[CTRL] worst-case scenarios
-Caveat Lector- http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi? template=articleprint.tmplhArticleId=87062 Copyright © 2002 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com U.S. ponders worst-case scenarios David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker/NYT The New York Times Tuesday, February 18, 2003 WASHINGTON Senior Bush administration officials are for the first time openly discussing a subject they have sidestepped during the massive buildup of forces around Iraq: what could go wrong not only during an attack, but especially in the aftermath of an invasion. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has a four-to-five-page typewritten catalog of risks he keeps in his desk drawer. He refers to it constantly, updates it regularly and has incorporated suggestions from senior military commanders into it and discussed it with President George W. Bush. The list includes a concern about Saddam Hussein using weapons of mass destruction against his own people and blaming it on us, which would fit a pattern, Rumsfeld said. The document also notes that he could do what he did to the Kuwaiti oil fields and explode them, detonate, in a way that lost that important revenue for the Iraqi people, Rumsfeld said. That item is of particular concern to the administration teams planning postwar reconstruction, as Iraqi oil revenues would be required for speedily rebuilding the nation. A senior Bush administration official confirmed that fundamental uncertainties remain even after months of internal studies, advance planning and the insertion of Central Intelligence Agency officers and Special Operations Forces into some corners of Iraq. We still do not know how U.S. forces will be received - will it be cheers, jeers or shots? the senior official said. And the fact is, we won't know until we get there. In an administration that strives to sound bold and optimistic - especially when discussing the political, economic and military power of the United States and its ideas - such cautionary notes being sounded from the White House, the Pentagon and the intelligence community may well be intended for political inoculation. No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy, according to one military maxim that is no less accurate for its being a cliché. It is better to warn the American public of these dangers in advance, officials note. According to his aides, Bush has to prepare the country for what one senior official calls the very real possibility that this will not look like Afghanistan, a military victory that came with greater speed than any had predicted, and with fewer casualties. And if Bush decides to begin military action without explicit United Nations approval, it is very possible that other nations will withhold support for what promises to be the far more complex operation: stabilizing and rebuilding Iraq, while preventing religious and political score-settling, seeking out well-hidden weapons stores before others find them, keeping the lid on Taliban activity in Afghanistan and pre- empting acts of terror against American targets at home and abroad. There is a lot to keep us awake at night, said one senior administration official. The level of uncertainty over the length of the battle in Iraq is high, the senior administration official said, despite the confident assertions of some enthusiasts for military action that the resistance will be over in a flash. How long will this go on? the official asked. Three days, three weeks, three months, three years? Even some of this senior official's aides winced as they contemplated the last time frame on the list. As America's intelligence assets focus on Iraq and tracking terrorist activity worldwide, senior officials worry that they may be less thorough in tracking threats to the United States elsewhere around the globe. Just last week on Capitol Hill, Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said that his ability to detect the proliferation of nuclear weapons or missiles around the world was being stretched thin, leaving vast swaths of the world, including South Asia and North Korea, with less coverage than he would like. And the director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet, hinted at one of the deepest worries heard in the hallways of the intelligence agency, the Pentagon and the White House: that a successful removal of Saddam Hussein could be followed by a scramble for the tools he wielded to remain in power, including his military arsenal. The country cannot be carved up, Tenet said of Iraq. The country gets carved up and people believe they have license to take parts of the country for themselves. That will make this a heck of a lot harder, Tenet said. At the White House, officials acknowledge that they have been late in focusing on the question of how to bring enough aid to the region in the days after an attack begins, which could mean that even those celebrating liberation could quickly turn against the liberators. Bush's
[CTRL] student's email
-Caveat Lector- Print this article | Close this window Embattled Blair seizes on student's email By Becky Barrow in London February 18 2003 An Iraqi student found herself in the spotlight after Tony Blair seized on an email she sent to friends, telling them about Saddam Hussein's atrocities, including the disappearance of 17 members of her family. Rania Kashi, 19, a first-year student at Cambridge University, sent the email to about 15 friends who were thinking of going on London's protest march. This may be hard to believe, and you may not even appreciate the extent of such barbaric acts, but believe me you will be hard pressed to find a single family in Iraq which has not had a son/father/brother killed, imprisoned, tortured and/or 'disappeared' due to Saddam's regime. One of her uncles was tortured after trying to escape. Before sending the email, she let her father, Dhiaa, a businessman, check the facts, and he forwarded it to some friends. The email was quoted on Sunday in a speech by the Prime Minister at Labour's conference in Glasgow after a copy was given to him by a group of Iraqis in Scotland on Saturday morning. A copy has subsequently been published on the Prime Minister's website. In her email Ms Kashi wrote: Whatever America's real intentions behind an attack, the reality on the ground is that the majority of Iraqis, inside and outside Iraq, support the invasive action, because they are the ones who have to live with the realities of continuing as things are. I say to them [the protesters]: do not continue to allow the Iraqi people to be punished because you are 'unhappy' with the amount of power America is allowed to wield in a faulty world. Do not use the Iraqi people as a pawn in your game for moral superiority. When you allow a monster like Saddam to rule for 30 years without so much as protesting against his rule, you lose the right to such a claim. But newspapers yesterday forecast that Mr Blair would become a victim of the Iraq crisis. In the past three days Mr Blair's nightmare became more than a remote possibility, wrote the Financial Times. The Independent said: The price for Blair's misplaced conviction will be a loss of authority. Mr Blair finds himself firmly attached to the losing side of the argument. The Guardian commented: If the conflict was messy and prolonged with nasty outcomes, Mr Blair might even depart from office. According to the Daily Telegraph, a victory by France and Germany would be a disaster for Mr Blair, who would no longer enjoy the confidence of the US or the European Union and would be weakened domestically. The Daily Mirror, the only tabloid that opposes a war, headlined Britain tells Blair: You're on your own and spoke of a plan by members of Mr Blair's Labour Party to get rid him. The Telegraph, London; AFP This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/17/1045330539947.html 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 Sut 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
[CTRL] Right now, the worst thing that could occur
-Caveat Lector- Wow! The worst thing is safety and security so that must make the best things how many more failures of the American government to do the job it's paid to do ... A:E:R Alert elevation based on a lie By DOUG THOMPSON Feb 14, 2003, 09:16 Email this article http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_1771.shtml Printer friendly page After a week of warning Americans to get ready for an imminent terrorist attack, a chagrined Bush administration now admits a key source of information for that attack was fabricated by a captured al Qaida operative. We've wondering just how much egg we have on our face, says one unhappy White House source. Right now, the worst thing that could occur for the administration's credibility is that nothing happens this weekend. I know that sounds terrible but we've got a lot riding on this. The administration elevated the nation's threat level to orange last week, the second-highest rating. At the time, Capitol Hill Blue reported that some intelligence professionals felt the elevation was not justified because intelligence reports were contradictory. A key part of the intelligence was information obtained from a captured al Qaida operative who told a detailed story about his organization's development of a dirty bomb that could be masked from detection by airport detectors and other security precautions. The bombs, the operative said, would be set off this weekend at specific government and private targets. CIA officials urged delaying elevating the threat level until the story could be checked through other sources but the administration decided to go ahead and alert the public. Only after the threat was elevated did the FBI administer a lie detector test to the operative and the test showed he was lying repeatedly about the dirty bombs and threats. He did not pass, said Vince Callistrano, former terrorism chief for the CIA. Callistrano says the information from the al Qaida operative was a key part of the puzzle the Bush administration put together to justify the increased alert. This piece of that puzzle turns out to be fabricated and therefore the reason for a lot of the alarm, particularly in Washington this week, has been dissipated after they found out that this information was not true, he added. Bush administration officials say they still plan to keep the alert level raised through the weekend and claim other intelligence information confirmed the threat was real. But top intelligence officials at both the FBI and CIA are already pointing fingers at each other -- each claiming the other jumped the gun, but former FBI agent and terrorism expert Neal Zachmann says the real blame rests with increasing paranoia over getting caught flat footed when another attack comes. There is little doubt that al Qaida will strike again, Zachmann says. But the fact is, nobody really knows when or how. The administration really stuck its neck out with this latest threat level escalation and all the visible signs of preparation. Portable antiaircraft misslbe launching platforms now greet visitors who drive across bridges into Washington. Armed troops patrol Union Station and Capitol Hill police carry automatic weapons while on patrol. The point is we're ready now for an attack that may not come for days, weeks, months or even years, Zachmann says. Are we going to maintain this state of readiness for the next 10 years? Will the public accept it? Earlier this week, a jittery public reacting to warnings from the White House emptied grocery stories of bottled water and bought up every roll of duct tape they could find. By Thursday, however, retailers said the buying frenzy had eased. © Copyright 2003 by Capitol Hill Blue 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 Sut 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
[CTRL] The War(p) Enterprise's 'Scottie' Giving All She's Got
-Caveat Lector- Ah, never having been a 'Trekkie' to any great extent, I can just see Shrub's other 'Scottie' down in the the engine rooms of war, monkeying with the war(p) drives, messaging back up to the bridge, I'm givin' you all she's got Captain. Then Beam me back, 'Scottie' might take on added significance (like knocking back a shot of Beam). This might be an interesting exercise in assigning the Admin cast to the characters of those who choose to go where sane man has never gone before. A:E:R http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,897101,00.html Blair's 'moral' case for war in Iraq is shot full of holes As public opposition mounts, the PM is forced to play his last card Simon Tisdall Monday February 17, 2003 The Guardian Downing Street is at panic stations as the full implications of Hans Blix's inspections report sink in. The two main US-British arguments in favour of launching a war on Iraq next month - that Saddam currently possesses deployable weapons of mass destruction and poses an immediate or near- term threat to the region and to us - already had few takers before Friday's UN meeting. In his peculiarly dispassionate, persuasive way, Blix further undermined and, for many, destroyed the credibility of the Anglo- American case for an early, pre-emptive attack. A third core argument, favoured by George Bush and blithely reiterated by him in Florida last week - that Saddam is in cahoots with al-Qaida and is somehow linked or even to blame for 9/11 - is not seen as convincing even by those who have espoused it. Downing Street now knows this argument, too, is a definitive non-runner. Assailed on all sides by unprecedented popular protest, at odds with Europe, outnumbered in the security council, with the Pentagon's clock inexorably ticking, and rightly worried that an impatient Bush may reject the UN route, dish his British ally and press on regardless, Tony Blair has now reached his bottom line: morality. With his back against the wall, belatedly aware of the depth of his difficulty, and surrounded by the empty shell casings of a defeated polemic, Blair played his last card in Glasgow at the weekend. Action was a moral imperative, he declared. If Saddam remains in power, he warned emotively, there will be consequences paid in blood. The moral case for intervention was overwhelming. Those who opposed it, he implied, were themselves acting immorally. In many respects, this is an outrageous statement. It reeks of condescension. In his wisdom, it seems, the prime minister is suggesting that millions of weekend marchers and all those in the European, Arab and Muslim spheres who disagree have failed to think through the ethical ramifications of their stand. But since Blair can be sure to repeat his moral message in the two or three weeks that remain before Bush is expected to press the button, it must be answered. How moral is it, to take one aspect, to wreck an inspections process unanimously agreed by the UN? Blair and Jack Straw endlessly stress the exact terms of resolution 1441. But this document sets no time limit on inspections. It makes no mention of the regime change that Blair now advocates. Nor does 1441's text authorise the conquest, indefinite occupation and forcible remaking of Iraq under US military auspices. Exactly how moral is it, as is now the US-British plan in the next fortnight, to gerrymander UN backing for war by buying votes with US financial largesse? Blair's new concept of the unreasonable veto and the quaint idea of claiming a moral mandate from a simple majority UN vote has no base in international law. Nor, for that matter, does the concept of an offensive war, as opposed to collective, defensive action. The US and Britain have no moral right to try to reinterpret and thus subvert the UN charter in this way. The onus is surely on Blair, not his opponents, to explain the morality of rejecting Blix's provisional conclusion that his inspections are beginning to work. It is not moral to turn to the last resort of violence when Iraq has conceded many of the UN's demands and when South Africa, for example, is offering its good offices and experience in assuring nuclear disarmament. The onus is surely also on Blair to show the Vatican and, say, Britain's Anglican and Muslim leaders, why and on what grounds his moral authority exceeds theirs. Having made his bid for the high ground, the prime minister has many other dilemmas to clarify. The Iraq crisis has entrenched the Israel-Palestine stalemate. War will bring further delays to the peace process. But Palestinian children are suffering malnutrition right now. For many, international intervention to secure the occupied territories is a more pressing priority. Or consider the Kurds. In the event of war, their hard-won autonomy will be under direct threat from a US- sanctioned, Turkish military incursion. Kurds were among the biggest victims of (deeply immoral) US-British military assistance to Saddam in
[CTRL] Bartcop Forum - The Worst Decision Ever Made for a President
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[CTRL] Shooting It or Snorting It?
-Caveat Lector- SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close http://www.lewrockwell.com/glaser/glaser19.html Are They Shooting It or Snorting It? by James Glaser Nothing scientific here, but I do believe that George, Colin, and Donald are all strung out on testosterone. Dick would be too, except for his heart thing. I spotted it right away when Colin Powell started to speak at the United Nations this week. He threw away his prepared speech, started rambling off the cuff, and you could see it in his eyes. Colin wanted to kill that French guy or somebody else, anybody, maybe some Iraqi kids would do the trick. George might just be the first President with a deviated septum. I don't know for sure, but all of these guys in our Executive Branch want to go out and kill people. Women, children, or even infants, it doesn't matter to them. Just like it has never mattered to anyone starting a war, because the innocent are the people that get killed in every war. Lets face it: nobody in the White House other than Colin Powell had the guts to go to war when their chance came, so it would seem plausible that these guys have taken something to give them this need for war now. These guys don't want to defend America, on the contrary they have left America's borders wide open and all the tough talk of getting Osama bin Laden dead or alive is a thing of the past. In fact Osama is never even mentioned by George any more. The War on Terrorism it has been decided, no longer will raise George Bush's poll numbers. Colin Powell has been in favor of killing women and children for years. In fact in his autobiography he talks about destroying the food supply and homes of villagers. We burned the thatched huts, starting the blaze with Ronson and Zippo lighters Ho Chi Minh had said people were like the sea in which his guerillas swam. We tried to solve the problem by making the whole sea uninhabitable. In the hard logic of war, what difference does it make if you shoot your enemy or starve him to death? It makes a lot of difference Secretary Powell, because when you shoot someone you have some sort of control over who is shot. When you starve a whole population you are killing the enemy along with innocent children and infants. It has been reported that Iraq's population is 42% children. Equating those children with combatants is at the very heart of The Powell Doctrine which recommends using overwhelming force on the enemy, regardless of civilian casualties. We can see that in our last war in Afghanistan. Civilian deaths were not even counted, even though thousands died. We only learned of them from international organizations that investigated. As far as our government is concerned, civilian deaths are unfortunate. If you spent the time and listened to this last round of speeches at the UN after Dr. Hans Blix gave his report, you could hear it in the tone of their voices. Only the United States, Great Britain, and Spain wanted to go to war right now and each of their representatives' voices were hard and angry, while everyone else spoke of hope for a peaceful solution and their voices sounded almost serene. I have been to war and know how combat can take over your whole mind and body. It is an adrenaline rush like no other. I didn't think that those way in the rear could get that rush, but George, Colin, and Donald must think you can. I can only hope that these men will get into some sort of treatment program and that they can get off this testosterone habit before they kill more innocent people. February 18, 2003 Jim Glaser [send him mail] is a Vietnam vet and a volunteer in veterans hospitals. Copyright © 2003 LewRockwell.com James Glaser Archives Find this article at: http://www.lewrockwell.com/glaser/glaser19.html SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. 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
[CTRL] Pentagon says 1Million US Troops could die
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[CTRL] Protest coverage
-Caveat Lector- 101 slogans from today's peace rally (SF, CA) http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/sfc/com/8743118.html NOWAR - Photos Report (Toronto) http://citizensontheweb.com/ A Historic Day http://www.progressive.org/webex/wx021703.html http://www.indymedia.org/ Aerial Photos of Feb 16 Anti-war March Rally http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/1575313.php Anti-War Update: A roundup of opposition across the country http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=63_0_2_0_C Iraq Protests http://www.protest.net/iraq_protests.html Report From New York http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15196 A Day of Protest http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/02/000326.html Personal Voices: Dissent and a Mayor's Betrayal http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15195 Texans Turn Out Against War http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15197 A Global Antiwar Movement http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15182 Day of Global Action for Peace http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=20ItemID=3046 A People's Led Globalization Emerges http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=41ItemID=3059 Photos -- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/030215/168/3a6x9.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/030215/168/3a88t.html Your pictures from Glasgow's protest http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/2769607.stm In pictures: World rallies against war http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2765673.stm In pictures: Glasgow protests http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/2766141.stm In pictures: UK's anti-war protests http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2766805.stm IN PICTURES: THE MARCH AGAINST WAR http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12646646method=fullsiteid=50143 - Original Message - From: ARON KAY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 4:24 PM Subject: 2/15 protest pix please forward http://www.pieman.org/february15.html [NYC] -- - Original Message - From: David L. Moore Subject: McGovern Anti-War Speech Dear Pacifica Friends, The Peace Rally held outside yesterday, Sunday, here in Missoula, Montana was highlighted by an historic speech by George McGovern, and I've arranged to have it available for broadcast. All or parts of it might serve well for news broadcasts on the nationwide/global momentum for peace. The talk is about 22 minutes long, including rounds of applause from the crowd of several thousand peace marchers. Several moments in the speech are quite moving. (The incomplete introductory remarks are from Anita Doyle of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center here in Missoula.) You can download it as an MP3 file at http://people.montana.com/~dritz/ for use on the air. McGovern and his wife have a retirement home nearby up the Bitterroot River valley, and he speaks from time to time at Montana events. Our local newspaper, The Missoulian, this morning characterized the speech as McGovern's first major anti-war speech in 30 years. You can look at this morning's newspaper coverage and highlights of the speech and the rally at http://www.missoulian.com I'm sending this to station managers and many others around the Pacifica network and affiliates. Hope you find this useful. Some of you might just want to download it and listen. Please let me know if you do broadcast some of it. Peace in the struggle for peace, David David L. Moore Associate Professor Department of English University of Montana [EMAIL PROTECTED] 406-243-6708 -- Human Peace Sign from Antarctica http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0119-02.htm Anti War protest at McMurdo http://www.70south.com/news/1045083908/index_html Antiwar movement awakens over Iraq http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0218/p01s04-woiq.html The Numbers Game The March That Was http://www.motherjones.com/news/warwatch/2003/08/we_301_01.html Walking Along Streets of Peace http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/columnists/nyc-bres0216,0,853433.column?coll=ny-li-columnists Police fire tear gas, rubber bullets at Springs war protest http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/america_at_war/article/0,1299,DRMN_2116_1748278,00.html ANOTHER BIG TURNOUT SF peace march draws an estimated 200K to protest war on Iraq. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/17/PROTEST.TMPnl=top VANDALS MAR PEACEFUL RALLY Splinter anarchist group wreaks havoc downtown; dozens arrested. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/17/BLACKBLOC.TMPnl=top 'WE CAN STOP THIS WAR' Activists, stars and religious leaders preach peace at rally. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/17/SPEAKERS.TMPnl=top PEACE COMES IN ALL COLORS Outreach efforts bring more minorities out for Sunday's march. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/17/DIVERSE.TMPnl=top S.F. march organizers condemn violence They disavow breakaway protest http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/18/PROTEST.TMP ChronBites: Protests, Diversity, Rosen, and Lazarus
[CTRL] Latest In US Torture Research Tech: Sonic Pain Stick
-Caveat Lector- http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0307/smith.php The Sonic Pain Stick Torture Gets Technical by George Smith February 12 - 18, 2003 New methods of American technical torture continue to roll off private-sector assembly lines in the effort to aid the war on terror. One of the most aggressively pitched is a meter-long sonic pain stick marketed to the Department of Defense by the American Technology Corporation of San Diego. In a recent full-court press to the media, the company gaily described the sonic baton's potential to agonize terrorists on airplanes, where flying bullets wouldn't do. Intended for use at short range, the weapon projects sound intense enough to cause temporary loss of hearing, perhaps nullifying its effect, or possibly shattering the hijacker's eardrums. It would also probably agonize or rupture the hearing of everyone else in an enclosed cabin, blocking the communication of useful commands like Get that terrorist bastard! Department of Defense efforts at wielding sound waves to inflict unpleasantness have yielded refreshingly poor results. According to National Defense News, the army set up a testing regimen to torture animals -- referred to as surrogates -- but was unable to reliably agonize them. As a result, DoD's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate stopped funding some research in the area. Other arms of the military -- like the navy -- remain interested in sonic guns to disable foreign ship crews, or at least to make them very angry. The soldiers, weirdos, sadists, and tinkerers enthusiastic about acoustic technology envision strapping the sonic pain stick to an M-16. While it would be no good in situations where people can shoot back or even throw rocks, it certainly could have its uses in rousting frightened women and children from closets in an occupied Iraq. America's nonlethal-weapons scientists note that in our country, hearing aids and surgery can mitigate damage to the outer and middle ear caused by such a weapon. However, mangling of the inner ear is permanent. But in poor or just bombed-flat foreign lands, access to health insurance to pay for damage claims, hearing aids, and good surgeons may be hard to come by. Nonlethal weaponeers are also vexed by the fact that once one's ears are ruined, the sonic weapon loses its bite. American Technology Corporation is not alone in the arms race for painful sound. Scientific Applications Research Associates, a Pentagon contractor also located in Southern California, is pushing its Sonic Firehose, an allegedly portable widget with the same glorious mission as the aural agony rod. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0307/smith.php 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] Dictatorship - Where Leaders Won't Listen
-Caveat Lector- http://etherzone.com/2003/henr021803.shtml WASTED ENERGY PROTESTS THAT WON'T MATTER By: Ed Henry Published in the February 18, 2003 issue of Ether Zone. What do you call it when the leader of the free world does not listen to the cries of the people, when the head of the greatest system of representative government does not pay attention to the will of the people? Do you call it democracy? The answer to that is something most Americans do not want to hear because it's spelled despotism, dictatorship, oligarchy, tyranny, military junta or even banana republic. George Bush's only excuse is that polls in the United States show a lot of the population either undecided or willing to go along with his war. Over the weekend, the following countries protested George Bush's war on Iraq: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Slovenia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The coalition of the willing is down to two; Great Britain and Australia who have already committed troops to the Middle East. With 90 percent of the people in England against the war, Tony Blair is toast in the upcoming elections unless he gives up his role as Tonto to the Lone Ranger. And the Australian Parliament has already given Prime Minister John Howard a vote of no confidence. England's Guardian Unlimited called the protests a historic peace march whose massive turnout surpassed the organisers' wildest expectations and Tony Blair's worst fears because America is making our Prime Minister go against the huge majority of the British people, and that wont be forgiven. Look about you. That's what this is all about; not fierce party politics but a simple feeling that democracy, British democracy, has been forgotten. On the other hand, it's somewhat amazing to find so many Americans against George's war when his sales force has been pumping the war drums 24 hours a day for almost a year along with almost daily appearances by the prez himself, the Donald Rumsfeld show, and the Ari Fleischer hour of droning. If the protesting Americans haven't been convinced by now, they never will be. Forced by the news from around the world to finally recognize the enormity of events, Fox and CNN were at least willing to give the protests equal billing for a couple of days. Of course, coverage of the demonstrations was laced with the usual batch of experts favoring the war and snide remarks about the protesters, many depicted as left over hippies from the Sixties and Seventies, Hollywood socialists, as well as derogatory opinions about the worthiness of the United Nations. All under the usual Showdown Iraq and Target Iraq banner headlines, warnings of high alert from John Ashcroft and the Office of Homeland Security, and the virtues of duct tape. Since going to NATO hasn't resulted in a decision to send troops, including American, to Turkey to protect that country, and Turkey has so far turned us down on using their country to stage the Northern side of the invasion even though we've offered them $26 billion in an outright bribe, NATO is now derided as a possibly useless organization that needs to be abandoned like the ABM Treaty. There is no questioning of how many other international leaders we've bribed and little to examine for clues except the fact that the U.S. national debt is spiraling out of control. The Bush administration borrowed a total of $421 billion in fiscal 2002 and a grand total of almost $600 billion within 15 months. The only thing holding it down today is again the debt ceiling with no mention of how the new Secretary of the Treasury, John Snow, must be scurrying about making ends meet. Big news at other times. George's war has already cost us much of the international sympathy and cooperation we received immediately after the terrorist attack of September eleventh. And the search for bin Laden has worn thin, though it was revised over the weekend as a grasping at straws tie to Saddam Hussein. The one thing you can count on is that President Bush is not going to back off on attacking Iraq. We haven't sent all those troops and equipment over there for nothing and he didn't put forth his go it alone policy months ago without anticipating a negative reaction. The other thing you can take to the bank is the statement Bush has made over and over; On September eleventh our lives were changed forever. And Dorothy Anne Seese put it best when she wrote; Two towers fell and the federalization
[CTRL] Bush is Prostituting America's Military
-Caveat Lector- You've seen the famous painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River to fight a battle in the Revolutionary War. But...did you know he and his army were not crossing the river to fight British soldiers? No...they were rowing over to New Jersey to fight..Germans! That's rightGermans, and specifically to fight Hessians (that is Germans from the House of Hesse). It was a German mercenary army that Washington defeated on that cold night long ago. There is nothing new about one country hiring out its military to other countries for money. But The United States may be the first country in history to send it's military off to fight somebody else's war for free! That's right. Bush is prostituting the United States military and not even charging for the services. IN FACT..IT'S WORSE THAN THAT! Not only is Bush not charging Israel for our military's servicesthe United States is actually paying Israel huge amounts on top of getting our military for free! Every year, Israel gets the biggest chunk of U.S. foreign aid dollars.more than any other country in the worldby far. It's been this way for decades. Check the current U.S. Budget. You will find that not only does Israel get the most, it gets its money first, before anybody else gets theirs. There is actually a time deadline in the budget by which time Israel must get it's free money from Uncle Sap. What a deal! Bush prostitutes America's troops for free. The American Taypayers pick up the entire cost, plus America pays Israel Billions every year. Think about it when you are filing your Form 1040 this year. Nakano __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] http://www.scafrica.com/news1.htm
-Caveat Lector- http://www.scafrica.com/news1.htm South African blacks are killing whites in droves, but the mainstream media chooses to cover up this horror. Those who seek no further than the popular media for their information will he under the impression that now that the hated apartheid system has been overthrown, South Africa must he bathed in a rosy glow of egalitarian democracy," said Deirdre Fields. "Nothing could be further from the truth," she told the Third International Conference on Authentic History the First Amendment, held in Washington June 14-16. Mrs. Fields is herself an Afrikaner-a native South African descended from the Dutch settlers of that country as far back as 1652 She quoted a former anti-apartheid crusader, Dutch journalist Adrian Stuijt, in the London Daily Telegraph: Nothing I have seen compares to the current slaughter inside the country. More than 200,000 people have already been murdered in crime-related violence ... SA's small number of remaining commercial farmers are indeed in the world's most endangered profession. '(Some 1,800 white farmers have been murdered brutally since 1994 when the ANC/SCAP government had the reins of power placed into their grasping hands," Fields said. "The attackers do not merely intend to kill the victims but instead to inflict pain, humiliation and suffering. Attackers will kill a family, one by one, as they return home, she said. "Women are often raped and men sodomised, castrated and tortured before being murdered, some being set alight while still alive," she said. "A six-month-old baby was wrapped in newspapers and set alight. A 13-year old boy watched helplessly as his parents were murdered. Then the AIDS infected murderer forced his tongue into his mouth and molested him." The government has passed a gun law to disarm the whites while-blacks will remain armed to carry out the regime's genocide campaign, she said. Afrikaners are dispossessed politically and economically, she said. South Africa persuaded Zimbabwe to delay its land reform"-the killing of white farmers and giving their land to blacks to make its similar "reforms" easier, she said. The regime is rewriting the books" to destroy the white Afrikaners' history, identity and culture, she said. And what of the traitor F.W De Klerk, the former president of South Africa who surrendered his country and his people? Fields quotes De Klerk: "Conditions in South Africa are better than they ever were before." "Having successfully delivered his people, the white Afrikaners, into bondage and threatened extinction under the black communist ANC regime, De Klerk now jet-sets around the world with his new wife, turning up periodically to make statements such as the above," she said. "In this way he attempts to keep up the myth and continues to persuade them to disbelieve the evidence of their own eyes."' The communist-installed government is fulfilling Field's prophecy of a giant leap into socialism. South Africa is now contemplating a welfare state. A plan to provide every man, woman and child age 7 to 65 a monthly welfare check of $10 is being widely discussed: More than half of South Africa's 42 million people live on less than $2 a day and the economy has lost one million jobs since the take-over by blacks in 1994. By the most conservative estimate, on quarter of the workforce is unemployed. Many economists say the figure is closer to 40 per cent. 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] Can Interventionism Be 'A Good Thing'?
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Can Interventionism Be 'A Good Thing'? by Donald Mills I recently received the following e-mail, sent in response to my article entitled Orthogonality versus Opposite Direction (which appeared in the February 14 issue of LewRockwell.com see also http://www.donaldmills.com): Interesting way of looking at things. I'm not entirely convinced that the analogy is supremely apt or useful, but it's refreshing to the technical mind. I don't really understand your basis for unequivocally concluding that interventionism and do-goodism inevitably cause more problems than they solve. I'll be impressed should you find a way to demonstrate that empirically! Should the United States have refused to engage in either World War? Should it have restricted its participation to responding to the Japanese? If the Japanese hadn't attacked would it have been morally acceptable for the U.S. to allow Hitler to operate unchecked? Morality aside, do you actually believe that if everyone had just minded his own business after Poland was invaded there wo uld have been fewer problems in the long run? Naturally, this provoked a reaction on my part, which I share with the reader below (a cleaned-up version that corrects a couple of misspellings and one subject-verb disagreement, and also removes my address of the recipient by name): The U.S. should certainly have refused to engage in WWI, which, as the eminent military historian John Keegan notes, was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. U.S. involvement in the war led to the after-war settlement known as the Treaty of Versailles, which led to German resentment and paved the way for Hitler to rise to power in the 1930's. Hardly a matter of making the world safe for democracy! As to the Japanese question, we provoked the Japanese to attack us at Pearl Harbor because our government didn't like the idea of having a threat to rising American hegemony in East Asia. You can point to atrocities such as the rape of Nanking by the Japanese and the Holocaust by the Nazis to say that interventionism is needed, but I offer the following by way of a counter-argument: 1. Principled neutrality is usually a better alternative than interventionism. Humanitarian efforts to aid the dispossessed in question, including the opening of our borders, while not sacrificing our young on the shores of Europe and Asia, would have been a mutually beneficial arrangement that might well have saved many lives, American and otherwise. Had we stayed out of Europe in the 1940's, we could have let the Nazis and the Soviets battle it out, and then come to a negotiated truce, while putting forth our hand, in a benign manner, to help the Jews, Gypsies, and others suffering under Nazi rule. While the Swiss' hands were not entirely clean so far as the prosecution of WWII was concerned, their efforts were closer to the ideal than ours. Besides, you could make the point that the Soviets won WWII, not us and the Brits, as the USSR took over much of Eastern Europe (including Poland, the country that Britain and France declared war with Germany over in 1939, even though the USSR invaded eastern Poland shortly thereafter why was Germany's invasion not OK, but the Soviets' invasion was? And don't say that it was because, in some sense, Stalin was any better than Hitler Hitler had his millions, but Stalin had his tens of millions!) and built, as Churchill called it, the Iron Curtain, which led to the Cold War and the threat of nuclear annihilation. Indeed, from that standpoint (namely the domino effect), it can be argued that WWI didn't end until 1990, when the USSR fell, and given our continuing conflicts in the Middle East (the seeds of which were planted in the post-war plans of Wilson, George and Clemenceau), it might be fair to say, as others have, that WWI is still going on, 89 years after it started! The point is that conflicts perpetuate themselves long after they are started. 2. American and allied governments have consistently employed a rank and pernicious double standard with regards to the commission of atrocities. The Holocaust was a monstrous evil, but so was the bombing of Dresden, the nuclear annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the systematic rape of German women by the Soviets, all done within a 12-month span in 194445. In each case, thousands of innocent civilians either had their most basic human rights grossly violated, or were murdered outright. American policy during the Cold War, and continuing on to today, has been an ongoing affirmation of the Somoza standard: He's a bastard, but he's our bastard. A socialist regime in Chile, under the control of Allende? Why we can't have that! We'll
Re: [CTRL] Poodle Piddle
-Caveat Lector- So while everyone in Britain knows exactly what is meant by describingTony Blair as President Bush's poodle, Arabs are usually baffled. There isn't,in fact, a genuine Arabic word for poodle. There isn't, in fact, a genuine ENGLISH word for poodle either; the word is a corruption of the original German name for the breed, 'pudle', the same word from which we get 'puddle'...which hints at the original purpose for the breed, which was as a German water spaniel used for hunting, rather than as alapdog... June IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here 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
Re: [CTRL] Can Interventionism Be 'A Good Thing'?
-Caveat Lector- On 18 Feb 2003 at 8:59, someone wrote: 1. Principled neutrality is usually a better alternative than interventionism. I bet that's exactly what the guy at the DC gas station was saying to himself as he glanced at the fallen body next to him and continued to pump his kerosene. -- 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
Re: [CTRL] Poodle Piddle
-Caveat Lector- Practically the entire (traditional) English language is comprised of 'corrupted' words from older tongues. That doesn't make them non-genuine. However, one imagines the reason why there is no 'genuine' word for Poodle in Arabic may be similar to why there's no 'genuine' word for Haggis in the Navajo language. ;-) - Original Message - From: RevCOAL To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:49 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Poodle Piddle So while everyone in Britain knows exactly what is meant by describingTony Blair as President Bush's poodle, Arabs are usually baffled. There isn't,in fact, a genuine Arabic word for poodle. There isn't, in fact, a genuine ENGLISH word for poodle either; the word is a corruption of the original German name for the breed, 'pudle', the same word from which we get 'puddle'...which hints at the original purpose for the breed, which was as a German water spaniel used for hunting, rather than as alapdog... June 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] Fwd: [GATA] Barrick plans to cover its huge silver short position, Butler says
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- 7:52p ET Monday, February 17, 2003 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: In his latest commentary, silver analyst Ted Butler discovers a statement by Barrick Gold suggesting that the company is going to cover its mammoth short position in silver, about which Butler has written before, along with GATA consultant Robert K. Landis, whose commentary on the subject was published last May: http://www.goldensextant.com/LLCPostings2.html#anchor11425 You can find Butler's new commentary here: www.investmentrarities.com/weeklycommentary.html CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. To subscribe to GATA's dispatches, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RECOMMENDED INTERNET SITES FOR DAILY MONITORING OF GOLD AND PRECIOUS METALS NEWS AND ANALYSIS Free sites: http://www.jsmineset.com http://www.theminingweb.com/ http://www.gold-eagle.com/ http://www.kitco.com/ http://www.usagold.com/ http://www.GoldSeek.com/ http://www.goldenbar.com/ http://www.silver-investor.com http://www.thebulliondesk.com/ http://www.sharelynx.net http://www.mininglife.com/ http://www.financialsense.com http://www.goldensextant.com http://www.goldismoney.info/index.html http://www.depression2.tv www.minersmanual.com/minernews.html Subscription site: http://www.lemetropolecafe.com/ Eagle Ranch discussion site: http://os2eagle.net/checksum.htm COIN AND PRECIOUS METALS DEALERS WHO HAVE SUPPORTED GATA AND BEEN RECOMMENDED BY OUR MEMBERS Centennial Precious Metals 3033 East 1st Ave. Suite 403 Denver, Colorado 80206 www.USAGold.com Michael Kosares, Proprietor US (800) 869-5115 Canada 1-800-294-9462 European Union 00-800-2760-2760 Australia 0011-800-2760-2760 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Colorado Gold 222 South 5th St. Montrose, Colorado 81401 www.ColoradoGold.com Don Stott, Proprietor 1-888-786-8822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Investment Rarities Inc. 7850 Metro Parkwa Minneapolis, Minnesota 55425 http://www.gloomdoom.com Greg Westgaard, Sales Manager 1-800-328-1860, Ext. 8889 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lee Certified Coins P.O. Box 1045 454 Daniel Webster Highway Merrimack, New Hampshire 03054 www.certifiedcoins.com Ed Lee, Proprietor 1-800-835-6000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Miles Franklin Ltd. 3601 Park Center Building Suite 120 St. Louis Park, Minn. 55416 1-800-822-8080 / 952-929-1129 fax: 952-925-0143 http://www.milesfranklin.com Contacts: David Schectman, Andy Schectman, and Bob Sichel Resource Consultants Inc. 6139 South Rural Road Suite 103 Tempe, Arizona 85283-2929 Pat Gorman, Proprietor 1-800-494-4149, 480-820-5877 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Swiss America Trading Corp. 15018 North Tatum Blvd. Phoenix, Arizona 85032 http://www.buycoin.com Dr. Fred I. Goldstein, Senior Broker 1-800-BUY-COIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] HOW TO HELP GATA If you benefit from GATA's dispatches, please consider making a financial contribution to GATA. We welcome contributions as follows. By check: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. c/o Chris Powell, Secretary/Treasurer 7 Villa Louisa Road Manchester, CT 06043-7541 USA By credit card (MasterCard, Visa, and Discover) over the Internet: http://www.gata.org/creditcard.html By GoldMoney: http://www.GoldMoney.com Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. Holding number 50-08-58-L By Crowne-Gold: http://www.Crowne-Gold.com Holding: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By E-Gold: http://www.e-gold.com Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. Account number 110915 Donors of $750 or more will, upon request, be sent a print of Alain
[CTRL] Fwd: Brainwashing America
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[CTRL] Mass Mind Control: Calculated Victim Mentality
-Caveat Lector- http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_021703_mind.html Mass Mind Control: Calculated Victim Mentality By Mary Louise There is an organized group of extremely wealthy and secretive individuals who want world government, a centralized financial dictatorship, a micro-chipped society based on constant surveillance of all kinds and a frightened, docile, subservient people who give their power away to the 'authorities' to save them, from what they have been manipulated to fear. It is imperative each person recognize this scam for what it is and depart from the prepared script, refusing to consent to the imposed reality of these self-designated rulers of our planet. The Overlords of the Elite have worked very hard to convince the masses that a centralized global system is the only solution to many devised problems (problem-reaction-solution) carried out by obsequious puppets, who serve their masters well. "The Circle" or network of interconnected bloodlines and intergenerational satanism view ordinary people with contempt and terms such as "useless eaters" who use up resources or "cannon fodder" expendables, make it painfully clear the majority of people are targeted as victims. We must reject the victim mentality they feed on and let them go hungry for a change. "Mass Control: Engineering of Human Consciousness" by Jim Keith, is an overview of the weapons and methods used to enslave and perpetuate crimes against humanity through the calculated perversion of psychology, education, genetics, eugenics, cybernetics, and other sciences. It is a sobering account of academic, institutional, and government criminality and provides insight on the twisted ambitions and shameful behavior of the Controllers. Divide and conquer is the name of the game of the "enlightened" ones at the top of the pyramid, who viciously use others while expecting blind obedience that never questions authority. They are always the ones who stand to gain or benefit from the chaos they create. The Illuminati exists. One may choose to remain in denial about this fact to their own peril or one may acknowledge it to better understand why there is so much trouble in the world. Until people care enough do some serious investigating on their own and get mad enough to do something about what they find in putting the pieces of the puzzle together, the slicers and dicers will keep on doing what they do while laughing all the way to the bank. So much has been written about them throughout history that ignorance is not an excuse to be unaware of their sinister schemes and influence on society. Their roots go way back to the ancient mystery religions of Babylon, Egypt, and Celtic druidism joined together into occult discipline based on foundational practices. Sophisticated mind control techniques are also used on their own members in addition to teaching various metaphysical phenomena, including creating multiple personality disorder (DID) among their people. What the outside world sees is not the whole story, there is a hidden side. It is because of the efforts and risks of many brave individuals who had nothing to gain personally, we are able to know things that otherwise would have been kept hidden from the public. If someone is discredited, it is probably because they are telling the truth and exposing the scoundrels for what they really are. Sometimes the truth hurts, especially if someone has done or is doing something very wrong. Of course they don't want to be found out, but since it is too late for that the guilty parties resort to 'damage control'. Remember, these are not nice people and they always protect their interests. Besides, they aren't worried when they are exposed because they are counting on the majority to not believe it. Alberto Rivera was privy to all kinds of information from a high-level insiders position and having had the opportunity to attend a meeting where he spoke about his experiences, which is documented in an illustrated format of his life, I can say he is a humble and gentle person who has put his life on the line to inform others. You can meet Alberto and read his true life story online by clicking on: www.albertoaic.com/comics/alberto1/index.html and www.albertoaic.com/comics/alberto3/index.html. You may or may not be shocked at what he has to say but you may also learn something you didn't know. Anyway, why would he make it up? Backing up Alberto's testimony, Eric Jon Phelps details the long-suppressed dark history of the Jesuits, in his book "Vatican Assassins". You can read a small portion of the book and view a chart that may be of help at www.hiddenmysteries.com/item300/item333.html or listen free online to past interviews Eric had with Jeff Rense and Alex Merklinger on this subject, as well as other interesting speakers and topics at this website: www.cephasministry.com/index_free_audios.html. Having heard the interview between Eric Jon Phelps and Jeff
[CTRL] Fwd: A Repentant Braggart
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- A Repentant Braggart The Daily Reckoning Stradham, New Hampshire Monday, 17 February 2003 -- *** Viet-Nam-War-protester-wannabe aging hippies storm New York...American flags desecrated in the streets of Paris... *** Triumph of the SBGS (stocks-bounce-gold-stumbles) market to continue? *** The U.S. and U.K. surprisingly similar (with significant differences, of course)...looking for 'extreme values'...and more! -- Here at the Daily Reckoning, we seem to be consistently bewildered by modern technology. With Bill still enjoying the 'perfect weather' of Nicaragua, I woke early this morning, fully intending to bring you the latest scoop on the markets...only to have my computer erase my work just as it was nearly finished. And to top it off, it's STILL snowing up a storm here in New Hampshire. But at least Eric Fry is still on the job (and his computer is cooperating)... Eric? --- Eric Fry, reporting from the Big Apple... - Well, well, well...Old Man Market still has a bit of life in him after all. His dispirited, iron-deficient behavior early in the week yielded to a revitalized, youthful élan late in the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained a sprightly 158 points Friday, lifting the blue chip index to 7,908 - a 44-point gain on the week. The Nasdaq Composite added 2.1%, to 1,310. - Gold, the stock market's alter ego, responded to the upbeat action on Wall Street by tumbling more than $18.00 to $352.20. The gold market's retreat and the stock market's revival both seemed to be reflecting the possibility that President Bush may not get his war in Iraq after all. Here in New York on Saturday, Viet-Nam-War- protester-wannabes were out in force waving their peace flags during a 100,000-strong protest march near the U.N. After the march had concluded, your co-editor observed many members of this motley crew strolling around Midtown, still toting their various flags, signs and banners. One aging hippie carried a sign that read: Duct tape Bush's mouth! - We doubt that the global protest marches served to alter anyone's opinion. But we don't doubt that they reflect a growing public opposition to an invasion of Iraq. The geopolitical significance of this phenomenon is debatable. But the financial market significance seems all but certain: a rally is likely to ensue. - The shifting tide of global public opinion against an Iraqi invasion coincides nicely with extreme bearish sentiment readings toward stocks. Taken together, these twin phenomenon make the prospect of a trading rally a better-than-ever possibility...We wouldn't be surprised if the stocks-bounce-gold-stumbles (SBGS) market continues for a few more days. But what do we know? - The U.S. and the U.K. share a number of interesting similarities these days. WE want to bomb Iraq; THEY want to bomb Iraq. WE've got a record current account deficit; THEY've got a record current account deficit. WE've got a stock market (the SP 500) that has fallen 46% from its bubble-era peak; THEY've got a stock market (the FTSE 100) that has fallen 47%. - Britain's unshakeable alliance with the United States against Iraq is widely known. Less well know is the fact that Britain's got a great big trade deficit, just like we Yankees do. Britain last year notched up its worst trade deficit since records began in 1697, the Guardian reports, as falling demand from the struggling global economy squeezed exports. The trade gap expanded to an unprecedented £34.3bn in 2002...Britain first started totting up its trade balance in 1697, the Guardian explains. Eight years after the Glorious Revolution brought William and Mary to the throne, the
[CTRL] TERROR ALERT ORANGE: SCAREMONGERING ON THE RISE
http://www.sierratimes.com/cgi-bin/warroom/topic.cgi?forum=1topic=125 The Bush administration propaganda machine has become totally ludicrous and unbelievable. It ratcheted the alert to orange on the basis of the lies of an informant. Reichführer-SS (the title means "Empire Leader") Heinrich Himmler would heartily approve John Ashcroft's latest version of the Patriot Act. Here are a few jewels from the proposed legislation. "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." -- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials --Henrietta http://www.centrexnews.com/columnists/skousen/2003/0214.html TERROR ALERT ORANGE: SCAREMONGERING ON THE RISE by Joel Skousen http://www.joelskousen.com WORLD AFFAIRS BRIEF February 14, 2003 Copyright Joel M. Skousen Partial Quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen's World Affairs Brief (http://www.joelskousen.com). [Excerpt] There is an ominous taint of grand deception in the air as the federal government ratchets up its warning on terrorism from yellow to orange. The only increased alarm that should register in America is in people’s suspicion of their government’s motives. I suspect that this sudden upsurge in alerts represents the beginning of a huge propaganda stunt to further justify the coming war with Iraq (as if the US were fighting terrorism by launching this campaign) as well as to pave the way for more dismantling of constitutional protections. Here’s a brief summary of what’s happening. After subjecting Americans to more than a year of weekly yellow alert terror warnings, that never bore fruit, the new Department of Homeland Security has suddenly raised the specter of scaremongering to new heights. This week America had to absorb the following in relation to the orange “high risk” alert: 1) the purported threat of a new biological/chemical/dirty bomb terrorist attack—with no credible or verifiable evidence to back up US intelligence claims; 2) a heavily promoted call for token chemical/biological preparedness on the part of ordinary citizens, leading to near panic buying of gas masks, duct tape and plastic sheeting; 3) the closing of selective bridges, freeways and tunnels in “high risk” US cities like NY and Washington; 4) heightened “security” measures, including increased anti-aircraft missile deployments in the DC area, increased hassle searches at airports, a higher military presence at key installations, and SWAT teams guarding NY synagogues; 5) another suspicious tape recorded message by Osama bin Laden conveniently interpreted as proving the link between Iraq and Al Qaeda; and 6) the sudden leaking of the proposed transcript of a more “enhanced” version of the draconian USA PATRIOT Act. First, I strongly question the reality of any independent terrorist threat in the US. Today, Brian Ross of ABC news reported that “A key piece of the information leading to recent terror alerts was fabricated, according to two senior law enforcement officials in Washington and New York. The officials said that a claim made by a captured al Qaeda member that Washington, New York or Florida would be hit by a ‘dirty bomb’ sometime this week had proven to be a product of his imagination.” In other words, it was a fabrication. Strangely, the Department of Homeland Security is refusing to take the nation off the Orange alert status. Apparently, the Bush administration is anxious to use the now-falsified heightened alert to mold public opinion in favor of its continued political agenda. Second, no one in government has responded convincingly to my tough question: why have there been no small or low profile terrorist attacks since 9/11? If there are hundreds of terror cells in the US, what is keeping them from carrying out the simplest forms of attack—car bombings or attacks on rural power infrastructure? There is almost no defense possible against these types of attack, no matter how many police are available. They happen all the time in Israel, Ireland, Britain and France. Why not here, if America is so hated and so vulnerable? The answer can only be that terrorists in America are controlled for political purposes—and those purposes are all geared towards enhancing government powers to curtail American civil rights through the trumped up threat of terror. With all that said, the
Re: [CTRL] Pentagon says 1Million US Troops could die
-Caveat Lector- Pentagon says 1Million US Troops could die ... and I guess the very people who request them to be there, won't be there with them if/when it happens ? But there again the Pentagon might as well say '29 US Troops could die' would it alter public behaviour in support of a war ? This kind of Pentagon statement is (to me) merely a truism applicable to any group of personnel - not a prediction. T. Just think, war breaks out,... and nobody shows up [Franky Holly]. 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] White House Urged No Permit / The White House That Cried Wolf
-Caveat Lector- Tuesday, February 18, 2003 WHITE HOUSE URGED NO PERMIT TO MARCH FEBRUARY 18. The Post-Standard (an affiliate of Syracuse.com) is reporting that the Bush administration weighed in on the denial of a march permit to the NYC anti-war rally. Last week, the NY mayor's office told organizers of the rally they could not march on the streets. Then, a three-judge federal panel upheld the mayor. But the Bush administration had filed a brief with the judge panel, urging it to go along with the mayor's office. This was an obvious attempt to discourage the protests against White House moves toward war. It was essentially a denial of 1st Amendment rights, and as such marks yet another assault on the Bill of Rights by this administration. The 100,000-plus people who showed up to stand in one place in NYC were not deterred, but this does not change the thrust of the White House attempt. If the people can't march, why should the soldiers be allowed to? JON RAPPOPORT www.stratiawire.com == Tuesday, February 18, 2003 THE WHITE HOUSE THAT CRIED WOLF FEBRUARY 18. Now we know the recent orange-level terror alert was a phony, because the so-called "al Qaeda operative" who warned of impending terror attacks was lying. He failel an FBI lie detector test. Or maybe there wasn't any "operative" to begin with. Of course, intell bureaucrats are saying there were other valid reasons for the orange alert. But who can believe them? No one. And all those stories about stores running out of duct tape in Washington? How many people live in the area? How many rolls of duct tape were actually available to them? I'm sure a check of the figures would reveal it doesn't take that many scared people to deplate the stocks of duct tape in stores. Which means the media stories about a panicked city were completely overblown as well. So we have a phony terror level alert, and then we have phony stories backing up the fear. Fear plus fear equals more fear. Crying wolf isn't going to cut it. They need to stage another terror attack to convince everyone that their version of 1984 is real. The White House can get some very good advice from those intell types in Israel who have been funding Hamas. Maybe a giant hologram in the sky over DC of Osama bin Laden for starters. In orange. JON RAPPOPORT www.stratiawire.com 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] GI's Not Equipped For Surviving Chem / Germ Attack in Iraq
-Caveat Lector- An ounce of prevention DAVID HACKWORTH Posted: February 18, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com On Sunday, Mike Wallace informed the nation on 60 Minutes that our troops in the Gulf region don't have sufficient training or the right protection and detection gear to survive an Iraqi chemical or biological attack. Not exactly breaking news to the readers of this column or Defense Watch, the tenacious Pentagon watchdog that's been warning us for months not to allow a replay of the 1991 Gulf War mistakes - which, according to a November 2002 Veterans Affairs report, has so far killed or disabled almost 180,000 Desert Storm vets. The 60 Minutes story was backed up by a congressional General Accounting Office report blistering the top brass for rushing our troops into harm's way without doing their sworn duty: making sure they were good to go. It seems their precious deployment timetable is more important than their grunts, who might soon be dispatched into a potentially poisonous caldron - to destroy Iraq's chemical and biological weapons - without the right gear. Although the Pentagon brass were too into escape-and-evade tactics to find the time to do an on-camera interview with Mike Wallace, a senior congressional aide, speaking off the record, said: While of course I'm not able to disclose anything 'classified,' you should know your story's absolutely on-target. The classified facts regarding our preparedness for chemical or biological warfare are a lot worse than '60 Minutes' reported. Wait a minute! If a Senate aide on the outside of the inside loop knows the score, surely the military brass, the aide's senator boss and at least a platoon of his peers also know that - unlike Desert Storm, where the vast number of deaths or disabilities were accidentally self-inflicted by U.S. bomber- and/or engineer-zapped Iraqi chemical munitions blowing downwind and striking our troops - our sons and daughters now sharpening their bayonets are in even more jeopardy this time around from Iraqi horror weapons that will be intentionally zeroed in on them. Yet - to their everlasting shame - not one of these guardians of our republic has stood tall and publicly sounded off about this life-or-death issue. What's happened to the spirit of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage? Have those we trust to protect and run our country all suddenly been struck dumb, or - worse - have they chosen the easy wrong over the hard right by burying their integrity in a bunch of classified files? And apart from 60 Minutes, what about the press? Why hasn't our Pentagon press corps - supposedly our country's lead hunting dog - nosed around and reported this story? The clues were all there, and the GAO report wasn't exactly classified. Not only did every congressional office get copies, so did the media. There is also Defense Watch editor Ed Offley's repeated offers to share the evidence he receives on a daily basis from the very worried warriors who'll be hung out to do the dying in a death so horrific and painful it haunts them day and night. Surely our media should have sniffed that something was terribly wrong, especially after an NBC (nuclear/biological/chemical) sergeant passed out at an air-conditioned Pentagon briefing while demonstrating how well the protective gear works. Military pals now deployed in Iraq doing dangerous behind-the-lines missions have told me that almost every Iraqi oil well along the Turk border is wired with demolitions to replicate the lung-searing, apocalyptic horror show we saw when the Iraqi army blew the southern wells as they pulled out of Kuwait in 1991. Other pals, computer commandos in the various head-sheds who eyeball all the reports coming in from the field, confirm this information and add an even more sinister twist: Some of the wells have bio/chem weapons rigged to go off when they explode. Surely our brass hats, the ultimate recipients of the commo, know that the prevailing wind in Iraq is from north to south - from the Turk border over Baghdad to Kuwait - right in the face of our advancing troops. And surely they know the real status of our troops' inability to shield themselves while on the go from these deadly agents. Let's hope that 60 Minutes sparks a chain reaction, and that the mothers and fathers of America rise up and demand that our soldiers not be needlessly sacrificed. 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
Re: [CTRL] Can Interventionism Be 'A Good Thing'?
-Caveat Lector- On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, klewis wrote: On 18 Feb 2003 at 8:59, someone wrote: 1. Principled neutrality is usually a better alternative than interventionism. I bet that's exactly what the guy at the DC gas station was saying to himself as he glanced at the fallen body next to him and continued to pump his kerosene. Exactly! Which is why we are better off stopping the Nuclear Lunatics before they start the war. 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] Beware statesman invoking God
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/14/2003 1:48:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They say Bush was quite a drinker before he saw the light. For that matter, Bush says it himself. Then he gave up the booze and became a born again Christian. It can be really interesting. Read the article "Jesus Plus Nothing" by Jeffrey Sharlet in the latest issue of Harper's Mag. Prudy 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
Re: [CTRL] Infallibility
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/14/2003 7:45:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christianity once clearly taught that a king who kills innocents and squanders the people's money is endangering his immortal soul. By raising this prospect, bishops and priests and theologians have restrained the war- like behavior of princes from the 4th century on. But what if the prince believes that he is assured of salvation because of his own choice, regardless of what the church says? We have here an entirely different constellation of incentives at work. Might Bush believe there is no eternal price to pay for killing thousands, even millions, in a good cause, since there is nothing he could do to endanger his immortal soul? You should read the article "Jesus Plus Nothing" by Jeffrey Sharlet in the latest issue of Harper's Mag. Prudy 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] Fwd: [MadCowMorningNews] Mohamed Atta and Rudi Dekkers Seen Together in Venice Weeks Before Sept. 11 Atta
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- world exclusive read the whole story at... The MadCowMorningNews Mohamed Atta was twice seen with flight school owner Rudi Dekkers in Venice, FL. during the final month before he crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center Sept. 11 2001, directly contradicting Dekker's account of his relationship with the terrorist ringleader. Atta took numerous cab rides in August to and from Huffman Aviation as well as other locations in Venice, according to Venice Yellow Cab employees interviewed by the FBI three days after the attack. In an exclusive interview with the MadCowMorningNews one Yellow Cab driver stated that on two of these occasions Atta was accompanied by Rudi Dekkers. They knew each other well-really well-they were friends, said long-time Venice resident and Yellow Cab driver Bob Simpson. They were going to a nightclub in Sarasota, talking and very sociable with each other. He and Atta were friends, you could tell. The MadCowMorningNews When Matt Katie Aren't Enough To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 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 ---End Message---
[CTRL] $$$ vs Euro
-Caveat Lector- Rumor Mill News Reading Room Forum http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=28796 IF WAR DOES *NOT* GO OFF, THE FED WILL NO LONGER EXIST Posted By: Rayelan Date: Tuesday, 18 February 2003, 9:47 a.m. In Response To: GREENSPAN WARNS OF DISASTER-STUDY SHOWS $13TN LOST (economica) I received this email from a source who usually knows what he is talking about: The big problem now that is making Rice so adamant about going into Iraq is three arab nations have shifted to euros only They want to be paid in euros for oil NOT dollars!!! This would mean that all of the money that American oil firms make off these deals would vanish! The reason Germany and France don't want a war is this Euro deal helps them more than anyone else! China also has a big bite of euros they have bought a lot of them Sort of as economic blackmail against the US! Not just by China, but by many nations who would like to see the US come down a peg or two. The US could force the NEW Iraqi government to accept US dollar$$ THAT'S the reason for war at this time!! If you think about it, this goes hand in hand with the major purchases of gold Like you have been saying for years, the euro has some gold backing Germany is one of the gold holders of the euro! Iraq shifted out of dollars in 97 or 98 the would not accept dollars for oil after that the US has been buying oil from European brokers as a result of having to pay for it in Euros, what was once a 10B deal now costs 15 18B in Euros! If all OPEC companies refuse to accept dollars for oil then NO ONE will want dollars and there will be a run on the banks! The dollars will be worthless the US will have to change maybe to script. No one wants an Argentine dollar! And that's about what the US dollar will be at this point! Within next six months Greenspan will be fired by Bush, or resign. Why? Because Greenspan helped the change to Euros He will try to make trouble on the way out because he doesnt like Bush. When he goes, a man named Knight - (I think his first name is Bob) will also go. Knight is the head of the law firm that handles Citi Bank. He is the former money man of DIA and a good friend of Greenspan's. If war does NOT go off, the FED will no longer exist. There is the possibility that Iraq has weapons that would deter US forces The US does not want half million men to die. If Bush did this he would doom the Republican Party forever. He knows this and won't do it if he is convinced of their ability to inflict damage of our troops. We are probably too late already to do anything about these weapons. It also looks like US cant use nukes. World opinion will not allow this! If the US cant go to war, this means they won't be able to put their own man in place who they can force Iraq to use dollars. If Saddam steps down and allows Tariq Aziz to become President in a democratically held election, one with UN ballot watchers... then the US is finished because Aziz will continue the policy of Euros and not dollars. This means that the US dollar is finished for good!! This also mean the FEDERAL RESERVE BANKING SYSTEM IS FINISHED FOR GOOD!! Don't you wonder if maybe this has been the plan all along? Greenspan warns of disaster and the need for Gold to be part : of the system! : By: Julian D. W. Phillips, Gold-Authentic Money - : Authenticmoney.com : How can one not respect a man with the courage of his : convictions. This somewhat phlegmatic professional, in : respectful and diplomatic tones, delivered what can only be : described, as a dire warning of disaster ahead. When seen : in the light of his long held beliefs, publicly stated, he : has to be recommending the return to Gold as a discipline : to rein in President George Bush. : As we have seen to date, he has raised the hackles of the : incumbent Administration, against himself. Although they : stand in an invidious position, because they appointed him, : fully aware of his views they cannot, surely, expect him to : change them, simply as a matter of political expedient? : With this in mind, we find his words extremely brave for a : man, at both the pinnacle and close to the end of his : career. : We make no assumptions in this article, relying entirely on : quoting Chairman Greenspans publicly stated words, at a : time when the U.S. was embarking on a similar undisciplined : fiscal path, which he then, also condemned. At the time the : U.S. was on the brink of breaking links with Gold, losing, : as it had, these credible resources to European nations in : vast quantities. His essay is entitled, Gold and Economic : Freedom and was written in 1967. As then, we stand on the : brink of similarly undisciplined days [but without the : greater objective of $ Imperialism], with the difference : being that Gold will, in these days be called back to give : its vital credibility to the $, as it loses its own. We : were troubled by the possibility
[CTRL] A Day at the Office
-Caveat Lector- Arab News SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=22875 A Day in the Life of an Executioner Abdul Rahman Hassan Special to Arab News Published on 18 February 2003 DAMMAM, 18 February 2003 At first sight Ahmad Rezkallah is a pleasant man with a nice, broad smile. He expresses himself with the confidence of the professional man he is Saudi Arabias most senior executioner. Rezkallah told Al-Majalla, a sister publication of Arab News, that he drifted into the profession by chance. About 23 years ago the government asked for volunteers, he explained. I was 20 years old at the time, and the youngest in my group. Because of his youth, people doubted he would be successful. But I rose to it as a challenge, he recalls. He says he has no trouble sleeping prior to an execution, but he is conscientious. Before an execution, I wait and give the victims family a chance to forgive the man who is going to be executed, he says. I go to the family of the victim and ask them if they will forgive, or if blood money has been given. Sometimes this happens at literally the last minute before an execution. My thoughts and prayers are concentrated on the fact that they will forgive the criminal. I hope they forgive him and I feel joy when they do. If I get the chance, and most of the time I do, I go and ask the family of the victim to give the criminal another chance, he adds. It has worked many times and the family has forgiven the criminal at the last minute. There is clapping and cheering, Rezkallah recalls. The scenes of happiness are indescribable. Failing that, he has to go through with the execution. I listen to their last requests, he explains. Some want to pray, some ask to call for prayer in the execution square. Since I am the one responsible in the execution square, I usually grant their last wish as long as it doesnt delay the execution. And then to the execution itself. The sharpness of the sword and bodily strength are the most important things, Rezkallah says. Also, the executioner must have the guts to do his job and believe in it. Rezkallah has executed more than 300 people, 70 of them women, and says that in practical terms there is no difference between executing men and women. People here have the impression that women are soft and weak. But at the time of the execution, most men collapse. When they hear they were forgiven, some are paralyzed. Some go crazy. However, women in general have nerves of steel, he says. Ten years ago, I was supposed to execute a woman, he remembers. She was down on her knees and she was ready to die. At the last minute we heard that the family had forgiven her, so police walked her back to the prison car. Then we found out that the father of the victim had said he would only forgive her if his wife did. So they took her out of the prison car and back to the execution square. Then people went to the wife to ask for her forgiveness, and she agreed and forgave the woman. So they walked the woman back to the prison car. She calmly went with them and sat in the back of the car. She was talking normally. If that had happened to a man, he would have had a heart attack. Actually, most women I executed were strong and calm, he adds. In tough situations, they are much stronger than men. Another execution he remembers vividly is that of a man who killed his friend in a fight. His friend beat him, and when he got home to his mother she encouraged him to take revenge. So the man went to his friends house and stabbed him to death. He was sentenced to death for that crime. The mother did not mean for her son to go and kill his friend, he adds, but thats what he did. And thats why families should never encourage violence in their children. Al-Majalla asked Rezkallah what consequences being an executioner has had on his own life. People look at me as if I was from another planet, he smiles. They try to avoid dealing with me. Sometimes when Im with a group of people, someone who doesnt know me comes and sits next to me. When they find out what my job is, they suddenly feel uncomfortable and try to find an excuse to leave. I love to meet people and I love to attend events, he adds. But sometimes people dont feel comfortable around me, so I leave. Instead, he spends most of his time with his family. I love my family very much. I spend most of my free time around them. Thank God there is a lot of love and a great deal of understanding in my family. I love my children, I go through their schoolwork with them and sometimes I sit with their friends. Rezkallahs two elder sons, Abdullah, 21, and Khamis, 17, welcomed Al- Majalla into his elegant living room, which is decorated with many swords. Rezkallah says he does not want them to follow in his footsteps. I want them to go to school and do something else, he says. Copyright © 2003
[CTRL] [LOGES-DE-CORBEAUX] Arthur Miller on War and Peace (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:46:49 -0800 (PST) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LOGES-DE-CORBEAUX] Arthur Miller on War and Peace Your guest, Arthur Miller asked rhetorically why Bush cannot wait until the UN inspectors have done their job. Indeed, UN peace keeping forces have been in some world situations to keep the peace for years, even decades. If that is how long it takes, why is that a problem to Bush? If he wages a war (really a mass murder given that his military is 1,000 times stronger than Iraq's) the cost in lives will be in the thousands and perhaps even millions. The cost in material assets destroyed will be into the billions of dollars. By both criteria, the UN peackeepers in Iraq cost far, far less. There is an irrefutable fact here which even Bush and their war propagandists will not argue against. AS LONG AS THE UN INSPECTORS/PEACE KEEPERS ARE IN IRAQ, PEACE AND STABILITY IN THE REGION AND THE WORLD WILL BE MAINTAINED. It doesn't matter if Iraq has been in material breech of this or that. The UN inspectors will destroy the prohibited weapons. There is another irrefutable fact. As Madelaine Albright and others have said, there are some highly unpredictable aspects to a U-S-A invasion, as unpredictable as peace and stability are predictable by continuing with present procedures indefinitely. What will happen she asked, if U-S-A is in occupation of Baghdad, the cultural centre of the Muslim world? At a time when European cities were in darkness and superstition, Baghdad was a centre for scholarship and enlightenment. How will the Muslim world react psychologically to a modern occupation of Baghdad? General Scowcroft even opined on this being the start of the Apocalpyse. The point is that we don't know for sure what war will bring but we do know for sure what continuing INDEFINITELY with the present peace process will bring. The only certain benefit of this pseudo-war would be to satisfy the blood-lust of an alcoholic psychopath who now sits in the Whitehouse because he won the toss of a coin, in effect, in the last presidential election. POC Freeserve AnyTime - Only 6.99 a month for your first 3 months! That's half the usual price of just 13.99 per month. Join now at http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/clk;4858830;7443368;w?http://www.freeserve.com/time/anytime/ -- If you want to share pictures, use the calendar, or start a vote visit http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/LOGES-DE-CORBEAUX To leave the Group, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Here it is, conclusive proof against Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/16/1045330466588.html Here it is, conclusive proof against Iraq February 17 2003 Armando Iannucci offers a collection of Colin Powell's useful facts relating to the proposed actions in the Gulf region. A collection of Colin Powell's useful facts relating to the proposed actions in the Gulf region. A: Seven proofs of links between Saddam and al-Qaeda. 1. On an audiotape, Osama bin Laden calls Iraq a "stinking cesspit of socialist debauchery". This criticism is much less hostile than the sort of thing he says about America, thus proving al-Qaeda has warm feelings towards Saddam Hussein. 2. Our surveillance has picked up chatter from al-Qaeda operatives talking about organising a "rendezvous". "Rendezvous" is a French word, and France has constantly obstructed American attempts to impose regime change in Iraq. So again, we see a clear connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq. 3. Our spy planes have photographed Saddam's deputy prime minister being driven in a motorcade of Mercedes cars. Mercedes is a German car, and Germany is in league with France to destroy America, like al-Qaeda. Therefore, etc. 4. The number plate on one of these cars was A03A0 1A, which, in the rear mirror of the car in front, spells al-Qaeda. 5. The motorcade was moving in an easterly direction through Baghdad. If you move in an easterly direction through France, you get to Germany. 6. Saddam is another Hitler. Germany had a Hitler. Again, a direct link with al-Qaeda. 7. Al-Qaeda operatives have recently been arrested in London. The Prime Minister of London, Tony Blair, then visited France for a meeting with Jacques Chirac. Chirac then visited Bonn to celebrate 40 years of his alliance with Gerhard Schroeder of Germany. Schroeder had a meeting with Putin of Russia, who then received Hans Blix, who went to Baghdad. Again, proof of a direct link. B: Five fascinating facts about Iraq. 1. Iraq is slightly more than twice the size of Idaho, occupying an area the equivalent of 500,000 American aircraft carriers. 2. Iraq has 57 kilometres of coastline. That's the equivalent of 300,000 Apache attack helicopters stretching 57 kilometres. 3. Iraq was once part of the Ottoman Empire, a land mass which, if turned into flour, would be enough to feed bread to the children of Iraq for 100 years. But Saddam refuses to do this and instead spends his money on presidential palaces, which, if converted to milk, would be enough to fill all the oil wells of the Middle East for a fortnight. That's why we have to stop him getting to the wells before he does this. 4. Iraq has 35,000 square kilometres of irrigated land. That's the equivalent of 300 million bottles of anthrax end to end. So where are they? 5. Iraqis consume 27.3 billion kWh of electricity every year, enough to power one Star-Wars style anti-missile system. So where is it, and who's it pointing at? C: The United Nations constitution explained once and for all. 1. The UN has a 15-member Security Council, of which France, Britain, China, Russia and America are permanent members, with veto rights. 2. The UN Charter allows for the permanent members to use their veto to overrule any majority decision of the council with which they disagree. 3. This is not applicable in cases where France, China or Russia use their veto in unreasonable cases, "unreasonable" being defined as a veto against any recent council majority decisions supported by Britain or America. 4. In these cases, the charter will probably allow America or Britain to veto that veto, thus upholding the earlier unvetoed will of the council, unless the council arrives at a majority decision contrary to the wishes of America or Britain, in which case all the permanent members of the council ought to be obliged to veto it, or to veto any attempt to veto the veto. 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
[CTRL] December 7, 1941: A Setup from the Beginning
-Caveat Lector- http://www.independent.org/tii/news/001207Stinnett.html December 7, 1941: A Setup from the Beginning By Robert B. Stinnett* As Americans honor those 2403 men, women, and children killedâand 1178 woundedâin the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, recently released government documents concerning that âsurpriseâ raid compel us to revisit some troubling questions. At issue is American foreknowledge of Japanese military plans to attack Hawaii by a submarine and carrier force 59 years ago. There are two questions at the top of the foreknowledge list: (1) whether President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his top military chieftains provoked Japan into an âovert act of warâ directed at Hawaii, and (2) whether Japanâs military plans were obtained in advance by the United States but concealed from the Hawaiian military commanders, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieutenant General Walter Short so they would not interfere with the overt act. The latter question was answered in the affirmative on October 30, 2000, when President Bill Clinton signed into law, with the support of a bipartisan Congress, the National Defense Authorization Act. Amidst its omnibus provisions, the Act reverses the findings of nine previous Pearl Harbor investigations and finds that both Kimmel and Short were denied crucial military intelligence that tracked the Japanese forces toward Hawaii and obtained by the Roosevelt Administration in the weeks before the attack. Congress was specific in its finding against the 1941 White House: Kimmel and Short were cut off from the intelligence pipeline that located Japanese forces advancing on Hawaii. Then, after the successful Japanese raid, both commanders were relieved of their commands, blamed for failing to ward off the attack, and demoted in rank. President Clinton must now decide whether to grant the request by Congress to restore the commanders to their 1941 ranks. Regardless of what the Commander-in-Chief does in the remaining months of his term, these congressional findings should be widely seen as an exoneration of 59 years of blame assigned to Kimmel and Short. But one important question remains: Does the blame for the Pearl Harbor disaster revert to President Roosevelt? A major motion picture based on the attack is currently under production by Walt Disney Studios and scheduled for release in May 2001. The producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, refuses to include Americaâs foreknowledge in the script. When Bruckheimer commented on FDRâs foreknowledge in an interview published earlier this year, he said âThatâs all b___s___.â Yet, Roosevelt believed that provoking Japan into an attack on Hawaii was the only option he had in 1941 to overcome the powerful America First non-interventionist movement led by aviation hero Charles Lindbergh. These anti-war views were shared by 80 percent of the American public from 1940 to 1941. Though Germany had conquered most of Europe, and her U-Boats were sinking American ships in the Atlantic Oceanâincluding warshipsâAmericans wanted nothing to do with âEuropeâs War.â However, Germany made a strategic error. She, along with her Axis partner, Italy, signed the mutual assistance treaty with Japan, the Tripartite Pact, on September 27, 1940. Ten days later, Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum, a U.S. Naval officer in the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), saw an opportunity to counter the U.S. isolationist movement by provoking Japan into a state of war with the U.S., triggering the mutual assistance provisions of the Tripartite Pact, and bringing America into World War II. Memorialized in McCollumâs secret memo dated October 7, 1940, and recently obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the ONI proposal called for eight provocations aimed at Japan. Its centerpiece was keeping the might of the U.S. Fleet based in the Territory of Hawaii as a lure for a Japanese attack. President Roosevelt acted swiftly. The very next day, October 8, 1940, the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet, Admiral James O. Richardson, was summoned to the Oval Office and told of the provocative plan by the President. In a heated argument with FDR, the admiral objected to placing his sailors and ships in harmâs way. Richardson was then fired and in his place FDR selected an obscure naval officer, Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, to command the fleet in Hawaii. Kimmel was promoted to a four-star admiral and took command on February 1, 1941. In a related appointment, Walter Short was promoted from Major General to a three-star Lieutenant General and given command of U.S. Army troops in Hawaii. Throughout 1941, FDR implemented the remaining seven provocations. He then gauged Japanese reaction through intercepted and decoded communications intelligence originated by Japanâs diplomatic and military leaders. The island nationâs militarists used the provocations to seize control of Japan and organized
[CTRL] Israel's Proxy War?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.mediamonitors.net/mshahidalam1.html Israel's Proxy War? by M. Shahid Alam It has been apparent to all but the purblind â a defect in understanding assiduously cultivated by Americaâs mass media â that the war United States is ready to wage against Iraq has almost nothing to do with its security. In an age when the people believe that their voices must be heard, the United States must sell its wars the way corporations sell their products. In the past, the people were asked to lay down their lives for visions of glory; now, governments appeal to their self-interest. The first Gulf War had to be fought to protect American jobs. If Saddam Hussain stayed in Kuwait, he would raise the price of oil, and Americans would lose their jobs. The argument this time is different. It had to be weightier than any fear of losing jobs. This new war seeks regime-change; it involves greater risks. American forces must invade Iraq, defeat the Iraqi army, occupy Baghdad, and stay around, even indefinitely. Americans understand that "regime-change" is serious business. They would not back this war unless Iraq threatened American lives. That explains why the war against Iraq had to supersede the war against terrorism, and why Saddam replaced Osama as the new icon of Americaâs loathing. This substitution was quite easily executed. Most Americans take the President at his word when he talks about foreign enemies; this trust comes more easily when a Republican occupies the White House. George Bush told Americans that Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction, and he had to be stopped before he could transfer them to Al-Qaida. (Why hadnât he done this already?) For many Americans, it was an open and shut case. Saddam had to be removed. The flaws in this argument did not matter. If Saddam hadnât used WMDs during the first Gulf War â when his army was being pummeled â why would he use them now? The CIA warned that a war, or the threat of it, would increase the risk of Iraq using WMDs. Others, like Scott Ritter, a former chief weapons inspector for the UN, pointed out that Iraq did not have any WMDs that mattered. More than 90 percent had been destroyed by inspectors; if any escaped, they would be past their shelf life. At least initially, few Americans gave any credence to these doubts, though that has been slowly changing. Why then is United States straining to go to war against Iraq? The most popular theory on the left is that this war is about oil. According to one version of this theory, the White House, a captive of oil interests, wants to corner Iraqâs oil for American oil corporations. I do not find this credible. The power brokers in United States would not allow a single industry lobby, even a powerful one, to drag the country into a war which could hurt all of them, and perhaps badly, if the war plans went awry and produced a spike in oil prices. At the least, it is doubtful if oil interests, on their own, can account for the unobstructed rush to a mad war. There is another oil theory. It argues that the American economy needs cheaper oil; this will save tens of billion dollars. Once Saddam has been removed, and Iraqâs oil supply restored to levels that existed before the first Gulf War, the oil prices will come down substantially. It is hard to reconcile this theory with a US-imposed sanctions regime that has drastically curtailed Iraqâs oil output for the past twelve years. If there were concerns that Saddam might use the oil revenues for a military build-up, that could be addressed by an inspections regime and selective economic sanctions. There is also a third oil theory, one offered recently.[1] It maintains that this war preempts the Euro threat to the hegemony of the dollar. By pegging oil to the dollar, OPEC has been a key player in the arrangements that have maintained the dollar as the currency of international reserve. In October 2000, Saddam Hussein offered the first challenge to this system by switching Iraqâs dollar reserves to Euro. If OPEC follows Iraqâs lead it could spell trouble for the dollar. This can only be stopped by dismantling the OPEC, and this demands war against Iraq. An OPEC challenge to the dollar sounds seems naïve at best. This is hardly the kind of revolutionary action we can expect from an OPEC packed with client states like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and UAE; the oil price hike of 1974 could only occur in the backdrop of the Cold War. A precipitate dethronement of the dollar could produce consequences for United States and the world economy which would make the East Asian financial crisis of 1997 look like a storm in a teacup. Not even the EU would push for such results. On the other hand, there is a small chance that the war itself might validate this theory â if it convinced OPEC that the war aims to dismantle the oil cartel. If it isnât oil, then, is this civilizational war, a war of the
[CTRL] Thomas Jefferson: HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT
-Caveat Lector- http://www.etherzone.com/2003/burn021803.shtml THOMAS JEFFERSON: HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT! By: Albert V. Burns "It has long been my opinion. ..that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body-- for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow-working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. "To this I am opposed; because, when all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." Â Â Â Â ---Thomas Jefferson, 1821 It is possible that the cause of this famous statement by Thomas Jefferson was a Supreme Court case, McCullough v. Maryland, which had been decided just two years earlier. In 1816, the Congress began its attack on the financial well-being of this nation when it established the second Bank of the United States. The following year, a branch of that bank was established in Baltimore. In 1818, the state of Maryland saw an opportunity and imposed a tax "on all banks or branches thereof, in the State of Maryland, not chartered by the legislature already." The bank refused to pay the tax and Maryland brought suit against McCullough the cashier of the Baltimore branch. The case went to the Supreme Court and Chief Justice John Marshall began the assault upon the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution. The effect of his words in that case have far outlasted the bank itself. John Marshall was a member of the Federalist Party which was in favor of a strong national government. In his position as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court he began the process of weakening the chains of the Constitution which Jefferson has said should "bind men down from mischief." In 1821, only 30 years after the establishment of the Court, Marshall declared: "Among the enumerated powers, we do not find that of establishing a bank or creating a corporation. But there is no phrase in the instrument which...excludes incidental or implied powers; and which requires that everything granted shall be expressly and minutely described. Even the 10th Amendment...omits the word "expressly" and declares only that the powers ânot delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people;â" Note that in Marshallâs eyes, the failure to include the one word, EXPRESSLY, in the wording of the 10th Amendment defeats the whole purpose of the Amendment. Marshall then went on to explain, at length, that he felt the Constitution should NOT be rigidly adhered to since the Founders had, in his view, not enumerated "the means by which the powers it confers may be executed..." He had a great deal more to say in the process of damaging the concept of limited government. The revealing thing is that his attack was not central to the case. Just five years later in the case of Gibbons v. Ogden, Marshall leveled another attack on the Tenth Amendment and the concept of limited government: "This instrument [the Constitution] contains an enumeration of powers expressly granted by the people to their government. It has been said that these powers ought to be construed strictly. But why ought they to be so construed? Is there one sentence in the Constitution which gives countenance to this rule? In the last of the enumerated powers, that which grants, expressly, the means for carrying all others into execution, congress is authorized âto make all laws which shall be necessary and properâ for the purpose. But this limitation on the MEANS to be used, is not extended to the POWERS which are conferredWe do not, therefore, think ourselves justified in adopting it." (Emphasis added) With this statement, Marshall casually disposed of the spirit in which the Constitution was established and ordained by the Founders. The Founders, themselves, just a few decades previously, in the Federalist Papers, had made clear that their Constitution WAS to be construed strictly as it was written. What Marshall was saying was that Congress could do anything it wanted but was limited in the way it did things. In Federalist Number 41, Madison explicitly pointed out that: "It has been urged and echoed, that the power âto lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises to pay the debts, and to provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States,â amounts to an unlimited commission to exercise every power which may be alleged to be necessary for the common defence and general welfare... "But what color can the objection have, when a specification for
[CTRL] Bush's Foreign Policy OUT OF CONTROL
-Caveat Lector- http://www.etherzone.com/2003/sans021803.shtml BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S FOREIGN POLICY: IS OUT OF CONTROL By: Joe Sansone The Bush administrationâs foreign policy is heading toward disaster. It is a policy that is reckless, aggressive, and a danger to both the American public and the world at large. If its goal was to create a safer world, then it has failed, and in fact, has created a more dangerous world. Arguably, the Bush administration has prompted North Korea to take its aggressive stance. In Bushâs 2002 âAxis Of Evilâ speech, he threatened North Korea when there was no need to do so. Maybe it was to show that Bushâs foreign policy wasnât just anti-Muslim, but it was stupid nonetheless.      So how does North Korea respond? They go nuclear and do it in a belligerent and warlike manner. They declare that they are ready for war and that sanctions or any such action would be considered an act of war. The United States response has only justified North Koreaâs methods even more. It has handled the North Korea situation delicately and with kid gloves even though North Korea has gone out of its way to show its willingness to go to war with the United States. Why? Partly because of the nearly 40,000 United States troops separating North Korea from South Korea. The only way to protect those troops would be to use tactical nuclear weapons. North Koreaâs small nuclear arsenal unleashed could set off an unthinkable chain of events. Compare that with the United States policy toward Iraq. Iraq has not gone nuclear and has not threatened war, yet they may soon be attacked by the United States. The Bush administrationâs policies make the argument for a nation to go nuclear. It appears that joining the nuclear club exempts a nation from Bushâs pre-emptive military policy. An unprovoked invasion of Iraq will only aid global paranoia, which will only lead to more countries desiring to join the nuclear club. Does this policy make the world safer? The recklessness of foreign policy can be seen in an Iraq invasion. The United States will not be going to Iraq to push them out of another country like it did in the past with Kuwait. It will be going to take over its government and occupy its territory. If Iraq is half of the threat that the administration claims, then it will certainly use chemical or biological weapons on United States troops. The United States will respond with tactical nuclear weapons for certain. Imagine the global contempt for the United States if such a scenario developed. The United States would have attacked a nation that did not attack it and it also would have used nuclear weapons in the process. Even if the war against Iraq is smooth so to speak, its occupation afterward may not be. United States troops in Iraq and throughout the region will be targets of terrorist attacks from civilians. In this time of undeclared war with terrorists, the United States border policies, or lack of them, must be considered part of its foreign policy, or at least defense policy. The Bush administration has negligently refused to defend the nations borders and ports of entry. It has even floated amnesty for illegal aliens a couple times and has looked the other way with regards to the back door amnesty offered by Matricula cards which are issued to illegal aliens and felons by the Mexican government and accepted by nearly forty cities and even by many banks as a form of ID. An attack on Iraq would likely cause sympathetic Islamic militants to target and commit terrorism in the United States like they did on September 11th 2001. If truck loads of illegal drugs can be smuggled into the United States then so can Anthrax, Small Pox, and even nuclear weapons. Why does the Bush administration refuse to close the borders, which is the only means of preventing terrorism, while it is about to begin an offensive campaign abroad, which will provide further motivation for terrorists? NATO may already be fracturing, as divisions seem to grow by the day over the best way to proceed with Iraq. France, Germany, and Russia have all called for more inspectors and have thus far blocked NATO involvement in the war. NATO was a defensive military alliance to counter Russiaâs Soviet Union. Now France and Germany, two prominent NATO members have banded with Russia, which was the whole reason that NATO existed, to try and avert the United States from starting a war. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld refers to Germany and France as âOld Europeâ. Arrogance! Is that how we refer to friendly nations? Is the world now perceiving the United States as it once did the Soviet Union? If two members of NATO and the military allianceâs former adversary, Russia, have banded together politically to counter the United States, then how unlikely is it that military alliances will be formed to counter the threat posed by the United States? Will the Middle
[CTRL] Fwd: March 3.. 03/03/03..333
-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- Hi friends, While ever watchful of our un-elected "chief"' his cronies work u.s. through the media spins..Cathy I now are back home working as many hours in the day to complete our second and last book detailing what exactly happened to us, privately publiclysince that day on February 8th 1988. The following is an observation worth mentioning since the mediaCANNOT touch it until the fateful day of 03/03/03. Whenever anyone "predicts" a date in the future for something of earth changing importance to happen they areusually either privileged insiders or.. just a bit delusional, and may be setting what credibility they have up for a fall. This is NOT my intent here, nor have I ever been clinically adjudged as delusional..though here goes a prediction based on decades of past personal experience with our Secret Government's time table, which, by all indications past present is securely secretly founded on the ancient mystic's Kabbalah/Kabala numerology system. Only Nancy Reagan ever publicly admitted to her beliefs in this ancient so called science of mystic beliefs. PREDICTION: THE US GOVERNMENT WILL ON 03/03/03 DECLARE WAR ON THE PEOPLES OF IRAQ AND/OR LAUNCH THE FIRST MILITARY STRIKE. I could go a little further out on the proverbial limb andpredict the exact time of the day, there on the 33rd Parallel , Baghdad time (NOT US EDT) though that is a bit risky since so many variables like local weather changes could come into play. Signed, "Mark" Phillips February 18th (CDT), 2003 Well, now that I have risked my credibility with some of you if I am mistaken then say so on March 4th 2003! Whereas if I am correct.. then just file it away in memoryuntil you read our last book. Some of this seemingly bizarre "mystic science" the Secret Government apparently adheres 'religiously' toowill be covered in detail from our own experiences with these pathetic control freaks. And some of it I do not understand whatsoever! This is not a publicity stunt..it is, however strange to some of you,rather itis the result of a personal observation based squarely on verifiable experiences historical facts and information gleaned just todayfrom a couple of phone conversations with "Beltway Insiders". I feel confident in making such a prediction.Some of which will be covered in our last book..so those who are reading this now..please don't email us back now asking to explain the details of how we know what we know. We do not have the spare time now. Those will be in our book..soon! Stay tuned. And..remember, for so long as your thoughts remain free you heard this first from us. Thanks. With Respect, Mark Cathy www.TRANCE-Formation.com P.S. If I am right.. thenmaybe you will tell someone else who told you AND pay special attention towhat happens on June the sixth two thousand and six. We will. 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
[CTRL] Smallpox, Propaganda and Fear
-Caveat Lector- http://www.americaheldhostile.com/ed021703-1.shtml Smallpox, Propaganda and Fear by Sara S. DeHart, MSN, Ph.D. February 17, 2003 In recent months considerable debate has centered on the ostensible need for and safety of vaccinating US civilian and military personnel as protection against a smallpox epidemic. As in any debate, there are numerous voices expressing diverse perspectives: academics, lobbyists, governmental spokespersons, and communicable disease experts. Also, as in any broad debate, it is sometimes difficult to separate facts from illusion. In the current vaccination debate, politics and special interests are dictating medical and public health policy. This results in poor public health policy and bad medicine. Because leaders in the Bush Administration took an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," one might conclude that the government would never risk the physical or mental health of its military personnel or the civilian public-at-large for political reasons. After all, one of the stated purposes of government is to maintain public health and safety. Given that caveat, is it reasonable for Mr. Bush to select a disease and order the dispensing of a vaccine that carries a high risk for serious complications to both the recipient and those with whom they have contact without evidence that the disease is present? The Institute of Medicine has gone on record to urge caution about the high risk of the smallpox vaccine and the vaccination program. Because of the significant number of side effects military and other "volunteers" have experienced in the current round of vaccinations this warning should be taken seriously, Nonetheless, there is a growing body of evidence that the Bush Administration's ongoing campaign to convince the American public that there is a need for mass inoculation against biological warfare continues unabated. According to Administration officials, a smallpox threat emanates from Iraq and/or the Al Qaeda organization. One might view this campaign as part of the Administration's goal to manipulate public perception and establish a "just cause" foundation for a preemptive war against Iraq. Implied in the call for mass inoculation against smallpox is the assumption that Saddam Hussein has the intention and ability to wage biological warfare against America, the delivery system to get deadly biological agents to American shores and that smallpox is his weapon of choice. As a political tool, smallpox has everything a propagandist needs to engage in hyperbole and instill fear in an uninformed public. Smallpox is, in fact, a deadly disease that according to the World Health Organization (WHO) was eradicated in 1977. In 1980 WHO recommended that all countries cease vaccinations because of the high risk from the vaccine itself and the low risk of the disease re-emerging spontaneously. The World Health Organization further recommended that all laboratories, except for two designated in the United States and Russia, destroy their stocks of variolla virus. Rumors persist, however, that other sources of the variolla virus exist in unsanctioned laboratories. This fear has been expanded by the overwhelming volume of smallpox-threat "news" emanating from the corporate media. The timing of this "news" coincides with the Bush administration's campaign to convince the American public that preemptive war against Iraq is a "just cause". The timeline between Mr. Bush's announcement of his preemptive war doctrine in June 2002 and his directive in September for mass inoculations against an external bioterrorism smallpox attack has all the sound and fury of an egregiously orchestrated propaganda blitzkrieg. Beginning in August 2002, the number of articles published by mainline newspapers increased exponentially. Major news sources in virtually every region of the country published numerous articles on smallpox, its causes, and deadly effects. Importantly, many are now aware of the 30% death-rate that results for those who develop the infection. An ill-informed public, the majority of whom cannot identify their congressional representative, has been inculcated about the danger of biological warfare, in general, and smallpox as a biological weapon, in particular. If Bush and the neo-conservatives can convince the American people that the threat of biological terrorism is real and that the source of the threat is Iraq, the people will demand to be inoculated and enthusiastically call for Bush to dispatch US armed forces to Iraq. They will ignore the fact that a preemptive war is likely to increase the probability of a guerilla-like, terrorist attack on the U.S. But before lining up for inoculations, Americans need to be aware of certain facts about the vaccine. First, the serious complications from the smallpox vaccination are not insignificant. The most frequent, serious complication from the smallpox vaccination is
[CTRL] Zionist forces used Biological Terror Against Palestinians
http://64.176.94.191/article1483.htm Saddam Is not the only criminal to use Biological agents against innocent People. Zionist forces used Biological Terror Against Palestinians: How and why our government lies about the threat Iraq poses to the US homeland. Tom Feeley The information below is taken from a report titled "The Illicit Use of Biological Agents Since 1900". By: W. Seth Carus, Feb 2001. It details how Zionists used biological weapons against the indigenous people of Palestine. The report highlights the double standards used by our government to rally the world to an invasion of Iraq by nothing other than lies! The author of the report states in his conclusions. "This study takes an intermediate course. It provides empirical evidence to support the views of those who argue that biological agents are difficult to use. It also provides abundant evidence that some people have desired to inflict mass casualties on innocent populations through employment of biological agents. Fortunately, these accounts also suggest that such people lacked the capability to follow through with their plans. The research also casts considerable doubt on our ability to predict which biological agents a perpetrator might employ. While some analysts assume that terrorists will use those agents that proved of most interest to state weapons programs, bioterrorists and biocriminals have acquired and used agents of little or no value as weapons of war. Ultimately, the evidence supports the view that bioterrorism is a low probability, potentially high consequence event." If the report states that bioterrorism is a " a low probability" event why is our government using fear to motivate it's citizens to support an attack on Iraq? Why is Israel allowed to manufacture chemical and biological weapons while denying the same rights to Arab nations. This policy is based on nothing less than racism. It assumes that through some quirk of nature or genetic flaw Arab peoples are predisposed toward the destruction of non-Arab (non-Muslim) peoples. In the opinion of the U.S., Arab's are not to be trusted with WMD. We all know that the reason for this racist double standard is that no Arab country will ever be allowed to have WMD. Not because they are any more likely to use them, but because it is the Bush Cabals desire that no country should ever be able to stand as an equal against the military power of Israel. These facts make clear the following points. Our government can not be trusted to act in the best interest of it's citizens in relation to foreign policy. U.S. foreign policy has been hijacked by a Zionist cabal within the White House whose purpose is to protect the racist State of Israel, regardless of the cost to America and it's interests. The report How Zionist forces used Biological Terror Against Palestinians: Case 1947-01: "Zionist" terrorists, 1947-1948 Excerpt from "The Illicit Use of Biological Agents Since 1900" By: W. Seth Carus, Feb 2001. Center for Counterproliferation Research National Defense University Washington, D.C. Page 87: To view or download full document (pdf) click here Case 1947-01: "Zionist" terrorists, 1947-1948 On July 22, 1948, the Palestinian Arab Higher Committee submitted a thirteen-page report to the United Nations accusing Palestinian Jews of using biological agents against Egypt and Syria. According to the document, "For several years the Zionists have planned and prepared for the use of bacterial warfare. To that end, they set up laboratories in Palestine. The Jews plan to use this inhuman weapon against the Arabs in the Middle East in their war of extermination." The report contended that there was "some" evidence to link Palestinian Jews to cholera outbreaks in Egypt in November, 1947, and in Syria "about February, 1948." 419 In addition, the report noted that on May 28, 1948, the Egyptian Ministry of Defense issued a communiqué claiming that the Egyptian military had captured four "Zionists" who were attempting to contaminate wells around Gaza with "a liquid which was discovered to contain the germs of dysentery and typhoid." The Palestinian Arab Higher Committee Report claimed that one of the perpetrators confessed to the plot, which the Egyptian government planned to communicate to the International Red Cross. 420 According to another source, two Israeli soldiers were involved in the plot: David Horeen and David Mizrachi. Both were caught by Egyptian forces in May 1948, and were hanged three months later. This account indicates that to Rachel Katzman, Horeen’s sister, said, "I met one of his commanders in a lecture in Jerusalem. I asked him whether my brother had really attempted to poison wells. ‘These were the weapons we had,’ he said, ‘and that’s that." This account also claims that the Israelis poisoned the water supply of the Arab town of Acre, causing a major outbreak, and other Arab villages, to prevent the villagers from
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