[CTRL] Fortunate Sons
-Caveat Lector- http://www.allhatnocattle.net/AA.jpg http://www.suntimes.com/output/pickett/cst-nws-pickett17.html Different kind of 'bias' benefitted president January 17, 2003 BY DEBRA PICKETT SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Advertisement I've been counting and, so far, have come up with exactly one thing I have in common with President Bush: We both went to Ivy League schools, the same ones our fathers did. Which makes us beneficiaries of one of the coziest little affirmative action programs this fine country has to offer. Bush stopped short of actually uttering the words affirmative action when he got us all talking about this Wednesday. Instead, he kept to the specifics of the University of Michigan admissions formulas that are the subject of a case now before the Supreme Court, calling them divisive, unfair and impossible to square with the Constitution. He didn't mention anything about the whole deal with Ivy League alumni kids. Bush was a C student. His SAT score, 1206 out of a possible 1600, while above the national average, was well below average for Yale's class of 1968. He got in primarily because he was a legacy, the son of an alumnus. This might sound divisive and unfair, especially if you are, let's say, a very smart kid whose parents didn't go to Yale, but it does square with the Constitution, because Yale, like the University of Pennsylvania, where I went to school, is a private institution. The University of Michigan is a state school, publicly funded and, as far as the law is concerned, an agency of the government. It doesn't have the kind of legal leeway the Ivy League schools do. Michigan, which receives about 25,000 applications every year for its undergraduate classes of 5,000 students, devised a 150-point scale for ranking its applicants. Twenty points--about one-fifth of what it takes to get in--are given for applicants whose presence on campus would help the university meet its diversity goals. African-American and Hispanic students get the points, as do recruited athletes and those from poor families. And Michigan's law school sets aside a certain number of seats each year for African-American and Hispanic applicants. When some Michigan state legislators heard about the university's admissions policies, they put out a call for white students who believed they'd been rejected because less-qualified African-American and Hispanic students were accepted instead. The Center for Individual Rights, a Washington legal foundation, came forward to underwrite a lawsuit. And plenty of pissed-off white kids stepped up to volunteer. Interestingly, they didn't seem to be pissed off about the football players and basketball players and impoverished kids. And, lucky for the president and me, they weren't at all upset about the legacy kids, who, under the Michigan system, get four extra points. It was the blacks and Hispanics who really got to them. And, of course, it was the presence of race as a factor that gave them some legal ground to stand on. Because, while there are no laws against discriminating against people who don't have the good fortune to have parents who went to Yale, there are plenty of laws against discriminating on the basis of race. The Michigan plaintiffs say they were discriminated against because they are white. Jennifer Gratz, a now-25-year-old white woman from Southgate, Mich., was among the first in line to sign on to the lawsuit. She told reporters that her reaction immediately after receiving her rejection letter in 1995 was, Can we sue them? Though she was a B student with mediocre test scores, she was sure that some underqualified minority had taken her spot at Michigan. She says her life is now forever changed, that she's given up her dream of being a doctor and that she'll never know what kind of doors might have opened for her if she'd attended the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus, instead of the less-prestigious one in Dearborn, where she ended up. Bush announced Wednesday that his administration will file a brief in support of Gratz's suit. But he doesn't seem to be putting any effort into finding the person whose spot he took at Yale. It's too bad the statute of limitations is up because it would make an interesting case: It was 1964. I had great grades and perfect SATs, but George Bush was ahead of me in line. He spent his four years at Yale partying and drinking beer, while I would have started researching a cure for cancer. To be fair, I haven't tracked down anyone who got rejected by Penn so I could apologize to them, either. I'm sure there were lots of very worthy students who didn't get accepted because of legacy kids like me. I got lucky. They didn't. No matter how mathematical anybody tries to make it, the college admissions process will always be somewhat arbitrary and subjective. Because schools aren't just looking for kids who do really well on tests. They're looking for kids who play sports and study dead languages and, in the case
[CTRL] Hello, Mr Chips
-Caveat Lector- Lay's used to be a potato chip if it still isn't ... A:E:R http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/11703_zbus_enron.html Grand jury investigates former Enron chairman's loans By The Associated Press (1/17/03- Houston) A grand jury investigating activities of former Enron Corp. chairman Ken Lay has reportedly heard testimony from two former members of the fallen energy trading company's board of directors. Sources told the Houston Chronicle in Friday's editions that Charles LeMaistre and John Duncan were called this week as information witnesses on Lay but were not targets themselves. Grand jurors for months have been investigating stock trades by and company loans to Lay, the sources said. LeMaistre, the retired head of University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center who ran the Enron board's compensation committee, and Duncan, a former Gulf Western Industries executive who also served on the compensation committee, left the board last February. Federal investigators have been trying to determine if Lay broke insider-trading laws when he sold $70 million in stock in 2001 as the company plunged toward bankruptcy. Attorneys for Houston-based Enron filed what was then the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history on Dec. 2, 2001. After more than six months of meetings, the grand jury has already indicted former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow and three British ex- bankers. The panel is also investigating Enron's broadband division to determine whether its financial and technological performance was misrepresented by company officers, including former CEO Jeff Skilling. The directors are cooperating with the Department of Justice as they have cooperated with other investigating bodies, Neil Eggleston, a Washington, D.C.- based lawyer for the board members, told the newspaper. An Enron Task Force prosecutor investigating Lay, Samuel Buell, would not comment Thursday about the investigation. Prosecutors are not allowed to discuss grand jury proceedings. Last May, former Enron board members were also called to testify last May before a Senate subcommittee investigating the company. Board members told the panel they had no idea that Lay was withdrawing millions in loans and repaying the money with stock options. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued a report in July criticizing the board for allowing Lay to draw down repeatedly on a line of credit, then repay the loan with stock. Lay used the credit line between October 2000 and October 2001 to obtain $77 million from the company, repaying with Enron stock. LeMaister earlier told the Senate committee, We never had any responsibility to monitor this. But the panel's report blasted the directors for ignoring red flags about Enron's financial and accounting practices, arguing that only the board could control Lay's behavior. An attorney for the directors responded that they can't be in a position to check on every fact going on in a company and that they were themselves kept in the dark or lied to sometimes. The newspaper said grand jurors have heard in recent months from Enron's former general counsel, Lay's secretaries, accountants and even his children. This week, a secretary of Lay's reportedly testified before the grand jury. Mike Ramsey, Lay's lawyer, did not return a telephone call early Friday from The Associated Press. Ramsey has earlier said nothing was wrong with Lay's trading or his use of the loan options he had at the company. (Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) - Talk about this story - General posting board Last Updated: Jan 17, 2003 A:E:R Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article has to stand on its own merits. Therefore, unless I am a first-hand witness to any event described, I cannot attest to its validity. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra 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
[CTRL] Sons of the Fathers
-Caveat Lector- http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxxi/2001.01.19/opinion/p11bblue.html True blue-bloods shouldn't get royal treatment BY DANIEL KRUGER Yale talks a lot about diversity and scholarship. Indeed, Yale officials seem to value these aspects of the University so much that ideas on how to improve both are hardly ever absent from the campus dialogue. Recently, much of this discussion has centered on admissions policiesissues such as how to make the cover of the viewbook look more enticing, how to recruit from underrepresented areas, and whether or not to accept the Common Application. These are fine points for consideration, but it's time to consider the most striking, and least discussed, of Yale College admissions practices automatic preference for legacies. V. STEPHANIE CARENDI/YH It's notably odd that an applicant's family name might affect his or her admission into an institution that espouses liberal learning. In 1863, Josh-ua Chamberlain, who would later become president of Bowdoin College in Maine, noted that, In America, we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. The reality today is striking: those whose parents were affiliated with Yale College or one of the graduate schools were admitted to the class of 2004 at a rate of 29.8 percent. Over the past 10 years, the admittance rate for those whose families were Yale- affiliated varied to well above 30 percent. In contrast, Yale's combined acceptance rate for all students last year was a mere 16.2 percentand this was unusually high. Are students with family connections really twice as qualified to attend Yale? There are some valid reasons to expect relatives of Yale affiliates to have a higher acceptance rate. They usually come from privileged families. Indeed, true equal opportunity in college admissions is a mere utopian dream, since one cannot divorce such heavily influential factors as economic class, nationality, and family stability from childhood ach-ievement. However, in an age when even the British House of Lords has eliminated hereditary considerations, we should demand to know how Yale possibly justifies an admissions policy that specifically considers the family background into which applicants are born. Indeed, special consideration for legacies seems opposed to the goals of equity that are commonly acceptedif not always practicedin America today. Yale, in its policy statement, claims to strive to ensure equal opportunity for students, employees, and applicants for employment or admission. A policy that weighs an applicant's credentials with his or her birth status doesn't seem to fit the spirit of Yale's statement. Rather, this is an affront to scholarship and the individual achievements of every prospective Yale student. Legacy considerations also seem to offset, if not oppose, Yale's commitment to a diverse student body. According to Undergraduate Admissions, 14.1 percent of the matriculates in the class of 2004 had families with some kind of Yale affiliation. This pool constituted a larger percentage of the class than any single ethnic or racial minority group, radically differing from the demographic make-up of the country at large. The Department of Undergraduate Admission's official line is understandably downplayed, usually appearing in an obscure spot in news articles around admission time. Typically, it makes claims such as being a legacy can push you over the edge but not automatically decide whether an applicant is admitted. Truly there are some compelling benefits to the school of admitting legacies. Members of Yale families tend to contribute to the University in numerous ways, from monetary donations to appearances at events on behalf of Yale. Perhaps the Admissions Office might view special consideration for their children as a way of insuring such continued alumni involvement. Yale students who support maintaining legacy consideration in the admissions processand they were heard in force at a Yale Political Union debate last termoften argue on the grounds of aristocratic leadership. They hold that prospective students whose parents were Yale-educated were taught to have a greater appreciation for the institution. Legacy proponents further claim that such applicants have been taught throughout their childhoods to emulate the leadership qualities that Yale seeks. But even if this assertion could be verified generally, it is hardly substantial enough to be the basis for an admissions policy. Yale already knows that if it is ever truly to achieve a diverse group of scholars, its admissions philosophy needs to change. While image reform and outreach to under-represented areas are important, Yale should take its own initiative further and finally abolish legacy considerations. The world is filled with talented students who could contribute much to future classes it would be a shame for Yale to pass them by for the sake of tradition and sentiment. Daniel Kruger is a freshman in
[CTRL] For the Rich Lazy
-Caveat Lector- http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=14375 Joe Conason's Journal: 1.16.03 Joe Conason - Salon.com 01.16.03 - Remedial reading for the rich and lazy Among the many email comments on Bush and affirmative action were two revealing dispatches from academia. The first came from a woman whose husband has worked for more than two decades in student services at a university. She asked not to be identified further: Anyone familiar with a modern university knows that it is not a 'meritocracy' and there is preferential treatment all the time. It is not just the 'legacy' admissions like George W. It is also the athletes--who get all sorts of academic support But one group that receives incredible special treatment (not just admission) seems to be under the radar. My husband works for a university that has a huge 'LD' program that essentially allows rich white students to buy special treatment in college. By getting a doctor's diagnosis as 'learning disabled' and paying for 'enhanced LD services,' parents of these students get tutors, extra testing time, assistance on tests, etc. It is a virtual 'profit center; for the cash- strapped university, and many of these students are not so much 'learning disabled' as they are rich, lazy and dumb! Some of these people have to have their exams read to them because they can't read; others can't write; they get four hours instead of two to complete an exam, etc. There is a huge amount of staff time and energy [spent] just getting these kids through college. But none of it shows up on the transcript--it's all confidential! When you see these kids pull up for services and jump out of the $40,000 SUV that daddy bought them, its hard not to get a bit irritated .[This] is happening at universities all over the country. The program needs to be exposed, but too many people are afraid to speak up for fear of being accused of discriminating against the disabled. But the reality is that the key criterion for receiving these services is ability to pay . Remedial education is, of course, a major complaint of affirmative action's critics. If remedial ed for legacies gets dressed up as services to the disabled, however, that's just fine. Isn't that special? While searching my office for W's autobiography this morning, I came across an old copy of Debating Affirmative Action, an excellent paperback anthology of essays from all perspectives edited by Nicolaus Mills. It includes a 1991 article reprinted from the Washington Monthly on legacy admissions by John Larew, a former chairman (meaning editor) of the Harvard Crimson. Investigating quotas for the rich and well-born, Larew came across an advertisement in the right-wing Dartmouth Review. Placed by a group of concerned conservative alumni, the ad demanded an end to goals or quotas for any special group or category of applicants. Equal opportunity must be the guiding policy based solely on individual performance. As Larew read on, however, he came to this qualification: Alumni sons and daughters should receive some special consideration. [5 p.m. PST, Jan. 16, 2003] The Yale man's legacy Our text for this morning after the president's denunciation of affirmative action at the University of Michigan can be found on Pages 21-22 of A Charge to Keep, the George W. Bush autobiography (written by Karen Hughes): Andover taught me the power of high standards. I was surrounded by people who were very smart, and that encouraged me to rise to the occasion. I was a solid student but not a top student. I did well in the courses I liked, such as history, math, and Spanish, and not so well in others, such as English. When I met with the dean to discuss different college options, I told him I would like to go to Yale. Many in my family had gone there; they loved the school and their love was infectious. On several weekends I had visited Yale to watch football games, and I was impressed by the campus. The dean tactfully suggested that I might think of other universities as well. I told him that if I did not get into Yale, there was only one other option for me, the University of Texas. I was not sure what would happen. I looked forward to either alternative. It was chaos in the mailroom the day the college acceptance letters arrived. The fat envelopes brought good news, the skinny ones rejection letters. I received a fat envelope from Yale and so did thirty-eight of my Andover classmates. Let's examine a couple of key phrases in that uplifting passage. I was a solid student but not a top student ... The dean tactfully suggested that I might think of other universities as well. It sounds as if Bush was pretty confident of attending Yale despite his so-so prep school transcript. He probably chose UT as his safety school because he surmised the state university wouldn't reject a prominent Texas politician's son. (That much he was easily smart enough to figure out.) Why was the Andover dean so concerned about Bush's
[CTRL] Bomb threats target El Paso's bridges
-Caveat Lector- http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/1_18_03bomb_threats.html Bomb threats target El Paso's bridges The Associated Press Jan. 18, 2003 EL PASO - U.S. Customs Service officials are asking for help in tracking down the source of 15 bomb threats against El Paso's international bridges that have been called in since Jan. 1. The agency received eight of those calls Jan. 10. For all of 2002, customs officials said 19 threats were made against the bridges. We must take all threats seriously, and the law enforcement response can result in closures of more than two hours at times, said P.T. Wright, the U.S. Customs Service's director of field operations for West Texas and New Mexico. On the federal level, anyone making bomb threats faces felony terrorist threat charges. Locally, false report charges can be filed, and they range from a class A misdemeanor to a third-degree felony. Anyone with information related to the bomb threats can anonymously report information to the U.S. Customs Service by calling (800) BE-ALERT. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus 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] FDA searching for stolen baby food
-Caveat Lector- http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/local/daily/0117yemen.html FDA searching for stolen baby food West Chester Twp. warehouse belongs to jailed Yemeni By Wes Hills e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dayton Daily News Agents for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration searched for adulterated or repackaged baby food in the West Chester Twp. warehouse of a Beavercreek man the FBI is investigating on suspicion of funding a terrorist. The search of the wholesale distribution business of Ali Kareem Aladimis Twins Wholesale Inc. was conducted Monday after law enforcement officers who had searched the warehouse on Dec. 30 reported seeing about 100 pallets of Enfamil and Similac infant formula. The earlier search was for Gerber baby products stolen in Marshall County, Miss., on Dec. 29. Aladimi pleaded not guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati to charges of interstate transportation of stolen goods and receiving stolen property. A native of Yemen and a naturalized U.S. citizen, Aladimi, 41, is being held in jail without bond. In 1999, federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents seized more than $750,000 in cash from Aladimis home. According to the Secret Service, it was packaged in resealed hair coloring cartons and ready for bulk shipment overseas to Yemen. Federal prosecutors have argued that Aladimi should remain in jail because of concerns over his attempt to bring foreign nationals into the country. His lawyer, Janet Kravitz, filed documents with the court on Wednesday saying Aladimi had U.S. government approval to bring in 22 Yemeni craftsmen to do stained-glass work. Kravitz has said Aladimi isnt linked to terrorist activity and isnt a security threat. Fred Alverson, a spokesman for the U.S. attorneys office, said this week that federal authorities have not linked Aladimi to any terrorist activity, but the FBI continues to investigate. Aladimi has lived in the United States for about 20 years. Today, Kravitz will ask U.S. District Judge Sandra Beckwith to set bond. Aladimi has said he didnt know the baby food had been reported stolen before it arrived at his warehouse. Aladimi also is awaiting trial in California on charges that he conspired to distribute over-the-counter drugs that turned up at a methamphetamine laboratory. The warrant for Mondays search of Aladimis warehouse was based on a sworn statement by FDA Senior Special Agent Marc S. Griswold. In addition to the 100 pallets of Enfamil and Similac infant formula, Griswold said law enforcement officers also saw in their earlier search two or three machines used to reshrink wrap products, a stamping machine that imprinted the words use by this date, a quantity of rubbing alcohol and what appeared to be new boxes used to package infant formula. Griswold said that certain criminal enterprises specialize in the illegal repackaging and resale of expired infant formula. These groups typically purchase large quantities of soon-to-expire and expired infant formula then repackage it so as to appear new. On other occasions, these enterprises steal such formula. Griswold said there is probable cause to believe that the warehouse held evidence of the possible adulteration, misbranding and counterfeiting of food products. No public filing has been made of what the agents found in the search. Contact Wes Hills at 225-2261 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] This report includes information from The Associated Press. [From the Dayton Daily News: 01.17.2003] -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus 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) Tolerance Totalitarians
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Tolerance Totalitarians by Steven Yates Over the months Ive occasionally taken a little heat for having once written a column endorsing Bush the Younger over Gore back in 2000. Whether we would be any better off under a Gore Regime than the Bush Regime we have is something we (thankfully!) shall never have to find out. Republicans, though especially since the takeover of the GOP in the early 1990s by the neocons have not only failed to stand up to those I will call tolerance totalitarians, they have joined them. The Trent Lott fiasco illustrated this perfectly. The cultural Marxists didnt have to lift a finger. Lott was tarred and feathered by his own party not excepting Bush the Younger, and it never occurred to the political elites or media talking heads to connect Lotts remarks with anything except race. But when it comes to advancing the cause of thought control in America, Republicans still dont quite measure up to Democrats. Consider, for example, remarks made by former House Minority Leader and newly announced Democratic presidential hopeful Dick Gephardt during his recent visit to South Carolina. Gephardt denounced the Confederate flag and stated that it should not be accorded any official display anywhere in the state . The Confederate flag is a hurtful, divisive symbol and, in my view, has no place flying anywhere in any state in this country. He added in an interview with Columbias The State newspaper: I want to be crystal clear to the people of South Carolina where I stand on this issue. The flag should not fly anywhere in this country . [M]y own personal feeling is that the Confederate flag no longer has a place flying any time, anywhere in our great nation. As if on cue, state officials in Missouri, Gephardts home state, removed Confederate flags from two historic sites this past Tuesday. The flags were removed from the grounds of the Confederate Memorial Historic Site and the Fort Davidson Historic Site, although not from inside their visitor centers. According to an AP report, the flag had flown for decades without controversy or criticism from public officials at the Confederate Memorial near Higginsville. The remains of 694 Confederate veterans and 108 wives are buried at the site. This illustrates how quickly state officials will jump when a tolerance totalitarian barks. These days they dont even have to be told. Lets analyze this thing a little more closely. Note the anywhere that cropped up at least three times in Gephardts remarks, and was implied throughout. What, precisely, does it mean? Gephardt didnt tell us. He didnt qualify by stating for example that while it is inappropriate to fly the Confederate flag on public grounds such as behind the Confederate Soldier Memorial at the South Carolina State House, flying it on private property is an individuals right under the First Amendment to the US Constitution. No politician wanting to survive inside todays Beltway culture, much less one with presidential aspirations, would say anything like that. Despite the war that has been waged against the Confederate flag for over ten years now, most people even NAACP leaders still see a private citizen as having a right to fly whatever flag he wants on his own property. However, as tolerance totalitarianism continues to grow, this could change. Consider: flying the Confederate flag over ones business had become a touchy proposition by 2000, the year the flag came down off the South Carolina State House Dome. Barbecue baron Maurice Bessinger, long one of the Confederate flags staunchest supporters in Columbia, can give you an earful. He would remind you that many large corporations have become as politically correct as universities and governments. Bessinger had raised the Confederate flag over his restaurants that summer in protest against its removal from the Dome. In August of that year, The State published a slashing and very personal attack on Bessinger and his business, insinuating that he was a racist who believed in slavery. I have known Bessinger personally for a number of years. Hes no racist, just one of the few men left who believes an entrepreneur has a right to run his business as he sees fit if his customers are satisfied and he isnt interfering with anyone else. However, no one bothered to try and find out the truth. Within a matter of weeks, nearly all the major grocery chains serving South Carolina had pulled his products from their shelves. By Christmas, Bessinger had lost 98 percent of his wholesale business, a business that took him over 40 years to build. Thus as tolerance totalitarianism has continued its alarming spread into corporate America (in this case, the grocery chains and businesses such as Wal-Mart), exercising your First Amendment rights can cost you dearly. Bessinger is over 70 years old. He will probably never repair the damage to his business that
[CTRL] Counter 9.11 Conspiracy
-Caveat Lector- Today I have completed 16 years of number crunching. So I am sticking my neck out even further than usual... Counter 9.11 Conspiracy The primary purpose of this post is for others to consider the implications if there is 'Time Agenda' in operation for a war in the Middle East, namely that war or terrorism and war will happen over the 'War Weekend' of February 1st and 2nd 2003. Anyway, my 'Counter 9.11 Conspiracy' post suggests that unseen dark spiritual forces enter the minds of those who have power to make decisions or advise on important decision making. Thus telepathy is used in the form where the mind actually thought it did the thinking, and so had the original thought, even to pull a trigger. And I cannot point to historical, archaeological, and even mythological evidence that seems to support such a theory where telepathy played an important role in changing an event other than a Biblical one concerning the Exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt. And in this instance, the telepathy that hardened the Pharaoh's heart was of God: And the Yahweh spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast [it] before Pharaoh, [and] it shall become a serpent. And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as Yahweh had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent. Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments. For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as Yahweh had said. And Yahweh said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart [is] hardened, he refuseth to let the people go. Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand. And thou shalt say unto him, the Lord God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear. Thus saith Yahweh, In this thou shalt know that I [am] Yahweh: behold, I will smite with the rod that [is] in mine hand upon the waters which [are] in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. Exodus 7:8-16 So in some ways it seems rather unfair to those like Dr. Henry Kissinger who could be a chosen vessel for alien telepathy, a powerful puppet, who has instigated actions which some say are barbaric and diabolical. Thus are some of the machinations of various secretive organizations such as the Freemasons, the Club of Rome, the Bilderberger Group, the Trilateral Commission, and other powerful individuals and associations influenced by alien telepathy? OK, some say the 'Elite' inner circle members of the Bilderbergs are conspiring to politically and economically to dominate the entire world under their New World Order, more recently called Globalization, or Global Union, Global Economy, Global Order, Global Environment. And When President G.H.W. Bush used the term New World Order in several of his speeches, it seemingly aroused suspicion and concern among the US public and so 'Globalization' etc is now used, but we are still talking about the New World Order. I read that the New World Order's plan is to create the American Union by the year 2005, meaning the 'Council of the Americas'. This will include all of the nations of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean Islands, and will function just like the present European Union. And that there will be only one monetary system, one central bank, one (un-elected) governing body, one military force, one judicial system, no borders, and no Constitution and Bill of Rights. At the 'Council of the Americas' conference on May 6th, 2002 the founder and Honorary Chairman, David Rockefeller thanked Vice President Dick Cheney was thanked for his remarks. So here I have a 'numerology' coincidence as far as my number crunching goes, where the Skull and Bones reference number 322 is 'written' into the date May 6th 2002, that is seemingly not to do with the establishment of the 'Council of the Americas' but with September 11th 2001 and the 'War Weekend' of February 1st 2003. Thus counting from September 11th 2001 to May 6th 2002, that is counting from day 253/365.242198 days + 2001 is September 11th 2001.69269 to May 6th 2002.342239 is 0.64954 years x 365.242198 days is 237.2425 days. And then counting backwards from 5am February 1st 2003 to May 6th 2002 is 271.4521 days x 237.2425 days is twice 32,200 a Skull and Bones reference number is 322. So the date for David Rockefeller's 'Council of the Americas' conference on May 6th, 2002 was seemingly 'coincidently' set a strategic position to
Re: [CTRL] (Fwd) Tolerance Totalitarians
-Caveat Lector- I see a few problems here - 1) - tentt Lott and his comments on strom Thurmond - Thurmond ran on a party, the dixiecrats, that's central platform, and the reason it split from the majority party, was segregation. In other words the only way they distinguished themselves as a party was on the issue of race. So to say that country would have been better if the leader of that party wins IS a statement about the policies of that party - whether or not that is what Lott intended. To say that the country would be better off if the segregationist party won certainly sounds like a ringing endorsement of racial division and inequality. More telling was the best lie Lott could come with was the he often voted against his conscience when he supported various racially divisive policies. So he was either a liar then, or he's a liar now. Not much of a defense really. 2) the confederate flag. No one - no one suggested that Maurice be banned from using the flag as a private citizen, or that his stores be shut down. Citizens and businesses , by choice, decided to pull their products because they did not agree with his actions. This is called democracy. See how it works - people decide. It does not matter that the flag stands for something else as well as the slavery issue. Just as it does not matter that the swastika is a Hindu symbol. It has taken on the other larger meaning, and just as you wouldn't want a Hindu congressman flying the swastika from his office, the stars and bars acre in the same situation. on 01/19/03 9:53 AM, klewis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Tolerance Totalitarians by Steven Yates Over the months Ive occasionally taken a little heat for having once written a column endorsing Bush the Younger over Gore back in 2000. Whether we would be any better off under a Gore Regime than the Bush Regime we have is something we (thankfully!) shall never have to find out. Republicans, though especially since the takeover of the GOP in the early 1990s by the neocons have not only failed to stand up to those I will call tolerance totalitarians, they have joined them. The Trent Lott fiasco illustrated this perfectly. The cultural Marxists didnt have to lift a finger. Lott was tarred and feathered by his own party not excepting Bush the Younger, and it never occurred to the political elites or media talking heads to connect Lotts remarks with anything except race. But when it comes to advancing the cause of thought control in America, Republicans still dont quite measure up to Democrats. Consider, for example, remarks made by former House Minority Leader and newly announced Democratic presidential hopeful Dick Gephardt during his recent visit to South Carolina. Gephardt denounced the Confederate flag and stated that it should not be accorded any official display anywhere in the state . The Confederate flag is a hurtful, divisive symbol and, in my view, has no place flying anywhere in any state in this country. He added in an interview with Columbias The State newspaper: I want to be crystal clear to the people of South Carolina where I stand on this issue. The flag should not fly anywhere in this country . [M]y own personal feeling is that the Confederate flag no longer has a place flying any time, anywhere in our great nation. snip -- The concept of ³god² is just a future memory of ourselves. Barney Funkasaurus NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew 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] Deception By Language
-Caveat Lector- What a great argument. How about if we call conservatives : baby eating monsters and liberal angelic ones Then people would overwhelmingly come in favor of angelic ones. on 01/19/03 1:11 AM, iNFoWaRZ at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does this relate to politics? The ordinary person on the street has no interest in politics. He does not know the history related to words 'liberal' or 'conservative'. He makes a random choice. But if on the other hand he was given a choice between a Constitutionalist and a Socialist, the results would overwhelmingly come in favor of the Constitutionalist. -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. Abraham Lincoln NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew 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] Deception By Language
-Caveat Lector- At 10:58 AM 1/19/03 , you wrote: -Caveat Lector- What a great argument. How about if we call conservatives : baby eating monsters and liberal angelic ones Then people would overwhelmingly come in favor of angelic ones. How about if we tell the truth and call Democrats, elite totalitarian socialist tyrants. And call the neo-con Republicans, elite totalitarian socialist tyrants. And the small number of Americans who still believe in American heritage and the Constitution, Constitutionalists. THEN, it would be the Constitutionalists versus the entire corruption that is Washington DeCeived, and THEN, something could be accomplished. Until then it is phoney partisan squabbles until America falls off the cliff and is sucked into the elites Global Plantation. American stands at the edge of that cliff now. 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: [CIA-DRUGS] Rothschild and BCCI (and Soros and Israel)
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- excerpt from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rpf_2/message/9844 But, what has never been identified in a single major Western press investigation, was that the Rothschild group was at the heart of the vast illegal web of BCCI. The key figure was Dr. Alfred Hartmann, the managing director of the BCCI Swiss subsidiary, Banque de Commerce et de Placement SA; at the same time, he ran the Zurich Rothschild Bank AG, and sat in London as a member of the board of N.M. Rothschild and Sons, Hartmann was also a business partner of Helmut Raiser, friend of de Picciotto, and linked to Nordex. Hartmann was also chairman of the Swiss affiliate of the Italian BNL bank, which was implicated in the Bush administration illegal transfers to Iraq prior to the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The Atlanta branch of BNL, with the knowledge of George Bush when he was vice president, conduited funds to Helmut Raiser's Zug, Switzerland company, Consen, for development of the CondorII missile program by Iraq, Egypt, and Argentina, during the Iran-Iraq War. Hartmann was vice-chairman of another secretive private Geneva bank, the Bank of NY-Inter-Maritime Bank, a bank whose chairman, Bruce Rappaport, was one of the illegal financial conduits for Col. Oliver North's Contra drugs-for-weapons network during the late 1980. North also used the BCCI as one of his preferred banks to hide his illegal funds. Rich, Reichmann, and Soros's Israeli links According to reports of former U.S. State Department intelligence officers familiar with the Soros case, Soros's Quantum Fund amassed a war chest of well over $10 billion, with the help of a powerful group of silent investors who let Soros deploy the capital to demolish European monetary stability in September 1992. Among Soros's silent investors, these sources say, are the fugitive metals and oil trader Marc Rich, based in Zug, Switzerland; and Shaul Eisenberg, a decades-long member of Israeli Mossad intelligence, who functions as a major arms merchant throughout Asia and the Near East. Eisenberg was recently banned from doing business in Uzbekistan, where he had been accused by the government of massive fraud and corruption. A third Soros partner is Israel's Dirty Rafi Eytan, who served in London previously as Mossad liaison to British intelligence. Rich was one of the most active western traders in oil, aluminum, and other commodities in the Soviet Union and Russia between 1989 and 1993. This, not coincidentally, is just the period when Grigori Luchansky's Nordex Group became a multibillion-dollar company selling Russian oil, aluminum, and other commodities. Canadian real estate entrepreneur Paul Reichmann, formerly of Olympia and York notoriety, a Hungarian-born Jew like Soros, is a business partner in Soros's Quantum Realty, a $525-million real estate investment fund. The Reichmann tie links Soros as well with Henry Kissinger and former Tory Foreign Minister Lord Carrington (who is also a member of Kissinger Associates, Inc. of New York). Reichmann sits with both Kissinger and Carrington on the board of the influential British-Canadian publishing group, Hollinger, Inc. Hollinger owns a large number of newspapers in Canada and the United States, the London Daily Telegraph, and the largest English- language daily in Israel, the Jerusalem Post. Hollinger has been attacking President Clinton and the Middle East peace process ever since Clinton's election in November 1992. Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
Re: [CTRL] Deception By Language
-Caveat Lector- I'm with you there The constitution is a remarkable document. Not complete, but remarkable. Tell me - do constitutionalists accept the amendments to the constitution, or only the original form? on 01/19/03 11:11 AM, iNFoWaRZ at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- At 10:58 AM 1/19/03 , you wrote: -Caveat Lector- What a great argument. How about if we call conservatives : baby eating monsters and liberal angelic ones Then people would overwhelmingly come in favor of angelic ones. How about if we tell the truth and call Democrats, elite totalitarian socialist tyrants. And call the neo-con Republicans, elite totalitarian socialist tyrants. And the small number of Americans who still believe in American heritage and the Constitution, Constitutionalists. THEN, it would be the Constitutionalists versus the entire corruption that is Washington DeCeived, and THEN, something could be accomplished. Until then it is phoney partisan squabbles until America falls off the cliff and is sucked into the elites Global Plantation. American stands at the edge of that cliff now. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om -- To Bigotry No Sanction, to Persecution No Assistance George Washington NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew 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: [CIA-DRUGS] Rothschild and BCCI (and Soros and Israel)
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- excerpt from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rpf_2/message/9844 But, what has never been identified in a single major Western press investigation, was that the Rothschild group was at the heart of the vast illegal web of BCCI. The key figure was Dr. Alfred Hartmann, the managing director of the BCCI Swiss subsidiary, Banque de Commerce et de Placement SA; at the same time, he ran the Zurich Rothschild Bank AG, and sat in London as a member of the board of N.M. Rothschild and Sons, Hartmann was also a business partner of Helmut Raiser, friend of de Picciotto, and linked to Nordex. Hartmann was also chairman of the Swiss affiliate of the Italian BNL bank, which was implicated in the Bush administration illegal transfers to Iraq prior to the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The Atlanta branch of BNL, with the knowledge of George Bush when he was vice president, conduited funds to Helmut Raiser's Zug, Switzerland company, Consen, for development of the CondorII missile program by Iraq, Egypt, and Argentina, during the Iran-Iraq War. Hartmann was vice-chairman of another secretive private Geneva bank, the Bank of NY-Inter-Maritime Bank, a bank whose chairman, Bruce Rappaport, was one of the illegal financial conduits for Col. Oliver North's Contra drugs-for-weapons network during the late 1980. North also used the BCCI as one of his preferred banks to hide his illegal funds. Rich, Reichmann, and Soros's Israeli links According to reports of former U.S. State Department intelligence officers familiar with the Soros case, Soros's Quantum Fund amassed a war chest of well over $10 billion, with the help of a powerful group of silent investors who let Soros deploy the capital to demolish European monetary stability in September 1992. Among Soros's silent investors, these sources say, are the fugitive metals and oil trader Marc Rich, based in Zug, Switzerland; and Shaul Eisenberg, a decades-long member of Israeli Mossad intelligence, who functions as a major arms merchant throughout Asia and the Near East. Eisenberg was recently banned from doing business in Uzbekistan, where he had been accused by the government of massive fraud and corruption. A third Soros partner is Israel's Dirty Rafi Eytan, who served in London previously as Mossad liaison to British intelligence. Rich was one of the most active western traders in oil, aluminum, and other commodities in the Soviet Union and Russia between 1989 and 1993. This, not coincidentally, is just the period when Grigori Luchansky's Nordex Group became a multibillion-dollar company selling Russian oil, aluminum, and other commodities. Canadian real estate entrepreneur Paul Reichmann, formerly of Olympia and York notoriety, a Hungarian-born Jew like Soros, is a business partner in Soros's Quantum Realty, a $525-million real estate investment fund. The Reichmann tie links Soros as well with Henry Kissinger and former Tory Foreign Minister Lord Carrington (who is also a member of Kissinger Associates, Inc. of New York). Reichmann sits with both Kissinger and Carrington on the board of the influential British-Canadian publishing group, Hollinger, Inc. Hollinger owns a large number of newspapers in Canada and the United States, the London Daily Telegraph, and the largest English- language daily in Israel, the Jerusalem Post. Hollinger has been attacking President Clinton and the Middle East peace process ever since Clinton's election in November 1992. Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
[CTRL] Oz Concerns About Mossad Death Squads
-Caveat Lector- http://news.com.au/newspulse Oz Concern About Mossad Death Squads News.com.au 1-19-3 Israeli death squads have been authorised to enter "friendly" countries and assassinate opponents in a move that raises the prospect of political killings in Australia. Agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad have been given free rein to kill those deemed to be a threat to the Jewish state - wherever they are hiding. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has until now refused permission for assassinations on the home ground of allies, has reversed the policy as part of a more aggressive approach to terrorism. The move was revealed by former Mossad agents in a series of interviews with US news agency United Press International. It was later confirmed by US intelligence officials. They said the policy raised the potential for killings in countries with close ties to Israel, including the US, Britain and Australia. One Mossad official told UPI the policy shift was prompted by "a huge budget" increase for the agency as part of "a tougher stance in fighting global jihad (or holy war)". "Targeted killings" have, in the main, been restricted to the West Bank and Gaza because "no one wanted such operations on their territory", one Israeli official said. But that is changing with the appointment late last year of new Mossad director Meir Dagan. Another former Mossad agent told UPI: "Diplomatic constraints have prevented Mossad from carrying out preventive operations (assassinations) on the soil of friendly countries until now." Mr Sharon and Mr Dagan were now "reversing that policy, even if it risks complications to Israel's bilateral relations". A third source said Mr Sharon wanted "greater operational maneuverability" for Mossad. Asked if that meant assassinations within allied countries, he said: "It does." The move comes in the wake of the assassination by the CIA of al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen. Qaed Sinan Harithi and five other suspects were killed last year when a unmanned Predator spy plane fired a Hellfire missile at their car. That attack is thought to have limited the ability of the US to protest about Mossad killings abroad. "That (the Predator attack) was done on the soil of a friendly ally," an official at the US Congress said. "I don't know on what basis we would be able to protest Israel's actions." Israel has in the past sent hit squads to kill opponents in hostile countries such as Lebanon, and snatch squads have been used extensively throughout the world. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina in 1960, taken to Israel and executed. In 1986, scientist Mordechai Vanunu was snatched in Rome and transported to Israel after revealing details of Israel's nuclear weapons program. He was sentenced to 18 years jail, only being released from solitary confinement in 1998. One of the few known cases of Mossad hitmen carrying out an assassination on friendly soil occurred on July 21, 1973, when a Mossad team shot dead Moroccan waiter Ahmed Bouchikhi as he walked home from the cinema with his pregnant wife in the Norwegian ski resort of Lillehammer. The assassins apparently mistook Bouchikhi for Hassan Salameh, a PLO intelligence chief suspected of masterminding the killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Gullow Gjeseth, who led a Norwegian Government inquiry into the shooting, said: "This was much more than a murder. This was a violation of Norwegian sovereignty." In January 1996, Israel paid undisclosed damages to Bouchikhi's family, but refused to admit responsibility for the killing. Mossad is thought to have struck again in October 1995, when the head of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, Fathi al-Shikai, was gunned down on the streets of Malta. The hit, though never formally claimed, had all the trademarks of the agency. A return to such killings is expected to raise concerns among Israel's Western allies. The assassinations are likely to be carried out by a unit of Mossad's secret Metsada department called the Kidon, a Hebrew word meaning "bayonet". The agents will have to answer to Mr Dagan, who has been described by a CIA agent as having a "real killer instinct". Officially, Israel has refused to confirm or deny the policy change. Kim Farber, a diplomat at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, told UPI: "There is so little information available on this, there is nothing I can add." A spokesman for Foreign Minister Alexander Downer yesterday refused to comment on the possibility of Mossad agents operating in Australia. A HREF=""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
[CTRL] Church to Get Lay'd
-Caveat Lector- Lay panel sets wide review of church http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/018/metro/Lay_panel_sets_wide_review_of_ church+.shtml Keating board to examine sexuality, role of celibacy By Michael Paulson, Globe Staff, 1/18/2003 NEW YORK - The national board created by the US Catholic bishops to examine the clergy sexual abuse crisis announced yesterday that it plans a sweeping examination of what went wrong, including an effort to determine the sexual orientation and practices of the church's avowedly celibate priests. The lay panel, led by former Governor Frank Keating of Oklahoma and packed with high-powered Catholic judges, lawyers, and business leaders, said it hopes by June to issue the first comprehensive study by the church of the scope of abuse by Catholic priests. The study, panel members said, will attempt an authoritative accounting of the number of abusive priests and abused minors, the gender and age of victims, the time period during which the abusers were trained and ordained, and the amount of money paid out by the church to settle litigation and treat victims and offenders. But the board said it would also embark on an unprecedented effort by a church- appointed body to determine what caused the crisis, focusing not on why individual priests molested minors, but on why Catholic bishops kept hundreds of molesters on the job as priests until public outrage forced change. ''For us to be complete, we have to deal with some of these big, big issues,'' said attorney Robert S. Bennett of Washington, a board member. ''I don't know how much value there is in spending too much time on why an accused priest did what he did - more important is why were priests permitted to move from parish to parish and diocese to diocese.'' Board members, after concluding a two-day meeting in New York, told reporters yesterday that they are determined to examine all possible causes of the crisis, including the roles of sexuality and celibacy, and the role of the church power structure. And they said they plan to undertake a sweeping epidemiological study focusing on the psychosexual development and behavior of Catholic clergy. ''We have to look at the institution, and at systemic problems,'' Bennett said. ''What is the role of celibacy? Of homosexuality? We are going to deal with the very tough issues. I'm certain we are not going to get into doctrinal issues, unless they are a cause.'' A variety of organizations, including news organizations and academic researchers, have attempted to assess the scope of abuse within the church and the sexual behavior of priests, but have always been stymied by a lack of cooperation by the church. ''People have tried to get their arms around these numbers for 12 years,'' acknowledged William R. Burleigh, chairman of the board and former CEO of the E.W. Scripps Company. The panelists said they are optimistic that bishops will cooperate with its efforts, because the board was appointed by the bishops and charged by them with writing reports about the crisis. ''If someone doesn't cooperate, everyone will know about it,'' Bennett said. ''The laity is not going to tolerate a bishop who doesn't cooperate.'' Board members said they are divided over whether to push bishops to turn over the names of all abusive priests, something many bishops have been reluctant to do. As part of the board's effort to determine what went wrong, it is planning to interview a number of Catholic prelates. Board members said that Cardinal Bernard F. Law, the former archbishop of Boston, agreed on Thursday to be interviewed by the board sometime over the next several months. The board also said that the administrator of the Archdiocese of Boston, Bishop Richard G. Lennon, has invited the board's subcommittee on ''safe environments'' to visit Boston to review the archdiocese's new program for training children to resist or report abuse by adults and training adults to spot and report abuse of minors. ''We know Boston is getting high marks,'' said Jane Chiles, former director of the Kentucky State Catholic Conference, who chairs the subcommittee. Chiles said her subcommittee will meet with Lennon, review Boston's training program, and meet with the archdiocese's liaison to victims. The National Review Board was created by the US bishops' conference last June as part of a Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. The board, according the charter, is supposed to ''commission a comprehensive study of the causes and context of the current crisis in order to understand the problem more fully and to enhance the effectiveness of future response'' and to ''commission a descriptive study, with the full cooperation of the dioceses/eparchies, of the nature and scope of the problem within the Catholic Church in the United States, including such data as statistics on perpetrators and victims.'' The board is also supposed to assist the church's new Office for Child and Youth
Re: [CTRL] Oz Concerns About Mossad Death Squads
Title: Re: [CTRL] Oz Concerns About Mossad Death Squads -Caveat Lector- Is this any different that our so called war o iraq, and the war on terrorism we are waging in general? on 01/19/03 2:08 PM, William Shannon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Israeli death squads have been authorised to enter friendly countries and assassinate opponents in a move that raises the prospect of political killings in Australia. Agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad have been given free rein to kill those deemed to be a threat to the Jewish state - wherever they are hiding. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has until now refused permission for assassinations on the home ground of allies, has reversed the policy as part of a more aggressive approach to terrorism. -- -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, is in a final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. -- Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953 NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Bush Is Racking Up Frequent Liar Miles
-Caveat Lector- Bush Is Racking Up Frequent Liar Miles Friday, 17 January 2003, 3:15 pm Strategy of lie and rely relies on media to disseminate Dubyas deceptions By Dennis Hans Lyndon Johnson is remembered for lying about Vietnam, Richard Nixon for lying about Watergate, Bill Clinton for lying about adultery. George W. Bush is known as a straight shooter. Whats wrong with that picture? Bush has, after all, racked up more frequent liar miles than any other politician in recent memory. Not familiar with frequent liar miles? I coined the expression to pay tribute to the staying power of Bushs lies. After all, a lie is of no use to the teller if it is promptly branded a lie and the teller a liar. Not only does he not benefit from the lie, his now-tarnished image makes it more difficult to get anyone to believe subsequent lies. Call it the Saddam Syndrome: A guy gets caught in a few lies and before you know it nothing he says is taken at face value. All the good will is gone, as if Saddam never shook hands with Donald Rumsfeld or made common cause with Ronald Reagan against evil Iran. These days, reporters shout Show me the weapons! and pundits deride him as Mr. Cheat and Retreat. Our news media without the imprimatur of a formal U.N. resolution have even erected a no lie zone over Iraq and shoot down Husseins howlers before they can infect international audiences. In stunning contrast, Bushs lies are broadcast as truth. They originate at the White House and are transmitted to network amplification centers in New York and Washington, at which point the lie leaves the presidents control. He then must rely on men named Brokaw, Jennings, Rather and Lehrer to treat the presidential lie with respect and deliver it to every nook and cranny in America via the peoples airwaves. The longer and farther the lie flies, the more frequent liar miles the president accumulates. The strategy of lie and rely entails considerable risks. What if the media Bush is relying on to disseminate his lies chooses instead to shoot them down? A president is doomed if his every pronouncement is greeted with groans and guffaws. Thats why its wise to lie only when the truth wont suffice AND the stakes are high to win an election, to avoid the taint of scandal-plagued cronies, to sell a war the public is disinclined to buy. Throughout Campaign 2000, candidate Bush test-piloted lie and rely. He lied to a Dallas Morning News reporter to keep hidden a drunk-driving conviction. He lied repeatedly to the national media about his own and Al Gores economic plans. Did so in speeches and again in the debates. The lies traveled far and wide. Amazingly, they remained airborne even after repeated puncturing by New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman. From that experience, Bush learned an invaluable lesson: So long as the airwaves remain loyal, lie and rely can override isolated, ink-based exposure. As president, a confident Bush lied after the Enron scandal erupted about how long and how well he knew the man he now referred to as Mr. Lay though it was Kenny Boy back in the day. A quick study, Bush showed he had mastered what I call the fact-based lie(speaking words that are technically true, knowing full well they paint a false or misleading picture) when he said he had known of Lay in 1994 as someone who supported Ann Richards, his opponent for the Texas governorship. Lay and his wife did indeed give money to Richards campaign and three times as much to Bushs. Fact-based lies, long the domain of weasels, are particularly risky for a president who presents himself as the antithesis of weaseldom. If caught, he cant reply, Technically speaking, I didnt lie. The ridicule would be relentless. That Bush would resort to fact-based lying suggests unlimited confidence both in himself and the giants of journalism, who he is counting on to play or be dumb. Bush and his foreign-policy team have told a string of traditional and fact-based lies about Iraqs links to al Qaeda and 9-11, as well as the magnitude and imminence of the threat Saddam poses to the United States. Those lies have helped the president gain far greater support from the public and Congress for his aggressive stance than he would have garnered with a plain-spoken, straight-shooting approach. Again, we find that lie and rely has easily overcome sporadic, ink-based attacks. In October, for example, Washington Post reporter Dana Millbank detailed several jaw-dropping lies about Iraq and other matters, which he described euphemistically as presidential flights of fancy. But the airwaves held firm, and Millbank himself got back on the team when he guested January 12 on CNNs Late Edition (click here for the transcript: http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/12/le.00.html) to discuss The Right Man, a book about Bush by his former speech writer, David Frum. A controversial passage was displayed on the screen and
Re: [CTRL] (Fwd) Tolerance Totalitarians
-Caveat Lector- On 19 Jan 2003 at 10:55, thew wrote: It does not matter that the flag stands for something else as well as the slavery issue. Just as it does not matter that the swastika is a Hindu symbol. It has taken on the other larger meaning, and just as you wouldn't want a Hindu congressman flying the swastika from his office, I would be more interested in what he did in office than what he flew from his office. Anyway as a protected minority he'd be given a pass even if he intended it in the other larger meaning. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Taxil Hoax
-Caveat Lector- http://www.indianamasons.org/imosanctum/pike/taxil.html#5 The Taxil Hoax by Bro. Eric Schmitz, P.M. On July 14, 1889, Albert Pike, Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry, addressed to the 23 Supreme Confederated Councils of the world, the following instructions: That which we must say to the world is â We worship a God, but it is the God that one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32 nd , 31 st , and 30 th degrees â The Masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine. Yes, Lucifer is God, and the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer. Thus was instigated what would come to be the most sensational, the most widely abused, and the most tenacious of all hoaxes ever perpetrated against the institution of Freemasonry. The words I just quoted were attributed to Albert Pike, a prominent Freemason of the late 19 th century, by one Leo Taxil, and are commonly known as the Taxil Hoax â although many Freemasons have come to refer to this hoax as the lie that would not die. Indeed, as Mark Twain once said, One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has NINE lives. Albert Pike, who lived from 1809 to 1891, was the Grand Commander of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Riteâs Southern Jurisdiction from 1859 until the end of his life. Many Freemasons consider him to be a Masonic genius, but he has not managed to avoid a certain degree of controversy. Pike wrote a book called Morals and Dogma, in which he quoted many religious and philosophical teachersâ works, on the theory that unless one knows the history of a concept, one cannot understand the concept itself.1 This book tends to be the focus of most of the controversy surrounding Pike. However, the real furor did not get fully underway until three years after his death, upon the 1894 re-publication of a work by a certain Leo Taxil, whose alleged purpose was to reveal a highly secret Masonic order called the Palladium, which he claimed practiced devil worship, murder, and other brutalities of an erotic nature.2 Born Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pages, Leo Taxil was a fervent anti-Papist, libertine, and pornographer. He was a member of a Masonic Lodge for a short time, but was expelled from the fraternity, possibly due to his reputation as an extremely Anti-Catholic writer. It may have been his expulsion which turned him into an anti-Mason as well, but it is also possible that he joined the order merely to acquire fuel for an already existing hostility to the Craft. At any rate, Taxilâs publication of Pikeâs Luciferian Doctrine marked the beginning of an ongoing chapter in Masonic defamation that persists even to this very day. Why did Taxil pick Albert Pike as the target of his venomous prank? Possibly because Pike did make some mention of the name Lucifer in his own works. It is a little known fact that the name Lucifer is, in some sense, a hoax in and of itself. The name made its first biblical appearance in the King James Bible, in the book of Isaiah (14:12), where we read, How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! One problem here is that the name Lucifer is actually Latin, a language that did not exist at the time the Hebrew manuscript of Isaiah was written. In fact, the context of this chapter of Isaiah is an account of a fallen Babylonian king, not a fallen angel, and the in the original Hebrew, the name used is Helal, ben Shahar, or Day star, son of the Dawn. The day star, or morning star, is Venus, which appears in the morning just before sunrise. Hence, lucem ferre, or bringer of light, becomes the name Lucifer, and a fallen king becomes a fallen angel. Ironically, Christ is often identified as the morning star, and in fact referred to Himself as such, as we read in Revelation 22:16. 3 Pike may well have known all this, or at least suspected it. His writing, when properly inflected, clearly indicates his shock and surprise at the idea of such a name being applied to the fallen angel and ruler of hell. He writes, Lucifer, the light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it HE who bears the Light, and with its intolerable light blinds feeble, sensual or selfish souls? Pike is clearly upset by the attribution, referring at one point to the false Lucifer of the legend.4 Now, I have mentioned before that there are many instances where a Masonic author could be said to have chosen his words somewhat imprudently, and I believe that this may well have been one of those times. After nearly half a century of anti-Masonic persecution due in large part to another incident known as the Morgan Affair (a long story for another day), our Uncle Albert may have been wiser to remember the persistent efforts of his enemies
[CTRL] Predator / Smedator
-Caveat Lector- The Problem With the Predator by Marc W. Herold Dissident Voice January 15, 2003 Few things are as predictable as the excited bleats of Pentagon flacks touting the killing efficacy of new weapons systems every time the U.S. begins a military operation. [1] A Predator that was reportedly downed in Iraq, 2001. In December 2001, President Bush cited the Predator and Global Hawk drones -- which display the 'virtual reality' character of much of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan [2] -- as examples of the kind of 'transformational' defense technologies whose development the Pentagon must accelerate. But in spite of the recent highly-publicized success of a Predator drone in blowing up a carload of alleged Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen, the system described by the Pentagon as its eyes in the sky has for the most part proven to be unreliable and laughably inaccurate. This New Year was ushered in with yet another Predator falling from the sky into the remote village of Bashir Khan Jikhrani, a few miles from the U.S. air base in Jacobabad, Pakistan. [3] Since military operations began in Afghanistan, U.S. forces have lost both of their Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle [UAV] drones as well as six of the smaller Predator RQ-1 unmanned drones -- that is, more than 12 percent of the total Predator fleet of 48 drones has been lost. In early February, the Center for Defense Intelligence reported, As of the end of November, there were about a dozen Predators being flown by the CIA and U.S. Air Force in Afghanistan. However, there have been three Predator crashes so far (one in November and two in the last week of January), all reportedly the result of the UAVs reacting poorly to bad weather, so there are an estimated nine Predators in Afghanistan currently. The total bill to U.S. taxpayers for lost drones in Afghanistan is over $55 million. The Global Hawk is manufactured by Northrup Grumman at Rancho Bernardo, CA, at a cost of $15 million each, while the Predator RQ-1 is made in San Diego, California, by General Atomics, with a unit price tag of $ 4.5 million. [4] For a year before 9/11/2001, CIA-operated Predator drones flying over Afghanistan had occasionally picked up Bin Laden. [5] Even before the U.S. bombing campaign against Afghanistan started, a CIA-operated RQ-1 Predator had crashed in Afghanistan on September 23, 2001. Such an inauspicious beginning was soon followed by another Predator crash on November 2, 2001 in Afghanistan, two more crashes during the week of January 21, 2002, and another crash on May 17, 2002 in the hills near the U.S. air base in Jacobabad, Pakistan. The big brother of the Predator, called the Global Hawk, has fared even worse. Both of the $15 million U.S. Air Force-operated unmanned craft have crashed -- the first on December 30, 2001, and the second on July 10, 2002, near another U.S. air base at Shamsi, Pakistan. Table 1. Drones Lost in Afghan Theater, 2001-2002 Table 1. Drones Lost in Afghan Theater, 2001-2002 Unit cost # deployed # crashed % destroyed Global Hawk $ 15 million 2 2 100% Predator $ 4.5 million 12 6 50% border] and Pakistan The U.S. Air Force has used Predator drones flying out of its bases in Uzbekistan [near the Afghan border] and Pakistan [Jacobabad and Shamsi]. Clear weather and the lack of Taliban anti-aircraft defenses allowed the drones to collect real-time imagery which was relayed to hovering strike aircraft. In the summer of 2001 some Predators were equipped with two of Lockheed's Hellfire AGM-114 laser-guided anti-tank missiles [$45,000 apiece]. So far there are four reported cases exist of the Predator-Hellfire combination being used. Two of these attacks resulted in the deaths of at least 13 innocent civilians. On February 4, 2002, a Predator Hellfire missile killed three Afghans scavenging for metal in the hills around Zhawar Kili, Paktia. On May 6, 2002, a Predator fired a Lockheed missile at a convoy of cars in Kunar province, seeking to assassinate Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, but succeeded only in destroying a madrassah and killing at least 10 nearby civilians. On October 26, 2001, the CIA sent a missile-armed Predator drone from Pakistan to protect Afghan opposition leader Abdul Haq, who at the time was being tracked by the Taliban. That mission failed. [6] The lone reported 'success' of the Predator-Hellfire was the Wednesday, November 14, 2001, night attack upon a three-story hotel building south of Kabul, where fleeing Al Qaeda and Taliban had gathered and parked their SUVs. Predator imagery was used to call in F/A-18 jets, which bombed the building, reportedly killing a senior lieutenant of bin Laden, the Egyptian Mohammed Atef as well as others. As the survivors scattered Hellfire missiles struck fleeing vehicles. [7] As reported by CounterPunch's Jeffrey St. Clair, the Pentagon's top systems officer, Thomas Christie, who is employed in the Department of Defense's Operational Test
Re: [CTRL] Oz Concerns About Mossad Death Squads
-Caveat Lector- It just serves to make the double-moralism America practices even more blatant. If it's OK for America to kill foreigners it considers criminals, then why not for everyone else. If everyone takes this same approach and follows suit, the whole world will in fact be at war. Everyone with each other. Law was meant to deal with terrorist criminals in other countries. War takes place when this does not happen. Israel and United States are committing acts of war. On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, thew wrote: Is this any different that our so called war o iraq, and the ³war on terrorism² we are waging in general? on 01/19/03 2:08 PM, William Shannon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Israeli death squads have been authorised to enter friendly countries and assassinate opponents in a move that raises the prospect of political killings in Australia. Agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad have been given free rein to kill those deemed to be a threat to the Jewish state - wherever they are hiding. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has until now refused permission for assassinations on the home ground of allies, has reversed the policy as part of a more aggressive approach to terrorism. 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] Revelations: Ruppert's forum getting hot on Warren Buffet, Mitre Corp.~
-Caveat Lector- Revelations: Ruppert's forum getting hot on Warren Buffet, Mitre Corp.~ "I heard the announcement when they officially confirmed this, months ago. What's really odd, to my thinking, is the fact that it was all secret to begin with. They let a whole year go by in which there are all these credible stories from eyewitnesses that they saw a second plane, but it was denied up and down. Then the truth comes out that there was one, that it was owned by Buffet, that itwas authorized to track the hijacked plane..." http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/46236 ~ Associated Press: An official for NetJets, a company that sells shares in private businessaircraft, confirmed that the plane tracking Flight 93 belonged to the company. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/46303 ~ On October 20, 1998, Boeing ordered a bunch of planes from Net Jets. Unremarkable unless one considers the context. http://query.nytimes.com/search/full-page?res=9B00E1DD143DF933A15753C1A96E958260 ~ Are they the kind used on September 11 or, as one person puts it, "Or was it a smaller (?) one like this Raytheon job (Hawker Horizon)..." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/470676.stm ~ The second wealthiest billionaire in the UNITED STATES has allot of explaining to do. Executive jets do not track commercial aircraft. How can it be that NORAD does not make a 911 showing but this private jet does? This is one of the most important insights into the basic architecture of the 911 crimes. This alone could unravel these heinous crimes. Clearly Buffet's MITRE has the technological know how to pull off remote piloting of the 911 planes as well as the capability of shooting down FLIGHT 93. One engine of 93 was found six miles away from the crash site. All of the professional liars of major media expect us to believe that this engine bounced along the ground for those six miles!! Buffet's jet seems to be the only culprit for the FLIGHT 93 shoot down. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/46311 ~ One of the witnesses described the plane that attacked the Pentagon as a small plane that would not hold more than 12 passengers. Another described it as a commercial jet. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/46328 ~ Still the people belive what they want to believe. THE PLANE WAS DOWNED BY HEROIC PASSINGERS. If the plane was downed as you suggest that means all this cockpit recordings to be played in trial will have to be fabricated as were the cell calls. You are aware that voices can be electronically produced on computers to sound exactly like real people. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/46349 For more on this see the following: Cleveland Smoking Gun Proves "Arab Hijacker" Calls From United Airlines Flight 93 Were Faked http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1591 and The cell phone calls from the aircraft could not have happened. I am a National Security Agency trained Electronic Warfare specialist, and am qualified to say this. My official title: MOS33Q10, Electronic Warfare Intercept Strategic Signal Processing/Storage Systems Specialist, a highly skilled MOS which requires advanced knowledge of many communications methods and circuits to the most minute level. I am officially qualified to place severe doubt that ordinary cell phone calls were ever made from the aircraft. It was impossible for that to have happened, especially in a rural area for a number of reasons. When you make a cell phone call, the first thing that happens is that your cell phone needs to contact a transponder. Your cell phone has a max transmit power of five watts, three watts is actually the norm. If an aircraft is going five hundred miles an hour, your cell phone will not be able to 1. Contact a tower, 2. Tell the tower who you are, and who your provider is, 3. Tell the tower what mode it wants to communicate with, and 4. Establish that it is in a roaming area before it passes out of a five watt range. This procedure, called an electronic handshake, takes approximately 45 seconds for a cell phone to complete upon initial power up in a roaming area because neither the cell phone or cell transponder knows where that phone is and what mode it uses when it is turned on. At 500 miles an hour, the aircraft will travel three times the range of a cell phone's five watt transmitter before this handshaking can occur. Though it is sometimes possible to connect during takeoff and landing, under the situation that was claimed the calls were impossible. The calls from the airplane were faked, no if's or buts. http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1049 Did one of Buffet's Jets shoot down Flight 93?http://makeashorterlink.com/?K2C024623Do you Yahoo!? A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid
[CTRL] Smoking Stones
-Caveat Lector- NEW YORK CITY MAYOR FUMED OVER 'SMOKING' ON STAGE AT STONES CONCERT; BAND RACED OUT OF GARDEN AVOIDING COPS http://www.drudgereport.com/stones.htm 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: Modern Sense (Part IV)
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Modern Sense (Part IV) (With absolutely no apologies to Thomas Paine) by Edgar J. Steele January 19, 2003 The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture. The rich are in general slaves to fear, and submit to courtly power with the trembling duplicity of a Spaniel. ---Thomas Paine, Common Sense (Feb 1776) Preface (to each of the four parts) There are a remarkable number of parallels between pre-Revolutionary America and the America of today. It is disquieting how, in the writings of that time, our founding fathers might have been speaking directly to this generation of Americans. Then again, I do not believe in coincidence so perhaps, in a sense, they were. How appropriate that those of us who advocate a return to the ideals of those days are called patriots, a word which has taken on as derisive a meaning when mouthed by government agents today as those uttered about our forebears by King George's men during the first American revolution. Nor is it coincidence that those of us labeled as patriots wear the mark with respect and honor. I count myself proudly among their number and pray only that my work be worthy of inclusion. It takes some effort to update the founding fathers' works to modern forms of language and phrasing, but the result is nothing short of amazing, particularly when we replace England with Federal Government and King George with The President. I have presumed to do just that in this series with Thomas Paine's Common Sense, a four-part work written and published in early 1776 as part of a broad effort to convince the American settlers to declare independence from England. In several places, I have retained Paine's wording intact, where it has particular impact in its original form. In others, I have edited and rephrased mercilessly, while trying to hew to the apparent intent of his argument, though updated to apply to modern circumstances. I do not suggest that this is an improvement upon what Thomas Paine had to say. I believe only that this is how he might have said it, were he alive today and speaking of the grotesquerie that our government has become. As you read this section, you might find it useful to contrast it with its counterpart in the original Common Sense. One of many on-line sources for Thomas Paine's Common Sense: http://www.federalobserver.com/words.php?words=1299 . I have maintained the original's organization and structure in this rewrite, in order to facilitate direct comparison. To the Inhabitants of America on the following interesting subjects I. Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the American Constitution. (released 12/26/02) II. Of the imperial presidency and hereditary succession. (released 12/28/02) III. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs. (subpart a released 1/2/03; subpart b released 1/8/03; subpart c released 1/15/03) IV. Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflections. (released 1/19/03) - Part IV: Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflections. I have never conversed with anyone related to the Movement who has not seen a wholesale revamping of America's government, if not America's outright breakup, as inevitable. The present course of foreign imperialism, welfare, citizen control (oppression), economic opportunism and privilege for the few leads inevitably to economic catastrophe and revolt. As so many agree as to the event, but disagree only as to its timing, let us take a general survey of things and endeavor, if possible, to find out the very time. But we need
Re: [CTRL] (Fwd) Tolerance Totalitarians
-Caveat Lector- Hindus are a protected minority? I agree - policy is more important than window dressing But window dressing sends a message too - and I don't think a hindu governor would be allowed to fly a swastika from the statehouse on 01/19/03 3:16 PM, klewis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- On 19 Jan 2003 at 10:55, thew wrote: It does not matter that the flag stands for something else as well as the slavery issue. Just as it does not matter that the swastika is a Hindu symbol. It has taken on the other larger meaning, and just as you wouldn't want a Hindu congressman flying the swastika from his office, I would be more interested in what he did in office than what he flew from his office. Anyway as a protected minority he'd be given a pass even if he intended it in the other larger meaning. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate William of Occam NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew 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] Oz Concerns About Mossad Death Squads
-Caveat Lector- Agreed. However people make it seem extra sinister around here if it's israel doing it. on 01/19/03 4:28 PM, Jei at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- It just serves to make the double-moralism America practices even more blatant. If it's OK for America to kill foreigners it considers criminals, then why not for everyone else. If everyone takes this same approach and follows suit, the whole world will in fact be at war. Everyone with each other. Law was meant to deal with terrorist criminals in other countries. War takes place when this does not happen. Israel and United States are committing acts of war. On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, thew wrote: Is this any different that our so called war o iraq, and the ³war on terrorism² we are waging in general? on 01/19/03 2:08 PM, William Shannon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Israeli death squads have been authorised to enter friendly countries and assassinate opponents in a move that raises the prospect of political killings in Australia. Agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad have been given free rein to kill those deemed to be a threat to the Jewish state - wherever they are hiding. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has until now refused permission for assassinations on the home ground of allies, has reversed the policy as part of a more aggressive approach to terrorism. 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 -- -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - What do you mean ³we², white man? Tonto NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew 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] FBI Terrorists Alerts Manufactured!
-Caveat Lector- FBI Terrorists Alerts Manufactured! http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_052202_faketerror.html http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_010603_terror.html http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30312 The Bush administration issued a spate of terror alerts in recent days to mute criticism that its national security team sat on intelligence warnings in the weeks before the September 11 attacks. The warnings, including yesterday's uncorroborated FBI report that terrorists might target the Statue of Liberty, quieted some of the lawmakers who said President Bush failed to act on clues of the September 11 attacks, although Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle yesterday reiterated his demand for an independent investigation. ... no wonder Tom Daschle got a letter full of anthrax in the mail... he stood in the way of an imposed silence on this whole 911 coup by the white house. Damn well the white house knew before 911 happened... Do you Yahoo!? A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""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 Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
Re: [CTRL] Oz Concerns About Mossad Death Squads
-Caveat Lector- Agreed. However people make it seem extra sinister around here if it's israel doing it. -- Do you know why this is so? It is because many people here are followers of Aleister Crowley and the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Thelemic Order of Golden Dawn. These people are ANTI-SEMIT to the extreme. Just like Hitler. Don't you know that the Aleister Crowley crowd is BIG in the conspiracy scene? So are the Church of Satan. All Occultists and even Wiccans are VERY anti-Jew unless the Jew is a follower of Kabbalah. If the follow the Torah then they are hated by these people as much as Hitler hated them. -- http://www.donet.com/~moser/index.htm on 01/19/03 4:28 PM, Jei at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- It just serves to make the double-moralism America practices even more blatant. If it's OK for America to kill foreigners it considers criminals, then why not for everyone else. If everyone takes this same approach and follows suit, the whole world will in fact be at war. Everyone with each other. Law was meant to deal with terrorist criminals in other countries. War takes place when this does not happen. Israel and United States are committing acts of war. On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, thew wrote: Is this any different that our so called war o iraq, and the ³war on terrorism² we are waging in general? on 01/19/03 2:08 PM, William Shannon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Israeli death squads have been authorised to enter friendly countries and assassinate opponents in a move that raises the prospect of political killings in Australia. Agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad have been given free rein to kill those deemed to be a threat to the Jewish state - wherever they are hiding. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has until now refused permission for assassinations on the home ground of allies, has reversed the policy as part of a more aggressive approach to terrorism. 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 -- -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - What do you mean ³we², white man? Tonto NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are
Re: [CTRL] Oz Concerns About Mossad Death Squads
-Caveat Lector- People who are anti-Semitic because of ol' uncle al really didn¹t understand a word he was saying. on 01/19/03 6:26 PM, Samuel Antoine Moser at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- Agreed. However people make it seem extra sinister around here if it's israel doing it. -- Do you know why this is so? It is because many people here are followers of Aleister Crowley and the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Thelemic Order of Golden Dawn. These people are ANTI-SEMIT to the extreme. Just like Hitler. Don't you know that the Aleister Crowley crowd is BIG in the conspiracy scene? So are the Church of Satan. All Occultists and even Wiccans are VERY anti-Jew unless the Jew is a follower of Kabbalah. If the follow the Torah then they are hated by these people as much as Hitler hated them. -- http://www.donet.com/~moser/index.htm on 01/19/03 4:28 PM, Jei at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- It just serves to make the double-moralism America practices even more blatant. If it's OK for America to kill foreigners it considers criminals, then why not for everyone else. If everyone takes this same approach and follows suit, the whole world will in fact be at war. Everyone with each other. Law was meant to deal with terrorist criminals in other countries. War takes place when this does not happen. Israel and United States are committing acts of war. On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, thew wrote: Is this any different that our so called war o iraq, and the ³war on terrorism² we are waging in general? on 01/19/03 2:08 PM, William Shannon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Israeli death squads have been authorised to enter friendly countries and assassinate opponents in a move that raises the prospect of political killings in Australia. Agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad have been given free rein to kill those deemed to be a threat to the Jewish state - wherever they are hiding. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has until now refused permission for assassinations on the home ground of allies, has reversed the policy as part of a more aggressive approach to terrorism. 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 -- -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - What do you mean ³we², white man? Tonto NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew 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
Re: [CTRL] Oz Concerns About Mossad Death Squads
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/19/2003 6:27:14 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you know why this is so? It is because many people here are followers of Aleister Crowley and the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Thelemic Order of Golden Dawn. These people are ANTI-SEMIT to the extreme. Just like Hitler. Uh huh...sure pal. Bill. A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""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] Criticizing The President During A Time Of War
-Caveat Lector- Criticizing The President During A Time Of War By Devvy Kidd January 11, 2002 NewsWithViews.com I received a love letter the other day informing me the sender was going to press the Department of Justice to charge me with sedition for criticizing the President of the united States during a time of war.' Lock me up and throw away the key! Sedition or a matter of law? Is one guilty of sedition for criticizing the President, who also acts as Commander-in-Chief during a time of war? First one must deal with the question: Did Congress fulfill its constitutional responsibility to make an official declaration of war against Iraq as mandated under Art. 1, Sec. 8 of the supreme law of the land? No, why should they? With the exception of Ron Paul and a few grandstanding Democrats, the rest of that bunch have no interest in the Constitution. However, that does not negate the fact that Mr. Bush's soon-to-be war for oil is about to be waged without any genuine legal authority. Mr. Bush has made it very clear through his actions since 9-11 that he has no need of the U.S. Constitution or Congress. I would imagine he felt he could get away with the same shenanigans as his predecessor: LA Times, July 4, 1998: Clinton to Bypass Congress in Blitz of Executive Orders Washington - Frustrated by a GOP-controlled Congress that lately has rebuffed him on almost every front, President Clinton plans a blitz of executive orders during the next few weeks, part of a White House strategy to make progress on Clinton's domestic agenda with or without congressional help. A virtual dictatorship launched on Independence Day. In return, Congress has made it clear they have no need of the Constitution either. Last October during Congressional hearings on going to war against Iraq, CFR point dog in the House, Rep. Henry Hyde, [R-Il] stated that declaring war is anachronistic, it isn't done anymore...' A darling of the deaf, dumb and blind socialists [liberals], Ranking Minority Member Tom Lantos, [D-Ca] called the declaration of war frivolous and mischievous.' On January 7, 1999, former Clinton Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich said, ...when the president decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress. Quite frankly, Congress really should simply resign in mass and go back to the gutter they crawled out from. If this were the time of Thom Jefferson or Andy Jackson, these good old boys in Congress would most likely have found themselves hanging from the nearest oak tree. They have abrogated their constitutional duties via treaties like NAFTA and have completely surrendered our sovereignty via GATT. America is now subservient to the WTO. Federal judges have become nothing more than rubber stamps for political agendas in Washington, DC and spend a great deal of time legislating from the bench with zero oversight from Congress. In the case of Iraq, Mr. Bush has simply skirted the Constitution by hiding behind a former resolution passed by the UN when his father was President. The united States of America does not enter into treaties with private organizations. The UN is a private organization promoting a one world nightmare government. We the People are under no obligation to fund any activities by the UN, nor is Congress under any obligation to ask permission of the UN for any undertaking. Now to Sedition My e-mailer thinks I should be charged with sedition for criticizing a sitting President during a time of war. We've already discharged the notion that America is about to engage in a legal war, so my criticism of Mr. Bush isn't being done during a time of war. I was reminded by this e-mail of a remarkable event that began in 1942, and became known as The Great Sedition Trial of 1944. Forty-two people and one newspaper were indicted, with the first of three indictments handed down on July 21, 1942. Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the Justice Department investigation, but it was a political animal from the moment the plan was hatched behind closed doors. There were some level heads back then who found this assault on free speech a dangerous path to tread, even if some of that speech criticized FDR and his actions during a time of declared war. On August 17, 1942, Sen. Robert A. Taft vocalized his objection to the indictments when he said, I am deeply alarmed by the growing tendency to smear loyal citizens who are critical of the national administration and of the conduct of the war . . . Something very close to fanaticism exists in certain circles. I cannot understand itcannot grasp it. But I am sure of this: Freedom of speech itself is at stake, unless the general methods pursued by the Department of Justice are changed. After five years of harassment against the defendants, the charges were dismissed with the presiding judge declaring that to allow the case to continue would constitute a travesty on justice. Naturally, the feds
[CTRL] Jack-Booted Thugs Run Amok
-Caveat Lector- These unconstitutional federal cops and judges are un-American traitors and pathetic criminal thugs. Spare me the line that oh, it's just a few bad apples, most of them are good. Bovine Scatology. They are corrupt and lawless from the top to the bottom. These people aren't qualified to be dog catchers much less judges and cops. When will America wake up and put these criminals on trial in state courts? - PRESS RELEASE Austin man receives death threats from U.S. Marshals AUSTIN, TEXAS: Friday, January 17, 2003, Rhett Webster Pease, left the driveway of his home on his way to work. He backed out, turned left down a street which intersects the street where he lives about 20 feet from his driveway. Immediately a Chevy F10 pickup driving in the opposite direction drove directly towards him. His first thought was it was a drunk driver. The driver of the pickup was dressed in a plaid flannel lumberjack shirt, and Pease soon realized when the driver did not veer away, that he was the target of the man, and was about to be rammed. Pease put his truck in reverse, backed across the street and parked in his driveway. At this point he was surrounded by men who wore jackets which bore the word POLICE' on the jackets. The men all had guns drawn and pointed at Pease. Pease was told to step out of the truck with his hands up. Pease turned off his truck, turned off the lights, put his hands up and stepped from the truck. One of the men immedia tely grabbed him by the shirtfront and pulled, evidently trying to pull Pease to the ground. Instead, Pease's shirt tore, which resulted in a torn shirt and Pease still standing. At this point, Pease was tackled, thrown to the ground and dragged to the sidewalk. There, Pease was grabbed by the hair and his chin slammed into the concrete. One of the men put his booted foot on Pease's head, two more sat on his back. Marshal Jack Dean, evidently the leader of the group, grabbed a cell phone from Pease's hand, and when Dean realized it was a cell phone, not a weapon, Dean kicked the phone down the sidewalk, where it flew into pieces. As the other marshals were handcuffing Pease and placing him in leg irons, Dean kept shouting, Shoot him, shoot him! A young grade school child stood directly in Dean's line of fire, and she ran into the street in terror. It was Pease's observation that most of the marshals were very cold, it was a cold morning, and evidentially, they had bee n hid ing behind bushes and trees, exposed to the elements, for quite some time. Pease was thrown into a car and taken to the holding cell in the Federal Court Building, where he was taken before Federal District Judge Sam Sparks. Pease's crime?Pease had not appeared, as ordered, before Judge Sparks the day before on a civil matter. Pease was, at the time, in a medical emergency clinic and could not attend the hearing. Although Judge Sparks was aware of Pease's plight, he issued an order, not an arrest warrant as prescribed the U.S. Constitution, to have Pease brought before him. When told Pease had a medical emergency, Judge Sparks replied, I don't care. While waiting in the holding cell, Pease overheard marshals saying that if they had to go to Pease's property again, they would shoot him and be done with it. When Pease was led from the holding cell by Marshal Jack Dean, Dean said to him, I should have shot you this morning when I had the chance. Then this would be ended . Pease was ordered by Judge Sparks to vacate his house by Wednesday, January 23rd, although due process has not run its course concerning an wrongful foreclosure and in the absence of a Writ of Assistance which is the order for him to vacate. Pease has two choices, either voluntarily give up possession of his home, without benefit of lawful process, as ordered by Judge Sparks, or be shot by U. S. Marshals when they return to seize possession of his home. Will 12600 Limerick Avenue be the next Waco? Will Pease, his wife or one of his three children suffer the same fate as Randy Weaver's family? Where does this end? Dessie Maria Andrews, field reporter for realityexpander.com -- -iNFoWaRZ America isn't becoming a Police State, America IS a Police State. 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
[CTRL] An Interesting Article that appeared in Macleans...
-Caveat Lector- Headline: THE NEW NEW WORLD ORDER Section: Cover Publication Date: 2003/01/27 By: Your Comments: - URL: http://www.macleans.ca/xta-asp/storyview.asp?viewtype=browsetpl=browse_framevpath=/2003/01/27/Cover/78713.shtml 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] Oz Concerns About Mossad Death Squads
-Caveat Lector- These Aleister Crowley people also believe that YHWH = YAHWEH = JEHOVAH is a powerful demon that Moses conjured up but could not control. What the original movie the Mummy and see all the anti-Semite messages and subliminal persuasion to make it look like the mummy got its power from YHWH = YAHWEH = JEHOVAH to make it look like JEHOVAH God was Satan when in reality it is the god they follow is Satan. I watch Arnold Swarzenigger (sic) on Entertainment Tonight promoting the movie Armageddon saying; Armageddon may come! Satan may return!. It is JEHOVAH God and JESUS Christ who return at Armageddon to bring judgment on this wicked world. Satan is already here causing misery and suffering to mankind. Arnold Swarzenigger was calling JEHOVAH God and His Son JESUS Christ, Satan!!! This is just the beginning. Hollywood is run by these occultists. -- http://www.donet.com/~moser/index.htm -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Samuel Antoine Moser Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 6:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Oz Concerns About Mossad Death Squads -Caveat Lector- Agreed. However people make it seem extra sinister around here if it's israel doing it. -- Do you know why this is so? It is because many people here are followers of Aleister Crowley and the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Thelemic Order of Golden Dawn. These people are ANTI-SEMIT to the extreme. Just like Hitler. Don't you know that the Aleister Crowley crowd is BIG in the conspiracy scene? So are the Church of Satan. All Occultists and even Wiccans are VERY anti-Jew unless the Jew is a follower of Kabbalah. If the follow the Torah then they are hated by these people as much as Hitler hated them. -- http://www.donet.com/~moser/index.htm on 01/19/03 4:28 PM, Jei at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- It just serves to make the double-moralism America practices even more blatant. If it's OK for America to kill foreigners it considers criminals, then why not for everyone else. If everyone takes this same approach and follows suit, the whole world will in fact be at war. Everyone with each other. Law was meant to deal with terrorist criminals in other countries. War takes place when this does not happen. Israel and United States are committing acts of war. On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, thew wrote: Is this any different that our so called war o iraq, and the ³war on terrorism² we are waging in general? on 01/19/03 2:08 PM, William Shannon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Israeli death squads have been authorised to enter friendly countries and assassinate opponents in a move that raises the prospect of political killings in Australia. Agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad have been given free rein to kill those deemed to be a threat to the Jewish state - wherever they are hiding. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has until now refused permission for assassinations on the home ground of allies, has reversed the policy as part of a more aggressive approach to terrorism. 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 -- -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - What do you mean ³we², white man? Tonto NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew 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
Re: [CTRL] Oz Concerns About Mossad Death Squads
-Caveat Lector- Speaking of kabbalh - You take YHVH and add the Sh of man and you get the name jesus. Is it deep? No, just stupid. on 01/19/03 8:43 PM, Samuel Antoine Moser at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- These Aleister Crowley people also believe that YHWH = YAHWEH = JEHOVAH is a powerful demon that Moses conjured up but could not control. What the original movie the Mummy and see all the anti-Semite messages and subliminal persuasion to make it look like the mummy got its power from YHWH = YAHWEH = JEHOVAH to make it look like JEHOVAH God was Satan when in reality it is the god they follow is Satan. I watch Arnold Swarzenigger (sic) on Entertainment Tonight promoting the movie Armageddon saying; Armageddon may come! Satan may return!. It is JEHOVAH God and JESUS Christ who return at Armageddon to bring judgment on this wicked world. Satan is already here causing misery and suffering to mankind. Arnold Swarzenigger was calling JEHOVAH God and His Son JESUS Christ, Satan!!! This is just the beginning. Hollywood is run by these occultists. -- http://www.donet.com/~moser/index.htm -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Samuel Antoine Moser Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 6:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Oz Concerns About Mossad Death Squads -Caveat Lector- Agreed. However people make it seem extra sinister around here if it's israel doing it. -- Do you know why this is so? It is because many people here are followers of Aleister Crowley and the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Thelemic Order of Golden Dawn. These people are ANTI-SEMIT to the extreme. Just like Hitler. Don't you know that the Aleister Crowley crowd is BIG in the conspiracy scene? So are the Church of Satan. All Occultists and even Wiccans are VERY anti-Jew unless the Jew is a follower of Kabbalah. If the follow the Torah then they are hated by these people as much as Hitler hated them. -- http://www.donet.com/~moser/index.htm on 01/19/03 4:28 PM, Jei at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- It just serves to make the double-moralism America practices even more blatant. If it's OK for America to kill foreigners it considers criminals, then why not for everyone else. If everyone takes this same approach and follows suit, the whole world will in fact be at war. Everyone with each other. Law was meant to deal with terrorist criminals in other countries. War takes place when this does not happen. Israel and United States are committing acts of war. On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, thew wrote: Is this any different that our so called war o iraq, and the ³war on terrorism² we are waging in general? on 01/19/03 2:08 PM, William Shannon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Israeli death squads have been authorised to enter friendly countries and assassinate opponents in a move that raises the prospect of political killings in Australia. Agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad have been given free rein to kill those deemed to be a threat to the Jewish state - wherever they are hiding. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has until now refused permission for assassinations on the home ground of allies, has reversed the policy as part of a more aggressive approach to terrorism. 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 -- -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - What do you mean ³we², white man? Tonto NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line:
Re: [CTRL] Deception By Language
-Caveat Lector- How about if we call conservatives : baby eating monsters and liberal angelic ones Then people would overwhelmingly come in favor of angelic ones. Perception often trumps reality. The original term 'liberal' referred to those who believed in the free market and limited government while 'conservatives' favored a nonaligned Republic - not an Empire. Today so called liberals call for a state managed economy with an intrusive government while so called conservatives call for corporate welfare and a Imperial Empire. Some choice! flw 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] Myths of Martin Luther King
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Myths of Martin Luther King by Marcus Epstein There is probably no greater sacred cow in America than Martin Luther King Jr. The slightest criticism of him or even suggesting that he isnt deserving of a national holiday leads to the usual accusations of racist, fascism, and the rest of the usual left-wing epithets not only from liberals, but also from many ostensible conservatives and libertarians. This is amazing because during the 50s and 60s, the Right almost unanimously opposed the civil rights movement. Contrary to the claims of many neocons, the opposition was not limited to the John Birch Society and southern conservatives. It was made by politicians like Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, and in the pages of Modern Age, Human Events, National Review, and the Freeman. Today, the official conservative and libertarian movement portrays King as someone on our side who would be fighting Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton if he were alive. Most all conservative publications and websites have articles around this time of the year praising King and discussing how todays civil rights leaders are betraying his legacy. Jim Powells otherwise excellent The Triumph of Liberty rates King next to Ludwig von Mises and Albert J. Nock as a libertarian hero. Attend any IHS seminar, and youll read A letter from a Birmingham Jail as a great piece of anti-statist wisdom. The Heritage Foundation regularly has lectures and symposiums honoring his legacy. There are nearly a half dozen neocon and left-libertarian think tanks and legal foundations with names such as The Center for Equal Opportunity and the American Civil Rights Institute which claim to model themselves after King. Why is a man once reviled by the Right now celebrated by it as a hero? The answer partly lies in the fact that the mainstream Right has gradually moved to the left since Kings death. The influx of many neoconservative intellectuals, many of whom were involved in the civil rights movement, into the conservative movement also contributes to the King phenomenon. This does not fully explain the picture, because on many issues King was far to the left of even the neoconservatives, and many King admirers even claim to adhere to principles like freedom of association and federalism. The main reason is that they have created a mythical Martin Luther King Jr., that they constructed solely from one line in his I Have a Dream speech. In this article, I will try to dispel the major myths that the conservative movement has about King. I found a good deal of the information for this piece in I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King by black leftist Michael Eric Dyson. Dyson shows that King supported black power, reparations, affirmative action, and socialism. He believes this made King even more admirable. He also deals frankly with Kings philandering and plagiarism, though he excuses them. If you dont mind reading his long discussions about gangsta rap and the like, I strongly recommend this book. Myth #1: King wanted only equal rights, not special privileges and would have opposed affirmative action, quotas, reparations, and the other policies pursued by todays civil rights leadership. This is probably the most repeated myth about King. Writing on National Review Online, There Heritage Foundations Matthew Spalding wrote a piece entitled Martin Luther Kings Conservative Mind, where he wrote, An agenda that advocates quotas, counting by race and set-asides takes us away from King's vision. The problem with this view is that King openly advocated quotas and racial set-asides. He wrote that the Negro today is not struggling for some abstract, vague rights, but for concrete improvement in his way of life. When equal opportunity laws failed to achieve this, King looked for other ways. In his book Where Do We Go From Here, he suggested that A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis. To do this he expressed support for quotas. In a 1968 Playboy interview, he said, If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas. King was more than just talk in this regard. Working through his Operation Breadbasket, King threatened boycotts of businesses that did not hire blacks in proportion to their population. King was even an early proponent of reparations. In his 1964 book, Why We Cant Wait, he wrote, No amount of gold could provide an adequate compensation for the exploitation and humiliation of the Negro in America down through the centuries Yet a price can be placed on unpaid wages. The ancient common law has always provided a remedy for the appropriation of
[CTRL] For your attention
-Caveat Lector- Euphorian spotted this on the Guardian Unlimited site and thought you should see it. To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk US offers immunity to Saddam Rumsfeld and Powell back exile plan Richard Norton-Taylor and Helena Smith in Larnaca Sunday January 19 2003 The Observer The United States last night offered Saddam Hussein immunity from prosecution if his departure from Baghdad would avert war. With only seven days to go before weapons inspectors deliver their crucial report to the UN security council, Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary and one of the Bush administration's leading hawks, dangled the prospect of a peaceful way out, despite the massive military build-up. If to avoid a war, Mr Rumsfeld said in a TV interview, I would ... recommend that some provision be made so that the senior leadership in that country [Iraq] and their families could be provided haven in some other country. Hours later, in what appeared to be a series of choreographed interviews, his more doveish rival in the US administration, Colin Powell, backed his remarks. Asked about a reported Saudi initiative to grant amnesty to senior Iraqi leaders, he said: I would encourage Saddam Hussein, if he is getting any messages of this kind, to listen. The hints from Washington added weight to an Arab initiative, backed by Saudi Arabia and others, that would urge the Iraqi leader to go into exile. Even if the US granted President Saddam immunity from prosecution, the viability of the Arab plan would depend on his willingness to give up power, something many believe he would never contemplate. Allowing the Iraqi leader to avoid a trial for alleged war crimes might also prove controversial. In London, the Foreign Office maintained its view that the main issue was disarming Iraq rather than removing President Saddam. The key issue is for Iraq to comply with its international obligations whatever group of people forms its leadership, a spokeswoman said. Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, last night began high-level meetings in Baghdad, saying: We do not think that war is inevitable. We think that the inspection process that we are conducting is the peaceful alternative. Mr Rumsfeld piled the pressure on the Iraqi regime by saying that Washington would know in a matter of weeks, not in months or years whether Iraq was cooperating fully with the inspectors. His comment contrasted with remarks by Mohammed El Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Authority, who told the Guardian that UN monitors needed a few more months. Mr El Baradei and Mr Blix have to report back to the UN by January 27, a deadline imposed by a security council resolution but whose significance is disputed by its five permanent members. Last night they had talks with President Saddam's scientific adviser, Amir al-Saadi, and General Hussam Mohammad Amin, head of Iraq's national monitoring directorate. We are having good, constructive meetings, Mr El Baradei told reporters. I think #91;the Iraqis#93; have said that there are still certain areas where they are ready to provide more information, he added. I think that in other areas they said they are ready to reconsider their position. However, faced with mounting pressure from the US and Britain to come up with hard evidence to prove President Saddam has been lying about nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, Mr Blix insisted: It requires comprehensive inspections and it requires a very active Iraqi cooperation. He earlier accused the Iraqi authorities of playing a cheap game of chess. He was speaking after being forced to cancel inspections in northern Iraq's no-fly zone. The Iraqis insisted that UN helicopters had to be escorted by Iraqi ones. Mr Blix played down the significance of the discovery of 3,000 documents in the home of an Iraqi physicist, Faleh Hassan, last week. The papers, found after a tip-off by western intelligence, were not evidence of a weapon of mass destruction and are all pre-1990, Mr Blix said. We know very well they have dealt #91;in the past#93; with laser enrichment. Gary Samore, a former proliferation expert at the US national security council, said that using laser technology to separate isotopes to enrich uranium was very very demanding and no country had produced it in that way. Mr Blix said he had no doubt Tony Blair would like to have a peaceful solution through inspections, adding that the prime minister had refused to commit himself during talks on Friday to a timetable regarding the monitoring. #183; A statement purportedly written by Osama bin Laden urging Muslims to unite against the crusader coalition was published yesterday by the London-based Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat. It said the statement was mailed to the paper from an Islamic source in London with close links to a Pakistan-based Islamic research centre
[CTRL] For your attention
-Caveat Lector- Euphorian spotted this on the Guardian Unlimited site and thought you should see it. To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk Drugs and forgery 'sustain North Korean economy' Matthew Engel in Washington Sunday January 19 2003 The Observer The threat from North Korea may be more insidious than the mere possibility of a nuclear attack, it was claimed yesterday. The regime is shoring up what remains of its economy by racketeering, according to US officials quoted in the magazine US News and World Report. They believe North Korea is producing 40 tonnes of opium a year, huge quantities of high-quality amphetamines and millions of dollars worth of supernotes - beautifully made counterfeit $100 bills. The magazine says the US has seen videotape of Kim Jong-nam, the son of the dictator Kim Jong-il, using the fake notes at a casino in Macao. The officials say these may be worth almost as much as the legitimate North Korean trade: about $500m a year compared with $650m in official exports. Some say the corruption is leading to a culture of bribery and a loosening of the regime's hold. The key here is lack of government control, one told the magazine. Criminal activity may bring about the disintegration of this regime. The report coincides with another round of intense diplomacy. Although a Russian envoy was still in Pyongyang and a special UN envoy had just left, the official news agency was putting out apparently unyielding statements, including a rare comment from Kim Jong-il himself. No force on earth can break the inexhaustible strength and indomitable will of this great army and people, he was quoted as saying. More specifically, his first vice foreign minister, Kang Sok-ju, called for face-to-face talks with the US: an approach Washington rejects. The internationalisation of this issue would make the prospect of its settlement more complicated and gloomy, he said. But at a diplomatic reception he welcomed the Russian envoy, Alexander Losyukov, and praised the Russians' good will. Mr Losyukov described their talks so far as useful. In an interview with South Korean TV the American ambassador to Seoul, Glenn Hubbard, gave a further hint that the US may offer the North a deal. If they satisfy our concerns about the nuclear programmes, we are prepared to consider a broad approach, he said. That would entail, in the final analysis, some economic cooperation, perhaps in the power field. Copyright Guardian Newspapers Limited 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] Withering Away
-Caveat Lector- Bush approval rating in free fall http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saenxlb=190xlc=925290xld=1 90 By Stewart M. Powell Hearst Washington Bureau Web Posted : 01/19/2003 12:00 AM WASHINGTON Anxiety about the economy and a threatened war in Iraq lie behind President Bush's 29 percent plunge in job approval in 16 months, observers say. More coverage A new chapter begins for Cornyn Sharpton says it loud: He's left-wing and proud Presidential hopefuls bash Bush's tax plan The Gallup poll released Friday echoed other recent polls showing Bush's historically high 90 percent approval rating after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has declined to 61 percent. A Gallup survey from earlier last week showed Bush getting a 58 percent approval rating the lowest since before 9-11. If the economy wasn't so bad, the decline would have been more gradual, Gallup's Jeffrey Jones says. The slippage recalls that suffered by President George Bush after the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Bush, father of the president, enjoyed an 89 percent approval rating the week after a U.S.-led coalition evicted Iraqi occupation forces from Kuwait in a stunning four-day ground war. But 16 months later, the elder Bush's approval ratings had plummeted to 32 percent, setting the stage for his defeat in 1992. Everybody is watching to see if Bush goes the way of his father from 90 percent to toast in barely a year, said William Schneider, a political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute. Right now I'd call this drop a decline not yet a collapse. Fifty-five percent of those surveyed by Gallup said Bush was not spending enough time on the economy, which remains afflicted with the worst unemployment in almost nine years, a three-year stock market decline that has cost stockholders almost $6 trillion, and economic growth of barely 1.5 percent over the last seven quarters. Only 36 percent of respondents said they would definitely vote for Bush in 2004. Bush is suffering a rapid decline, just like his father, says James Thurber, a presidential scholar at American University. With high unemployment, a low stock market hitting the middle class, a controversial economic stimulus package and anxiety about the war in Iraq no wonder his approval rating has dropped. Bruce Buchanan, a presidential scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, says Americans are taking a second look at controversies over Bush's domestic proposals, now that fears of terrorist attacks have diminished. Bush's job approval ratings have continued to slip since the historic GOP gains in the House and Senate in the midterm congressional election in November. Buchanan cited Bush's economic stimulus package and his resubmission of controversial judicial nominations to the Senate. He also said Bush and the GOP suffered because of the controversy over remarks by Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., endorsing the 1948 Dixiecrat segregationist presidential campaign of retiring Sen. Storm Thurmond, R-S.C. Bush helped orchestrate Lott's resignation as incoming Senate majority leader. Only 12 percent in the Gallup survey said Bush's plan would make a big difference in their family finances. Bush's popularity also suffers because of uncertainty over Iraq. The percentage of Americans who consider Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein a threat has slipped from 65 percent to 56 percent, according to the latest Gallup survey. Support for an attack on Iraq remains highly conditional, according to a survey by Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Seventy-six percent of respondents said they favored using military force if U.N. inspectors found Iraq hiding weapons of mass destruction. But only 46 percent want force if inspectors find Iraq hiding the ability to easily make weapons. Iraq's failure to prove the absence of weapons of mass destruction the cornerstone of Bush's demands warranted the use of force for only 29 percent of those asked. Antiwar sentiments have started to surface, as well. The Pew survey found 53 percent of respondents believed Bush had not clearly explained the rationale for using U.S. military forces to oust Saddam up from 37 percent who expressed that sentiment in September. In a Newsweek poll released Saturday, 60 percent said they would prefer the Bush administration allow more time to find an alternative to war, according to the Associated Press. Support for a military option would be strong, 81 percent, if the United States were to act with full allied support and the backing of the U.N. Security Council. A majority would be opposed should this country act without the support of the United Nations and had no more than one or two allies. The president's job approval was at 56 percent in the Newsweek poll and 53 percent in a CNN- Time poll released over the weekend. His approval rate was in the 60s in both polls in November. According to the CNN-Time poll, the decline comes as a result of slightly higher
[CTRL] Coups in Caracas
-Caveat Lector- World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : South Central America Venezuela strike: the anatomy of a US-backed provocation By Patrick Martin 20 January 2003 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author Leaders of the right-wing umbrella group seeking to overthrow Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez have dropped their demand that Chavez resign immediately as a condition for calling off the business shutdown that has dragged on for more than six weeks. Representatives of the Democratic Coordinator also suggested that doctors, restaurant owners and other small businessmen were free to end their participation in the so-called general strike that began on December 2. Rafael Alfonzo, a leader of Fedecamaras, the Venezuelan chamber of commerce, said that many businesses were faced with bankruptcy if they remained closed. We feel that the right decision is not one that kills the private sector, he said. The question of whether to reopen is pretty much at the individual level now. The sporadic lockouts by employers supporting the anti-Chavez campaign have had relatively little impact on the Venezuelan economy. Far more significant is the shutdown of the oil industry by executives and managers of PDVSA, the state-owned company that accounts for most of Venezuelas exports and half of total government revenue. PDVSA officials, most of them appointed by previous right-wing governments and hostile to Chavez, had the support of the union representing white-collar workers and lower-level management. Many blue-collar workers remained on the job and expressed opposition to the shutdown. The Chavez government succeeded in restarting oil production on a limited basis despite the sabotage at the top, as lower-level workers began to replace their bosses at the helm of two of the countrys three main refineries. Production has reached the level of 400,000 barrels per day, enough to meet the countrys domestic needs, although not enough to resume export shipments on any serious scale. These efforts have been supplemented by stopgap shipments of petroleum from Brazil, Russia and other countries opposed to the US-backed campaign to oust the Venezuelan president. The real class divisions in the oil strike were clearly revealed in an account published in the New York Times December 29; one of the few honest pieces of reporting on events in Venezuela to appear in the North American press. Times reporter Ginger Thompson visited the PDVSA refinery at Puerto La Cruz and wrote: Nearly a month into Venezuelas devastating national strike, all systems were back up and running close to normal this week at the refinery here that supplies gasoline to the eastern half of this country. Night shift workers were bursting with the pride of war heroes. Félix Deliso, who has worked at Petróleos de Venezuela, the state-owned oil company, for 12 years, stood watch over a console with so many blinking buttons and computer screens that it looked like the bridge of a spaceship. Mr. Deliso monitors 3,000 machines and processes that turn crude oil into gasoline. Though he has a high school education, he has been trained to be a specialist here, and he considers his job as delicate as disarming a live bomb. With skeleton crews working lots of overtime, Mr. Chavez is getting gasoline trickling back into Venezuelas pumps. Officials here said that since the beginning of last week, this refinery had produced 60,000 barrels of gasoline a day, about 70 percent its normal capacity and almost a fourth of the 225,000 barrels normally consumed by this country each day The refinery here at balmy Puerto La Cruz has become a showcase of the governments comeback. Almost all high-level executives at the plant joined the strike. But officials said fewer than 20 percent of the operators, mechanics and technicians walked off the job. We are prouder now than ever, said Wilfredo Bastardo, a 17-year oil veteran. We have shown our supervisors that we can run this plant without them. Chavez has dismissed 1,000 employees of PDVSA, most of them middle- and high-level. He suggested that the company will be broken up into two divisions in order to shake up the entrenched management, which has long used the company as a slush fund for Venezuelas ruling elite distributing billions in kickbacks and sweetheart deals. The resumption of oil refining and the failure of the general strike to spread beyond the largely upper class neighborhoods on the east side of Caracas made it possible for Chavez to leave the country without immediate danger of a coup. He traveled to Brasilia for the inauguration on January 2 of Brazils new president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, where he denounced the right-wing campaign as a coup attempt disguised as a strike, organized by terrorists who are blocking oil and food distribution and sabotaging refineries. There were several attempts to revive the
[CTRL] Wedgie
-Caveat Lector- Arab News SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=22084 Israeli plan to weaken Egypt By Hassan Tahsin Published on 20 January 2003 Many people believe that the Camp David accords ended the confrontation between Egypt and Israel forever. The reality of the situation though is that the war is continuing but in the form of a Cold War between the US and then Soviet Union. Egypt viewed the peace treaty as a civilized way of ending military confrontation and for the return of Egyptian land occupied by Israel without the need for any more bloodshed. On the other hand, Israel views the treaty as an effective means of marginalizing Egypts role in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The treaty also gives Israel the right to impose a geographical siege of Egypt by influencing the political systems of the African countries especially those that lie in the Great Lakes area. This would eventually enable Israel to control the sources of the Nile River and to pressure Egypt into delivering water from the Nile to Israel through the Suez Canal. However Egypts considerable political weight and history has dashed the first hope. But Israel, by taking advantage of political turmoil and border conflicts between African nations has managed to infiltrate some African countries and besiege Egypt from the south. History shows the Zionist ideology was never averse to using Africa and its natural wealth aside from the idea of blockading the Arab countries, especially Sudan, Egypt and Libya, from the south. Egypt is considered the principal enemy of the Jewish state. The general view is that Israeli ambitions began in the 1950s, but the Zionist greed was there even before the establishment of the Jewish state on occupied Palestinian land. In 1893 four years before the first Zionist Conference in Basel, Switzerland, Theodore Hertzel, the father of Zionism, wrote: In view of the history of the Jews in various parts of the earth and of the blacks in Africa, we can observe a number of shared experiences, especially as it relates to the hardships both have suffered throughout history which means that the two may share some common interests. No one stopped to ponder the deeper meaning of what Hertzel said. Two years later leaders of the Zionist movement suggested that Uganda be the national home of the Jews. Britain, Ugandas colonial master at the time, refused. Was this refusal solely based on Great Britains wish not to surrender one of its colonies? Or where there other reasons? The events that followed showed that there were other more important reasons. Britain, which ruled the world at that time, saw that it was important to place a political roadblock between the Arab countries in the Middle East, especially between Egypt on the one hand and Lebanon, Syria and Jordan on the other. History had taught them that Egypts power always spreads to the east uniting with those countries and that Egypts power is what prevented the European Crusaders from retaining Palestine. So they chose the Jews, known for their deep enmity toward Islam and toward Egypt. This was the first stage of the blockade of Egypt; after handing over Palestine to the Zionists, UK supported this new entity until it became a powerful roadblock between Egypt and the Arab Middle East. France also contributed its support followed by the United States which further entrenched this Zionist entity. Once this was done, Israel undertook the second part in the blockade of Egypt by infiltrating Africa. Israel went straight into the heart of Africa in slow consecutive steps beginning in the fifties and reaching a peak in the end of the seventies of the last century. Israel set up cooperation agreements with twenty African countries, especially in the military field. Israel also had a long history of relations with South Africa when that country was a European colony going as far as collaborating in the nuclear field. It also courted Ethiopia paving the way for the transfer of Falasha Jews from Ethiopia to Israel as well as water projects in order to gain control of three of the Niles most important tributaries. In the last few years Israel has sought to use its friendship with Eritrea to establish military bases on some of the islands at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. The ultimate aim is to tighten its siege on the source of the Nile River and further weaken Egypt. This as well as the plans to create friction between Egypt and African states and divide Sudan all form part of an Israeli and American plan to break up the Arab countries to ensure Israels hegemony in the region. Arab News Opinion 20 January 2003 Copyright © 2003 ArabNews All Rights Reserved. A:E:R Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article has to stand on its own merits. Therefore, unless I am a first-hand witness to any event described, I cannot attest to its validity.
[CTRL] Lightning
-Caveat Lector- Mon 20 Jan 2003 Controversial 'lightning' weapon could cripple Iraqi war machine JACQUI GODDARD AMERICA has developed a new weapon capable of crippling Saddam Husseins war machine by unleashing powerful man-made lightning strikes. Known as the HPM - High Powered Microwave - it has been created under a top-secret Pentagon programme aimed at revolutionising the US militarys warfare techniques, Time magazine reports. HPMs are artificial lightning bolts packed inside cruise missiles, with the potential to deliver as much electricity in a single flash as the Hoover Dam generates in one day - more than two billion watts. As it homes in on its target, the missile discharges an energy pulse that moves at the speed of light, destroying all electronic gadgetry and computer equipment within 1,000ft of the ultimate flash by blowing out circuits and memory chips. The effect is similar to that of a lightning strike on a household television or computer, which can be burned out by a storm-wave of electricity surging in through the wiring. As America prepares to lead a war against Iraq, senior military officials have hinted that they have a new weapon at their disposal, triggering speculation that HPMs are now in production. Details of their development at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have been kept under tight wraps. The electro- magnetic pulses can travel deep into caves, buried bunkers, plumbing systems and ventilation shafts. The so-called energy bombs or e-bombs could be of great value in incapacitating Saddam Husseins military communications. But there is concern that they may also wreak devastating collateral damage, as they can also affect life support systems in hospitals and heart pacemakers. Like blinding lasers, like anti-personnel mines, like cluster bombs, there are weapons out there which are on the edge of whether or not they cause unnecessary suffering or are indiscriminate or fail to comply with our obligations under international humanitarian law, said William Arkin, military advisor to the organisation Human Rights Watch. This article: http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=72822003 More War with Iraq?: http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=518 Websites: Dossiers on Iraqi WMD human rights abuses http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ ShowPagec=Pagecid=1032455026312 FCO - Policy towards Iraq http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ ShowPagec=Pagecid=1007029394374 FCO site - Britain, UNSCOM Iraq http://special.fco.gov.uk/ UN - Office of the Iraq Programme http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/ US Dept of State - Iraq Update http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/ Iraqi Presidency http://www.uruklink.net/iraq/ Iraq Watch http://www.iraqwatch.org John Pilger on Iraq http://pilger.carlton.com/iraq A:E:R Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article has to stand on its own merits. Therefore, unless I am a first-hand witness to any event described, I cannot attest to its validity. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra 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
[CTRL] Tribal Tribulations
-Caveat Lector- washingtonpost.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A12030- 2003Jan18?language=printer The highest-profile case of tribal justice occurred in 1996, when Hussein's two sons-in-law, Hussein Kamel Hassan Majeed and Saddam Kamel Hassan Majeed, returned to Iraq after defecting to Jordan and disclosing secrets about Iraq's weapons programs. The brothers were killed during a night-long gun battle, not with the police or the military, but with members of their own tribe seeking to redeem the family's honor. Iraqi Wild Card Tribal Loyalties Hard to Predict By Rajiv Chandrasekaran Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, January 19, 2003; Page A01 RASHIDIYA, Iraq -- The sheik gazed left, then right, looking at a half-dozen farmers in mud- speckled robes seated in his vast receiving room. Supplicant in posture and effusive in flattery, they drank several cups of sweet tea before a young man named Mohammed summoned the courage to ask the question that had brought them to their leader at dinnertime. Was their tribe, the Fudhool, ready for a U.S. attack? The sheik, Fadhil Abbas Jassim, 69, with a gravelly voice and a gray-speckled beard, smiled. Then he chortled, causing his gold-fringed cloak to flap about. The Fudhool recently received a few thousand automatic rifles from the government, he informed the farmers, and more were on the way. The guns would be handed out soon. Everyone would be armed. After the farmers departed into the balmy night, appearing reassured, Jassim turned to a visitor. If there is a war, they will fight on my command, he proclaimed. They will defend our land against foreign aggression. He added after a moment's pause, But if there is a need for peace, of course they will listen to me. As Bush administration officials and U.S. military commanders try to predict how Iraqis would react to a possible U.S. invasion aimed at toppling President Saddam Hussein, the behavior of the country's armed and influential tribes has emerged as a wild card. The vast majority of Iraq's 24 million people affiliate themselves with tribal groups, and sociologists here estimate that more than a third retain some degree of loyalty to their tribal leaders. Will the tribal leaders stick by Hussein, who has wooed them since the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf War by doling out cash, land and cars, as well as increased authority in rural Iraq? Or will they welcome the Americans and help them fight the Iraqi army? Or will they sit out the fighting, despite their bellicose rhetoric, out of fear of choosing the wrong side? Several prominent sheiks insisted their allegiance is firmly with Hussein, a man they referred to as his excellency, our dear leader and the great president. If there is a war, they said they would mobilize hundreds of thousands of fighters, from schoolboys to old men ineligible to join the military, to defend their villages and the roads leading to Baghdad. We will fight to the death against any invaders, said Rashash Imarrah, chief of the Imarrah tribe, most of whose members live near the intersection of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Iraq. If the Americans think they can just march up here, they are sadly mistaken, said the sheik, who claims to command 4,000 armed fighters. We will be waiting for them. Past Invaders The last time a foreign army sought to capture Baghdad, during World War I, British forces moved up the Tigris from the Persian Gulf to expel the Ottoman Turks who controlled most of present-day Iraq. Expecting the tribes to help fight the Ottomans, or at least remain neutral, the British instead found themselves under attack by several tribes that remained loyal to the Turks. As people here are fond of mentioning, tens of thousands of British soldiers died, many from disease, before Baghdad finally fell in 1917. The Americans, Imarrah said, should remember this. Nobody knows for sure when tribes such as the Imarrah were formed, but historians and tribal leaders say many of the groups predate the start of Islam on the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century. The tribes thrived for centuries, providing order and community in an otherwise lawless desert. Sheiks settled disputes, dispensed charity and approved marriages. But in 1958, when Iraq's British-installed monarchy was overthrown, the new military government set out to eliminate tribal networks, regarding sheiks as little kings who considered themselves above the law. When the Baath Party, the political machine through which Hussein rose to power, took over in 1968, that effort intensified. And when Hussein assumed the presidency in 1979, it accelerated further: Sheiks who represented a threat to his hold on power were killed or jailed. Tens of thousands of people from tribal areas were forced to migrate to cities. The Baathists, whose ideology called for a secular, modern Arab nation, regarded the tribal system as a backward system that did not fit in with modern life, said Ihsan M.
[CTRL] SF Rally
-Caveat Lector- Back http://www.kron4.com/global/story.asp?s=1090280ClientType=Printable Protesters Pack Streets for Anti-War Rally Posted: January 19, 2003 at 2:25 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California celebrities, families and activists jammed San Francisco on Saturday for one of the country's biggest protests against a possible war with Iraq, cautioning Americans about what demonstrators said are the dangers and futility of the potential conflict. FORUM: War Against Iraq Let my country awake, actor Martin Sheen told the rally, which included drum circles, marchers and a stilt-walker dressed as the Statue of Liberty with a gag. We want to end the long and shameful silence. Singers Joan Baez and Bonnie Raitt performed for the crowd, which police estimated at 50,000 and organizers pegged at more than 200,000. By either estimate, it was among the largest of a series of anti-war protests across the country. In a region that helped give birth to the protest movements of the Sixties, the crowd also reflected the long history of San Francisco Bay Area activism. Protesters included teenagers with their parents and retirees with their children. We want the rest of the world to know that not all of America is behind Bush and his policies, said Shahzad Chowdry, 34, an engineer from Palo Alto who marched with his parents and sister. His father, Akram Chowdry, wore a bumper sticker on his head that read Stop the War. Though Akram Chowdry had never before been to a peace rally, he said he was moved to attend this one because he believes the United States is acting unethically. It should not be done. This is wrong, said Akram Chowdry, who immigrated to the United States from Pakistan 30 years ago. Dan Bradshaw, 43, of Sacramento, carried a sign that read Republicans for Peace (and a Balanced Budget), in one hand. In the other, he carried his 3- year-old son, Boo. Wearing a business suit and tie, he marched with his wife, Caroline, a Democrat who wore an American flag sweater over a white turtleneck. They said that though they sometimes disagree, they're united in their stance against the war. I've been dumbfounded that we've come to this, Dan Bradshaw said. War is a last resort I'm not averse to. But we're nowhere near a last resort with Iraq. Though it was a festive atmosphere -- some marchers came as Uncle Sam, some wore angel wings, and music and cheering energized the crowd -- demonstrators said they were serious about their opposition to the war. Former Army reservist Chris Shay, 31, of San Jose, was a member of a U.S. Army chemical weapons unit in Iraq in 1989. There, he said, he saw first-hand the devastation of the Kurds wrought by Saddam. Though he believes 100 percent that Saddam needs to go, he said he believes that war isn't the way to do it. The important thing is to start the message, he said. Nobody listened in 1965, but by 1972 they stopped the war. Shay attended with his friend Damon Jansen, 30, of Oakland, a high school teacher. Jansen said protesting was not un-American. A lot of people think if you're not for the war, then you're for Saddam and against the U.S., he said. There's a lot of U.S flags here. Representatives from over 50 unions planned to attend the event, more than double the number that attended a peace rally in October, according to a spokesman for International ANSWER, which organized the events in Washington and San Francisco. In the southern part of the state, about 300 people in Orange County marched to the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, chanting Impeach Bush and Exxon, Mobil, OPEC, Shell, take your war and go to hell. Saddam Hussein is not a good person, but he has not attacked us directly to give us reason to attack him, said Magda Saldana, 60, an elementary school teacher. The Iraqi people do not have to suffer because they have a madman for a leader. (Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) All content © Copyright 2001 - 2002, WorldNow and KRON. All Rights Reserved. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. A:E:R Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article has to stand on its own merits. Therefore, unless I am a first-hand witness to any event described, I cannot attest to its validity. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or
[CTRL] Cayman Trial Blown Away
-Caveat Lector- CLICK HERE TO PRINT CLOSE WINDOW http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-546933,00.html January 18, 2003 Cayman trial falls apart over MI6 link From James Doran in New York THE leader of the Cayman Islands Government accused Britain last night of conducting a cold war against the dependent territory after the collapse of a routine money-laundering trial revealed allegations of espionage, wire taps and obstruction of justice by alleged MI6 agents. The bizarre case has revealed that an unnamed agent of the British Government described in court documents as John Doe has been receiving secret information about companies and banks that are based on Cayman from one of the islands top anti-money- laundering officials. It is understood that operations by the secret UK government agency on tax havens such as Cayman have stepped up since money-laundering laws were tightened as part of the War on Terror. The transcript of the Cayman court case, which reads like the pages of a Graham Greene novel, is now being used to try to force David Ballantyne, the islands Attorney-General, to resign, along with the whole of the islands financial services unit. McKeever Bush, leader of the Cayman Islands Government and Father of the House of its legislature, said: The secret intelligence service of the UK has interfered with the course of justice on Cayman. How can the UK Government conduct this kind of cold war, this espionage against Cayman? We are an overseas dependent territory. He added that the alleged spying and the collapse of an important money-laundering trial could cost Cayman dearly. We are vehemently opposed to money-laundering, Mr Bush said. The UK Government must pay for what it has done. It must pay for the trial and it must pay for the fallout this will cause. It is feared that companies will stay away from Cayman now it is known that they are being watched by government agencies, thus depriving the island of its main income. Anthony Smellie, the Chief Justice of Cayman, threw out a long- running money-laundering case against Euro Bank, a company that operates on the tax haven, on January 14 after allegations that Brian Gibbs, a senior anti-fraud officer, had passed information about the case to an unnamed agency of the UK Government, understood to be MI6. Mr Gibbs, a former UK police officer, was director of the Cayman Islands Financial Reporting Unit and, as such, responsible for upholding financial law on the territory and preventing money- laundering. He had been set to appear as a witness in the case as he was said to have an informant within Euro Bank who blew the whistle on an alleged money-laundering scam. During the trial, it was revealed that Mr Gibbs had been sending details about the whistleblower to John Doe. Chief Justice Smellie claimed in his 20-plus page judgment that Mr Gibbs had been ordered by John Doe to destroy much of the evidence submitted by the whistleblower because it could reveal the identity of other so-called agents of the UK government agency. The Chief Justice also said that Mr Gibbs had been accused of trying to bug the telephones of the Cayman Islands judiciary as part of his work for the UK government agency. Gibbs has since testified, Chief Justice Smellie wrote in documents obtained by The Times, that he destroyed evidence on the instructions of a controlling agent of the UKG. Mr Gibbs, who is thought to have fled the island, denies any involvement in the plan to interfere with the judiciarys telephone system. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra 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
[CTRL] Tarnish on Argentina
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Once-proud Argentina now has starving babies
49 children dead: Economic crisis spawned by inept governments
Marina Jiménez
National Post, with files from news services
Saturday, January 18, 2003
It is the final, humiliating blow for a country once known for its café
society and blowout beef barbecues: emaciated children, their limbs
weakened by rickets, starving to death.
These shocking images illuminate the crisis brought on by Argentina's
economic collapse -- the world's fourth-largest exporter of agricultural
products can no longer feed its own children.
So far in Tucuman, a poor northwestern province 1,280 kilometres from
the capital, Buenos Aires, 49 children have starved to death and
hundreds more are being treated for malnutrition. In this region of
sugar-cane plantations and lemon groves, mothers are forced to feed
their children green tea because they cannot afford food or milk.
This is a tremendous humiliation for Argentines, said Sergio Karas, an
immigration lawyer who immigrated to Toronto from Buenos Aires in
1980.
To see children go starving runs counter to all the teachings Argentines
have received since childhood about their country being the
breadbasket of the world with the best beef, the best place to live.
Argentina still produces eight times the food needed for its 37 million
people, but corruption and government mismanagement have led to
extreme poverty in the northern provinces. Poor farmers continue to
export the beef and grain that could be eaten at home because they
need foreign capital.
Five non-governmental organizations have filed a lawsuit against Julio
Miranda, the governor of Tucuman, accusing him of wilful neglect of the
children who have died of malnutrition in his province. They also claim
he misappropriated federal funds intended for social programs.
Although there are signs Argentina's economy is finally beginning to
recover -- inflation is in check and unemployment is falling -- the
effects of the dramatic default and currency devaluation a year ago are
still being felt.
Food prices have risen by more than 30% and employment is 70% in
rural northern areas. According to the Argentine Centre of Studies on
Children's Nutrition, one in five Argentine children is malnourished, and
the infant mortality rate has risen in some areas to 30 per 1,000 born
alive, nine times the national average.
Before Christmas, the government defaulted again on its World Bank
loans, cutting off its last credit lifeline and putting it on a fiscal rank with
such financial disasters as Sudan and Belarus.
The interim government of Eduardo Duhalde, a Peronist who took office
after riots a year ago, finally worked out a new loan program this week
with the International Monetary Fund.
The recent reports of children suffering from intestinal parasites and
severely underweight toddlers dying in hospitals have caused a national
sensation. Such widespread poverty is typical in most of Latin America,
but in Argentina, it is tangible proof the country has finally lost its special
European status.
I think there has been a real consciousness-raising, said Hernan
Cappeallo, a Buenos Aires journalist. These images have mobilized the
people.
A once-proud nation, in the 1930s Argentina had a standard of living
comparable to Canada's. Argentines revelled in late-night
philosophizing, opera and fine dining. Today, they are not discussing
poetry, but how to feed the poor.
Soup kitchens have sprung up everywhere.
Operation Rescue was launched recently to save malnourished children
from death, and expatriates are organizing similar fundraising events
around the world. The government recently announced it will form a
social safety network to track and assist families living in extreme
poverty.
Observers say the roots of the crisis were sown in years of economic
mismanagement by successive civilian and military governments.
General Juan Peron, who ruled from 1946 to 1955 and again in the
1970s, created a bloated welfare state the nation could not afford.
In 1982, a beleaguered military government made the disastrous
decision to invade the Falklands Islands, involving itself in a conflict it
could neither afford nor win. The government fell, leading to a period of
international borrowing and runaway spending.
Hyperinflation was finally tamed in the early 1990s, when the currency
was pegged to the U.S. dollar, but the government failed to service a
huge debt. By the time the peg was dropped last year, the peso had
lost 70% of its value.
Others blame the country's collapse on the 1976-83 Dirty War, when
30,000 intellectuals and potential future leaders disappeared,
presumed killed by the government.
Judith Teichman, a political science professor at the University of
Toronto, said economic growth has begun again in Argentina, but that is
not saying much when the
