[CTRL] Moral Clarity
-Caveat Lector- http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=24519 Arab News SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY To most Americans who have never traveled beyond their countrys shores, all of this is very hard to fathom or accept. Exclusive: Moral Clarity, War on Iraq, and the Moment Haani Nowailaty Published on Sunday, March 30, 2003 Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need to seize the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. Not long ago, I forwarded an e-mail entitled Et tu George W? composed of the paragraph above containing the words of Julius Caesar describing his warmongering approach to government and the loss of liberty as the price paid by the citizenry of Rome. It seemed a direct historical reflection and mirror of the policy of US President George W. Bush and his administration toward an invasion of Iraq. An overwhelming number of the responses received from my American friends were in adamant, even fervent support, of these sentiments. However, I also received a solitary dissenting response from a dear friend of mine in Ohio. John, the Ohioan, stated that he was in full support of the war policy of the reigning King of the World and took me further to task by stating that I had made a mistake in targeting him as part of my audience with that e-mail. His closing statement was the question: Where is your usual editorial describing the oppositions viewpoint? Well dear John, your wish is my command, although I dont think this is really what you want to hear. In order to understand the level and depth of the opposition and hatred facing the current US administration around the world in general and in the Middle East and the Islamic world in particular, we must take time to examine the situation from within and without the American experience of 9/11 and also from within the context of the present and immediate post- 9/11 world. However, to do so will entail a very lengthy discourse on the history, politics, and machinations of the last century, complete with an analysis of the history and effects of the Cold War, and the Arab-Israeli conflict of the last 50 years, coupled with an expos of the history of American political, economic and military involvement in the area, and by extension in the world outside the US, especially in the Third World, added to a further examination of the American military culture post-World War II, and the rise of the military-industrial complex, then move to touch on the domestic and international economic, social, cultural, and political repercussions of US global policy since it turned away from isolationism, the end of the Great War and finally end with an analysis of the synthesis of all these factors producing the current crisis of worldwide animosity, resentment, suspicion and general distrust toward the US in general and this administration in particular. A long list indeed! I, the author, am already confused! Naturally to do this accurately and fairly requires a lot of writing, a task which I am ill- prepared to attempt or carry out at this moment or in the foreseeable future. But being the word-slut that I am, always jumping at every opportunity to commit my thoughts to paper, then broadcasting them far and wide, I will attempt as brief as possible an answer. Forget the boring, inordinately long history lesson hinted at above. Forget also the airing of legitimate international grievances against post-WWII US administrations foreign, economic and environmental policies by a majority of the populations of the worlds other 190 nations. Forget the fact that the US with only 5 percent of the worlds population consumes over 50 percent of the worlds resources and how embittered the rest of the world feels, especially when the US takes a prudence be damned attitude, and has backed out of 5 critical international treaties since this administration took office. Forget the full cultural attack by the US media and marketing firms upon the much older cultures of Europe and Asia, including the export of MTV-style morality and the heavy price that comes with it for the youth of the world, and the dismay of their parents who see their traditional roles being eroded by the seductions of the mighty Madonna, or the must-be-emulated Britney Spears. Forget that every single dictatorship and tyrannical despot, including good old Saddam, and a host of other butchers and meatpackers from Chile to Indonesia were, until their fall from grace, henchmen of the US, and it was the US who supplied and trained them
[CTRL] Invasions of Laughter
-Caveat Lector- http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=24552 Arab News SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY ...the coalition is growing with more allies and allies. Though, he understood it to be growing with more all lies, all lies and all lies! Exclusive: Invasions of Laughter Wahib Binzagr, CBE Published on Sunday, March 30, 2003 The main source of recent laughs comes from the misrepresentations and exaggerations of US and British 24-hour TV programs on the brutal invasion of Iraq. A prominent Iraqi opposition figure was sighted by his other Iraqi colleagues in the lounge of Londons Grosvenor Hotel one morning reading the dailies and watching the news on TV. He was impressed by an article by Dr. Condolezza Rice in the Wall Street Journal but doubted her assertion that the coalition consisted of nearly 50 nations. Then he heard the Bush on TV, stating that the coalition is growing with more allies and allies. Though, he understood it to be growing with more all lies, all lies and all lies! A group of American lawyers who were on a visit to Paris, France were flabbergasted when they read in the Wall Street Journal that a suit against the civilian and military leaders of the US at the time of the first Gulf War as war criminals is being brought in a Belgian court by seven Iraqi families, said to be relatives, of a terrible mishap on a February night in 1991. Colin Powell, the first President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf are all among the names in the complaint. It is currently rumored in Paris that the American lawyers, on reading the document, decided to retaliate with the possible filing in a Belgium court against President Chirac on the ground that his name sounds more like Iraq to make him a war criminal in the court of law. It is reported in the Journal that a Syrian barrow boy asked his customer about the money President Bush requested from Congress to maintain the invasion. He took his small calculator to work out his annual income of $1,500 to the $75 billion requested. It comes to fifty million years, the boy was amazed to discover. This discovery sent him screaming that he could not understand why so much money was spent on destruction when it could be spent wisely to feed the hungry and educate the illiterate. Khalid Al Kistani, an Iraq columnist, wrote a few days ago that the Arabs cannot forget the broken promises of British governments since World War II. The British government claim has always been that the Arabs misunderstand them and are terribly forgetful. The Arabs have always been put in their place by their wise British counselors and reminded that An Englishmans word is his bond. This was engrained in their minds and souls so that even the bedouin of Jordan believed it to the extent that in their verbal dealings. They shook hands and exchanged the English promise between one another. Mr. Al Kistani patiently waits for Mr. Blair to fulfill his promises to the Iraqis and Palestinians, and proof, for once, that a British politician delivers on his promise to the Arabs. Jihad Al Khazin of the London daily Al Hayat stated on March 28 that the commonality between Osama Bin Laden, Al-Zawahry, Saddam and Bush is their religious commitment to reach for peace through war but with different war budgets. For Saddam it is $1.40 billion and for Bush $400 billion. The remaining two religious zealots obviously move as they earn for the fun of destruction and the joy of killing thousands of innocent peoples and, like the others, also hope to get away with it. Copyright 2003 ArabNews All Rights Reserved. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with
[CTRL] So much for Americans' tolerance and the underdog's point of view
-Caveat Lector- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29984.html Al Jazeera's web site - DDoSed or unplugged? By John Lettice Posted: 27/03/2003 at 16:17 GMT The launch of Arab satellite TV network Al Jazeera's new Web site on Monday drew immediate hack attacks, but this has been swiftly followed up by the disappearance of the site's DNS records. These now point to mydomain.com nameservers, but this company's site is also currently inaccessible; as you might expect, under the circumstances. Al Jazeera (aljazeera.net, for the record) could have been taken offline by DDoS attacks, but considering the timing one is also drawn to the possibility that something involving a Big Red Switch might have been involved. Prior to the site's complete removal company IT manager Salah Al Seddiqui told Reuters that its Qatar-based vendor had said US-based DataPipe could no longer host its site from the end of this month, and that Al Jazeera would be moving its servers to Europe. Al Jazeera had two listed nameservers - one at datapipe.com and one at nav-link.net. NavLink has offices in the US (it's incorporated in Delaware), Europe and the Middle East (the UAE and Lebanon), so there's a logic to Al Jazeera using it. However if the dual-server system is intended to provide some form of resilience it clearly hasn't worked. The problem seems to have taken Al Jazeera unawares. When The Register spoke to the company's London office earlier today they said that their most recent information from Qatar had been that the site was unavailable because of heavy demand, and that they were trying to get through to Qatar for an update. Al Jazeera is not, as you will no doubt have noticed, universally popular, and today in particular it has been heavily criticised by UK military spokesmen for screening pictures of dead British servicemen. But even at the best of times the network is not a customer that many hosting companies in the US would want to boast about. At the worst of times - which probably includes now - it's unlikely the company would stand any chance whatsoever of being accepted by US providers. So it's perfectly possible that someone along the line decided, owing to pressure and/or common prudence, not to continue involvement with the company. This sort of thing might of course trigger legal action, but Al Jazeera itself is well-aware that it treads a very tricky line, so probably won't want to make unnecessary waves. And as its site was already pretty unavailable because of the attacks, and it's said it's heading off to Europe, what difference would it make? That you will note is one of two possible conspiracy theories, and does not necessarily involve US.gov. But we expect that if the site hadn't disappeared already, pretty soon US.gov would get involved until it did - which is conspiracy theory two. The alternative to the conspiracy theories is that weaknesses in Al Jazeera's DNS meant they were vulnerable to load, and that the disappearance of the DNS was therefore a consequence of the attack. As we understand it, this is technically possible, although it has also been suggested to us that the company's DNS did not come under an insupportable load during the attacks. So right now we think the jury is still out. But in the long run the question of whether the company was DDoSed or unplugged will be fairly academic. Given that it's pretty much unthinkable that it could have been allowed to continue running via US companies, it was going to go anyway, one way or the other. Europe might be some form of solution, but one might estimate that here too quite a few hosting outfits will view Al Jazeera as a poisoned chalice, a customer with a profile several notches to high. And even if it does get itself sorted out on the other side of the pond, it will still be likely to gain experience of how much of the Internet, when it comes down to it, is actually US-owned. But perhaps it has some cards. US companies wanting to play in the Middle East are unlikely to find their local operations going down a storm if they're refusing to do business with a popular TV station like Al Jazeera, so they'll be pressured in both directions. That's the trouble with the Internet - it connects things that sometimes you'd rather didn't get connected. ® A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] REALITY REPORT: World and America Watching Different Wars
-Caveat Lector- from the March 25, 2003 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0325/p01s04-woiq.html WORLD AND AMERICA WATCHING DIFFERENT WARS CNN vs. Al Jazeera: Seeing is often believing By Danna Harman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor CAIRO, EGYPT - The Hamouda family is gathered around the TV, sipping sugary tea and glued to the pictures of captured US soldiers being interrogated by Iraqis on the popular Qatar-based satellite station Al Jazeera. What's your name? A terrified young female POW is asked. How old are you? The camera moves to her feet, which are bloody and bare. Yieee!, cheers eldest son Ahmed, knocking over a fake geranium plant as he shoots up from the couch in excitement. Show it how it is! It is not that they are happy to see suffering, says Hellmy, the father, somewhat apologetically, as the camera weaves between several bodies. But the other side of the story needs to be told. The gruesome video shown Sunday on Al Jazeera - reaching 35 million Arab-speakers worldwide, including about 20 percent of the Egyptian population - will probably never be seen by the average American TV viewer. In fact, American audiences are seeing and reading about a different war than the rest of the world. The news coverage in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, reflects and defines the widening perception gap about the motives for this war. Surveys show that an increasing number of Americans believe this is a just war, while most of the world's Arabs and Muslims see it as a war of aggression. Media coverage does not necessarily create these leanings, say analysts, but it works to cement them. The difference in coverage between the US and the rest of the world helped contribute to the situation that we're in now,'' says Kim Spencer, president of WorldLink TV, a US satellite channel devoted to airing foreign news. Americans have been unable to see how they're perceived. For example, most Americans, watching CNN, Fox, or the US television networks, are not seeing as much coverage of injured Iraqi citizens, or being given more than a glimpse of the antiwar protests now raging in the Muslim world and beyond. In the Middle East, Europe, and parts of Asia, by comparison, the rapid progress made by US led troops has been played down. And many aspects of the conflict being highlighted in the US - such as the large number of Iraqi troops surrendering, the cooperation between US-led forces and various Gulf states, commentary on America's superior weapons technology, and the human interest angles on soldier life in the desert - are almost totally absent from coverage outside the US. Sure, the news we get in the Arab world is slanted, admits Hussein Amin, chair of the department of journalism and mass communication at Cairo's American University. In the same way the news received in the US is biased. The view from Europe Some analysts note that European press ownership is less concentrated than its counterparts in the US, and is seen as providing more perspectives than either the Arab or American outlets. In Frankfurt, for example, readers have access to 16 different German language newspapers - many of which present different vantage points, which makes for a more lively and varied debate. European journalists also seem to ask different, more skeptical, questions of this war, often being the ones at White House and Pentagon press conferences to ask whether the invasion of Iraq has turned up any of the weapons of mass destruction that used to justify the invasion - even as their American counterparts repeatedly focus on such questions as whether Saddam Hussein is alive or dead. Media watchers say the European press has tended to be more balanced than the US media in dealing with the war, in part because Europe is so much closer to the Muslim world. John Schmidt, a former reporter for the International Herald Tribune, who has just returned from Europe, notes that in Marseille, France, 30 percent of the population is Muslim. In Berlin, the biggest minority population is the Turks. These are countries in Europe that live cheek by jowl with Islamic people, they know how deep the dislike for the West can be, they know how sensitively some of these issues have to be transmitted, says Mr. Schmidt, who is now an economics writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. There are really two stories unfolding here, one is the war and its progress and the second one is the progress of world opinion, says Tom Patterson, a media expert at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. That second dimension is there in the American press, but it's clearly way underreported. For instance, American media outlets may report on the demonstrations in other countries, particularly if there are violent clashes. But they don't devote as many resources to covering in depth the growing anti-American sentiment - even among American allies - or its implications for the future, says Professor Patterson.
[CTRL] The Miscalculations of Yes-Men 04/01/03
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- From: t r u t h o u t [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@lists.truthout.com Date sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:23:22 -0700 Organization: t r u t h o u t Subject:William Rivers Pitt | The Miscalculations of Yes-Men 04/01/03 Send reply to: t r u t h o u t [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are subscribed as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t r u t h o u t | 04.01 William Rivers Pitt | The Miscalculations of Yes-Men a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/040103A.shtml GO/a Outrage Spreads in Arab World a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/040103B.shtml GO/a War's Military, Political Goals Begin to Diverge a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/040103C.shtml GO/a Antiwar Effort Emphasizes Civility Over Confrontation a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/040103D.shtml GO/a British MP Sees Catastrophic Times Ahead If War Continues a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/040103E.shtml GO/a US forces' Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons is 'Illegal' a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/040103F.shtml GO/a Special Search Operations Yield No Banned Weapons a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/040301G.shtml GO/a Iraq War Quiz a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/040103H.shtml GO/a t r u t h o u t - Newsletter Sign-up (Free) : a href= https://www.truthout.org/membership/membership.htm GO/a Problems with the links? Go direct to our HomePage : http://www.truthout.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ t r u t h o u t | 03.31 Another US Diplomat Resigns Over Iraq War a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033103A.shtml GO/a Angry Arabs Say Baghdad Market Blast U.S. Massacre a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033103B.shtml GO/a British Mideast Expert : 'US, Britain, Heading to Disaster' a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033103C.shtml GO/a Hawks Led Bush to Expect Quick Victory, Sources Say a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033103D.shtml GO/a Iraqi Civilians Feed Hungry US Marines a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033103E.shtml GO/a Military Families Unite in Protest a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033103F.shtml GO/a Spain's Aznar Faces 91% Opposition to War a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033103G.shtml GO/a Workplaces Face Wartime Politics a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033103H.shtml GO/a N. Korea Vows No Nuclear Concessions, Cites Iraq a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033103I.shtml GO/a t r u t h o u t - Newsletter Sign-up (Free) : a href= https://www.truthout.org/membership/membership.htm GO/a Problems with the links? Go direct to our HomePage : http://www.truthout.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ t r u t h o u t | 03.30 Air Raids Pound Baghdad, 50+ Civilians Dead a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033003A.shtml GO/a Outspoken Army General Upsets White House a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033003B.shtml GO/a A 'Turkey Shoot,' but With Marines as Targets a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033003C.shtml GO/a Robert Fisk | Raw, Devastating Realities About Basra a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033003D.shtml GO/a News From Iraq Causes Americans to Think Again a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033003E.shtml GO/a Analyst: 'Mass Destruction Weapons Need to be Found' a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033003F.shtml GO/a Bush Frustrated with Media Coverage of War a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033003G.shtml GO/a Missteps with Turkey Prove Costly a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033003H.shtml GO/a Jesse Jackson Jr. | From Gunboat Diplomacy To Gunpoint Democracy a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033003I.shtml GO/a Paul Krugman | Delusions of Power a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/033003J.shtml GO/a t r u t h o u t - Newsletter Sign-up (Free) : a href= https://www.truthout.org/membership/membership.htm GO/a Problems with the links? Go direct to our HomePage : http://www.truthout.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ t r u t h o u t | 03.29 Richard Perle, Prince of Darkness, Resigns a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/032903A.shtml GO/a Joshua Marshall | Practice to Deceive a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/032903B.shtml GO/a Massive Explosions Rock Central Baghdad a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/032903C.shtml GO/a Analysts Say Threat Warnings Toned Down a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/032903D.shtml GO/a Wounded U.S. Soldiers Shocked at Iraqi Resistance a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/032903E.shtml GO/a Washington and Pandora's Box a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/032903F.shtml GO/a Antiwar Demonstrations Jam Midtown Manhattan a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/032903G.shtml GO/a Energy Market Manipulated, Regulators Say a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/032903H.shtml GO/a US Walks Out of UN Debate a href= http://truthout.org/docs_03/032903I.shtml GO/a Sluggish Economy May Be Headed for New Recession a href=
[CTRL] Contempt for this War
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: New Jersey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:20:21 -0500 (EST) Subject:!b_a_Act: [P] Contempt for this War Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Subscribe or Unsubscribe to PNEWS (progressive news and views) forums (on internet since 1982): ---http://pnews.org/signup.shtml Oldest progressive mailing list on the interNUT = There is REAL CONTEMPT for this war Washington has expressed and demonstrated it's contempt for the United Nations more because it could not get a separate resolution to attack Iraq. Most of the support the U.S. has had in the UN it has paid for, but even traditional alliances have broken down. The Pakistanis have been very critical of the U.S. and so has Turkey. Syria's President Bashar al-Assad says he hopes that George Bush will not be successful in Iraq and the U.S. is putting pressure on Syria by accusing it of sending night vision glasses to Iraq and warning it not to. Both George Bush Senior and George Bush Junior USED the UN to get it's way and when the UN does not provide it's approval GWB the second ignores the other members of the Security Council and demonstrates his contempt by attacking Iraq and accusing the UN of being irrelevant. It is only relevant when it bends to the George Bush's will. With all the fervor about the righteousness of the UN resolution (Gulf War I), we rarely heard about the U.S. refusal to abide by the World Court's decision regarding reparations for Nicaragua. Nor did we hear about the UN resolutions condemning the 1982 Israeli occupation of Lebanon, or its current occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Most striking, however was the fact that the December 1889 U.S. invasion of Panama was almost never discussed. The fact that the UN General Assembly condemned the invasion and that the United States vetoed two Security Council resolutions condeming the U.S. invasion did not enter the discussion about the UN in the Gulf. It was as if the UN only mattered when it supported U.S. interests. When it did not, the UN did not have to be ridiculed; it simply was ignored. [William Hoynes, War as Video Game, an essay in Collateral Damage (edited by Cynthia Peters), 92] Assad of Syria does not believe the U.S. and Britain will be able to control Iraq even if it does win - anymore than it could in Lebanon where when it retreated after the bombing of the Marine barracks or Afghanistan where Taliban are still very much alive and well and Warlords are still vying for influence and popular resistence to the U.S. and to the U.S. supported president of Afghanistan is evidenced by regular acts of organized terrorism activities. Two Special Forces soldiers who were killed this month (March - 2003) and at least three wounded when armed Taliban motorcyclists attacked their reconnaissance patrol in the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan. Hit and run tactics are being employed in Afghanistan as it is now in Iraq. A water engineer with dual Swiss and Salvadoran citizenship who worked for the Red Cross was also killed execution style in the Uruzgan province. We don't see it reported regularly in the media as it once was but the fight in Afghanistan by coalition forces against local groups and the Taliban has not abated. Just last week Norwegians flying F-16s dropped laser-guided bombs about 50 miles to the south of Kandahar in support of U.S. Special Forces and Afghan soldiers against about 100 (suspected) Taliban and al-Qaeda who attacked them. We expect them (the American POWs) to be treated humanely, just like we'll treat any prisoner of theirs ... If not, the people who mistreat the prisoners will be treated as war criminals. [Said George Bush at Camp David] I'm curious George. Does that mean that those Taliban prisoners who were tortured to death by U.S. soldiers would also be treated as war criminals? Unless I'm mistaken, which I'm not, you ordered the aggression against Iraq. You attacked them. They did not attack the United States. They were not connected in any way with those you accused of hijacking air planes and flying them into the Twin Towers and Pentagon. Your bombing is killing Iraqi civilians and they never did anything to you. Should we ask Iraqis who lost husbands, wives, children in those bombings how they feel about the Rules of Engagement and the Geneva Accords? You object to the showing of American POWs on their television. Interestingly that same morning American media showed Iraqi prisoners with their hands tied and made to sit on the ground in full view of television cameras. When the Iraqis did the same you called it a violation of the Geneva Accords. The POWs have been shown on Arab,
[CTRL] US Reporters Terrorized for Being Anti-War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/30008.html Tech writer iced for expressing opinion By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 29/03/2003 at 11:21 GMT Much-loved computer columnist Henry Norr has been suspended by the Hearst Corporation - owners of The San Francisco Chronicle - for expressing political views on his day off. Along with two thousand other citizens, including the former head of the Pacific Stock Exchange, Norr was arrested in San Francisco last week as he was protesting the US-British invasion of Iraq. He emailed the paper to say he would be late the next day. But the cowardly Chronicle insisted on calling creating a time card dispute, and Norr is currently suspended without pay. This is a bogus, after-the-fact cover for an act of political retaliation and an attempt to intimidate other employees, Norr wrote in an email to Jim Romensko. That his employer should take on the role of policing what employees do in their own time is a remarkable act of corporate coercion. Norr doesn't even do political reporting. I write about things like (e-mail) spam, he told Reuters. Don't be so modest, Henry. His Monday tech column Tech 21 is a rare beast: the former MacWeek editor completely eschews the kind of gushing, techno-utopioan advertorials that are now the norm for mainstream publications in favor of a gentle and wise, and hugely-well-informed skepticism. He also breaks stories. In other words, he one of the paper's best assets. But the punishment lasts for a minimum of two weeks. Norr's shabby treatment highlights one of the absurdities of the US media: it requires its staff to behave like eunuchs. This strange hangover from the days of the Puritan ducking stool baffles visitors, but keeps a mini-industry of Journalism Schools and ethics committees busy. Which is why, after the long editorial filleting process of removing anything that might cause offense to anyone has been completed, you end up with newspapers that don't have any news in them. Total objectivity is an illusion, Norr eloquently explained yesterday. Everybody has views on important issues, at least most people do. Objectivity - a word you only hear in the USA - isn't just an illusion, it's a metaphysical impossibility. Although your tolerance for objectivity is bound to be highly selective. Clear Channel Communications - which dominates commercial radio in the USA - recently sponsored pro-Invasion rallies and yesterday a Fox News Channel anchor opened a news segment with the words 800 Iraqis ... and we pasted them! But you know that these voices are human, they may be slanted, that owners exert influence, but hey - you're grown up adults. Take your pick. The best journalism comes from people who are engaged in the world around them, added Norr, who are not just blinkered scribes who sit there at the keyboard and write stories, but people who have passions and feelings and engagement. The ducking stool treatment meted out to Norr by the Hearst Corporation, which owns the Comical, has already rung alarm bells in the Macintosh community, where where Norr is widely respected:- Punishing him at work for expressing a political view on what he thought was his own time is a dangerous way to proceed in a democracy, writes Applelinks' John Farr. Yesterday, San Francisco citizens made their own protest at their city paper's anodyne coverage of the Invasion - no pictures of civilian casualties, but lots of light, color pieces from embedded correspondents - by dumping fake blood at the newspaper's offices. Reporters without Borders, an international organization which tries to measure coercion against the free press, ranks the USA at17th in its estimation of press freedom - behind Costa Rica. ® 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to
[CTRL] US Arms Trader to Run Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925309,00.html US arms trader to run Iraq Ex-general who will lead reconstruction heads firm behind Patriot missiles Oliver Morgan, industrial editor, The Observer (UK) Sunday March 30, 2003 Jay Garner, the retired US general who will oversee humanitarian relief and reconstruction in postwar Iraq, is president of an arms company that provides crucial technical support to missile systems vital to the US invasion of the country. Garner's business background is causing serious concerns at the United Nations and among aid agencies, who are already opposed to US administration of Iraq if it comes outside UN authority, and who say appointment of an American linked to the arms trade is the 'worst case scenario' for running the country after the war. Garner is president of Virginia-based SY Coleman, a subsidiary of defence electronics group L-3 Communications, which provides technical services and advice on the Patriot missile system being used in Iraq. Patriot was made famous in the 1991 Gulf war when it was used to protect Israeli and Saudi targets from attack by Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles. Garner was involved in the system's deployment in Israel. SY Coleman has also worked on the Arrow missile defence system, deployed in Israel, and is involved in the US national missile defence programme. Garner joined SY Technologies, taken over last year by L-3, in 1997, after leaving the US army. Defence analyst David Armstrong of the Washington-based National Security News Service says: 'It seems inappropriate for somebody to step into a humanitarian and administrative role from a company with a role in providing equipment which, albeit defensive, is vital to the success of the US operation.' Phil Bloomer of Oxfam said 'The worst case scenario would be to put in charge of the reconstruction someone from the US or UK linked to the arms or oil industries.' According to its website, SY Coleman provides technical services such as missile system engineering and target system design for a wide range of US military programmes, and also makes some components. It also provides operational services such as battle management and 'warfighter support'. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that it was a Patriot missile that was involved when a British Tornado was hit last week. Jack Tyler, an SY Coleman senior vice-president, confirmed that Garner still held his position at the company. http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925309,00.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] Depleted Uranium Makes Good Mutant-Slaves
-Caveat Lector- The best thing that could happen for the Bush thugs is for the depleated uranium munitions to pollute Iraq and kill and mutate the offspring of a large number of inhabitants. Won't harm the oil a bit. The mutants will work for meager wages, happy to be able to receive for minimal health care for their deformed offspring. (Poison medications from Bushie interests.) Mutants make good worker-slaves. Is Bush your leader, or your retard? Does he need to be raised to the throne, or institutionalized or tried as the war criminal that he is? Why does the US now avoid the jurisdiction of International Court of Law? Because the leader of the US is a War Criminal. If he does not follow international law, what can be done to stop him? Inquiring and non-violent minds are working hard on this question. Please help us to understand. Steve News alternatives to US war propaganda: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news081.htm http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm http://www.truthout.org/ http://www.aljazeerah.info/ http://www.overthrow.com/ http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/politics/content.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] How to Fight Bush!
-Caveat Lector- Put your dollars into Euros. They are going up while the dollar is going down. Eurobonds. One day most oil transactions will be valued in Euros, not dollars. Steve News alternatives to US war propaganda: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news081.htm http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm http://www.truthout.org/ http://www.aljazeerah.info/ http://www.overthrow.com/ http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/politics/content.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] Depleted Uranium Makes Good Mutant-Slaves
-Caveat Lector- I am new to this list. Some of the messages on this list are treasonous and anti-American. I wonder who is behind these messages? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] Outrage spreads ...what next?
-Caveat Lector- Don't worry Bush's Ashcroft has a Patriot II Bill ready for your frightened Congress to sign without reading, after the upcoming terrorist attacked, planned and orchestrated by the Bushies. Let us hope this is not the scenario. Because the people of this world including Americans know how to answer, 'Fooled me once, shame on you, fool me twice...--- -- -- -- (Can you fill in the blanks, unlike Bush? :-) --- Forwarded message follows --- Editor's Note: Understand this passage for what it is, and for what it means to you and your family and your country: Mr. Bush has lost us. We are gone. Enough. That's the end, said Diaa Rashwan, head of the comparative politics unit at the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo. If America starts winning tomorrow, there will be suicide bombing that will start in America the next day. It is a whole new level now. Outrage Spreads in Arab World By Emily Wax Washington Post Sunday 30 March 2003 Civilian Deaths in Baghdad Market Called a 'Massacre' CAIRO -- A shuddering sense of outrage at President Bush and the United States fell over the Arab world today as television networks and newspapers reported a U.S. air assault that Iraqi officials said killed 58 people at a vegetable market in Baghdad. Monstrous martyrdom in Baghdad, said a huge headline in al-Dustur, a newspaper in Amman, Jordan. Dreadful massacre in Baghdad, read a banner headline in Egypt's mass circulation Akhbar al-Yawm newspaper. Photos of two young victims of the blast covered half its front page. Yet another massacre by the coalition of invaders, read the main headline in Saudi Arabia's popular al-Riyadh daily. Mr. Bush has lost us. We are gone. Enough. That's the end, said Diaa Rashwan, head of the comparative politics unit at the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo. If America starts winning tomorrow, there will be suicide bombing that will start in America the next day. It is a whole new level now. The anger was a clear sign that U.S.-Arab relations, despite the Bush administration's campaign to win hearts and minds, was at a low point. Bush is an occupier and terrorist. He thought he was playing a video game, said George Elnaber, 36, a Arab Christian and the owner of a supermarket in Amman. We hate Americans more than we hate Saddam now, he said, referring to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The popular al-Jazeera satellite television network broadcast the funerals of those killed at the market. It repeatedly showed pictures of severed body parts and wounded toddlers bandaged and crying in hospital beds. Those pictures have showed that America's war is not only against the Iraqi regime and the Iraqi army, but also against the Iraqi children and elderly. How can we trust them now? said Mahmoud Sahiouny, 19, a Syrian computer science student who lives in Beirut. The United States has said it is investigating whether its forces caused the market blast Friday in a mainly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad. But many Arabs said the bloodshed was clearly the fault of the United States. A group of women using computers at an Internet cafe in Cairo displayed some of their e- mails containing pictures of funerals, wailing women, mourning men and the bodies of children in cradle-sized coffins. This is a media war, and America will realize sooner or later that we Arabs have a million alternatives now, Rana Khoury, 20, a political science student at the American University of Beirut. What really hurts is when I turned to American stations, they were talking about the humanitarian aid that the allies are providing for the Iraqi people. They didn't even mention those who were massacred. The outrage was also felt in Syria, which suffered war casualties when a U.S. missile accidentally hit a busload of civilians Monday in Iraq about 100 miles from the Syrian border. I was watching what was happening and I found myself cursing for the first time in my life, a 17-year-old student named Lama told the Reuters news agency. I felt I wanted to kill, not only curse. In Cairo, some residents with long ties to the United States said that the bombing of civilians made them lose all hope that relations could return to normal. It is as if you are watching a horror movie, said Summer Said, a journalist for the Cairo Times, an English-language newsmagazine. I thought, at first, okay, maybe it isn't a war for oil. Maybe America does want to help. Now, it's genocide to me. Is the American government trying to exterminate Arabs? This war is affecting civilians primarily. I did not expect to see civilians bombed and I feel exceedingly angry, wrote Ezzat El Kamhawy, a respected Egyptian novelist. This war can only harm the future of democracy in the area. . . . What is happening now does not implicate the future of the Arabs alone but the future of America herself. Some of the people interviewed said that they had hated leaders
[CTRL] Ask The G*ds
-Caveat Lector- What if G*d is not the true GOD but just another a*e who we would love to get rid of if only we know how just to live in peace, kind of like a mosquito that keeps biting you when you are trying to sleep. Now what if there are other G*d's that are really equal or even greater that the a*e G*d that is causing all the trouble (not to GOD, this is just a theory, but then you already know. :) Anyway, it seems that by invocing the appropriate G*ds by various means, such as meditating, prayer, offerings (such as exercise, not sacrifice :), the G*d's might be invited to join in our quest to rid the world of the Evil Ones, i.e. those who use terror and violence to achieve their goals. Such as the -- and the . You can supply many other blanks. Invoke the G*d's help in this time of crisis. Steve News alternatives to US war propaganda: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news081.htm http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm http://www.truthout.org/ http://www.aljazeerah.info/ http://www.overthrow.com/ http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/politics/content.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] Depleted Uranium Makes Good Mutant-Slaves
-Caveat Lector- On 31 Mar 2003 at 2:03, Flash Gordon wrote: I am new to this list. Some of the messages on this list are treasonous and anti-American. I wonder who is behind these messages? Why, are you looking for a list of names to send to the FBI? I normally don't respond to obvious trolls, but it is late and the oatmeal and organic eggs are wonderful... Steve News alternatives to US war propaganda: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news081.htm http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm http://www.truthout.org/ http://www.aljazeerah.info/ http://www.overthrow.com/ http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/politics/content.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] Why Liberals Hate America
-Caveat Lector- March 20, 2003 at 19:28:48 Why Liberals Hate America Ron Marr / Troutwrapper -- In Bruce Springsteen's tune Glory Days, The Boss weaves the tale of a guy whom we all know. He sings of a middle-aged fellow whose life peaked as a high school sports hero. The former jock's evenings are now spent at the local bar, regaling all with stories of his brief success and synthetic heroics.Such describes perfectly the liberal philosophy generally, and Tom Daschle particularly. Liberals suffer from a number of maladies and delusions, but several are painfully obvious. First, not only are they incapable of taking care of themselves, they cannot comprehend why they should be FORCED to take care of themselves. They are terrified of everything that is not pre-processed, homogenized and approved by an official governmental entity. Governmental Entity, by the way, is defined as Martin Sheen, a guy who's not the President but plays one on TV. That the recycling truck might be an hour late propels liberals into a state of near hysteria. That someone might actually own a gun sends them running to the therapist for Prozac, grief-counseling and Deepak Chopra seminars. They seek order, safety and security at any cost, rather than individuality, liberty and freedom. The goals of a totalitarian, Fascist state are reflected in the ramblings of liberal politicians and Hollywood idiots. They say they want peace, but the sort of peace they seek is more akin to slavery then it is the ideals upon which America was founded. Following the Glory Days scenario, liberals are bitter, angry and dogmatic. They cannot believe they lost the 2000 and 2002 elections. They feel the conservative ascendancy is an anomaly, and wax nostalgic over the administration of a lecherous sociopath who offered soothing words but never a vestige of reality, substance or results. They yearn for a choreographed fantasy world which disputes human nature. They swoon at the idea of standing on the side of the hill while reciting poetry with talking raccoons and drinking decaffeinated Coke. Liberals want to play happily in a field of daisies, unable to accept that we live in a time of daisy cutters. True, if their desires were the rule of the land they would get their wish. Our enemies would gladly provide that field of daisies, and make certain every single American - liberal or conservative - was pushing them up. The garden variety leftist attacks our country with every breath, oblivious to the fact that their ability to speak out, to acquire their toys, to travel and protest and whine, are provided by the very system they despise. They know only hate for those who disagree with their Utopian vision of unchecked liberalism. They immediately label as racists any who counter their nonsensical ramblings with the logic of protecting our sovereignty and future. They want but one thing...for their fellow travelers to control Congress and the White House. The personification of this ideology is Tom Daschle. Shortly after the President gave Saddam Hussein his ultimatum, the diminutive Daschle donned his elevator shoes, climbed a tall stepladder and stood on his soapbox. I am saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war, said Senator Shortcake. I'm saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country. South Dakota should be embarrassed. Daschle, still in shock over his loss of the undeserved power and prestige he once held, never misses an opportunity to engage in character assassination. He doesn't ask questions. He blubbers. He is an angry little man who cares far more about his party than he does his country. Diplomacy? The President worked for months to try and bring a speck of rationality to those who openly despise the US. Diplomacy failed due to the irrelevant UN weasels who refused to enforce 12 years worth of their own mandates. They were led by France, a country that sold Iraq nuclear materials and stands to risk billions of dollars in oil contracts if their friendly neighborhood butcher is deposed. But the second half of Daschle's quote is far worse than the first. As a government leader, Daschle should know that Saddam will portray his moronic words as a sign that the American government is in disarray at the highest level. He should know the Butcher will use those words for propaganda purposes, hoping to fire up troops that, perhaps, were losing their morale. Tom is saddened? Well boo hoo. I'll be saddened if we lose one American life because Daschle's self-serving attempt to stain George Bush might convince a single Iraqi soldier that we are not united, might lead him to think there's a chance of winning. I'm saddened that giving such comfort to the enemy might convince one of Saddam's minions to shoot a brave American soldier in the back, rather than laying down his rifle in fear. I'm saddened
[CTRL] Another missile Hans Blix missed
-Caveat Lector- Another missile Hans Blix missed Baghdad was mass-producing, possibly exporting, 'al-Fatah' http://g2.wnd.com/article/articleview/72/1/4/ © 2003 G2 Bulletin Publishing date: 27.03.2003 18:45 Military experts examining the debris of an Iraqi artillery missile fired on Kuwait were surprised to find the missile carried the name al- Fatah in English characters. The missile system, also known as a-Babil-100, was manufactured at the al-Maamun site southwest of Baghdad, and in other locations such as the al-Haytham Missile Center. Hundreds of Iraqis, as well as foreign technicians were, until recently employed in a mass production project for the new missile. In those facilities and others the Iraqis copied, developed and manufactured weapons systems of the Frog (Free Rocket Overground) Russian type, known also as Tochka-9-K-79 or in NATO code SS-21-Scrab. The markings on the downed missile were clearly in English, suggesting two possibilities -- that Iraqis intended to export the weapon system or that the a-Babil missile was partly produced outside of Iraq. Hans Blix U.N. weapons inspectors, lately nicknamed by military officers as the Hans Blix Gang, knew about but never issued a confirmation on the existence of the missile. According to Global Security Publication: In February 2003, U.N. weapons inspectors evaluated the al-Fatah and, using computer models, assessed that the missile is capable of flying 150 kilometers. One configuration was declared by Iraq to have flown 161 kilometers in tests. However, the U.N. inspectors declined to announce a formal conclusion on the missile pending verification of Iraqi declarations. The inspectors also noted that 32 al-Fatah had already been deployed with army units. The fact that Iraq managed to develop the missile, a project which started before the adoption of U.N.1991 resolution 687, is not only proof of the inability of UNSCOM to enforce its mandate, but also to the flexibility, ingenuity and adaptability of the Iraqi military industry to new conditions and restrictions. It is now clear the al-Maamun facility managed to deliver the al- Fatah to the army and that the 400 mm missile is fully operational. Some sources estimate the number of operational al-Fatah missiles at anywhere between 50 and 100 units. It is mainly based on the Frog-7 system, but computer simulations suggest the missile incorporates technologies from a number of countries, including western. The Iraqis, like the Egyptians with whom they cooperated before the first Gulf War and the Argentineans, managed to use many components of the Russian Volga-SA2 surface-to-air missiles and modify them into a surface to surface weapon. The al-Fatah missile fired at the U.S. forces in Kuwait is described as very mobile, a rocket launched from a special Zil-131 truck chassis. This special vehicle can carry and launch a multiple number of missiles, apparently up to six units, and is capable of traveling fast on paved and dirt roads, as well as on hard surface desert terrain. The system can easily be camouflaged, misleading electronic satellite eyes to appear as a large trailer. It can be successfully sheltered in garage bunkers, underground hangars and other temporary fortifications. Some information coming from Baghdad suggests the Zil trucks were hidden in industrial and commercial buildings. Central Intelligence Agency analysts are aware of live tests conducted in Russia during October 1999, where at least 2 Frog-K-79 (NATO code SS-21) were launched under real battlefield conditions. The launchers were deployed in the Mosdak region, some 100 kilometers northwest of Grozny in Chechnya, and the missiles were launched at Grozny, killing at least 143 people. Information and complete data of the results of the tests were delivered to the Iraqis, who translated them into the al-Fatah system. The Iraqis used this technique of conducting tests abroad, or buying test results from foreign countries and private enterprises, so as to bypass U.N. restrictions. By doing so they prevented thorough U.S. monitoring of their progress. Some of those tests were conducted in Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan and maybe also in some laboratories in the west, predominantly France, Italy, Germany and Argentina. Until recent days Iraq has been maintaining excellent technological-scientific relationships with other countries. Iraqi experts were reported in dozens of countries involved in the production of missiles and electronics. The importance of the information on al-Fatah, as deriving from the missiles fired on Kuwait, is the conclusion that other weapon systems were not only being developed but also reached the production level. There is no doubt that many of those weapons are deployed in and around Baghdad. Basic analysis of the al-Fatah suggests that it crossed the 150 kilometer range barrier, and through changes in its warhead, the Iraqis may have developed the capability to launch
[CTRL] MRC Alert: Stephanopoulos Suggests Blair Resign If WMD Not Found (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all. visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 06:01:19 -0700 From: Media Research Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MRC Alert: Stephanopoulos Suggests Blair Resign If WMD Not Found ***Media Research Center CyberAlert*** 9:55am EST, Monday March 31, 2003 (Vol. Eight; No. 61) The 1,468th CyberAlert. Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996 Stephanopoulos Suggests Blair Resign If WMD Not Found AP: Not Terrorism But Legitimate Resistance; ABC: Patriots Opposite of ABC, CBS Shows How Iraqis Forgive U.S. Error ABC Finally Realizes Iraqis Chanted for Hussein Out of Fear Ken Starr Reminds MSNBC's Newest Host of Heinrich Himmler Distributed to more than 12,500 recipients by the Media Research Center, bringing political balance to the news media since 1987. The MRC is the leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias. Visit the MRC on the Web: http://www.mediaresearch.org. CyberAlerts from this year are at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/archive/cyber/welcome.asp For 2002: http://www.mediaresearch.org/archive/cyber/archive02.asp Subscribe/unsubscribe information, as well as a link to the MRC donations page, are at the end of this message. When posted, this CyberAlert will be readable at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030331.asp 1) British Prime Minister Tony Blair must deal with the BBC regularly, but even he seemed aghast when ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked him, in an interview for Friday's 20/20, if he would resign if weapons of mass destruction are not found in Iraq. ABC appears insistent that such weapons be found immediately. At Sunday's CENTCOM briefing, ABC radio reporter Neal Karlinsky proposed to General Tommy Franks: If you continue to come up empty handed in searches for weapons of mass destruction doesn't that present a big problem? 2) Iraqis who use terroristic tactics are just employing legitimate resistance methods an AP reporter contended at Sunday's CENTCOM briefing. Forwarding similar reasoning, at Friday's White House briefing, ABC's Terry Moran argued these are Iraqis who believe they are acting as patriots defending their country from an invasion. On FNC, Morton Kondracke condemned Moran's reasoning: That struck me as really low, the idea that they would be identified as Iraqi 'patriots' when they're gangsters working for Saddam Hussein, plainly. 3) While ABC's Richard Engel on Friday night was relaying how Iraqis in Baghdad, upset at U.S. missiles landing in their neighborhood, are starting to believe the government's propaganda that coalition forces are deliberately trying to kill civilians, CBS's John Roberts was recounting a tragic error in which Marines killed members of a family in a minivan, but then came to the aid of survivors. The family, Roberts added, now freely express their disdain for Saddam and proclaim the victims martyrs and say they forgive the tragic error. 4) ABC catches up with reality. On the March 26 NBC Nightly News, reporter Don Teague pointed out that crowds in Safwan denouncing the U.S. and praising Saddam Hussein could be explained by fear of retribution from the regime. But that night, ABC treated the expressions as genuine as Peter Jennings emphasized how the Iraqis made a point to say the Americans are not welcome. But two days later ABC caught up as John Quinones, from nearby Umm Qasr, noted the lack of pro-Saddam chants and related how an Iraqi explained to him that's because a few days ago so many of Saddam's Ba'ath party loyalists were still here watching, listening. 5) MSNBC's replacement, starting today, for Phil Donahue: A man who, in a previous stint with MSNBC, opined that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler and wondered that if Starr continued to pursue President Clinton, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr? 1) British Prime Minister Tony Blair must deal with the BBC regularly, but even he seemed aghast when ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked him, in an interview for Friday's 20/20, if he would resign if weapons of mass destruction are not found in Iraq. Stephanopoulos suggested that Saddam Hussein may have already destroyed any weapons of mass destruction and demanded: Can you call this military campaign a victory of you don't find significant stores of weapons of mass destruction? ABC appears insistent that such weapons be found immediately. At Sunday's CENTCOM briefing, ABC radio reporter Neal
Re: [CTRL] Depleted Uranium Makes Good Mutant-Slaves
-Caveat Lector- It is not necessary to send the list to the FBI. They already have the names. On Monday, Mar 31, 2003, at 03:35 US/Pacific, Steve Wingate wrote: Why, are you looking for a list of names to send to the FBI? 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: JUDICIAL WATCH FILES FORMAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST RICHARD PERLE
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Judicial Watch To: Judicial Watch Infonet Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:31 AM Subject: JUDICIAL WATCH FILES FORMAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST RICHARD PERLE For Immediate ReleaseMar 31, 2003 Contact: Press Office202-646-5172 JUDICIAL WATCH FILES FORMAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST RICHARD PERLE, BILL CLINTON, TERRY MCAULIFFE AND WILLIAM COHEN OVER THEIR ROLES IN GLOBAL CROSSINGS PENDING SALESenior Officials Apparent Conflicts of Interest Must Be Thoroughly InvestigatedHong Kong Tycoon Chinese Agent, Li Ka-Shing, Seeks Control of Bankrupt Telecommunications Firm(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that it has filed formal complaints against Defense Advisory Board Member and former Chairman Richard Perle, former President Bill Clinton, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and former Clinton administration Defense Secretary, and Global Crossing board member, William S. Cohen, with the Department of Justice, the Office of Government Ethics and the Inspectors General of the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security. The formal complaint cites apparent violations of government ethics regulations as well as federal laws governing prohibited conflicts of financial interests. Mr. Perle served as Foreign Policy Advisor during the Presidential Campaign of George W. Bush. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld subsequently appointed Mr. Perle in 2001 as Chairman, Defense Policy Board - a position that Mr. Perle occupied until March 27, 2003. Mr. Perle, although no longer Chairman, remains an active Member of Defense Policy Board. As an Advisor to Global Crossing, Mr. Perles fee, as outlined in bankruptcy proceedings, is $725,000, including an unusual contingent payment of $600,000 if Global Crossing succeeds in finally obtaining approval of its sale to the Chinese Company, Hutchison Whampoa. In his March 27, 2003 resignation letter as Board Chairman to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Mr. Perle reportedly claimed that he would not accept compensation from Global Crossing. Irrespective of Mr. Perles claims and reported pledges concerning remuneration, Mr. Perle clearly served the corporate interests of Global Crossing while simultaneously acting as Chairman of the Defense Advisory Board. Global Crossing is slated for sale to Hong Kong billionaire and communist Chinese agent Li Ka-Shings Hutchison Whampoa Corporation the shipping conglomerate that took control of the Panama Canal in 1999.Judicial Watch has also launched an investigation of Mr. Perles advisory role with Loral Space and Communications, concerning accusations that the firm improperly transferred rocket technology to China, as reported in the March 28, 2003 New York Times article, Adviser to U.S. Aided Maker of Satellites.There appears to be a lot of dirty fingerprints all over this Global Crossing deal. Regardless of party affiliation, these officials both past and current -- need to be thoroughly investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law if the conflicts of interest and pocket-lining can be substantiated. If personal greed trumped their duty to the nations security then they belong in prison period, stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.To view a copy of the complaint, click here. © Copyright 1997-2003, Judicial Watch, Inc.--- You are currently subscribed to infonet as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory
Re: [CTRL] Depleted Uranium Makes Good Mutant-Slaves
-Caveat Lector- But do they know which terrorist or enemy organizations are behind these posters? --- Bill Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- It is not necessary to send the list to the FBI. They already have the names. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Sedition Act of 1798
-Caveat Lector- SEC. 2. And be it farther enacted, That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the constitution of the United States, or to resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] Dunkirk Ditto
-Caveat Lector- http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12788040 method=fullsiteid=50143 WE WILL CUT FORCE Mar 29 2003 By Paul Gilfeather THE number of troops in the Gulf could be dramatically reduced if war drags on, Britain's leading soldier warned yesterday. General Sir Mike Jackson said: This amount of commitment is not sustainable over a long period of time. He even suggested the fire dispute could hamper Britain's commitment in the Gulf. With 19,000 troops on standby in case of a strike, he said: It's not affecting the war right now but I would urge those concerned to bring this dispute to an end. A Whitehall source said last night: Because of the pressures on troops all over the world we will have to consider our commitment in the Gulf carefully in the coming weeks. WARNING: General Sir Michael Jackson If this is dragging on in six months I expect forces to be cut from 45,000 to 5,000. As the US committed 100,000 more troops to war, Gen Jackson hinted thousands of soldiers could be sent to replace exhausted troops. At a Ministry of Defence briefing, he said: Armies cannot move forever without stopping to regroup. It is inevitable that there is a demand for rapid results but war is a dynamic business. It is not a fixed plan. It will take as long as it takes to achieve the objectives. He refused to comment when questioned on the use by coalition jets of cluster bombs as aid agencies call for them to be outlawed. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [pagans4peace] This is from an article in today's Chicago Tribune
-Caveat Lector- --- Start of forwarded message --- Subject: Fwd: [pagans4peace] This is from an article in today's Chicago Tribune Date: 3/31/2003 12:17:24 PM im tired of people saying that we cant be against this war and still support our troops. This is from an article in today's Chicago Tribune * * * * * * * * * * * * * The full article can be found at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/perspective/chi- 0303300213mar30,1,4 416174.story?coll=chi%2Dnewsopinionperspective%2Dhed Faces of Chicago protest War protests left numerous stories untold By Sean D. Hamill and Rudolph Bush. Sean D. Hamill and Rudolph Bush are Tribune staff reporters. Staff reporters Robert Becker, David Heinzmann and Jeff Long also contributed The stories, photos and television coverage of the anti-war protests that filled Federal Plaza in the Loop and closed Lake Shore Drive in the last week and a half have focused on the conflict between protesters and police. Given the tarnish that lingers on Chicago's image after the tumultuous events surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention, that's understandable. But lost in the coverage were moments and people that reflect another side of these events, sometimes funny or moving, sad or surreal. These are some of the tales you haven't heard yet: snip By the time the March 20 marchers headed north on Lake Shore Drive, in one of the vehicles caught up in the demonstration was a member of the military, a man named Rob in his late teens or early 20s. Dressed in his formal Army uniform, he attracted a throng of marchers. One after another leaned in to shake his hand, told him they supported him, that they hoped he didn't have to go to Iraq and if he did that he got back safely. And then a few coaxed him out of the car so they could hug him. As police hurried people along, shooing the last marcher past his car, Rob was in tears. I'm overwhelmed, he said, bowing his head. I've never had so many people show me so much love. = \\--@.@--// Jamie C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sign up for my Chicagoland Ghost Mailing List http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/ChicagolandGhostClub Jamie's Chicagoland Ghost Web Page http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/2007 \\--@.@--// __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FREE Cell Phones with up to $400 Cash Back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_bBUKB/vYxFAA/i5gGAA/6cWolB/TM -~- pagans4peace Discussion * Sharing * Informing * Action * Humour * Friendship This group is relatively unmoderated: make it your own, and please invite and welcome new members. Join at our homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagans4peace -- we can all make use of its Files, Photos, Links, Chat Room, Calendar etc We are a group for discussing and posting information on peace and Nature-based spirituality, with activism for peace a main concern. We don't expect members to 'clean up' their language, but civility towards fellow members is insisted upon. Please be tolerant of the spiritual paths of others at all times, as we are diverse in our beliefs. How can a member help this e-list? http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/help.html Discussion on these topics is encouraged; chat is best moved to our Chat Room http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagans4peace/chat or offlist between members. Sign the pagans4peace GuestMap and show us where you are from on Planet Earth: http://pub28.bravenet.com/guestmap/view.php?usernum= 2404280650 1,000+ peace site URLs in Files http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagans4peace/files/Lists%20of% 20URLs/peace_groups.doc 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/ End of forwarded message 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.
[CTRL] Wild Eyed Tony
-Caveat Lector- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-626898,00.html March 29, 2003 Are we witnessing the madness of Tony Blair? Matthew Parris Most of us have experienced the discomfort of watching a friend go off the rails. At first his oddities are dismissed as eccentricities. An absurd assertion, a lunatic conviction, a sudden enthusiasm or unreasonable fear, are explained as perhaps due to tiredness, or stress, or natural volatility. We do not want to face the truth that our friend has cracked up. Finally we can deny it no longer and then it seems so obvious: the explanation, in retrospect, of so much we struggled to reconcile. Sometimes the realisation comes fast and suddenly. It did for me at university when my Arab fellow student Ahmed, who for months had been warning me of the conspiracies of which he suspected we might be victims, pulled me into his room to show me the death-ray he could see shining through his window. It was somebodys porch-light. Likewise, the madness of King George III, which came in spells, was undeniable when it came. At other times the realisation is a slow, sad dawning of the obvious. Sometimes it is a friend about whom we worry. Sometimes it is a prime minister. I will accept the charge of discourtesy, but not of flippancy, when I ask whether Tony Blair may now have become, in a serious sense of that word, unhinged. Genius and madness are often allied, and nowhere is this truer than in political leadership. Great leaders need self-belief in unnatural measure. Simple fraudsters are rumbled early, but great leaders share with great confidence tricksters a capacity to be more than persuaded, but inhabited, by their cause. Almost inevitably, an inspirational leader spends important parts of his life certain of the uncertain, convinced of the undemonstrable. So do the mentally ill. It can be extremely difficult to distinguish between a person who is sticking bravely to a difficult cause whose truth is far from obvious, and a person who is going crazy. It took us quite a while to explain David Ickes beliefs in the only useful way in which they could be explained and he was on the political fringe. A national leader commands vastly more respect and will be given the benefit of many more doubts than Mr Icke ever was. Colleagues, commentators and the wider public are usually late to face up to evidence that the boss has gone berserk, even though the evidence may have been around for quite some time. There are good reasons for this. To call somebody mad is bad manners even when fair comment. To tackle your opponents argument by questioning his sanity can look like a childish copping- out from sensible discussion. How can the victim answer back? But the charge is sometimes germane. It may become the only thing worth considering. Winston Churchill had lost the plot long before the proper public discussion this deserved got under way. And I myself believe that one of my political heroes, Margaret Thatcher, began to lose her mental balance well before the end, and before those close to her allowed themselves to consider this explanation of her behaviour. For me the suspicion first dawned when the then Prime Minister devised for the Lord Mayors banquet a dress with such an extravagant train that she needed someone to help her with it into the Mansion House. This was when she was beginning to refer to herself as we, and treating friends who warned her of her fate as treacherous. A telltale of incipient insanity is when the victim begins to take a Manichaean view of the universe. There are good reasons why those at the top can go quietly bonkers before their inferiors wake up to the warning signs. The first is obviously deference. The Madness of King Tony might I accept seem an impertinent way of discussing our leader during a war when, whatever application it may have in Tony Blairs case, it applies to Saddam Hussein in spades. Beyond deference, however, those at the top of the pyramid who are anxious to impress us with truths which are not obvious have another powerful weapon at their disposal. They can credibly claim to know more than we can be told. To the man in the street, the most potent of Mr Blairs arguments for invading Iraq is that he and George W. Bush are in possession of special intelligence which supports their stand but which cannot be divulged. And no doubt that is true. The question is about the amount of support such intelligence lends, not its existence. Note from your own experience, as well as from the history books, how those with a claim which sounds incredible tend to support it by claiming a private source of information they are unable to share. Joan of Arc heard voices. Ahmed said he could feel the lethal qualities of the apparent porch-light and reminded me that his enemies would obviously decoy the ignorant by disguising death-rays in this way. One or another version of God has been a time-honoured way for madcap leaders to give their
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-Caveat Lector- Embedded ... or in bed with the Pentagon? http://www.sundayherald.com/32499 By Marion McKeone in New York and Martin Patience It was the second day of the second Gulf war. Veteran CNN newscaster Aaron Brown, concluding a sober presentation of the risks that lay ahead for the US military, cuts to a segment from Kyra Phillips who is an 'embedded' reporter on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf. Phillips announces that a squadron of fighter pilots would be taking off from the carrier shortly and tells Brown: 'We're all really excited.' Then she tells him she has arranged for all the pilots to wave at him from their aircraft. 'OK, now guys!' she shouts. 'A big wave for Aaron, a big thumbs up for CNN.' Amid some shaky camera work the outlines of pilots can be discerned. 'Look, look Aaron,' she continues, almost breathless with excitement, 'they're waving at you.' The segment cuts back to the CNN studio before Brown can suppress the discomfort on his face. 'Er, that was Kyra Phillips,' he concludes. Moments later another report is filed by Walter Rodgers, who is embedded with the 7th Cavalry . Rodgers, who makes no pretence at objective reporting, announces that a US wall of steel is sweeping over southern Iraq. 'The march to Baghdad has begun,' he thunders, before urging any Iraqi soldiers on the road ahead to surrender immediately. Within hours, Rodgers's assessment of the situation would be proven woefully incorrect. As television stations beam unprecedented 24-hour coverage of the war across the globe, some academics and journalists are questioning the objectivity of the media's coverage and in particular the role of embedded reporters -- journalists who are invited to travel, sleep and eat with army forces and provide on-the-spot reports of how the military is faring. Dr David Miller, of Stirling University, sees most of the 900 embedded journalists in Iraq as unwitting cogs in the 'Pentagon propaganda machine'. 'The aim is to make journalists drink from the same pool so that they identify with the military more closely than ever before,' he said. 'When a BBC journalist gives a report to camera in Baghdad, we always hear that it is subject to Iraqi monitoring, but we never hear that about the British or American military which is doing the same thing. 'The military is literally lying through their teeth about everything for propaganda purposes. The Pentagon does not want independent journalists operating in the area and this is one of the main reasons that it has allowed embedded reporters.' This suggestion, however, was rejected by Vin Ray, BBC's deputy head of news gathering, who said that while there is a deep suspicion that journalists are being censored 'this hasn't been the case so far'. He said: 'Certainly, during the first Gulf war we were heavily reliant on military briefings and aired a tremendous amount of video footage. There was a strong feeling afterwards that we had been taken for a bit of a ride. This time round that is not the case.' The introduction of embedded reporters was the brainchild of the Pentagon and was generally welcomed by media organisations which complained that they were denied access to the Kuwaiti battlegrounds of the first Gulf war in 1991. Journalists were almost totally dependent on what information the military fed them and could not verify accounts independently. It was only after the war, for example, that it was revealed that precision-guided munitions formed just a small part of the Allies' arsenal. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said that embedded journalists were only subject to censorship if their reports jeopardised operational security such as giving a unit's position away. Clarence Page, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Chicago Tribune, said that attempts to curb the media are nothing new. 'The military realised the importance of the media after the debacle in Vietnam and now they are far more streetwise. When I worked as a military journalist during the Vietnam conflict, my primary job was not to inform the public, and I was reminded in so many words by various commanders. But there were other reporters roaming about getting stories that the US military did not want to get out. 'I don't think there is a problem with embedded journalists as long as it's only one part of the source of news. There is an element of camaraderie when you're under fire together and suffering the same hardships. 'At times I'm reminded of the film Apocalypse Now, where there's the scene when a director is urging the soldiers to move along quickly and not look at the camera.' As a consequence of the Vietnam conflict, only 29 journalists were allowed to accompany the military to cover the Falklands war in 1982. There were no independent facilities for reporting. The American administration espoused a similar policy when it invaded Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1989. Michael Stott, Reuters editor for Europe, the Middle East and
Re: [CTRL] SEDITION ACT OF 1798
-Caveat Lector- Radio talk show host MICHAEL SAVAGE was discussing this law on Friday night. The World Book encyclopedia for 1950 says that the WHOLE PURPOSE the ALIEN SEDITION ACT of 1798 was to suppress Thomas Jefferson in his attempt to become President. He was running against John Adams. Adams was a member of the Federalist party. There were 10 writers and speakers from other countries who were highly sympathetic to Jefferson becoming President of the United States. It was against these ten writers that the ALIEN and SEDITION ACT was focused upon. Jefferson of course won the election. And then in 1809 while Jefferson was still President these same members of the FEDERALIST PARTY tried to secede from the Union. This was called the ESSEX JUNTA. Centered in ESSEX COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS the ESSEX JUNTA attempted to SECEDE MASSACHUSETTS, CONNECTICUT and RHODE ISLAND from the Union. It was JOHN QUINCY ADAMS who warned PRESIDENT JEFFERSON of the attempt at secession. JEFFERSON gave the ESSEX JUNTA BOYS what they wanted. WHatever that was. The real starter of the ALIEN SEDITION ACT was Benjamin Franklins son who was editor of a Philadelphia newspaper. Franklins son discovered that money was secretly being moved from the United States to King George the THIRD. He then printed a story regarding this. This was the main event which led to the ALIEN SEDITION ACT. JEFFERSON MADISON responeded with the KENTUCKY and VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS. Further on down the pike a bit was SENATOR JOHN CALHOUNS NULLIFICATION ACT This act put forth by the State Legislature of the State of South Carolina led to the Civil War. From: Flash Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] The Sedition Act of 1798 Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:18:59 -0800 -Caveat Lector- SEC. 2. And be it farther enacted, That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the constitution of the United States, or to resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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
[CTRL] Scorned general
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,925253,00.html Scorned general's tactics proved right Profile of the army chief sidelined by Rumsfeld Matthew Engel in Washington Saturday March 29, 2003 The Guardian This has been a terrible week at the Pentagon: the worst since the building itself was attacked more than 18 months ago. But as his limo drew up to fetch him last night, one of the most senior figures in the building might just have permitted himself the thin smile of a vindicated man. His name in General Eric Shinseki. And at a time when generals - whether on active or pundit duty - are the hottest showbiz properties in the world, hardly anyone knows who he is. Officially, he is Tommy Franks's superior, head of the United States army, a member of the mighty joint chiefs, and two months away from what ought to be honoured retirement at the end of a military career stretching back to the Vietnam war. But for the past two years Gen Shinseki has been in total eclipse after what appears to have been the most spectacular bust-up with his civilian bosses, in particular Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary. Hardly any of this the reached public domain until last month when Gen Shinseki told a congressional committee that he thought an occupying force in the hundreds of thousands would be required to police postwar Iraq. Mr Rumsfeld publicly repudiated him, saying he was far off the mark. In semi-private, the Pentagon's civilian leadership was far more scathing. A senior administration official told the Village Voice newspaper that Gen Shinseki's remark was bullshit from a Clintonite enamoured of using the army for peacekeeping and not winning wars. Then the general said it again. It could be as high as several hundred thousand, he told another committee. We all hope it is something less. Most of the media were too distracted by the build-up to war to notice. Serious analysts, however, were staggered by the insubordination. This appears to have been round two of another, more immediately relevant, dispute about how many troops are needed to win this war. In this case, the military prevailed over the original civilian notion that fewer than 100,000 could do it. As even more soldiers rush to the Gulf to bring the number closer to 300,000, the original Rumsfeld plan looks in hindsight to be what the army said at the time: a recipe for possible catastrophe. The full reality on the ground may not become known until Saddam Hussein has fallen, but no one can now seriously believe - as many top Pentagon civilians appear to have done a week ago - that the main problem for an occupying force will be what to do with all the floral gifts. The origins of the Shinseki-Rumsfeld war long predate any mention of Iraq. There are many ironies to it, but the most bitter seems to be that the general has found himself characterised as an obstacle to progress. This is improbable on the most personal level. He is a Japanese-American (as is his wife), born in Hawaii in 1942 when his parents were officially enemy aliens. He was inspired to join the army by the example of uncles who fought for the US then and eradicated the perception that they might be traitors. In Vietnam, Ric Shinseki was terribly injured twice - losing a foot the second time - yet he persisted in the army. He came into office in June 1999 with a clear vision for transformation and talked passionately about the army's need to adjust from thinking about traditional enemies to what he called complicators, including both terrorists and the then little-known phrase weapons of mass destruction. Gen Shinseki might thus have relished the arrival of a Republican team equally committed to change. Unfortunately, the two sides had very different ideas about what the words meant. The general wanted a new kind of army, one that could combine the adaptability of light infantry and the power of heavily mechanised forces. His new bosses had other ideas. They had pre- decided what transformation meant, said one Pentagon source. It meant more from space, more from air and it didn't involve the army much. That was the essence of the conflict. This erupted over the Crusader mobile artillery system, which Mr Rumsfeld has scrapped. Gen Shinseki told Congress a year ago it would have saved lives during Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan. By then he had already been turned into a lame duck (castrated, according to the same Pentagon source) by the apparently unprecedented Rumsfeld decision to announce his successor 18 months in advance. He seems to have been caught in a classic bind: distrusted by his subordinates for being too radical and by his bosses for being too conservative. On Japanese-American chatlines, he is characterised as a victim of racism. Certainly in that community he is an authentic hero: One of the most gracious, soft-spoken, low-key individuals you could meet with four stars on his shoulder, according to Kristine Manami of the
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-Caveat Lector- Aha! Finally found it! For those of you who have been led to think shock and awe are new terms, read on. If you were in the dark about the war games that were scripted that a certain General has complained about, read on. Note this was posted (and by me [if not this article then another]) around six months ago. Gotta listen to the generals, not the pin-stripers nor the brown-nosers not the boot-lickers. A:E:R http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0%2C3604%2C786992%2C00.html One way is to march straight to Baghdad, blowing up everything in your way and then by shock and awe you cause the regime to collapse, Pike says. That is what Rumsfeld is complaining about when he talks about unimaginative plodding. The alternative is to bypass the Iraqi forces and deliver a decisive blow. Wake-up call If the US and Iraq do go to war, there can only be one winner, can't there? Maybe not. This summer, in a huge rehearsal of just such a conflict - and with retired Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper playing Saddam - the US lost. Julian Borger asks the former marine how he did it Julian Borger Friday September 6, 2002 The Guardian At the height of the summer, as talk of invading Iraq built in Washington like a dark, billowing storm, the US armed forces staged a rehearsal using over 13,000 troops, countless computers and $250m. Officially, America won and a rogue state was liberated from an evil dictator. What really happened is quite another story, one that has set alarm bells ringing throughout America's defence establishment and raised questions over the US military's readiness for an Iraqi invasion. In fact, this war game was won by Saddam Hussein, or at least by the retired marine playing the Iraqi dictator's part, Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper. In the first few days of the exercise, using surprise and unorthodox tactics, the wily 64-year-old Vietnam veteran sank most of the US expeditionary fleet in the Persian Gulf, bringing the US assault to a halt. What happened next will be familiar to anyone who ever played soldiers in the playground. Faced with an abrupt and embarrassing end to the most expensive and sophisticated military exercise in US history, the Pentagon top brass simply pretended the whole thing had not happened. They ordered their dead troops back to life and refloated the sunken fleet. Then they instructed the enemy forces to look the other way as their marines performed amphibious landings. Eventually, Van Riper got so fed up with all this cheating that he refused to play any more. Instead, he sat on the sidelines making abrasive remarks until the three-week war game - grandiosely entitled Millennium Challenge - staggered to a star-spangled conclusion on August 15, with a US victory. If the Pentagon thought it could keep its mishap quiet, it underestimated Van Riper. A classic marine - straight- talking and fearless, with a purple heart from Vietnam to prove it - his retirement means he no longer has to put up with the bureaucratic niceties of the defence department. So he blew the whistle. His driving concern, he tells the Guardian, is that when the real fighting starts, American troops will be sent into battle with a set of half-baked tactics that have not been put to the test. Nothing was learned from this, he says. A culture not willing to think hard and test itself does not augur well for the future. The exercise, he says, was rigged almost from the outset. Millennium Challenge was the biggest war game of all time. It had been planned for two years and involved integrated operations by the army, navy, air force and marines. The exercises were part real, with 13,000 troops spread across the United States, supported by actual planes and warships; and part virtual, generated by sophisticated computer models. It was the same technique used in Hollywood blockbusters such as Gladiator. The soldiers in the foreground were real, the legions behind entirely digital. The game was theoretically set in 2007 and pitted Blue forces (the US) against a country called Red. Red was a militarily powerful Middle Eastern nation on the Persian Gulf that was home to a crazed but cunning megalomaniac (Van Riper). Arguably, when the exercises were first planned back in 2000, Red could have been Iran. But by July this year, when the game kicked off, it is unlikely that anyone involved had any doubts as to which country beginning with I Blue was up against. The game was described as free play. In other words, there were two sides trying to win, Van Riper says. Even when playing an evil dictator, the marine veteran clearly takes winning very seriously. He reckoned Blue would try to launch a surprise strike, in line with the administration's new pre-emptive doctrine, so I decided I would attack first. Van Riper had at his disposal a computer-generated flotilla of small boats and planes, many of them civilian, which he kept buzzing around the virtual Persian Gulf in circles as the game
[CTRL] you can trust your car to great big starman
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:45:35 -0500 Subject:[cia-drugs] you can trust your car to great big starman Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can trust your car to the man who wears the star, the great big Texaco'sDarman! [Carlyle grp coldwar ad jingle] Texaco, Darman, bin Laden, etc. see below following ricin-- From: Bob To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:20 AM Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] Depleted Uranium Fear Mongering!! Trust your car to the man who wears the star, the great big Texaco'sDarman. He gave us fluoride, mercury amalgam dental fillings, thalidomide, Agent Orange, and gave US service personnel 10 micron masks for DU and gave Chirac ricin http://www.walthamgreens.org/pipermail/wg-updates/2001-December/72.html Waltham Greens: National and GLobal News (12/22/2001) Today's email has 1 listings: 1) US Government Officials, Defense Contractors, Oil Companies +++ 1) US Government Officials, Defense Contractors, Oil Companies recent tidbits from the Boston Herald (!) saudi connection expose: Most of this stuff has been out in the alternative press for months, and even years, long before the elections last year, but both Republicans and Democrats were able to keep it pretty quiet, and Ralph Nader was unable to articulate convincingly the conflicts and problems. Some Saudi connections: Present administration officials: George W. Bush: former Director, Carlyle Group subsidiary Dick Cheney: former Secretary of Defense; chairman, Halliburton Condoleeza Rice: former Director, Chevron. Former administration officials: George H.W. Bush: Now = senior advisor, Carlyle Group; Then = former President, CIA director Frank C. Carluzzi: Now = chairman, Carlyle Group, ex-chairman, B.D.M., Then = former Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor James A. Baker III: Now = senior counselor, Carlyle Group, Then = Secretary of State Richard Darman: Now = Managing Director and senior adviser, Carlyle Group, Then = Budget Chief Arthur Levitt: Now = senior adviser, Carlyle Group; Then = Chairman, Security and Exchange Commission Philip A. Odeen: Now = President B.D.M., Then = senior official, Pentagon and National Security Council Robert M. Gates: Now = Director, TRW, Then = CIA Director Michael H. Armacost: Now = Director, TRW, Then = Ambassador to Japan, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Brady: Now = Director, Amerada Hess, Then = Treasury Secretary Edith E. Holiday: Now = Director, Amerada Hess, Then = Assistant to the President John Deutch: Now = Adviser, Frontera Resources, Then = CIA Director, Undersecretary of State Lloyd Bentsen: Now = Adviser, Amerada Hess, Then = U.S. Senator, Treasury Secretary Carlyle Group = investment bank with deep ties to Saudi royal family and to U.S. defense contractors (including B.M.D. and TRW) hired to arm and train Saudi military. (In 1998 the Carlyle Group sold its controlling interest in B.M.D. to TRW). Contributions to Republicans in last elections (Source = Center for Responsive Politics, Washington, DC): Unocal = $43k Carlyle Group = $109k Marathon Oil = $162k Amerada Hess = $165k SAIC =$313k (another defense contractor) Texaco = $353k TRW = $379k Halliburton =$384k Chevron = $770k Family of Saudi's U.S. Ambassador, Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, gave $1mil to Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas. Dick Cheney received $34mil when he cashed out of Halliburton to run for VP last year. In November 2001, Halliburton awarded $140mil contract to develop oil field for Saudi Aramco. Condoleeza Rice has a Chevron oil tanker named after her. The Saudi Royal family refuses to address its role in fueling Islamic terrorism (14 of the 19 pilots were Saudi's). Amerada Hess and Unocal are currently assisting the Saudi elite (Delta Oil and Nimir Petroleum) in developing oil fields in Azerbaijan. Frontera Resources, until recently, had a similar arrangement with the Saudi's in Azarbaijan (note that John Deutch and Lloyd Bentsen are democrats, so this gravy train is not entirely partisan, so maybe you can see why some people voted for Ralph Nader?). Texaco and Nimir are developing oil fields in Kazakhstan, and for the past 13 years Saudi Aramco has controlled over half of Texaco's refining and marketing operations in the U.S. Unocal and Delta, along with oil companies from Indonesia, Korea, Japan, and Pakistan, tried for years in the middle 1990s
[CTRL] EXCERPTS FROM NEWSPAPER TEXTS AND COMMONLY POSED QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE MURDER OF SERVBIAN PRIME MINISTER
-Caveat Lector- EXCERPTS FROM NEWSPAPER TEXTS AND COMMONLY POSED QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE MURDER OF SERVBIAN PRIME MINISTER 1. EVENING NEWS THURSDAY 13 MARCH. PARTS OF THE TEXT "HE FELL LIKE MOWED DOWN" PAGE 2 Belgrade The Prime minister of Serbia Dr. Zoran Djindjic was mortally wounded by two sniper hits yesterday around 12:25h on the parking lot in front of the official entrance into the building of the Government of Serbia. "Immediately before the assassination Djindjic with several body guards went out from the building and began to walk toward the parked automobile. In that moment, two shots rang out. Bullets hit the Serbian Prime Minister into the stomach and the chest. Djindjic fell onto the asphalt like mowed down, and the bodyguards immediately jumped over him to shield him from new hits". Authors of the text: Z. Uskokovic, S. Kraljevic 2. EVENING NEWS THURSDAY 13 MARCH. PARTS OF THE TEXT "ON TWO STEPS FROM THE ENTRANCE" PAGE 3 "IN FRONT OF THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING AT 13:15 IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE ATTENTAT THE REPORTER OF NOVOSTI (NEWS) APPROACHED TO THE GUY IN THE SUIT WITH THE TIE AND WITH THE AUTOMATIC GUN IN HIS HANDS. _THAY HAD SHUT AT THE PRIME MINISTER SAD THE GUY, THAT SECURES THE BUILDING AND STANDING SOME 50 METERS FROM THE PLACE WHERE ZORAN DJINDJIC FELL WE HEARD SHUTS AND THE PRIME MINISTER FELL DOWN. I SAW THAT HE WAS HIT INTO THE BACK. HE NEEDED JUST TWO STEPS TO THE ENTRANCE. HIS CHOFEUR ALWAYS PARKS AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THE ENTRANCE DOOR. HE GOT OUT RATHER QUCKLY AND ALL HAPPENED WITH LIGHTENING SPEED, HE FELL LIKE MOWED DOWN 3. PRESS CONFERENCE OF THE SERBIAN RADICAL PARTY ON THURSDAY 13.03.2003, EXCERPT: Tomislav Nikolic "Yesterday I have carefully watched reporting from this tragic event, and it interests me very much how the camera of the Television B92, on the support, placed above the building of the railway, recorded the entire event. In the first report, one could see even when the first bullet hit deceased Zoran Djindjic, in all other reports this part was cut out. How come that no one among you happened to be there? They say they waited for the conference of Gasa Knezevic. What does the conference of Gasa Knezevic have with the camera on the pavement, left with the focused entrance into the Government, where enter the Prime Minister and vice-presidents? You have seen the picture is not at all muddled, the picture is entirely clear, nothing surprised them, they stood prepared, the bland, the distance, lightening, all was set." 4. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 19. MARCH 2003, TEXT "ON THE RECORDING IS NOT SEEN THE WOUNDED PRIME MINISTER. IT WAS MADE SOME TEN MINUTES AFTER THE ATTENTAT " "The recording of the TV B92 that was made on 12 march in front of the Republican Government building, does not present, it is asserted in this media house, the very moment of the assassination attempt on the Prime Minister. Many people, however, are ready to swear that exactly on this TV, immediately after the assassination, they saw the recording that clearly shows gray hared man (Zorana Djindjica) as he gets out off the car, and afterwards, abruptly twitching (from the bullet that hit him), falls back into the car that with lightening speed goes out from the yard and rushes through the Nemanjina street. This recording was reportedly shown just once. In all other broadcasts only the moment can be seen when the Prime Ministers security closes the door of the official BMW and departs towards Emergency medical center. _There were no cuts, nor subsequent montageing of this material. On our recording, there is no Zoran Djindjic and the gray hared man that gets out from the official car, and afterwards returns into them, I am sure, is someone else explains Aleksandar Timofejev, editor of the informative program B92. General disturbance ensued. WHAT REALLY RECORDED THE CAMERAS OF TVB92? _Gray hared man that can be seen on the recording is SLOBODAN JANJUSEVIC, Prime Ministers associate. The cameras of B92 caught just the moment when the prime ministers security guards close the door of the automobile, rush out of the yard and towards the Emergency medical center with the mortally wounded prime minister asserts the source of Sunday Telegraph from the Republican Government, and adds: the team of B92 arrived only eight minutes after the assassination. If it is really true that the TV cameras recorded the happenings only after ten minutes following the assassination, what was happening during that time in the government and WHY WAS NOT PRIME MINISTER IMMEDIATELY TAKEN TO THE EMERGENCY CENTER? Where were during this time Prime Minister and the body guard? _Wounded prime minister was all this time in the car. They did not bring him into the government building, but his security, there in the car, attempted to help him. They took what they had on hand and attempted to bandage a wound and stop the bleeding. Not one moment they left him, only
[CTRL] Blue States' Blues
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsfrombabylon.com/article.php?sid=2914 Red Alert City - Are New Yorkers the presidents sacrificial lambs? Posted on Wednesday, March 12 18:53:40 EST by JohnBrown Submitted by sv3n by Michelangelo Signorile, New York Press [US] March 12, 2003 Were on the brink and, like many, I have a scary vision in my head: Right after the bombs begin dropping over Baghdad, or perhaps in ensuing months and years, as many in the Arab world seethe over the U.S.s actions, further ferocious terrorist attacks will occur here in New York City. Its one among many reasons Ive opposed military action, and certainly without the U.N.yes, even though the counterargument claims that if we dont take out Saddam right away, hell give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists who will no doubt target Manhattan. Ive yet to be convinced that Saddam-connected terrorist attacks will occur if we dont act this very minute, while Im quite convinced that acts of terror will occur if we do. Its a big relief that Osamas top guys are now being captured; the Bushies are to be commended for that, no matter how long it took. But this invade-and-conquer scheme could undo whatever bit of safety weve gained, since there are a lot more Muslim terrorist groups out there beyond al Qaeda. And CIAhead George Tenet has warned of terrorist attacks if the U.S. invades Iraq. That said, Ive not bought even one roll of duct tape, nor have I gotten any plastic sheets for the windows. While a lot of crackpots in farmhouses out in the middle of the country are duct-taping every square inch of their homes and building anti-radiation bunkers underground, I dont believe theyre really afraid, at least not for any rational reasons. For them, terrorism threats make for another obsessive and paranoid hobby, like going on a trek to the Arizona desert to try to find extraterrestrials. I think its pretty safe to assume that Al Qaeda is not going to set off a dirty bomb in the middle of the Kansas wheat fields. No, the fear I have as a resident of New York City is certainly a more grounded one, and in that respect its accompanied by the reality that duct tape and plastic sheets arent going to do a damn thing. A Newsday/NY1 poll conducted last week showed that in fact Im among the majority of city residents, who have a markedly different opinion on the war than that of the country as the whole. Only 19 percent of New Yorkers support a war without U.N. backing (as opposed to nearly half of all Americans in other polls). Another 32 percent support war only with the U.N.s okay. And 42 percent of all New Yorkers are opposed to any war of any kind against Iraq, period. In his robotic and monotone primetime press conference last week, George W. Bush sloughed off the North Korea nuclear threata regional problem, he saidwhile repeating his Saddam mantras like a wind-up doll. But the one comment that concerned many New Yorkers came in response to a question about potential retaliation attacks by terrorists: Its hard to envision more terror on America than September 11th, Bush said, attempting to connect 9/11 once again to Saddam. (Actually, he attempted to do that about a dozen times in the press conference.) It was a profoundly, frighteningly arrogant statement. As I recall, on Sept. 11th, the president was whisked off on Air Force One to various places far in the hinterlands while the rest of us who reside in New York and Washington faced the terror head-on. And unlike Bush, the rest of us in the epicenters of terror know that ifwhen?it happens again (or just before, maybe even as the bombs begin dropping on Iraq) we and our families wont be carted off to a safe, undisclosed location like the Bushes, the Cheneys, and the Rumsfelds. While Bush cant envision more terror, New Yorkers certainly can. How about watching the Empire State Building come down next time? Sarin gas in the subways? Truck bombs on bridges? A radiological device exploding in Times Square? Those are the cataclysmic events New Yorkers are thinking about with regard to this war against Iraq. And before you say it, the opposition to war against Iraq among New Yorkers cant be easily chocked up to liberal sympathies. This is a city, after all, with a Republican mayor the second one in a rowthat voted in big numbers for a Republican governor, twice. The folks in Brooklyn and Queens are far from Upper West Side liberals or downtown intellectuals of the give peace a chance variety, and Staten Island votes consistently Republican. More than that, the poll shows quite clearly that a major reason so many New Yorkers oppose the war is their fear of further terrorism. While less than half of New Yorkers45 percentbelieve an attack is inevitable right this minute, 67 percent believe the threat of terrorism increases if the U.S. invades Iraq. A few months back, Jimmy Breslin wrote a Newsday column claiming that Bush couldnt care less about the safety of New Yorkers, using Ground Zero as a
[CTRL] Jay GARNER - The Man Who Would Be King Of Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15512 The Man Who Would Be King of Iraq By Ian Williams, AlterNet March 31, 2003 While the U.S. military finds itself bogged down on the road to Baghdad, the real hitch in Bush administration's grand vision for post-war Iraq may well be the man slated to take charge of it arms-dealer and former "Star Wars" guru General Jay Garner. In a move typical for what passes for U.S. diplomacy these days, the Pentagon developed and announced its occupation plan without consulting the rest of the alleged coalition (no, not even trusty Britain) or the State Department. Worse, to this highly visible and important position, it picked a man with a dubious past and ideological credentials worthy of a Bush appointee. A unilateralist hawk, the retired general is an ideological soulmate of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz, his main collaborators in developing the "axis of evil" approach to U.S. foreign policy. But when it comes to the Middle East, his track record is even more alarming. In 2000, Garner and 26 other U.S. officers signed a statement released by the right-wing Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) praising the Israeli Defense Forces for its "remarkable restraint in the face of lethal violence orchestrated by the leadership of a Palestinian Authority." Indeed, the choice of Garner seems designed to enflame local and regional resistance. This is a man who after one JINSA junket declared, "A strong Israel is an asset that American military planners and political leaders can rely on." Fortune magazine burbled that "Garner's civilian status is a big plus." But although his official title is "co-ordinator of civilian administration," Garner has always been a die-hard advocate of all things military sometimes at the expense of the facts. During the first Gulf War he went to Congress and touted the success of the Patriot missiles during the Iraqi attack on Israel. He did not issue a retraction when it was revealed that the Patriots caused more damage to Israel than the Iraqi Scuds they were supposed to bring down. The man who will be in charge of the disarmament of Iraq was also a fervent proponent of the fatally flawed Star Wars missile defense system, touting its virtues even when the results of its testing was later revealed to be rigged. Garner's so-called civilian career was also closely related to the Pentagon. In a classic example of the military-industrial complex at work, Garner retired from the military in 1997 to become President of SY Technology, a defense contractor specializing in missile defense systems. The company soon landed non-competitive contracts as part of the Star Wars program that Pentagon whistleblower, former Lt. Colonel Biff Baker, alleged were procured through Garner's influence. SY Technology sued Baker for defamation and for "causing loss of privacy" for Garner. The case was settled out of court in January this year, just as Garner was moving to his new and very public position. And by a yet another startling coincidence, the company was awarded a $1.5 billion contract this year to provide logistics services to U.S. special operations forces. The Iraqis themselves may be unhappy, if not surprised, to hear that their to-be satrap's former company has contracts to help build Patriot missile systems for Israel and Kuwait. The Bush administration has been busy spinning Garner's record to make him appear the perfect, sensitive, team player that Iraq needs to rebuild itself in the American image. But it seems entirely appropriate that Garner was unilaterally appointed on Jan. 20, even as the US was still officially trying to get a UN resolution for the invasion of Iraq. Nor did Garner's visit to the UN impress the aid officials. He made it clear the only job for the UN in Iraq is to help finance the U.S.-led occupation. But if anything can save Iraq from Garner's tender clutches, it will be the need for UN money. The Bush Administration is like the Red Queen in Alice in the Looking Glass, perfectly able to believe in three impossible things before breakfast. This is a White House that has committed itself both to tax cuts and an expensive war. It claims Iraqi oil fields are the property of its people even as it prepares to pay the post-war reconstruction with the same oil. The same administration that pledged to ensure a role for the UN at the Azores Summit had already announced plans for an all-American administration headed by Jay Garner. At the heart of Washington's contradictory and constantly shifting position is the desire to monopolize the control of Iraq but persuade the rest of the world to split the bill. The U.S. attitude is best epitomized by the junior diplomat who turned up at the United Nations in the first week of the war and asked the UN officials to hand over the money they had allocated for relief and humanitarian aid money that the White House sorely
[CTRL] Unity v. Disintegration (Don't Be Blue if You Can't Play Red)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.e-thepeople.org/article/15614/view Lt. Generals Paul Van Riper and William Wallace posted 03/28, by wepollock (viewed 101 times) | Scope : National Popularity : 6 (6 encourage, 0 discourage) Relevance : 293 In August of 2002 Marine Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper commanded the opposing force in the Millenium Challenge War-game which simulated conflict in a nation similar to Iran or Iraq. He so befuddled and outwitted high-tech U.S. forces using suicide attackers, old-fashioned communications, and unconventional methods his commands were eventually bypassed during the exercise. On January 28th, The New York Times reports on statements from Lt. Gen. William Wallace, the commander of the Army forces in the Persian Gulf that The enemy we're fighting is a bit different than the one we war-gamed against, because of these paramilitary forces. Additionally he stated that, We knew they were here, but we did not know how they would fight. http://slate.msn.com/id/2080814/ War-Gamed Why the Army shouldn't be so surprised by Saddam's moves. By Fred Kaplan Posted Friday, March 28, 2003, at 1:55 PM PT Much has been made of Thursday's remark by Lt. Gen. William Wallace, commander of U.S. Army forces in the Persian Gulf. Talking about the fierce and guerrilla-style resistance of Iraqi militia groups, Wallace said, The enemy we're fighting is a bit different than the one we war-gamed against. In fact, however, militia fighters did play a crucial role in a major war game designed to simulate combat in Iraqbut the Pentagon officials who managed the game simply disregarded or overruled the militias' most devastating moves. The war game, which was called Millennium Challenge 02, took place over three weeks last July and August. Planned over a two- year period, at a cost of $250 million, the game involved 13,500 personnel from all four servicesArmy, Navy, Air Force, Marines who waged mock war in 17 simulation locations and nine live- force training sites. The scenario envisioned a war in a fictitiously named Persian Gulf country that resembled Iraq. The objective was to test (and, if all went well, to validate) a set of new combat theories based less on massive force and more on speed, agility, highly accurate weapons, and supremely coordinated command and control. These theoriesknown as military transformation and effects- based operationswould serve as the underlying strategy of the real war against the real Iraq that's happening now. (Read this.) Officially, the war game was a great success; the theories were proven sound. However, on Aug. 12, as the game was winding to a close, a retired three-star U.S. Marine Corps general named Paul Van Riper wrote an e-mail to some of his friends, casting grave doubt on this conclusion. Pentagon war games pit Red Force (simulating the enemy) against Blue Force (the United States). In this war game, as in many war games over the years, Van Riper played the Red Force commander. In his e-mail (which was promptly leaked to the Army Times then picked up, though in much less detail, by the Guardian and the Washington Post), Van Riper complained about Millennium Challenge 02, writing that, Instead of a free- play, two-sided game it simply became a scripted exercise. The conduct of the game did not allow for the concepts of rapid decisive operations, effects-based operations, or operational net assessment to be properly assessed. It was in actuality an exercise that was almost entirely scripted to ensure a Blue 'win.' For instanceand here is where he displayed prescienceVan Riper used motorcycle messengers to transmit orders to Red troops, thereby eluding Blue's super-sophisticated eavesdropping technology. He maneuvered Red forces constantly. At one point in the game, when Blue's fleet entered the Persian Gulf, he sank some of the ships with suicide-bombers in speed boats. (At that point, the managers stopped the game, refloated the Blue fleet, and resumed play.) Robert Oakley, a retired U.S. ambassador who played the Red civilian leader, told the Army Times that Van Riper was out-thinking Blue Force from the first day of the exercise. Yet, Van Riper said in his e-mail, the game's managers remanded some of his moves as improper and simply blocked others from being carried out. According to the Army Times summary, Exercise officials denied him the opportunity to use his own tactics and ideas against Blue, and on several occasions directed [Red Force] not to use certain weapons systems against Blue. It even ordered him to reveal the location of Red units. Finally, Van Riper quit the game in protest, so as not to be associated with what would be misleading results. As he explained in his e-mail, You don't come to a conclusion beforehand and then work your way to that conclusion. You see how the thing plays out. He added, somewhat ominously in retrospect, My main concern was we'd see future forces trying to use these things when they've never been
[CTRL] Or in someone's fantasies
-Caveat Lector- WAR.WIRE Iraqi weapons of mass destruction may be hidden in Syria: Israel http://www.spacewar.com/2003/030331131940.pkms8s8n.html JERUSALEM (AFP) Mar 31, 2003 Iraqi chemical and biological weapons may be hidden in Syria, a senior Israeli intelligence officer told a parliamentary committee here Monday, Israeli public radio said. It is possible Iraq transferred missiles and weapons of mass destruction into Syria, General Yossi Kupperwasser told the committee. str-jp-jh/dab All rights reserved. 2002 Agence France-Presse. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Zyuganov: Stop the repression in Serbia!
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Vladimir Krsljanin To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:23 PM Subject: Zyuganov: Stop the repression in Serbia! PEOPLES-PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE OF RUSSIA ALL-RUSSIAN SOCIAL MOVEMENT Moscow, 31st March, 2003 STOP THE REPRESSION IN SERBIA! After the assassination of the Prime Minister Djindjic a state of emergency has been imposed in Serbia. Of course, its upon the authorities of every country, to decide how they will react to each concrete situation. However, several facts show that the state of emergency is used, first of all, for political purposes. One can observe that in Serbia there is neither chaos nor civic disobedience. The Law and order are respected. There is no outside threat. The investigation of the murder goes without any obstacles. Then what sense at all the imposition of the state of emergency can have? On the other hand, the freedom of the press is drastically limited. Meetings, rallies and strikes are forbidden. The behavior of the authorities far away exceeds the frames of the murder investigation and of the fight against crime. The police obtained the right to perform arbitrary arrests and searches, to monitor the phone talks, to violate the secrecy of the correspondence. More than two thousand people have been arrested. With a severe violation of Law 35 judges have been dismissed. There is a broad purge in the judiciary. So what kind of connection all these purely repressive measures can have with the search for the assassins? An impression is being created that under cover of the search for the organizers of Djindjics assassination, the actual Serbian regime attempts to trounce its personal and political rivals and to suppress every opposition. Leading organizers of the activities in Slobodan Milosevics defense Bogoljub Bjelica, Uros Suvakovic and Goran Matic have been arrested. Members of Slobodan Milosevics family are under pressure and threats. It is obvious that the "witch hunt" and arrests of the persons who directly assist to President Milosevic in his defense against the false accusations are aimed to save the judicial farce at The Hague, which faces total fiasco. The Western countries, which allegedly care about "democracy", completely ignore the fact that the fundamental citizens freedoms in Serbia are under most serious threat. The Peoples-Patriotic Alliance of Russia condemns the use of the state of emergency in Serbia for terrorizing the political opponents of the present regime and calls upon the Government of Serbia to restore as soon as possible the generally recognized citizens freedoms. We intend to raise the issue of the political repression in Serbia at the forthcoming session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. President of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, President of the Peoples-Patriotic Alliance of Russia Gennady Zyuganov STOP THE POLITICAL REPRESSION IN SERBIA! STOP THE EVIL CAMPAIGN AGAINST PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC, HIS FAMILY AND ASSOCIATES! RELEASE BOGOLJUB BJELICA AND OTHER POLITICAL PRISONERS! SEND PROTESTS AND APPEALS TO YUGOSLAV EMBASSIES! -find their addresses at http://www.mfa.gov.yu/Worldframe.htm SLOBODA/Freedom Association 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://archive.jab.org/[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] Pravda.RU Donald Runs out of Steam
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[CTRL] Fwd: The Truth about D.A.R.E.
-Caveat Lector- --- Start of forwarded message --- From: Mises Daily Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mises Daily Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: The Truth about D.A.R.E. Date: 3/31/2003 8:20:35 AM From: Mises Daily Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mises Daily Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:The Truth about D.A.R.E. Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:20:35 -0600 http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1188 The Truth about D.A.R.E. by Paul Armentano [March 31, 2003] If popularity was the sole measure of success then D.A.R.E., the Drug Image Abuse Resistance Education curriculum that is now taught in 80 percent of school districts nationwide, would be triumphant. However, if one is to gauge success by actual results, then America's most pervasive and expensive youth drug education program is (and always has been) a gigantic and incontrovertible flop. So says the General Accounting Office (GAO) in a scathing new report that finds the politically popular program has had no statistically significant long-term effect on preventing youth illicit drug use. In addition, students who participate in D.A.R.E. demonstrate no significant differences... [in] attitudes toward illicit drug use [or] resistance to peer pressure compared to children who had not been exposed to the program, the GAO determined. Their critique was the latest in a long line of stinging evaluations that have plagued D.A.R.E. throughout its 20-year history. Established in 1983 by former Los Angeles police chief DarylAll casual drug users should be taken out and shot!Gates, the D.A.R.E. elementary school curriculum consists of 17 lessonstaught by D.A.R.E.-trained uniform police officers urging kids to resist the use of illicit drugs, including the underage use of alcohol and tobacco. Upon completion of the curriculum, which often relies on scare tactics and transparent just say no ideology, graduates pledge to lead a drug-free life. Numerous studies indicate few do. These include: *A 1991 University of Kentucky study of 2,071 sixth graders that found no difference in the past-year use of cigarettes, alcohol or marijuana among DARE graduates and non-graduates two years after completing the program. *A 1996 University of Colorado study of over 940 elementary school students that found no difference with regard to illicit drug use, delay of experimentation with illicit drugs, self-esteem, or resistance to peer pressure among D.A.R.E. graduates and non-graduates three years after completing the program. *A 1998 University of Illinois study of 1,798 elementary school students that found no differences with regards to the recent use of illicit drugs among D.A.R.E. graduates and non-graduates six years after completing the program. *A 1999 follow-up study by the University of Kentucky that found no difference in lifetime, past-year, or past-month use of marijuana among D.A.R.E. graduates and non-graduates 10 years after completing the program. In fact, over the years so many studies have assailed D.A.R.E.'s effectiveness that by 2001 even its proponents admitted it needed serious revamping. However, rather than shelving the failed program altogether, D.A.R.E.'s advocates called for expanding its admittedly abysmal curriculum to target middle-school and high-school studentsa move that was lauded by many federal officials and peer educators despite a track record that would spell the demise for most any other program. So why does D.A.R.E. remain so immensely popular with politicians (Both Bush I and Clinton endorsed National D.A.R.E. Day.) and school administrators despite its stunning lack of demonstrated efficacy? Researchers writing in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology offer two explanations. The first is that for many civic leaders, teaching children to refrain from drugs simply feels good. Therefore, advocates of the program perceive any scrutiny of their effectiveness to be overly critical and unnecessary. The second explanation is that D.A.R.E. and similar youth anti-drug education programs appear to work. After all, most kids who graduate D.A.R.E. do not engage in drug use beyond the occasional beer or marijuana cigarette. However, this reality is hardly an endorsement of D.A.R.E., but an acknowledgement of the statistical fact that most teenseven without D.A.R.E.never engage in any significant drug use. Of course, those looking for a third explanation could simply follow the money trail. Even though D.A.R.E. has been a failure at persuading kids to steer away from drugs, it has been a marketing cash cowfilling its coffers with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual federal aid. (According to the GAO, exact totals are
[CTRL] little America.
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: daftjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:34:21 +0200 (South Africa Standard Time) Subject:!b_a_Act: little America. Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Thought you might like to read this. daftjack. UNITED STATE OF IRAQ Mar 31 2003 By Justine Smith A US blueprint to rebuild blitzed Iraq will turn the nation into a little America, it was claimed yesterday. Under the plan, US-led contractors will bypass the UN and oversee reconstruction costing up to £180billion over the next 10 years. Every aspect of Iraqi life will be affected. There are even proposals to draw up a politically neutral school curriculum and replace the Iraqi dinar with the dollar. The aim is to create under the USAID agency an open society modelled on Western democracies. But critics in the region will see it as confirmation that the US wants to turn Iraq into a puppet state. Dr Azzan Tamimi, an expert on Middle East politics, said: The US is trying to make a Little America because it needs Iraqi oil. Its arrogant to think America can replicate its society. Its never been successful in exporting democracy. That has to grow from the people. Eight contracts are detailed in the 860-page report published on the US Defence Department website. HEALTH: Under a system based on the NHS, Iraqs 21 biggest cities and towns will each have a referral hospital. Another 100 hospitals and clinics will be staffed by returning exiles. A US contractor will oversee planning, staff, payroll, service delivery and administration. EDUCATION: Within six months, 2.1million children to receive USAID student kits with politically neutral curriculums. Number to rise to 4.2million children in 25,000 schools in 12 months. CONSTRUCTION: Umm Qasr port to be rebuilt at a total cost of $7.5billion. About 1,500 miles of roads and 100 bridges to be re-opened. Modernising IT and telecommunications could cost $1.5billion. LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Iraq to be divided into 18 regions run by elected municipal bodies. Duties to include training Iraqs civil and traditional society leaders in the fundamental process of democratic government. Poll candidates must accept the electoral process. AIR ADMIN: Network of five airports to be set up. Two will handle international flights, ready to open within a year of the war ending. LOGISTICAL SUPPORT: Storage, customs, trucking and water provision. PERSONNEL SUPPORT: Awarded to the International Resources Group on February 21. PORT ADMIN: £4.9million contract to improve facilities, manage customs and handle security. Only US companies will be allowed to bid for the contracts. The winners will be those most loyal to the Bush administration. Two orders have already been awarded. Of five big US corporations bidding for the remainder, several have close links to the White House. Under the US plan, funds from the UN food for oil programme will help pay for reconstruction even though the UN will have little or no say in how the cash is spent. Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has said: Theres a lot of money out there. To assume were going to pay for the war is just wrong. Non-profit-making organisations with huge experience of rebuilding wartorn countries are stunned to have been left out of the plans. The World Development Movement said: This scramble for business is disgusting. What chance does Iraq have if contracts are carved up? War on Want said: Reconstruction of Iraq is about corporate profit. --- End of forwarded message --- News alternatives to US war propaganda: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news081.htm http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm http://www.truthout.org/ http://www.aljazeerah.info/ http://www.overthrow.com/ http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/politics/content.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A
[CTRL] NBC TV fires Arnett for telling truth about Iraq
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Nicholas Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:18:30 -0800 Subject:!b_a_Act: NBC TV fires Arnett for telling truth about Iraq war Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] Published on Monday, March 31, 2003 by CNN NBC: Arnett Out After Iraqi TV Interview BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- NBC announced Monday that both NBC and National Geographic severed their relationships with veteran war correspondent Peter Arnett. In an interview that aired on Iraqi TV Sunday, Arnett said that the U.S. war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. Photo caption: American television network NBC said on March 31, 2003 it had severed its relations with veteran reporter Peter Arnett after he told Iraqi television that the U.S. war plan against Saddam Hussein had failed. 'Peter Arnett will no longer be reporting for NBC News and MSNBC,' NBC said in a joint statement with National Geographic, for whom the Pulitzer prize-winning reporter was also working. Arnett is seen in this March 26 video still. (NBC via Reuters) On Sunday, NBC News had issued a statement supporting Arnett, saying that Arnett gave the interview to Iraqi TV as a professional courtesy and that his remarks were analytical in nature and were not intended to be anything more. But a day later, NBC issued a different statement. It was wrong for him to grant an interview to state-run Iraqi TV, especially in a time of war. Arnett is not an NBC News reporter but an employee of the MSNBC show, National Geographic Explorer, according to The Associated Press. The network began airing Arnett's reports after NBC reporters evacuated Baghdad. Monday morning, Arnett appeared on NBC's Today Show and apologized for his comments. I want to apologize to the American people for clearly making a misjudgment over the weekend by giving an interview to Iraqi Television, said Arnett, who added that what he said in the interview was what we all know about the war. There have been delays in implementing policy and there's been surprises. But clearly by giving that interview to Iraqi Television, I created a firestorm in the United States and for that I am truly sorry, Matt, he said. During the Sunday interview, Arnett also said that Iraq had given him and other reporters a degree of freedom which we appreciate. Iraq has expelled several journalists, including CNN's Baghdad team, and apparently has imprisoned two journalists from the New York newspaper Newsday. Arnett is a member of the Board of Directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, which is trying to locate the missing journalists. During the Iraqi TV interview, Arnett said, I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information. Arnett told the Iraqi TV interviewer, who was dressed in an Iraqi Army uniform, that President Bush is facing a growing challenge about the conduct of the war within the United States. President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly, he said. In the interview, Arnett said reports from Baghdad about civilians being killed are being shown in the United States, and it helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments. He pointed out U.S. claims that civilians killed in an explosion at a downtown Baghdad market were the victims of Iraqi missiles, and that Iraq had said the missiles were definitely incoming coalition fire. Arnett also said clearly this is a city that is disciplined, the population is responsive to the government's requirements of discipline, and Iraqi friends tell me there is a growing sense of nationalism and resistance to what the United States and Britain is doing. The longtime war correspondent, who reported on the Persian Gulf War for CNN in 1991, said U.S. war planners miscalculated the will of Iraqis and he does not understand how that happened. He said his reports would tell the Americans about the determination of the Iraqi forces, the determination of the government and the willingness to fight for their country. Copyright 2003 CNN --- End of forwarded message --- News alternatives to US war propaganda: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news081.htm http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm http://www.truthout.org/ http://www.aljazeerah.info/ http://www.overthrow.com/ http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/politics/content.htm A
[CTRL] Retired Kentucky priest pleads guilty, Letter from Baghdad
-Caveat Lector- scroll for news articles Retired Kentucky priest pleads guilty in church abuse cases as trial about to Begin Lori Burling, 3/31/03 Louisville, Ky. (AP) "A retired Roman Catholic priest accused of abuse by dozens of plaintiffs pleaded guilty to multiple counts of sexual misconduct Monday as his jury trial was scheduled to begin. The Rev. Louis E. Miller, 72, of Louisville entered his pleas in Jefferson County Circuit Court to 50 counts of indecent and immoral practices and sexual abuse. The charges involve 21 victims, according to court documents. He faces trial on similar charges in neighboring Oldham County in June. Miller retired from public ministry last year when the accusations became public. He is accused of abuse in more than 80 lawsuits filed against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, which employed him for more than 30 years.They say the church was aware of the abuse but did nothing to stop it. A 1990 psychiatric report filed with the court last summer said Miller committed assaults every other month during the 1960s and '70s, usually targeting boys 10 to 15. When the church learned of the incidents, it moved him from one job to another, said the report sent to Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly, who barred Miller from working with children in 1990 and later assigned him as a nursing home chaplain. The lawsuits against Miller are among more than 200 filed in about the last year which accuse more than 25 priests in the archdiocese of abuse. Miller's guilty plea is the first in the wave of lawsuits." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/03/31/national1052EST0574.DTL http://www.flybynews.com/cgi-local/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1049057392,58926, Letter from Baghdad BAGHDAD DIARIES - Cathy Breen, RN March 26, 2003 Dear Friends, It is impossible to describe. It is like we are submerged in a glowing yellow-orange cloud here in the city. Our Iraqi friends say they have never seen anything like it. It is eerier than any science fiction film I've ever seen. Some say it is caused by a combination of the burning oil and the billowing smoke from the bombs. Both near and far the bombs continue to fall. Heavy bombing woke me out of a deep sleep last night. Earlier I'd been on the telephone with a friend who told me that in her neighborhood a missile had struck the day before wounding 29 and killing 5. Among the dead was a 12 year old. "Cathy" she said, "please tell them (the U.S.) to stop talking about humanitarian aide." Apparently this keeps coming on over the television news. "Please tell them to shut up!" How ludicrous to speak of humanitarian aide as the country is being bombed, people being killed and wounded and their homes destroyed! 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://archive.jab.org/[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] US Arms Trader to Run Iraq
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/31/2003 3:55:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: arner's business background is causing serious concerns at the United Nations and among aid agencies, who are already opposed to US administration of Iraq if it comes outside UN authority, and who say appointment of an American linked to the arms trade is the 'worst case scenario' for running the country after the war. Funny, wouldn't you think it would be his hatred of Palestinians that would make folks pause. 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://archive.jab.org/[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] So Called Anti American Emails
-Caveat Lector- In response to who is behind the anti-American messeges 1) those who are not brainwashed by the CIA CNN controlled media. 2) those who have a mind of their own 3) those who do not buy into American Imperialism 4) those who are fed up with the American Industrial Military complex. ... I am sure many could add a lot more to this list, that is just a few that come to my mind. --- - Original Message - From: Flash Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 5:03 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Depleted Uranium Makes Good Mutant-Slaves - I am new to this list. Some of the messages on this list are treasonous and anti-American. I wonder who is behind these messages? /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_ /_/_/_/_/_/_/ NO BLOOD FOR OIL! - DROP BUSH, NOT BOMBS! - PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS! SUPPORT THE TROOPS BY BRINGING THEM HOME! /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.465 / Virus Database: 263 - Release Date: 3/25/2003 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] War, Hitler, Cheney
-Caveat Lector- http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2003/2003_10-19/2003-13/this_wk.html This Week You Need To Know War, Hitler, Cheney by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. March 25, 2003 The immediate situation of the U.S. is summed up as follows: At this moment, as I had forewarned you in 1999-2000, we are plunging into a world depression comparable to, but worse than that of the Herbert Hoover Depression of 1929-1933. As I forewarned you in an address, broadcast at the beginning of 2001, new would-be Adolf Hitlers have now appeared, this time inside the U.S.A. Those would-be Hitlers now threaten the whole world with the kinds of wars for which the world later hung Nazi leaders, at Nuremberg: the new Hitlers from inside the U.S.A. and Blair's government, who act exactly as Hitler threatened Czechoslovakia in 1938, and invaded Poland in 1939. The pivotal feature of that warfare, into which an already bankrupt U.S. has just been plunged, is the de facto usurpation of the function of a still-sitting President by Halliburton's Vice President Cheney, and by a gang of his organized-crime-linked lackeys polluting not only the Departments of Defense and State, but also polluting, and virtually castrating elected and other leaders of the nominal opposition, the Democratic Party. Ironically, but not accidentally, the present war-like situation in the Department of Defense, including the public rug-chewing exhibitions by Secretary Rumsfeld, reminds today's serious historians of the way in which Adolf Hitler and his Roman Legions-modelled SS, ultimately destroyed that German military which would-be Caesar Hitler's gang feared and hated so intensely. All too obviously, the leading war-makers inside the Bush Administration today are mere lackeys, nasty pimps like the Leporello of Mozart's famous opera. These real-life Leporellos, such as the politically pimpish Wolfowitz and Ashcroft, were spawned, chiefly, by Chicago University and associated circles of a prominent fascist ideologue, the late Professor Leo Strauss. This Strauss was a follower of the Carl Schmitt who crafted the law under which Hitler became dictator of Germany; so, are Strauss's ardent followers inside the Bush Administration today. This fascist, Strauss, who created Wolfowitz, was imported to the U.S. from the Germany of Carl Schmitt and Hitler-midwife Hjalmar Schacht, at the time that also the later Robert Hutchins-sponsored Strauss was already known to be a fanatical follower of the leading Nazi ideologue Martin Heidegger. However, like the Nazi SS enforcers, lackeys Wolfowitz, Perle, Bolton, Wurmser, Feith, and so on, are merely expendable hoodlums adorned with political motley. To understand them, you must look to those who created them and put them into their present positions. You must look to the London-backed Hjalmar Schachts and von Papens of the modern U.S.A., including the likes of the Conrad Blacks, the Rupert Murdochs, George Shultz, and the Shultz-allied forces behind the Halliburton firms' government and other connections. The essence of the matter is exactly what I warned you might happen, in a broadcast address I delivered just before the inauguration of President George W. Bush, Jr. We are in an accelerating world depression, while this year's U.S. Federal deficit already soars in the direction of the $1 trillions mark. The U.S.A. experienced its "Reichstag Fire" on September 11, 2001, and the storm-trooper legions of Vice President Cheney marched forth from those smoking ruins, brandishing their Mein Kampf doctrine of "preventive nuclear" war. This is the Nazi-like doctrine which Cheney had adopted in 1991, then in his capacity of Secretary of Defense. Led by Cheney's and Rumsfeld's lackeys, the depression-wracked U.S. is presently marching down the road toward self-inflicted Hell, unless the war is stopped about now. We are, therefore, now trapped in a war for which no foreseeable exit is provided. It is not an "Iraq War"; it is a virtually endless world war, unless we stop it: unless you, personally, contribute to stopping it. It is a war already spreading, as the military forces of Turkey invade northern Iraq, in preparation to deal with a Kurdish campaign to carve a Kurdish state out of a region including large chunks of Turkey and Transcaucasia. This is a war of incalculable implications, being pushed by dangerous, and largely morally demented lunatics, such as Mother Cheney's Chickenhawks. This is a spreading war, which threatens to topple most, or even all of the existing governments of the Middle East. As a result of the earlier foolishness of the Bush Administration policy toward the government of South Korea, President Bush's brainless launching of an absolutely unlawful war against Iraq, has created the grave possibility of an otherwise unlikely, nuclear-warfare incident between the U.S.A. and North Korea, with the possibility of a third nuclear-weapons detonation against Japan. None of this insanity could have
Re: [CTRL] NBC TV fires Arnett for telling truth about Iraq
-Caveat Lector- I heard there are quite a number of vacancies at Saddam's Daily Mirror. Dave. - Original Message - From: Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 1:28 PM Subject: [CTRL] NBC TV fires Arnett for telling truth about Iraq -Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Nicholas Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:18:30 -0800 Subject:!b_a_Act: NBC TV fires Arnett for telling truth about Iraq war Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] Published on Monday, March 31, 2003 by CNN NBC: Arnett Out After Iraqi TV Interview BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- NBC announced Monday that both NBC and National Geographic severed their relationships with veteran war correspondent Peter Arnett. In an interview that aired on Iraqi TV Sunday, Arnett said that the U.S. war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. Photo caption: American television network NBC said on March 31, 2003 it had severed its relations with veteran reporter Peter Arnett after he told Iraqi television that the U.S. war plan against Saddam Hussein had failed. 'Peter Arnett will no longer be reporting for NBC News and MSNBC,' NBC said in a joint statement with National Geographic, for whom the Pulitzer prize-winning reporter was also working. Arnett is seen in this March 26 video still. (NBC via Reuters) On Sunday, NBC News had issued a statement supporting Arnett, saying that Arnett gave the interview to Iraqi TV as a professional courtesy and that his remarks were analytical in nature and were not intended to be anything more. But a day later, NBC issued a different statement. It was wrong for him to grant an interview to state-run Iraqi TV, especially in a time of war. Arnett is not an NBC News reporter but an employee of the MSNBC show, National Geographic Explorer, according to The Associated Press. The network began airing Arnett's reports after NBC reporters evacuated Baghdad. Monday morning, Arnett appeared on NBC's Today Show and apologized for his comments. I want to apologize to the American people for clearly making a misjudgment over the weekend by giving an interview to Iraqi Television, said Arnett, who added that what he said in the interview was what we all know about the war. There have been delays in implementing policy and there's been surprises. But clearly by giving that interview to Iraqi Television, I created a firestorm in the United States and for that I am truly sorry, Matt, he said. During the Sunday interview, Arnett also said that Iraq had given him and other reporters a degree of freedom which we appreciate. Iraq has expelled several journalists, including CNN's Baghdad team, and apparently has imprisoned two journalists from the New York newspaper Newsday. Arnett is a member of the Board of Directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, which is trying to locate the missing journalists. During the Iraqi TV interview, Arnett said, I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information. Arnett told the Iraqi TV interviewer, who was dressed in an Iraqi Army uniform, that President Bush is facing a growing challenge about the conduct of the war within the United States. President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly, he said. In the interview, Arnett said reports from Baghdad about civilians being killed are being shown in the United States, and it helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments. He pointed out U.S. claims that civilians killed in an explosion at a downtown Baghdad market were the victims of Iraqi missiles, and that Iraq had said the missiles were definitely incoming coalition fire. Arnett also said clearly this is a city that is disciplined, the population is responsive to the government's requirements of discipline, and Iraqi friends tell me there is a growing sense of nationalism and resistance to what the United States and Britain is doing. The longtime war correspondent, who reported on the Persian Gulf War for CNN in 1991, said U.S. war planners miscalculated the will of Iraqis and he does not understand how that happened. He said his reports would tell the Americans about the determination of the Iraqi forces, the determination of the government and the willingness to fight for their country. Copyright 2003 CNN --- End of
[CTRL] Fears About DNA Testing Proposal
-Caveat Lector- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,58270-2,00.html Fears About DNA Testing Proposal 02:00 AM Mar. 31, 2003 PT In a report (PDF) on the future of DNA forensics, the Justice Department predicted that by 2010, police will use hand-held DNA analyzers to verify people's identity in the field. The report also touts the benefits of including the general population in police DNA databases and of singling out a suspect's physical characteristics from a genetic sample. The expansion of police DNA databases to include crime suspects -- and, potentially, the general public -- is a prime example of "function creep," said Tod Burke, a criminal justice professor at Virginia's Radford University. Forensic DNA databases were originally created for one specific purpose: to compare the DNA of convicted violent felons to blood, semen, hair or other biological material left at the scenes of unsolved crimes. Virginia set up the nation's first such database in 1989 and quickly broadened its inventory to include DNA samples from convicted sex offenders, nonviolent felons and even juveniles who have been convicted as adults. "This year, Virginia became the first state to take DNA from people who've just been charged with a violent crime," Burke said. "During the booking process they go ahead and take a cheek swab. For civil libertarians this is outrageous. The person hasn't even been tried. What ever happened to 'innocent until proven guilty?'" Supporters argue that the databases are a peerless crime-solving tool. Virginia's database -- the largest in the country with samples from nearly 200,000 convicted felons -- has been instrumental in solving more than 100 homicides, 200 rapes and 450 burglaries, state authorities said. The Justice Department did not respond to interview requests about Patriot Act II. Today, all 50 states have forensic DNA databases and local law enforcement agents have aggressively added material to their genetic libraries. DNA dragnets -- wherein police stop random people fitting a suspect's description and request a DNA sample -- are becoming increasingly common. Last month, Louisiana police launched one of the largest such dragnets in history, sampling DNA from nearly 1,000 men in their search for a serial murderer. The men who initially refused to cooperate with police over DNA privacy concerns faced being branded as potential killers. Critics worry that Patriot Act II will lead to similar dragnets designed to collect DNA from people of Middle Eastern descent and even political dissenters. Furthermore, the proposed legislation contains no information about how suspects can eliminate their DNA from the database if they are proven innocent. "It's astonishing," said Harold Krent, the dean of the Chicago Kent College of Law. "The (measure) sanctions a Fourth Amendment search when we have a solid dividing line in our jurisprudence between treading on someone's privacy once they've been convicted of anti-social conduct and not before." While a landmark Massachusetts case found that Fourth Amendment rights do not apply to the genetic sampling of convicted felons, it has not yet been tested in a lawsuit involving a suspect who was forced to donate DNA. 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://archive.jab.org/[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
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-Caveat Lector- http://www.mediamonitors.net/index.html The Hypocrisy of it All by Joseph Clifford The US "pre-emptively" attacked Iraq because we "think" Iraq might have Weapons of Mass Destruction. The US has threatened Iraq with the largest bomb (22,000) ever used in the history of the world. Because Iraq defied the United Nations, the US makes war on Iraq in defiance of the United Nations. President Bush said we will liberate the Iraqi people, and they will rejoice in our arrival. The Iraqi people are resisting to the death. President Bush said "We know Iraq has WMD and chemical weapons", but none has been used by Iraq, nor found. Saddam Hussein did a horrible thing in gassing the Kurds said Tony Blair. Great Britain gassed both the Kurds and the people of Iraq in the 1920s. Saddam Hussein did a horrible thing in gassing the Kurds said George Bush. The US government gassed, and then burned, our own people in Wacco, Texas. The US is afraid that Iraq will give or sell WMD to other people. The US sells more WMD than all the nations in the world put together. The US has warned Iraq that if they use Weapons of Mass Destruction in retaliation against us, they will be guilty of War Crimes, while Shock and Awe will unleash more WMD than the world has ever seen. According to Pres. Bush, the US will prosecute Iraqi leaders for War Crimes. President Bush last year refused to participate in the new International Criminal Court, and is currently demanded immunity from War Crimes. Hussein was horrific for gassing the Kurds. We supplied him with the gas. This war against Iraq is to make us safer from Al-Quaeda. Al Quaeda was born as a result of Americans invading Iraq in 1991. We must never allow Iraq to get one nuclear weapon because he might use them. We have 6,000 and have used them. Bush has brought the nation to the brink of nuclear war with North Korea because they abandoned a treaty with the US. Since Bush has been in the office he has unilaterally abandoned 5 treaties with the world. The administration insisted the War in Iraq has "nothing to do with oil", but the very first territory seized by the US were the southern oil fields. Its not about oil according to the administration, while the Pentagon named two posts in Iraq Forward Operating Base Exxon, and Forward Operating Base Shell. Donald Rumsfeld insisted that American prisoners of war must be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention and argued that to show their pictures on TV would violate the Geneva Convention, while holding 3000 Afghanis in cages with no Geneva agreements being observed. There have been 2 deaths and 20 suicide attempts in these wonderful detention facilities. The military has admitted to "beating to death" 2 prisoners while attempting to get information. The US blasted France for "threatening" to Veto a war resolution. The last time France used the veto was 7 years ago, while the US used the veto three months ago, and has been historically the second biggest user of the veto in the UN history. The French are silly because they do not understand why war is needed. France lost 4.2 million people in World War I. The US claimed the Iraqis were using "dirty" tactics in the war because they were fighting out of uniform and in civilian clothes. During the American Revolution we invented the "dirty" tactic of fighting out of uniform and from behind trees and stonewalls. Mr. Joseph Clifford contributed above article to Media Monitors Network (MMN) from James Town, Rhode Island, USA. 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://archive.jab.org/[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] German military historians predict Anglo-American defeat in Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/032903Speke-Reuter/032903speke-reuter.html German military historians predict Anglo-American defeat in Iraq By Cassandra Speke and Stephan Reuter Online Journal Contributing Writer March 29, 2003Never in the history of war have such formidable cities as Baghdad been conquered militarily by an invading army. The single exception may be the recent Russian siege of Grozny (400,000 inhabitants), but the focused brutality of its assault may not be easily replicated on Baghdad's 5 million inhabitants under the eyes of a watchful and angry planet. Indeed, the invaders have but two choices: to incinerate the city or to starve it. Recently declared a military target, Basra's civilians, for example, have automatically been militarized. This means fighting in the streets. And this type of fighting cannot be won. This is the opinion of an eminent and nationally respected German scholar, Dr. Manfred Messerschmidt, 76, leading historian of the Research Department of Military History in Freiburg, Germany. Controversial and at times inconvenient, Dr. Messerschmidt's views command respect even among his critics. Dr. Messerschmidt's considered opinion is that a defeat of the Anglo-American forces is very probable. If Saddam Hussein's regime can manage to stay in power, the conquest of Baghdad is impossible, unless the two allies raze and burn the city to the ground. Possessed of a clinically analytical and sharp historical memory, Europeans have been drawing analogies between Bush's war and WW II since the fateful "axis-of-evil" speech, which caused a giggling disbelief mixed with mounting alarm that the citizens of the most powerful state on earth should be bamboozled by a Hollywood-style script of no historical accuracy whatsoever. Germany, Japan, and Italythe original Axiswere each a modern military machine of astounding size and force. Bush's axis was a collection of third-rate powers of no world-domination potential whatsoever. The Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis' war machine had a clear goal: to rule the globe. They didn't count, however, on people's resistance to their plans of domination. Invasion offered no alternative: either one submitted or one fought. There were things worth dying forthings that gave life meaning. The siege of Leningrad and Stalingrad in WW II illustrate the flaw in the fantasy of invasion by superior military force. Besieged by the Nazis for the famed 900 days, Leningrad resisted, in spite of millions of corpsesthe victims of starvationlittering the city, freezing in the snow. In Stalingrad, Hitler's Sixth Army was entirely obliterated. The Russian winter, with its blinding storms, rendered the mighty Luftwaffe, Hitler's equivalent in military novelty to the arsenal of techno-weapons today, entirely useless in terms of delivering supplies and providing aggressive or cover operations. The defeat of Germany's "Operation Barbarossa," to conquer the Soviet Union and provide Germany with more "living space," turned the tide of WW II. The hitherto unstoppable Nazi war machine had been stopped by the Russian people, united against the invasion, by 1942, a month after the United States entered the Pacific War. As many Europeans acknowledge, Europe's liberation was effected by the heroism of the Soviet people in defense of their homeland. These heroic battles, singularly in the case of Stalingrad, show that fighting in the streets of a city ends in its destruction and in an appalling number of casualties of both civilians and military personnel. The German Wermacht, in its Barbarossa invasion of the USSR, at first hesitated to enter Stalingrad until Hitler himself ordered that either the city be destroyed or starved. Neither in Leningrad, where the strategy was starvation, nor in Stalingrad, where both bombing and urban battles were engaged, did the strategies work. A city with a population of millions cannot be secured. Invasion forces can only concentrate and hold on to stationary, select positions. Should it become possible to enter a city after punishing bombings, the tanks cannot move in the streets for the rubble and the debris. This happened in Stalingrad. German military historians, such as Dr. Messerschmidt, are convinced that if the British and the Americans manage to conquer Baghdad, this feat would be a first in the history of humanity for a city of this size. Dr. Gerd Krumeich, a professor at the University of Dusseldorf, has a similar opinion. He recalls that in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Paris fell only because the entire French army, including the French emperor, surrendered, and because supplies to the city were catastrophically unplanned. American planners of the attack on Iraq apparently believed that the Iraqi people would desert Saddam. This expectation has not materialized. If the Iraqis continue to resist the invasion, the technological superiority of weapons and air power of the Anglo-American forces
[CTRL] War On Freedom Update
-Caveat Lector- Liberty Action of the Week for April 1,2003 War on Freedom on its many fronts by Mary Lou Seymour War, war, and rumors of war. There's Bush's War of Aggression against Iraq (and who knows who else in the future), the War on Civil Liberties at home, and the War on Medical Marijuana patients. The governmentt line is always we're doing this for your safety, to protect you from 'the enemy' (terrorists, third world countries with WMD, drug dealers), we're doing this for your OWN GOOD and if you don't agree you're unpatriotic and un American and probably an enemy sympathizer (or drug user) or a 'useful idiot' being used by the forces of evil. But take away the propaganda and patriotic trappings, look behind the flag waving and you'll see that all of these wars have a common thread: the state using its power and might to crush individual rights, and consolidate its own power at the expense of freedom. All of these wars are different fronts in the War on Freedom. When the governmentt goes to war abroad, of course, the stakes get higher (citizens and their sons and daughters are actually going to be openly killed, not just imprisoned or deprived of medicine); and to appease those who find it hard to believe that the Mongol hordes (communist hordes, Islamic hordes) are really much of a threat as long as we mind our own business, they'll throw in the we're doing this to liberate Poland (Iraq, South Vietnam, South Korea) and spread democracy meme. Every aggressive imperialist state has used this exact same justification, throughout history. Some in the freedom movement just don't get the connection between our government's actions at home and abroad. Some of us have lost good friends over differences of opinion on Bush's War of Aggression (Lost Friend). Not only is it an individual tragedy to lose a friend, but to lose a fellow freedom fighter, well, there aren't that many of us to begin with and we can't afford to lose a single foot soldier. I can't offer any words of wisdom on how to not alienate friends and fellow freedom fighters, except this ... if you find yourself talking to a brick wall when you're doing outreach on ANY issue, back off that issue and try another. That's simply good organizing. But never forget the common thread that runs through all these issues and other issues that ultimately affect our freedom as individuals, and realize that anything you can do to educate people of that commonality will pay off in the long run. Get into the habit of framing every issue in the context of the non-aggression principle, the cornerstone of the culture of freedom. Maybe today they are too blind to see, but maybe tomorrow, or the next day or hell, even a year from now they'll suddenly remember what YOU said, and see the light. The strength of the NAP is that most people understand it, and AGREE with it (at least the people we're trying to reach), and once they grasp the concept of seeing EVERY issue in light of the NAP, well, you've got a convert for the cause of individual freedom. I've talked about the War of Aggression abroad for several columns, and last week we talked about the War on Civil Liberties on the home front. This week, let's revisit the War on Medical Marijuana Patients. This is an excellent issue from several perspectives. Who, after all, (except the terminally fascist) can be against sick and dying people obtaining the medicine they need? And the WoMM is also a war on states' rights: even though 8 states have passed medical marijuana laws, the feds are still prosecuting folks under federal law, in direct defiance of the state legislatures, and preventing jurors from hearing evidence concerning why medical marijuana is used. Several U.S. Representatives (Representatives Sam Farr, Lynn Woolsey and Dana Rohrabacher) are seeking to end this unjust use of government power to crush individual (and states') rights by introducing FEDERAL legislation to protect states' rights to medical marijuana and to remove the gag that the federal government is placing on medical marijuana defendants in court. The Marijuana Policy Project has an easy to use action plan to select a pre-written letter to fax to your U.S. representative, urging him or her to cosponsor the Patients' and Providers' Truth in Trials Act, which would not only ensure that defendants could introduce evidence about the medical nature of their marijuana-related activity, but would also keep them from being sent to federal prison if it is determined that they were acting in compliance with state medical marijuana laws. You can choose between several pre written letters: *Prevent others from suffering Ed Rosenthal's fate *The federal government's war on medical marijuana is immoral *No justice in Justice Department's medical marijuana trials *Protect those who truly need medical marijuana *Help change a bad federal policy *I am troubled by the treatment of the sick and dying Or write your own, and, with a
[CTRL] Insects thrive on Frankenstein 'pest-killing' crops
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- - Original Message - From: here and now To: Conspiranoia Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 2:14 PM Subject: [Conspiranoia!] Insects thrive on Frankenstein 'pest-killing' crops Do you think you can upset the order of the Universe, and not pay the price? - Honeythorn Gump, the film - Legend. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved . . . - Christ, Matthew 24:22. Insects thrive on GM 'pest-killing' crops By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor 30 March 2003 Genetically modified crops specially engineered to kill pests in fact nourish them, startling new research has revealed. The research - which has taken even the most ardent opponents of GM crops by surprise - radically undermines one of the key benefits claimed for them. And it suggests that they may be an even greater threat to organic farming than has been envisaged. It strikes at the heart of one of the main lines of current genetic engineering in agriculture: breeding crops that come equipped with their own pesticide. Biotech companies have added genes from a naturally occurring poison, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), which is widely used as a pesticide by organic farmers. The engineered crops have spread fast. The amount of land planted with them worldwide grew more than 25-fold - from four million acres in 1996 to well over 100 million acres (44.2m hectares) in 2000 - and the global market is expected to be worth $25bn (£16bn) by 2010. Drawbacks have already emerged, with pests becoming resistant to the toxin. Environmentalists say that resistance develops all the faster because the insects are constantly exposed to it in the plants, rather than being subject to occasional spraying. But the new research - by scientists at Imperial College London and the Universidad Simon Rodrigues in Caracas, Venezuela - adds an alarming new twist, suggesting that pests can actually use the poison as a food and that the crops, rather than automatically controlling them, can actually help them to thrive. They fed resistant larvae of the diamondback moth - an increasingly troublesome pest in the southern US and in the tropics - on normal cabbage leaves and ones that had been treated with a Bt toxin. The larvae eating the treated leaves grew much faster and bigger - with a 56 per cent higher growth rate. They found that the larvae are able to digest and utilise the toxin and may be using it as a supplementary food, adding that the presence of the poison could have modified the nutritional balance in plants for them. And they conclude: Bt transgenic crops could therefore have unanticipated nutritionally favourable effects, increasing the fitness of resistant populations. Pete Riley, food campaigner for Friends of the Earth, said last night: This is just another example of the unexpected harmful effects of GM crops. If Friends of the Earth had come up with the suggestion that crops engineered to kill pests could make them bigger and healthier instead, we would have been laughed out of court. It destroys the industry's entire case that insect-resistant GM crops can have anything to do with sustainable farming. Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association, said it showed that GM crops posed an even worse threat to organic farming than had previously been imagined. Breed- ing resistance to the Bt insecticide sometimes used by organic farmers was bad enough, but problems would become even greater if pests treated it as a high-protein diet. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=392044 Links: Why is the NWO ramming Frankenstein foods down our throats? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Conspiranoia/message/11567/ Melchett - one of they all along http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Conspiranoia/message/10050/ --- End of forwarded message --- News alternatives to US war propaganda: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news081.htm http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm http://www.truthout.org/ http://www.aljazeerah.info/ http://www.overthrow.com/ http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/politics/content.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at:
Re: [CTRL] So Called Anti American Emails
-Caveat Lector- Yup, just as I had thought, mind mumbled robots. On Monday, Mar 31, 2003, at 14:25 US/Pacific, cybervoyager wrote: In response to who is behind the anti-American messeges 1) those who are not brainwashed by the CIA CNN controlled media. 2) those who have a mind of their own 3) those who do not buy into American Imperialism 4) those who are fed up with the American Industrial Military complex. ... I am sure many could add a lot more to this list, that is just a few that come to my mind. 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] War Within a War: Rising fears Iraq could become haven for Al Qaida-type groups
-Caveat Lector- HARETZ (Israel) Tuesday, April 01, 2003 Adar2 28, 5763 Israel Time: 04:57 (GMT+3) Analysis / Rising fears Iraq could become haven for Al Qaida-type groups By Zvi Bar'el The report that 4,000 suicide volunteers are in Iraq is more exotic than a strategic threat at this stage, but it is raising fears of an Afghanistan-style scenario. According to Turkish and Jordanian military sources, Iraq could attract every organization and fragment group that has not found a military operating field since Afghanistan. Iraq may turn into the next focus of Al-Qaida activity, said a senior Jordanian source. Now there is a dangerous combination of radical Islamic rulings calling for jihad, a state in which every citizen carries arms, the lack of ability to distinguish between an innocent civilian and an activist in an organization, and an abundance of American targets. Iraq's long and unsecured borders enable entrance from nearly every direction - Syria, Iran, Jordan and Turkey - and every village or township has plenty of weapons and explosive charges for volunteers to stock up on. The result is already evident: When coalition soldiers have difficulty setting traffic regulations for civilians, roadblocks turn into points of unrest, food distribution becomes a dangerous military operation, and every civilian vehicle is a suspicious object. In fact, a war within a war is developing in Iraq: one involves heavy weapons, planes and missiles against the Iraqi regime's targets, while the other involves an ongoing war to secure the fighting forces and logistic divisions from sporadic attacks. A threat even greater than outside volunteers, however, is being posed by Iraqi civilians - this includes military men dressed in civil clothing and tribesmen who received arms and money from Iraqi army commanders to act against the coalition forces. Tribal heads have turned into a regular fighting force and are assigned combat missions, the Jordanian source said. They cannot beat an army, but they can harass it and detain it. More important, they are forcing the American and British forces to allocate large forces for guard and protection duty. According to reports before the war, American intelligence men tried to persuade these tribal leaders to start a civil uprising, but it appears the attempt failed. This double campaign is delaying implementation of the civil aid program that not only was supposed to transfer food, medicine and water to the population, but also was supposed to build a bridge of confidence between the coalition forces and the population. The longer the civil aid plan is delayed due to the lack of security on the main routes and the inability to reach population centers, the harder it will be for coalition forces to mobilize civil aid for the war. Iraqi propaganda is taking advantage of the struggle for the public's heart. Yesterday it presented foreign correspondents with Iraqi women enlisting as warriors in the country's cities where they received lavish meals at their positions. Iraq says there is enough food to last five or six months, while international aid organizations estimate food supplies will last only four or five weeks. The problem is not merely food distribution and humanitarian aid administration. Apparently in those townships and villages conquered, or partly dominated, by the coalition forces, the local authorities have been eliminated and there is no one overseeing public safety. Gangs of robbers and looters have been formed, and in some places, there have been reports of deadly score settling. The coalition forces lack the knowledge, ability and suitable personnel to cope with these developments. 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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
[CTRL] BBC Be Be Gone
-Caveat Lector- http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp? type=entertainmentNewslocale=en_CAstoryID=2474409 30 Mar 2003 23:39 Israeli Cable TV Companies to Remove BBC News Channel By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's three cable television companies said Sunday they would drop 24-hour news channel BBC World from their systems at the end of March due to failure to reach an agreement on a new contract. A spokeswoman for the cable companies, now in merger talks, said they had weighed getting rid of either BBC or Sky News at the end of their contracts. They decided on BBC because it refused to lower its asking price. In the last year we renewed almost all of our contracts, the spokeswoman, Anat Zisman, said. Almost every supplier, and there are about 40, cooperated and reduced their prices. They understood (Israel's economic troubles) but BBC ignored it. That was something we had to take into our decision, she said. BBC didn't renegotiate. In a statement, BBC said it was disappointed its news channel would no longer be carried on Israeli cable systems but noted that the growing digital satellite TV provider YES would still keep the news station. We are deeply disappointed that the cable operators felt it necessary to remove BBC World, particularly as its loss will have a significant impact on viewers' choice and access at a crucial time in world events, BBC said. But as a commercial channel, we were unable to accept the cable operators' proposal which wasn't commercially viable. Zisman denied the move had anything to do with BBC World's coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that some Israelis have criticized as biased against Israel, which BBC has denied. The three companies moved to cancel CNN International last year for what they called financial reasons before a last minute deal was struck. CNN's parent had accused the companies of trying to silence its coverage of the conflict, but that charge was denied. Zisman said that the financially strapped cable companies of Golden Channels, Tevel and Matav could not carry four international news networks, especially since Israel will soon be launching its own all-news station and the cable companies needed to find that channel a slot. We don't have unlimited space for all the channels, Zisman said. We will be launching other channels and need spectrum. In addition to BBC and Sky, cable systems also carry the international version of Cable News Network (CNN) and the U.S. Fox News Channel. CNBC Europe, which often switches to MSNBC News, has recently been added to the cable lineup. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] U.S. Troops Kill at Least 7 Civilians
-Caveat Lector- (CNN is ignoring the reports by the Washington Post that the warning shots were not fired or not fired soon enough. They only blindly repeat the Pentagon propaganda without question. What bullsh*t! We have no US television media to get the true picture. We have to go to Russia for a more balanced view. Amazing. --SW) U.S. Troops Kill at Least 7 Civilians NEAR KARBALA, Iraq - U.S. troops shot and killed at least seven Iraqi civilians some of them children in a vehicle at checkpoint Monday in southern Iraq (news - web sites) when the driver did not stop as ordered, U.S. Central Command said. The soldiers involved were from the 3rd Infantry Division, the same unit that lost four soldiers Saturday at another checkpoint when an Iraqi soldier dressed as a civilian detonated a car bomb. On Monday, the vehicle approached the U.S. Army checkpoint at about 4:30 p.m. Soldiers motioned for the driver to stop but were ignored, the Central Command said. They fired warning shots, which also were ignored, the U.S. military said. Troops then shot into the vehicle's engine, but the driver continued toward the checkpoint. As a last resort, the military statement said, soldiers fired into the passenger compartment. Two other civilians were wounded at the checkpoint on a highway near Karbala, according to a Pentagon (news - web sites) official and Central Command. The military is investigating, the statement said. The statement said a total of 13 women and children were in the van. But The Washington Post, whose reporter is embedded with the 3rd Infantry, said 15 passengers were in the van and 10 were killed, five of them children who appeared to be younger than age 5. One of the wounded was a man not expected to live, the Post reported on its Web site. The newspaper described the vehicle as a four-wheel-drive Toyota crammed with the Iraqis' personal belongings. Central Command said initial reports indicated the soldiers followed the rules of engagement to protect themselves. In light of recent terrorist attacks by the Iraqi regime, the soldiers exercised considerable restraint to avoid the unnecessary loss of life, the statement said. The Post report, however, quoted a 3rd Infantry Division captain as saying the checkpoint crew did not fire warning shots quickly enough. The Post describes a captain watching the incident over binoculars and ordering the soldiers by radio to fire a warning shot first and then shoot a 7.62mm machine-gun round into the vehicle's radiator. When the vehicle kept coming, the captain ordered the soldiers to stop him! About a dozen shots of 25mm cannon fire were heard from one or more of the platoon's Bradleys, the Post said. The captain then shouted over the radio at the platoon leader, You just expletive killed a family because you didn't fire a warning shot soon enough! according to the Post. It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen, and I hope I never see it again, Sgt. Mario Manzano, 26, an Army medic with Bravo Company of the division's 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, told the Post. The newspaper also described the 3rd Infantry Battalion as being jittery because of the fellow soldiers killed last week by the suicide bombing at a similar checkpoint 20 miles to the south. U.S. medics evacuated survivors of Monday's shooting to U.S. lines south of Karbala, according to the Post. One woman was unhurt. Another, who had superficial head wounds, was flown by helicopter to a U.S. field hospital when it was learned she was pregnant, the Post said. U.S. troops gave three survivors permission to return to the vehicle and recover the bodies of their loved ones, the newspaper said. Medics gave the group 10 body bags, the newspaper reported, and U.S. officials offered an unspecified amount of money to compensate them. A top-ranking Pentagon official, interviewed Monday night on PBS television, said the troops at the checkpoint absolutely did the right thing. They tried to warn the vehicle to stop, it did not stop, Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace said on The New Hour with Jim Leherer. And it was unusual that that vehicle would be full of only women and that the driver was a woman. So we need to find out why it was that they were acting the way they did. News alternatives to US war propaganda: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news081.htm http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm http://www.truthout.org/ http://www.aljazeerah.info/ http://www.overthrow.com/ http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/politics/content.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the
[CTRL] U.S. Prepared to Pay 'High Price' to Oust Saddam
-Caveat Lector- U.S. Prepared to Pay 'High Price' to Oust Saddam Mon Mar 31, 5:16 PM ET By Jim Wolf AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar (Reuters) - The United States is prepared to pay a very high price in terms of casualties to capture Baghdad and oust President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), a senior U.S. Central Command official said on Monday. We're prepared to pay a very high price because we are not going to do anything other than ensure that this regime goes away, the official told reporters, adding that U.S. casualties in the 12-day-old war had so far been fairly light. If that means there will be a lot of casualties, then there will be a lot of casualties, said the official, who spoke on condition that he not be named. There will come a time maybe when things are going to be much more shocking, he said, adding: In World War II, there would be nights when we'd lose 1,000 people. The official said the U.S. hunt for any hidden chemical, biological or nuclear weapons programs had been subordinated to the battle to oust Saddam and his associates even though concern over such deadly weapons officially drove Washington to war. We are doing everything we can to look as we go but the primary mission is now to fight, he said. And so our efforts are dedicated to doing the business that needs to be done to destroy the people that are fighting against us and get our forces where they need to get to. The official, addressing reporters at the Central Command's forward headquarters in Qatar, said the net result of reporting by correspondents with the invasion force was creating a false impression of constant, ferocious battle. Such reports, he said, created the impression of a much more difficult campaign than it was. That's not what's going on out there, he added. It's military action at places primarily of our time and choosing. The official said there were an awful lot of ominous signs that Saddam had prepared his forces to use banned chemical weapons. He listed chemical detection equipment, protection suits, new masks and atropine injectors used to protect against nerve agents, all of it found on the battlefield. To me, as a solider, it indicates that he was preparing his troops for the possibility of chemical operations, the official said. Will people hesitate to act on those orders? I can only say, I hope so. The official predicted that Saddam would probably mount a layered defense of Baghdad, with his best-trained and best-equipped troops, the Republican Guard, arrayed on the outskirts of the city. An inner cordon would most likely include officials of Saddam's ruling Baath party, militia and Republican Guard infantry, he added. The official said the United States was paying a price for having failed to protect uprisings by Shi'te Muslims in Iraq (news - web sites)'s south and Kurds in the north after a U.S.-led alliance drove Iraqi invaders from Kuwait in 1991. I think we bear a certain responsibility for what we didn't do in 1991 and it's playing itself out on the battlefield, he said. I mean you let somebody down once, you don't want to let them down twice. I guess I'm being too candid. The official said the United States had underestimated the fear instilled by Saddam loyalists and the difficulty Iraqis would have in revolting until Saddam was known to be out of the picture. We Americans aren't very good at judging what a totalitarian regime looks like, does, acts like, he said. I just don't think we're very good at it. But he said he sensed anti-Saddam popular uprisings were near in the southern city of Basra and in Nassiriya, midway to Baghdad. I think once the tipping point comes, it starts to spread, he said. News alternatives to US war propaganda: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news081.htm http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm http://www.truthout.org/ http://www.aljazeerah.info/ http://www.overthrow.com/ http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/politics/content.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A
[CTRL] War Analysis From Israel
-Caveat Lector- Tuesday, April 01, 2003 Adar2 28, 5763 Israel Time: 05:03 (GMT+3) A bushel of mistakes By Yoel Marcus No one knows if Saddam really has all those look-alikes they say he has, but it's a shame Bush doesn't have one. Maybe he could do a better job of running the war, with a lot fewer mistakes than the original Bush. Because what we are looking at now is certainly a bushel of them. Mistake No. 1: While the war against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan enjoyed international support, Bush has not been able to prove that Saddam and global terror are linked. Suspicions that he is settling a family feud has cost him the support of the world and triggered mass demonstrations. The editor of the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur wrote this week that Bush has managed to turn a despised dictator into the heroic successor of Salah a-Din. Mistake No. 2: The United States went to war without adequate intelligence. The campaign started off with 60 Tomahawks aimed at a certain building where Saddam was supposedly staying, but he walked out of there alive, well and speechifying. On top of that, there is still no information on the whereabouts of his chemical and biological weapons, which means that for the moment, the United States has yet to get its hands on the corpus delicti touted as the main excuse for going to war. U.S. intelligence also failed to predict the suicide bombings, and it was wrong in its assessment that the Iraqis would greet the Americans with glee and showers of rice, not to mention the Iraqi army turning its guns on Saddam. That hasn't happened yet. Mistake No. 3: Preparations for the war went on for half a year. With battle plans, maps crisscrossed with arrows, and attack routes shouted from every hilltop, Saddam had plenty of time to ready things on his end. One of the things he did was brainwash his troops that the target is not his regime but the Iraqi homeland. For the American soldiers, the fighting spirit of the Iraqis has come as a surprise. On TV they said this wasn't the sort of combat they were trained for. Mistake No. 4: In Afghanistan, there was a fighting opposition and an alternative regime waiting in the wings. No such opposition has been cultivated to take over when Saddam is gone. The only ones who have the power to move in are the Shi'ites, taking their cue from Iran. Israeli military intelligence wasn't joking during the Gulf War when it said a live but weakened Saddam was preferable to Shi'ites running the show from Iran to Lebanon. Mistake No. 5: U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld pooh-poohed Iraqi military strength. At first he wanted a surgical operation deploying 50,000 U.S. troops, tops. In the Gulf War, America's goal was liberating occupied Kuwait, and all the Arab countries were on its side. The current war is not a surgical operation but a large-scale occupation. There's a fatal difference between liberation and occupation. In 1967, we thought we'd liberated the territories and all of a sudden we found ourselves occupiers with the whole world down our throats. America has underestimated Iraqi endurance. When it became clear that Turkey was not about to let U.S. troops pass through its territory to open a northern front, why wasn't the offensive postponed for a few days rather than leaving the troops vulnerable to attack and far from supply lines? Now another 200,000 troops are being rushed in. Mistakes like that around here would end in a commission of inquiry. Mistake No. 6: The U.S. administration was wrong to add the goal of inaugurating a democratic regime in Iraq to its primary objective of wiping out terror. In doing so, it is biting off more than it can chew. As President Mubarak once explained to an American news broadcaster, the type of government in this part of the world - a blend of democracy and dictatorship with a dummy parliament and a secret police - is the perfect cocktail for political stability. If Jordan and Egypt were democracies in the Western sense of the word, the peace treaties with Israel would have been null and void long ago. Democracies grow. They aren't parachuted in by a Tomahawk. Mistake No. 7: Bush did not manage to win global sanction for the war on Iraq. The amount of resistance put up by the Iraqis has been a shocker for the army, and the hostility of the world media has been a shocker for the powers that be in Washington. U.S. troops were prepared for a snap war, but it's going to be a longer haul than expected. Sooner or later, victory will come. The people of Iraq do not love Saddam, and the soldiers of Iraq will not want to die to save his skin. He will disappear. But Bush's America, after its break with the world, will not be what it was. And why is that worrying? Because those same mistakes - the smugness and the bullying - could be repeated when they start on us. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing
[CTRL] Free World Alliance Alert - Second Strike
http://www.freeworldalliance.com/newsflash/2003/03newsflash0019.htm SECOND STRIKE (A Free World Alliance Alert) By: Anthony J. Hilder If George Skull Bones Bush is to maintain THE FEAR FACTOR necessary to get the American people to willingly SURRENDER their sovereignty to a NEW WORLD ORDER - the Presidents Agent Provocateurs in the CIA, ISA and FBI must STRIKE AGAIN - as they did on September 11, 2001 at a major American target. Team Alliance has received a tip that Key Agents of the Bush Administration are about to again strike New York City. If this rumor is true will they hit downtown Manhattan? Would they use NBC Weapons of Mass Destruction? - to MASS MURDER thousands of innocent Americans in the Big Apple then blame in on Saddam, Bin Laden, the Koreans or the Saudis? Will they attempt to ignite such an event underneath New York City in the Subway System? Could it come as soon as tomorrow? Could it come a week from tomorrow? Or, are these Agents of the Administration totally innocent of committing crimes against the people of this country and all the nations of the world. With a legitimate Left Right Alliance emerging and protests mounting around the world against the Bush/Blair War Policy, I suspect that they must move fast to keep the country guided in the wrong direction. Is all this madness directed by the Wall Street Hitlers, the War Lords of Washington, and Banksters from the City within the City in London who control our currency and our commerce? Have they passed the turn of no return and must now carry out such atrocities? Has it become essential that they create the illusion of an unprovoked attack from Islam in order to carry out their Master Plan. I believe that it has become obvious to both the Left and the Right that Paul Wolfowitz, William Kristol, Henry Kissinger and the entire Council on Foreign Relations crowd are working in tandem with the Managed Media Mob. To pull this off they have launched the most massive Propaganda Campaign since Joseph Goerbels pounded the war drums for Hitlers Third Reich. There can be no question that this American Evilarchy will strike again at the U.S. Constitution and our Bill of Rights. Their purpose is to set up an American Bushtapo, Marshall Law and a Police State. What does a Secret Service know about these rumors about an internal attack upon New York, Los Angeles or another American City? Is there a Federal Agency that has ordered 70,000 body bags for The Event? Would Agents of the Bush Administration actually coordinate such a mass murder in order to get the Congress to pass the second phase of the Patriot Act? If for any reason you think that this couldnt happen here, just study the striking similarities between Bush and Hitler.
Re: [CTRL] Insects thrive on Frankenstein 'pest-killing' crops
-Caveat Lector- What does caveat lector mean? Thanks -- From: Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Anomalous Images Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:45:34 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Insects thrive on Frankenstein 'pest-killing' crops -Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- - Original Message - From: here and now To: Conspiranoia Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 2:14 PM Subject: [Conspiranoia!] Insects thrive on Frankenstein 'pest-killing' crops Do you think you can upset the order of the Universe, and not pay the price? - Honeythorn Gump, the film - Legend. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved . . . - Christ, Matthew 24:22. Insects thrive on GM 'pest-killing' crops By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor 30 March 2003 Genetically modified crops specially engineered to kill pests in fact nourish them, startling new research has revealed. The research - which has taken even the most ardent opponents of GM crops by surprise - radically undermines one of the key benefits claimed for them. And it suggests that they may be an even greater threat to organic farming than has been envisaged. It strikes at the heart of one of the main lines of current genetic engineering in agriculture: breeding crops that come equipped with their own pesticide. Biotech companies have added genes from a naturally occurring poison, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), which is widely used as a pesticide by organic farmers. The engineered crops have spread fast. The amount of land planted with them worldwide grew more than 25-fold - from four million acres in 1996 to well over 100 million acres (44.2m hectares) in 2000 - and the global market is expected to be worth $25bn (£16bn) by 2010. Drawbacks have already emerged, with pests becoming resistant to the toxin. Environmentalists say that resistance develops all the faster because the insects are constantly exposed to it in the plants, rather than being subject to occasional spraying. But the new research - by scientists at Imperial College London and the Universidad Simon Rodrigues in Caracas, Venezuela - adds an alarming new twist, suggesting that pests can actually use the poison as a food and that the crops, rather than automatically controlling them, can actually help them to thrive. They fed resistant larvae of the diamondback moth - an increasingly troublesome pest in the southern US and in the tropics - on normal cabbage leaves and ones that had been treated with a Bt toxin. The larvae eating the treated leaves grew much faster and bigger - with a 56 per cent higher growth rate. They found that the larvae are able to digest and utilise the toxin and may be using it as a supplementary food, adding that the presence of the poison could have modified the nutritional balance in plants for them. And they conclude: Bt transgenic crops could therefore have unanticipated nutritionally favourable effects, increasing the fitness of resistant populations. Pete Riley, food campaigner for Friends of the Earth, said last night: This is just another example of the unexpected harmful effects of GM crops. If Friends of the Earth had come up with the suggestion that crops engineered to kill pests could make them bigger and healthier instead, we would have been laughed out of court. It destroys the industry's entire case that insect-resistant GM crops can have anything to do with sustainable farming. Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association, said it showed that GM crops posed an even worse threat to organic farming than had previously been imagined. Breed- ing resistance to the Bt insecticide sometimes used by organic farmers was bad enough, but problems would become even greater if pests treated it as a high-protein diet. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=392044 Links: Why is the NWO ramming Frankenstein foods down our throats? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Conspiranoia/message/11567/ Melchett - one of they all along http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Conspiranoia/message/10050/ --- End of forwarded message --- News alternatives to US war propaganda: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news081.htm http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm http://www.truthout.org/ http://www.aljazeerah.info/ http://www.overthrow.com/ http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/politics/content.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of
[CTRL] And you thought they only made good hockey sticks!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-629399,00.html March 31, 2003 Oil industry suppressed plans for 200- mpg car By Simon de Bruxelles THE original blueprints for a device that could have revolutionised the motor car have been discovered in the secret compartment of a tool box. A carburettor that would allow a car to travel 200 miles on a gallon of fuel caused oil stocks to crash when it was announced by its Canadian inventor Charles Nelson Pogue in the 1930s. But the carburettor was never produced and, mysteriously, Pogue went overnight from impoverished inventor to the manager of a successful factory making oil filters for the motor industry. Ever since, suspicion has lingered that oil companies and car manufacturers colluded to bury Pogues invention. Now a retired Cornish mechanic has enlisted the help of the University of Plymouth to rebuild Pogues revolutionary carburettor, known as the Winnipeg, from blueprints he found hidden beneath a sheet of plywood in the box. The controversial plans once caused panic among oil companies and rocked the Toronto Stock Exchange when tests carried out on the carburettor in the 1930s proved that it worked. Patrick Davies, 72, from St Austell, had owned the tool box for 40 years but only recently decided to clean it out. As well as drawings of the carburettor, the envelope contained two pages of plans, three test reports and six pages of notes written by Pogue. They included a report of a test that Pogue had done on his lawnmower, which showed that he had managed to make the engine run for seven days on a quart (just under a litre) of petrol. The documents also described how the machine worked by turning petrol into a vapour before it entered the cylinder chamber, reducing the amount of fuel needed for combustion. Mr Davies has had the patent number on the plans authenticated, proving that they are genuine documents. He said: I couldnt believe what I saw. I used to be a motor mechanic and I knew this was something else altogether. I was given the tool box by a friend after I helped to paint her house in 1964. Her husband had spent a lot of time in Canada. The announcement of Pogues invention caused enormous excitement in the American motor industry in 1933, when he drove 200 miles on one gallon of fuel in a Ford V8. However, the Winnipeg was never manufactured commercially and after 1936 it disappeared altogether amid allegations of a political cover-up. Dr Murray Bell, of the University of Plymouths department of mechanical and marine engineering, said he would consider trying to build a model of the Pogue carburettor. Engineers who have tried in the past to build a carburettor using Pogues theories have found the results less than satisfactory. Charles Friend, of Canadas National Research Council, told Marketplace, a consumer affairs programme: You can get fantastic mileage if youre prepared to de-rate the vehicle to a point where, for example, it might take you ten minutes to accelerate from 0 to 30 miles an hour. http://exn.ca/flightdeck/arrow/design.cfm Design June 24, 1999 The Arrow 206 on the assembly line. The Arrow was primarily a triumph of innovative design. Here we glance at a few of the aircrafts design features. For a more in-depth treatment of the Arrow's design, see Technical Aspects of the Avro CF-105 Arrow by Stephen R. Payne and A.J. Shortt of the National Aviation Museum. For detailed drawings and plans of the Arrow, visit exn.casThe Arrow Diagrams. a collection of 17 technical drawings of the Arrow. From left to right, Robert Lindley, Cheif designer, Jim Floyd, Vice President of Engineering, Guest Hake, Arrow Project Designer, and Jim Chamberlin, Cheif Aerodynamist. RCAF specifications In April 1953 the RCAF released their demanding specifications for a new supersonic interceptor, known as Air- 7-3, Design Studies of a Prototype Supersonic All-Weather Aircraft, which called for a craft that could function in the uniquely Canadian context of a vast northern wasteland. They were without parallel in the world of aviation. The twin-engined, two-seat fighter should be able to operate from a 6000 ft runway, have a range of 600 nautical miles (11000km). It was to cruise and combat at Mach 1.5 at an altitude of 50,000 feet and be capable of pulling 2g in maneuvers with no loss of speed or altitude. It was to be equipped with a sophisticated fire control system, and to have an all-missile weapon system which would operate either independently or as part of an integrated defence system. The high speed mission radius was to be at least 200 nautical miles. The time from a signal to start the engines to the aircraft's reaching an altitude of 50,000 feet and a speed of Mach 1.5 was to be less than five minutes. The turn around time on the ground was to be less than ten minutes. Airframe Design The choice of a twin-engined, two seat design was typical of the uniquely Canadian challenges the vast emptiness of
Re: [CTRL] So Called Anti American Emails
-Caveat Lector- 3/31/2003 7:50:58 PM, Bill Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, just as I had thought, mind mumbled robots. On Monday, Mar 31, 2003, at 14:25 US/Pacific, cybervoyager wrote: What troubles me is another instance of someone making an accusation or offering their new opinion without providing any background information much less examples. I consider it to insultatious to free people all over the World to not be able to consider alternatives to what the official line of reasoning is. All too often, the lies ... er ... lines ... have been repeated so often that they become truths when in fact they are just lies ... er ... lines. Again, my disclaimer follows. Buddha, the American patriot! Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] So Called Anti American Emails
-Caveat Lector- Cyber, No one is being Anti-American we are primarily expressing views other than what the public record would like us to believe. If you look deep enough, look past the propaganda, look past the smoke and mirrors you will see the truth. T From: Bill Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] So Called Anti American Emails Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:50:58 -0800 -Caveat Lector- Yup, just as I had thought, mind mumbled robots. On Monday, Mar 31, 2003, at 14:25 US/Pacific, cybervoyager wrote: In response to who is behind the anti-American messeges 1) those who are not brainwashed by the CIA CNN controlled media. 2) those who have a mind of their own 3) those who do not buy into American Imperialism 4) those who are fed up with the American Industrial Military complex. ... I am sure many could add a lot more to this list, that is just a few that come to my mind. 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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 _ MSN Instant Messenger now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_messenger.asp 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] Insects thrive on Frankenstein 'pest-killing' crops
-Caveat Lector- Reader Beware -Original Message- From: Michael Davidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 01 April, 2003 14:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Insects thrive on Frankenstein 'pest-killing' crops -Caveat Lector- What does caveat lector mean? Thanks -- From: Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Anomalous Images Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:45:34 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Insects thrive on Frankenstein 'pest-killing' crops -Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- - Original Message - From: here and now To: Conspiranoia Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 2:14 PM Subject: [Conspiranoia!] Insects thrive on Frankenstein 'pest-killing' crops Do you think you can upset the order of the Universe, and not pay the price? - Honeythorn Gump, the film - Legend. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved . . . - Christ, Matthew 24:22. Insects thrive on GM 'pest-killing' crops By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor 30 March 2003 Genetically modified crops specially engineered to kill pests in fact nourish them, startling new research has revealed. The research - which has taken even the most ardent opponents of GM crops by surprise - radically undermines one of the key benefits claimed for them. And it suggests that they may be an even greater threat to organic farming than has been envisaged. It strikes at the heart of one of the main lines of current genetic engineering in agriculture: breeding crops that come equipped with their own pesticide. Biotech companies have added genes from a naturally occurring poison, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), which is widely used as a pesticide by organic farmers. The engineered crops have spread fast. The amount of land planted with them worldwide grew more than 25-fold - from four million acres in 1996 to well over 100 million acres (44.2m hectares) in 2000 - and the global market is expected to be worth $25bn (£16bn) by 2010. Drawbacks have already emerged, with pests becoming resistant to the toxin. Environmentalists say that resistance develops all the faster because the insects are constantly exposed to it in the plants, rather than being subject to occasional spraying. But the new research - by scientists at Imperial College London and the Universidad Simon Rodrigues in Caracas, Venezuela - adds an alarming new twist, suggesting that pests can actually use the poison as a food and that the crops, rather than automatically controlling them, can actually help them to thrive. They fed resistant larvae of the diamondback moth - an increasingly troublesome pest in the southern US and in the tropics - on normal cabbage leaves and ones that had been treated with a Bt toxin. The larvae eating the treated leaves grew much faster and bigger - with a 56 per cent higher growth rate. They found that the larvae are able to digest and utilise the toxin and may be using it as a supplementary food, adding that the presence of the poison could have modified the nutritional balance in plants for them. And they conclude: Bt transgenic crops could therefore have unanticipated nutritionally favourable effects, increasing the fitness of resistant populations. Pete Riley, food campaigner for Friends of the Earth, said last night: This is just another example of the unexpected harmful effects of GM crops. If Friends of the Earth had come up with the suggestion that crops engineered to kill pests could make them bigger and healthier instead, we would have been laughed out of court. It destroys the industry's entire case that insect-resistant GM crops can have anything to do with sustainable farming. Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association, said it showed that GM crops posed an even worse threat to organic farming than had previously been imagined. Breed- ing resistance to the Bt insecticide sometimes used by organic farmers was bad enough, but problems would become even greater if pests treated it as a high-protein diet. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=392044 Links: Why is the NWO ramming Frankenstein foods down our throats? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Conspiranoia/message/11567/ Melchett - one of they all along http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Conspiranoia/message/10050/ --- End of forwarded message --- News alternatives to US war propaganda: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news081.htm http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm http://www.truthout.org/ http://www.aljazeerah.info/ http://www.overthrow.com/ http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/politics/content.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not
Re: [CTRL] So Called Anti American Emails
-Caveat Lector- I'm sorry I sent my reply prematurely by accident as I was saying ... No one is being Anti-American we are primarily expressing views other than what the public record would like us to believe. If you look deep enough,look past the propaganda, look past the smoke and mirrors you will see the truth. The whole purpose behind this discussion group is to bring the anomalies to the surface, discuss, debate and decide by means of intellectual reasoning what to do next, what actions are taken is solely up to the individual as for me, I get on my soap box so to speak and discuss these sorts of rather rather openly and believe me it has raised the ire os alot of differrent people from various backgraounds. From: Bill Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] So Called Anti American Emails Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:50:58 -0800 -Caveat Lector- Yup, just as I had thought, mind mumbled robots. On Monday, Mar 31, 2003, at 14:25 US/Pacific, cybervoyager wrote: In response to who is behind the anti-American messeges 1) those who are not brainwashed by the CIA CNN controlled media. 2) those who have a mind of their own 3) those who do not buy into American Imperialism 4) those who are fed up with the American Industrial Military complex. ... I am sure many could add a lot more to this list, that is just a few that come to my mind. 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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 _ Hotmail now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_mobile.asp 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] No 'Best-Case' Scenario
-Caveat Lector- International Perspective, by Marshall Auerback No 'Best-Case' Scenario: What Are The Alternatives? March 31, 2003 Now that the phoney war is over and the shooting has commenced in earnest, some of the pre-war fog has lifted, even as new uncertainties are being created on the ground. Prior to the commencement of actual hostilities in Iraq, little attention was focussed on the law of unintended consequences invariably arising from the day to day conduct of the war itself. Much of the debate focussed on what kind of a regime would follow and how the country's considerable resources, particularly oil, would be deployed. Implicit was the belief that once formidable American firepower was focussed on the job at hand, Saddam's Ba'athist regime would crumble quickly. Hence, it was felt that there was little point in hypothesising about the day to day ups and downs of the war, even if one expressed concern about the attendant costs. But the coalition troops now have a fight on their hands. It is becoming increasingly clear that the cries to get on with it - said in hope that much of the building uncertainty would be quickly lifted with the onset of war - has created a host of new unpredictable problems not yet discounted. What we can say about the war thus far is as follows: a best-case scenario (on which the market's initial hopes were placed) can now be safely dismissed as unrealistic. The range of post-war scenarios now looks set to take on a less congenial hue, from least bad outcome to disaster. It is important to consider a new spectrum of potential outcomes, the concomitant implications for the markets, and place these in the context of a war occurring amidst a world economy still characterised by mounting external imbalances in the US, and ongoing sluggish growth in Japan and the eurozone. First the good news: thus far, no use of chemical weapons, the oil wells remain largely intact, the casualty count has remained relatively low despite the massive use of firepower, and the battle has thus far been largely contained within the borders of Iraq. Now for the bad news: a war lasting days (the initial basis for the recent surge in global equities), rather than weeks or months is looking far less likely. In contrast to the first Gulf war, the US has clearly not opted for an incremental approach, but a higher risk dash to Baghdad, which only makes sense in the event of a prompt, decisive victory. Time is not on the side of the coalition forces in terms of winning the important battle for public opinion, which was tenuous even before the start of hostilities. There has been no damage to the oil fields, but the oil market remains very tight as evidenced by the recent move into backwardation. The commander of the UK forces in the Persian Gulf, Brian Burridge, acknowledges that the Rumaila oil field is in terrible condition and suggests that it may take at least 3 months before Iraq can start exporting again. Crude prices are therefore likely to trend higher. Despite news of the Basra uprising, there is no real evidence that the Iraqis (or, indeed, much of the Arab world) view the US/UK forces as liberators. Another obvious point of conflict are the squabbles already emerging over post-Saddam Iraq. Not just who is going to control the country - the US or the United Nations - but who is going to pick up the tab and who is going to get the contracts for rebuilding the country. Such disputes, if not quickly resolved, leave open the disturbing prospect of the victors being viewed as an illegitimate occupying power which may remain subject to persistent insurgency and guerrilla warfare. Iraq itself could fracture, notably in the north, where the Turks are now beginning to intervene in Kurdistan, against the express wishes of their American allies; the possibility of the conflict extending beyond Iraq's borders needs to be considered by the markets. The oil fields of Kirkuk are but one clear flashpoint which opens up the possibility of a widening war. As the Economist magazine noted in this week 's edition, The Americans have managed to persuade the Kurds to promise to refrain from making a lunge towards the oilfields at Kirkuk (just outside their enclave), and to agree to place their 60,000 peshmergas, or guerrillas, under American command. But the Turks still fear that the Kurds will seek to break away from Baghdad once Mr Hussein falls, and they believe that, by wading in, they can prevent this happening. They also claim that their presence will keep Iraqi Kurdish refugees (and Turkish Kurdish separatists) from flooding into Turkey. Kirkuk retains significant importance for the Kurds, as they have long viewed this major oil producing area as a potential cash cow enabling them to finance a de facto (if not de jure) Kurdistan in Northern Iraq. The Turks and Iranians clearly covet the oil fields for precisely the opposite reason: to keep the resource for themselves and suppress any
[CTRL] Time = Weather + Sand
-Caveat Lector- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-630700,00.html April 01, 2003 Heatwave adds to challenge facing troops By Paul Simons and Michael Evans IRAQ is soon to be hit by soaring temperatures and violent sandstorms, according to the latest weather predictions. This weeks forecast is for high pressure building up into a heatwave by the weekend, making conditions for the coalition troops increasingly uncomfortable. After last weeks ferocious sandstorms subsided, cooler northwest winds have brought more pleasant conditions, but towards the end of the week the wind is expected to shift to the southeast, blowing hot air in from Saudi Arabia and picking up humidity from the warm Gulf waters. By Thursday the temperature in Basra is expected to reach 30C (86F), but in the central desert and Baghdad it could hit 33C (91F), possibly even 39C (102F), on Friday. For military personnel inside vehicles and wearing chemical protection suits, the temperature would feel at least 10 degrees higher. Military sources said that every attempt was made to keep equipment cool with fans, but rising heat would cause problems, particularly for troops in older armoured vehicles that have no air conditioning. One of the workhorses of the British Army in Iraq is the Royal Engineers 432 armoured vehicle, whose air conditioning consists of keeping the flaps open. The longer the war continues, the hotter the climate will get. The troops who have been out there for several weeks will now be fully acclimatised, but even they will find it increasingly uncomfortable, especially if they have to wear chemical protection suits, one military source said. The biggest challenge would be for the US 4th Infantry Division, now beginning to arrive in Kuwait, who will have little time to acclimatise before they head to Baghdad. Although it is difficult to predict the weather beyond five days, some computer models are forecasting that Baghdad will reach the low 40s (about 106F) by Sunday. Troops will also be battling against oppressive humidity, which will be particularly bad in places such as Basra, because it is close to the sea. A shamal desert wind is also expected to arrive today, possibly whipping up localised sandstorms. These conditions serve as a warning that the window of weather opportunity for the coalition forces is steadily closing. The heat is going to become an increasing problem because Iraq is one of the hottest places in the world. From June to September temperatures regularly top 38C (100F). Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] RICE TO GIVE SECRET TALK TO ISRAEL LOBBYISTS
-Caveat Lector- CONDOLEEZZA RICE TO GIVE SECRET TALK TO ISRAEL LOBBYISTS HOWARD WITT, CHICAGO TRIBUNE - When Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, gives a speech Monday to roughly 4,000 members of an influential pro-Israel lobbying group, her remarks will be closed to the media and the public, the White House said Thursday. The decision, termed routine by the White House, is causing particular discomfort for the lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which has been battling the perception among some political commentators that Jewish groups unduly influenced the Bush administration's decision to wage war against Iraq. Some of the harshest commentaries, viewed as blatantly anti-Semitic by Jewish groups, allege that prominent Jews within the administration conspired to persuade the president to target Iraq because of the threat Saddam Hussein poses to Israel. . . But American Israel Public Affairs Committee officials say privately that they are concerned that a closed-door briefing in the midst of the Iraq war by the president's national security adviser may only add fuel to the conspiracy theories. http://new.blackvoices.com/news/bv-crice030328,0,5730941.story?coll=bv%2Dne w s%2Dblack%2Dheadlines 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] Insects thrive on Frankenstein 'pest-killing' crops
-Caveat Lector- Itkind of means that what you are reading here, or maybe about to buy into, is potentially a massive mound of B. S. --so, B.uyer be S.keptical --when reading beware! ca·ve·at (P)Pronunciation Key(kv-t, kv-, käv-ät)n. A warning or caution: A final caveat: Most experts feel that clients get unsatisfactory results when they don't specify clearly what they want (Savvy). A qualification or explanation. Law. A formal notice filed by an interested party with a court or officer, requesting the postponement of a proceeding until the filer is heard. v. ca·ve·at·ed, or ca·ve·at·ted ca·ve·at·ing, or ca·ve·at·ting ca·ve·ats or ca·ve·ats v. intr. Law To enter a caveat.v. tr. Informal To qualify with a warning or clarification: The spokesperson caveated the statement with a reminder that certain facts were still unknown. [From Latin, let him beware, third person sing. present subjunctive of cavre, to beware.] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth EditionCopyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.[Buy it] lec·tor (P)Pronunciation Key(lktr)n. A person who reads aloud certain of the scriptural passages used in a church service. A public lecturer or reader in certain universities. [Middle English, from Late Latin lctor, from Latin, reader, from lctus, past participle of legere, to read. See lecture.] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth EditionCopyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.[Buy it] lector \Lec"tor\ (l[e^]k"t[o^]r), n. [L. See Lection.] (Eccl.) A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. lector n : a public lecturer at certain universities [syn: lecturer, reader] Dave. - Original Message - From: "Michael Davidson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 6:03 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Insects thrive on Frankenstein 'pest-killing' crops -Caveat Lector- What does "caveat lector" mean? Thanks --From: Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Anomalous Images Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:45:34 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Insects thrive on Frankenstein 'pest-killing' crops -Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- - Original Message - From: here and now To: Conspiranoia Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 2:14 PM Subject: [Conspiranoia!] Insects thrive on Frankenstein 'pest-killing' crops"Do you think you can upset the order of the Universe, and not pay the price?" - Honeythorn Gump, the film - Legend. "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved . . ." - Christ, Matthew 24:22. Insects thrive on GM 'pest-killing' crops By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor 30 March 2003 Genetically modified crops specially engineered to kill pests in fact nourish them, startling new research has revealed. The research - which has taken even the most ardent opponents of GM crops by surprise - radically undermines one of the key benefits claimed for them. And it suggests that they may be an even greater threat to organic farming than has been envisaged. It strikes at the heart of one of the main lines of current genetic engineering in agriculture: breeding crops that come equipped with their own pesticide. Biotech companies have added genes from a naturally occurring poison, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), which is widely used as a pesticide by organic farmers. The engineered crops have spread fast. The amount of land planted with them worldwide grew more than 25-fold - from four million acres in 1996 to well over 100 million acres (44.2m hectares) in 2000 - and the global market is expected to be worth $25bn (£16bn) by 2010. Drawbacks have already emerged, with pests becoming resistant to the toxin. Environmentalists say that resistance develops all the faster because the insects are constantly exposed to it in the plants, rather than being subject to occasional spraying. But the new research - by scientists at Imperial College London and the Universidad Simon Rodrigues in Caracas, Venezuela - adds an alarming new twist, suggesting that pests can actually
Re: [CTRL] War, Hitler, Cheney
-Caveat Lector- "How can Satan cast out Satan?" Mark 3:23 After that last (disguised Judeo-phobic rant)article I read that you postedscrawled bysome LaRouchesycophant identifying Nietzsche with Fascism,I was left with the thought that these LaRouche dills have really not got a clue about what theyrant on and on about --particularly when they use fear-mongering terms such as"Nazism" or "Fascism". Hence, given the foibles of human nature and by their very writ, these LaRouchiteshave themselves become exponents of that which they profess to repel. They have a cultish history which exemplifies the very things which they claim to be themoral and ideological evils and ills of those whom they demonise. Interesting 'pearls' from and about the LaRouche boys: "Judaism is the religion of a caste of subjects of Christianity, entirely molded by ingenious rabbis to fit into the ideological and secular life of Christianity. In short, a self sustaining Judaism never existed and never could exist. As for Jewish culture otherwise, it is merely the residue left to the Jewish home after everything saleable has been marketed to the Goyim." "The Case of Ludwig Feuerbach", Lyndon H. LaRouche,Jr., (under pen name L. Marcus), The Campaigner, December 1973 "America must be cleansed for its righteous war by the immediate elimination of the Nazi Jewish Lobby and other British agents from the councils of government, industry, and labor." "A War-winning Strategy", Editorial, New Solidarity,March 1978 Jazz "Jazz was foisted on black Americans by the same oligarchy which had run the U.S. slave trade, with the help of the classically trained but immoral George Gershwin and the Paris-New York circuit of drug-taking avant-garde artists." "The Racist Roots of Jazz", Back Cover, The Campaigner,September-October 1980 The Beatles "The Beatles had no genuine musical talent, but were a product shaped according to British Psychological Warfare Division (Travis, and promoted in Britain by agencies which are controlled by British intelligence." "Why Your Child Became A Drug Addict" Lyndon H. LaRouche,Jr., Campaigner Special Report, Copyright 1978 Sexism and homophobia became central themes of Larouche's theories. A September 1973 editorial in the NCLC ideological journal "Campaigner" charged that "Concretely, all across the U.S.A., there are workers who are prepared to fight. They are held back, most immediately, by pressure from their wives. . . ." The problem with making the revolution, LaRouche apparently had concluded, was that women are castrating bitches. One former member left in disgust when she was told women's feelings of degradation in modern society could be traced to the physical placement of female sexual organs near the anus which caused women to confuse sex with excretion. In an August 16, 1973 internal memo, "The Politics of Male Impotence," LaRouche told his followers: "The principle source of impotence, both male and female, is the mother. . . .to the extent that my physical powers do not prevent me, I am now confident and capable of ending your political--and sexual-- impotence; the two are interconnected aspects of the same problem. . . . I am going to make you organizers--by taking your bedrooms away from you until you make the step to being effective organizers. What I shall do is to expose to you the cruel fact of your sexual impotence, male and female. . . .I shall destroy your sense of safety in the place to which you ordinarily imagine you can flee. I shall not pull you back from fleeing, but rather destroy the place to which you would attempt to flee." LaRouche also developed a fevered, comprehensive paranoid fantasy about the importance of his role in history--and a militant, new-found resolve to act upon it, wiping out all opposition to his leadership of the U.S. revolutionary movement. The result was Operation Mop-Up. Lyndon LaRouche took his sexual identity crisis into the streets. Operation Mop-up raged from May to September of 1973. LaRouche's followers in NCLC were ordered to brutally assault rivals from the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). NCLC thugs used bats, chains, and martial arts weapons in a campaign to establish "hegemony" over the American revolutionary movement. There were many injuries and some persons required hospitalization. Well nothing like the friendly charm of a baseball bat atop the noggin, undoubtedly the peaceful style promoted by LaRouchian Quaker progeny.But it was probably all very 'unintentional,' like the adage about Quaker Pacifism-- when the Quaker, upon discovering a burglar in his home said, "Friend, I would not harm thee for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot." It was inevitable, given Quaker obsession with sin and holiness, transferred
[CTRL] Follow-up to forgery investigation
-Caveat Lector- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00281.htm IAEA labels Bush fake, Powell inauthentic Saturday, 29 March 2003, 6:05 pm Column: Dennis Hans IAEA labels Bush fake, Powell inauthentic Follow-up to forgery investigation finds President and trusted aide as phony as Niger documents By Dennis Hans A mere three weeks after the International Atomic Energy Agency demonstrated conclusively that letters between Iraq and Niger about the purchase of uranium were forgeries, the U.N. body is about to prove an even more startling claim: President George W. Bush is fake. Hes a fraud, a senior IAEA official said. He presents himself as the archetypal plain- spoken Texas straight shooter, but our technical staff has discovered a number of differences between Bush and the standard model. I can state with 100 percent certainty that Bush is every bit as fake as the official documents from Niger that George Tenet and Colin Powell pretended were genuine. The plain-spoken Texas straight shooter, or PSTSS, is a well-known, highly regarded personality type. The authoritative Almanac of Stock American Political Characters offers this definition: Honest and trustworthy; keeps his promises; never takes credit for something he didnt do or for a law he actively opposed; stands by friends in their time of need rather than cutting them loose and pretending he barely knew them; admits when hes wrong; respectful rather than vindictive toward those who have an honest disagreement with him. That definition is highlighted in a working draft of the report on Bush the IAEA will present to the Security Council April 1. The authenticity of the draft, leaked to this reporter by a disgruntled aide to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Negroponte, has been confirmed by three IAEA officials. The genesis for the Bush investigation was his September 12 address to the U.N. That was quite the wakeup call, said an IAEA official from Australia. No one in our agency pays much attention to U.S. domestic politics, and we had assumed that Bush was the straight shooter he claimed to be. But that speech left us speechless. I quit counting after 25 demonstrable falsehoods. A team from the IAEA, including outside experts on character assessment, was immediately dispatched to Texas. Team members observed and interviewed an assortment of genuine PSTSSs to establish what they call baseline behaviors. They also researched Bushs tenure as Texas governor and his pronouncements on the gubernatorial and presidential campaign trails. We uncovered a pattern of behavior that proved conclusively that Bush was not a PSTSS but an FBP a full-blown phony, the Australian IAEA official said. Genuine PSTSSs operate by a code, said another IAEA analyst. Their word is their bond, and the only thing they hate worse than liars are smooth operators who communicate in such a way that, technically speaking, theyre not lying, even though the intent is to mislead. Bush is both an accomplished liar and a Clintonesque misleader. According to the IAEA working draft, Bush exhibited a pattern of lying as well as condoning lying and cheating by staffers whenever he deemed it politically necessary. He lied in 1998 to Dallas Morning News reporter Wayne Slater to hide a drunk-driving conviction. In 2000, he condoned vicious smears of John McCain and McCains wife, and he repeatedly, knowingly misrepresented his own and Al Gores economic plans to enhance his electoral prospects. As president, he has lied or misled on a host of issues, economic, domestic and foreign. IAEA has uncovered scores of documents from the early 1990s showing that Bush worked with Republican strategist Karl Rove to forge a PSTSS political persona. As the report explains, both definitions of forge are applicable, as the two men shaped and molded a persona that they knew bore no relation to the man who would embody it. Through constant repetition, Bush mastered a number of gestures and mannerisms that are common to straight shooters a firm handshake, a purposeful stride, sustained eye contact and plain-speaking jus folks lingo cleansed of the profanity that was Bushs stock in trade. The only thing missing was PSTSS substance. Pages from Roves 1993 diary (provided to the IAEA by an unidentified Rove relative) indicate that in the early training sessions Bush was able to connect with the assembled focus groups only when he believed what he was saying was true. But within months he was persuading listeners he was shooting straight even when knowingly spouting lies. So began the greatest charade in the history of American politics a charade that on April 1 the IAEA will bring crashing to an end. Bush is not the only U.S. official under IAEA investigation. The agency hopes to complete by mid-May its examination into the authenticity of Secretary of State Colin Powell. Our preliminary assessment is Powell is inauthentic, said an aide to IAEA director Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei. Powell presents
Re: [CTRL] RICE TO GIVE SECRET TALK TO ISRAEL LOBBYISTS
-Caveat Lector- What has Rice got to hide? They have made a public announcement stating that Rice will be meeting with this group, if this is so TOP SECRET what is Rice's motive in announcing the meeting I would be very interested to see what direction the Gulf War takes after this. From: flw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] RICE TO GIVE SECRET TALK TO ISRAEL LOBBYISTS Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:47:08 -0500 -Caveat Lector- CONDOLEEZZA RICE TO GIVE SECRET TALK TO ISRAEL LOBBYISTS HOWARD WITT, CHICAGO TRIBUNE - When Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, gives a speech Monday to roughly 4,000 members of an influential pro-Israel lobbying group, her remarks will be closed to the media and the public, the White House said Thursday. The decision, termed routine by the White House, is causing particular discomfort for the lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which has been battling the perception among some political commentators that Jewish groups unduly influenced the Bush administration's decision to wage war against Iraq. Some of the harshest commentaries, viewed as blatantly anti-Semitic by Jewish groups, allege that prominent Jews within the administration conspired to persuade the president to target Iraq because of the threat Saddam Hussein poses to Israel. . . But American Israel Public Affairs Committee officials say privately that they are concerned that a closed-door briefing in the midst of the Iraq war by the president's national security adviser may only add fuel to the conspiracy theories. http://new.blackvoices.com/news/bv-crice030328,0,5730941.story?coll=bv%2Dne w s%2Dblack%2Dheadlines 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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 _ MSN Instant Messenger now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_messenger.asp 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] No 'Best-Case' Scenario
-Caveat Lector- Very well thought out piece.. thank you for it. I do appreciate the thought that went into it. I find there is s much armchair political jockeying on this subject without any substance of reality based on the prevailing conditions in the arab world.. the western mindset continually fails to grasp the mechanics and mode of thinking of the arab world. Bush and the chickenhawks have sufficiently proven that. - - Original Message - From: flw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 9:25 PM Subject: [CTRL] No 'Best-Case' Scenario -Caveat Lector- International Perspective, by Marshall Auerback No 'Best-Case' Scenario: What Are The Alternatives? March 31, 2003 Now that the phoney war is over and the shooting has commenced in earnest, some of the pre-war fog has lifted, even as new uncertainties are being created on the ground. Prior to the commencement of actual hostilities in Iraq, little attention was focussed on the law of unintended consequences invariably arising from the day to day conduct of the war itself. Much of the debate focussed on what kind of a regime would follow and how the country's considerable resources, particularly oil, would be deployed. Implicit was the belief that once formidable American firepower was focussed on the job at hand, Saddam's Ba'athist regime would crumble quickly. Hence, it was felt that there was little point in hypothesising about the day to day ups and downs of the war, even if one expressed concern about the attendant costs. But the coalition troops now have a fight on their hands. It is becoming increasingly clear that the cries to get on with it - said in hope that much of the building uncertainty would be quickly lifted with the onset of war - has created a host of new unpredictable problems not yet discounted. What we can say about the war thus far is as follows: a best-case scenario (on which the market's initial hopes were placed) can now be safely dismissed as unrealistic. The range of post-war scenarios now looks set to take on a less congenial hue, from least bad outcome to disaster. It is important to consider a new spectrum of potential outcomes, the concomitant implications for the markets, and place these in the context of a war occurring amidst a world economy still characterised by mounting external imbalances in the US, and ongoing sluggish growth in Japan and the eurozone. First the good news: thus far, no use of chemical weapons, the oil wells remain largely intact, the casualty count has remained relatively low despite the massive use of firepower, and the battle has thus far been largely contained within the borders of Iraq. Now for the bad news: a war lasting days (the initial basis for the recent surge in global equities), rather than weeks or months is looking far less likely. In contrast to the first Gulf war, the US has clearly not opted for an incremental approach, but a higher risk dash to Baghdad, which only makes sense in the event of a prompt, decisive victory. Time is not on the side of the coalition forces in terms of winning the important battle for public opinion, which was tenuous even before the start of hostilities. There has been no damage to the oil fields, but the oil market remains very tight as evidenced by the recent move into backwardation. The commander of the UK forces in the Persian Gulf, Brian Burridge, acknowledges that the Rumaila oil field is in terrible condition and suggests that it may take at least 3 months before Iraq can start exporting again. Crude prices are therefore likely to trend higher. Despite news of the Basra uprising, there is no real evidence that the Iraqis (or, indeed, much of the Arab world) view the US/UK forces as liberators. Another obvious point of conflict are the squabbles already emerging over post-Saddam Iraq. Not just who is going to control the country - the US or the United Nations - but who is going to pick up the tab and who is going to get the contracts for rebuilding the country. Such disputes, if not quickly resolved, leave open the disturbing prospect of the victors being viewed as an illegitimate occupying power which may remain subject to persistent insurgency and guerrilla warfare. Iraq itself could fracture, notably in the north, where the Turks are now beginning to intervene in Kurdistan, against the express wishes of their American allies; the possibility of the conflict extending beyond Iraq's borders needs to be considered by the markets. The oil fields of Kirkuk are but one clear flashpoint which opens up the possibility of a widening war. As the Economist magazine noted in this week 's edition, The Americans have managed to persuade the Kurds to promise to refrain from making a lunge towards the oilfields at Kirkuk (just outside their enclave), and to agree to place their
Re: [CTRL] NBC TV fires Arnett for telling truth about Iraq
-Caveat Lector- 3/31/2003 3:28:41 PM, Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- NBC announced Monday that both NBC and National Geographic severed their relationships with veteran war correspondent Peter Arnett. Arnett was none too popular during the 1st Gulf War (as if it ever ended) either. He was one who chose to remain in Baghdad to report from their side. It's not a matter of being on or taking their side; it's where the story is. Don't forget that he was one of three people (John Holloman and Bernie Shaw being the others) who hung out on the roof of the Al Rasheed hotel in Baghdad while the Americans laid waste to that city in Jan 1991. I would suggest he's been under stress and pressure once or twice before. Now, this is not to say that he -- like all other mediacratisers -- should be without scrutiny. Even he admits he has had minders. ~~~ The following is mirrored from its source at: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=263972 contrassID=2subContrassID=4sbSubContrassID=0listSrc=Y The Goebbels of Saddam's regime by Peter Arnett, Haaretz.com, HaaretzEnglish Edition, 25 February 2003 It all started with the baby-milk plant story. Up to then, the Bush administration had been enthusiastically supportive of CNN's coverage of the 1991 bombing of Baghdad. Our live reports from the ninth floor of the al-Rashid Hotel suggested that the numerous cruise missiles and bombs daily hammering the Iraqi capital were finding their designated targets, namely command and control centers, military barracks and Saddam Hussein's palaces and bunkers. Our reports seemed to confirm Pentagon assessments that civilian casualties were nil. But on Day 4, bombs rained down on an industrial plant on the outskirts of Baghdad, and the honeymoon was over. I was driven to the location by my Iraqi minder along with a WTN film crew. We pulled off the highway past a large, faded poster of Saddam Hussein comforting a distressed child. The entrance bore a crudely lettered sign reading baby milk plant in English and Arabic. The structure was barely recognizable as a building. The sheet aluminum walls and roof had been ripped off and scattered in the yard. The steel roof girders were twisted and blackened. The machinery underneath was a tangled molten pile. The plant had been empty of workers at the time. Iraqi officials said the factory produced 20 tons of milk powder per day for the children of the capital. They showed us plastic spoon-making machines with their output scattered. I was walking up to my ankles in white powder. Documents lying around described the product as a mixture of malt, sugar extract and milk. I picked up an armful of intact packets to distribute to kids back at our hotel. It looked like an innocent production plant to me. That night I reported to CNN on my satellite phone what the Iraqis told me: that the plant was the only source of infant formula in Baghdad and was not a legitimate target. And I went to bed. When I awakened in the morning, I tuned in to BBC radio, and discovered that I had reported one of the most controversial stories of my career. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater called me a liar. President George Bush himself had watched the report, Fitzwater declared, and was not pleased. The installation was not producing milk powder, as the Iraqis claimed, but was a production facility for biological weapons, said Fitzwater. And as for CNN reporter Peter Arnett, he was a conduit for Iraqi disinformation. So began a war of words. The baby-milk plant was just the first of an avalanche of images from inside Iraq that seemed to give the lie to the Pentagon's repeated boasts that its new generation of weaponry was mistake-proof. Day 8, three houses and their inhabitants were destroyed in Baghdad. Day 9, several city blocks were bombed in a town north of Baghdad, with many dozens dead. Day 10, more bombings of homes in Najaf. CNN was bearing the brunt of official wrath because it was regularly scooping the competition and attracting large audiences with its coverage. Coalition military commander General Norman Schwarzkopf solved his moral dilemma by turning off CNN in his command bunker. The Bush administration, well aware that America's viewers were fixated on the war coverage, orchestrated an elaborate campaign of character assassination. I was denounced on the floor of Congress. Representative Laurence Coughlin of Pennslyvania said: Arnett is the Joseph Goebbels of Saddam Hussein's Hitler-like regime. The CNN president received a letter from 34 congressmen who charged that my coverage gives a demented dictator a propaganda mouthpiece to over 100 nations. Conservative members of the British Parliament compared me to turncoats of the Second World War. And there was much more. My critics' rationale was that my observations were either direct lies or, if they were backed up by video, then the incidents themselves had been fabricated
[CTRL] In the eyes of the faithful, God is behind America
-Caveat Lector- Example of the mainstream, apostate, IRS/BATF approved and registered, so-called Christian Churches who think that God is behind America, in total contradition to scripture. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: -Revelation 3:17 - In the eyes of the faithful, God is behind America By Marcus Warren in Louisville (Filed: 31/03/2003) http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/31/wgod31.xmlsSheet=/news/2003/03/31/ixnewstop.html/news/2003/03/31/wgod31.xml God is good and so are President George W Bush and America's war on Iraq, the congregation at one of the nation's biggest places of worship agreed at the weekend. Thoughts and prayers were with US servicemen in the Gulf but, in case anyone was unaware of the battles raging half a world away, reminders filled the cavernous Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Yellow ribbons were wrapped around the columns outside the main entrance and pinned to the lapels of many of the thousands of believers who packed the auditorium for the Saturday evening service. Before entering the hall for worship that mixed scripture, communion and song, the faithful passed a stand proclaiming We're Praying for Our Troops and collecting offerings for the soldiers ranging from foot powder to boiled sweets. From the lectern Bob Russell, the minister who presides over 18,000 worshippers every weekend, used the war and the controversy it has provoked to illustrate his sermon on the Book of Job. The criticism of Mr Bush by such Hollywood luminaries as Barbra Streisand, Martin Sheen and Michael Moore was an example of what the Lord had dismissed, when coming from Job, as words without knowledge, he said. They have a right to dissent. But they have no right to be disrespectful, he added, to the approval of his congregation, many of them young couples with children. The church newspaper carried the names, ranks and prayer concerns of servicemen with links to the Louisville congregation. Most of the concerns consisted of one word: safety. But one marine private now in Iraq had dictated a long list to his mother on the telephone, among them that I will stay focused; that I will hear commands closely and understand them. Set in the suburban sprawl of Kentucky's biggest city, the megachurch complex could not be further removed from the deserts of the Middle East. Nevertheless, the conviction that the military's fight is their fight, too, is strong. Such turbulent times were a reminder that we should live every day as though it was our last, one minister insisted. The Rev Dave Stone spoke of Mr Bush's religious faith, saying it was a source of comfort to me. Soldiers' wives and relatives from the church have their own counselling group, and an informal support network to help to ease their anxieties. It's a throbbing hurt that is always there but it doesn't hurt as much when I'm at church, said Julie Brock, whose twin brother is a marine in Iraq. Here, 20 to 30 people tell me every day that they prayed for us both. Whatever the cost in human lives and the length of time the war was to take, the US cause was noble and just, members of the congregation said. I believe that there is moral clarity in what we are doing, said Jack Coffee after the service. I have no misgivings about good or evil. If evil rises up, unless we knock it down, it will consume us all. --- -iNFoWaRZ It is the Whore that rides the Beast. 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] JUDICIAL WATCH AGAINST RICHARD PERLE
-Caveat Lector- I am sure they will both get good wall street lawyers and weasle their way of it. Same old story. - Original Message - From: Judicial Watch To: Judicial Watch Infonet Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:31 AM Subject: JUDICIAL WATCH FILES FORMAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST RICHARD PERLE For Immediate ReleaseMar 31, 2003 Contact: Press Office202-646-5172 JUDICIAL WATCH FILES FORMAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST RICHARD PERLE, BILL CLINTON, TERRY MCAULIFFE AND WILLIAM COHEN OVER THEIR ROLES IN GLOBAL CROSSINGS PENDING SALESenior Officials Apparent Conflicts of Interest Must Be Thoroughly InvestigatedHong Kong Tycoon Chinese Agent, Li Ka-Shing, Seeks Control of Bankrupt Telecommunications Firm(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that it has filed formal complaints against Defense Advisory Board Member and former Chairman Richard Perle, former President Bill Clinton, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and former Clinton administration Defense Secretary, and Global Crossing board member, William S. Cohen, with the Department of Justice, the Office of Government Ethics and the Inspectors General of the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security. The formal complaint cites apparent violations of government ethics regulations as well as federal laws governing prohibited conflicts of financial interests. Mr. Perle served as Foreign Policy Advisor during the Presidential Campaign of George W. Bush. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld subsequently appointed Mr. Perle in 2001 as Chairman, Defense Policy Board - a position that Mr. Perle occupied until March 27, 2003. Mr. Perle, although no longer Chairman, remains an active Member of Defense Policy Board. As an Advisor to Global Crossing, Mr. Perles fee, as outlined in bankruptcy proceedings, is $725,000, including an unusual contingent payment of $600,000 if Global Crossing succeeds in finally obtaining approval of its sale to the Chinese Company, Hutchison Whampoa. In his March 27, 2003 resignation letter as Board Chairman to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Mr. Perle reportedly claimed that he would not accept compensation from Global Crossing. Irrespective of Mr. Perles claims and reported pledges concerning remuneration, Mr. Perle clearly served the corporate interests of Global Crossing while simultaneously acting as Chairman of the Defense Advisory Board. Global Crossing is slated for sale to Hong Kong billionaire and communist Chinese agent Li Ka-Shings Hutchison Whampoa Corporation the shipping conglomerate that took control of the Panama Canal in 1999.Judicial Watch has also launched an investigation of Mr. Perles advisory role with Loral Space and Communications, concerning accusations that the firm improperly transferred rocket technology to China, as reported in the March 28, 2003 New York Times article, Adviser to U.S. Aided Maker of Satellites.There appears to be a lot of dirty fingerprints all over this Global Crossing deal. Regardless of party affiliation, these officials both past and current -- need to be thoroughly investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law if the conflicts of interest and pocket-lining can be substantiated. If personal greed trumped their duty to the nations security then they belong in prison period, stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.To view a copy of the complaint, click here. © Copyright 1997-2003, Judicial Watch, Inc.--- You are currently subscribed to infonet as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Fwd: [ctrl] Cockburn: From Plain Sailing to Where the Hell Are We? to Up the Creek
-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://archive.jab.org/[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- http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn03272003.html March 27, 2003 CounterPunch Diary From "Plain Sailing" to "Where the Hell Are We?" to "Up the Creek" By ALEXANDER COCKBURN Barely into its second week Operation Easy Sailing is in big trouble. One simple way of measuring just how big is by adding up all the time you hear the phrases all according to Plan, and the Our strategy is sound. Thats the captain of the Titanic speaking. At the military level the US/UK force has been forced to suspend its advance on Baghdad. Every single dire prediction of the critics is coming to pass. The stretched lines of communication and supply running up west of the Euphrates past Nasiriya and Najaf, or further east , west of the Tigris past Basra towards Amarah are proving vulnerable to determined harassment by Iraqi forces. The Apache helicopters have taken a fearful beating, as have the Abrams tanks. The Shock and Awe overture saw around 400 cruise missiles, running at half a million dollars a copy achieve less than significant damage.Already theres fierce hand-to-hand infighting inside the Pentagon, as Defense Secretary Rumsfelds numerous enemies in the military seek out favored journalist to inflict punitive retaliation for what they describe as his arrogance and folly. Those old lines from the Vietnam era, such as light at the end of the tunnel, credibility gap and the other scarred veterans are back in active service. Politically, the damage is equally, if not more serious. The entire strategy of Bush and his counselors, the relatively small military force, the roll north (or roll south until the Turkish people, bolstered by the world peace movement decreed otherwise) scenario, were premised on disintegration of the Saddam regime and amiable surrender of all enemy forces once the first missiles fell on empty palaces in Baghdad and tanks rolled across the Iraqi border towards Umm Qasr. That political strategy lies in ruins as instructive as the gravestones of the British force caught and wiped out at Kut by the Turks almost a century ago. From Umm Qasr through to Najaf towards Baghdad Iraqis are resisting fiercely. The credibility of the Iraqi exiles, on call as figleaf leaders has dwindled to zero. Back in the homelands of the US/UK invaders the peace movement proved its durability, with huge demonstrations. Much of the world is reveling in Imperial Reverses, and that in itself is an event of vast political significance. The supposed news monopoly of the American Empire has similarly collapsed. The European audience of subscribers to Al Jazeera surged by four million in the first week. Anyone with a laptop can find their way to informed sources, such as the daily bulletins of Russian military intelligence, or the knowledgeable commentary of US veterans, that demolish the parrot babble of the Embedded Ones. Even the core Spokesfolk of Empire like the Washington Post are facing reality. Heres how the Washington Post addresses the political elites today, with a report by Thomas Ricks: March 27 Despite the rapid advance of Army and Marine forces across Iraq over the past week, some senior U.S. military officers are now convinced that the war is likely to last months and will require considerably more combat power than is now on hand there and in Kuwait, senior defense officials said yesterday. The combination of wretched weather, long and insecure supply lines, and an enemy that has refused to be supine in the face of American military might has led to a broad reassessment by some top generals of U.S. military expectations and timelines. Some of them see even the potential threat
[CTRL] [Fwd: Drunken Bush chews out generals for losing 'his war']
-Caveat Lector- This one is a MUST READ! Forward: This piece is quite extraordinary. If only the scenario he outlines could come to pass! The author, Wayne Madsen, is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and columnist. He wrote the introduction to Forbidden Truth. Madsen can be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] excerpt: But I have a better idea for our brave troops who are being mishandled by the crowd that incrementally seized unconstitutional power between January 20, 2001 and in the weeks after September 11th. Instead of being forced to offer prayers for Bush and his cabal, their commanders should seek a pledge of their support for a military action to return the United States to its people. [READ ON!] March 31, 2003 Berating the Generals The Siege of Washington By WAYNE MADSEN http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen03312003.html March 25, 2003 may serve as a crucial turning point in American history. On that day, George W. Bush displayed his increasingly erratic and irresponsible behavior before America's top military leadership. The friction between Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on one hand and the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the other was evident at the afternoon Pentagon press briefing. This reporter had the pleasure of meeting and chatting with Joint Chiefs Chairman General Richard Myers at a swank reception for Afghan leader Hamid Karzai a few months after U.S. troops launched Operation Enduring Freedom against the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Myers demonstrated that he is an affable individual and not one to bask in the conceitedness of constant media attention. Trailing the pompous Rumsfeld into the briefing room, Myers' jaws were tight and his lips were pursed as he stared straight down at his notes during Rumsfeld's opening statements. I was in the military long enough to know when someone has either just been chewed out or has had it out with his superiors. It doesn't matter if you're wearing four stars on your shoulders or one stripe on your sleeves, the telltale signs are always same. Myers, on two occasions, appeared to differ with Rumsfeld. One was on the issue of Iran's conduct during the war. Myers said Iran had done nothing to make him unhappy. Rumsfeld, however, chastised Iran for supporting and training Iraqi Shia militia in Iraq. In a few days, Rumsfeld obliquely warned both Iran and Syria of the potential for U.S. retaliation against them. When Myers was asked about Iraq's possible use of chemical weapons, the general responded that no such weapons had yet been used. Rumsfeld indicated that he expected Iraq would use chemical weapons and warned that there was a retaliatory plan to deal with such an occurrence. The gulf between Rumsfeld and his neo-con advisers is now wider than both the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Add to this the increasingly nasty and un-presidential demeanor of George Bush. Pentagon insiders report that Bush, in a not-too-rare Hitleresque moment, used his March 25 visit to the Pentagon to berate the Joint Chiefs for the conduct of HIS war. Moreover, Rumsfeld did nothing to defend his generals and admirals from such a verbal beating by a draft dodging and often AWOL member of a posh and cozy Texas Air National Guard unit. Rumsfeld, from the outset of his Pentagon stint, treated his generals and admirals like dog crap. They were not even invited to Pentagon planning meetings. These were reserved for Rumsfeld's coterie of neo-con gargoyles like Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, outside and well-paid consultants, and wet-nursed GOP political hacks. Bush, who fancies himself a born-again Christian, is actually a foul-mouthed and erratic alcoholic. For example, the pretzel incident had nothing to do with a pretzel. While watching a football game at the White House, the leader of the free world got so drunk he fell right on his face and blamed it on his inability to remember his mother's missive about chewing all one's food before swallowing. Such alibis and ruses are the trademarks of drunks. During the presidential campaign Bush called a New York Times reporter a major league asshole. In 1986, a clearly drunk and disorderly Bush told The Wall Street Journal's Al Hunt, You fucking son of a bitch . . . I saw what you wrote. We're not going to forget this. The rich frat boy was irate about an article Hunt wrote about Bush's father. Time magazine is reporting that during a March 2002 briefing for three senators by Condoleezza Rice, Bush poked his head into a White House meeting room and bellowed, Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out! But for Bush to vent his spleen on America's military leadership defies logic and clearly demonstrates that he is mentally unfit for his office. Never mind the fact that Army Chief of Staff, General Eric Shinseki, was harangued by Rumsfeld and his chickenhawks for suggesting not enough troops were provided for the invasion of Iraq. The head of the U.S. Army's V Corps, Lieutenant General
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: CAS: British Link Iraq to al-Qaeda
-Caveat Lector- klewis wrote: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/3/28/90101.shtml British intelligence officers have learned that up to a dozen al-Qaeda volunteers were fighting alongside the pro-Baghdad guerrilla forces in As Zubaya, a town outside Basra. Russian intel reports that since Bush's illegal conquest of Iraq began, Islamic radicals from all over Eurasia have come to Iraq to fight alongside the so-called pro-Baghdad guerrilla forces. The fact that some of these Islamic radicals that have come to Iraq to fight alongside the pro-Baghdad guerrilla forces happen to al-Qaeda should surprise no one. Obviously, al-Qaeda members in Iraq are not fighting for Saddam as much as they're fighting against Anglo-American imperialism in the Middle East. They would be fighting alongside guerrilla forces if this illegal invasion had taken place in Iran, Syria, Libya, etc., or any of the Mid-East countries on the 'neocon' wish list. Implying that al-Qaeda presence in war-torn Iraq signifies a link between Saddam and 9-11 is absurd. Hell, its been a year and a half since 9-11 and I'm still waiting for them to present any type of compelling evidence that links al-Qaeda itself to 9-11! 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] Tony Blair - Fooled Him Once, Fooled Him Twice, and Yet Again
-Caveat Lector- Tony Blair was been conned by Bush and he's been had once again. Poor Tony is now left alone to watch how british are used for target practice and his whole political career is shot. All he has left is a few empty promises from the Bush family business partners. What's he to do? Admit to the British in public that he was had? That he believed a liar and acted in good faith? Or pretend that he still believes his cause is just, even though the whole world sees him for what he is. A conned man standing naked! The honorable thing would be to admit he was fooled and call back the British troops, stop committing any more war crimes without justice or just cause. Does Britain's Tony Blair have any guts left to stand up to his own words, or will he poolde-along, yapping when his master tells him to? Can Britain be said to be an independent state at all in this stage? I do not think so any more. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-626898,00.html March 29, 2003 Are we witnessing the madness of Tony Blair? Matthew Parris Most of us have experienced the discomfort of watching a friend go off the rails. At first his oddities are dismissed as eccentricities. An absurd assertion, a lunatic conviction, a sudden enthusiasm or unreasonable fear, are explained as perhaps due to tiredness, or stress, or natural volatility. We do not want to face the truth that our friend has cracked up. Finally we can deny it no longer ? and then it seems so obvious: the explanation, in retrospect, of so much we struggled to reconcile. Sometimes the realisation comes fast and suddenly. It did for me at university when my Arab fellow student Ahmed, who for months had been warning me of the conspiracies of which he suspected we might be victims, pulled me into his room to show me the death-ray he could see shining through his window. It was somebody?s porch-light. Likewise, the madness of King George III, which came in spells, was undeniable when it came. At other times the realisation is a slow, sad dawning of the obvious. Sometimes it is a friend about whom we worry. Sometimes it is a prime minister. I will accept the charge of discourtesy, but not of flippancy, when I ask whether Tony Blair may now have become, in a serious sense of that word, unhinged. Genius and madness are often allied, and nowhere is this truer than in political leadership. Great leaders need self-belief in unnatural measure. Simple fraudsters are rumbled early, but great leaders share with great confidence tricksters a capacity to be more than persuaded, but inhabited, by their cause. Almost inevitably, an inspirational leader spends important parts of his life certain of the uncertain, convinced of the undemonstrable. So do the mentally ill. It can be extremely difficult to distinguish between a person who is sticking bravely to a difficult cause whose truth is far from obvious, and a person who is going crazy. It took us quite a while to explain David Icke?s beliefs in the only useful way in which they could be explained ? and he was on the political fringe. A national leader commands vastly more respect and will be given the benefit of many more doubts than Mr Icke ever was. Colleagues, commentators and the wider public are usually late to face up to evidence that the boss has gone berserk, even though the evidence may have been around for quite some time. There are good reasons for this. To call somebody mad is bad manners even when fair comment. To tackle your opponent?s argument by questioning his sanity can look like a childish copping- out from sensible discussion. How can the victim answer back? But the charge is sometimes germane. It may become the only thing worth considering. Winston Churchill had lost the plot long before the proper public discussion this deserved got under way. And I myself believe that one of my political heroes, Margaret Thatcher, began to lose her mental balance well before the end, and before those close to her allowed themselves to consider this explanation of her behaviour. For me the suspicion first dawned when the then Prime Minister devised for the Lord Mayor?s banquet a dress with such an extravagant train that she needed someone to help her with it into the Mansion House. This was when she was beginning to refer to herself as ?we?, and treating friends who warned her of her fate as treacherous. A telltale of incipient insanity is when the victim begins to take a Manichaean view of the universe. There are good reasons why those at the top can go quietly bonkers before their inferiors wake up to the warning signs. The first is obviously deference. ?The Madness of King Tony? might ? I accept ? seem an impertinent way of discussing our leader during a war when, whatever application it may have in Tony Blair?s case, it applies to Saddam Hussein in spades. Beyond deference, however, those at the top of the pyramid who are anxious to impress us with truths which are not obvious have another
Re: [CTRL] So Called Anti American Emails (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, cybervoyager wrote: -Caveat Lector- In response to who is behind the anti-American messeges 1) those who are not brainwashed by the CIA CNN controlled media. 2) those who have a mind of their own 3) those who do not buy into American Imperialism 4) those who are fed up with the American Industrial Military complex. ... I am sure many could add a lot more to this list, that is just a few that come to my mind. I think those are the real pro-Americans here. Anti-Americans are those who are running the US Government right now. They have no real patriotism in their blood, They do not work for the good of America, but for their own personal profit. It is indeed their only motive. 1) They are purposefully provoking the whole Arab world to conduct terrorist attacks against America. It is indeed their very business plan. Published in the open even. 2) They are aggressively working to make a minority of a few rich people much richer. 3) They are actively ripping the legislature apart and promoting polluting for short term profits of a few corporations, and in the process destroying the American environment. 4) They are covering up major corporate crime and past crimes. 5) They are sabotaging the investigations of 9-11. True patriots work for the good of all of America, and that means ALL AMERICANS. The cowardly liars leading the country, are working for the DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA. Indeed, they have a history of shirking their patriotic duty, a history of inside dealings and outright governmental fraud (Bush Energy Policy Meetings) costing BILLIONS to California. True American patriots are ashamed of their conduct and for a reason. The fact that the true Patriots of America are seeing them for the lying bastards that they are, and are brave enough to stand up and say so, should make you proud. Open your own eyes if you are brave enough to stand up for the values and constitution which you swear and vow to defend. Be true to those words, your conscience clear, if you dare. If you want to see a real anti-american you can go meet CNN journalists or some other organization devoted to spreading lies and covering up the truth from the Americans. America, living true to it's values should have nothing to fear from seeing the truth, for it would have nothing to be ashamed of. America's current government has nothing but lies and contempt to offer the world, for it has nothing but conduct and values to be ashamed of. So if you are looking for REAL ANTI-AMERICANS, look no further than the Prince of Lies leading the Cabbal of War in the name of Christ. We have only TRUE PATRIOTS here. - Original Message - From: Flash Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 5:03 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Depleted Uranium Makes Good Mutant-Slaves - I am new to this list. Some of the messages on this list are treasonous and anti-American. I wonder who is behind these messages? /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_ /_/_/_/_/_/_/ NO BLOOD FOR OIL! - DROP BUSH, NOT BOMBS! - PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS! SUPPORT THE TROOPS BY BRINGING THEM HOME! 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] Epidemic Kills Scientist Who Helped Discover It
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48905-2003Mar29.html Epidemic Kills Scientist Who Helped Discover It By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 30, 2003; Page A01 Carlo Urbani, the scientist who discovered the first clue that a dangerous new microbe was beginning to spread around the globe, succumbed yesterday in a Bangkok hospital bed to the frightening disease he alerted the world to. It was Urbani, an Italian epidemiologist at the World Health Organization's office in Hanoi, who first responded last month when anxious hospital officials phoned to report that a sick U.S. businessman was infecting doctors and nurses with a strange pneumonia. Within days, Urbani himself fell ill. Carlo was the one who very quickly saw that this was something very strange. When people became very concerned in the hospital, he was there every day, said Pascale Brudon, the WHO representative in Hanoi. We are all devastated. The pneumonia, now known as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, has become the focus of a worldwide health emergency. Yesterday, U.S. health officials warned against any unnecessary travel to Hanoi, Hong Kong, Singapore and all of China, and outlined stringent new measures to keep infected people from spreading the sometimes fatal disease. We are concerned about the possibility of airborne transmission, said Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We are very concerned about the spread of this virus. We may be in the very early stages of what could be a much larger problem. The disease is the first dangerous new infection that spreads directly from one person to another to emerge in decades. The story of how it surfaced, and how Urbani and the rest of the world responded, has profound implications for humanity's readiness to fight dangerous new germs, whether they evolve naturally or are grown deliberately in a bioterrorist's lab. If there's an influenza pandemic, or if there's a deliberate release of a biological weapon, there will be many valuable lessons from this experience, said David L. Heymann, head of WHO's communicable diseases program. This is really the first time we've attempted something on this scale, and the global community has pulled together. By the time the sick Chinese American businessman, Johnny Cheng, made it to the French Hospital in Hanoi on Feb. 26, he was already deathly ill. It looked like pneumonia, but Cheng's high fever, cough and other symptoms worried doctors. Cheng had just flown in from Hong Kong, where a father and son had recently died from the bird flu, a deadly bug that experts long feared might spark a pandemic rivaling the Spanish flu of 1918-19, which killed as many as 50 million people. Urbani called his regional supervisor in Manila. He was reporting a probable case of bird flu, said WHO spokesman Dick Thompson, who happened to be where the phone rang on March 5. He was sitting at the desk of a colleague who had been dispatched to Beijing to persuade officials to be less secretive about a mysterious outbreak in Guangdong province in southern China. Since early February, WHO had been hearing reports that hundreds of people were getting sick with what sounded like a strange form of pneumonia. Officials worried that it, too, might be bird flu. Unbeknownst to health authorities at the time, Cheng, 48, had traveled in Guangdong and is believed to have stayed at the Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong during the same time as a 64-year-old Chinese professor who had been treating patients in Guangdong. The professor, in Hong Kong for a wedding, had checked into Room 911. Investigators later determined that he infected 12 other guests in the hotel, perhaps by coughing while waiting for an elevator. Among them were several tourists, who then spread the disease to Singapore, Hong Kong, Toronto and elsewhere. The professor died in a Hong Kong hospital after infecting two family members and four hospital workers. But in early March, neither Urbani nor anyone else knew any of that. So over the next week, Carlo kept going back to the hospital in Hanoi to take samples, Thompson said. Carlo kept going back and working with the staff there, who themselves started to get sick. And then Carlo got sick. As the number of sick hospital workers in Hanoi mounted, WHO alerted its Global Outbreak and Response Network, an international collaboration set up at its Geneva headquarters three years ago specifically to spot the first signs of what could be the next pandemic. As part of the network, a Canadian computer program scours everything from newspaper reports to Internet chat rooms every day, searching for telltale clues. Every morning we have a meeting in a large conference room. We discuss whatever reports of outbreaks have come in: 'How they are being tracked? What's being done about them?' Thompson said. With the number of sick hospital workers in Hanoi rising,
[CTRL] US soldiers in Iraq asked to pray for Bush
-Caveat Lector- A search on In Touch Ministries' founder http://www.intouch.org/inside/about_us/biography_76833.html Dr. Charles F. Stanley, comes up with this page: http://store.falwell.com/store/bio.asp?cid=939 More below ... - jt http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s819685.htm US soldiers in Iraq asked to pray for Bush Last Update: Sunday, March 30, 2003. 2:55am (AEST) They may be the ones facing danger on the battlefield, but US soldiers in Iraq are being asked to pray for President George W Bush. Thousands of marines have been given a pamphlet called A Christian's Duty, a mini prayer book which includes a tear-out section to be mailed to the White House pledging the soldier who sends it in has been praying for Bush. I have committed to pray for you, your family, your staff and our troops during this time of uncertainty and tumult. May God's peace be your guide, says the pledge, according to a journalist embedded with coalition forces. The pamphlet, produced by a group called In Touch Ministries, offers a daily prayer to be made for the US president, a born-again Christian who likes to invoke his God in speeches. Sunday's is Pray that the President and his advisers will seek God and his wisdom daily and not rely on their own understanding. Monday's reads Pray that the President and his advisers will be strong and courageous to do what is right regardless of critics. Falwell sent this out (below) recently - being on that email list is interesting, definitely revealing. Falwell is also the owner of a Charles F. Stanley book store, the link found on an earlier search, the guy who founded the ministries who wrote and printed the pamphlets exhorting troops to pray for the president every day and send evidence of doing this in the form of a daily pledge back to command. I also notice that Falwell does not ask for prayers for the innocent Iraqi people who were brutalized under Saddam (with the tacit and sometimes outright approval of the US), and who are also currently being killed by errant and other munitions. I'm curious if the pamphlet effort was one of Bush's faith-based initiatives. I certainly don't have a problem with Christianity per se, as there are people who practice it with a stunning humility and compassion, but televangelists are about the scum of the earth as far as I'm concerned. Are these the people he hooked up with when Bush got sober and found God? We all knew it was some born-again thing, but is it connected to Falwell? I'm really curious now. - jt - Original Message - From: Jerry Falwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:14 PM FALWELL CONFIDENTIAL FROM: Jerry Falwell DATE: March 28, 2003 BIBLICAL GUIDELINES FOR NATIONAL PRAYER At this critical time in our nation's history, it is imperative that Christians join together in prayer for our troops who wage war against a merciless enemy. This column is designed to offer suggestions on how to effectively pray for our troops, our leaders and our nation during this time of war and social unrest. PRAYING FOR OUR TROOPS The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them (Psalm 34:7, NKJV). I often reflect on this verse when praying for our military personnel now fighting for the liberation of Iraq. It is comforting to know that God wants to guard and deliver those who trust Him. That is why it is so vitally important that Christians blanket our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in prayer. I was heartened to witness a variety of news reports documenting the many worship services that were taking place prior to the military campaign into Iraq. One very moving photo showed a young man being baptized in a modified pool there. Baptist Press also showed a young technician being baptized in a munitions crate aboard the U.S.S. Harry S Truman. Many of the men and women fighting to liberate Iraq are Christian brothers and sisters. In fact, several Liberty University students and graduates are now serving in the region as chaplains. I am confident that these individuals - and many others - are standing as outspoken representatives for Christ in the midst of battle. I have been praying that many American service members come to know Christ as Savior while serving their nation. Let us also continue to pray that the Lord will safely deliver our troops to their families and friends who await their return. And may our nation welcome them home as heroes when they return to us. PRAYING FOR OUR LEADERS Earlier this year, President Bush said, We pray for wisdom to know and do what is right and we pray for God's peace in the affairs of men. Since our nation's founding, many of our leaders have sought God's hand in human endeavors. We continue to call on Him to direct our leaders. In his A Prayer for America, author Max Lucado beautifully expressed his hope for the nation in the wake of September 11: Let your mercy be upon our President, Vice President, and their families. Grant
[CTRL] Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Buying the Right
-Caveat Lector- http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon3.html The Consortium Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Buying the Right By Robert Parry, 1997 On Jan. 28, 1995, a beaming Rev. Jerry Falwell told his Old Time Gospel Hour congregation news that seemed heaven sent. The televangelist hailed two Virginia businessmen as financial saviors of debt-ridden Liberty University, the fundamentalist Christian school that Falwell had made the crown jewel of his Religious Right empire. They had to borrow money, hock their houses, hock everything, enthused Falwell. Thank God for friends like Dan Reber and Jimmy Thomas. Falwell's congregation rose as one to applaud. The star of the moment was Daniel Reber, who was standing behind Falwell. Thomas was not present. Reber and Thomas earned Falwell's public gratitude by excusing the Lynchburg, Va., school of about one-half of its $73 million debt. In the late 1980s, that flood of red ink had forced Falwell to abandon his Moral Majority political organization and nearly drowned Liberty University in bankruptcy. Reber and Thomas came to Falwell's rescue in the nick of time. Their non-profit Christian Heritage Foundation of Forest, Va., snapped up a big chunk of Liberty's debt for $2.5 million, a fraction of its face value. Thousands of small religious investors who had bought church construction bonds through a Texas company were the big losers. But Falwell shed no tears. He told local reporters that the moment was the greatest single day of financial advantage in the school's history. Left unmentioned in the happy sermon was the identity of the bigger guardian angel who had been protecting Falwell's financial interests -- from a distance and without publicity. That secret benefactor was the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed South Korean messiah who is controversial with many fundamentalist Christians because of his bizarre Biblical interpretations and his brainwashing tactics that have torn thousands of young people from their families. Moon also has grown harshly anti-American in recent years. Covertly, Moon helped bail out Liberty University through one of his front groups which funnelled $3.5 million to the Reber-Thomas Christian Heritage Foundation, the non-profit that had purchased the school's debt. I discovered this Moon-Falwell connection while looking for something else: how much Moon's Women's Federation for World Peace had paid former President George Bush for a series of speeches in Asia in 1995. I obtained the federation's Internal Revenue Service records but discovered that Bush's undisclosed speaking fee was buried in a line item of $13.6 million for conference expenses. There was, however, a listing for a $3.5 million educational grant to the Christian Heritage Foundation. A call to the Virginia corporate records office confirmed that the foundation was the one run by Reber and Thomas. In a subsequent interview, the Women Federation's vice president Susan Fefferman confirmed that the $3.5 million grant had gone to Mr. Falwell's people for the benefit of Liberty University. It was Dan Reber, she said. But she could not recall much else about the grant, even though it was by far the largest single grant awarded by the federation that year. For details on the grant, Fefferman referred me to Keith Cooperrider, the federation's treasurer. Cooperrider is also the chief financial officer of Moon's Washington Times and a longtime Unification Church functionary. Cooperrider did not return several phone calls seeking his comment. Falwell and Reber also failed to respond to my calls. Secret Meetings The full public record strongly suggests that Falwell solicited Moon's help in bailing out Liberty University. In a lawsuit on file in the Circuit Court of Bedford County -- a community in southwestern Virginia -- two of Reber's former business associates alleged that Reber and Falwell flew to South Korea on Jan. 9, 1994, on a seven-day secret trip to meet with representatives of the Unification Church. The court document states that Reber and Falwell were accompanied to South Korea by Ronald S. Godwin, who had been executive director of Falwell's Moral Majority before signing on as vice president of Moon's Washington Times. According to Bedford County court records, Reber, Falwell and Godwin also had discussions at Liberty University in 1993 with Dong Moon Joo, one of Moon's right-hand men and president of The Washington Times. Though Reber was queried about the purposes of the Moon-connected meetings in the court papers, he settled the business dispute before responding to interrogatories or submitting to a deposition. He did deny any legal wrongdoing. But Moon's secret financial ties to Falwell raise some sensitive political questions, particularly amid congressional hearings on foreign money influencing U.S. politics: For instance, did the $3.5 million from Moon's front group give Falwell the means to become a national pitchman for The Clinton
[CTRL] Mystery of Life Solved
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nationalreview.com/shiflett/shiflett072402.asp July 24, 2002 8:45 a.m. Mystery of Life Solved It's unanimous! A wise man once told me he had no problem with God; it was His ground crew that sometimes gave reason for pause and trepidation. This was long before the Islamist Air Force attacked America, and before graffiti artists, responding to a well-known scandal, began scrawling Our Lady of Perpetual Buggery on some church facades. While there's been a great deal of discussion about the overall boost religion has received from the attacks, fairness dictates greater notice of the alternative view, which considers the ongoing war another example of faith-based mayhem that would not occur if humans would simply accept that they are born into a godless and ultimately meaningless universe, where they will struggle, suffer, and die, but perhaps see some good ballgames and eat delicious cheeseburgers in the interim, which makes the exercise all worthwhile. That view of course completely overlooks the incalculable good that religions do in the world, both in psychic terms and in providing relief to suffering humanity. One did not see 9/11 victims carried off to the Ayn Rand Memorial Hospital, for instance, but instead to hospitals dedicated to various saints. But there's not denying the religious component. The Islamist militants want to destroy our heathen culture. For their part, the brothers at the Southern Baptist Convention condemn Islam as a violent religion, adding that its prophet is a demon-possessed pedophile who had 12 wives, and his last one was a nine-year-old girl. All of which raises that age-old question: Will this greatest mystery of life - the true nature of God (if God) - ever be settled? As it happens, a definitive answer may be at hand. According to advertisements taken out in major papers around the country, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon has been tapped as this world's King of Kings. That these particular advertisements were paid for by the reverend is perhaps worth noting, but only in passing. I have no objectivity on this matter, so let's turn to Jim Remsen of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who has reported on the ad campaign. According to Mr. Remsen, Moon is proclaiming that Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha - even God - have told him he is now 'the Savior, Messiah and King of Kings of all of humanity!' He also reports that Moon is paying $720,000 to place the ads in papers across the country, which makes him something of a saint in this time of falling revenues. That the ads run 7,000 words, outstripping the Sermon on the Mount by a fair distance, underscores the importance of the message. It appears Moon was informed of his new standing during a seminar in the spirit world for leaders of five of the great religions. Explains Mr. Remsen: 40 leaders of the five faiths, as well as Karl Marx and three other Communist greats, express their obeisance to Mr. Moon. At the celestial event, Mohammad is said to have led three cheers, while God submitted a letter stating, 'I believe in the True Parents.' Perhaps it should be mentioned here that Moon and his wife (his second, as memory serves) bill themselves at the True Parents. This is a stunning development, to put it mildly, though it does affirm various optimistic beliefs, including the belief that there are indeed Second Acts in America. As is well known, Moon was excommunicated from the Korean Presbyterian Church, which may have been miffed by his insistence that a failed Jesus had tapped him to finish his work here on Earth. After moving to America, Moon did a year and a half in the jug for tax evasion. His newspaper, the Washington Times, has gobbled up hundreds of millions of dollars, will not let him have any official role in editorial matters, and has a circulation hovering somewhere around the 100,000 mark, which is nothing to crow about. That he has now been named King of Kings - the top job on Earth and perhaps the Universe as well - only goes to show that Ronald Reagan was right: Hang around in America long enough and good things are bound to happen. It is also true that the presence of Karl Marx at this celestial event confirms the widespread hope that everyone goes to Heaven. As Moon and his anti-communist allies (ahem) were fond of pointing out, communism has been the most pernicious belief system in history, and may be responsible for 100 million deaths, give or take. Some of us will recall rallies of the Lunar Faithful during which thundering refrains of Victory Over Communism shook the very skies. Now it appears that Karl not only went to Heaven, but was given voting status. One can imagine the scene: God: I propose a resolution in which Sun is named King of Kings. What about it, Karl? Marx: I see absolutely no contradiction in this. Mohammed: Hip-hip-hooray! Whether this ad campaign will be good for recruiting remains an open question. And while one religion cannot be used to
[CTRL] The GOP's man on the Moon
-Caveat Lector- http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=14455 The GOP's man on the Moon Unification Church leader and self-proclaimed Messiah builds legacy with support from the Bush administration For more than two decades he has been a powerful and influential political figure, despite being more than a bit out of step with mainstream America. Now, perhaps thinking of his own mortality, he has become more visible, staging and sponsoring numerous events and conferences. A revivified Rev. Sun Myung Moon is planting the seeds of his political legacy -- and he's getting help from his friends in the Bush Administration. On December 19, 2002, while many Americans were caught up in Trent Lott's troubles or trying to figure out what to get their mother-in-law for Christmas, the Corporation for National and Community Service announced the appointment of three managers to oversee AmeriCorps. David Caprara was appointed director of AmeriCorps*VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America). Caprara comes to government service having served as president of the American Family Coalition, an organization many observers say is a front organization for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Caprara's appointment is the latest in a series of events signifying a close relationship between the Bush Administration and the Rev. Moon's Unification Church. On January 19, 2001, one day before George W. Bush was sworn in as President, the Rev. Moon sponsored a prayer luncheon that brought together some 1,700 religious, civic, and political leaders. In the crowd was a bevy of Christian Right luminaries including the Rev. Jerry Falwell; former National Evangelical Association President Don Argue; Trinity Broadcasting Network's Paul Crouch; and the Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC) president, executive committee president, and CEO, as well as Richard Land, the president of SBC's Ethics Religious Liberty Commission. John Ashcroft, who had not yet been confirmed as Attorney General, dropped by and brought down the house... with a tale of amazing grace, reported a front-page story in The Washington Times. The Rev. Moon addressed the crowd and handed out free copies of one of his books and other Unification church materials. When SBC leaders discovered that the event had been sponsored by The Times -- the Moon-owned conservative newspaper that has lost money every year since its launch in 1982 -- they were surprised: We knew that it was going to be an interdenominational event, but we had no idea that the luncheon was hosted by the Moonies, claimed one SBC spokesperson. A few months later, the American Leadership Conference (ALC), a project of the American Family Coalition and The Washington Times Foundation -- both Moon-sponsored groups -- sent thousands of invitations to clergy and community leaders inviting them to attend local events called Faith-Based Initiatives For Family and Community Renewal. According to Church State's Rob Boston, The flyer promised that the 'cutting edge program' would 'provide the latest information on innovative policies and programs from the Executive and Congressional leadership in Washington; and build alliances for faith-based services at the state and community level.' Boston, assistant director of communications for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, pointed out the faith-based summit was actually held in Washington, D.C. and down-linked by satellite to more than forty participating sites. The summit was organized by a number of leading GOP congressional figures including Bush's faith-based point-men, now former Rep. J.C. Watts (R-OK) and Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA). And, efforts to promote it at the grassroots level were turned over to a Moon organization, which Boston writes, gave them an official relationship with the Republican leadership and this enhanced status enabled him to do grassroots political organizing -- and religious recruitment -- with the apparent blessing of Bush and his GOP allies in Congress. On May 21, 2002, the Rev. Moon hosted a gala 20th anniversary celebration for The Washington Times at the Washington Hilton Hotel. The Times reported the following day that more than 3,000 congressmen, state legislators and business and religious leaders from across the country attended and heard country music singer Randy Travis and radio talk show host Laura Schlessinger, who delivered the keynote address. One of the highlights of the evening was the reading of a congratulatory message from President Bush, who called The Times a distinguished source of information and opinion and a forum for the debate of timely issues. The SBC's antipathy over the Rev. Moon's sponsorship of the prayer event and the Republican Party's dependence on its organizing skills are indicative of the longtime love/hate relationship Christian evangelicals and GOP operatives have had with the Unification Church. (Boston recently told me that the baggage associated with the Unification Church
[CTRL] From Team Moon to VISTA
-Caveat Lector- http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=14471 From Team Moon to VISTA David Caprara's journey from Moonie front group to Americorps leader (Eds. note: Read part one of this story, The GOP's Man on the Moon, here http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=14455 ) No mention of David Caprara's connection to Rev. Moon-controlled organizations was made in the mid-December news release announcing his appointment as director of VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America). Prior to moving to AmericCorps*VISTA, Caprara was the president of a Moon front group called the American Family Coalition (AFC). According to its Web site, the organization is a national non-profit grassroots leadership alliance promoting family and community renewal through educational and faith-based initiatives. The efforts of AFC are made possible through the generous support of The Washington Times Foundation and other individual and corporate donors. In October, the American Family Coalition sponsored a seminar called Relationship Intelligence: Teaching Our Children in the Age of AIDS. The presenter was Richard Panzer, the founder of Free Teens USA, a Moon front group that has insinuated its abstinence-only sex education curriculum into a number of school districts. In its news release, AmeriCorps Director Rosie Mauk noted that she and Leslie Lenkowsky were very pleased to have David, John [Foster-Bey], and Wendy [Zenker] to lead our programs. Foster-Bey was named to run the AmeriCorps*State and National program, and Zenker was tabbed to head AmeriCorps*NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps). Their combined knowledge and experience will help us meet the President's goal of meeting our most pressing human needs through service and volunteerism, she added. President Bush has called for service volunteers to play a critical role in strengthening faith and community groups that meet social needs, as well as emerging needs in homeland security, Corporation Board Chair Stephen Goldsmith chimed in. The Corporation is pleased to have David, John, and Wendy to help meet the President's goal of engaging more Americans to be citizens, not spectators. According to the release, AmeriCorps*VISTA works primarily with faith-based and community organizations in low-income neighborhoods to develop lasting solutions to poverty in the areas of housing, health care, literacy, community development, technology, crime prevention, and hunger. The 6,000 AmeriCorps*VISTA members nationwide assist these groups by creating and developing projects, recruiting volunteers, raising funds, and otherwise building organizations' administrative, technological, and financial capacity. I salute the spirit of service and idealism of AmeriCorps*VISTA members as they contribute to empowering the poor and renewing our most impoverished communities, said Caprara. I look forward to helping build on AmeriCorps*VISTA's long record of success. Caprara's record David Caprara has a long history of service to the conservative community and right-wing causes. He served three years as deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush White House, and later he worked for Virginia's conservative Governor George Allen as executive director of the Governor's Commission on Citizen Empowerment, where he launched the Governor's welfare reform plan. Caprara was one of the founders and is the former president of The Empowerment Network (TEN), a resource hub for state legislators, grassroots organizations, and other civic leaders promoting American family and community renewal of civil society in the 21st century. According to its website, TEN's grassroots network provides the winning edge on policy initiatives that support youth character and family revitalization, entrepreneurship and the unleashing of faith-based initiatives and cultural remedies. (For more on TEN see, Team Bush funnels money to faith-based groups: Sens. Lieberman and Santorum's 'compromise' legislation in limbo.) According to a VISTA official, the director determines the priorities of the program and to a certain extent has discretion over how funds are dispersed. Will David Caprara use VISTA as a platform to boost the Unification Church's political and social agenda? Will Moon front groups play a more active role in VISTA programs and will they receive taxpayer money to do so? In a phone interview with Dr. Richard Land, the president of Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics Religious Liberty Commission, he told me that while he was unfamiliar with Mr. Caprara's qualifications, he believed that a person's religious convictions or religious beliefs should not qualify or disqualify a person for service. Land said government must not decide which groups are kosher and which aren't. There's no question that the Unification Church is a cult, Land said, and that many people acknowledge that it in no way shape or form is
[CTRL] US Marines Fire On Civilians At Bridge Of Death
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- The Times (London) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-524-628258,00.html Counterpunch (U.S.) reprint http://www.counterpunch.org/franchetti03312003.html US MARINES TURN FIRE ON CIVILIANS AT THE BRIDGE OF DEATH By Mark Franchetti - Foreign reporter of the year prize winner (UK) The Times (London) - Nasiriya, Occupied Iraq - March 30, 2003: THE light was a strange yellowy grey and the wind was coming up, the beginnings of a sandstorm. The silence felt almost eerie after a night of shooting so intense it hurt the eardrums and shattered the nerves. My footsteps felt heavy on the hot, dusty asphalt as I walked slowly towards the bridge at Nasiriya. A horrific scene lay ahead. Some 15 vehicles, including a minivan and a couple of trucks, blocked the road. They were riddled with bullet holes. Some had caught fire and turned into piles of black twisted metal. Others were still burning. Amid the wreckage I counted 12 dead civilians, lying in the road or in nearby ditches. All had been trying to leave this southern town overnight, probably for fear of being killed by US helicopter attacks and heavy artillery. Their mistake had been to flee over a bridge that is crucial to the coalition's supply lines and to run into a group of shell-shocked young American marines with orders to shoot anything that moved. One man's body was still in flames. It gave out a hissing sound. Tucked away in his breast pocket, thick wads of banknotes were turning to ashes. His savings, perhaps. Down the road, a little girl, no older than five and dressed in a pretty orange and gold dress, lay dead in a ditch next to the body of a man who may have been her father. Half his head was missing. Nearby, in a battered old Volga, peppered with ammunition holes, an Iraqi woman - perhaps the girl's mother - was dead, slumped in the back seat. A US Abrams tank nicknamed Ghetto Fabulous drove past the bodies. This was not the only family who had taken what they thought was a last chance for safety. A father, baby girl and boy lay in a shallow grave. On the bridge itself a dead Iraqi civilian lay next to the carcass of a donkey. As I walked away, Lieutenant Matt Martin, whose third child, Isabella, was born while he was on board ship en route to the Gulf, appeared beside me. Did you see all that? he asked, his eyes filled with tears. Did you see that little baby girl? I carried her body and buried it as best I could but I had no time. It really gets to me to see children being killed like this, but we had no choice. Martin's distress was in contrast to the bitter satisfaction of some of his fellow marines as they surveyed the scene. The Iraqis are sick people and we are the chemotherapy, said Corporal Ryan Dupre. I am starting to hate this country. Wait till I get hold of a friggin' Iraqi. No, I won't get hold of one. I'll just kill him. Only a few days earlier these had still been the bright-eyed small-town boys with whom I crossed the border at the start of the operation. They had rolled towards Nasiriya, a strategic city beside the Euphrates, on a mission to secure a safe supply route for troops on the way to Baghdad. They had expected a welcome, or at least a swift surrender. Instead they had found themselves lured into a bloody battle, culminating in the worst coalition losses of the war - 16 dead, 12 wounded and two missing marines as well as five dead and 12 missing servicemen from an army convoy - and the humiliation of having prisoners paraded on Iraqi television. There are three key bridges at Nasiriya. The feat of Martin, Dupre and their fellow marines in securing them under heavy fire was compared by armchair strategists last week to the seizure of the Remagen bridge over the Rhine, which significantly advanced victory over Germany in the second world war. But it was also the turning point when the jovial band of brothers from America lost all their assumptions about the war and became jittery aggressors who talked of wanting to nuke the place. None of this was foreseen at Camp Shoup, one of the marines' tent encampments in northern Kuwait, where officers from the 1st and 2nd battalions of Task Force Tarawa, the 7,000- strong US Marines brigade, spent long evenings poring over maps and satellite imagery before the invasion. The plan seemed straightforward. The marines would speed unhindered over the 130 miles of desert up from the Kuwaiti border and approach Nasiriya from the southeast to secure a bridge over the Euphrates. They would then drive north through the outskirts of Nasiriya to a second bridge, over the Inahr al-Furbati canal. Finally, they would turn west and secure the third bridge, also over the canal. The marines would not enter the city proper, let alone attempt to take it. The coalition could then start moving thousands of troops and logistical support units up highway 7, leading to Baghdad, 225 miles to the
[CTRL] UK's Mirror Hires Arnett; first article: This War Is Not Working
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Nicholas Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:32:02 -0800 Subject:!b_a_Act: UK's Mirror Hires Arnett; first article: This War Is Not Working http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61888-2003Mar31.html Britain's Mirror Hires Fired Veteran Arnett Reuters, March 31, 2003; 6:48 PM LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Daily Mirror said on Tuesday it had hired veteran U.S reporter Peter Arnett, sacked by American TV network NBC after he told Iraqi television the U.S, war plan against Saddam Hussein had failed. I report the truth of what is happening in Baghdad and will not apologize for it, he told the tabloid newspaper, one of the most prominent opponents of Britain's involvement in the war. Arnett, 68, who as a CNN reporter in 1991 was one of the few western journalists reporting from Baghdad during the previous Gulf War, said in an interview on Sunday with state-owned Iraqi TV that the U.S. military would need to rewrite its war plan. I am still in shock and awe at being fired, New Zealand-born Arnett -- who won a Pulitzer prize for his Vietnam War coverage -- wrote under the banner headline This war's NOT working. © 2003 Reuters http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12795678method=fullsiteid=50143 THIS WAR IS NOT WORKING Apr 1 2003 By Peter Arnett I am still in shock and awe at being fired. There is enormous sensitivity within the US government to reports coming out from Baghdad. They don't want credible news organisations reporting from here because it presents them with enormous problems. I reported on the original bombing for NBC and we were half a mile away from those massive explosions. Now I am really shocked that I am no longer reporting this story for the US and awed by the fact that it actually happened. That overnight my successful NBC reporting career was turned to ashes. And why? -- Tariq Aziz told me the US will have to brainwash 25M Iraqis, because these people think exactly the same as Saddam Because I stated the obvious to Iraqi television; that the US war timetable has fallen by the wayside. I have made those comments to television stations around the world and now I'm making them again in the Daily Mirror. I'm not angry. I'm not crying. But I'm also awed by this media phenomenon. The right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here, whatever their nationality. I made the misjudgment which gave them the opportunity to do so. I gave an impromptu interview to Iraqi television feeling that after four months of interviewing hundreds of them it was only professional courtesy to give them a few comments. That was my Waterloo - bang! I have not yet decided what to do, whether to pack my bags and leave Baghdad or stay on. I'll decide what to do today, right now I'm chewing on what has happened to me. -- American Marines at our checkpoints are suspicious of every man, woman and child because of the suicide bomb But whatever happens I will never stop reporting on the truth of this war whether I am in Baghdad or somewhere else in the Middle East - or even back in Washington. I was here in 1991 and the bombing is very similar to that conflict but the reality is very different. The US and British want to come here, take over the city, upturn the government and take us through to a new era. The troops are in the country and fighting there way up here. It creates a very different atmosphere. The Ba'ath party, currently led by Saddam Hussein, has been in power for 34 years. Tariq Aziz told me the US will have to brainwash 25 million Iraqis because these people think exactly the same as Saddam does. Maybe he is wrong, maybe not. For months, Iraqis have said officially and privately: We will fight the Americans, we will use guerrilla tactics, we will surprise them. But the Iraqi opposition has said: This will be a pushover, everyone wants to rebel against Saddam. Now the reality is being played out on the battlefield. We have to watch the reality now and some Iraqis are fighting and the government does seem very determined. For me to see that and to be criticised for saying the obvious is unfair. -- As the battle for Baghdad grows, so the potential for civilian casualties grows. This is the spectre rising for the coalition as this war continues But it has made me a target for my critics in the States who accuse me of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. I don't want to give aid and comfort to the enemy - I just want to be able to tell the truth. I came to Baghdad with my crew because the Iraqi side needs to be heard too. It is clear the original timetable that America would be in Baghdad by the end of March has fallen by the wayside. There is clearly debate in the US about
