crime that Israel has tried to cover up for a fortnight has finally been exposed. Its troops have caused devastation in the centre of the Jenin refugee camp, reached yesterday by The Independent, where thousands of people are still living amid the ruins. A residential area roughly 160,000 square yards about a third of a mile wide has been reduced to dust. Rubble has been shovelled by bulldozers into 30ft piles. The sweet and ghastly reek of rotting human bodies is everywhere, evidence that it is a human tomb. The people, who spent days hiding in basements
[CTRL] Eyewitness to the Venezuelan coup
-Caveat Lector- http://www.anncol.com/april/1304EYEWITNESS_THE_PLOT.htm News Agency New Colombia Associated member of FELAP - Latin American Federation of Journalists [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.anncol.com EYEWITNESS: THE PLOT WAS WELL PREPARED Is the resignation of Venezuelan President Chavez due to a popular uprising, as the media make it appear? Nothing seems less true! An eye-witness account from Maximilien Averliaz, a leader of the popular movement that supports Chavez, directly from Caracas. [This eyewitness account was taken from the web site of the Belgian Workers Party] 13.04.2002 (By Maximilien Averlaiz, Caracas) The plot appears to have been well prepared. It all started with a call for a general strike for Wednesday, April 10, launched by an alliance between the organization of the bosses FEDECAMARAS and the corrupt union the Venezuelan Workers Central (CTV). The big privately owned media helped create a climate of tension. They agitated the population against the government. The strike, however, for the most part failed. It occurred only in a few places. In the other places, the bosses purely and simply closed their factories in such a way that the workers were unable to work. After the first day of the strike, FEDECAMARAS and the CTV prolonged their action for an indeterminate time period, while calling for a demonstration April 11. During this reactionary demonstration, large groups of partisans of President Chavez gathered at Miraflores to defend his âBolivarian Revolution.â The poor people came down from the neighborhood on the edge of the city toward the government building to support their president. Chaven has always guaranteed the right to demonstrate to the opposition, all the while appealing to his partisans to refuse to respond to provocations and denouncing the crass media manipulation. While Chavez was making a radio talk Thursday evening, the second phase of the destabilization plan was unleashed. The leaders of the right-wing opposition directed their demonstration toward Miraflores, where the progressives had assembled. Their aim was clear: blood must flow. The government gave an order to the National Guard to place itself between the two groups to avoid battles. At this moment, some elite sharpshooters began to fire on the pro-Chavez demonstrators. They had been posted on the tops of high buildings, at 200 meters (650 feet) from the crowd. The first two deaths fell from among the defenders of the populist president. It is then that the right-wing demonstrators attacked the National Guard, while the auxiliary police of the extreme right-wing mayor of Caracas, Alfrede Pena, fired on the pro-Chavez demonstrators. They unleashed violence to make a counter-revolution possible. The majority of deaths were from defenders of Chavez. In the night from Thursday to Friday the following step took place. A group from the National Guard and a large part of the Command of the Army turned openly against President Chavez and seized the state television station. The national and international media have been the most important instruments of this coup dâetat, orchestrated by the wealthy elite classes with the direct support of the United States. Please note that the reproduction and distribution of this article, also of parts, is free provided that the source is mentioned Back to news in English 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] Hi-Jackson's Taxing Times
-Caveat Lector- From http://asp.washtimes.com/printarticle.asp?action=printArticleID=20020417- 69674174 }}}Begin The Washington Times www.washtimes.com Boycott targets gave to Jackson Steve Miller THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published 4/17/2002 The Rev. Jesse Jackson's newly released tax forms for 2000 reveal that his top donors that year were a who's who of companies that had been threatened with boycotts or other sanctions by Mr. Jackson. The forms also show that Mr. Jackson's Citizenship Education Fund, his primary tax- exempt group, accepted a $50,000 donation from Kevin Ingram, a convicted criminal and the former head of the mortgage-backed securities desks at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. Ingram friends with Mr. Jackson for several years last year pleaded guilty to federal money-laundering charges related to Pakistani arms deals. He is in federal prison. The coffers of the two principal economic engines for Mr. Jackson remained full in 2000, as donations from corporate America flowed freely, the forms show. The Citizenship Education Fund had $9,262,846 in revenue in 2000, according to the tax forms, a $600,000 decline from the previous year. The Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, which is tax-exempt in its home state of Illinois but does not have a federal exemption, saw a $300,000 increase in revenue in 2000. Tax forms for fiscal 2001 are due in June. Mr. Jackson's Wall Street Project, aimed at securing employment for minorities, received $4.5 million in 2000 from the education fund. His contributors for 2000 include many firms that have had business dealings with Mr. Jackson in the past. Viacom, Bell Atlantic and GTE all gave to Mr. Jackson in 2000, and all have been threatened with boycotts or other sanctions by him. Blaylock Partners, which received a $750,000 account from ATT at Mr. Jackson's behest, donated $30,000 to the education fund in 2000. ATT contributed $425,000. SBC Communications, which solicited and received the support of Mr. Jackson for its merger with Ameritech, contributed $500,000. The New York Stock Exchange, which Mr. Jackson has accused of redlining minorities, donated $194,634. Mr. Jackson's office did not return repeated phone calls. Targets of Jackson boycott threats such as Toyota and SBC Communications have denied any quid pro quo in their subsequent donations. The civil rights activist is 60 years old, and his organizations continue to incur financial setbacks, requiring a change in accounting practices and a stepped-up effort to collect membership dues in his trade groups. Earlier this year, Mr. Jackson laid off up to 50 employees from his top three organizations in Chicago. His chief financial officer, Billy Owens, and Emma Chappell, executive director of Mr. Jackson's Wall Street Project, also have departed. Mr. Jackson is emboldened by a following that accepts his shortcomings, said Mark Thompson, a radio talk-show host on the District's WOL-AM. Jesse Jackson is still a very articulate spokesman for the African-American community, Mr. Thompson said. When it comes to the everyday issues that we face, he is the man who has fought for people. Mr. Jackson's critics use the apparent quid pro quo business dealings as grist for the mill, Mr. Thompson said. But among his followers, there may be some concerns and some doubts, but people are willing to hold their noses and still be supportive of him and his service to the community. Mr. Jackson, who earns about $500,000 annually, has repeatedly accused his detractors of having political motivations. Jesse Jackson is still telling people that the Republicans are targeting his supporters, an estranged colleague said this week of Mr. Jackson's financial situation. He has continued to decline this year, after seeing his revenue fall off last year, he said on the condition of anonymity. His revenues are down real big. He has these associates who have gotten into all this trouble. And it is still the Republicans' fault. Mr. Jackson warned a black crowd last year that we are in danger because of the right wing. The right wing has seized government. Watch out in coming days of the right- wing media, the FBI, the IRS, targeting our leadership, he told an audience at November's State of the Black World Conference in Atlanta. But many of Mr. Jackson's associates have found trouble on their own. Miss Chappell, who is founder of the United Bank of Philadelphia, was sued by the bank two years ago and accused of misconduct and fraud. In a confidential agreement to settle the suit, Miss Chappell gave up her seat on the bank's board of directors. Mr. Jackson, though, has relentlessly pushed his agenda. In a column last week, he insisted that President Bush is systematically weakening the laws and regulation on clean air, clean water, toxic wastes, workplace safety, civil rights and equal protection.
[CTRL] The Strange Case of the Sugar Land Suicide
-Caveat Lector- From www.wsws.org }}}Begin WSWS : News Analysis : North America The case of Clifford Baxter: more questions raised over alleged suicide of Enron executive By Patrick Martin 17 April 2002 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author In the first major media inquiry into the alleged suicide of former Enron Vice Chairman J. Clifford Baxter, CBS News broadcast a segment April 10 which raised significant questions about the police handling of Baxters death. Baxter was found shot to death in his car in the early morning hours of January 25, a few days after he agreed to testify to Congress. Formerly the head of Enrons gas pipeline operations, and vice chairman of the company until his resignation last May, Baxter was in a position to give insider testimony on the causes of the biggest bankruptcy in US history. According to congressional investigators, Baxter was being sought, not as a target in his own right, but to provide evidence against other top executives. He was known within Enron for having opposed the off-the-books financial manipulations directed by CEO Jeffrey Skilling and Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow. Police in the wealthy Houston suburb of Sugar Land declared the death a suicide without any investigation, and the Harris County coroner initially declined to conduct an autopsy, only reversing herself after media publicity and objections by Baxters family. According to the story narrated by CBS correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, the network obtained police, autopsy and lab reports and had them analyzed by two independent experts, coroner Cyril Wecht and former homicide detective Bill Wagner. Wecht noted that the ammunition used was so-called rat-shot, rather than regular bullets, consisting of pellets that break apart and spread after discharge. This kind of ammunition cannot be easily or readily traced back to the gun from which it was fired, he told CBS. Its not as frequently used by people for any reason. Its not the type of ammunition one finds in gunsit has a specific purpose: shooting at snakes and rodents in order to get a distribution pattern of the small pellets contained within the nose portion of the bullet. Its not something that a person is likely to have and to use if they intended to kill themselves. Wagner said that murder could be ruled out, despite the evidence suggesting that the shooting was a suicide. Murder can be made to look like a suicide, he said. Someone who is knowledgeable about forensics can very well have the ability to stage a murder, commit a murder and stage it to look as if it was a suicide, understanding what the police are going to be looking for. Apparently, however, the Sugar Land police were not looking for much of anything. Wagner said their handling of the crime scene was deficient. They neither bagged Baxters hands i.e., checked for chemical residues and other indications that he had fired the gunnor did they fingerprint the interior of the car. Im just amazed frankly that the hands were not bagged, Wecht said. The timeline produced by the Sugar Land police has major inconsistencies. For instance, the police report says that a blood stain was found on the pavement outside the car, caused by someone laying Baxter on the ground. Yet the body was in the car when the funeral home personnel arrived to handle it. This suggests two alternatives: that Baxter was shot on the pavement and then placed in the car to make it look like suicide; or that the body was removed from the carperhaps in an attempt to resuscitate himand then, for unknown reasons, put back into the drivers seat. Crime scene photos were only taken after the gun and other evidence, as well as the body, had been moved. There are unexplained bruises on Baxters left hand, together with traces of black material, which are consistent with him putting out his hand to brace a fall onto asphalt pavement after he was shot in the right templea scenario that suggests murder rather than suicide. Other questions have been raised about the fatal wound, which was very large7.2 cm by 4.5 cmaccording to the coroners report. One estimate of the spread pattern of rat shot suggests that the gun muzzle must have been two to three feet away from his temple for the shot to have diverged that much, an improbably awkward position for a suicide. The day after the CBS report, Texas Attorney General John Cornyn ordered the release of the suicide note that was found on the seat of Carol Baxters car in the family garage. Cornyn is the Republican candidate for US Senate in Texas, to fill the seat being given up by Phil Gramm. Sugar Land police refused to release the note for nearly three months, after the Baxter family sought to keep it confidential, citing their right to privacy. Cornyns office issued a ruling that cited the substantial public interest in the causes of Enrons failure and its far-reaching consequences. The
