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Sunday 1 December 2002

New Saudi ambassador summonsed over Sept 11
By David Wastell, Diplomatic Correspondent
(Filed: 01/12/2002)

An American court has issued a summons against the next Saudi
Ambassador to Britain alleging that in his previous job he helped to
fund Afghanistan's Taliban regime while it was sheltering Osama bin
Laden, lawyers said yesterday.

The summons has been issued to Prince Turki al Faisal, the former
head of Saudi intelligence, ordering him to respond to a
compensation claim for more than $600 billion (£400 billion) brought
by the families of victims of last year's September 11 terrorist
attacks.

The development will cast a shadow over Prince Turki's
appointment which, The  Telegraph has learnt, will be announced in
Riyadh within the next few days, after a six-week delay. Uncertainty
within the British Government over his appointment was resolved
only last week.

Yet Foreign Office officials yesterday still refused to confirm that
Prince Turki, 57, was even a candidate. Saudi diplomats were
equally reticent. The matter was still being considered an official
said.

The previous Saudi ambassador to Britain, Dr Ghazi Algosaibi, was
recalled to Riyadh in September after widespread fury at poems and
public comments by him apparently sympathising with Palestinian
suicide bombers.

Prince Turki, who courted bin Laden during the Soviet occupation of
Afghanistan and maintained close contacts with the Taliban regime,
was replaced as the Saudis' head of intelligence two weeks before
the September 11 attacks, after almost 25 years in the post.

Earlier this year, he said bin Laden had become one of the most
violent and, I think, one of the cruellest killers in modern history.

The expected appointment of the Oxford-educated prince is popular
with British diplomats, who regard him as an influential figure within
the Saudi royal family. However, Prince Turki's inclusion in what is
likely to be a protracted American lawsuit means that he is likely to
spend his posting to Britain fending off questions.

His summons, issued on October 29 but not yet served, follows
growing anger in the United States at what many claim as collusion
between Saudi Arabia's rulers and extreme Islamic groups.

Prince Turki, who has made no public comment on the lawsuit, is
being ordered to respond to a federal court in Washington DC,
along with two fellow Saudi princes and dozens of other individuals -
including members of the bin Laden family - banks and charitable
organisations. If he fails to defend himself he risks being ruled
against by default.

A court judgment against him could eventually lead to an order to
pay compensation, and his financial assets in many countries,
including Britain, would be at risk. Because the action is a civil rather
than a criminal case, and because it takes place outside Britain, US
lawyers say he would not be shielded by diplomatic immunity.
However, Prince Turki cannot be compelled to appear in court and
there is no possibility of extradition.

The issue of the summons is a significant escalation of the legal
actions begun in America by victims and survivors of the al-Qa'eda
attacks, and comes three months after parallel cases were launched
in New York and Washington courts. The first summonses have
been served on at least 26 defendants in an action brought by 3,000
victims and their relatives, and a further 87 summonses have been
issued but not yet served.

Legal advisers are exploring how best to serve the summons on
Prince Turki, who is currently in Saudi Arabia. William Riley, an
Indiana lawyer involved in processing the summons, said the task
would be simpler if the prince takes up his posting to Britain. We
need only deliver the summons to the Saudi embassy in London,
he said.

Once a summons has been officially served, lawyers say, the clock
starts ticking on the legal process which could lead to defendants
being forced to pay compensation.

Most of Prince Turki's contacts with bin Laden came during the Cold
War, when Islamic resistance fighters were seen as allies of the
West against communism. He has admitted to a series of meetings
with bin Laden inside Afghanistan, but says that he shared
intelligence information with the CIA and later attempted to negotiate
the al-Qa'eda chief's arrest and extradition to Saudi Arabia.

The victims' complaint to the Washington court, however, alleges
that the prince, as the head of intelligence, made a deal with the
Taliban during a meeting in 1998. They claim that he dropped the
extradition attempt and pledged Saudi aid to the Taliban in
exchange for an agreement that bin Laden would not target the
Saudi government. The al-Qa'eda attacks on US embassies in
Nairobi and Dar es Salaam came two months later.

Allies of Prince Turki insist that the attempt to extradite bin Laden
was

[CTRL] India tells Pakistan: let's fight

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India tells Pakistan: let's fight
01dec02

INDIA'S deputy prime minister has issued a direct challenge to
nuclear-armed rival Pakistan to drop its alleged support for the
Muslim insurgency in Kashmir or fight another war over the disputed
Himalayan territory.

The challenge came from Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna
Advani, who also insisted that Pakistan was fighting a proxy war in
Kashmir by arming and training Islamic rebels in the divided frontier
territory.

Let us fight it out face-to-face. We have fought thrice, let there be a
fourth war, Advani told a pre-election campaign rally in the western
Indian district of Bhuj in the state of Gujarat.

The deputy premier, kicking off a campaign for Gujarat's state
election on December 12, said a fully-fledged war was preferable to
the recurring terror attacks in India, which New Delhi blames on
Islamabad.

Killing of innocent civilians by attacking temples like Akshardham
and Raghunath is unacceptable, he said of the two raids by Islamic
gunmen in September and November which led to the death of
nearly 50 Hindu devotees.

India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars, since the
subcontinent's independence from British colonial rule in 1947, over
Kashmir.

The first conflict was in 1947-48 and the two sides again fought over
Kashmir in 1965. The last military engagement, in 1971, led to the
creation of Bangladesh as an independent nation from Pakistan's
eastern rump.

Advani, a hardline Hindu leader, said Pakistan was stirring up
rebellion in Kashmir because it was nursing a wound since the
creation of Bangladesh, when Islamabad signed a peace treaty
virtually dictated by India in 1971.

His dare came on the back of an Indian warning earlier this month
that it would not seek external help to combat terrorism.

India can deal with terrorism on its own. We are not dependent on
the international community for a solution ... This is a fight India has
to wage, Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha told parliament on
November 21.

More than 37,500 people have died in Kashmir, India's only Muslim-
majority state, since the start of the anti-Indian rebellion in Kashmir
in 1989.

Pakistan denies sponsoring the militants and insists that it only
offers moral and diplomatic support to what it argues is the
Kashmiris' struggle against Indian rule in the troubled region.
India and Pakistan came dangerously close to a fourth war in 1999
when India launched a full-scale military assault to dislodge
Pakistan-backed forces holding key heights in the Indian zone of
Kashmir.

Until recently the two countries had hundreds of thousands of troops
on their shared border following the December 13, 2001 attack on
the Indian parliament, which New Delhi blames on Pakistan-based
militant groups.
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[CTRL] clergy statistics, Mormon may be excommunicated, group dynamics

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this may be heavy for survivors

A Survivor's Story by Maggie Mulvihill and Robin Washington "The most extensive, conducted by John Allan Loftus and Robert Camargo at the Southdown Psychiatric Center in Waterloo, Ontario, in 1992, looked at the records of 1,300 Catholic priests and Brothers over 25 years, finding 2.7% had sex with children under 13 - a figure significantly lower than the 6% in the general population estimated by psychiatrist John Bradford, another Canadian researcher. The Southdown study found a larger number of priests - 8.4% - molested teenagers, bringing the total of priests sexually abusing minors of all ages to 11%. Yet because Loftus and Camargo relied on self-reporting by their subjects, their data may have been skewed. Another study, by psychotherapist and former priest A. W. Richard Sipe, puts the number of sexually abusive priests closer to 6% of all priests. Dr. Fred Berlin, a sex researcher with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Sexual Disorders Clinic, suggests it may be even lower, stating that "only one or two" of the 60 to 80 new patients he sees yearly are priests, most attracted to 12-to-16-year-old boys. In the general population, where abusers may be family members, scout leaders or any number of people in frequent contact with children, victims are most likely to be female, according to Edward O. Laumann and other researchers whose work was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1994. They found 17% of women and 12% of men reported being abused before reaching puberty by an adolescent or adult. Of those, the abusers were most likely to be family members (52%) or persons known to the family (29%) rather than strangers, who comprised only 7%." http://www.catholicdigest.com/stories/200207003.html This may be heavy for survivors.

from L Moss Sharman Mormon student may be excommunicated for articles By Patty Henetz Salt Lake City - 11/30/02 A graduate student with Mormon family roots says he will probably be excommunicated next week for articles he has written questioning the validity of the Book of Mormon. Thomas W. Murphy, 35, published an article in the May Signature Books anthology, American Apocrypha, that uses genetic data to discredit the Book of Mormon claim that American Indians are heathen descendants of ancient Israel. The conclusion also is the thesis of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Washington. "We're told to tell the truth, but not if the truth contradicts church doctrine. I would prefer to tell the truth," Murphy said. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/1682956

The Science Behind the (Real) Matrix - "At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts." George Orwell "as shown in the 1940's and 50's by Solomon Asch's experiments which created a contest between the real world and the social world. He had subjects judge lines of different lengths (which is longest or shortest) after hearing a number of "other subjects" (actually in on the experiment) give an incorrect answer. Although subjects were very upset by the discrepancy between their perceptions and those of others, only 29% of subjects never yielded to the bogus majority. Some people caved in because they thought they must be wrong. Others, because they wanted to be accepted by the group." "The Asch experiments on group effects showed that group effects were greatly weakened when dissenters were present. Therefore, it is essential, if you wish to maximize group effects (and probably authority effects as well), to reduce or eliminate dissent. Dissent can be reduced by creating huge group pressures against it, and by directly disrupting the activities of the dissenters." http://7mares.terravista.pt/morpheus_smith/science.html The graphics on this page may be heavy for survivors.
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[CTRL] t r u t h o u t - Nat Hentoff | The New American Freedom Fighters, Organizing Against General Ashcroft

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The New American Freedom Fighters
Organizing Against General Ashcroft
Nat Hentoff
VillageVoice.com

Friday, 29 November 29th

Shrouded in ambiguity and cloaked in deep secrecy, this administration continues to
suddenly, and sometimes unexpectedly, drop its decisions upon the public and Congress,
and expect obedient approval, without question, without debate, without opposition. 
--West
Virginia Democratic senator Robert Byrd, West Virginia Gazette, June 29, 2002

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no 
law, no
court can even do much to help it. --Judge Learned Hand, speech delivered on I Am an
American Day, New York City, May 21, 1944

I have never seen the American Civil Liberties Union as energized as it is now by 
Attorney
General John Ashcroft. You may have seen some of its television ads in its $3.5 million
campaign to defend the Constitution, called Safe and Free.

Part of that campaign--as noted by Laura Murphy, director of the ACLU's Washington
legislative office--involves the ACLU's working with dozens of communities around the
country to go on the record against repressive legislation. She adds, Local 
governments
have the power to tell their law enforcement officers not to spy without evidence of 
crime.
With the help of ACLU members and activists around the country, we will encourage them
to say no as strongly as possible.

This grassroots network of freedom fighters actually began independently, with a 
meeting
of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee in Northampton, Massachusetts, in February of 
this
year. Now, spurred by the Massachusetts initiative, 15 city or town councils around the
country have passed resolutions aimed at protecting their citizens from General 
Ashcroft.
And other such affirmations of the Bill of Rights are pending in 40 other town and 
cities in
24 states.

By and large, these resolutions are similar to the one passed unanimously by the
Northampton City Council on May 2, 2002, which required that:

Local law enforcement continue to preserve residents' freedom of speech, religion,
assembly and privacy; rights to counsel and due process in judicial proceedings; and
protection from unreasonable searches and seizures even if requested or authorized to
infringe upon these rights by federal law enforcement acting under new powers granted 
by
the USA Patriot Act or orders of the Executive Branch.

Furthermore, Federal and state law enforcement officials acting within the City are 
asked
to work in accordance with the policies of the Northampton Police Department . . . by 
not
engaging in or permitting detentions without charges or [using] racial profiling in law
enforcement.

Also, the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
and
Massachusetts State police [are to] report to the Northampton Human Rights Commission
regularly and publicly the extent to and manner in which they have acted under the USA
Patriot Act, new Executive Orders, or COINTELPRO-type regulations. This includes
disclosing the names of the detainees held in western Massachusetts or any Northampton
residents detained elsewhere.

In addition, and this is included in all the other resolutions by Bill of Rights 
Defense
Committees around the nation, Our United States Congressmen and Senators [are
requested] to monitor the implementation of the [USA Patriot] Act and [Executive] 
Orders
cited herein and actively work for the repeal of the parts of that Act and those 
Orders that
violate fundamental rights and liberties as stated in the Constitutions of the 
Commonwealth
and the United States.

Many of these defense committees are working with ACLU affiliates; and as this
quintessential patriotic defense of the Constitution keeps adding new towns and 
cities, I find
it remarkable and dismaying that so little print, radio, or television attention is 
being paid to
such authentic Americanism. But the Internet is spreading the word directly, or through
links, from and to the Northampton Bill of Rights Defense Committee's Web site,
www.bordc.org.

That Web site also provides a series of Tips and Tools for Organizing Resolutions in
Defense of the Bill of Rights--from Community Outreach and Fundraising to setting up
letter-writing tables.

On October 16, the Madison, Wisconsin, city council passed a resolution protecting the 
Bill
of Rights from the Justice Department. During the four hours of debate, West High
sophomore Sol Kelley-Jones, representing Students for an Informed Response, which
helped draft the resolution, said:

We need to do more than be passive observers of history, because the decisions being
made right now are our future. . . . Laws like the USA Patriot Act were passed in the 
name
of freedom, but what they really do is take away our freedom to fully participate in 
our
nation's democracy.

The Patriot Act, she continued, means

[CTRL] Today's treason of the intellectuals:

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Thursday, November 28, 2002

Today's treason of the intellectuals:

The longest-term stakes in the war against terror are not just human
lives, but whether Western civilization will surrender to
fundamentalist Islam and shari'a law. More generally, the overt
confrontation between Western civilization and Islamist barbarism
that began on September 11th of 2001 has also made overt a fault
line in Western civilization itself - a fault line that divides the
intellectual defenders of our civilization from intellectuals whose
desire is to surrender it to political or religious absolutism.

This fault line was clearly limned in Julien Benda's 1927 essay Le
trahison des clercs: English The treason of the intellectuals.  I
couldn't find a copy of Benda's essay on the Web, but there is an
excellent commentary on it that repays reading.   Ignore the
reflexive endorsement of religious faith at the end; the source was a
conservative Catholic magazine in which such gestures are
obligatory.  Benda's message, untainted by Catholic or Christian
partisanship, is even more resonant today than it was in 1927.

The first of the totalitarian genocides (the Soviet-engineered
Ukrainian famine of 1922-1923, which killed around two million
people) had already taken place. Hitler's Final Solution was about
fifteen years in the future.  Neither atrocity became general
knowledge until later, but Benda in 1927 would not have been
surprised; he foresaw the horrors that would result when
intellectuals abetted the rise of the vast tyrannizing ideologies of the
20th century.

Changes in the transport, communications, and weapons
technologies of the 20th century made the death camps and the
gulags possible.  But it was currents in human thought that made
them fact - ideas that both motivated and rationalized the thuggery
of the Hitlers and Stalins of the world.

Benda indicted the intellectuals of his time for abandoning the
program of the Enlightenment - abdicating the search for
disinterested truth and universal human values.  Benda charged that
in abandoning universalism in favor of racism, classism, and political
particularism, intellectuals were committing treason against the
humanity that looked to them for guidance - prostituting  themselves
to creeds that would do great ill.

And what are the sequelae of this treason?  Most diagnostically,
mass murder and genocide.  Its lesser consequences are subject to
debate, equivocation, interpretation - but when we contemplate the
atrocities at the Katyn Forest or the Sari nightclub there can be no
doubt that we confront radical evils. Nor can we disregard the report
of the perpetrators that that those evils were motivated by
ideologies, nor that the ideologies were shaped and enabled and
apologized for by identifiable factions among intellectuals in the
West.

An intellectual commits treason against humanity when he or she
propagandizes for ideas which lend themselves to the use of tyrants
and terrorists.

In Benda's time, the principal problem was what I shall call treason
of the first kind or revolutionary absolutism: intellectuals signing on
to a transformative revolutionary ideology in the belief that if the right
people just got enough political power, they could fix everything that
was wrong with the world.  The right people, of course, would be
the intellectuals themselves - or, at any rate, politicians who would
consent to be guided by the intellectuals.  If a few kulaks or Jews
had to die for the revolution, well, the greater good and all that...the
important thing was that violence wielded by Smart People with the
Correct Ideas would eventually make things right.

The Nazi version of this disease was essentially wiped out by WWII.
But the most deadly and persistent form of treason of the first kind,
which both gave birth to intellectual Naziism and long outlived it, was
intellectual Marxism.  (It bears remembering that 'Nazi' stood for
National Socialist, and that before the 1934 purge of the
Strasserites the Nazi party was explicitly socialist in ideology.)

The fall of the Soviet Union in 1992 broke the back of intellectual
Marxism.  It may be that the great slaughters of the 20th century
have had at least one good effect, in teaching the West a lesson
about the perils of revolutionary absolutism written in letters of
human blood too large for even the most naive intellectual idealist to
ignore. Treason of the first kind is no longer common.

But Benda also indicted what I shall call treason of the second
kind, or revolutionary relativism - the position that there are no
moral claims or universal values that can trump the particularisms of
particular ethnicities, political movements, or religions.  In particular,
relativists maintain that that the  ideas of reason and human rights
that emerged from the Enlightenment have no stronger claim on us
than tribal prejudices.

Today, the

[CTRL] Moron or Sociopath

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Mark Crispin Miller: Is Bush a moron? No, it's worse - he's a sociopath
Date: Sunday, December 01 @ 08:56:06 EST
Topic: Bushisms

Dark overtones in his malapropisms



By Murray Whyte, Toronto Star

When Mark Crispin Miller first set out to write Dyslexicon: Observations on a National
Disorder, about the ever-growing catalogue of President George W. Bush's verbal 
gaffes, he
meant it for a laugh. But what he came to realize wasn't entirely amusing.

Since the 2000 presidential campaign, Miller has been compiling his own collection of 
Bush-
isms, which have revealed, he says, a disquieting truth about what lurks behind the 
cock-
eyed leer of the leader of the free world. He's not a moron at all  on that point, 
Miller and
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien agree.

But according to Miller, he's no friend.



I did initially intend it to be a funny book. But that was before I had a chance to 
read
through all the transcripts, Miller, an American author and a professor of culture and
communication at New York University, said recently in Toronto.

Bush is not an imbecile. He's not a puppet. I think that Bush is a sociopathic 
personality. I
think he's incapable of empathy. He has an inordinate sense of his own entitlement, and
he's a very skilled manipulator. And in all the snickering about his alleged idiocy, 
this is
what a lot of people miss.

Miller's judgment, that the president might suffer from a bona fide personality 
disorder,
almost makes one long for the less menacing notion currently making the rounds: that 
the
White House's current occupant is, in fact, simply an idiot.

If only. Miller's rendering of the president is bleaker than that. In studying Bush's 
various
adventures in oration, he started to see a pattern emerging.

He has no trouble speaking off the cuff when he's speaking punitively, when he's 
talking
about violence, when he's talking about revenge.

When he struts and thumps his chest, his syntax and grammar are fine, Miller said.

It's only when he leaps into the wild blue yonder of compassion, or idealism, or 
altruism,
that he makes these hilarious mistakes.

While Miller's book has been praised for its eloquence and playful use of 
language, it
has enraged Bush supporters.

Bush's ascent in the eyes of many Americans  his approval rating hovers at near 80
percent  was the direct result of tough talk following the Sept. 11 terrorist 
attacks. In
those speeches, Bush stumbled not at all; his language of retribution was clear.

It was a sharp contrast to the pre-9/11 George W. Bush. Even before the Supreme Court 
in
2001 had to intervene and rule on recounts in Florida after a contentious presidential
election, a corps of journalists were salivating at the prospect: a bafflingly 
inarticulate man
in a position of power not seen since vice- president Dan Quayle rode shotgun on George
H.W. Bush's one term in office.

But equating Bush's malapropisms with Quayle's inability to spell potato is a 
dangerous
assumption, Miller says.

At a public address in Nashville, Tenn., in September, Bush provided one of his most
memorable stumbles. Trying to give strength to his case that Saddam Hussein had already
deceived the West concerning his store of weapons, Bush was scripted to offer an old
saying: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. What came out was
the following:

Fool me once, shame ... shame on ... you. Long, uncomfortable pause. Fool me  can't
get fooled again!

Played for laughs everywhere, Miller saw a darkness underlying the gaffe.

There's an episode of Happy Days, where The Fonz has to say, `I'm sorry' and can't do 
it.
Same thing, Miller said.

What's revealing about this is that Bush could not say, `Shame on me' to save his 
life.
That's a completely alien idea to him. This is a guy who is absolutely proud of his own
inflexibility and rectitude.

If what Miller says is true  and it would take more than just observations to prove 
it 
then Bush has achieved an astounding goal.

By stumbling blithely along, he has been able to push his image as just folks  a 
normal
guy who screws up just like the rest of us.

This, in fact, is a central cog in his image-making machine, Miller says: Portraying 
the
wealthy scion of one of America's most powerful families as a regular, imperfect Joe.

But the depiction, Miller says, is also remarkable for what it hides  imperfect, yes, 
but
also detached, wealthy and unable to identify with the folks he's been designed to 
appeal
to.

An example, Miller says, surfaced early in his presidential tenure.

I know how hard it is to put food on your family, Bush was quoted as saying.

That wasn't because he's so stupid that he doesn't know how to say, `Put food on your
family's table'  it's because he doesn't care about people who can't put food on the
table, Miller says.

So, when Bush is envisioning a foreign-handed foreign policy, or observes on some 
point
that it's not the way that

[CTRL] New York City homeless population tops records

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New York City homeless population tops records

November 30, 2002

BY ERIN MCCLAM


NEW YORK--In the nation's largest city, a record number of people are homeless, 
sleeping
each night in shelters and
streets, on subway platforms and cathedral steps--and there are no easy solutions in 
sight.

The slowing economy has led to jumps in homelessness across the nation, in places as
disparate as Rhode Island and South Dakota. But in New York, struggling with the 
aftermath
of terrorism, the effect has been particularly acute.

On average, more than 37,000 people spend their nights in New York city shelters, the
highest level on record. In 1998, city statistics show, the average was about 21,000. 
The
number of homeless families sleeping in shelters has more than doubled over the same
period, from 4,429 at the beginning of 1998 to 8,925 last month. And there are 
uncounted
numbers of people who sleep outside.

''It's getting steadily worse out there,'' said James Inman, 54, as he finished 
Thanksgiving
dinner at a Manhattan mission. ''All the shelters are full. It's tighter than it's 
ever been.''

The sluggish economy and rising rents have combined to produce higher homeless rates
across the country, said Nan Roman, president of the National Alliance to End
Homelessness. The group puts the number of homeless people nationwide at 1 million.

In Los Angeles, police made about 200 arrests on ''Skid Row'' this month after business
people called for steps to combat homelessness. In Rhode Island, rising rents were 
blamed
for a 45 percent increase in homeless children over the last three years. Sioux Falls, 
S.D.,
is estimated to have more homeless people than the populations of three- fourths of the
towns in the state.

In New York, dealing with Sept. 11 has aggravated the homeless situation in unexpected
ways. Anti-terror patrols have sealed off out-of-the-way places--nooks in tunnels, 
bridge
underpinnings, downtown alleys--where homeless people once sought shelter.

''The places where homeless folks have gone for cover are starting to be walled off,'' 
said
Linda Gibbs, city commissioner of homeless services. ''It limits their options, and it 
forces
them into the open.''

The situation is causing tension. An advocacy group sued the city this week, alleging 
police
are sweeping the homeless off the streets by arresting them. Police acknowledge a jump 
in
arrests, but say that is because officers simply have more contact with the homeless 
lately.

Solutions are elusive.

The city is pegging its hopes on a strategy adopted in June that focuses on making sure
enough shelter space is available and aiming to get people into permanent housing.

This winter, city social workers will conduct a homeless ''population survey'' to get 
a handle
on how many people are sleeping on streets and where.

Since taking office Jan. 1, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has boosted the number of permanent
housing subsidies available to those in the city shelter system to 9,250--an increase 
of 110
percent.

The city has also explored unusual options for shelter space, some of which homeless
advocates have derided. This summer, a judge blocked the mayor's plan to use a former
Bronx jail as a shelter. The city, bound by law to provide shelter, has also considered
converting empty convents and community centers.

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[CTRL] SF Gate: The Campus Files. A Chronicle Special

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http://sfgate.com/news/special/pages/2002/campusfiles/



Reagan, Hoover and the UC Red Scare
Seth Rosenfeld, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, June 9, 2002


On the gray Monday morning of Jan. 16, 1967, two senior FBI agents were ushered into 
the
governor's Victorian mansion in Sacramento, then led up to a second-floor suite, where 
a
flu-stricken Ronald Reagan was propped up in a bed piled with working papers.

Gov. Reagan had just been elected after campaigning to restore order at UC Berkeley,
where beatniks, radicals and filthy speech advocates were proof of what he called the
morality and decency gap in Sacramento. Now he was damned mad at campus officials,
one agent recalled, and he was asking the FBI to tell him what he was up against.

Back in Washington, D.C., FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover saw Reagan's request for
confidential information as a chance to finally quell the protests at Berkeley, which 
were
sparking demonstrations at schools across the country.

This presents the bureau with an opportunity to . . . thwart the ever increasing 
agitation by
subversive elements on the campuses, he noted in a memo.

Hoover had long been concerned about the University of California, the nation's largest
public university and operator of top-secret federal nuclear laboratories. In 1960, he
warned Congress of an international communist conspiracy plotting to control for its 
own
evil purposes the explosive force which youth represents.

But as the Cold War waned, the FBI departed from its mission of protecting national
security and engaged in sprawling covert intelligence operations that involved 
thousands of
UC students and faculty participating in legitimate debate about public policy.

For years the FBI has denied engaging in such activities at the university. But a 
17-year
legal challenge brought by a Chronicle reporter under the Freedom of Information Act
forced the FBI to release more than 200,000 pages of confidential records covering the
1940s to the 1970s.

Those documents describe the sweeping nature of the FBI's activities and show they 
ranged
far beyond the campus and into state politics.

The FBI records -- in addition to other official papers and scores of interviews with 
current
and former FBI agents and university officials -- reveal that the FBI:

conspired with the head of the CIA and a senior member of the university's Board of
Regents to pressure the board to harass faculty and students involved in protests,
misled the White House by sending the president information the bureau knew to be 
false,
and mounted covert public relations efforts to manipulate public opinion about campus
events and embarrass university officials.

Along the way, the FBI campaigned to destroy the career of UC President Clark Kerr -- 
even
though the bureau's own investigations repeatedly found him to beloyal.

At the same time, the FBI forged a close relationship with Reagan -- a more aggressive
informer than previously disclosed -- catalyzing his transformation from liberal movie 
star to
the staunch conservative who became one of the 20th century's most powerful figures.

The office of Ronald Reagan declined to comment and referred questions to former U.S.
Attorney General Edwin Meese III.

Meese, who was Gov. Reagan's chief of staff, said Reagan had a longtime relationship 
with
the bureau and that the FBI's assistance to the governor in handling campus unrest was
strictly appropriate and lawful. Meese said that, to his knowledge, the FBI did not 
give
political assistance to Reagan.

Bill Carter, an FBI spokesman in Washington, D.C., declined to comment on the bureau's
campus files. Things are done a lot differently today, he said, adding, The files 
speak for
themselves.

Cartha Deke DeLoach, who was Hoover's third in command, said the FBI gave Reagan no
special help and responded properly to domestic unrest that posed a considerable 
threat to
the country.

In court papers, the bureau has maintained that its activities were lawful and 
intended to
protect civil order and national security.

But in ordering the release of the FBI's files in 1995, a federal appeals court 
concluded that
some of the bureau's activities extended far beyond its law enforcement mandate and
came to focus on political rather than law enforcement aims.

And as U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel earlier ruled, The records in this case 
go (to)
the very essence of what the government was up to during a turbulent, historic period 
of
time.

The FBI's secret history at UC begins at the dawn of the Cold War, when the bureau's
intelligence-gathering authority was expanded in response to threats at home and 
abroad --
and civil liberties collided with concerns about national security.


Campus Files Home

1.
Introduction
2.
FBI's Secret UC files
3.
Trouble On Campus
4.
Governor's Race
5.
The Legacy -- Epilogue
6.
The 17-Year Legal Battle
7.
Where Are They Now?


A Note On Sources



The FBI Files


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[CTRL] t r u t h o u t - Kissinger in His Own Chilling Words

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.02D.kiss.quotes.htm

(*Editors Note |The selection of Henry Kissinger by the Bush Administration to oversee 
the
investigation of the events leading up to the September 11th. attacks has done little 
to allay
concerns about what the Administration knew prior to the attacks. To the contrary 
Kissinger
with all his baggage appears to represent an almost desperate desire on the part of the
Bush Administration to keep the events leading up to the attacks hidden from public 
view.
Remember as you do the math; this a man who cannot travel freely in Europe and many
other parts of the world for fear of being detained by local authorities. Kissinger is 
a very
risky appointment. One cannot help but wonder what would prompt the Bush Administration
to take so great a risk. -- ma)

t r u t h o u t | Quotation Compilation
Quotes from Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

Sunday, 1 December, 2002

Famous Quotes by Henry Kissinger

 The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination
to continue to be a world power.
-- Henry Kissinger, post-Vietnam blues, as quoted in The Washington Post, April 1975

Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order;
tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an 
outside
threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. 
It is
then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from 
this
evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario,
individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being 
granted to
them by their world government.
-- Henry Kissinger speaking at Evian, France, May 21, 1992 Bilderburgers meeting.
Unbeknownst to Kissinger, his speech was taped by a Swiss delegate to the meeting.

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the
irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean 
voters to be
left to decide for themselves.
-- Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Richard Nixon, about Chile prior to the 
CIA
overthrow of the democratically elected government of socialist President Salvadore 
Allende
in 1973

Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
-- Henry Kissinger - who (with Richard Nixon) was responsible for the massive bombing 
of
Cambodia in 1973, which killed three-quarters of a million peasants and disrupted
Cambodian society, setting the stage for Pol Pot to come to power and ultimately kill
another one-and-a-half million people

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
-- Henry Kissinger, commenting on the US sellout of the Kurds in Iraq in 1975

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
--Henry Kissinger

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[CTRL] For your attention

2002-12-01 Thread Alamaine Ratliff

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Euphorian spotted this on the Guardian Unlimited Observer site and thought you should 
see it.

To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited Observer site, go 
to http://www.observer.co.uk

Eating meat 'may still pose CJD risk'
Robin McKie, science editor
Saturday November 30 2002
The Guardian


Muscle and flesh of cattle and sheep may harbour deadly levels of prions that cause 
variant CJD. This stark prospect, raised by the Nobel Prize winner who first 
discovered that these infective particles can cause brain illnesses, suggests eating 
meat may still pose a serious health risk.

The prospect that a timebomb may still be ticking in our kitchens was raised by 
Stanley Prusiner, who revealed yesterday that experiments at the University of 
California in San Francisco had shown that scrapie-infected mice have unexpectedly 
high concentrations of prions in their muscles.

'These are just mouse models, but they raise the obvious worry that cows and sheep 
could be similarly affected,' said Prusiner, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize for 
medicine for discovering that degenerative brain diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob 
Disease are caused by prions.

Until now, scientists had assumed that only brains and spinal columns of cows and 
sheep contain dangerous levels of prions. But it appears that cuts of beef and lamb, 
which largely consist of muscle, could also be affected.

'The levels we found were a hundredfold less than those found in brains, but were 
still   significant,' he said. 'In particular, we found that the hind legs of mice had 
high numbers of prions. It remains to be seen if that is mirrored in the hind legs of 
cattle or sheep.'

Prusiner said that part of the problem could be traced to existing tests for the 
existence of prions in animals or humans. 'These tests chew up prion molecules in such 
a way that means we fail to spot them. We were destroying critical evidence of 
infections, perhaps up to 99 per cent of it. It is very serious.'

As a result, he and his colleagues have perfected a new technique for detecting prions 
in samples, one that is 10,000 times more sensitive than existing tests used in Europe 
and America.

The new test - conformation dependent immunoassay (CDI) - works on a completely 
different principle. Essentially, it recognises the shape of prion molecules. 'We 
believe that by applying the test to cattle we should significantly reduce human 
exposure to bovine prions,' said Dr Jiri Safar, one of Prusiner's colleagues.

'Previous attempts to quantify BSE and scrapie prions in milk or non-neural tissue, 
such as muscle, may have underestimated infectious titers [levels] by as much as a 
factor of 10,000, raising the possibility that prions could be present in sufficient 
quantities to pose risk to humans. The high sensitivity of this new test may 
profoundly alter our view of the epidemiology of prion diseases.'

However, Prusiner had one reassuring message. He dismissed a study, published last 
week by British researcher John Collinge, which suggested that BSE was responsible for 
more than one type of CJD in this country. In the journal of the European Molecular 
Biology Organisation, Collinge suggests that a second form of the disease was also 
caused by prions from meat. However, Prusiner dismissed the idea. 'I simply do not 
read the data the way that he does. I can see no evidence of such an effect. I just 
don't think it is likely.'

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[CTRL] 'Fightin' Whites' Spoof Raises $100,000

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2211641,00.html

'Fightin' Whites' Spoof Raises $100,000


Sunday December 1, 2002 6:10 PM


DENVER (AP) - What started out as an attempt to shame a local high school into 
dropping a
mascot name viewed as racist has raised at least $100,000 for scholarships for Indian
college students.

The effort began last winter when a group of Indian students at the University of 
Northern
Colorado asked officials at nearby Eaton High School to change the school's mascot from
``Fighting Reds'' because the name was offensive.

When the school refused, members of the UNC intramural basketball team, made up of
Indians and whites, decided to get even.

They named themselves the ``Fightin' Whites'' and began wearing T-shirts bearing the
name. After getting national media attention they began selling the shirts, which also 
bear
the slogan ``Everythang's going to be all white,'' from their Web site.

More than 15,000 shirts and hats have been sold, raising at least $100,000.

``It's actually kind of an amazing thing that happened there in Colorado. Not only did 
they
raise the level of debate but they also turned it around and raised money for Native
American scholarships,'' said Charlene Teters, vice president of the American Indian
Movement's National Coalition on Race in Sports and Media.

``There have been posters before that made fun of teams, but nothing has been this
successful,'' said Teters, a member of the Spokane Nation.

She estimates that about 3,000 professional and amateur team names are offensive.

``You have to understand that these names and symbols have a history in the same way
'boy' has a history with African Americans. That is the connection people don't get. 
First you
take a people and commit genocide against them, then you turn them into a stereotype,''
she said.

Jeff VanIwarden, a team member who helped manage the T-shirt campaign, said the
amount of money available for scholarships will depend on whether an application for 
tax
exempt status is accepted.

A $10,000 endowment has already been set up for one scholarship at UNC starting next
year.

The money collected could have been used to help campaign against the use of Indian
names as mascots, but most of the team members felt more would be gained by helping
Indian students, he said.

VanIwarden said he wasn't worried that the T-shirts might ``be a form of white pride.''

``We can't regulate who does or does not buy them. We do have their money,'' he said.

^---

On the Net:

Fightin' Whites: http://www.fightingwhites.org

American Indian Movement: http://www.aimovement.org/









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[CTRL] Supreme Court Could End Miranda Warnings

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Supreme Court Could End Miranda Warnings


Sunday December 1, 2002 6:30 PM


LOS ANGELES (AP) - For five years, Oliverio Martinez has been blind and paralyzed as 
the
result of a police shooting. Now he is at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case that 
could
determine whether decades of restraints on police interrogations should be discarded.

The blanket requirement for a Miranda warning to all suspects that they have the right 
to
remain silent could end up in the rubbish bin of legal history if the court concludes 
police
were justified in aggressively questioning the gravely wounded Martinez while he 
screamed
in agony.

``I am dying! ... What are you doing to me?'' Martinez is heard screaming on a 
recording
of the persistent interrogation by police Sgt. Ben Chavez in Oxnard, a city of 182,000 
about
60 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

``If you are going to die, tell me what happened,'' the officer said. He continued the
questioning in an ambulance and an emergency room while Martinez pleaded for
treatment. At times, he left the room to allow medical personnel to work, but he 
returned
and continued pressing for answers.

No Miranda warning was given.

A ruling that minimizes defendants' rights would be useful to the administration, which
supports Oxnard's appeal, in its questioning of terrorism suspects, experts said.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a federal judge that the confession 
was
coerced and cannot be used as evidence against Martinez in his excessive-force civil 
case
against the city. It said Chavez should have known that questioning a man who had been
shot five times, was crying out for treatment and had been given no Miranda warning 
was a
violation of his constitutional rights.

Oxnard appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Justice Department filed a 
friend-
of-the-court brief along with police organizations and the conservative Criminal 
Justice
Legal Foundation.

They contend that unfettered police questioning is allowable so long as the information
obtained from a suspect is not used against that person in court.

Opponents of the government position say a ruling diluting the Miranda protections 
would
be another nail in the coffin of individual rights sacrificed in the interest of 
rooting out
terrorists.

``This is a case to be concerned about,'' said Charles Weisselberg, a University of
California, Berkeley, law professor. ``To see the (U.S.) solicitor general arguing that
there's no right to be free from coercive interrogation is pretty aggressive.''

On Nov. 28, 1997, Martinez, a farm worker, was riding his bicycle through a field where
police were questioning a man suspected of selling drugs. The police ordered Martinez 
to
stop. When an officer found a sheathed knife in his waistband, they scuffled and the
officer's partner, perceiving that Martinez was reaching for the officer's gun, shot 
him five
times, in the eyes, spine and legs.

Chavez eventually got an acknowledgment from Martinez that he did grab for the 
officer's
gun. But Martinez's lawyers said that statement was coerced and is inadmissible in the
damage case that Martinez filed.

Martinez was never charged with a crime.

The Oxnard appeal argues that the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination
applies only at a criminal trial and the 14th Amendment guarantee of due process of 
law is
violated only if the questioning of a suspect is so excessive that it ``shocks the 
conscience''
of the community.

Martinez is represented by R. Samuel Paz, a frequent critic of police practices.

``I think it will turn on whether the court is going to stand up and say what it said 
before,''
Paz said, ``that the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments protect people, and that we do 
have
rights that extend beyond having a coerced confession admitted into a criminal case.''

Martinez, 34, blind and paraplegic, lives in a one-room trailer in a remote rural area,
tended by his father.

``It's tragic,'' said Alan E. Wisotsky, the lawyer for the city of Oxnard, ``but you 
can't look
at it from a philanthropic standpoint. He tried to kill police officers or they 
thought he was
trying to kill them  Does the tape (of the interrogation) sound bad? Yes, the guy 
is in
agony. But the questioning was to get at the truth.''

The Miranda warning takes its name from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in a 1966 case
involving the use of a confession in the rape prosecution of Ernesto Miranda.

``A generation of Americans has grown up since 1966 confident that, if brought to the
police station for questioning, we have the right to remain silent, that the police 
will warn
us of that right and, above all, that they will respect its exercise,'' said a 
friend-of-the-court
brief on behalf of Martinez by the American Civil Liberties Union and California 
Attorneys for
Criminal Justice.

``... If petitioners' theory of the Fifth

[CTRL] Fwd: [911-Discussion] Bush psychoanalyzed. (It's right on the money.)

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Published on Thursday, November 28, 2002 by the Toronto Star:



Bush is Anything But Moronic, According to AuthorDark Overtones in His
Malapropisms,

by Murray Whyte



When Mark Crispin Miller first set out to write Dyslexicon: Observations on
a National Disorder, about the ever-growing catalogue of President George W.
Bush's verbal gaffes, he meant it for a laugh.  But what he came to realize
wasn't entirely amusing.



Since the 2000 presidential campaign, Miller has been compiling his own
collection of Bush-isms, which have revealed, he says, a disquieting truth
about what lurks behind the cock-eyed leer of the leader of the free world.
He's not a moron at all -- on that point, Miller and Prime Minister Jean
Chrétien agree.  But according to Miller, he's no friend.



I did initially intend it to be a funny book.  But that was before I had a
chance to read through all the transcripts, Miller, an American author and
a professor of culture and communication at New York University, said
recently in Toronto.  Bush is not an imbecile.  He's not a puppet.  I think
that Bush is a sociopathic personality.  I think he's incapable of empathy.
He has an inordinate sense of his own entitlement, and he's a very skilled
manipulator.  And in all the snickering about his alleged idiocy, this is
what a lot of people miss.



Miller's judgment, that the president might suffer from a bona fide
personality disorder, almost makes one long for the less menacing notion
currently making the rounds: that the White House's current occupant is, in
fact, simply an idiot.  If only.  Miller's rendering of the president is
bleaker than that.  In studying Bush's various adventures in oration, he
started to see a pattern emerging.  He has no trouble speaking off the cuff
when he's speaking punitively, when he's talking about violence, when he's
talking about revenge.



When he struts and thumps his chest, his syntax and grammar are fine,
Miller said.



It's only when he leaps into the wild blue yonder of compassion, or
idealism, or altruism, that he makes these hilarious mistakes.



While Miller's book has been praised for its eloquence and playful use of
language, it has enraged Bush supporters.



Bush's ascent in the eyes of many Americans -- his approval rating hovers at
near 80 percent -- was the direct result of tough talk following the Sept.
11 terrorist attacks.  In those speeches, Bush stumbled not at all; his
language of retribution was clear.



It was a sharp contrast to the pre-9/11 George W. Bush.  Even before the
Supreme Court in 2001 had to intervene and rule on recounts in Florida after
a contentious presidential election, a corps of journalists were salivating
at the prospect: a bafflingly inarticulate man in a position of power not
seen since vice-president Dan Quayle rode shotgun on George H.W. Bush's one
term in office.  But equating Bush's malapropisms with Quayle's inability to
spell potato is a dangerous assumption, Miller says.



At a public address in Nashville, Tenn., in September, Bush provided one of
his most memorable stumbles.  Trying to give strength to his case that
Saddam Hussein had already deceived the West concerning his store of
weapons, Bush was scripted to offer an old saying: Fool me once, shame on
you.  Fool me twice, shame on me.  What came out was the following:



Fool me once, shame ...  shame on ...  you. Long, uncomfortable pause.
Fool me -- can't get fooled again!



Played for laughs everywhere, Miller saw a darkness underlying the gaffe.
There's an episode of Happy Days, where The Fonz has to say, `I'm sorry'
and can't do it.  Same thing, Miller said.



What's

[CTRL] Fwd: Book Review

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 The only thing that irks me about Jerry E. Smiths book ³HAARP: The
Ultimate Weapon Of The Conspiracy², is that  I did not read it four years
ago, in 1998, when it first came out.   Where was I?  Where was IT?  I had
made-do with the well written but necessarily short article in Popular
Science Magazine, by Mark Farmer, since 1995.  A few references and strings
on the internet, but nothing truly definitive: Mr. Smiths book is, if
anything, definitive, and nothing has been spared as far as background
information, and supporting documentation is concerned.
   It is easy to see that a lot of time and effort has gone into Mr.
Smiths research, and that is a good foundation for any book.  It is also
easy to see that Jerry E. Smith possesses a fluidity of language, a candor,
and a congeniality that combine to form a powerful identity as the reader
accomplishes this most enjoyable foray through intellect.   There is a sense
of humor manifest too, in Jerrys writings, and some occassional, well
considered touchstones of commentary that anchor the reader and give true
pause.  Click click click the pieces fall into place...
  This book covers in great depth a program of the United States
Government, which is being explained away to the taxpayers as Science, but
is in fact not just a weapon,  but perhaps the greatest weapons system yet,
capable of doings never before imagined.  The stonewalling , dissembling,
and outright lying by government officials ever since HAARPs inception is
well documented here, and as the book progresses the picture becomes more
than realistic, it becomes alarming in the extreme.  When it is considered
too that a lot of the science used in the HAARP project has been hoarded and
suppressed by the United States government for nearly a Century (!), the
sinister motives behind it are glaringly bright.  The de-popularization of
the inventor by the press owned by rich men, and all the other shennanigans
necessary to hook the patents, its all here, in great detail.  One thing the
book will also show you in no uncertain terms, is how the people in your
government, America, really are.  What kind of animals run you in the name
of goodness and religion and whatever else they can sucker you into
believing.  You are the enemy.  Read this book.  You will see it as clearly
as you see your own reflection in a mirror.
 HAARP is the grand finale of the take over of America, done in broad
daylight, surreptiously and insidiously, a bit at a time, without a shot.
It is the culmination of great experimentation and Huge expenditures of
American Taxpayers dollars, uniting all the intelligence and law enforcement
agencys together, for what can only be called ³Super Surveillance² or
perhaps ³Super Control², or even ³Occupying Force².   This program of
takeover here in America is reaching a fever pitch right now.  This book is
right on time, and needs to be read by as many people as possible, as
quickly as possible.
 Published by Adventures Unlimited Press, Jerry E. Smiths book is a
sleeper, part of a series by a publisher who covers a broad spectrum of
human experience.   One does not generally expect to find information of
this calibre covered within this genre.  This book by Mr. Smith has made me
want to seek out others, by the same publisher.  In fact, after learning
what I have learned, I do believe I cannot afford not to.
 Jerry E. Smiths ³HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon Of The Conspiracy², is in
my opinion destined to become one of the futures most valuable historic
documents.
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By BILL MURPHY, Chairman
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
November 30, 2002 

Chris Powell, Reg Howe, the entire GATA ARMY, 
and I have worked diligently for four years 
to expose a financial scandal. On the eve of 
the Thanksgiving weekend, GATA received a 
press release concerning a French investment 
group that had taken issue with the Bank For 
International Settlements for their lowball 
forced buyout of private shareholders. The 
ramifications of the defeat of the BIS ought 
to be profoundly in GATA's favor. First, the 
press release: 

* * * 

DEMINOR PRESS RELEASE 
26/11/2002 
THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS: 
FIRST VICTORY FOR THE FORMER MINORITY 
SHAREHOLDERS 

On 25 November 2002, the Arbitral Tribunal in 
The Hague made public its decision dated 22 
November 2002 regarding the Bank for 
International Settlement case. 

The Arbitral Tribunal declared the price of 
CHF 16,000 imposed by BIS to be inequitable. 
The Court has already condemned the BIS to 
pay an additional compensation, which will be 
superior to CHF 7,000 (approximately EUR 
4,800) per share. The precise amount will be 
determined by the Tribunal at a later date, 
taking into account, among others, the 
evaluation of real estate and a discount 
rate. 

Deminor is delighted at this ruling, which 
recognises the unfair treatment of minority 
shareholders by the Bank for International 
Settlements. The Bank applied a discount of 
53 percent on the adjusted net asset value of 
the BIS (evaluated at CHF 33,820 per share) 
during the January 2001 squeeze-out. 

By sentencing the BIS to pay an additional 
indemnification, the Court of The Hague 
assented to Deminor's arguments contesting 
the valuation method adopted by J.P Morgan 
(advisory bank) and by Arthur Andersen 
(independent expert). 

However, Deminor, which launched the 
proceedings against these establishments 
(including B.I.S.) before the Tribunal de 
Commerce of Paris in December 2001 on behalf 
of its clients, is of the opinion that the 
indemnification is still insufficient to be 
considered equitable for minority 
shareholders. 

Accordingly, while rejoicing at the Tribunal 
in The Hague's ruling against BIS, Deminor 
will pursue the proceeding and will take all 
necessary measures to defend the interest of 
former minority shareholders. 

As a reminder, the Bank for International 
Settlements joins more than 50 central banks 
worldwide, including the Bank of France, the 
Federal Reserve Bank, the National Bank of 
Belgium, and the Central Bank of England. Its 
Board is composed of the governors of the G7 
states. 

* * * 

Why, GATA supporters may ask, is this 
development so important? 

Let us go back a bit. In an audacious 
maneuver, GATA's Reg Howe filed the following 
bold lawsuit. (If this is new to you, I 
suggest you take the time to read it, since 
GATA's critics refuse to and do not refute). 

* * * 

The following complaint was filed on December 
7, 2000, in the United States District Court 
for the District of Massachusetts, Boston, 
Massachusetts. 

http://www.goldensextant.com/Complaint.html#anchor3130 


Later, Reg filed this opposition motion in 
the court: 

http://www.goldensextant.com/OppositionDOJReply.html#anchor79323 

In essence, Reg took on the financial power 
structure of the United States. One man had 
the gumption to take on the most powerful and 
wealthy people in America -- people who have 
done as much to hurt my country as anyone in 
history. Our financial markets have been 
reeling the past few years as a result of 
their misguided, arrogant, and corrupt 
financial maneuverings in the gold and 
financial markets.

[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] please read this

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From: "Asa M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>





To give you an idea who we are and what part does my agency play in eliminating the NWO. Please read the enclosed. Read all of it. And pass it on to as MANY people as you know or post it at your group website's. 

this is very important and I finally got permission to release this information. An acquaintance of ours got clearance to release what is posted below. If people want the truth about what is going on, here it is.


Hello Dear Friends,
A number of you are writing that you are not receiving the Dove Reports. This is often due to dark agenda blockages that are stopping the Dove Reports from reaching you. Every day I receive emails from people who are not receiving the Dove Reports but when I check, these people ARE on the Dove mailing list. The dark agenda has been blocking Dove Reports reaching people for many months to try to keep the truth from being told. 
To help ensure you receive the Dove Reports when the reports are blocked from reaching you, you can check with your Internet Service Provider to make sure your ISP is not blocking the Dove Reports. Also check and make sure the Dove Reports are not going into your Junk Mail folder. I can make sure you are on the mailing list and thats all I can do at this time to help ensure you receive the reports.
Tonight Im including two articles below from people who have their own White Knight sources. The first article below is by investigative reporter Sherman H. Skolnick who been writing exposes on government corruption for years. Although my information sometimes disagrees with Skolnick, I have checked out the major points of article below and his information below is correct.
Skolnicks article contains a little different view of the White Knights. Im told some of our White Knight officers do provide information to Skolnick as part of getting the TRUTH out to the American public. Skolnick does not use the term "White Knights"; he describes the White Knights as "group of highly patriotic Admirals and Generals, in military jargon called flag officers, who opposed Commander-in-Chief Clinton" and now oppose Bush Jr.
Im told that Skolnick has been told about the true NESARA law but that some of his White Knight military sources have asked Skolnick to leave NESARA out of his reports. However, I do want to make the point that PRIOR to when the true NESARA law was passed, the White Knights in the U.S. Military were planning to arrest Clinton for treason using the basis provided in our Constitution: Article 3, Section 3, provides: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." (Emphasis added)
Regarding Bush Jr. the Pretender, the White Knights have proof of TREASON on a grand scale. Ive told you that Bush Jr. will be arrested for TREASON, and Skolnick is telling you the same thing using information from his own White Knight sources.
Some of you have wanted MORE information on the White Knights; here is some very well-researched information to help you understand the big picture. Ive told you the White Knights have been working for MANY years to restore Constitutional Law and remove the corrupt heads of our federal government. As you can see from reading the Skolnick article below, others also know the INSIDE story and TRUTH about corrupt federal government officials. 
The second article below is from Governor David Siminton who has his own White Knight contacts and covers his own information about what happened on 9/11 and how it was related to keeping the true NESARA law from being announced that day.

Re: [CTRL] New York City homeless population tops records

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On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Euphorian wrote:

 http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-nyc30.html

 New York City homeless population tops records
 November 30, 2002
 BY ERIN MCCLAM

 NEW YORK--In the nation's largest city, a record number of people are homeless, 
sleeping
 each night in shelters and
 streets, on subway platforms and cathedral steps--and there are no easy solutions in 
sight.

 The situation is causing tension. An advocacy group sued the city this week, 
alleging police
 are sweeping the homeless off the streets by arresting them. Police acknowledge a 
jump in
 arrests, but say that is because officers simply have more contact with the homeless 
lately.

I read on [EMAIL PROTECTED] that New York has a law requiring that the
city find shelter for the homeless. Is that the reason for the arrests?
People are in effect being arrested for poverty, if that is the case.

POC

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[CTRL] [PSYCHOROBOTICS] The Scat Man Cometh (fwd)

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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 14:49:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [PSYCHOROBOTICS] The Scat Man Cometh

When NLP (natural language programming) goes public and robots can
dialogue on email lists, should there be a code of good-speak, bad-speak
and no-speak to regulate the programs?

POC
(Learned Elder of Zion)

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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 14:06:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Franklin Wayne Poley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: David Ingram at the CEN-TA Group [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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Subject: Re: [INGRAM] Darren Atwater and Brian Salmi Fiasco - Vaughan
Palmer article...or, The Scat Man Cometh

Perhaps I could write an article for Terminal City on scatalogical
language, ie, Let us say what we are not supposed to say. I note that
the f word is used frequently in television series and movies these
days. Every culture has its code of totem and taboo (those being the
words used in one of Freud's classics). What is the code of totem and
taboo in BC? I have done many experiments online from ridiculous to
sublime, concerning the use of this new medium. I even had a list
called [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a while. I forget what the
acronymn stood for. It was named in derision of a third rate phil list
called [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does scat add anything to a discussion?
After much research and development (done without a Canada Council grant)
I have concluded that it does, at times. It takes the discourse beyond
discourse, into what is sometimes called the ineffable. If a Black calls
a White a honky mo fo, that is on one level a meaningless statement. On
another level it is a way of expressing something which is beyond words,
an oxymoron unless you allow your imagination to play on the scat.
And that is what scat does...it stimulates an imaginative charge.
That imaginative charge causes a breaking of mental set and a freeing up
of creativity if it is followed through to the next stage.

There are vulgarities today hidden behind the fascade of cultural
niceties. One vulgarity is that of USA marshalling the forces of the world
to attack a country in the Middle East (Iraq) which has less population
than Canada, only half of whom can read and write and a million of whom
have died from a holocaust over the past decade. A particular vulgarity
within that and hidden behind candy-coated nicey-nicey fascades is the
vulgarity of USA Christianity. Christianity Today is simply a Cult of
Liars and I don't care if it calls itself left wing, right wing or no
wing. Scat in the Bible? Find those Red Letter words, dogs, pigs and
snakes. Then the ineffable, Red Letters again: not fit for the dung
hill, spoken in the plain language of the day so let's translate it as
what it says, NOT WORTH SHIT. And that in my humble opinion, sums up
Christianity Today, especially USA Christianity Today and especially Bush,
Ashcroft and their Bible-thumping, lying and evil-doing ilk:

NOT WORTH SHIT.

Is that a story I can get into Terminal City?

FWP

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, David Ingram at the CEN-TA Group wrote:

 I could not help passing this along

 Tom Carney was the president of the Victoria Press Gallery back in 1969.

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 From: tcarney
 To: David Ingram at the CEN-TA Group
 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 10:28 AM
 Subject: Re: Darren Atwater and Brian Salmi Fiasco - Vaughan Palmer article

 David:

   Thanks for passing this along. Vaughan has (as is his wont) a worthy comment on 
this. Deviant sexual behavior? in the Speaker's Chair? Golly, who would have 
thought--usually MLAs and MPs are too busy screwing the taxpayers!

tomc
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   From: David Ingram at the CEN-TA Group
   To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
   Cc: Claude Richmond
   Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 9:39 AM
   Subject: Darren Atwater and Brian Salmi Fiasco - Vaughan Palmer article

   In case you have missed it, Here is Vaughan Palmer's column courtesy of the 
Vancouver Sun. As Don Fiorvento Reporter for the North Shore Outlook and political 
host on Shaw Television said,

   This Terminal City is sure getting a lot of mileage out of this. They couldn't 
have gotten better exposure if they had hired one of the big downtown advertising 
firms.

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 'Deviant sexual nature'? Aw, c'mon, Mr. Speaker

   Vaughn Palmer
   Vancouver Sun

 Saturday, November 30, 2002

 VICTORIA - The speakers of the legislature, when they speak at all, tend to 
do so in sombre tones on the minutiae of parliamentary practice, none of which is the 
stuff of lively news coverage.

Re: [CTRL] Another $14,000,000,000 For Israel? Who's Counting...

2002-12-01 Thread Prudy L

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President George W. Bush is expected to quickly approve the request -
$4 billion in defense aid and US guarantees for $10 billion - with
minor changes, Israeli sources said.

Well, I guess we know where the money's coming from. At the base is the American taxpayer, but the money is just a couple of billion more than our president says he will save by giving the civil service work force a smaller raise than they were due to get. Isn't that special? Prudy
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[CTRL] Fw: IRAK

2002-12-01 Thread Mrs. Jela Jovanovic

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- Original Message - 
From: Ramiro 
Gonzalez 
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 9:39 AM
Subject: IRAK
   
En la imagen, una madre lleva a su hijo con 
leucemia a uno de los pocos hospitales que quedan en Bagdad. Irak responsabiliza 
a EEUU y a los países aliados del aumento de los casos de cáncer por haber hecho 
uso de uranio empobrecido en la Guerra del Golfo. 
FOTO: EPA Fuente: Diario El Mundo,Madrid,España 
http://www.elmundo.es/especiales/2002/09/internacional/irak/album3.html
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Re: [CTRL] New York City homeless population tops records

2002-12-01 Thread Bill Howard

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In a message dated 12/1/02 1:00:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I read on [EMAIL PROTECTED] that New York has a law requiring that the
city find shelter for the homeless. Is that the reason for the arrests?
People are in effect being arrested for poverty, if that is the case. 

You would rather they died from exposure?

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[CTRL] TAKEN article in the Washington Post

2002-12-01 Thread Steve Wingate

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Spielberg's 20 hour miniseries is being heavily promoted, and the
Science Fiction Channel has apparently put a lot of effort in getting
the public to watch:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43406-2002Nov26.html

A Tale of UFOs and Alien Abduction

By Alan James Frutkin
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, December 1, 2002; Page Y06

First-person accounts of alien abductions are still the stuff of
supermarket tabloids. But in the hands of Steven Spielberg, those
stories become a major TV event. At least, that's what the folks at
cable's Sci Fi Channel are hoping.

Beginning on Monday at 9 p.m., the cable network premieres Taken, a
20-hour, 10-episode miniseries about UFO sightings, extraterrestrials,
and alien abductions. Spielberg is the executive producer.

The miniseries follows three families over the course of 60 years. It
begins during World War II, when U.S. bomber pilots flying over France
reported what may have been the first contemporary sightings of
unidentified flying objects. The action also centers on Roswell, N.M.,
where, legend has it, a UFO crashed in 1947.

In fact, Taken's storyline is based primarily on legends that have
emerged regarding the subject of extraterrestrials. It's a modern
mythology, said Leslie Bohem (pronounced Bo-heem), the executive
producer who wrote the series. If you say all of this is true, that's
amazing. If it's not true, it's even more incredible.

More incredible, Bohem added, because for thousands of years, people
have been telling similar versions of the same story.

Bohem said he was drawn to the project because of its subject matter and
its scale. Taken was four years in the making and cost roughly $40
million. At 20 hours, it is the longest miniseries ever to air on TV.

But with the project spanning nearly six decades, and four generations
of families, Taken's size also proved daunting. Actors who figure
prominently in the early episodes soon move offscreen once their
characters' descendants come into view. Filmmaker Tobe Hooper
(Poltergeist), who directed Taken's premiere episode, said that
during filming, he shot almost 300 screen tests for future roles in the
series.

It was one of those situations where if you had examined it and asked
questions before you went into it, you may have found it overwhelming,
the director added, chuckling. So it was better to just put the
parachute on and jump. If it opens, it opens.

Size isn't Taken's only distinction. The Sci Fi Channel will air the
first five installments this week-- one two-hour episode Monday through
Friday at 9 p.m.--and five more installments next week, Monday through
Friday, as well. It's an unusual scheduling move, but Sci Fi President
Bonnie Hammer said it's worth the risk.

To dilute this as a weekly series over ten weeks would take away some
of it specialness, she added. It's an experiment, but we really
believe that high risk equals potentially high rewards.

Clearly, the reward Hammer is looking for is ratings--big enough, once
and for all, to put the oft-neglected cable network on the map.

Unfortunately, many people over the years have believed that the Sci Fi
Channel is not necessarily for them, Hammer said. Even if they enjoy
science fiction, they don't equate themselves with being science fiction
aficionados.

Sci Fi has tasted success in the past. In 2000, the cable network's
first miniseries, Frank Herbert's Dune, drew its largest audience to
date, averaging approximately 4.5 million viewers.

With Spielberg's name attached to Taken, Hammer said she hopes the
miniseries will reach an even larger audience, creating an awareness
that we haven't had before about the bigness and the quality of what we
do.

And quality is the word most often tossed around when speaking of
Taken. Hooper said that each installment of the special effects-laden
series looks more like a feature film than a typical TV show. He added
that the visual style of each episode also reflects the decade in which
it takes place. For example, the first show has a sepia-toned look, the
second highlights the Technicolor style of the 1950s, and the third has
more of a 1960s black-and-white TV look.

Despite all of its technical wizardry, Hooper said the strength of the
series still comes from its character-driven storylines. Rather than
have his actors mimic the cardboard-cutout style of many sci-fi films,
he said, I wanted these people to be real, and to be responding to the
reality of their situations.

In creating realism out of what remains for many a surreal subject,
Bohem said he zeroed in on three different aspects of

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  I read on [EMAIL PROTECTED] that New York has a law requiring that the
 city find shelter for the homeless. Is that the reason for the arrests?
 People are in effect being arrested for poverty, if that is the case. 

 You would rather they died from exposure?

I would rather they be helped to launch a new stock on the NYSE, under
sayGulags Inc. It was Bronstein (Trotsky) and friends from New York
who got the whole Gulag thing going in the first place so there is a big
background of experience in NYC. State Capitalism, ya gotta love it!

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 I would rather they be helped to launch a new stock on the NYSE, under
sayGulags Inc. It was Bronstein (Trotsky) and friends from New York
who got the whole Gulag thing going in the first place so there is a big
background of experience in NYC. State Capitalism, ya gotta love it! 

Yes, rounding up the homeless and putting them in Gulags would be tax money
well spend. Having worked in NYC and having had to step over their warm,
smelly bodies to get to work, I can say that I won't miss them.

State Capitalism, another term for National Socialism?

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On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Bill Howard wrote:

 In a message dated 12/1/02 2:45:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  I would rather they be helped to launch a new stock on the NYSE, under
 sayGulags Inc. It was Bronstein (Trotsky) and friends from New York
 who got the whole Gulag thing going in the first place so there is a big
 background of experience in NYC. State Capitalism, ya gotta love it! 

 Yes, rounding up the homeless and putting them in Gulags would be tax money
 well spend. Having worked in NYC and having had to step over their warm,
 smelly bodies to get to work, I can say that I won't miss them.

Cold and stiff bodies don't smell until spring. The freezing stores them
well until the Soylent Green Factory backlog is over.

 State Capitalism, another term for National Socialism?

Wash your mouth out with soap boy! None of that petty bourgeois nazi
stuff here. This is INTERNATIONAL STATE CAPITALISM we are talking
aboutthe Jew World Order, oops I mean NEW World Order.

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Palestinian olive trees sold to 
rich IsraelisBy Alan Philps in 
Jerusalem(Filed: 28/11/2002) 
Israel's Defence Ministry is investigating reports 
that Palestinian olive trees uprooted to make way for a security 
fence are being sold illegally to rich Israelis and town councils, 
sometimes for thousands of pounds each.
The illegal trade in olive trees has flourished as 
Israeli contractors, supported by armed guards, clear Palestinian 
agricultural land where an 80-mile electronic fence is being built 
to seal off the West Bank.
Thousands of olive trees have been dug up to make way 
for the 150-ft wide barrier and security zone. Its route usually 
passes inside Palestinian territory, not along the old pre-1967 
border, and thousands of Palestinian farmers say their livelihood is 
being taken away.
Sale of the olive trees emerged after the owner of a 
contracting company offered two reporters from a popular Israeli 
newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, 100 large olive trees for £150 
each.
The reporters found one enormous tree, said to be 600 
years old, on sale at an Israeli plant nursery for £3,500. They said 
the trade was conducted with the complicity of an official in the 
civil administration, the Israeli military government in the 
occupied territories.
Olive trees are extremely hardy, can live for 
hundreds of years and will often stand transplanting. Gnarled old 
specimens which are claimed, with some exaggeration, to have been 
alive at the time of Jesus are much sought after for gardens of the 
rich or city parks.
The Defence Ministry, which is in charge of the 
security fence, said it had launched an investigation. "The ministry 
pays contractors for uprooting and replanting and, in their 
contract, there is no clause that allows for trade in the trees. If 
there is such a trade, it is a criminal activity," it said.
Some contracts require the olive trees to be 
relocated to areas suggested by their owners outside the 
Israeli-declared security zone. But Yael Stein, researcher for 
B'tselem, an Israeli human rights organisation, said: "We have never 
seen any relocation. The contractors cannot just sell the trees. 
That is theft."
While the trees may be ornaments to Israelis, olives 
are the lifeblood of Palestinian agriculture, almost the only crop 
which grows on the stony hillsides of the West Bank without 
irrigation. Most Palestinians are unemployed

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Antiwar Effort Gains Momentum
Growing Peace Movement's Ranks Include Some Unlikely Allies

By Evelyn Nieves
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 2, 2002; Page A01

AMHERST, Mass. -- The idea was hatched on a bright day in August, when Daphne Reed
was celebrating her daughter's and granddaughter's birthdays, and the talk around the
living room sofa turned to war.Reed began worrying that her 25-year-old grandson, who
spent four years in the Coast Guard, might be called to serve if the United States 
were to
invade Iraq. Her family also wondered why the United States was threatening to invade 
Iraq
even before United Nations weapons inspections began. And Reed fretted over the
particular suffering that would befall Iraqi women; their sons and husbands would be 
killed,
she said, and the women would be left in the rubble to fend off contaminated water and
starvation.

I said that all mothers should automatically be against war, Reed said. It was 
against
their nature to be violent instead of nurturing. Maybe, she said, it was time to 
start a
movement -- Mothers Against War.

Reed's response is just a tiny part of a growing peace movement that has been gaining
momentum and raises the possibility that there could be much more dissent if U.S. bombs
begin falling on Baghdad.

The retired Hampshire College drama teacher e-mailed about 15 parents in her address
book. Reed reached people such as Elaine Kenseth, whose five children include a son she
adopted from the killing fields of Cambodia. Aileen O'Donnell, a veteran of the women's
movement. Joanne and Roger Lind, whose son was a Vietnam War conscientious objector.
And Elizabeth Verrill, who had never been involved in political causes. Before long, 
Mothers
Against War had 50 core members, and thousands of supporters around the country and
the world.

Most members of Mothers Against War are grandmothers in their seventies whose lives are
already full. Yet they spend hours a day on the Internet, reading and spreading 
information
on Iraq and the United States and planning for marches, e-mail campaigns and teach-ins.
Having lived through the Vietnam antiwar movement, which took years to build, the 
Mothers
Against War are buoyed to find themselves part of a fast-growing movement of people
from every walk of life, from every political stripe.

The extraordinary array of groups questioning the Bush administration's rationale for 
an
invasion of Iraq includes longtime radical groups such as the Workers World Party, but 
also
groups not known for taking stands against the government. There is a labor movement
against war, led by organizers of the largest unions in the country; a religious 
movement
against the war, which includes leaders of virtually every mainstream denomination; a
veterans movement against the war, led by those who fought Iraq in the Persian Gulf a
decade ago; business leaders against the war, led by corporate leaders; an antiwar
movement led by relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks; and immigrant 
groups
against the war.

There are also black and Latino organizations, hundreds of campus antiwar groups and
scores of groups of ordinary citizens meeting in community centers and church basements
from Baltimore to Seattle.

It has reached a point where United for Peace, a Web site started by the San Francisco-
based human rights organization Global Exchange for groups to list events commemorating
the Sept. 11 anniversary, has morphed into a national network coordinating events for
more than 70 peace groups nationwide.

We're taking the . . . Web site and rebuilding it as a one-stop shopping for the 
antiwar
movement, said Andrea Buffa, who co-chairs the new network. It's a campaign of all
different kinds of groups, from the National Council of Churches to the International
Socialists organization; I just got a call from the Raging Grannies of Palo Alto, who 
want to
join. We're bringing groups together to develop a consensus statement and a calendar of
coordinated antiwar events.

Next Test: Dec. 10 Rallies

After large rallies in Washington and San Francisco on Oct. 26, the next big day to 
test the
antiwar movement's might is Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day. Hundreds of groups
plan events, rallies and civil disobedience to capture the nation's attention, 
including
demonstrations in Lafayette Park across from the White House and at a military 
recruitment
center in downtown Washington.

Otherwise, antiwar groups, which tend to rely on the Internet to receive and spread
information, operate largely without the attention of the media or Capitol Hill. Yet 
many of
those speaking out against an attack on Iraq represent large numbers of Americans,
including John J. Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO (with 13 million members); the
National Council of Churches (which represents 36 Protestant and Orthodox 
denominations,

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