Re: [CTRL] John McCain, Traitor
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/27/02 3:24:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: may i ask, what does this have to do with conspiracy theory research? -b Isn't odd that this Republican acts like a Democrat! He befriends socialists and communists and probably is thick in the NWO. Ain;t you glad you asked! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] U.S. Begins Anti-Terror Assistance In Georgia
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7806-2002Feb26.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! U.S. Begins Anti-Terror Assistance In Georgia By Vernon Loeb and Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, February 27, 2002; Page A01 The Pentagon has begun providing combat helicopters to the former Soviet republic of Georgia and will soon begin training several Georgian battalions to counter what defense officials believe is a growing terrorist threat in the country's mountainous Pankisi Gorge region, senior U.S. officials said yesterday. The move to train and equip the Georgian military opens a new front in the Bush administration's war on terrorism and is fueled by a belief shared by the United States and Georgia that al Qaeda members and other Islamic extremists from Chechnya have taken refuge in northern Georgia along the Chechen border. The mission also represents a belief by the Bush administration that Arab fighters connected to al Qaeda have joined Chechen rebel forces to battle the Russian army, an assertion long made by Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, but publicly doubted until now in Washington. We have a clear connection between Chechens and al Qaeda. They clearly fall under the potential targets of the global war on terrorism, said a U.S. defense official. About 40 U.S. military personnel, including Special Forces troops, visited Georgia this month to assess Georgia's security needs, according to Lt. Col. Ed Loomis, a spokesman for the U.S. military's European Command near Stuttgart, Germany. The assessment team has filed its report, which is now the basis ofthe Pentagon's deliberations, he said. The Pentagon has already provided the Georgian government with 10 UH-1H Huey helicopters, six for operations and four for spare parts, Loomis said. A U.S. military trainer and six contractors are in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, training Georgian personnel in how to operate the aircraft. In taking its war on terrorism to Georgia, the administration is also seeking to bolster the standing of Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgia's president, and build stability in the volatile Caucasus region. Georgia, a transit point for Caspian oil and an aspiring member of NATO, has been considered a U.S. ally since it won independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. We're only beginning down this path, said an administration official, discussing the Pentagon's reconnaissance trip. What we've decided to do is think more creatively. That requires a harder look at the real situation on the ground. And doing this in a way that ensures that the Georgians and the Russians are consulted fully -- and that in the end, it's a cooperative effort. The White House promised to help Shevardnadze during a visit he made to Washington in early October, according to Georgian diplomat David Soumbadze. He was promised there would be a program of training and even providing some equipment. There was no detailed discussion about when and how, Soumbadze said yesterday. This is being done specifically to enhance Georgian armed forces' ability to fight terrorism. The decision to train and equip Georgian units comes as 80 U.S. Special Forces troops are on the ground in the Philippines training Filipino units in counterterrorist tactics against rebels belonging to the Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim extremist group that the United States says has ties to al Qaeda and its leader, Osama bin Laden, who is accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks. The U.S. military also is conducting intelligence-gathering flights over the southern Philippine island of Basilan. Asked about the possibility of intelligence flights over Georgia, the senior defense official said: As far as our ability to surveil the area, we've got some significant surveillance assets in that theater that give us a pretty good look at threats on the ground. But the official said that he did not want to draw too many parallels between Georgia and the Philippines. I think we're sophisticated enough at this point not to try to put this situation in the same box as the Philippines, the official said. It's of equal interest, I would say, but the geopolitical situation in this area in very different than it is in the Philippines. The Bush administration, which has not yet settled on a source of funding for the training mission, believes that Arab fighters trained in al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan have found safe haven in the Pankisi Gorge. We know they have contacts with bin Laden's people, that some of them have trained in Afghanistan, one official said. Chechen rebels are also said to be among an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 Chechen refugees in the region. U.S. officials said there is not an explicit goal of training Georgian forces to capture suspected terrorists, but one policymaker said the potential to question fighters in the Pankisi Gorge is an element of the administration's thinking. Russian
[CTRL] Off the Lists
-Caveat Lector- Hi: Any of you who would like to get the news, please email me because I'm getting off this Liberal run List! God Bless; Bill Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Did We Know What Was Coming? Part 1
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/03-11-2002/vo18no05_didweknow.htm This reminds me of FDR knowing about Pearl Harbor before it happened! --- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Did We Know What Was Coming? by William Norman Grigg The September 11th terrorist attacks required extensive planning. Our intelligence services knew enough to have responded better. John Philip Walker Lindh, better known as the American Taliban, is accused of conspiring with Osama bin Laden's terrorist network to kill American citizens. According to the federal criminal complaint, Lindh's role in the terrorist conspiracy began in May or June of 2001. It was then that Lindh agreed to attend an al-Qaeda training camp for additional and extensive military training, knowing that America and its citizens were the enemies of bin Laden and al-Qaeda and that a principal purpose of al-Qaeda was to fight and kill Americans. While at the training camp, Lindh allegedly learned that bin Laden had sent forth some fifty people to carry out twenty suicide terrorist operations against the United States and Israel. Significantly, the indictment does not accuse Lindh of actively participating in the terrorist plot. During a visit with senior al-Qaeda official Abu Mohammad Al-Masri, the self-exiled American was invited to take part in operations against the United States and Israel. Lindh allegedly declined to carry out terrorist missions, choosing instead to fight on the front lines of the Taliban's civil war with its Northern Alliance rivals. The case against Lindh rests heavily on proving that he had foreknowledge of al-Qaeda's plot to commit mass murder. To make that case it is not necessary to prove that Lindh actually killed Americans, or that he had specific knowledge regarding the target of the attack, or the means by which it would be carried out. The burden on the prosecution is to validate its conspiracy theory against Lindh by proving that the defendant knew the attack was coming, and freely chose to associate with the terrorist cabal who plotted the atrocity. Federal authorities will be much more eager to prosecute Lindh than to question how he was able to penetrate to the very core of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. This eccentric, alienated California teenager fascinated with radical Islam managed to do what highly skilled intelligence professionals supposedly could not: Insinuate himself so deeply into al-Qaeda - even meeting The Evil One himself on one occasion - that he obtained critical intelligence about the forthcoming attack on America. Lindh stands accused of hideous crimes. But from the federal government's perspective, Lindh is dangerous for another reason: His success as an infiltrator underscores the consummate failure of our hugely expensive intelligence community to protect our nation from foreign attack. But the trial could pose an even graver threat to the intelligence community if it prompts the public to think seriously about the charges against the American Taliban. What if it can be demonstrated that federal authorities responsible for defending our nation knew as much about the impending terrorist attack as Lindh did? What would be the political, moral, and legal liabilities of officials who were in possession of such knowledge, and failed to act upon it? FBI Whistleblowers As we will show, the feds knew no later than June that an attack from bin Laden was coming. By August it had identified several key co-conspirators, and had one in custody. And two days after the attack Chicago attorney David Schippers - a lifelong Democrat who was chief investigative counsel in the Clinton impeachment - disclosed that he had attempted to warn Attorney General John Ashcroft about the coming attack. As previously reported in this magazine (OKC Bombing: Precursor to 9-11? in our January 28, 2002 issue), Schippers told a Pittsburgh radio audience on September 13th that he had learned from FBI agents in Minnesota and Chicago that a massive terrorist attack had been planned for lower Manhattan. He had developed this information six weeks before the Black Tuesday atrocity. However, Justice Department officials repeatedly spurned Schippers' attempts to provide the information to Ashcroft; one of them reportedly sneered, We don't start our investigations at the top. This is a curious objection, given Schippers' credentials and professional standing - and given that Ashcroft himself had warned in June that Americans are a high-priority target for terrorists. Three veteran federal law enforcement agents confirmed to THE NEW AMERICAN that the information provided to Schippers was widely known within the Bureau before September 11th. Because these individuals face possible personal or professional retaliation, they agreed to speak with us on condition of anonymity. Two of them, however, have expressed a willingness to testify before Congress
[CTRL] Did We Know What Was Coming? Part 2
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! According to the June 23rd AirlineBiz.com report, the Arabic satellite television network MBC claimed that the next two weeks will witness a big surprise. An MBC reporter who had met with bin Laden in Afghanistan on June 21st predicted that a severe blow is expected against U.S. and Israeli interests worldwide. There is a major state of mobilization among the Osama bin Laden forces. It seems that there is a race of who will strike first. Will it be the United States or Osama bin Laden? Despite such detailed advance warnings, bin Laden won that race. Ignoring the 20th Hijacker By September 11th, federal authorities not only had 10 weeks' advance notice of an impending attack from bin Laden, they also had one of the alleged plotters in custody. This was acknowledged by CIA Director George Tenet as the 9-11 attack was underway. Amid reports of the suicide hijackings, Tenet was overheard saying: I wonder if it has anything to do with this guy taking pilot training. Tenet was referring to Zacarias Moussaoui, who had been detained in August after attracting suspicion when he sought training at a Minnesota flight school, observed the January 27th Washington Post. After the suspect was taken into custody, the FBI had asked the CIA and the National Security Agency to run phone traces on Moussaoui, already the subject of a five-inch-thick file in the bureau. According to the December 29th Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Moussaoui raised suspicions at the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Egan [Minnesota] when he showed up in August for instruction in piloting jumbo jets. He first raised eyebrows when, during a simple introductory exchange, he said he was from France, but then didn't seem to understand when the instructor spoke French to him, recalled the paper. Moussaoui then became belligerent and evasive about his background In addition, he seemed inept in basic flying procedures, while seeking expensive training on an advanced commercial jet simulator. Flight school employees began whispering that he could be a hijacker, reported the February 8th New York Times. John Rosengren, director of operations at the school, recalled that Moussaoui's instructor was concerned and wondered why someone who was not a pilot and had so little experience was trying to pack so much training into such a short time. The more he was able to talk to him, the more he decided he was not pilot material, observes Rosengren. In addition, There was discussion about how much fuel was on board a 747-400 and how much damage that could cause if it hit anything. By this time, Moussaoui's instructor had already scurried to a telephone to call the FBI's Minneapolis office. Do you realize how serious this is? he asked an FBI agent during the August 15th phone conversation. This man wants training on a 747. A 747 fully loaded with fuel could be used as a weapon! The FBI arrested Moussaoui the next day. However, notes the Star-Tribune, the Minneapolis agents were unable to persuade FBI lawyers in Washington, D.C., to seek a warrant to search his possessions under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which requires evidence that the suspect is an agent of a foreign power or a terrorist group. The frustrated field agents were trying to gather sufficient evidence to get a warrant when Moussaoui's alleged co-conspirators piloted jetliners into the Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. Charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder, Moussaoui is not the only member of the Black Tuesday plot whom federal authorities knew about. On the morning of September 11th, noted the December 30th New York Times, two people already identified by the government as suspected terrorists boarded separate American Airlines flights from Boston using their own names. Federal officials were also aware of a third hijacker, Hani Hanjour, who had come to the attention of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) while studying at the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Phoenix. Officials at the school had raised questions about Hanjour's inability to speak English, the international language of aviation. When they expressed concerns to the FAA, the agency stepped in to provide assistance - to Hanjour. According to the Star-Tribune, An FAA representative sat in on a class to observe Hanjour ⦠and discussed with school officials finding an Arabic-speaking person to help him with his English Hanjour returned the favor by plowing American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon. A Limited Inquiry? As Congress probes the security issues raised by the Black Tuesday attack, the investigation must be framed by a question similar to that dealt with in the American Taliban trial: What did our federal security and intelligence agencies know of the impending attack, and when did they know it? Recall that Lindh supposedly learned of the terrorist plot in May or June of
[CTRL] Making A Difference -- Straight Pride
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/03-11-2002/vo18no05_difference.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Making A Difference by Robert W. Lee Straight Pride On the afternoon of January 16, 2001, 16-year-old Elliott Corbett, then a sophomore, currently a junior, at Woodbury High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, was told by an assistant principal that a female student had registered a complaint against a sweatshirt he had worn to school that day. The girl represented a group of homosexual and lesbian students offended by the Straight Pride logo embossed on the front of the shirt, and a picture of a stick man and woman holding hands on the back. According to Elliott and his parents, Kendal and Lana Corbett, the shirt was not intended to denigrate other sexual lifestyles, but rather to make a positive statement about heterosexuality at a school that caters to homosexual students by displaying inverted pink triangles (widely-recognized symbols of the homosexual movement) at so-called safe sites set aside for student/teacher discussions and counseling about homosexuality and other non-traditional relationships. In the words of Mrs. Corbett, her son's intent was to show support for the traditional and wholesome way to approach sex ... which is God's plan. The next day, Elliott, a devout Christian, was summoned to the office of principal Dana Babbitt and told that he would not be allowed to wear the sweatshirt because it violated the school's dress code prohibiting the wearing of items with unacceptable written or graphic depictions that offend others. Unacceptable depictions were defined as those commonly viewed as vulgar, obscene, or socially demeaning or derogatory. His sweatshirt messages, Babbitt told him, were not only offensive to the school's gay, lesbian, and bisexual students, but could cause safety problems. On April 2, 2001, the Center for Law Policy, legal arm of the American Family Association, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Elliott and his parents, contending that the school's disciplinary action against him constituted viewpoint discrimination, and that the school's display of inverted pink triangles promoted homosexuality. On May 17, 2001, Judge Donovan W. Frank of the U.S. District Court for Minnesota, noting that there was indeed a strong likelihood that the school's action was unconstitutional, issued a preliminary injunction allowing Elliott to wear the sweatshirt. On January 2nd of this year, he rendered his final decision. While rejecting the claim that the school was promoting homosexuality, and agreeing that there are circumstances when a school can prohibit student expression ordinarily protected by the U.S. Constitution, Judge Frank held that in Elliott's case Woodbury High officials had failed to demonstrate that the shirt could disrupt school activities. Maintaining a school community of tolerance includes the tolerance of such viewpoints, as expressed by âStraight Pride,' he wrote in his 10-page decision. Stephen M. Crampton, chief counsel for the Center for Law Policy, described the ruling as a tremendous victory for student free speech and a small step toward exposing the hypocrisy of the âtolerance' agenda. Valentine Victory Eight-year-old Morgan Nyman was in the second grade at Cushing Elementary School in Delafield, Wisconsin, last year when she sought to distribute homemade Valentine's Day cards to classmates. The cards carried religious messages such as Jesus loves you and F.R.O.G.: Freely Rely on God. School officials allowed other students to pass out cards featuring pop singer Britney Spears, the boy band 'N Sync, and Looney Tunes characters, but balked at the little girl's religious themes. Branding them a violation of church-state separation, they refused to allow her to hand them out. School officials claimed that they were merely implementing policy set by the parent Kettle Moraine School District, so in March 2001 the Florida-based civil liberties law practice Liberty Counsel filed a federal suit against the district on Morgan's behalf, through her parents, Jeff and Shanon Stockhausen. The suit charged the district with violating her rights of free speech and free exercise of religious belief. The case did not make it to court, however. On August 28th the school board opted to settle rather than undergo costly litigation of a case it was likely to lose. It also voted for policy changes that authorize students to distribute religious material in the same way that they pass out secular literature. And board members agreed that the district would not prohibit Morgan from distributing valentines, during future Valentine's Day exchanges, on the basis of their religious content. Terms of the settlement agreement also required the district to issue a public apology by having a statement printed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the closing words of which assert: To the extent the
[CTRL] U.S. vigilante group recruiting members to patrol Mexican border
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=19623 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! U.S. vigilante group recruiting members to patrol Mexican border Maria Leon, EFE - 2/20/2002 DOUGLAS, Arizona - Human rights groups have complained about Operation Falcon, a campaign launched by the anti-immigrant group Ranch Rescue in an effort to recruit volunteers to help guard the border between Arizona and Mexico. Through its Web page, the group made up of Texas ranchers has invited U.S. citizens to participate in a campaign aimed at stopping illegal immigration in Cochise County, Arizona, this spring. The group says members of terrorist organizations may have entered the United States illegally through that county, which continues to witness the most activity of any on the border between Mexico and the United States. Ranch Rescue maintains it is now more important than ever to put border security into the hands of good citizens because the Border Patrol has been ineffective in stemming the tide of illegal immigration. This is the second time Ranch Rescue has threatened to patrol the roads along the border between Douglas and Agua Prieta, Mexico. In the past, the group has distributed flyers inviting volunteers to join in a hunt for undocumented immigrants, whom they describe as criminals who come to destroy ranches, rob and smuggle drugs. According to the information on its Web page, the group plans to descend on the border between Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora during the last two weeks of March. Immigration attorney Isabel Garcia, director of the Human Rights Coalition of Arizona, said Ranch Rescue was coming to Arizona at the invitation of Douglas ranchers. A group of armed ranchers led by Roger Barnett has devoted itself to detaining undocumented immigrants in the Douglas area. Barnett has stated on several occasions that he has detained and turned over approximately 1,000 undocumented immigrants to the Border Patrol. Garcia said the presence of this anti-immigrant group in Arizona is another consequence of continued militarization along the border and unjust U.S. immigration laws. These groups are taking advantage of the uncertainty existing in our country to spread their racist hatred and resentment against undocumented immigrants, Garcia insisted. The immigration attorney also said undocumented immigrants crossing the border at Douglas are generally Mexicans or Central Americans looking for work. Illegal immigration has once again become a hot topic in Arizona, where legislators and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officials will meet next week to study a possible increase in the number of agents assigned to the area. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Get Off the Bus
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Get Off the Bus By Chuck Baldwin February 26, 2002 An Agape Press article yesterday said that former Republican presidential candidate, Gary Bauer, believes the Republican Party is abandoning its stand against the radical social agenda of the Democrats. The story said, Bauer indicates the signs of a major leftward shift in Republican philosophy are popping up on several fronts. The story also quotes Bauer as suggesting that recent pro-abortion decisions by President Bush and other prominent Republicans is a prelude to preparing the Republican Party for a pro-abortion vice-presidential running mate in 2004 or 2008. Perhaps the most significant statement of the article was contained in the final paragraph. It said, Bauer also expressed concern over the fact that while many pro-family leaders may be worried about this GOP trend, few are speaking out publicly about it. I'm glad someone finally noticed! During the primary election campaign, I predicted that should G. W. Bush become president, he would take the Republican Party to the left so quickly and so thoroughly that it would not even be recognizable by the end of his first administration. Unfortunately, it has not taken four years. Already, the Republican Party is barely a shell of what it was back in 1980 when Ronald Reagan was elected and in 1994 when the courageous class of conservative freshmen captured the House of Representatives. The Republican Party today (at the national level) is comprised of Rockefeller aristocrats, washed-up Democrats, limp-wristed plutocrats, and big tent ideologues. Constitutionalists, pro-life and pro-family advocates, along with Christian conservatives, have been thrown to the back of the bus for the duration of the trip. However, most conservatives think themselves so lucky to just be on the bus. They do not mind the second-class treatment. In fact, the cheers from the back of the bus can be clearly heard even as the bus quickly approaches the brink of the abyss. Why don't those back-seat passengers get off the bus? you ask. Why don't they get off the bus that is taking them toward the cliff of catastrophe? There are two reasons. One, they love the bus driver. He is a Christian. He throws them verbal bouquets occasionally. He quotes the Bible. He looks like a little boy (and acts like one, too). Two, they like their bus because the other bus is heading toward the cliff even faster than the one they are on (at least, that is the perception). However, few of them seem to notice that since their beloved driver got behind the wheel of the bus it has begun speeding ever faster toward that cliff. You see, there is so much dust and smoke coming out from under the bus that they cannot see the warning signs along the road, and those who do see them are afraid to say anything for fear of being called an alarmist or an extremist. A few perceptive passengers have gotten off the bus. Pat Buchanan comes to mind. He even wrote a book on how people could ride a third bus, a bus that would take them in an opposite direction, to a land of green pastures and still waters. However, the people on the bus laughed at him and his book. There is only one bus for them, and even if that bus is determined to take them over the cliff and into the abyss, they will gladly and contentedly remain loyal to the bus and to its driver. Well, friends, you can stay on the bus if you want to, but I'm getting off! The Republican Party is a fraud! It has become even more dangerous than the Democratic Party because it says one thing and does another. The Democratic Party robs you at gunpoint, while the Republican Party picks your pocket when your back is turned. Both of them are stealing us blind! To all of our pragmatic conservative leaders out there, keep cheerleading for the Republican charlatans, but you should at least be honest enough to tear out those great stories of David and Daniel from your Bibles. You do not really believe them, anyway. To Gary Bauer, thanks for telling the truth. To Christians and conservatives everywhere, how long will you ride this death trap of a bus? There is an omnipotent God that can deliver us, but He won't, not as long as we have given our hearts to the platitudinous promises of a prevaricating political party. Many of us say we trust God. It is now time to prove it! Get off the bus! *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER
[CTRL] Park Service unearths 1872 letter blaming Mormon leader for massacre
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/02/25/state2155 EST7940.DTL WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Park Service unearths 1872 letter blaming Mormon leader for massacre PAUL FOY, Associated Press WriterMonday, February 25, 2002 Breaking News Sections -- -- (02-25) 18:55 PST SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The National Park Service said Monday that one of its volunteers has discovered a lead-plate letter that blames early Mormon church leader Brigham Young for the massacre of 120 Arkansas emigrants in southern Utah nearly 150 years ago. The letter's authenticity has yet to be established, and the Park Service refused to say whether it considers the document genuine. It was supposedly written by John D. Lee, the only man held accountable for the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. In the letter, etched in a sheet of soft lead, Lee writes that he and other Mormon authorities carried out the massacre on orders from Brigham Young. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said there is no credible evidence of Young's involvement, while a church historian said it was too early to assess the letter's authenticity. Lee, who considered himself a scapegoat, was tried and executed 20 years after the massacre when Mormon leaders came under intense federal pressure to solve the case. Lee was an officer of the Mormon militia and adopted son of Young, who led Mormons to Utah Territory. The Park Service refused to identify the volunteer who says he found a rolled lead sheet under several inches of dirt and rat droppings on Jan. 22 while cleaning the floor of Lee's Fort on the Colorado River. The fort was built in 1874 with a dirt floor, but the letter was found amid debris over a concrete floor. It wasn't immediately clear when the concrete floor was laid, a detail that adds considerable intrigue to volunteer's find. Lee's Fort, originally used as a residence and then trading post, was last occupied in the mid-1950s by the U.S. Geological Survey. The building has been kept locked but I can't tell you how that object got there, Park Service spokeswoman Char Obergh said Monday from Page, Arizona. The letter was unearthed as part of restoration of Lee's Fort. Obergh said the Park Service has no reason to question the credibility of the volunteer who found it. She described him as a summer worker who was invited in January to help restore the fort because of his interest in the history of Lee's Ferry, a tiny historic Mormon outpost on the Colorado River. Lee supposedly wrote the letter by my own hand on Jan. 11, 1872, or 15 years after the Mountain Meadows Massacre. It opens with a reference to the Paria River, a Colorado River tributary at Lee's Ferry, and mentions Fancher. The Fancher party, named after Alexander Fancher, was slain by Mormons and their Indian associates en route to California. The letter, replete with misspellings, grammar errors and halting sentences, says: At the Pahreah I have now live longer than eccpected tho I am now ill - I do not fear athorty for the time is closing and am willing to tak the blame for the Fancher - Col. Dane-Maj. Higby and me - on orders from Pres Young thro Geo Smith took part - I trust in God - I have no fear - Death hold no teror - Lord hav merci on this resless soul. The church has long acknowledged that some members of the faith acted independently at Mountain Meadows, church spokesman Dale Bills said Monday. Young, he said, did not order or condone the killings, which occurred in a climate of war hysteria as Utah Mormons prepared for an invasion by federal troops, who were sent to deal with a defiant Mormon theocracy. Church historian Glen M. Leonard issued a statement on Monday saying the Park Service was taking the right approach investigating the letter's origin. The Park Service is trying to verify the letter was written 130 years ago by determining where the lead used for the thin sheet was mined, Obergh said. Utah historian Will Bagley said the letter seemed too good a find to be genuine, but he said other evidence indicates Young may have approved or given orders for the attack. Bagley said it was unusual but not unknown for people at that time who wanted to preserve a record to etch it into lead. Lee made confessions of his and Young's involvement that found their way into contemporary accounts. Even though Lee was not high enough in the Mormon chain of command to receive orders from Young, he may have learned of them from superiors, Bagley said. Scott Fancher, a lawyer in Harrison, Ark., who is president of the Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation, said stories passed down from his family had the Mormons attacking the wagon train as a wartime preparation for the cattle and goods. Fancher said he also believed Young sanctioned the massacre as a demonstration to federal
[CTRL] AF News 26 Feb 02
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! For special coverage and features on the Air Force's support of Operation Enduring Freedom, see the special section on Air Force Link at http://www.af.mil/news/efreedom/index.shtml. Here you can get the latest news, images, background, transcripts of key statements, and letters and commentaries. America's Air Force... No One Comes Close 0306. SECAF thanks AWACS crews at Tinker by Tech. Sgt. Orville Desjarlais 552nd Air Control Wing TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. (AFPN) -- When Air Force Secretary Dr. James G. Roche came here Feb. 22 to thank Airborne Warning and Control System airmen for helping secure the homeland of the United States, he had a number written on a piece of paper in his pocket. The number was 14,000, which is the number of Operation Noble Eagle sorties flown since Sept. 11. It is a figure he wants to scale back in a plan that involves networking ground-based radar from the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the Federal Aviation Administration. It is also reported that Roche would prefer an adjustment that would place some Air Force fighter jets on strip alert as opposed to flying continuous missions. However, Roche stressed that scaling back the mission is a decision for the president and the secretary of defense. If threat conditions continue to call for 24-hour, 7 day-a-week air patrols, then the Air Force will find a way to do them. AWACS aircrews from the 552nd Air Control Wing and NATO were on alert for the Winter Olympics that were held 1,200 miles away in Salt Lake City. Effectively, the Air Force is fighting two major wars, only one of them is at home, Roche said. We are trying to find a way to lighten the load on Noble Eagle operations. Currently, there is an AWACS aircraft patrolling the skies over the nation's capitol 24 hours a day. NATO deployed AWACS aircraft and crews Oct. 9 and they have been flying half of the more than 700 AWACS sorties flown for Operation Noble Eagle, the name of the homeland security mission. Within an hour of the attacks at the World Trade Center, an AWACS aircraft from the 552nd ACW was patrolling over Washington and New York City supporting combat air patrols. They have been flying nonstop ever since. We are needed here, said Maj. Dominique, a Belgian air force AWACS aircrew member who wishes to use only his first name. The world is a dangerous place. However, in the long term, it'll be more cost effective to have your ground radar built up. It would be better to just use an AWACS when it's needed, like on alert. NATO has deployed seven AWACS aircraft and more than 200 people here who share in flying the more than 12 to 14-hour missions over the U.S. capitol and various other locations. It is the first time in NATO's 52-year history that the alliance's assets are being used to help protect the United States. However, Operation Noble Eagle is not the only operation the 552nd ACW is involved with. The wing is also flying operations Southern Watch and Northern Watch missions in support of the no-fly zone over Iraq, as well as sorties in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. The total number of Air Force sorties flown for Operation Enduring Freedom is 15,000, and roughly 14,000 in Noble Eagle, Roche said. During the past 10 years, the Air Force has logged more then 200,000 sorties for Operation Northern Watch and Operation Southern Watch. Roche said he came to Tinker AFB specifically to thank the AWACS community and NATO for the long hours and hard work they have put in for homeland security. I have been amazed at the performance of our (E-3) Sentry aircraft crews and NATO allies who have come to join us, Roche said. It's extraordinary the way you've been able to perform your mission. My special compliments to the maintenance crews who keep these planes going. While here, Roche personally shook hands and thanked many of the NATO members. It's a pleasure to know that when we were in great distress that our NATO allies came to our defense, Roche said. One of the men Roche thanked was NATO's deployed detachment commander, Col. Roy Olsen. Ever since we've been here, people have been treating us like heroes, Olsen said. We are not heroes. We are just people doing our jobs. 0305. Medical team evacuates sick soldiers from Uzbekistan by Master Sgt. Louis A. Arana-Barradas Air Force Print News INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey -- A team of Air Force medics flew to Uzbekistan Feb. 25 to evacuate two soldiers suffering from ailments their doctor describes as not life threatening. One soldier has a blood clot in his leg, Maj. (Dr.) John Marshall said. The other is suffering from an eye infection. He said both are in stable condition at the hospital at this base near Adana. The request for an evacuation flight for the soldiers came in late Feb. 24. A six-member aeromedical evacuation team took off
[CTRL] Soldier killing tragic error; Deputy unaware of role-playing
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! I have said for several years that sooner or later, someone would be killed in these training exercises. The military has absolutely NO business conducting war games among civilians for many reasons and safety is one of the lesser reasons. --Henrietta http://www.fayettevillenc.com/obj_stories/2002/feb/m25shoot.shtml Soldier killing âtragicâ error; Deputy unaware of role-playing By Henry Cuningham Military editor The Moore County sheriffâs deputy who shot a Fort Bragg soldier to death and injured another on Saturday did not know the soldiers were part of a role-playing Special Forces exercise, said Lane Carter, chief deputy of the Moore County Sheriffâs Department. ââThey attacked the deputy with everything they had, and he responded accordingly,ââ Carter said. ââOne was trying to get the deputyâs weapon. The other was pulling a weapon out of a bag. They ended up getting shot over it. He reacted as any officer would react.ââ The soldiers were not wearing uniforms. One of them carried a bag containing a disassembled M-4 carbine, a standard Special Forces weapon, Army officials said. Participants in the exercise do not carry live ammunition. The Army on Sunday night had not identified the soldiers, pending notification of their families. The injured soldier was in serious but stable condition at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst. ââIt was a tragic misunderstanding and miscommunication between those individuals,ââ said Maj. Gary Kolb, a spokesman for U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg. Deputy Randall Butler shot the soldiers at 2:30 p.m. Saturday on Acorn Ridge Road, about one-half mile from N.C. 705 near Robbins in northern Moore County, the Sheriffâs Department said. The State Bureau of Investigation said Butler stopped what appeared to be a suspicious vehicle. Randy Myers, a criminal specialist in the Fayetteville district office of the SBI, said there was a confrontation and âDeputy Butler felt like his life was in imminent danger.ââ Soldiers were students The soldiers were among about 200 students in the Robin Sage exercise, the culminating part of the Special Forces Qualification Course. The 19-day exercise takes place in the Uwharrie National Forest and 10 counties in central North Carolina, which make up a fictitious country called âPineland.â The 10 counties are Richmond, Scotland, Anson, Stanly, Montgomery, Moore, Lee, Chatham, Randolph and Davidson. Kolb said it has been ââstandard procedure for many yearsââ for students to wear civilian clothes and drive in civilian vehicles during the exercise. The exercise tests skills in survival, tactics and dealing with people, as well as ethics, judgment and decision-making. The Army has received help from local residents and governmental agencies for Robin Sage for years, and that support is crucial to the programâs success, Kolb said. But Saturdayâs scenario did not anticipate the involvement of local law enforcement, he said. ââBecause of that, we would not have notified any of the agencies involved that this was taking place,ââ Kolb said. The scenario involved a reconnaissance mission to observe a target that would be part of an objective for a future mission, Kolb said. The soldiers were riding in a truck with a civilian driver. The civilian was a local resident playing a role as a resident of âPineland.â âNo earthly ideaâ Carter, the Moore County chief deputy, said Butler had âno earthly ideaââ what was going on. ââHe thought they were going to kill him,ââ Carter said. Butler is on administrative leave ââfor his emotional health,ââ Carter said. The deputy has been with the Sheriffâs Department since 2000 and has been in law enforcement for about 15 years, Carter said. ââHe will come back any time he gets ready,ââ Carter said. No charges have been filed. Carter compared the traffic stop to a 1997 incident on Interstate 95 when two law enforcement officers were killed. Cumberland County Deputy David Hathcock and N.C. Highway Patrolman Ed Lowery were shot to death on Sept. 22, 1997, after a routine traffic stop on I-95. Brothers Kevin and Tilmon Golphin of Richmond, Va., have been sentenced to death for the killings. Carter said the situation was similar on Saturday in that one person tried to get the officerâs attention while the other tried to fire a rifle. Carter said he understood that law-enforcement officials in adjacent Randolph County had been involved in part of the exercise, but Moore County was not involved. Kolb said the Army âwill look at where the miscommunication happened and make sure we take some of the steps to ensure it doesnât happen again.â ââOur sympathy goes out to everyone involved,ââ Kolb said. Kolb said police in the Moore County town of Robbins
[CTRL] 25 February 2002 Federalist Edition #02-09
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! THE FEDERALIST(r) BRIEF The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 25 February 2002 Federalist Edition #02-09 Monday Brief *To support The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp *To sponsor The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/sponsor.asp *To retrieve today's Brief as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2002.asp *To change your e-mail address or format, see instructions in footer. __O__ THIS WEEK'S FEATURED SITE Citizens Against Government Waste counts a million members and supporters nationwide. CAGW's mission is to eliminate waste, mismanagement, and inefficiency in the federal government. Founded in 1984 by the late industrialist J. Peter Grace and syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, CAGW is the legacy of President Ronald Reagan's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, also known as the Grace Commission. Visit -- http://www.cagw.org/ CONTENTS: The Foundation Insight Good News ICTUS Imprimis Family Culture Liberty The Gipper Opinion in Brief Editorial Exegesis Government Re: The Left Political Futures For the Record Reader Comments The Last Word __O__ THE FOUNDATION Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object for the American Union. --Federalist No. 41 __O__ INSIGHT Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. --Winston Churchill __O__ GOOD NEWS All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his covenant. For the sake of your name, O Lord, forgive my iniquity, though it is great. Who, then, is the man that fears the Lord? He will instruct him in the way chosen for him. He will spend his days in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land. The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them. My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only he will release my feet from the snare. (Psalms 25:10-15) ++ After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus. Peter said to Jesus, 'Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters -- one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.' While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, 'This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!' When the disciples heard this, they fell face down to the ground, terrified. But Jesus came and touched them. 'Get up,' he said. 'Don't be afraid.' When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus. (Matthew 17:1-9) __O__ ICTUS IMPRIMIS For centuries, theologians and philosophers understood that conscience is the anvil of virtue and character. They took it for granted that God places his moral law in the heart, or conscience, of every person. Yet they were not naive. Individuals can know what is right, yet deliberately embrace what is evil. And when wickedness is chosen often enough, the moral senses become dulled, hardened, rendered useless. --Joseph Laconte __O__ FAMILY The Lindh family was extreme. And yet, the pattern is familiar enough. Eager to provide their son with 'choices' and to be 'supportive,' the Lindhs never so much as raised an objection when their 16-year-old dropped out of school, converted to Islam and announced a desire to live in Yemen. Mrs. Lindh wondered about Islamic views of women, but not apparently enough to deny her son's request for the wherewithal to travel to Yemen and thence to Afghanistan. On what grounds could the Lindhs have objected? Could they have argued that Christianity had a superior spiritual message? That would be ethnocentrism. Could they object that Arab nations are notoriously anti-American? They weren't wild about America themselves. Could they maintain that parents have authority over minor children because they are parents? Not the Lindhs. Their highest value was 'choice.' John Walker Lindh clearly went further than his parents were comfortable with. In an e-mail to his mother, he recently scoffed, 'What has America ever done for anybody?' The Lindhs were probably dismayed that John fought with the Taliban and trained with al Qaeda. But they should not be surprised. He simply went too far in the direction they pointed him. --Mona Charen __O__ CULTURE The campaign reform
[CTRL] AF News 27 Feb 02
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 0308. Globemasters last link of Afghan airlift by Master Sgt. Louis A. Arana-Barradas Air Force Print News INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey -- On what was a rare quiet day at this busy fighter base, not one C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane was scheduled to make a run into Afghanistan. There were no aircrews or cargo loaders scurrying about trying to ready the huge C-17s for flights down range. That, too, was rare. But it would not be long before the planes would be back on the job. That is because the C-17s, on duty here and at Rhein-Main and Ramstein air bases in Germany since the start of Operation Enduring Freedom, are flying most of the sorties into Afghanistan. Each day, the huge transports ferry troops, supplies and equipment needed to sustain U.N. forces there. The Afghan airlift is a job tailor-made for the C-17, said Maj. Eugene De Paolo, a C-5 Galaxy pilot from Dover Air Force Base, Del., who is attached to Incirlik's 728th Air Mobility Squadron here as a C-17 airlift stage manager. He said the Afghan airlift again proves the C-17's dependability. The C-17's the right aircraft for this mission, no doubt about it, De Paolo said. It's a tremendous platform to get the job done. And they're flying with great reliability. That equates to more cargo and troops delivered on time to meet the operational needs of U.N. forces on the ground, he said. The C-17s are not doing the job alone, of course. They are sharing the airlift load with their big brothers, the C-5s. The bigger planes bring cargo and troops from the United States to one of the staging bases. From there, the C-17s fly the troops and cargo the last leg into Afghanistan. Getting to Afghanistan and back is not a routine flight by any means. Missions from Germany can last 26 hours. Plus, aircrews must fly into a part of the world with some of the most rugged mountains. It is an area full of threats to aircraft. And once there, aircraft must land at short and unfamiliar airfields. So it takes a focused crew, officials said. On the ground, things are tense as ground crews quickly unload their precious cargoes. Aircraft spend as little time on the ground as possible, said Capt. Jeff Nelson, a C-17 pilot, who is deployed from the 17th Airlift Squadron at Charleston Air Force Base in S.C. When we land, we sit with our engines running and brakes on, Nelson said. And we wait for the loadmaster to offload the cargo. It is a stressful time that can seem like forever, he said. But though they know they are in a threat area and want to get out now, Nelson said there is no rushing. We don't want to cut any corners, he said. So we let the loadmaster do his job. But once cleared to go, the cargo planes make a hasty, tactical departure for friendly skies. Planes that fly from here make the round trip without refueling. Those flying back to Germany usually stop in a neighboring country to refuel before heading home. As if the C-17 is not busy enough, it is also acting as a tanker of sorts, De Paolo said. Some of the later versions of the aircraft have larger fuel tanks. That allows C-17s flying from here to offload aviation fuel in Afghanistan. De Paolo said the missions into Afghanistan are not as frequent or robust as the C-17 missions flown during Kosovo, but the aircrews are just as enthusiastic to get the job done. And the airplane is holding up under the around-the-clock flying. The C-17's doing an outstanding job here, De Paolo said. 0313. Coalition gathers to clean flightline by Master Sgt. Tim Helton 376th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM (AFPN) -- People here at a deployed location in Kyrgyzstan, who are helping transform an airport into a military air base, will soon see the fruition of their work when coalition aircraft arrive. In preparation for French Mirage and other coalition fighter aircraft, 160 coalition force members gathered on the flightline here Feb. 23 to pick up any debris that could harm aircraft engines. This is one of the last major events in preparation for flight operations, said Lt. Col. Brian Jurkovac, 376th Air Expeditionary Wing chief of safety. It's important that the flightline be clear of all items that could cause damage to an aircraft or a person. After an initial safety briefing, people from the French, Australian and U.S. air forces stood side by side to clear foreign objects and debris from nearly two square miles of taxiways and ramp areas. It was great to see all the forces out there, said Master Sgt. Sherry Slye, 376th AEW Operations Group airfield management chief. We all have a stake in the outcome and it was great to see everybody taking a part to minimize the opportunity for an aircraft to be damaged. Foreign object and debris walks are an everyday occurrence on a military flightline, Slye said. But this is not a military flightline. To minimize the chance
[CTRL] FBI agents tells Missouri farmers to keep alert for terrorism
-Caveat Lector- http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/news/86256B51006BC7AB86256B6 C0074E61C?OpenDocumenthighlight=2%2Cfarmers%2Cfbi?opendocumentheadline=FBI+a gents+tells+Missouri+farmers+to+keep+alert+for+terrorism WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! FBI agents tells Missouri farmers to keep alert for terrorism By Tim Higgins Associated Press Writer 02/26/2002 03:23 PM JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Farmers are the nation's first line of defense against terrorist attacks on the food supply through contamination of crops or livestock, an FBI agent told Missouri farmers Tuesday. David Cudmore, Kansas City coordinator of the FBI's unit in charge of fighting weapons of mass destruction, told a Missouri Farm Bureau conference that farmers must be alert to suspicious developments. ``If you suspect something, report it and tell them why: 'There's something weird with my crops. They're turning a color I've never seen before,''' Cudmore said. Beyond wiping out a herd, the deliberate exposure of animals to a biological agent such as foot-and-mouth disease would hurt the nation's economy and send waves of fear across the country, Cudmore said. He said it would be easy for a person to bring a piece of infected material into the United States and spread it to livestock. ``If a person takes a rag, puts it on the nose of a cow with foot-and-mouth disease, then puts it in his pocket, keeps it wet, gets on a plane, flies over to the Midwest -- if he just shook a farmer's hand, boom!'' Cudmore said. Cudmore said he was more worried about biological attacks against agriculture than anthrax attacks against people. Still, the FBI in Kansas City has responded to 45 anthrax scares, Cudmore said. No person has been charged with a crime. Anthrax was discovered last fall at a Kansas City postal facility. About 250 people were advised to take antibiotics as a precaution but no one became ill, and the facility reopened after two weeks. Authorities field a lot of calls about nothing more than a white powdery substance on a kitchen counter or garage floor, Cudmore said. He told farmers that if they detect something amiss, they should first try to gather information about it. ``If you can't figure out the explanation for why something is going on, you've got to report it,'' Cudmore said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] America Online accused of charging customers for unwanted goods
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/1690210p-1770801c.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! America Online accused of charging customers for unwanted goods By DAVID KRAVETS Associated Press Writer Published 4:55 p.m. PST Monday, Feb. 25, 2002 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - America Online Inc. was accused of charging thousands of its customers for merchandise they did not buy, according to a federal lawsuit made available Monday. The suit alleges that the AOL Time Warner Inc. subsidiary unlawfully charged and collected money for this unordered merchandise and shipping and handling charges from subscriber's credit card, debit card and checking accounts. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court here late Friday, accuses the nation's largest online subscriber company of shipping products - including books, stereos and bedsheets - advertised on its service even when subscribers clicked the no thanks button on their computer screens. Barry R. Himmelstein, one of several lawyers suing the Internet provider, said the company should change its You Got Mail slogan to You got a package. He said his law firm has received dozens of consumer complaints against the company. The suit seeks nationwide class-action status. No court date has been set. The suits names three plaintiffs but claims the company misbilled thousands of Internet service subscribers. An AOL spokesman dismissed the suit. These allegations are without merit and we intend to vigorously contest this lawsuit in court, said Nicholas Graham, spokesman for the Dulles, Va.-based company. Subscriber Dawn Brisky of Fresno said she was charged $74 in December for bed sheets she did not purchase. It just came to my house, Brisky said. The suit also alleges that an Oakland woman was charged $10 for a desk planner and $171 for a stereo she never bought. A Rialto man was charged $60 for some books and charged $90 for a Cyber Sonic Tooth Care System he did not purchase, according to the suit. The suit seeks unspecified damages, the return of unauthorized payments, and to let consumers keep the unauthorized merchandise at America Online's expense. The case is Buckley v. America Online Inc., C02-0918. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Arafat 'loses' $50 million payroll
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26612 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Arafat 'loses' $50 million payroll Funds diverted to terror campaign, EU makes up difference -- -- Posted: February 26, 2002 4:20 p.m. Eastern Editor's note: DEBKAfile's electronic news publication is a news-cum-analysis live wire, online round the clock seven days a week. A weekly edition,DEBKA-Net-Weekly, is now available through WorldNetDaily.com. Drawing on DEBKAfile's unique sources, analytical talents and forward-looking insights, it is presented as a compact, intelligence-angled weekly package. It is available as a direct e-mail feed or via the Internet. © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Palestinian Authority funds earmarked for salaries of civilian and security personnel were diverted to the latest round of terror attacks, according to the sources of DEBKA-Net-Weekly. Just over three weeks ago, PA paymasters, about to hand out January wage packets to civilian and security personnel, found a $50 million shortfall. Officials were instructed to take up the matter with Yasser Arafat, but, according to DEBKA, no one bothered. They all knew where the money had gone â the Fatah-Tanzim terror cycle, already referred to by insiders as The Palestinian Tet Offensive. It is named for the 1968 North Vietnamese offensive against the American Army and South Vietnam, the most brutal campaign of the war, which sowed the seeds for America's eventual rout and retreat. The Palestinians have taken to borrowing terms from other world conflicts. The Jenin refugee location, for instance, has been dubbed Kandahar Camp. Arafat called Javier Solana, the European foreign affairs executive, for a quick bailout and quickly received $30 million. When Solana arrived in the region yesterday, some of his Israeli contacts filled him in on the destination of the missing payroll funds. They indicated that if the episode came out, the European Union could hardly avoid being accused of using European tax revenues to fund Palestinian terror. According to DEBKA sources, Solana called on Arafat in his Ramallah office, demanding that the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades â a wing of Arafat's Fatah â be disbanded forthwith. He did not go so far as to mention the Fatah-Tanzim militia. Today, Solana was back in Arafat's office, DEBKA reports. The Palestinian leader complained bitterly about Israeli Justice Minister Meir Sheetreet, who told an early morning Hebrew radio broadcast that if things carried on this way, he could not rule out Israel's military reoccupation of Palestinian cities. Solana agreed gloomily that this prospect was a possibility. Arafat asked Solana to inform the Americans that he would be sending Palestinian officers to attend the trilateral U.S.-Israel-Palestinian security commission, so that it could be convened tonight. This was a reversal of the boycott of the forum he ordered, two days earlier, after the Israeli security cabinet declined to release him from virtual house arrest in Ramallah. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Saudi writer: PA no longer credible
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26602 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Saudi writer: PA no longer credible Palestinian Authority 'bestowed upon us lies' -- -- Posted: February 26, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern A columnist for the London-based Saudi daily newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat has apologized to his readers for reporting the Palestinian Authority's version of the Karine A weapons ship affair. Columnist Ahmad Al-Rab'i called on his readers not to believe the Palestinian Authority's declarations any longer. In early January, Israeli commandos seized a 4,000-ton Palestinian arms freighter, the Karine A, in the Red Sea. More than 50 tons of weapons in 83 crates turned up long- and short-range Katyusha rockets, with a maximum 20-km range, anti-tank Lao and Sagger missiles, 120-mm mortars and an abundance of heavy machine guns, rifles, mines, explosives and ammunition. Most of the hardware originated in Iran. Here, as translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, are excerpts of Al-Rab'i's column: When Israel announced that it had seized the [Karine A] weapons ship, I doubted the Israeli account and espoused the PA's claim â that the whole thing was a fabrication. I did this out of a sense of obligation to support our Palestinian brothers, and out of trust in the veracity of their account. But it seems that the [Palestinian] leadership deceived us with its account, and we, in turn, unintentionally deceived our readers. I remember when my colleague Abd al Rahman Al-Rashed, editor [of Al-Sharq Al-Awsat] criticized the Palestinian version [of the incident]. All the conspiracy theory 'bulldozers' rose up against him; they charged him with 'serving' the enemy ⦠Now, not only is Arafat confessing to the [Israeli] account, but he goes further still, and has sent [a letter] to the American secretary of state [from] which it can be interpreted that he takes responsibility for this incident. Therefore, I take responsibility before my readers; I and my readers were victims of our obligation to and trust in the Palestinian leadership. I assure the readers that since Arafat has confessed his responsibility to Colin Powell, I will no longer take the Palestinian leadership's declarations seriously. A journalist in our Arab world is confused, [caught] between his respect for himself and his readers and the Arab attitude towards the news. Fearing that he will be denied, the journalist misses the opportunity to analyze important news. If he writes about it [anyway], he ⦠is stricken with anxiety, lest his commentary be published in the same issue that carries the denial of what he reports. The [guiding] principle [in the Arab world] is not to treat the public with candor and transparency, but to conceal information [from it], such that if [the news] is picked up by the foreign press, we can deny it. Sometimes we are forced to confirm an item after we have denied it, because it has turned out to be a proven fact. When we defended the [Palestinian] National Authority in the weapons ship incident, we faced two problems: First, some commentators and Palestinian leaders denied the story, claiming that it was a fabrication, a show, and an attempt to divert public opinion from the peace issue. Second, smuggling weapons in this way is [in itself] a naive act attesting to ignorance â primarily because these weapons will not shift the military balance in favor of the Palestinians. Likewise, smuggling weapons on a route controlled by the Israeli navy is an escapade no reasonable person would attempt. [However,] what matters here is that the PA 'bestowed' upon us lies, and we, on our part, pressed our readers to support the PA. We, and our readers, were victims of our commitment [to the Palestinians] and of the trust we placed in it â which is now lost. -- -- *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time
[CTRL] Sharon Willing to Meet Over Saudi Peace Proposal
-Caveat Lector- http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnewsStoryID=636179 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Sharon Willing to Meet Over Saudi Peace Proposal February 26, 2002 12:20 PM ET Email this article Printer friendly version Reuters Photo By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli leader Ariel Sharon expressed readiness Tuesday to meet Saudi officials over a Saudi peace initiative that drew praise from President Bush for its vision of Israeli-Arab normalization. The European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, cut short a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories and planned to go to Saudi Arabia Wednesday to discuss Crown Prince Abdullah's surprise peace plan. The proposal by Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler calls on Arab states to recognize Israel and normalize relations with the Jewish state in return for a full Israeli withdrawal from lands occupied in the 1967 Middle East war. Any proposal for a total Israeli pullout from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights would face opposition from right-wingers in Israel, where security concerns have mounted alongside violence in a 17-month-old Palestinian uprising that has left more than 1100 people dead. But after meeting Sharon, Solana told reporters the Israeli leader considered the Saudi proposal an interesting idea. He said Sharon would like to know more about the content and he would be ready to meet anybody from Saudi Arabia, formally, informally, publicly, discreetly, whatever, to get better information about this initiative. Raanan Gissin, a Sharon spokesman, said the prime minister was always ready to meet with any Arab leader interested in advancing peace. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who Sharon accuses of fostering anti-Israeli attacks and refuses to meet, said he appreciated and supported completely Abdullah's efforts. Washington appeared to be warming to the Saudi initiative. A White House spokesman said President Bush spoke with the crown prince about it Tuesday. The president praised the crown prince's ideas regarding the full Arab-Israeli normalization once a comprehensive peace agreement has been reached, spokesman Ari Fleischer said. EU ENVOY SAYS SAUDI PROPOSAL DIFFERENT FROM THE REST Numerous international efforts, including a U.S.-backed truce-to-talks plan, have failed to stem bloodshed in which 892 Palestinians and 277 Israelis have been killed since September 2000, when the uprising against Israeli occupation began. Solana, who will be the first senior diplomat to discuss the Saudi initiative with Abdullah face-to-face since it was floated in a New York Times article on February 17, said the proposal contained two important new elements. One is part of the message, he said, referring to normalization, and the other is the messenger...Saudi Arabia is an important Arab country and this is coming from them. Despite a new spasm of Israeli-Palestinian violence on Monday, U.S.-hosted security talks between the two sides were due to resume later Tuesday. The Palestinian cabinet said after an urgent meeting it had approved a resumption of the talks in response to international appeals and to underline its calls for a cease-fire. The Palestinians suspended the sessions Sunday after Israel said its army blockades would continue to keep Arafat confined to the West Bank city of Ramallah. The last meeting was held last Thursday. ISRAELI EDITORIALS WELCOME SAUDI PROPOSAL Israeli newspaper editorials urged Sharon to seize the Saudi initiative. For Israel, sickened by Yasser Arafat and bereft of any last vestiges of confidence in him, the Saudi plan is an opportunity to sign a peace treaty with most of the Arab world (except for countries like Libya and Iraq), including the Palestinians, the left-wing Ha'aretz newspaper said. Some Israeli commentators said the initiative could simply be an attempt by Riyadh to improve its standing with the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks on the United States, carried out mainly by Saudi nationals. A Western diplomat predicted all Arab states would follow Saudi Arabia's lead if its proposals resulted in a full Israeli pullout from occupied land. But the diplomat also said the right-wing Sharon could never accept such a condition. It would be political suicide for him, he said. Despite talk of a diplomatic drive, Israeli-Palestinian tensions remained high. An Israeli policewoman died from her wounds overnight in a Jerusalem hospital after she was shot trying to prevent an attack by a Palestinian gunman in which nine Israelis were hurt. Two Palestinians and two Israelis were killed in the West Bank Monday. Two pregnant women, one an Israeli and one a Palestinian, were wounded but survived and later gave birth. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to
[CTRL] Where Two Worlds Collide
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61834-2002Feb24.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Where Two Worlds Collide Muslim Schools Face Tension of Islamic, U.S. Views Madeena Nazary writes on the board at the Washington Islamic Academy. (Juana Arias - The Washington Post) By Valerie Strauss and Emily Wax Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, February 25, 2002; Page A01 Eleventh-graders at the elite Islamic Saudi Academy in Northern Virginia study energy and matter in physics, write out differential equations in precalculus and read stories about slavery and the Puritans in English. Then they file into their Islamic studies class, where the textbooks tell them the Day of Judgment can't come until Jesus Christ returns to Earth, breaks the cross and converts everyone to Islam, and until Muslims start attacking Jews. At the Al-Qalam All-Girls School in Springfield, seventh-graders learn about the American Revolution and about respecting other people's beliefs. But students in class also talk about the taunts they face outside the school gates -- being called terrorist and bomber -- and ask whether Osama bin Laden is simply the victim of such prejudice. Maps of the Middle East hang on classroom walls, but Israel is missing. Such tensions within the walls of Muslim day schools are in many ways emblematic of the U.S. Muslim community's political concerns, fears, biases and hopes, all brought into sharp focus since the events of Sept. 11. Today, these schools -- and Muslims in this country -- are at a crucial juncture, as some work to stay true to their religion while they try to adapt to the U.S. experience, a process that Catholics and Jews went through before them. At stake, educators acknowledge, is how the next generation of Muslims coming of age in the United States will participate in the country they live in. The fall attacks could serve as the catalyst in determining whether these schools and their students focus on the culture and politics of faraway Muslim lands or find within Islamic tradition those ideals consistent with U.S. democracy and religious liberty. This is going to get us out of the cocoon, out of our little comfort zone that is more of an isolation from the community at large, said Shabbir Mansuri, founding director of the California-based Council on Islamic Education. And it is going to put us into a position where we are going to have to put our own feet to the fire. The growth of the Muslim population in the United States in the past two decades has prompted a proliferation of day schools, with about a dozen located between Richmond and Baltimore. Nationally, there are estimated to be 200 to 600 of these schools, with at least 30,000 students. Thousands of others attend Islamic weekend schools. Most Muslim children in the United States attend public schools, but there is a growing desire for more day schools. Some schools face the same prejudices that Catholics and their schools did beginning in the 1800s, when their loyalty to the pope was seen as inherently anti-American. We put Catholics through that, Jews through that, Mormons through that and many other groups, Mansuri said. It is the Muslims' turn . . . and if Muslims are not living up to the ideas of Islam, then we certainly should take them to task. To that end, some Muslim educators are writing a new curriculum that infuses tenets of the religion in every lesson while providing a broad-minded worldview. Textbooks, often from overseas and rife with anti-American rhetoric, are being replaced in some schools. Some parents are forming PTAs and seeking a curriculum that teaches the civic virtues of tolerance and pluralism. I wouldn't be surprised if some teachers are sometimes anti-American or anti-Semitic, said Abdulwahab Alkebsi, whose 12-year-old daughter attends the Islamic Saudi Academy. But I don't want it to be that way. I choose the school because of the same reason why all American parents choose private schools -- it's a better environment and no peer pressure of drugs and being a sex symbol at too young an age. But there are other American values -- like freedom of speech and assembly -- that we should be teaching our kids to respect. 'A Lot of Growing to Do' Ali Alkhafaji, 9, a fourth-grader, poses a question for his classmates at the Washington Islamic Academy, echoing a lesson from their teacher: Is it better to be a fashion star or to listen to Allah? The youngsters agreed it was better to listen to God, though wide-eyed India Abdullah, 8, said: It's hard to be a good Muslim. But if we do the right deeds and stuff, the devil is locked up and the door of heaven is unlocked. Yet the pictures of Britney Spears and the Islamic holy city of Mecca adorning the lockers and notebooks of two Muslim schools in Springfield attest to the challenge of providing an Islamic education amid the beckoning popular culture. In fact,
[CTRL] 'Bush Doctrine' reshaping U.S. strategy
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26613 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 'Bush Doctrine' reshaping U.S. strategy All foreign-policy interests take backseat to defense of homeland -- -- Posted: February 26, 2002 5:00 p.m. Eastern Editor's note: In partnership with Stratfor, the global intelligence company, WorldNetDaily publishes daily updates on international affairs provided by the respected private research and analysis firm. Look for fresh updates each afternoon, Monday through Friday. In addition, WorldNetDaily invites you to consider STRATFOR membership, entitling you to a wealth of international intelligence reports usually available only to top executives, scholars, academic institutions and press agencies. © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Although the Bush administration has seemed to be without a clear strategy for fighting groups like al-Qaida, a doctrine is slowly emerging that will reshape the global U.S. strategy. The defense of the United States is Washington's top priority, with all other foreign policy interests taking a back seat. Any nation that does not act against terror groups within its borders will be in a virtual state of war with Washington. Since the fall of the Taliban last year, the United States appears to have become rudderless in its war against terrorism. Washington's strategy has consisted of chasing down rumors about the location of al-Qaida and making vague threats about Iraq and insinuations about Iran and North Korea. It looks like the United States doesn't really know what to do next. But looks can be deceiving. If you examine carefully, you can see both a doctrine and a strategy emerging. This is all framed by the Bush administration's view of the situation. From where it sits, there is every reason to believe that the United States will be attacked by al-Qaida again. Even more important, the possibility that al-Qaida or some other anti-U.S. organization has obtained weapons of mass destruction cannot be excluded. If that turns out to be true, then millions of Americans may possibly be killed in the coming months or years. The most important goal for Washington must be to make absolutely certain that no further attacks, especially nuclear, chemical or biological, can be launched on the United States. There is no other comparable interest. The Bush Doctrine is based on the notion that the defense of the homeland from attacks represents an interest so fundamental that all other foreign policy interests must be completely subordinated. We might summarize the Bush Doctrine this way: The United States faces an extraordinary danger. Washington is therefore prepared to take any action anywhere in the world to defend itself from this threat. The defense of the homeland cannot be reduced to only defeating al-Qaida. The Bush administration has studied the lessons of the Israeli wars on Black September and other Palestinian groups and has drawn this conclusion: the defeat of any single group can disrupt and delay future attacks, but it cannot by itself eliminate them. Even if the United States were to utterly destroy al-Qaida, a new group would likely emerge. Therefore, the United States has three strategic goals: Disrupt and defeat al-Qaida in order to buy time for a more thorough solution. Prevent the emergence of follow-on groups by denying them sanctuaries in states where they can organize, train and plan. Limit the threat posed by al-Qaida and follow-on groups by systematically eliminating weapons of mass destruction being held or developed by regimes that are favorably inclined toward them or in states where there is substantial sympathy for them. Beginning with the last goal, there are a finite number of nations that have intensive programs underway to develop weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems and that also might be prepared to aid al-Qaida. Three were named by U.S. President George W. Bush during the State of the Union: Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Another unnamed nation is Pakistan. It must be assumed by the United States that the first three of these countries are developing WMD and/or delivery systems. It cannot be ruled out that either their governments or powerful factions within their borders might be inclined to provide al-Qaida or other groups with these weapons for use against the United States. Washington requires that these and other nations that are identified demonstrably and verifiably abandon all attempts to build weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems. They should also convince the United States that they will under no circumstances transfer any technology to al-Qaida or any other group that intends covert action against the United States. In the case of Iraq, for example, no assurances that might be made by Baghdad could possibly carry any weight. It would
[CTRL] PERSECUTION!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26501 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! PERSECUTION! The untold story of intimidation, torture, imprisonment and murder of Christians worldwide -- -- Posted: February 18, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern Christian persecution worldwide â voted by WorldNetDaily's editors as the most underreported news story of the last year â is the focus of the March 2002 issue of WND's acclaimed monthly print magazine, Whistleblower. This report is about a spiritual plague, writes Paul Marshall, one of the world's leading experts on religious persecution, and author of two articles in this riveting special issue. It tells of massacre, rape, torture, slavery, beatings, mutilations, and imprisonment. It also tells of pervasive patterns of extortion, harassment, family division, and crippling discrimination in employment and education. This plague affects over 200 million people, with an additional 400 million suffering from discrimination and legal impediments. Titled PERSECUTION: The untold story of intimidation, torture, imprisonment and murder of Christians worldwide, the March issue comprehensively documents this soul-numbing story that has inexplicably been all but absent from the daily news coverage of the Western establishment press. Bolstered by over two dozen riveting photographs, this issue of Whistleblower transports readers to the front lines of a war most didn't even know existed. Indeed, Christian persecution sounds like something from the distant past â conjuring up images of the early followers of Jesus being thrown to the lions, and various apostles being crucified or otherwise martyred for their faith. In reality, more Christians have died for their beliefs in the last century than in all other past centuries combined. Today, particularly in the wake of the post-Sept. 11 war on terror, that persecution is on the increase â due to retribution against Christians exacted by Islamic militants. The Islamic world is a hostile place for Christians: In Saudi Arabia, for instance, Christianity is illegal, and conversion from Islam is punishable by death. In Pakistan, the death penalty is prescribed for anyone who blasphemes Islam â something that occurs automatically during Christian evangelism. In Egypt and elsewhere, Christian girls have acid thrown in their face by Islamic extremists if they refuse to convert to Islam, or are raped, or worse. At best, in the more enlightened Islamic societies, Christians (as well as Jews) are second-class citizens, have a special tax imposed upon them, and do not share the rights of Muslims. The communist world is no better. According to recent reports from groups monitoring religious persecution, the Chinese government is cracking down as never before on underground Christians â those who do not join the official Chinese churches. The Committee for Investigation on Persecution of Religion in China published what it said were official documents â implicating top-level Chinese leaders â that outline a campaign that includes torture to stamp out independent worship. Researchers said that in house churches (those not sanctioned by the totalitarian government) in 20 provinces, 129 people had been killed recently, 23,686 arrested and 4,014 sentenced to re-education. This comprehensive issue of Whistleblower, dedicated cover-to-cover to shedding light on Christian persecution worldwide, also focuses on what can be done, and indeed is being done by courageous organizations and individuals, to stop this modern-day plague, and how readers can join that fight. Finally, as an Easter bonus, we've put together a very special section titled The first Christian martyr â in-depth look at the Shroud of Turin. Complete with five stunning, high-quality photographs, this special report documents the latest evidence that the Shroud is indeed the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! 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.
[CTRL] New York Mayor Ponders Selling Brooklyn Bridge
-Caveat Lector- http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=politicsnewsStoryID=632211 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! New York Mayor Ponders Selling Brooklyn Bridge February 25, 2002 08:00 PM ET Email this article Printer friendly version NEW YORK (Reuters) - Unbelievable perhaps, but New York City's new mayor wants to sell you the historic Brooklyn Bridge. In fact, he wants to sell three other bridges in America's biggest city -- anything to raise cash in a city reeling from the economic effects of the Sept. 11 attacks coupled with the first U.S. recession in 10 years. Michael Bloomberg, elected mayor last year just weeks after the destruction of the World Trade Center, inherited a nearly $5 billion hole in his $40 billion spending plan, which an official in his administration said could be partly filled through the sale of the four bridges. The proposals (to sell the bridges) are under consideration, Bloomberg spokesman Jordan Barowitz said on Monday, declining to elaborate. Selling the bridges is likely to generate as much opposition from elected officials in Brooklyn and Queens as the mayor's budget proposal two weeks ago to charge tolls on the bridges, which are now free. The Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge and the Queensboro Bridge all span the East River and connect the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens to Manhattan. The toll plan could raise up to $800 million a year by 2006. While it was not immediately clear how much the city might get from the sale of the four bridges, an arm of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority would be the likely buyer, Bloomberg's spokesman said. An MTA spokesman said the agency had no comment on the Bloomberg plan to sell the bridges. New York City's tax collections took a severe hit after the Sept. 11 attacks, which came at a time when the U.S. economy was already slowing after a record 10 years of economic growth. The air attacks not only killed nearly 3,000 people, they also led to 110,000 job losses and forced thousands of businesses to shut down. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Dems Block Effort to Stop Vote Fraud
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/2/26/192032 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2002 Dems Block Effort to Stop Vote Fraud Have they no shame? Here's yet the latest example of why the Democrats are notorious as the party of election fraud: Dems now want to sabotage an agreed-upon photo ID requirement for first-time voters, threatening to unravel a bipartisan Senate accord to overhaul election procedures, the Associated Press reported today. An amendment by Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., would instead allow voters to guarantee their identities merely by signature! The proposed amendment would make it easier to vote and easier to cheat and effectively guts the anti-fraud provisions, noted Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo. It's worth noting that when failed presidential nominee Al Gore ran crying to the media to count every vote, he didn't say to count every legal vote. If the government actually did its job and prevented the massive vote fraud that happens in this country, the whole recount fuss would never have happened. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Iowa Passes English-Only Measure
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/26/164010.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Iowa Passes English-Only Measure NewsMax.com Wires Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002 DES MOINES, Iowa â The Iowa House, despite Democrat opposition, gave final approval Tuesday to a measure that makes English the state's official language. The bill now goes to Gov. Tom Vilsack for his signature. Vilsack has criticized the bill as lacking substance because it provides no funding to teach English to those for whom English is not their first language, but has nevertheless indicated he will sign the measure. We all agree that everyone who lives and works here should be proficient in English because it is the language that unites us, and it is the language of opportunity, Vilsack said in a statement. But the true test is whether the Legislature stands by its commitment to provide the resources to help people actually learn English. Without that commitment, this is symbol without substance. Republicans maintain the bill will cut costs, allowing state literature to be printed in a single language. People Who Can't Read Road Signs Can Still Get a Driver's License! There are several exceptions, however, including driver's education materials, trade and tourism documents, and documents dealing with the rights of victims of crimes, criminal defendants and constitutional issues. To accommodate Vilsack, a companion bill provides $1.4 million for English as a Second Language classes in the 2003-04 school year. That bill still must win Senate approval. Rep. Dwayne Alons of Hull, who led the House effort, compared the state to a salad. When you put together your salad ... the one item that really brings it together is a dressing, Alons said. For Iowa, I believe English is that one ingredient for us. Des Moines Democrat Jack Hatch said Iowa welcomed everyone. Whether or not you know it, your bill resonates a different message, a message which none of us really appreciates or wants, he said. A December Des Moines Register poll indicated 81 percent of Iowans favored the measure. Twenty-six states not counting Iowa have similar laws. Mauro E. Mujica, chairman and CEO of the Washington-based U.S. English, hailed the measure. Making English the state's official language is a victory for all Iowans, Munica said in a statement. ... All Iowans will benefit from this common-sense legislation: Taxpayers will save money, immigrants will be encouraged to learn English and everyone will be able to communicate with each other. U.S. English, a citizen action group founded by the late Sen. S.I. Hayakawa of California, worked with Iowa lawmakers to gain approval of the bill. Only by giving people a common language can we ensure that everyone has an equal chance to go as far as their skills, talent and dreams take them, Mujica said. Des Moines immigration attorney Ta-Yu Yang said the bill was just an example of the Republican Party flexing its political muscle. Time and time again, they have sought to cram this bill down our throats despite their failure in years past, he told the Register. Do they have an idea that this is a bill not welcomed by Americans and Iowans with some vision? Of course they do. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research
[CTRL] CONDIT IS HEADED FOR GRAND-JURY HOT SEAT
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/42319.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! CONDIT IS HEADED FOR GRAND-JURY HOT SEAT By NILES LATHEM -- -- February 26, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Embattled Rep. Gary Condit is expected to be summoned soon to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the disappearance of Chandra Levy, law-enforcement officials said last night. Sources told The Post that Condit, whose clumsy efforts to cover up his affair with the missing D.C. intern put him in heaps of legal and political trouble, is likely to be called to testify sometime this spring, along with other members of his staff. Law-enforcement officials were careful to say the California Democrat is not a target of the investigation of what is still being officially described as a missing persons case. They noted Levy's former co-workers at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and residents of her downtown apartment building and health club will also be directed to testify. But sources said United Air Lines flight attendant Anne Marie Smith, who claimed Condit urged her to sign a false affidavit denying she had an affair with him, is also likely to be on the grand jury's witness list, indicating possible obstruction of justice charges against Condit are still being pursued by the Justice Department. Condit's new lawyer, California celebrity mouthpiece Mark Geragos, could not be reached for comment, but has said in the past that any idea that his controversial client is a target of the grand jury probe is false. Police officials say they have no new leads in finding out what happened to Levy, who disappeared from her apartment last May 1. But news of the grand jury's interest in Condit's testimony is the latest blow to the besieged lawmaker, who is running for re-election but way down in the polls, out of campaign cash, and has been abandoned by party luminaries in advance of a March 5 primary. In addition to his political problems, Condit is also said to have sold his infamous condo in the Adams Morgan section of Washington, the site of his much publicized trysts with Levy and other women, because of his mounting financial problems. But despite being staggered by his legal, political and financial woes, Condit remains defiant, insisting in recent interviews he's the victim of a national media frenzy. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] China Vents Anger Over Taiwan
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/26/171456.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! China Vents Anger Over Taiwan NewsMax.com Wires Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002 BEIJING â China on Tuesday publicly criticized a plan to rename Taiwan's overseas representative offices and condemned a planned visit to the United States by the island's defense minister. Calling the measure a provocative act, China's state-run media criticized a proposed plan to rename Taiwan's 14 unofficial consulates in the United States from Taipei Economic and Cultural Offices to Taiwan Representative Offices. Since the United States recognized the communist Beijing government in 1979, Taiwan was diplomatically downgraded and has used the offices for communicating with Washington and for issuing visas. The Chinese dictatorship sees the move as another step toward Taiwan declaring independence, something Beijing has threatened military action to prevent. In the world arena, we will make great efforts to prevent 'Taiwan independence,' or 'two Chinas' or 'one China, one Taiwan,' state-run media quoted a government official as saying. China's foreign ministry also condemned plans for Taiwan's defense minister to visit the United States, news of which came less than one day after President Bush concluded his visit to Beijing. We resolutely oppose the official ties between Taiwan and the United States, and especially in the military field, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Kong Quan said. Beijing is opposed to any such communication between any country with diplomatic relations with China. Taiwanese media reported over the weekend an informal invitation had been extended to Defense Minister Tang Yiau-ming. Ministry officials confirmed Tang had been invited to attend a business conference in Florida next month, but the U.S. government had not issued a formal invitation. The visit would be the first by a Taiwanese defense minister since Washington switched diplomatic ties to Beijing. The Chinese spokesman also voiced Beijing's concern over U.S. arms sales to the island government. Taipei has asked to buy 30 Apache attack helicopters. Kong said such sales violated agreements between Beijing and Washington and undermined bilateral ties and the peace and stability across the straits. Copyright 2002 by United Press International. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] School marks Mexican Flag Day
-Caveat Lector- http://www.californianonline.com/news/stories/20020226/localnews/1718739.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Tuesday, February 26, 2002 School marks Mexican Flag Day Consul general presents pupils with banner By Elia Gonzalez The Californian -- -- For the first time in Salinas, the Mexican consul general from San Jose, Marco Antonio Alcázar, celebrated Mexican Flag Day at Bardin Elementary School on Monday. This is exciting because there are many children in this city, who were born in United States, whose parents are Mexicans, Alcázar said. And these children have the opportunity now to enjoy two different nationalities and be proudly American and proudly Mexican. Thanks to a law enacted in March 1998, all U.S.-born children of Mexican parents have the right to automatically obtain Mexican citizenship, he said. In front of more than 200 children from fifth and sixth grades, most of whose parents are originally from Mexico, Alcázar presented the Mexican flag to sixth-grader, Yesenia Hernández, and an escort of five girls. The Mexican national anthem also was performed amid a respectful silence from students, teachers and guests. I'm proud to carry the Mexican flag, said Hernández, whose parents are from the city of Chavinda, Michoacán. Hernández, whose parents are from the city of Chavinda, Michoacán. Alcázar also gave the school two Mexican flags and a complete collection of educational books from the Mexican government, intended to help students understand Mexican history and culture. This is the first time a school in Salinas has celebrated this Mexican holiday, said Principal Jorge Olveda. Salinas Mayor Anna Caballero said the day was historic, not only for the gift of the Mexican flag, but for the books, because literacy is very important -- reading and speaking Spanish. Also present as special guests were Monterey County supervisors Fernando Armenta and Lou Calcagno, Superior Court Judge Jose Angel Velazquez and Salinas City Councilman Ernesto Gonzalez. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Clinton Policy Abets Colombian Guerrillas
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020226-76879070.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! U.S. law bars giving Colombians data By Rowan Scarborough THE WASHINGTON TIMES The U.S. military has compiled reams of satellite photographs and communication intercepts that could aid Colombia in its revived war against left-wing rebel terrorists, Bush administration official say. But a leftover Clinton administration policy (Presidential Decision Directive 73), and an accompanying federal law, is keeping the Pentagon from sharing the vital intelligence with Colombian President Andres Pastrana and his armed forces. Pentagon officials, and commanders at U.S. Southern Command, which overseas American military aid in South America, are described as frustrated and fuming over the statute that restricts aid to anti-drug efforts. A senior official said the Bush administration is strictly abiding by the law that restricts intelligence sharing. No one wants to go to jail, the source said. The State Department announced last week it was increasing intelligence sharing, but privately officials say the increase has to do with limited force protection of American interests and will do little to help Mr. Pastrana win the war. It doesn't address his full needs, said a senior policy-maker. We have to go 10 miles. This gets them one mile down the road. Mr. Pastrana last week broke off three years of failed peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. He ordered a wave of air and ground strikes into what had been a FARC safe haven in southern Colombia after the group hijacked an airliner and kidnapped a senator. FARC is a U.S.-designated terrorist group that controls much of the country's hugely lucrative cocaine production. Yesterday, Mr. Pastrana condemned FARC's weekend abduction of a presidential candidate, as his military prepared for a major offensive against the leftist guerrillas. Kidnapping members of Congress, now kidnapping a presidential candidate, and kidnapping Colombians is kidnapping democracy, Mr. Pastrana said. Colombian warplanes are to launch another wave of aerial bombardments at any moment in the vast Switzerland-sized region FARC formerly controlled, a military source told Agence France Presse last night. The French wire service also reported last night that the site where the rebels are holding Ingrid Betancourt, who was seized Saturday with her campaign manager after trying to enter a former rebel enclave, has been located. However, the army canceled a rescue operation so as not to endanger her life, a general said. The rescue operation was suspended at the request of Dr. Betancourt's family, who asked that her life not be endangered, said Gen. Roberto Pizarro, the military commander of the southern Colombian region. Mr. Pastrana's decision to go after FARC is spurring the Pentagon, State Department and White House to debate whether to significantly expand military aid to Bogota. Some Pentagon and military officials want FARC included in President Bush's war on terrorism. They want to scrap PDD 73 so Washington can directly aid the Colombian military. The State Department is more cautious, but open to the expansion, senior officials said in interviews. The president's national security advisers are scheduled to meet this week to discuss a change in Colombia policy. There are no plans to insert U.S. personnel directly into combat. There are today about 250 American service members in Colombia advising the army on counternarcotics operations. Mr. Pastrana, who leaves office next fall, also has asked Washington for more spare parts for his helicopter fleet, which include U.S.-made Black Hawks. Colombia is in dire need of more lift capability to get troops and weapons inside the safe haven to attack FARC units. The Colombian president also has asked Bush officials for what sources termed as moral and public support as the country's 38-year civil war heats up again. But at the top of the list is secret-intelligence sharing. The U.S. military possesses, and can generate daily, photos of FARC troop encampments and movements. Passed along to Colombian pilots and ground commanders, the images would become invaluable in conducting precision strikes. The United States could also provide photos of bomb damage to assess whether a strike was a success. Right now, we can't tell him how effective he has been, said the senior official. In addition, intelligence reports based on communications monitoring could tell Colombian commanders FARC's strategy and where to strike next. Before Bogota decided to strike the safe haven, the Bush administration already had to ask Congress to expand the military's role. It wants lawmakers to approve $98 million to set up a new Colombian brigade that would protect a critical oil
[CTRL] Hillary Is Still Standing by Her Man
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/24/174309.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Hillary Is Still Standing by Her Man G. Russell Evans Captain, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.) Monday, Feb. 25, 2002 Hardly a move has ever been made by a Clinton except for some personal or political gain. This statement is so real it could instantly become an aphorism in the political psyche. By now, the Clintons' modus operandi fools no one. Their defenders and hangers-on are more and more hard-pressed even to keep a straight face as they struggle for believable glory for the Clinton years. It's even tough for spinmeisters James Carville and Paul Begala â but they keep trying! Not Bamboozled As for the thinking public, it is no longer bamboozled by the Bill and Hillary dog and pony show. We've seen it all â even Hillary's grandiose giveaway schemes in the Senate, engineered for more votes and paid for by the rest of us. Even so, she is still standing by her man, a term so nobly used on the Larry King TV show one evening during the 1992 presidential campaign when Bill was cornered for his long-running bedroom frolics with Gennifer Flowers. It worked then, so why not now? Spinning Tales Hillary is busy these days standing by Bill in his transparent efforts to spin tales to burnish his legacy â a legacy that would make any self-respecting hooligan cringe with shame. No amount of polish can shine trash â in this case, a legacy of treasonous sales of missile technology to our sworn enemy Red China and impeachment for dishonesty and unspeakable sexual acts in the Oval Office, to name only a few of Bill Clinton's despicable activities that disgraced the Office of the President to a degree never before imagined. The one word that best fits the Bill Clinton legacy is lying â to such a degree that he was an untrustworthy president. The word 'lying' still fits his new public relations campaign to promote his eight-year presidential legacy. Hillary was there and part of the legacy, instigator of many scandals and apparently cheerleader for all â except, of course, the one featuring the young intern Monica Lewinsky, which she denied knowing about at a time when the rest of the world knew in spades. She was standing by her man, steadfastly and nobly, to the cheers of the feminists. Best Defense Is Good Offense Now Hillary is out there defending Bill with cheap shots at Bill's successor, George W. Bush, using the ages-old battle plan of Roman poet Ovid, who asked in 8 A.D. (in The Loves), Isn't the best defense always a good attack? The Clintons long ago mastered the technique of attacking critics and blaming someone else for their treachery. Hillary complained to reporters recently that the country was in the right condition when she and Bill left the White House and that we should have built on his successes instead of turning the clock back. Looking ahead, she is enthusiastic about Bill promoting his legacy to show the way for the 2004 presidential elections and where the country should go. Bush U-turn The former first lady charged that Bush, within one year, had made a U-turn and that, consequently, America is no longer richer and safer and stronger and smarter as it was when Bill was at the helm. On the contrary, the exact opposite is true. And such nonsense from a United States senator is both scandalous and grossly irresponsible. Mrs. Clinton should be ashamed of herself, but unfortunately Clintons have no shame â just aggressive, steamrolling ambition. The U-turn by President Bush was just what the country needed and can be convincingly proven by using Hillary's own words: America is stronger because President Bush has beefed up our military by almost 50 percent over that of the president who said he loathed the military. America is safer because President Bush has increased intelligence gathering and heeded intelligence reports that had been largely ignored by a president who put personal and political gain above national defense. America is smarter because of a new president with dedicated and experienced advisers who give priority to a strong and secure America instead of vote-gathering and fund raising. America is richer because of character, honor and trust underlying all segments of the government. Bush requires the highest standards! Hillary's Goal It takes gall for Mrs. Clinton to condemn a Bush U-turn when public opinion polls approve his policies by nearly 90 percent. Obviously, she wants to build up her own image, probably for a presidential run in the year 2004 or 2008 â or at least re-election as a New York senator. The people, however, will not forget her eight years on the Clinton-Gore team, which gave us scandal after scandal and betrayal after betrayal. Here are a few examples of her involvement: Campaign donations from Communist China as a quid pro quo for selling them top secret missile guidance
[CTRL] Revenge of the Gun Haters
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2002/2/23/131711 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Revenge of the Gun Haters Dr. Michael S. Brown Feb. 23, 2002 Politics and public opinion may have turned against the anti-gun lobby, but their burning hatred for guns and gun owners hasn't cooled. Laws passed during the anti-gun witch hunts of the 1990s provide them with a satisfying way to take punitive action against harmless gun owners. Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, which may be one reason it had more murders than any other American city in 2001. Mayor Richard Daley often unleashes verbal attacks on the gun industry to distract attention from his failure to address the real causes of crime. The Chicago Anti-Gun Enforcement (CAGE) Task Force was formed under the pretense of interdicting illegal gunrunning to Chicago gangs. The task force has obtained unprecedented access to federal gun purchase records and is compiling a list of gun owners in the region who may be in violation of complicated state gun laws. CAGE officers have already begun to appear at the homes of honest gun owners, whose papers are not in order, to confiscate their firearms. Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan has staged questionable sting operations in which ordinary citizens are given false information about gun laws, then enticed into selling guns to undercover agents without completing the proper paperwork. It is no coincidence that Ryan is running for governor. In Maryland, the state's rabidly anti-gun attorney general issued a creative new interpretation of a 1996 court decision regarding which persons are disqualified from gun ownership. State police are denying permits and confiscating firearms from people with minor convictions that are decades old. A popular neighborhood activist who received a Citizen of the Year award in 2000 was recently denied the gun permit he needed for his job as a private detective and security guard. His only offense was a scuffle with an anti-war fanatic in 1969. Maryland state policemen appeared at the home of another good citizen to confiscate his guns when it was discovered that he had a minor 1983 conviction for a shoving match over a disputed property line. In California, gun owners are bewildered by new laws that make certain firearms illegal to own. Unfortunately, officials do not agree on which guns are banned, leaving gun owners fearing arrest under laws that can be selectively enforced. In each of these cases, it is painfully obvious that real criminals are not affected. Self-serving government officials are targeting ordinary citizens because they are easy targets for action that appeals to the big-city media. It is much more difficult to prosecute real criminals, and the inner-city nature of most crime makes for politically incorrect arrests. We can also speculate that these efforts are intended to extract a measure of revenge for the rout of the anti-gun lobby. At the national level the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, known as ATF, controls every one of the nation's licensed firearms dealers and has long been criticized for overzealous enforcement by gun rights activists. In order to comply with changes in federal gun laws, ATF quietly decided to change the standard gun registration form that has been used for years. Beginning on Feb. 19, 2002, no sales would be approved unless they were recorded on the new forms. Not only were many dealers unaware of the change, someone forgot to send out the forms. Retail gun sales came to a screeching halt across the country. The new forms were eventually provided, but there was no way to replace the retailers' lost revenue or the time lost by thousands of lawful buyers. Folks at the Brady Campaign probably had a good laugh. None of these situations would have occurred without the laws passed in the emotional anti-gun frenzy of the last decade. These laws now provide mean-spirited anti-gun politicians and bureaucrats with many ways to seek revenge against the gun owners who dared to fight for their rights in recent elections and public opinion battles. In the long run, these moves will backfire as more people realize how far the absurd reality of gun law enforcement varies from the utopian intent. Dr. Michael S. Brown is an optometrist and member of Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws, www.dsgl.org *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER ==
[CTRL] John McCain, Traitor
-Caveat Lector- http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2001/april/rwt_mccain.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! John McCain, Traitor By Robert Tracinski (April 2, 2001) [CAPITALISMMAGAZINE.COM] It is time to put the John McCain myth to rest. For years, the national media and a gullible grass-roots following have glorified McCain as a man of integrity who deals in straight talk. They have promoted his image as a hero who fought bravely for his country in Vietnam and who is now fighting to save politics from corruption by special interests. I don't dispute McCain's war record. In Vietnam, he endured beatings and torture for the sake of his country. But the hero has since become a traitor. Today, for the sake of his own populist self-aggrandizement, McCain is betraying one of his country's most basic principles: the freedom of political expression. The most obvious form of this betrayal is McCain's proposed ban on political ads by independent groups within 60 days of an election. What does this mean? Imagine that it is Oct. 1, 2002, and John McCain is running for re-election. You and a group of like-minded friends pool together your money to buy a television spot in Phoenix saying Don't Vote for John McCain. Under the McCain-Feingold bill, you would be breaking the law. When asked whether this would suppress free speech, McCain and his followers glibly assert that money is not speech. But how can you have the right to speak -- unless you have the right to use your own money and resources to broadcast your ideas? That's like telling a publisher he can print whatever he wants -- so long as he doesn't spend money to buy printing presses. The most brazen aspect of this proposal is the fact that McCain would suppress political speech specifically in an election season -- precisely when a citizen's freedom to express his political views is most crucially needed. Such a provision is patently unconstitutional -- and patently un-American. But McCain doesn't stop there. He was adamantly opposed to any increase in hard money limits on direct contributions to candidates, and he managed to cut the proposed increase by half. It is well known that hard money limits -- set at $1,000 in 1974 and never increased despite decades of inflation -- favor incumbents, who have built up extensive fund-raising networks. Maverick challengers, who rely on a smaller pool of donors, are starved out. But what if a challenger is wealthy enough to finance his own campaign? McCain-Feingold has that covered, too. In that case, the incumbent's contribution limits are lifted to $6,000, helping him stave off the challenger. And then, as icing on the cake, McCain led our public-spirited senators in voting themselves a new government-enforced discount on television advertising time. McCain says that campaign finance reform is needed to safeguard the integrity of our politicians. It looks more as if it is intended to safeguard their political careers by shutting out challengers and muzzling independent critics. McCain's tactics are as dubious as his goals. He has demanded that his whole package of campaign finance controls be severable -- that is, if one part of the bill is struck down by the courts, the others will remain. So this avatar of integrity is asking his fellow senators to pass a bill whose exact content they cannot know, since it is almost certain to be revised by the Supreme Court. Consider also the collateral damage from McCain's crusade. For the past two weeks, McCain's quest for campaign finance controls has sidelined a tax cut proposal that is an important step toward curbing the growth of government. This is a crucial time. The Democrats are in full disarray on taxes, as demonstrated by their appeal to such lame counter-proposals as a one-time tax rebate -- a failed idea resurrected from the failed Carter administration. Now is the time for Senate Republicans to push president Bush's tax cut. Instead, McCain is handing Bush a political booby-trap. If he vetoes McCain-Feingold -- as he should -- Bush risks being pilloried as a lackey of special interests. Bush should have the courage to face down this slander and reject McCain-Feingold as unconstitutional. But the damage will still be done -- and McCain's fellow Republicans should remember it. Jack Wakeland summed it up best last year in an article in my magazine, The Intellectual Activist. McCain, he wrote, has raised every conceivable concern about constituents' improper influence over their government, while expressing little or no concern about the government's improper power over its constituents. That is McCain's act of treason. He fought for liberty in Vietnam -- only to fight against liberty in the Senate. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior
[CTRL] The hollowing out of America
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! February 26, 2002 - WorldNetDaily.Com The hollowing out of America By Patrick J. Buchanan What does conservatism stand for in 2002? What is it we wish to conserve? Work, family, faith, community, country. Were these not what Ronald Reagan celebrated? Yet consider what is happening to community, country and work in America because of the free-trade zealotry of the Clintonites and the Bushites, who profess to be conservatives. Last week, there came to my office from the keeper of the stats of U.S. industrial decline, Charles McMillion of MGB Information Services, the final figures for the U.S. merchandise trade deficit for 2001. Good news: It diminished by 6 percent. Bad news: It was the second largest ever. America imported $427 billion more in goods than we exported to all the other 190 nations on earth. In manufactured goods alone, our trade deficit was $309 billion, which translates into 6 million lost manufacturing jobs Comes the retort: Not to worry. America excels in producing high-tech items other nations are not advanced enough to produce. So long as we are on the cutting edge of industrial technology, who cares who cuts cloth, stitches shoes or makes steel? Well, take a hard look at McMillion's stats. Not only did we run trade deficits in textiles, shoes and steel, we ran trade deficits in autos, trucks, TVs, VCRs, automatic data-processing equipment, office machines, electrical machinery, power-generating machinery, metalworking machinery, industrial machinery and optical goods. Among the products where America boasts a trade surplus â i.e., we sell more of these to the world than we import â are soybeans, corn, animal feeds, wheat, meat, cotton, cigarettes, hides, skins, scrap, pulp, waste paper, coal, tobacco, rice and fertilizers. Reads like a list of the leading exports of the Jamestown colony. Writes Paul Craig Roberts, free trader and co-architect of the Reagan tax cuts, It comes as something of a shock to discover that the United States ... has the export profile of a 19th-century Third World colony. Once the most self-sufficient of nations, America is now dependent on foreigners for 40 percent of our manufactured goods, and our dependence on foreign oil and natural gas now costs us $90 billion a year. Why is this happening to America? With NAFTA and GATT, corporations can move capital, factories and technology anywhere, which gives the comparative advantage to low-tax, low-wage countries with large pools of dependable and docile (i.e., no unions) workers. And what are foreign folks doing with the billions of dollars we yearly ship abroad for goods made outside the U.S.A.? In 2000, 97 percent of direct investment by foreigners went for the purchase of existing U.S. assets, writes Roberts. As companies leave America, foreigners come in with their trade-surplus billions to buy up the U.S. companies left behind. We are not only losing industrial jobs, we are losing ownership of our companies, Roberts writes. The New York Times' Peter Kilborn, a classmate of this writer at Columbia School of Journalism 40 years ago, took a Sun Belt tour to survey the ghost towns created by McMillion's grim statistics. In Pima, Ariz., and Bartow, Ga., Kilborn reports, cotton prices have collapsed because of Chinese imports. Uranium mining has stopped in Falls City, Texas. In Loving County, Texas, oil exploration has stalled as we shovel petrodollars to Saudi Arabia. In Brady, Texas, the ranchers who raise goats for Angora wool are victims of low prices and competition from New Zealand and Argentina. All the rural parts of New Mexico are dependent on mining and almost all hard-rock mining is going offshore, one mining official told Kilborn. In Silver City, N.M., Phelps Dodge, the biggest mining outfit in the state, has laid off 1,700 of its 2,400 workers. Copper prices have tumbled 50 percent. If they rise again, New Mexico's mines are less likely to benefit than the mines in Peru and Chile. Pima, Barstow, Falls City, Loving County, Brady, Silver City â the hollowing out of such quintessentially American towns as these is what our deracinated economic elites celebrate as creative destruction. Consider what free trade is costing. America's industrial dynamism and economic independence are vanishing. Company towns are turning into ghost towns. High-paying manufacturing jobs that provided a living wage for one man to raise a large American family on a single income are being shipped to foreign workers. Has free trade made America more, or less, independent? Has it made us more or less vulnerable to financial crises? What exactly is it that today's conservatives wish to conserve, besides their untrammeled access to the limitless junk down at China-Mart? *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without
[CTRL] Activist warns of border war
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020225-57832399.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! February 25, 2002 Activist warns of border war By Robert Stacy McCain THE WASHINGTON TIMES A border war between the United States and Mexico could happen any day, a California activist warned at a weekend conference in Virginia. We have on our hands a Mexican border civil war that could happen tomorrow, said Glenn Spencer of Voices of Citizens Together, a Los Angeles-based group that supports stronger enforcement of immigration laws. I think it's a matter of time. Detailing statements by Mexican-American leaders advocating reconquista â the reclaiming by Mexico of territory that the United States captured in the 1800s â Mr. Spencer said millions of illegal immigrants flooding into California and other states in the Southwest are the foot soldiers of this movement. The American people are going to be broadsided, Mr. Spencer told the two-day American Renaissance conference at the Hyatt Dulles Hotel in Herndon. They have no idea what they are facing. ... Anything could happen. The flood of illegal Mexican immigrants has transformed southern California, Mr. Spencer said. He cited the San Fernando Valley area near Los Angeles, which was 24 percent Hispanic in 1992, but is now 52 percent Hispanic. While the U.S. Hispanic population is growing, so is anti-American sentiment in Mexico, where Mr. Spencer said I love Osama bin Laden T-shirts were popular after the September 11 attacks. Southern California's powerful labor unions, Mr. Spencer said in his Saturday speech, are now controlled by Mexican-American leaders who have hinted at a general strike if Washington does not meet their demands for amnesty for illegal immigrants. Hispanic activists turned out more than 100,000 marchers to protest Proposition 187, the California ballot initiative limiting benefits for illegals that passed in 1994. With hundreds of Mexicans illegally crossing the United States' southwest border daily, Mr. Spencer said, conflict between the U.S. Border Patrol and Mexican authorities could touch off strikes, protests and riots by Hispanic militants in the United States â a combination border war and civil war that could happen any day, he said. Mr. Spencer, former host of the American Patrol radio program, has chronicled the problems caused by illegal immigration in a series of video documentaries called The Conquest of Aztlan, as well as on a Web site, www.americanpatrol.com. Founded in 1992, Voices of Citizens Together at first approached immigration as an economic issue, Mr. Spencer said. Illegal immigration is essentially creating a Third World nation in Southern California, he said. Los Angeles has been called the nation's poverty capital and California has the worst public schools in the nation, Mr. Spencer said, adding that the state is facing a $20 billion budget deficit. But the responses of Mexican-American militants to Proposition 187, including their claims to California as Aztlan â an independent Hispanic territory â alarmed Mr. Spencer. I was stunned by what they were saying. ... We weren't just importing poverty, we were importing revolution. The answer, he said, is simple: We have to deport everyone in the United States who is here illegally. President Bush, however, is reportedly considering granting legal residency to Mexicans residing here illegally. It is stunning to me that the president of the United States could propose amnesty for 11 million illegal immigrants, Mr. Spencer said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! 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
Re: [CTRL] PEARL WAS ISRAELI CITIZEN
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/25/02 6:43:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj: Re: [CTRL] PEARL WAS ISRAELI CITIZEN Date:2/25/02 6:43:43 PM Eastern Standard Time From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Shannon) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Conspiracy Theory Research List) Reply-to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Conspiracy Theory Research List) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 2/24/02 8:16:45 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We now learn that Daniel Pearl, the kidnapped and killed Wall Street Journal reporter, was an Israeli citizen. We don't learn that from ABC/CBS/CNN/FOX/NBC though...wonder why? Bill. In a message dated 2/24/02 8:16:45 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style=BORDER-LEFT: #ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5pxWe now learn that Daniel Pearl, the kidnapped and killed Wall Street Journal reporter, was an Israeli citizen. /BLOCKQUOTE We don't learn that from ABC/CBS/CNN/FOX/NBC though...wonder why? Bill. You obviously have a hate for Jews! You are not someone we can rely on for good information regarding jews. Bill May God take your hate away! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] interesting web site
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! You might be interested in this web site. http://www.restoringamerica.org historical Documents | U.S. Flag | U.S. Constitution | Contact Us | Awards We've Won Before the Civil War, it was, The United States ARE..., After the Civil War, it became, The United States IS...!! I too, am guilty of the error, but I'm changing today. You? *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Week Ending: 23 February 2002/11 Adar 5762 Part 1
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! TZEMACH NEWS SERVICE ~ A weekly update of news and events regarding the nation and the people of Israel. Week Ending: 23 February 2002/11 Adar 5762 Let G-d arise, let His enemies be scattered; And let those who hate Him flee before Him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish before G-d. But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before G-d; Yes, let them rejoice with gladness. Psalm 68:1-3 This Week's Headlines: :: SHARON ADDRESSES NATION :: A VERY BLOODY WEEK :: IDF STRIKES BACK; ISRAEL REACTS :: IDF EASES RESTRICTIONS IN GAZA; ARABS RESPOND WITH MORE ATTACKS :: MYTH AND FACT :: RUBENSTEIN: JEWS MUST BE ALLOWED TO VISIT THE HOLY SITE :: VIOLENCE INCREASES; TROOPS DECREASE :: NYC MAYOR SUPPORTS PA/PLO? :: A JERUSALEM INSIGHT: FAITH AND FEAR :: SHARON ADDRESSES NATION: Amid growing concern among Israelis that their government was losing its direction and their army was losing its edge, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave a rare, prime-time broadcast address to his nation Thursday night that said almost nothing at all. Both the Left and the Right in Israel agree that Sharon's speech fell short of any relevant mark, worth talking about. Sharon reiterated that he was against war, in favor of Israeli unity, against Palestinian terror, and a supporter of the right solutions at the right time. He hinted that he might make some concessions to the Palestinians in the short term, such as letting Yasser Arafat out of Ram'Allah, in return for the arrest of three of the four men alleged to have carried out or ordered the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehav'am Ze'evi last October. But he also hinted very vaguely that he was not considering the removal of Israeli settlements as part of long-term solution to the conflict with the Palestinians. However, he did unveil his new plan to build hundreds of kilometers of mine fields, fences and obstacles, that would effectively cut off the hundreds of thousands of Jews in Yesha (Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) from the rest of the country and create the unofficial state of Palestine. The problem with the fence is that the PLO already has the missiles and rockets and mortars to shoot over the fence. Meanwhile, ARUTZ-7 has learned that Sharon has asked the United States to give Israel a green light for strong action against the Palestinian Authority. The request specified that Israel does not wish to re-conquer all of the PA/PLO-controlled territories, but only to carry out a more limited offensive. A senior source in Sharon's office says that coalition constraints prevent him from taking stronger action against the PA/PLO, and that the Likud ministers are not helping in this area. They are very tough in interviews with the media, but at government meetings they barely open their mouths, he said. However, in a related story, ISRAEL RADIO diplomatic correspondent Yoni Ben Menachem reported Wednesday that sources in PM Sharon's Office say that the United States never asked Israel to show restraint in its actions against the Palestinians. Until Ben Menachem's report the argument that the US was asking Israel to restrain its activities as it may interfere with American coalition building in preparation for an attack on Iraq was the key excuse used by Israeli officials to explain why Israel could not take decisive action against the Palestinians. :: A VERY BLOODY WEEK: On Saturday night, February 16, a Palestinian terrorist attacked Israeli teenagers sitting at a pizzeria in the town of Karnei Shomron. The suicide bomber killed Keren Shatsky and Nehemia Amar, both 15 years old. Several other teens, hit by flying nails placed in the bomb, remain in very critical condition. The Al Aqsa Brigades, the terrorist organization linked to Yasir Arafat's Fatah movement, said it was behind Sunday's failed attack in northern Israel in which two terrorists were killed -- one in a gun battle with police and the second in an explosion he set off while being pursued by officers. The Fatah organization Monday bragged openly that Sunday's car bomb attack in northern Israel was known as its heroic Operation Hadera. The Palestinian comments made it clear that the Palestinian bombers had planned to attack the Israeli city of Hadera (and not a military base, as reported by the ASSOCIATED PRESS), which has suffered more than half a dozen major terror attacks in the last year. A lone Palestinian terrorist murdered three Israelis at the Kisufim Crossing entrance to Gush Katif in a well-planned ambush Monday night. The murder victims were Ganei Tal resident Ahuva Amargi, 30, a mother of two; Capt. Mor Elraz of Kiryat Ata; and Sgt. Amir Mansouri of Kiryat Arba. In another attack, Border Guard policeman Ahmed Mazrib, 31, of Beit Zarzir, was murdered when he approached the driver of a stolen
[CTRL] PEARL WAS ISRAELI CITIZEN
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! PEARL WAS ISRAELI CITIZEN MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 2/23/2002: We now learn that Daniel Pearl, the kidnapped and killed Wall Street Journal reporter, was an Israeli citizen. It seems he was reporting for years on extraordinarily controversial subjects for an extremely controversial pro-Israeli publication, but apparently neither he nor the publication ever revealed this highly compromising fact to readers. What more may we learn next? As uusual, the courageous and tireless journalist who is such a credit to his profession, Robert Fisk, asks many of the necessary questions and points fingers where they deserve to be pointed. Fisk's article was written before the revelation today that Pearl was an Israeli. Where did we go wrong Fisk rightly asks...and gives some of the important answers. PEARL'S FATHER: 'ISRAELI CONNECTION' COULD HINDER INVESTIGATION By Yossi Melman [Ha'aretz - 24 February]Professor Yehuda Pearl, father of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, has told Ha'aretz that he fears that making public his son's Israeli citizenship could adversely affect investigative efforts by Pakistani police to apprehend the killers and track down the murdered reporter's body. In a telephone conversation from his Los Angeles residence, Professor Pearl expressed regret and anger over the revelation by the Israeli media of his family's Israeli connection. The U.S. media, which was aware of the information, complied with the family's request not to make it public. The American media was asked to comply with this request after information was obtained that confirmed reports that the 38-year-old reporter was dead. Professor Pearl went on to say that he had not viewed the videotape in which his son's murder was documented and has no intention of doing so. He was told of his son's death Thursday by U.S. government officials after they had viewed the videotape and were convinced of its authenticity. According to assessments presented to Professor Pearl, his son was killed ten days after being kidnapped on January 23. The date of his death is based on experts' viewing of the videotape and was determined according to the length of Pearl's beard, as seen on the tape. Pakistani police investigators said Saturday that Pearl's murderers never meant to release him. The Pakistani police warned foreign organizations in the country that they should be careful due to the fact that Pearl's kidnapping may be part of a more far-reaching terrorist plot. They also reported that the man who delivered the videotape documenting Pearl's murder was arrested for questioning in Karachi, located in southern Pakistan. The State Department said the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan had received evidence Thursday that Pearl was dead. Spokesman Richard Boucher provided no details on the evidence, although Pakistani authorities said that the videotape indicated he had been murdered by the Islamic extremists who kidnapped him a month ago. Pearl, born in Princeton, New Jersey, died at the age of 38. He worked as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal for twelve years. His last job was to report from Afghanistan and Pakistan on the U.S. war against terror. On Thursday, Fahad Naseem, one of three men accused of involvement in the kidnapping, said Pearl was abducted because he was a Jew working against Islam. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf vowed Friday to leave no stone unturned in hunting the killers of Pearl and declared war on all terrorists in Pakistan. In a national television address on Friday night, Musharraf said all resources would be thrown into finding the executioners of the Wall Street Journal reporter. I can assure my countrymen that we will not leave any stone unturned to bring all these people involved in this murder to justice and set an example of them for other such people who may be thinking of such acts in the future, Musharraf declared, vowing to wipe out all extremist groups. I think our resolve increases with such acts to move more strongly against all such terrorist people and those organizations which perpetrate such terrorism. To move against them and liquidate them entirely from our country, he said. JOURNALISTS ARE NOW TARGETS - BUT WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THIS? By Robert Fisk [The Independent - 23 February 2002]:The murder of Daniel Pearl of The Wall Street Journals was as revolting as it was outrageous. But why was he killed? Because he was a Westerner, a Kaffir? Because he was an American? Or because he was a journalist? And if he was killed because he was a reporter what has happened to the protection which we in our craft used to enjoy? In Pakistan and Afghanistan, we can be seen as Kaffirs, as unbelievers. Our faces, our hair, even our spectacles,
[CTRL] Week Ending: 23 February 2002/11 Adar 5762 Part 2
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! :: MYTH AND FACT: Myth: The outbreak of violence in late 2000, dubbed by Arabs the al-Aksa Intifada, was provoked by Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount. Fact: To believe Palestinian spokesmen, the violence was caused by the desecration of a Muslim holy place -â Haram al-Sharif (actually the Temple Mount) -â by Likud leader Ariel Sharon and the thousands of Israeli soldiers who accompanied him. The truth is dramatically different. Imad Faluji, the Palestinian Authority Communications Minister, admitted months after Sharon's visit that the violence had been planned in July, far in advance of Sharon's provocation. It [the uprising] had been planned since Chairman Arafat's return from Camp David, when he turned the tables on the former US president and rejected the American conditions. The Sharon visit did not cause the âAl-Aksa Intifada.â â Conclusion of the Mitchell Report, (May 4, 2001). Official Palestinian Authority media exhorted the Palestinians to violence. On September 29, the VOICE OF PALESTINE, the PA/PLO's official radio station sent out calls to all Palestinians to come and defend the al-Aksa mosque. The PA/PLO closed its schools and bused Palestinian students to the Temple Mount to participate in the organized riots. Internal Security Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami permitted Sharon to go to the Temple Mount -â Judaismâs holiest place (which Muslims have renamed Haram al-Sharif) -- only after calling PA/PLO security chief Jabril Rajoub and receiving his assurance that if Sharon did not enter the mosques, no problems would arise. The need to protect Sharon arose when Rajoub later said that the Palestinian police would do nothing to prevent violence during the visit. The real desecration of holy places was perpetrated by Palestinians, not Israelis. In October 2000, Palestinian mobs destroyed a Jewish shrine in Shechem -â Josephâs Tomb -â tearing up and burning Jewish prayer books. They stoned worshipers at the Western Wall and attacked Rachelâs Tomb in Beit Lechem with firebombs and automatic weapons. None of the violent attacks were initiated by Israeli security forces, which in all cases responded to Palestinian violence that went well beyond stone throwing. The disproportionate number of Palestinian casualties was the inevitable result of an irregular, ill-trained militia attacking a well-trained regular army, and the Tanzimâs frequent use of Palestinian civilians as shields for its attacks. :: RUBENSTEIN: JEWS MUST BE ALLOWED TO VISIT THE HOLY SITE: Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein has submitted his legal opinion to Prime Minister Sharon regarding Jewish presence on the Temple Mount. He said that according to the law, Jews must be allowed to visit the holy site. Rubenstein expressed his consternation with the fact that Antiquities Authority personnel have long not been allowed to the site to carry out their legally-mandated responsibilities. In accordance with a Supreme Court decision, Temple Mount loyalists relocated their two-week-old protest vigil from outside Prime Minister Sharon's home in the Negev to opposite his office in Jerusalem. :: VIOLENCE INCREASES; TROOPS DECREASE: Army command has informed Yesha communities' security personnel that in the near future, there will be a reduction in the number of troops assigned to protect the communities. Yesha security officials stated this will result in a critical shortage of security personnel in Yesha areas and will add to the already arduous security burden carried by Yesha residents. Army officials explain that the number of troops assigned to Yesha communities fluctuates and the temporary move at this time was part of an effort to deal with the critical manpower shortage. PM Sharon said Wednesday he refused to lead his country into war or to destroy the Palestinian Authority, thereby giving the PA/PLO a green light to continue their campaign of terror. The PA/PLO can now step-up the battle with assurances from Sharon that he will not destroy the PA/PLO. After nearly 17 months of Palestinian violence, more Israelis are beginning to support a unilateral withdrawal from Yesha. The support comes as prospects for a diplomatic solution to the conflict remain slim, and as the Palestinian resolve to carry out attacks remains strong, despite stepped-up military and diplomatic pressure on the PA/PLO. The latest group to add its voice to the unilateral withdrawal call is the Council for Peace and Security, a forum of reserve Israeli army generals and former senior security officials. Following four months of intensive internal discussions, the council plans to mount a public campaign for a unilateral withdrawal from all of the Gaza Strip and most of Judea and Samaria, HA'ARETZ reported Monday. About 300 people belonging to the 1,000-member forum took part in the
[CTRL] The Ten Commandments of Counterintelligence
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! November 1, 2001 Author: Dr. James Olson, CIA For Education and Discussion Only. Not for Commercial Use. The Ten Commandments of Counterintelligence James M. Olson - --- Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. Isaiah 48:18 The need for counterintelligence (CI) has not gone away, nor is it likely to. The end of the Cold War has not even meant an end to the CI threat from the former Soviet Union. The foreign intelligence service of the new democratic Russia, the Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki Rossii (SVRR), has remained active against us. It was the SVRR that took over the handling of Aldrich Ames from its predecessor, the KGB, in 1991. It was the SVRR that ran CIA officer Harold James Nicholson against us from 1994 to 1996. It was the SVRR that was handling FBI special agent Earl Pitts when he was arrested for espionage in 1996. It was the SVRR that planted a listening device in a conference room of the State Department in Washington in the summer of 1999. And it was the SVRR that was handling FBI special agent Robert Hanssen when he was arrested on charges of espionage in February 2001. The Russians are not alone. There have been serious, well-publicized concerns about Chinese espionage in the United States. The Department of Energy significantly increased security at its national laboratories last year in response to allegations that China had stolen US nuclear weapons secrets. Paul Redmond, the former Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence at the CIA, told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in early 2000 that a total of at least 41 countries are trying to spy on the United States. Besides mentioning Russia, China, and Cuba, he also cited several friends, including France, Greece, Indonesia, Israel, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan. He warned of a pervasive CI threat to the United States. The United States, as the world's only remaining superpower, will be the constant target of jealousies, resentments, rivalries, and challenges to its economic well-being, security, and leadership in the world. This inevitably means that the United States will be the target of large-scale foreign espionage. A Choice Assignment When I joined the CIA, one of my first interim assignments was with the old CI Staff. I found it fascinating. I was assigned to write a history of the Rote Kapelle, the Soviet espionage network in Nazi-occupied Western Europe during World War II. With its expanded computer power, NSA was breaking out the actual messages sent between the NKVD center in Moscow and the clandestine radios of the various cells in Western Europe. Incredibly, these messages came to me. There I was, a brand new junior officer, literally the first person in the CIA to see the day-to-day traffic from these life-and-death operations. I was deeply affected by the fear, heroism, and drama in these messages. Above all, I felt privileged to have been given such an opportunity. Building on an earlier study of the Rote Kapelle by the CI Staff, I completed a draft several months later that incorporated the new material. To my great surprise, this study was well received by my immediate superiors, and I was told that I was to be rewarded with a personal interview and congratulations from James Jesus Angleton, the legendary head of the CI Staff from 1954 to 1974. Angleton's office was on the second floor of the Original Headquarters Building. I was first ushered into an outer office, where Angleton's aides briefed me on how to conduct myself. Then I went alone into the inner sanctum. The room was dark, the curtains were drawn, and there was just one small lamp on Angleton's desk. I later heard that Angleton had eye trouble and that the light hurt his eyes, but I was convinced the real reason for the semidarkness was to add to his mystique. It certainly worked on me! I nervously briefed Angleton on my study, and he listened without interrupting, just nodding from time to time. When I finished, he methodically attacked every one of my conclusions. Didn't I know the traffic was a deception? Hadn't it occurred to me that Leopold Trepper, the leader of the Rote Kapelle, was a German double? He went on and on, getting further and further out. Even I, as a brand new officer, could tell that this great mind, this CI genius, had lost it. I thought he was around the bend. It was one of the most bizarre experiences of my career. When the meeting was over, I was glad to get out of there, and I vowed to myself that I would never go anywhere near CI again. I did not keep that vow. In my overseas assignments with the Agency, I found myself drawn toward Soviet CI operations. Nothing seemed to quicken my pulse more, and I
[CTRL] Tipper Gore: Military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy doesn't work
-Caveat Lector- Tipher canoe and Gore Too! LOL Democrats are still looking for ways to destroy our country! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Tipper Gore: Military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy doesn't work By DAVID RANII Raleigh News Observer February 24, 2002 CARY, N.C. - The military's don't ask, don't tell policy regarding gay and lesbian members of the armed services is a compromise measure that isn't working, according to Tipper Gore. I have a better solution, said the wife of former Vice President Al Gore. Let's rip it up. Mrs. Gore was the keynote speaker Saturday night at a dinner sponsored by the North Carolina Human Rights Campaign, the state chapter of the nation's largest advocacy group for gays and lesbians. Mrs. Gore told the audience of 650 that she and her husband believe that the true family values include all families - no matter what size, no matter what shape they come in. She spoke in favor of several measures that would make gays and lesbians equal to other Americans under the law, including protection under federal hate-crime law; the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act; and recognition of the parental rights of both members of same-sex couples, not just the biological mother or father. We cannot rest until Congress adopts federal hate crime legislation that includes sexual orientation. Period, she said. Her appearance carries significance in the political arena. Although Al Gore hasn't declared himself a candidate for the 2004 presidential election, he is starting to signal that he wants a rematch against President Bush, who bested him in the 2000 election. North Carolina voters, who have voted Republican in every presidential election since 1976, helped propel Bush to the presidency over Gore in the 2000 election. Bush received 56 percent of the votes cast in North Carolina vs. 43 percent for Gore. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] China Censors Bush Speech in Print
-Caveat Lector- We have such good friends in the Chinese! NOT!!! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-022302chibush.story?coll=la% 2Dhome%2Dtodays%2Dtimes China Censors Bush Speech in Print Asia: President's remarks on freedom and faith are edited out of a transcript released by a state-run news agency. By HENRY CHU, Times Staff Writer BEIJING -- The Chinese government responded to President Bush's call for religious tolerance Friday by promptly editing out his remarks on freedom and faith in its transcript of a speech that Bush delivered on live national television. Before the U.S. leader had even boarded Air Force One to return to Washington on Friday afternoon, China's state-controlled media put out their version of the morning address, in which Bush spoke to an audience of university students. Almost half the speech--large chunks extolling American liberty and urging China to relax its political and religious restrictions--was simply hacked out in the transcript released by the official New China News Agency. The heavy censorship prompted indignant complaints on the Internet from people who demanded that the full text be restored. Why must the New China News Agency kid itself? someone using the name Crawler asked in one chat room. Does striking out someone's words mean the person never said them? Others took to posting the censored portions for others to read. The Chinese media always distort the facts, another cyber-citizen wrote. Everyone ought to compare the live remarks with the subsequent transcript. Bush's speech at Qinghua University in Beijing, along with a half-hour question-and-answer session afterward, was broadcast Friday morning on China's premier television channel, which reaches hundreds of millions of households. It was only the second time an American president has had the opportunity of addressing the Chinese people directly, and one of Beijing's most widely read newspapers publicized the event beforehand. But the censored transcript demonstrated the ambivalence of the Communist regime toward the United States. Although top leaders publicly advocate stronger ties with Washington and agreed to the White House's request for live air time, they remain sensitive to any criticism of their rule. The excised portions of Bush's speech contained praise for America's civic spirit and its status as a beacon of hope for people around the world. Bush's criticism of some Chinese textbooks' portrayal of U.S. society also was dropped. So were his comments on his personal faith, his call for an end to religious persecution here, his description of the Statue of Liberty and his declaration that freedom need not mean chaos. Even his praise for the courage of the firefighters and police officers who died trying to save victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. got the ax. One thing that remained was a brief civics lesson on the separation of powers in U.S. government and the fact that political authority derives from a free vote of the people. But Bush's wish that the Chinese might one day choose their own national leaders was expunged. Still, the speech did get beamed live and uncensored over the airwaves Friday morning, potentially seen by hundreds of millions of viewers. And state-run media have spoken warmly of Bush's visit as an important event in Sino-U.S. relations, even though the Chinese generally have been skeptical of Bush, whom they regard as less friendly toward their country than was President Clinton. Talks between Bush and President Jiang Zemin were described as positive, constructive and fruitful by the Foreign Ministry, although no major agreements were reached. In addition, Bush had a chance Friday to meet Vice President Hu Jintao, who is expected to become president next year. The two men spoke briefly before Hu introduced Bush to the audience at Qinghua. Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said Hu thanked Bush for an invitation to visit the U.S., which he has accepted. After the speech at Qinghua, a school often billed as China's MIT, some of those who attended gave Bush fairly high marks. I think Bush spoke well. Not that I agreed with everything he said, said Zhang Kaicun, 49, a worker at Qinghua who was allowed to attend. Bush's comments about religious persecution in China didn't ring true to Zhang. More and more people are turning to religion in China. I know a lot of religious people, he said. They're Buddhists, and they're under no pressure whatsoever. During the question-and-answer period, the first two of six questions by students grilled Bush on his policy toward Taiwan, the biggest sticking point in U.S.-China relations. Beijing regards the island as its rightful territory. The questions, both of them applauded by the audience, reflected the growing nationalism among Chinese youth, a sentiment actively fostered by the government.
[CTRL] US won't stay on top, says Clinton
-Caveat Lector- http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=newssubclass=nationalcateg ory=general%20newsstory_id=130046y=2002m=2 The head Clintonista Speaks! He sure helped in making us weaker! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! US won't stay on top, says Clinton ACKNOWLEDGING the United States would not be the world's most powerful nation forever might lead to a better approach in its current international relations, former US president Bill Clinton said today. Speaking at the 2002 World Congress on the Peaceful Reunification of China and World Peace in Sydney, Mr Clinton said this brief moment in history when the US had pre-eminent military, economic and political power, would not last. This is just a period, a few decades this will last, and I think that all of us who are Americans should think about this and ask ourselves how do we wish this moment to be judged 50 years from now, he said. And how would we like to be treated when we no longer have this pre-eminent position and we have to work in a cooperative fashion with others to a far greater extent than we have to do today. It seems to me if we would think about it like that it would be much more likely to lead all Americans, without regard of their party, to making the right decisions about how we should approach a lot of these problems that we face. The former president said he did not want to be critical of the current US Administration. I feel that I should be careful in what I say [but] I believe that the [current US] President has been much more interested in international cooperation since September 11th, and I take that to be a very positive sign, Mr Clinton said. He also said he hoped President George W. Bush's recent visit to Korea would have a positive outcome. I certainly have no illusions about the North Korean Government, he said. . . . But the fact is they ended their nuclear program in 94, in 98 they ended testing of long-range missiles and in 2000 we had the elements of an agreement with them to end their entire missile program. Mr Clinton's comments come after Mr Bush named North Korea as one country in its axis of evil along with Iraq and Iran last month. Mr Bush visited South Korea for the first time last week. AAP *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Blair and Bush to plot war on Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://www.pixunlimited.co.uk/global/adpopup3.htm?IFRHEIGHT=200?IFRWIDTH=20 0?IFRAMEBGCOL=00?SPACEDESC=popupbig38 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Blair and Bush to plot war on Iraq Kamal Ahmed, political editor Sunday February 24, 2002 The Observer Tony Blair and the United States President George Bush are to hold a specially convened summit in April to finalise details of military action to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Blair will travel to Washington in six weeks' time in a clear signal that Downing Street fully backs Bush's plans to launch a war against Iraq if Saddam does not agree to deadlines to destroy his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. 'The meeting will be to finalise Phase Two of the war against terrorism,' a senior Number 10 official said. 'Action against Iraq will be at the top of the agenda.' With evidence growing of a Labour Party backlash over American action against Saddam, the Government is now planning to publish for the first time detailed evidence of Iraq's nuclear capabilities. The document will reveal that Saddam is attempting to amass rudimentary nuclear capabilities and is also investigating a way to launch 'dirty' nuclear bombs - unsophisticated devices which would nevertheless wreak havoc if ever used. Western intelligence services also believe Saddam is developing biological and chemical devices which could kill and maim tens of thousands of people. The Number 10 official said that, as with Osama bin Laden and the war in Afghanistan, it is necessary to maintain public and international support for military action against Saddam. It was a 'public persuasion' issue and would be tackled in the same way as the unprecedented 'indictment' against bin Laden published by Downing Street last year with the agreement of the White House. Bush has been under increasing attack from Europe over his desire to see Saddam removed from power. His 'axis of evil' speech earlier this year, when he named Iraq, Iran and North Korea as international pariah states, has been attacked by both the French Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, and the European Union commissioner for external affairs, Chris Patten. The Foreign Office in particular is irritated by the bellicose language, which officials said revealed that hawkish elements in Washington had won over the President's mind. But The Observer can reveal that Blair has told his inner circle that he believes the attacks on the President are misplaced and that it is only by the threat of action that reformist elements within Iraq will be encouraged to rise up against Saddam. In a series of long telephone conversation over the past two months, Bush has kept Blair aware of his plans for military action. Although there is no evidence of any link between Iraq and the attacks of 11 September, both leaders will make it clear that weapons of mass destruction are a legitimate target for military action. 'The alliance with the United States is strong, it will remain strong,' Blair said yesterday at a meeting of European leaders in Stockholm. 'We will deal with issues together. The Americans are absolutely right to emphasise the continuing importance of the war against terrorism and continuing the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.' In an interview to be broadcast by the BBC's On the Record programme today, US Assistant Secretary of State, Beth Jones, admitted that 'nothing was off the table' when it came to Iraq. 'I think Americans aren't alone - there are many many people in the world who want Saddam to no longer be in charge in Iraq,' says Jones. 'There's no question about that. I think it's fair to say that nothing is off the table.' The April summit will significantly increase world tension on the issue as Middle East nations watch warily for any signal that Bush will act precipitately against Saddam. Many Muslim leaders fear a leadership vacuum and political chaos in Iraq, which could affect the standing of neighbouring countries in the region. It now seems likely that Saddam will be set a deadline to allow in weapons inspectors who will oversee the destruction of Iraq's weaponry or face military consequences. The Prime Minister is aware of a growing revolt within his own party and some elements of the British military against action in Iraq. Intelligence officials in Britain have told The Observer that there is concern about over-committing in Iraq and of making military promises that cannot be kept. They have advised Number 10 that the only 'window' for action is in the autumn and winter of this year, when the fierce heat in the region abates slightly. A poll of 100 backbench MPs by On the Record, to be released today, reveals wide spread disquiet about the developments. Asked if there was sufficient evidence to support an attack on Iraq, 86 MPs said no, while only 12 agreed, and three said they did not know. Similar levels of opposition to Bush's 'axis of
[CTRL] U.S. Debating Wider Assault on Colombia Rebels
-Caveat Lector- http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-022302colomb.story WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! U.S. Debating Wider Assault on Colombia Rebels Latin America: Officials point to link between guerrillas and Libya. Proposed reclassification would test Congress' support for Bush's war. By PAUL RICHTER, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- Alarmed by signs of weapons traffic between Colombian rebels and the Middle East, the Bush administration is weighing a proposal to declare the destruction of leftist guerrillas in the South American country an explicit goal of U.S. policy. Some senior officials are also pushing for the administration to assert, for the first time, that the Colombian rebels are a specific target of the worldwide U.S. war on terrorism, administration officials said. Such declarations would mark a significant toughening of U.S. policy and pose an important test of how much leeway Congress will grant President Bush to expand military operations around the world in the post-Sept. 11 era. For six years, Congress has strictly limited the U.S. military mission in Colombia, fearing that if the anti-drug campaign escalated to a broader fight against insurgents, the United States could sink into a costly quagmire with echoes of Vietnam. Under federal law and presidential directive, U.S. military assistance in the country's 38-year-old conflict has been generally limited to support for the Colombian government's counter-narcotics activities. The 250 U.S. troops there are barred from a combat role. Yet as rebels have stepped up attacks in recent months, administration officials have come to the view that only sharply increased military pressure--with U.S. backing--can force the large and well-financed rebel forces to the negotiating table. This week, Colombian President Andres Pastrana broke off talks with the guerrillas, and the Colombian army moved Friday to take over a zone ceded to the rebels three years ago. The administration officials argue that the United States should seek to foster Colombian democracy and that the collapse of the Colombian government would risk violence and turmoil throughout a strategic, oil-producing corner of the hemisphere. Seeking to underscore the security risks posed by the rebels, officials pointed this week to classified reports indicating that crudely manufactured mortars used in Libya have been found in the hands of Colombian rebels. These weapons, made out of natural-gas canisters, fire conventional shells but have also been used to bombard targets with unconventional materials, including excrement. Used that way, they can spread contagion, and become a kind of cheap and frightening biological weapon, according to U.S. officials. The rebels are among the largest and best-funded insurgent groups in the world. They earn hundreds of millions of dollars from drug traffic as well as kidnapping and extortion operations. Michael Shifter, an expert on Colombia at the Inter-American Dialogue research organization in Washington, said it would be a radical departure for the administration to commit itself to destroying the rebel organization, or even to making it an official target of the war on terrorism. He noted that Bush had excluded the Colombian insurgents last fall when he defined the war's object as terrorist groups with global reach. Declaring the rebels part of the broader terrorism war would probably bring still more money and resources to the battle and give the problem more high-level attention in Washington. It would reflect the administration's view that the insurgents are a threat beyond Colombia's borders and could spread instability to neighboring Venezuela, a major oil producer, Bolivia, Ecuador and Panama. It would also make the U.S.-led war on terrorism appear broader than a campaign against only Islamic militants. Shifter said there have been past reports of contacts and arms traffic between the Colombian rebels and Middle Eastern groups, although none, as far as he knew, came from official sources. He said he had been skeptical of the reports because the rebels are provincials without wide contacts abroad. Yet he added, I wouldn't be shocked if the reports were true. Last year, several suspected Irish Republican Army militants were arrested in Colombia and charged with helping the guerrillas there. The Bush administration has been searching for a tougher line on Colombia, and an intense internal debate rages over how far the administration should go in reshaping what has been a strictly anti-narcotics campaign. This month, the administration formally requested as part of its 2003 budget $98 million to train a new Colombian brigade to protect the Cano Limon oil pipeline, which is operated by Occidental Petroleum of Los Angeles. U.S. officials are also seeking permission to give the Colombian government new intelligence information to help it locate rebel forces, as
[CTRL] Air Force Adopts 'Let's Roll' Logo
-Caveat Lector- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=514u=/ap/20020224/ap_on_go_ca _st_pe/attacks_let_s_roll_1 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Air Force Adopts 'Let's Roll' Logo Sat Feb 23, 7:57 PM ET EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) - The U.S. Air Force will use Sept. 11 passenger Todd Beamer's words Let's Roll as a logo on several aircraft until the first anniversary of the attacks. The design depicts a bald eagle soaring in front of the U.S. flag with the words Spirit of 9-11 set in a golden sword and the phrase underneath the eagle's talons. Four F-15s at the 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base now bear the logo near the cockpit. This is certainly great for the American people, to show them how much we realize all that everyone has done in stepping up to the plate in what happened to this country, said Col. Hawk Carlisle, commander of the 33rd. Beamer, a 32-year-old account manager for Oracle Corp., was on United Flight 93, which crashed in the Pennsylvania countryside on Sept. 11. It was the only one of four hijacked planes that didn't kill anyone on the ground. Before the crash, Beamer cried, Let's roll! on an in-flight phone as passengers apparently prepared to confront the hijackers. President Bush has repeatedly used Beamer's words to rally Americans in the war on terrorism. Each of the Air Force's nine major commands and approximately 100 flying wings have been asked to select one aircraft from each wing to display the nose art, said Maj. Michael Shavers, an Air Force spokesman. Shaver said the design will also be displayed by the Air Force's demonstration teams, including the showcase aerobatics team the Thunderbirds. A foundation set up in Beamer's name wants to trademark the phrase and ensure that money made off it goes to the victims' families. Several companies and individuals want to sell everything from T-shirts to mud flaps that include the words. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Russia's nuclear arms deemed vulnerable
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020223-10311798.htm They are only vulnerable because the NWO wishes them to be for their own purposes! Possible to let one go on the USA so the UN/NWO can take control of USA! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Russia's nuclear arms deemed vulnerable By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES The system used to protect Russian nuclear weapons is stressed by military funding shortfalls and is vulnerable to an insider who could circumvent nuclear-missile launch controls, according to a U.S. intelligence report. Top Stories ⢠Amtrak reaches end of the line ⢠Colombia flexes muscle against FARC ⢠Social Security returns to battlefield ⢠Pakistan issues terror alert ⢠2 airports to reopen with new security The report to Congress also said thieves have stolen an unknown amount of weapons-grade nuclear fuel over the past decade. Russia employs physical, procedural, and technical measures to secure its weapons against an external threat, the unclassified report says. But many of these measures date from the Soviet era and are not designed to counter the pre-eminent threat faced today â an insider who attempts unauthorized actions. An unauthorized or accidental missile launch is highly unlikely as long as the current safeguards are enforced and the central political authority exists, said the report by the National Intelligence Council, an analysis arm under CIA Director George J. Tenet. Yesterday's release of the 12-page report comes as the Bush administration has warned that terrorists are seeking to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, possibly using stolen nuclear material. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that since September 11 security has been increased at nuclear-weapons storage sites and that terrorists have not acquired Russian nuclear weapons, the report said. It also said security at Russia's nuclear-power plants has been increased as a result of Moscow's war against Chechnya. The report said that, we are concerned about the total amount of material that could have been diverted over the last 10 years. There have been published reports indicating that al Qaeda terrorists have attempted to purchase stolen Russian nuclear arms on the black market. Among the incidents identified in the report are: â¢Theft in 1992 of 1.5 kilograms of enriched uranium from the Luch Production Association. â¢Theft of 3 kilograms of enriched uranium from Moscow. â¢The 1998 theft from Chelyabinsk province of an amount of nuclear material to produce a nuclear device, according to a Russian nuclear official. Current warhead-security efforts are aimed at preventing threats from outside the country, the report said, and may not be sufficient to meet today's challenge of a knowledgeable insider collaborating with a criminal or terrorist group. Col. Gen. Igor Valynkin, the Defense Ministry official in charge of warhead storage, stated in August 2000 that there have been no incidents of attempted theft, seizure, or unauthorized actions involving nuclear weapons. Even with the enhancements, security problems may still exist at the nuclear-weapons storage sites, the report said. One Russian military officer told a Russian television station in August that security at warhead-storage facilities was lax, including personnel shortages and broken alarm systems. The report said the United States is working with the Russian government to increase the safety and security of nuclear-related facilities, infrastructures and personnel. According to the report, Moscow currently has fewer than 5,000 strategic nuclear warheads, but will reduce its strategic forces to around 2,000 warheads because of funding problems and aging systems. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! 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
[CTRL] When does it become world government?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26586 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! When does it become world government? -- -- Posted: February 23, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com There are certain similarities between Hitlerâs quest for global dominance and the U.N.'s quest for global governance: Hitler dreamed his dream long before the rest of the world was aware of it. Hitler gathered around him an inner-circle of trusted, like-minded individuals. Hitler consolidated his power base before expanding outward. Hitler achieved his goals â until he confronted the United States. World government was an articulated dream a century ago. It was the United States that foiled the first effort â the League of Nations. The world government dreamers, however, gained control of the U.S. government after the Great Depression and created a second effort to achieve world government, the United Nations. Since 1945, the dreamers within the United Nations have been gathering like-minded individuals and consolidating their power base. The outward expansion began about a decade ago, when the U.N.'s forces began mobilizing through an unprecedented series of world conferences: on children, New York (1990); on the environment, Rio de Janeiro (1992); on human rights, Vienna (1993); on world trade, Uruguay (1994); on world population, Cairo (1994); on social development, Copenhagen (1995); on sustainable development, New York (1995); on women, Beijing (1995); on human settlements, Istanbul (1996); on global warming, Geneva (1996); on the International Criminal Court, Rome (1998); and on to the Millennium Assembly and Summit in 2000. The U.N.-funded Commission on Global Governance convened in 1993, and in 1995, made public a detailed plan to achieve world government with the U.N. at the helm. No one paid much attention. No one paid much attention to Hitler either, until the spring of 1938, when the Third Reich annexed Austria. Three days after Hitler invaded Poland, in the fall of 1939, Britain declared war on Germany and the United States began paying attention. In the comparison to Hitler, world government is somewhere between Austria and Poland. The U.N. made its intentions known with the publication of the CGG report, Our Global Neighborhood, just as Hitler made his intentions known when German forces first entered Austria. When the United Nations gains independent financing and frees itself from dependence upon the United States, it will have invaded Poland, so to speak. The CGG report is quite specific in its plan to achieve independent financing for the U.N. It calls for consolidation of all international financial and development institutions, under the administrative arm of the U.N. It calls for global taxation on currency exchange, fossil fuels and a host of other targets. The 2000 Millennium Summit endorsed these ideas in very generalized language in its Millennium Declaration. A special High Level Panel on Financing for Development was created. A preliminary report issued by the panel's chairman last September embodied all the recommendations of the CGG and the Millennium Declaration. The panel's final draft report, issued recently, has softened the language considerably, but still embraces the themes of the CGG report. This special panel is also calling for its own continuation as a perpetual institution to continue working toward the CGG goals. Sooner or later the U.N. will achieve independent financing, unless the United States realizes the danger and takes action now to stop it. If we again procrastinate and put our trust in idle hope, it may take as much effort to defeat world government as it did to defeat Nazi Germany. There are also differences between Hitler's means and those of the U.N. Hitler used bombs and bullets; the U.N. uses propaganda and persuasion. Hitler gave his soldiers much weaponry and little pay; the U.N. pays their soldiers well and makes up for deficient armaments by bloating the bureaucracy. Hitler's army bit off more than it could chew when it encountered the United States. This too, could be a difference. It is not at all clear that the United States is still willing to defend its sovereignty, as many Americans cannot believe that the U.N. seeks to conquer the world. With each new U.N. treaty and world conference, the U.N. expands its sphere of influence and consolidates a little more power. Austria, Poland, Belgium, France â when did it become world war? The U.N., UNESCO, ECOSOC, WTO, ICC, IPCC, UNEP, UNDP, UNICEF, IPO, WIPO, UNHCR, UNFCCC, UNCBD, MAB, CITES, RAMSAR ... when does it become world government? -- -- Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization and
[CTRL] Report: Fresh Signs Bin Laden Is Alive
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/24/150726.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Report: Fresh Signs Bin Laden Is Alive NewsMax Wires Monday, Feb. 25, 2002 WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials are certain Osama bin Laden is alive and there are fresh indications he is somewhere along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, The New York Times reported Sunday. The information, according to one senior administration official, is very fragile and could be jeopardized if further details were disclosed -- and has been obtained in the past month. A senior official also says a comprehensive review of American military action in Afghanistan concludes that probably a third of the al-Qaeda core leadership has been taken out of action. So far, of the 20 to 25 terrorists in leadership positions, the administration has published the names of six reported killed. Bin Laden may be in an area of southeastern Afghanistan and adjacent Pakistani provinces that are strongholds of Islamic militancy. The newspaper said that interviews in Washington and Afghanistan suggest the search for bin Laden has been hampered by inconclusive and sometimes deliberately misleading reports from Afghans, reports that have lead to villages destroyed by bombing where survivors said there were never any al-Qaeda leaders. While American officials have said every attack has been mounted on the basis of the best intelligence available at the time, Afghan villagers have said there had been no detectable American scouting on the ground or any probe afterward to determine who was killed. Through it all, the 45-year-old bin Laden has never been positively identified at any location, the newspaper said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] U.S. Will Hand Over Camp X-Ray Detainees
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/24/145011.shtml They should all be tried by US!!! --- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! U.S. Will Hand Over Camp X-Ray Detainees NewsMax Wires Monday, Feb. 25, 2002 BRUSSELS -- British prisoners held at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay will be repatriated provided that the United States is satisfied they will be put on trial and made available for future questioning, a report said Sunday. In an exclusive interview with the British newspaper chain 'The Telegraph Group' Rumsfeld has declared that the United States will also repatriate al-Qaeda prisoners who are nationals of other countries under similar deals. The full interview will be published in London Monday but in a curtain raiser report in the London Sunday Telegraph Rumsfeld is quoted as saying I have no desire to fill up our jails and spend time and money holding people. My goal is to have as few of them as humanly possible. When we have got out of them the information that we feel has been appropriate, we will very likely let as many countries as possible have any of their nationals they would like. They can handle the prosecution, he is reported as saying. Those retained by America he says would face trial by military commission. Asked whether they would face the death penalty he is said to have replied: Oh sure. U.S. Isolation The interview raises the question of America's increasing isolation over its treatment of Camp X-Ray prisoners. Relations with European Union countries have taken several downturns since the Pentagon allowed pictures to be published of orange suited prisoners blindfolded and kneeling at gunpoint. Nor have statements that conditions at the camp are better than in some domestic high security prisons helped. Last week the Council of Europe, founded in 1947 to foster democracy and human rights, announced that the death penalty was considered unacceptable in any circumstances including war and immediate danger of war. Rumsfeld is said in the newspaper report to have responded robustly to criticism from European politicians in recent weeks. The former British Conservative minister, and now foreign affair Commissioner at the EU's executive, the European Commission, Chris Patten has been particularly critical of the United States. In a number of statements he has accused the United States under President George Bush of going into unilateralist overdrive. Rumsfeld is said to have responded, After living 70 years I am not surprised to find that there are people who differ. Driving the criticism of America is the concern in Europe, especially in Germany that President Bush is planning to attack Iraq and finish the job his father started. Rumsfeld is said to have declared that Saddam Hussein could only be removed by outside intervention. According to the report he refused to be drawn on the issue. Special Summit However, another British newspaper Sunday reported that British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush are to hold a special summit in April to finalize details of military action to overthrow Saddam Hussein. A spokesperson for No. 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister's office, is said to have confirmed that action against Iraq will be at the top of the agenda. The report adds that the British government is planning to publish a report suggesting that the Iraqi leader is attempting to amass rudimentary nuclear weapons and ways of launching so-called dirty bombs as well as biological and chemical devices. The European Commission was unwilling to comment Sunday. But since President Bush made his axis of evil speech naming Iraq, Iran and North Korea, French President Lionel Jospin, Chancellor Gerhardt Schroeder and Commissioner Patten have attacked him. There is known to be a growing weakening of the alliance in America's war against terrorism that was fragile in continental Europe from the beginning. Whether Prime Minister Blair can now work his magic a second time over Iraq is doubtful. France has strong trade links with Iraq and Germany, with more than 2 million Turkish Muslim immigrants is sensitive to inflaming the Muslim world. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! 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,
[CTRL] Nepalese Troops Kill 37 Maoist Rebels
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/24/151255.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Nepalese Troops Kill 37 Maoist Rebels NewsMax Wires Monday, Feb. 25, 2002 KATMANDU -- Nepalese troops have shot and killed at least 37 Maoist rebels in separate shootouts on a day when a strike called by guerrillas virtually shut down the capital Katmandu on Saturday. Nepalese authorities have stepped up their fight against the Maoists rebels who massacred 128 troops earlier this week. At least 15 Maoist guerrillas were killed in encounters in Vidyapur in Surkhet district when security forces intensified their search to locate rebels involved in last week's attack in Achham district. Defense Ministry spokesperson Bhola Silwal said at least 13 armed rebels were killed along the border between Kalikot and Achham districts. At least nine rebels were killed in separate encounters with police. Maoists will be crushed if all the people, political parties and the government united to fight the terrorists, said Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. We should not be discouraged by a single defeat, Deuba was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India. Meanwhile, shops remained closed and streets were deserted across Katmandu on the second day of the strike enforced by the rebels to mark the sixth anniversary of the launch of their people's war. Maoist rebels are fighting to replace the Himalayan Hindu kingdom's monarchy with a one-party Communist government. More than 2,800 people have been killed in the six years since the rebellion began. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Gen. Haig Reveals Insider Perspective
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Gen. Haig Reveals Insider Perspective General Alexander Haig Few people know and understand the world we live in more than Gen. Alexander Haig. The former U.S. secretary of state draws upon a lifetime of experiences at the highest levels of the U.S. government. His insights often are influenced by his personal friendships with world leaders and top businessmen. A former chief of staff to President Nixon, former NATO supreme commander, former head of United Technologies and founding director of AOL, Gen. Haig still maintains one of the best worldwide networks of movers and shakers of any statesman in the U.S. Now you can hear Gen. Haig in his own words, by joining NewsMax's Off-the-Record Club. This month, you'll hear Off the Record with General Alexander Haig â a one-hour audiotape that gives the same behind-the-scenes information and practical advice he would give if he were briefing the president of the United States. Members of Off-the-Record Club agree not to republish the information they hear on these special tapes. This is confidential information for their use only. In Off the Record with General Alexander Haig, you will hear one of the most candid discussions on important topics, including: His assessment of why 9-11 took place and who really is responsible. The role the CIA played and why the agency must be rebuilt. He reveals the agencyâs most horrendous mistake.â You wonât hear this on CNN! The real danger about weapons of mass destruction and the facts the media won't report about this threat. Why President Bush has decided to take on Iraq, even if it means war. Al Haig reveals a discussion he had with a top Bush administration official. What the single biggest miscalculation of the Democratic Party has been. The true facts about Russia and President Putin, and why every American needs to be concerned about this emerging threat. Flashpoint Korea: Haig explains why this situation remains a powder keg and gives his own understanding of the situation from top Asian leaders. China in the Balance: Haig talks candidly about what is happening in China, why communist goonsâ are deathly afraid of Westernization and why he believes engagement is working and must continue. Haig explains why war with China is possible â if we don't set the proper course. Why he strongly disagrees with U.S. policies calling for unilateral nuclear disarmament. What Haig hears from top insiders in business and government about the U.S. economy and stock market. Every investor needs to hear his advice! But there's also much more Gen. Haig reveals: A never-before-disclosed fact about Jimmy Carter's efforts to rescue the American hostages in Iran. The incredible details of the Reagan Cabinet meeting after Israel bombed Iraq's nuclear facility. You'll be surprised who objected to Israel's action. Exclusive â an incredible revelation from his days in the Nixon administration. The U.S. threatened Russia with war if it went ahead with its plans to attack China's nuclear weapons facilities. The real story about Oliver Stone's movies Nixonâ and The Day Reagan Was Shot. And a true and humorous combat story from the Korean War: Why Haig blew up his general's bathtub with a hand grenade. There's much, much more in Off the Record with General Alexander Haig. Enjoy this incredible tape of insider secrets. Get the tape https://www.newsmaxstore.com/offtherecord/index-Haig.cfm A HREF=https://www.newsmaxstore.com/offtherecord/index-Haig.cfm;NewsMax's Off the Record Club/A *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! 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
[CTRL] Battle to Kill Incumbent Protection Bill is NOT Over
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Battle to Kill Incumbent Protection Bill is NOT Over -- Your Senator listed below is a key swing vote and needs to hear from you! Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.org (Friday, February 22, 2002) -- Senators Tom Daschle (D-SD) and John McCain (R-AZ) are trying their hardest to bring up campaign finance deform legislation as soon as possible. The earliest they could bring this legislation to the Senate floor is next week -- the week of February 25 -- although there is one major roadblock to their attempts. That one major obstacle is Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who asserts he has the votes to kill this bill through a filibuster. Your Senator listed below is a key swing vote in this battle. So it is imperative that you contact him right away and ask him to oppose the Incumbent Protection Bill. This legislation would enlarge the power of sitting legislators by attempting to silence outside groups such as Gun Owners of America. It would do that by requiring GOA to report certain legislative advocacy as electioneering communications, if such messages were made within 60 days of an election. For groups like Gun Owners to engage in speech that is classified as electioneering would threaten the tax status of such groups. As a result, this campaign legislation threatens to eliminate any organization that uses certain media outlets to criticize a politician's record. Make no mistake, this gag rule will affect more than just elections. Because most gun-related issues come to the Senate floor in September and October as riders to the major money bills, GOA would be restricted in its ability to inform its members of these issues in the two months preceding an election. This legislation would effectively silence GOA on many critical gun-related battles. ACTION: Look at the list of senators below and please use the pre-written letter to help you direct comments to your Senator's office. He needs to hear from as many citizens from your state as possible. So please send your message and then pass this alert along to others. We need to get thousands of messages pouring into his office; all of them proclaiming the same theme: Oppose the Incumbent Protection Bill! The biggest battle will be in regard to the expected filibuster that will be led by Sen. McConnell. You should ask your senator to vote against cloture (that is, against shutting off debate) when the filibuster is in progress. To send a message via e-mail, go to your Senator's webpage (listed below) and type or cut and paste your message. You can call your Senator toll-free at 1-877-762-8762 or at 202-224-3121. You can also fax him using the number provided. Swing Vote Senators Fax Number Website for e-mail submissions John Breaux (D-LA) 202-228-2577 http://www.senate.gov/~breaux/contact.html Pete Domenici (R-NM)202-228-0900 http://domenici.senate.gov/contact/contactme.cfm Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) 202-228-1372 http://www.senate.gov/~fitzgerald Chuck Hagel (R-NE) 202-224-5213 http://www.senate.gov/~hagel/email/contact.html Ernest Fritz Hollings (D-SC) 202-224-4293 http://www.senate.gov/~hollings/webform.html Tim Hutchinson (R-AR) 202-228-3973 http://hutchinson.senate.gov/email.html Richard Lugar (R-IN)202-228-0360 http://www.senate.gov/~lugar Ben Nelson (D-NE) 202-228-0012 http://bennelson.senate.gov/email.html Arlen Specter (R-PA)202-228-1229 http://www.senate.gov/~specter/webform.htm Ted Stevens (R-AK) 202-224-2354 http://www.senate.gov/~stevens/webform.htm - Pre-written message - Dear Senator: I hope that you will take a strong stand against the anti-gun Incumbent Protection Bill, and will vote AGAINST any attempt to invoke cloture should the bill be filibustered. This legislation -- erroneously known as campaign finance reform -- would squelch the voice of pro-gun organizations, and even threaten to eliminate their tax-exempt status. I cannot count on the major media to inform me of what's going on concerning my gun rights. I must rely on Second Amendment groups to inform me of pending legislation or congressional votes, no matter how close to an election these issues arise. In fact, the primary purpose of the First Amendment is to protect exactly the type of political communication that the so-called campaign finance bill is trying to destroy. Please vote AGAINST invoking cloture and vote AGAINST its final passage. It is an anti-gun and anti-speech abomination. Sincerely, Please do not reply directly to this message, as
[CTRL] B of A Can Now Give Your Bank Account Away
-Caveat Lector- http://www.lasvegastribune.com/2002/02/06/mainpage/Main/FP02020604.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! B of A Can Now Give Your Bank Account Away By Claudia Sinclair - Special to the Las Vegas Tribune 2/6/02 Irwin Schiff's recent Clark County lawsuit against the Bank of America has caused that Bank to change its Depositor's Agreement. It now reads that if that Bank mistakenly gives your money to someone else, you won't hold the Bank liable. No, we are not making this up. You will find this new provision on page 2, paragraph 5 of its new Depositor's Agreement. Unlike most other banks, said Schiff, the Bank of America's 'Depositor's Agreement' allows it to turn over your money to another person or entity (who) makes a claim against the funds in your account. even without a court order. Most people are unaware of these agreements, including myself, when I opened several accounts in that bank a while ago. The Bank subsequently turned over $8,000 of my money to the IRS, even though they were under no legal obligation to do so. So I sued the Bank for breach of contract and am now seeking $83,000 in damages. Despite this provision in its Agreement, I was still able to claim an abuse of desecration and breach of contract. The Bank had no legal obligation to honor a Notice of Levy sent to it by IRS Revenue Officer James F. Gritis. A month after I filled my lawsuit, said Schiff, the bank substantially rewrote its agreement which now includes an outrageous provision that depositors won't hold the Bank liable even if it wrongfully turns over their money to someone else. How many people with money in that Bank know that they have agreed to such a ridiculous proposition? And the Bank even added a provision that by leaving your money in that bank you have agreed to these new provisions even if you are unaware of them. Trying to insulate itself against a rash of law suits which would result from Schiff's successful lawsuit against the Bank, the Bank's new agreement also contains provisions that if you do sue the bank, you waive your right to a jury trial and also agree now to join any class action or other lawsuit against the bank. Schiff claimed that he doesn't believe that these new provisions will hold up, and anyone who has had funds turned over to the IRS by that Bank in the last two years could join his lawsuit against the bank. In addition, said Schiff, who has written numerous books exposing the federal government's illegal enforcement of the income tax, anybody can sue any third party who has turned over your funds to the IRS within the last two years, on the same basis as I have sued the bank of America. For more information on how to sue banks and other third parties who have turned over your money to the IRS, call Schiff, who maintains offices at 444 E. Sahara, at 385-6920. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Property Rights Web Page
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! http://www.nodarbyrefuge.0catch.com/ Please copy and paste this to everyone you know who has an interest in freedom and property rights! Thanks! Julie Kay Smithson http://www.nodarbyrefuge.0catch.com/ *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Games - Please Read
-Caveat Lector- Dear Friends: I have uploaded 5 games to a friend. If any of you would like these games in the next 24 hours let me know. It will be easy to forward them but for only 24 hrs. The games are Elf Bowling Elf Bowling 2 Chicken Archery Frogpult Moraff's Games (pinball big taipai games) Let me know which ones you want or want them all. God Bless; Bill A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] AF News 23 Feb 02
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 0289. New Jersey Air Guard goes all out by Linda D. Kozaryn American Forces Press Service OPERATION NOBLE EAGLE (AFPN) -- Last year's Sept. 11 terrorist attack turned the New Jersey Air National Guard's 177th Fighter Wing upside down, the wing commander said. Typically, a Guard unit is 30 percent full-timers and 70 percent traditional guardsmen, said Col. Mike Cosby. As a result of [Sept. 11] and the partial mobilization by the president, about 65 percent of our people are full time. A Guard unit typically works about nine hours a day, Cosby said. Our unit was a little atypical in that we ran two shifts, which meant we worked from about 6 in the morning until about 10 or 11 at night. Now, since [Sept. 11], we're working 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The wing's missions are also significantly different, he said. We used to train here in the United States, Cosby said. We would go out and fly air-to-air missions or drop bombs on our bombing range. Now, we're actually flying live...combat air patrols over our own continental United States. Cosby said 177th FW fighters last flew combat air patrols as part of Operation Southern Watch in October 2000. That's where we flew the exact same mission, combat air patrols, but in this case, it was over Iraq, he said. Then to imagine less than a year later you're doing the exact same mission over your own country is kind of a sobering thought. Since Sept. 11, 177th FW pilots have patrolled the northeast corridor from New York City to Washington as part of Operation Noble Eagle. They have flown more than 825 combat air patrols totaling more than 3,100 flying hours, doubling the number of hours they had normally fly in the same time frame. Unlike normal deployments where we all pack up and we all go someplace overseas, isolate ourselves and focus strictly on the war or the mission at hand, now members of my unit have to go home (at the end of their shift), Cosby said. They have to make dinner for the kids, do homework, go to the basketball or baseball game, fix the car, clean the gutters and paint the house and cut the lawn. There are a lot more issues they're involved with here because we're 'deployed at home station.' The majority of the guardsmen's employers, probably more than 95 percent, fully support their employees and the Guard mission, Cosby said. Some supplement employees' salaries if they have taken a significant cut because they are now on active duty. Some employers continue to provide health care and insurance for not only the employee but also the employee's family, he said. In some cases, however, the officials had to educate employers on the laws associated with the president's partial mobilization. The Air National Guard hasn't been partially mobilized since Vietnam, Cosby said. Some employers are not sure what the rules, responsibilities and obligations are under U.S. Title 10. Once we explained the rules of a partial mobilization and the law that governs it, we've haven't had any problem. The Guard took a proactive stance by holding press conferences, explaining the rules on television and passing out flyers, he said. New Jersey also has a very active Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve program headed by a retired general that helps explain the situation to employers, he said. By law, a partial mobilization can last up to two years. Our orders are cut year to year, Cosby said. I can't tell you when (Operation) Noble Eagle is going to end. I can't tell you when our partial mobilization is going to end. I can't tell the families or the employers when it's going to end, either. But based on the wing's re-enlistment rates, guardsmen must agree with their commander's view that there is no higher calling, especially for a citizen soldier, than to defend your own country. Reup rates (are) up almost 90 percent, Cosby said. People are proud of the job that they do and they're proud to be associated with a first-class organization. The wing's mission-capable rate on its circa 1983- and 1984-vintage F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft is also above 90 percent, Cosby said. Normally, it runs about 70 to 75 percent. We're flying airplanes more, so they get more maintenance, he said. We have higher priority on parts than we did before because we're in a combat operation. So, there are a lot of things that contribute to that (mission-capable rate), but the bottom line is the young kid that's bending the wrench and making it happen out on the flightline. The high operations tempo is taking its toll, Cosby said. Are we getting tired? Yes, he said. The tempo's up significantly. We've doubled our flying hours. How long can we do this? As long as the president asks us to do it. 0291. Scientist, engineer recruiting vital to transformation mission by Tech. Sgt. Scott Elliott Air Force Print News WASHINGTON -- The Air
[CTRL] The 10th Amendment
-Caveat Lector- Don't look now but Massachusetts just made a 180 degree turn! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! The 10th Amendment The 10th Amendment is one of the most important safeguards against the federal government encroaching the rights of the states. In the 1880's it was known as the quarantine amendment. The State of Massachusetts would not even join the Union until the 10th Amendment was accepted as part of the Constitution. In Judge Cooley's book , Constitutional Limitations, on page 706 it says: In the American Constitutional system, the power to establish the ordinary police regulations has been left with the individual States and it can not be taken from them, either wholly or in part, and exercised under legislation of Congress. Neither can the National Government through any of its departments and officers, assume any supervision of police regulations of the States. What is meant by police powers? The states' powers were health, education, welfare, family affairs and police protection. Please read that sentence again. Collectively they are referred to as the police powers of the states. Clearly and unmistakably our founding fathers intended the states to be in full control of health, education, welfare and police protection, and not subject to federal government interference. The clear and unmistakable language of the 10th Amendment prevents a federal police force interfering with law enforcement in the states. In the name of terrorism or Jack The Ripper, the federal government nor any of its agencies ATF, FEMA, FBI, CIA, etc. etc., has no right of interference into the local and State policing duties. And incidentally, there are many who believe that TERRORISM is a home-front POLICE issue, as I do as well. Have you ever noticed that the federal government always makes its biggest advancements in growth, power and money when it declares a war? War on Drugs, War on Education, War on Pollution, War on Poverty, War on Terrorism?? What war? There has been no declaration of war declared by Congress. Yet the people continue to fund and support these unconstitutional acts of government. The most important feature of the 10th Amendment is that it fixes limitations on the federal government which is one of delegated powers and not original powers. This makes it impossible for the federal government to take any power by inference. The power to be taken, or exercised must be clearly expressed in the Constitution or it cannot be taken. In Article V there is the right to amend but not to make new. It would not be an amendment to abolish the Constitution and adopt the Communist Manifesto or the laws of another country. An amendment has to be something germane to the instrument; it must be something already in the Constitution or it fails the test of an amendment. Making a new Constitution would only be binding to the states that agreed to be bound by it and could not become a part of the Constitution until every state adopted it. What this means is, no one can alter the 10th Amendment nor twist it to suit their own purpose, nor can the federal government do anything which is not in its delegated powers, Article I, Sec. 8, Clauses 1-18. The 10th Amendment fixes the type of limitation upon organic law, and makes the federal government one of delegated powers and not original powers. The 10th Amendment puts police powers, health, education, and welfare out of reach of the central government and gives these powers solely to the states. The rape of the 10th Amendment has been a highlight of every administration for the past 100 years. And it has long been the desire of the communist, socialist and liberals to get bills passed at break-neck speeds that would negate the 10th Amendment. This would allow the federal government to control education, health, welfare, and policing. One of the most serious violations of the 10th Amendment occurred when President Teddy Roosevelt twisted and squeezed the Constitution in defiance of the 10th Amendment creating the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was established by an unconstitutional act called executive order. Because the Constitution does not allow a Federal Police Force. (You may recall a recent article from Congressman Ron Paul on FEDERAL POLICE FORCE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.) If our nation were obedient to the Constitution, the FBI would be no more than security guards guarding federal property. Today, the FBI and the CIA is one of the greatest threats to citizens' liberties in America. A large proportion of the FBI's methods of collecting information are not subject to public accountability, which is the very reason why the founding fathers decreed that there could be no central police apparatus and law enforcement was left up to the states under the 10th Amendment. In most states we have Constable's and we have Sheriff's. They are the supreme law
[CTRL] WAR ON THE CONSTITUTION
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Wed Feb 20 02:10:07 2002 68.3.132.0 WAR ON THE CONSTITUTION By Rafe Husa We have bombing and war yet there is no declaration of war. A new Cabinet position (Homeland Security) has been created yet Congress passed neither enabling legislation nor has Congress appropriated funding of such, nor has the Cabinet Member been confirmed by Congress. NO MONEY SHALL BE DRAWN FROM THE TREASURY, BUT IN CONSEQUENCE OF APPROPRIATIONS MADE BY LAW; AND A REGULAR STATEMENT AND ACCOUNT OF THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OF ALL PUBLIC MONEY SHALL BE PUBLISHED FROM TIME TO TIME. UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION SEC 9. We have learned of selective suspension of Habeas Corpus yet no martial law or state of emergency has been declared. THE PRIVILEGE OF THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS SHALL NOT BE SUSPENDED, UNLESS WHEN IN CASES OF REBELLION OR INVASION THE PUBLIC SAFETY MAY REQUIRE IT. UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION SEC 9. Thousands of people have disappeared with not even their lawyers knowing their whereabouts.is it protective custody or internment? Congress has passed legislation under duress while it was being attacked by Anthrax mail. The attacks stopped immediately after Congress passed the Patriot Act. The source of anthrax is openly admitted to coming from US defense laboratories. Congress did not even get a chance to read legislation that it has passed let alone debate it. Congressman Ron Paul (RTX) Said IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THE BILL WASN'T PRINTED BEFORE THE VOTE - AT LEAST I COULDN'T GET IT. THEY PLAYED ALL KINDS OF GAMES, KEPT THE HOUSE IN SESSION ALL NIGHT, AND IT WAS A VERY COMPLICATED BILL. MAYBE A HANDFUL OF STAFFERS ACTUALLY READ IT, BUT THE BILL DEFINITELY WAS NOT AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS BEFORE THE VOTE. Violations **The First Amendment right of free speech and association; **The Fourth No searches without warrants, there does not now exist any category called unreasonable searches and seizures all searches are effectively legal, specifically secret searches; THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO BE SECURE IN THEIR PERSONS, HOUSES, PAPERS, AND EFFECTS, AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES, SHALL NOT BE VIOLATED, AND NO WARRANTS SHALL ISSUE, BUT UPON PROBABLE CAUSE, SUPPORTED BY OATH OR AFFIRMATION, AND PARTICULARLY DESCRIBING THE PLACE TO BE SEARCHED, AND THE PERSONS OR THINGS TO BE SEIZED. UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION 4TH AMENDMENT. **The Fifth prohibition against seizure of property without due process is gone; NO PERSON SHALL BE HELD TO ANSWER FOR A CAPITAL, OR OTHERWISE INFAMOUS CRIME, UNLESS ON A PRESENTMENT OR INDICTMENT OF A GRAND JURY, EXCEPT IN CASES ARISING IN THE LAND OR NAVAL FORCES, OR IN THE MILITIA, WHEN IN ACTUAL SERVICE IN TIME OF WAR OR PUBLIC DANGER; NOR SHALL ANY PERSON BE SUBJECT FOR THE SAME OFFENCE TO BE TWICE PUT IN JEOPARDY OF LIFE OR LIMB; NOR SHALL BE COMPELLED IN ANY CRIMINAL CASE TO BE A WITNESS AGAINST HIMSELF, NOR BE DEPRIVED OF LIFE, LIBERTY, OR PROPERTY, WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW; NOR SHALL PRIVATE PROPERTY BE TAKEN FOR PUBLIC USE, WITHOUT JUST COMPENSATION. UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION 5TH AMENDMENT. **As with the war on drugs, property can be seized be executive order; people, even citizens, can be declared or defined terrorist by executive order; **Organizations, including Citizens, can be declared terrorist or terrorist linked by executive order and have their assets seized and membership list confiscated. **Secret courts disburse secret search warrants, people are charged with secret evidence which even their lawyers can not see and are unable to confront or challenge their accusers. All of the above was actually legal prior to 911 but will now enter mainstream. IN ALL CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS, THE ACCUSED SHALL ENJOY THE RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL, BY AN IMPARTIAL JURY OF THE STATE AND DISTRICT WHEREIN THE CRIME SHALL HAVE BEEN COMMITTED, WHICH DISTRICT SHALL HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY ASCERTAINED BY LAW, AND TO BE INFORMED OF THE NATURE AND CAUSE OF THE ACCUSATION; TO BE CONFRONTED WITH THE WITNESSES AGAINST HIM; TO HAVE COMPULSORY PROCESS FOR OBTAINING WITNESSES IN HIS FAVOR, AND TO HAVE THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL FOR HIS DEFENSE. UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION 6TH AMENDMENT. Open permission to kill has been given to intelligence agencies (Death squads organized, financed and run by the US Gov). Who will decide which of the enemies of the US GOV is beyond the pale and need to be exterminated, how long before this horror strikes home as US Government certainly has many opponents both presumed and real both at home and abroad? One of the internees died with an alleged heart attack. When his body was autopsied in
[CTRL] 22 February 2002 Federalist Edition #02-08
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! THE FEDERALIST(r) DIGEST The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 22 February 2002 Federalist Edition #02-08 Friday Digest *To support The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp *To sponsor an edition of The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/sponsor.asp *To retrieve today's Digest as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2002.asp *To change your e-mail address or format, see instructions in footer. CONTENTS: The Foundation Federalist Perspective __O__ THE FOUNDATION It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor. --George Washington __O__ FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE Top of the fold... President George W. Bush traveled to Asia this week, visiting Japan, South Korea, and Red China, and noting, All three governments are lending their support in our war against terror. ...[And I] thank them on behalf of a grateful nation, for their steady and strong support as this nation leads a coalition to defend freedom. Japan may be experiencing mere economic discomforts and dislocations, but freedom is still threatened in large areas of that region. At his last stop on the tour, Mr. Bush chose to concentrate on areas of agreement with the Chinese Communists and his best hopes for further agreements, saying, I encourage China to be a force for peace among its neighbors. My government hopes that China will strongly oppose the proliferation of missile and other deadly technologies. Mr. Bush reminded that no nation is exempt from the demands of human dignity, and he pointedly included mention of where freedom is lacking for the Chinese people, who should be free to choose how they live, how they worship and how they work. Mr. Bush added: For centuries, this country had a tradition of religious tolerance. My prayer is that all persecution will end, so that all in China are free to gather and worship as they wish. Faith points to a moral law beyond man's law and calls us to duties higher than material gain. Freedom of religion is not something to be feared, it's to be welcomed, because faith gives us a moral core and teaches us to hold ourselves to high standards, to love and to serve others, and to live responsible lives. America is a nation guided by faith. And President Bush peered into one dark hole of the axis of evil across the demilitarized zone separating our ally South Korea from Communist North Korea, saying similarly that no nation should be a prison for its own people. Repeating his characterization of North Korea as evil, Mr. Bush commented on its museum holding axes used to murder non-Communists, and its disordered priorities: Korean grandparents should be free to spend their final years with those they love. Korean children should never starve while a massive army is fed. In the second black hole of the axis of evil, Iran has continued meddling across the border in Afghanistan, attempting to destabilize the interim government before it can truly free the Afghan people. Intelligence reports count scores of infiltrators, including agents from the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, the Iranian spy service, and Iranian special forces troops from the Revolutionary Guards Corps. One U.S. official described them thus: They are armed to the teeth, and they have lots of money to buy people off. Expect this dangerous situation to persist, as Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi disingenuously said, We are determined to remain in Afghanistan as long as the government and the people want us to do so. No wonder suspended bombing runs had to recommence over Afghanistan last weekend to protect our fighters! And little surprise, then, that interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai now asserts that the tourism minister murdered last week, Dr. Abdul Rahman, was in reality assassinated by opponents mingling with hajjis en route to Muslim pilgrim sites! Similar destabilization moves have been undertaken against Pakistan, of course. We note with sadness confirmation that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl has been murdered by his kidnappers -- as part of such actions. Pearl's abductors have stated they killed him because he was a Jew and was pro-Israel. Our prayers go out to his wife, child, family and friends. And rounding out the trio of the axis of evil, Saddam is next up. Asked Thursday about plans to take out any identified weapons of mass destruction facilities in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld replied, We certainly wouldn't discuss it in a press conference. As reported in The Federalist last week, and in the rest of the national media this week, The Pentagon and CIA are currently filling in final mobilization details
[CTRL] Anthrax scare at Fort McPherson
-Caveat Lector- http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/terrorism/0202/0223fortmac.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Anthrax scare at Fort McPherson; 7 treated for possible exposure after package found Test results possible Saturday By RON MARTZ Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer Military and law enforcement officials hope to learn by noon today whether a suspicious substance found Friday evening at Fort McPherson in southwest Atlanta is anthrax. An initial field test of the powdery white material late Friday was positive for the deadly organism, according to Joe Handley, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Reserve Command headquarters at Fort McPherson. If confirmed, it would be the first positive anthrax discovery since Nov. 21, when a Connecticut woman died after being exposed to the bacterium. We are going to treat it as if anthrax is present, said Llelwyn Grant, a spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Lisa Swenarski, a CDC spokeswoman, said the substance was taken to the agency's Atlanta labs for testing late Friday. Tests were to run through the night and the results given to the Department of Defense and the Fulton County Health Department, according to Swenarski. Grant said the specimens were packed in a bio-safety kit for transport to the CDC. Col. Guy Shields, chief of public affairs for Forces Command, which also is housed at the base, said that although the early tests for anthrax were positive, preliminary field testing is not that accurate. It errs on the side of caution. Sunny Sung/AJC A worker donned protective gear Friday night at Fort McPherson. -- -- Col. Dan Stoneking, a Pentagon spokesman, said the substance was discovered around 5:15 p.m. The powder was inside a package that apparently was delivered through the front door of the Army Reserve Command headquarters, said Bob Bolia, a spokesman for Fort McPherson. Bolia said he did not know who delivered the package or to whom it was addressed. We don't know how it got in there or what it is, Shields said. Shields said the package was found on the floor on the building's fourth floor, which contains the mail room. When the package was opened, it was found to contain a plastic sandwich-type bag with the suspicious powder, according to Handley. Shields said seven people, all civilians, came in contact with the suspicious package. Five are employed at Fort McPherson and the other two were first responders with the base fire department. They were decontaminated with showers in a tent-like structure in front of the building. They were allowed to go home around 9 p.m. but will be called back for treatment if the powder is found to be anthrax, Shields said. I've been told they're fine, he said. Shields said he did not think others came in contact with the powder. The military has tightened its mail screening procedures since last fall, when five people died after letters containing anthrax were mailed to media outlets and government offices in Florida, New York and Washington. It was not known late Friday whether the delivery and acceptance of the suspicious package at Fort McPherson was in keeping with current handling procedures. The building has a secure entry point, Shields said. Names of personnel allowed inside are kept on a roster and visitors must be accompanied by an escort to enter the building. The building where the package was found has been secured, but the base has not been locked down, Shields said. However, workers who are not considered essential have been turned away. Rapid response teams from Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency were sent to the post. The teams specialize in dealing with weapons of mass destruction. The FBI also was at the base. A portion of the base was cordoned off by military police and about 200 of the nearly 1,000 civilian and military personnel who work in the Reserve Command building, one of the newest and largest on the base, were locked in until about 9 p.m. They were allowed to leave, but if test results come back positive, they may be asked to return to the base for decontamination and treatment. Handley said most of the military personnel in the building have been inoculated with the anthrax vaccine, but not the civilians. One person who was forced to wait said the anthrax scare put a damper on a retirement party for an Immigration and Naturalization Service employee, which was planned inside the base. Half the people couldn't get in, said Jerry Patton. Myrtle Merriwether was one of the cooks for the party. We all were ready to go, she said, when they heard news of the anthrax scare. Mike Bahus, a civilian who works on the base, said he waited inside the commisary at the bowling alley until he could leave. They weren't scared so much, but they were concerned
[CTRL] Gag Order As Corpse Count Nears 300
-Caveat Lector- http://c1.zedo.com/ads2/i/3853/172/152005813/0/i.html?e=i;s=114;d=1;z=0.603042 1528727178 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Gag Order As Corpse Count Nears 300 By Patricia M. LaHay Associated Press Writer Friday, February 22, 2002; 8:34 AM NOBLE, Ga. ââ A third site of dumped bodies was discovered near a crematory where hundreds of corpses have been found, a medical examiner said at a news conference before he was interrupted by a newly imposed gag order. Walker County District Attorney Buzz Franklin rushed into the news conference Thursday to distribute copies of the gag order just as Georgia state medical examiner Dr. Kris Sperry was talking about the discovery of more corpses at Tri-State Crematory. The order, obtained by defense attorney Ken Poston, covers virtually everyone involved in the case, including witnesses, officials and investigators. Before the order was delivered, Sperry said 283 bodies had been retrieved, and 54 of those had been identified. He was cut off before he had an opportunity to elaborate on the third site. After spending five days in jail, crematory operator Ray Brent Marsh was scheduled to appear in Magistrate Court at a bond hearing Friday afternoon. Marsh, 28, faces 16 counts of theft by deception for allegedly discarding hundreds of bodies instead of cremating them. More charges, including possible federal counts, are pending. State officials said recovering and identifying bodies and cleaning up the site could cost far more than the $10 million estimate given earlier this week. There's just no way to even guess at a cost until we stop finding bodies. And we're finding them everywhere, Georgia Emergency Management Director Gary McConnell said. The operation to recover human remains from pits, sheds, metal vaults and even a shallow lake near the crematory could take at least eight months, officials said. Investigators said they plan to drain the lake, where they have already found a skull and a torso, as soon as the rest of the 16-acre site has been searched. We've got to make sure there aren't any bodies (buried) downstream of the lake before we dump 100,000 gallons of water out, McConnell said. Georgia legislators who toured the crematory grounds Thursday said the scene was worse than they imagined. We saw the pits, we saw the bodies removed. It's indescribable, said Rep. Barbara Massey Reece of nearby Chattooga County. Rep. Chuck Sims, a funeral director, said he cannot fathom how someone could treat dead bodies with such disrespect. These people probably all died of natural causes, but now it's almost like a trauma death, Sims said. It's almost like they've been violated. Another visiting lawmaker, Rep. Mike Snow, said he's authored a new bill that would tighten licensing and inspection requirements for crematories, and another that would make it a felony to desecrate or abuse a human corpse. Snow, who represents the part of Walker County where Tri-State is located, introduced a bill in 1992 that would have exempted it from state inspection. That bill went nowhere, but in 1995 Snow managed to gain passage for a measure that gave Tri-State's owners a two-year reprieve from regulation. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL
[CTRL] 'Ghost soldiers' inflate Guard numbers
-Caveat Lector- http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/02/21/usat-guard.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! E-mails detail Indiana Guard 'ghosts' By Dave Moniz and Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY By Rob Goebel, The Indianapolis Star via AP Master Sgt. Robert Wyse is surrounded by his family after his court-martial Jan. 29 in Edinburgh, Ind. 'Ghost soldiers' inflate Guard numbers Misconduct marks Guard command WASHINGTON â Evidence continues to grow that National Guard units across the country are undermanned and have faked their troop level reports to Washington for years in order to protect their flow of federal money and to hide their inability to retain troops. The latest evidence was revealed in court documents introduced during a January military trial in Indiana. A series of e-mail messages from a senior Indiana National Guard officer details a longstanding practice of false troop reporting to the Pentagon and National Guard headquarters in Washington, D.C. The e-mails, from the top Army Guard personnel officer in the state headquarters, describe how senior National Guard officials in Indiana devised schemes to hide troop shortfalls. Indiana Guard officials state in the messages that they believe similar methods are practiced in other states. The e-mails were introduced by defense attorneys during the court-martial of Master Sgt. Robert Wyse, a Guard recruiter found guilty of forging physical exams for recruits. They outline a program in which Guard officials knowingly inflated data on the total number of Army Guard troops in the state. As many as 700 soldiers who had left the 12,000-member Indiana Guard were still being carried on the rolls, some for more than two years after they had left, the e-mails said. The Indiana case is the latest in a growing list of states alleged to have faked their Guard troop numbers. In December, USA TODAY reported allegations from more than 40 officers that at least seven states had inflated rolls with phony troops known as ghosts. Since then, a dozen Guard members from across the nation have contacted the newspaper alleging that commanders in their states have padded unit rosters with non-existent soldiers. Maj. Sara Hall, a spokeswoman for the Indiana National Guard, said officials in her state could not comment on the e-mails because they are part of an ongoing legal case. The author of the e-mails, Col. Kevin Samples, did not return telephone calls. A former National Guard officer who specializes in personnel issues described the e-mail messages as incriminating. If they were misreporting these numbers to a federal official, that's lying, says Dave McGinnis, who once tracked personnel issues for the National Guard's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Allegations of widespread troop inflation in Indiana were first reported last month in The Indianapolis Star newspaper. The total reported troop strength of the National Guard is 460,000. Each state's Guard reports to the governor, but the Guard receives more than 95% of its funding â about $13 billion last year â from the federal government. States that can't adequately staff Guard units risk losing the units and the federal money that comes with them. The December articles in USA TODAY reported allegations of ghost soldiers in Army National Guard units in Illinois, South Carolina, California, Arizona, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming. In some units, as many as 20% of the soldiers are troops who exist on paper only, according to Guard members and government investigators. In response to the articles, the chairman and ranking Democrat of the House Armed Services personnel subcommittee, Rep. John McHugh, R-N.Y., and Rep. Vic Snyder, D-Ark., have asked the Pentagon to investigate. The lawmakers said in a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that the allegations raise important questions about the readiness of the National Guard as the nation enters a challenging phase in the war on terrorism. The Pentagon has not responded to the request. The new allegations bring to nine the number of states, as well as the District of Columbia, where Army Guard soldiers have told the newspaper that individual units or senior officers have grossly misrepresented troop levels. Among the new allegations: A Hawaii National Guard officer says that as recently as September, a third of his 120-member infantry unit was made up of phantom soldiers. He says the state's senior officers condoned practices that misrepresented the Army Guard's troop levels. He did not want to be identified because he feared retaliation. Hawaii Guard officials say they don't believe the allegation. A Wyoming Army Guard officer says state commanders have devised a system to fool auditors and Pentagon officials about the state's troop levels. The officer, who did not want to be identified for fear of losing his job, says Wyoming Guard officials have periodically instructed soldiers on how to
[CTRL] CIA warns on seeds of new Afghan civil war
-Caveat Lector- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/02/22/wafg22.xmlsSh eet=/news/2002/02/22/ixworld.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! CIA warns on seeds of new Afghan civil war By Ben Fenton in Washington (Filed: 22/02/2002) THE seeds of renewed civil war in Afghanistan have already been planted, the CIA said in a report made public yesterday. The analysis of an increasingly lawless situation backs Britain's view that more needs to be done to prop up the infant regime of Hamid Karzai as he tries to stabilise his country. With the CIA and the State Department both urging a greater effort by America and its allies to maintain peace, the White House is coming under pressure to launch a fresh peacekeeping initiative. The rest of the Bush administration, and in particular the Pentagon, has been reluctant to do anything more than it is already doing, except in pursuit of Osama bin Laden, his al-Qa'eda terrorist network and the Taliban. Intelligence analysis suggests that a return to the civil war that wracked the country after Soviet invaders were driven out in 1989 is not imminent. But the CIA has identified rising tensions between the Tajik and Uzbek ethnic groups in Afghanistan and areas of lawlessness where the influence of the central government has not been extended. The report says the agency is alarmed at how slowly progress is being made in setting up the national army and police force for Afghanistan. Civil war is not imminent but the seeds are there, a senior official of the intelligence agency said in an interview with the New York Times. The question that the CIA was facing was: What do we do in the meantime to deter war among the warlords? Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, said he did not know how the situation would develop, but was not obviously enthusiastic for an increase in peacekeeping forces beyond the 4,500-strong existing force, half of which is British and which is under British command. The Pentagon is known to have argued that it is not necessary to enlarge the peacekeeping force and would stretch already thin resources at a time when America is trying to fight terrorism on a global front. Mr Rumsfeld said it was a waste of time, money and effort to build up the International Security Assistance Force to 5,000 or even 20,000 when the same resources could be devoted to training and equipping an Afghan army. The State Department told the newspaper it was suggesting only that areas outside Kabul could be protected by an expanded international force, as Mr Karzai proposed to President Bush in a meeting in Washington last month. The Foreign Office supports this idea although the Ministry of Defence is far less enthusiastic, a division mirroring the current differences of opinion in the Bush administration. Britain's Armed Forces commanders are also concerned that they are being overstretched and do not want to be committed to sending more troops to Afghanistan. Mr Rumsfeld admitted that between 10 and 15 people killed in an American commando raid on Jan 23 were not al-Qa'eda or Taliban, as the Pentagon had claimed since the attack. But he defended the raid on the two compounds at Hazar Qadam, because he said all the deaths occurred after American special forces troops were fired on. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL
[CTRL] Carter Rips Bush on 'Axis' Label
-Caveat Lector- Go Carter Go, Insert foot in mouth, you didn't do it enough during your presidency! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Carter Rips Bush on 'Axis' Label The Associated Press Thursday, February 21, 2002; 8:53 PM ATLANTA ââ Former President Jimmy Carter on Thursday criticized President Bush's labeling three countries an axis of evil, saying the statement was overly simplistic and counterproductive. Carter said Bush's statement seriously jeopardized progress made with North Korea, Iran and Iraq in recent years. I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement, said Carter, speaking at an Emory University conference on the impact of terrorism. Carter also said the growing gap between the rich and the poor continues to be the world's greatest challenge, although he noted that many terrorists falsely claim to be among the world's destitute. We are very concerned now about terrorism. Osama bin Laden is not poor, he's very rich â and the people who committed those horrible acts on Sept. 11 were not poor, he said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Chinese leader lost for words as he meets press
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-215020,00.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! February 22, 2002 Chinese leader lost for words as he meets press From Oliver August in Beijing CHINAâS President yesterday gave a baffling performance in front of hundreds of journalists that made his often tongue-tied American counterpart look eloquent by comparison. President Jiang Zemin stood in front of the assembled foreign and local journalists, whom he had formally invited to Beijingâs Great Hall of the People for a âjoint meetingâ with President George Bush, and refused to answer all their questions. Seeking guidance from his press secretary, Mr Jiang simply pretended, live on national television, that he had not heard two separate questions about imprisoned Catholic bishops and religious freedom. Chinese audiences, whether journalists, party members or peasants, are never allowed to ask the President a spontaneous question. Everything is screened and vetted. So when Mr Jiang came face-to-face with the unruly White House press, he chose to answer only the questions posed by the reporters of the loyal Chinese state media. And while Mr Bush improvised, Mr Jiang read out his scripted answers. The audience laughed and snorted â sheer heresy in the pantheon of Chinese communism. The ornate Great Hall of the People, built by Mao Zedong on the edge of Tiananmen Square, is the venue for elaborately staged Chinese political theatre, not an arena for verbal jousting. Some 25 minutes after Mr Jiang had ignored questions from non-Chinese journalists, he changed tack, seemingly aware of the consternation he had caused. He turned to Mr Bush and said in English: âYou are much better at this.â In his 13 years as a member of the politburo, Mr Jiang has given only a handful of press conferences, usually on foreign soil. He said: âNow I will answer the questions of the American reporters,â and launched into an unprompted admission that he had read the Bible as well as other religious texts. Rather implausibly, he also claimed to have no influence over who is imprisoned in China and why. Shortly before Mr Jiang finally addressed the question of religious freedom, the television lights in the Great Hall of the People dimmed. Kremlinologists wondered whether the live transmission on Chinese state television had been cut, allowing Mr Jiang to answer the question without losing face in front of a domestic audience. Last night, staff at China Central Television insisted the transmission had not been cut. Asked when they would next have the chance to show a Jiang press conference live, they refused to answer. Just like their President. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Robertson Calls Islam a Religion of Violence, Mayhem
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49436-2002Feb21.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Robertson Calls Islam a Religion of Violence, Mayhem Find Post Stories by Topic: InvestigationRetaliationWashingtonNew YorkBusinessHuman TollBioterrorismEditorialsColumnistsFull Archive___ --or-- Search Story Archive by Keyword: Advanced Search ⢠Subscribe to Daily Newsletter _Top Stories_ ⢠Afghan Factions Test U.S. Forces (The Washington Post, Feb 21, 2002) ⢠Spy Planes Seek Out Philippine Guerrillas (The Washington Post, Feb 21, 2002) ⢠Afghan Government Backs Off Conspiracy Charge in Airport Killing (The Washington Post, Feb 21, 2002) ⢠Full Coverage _Online Extras_ Photo Galleries ⢠Northern Lights ⢠2002 Winter Olympics ⢠10 Days in September ⢠Best of Post 2001 Live Online Discussions ⢠2/14: Former CIA Director James Woolsey ⢠Upcoming Discussions ⢠America at War Transcripts Guides ⢠Philippines and Terrorism ⢠Somalia and the War on Terrorism ⢠Understanding Pakistan ⢠India and the War on Terrorism Background ⢠Multimedia Features ⢠America at War: News Graphics ⢠America at War: Transcripts E-Mail This Article Printer-Friendly Version Subscribe to The Post By Alan Cooperman Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, February 22, 2002; Page A02 Television evangelist Pat Robertson yesterday described Islam as a violent religion bent on world domination, drawing immediate protests from American Muslims. Robertson, one of the most powerful figures on the religious right, made the remarks on his Christian Broadcasting Network's 700 Club. In mid-September, he and fellow evangelist Jerry Falwell sparked controversy by suggesting on the same show that abortionists, feminists, gays and liberal groups were partly responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. After a segment yesterday on the political views of Muslims in America, the announcer, Lee Webb, turned to Robertson and asked: As for the Muslim immigrants, Pat, it makes you wonder, if they have such contempt for our foreign policy why they'd even want to live here? Well, as missionaries possibly to spread the doctrine of Islam, Robertson answered. But, ladies and gentlemen, I have taken issue with our esteemed president in regard to his stand in saying Islam is a peaceful religion. It's just not. And the Koran makes it very clear, if you see an infidel, you are to kill him. Robertson added that the fact is that our immigration policies are now so skewed to the Middle East and away from Europe that we have introduced these people into our midst and undoubtedly there are terrorist cells all over them. Islam, he concluded, is not a peaceful religion that wants to coexist. They want to coexist until they can control, dominate and then if need be destroy. Hussein Ibish, communications director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, called Robertson's remarks truly outrageous. We know the word for this. This is called anti-Semitism, Ibish said. . . . It's a resurgent anti-Semitism with the word 'Muslims' instead of the word 'Jews.' *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL
[CTRL] China missile sale
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020222-2416724.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Inside the Ring Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough Notes from the Pentagon. China missile sale China's military delivered a shipment of naval anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, according to U.S. intelligence officials. The missile shipment took place in January and is a sign Beijing continues to be a major supplier to states President Bush identified as an axis of evil. The missiles were identified as HQ-7 surface-to-air missiles with a range of up to 8 nautical miles. The missile is a reverse-engineered version of France's Crotale missile system. It travels at twice the speed of sound. It includes advanced guidance and control systems, including infrared and television tracking. The missile sale did not violate China's 1998 pledge made to the United States that it would halt sales of C-801 and C-802 anti-ship cruise missiles to Iran. China's missile sales to Pakistan were raised in talks in Beijing between U.S. and Chinese officials as part of the summit between President Bush and Chinese President Jiang Zemin. No agreement was reached on curbing Chinese arms sales at the talks. The Chinese have not followed through with a pledge to impose new export controls on its state-run arms makers. The Bush administration imposed sanctions on China twice in the past six months for sales of missile goods to Pakistan, and chemical and biological weapons components to Iran. A CIA report made public last month stated: China is a primary supplier of advanced conventional weapons to Pakistan and Iran, among others. Supplemental The Pentagon and the White House budget office this week are negotiating the size of a current-year emergency-spending bill to pay for the ongoing war on terrorism. The Pentagon had drawn up requests for $20 billion. It has now whittled the package down to $16 billion. But the White House does not want to exceed $10 billion, defense sources say, to keep the projected deficit as small as possible. President Bush is proposing to fund next year's emergency defense bill upfront in the pending fiscal 2003 Pentagon budget. But Capitol Hill sources say it is unlikely lawmakers will give the Pentagon a blank check. Instead, the money will be earmarked for big-ticket items, such as ships and aircraft. Shipbuilding advocates want part of that $10 billion to fund three new ships: a destroyer, an amphibious assault ship and a Virginia-class submarine. Team player Administration sources say the most intense opposition to President Bush's axis of evil speech didn't come from overseas. It came from career diplomats inside his own State Department. Insiders say the opposition was so widespread Secretary of State Colin L. Powell had to put out the word to his employees to be team players. Mr. Powell himself has become more of a team player in recent weeks when it comes to policy against Iraq. In a National Security Council dominated by hawks like Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Mr. Powell was a lone voice of restraint. He once disputed in public the views of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, an ardent hawk on Iraq. Taiwan diesel subs The Bush administration in April promised to sell Taiwan up to eight diesel submarines to bolster the island's coastal defenses against a major Chinese naval and missile buildup. Almost a year later, the Pentagon is still figuring out how to do it. The United States last built a diesel-electric submarine in 1958. Efforts to build the submarines with a design or hull produced by other nations also have not panned out, because of pressure from Beijing to block the sales. Now word has reached us that there is opposition to the submarine deal from an unlikely source: the U.S. Navy. Submariners are quietly lobbying against opening production of diesel submarines. They fear that once the Pentagon gets back into the diesel-submarine business, it will make it harder to get Congress to fund construction of big-ticket nuclear-powered submarines. The Navy is very, very nervous, said one person close to the Pentagon. The reason is simple. The Navy can build four very quiet diesel-electric submarines for the cost of one new Virginia-class submarine. Another option being considered for the Taiwan submarine deal is to refurbish old diesel submarines with new equipment, although that option is not favored by Taipei. Taiwan is said to favor building diesel submarines with U.S. help and eventually building its own. Talks on the Taiwan submarine deal are set for next month. Visiting hours The Pentagon has settled on strict visitation rules for the 300 or so al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners being held at the U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Visitors are
[CTRL] Taipei approves of Bush China visit
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26579 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Taipei approves of Bush China visit Officials say island's interests not compromised by trip -- -- Posted: February 23, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Jon Dougherty © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Taiwan's government has said it approves of President Bush's visit with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, noting that Washington and Beijing remained far apart on issues important to Taipei. President Bush's remarks so far have not sacrificed the interests of Taiwan, said Eugene Chien, Taiwan's foreign affairs minister. Although both reached a consensus on certain issues, they remained far apart on other issues, including the issue of Taiwan. His comments, as well as those of other Taiwanese government officials, were carried by various Taiwan newspapers, including the Taipei Times. Bush flew home yesterday following a six-day Asian tour that included visits to South Korea, Japan and China. In a joint press conference following meetings with the Chinese leader, Bush and Jiang both hoped for a peaceful resolution to the cross-strait tension that has marked Taiwan-China relations for years. We believe in the peaceful settlement of this issue, Bush said. But overall, Taiwanese leaders said Bush remained committed to the terms of the Taiwan Relations Act, which contains a U.S. pledge of military support to Taiwan should it fall under attack, as well as a commitment to supply Taiwan with up-to-date military technology. The United States will continue to support the Taiwan Relations Act, Bush added. All the world's people, including the people of China, should be free to choose how to live, worship and how to work. Taiwanese officials said they understood Washington's need to improve relations with Beijing, as long as relations with Taipei didn't suffer. While relations between the U.S. and China are expected to get better, it's also our hope that U.S.-Taiwan relations can advance in parallel, Chien said. -- -- Jon E. Dougherty is a staff reporter and columnist for WorldNetDaily, and author of the special report, *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] AF News 22 Feb 02
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 0286. Power pro brings base to life by Master Sgt. Tim Helton 376th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM (AFPN) -- The smooth hum of an engine in the silence of night marks the start of warm showers, hot food and electricity in the tents at a deployed location where people are supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. The driving force behind this power is the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing Civil Engineering Squadron power production shop. The shop is made up of people from around the United States. Power is the lifeblood of the camp infrastructure. Heat, lights, food preparation, communications...all run on power, said Lt. Col. Kevin Rumsey, 376th AEW CES commander. Without power production folks, power could not be maintained. The main power comes from a single 750-kilowatt generator located in the power plant, with several smaller generators located throughout the base. The Army's 249th Engineer Battalion from Fort Lewis in Washington, and the 376 AEW CES keep the power flowing. Our job is to install, maintain and replace all the power generators here, said Staff Sgt. Johnny Anderson, 376th AEW CES power production craftsman. We produce the juice for base personnel to do the mission and enjoy some of the comforts of home. Maintaining the power source while deployed in a foreign country is not always easy, said Anderson. The power production shop must overcome several obstacles while maintaining the generators. The hardest thing here is getting supplies and replacement parts to keep our power sources running, he said. It takes the flexibility, experience and expertise of the folks in our shop to ensure the job gets done. The 14 people assigned respond to any and all problems associated with powering the base. We have a great bunch of guys working here, Anderson said. All different walks of life; reserves, active-duty airman and NCOs; we are all dedicated to doing what it takes to keep power to this base. 0283. 579 selected for colonel RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- The Calendar 2002 central line, chaplain, judge advocate general, medical service corps, biomedical sciences corps, and nurse corps colonel board selected 579 officers for promotion to colonel. Personnel officials announced the promotion list Feb. 21. The entire list will be posted on the Air Force Personnel Center's Web site at http://www.afpc.randolph.af.mil by Feb. 23. The colonel's board convened here Dec. 3 to 7 to consider 4,717 lieutenant colonels for promotion. The results of the board are: Selection statistics for in-the-promotion zone for colonel: -- Line: 432 officers selected from 927 considered for a 46.6 percent select rate; -- Chaplain: Seven officers selected from 17 considered for a 41.2 percent select rate; -- Judge advocate general: 14 officers selected from 28 considered for a 50 percent select rate; -- Nurse corps: 11 officers selected from 33 considered for 33.3 percent select rate; -- Medical services corps: 17 officers selected from 34 considered for 50 percent select rate; and -- Biomedical sciences corps: 13 officers selected from 26 considered for a 50 percent select rate. Selection statistics for above-the-promotion zone for colonel: -- Line: Two officers selected from 980 considered for a 0.2 percent select rate; -- Chaplain: No officers selected from 35 considered; -- Judge advocate general: One officer selected from 48 considered for a 2.1 percent select rate; -- Nurse corps: Two officers selected from 48 considered for 4.2 percent select rate; -- Medical service corps: One officer selected from 22 considered for 4.5 percent select rate; and -- Biomedical sciences corps: No officers selected from 39 considered. Selection statistics for below-the-promotion zone for colonel: -- Line: 76 officers selected from 2,157 considered for a 3.5 percent select rate; -- Chaplain: No officers selected; -- Judge advocate general: One officer selected from 71 considered for a 1.4 percent select rate; -- Nurse corps: One officer selected from 117 considered for 0.9 percent select rate; -- Medical service corps: One officer selected from 59 considered for 1.7 percent select rate; and -- Biomedical sciences corps: No officers selected from 76 considered. (Courtesy of AFPC News Service) 0287. Ops tempo picks up at Rhein-Main by Master Sgt. Louis A. Arana-Barradas Air Force Print News RHEIN-MAIN AIR BASE, Germany -- The start of Operation Enduring Freedom has turned this once quiet base into the bustling hub of the Air Force airlift into Afghanistan. Since November the base just outside Frankfurt -- due to close in late 2005 -- has had a huge surge in its work and operations tempo. That has forced the base to put some of its closure plans on the back burner. Scores of C-5 Galaxy and C-17 Globemaster III transports crowd the base's
[CTRL] Assault rifles for Annan guards investigated
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! http://asp.washtimes.com/printarticle.asp?action=printArticleID=20020221-1472 9320 Assault rifles for Annan guards investigated Stewart Stogel SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published 2/21/2002 NEW YORK â The U.S. government is investigating whether the United Nations illegally imported and issued paramilitary assault rifles to Secretary-General Kofi Annan's security detail. Sources in the U.N. Security and Safety Service say that the members of Mr. Annan's personal protective detail have been using the German-made MP5 submachine guns since 1998, despite an apparent failure to obtain U.S. clearance for their use. U.N. officials say that the use of the highly restricted firearm has been cleared with U.S. authorities. But Mike Campbell, a spokesman for the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, confirmed in an interview that an inquiry into the U.N. personnel's use of the weapon was initiated two weeks ago. The dispute is made even more sensitive by the fact that Mr. Annan himself led a U.N. effort last summer to stem the production and sale of small arms around the world, an effort that drew criticism from U.S. gun-ownership groups and from the Bush administration. There is no single tool of conflict so widespread, so easily available and so difficult to restrict as small arms, Mr. Annan told a special meeting of the Security Council in July. The MP5, described by its German manufacturer Heckler and Koch GmbH as a paramilitary assault rifle commonly used by police SWAT squads, is just one of several varieties of assault weapons currently in the possession of the United Nations, said one U.N. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. America's use of the MP5 is normally limited to law-enforcement organizations, Mr. Campbell said. Importation of the submachine gun is tightly controlled, he said. The United States does not consider the U.N. security service a law-enforcement organization and thus deems it ineligible to possess weapons such as the MP5, according to a State Department official. If the United Nations had applied for permission to obtain these guns, most likely it would have been rejected again, said the official, who requested anonymity. The State Department official said the United Nations first approached the U.S. government for permission to purchase the MP5 in early 1998 and was refused. Just how Mr. Annan's security detail obtained the weapons is the focus of the U.S. government probe. Michael McCann, who has directed U.N. security operations since 1994, refused to comment on the issue, but U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard denied any wrongdoing. Mr. Eckhard said he had checked with the security service and was told that all the necessary licenses for the weapons carried by U.N. personnel had been obtained. I flatly reject the notion any laws have been broken, he said. An American citizen and a veteran of the New York Police Department, Mr. McCann has been a frequent target of criticism by both U.N. diplomats and staff over security at the New York site. On September 11, it took hours to evacuate the U.N. headquarters after the plane attacks on the World Trade Center; employees at the Twin Towers were evacuated in 45 minutes. Several staffers described the evacuation process as mass confusion. Umberto Ravalico, Mr. McCann's predecessor, rejected the use of the MP5 guns. U.N. sources said that Mr. Ravalico felt they were too dangerous for use within New York City. Although the United States cannot control the use of such weapons inside the U.N. compound, U.S. laws do apply if the weapons are carried outside. Documents obtained by The Washington Times indicate that U.N. submachine guns frequently leave U.N. headquarters, accompanying Mr. Annan on trips around the New York area and for use in target-practice sessions for U.N. officers at a shooting range on Long Island. A U.N. document on training standards for security officers appears to note the sensitivity of taking the MP5 outside the U.N. headquarters building. For the twice-yearly proficiency tests required for security officers, the officers and the weapons are transported to the range in a vehicle provided by the U.N. security service. If officers travel to the range on their own, they cannot bring their firearm with them. Under no circumstances should a United Nations weapon be transported in a private vehicle, according to a U.N. instruction sheet titled Qualification on the Service MP5. The passage is highlighted in bold-face type. Conventions on diplomatic immunity do not apply to weapons possession. A survey of the United Nations' five permanent Security Council members â the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia â found that only U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte
[CTRL] Bush lectures China on American values
-Caveat Lector- http://www.smh.com.au/news/0202/23/world/world6.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Bush lectures China on American values By John Schauble in Beijing President George Bush, frustrated in his attempts to secure a Chinese commitment on missile non-proliferation, used a speech to Beijing students yesterday to deliver a sermon on the need for religious freedom in China. But students at Tsinghua University seemed more interested in learning why the United States continued to refer to peaceful resolution rather than acknowledging China's goal of reunification with Taiwan. Freedom of religion is not something to be feared, Mr Bush said in a speech televised nationally with translation. It's to be welcomed, because faith gives us a moral core and teaches us to hold ourselves to high standards, to love and to serve others, and to live responsible lives. He spoke of his own deep personal religious faith and said he prayed for an end to religious persecution in China. His comments to a hand-picked audience were pointed after President Jiang Zemin had ducked questions on Thursday about the persecution of Catholic clergy in China. Whatever religion people believe in, they have to abide by the law. So some of the law-breakers have been detained because of their violation of law, not because of their religious beliefs, Mr Jiang, who said he had no religious faith, told a joint news conference. In a wide-ranging speech on American values, Mr Bush talked about the importance of democracy, family values, education and freedom of choice. He also reiterated that the US had an obligation to defend Taiwan if it was attacked. When my country makes an agreement we stick with it, he declared. But he said the US wanted a peaceful resolution to the Taiwan question. We've also sent the same message that there should be no provocation by either party, rather peaceful dialogue, he said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Russia's influence in Balkans growing
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26576 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Russia's influence in Balkans growing Macedonia seeks counter-insurgency techniques uses in Chechnya -- -- Posted: February 23, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Toby Westerman © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Despite intense efforts by the European Union and NATO to resolve the simmering crisis in the Balkans, the region again shows signs of boiling over into bloody ethnic and religious warfare, as Russia's influence grows in the area, a result of disenchantment with Western peacekeeping efforts. A spokesman for the Defense Ministry of Macedonia, a small former republic of Yugoslavia located in the south central Balkan Peninsula, stated that Macedonia is appealing to Russia for assistance and will use Russian counter-terrorist experience in Chechnya, according to official Russian sources. Moscow stated that the Macedonian chief of staff, Gen. Jovan Petkovski, has already obtained an agreement with Russia to provide consultations with Macedonia on counter-insurgency techniques used in Chechnya. The [Macedonian] defense minister sees much in common between Albanian militants operating in Macedonia ⦠and [Chechen] armed groups, Moscow stated. The statements were carried by the Voice of Russia World Service, the official broadcasting service of the Russian government. For several years, Macedonia has witnessed serious civil strife between the Macedonian majority and the nation's Albanian minority. The Albanians claim that the Macedonian majority has discriminated against them, while ethnic Macedonians charge that the Albanians want to establish a Muslim Greater Albania carved out of Macedonian and Kosovo territory. Macedonian authorities are aware that international terrorist centers try to convert a country into a stronghold for the purpose of carrying out attacks using money from abroad and mercenaries, Moscow asserted, drawing a comparison between the guerrillas in Macedonia with Chechen militants who have attacked Russian territory outside of Chechnya. The militant Islamic guerrillas in the Chechnya republic, which is a member of the Russian Federation, have attacked neighboring Russian republics and have been accused of bombings in Moscow. Ties between the Chechen militants and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network have been established, and the Chechen fighters are known to finance a portion of their activities through illegal drug trafficking. The request from Macedonia for Russian expertise means that [Macedonia], which really realizes the danger of spreading international terror, assesses highly the methods used by Russia to suppress the Chechyn insurgency. Macedonia's interest in Russian counter-insurgency methods in Chechnya is occurring despite repeated Western condemnation of those methods. In April 2001, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights approved a resolution presented by the European Union that strongly condemns the continued use of disproportionate and indiscriminate force by Russian military forces ⦠including attacks against civilians, according to a BBC report. The Commission on Human Rights also denounced serious violations of human rights, such as forced disappearances, extra judicial summary and arbitrary executions and torture. At the same time the Macedonian Defense Ministry is seeking Russian advice on possible means of counter-insurgency, Gjorgji Trendafilov, a spokesman for the Macedonian government, expressed outrage at the suggestion that an agreement on the borders between Macedonia and Yugoslavia is not valid. According to a Macedonian Information Agency report, U.S. Brig. Gen. Keith Huber, who is the KFOR Commander of the Multinational Brigade East, stated that the Feb. 23, 2001, Border Delineation Agreement was illegal. Huber also stated that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan agreed with the assessment of the border agreement. KFOR is the U.N.'s military force in Kosovo, and it coordinates its efforts with UNMIK, the civilian U.N. Mission in Kosovo. Such statements are only supported by those that have caused the armed conflicts in Macedonia, Trendafilov declared. The question of the validity of the border agreement arose from claims by farmers in Kosovo who owned land in Macedonia but were unable to cultivate it. Huber stated that he will use troops to back the claim of the Kosovo farmers. The Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs cited other statements from KFOR and UNMIK officials placing the border agreement between Macedonia and Yugoslavia in question, the Macedonian Information Agency reported. The president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica, also expressed his concern over statements questioning the legality of the border agreement. Kostunica appealed to Annan in a letter stating that the
[CTRL] SAS joins Kashmir hunt for bin Laden
-Caveat Lector- http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/02/23/wbin23.xmlsS heet=/news/2002/02/23/ixnewstop.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! SAS joins Kashmir hunt for bin Laden By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 23/02/2002) THE SAS is hunting for Osama bin Laden in the Indian state of Kashmir after intelligence reports stated that he had sought the protection of an extremist Islamic group. The SAS soldiers involved are part of a joint 40-man operation with Delta Force, the US equivalent of the SAS. The decision to send in British Special Forces followed the Prime Minister's visit to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan last month. Mr Blair's trip, made amid fears of a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, was followed almost immediately by a visit to both countries by Colin Powell, US secretary of state. At about that time, Indian intelligence told the CIA that they believed bin Laden was hiding in the Himalayan mountains in Kashmir, protected by the Islamic guerrilla group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. The group, whose sphere of operations sprawls across Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, is believed to have smuggled him into one of many remote areas that are nearly impossible for the Indian army to police. Harkat-ul-Mujahideen is the latest incarnation of a militant Islamist group which is extremely closely linked to al-Qa'eda and has kidnapped a number of westerners, including two Britons who are still missing. The hunt is employing a range of high-tech devices. A spy satellite above the Indian Ocean operated jointly by American and British signals intelligence is being used to monitor any communications between bin Laden and other members of al-Qa'eda. Other satellites capable of using infra-red imaging to detect the movement of humans in the snow of the remote Himalayan passes are also looking for the terrorist leader. A senior defence source who recently returned from the region said the SAS troopers were acting in an advisory role for Indian Army special forces. Amid fears that any military intervention might ignite the border conflict between India and Pakistan, the SAS has been given strict orders to stay clear of any firefights and merely collect intelligence. But Pakistan's announcement this week that members of its Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) had been ordered to disband its section aiding Kashmiri separatist groups including Harkat-ul-Mujahideen appears to indicate that it has been informed of the SAS-Delta Force operation. One source said the team was mounting one of the most technical covert operations of the war to pinpoint any activity by members of the separatist group. The whole area is ultra sensitive, he said. But bin Laden has a history here with some of the terror groups and he may have regarded it as a safe haven. He knows we are not going to start bombing the area or sending in the marines, but there are lots of other things we can do and if he is alive he is definitely not safe. Bin Laden has not been seen since shortly before US and British Special Forces entered the Tora Bora complex in Afghanistan in November. The source refused to comment on what would happen if they managed to find bin Laden in Kashmir. But he added that the Indian Army was as keen as the rest of the world to see the al-Qa'eda leader dead. Many of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen's fighters trained in the Afghanistan terror camps. It recruits young Muslims from Pakistan and Britain and has received significant financial support from bin Laden and the ISI. The group was originally called Harkat-ul-Ansar (Movement of the Volunteers) and was sponsored by America in the 1980s to fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. It later turned its attention to the Kashmir issue. It was declared an international terrorist organisation by the US in 1987 and subsequently merged with an existing group, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (Movement of the Religious Fighters). As Harkat-ul-Ansar, it was responsible for the kidnapping of two Britons in 1995 - Paul Wells, 23, from Blackburn, and Keith Mangan, 33, from Middlesbrough - two Americans, a Norwegian and a German. One of the Americans escaped. The Norwegian was found beheaded. Nothing is known of what happened to the others. The kidnappers were demanding the release of three Kashmiri separatist leaders, one of whom was the British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who is currently held by the Pakistani authorities in connection with the murder of the US journalist Daniel Pearl. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our
[CTRL] Sharon to loosen Arafat's confinement
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26573 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Sharon to loosen Arafat's confinement Deal with Mubarak includes letup in terror strikes on Israel -- -- Posted: February 22, 2002 1:43 p.m. Eastern Editor's note: DEBKAfile's electronic news publication is a news-cum-analysis live wire, online round the clock seven days a week. A weekly edition,DEBKA-Net-Weekly, is now available through WorldNetDaily.com. Drawing on DEBKAfile's unique sources, analytical talents and forward-looking insights, it is presented as a compact, intelligence-angled weekly package. It is available as a direct e-mail feed or via the Internet. © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has acceded to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's request for steps to ease Yasser Arafat's confinement in Ramallah â in return for a phased letup in Palestinian terror and improved relations with Cairo, according to DEBKAfile's political sources. What the two leaders agreed, in essence, in their telephone conversation yesterday was for the three processes to go forward in parallel, with Egypt accompanying each step. Until that phone call, the Egyptian ruler had virtually boycotted the Israeli prime minister for a year. Its immediate outcome was a high-level Israeli-Palestinian security meeting that same night, attended on the Israeli side by Shin Beth director Avi Dichter and IDF Operations head Maj.Gen. Giora Eiland. Representing the Palestinians were Muhamed Dahlan, head of the Gaza Strip Security Service, and Jibril Rajoub, head of Preventive Security in the West Bank. On the agenda were steps to de-escalate the surging violence. The first was carried out by Israel this morning, when its troops pulled out of positions occupied two weeks ago in the southern Gaza Strip and lifted the blockade trisecting the territory into impassable segments. Another crucial step will take place early next week, when Sharon invites non-combatant Palestinian Authority officials for a second encounter. The first took place earlier this month. DEBKAfile's sources point out that, by talking to Arafat's representatives amid a phased winding down of Palestinian terror, Sharon has in effect agreed to enter into indirect, Egypt-mediated negotiations under fire. He has evidently decided to give Mubarak a chance by accepting the following scenario: Israel-Palestinian exchanges will be resumed; The Palestinians will reduce the level of terror attacks; Israel will ease its preventive military and economic blockade measures; Arafat's conditions of confinement will be improved; Israel will let him go to Beirut for the Arab summit on March 28. If all these stages come to pass, Mubarak guarantees to block harsh anti-Israel resolutions in Beirut. After Thursday's broadcast, Sharon stonewalled when asked if the arrest in Nablus of the alleged assassins of Israeli Minister Rehavam Zeevi earlier that day would release Arafat to attend the Beirut summit on March 28. His answer was, Israel always honors its commitments. That answer related to his promise to the Egyptian ruler. As part of the process, Cairo will de-freeze its attitude towards Israel and the Sharon government in particular. Sharon will meet Mubarak â first in the Sinai resort of Sharm al Sheikh, followed by Mubarak's first visit to Israel as president. Inviting Sharon to Cairo then will be considered. Another key Middle East player, Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, needed only one week to reconsider and take back the deal he floated before New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, namely normal relations between the Arab world and Israel in return for its withdrawal to pre-1967 frontiers. From the first, DEBKAfile discounted the motive behind the plan, judging it was aired more with an eye to Riyadh's rocky relations with Washington than the Israel-Palestinian impasse. Abdullah unsurprisingly killed the idea yesterday, announcing he would not bring it before the Arab summit. DEBKAfile's defense experts judge Sharon's buffer zone plan, unveiled in his address to the nation Thursday night, equally ephemeral. The zones are to run from the Gilboa Hill range in the north to beyond Hebron in the south, several kilometers deep. Concrete blocks and other obstacles will demark the zones, which will take at least a year to set up. Political sources suggest Sharon may have put the idea forward to convey the impression of motion in the war against terror. However, even if it were real, such long-term plans are bound to fall by the wayside in the rush of events beginning now, as the moment for a full-scale American offensive against Iraq draws near. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use
[CTRL] Angola Government Says UNITA's Savimbi Killed
-Caveat Lector- http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=worldnewsStoryID=624301 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Angola Government Says UNITA's Savimbi Killed February 22, 2002 05:11 PM ET Email this article Printer friendly version Reuters Photo By Justin Pearce LUANDA (Reuters) - Angolan UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who battled the Luanda government for decades in one of Africa's longest-running wars, was killed in a clash with government troops on Friday, Angolan state media reported. In Moxico province, Jonas Malheiro Savimbi died in combat, Angolan national radio said. An Angolan presidential spokesman told a Portuguese radio station that government forces had Savimbi's body and planned to display it. A source close to UNITA, contacted in Lisbon, had no immediate comment on the report. Savimbi was the founding father of UNITA, which he says was born as an army of 12 people with knives, leading the rebel movement since 1966. Fighting in the former Portuguese colony in southwestern Africa has dragged on since 1975 and claimed an estimated one million lives. Presidential spokesman Aldemiro de Conceicao, quoting a statement by the Angolan government and armed forces, said Savimbi was killed at about 3 p.m. (8 a.m. EST) in east-central Angola Asked in an interview with private TSF radio if Savimbi was dead, he said: I confirm it. In fact, the government just released a statement confirming the death of Jonas Savimbi, which occurred today at 3 p.m. in the province of Moxico. We had a problem that just now has been removed, he added. The Angolan armed forces said Savimbi, 67, was killed as a result of a clash that occurred with a column that he was a part of, de Conceicao said. Joao Laurenco, secretary-general of the ruling MPLA party told state television that Savimbi had chosen his own destiny. An unofficial UNITA contact in Lisbon, Rui Oliveira, said: We are waiting for our forces in the interior to get in contact with us, only after that can we talk. UNITA is an acronym for the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola. BODY TO BE DISPLAYED De Conceicao said the armed forces had Savimbi's body and planned to display it in the next few hours. Certainly, we are going to display Savimbi's body for photographs, he said. The report of Savimbi's death comes as the United Nations tries to revive peace talks between Luanda's government and Savimbi's forces. The Luanda government, which had been Marxist but has embraced market principles, has reported several defections or the capture of top UNITA officers in recent months. The stocky, ebullient son of a railway stationmaster, Savimbi studied medicine in Lisbon and political science in Switzerland. He left Europe in 1961 to fight Portuguese rule and formed UNITA. His forces and allies came close to controlling Angola in fighting after the end of Portuguese rule. However, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, backed by Cuban troops, swept through the country and won widespread recognition as the government of Angola. TSF reported that the streets of Luanda, the Angolan capital, were quiet. The Luanda police chief, Francisco Pestana, told Portugal's Lusa news agency that gunfire had been heard in the city, but it is gunfire of joy. Portuguese state television RTP reported from Luanda that the government had appealed for calm. The government also said it could declare a nationwide cease-fire, RTP said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A
[CTRL] Saddam's Bombmaker: Iraq Working on 'Hiroshima size' Nuke
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2002/2/18/203559 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Monday, Feb. 18, 2002 9:33 p.m. EST Saddam's Bombmaker: Iraq Working on 'Hiroshima size' Nuke Iraqi madman Saddam Hussein will likely have a Hiroshima size nuclear bomb within the next 24 months, the physicist who headed up Iraq's nuclear weapons research program said Monday. Citing U.S. intelligence estimates, Dr. Khidir Hamza told nationally syndicated radio taker Sean Hannity, I don't think he has [nuclear weapons] right now but it may not take long for him to have it - a year or two probably. U.S. intelligence estimates at least a year. Germany estimates by 2005, three nuclear weapons, the top Iraqi nuke scientist said. Dr. Hamza, who defected to the U.S. in 1994, warned about Hussein's nuclear weapons program in his autobiography, Saddam's Bombmaker, three years ago. More recently he has been working closely with U.S. intelligence agencies. He declined to describe the precise nature of his cooperation with those agencies, telling Hannity, I cannot talk about that. You know that. Hamza did reveal that the 1991 Gulf War interrupted Iraq's A-bomb program in its final stage, just as he and the rest of Saddam's nuke team were in the process of acquiring materials for the bomb's nuclear core. HAMZA: We [scientists] dragged our feet. We really had enough material to make the bomb then. We delivered it now back to the French but we claimed that we could not extract enough uranium to put in a nuclear core. ... HANNITY: So you're saying you did have enough - you could have built nuclear weapons but you dragged your feet? HAMZA: We could have, yes. Actually, everybody [dragged their feet], including the chemists who were in the process of extracting the uranium from the French bureau. Nobody wanted to give Saddam a bomb because we know he would use it recklessly and finish Iraq with it. (End of Excerpt) German intelligence now believes Hussein once again has all the bombmaking materials he needs except for the enriched uranium necessary for the nuclear core. According to the Germans he, more or less, has 30 to 35 percent of the technology needed to enrich uranium for bomb grade, said Hamza, adding, so he will have enough uranium, and he already has a stockpile of uranium to use. The top Iraqi nuke scientist said that, based on what he witnessed, Hussein is working on Hiroshima size weapons of 12 to 20 kilotons. But he cautioned: There was some enhancement to the bomb that could raise it to 40 kilotons. So you are looking at [a] realistic nuclear weapons stockpile equivalent to that of, say, at least India and Pakistan - and if it continues, probably larger. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] U.S. drops pledge on nukes
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020222-77660232.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! U.S. drops pledge on nukes By Nicholas Kralev THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Bush administration is no longer standing by a 24-year-old U.S. pledge not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, a senior administration official said yesterday. Washington is not looking for occasions to use its nuclear arsenal, John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, said in an interview. But we would do whatever is necessary to defend America's innocent civilian population, he said. In case of an attack on the United States, we would have to do what is appropriate under the circumstances, and the classic formulation of that is, we are not ruling anything in and we are not ruling anything out, Mr. Bolton said. We are just not into theoretical assertions that other administrations have made, he said in reference to a 1978 commitment by the Carter administration not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states unless they attack the United States in alliance with nuclear-armed countries. On June 12 that year, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance made the following statement on behalf of President Carter, which became known as negative security assurances: The United States will not use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear-weapon state party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty or any comparable internationally binding commitment not to acquire nuclear explosive devices, except in the case of an attack on the United States, its territories or armed forces, or its allies, by such a state allied to a nuclear-weapon state, or associated with a nuclear-weapon state in carrying out or sustaining the attack. In 1995, Warren Christopher, the first secretary of state in the Clinton administration, reaffirmed Washington's commitment. Along with the pledges of the other four permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, who are all nuclear powers, it became part of a resolution, which the council adopted April 11, 1995. But Mr. Bolton said such promises reflect an unrealistic view of the international situation. The idea that fine theories of deterrence work against everybody, which is implicit in the negative security assurances, has just been disproven by September 11, he said. What we are attempting to do is create a situation where nobody uses weapons of mass destruction of any kind. Mr. Bolton spoke a day after returning from Moscow, where he led the second round of arms-control negotiations that are expected to produce an agreement on nuclear cuts in time for President Bush's visit to Russia in May. The undersecretary said the negative security assurances never came up in the discussions with the Russians. Washington has never had a no-first-use nuclear policy but Moscow did until the mid-1990s. Mr. Bolton's remarks displeased some arms-control analysts yesterday, who said that such significant U.S. government statements as the negative security assurances should not be repudiated. These assurances are important in order to maintain the integrity and credibility of the nonproliferation regime. Repudiation can have a negative effect on international security, said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association. The nonprofit organization's publication, Arms Control Today, discussed the issue in an interview with Mr. Bolton earlier this month. Although Washington's official position on using nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states has remained unchanged until now, both Democratic and Republican administrations have maintained ambiguity to maximize the credibility of the U.S. nuclear force, Mr. Kimball said. Only a year after the Clinton administration reaffirmed Mr. Carter's pledge, Defense Secretary William Perry said on April 26, 1996: If some nation were to attack the United States with chemical weapons, they have to fear the consequences of a response from any weapon in our inventory. ... We could have a devastating response without use of nuclear weapons, but we would not forswear that possibility. John Holum, Mr. Bolton's predecessor at the State Department under Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, said yesterday that the Bush administration's position to ignore the 1978 commitment would not affect the strategic balance of power but might send a wrong message overseas. It doesn't make the use of weapons of mass destruction more or less likely, but it's reflective of the administration's negative view of international treaties, Mr. Holum said. He noted that there was an extensive debate in the Clinton administration on whether it's responsible to rely on nuclear weapons to combat potential biological and chemical attacks, but a decision was made to maintain ambiguity. Mr. Bolton said there has been
[CTRL] 'The Real America I Know'
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/22/142300.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 'The Real America I Know' President Bush Friday, Feb. 22, 2002 Editor's note: This is the official transcript of President Bush's address today at Tsinghua University in Beijing. PRESIDENT BUSH: Vice President Hu, thank you very much for your kind and generous remarks. Thank you for welcoming me and my wife, Laura, here. (Applause.) I see she's keeping pretty good company, with the Secretary of State, Colin Powell. It's good to see you, Mr. Secretary. (Applause.) And I see my National Security Advisor, Ms. Condoleezza Rice, who at one time was the provost at Stanford University. So she's comfortable on university campuses such as this. Thank you for being here, Condi. (Applause.) I'm so grateful for the hospitality, and honored for the reception at one of China's, and the world's, great universities. This university was founded, interestingly enough, with the support of my country, to further ties between our two nations. I know how important this place is to your Vice President. He not only received his degree here, but more importantly, he met his gracious wife here. (Laughter.) I want to thank the students for giving me the chance to meet with you, the chance to talk a little bit about my country and answer some of your questions. The standards and reputation of this university are known around the world, and I know what an achievement it is to be here. So, congratulations. (Applause.) I don't know if you know this or not, but my wife and I have two daughters who are in college, just like you. One goes to the University of Texas. One goes to Yale. They're twins. And we are proud of our daughters, just like I'm sure your parents are proud of you. My visit to China comes on an important anniversary, as the Vice President mentioned. Thirty years ago this week, an American President arrived in China on a trip designed to end decades of estrangement and confront centuries of suspicion. President Richard Nixon showed the world that two vastly different governments could meet on the grounds of common interest, in the spirit of mutual respect. As they left the airport that day, Premier Zhou Enlai said this to President Nixon: Your handshake came over the vastest ocean in the world -- 25 years of no communication. During the 30 years since, America and China have exchanged many handshakes of friendship and commerce. And as we have had more contact with each other, the citizens of both countries have gradually learned more about each other. And that's important. Once America knew China only by its history as a great and enduring civilization. Today, we see a China that is still defined by noble traditions of family, scholarship, and honor. And we see a China that is becoming one of the most dynamic and creative societies in the world -- as demonstrated by the knowledge and potential right here in this room. China is on a rising path, and America welcomes the emergence of a strong and peaceful and prosperous China. (Applause.) As America learns more about China, I am concerned that the Chinese people do not always see a clear picture of my country. This happens for many reasons, and some of them of our own making. Our movies and television shows often do not portray the values of the real America I know. Our successful businesses show a strength of American commerce, but our spirit, community spirit, and contributions to each other are not always visible as monetary success. Some of the erroneous pictures of America are painted by others. My friend, the Ambassador to China, tells me some Chinese textbooks talk of Americans of bullying the weak and repressing the poor. Another Chinese textbook, published just last year, teaches that special agents of the FBI are used to repress the working people. Now, neither of these is true -- and while the words may be leftovers from a previous era, they are misleading and they're harmful. In fact, Americans feel a special responsibility for the weak and the poor. Our government spends billions of dollars to provide health care and food and housing for those who cannot help themselves -- and even more important, many of our citizens contribute their own money and time to help those in need. American compassion also stretches way beyond our borders. We're the number one provider of humanitarian aid to people in need throughout the world. And as for the men and women of the FBI and law enforcement, they're working people; they, themselves, are working people who devote their lives to fighting crime and corruption. My country certainly has its share of problems, no question about that. And we have our faults. Like most nations we're on a long journey toward achieving our own ideals of equality and justice. Yet there's a reason our nation shines as a beacon of hope and opportunity, a reason many throughout the
[CTRL] Battle looms over a Noah's Ark law
-Caveat Lector- http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0222/p03s01-uspo.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Battle looms over a Noah's Ark law Proposed reforms to Endangered Species Act becomes clash of jobs vs. biological diversity By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ASHLAND, ORE. - Scientists, lawmakers, and advocates are set to wrangle over the most profound and controversial federal environmental law ever passed - the federal Endangered Species Act. Lawsuits have been filed, and a slew of proposals on Capitol Hill could significantly change what plants and animals qualify for protection. Are there too many animals on the endangered species list? You can expect some battles - time, place, and players to be determined, says one congressional source. Enacted in 1973, the law was designed mainly to save animals such as eagles, wolves, otters, and salmon - those noble, brave, and cute charismatic megafauna that all Americans recognize and can perhaps identify with. But over the years, the list of animals and plants threatened with extinction has grown to more than 1,000, including such obscure species as the Shivwits milk-vetch herb in Utah and the Tumbling Creek cavesnail in Missouri. At last count, 1,244 plant and animal species had been listed as endangered or threatened, and another 236 candidate species awaited listing. The law is a kind of a modern-day Noah's Ark, designed to save the last few individuals from being wiped out and then provide a way for them to revive. Once an organism makes the list, federal officials must design and implement a recovery plan - an expensive process that can impact private property to devastating economic effect. It's also a drawn-out process that has seen several dozen species go extinct while awaiting rescue. Aside from questions about balancing economic and biological values, the law increasingly highlights the debate over what constitutes an endangered species and whether or not some species are worth saving. Defensive supporters Supporters of the act are on the defensive these days. A National Academy of Sciences panel recently declared that federal officials may have erred last summer in cutting off water to farmers in the Klamath Basin of Oregon and California in order to protect three endangered fish species. A federal judge has declared there's no difference between endangered wild Pacific Coast salmon and hatchery fish. (A point many biologists argue strongly against.) And opponents charge that government scientists deliberately planted evidence in order to support the contention that the Canadian lynx needs more habitat to prevent its extinction. The ESA has become a wrecking ball in this country, devastating personal finances and regional economies, says US Rep. James Hansen (R) of Utah, chairman of the House resources committee. It's time we reform this law, grounding it in sound science, not political ideology. Along the Oregon-California border last summer, some 1,400 farms and ranches had their federal water cut off when it was determined that two species of lake fish and coho salmon in the Klamath River - all listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) - had first dibs on the water. The basin's rural economy lost about $134 million as a result, while protesting farmers broke open irrigation headgates and faced off against federal law enforcement officers. But the issue there is far more complicated than fish versus farmers. The area is also home to several large wildlife refuges, including the wintering area for upwards of 1,000 bald eagles. At the same time, the Klamath Indian Tribes have water rights dating back to 19th-century treaties with Washington. Many experts say the water has simply been over-allocated during the past century, leading to a steep decline in fish and waterfowl. In the case involving endangered lynx in Rocky Mountain wilderness areas, the scientists and their defenders say they were merely trying to test the system used to distinguish similar species. But that has not stopped longtime critics of the ESA from charging that junk science was used to promote a proenvironment agenda by those who sometimes call themselves combat biologists. At the heart of the issue is the ESA's requirement to use the best available science in determining listings and recovery programs. This can present a moving target for biologists and other experts, leading to findings that are not entirely satisfactory. In the Klamath Basin case, for example, the panel of university experts gathered by the National Academy of Sciences also determined that significantly lowering lake water levels to benefit farmers as the US Bureau of Reclamation (and the Bush administration) wants to do would pose an unknown risk to protected fish. The panel's final report won't be released until next year. New lawsuits Meanwhile, the legal and political maneuvering continues.
[CTRL] Social Security and our Congress
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Social Security and our Congress Perhaps we were asking the wrong questions in this past election year. Our Senators/Congressmen do not pay into Social Security, and, therefore they do not collect from it. Social Security benefits were not suitable for them. They felt they should have a special plan. Many years ago they voted in their benefit plan. In more recent years, no congress person has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan. For all practical purposes, their plan works like this: When they retire no matter how long they have been in office, they continue to draw their same pay until they die, except it may be increased from time to time by the cost-of-living adjustments. For example, former Senator Bill Bradley (New Jersey) and his wife may be expected to draw $7,900,000.00 over an average life span, with Mrs. Bradley drawing $275,000.00 during the last year of her life. Their cost for this excellent plan is $0, nada, zilch. This little perk they voted in for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. Our tax dollars at work! From Social Security, which you and I pay into every payday for our own retirement, with an equal amount paid in by our employer, we can expect to receive an average of $1,000 per month. We would have to collect our benefits for 680 years and 1 month to equal the Bradley's benefits. Imagine for a moment that you could structure a retirement plan so desirable, a retirement plan that worked so well, that Railroad Employees, Postal Workers, and others who were not in the plan would clamor to be included. This is how good Social Security could be, if only one small change was made. That change would be to jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan out from under the Senators Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us. Watch how fast they fix it!!! If enough people receive this message maybe a seed will be planted, and maybe good changes will evolve. Don't forget, our girl, Hillary Rodham Clinton, now comes under this Congressional Retirement Plan. Talking about the Clinton's, it's common knowledge that, in order for her to establish NY State residency, they purchased a $ million + house in upscale Chappaqua, NY. Makes sense. Now, they are entitled to Secret Service protection for life. Still makes sense. Here is where it becomes interesting. A residency had to be built in order to house the Secret Service agents. The Clinton's now charge the Secret Service rent for the use of said residence and that rent is just about equal to their mortgage payment, meaning that we, the tax payers, are paying the Clinton's mortgage, and it's all perfectly legal. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Tell it to the marines... we've invaded the wrong country
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sierratimes.com/cgi-bin/warroom/topic.cgi?forum=11topic=85 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Snicker...tee-hee...giggle...rolling on the floor, laughing my fanny off! It isn't often I have the chance to report a funny war story. It looks like the Brits are being dumbed down in their schools as well -- at least when it comes to fourth grade geography. Someone should have shown them the Prudential Insurance logo since they obviously can't read a map. Talk about a bunch of Wrong Way Corrigans...SMIRK! --Henrietta http://www.guardian.co.uk/gibraltar/story/0,11525,652616,00.html Tell it to the marines... we've invaded the wrong country Giles Tremlett in Madrid Tuesday February 19, 2002 The Guardian An attempt to show off their prowess at dawn assaults went badly wrong for a unit of heavily armed British Royal Marines at the weekend when they accidentally invaded the wrong country. The platoon of some 30 marines stormed from a landing craft on to the San Felipe beach in the Spanish town of La Linea, carrying 60mm mortars and SA80 assault rifles, and took up defensive positions on the sand. Instead of being fired on with blank rounds by fellow British soldiers pretending to be the enemy, the marines found themselves being stared at by startled local fishermen. The enemy, when they appeared, turned out to be two blue-uniformed officers from La Linea's municipal police force, who informed the detachment of marines that they were not, as they had thought, in Gibraltar. They were told that they must have made a mistake. This sort of thing does not happen very often here, a police spokesman in La Linea said yesterday. The marines beat a hasty retreat and went off to find the real Gibraltar. This, locals observed, was easily recognisable because it had a 1,398ft high rock sticking out of it. Embarrassed Ministry of Defence officials in London admitted yesterday that the invading force, which had come from the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, had got lost in bad weather on Sunday morning and ended up attacking a different country. It was clearly an embarrassing and unfortunate incident, an MoD spokesman said. They made their apologies and left. A La Linea police spokesman said: We reported the incident to the relevant authorities at the interior ministry. The local Europa Sur newspaper reported yesterday that Spain was considering making a formal diplomatic complaint to the British embassy in Madrid. An embassy spokesman said yesterday that no such complaint had been received but admitted that senior diplomats on both sides had discussed the incident. The British invasion of Spain came just as the two countries were in the middle of a delicate process of trying to sort out their 300-year-old wrangle over the Rock. Historically it has been the Spaniards who have tried to invade Gibraltar. La Linea itself gets its name from the firing line for Spanish cannon. The reversal of roles has done little to ease tensions on either side of la verja, as Gibraltarians call the frontier with Spain. HMS Ocean had reportedly stopped off in Gibraltar on its way to the Persian Gulf. The MoD spokesman explained the marines would have guided themselves from the warship to the beach with an ordinary compass. But he did not think disciplinary action likely: I am sure some lessons have been learned. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory
[CTRL] AF News 20 Feb 02
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 0269. SECAF strives to build 'optimum' force by Tech. Sgt. Scott Elliott Air Force Print News BALTIMORE -- Seeking to attract and retain the optimum mix of Americans to keep the Air Force aloft as the historically finest and dominant military force in the world is the goal set by Secretary of the Air Force Dr. James G. Roche. Roche's comments came during a keynote speech Feb. 16 at a breakfast with deans from historically black colleges and universities here. The breakfast was part of the annual Black Engineer of the Year Award event. The optimum mix for the Air Force is one which reflects the same society which we serve, at the officer and civilian level as well as at the enlisted level, he said. Currently, Air Force demographics show that blacks comprise about 7 percent of the officer corps and 18 percent of the enlisted force. Blacks make up about 11 percent of Air Force civilian employees. Overall, about 16 percent of Air Force manpower is represented by blacks -- which Roche said is higher than the national average of about 11 percent of blacks employed in the workforce. But that is not good enough, Roche said. There is talent out there that we need. That optimum mix of talent includes more technically minded, scientific and engineering officers and civilians, he said. Each year we welcome about 40,000 new Americans into the Air Force, he said. More than 18 percent of these are African-American. Every single one of them joins a team that thrives on diversity, and remains proud of our heritage and the legacy we associate with minority contributions to this nation's security -- especially the heritage of the Tuskegee Airmen. I want more African-Americans in our cockpits, leading our squadrons, groups and wings, or leading our labor and design team, Roche said. The optimum mix also includes full representation of minorities and women in senior ranks. We're doing pretty good on women (who comprise about 20 percent of officers), but not so good on African-American males, Roche said. We've got to build a deeper bench. Despite the fact that some of our most influential and decorated leaders have been minorities, historically Roche said, we have not been as successful at promoting and creating opportunities for minorities in senior management and leadership positions. To promote and develop the optimum mix, Roche turned to the educators themselves. Our educators know the necessity to encourage and prepare young people while they are still in school, he said. By the time our youth reach college age, they need to have already completed quality math and science courses. In fact, I believe they need to have a good foundation by the time they reach high school. To that end, Roche said, Department of Defense officials established Junior ROTC. This is a high school citizenship program, funded and directed by DOD, that aims to provide educational experiences for inner-city and at-risk youths, he said. The Air Force currently runs more than 600 JROTC programs throughout the country, with more than 92,000 students enrolled. It is more a citizenship program than a recruiting tool, he said. At its basis is opportunity. It provides motivation, strong counseling, discipline and mentorship. The Air Force goal is to increase our number of programs up to our authorized limit of 945, he said. The future of the Air Force will depend on cutting-edge technology and a diverse team of people combining to fulfill our missions, Roche said. Talent and brain power come in many packages. My view is a first-hand view, he said. A clear perspective that having the best in us, as diverse as we are, means strength and vitality. American strength comes from the diversity of our people, united by the common vision we share: Freedom, Roche said. 0266. Air Force receives upgraded rainmaker by Pam Cook 412th Test Wing EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- The Global Reach Combined Test Force here is one step closer to having a national test asset that will allow for the testing of aircraft in ice and rain. The airborne icing tanker, a modified KC-135R Statotanker aircraft, recently returned from BAS Systems in Mojave, Calif., after receiving modifications to its navigation system that will bring it in line with operational KC-135 aircraft. The PACER Compass, Radar and Global Positioning System upgrade modernizes a portion of the KC-135 mission avionics and increases the navigation and flight management capabilities of the aircraft. The $12 million AIT program, which began in February 1999, will reinstitute an environmental test capability to simulate airborne rain and ice conditions under controlled conditions. This simulated rain and ice testing will save the Department of Defense time and money, while ensuring a safer test environment by eliminating the need to deploy our test aircraft to other
[CTRL] Restore the Militia for Homeland Security
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! http://www.sierratimes.com/cgi-bin/warroom/topic.cgi?forum=1topic=78 Restore the Militia for Homeland Security The Congress shall have power ⦠To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress⦠The Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 8 The United States should restore the militia to its original, constitutional role of homeland security to provide the large numbers of trained, armed, and disciplined military units that are needed to deal with terrorist attacks on America. -- Colonel John R. Brinkerhoff, US Army Retired So begins an excellent in-depth article by a man qualified as few others to make such a statement. --Henrietta *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] U.S.:Kidnapped Reporter Pearl Dead
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! U.S.:Kidnapped Reporter Pearl Dead By RICHARD PYLE .c The Associated Press NEW YORK (Feb. 21) - Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter taken hostage a month ago by Islamic extremists in Pakistan, is dead, the State Department said Thursday. The U.S. Embassy in Pakistan received evidence Thursday that Pearl is dead, the State Department said. ''We have informed Mr. Pearl's family and expressed our sincere condolences.'' State Department spokesman Richard Boucher provided no details on the evidence. Two U.S. officials said, however, the FBI had obtained a videotape purportedly showing Pearl either dead or being killed, and is evaluating the tape's authenticity. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity. The Journal said it believed Pearl was dead. ''We now believe, based on reports from the U.S. State Department and police officials of the Pakistani province of Sind, that Danny Pearl was killed by his captors. We are heartbroken at his death,'' the newspaper said in a statement. Syed Kamal Shah, police chief of the province that includes Karachi, told The Associated Press by telephone that a videotape sent to the U.S. consulate in Karachi indicated that Pearl was dead. Pearl was abducted in the port city of Karachi on Jan. 23 after arranging to interview the leader of a radical Muslim faction with purported ties to the al-Qaida terrorist network and terror suspect Richard C. Reid, arrested in December on a Paris-Miami flight he allegedly boarded with explosives in his shoes. The Journal statement, signed by Publisher Peter Kann and Managing Editor Paul Steiger, called Pearl ''an outstanding colleague, a great reporter, and a dear friend of many at the Journal.'' ''His murder is an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of everything Danny's kidnappers claimed to believe in,'' it said. ''They claimed to be Pakistani nationalists, but their actions must surely bring shame to all true Pakistani patriots.'' In a statement issued from their home in California, Pearl's parents and two sisters said: ''We're shocked and saddened about the confirmation that our worst fears have been realized. Up until a few hours ago, we were confident that Danny would return safely, for we believe that no human being could be capable of harming such a gentle soul.'' The Journal said, ''We will, in coming months, find ways, public and private, to celebrate the great work and good works Danny did. But today is a day to grieve. ''This loss is, of course, most painful for Danny's family, in this country and elsewhere. We ask our colleagues in the press to respect their privacy, and to permit them to grieve undisturbed.'' The State Department condemned the killing. ''Both the United States and Pakistan are committed to identifying all the perpetrators of this crime and bringing them to justice,'' Boucher said. ''We will continue to work closely with Pakistani authorities, who had made every effort to locate and free Mr. Pearl.'' Pearl reported from the United States, Europe and Asia in a 12-year career with the financial daily. Based in Bombay, India, for the past year as the Journal's bureau chief for South Asia, the 38-year-old Pearl was on assignment in Pakistan as part of its coverage of the war on terrorism in neighboring Afghanistan. The Princeton, N.J., native had worked for newspapers in western Massachusetts and briefly in San Francisco before joining the Journal in Atlanta in 1990. He later reported from Washington, London and Paris - where he wrote about the Middle East - before moving to Asia. ''The Wall Street Journal is a public institution, but the Pearls are private citizens,'' the Journal statement said. ''We hope also that our colleagues, too, will be permitted some time and space to begin the very difficult process of making peace with this profound loss.'' Pakistani officials said there were indications that Pearl had been lured into a trap by false information. In an intensive sweep, Pakistani police seized several suspects, including Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, an Islamic militant who admitted in a court hearing that he had engineered Pearl's abduction to protest Pakistan's alliance with the United States' post-Sept. 11 war on terrorism. ''Our country shouldn't be catering to America's needs,'' Sheikh said. According to Pakistani authorities, Sheikh, a British-born key figure in an airplane hijacking and hostage incident in 1999, first told them Pearl was alive but later claimed the reporter had been killed in an escape attempt around Jan. 31. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref.
[CTRL] 18 February 2002 Federalist Edition #02-08
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! THE FEDERALIST(r) BRIEF The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 18 February 2002 Federalist Edition #02-08 Monday Brief *To support The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp *To sponsor The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/sponsor.asp *To retrieve today's Brief as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2002.asp *To change your e-mail address or format, see instructions in footer. __O__ PUBLISHER'S NOTE Help advance the timeless message of liberty by installing a link to The Federalist in your e-mail. Copy and paste the message below to your e-mail signature page. Veritas Vos Liberabit The Federalist Conservative e-Journal of Record It's Right! It's Free by e-mail! http://www.federalist.com/subscribe/ CONTENTS: The Foundation Insight Good News ICTUS Imprimis Family Culture Liberty The Gipper Opinion in Brief Editorial Exegesis Government Re: The Left Political Futures For the Record Reader Comments The Last Word __O__ THE FOUNDATION Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. --George Washington __O__ INSIGHT Ultimately nations, like individuals, cannot depend upon each other, but must depend upon themselves. Each one must work out its own salvation. We have every desire to help While we desire always to cooperate and to help, we are equally determined to be independent and free. Right and truth and justice and humanitarian efforts will have the moral support of this country all over the world. But we do not wish to become involved in the political controversies of others. --Calvin Coolidge __O__ GOOD NEWS He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. (Psalm 91:4-6) ++ Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, 'If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.' Jesus answered, 'It is written: Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.' Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 'If you are the Son of God,' he said, 'throw yourself down. For it is written: He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike you foot against a stone.' Jesus answered him, 'It is also written: Do not put the Lord your God to the test.' Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 'All this I will give you,' he said, 'if you will bow down and worship me.' Jesus said to him, 'Away from me, Satan! For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.' Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him. (Matthew: 4:1-11) __O__ ICTUS IMPRIMIS The Founders believed that there was a God who brings down the mighty and lifts up the poor. They relied upon this belief As you might expect, this belief shaped their understanding of morality and character, as well. They did not make the distinction between private and public conduct that we do. ...If this seems hard to understand, the problem lies with us, not our Founders. Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew...: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise. And as such, it assumes certain things to be true about human nature and ... about the authority of the God of the Bible. But these beliefs run contrary to our culture's worldviews. And that's why the ordered liberty envisioned by the Founders has degenerated into a demand for personal autonomy that asks nothing of its citizens, not even their virtue. ...[P]rivate virtue, rooted in biblical faith, is essential for the American experiment to work as the Founders intended. And, it's vital that Christians understand this often-ignored 'wing' on which our way of life depends. The wing that teaches us that, without virtue, there can be no greatness. --Charles Colson __O__ FAMILY Medical experts, lawyers and government health officials know there is no practical distinction that one can make between the Latin word 'fetus' and the English word 'baby.' They are one and the same. Abortion providers and their mouthpieces in the feminist movement use the word fetus to confuse us and protect their profits. We use it to hide from the truth and protect our consciences. --Jane
[CTRL] Phillipine Abu Sayyaf bandits tied to OKC
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Phillipine Abu Sayyaf bandits tied to OKC; Feds were warned, but ignored the warning. Al-Qaida was also linked. --Henrietta http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/feb/15/top_stories/20020215top1.html Friday, February 15, 2002 Abuâs long-standing ties to global terrorism bared By Dorian Zumel Sicat Abu Sayyaf bandits were involved in international terrorist operations that targeted American facilities long before the Sept. 11 attacks that sparked US President George W. Bushâs global campaign against the al-Qaida and its allies. Philippine defense and police intelligence sources told THE MANILA TIMES that Abu Sayyaf leaders had met with terrorist masterminds of several atrocities just before US targets were hit. Although Philippine authorities advised American authorities of the alliance between the Abu Sayyaf, Osama bin Ladenâs al-Qaida, and American neo-nazis, the US appeared to ignore the warnings; until Sept. 11. Strange bedfellows But according to the sources, who have requested anonymity, investigations have been reopened, and in silence, about the relationship between neo-nazis, right-wing Christian groups, the Nation of Islam (Black MuslimsâNOI), the Abu Sayyaf, and al-Qaida. This, the sources pointed out, was what prompted the Philippine government to accept US military aid in the form of Balikatan in Basilan. The Abu Sayyaf and other Muslim insurgent groups are no longer just internal Philippine problems, the sources stressed. They have become part of a global terror network that includes âvery strange bedfellows.â Angeles pals Before slain Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) co-founder Edwin Angeles surrendered in 1994 to military authorities at the Armed Forces Southern Command (Southcom) in Zamboanga City, he met with Ramzi Youssef, convicted mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. That meeting, which also had four other Filipinos and foreign Muslim extremists, was uniqueâin that the group was meeting for the last time with Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols. Nichols had married Filipino women but he was a strange ally, being a member of the American ultra-right movement. But even before that, in 1993, when the Abu Sayyaf was in its infancy, the same group met with Nichols and another Americanâbelieved to have been executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeighâat a Dole labeling plant near General Santos City. Spilling the beans According to the defense intelligence source, while under tactical interrogation, Angeles told National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Philippine National Police (PNP) officials that the subjects at the 1994 meeting were actual terror targets. He mentioned the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, bombed April 19, 1995, and another, more damaging attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. It became clear that an international terror cell had been established in the Philippines. Philippine cops arrested an accomplice of Youssef in 1995, while trying to track down members of an assassination plot on visiting Pope John Paul II. Youssef was later arrested in Pakistan, an operation that owed a lot to Philippine intelligence inputs. Reluctance âIt took Sept. 11 to unleash a âno-stones-unturnedâ campaign against global terrorism,â confirmed a top-ranking police officer who regularly liaisons with American anti-terrorist officers. US officials, he added, have privately admitted they knew for sometime that the Philippines was a primary service and training area for jihad (holy war) terrorists and other terror groups, including American and European neo-nazis. âThe US knew all along that McVeigh, Nichols, and other rightists have had a tactical alliance with the Abu Sayyaf,â a confidential source in Boulder, Colorado also told the Times. âBut to go after the Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines would be a violation of your countryâs sovereignty. The joint military training exercises (Balikatan) present a legitimate excuse for clandestine US operations against the Abu Sayyaf.â Concerns However, the US-based source said the Abu Sayyaf is only part of the problem. âItâs only the wagging tail. The head remains hidden in Ermita, Davao City, General Santos City, and in Americaâs heartland. Going after the Abu Sayyaf is like cutting off a lizardâs tail. It will only grow a new one,â the source stressed. While Philippine officials blame Americans for inaction, US authorities told THE TIMES they are bothered by the failure of the local intelligence community to conduct preemptive operations against the nests of global terrorism here. Volumes of documents, many of which are court documents, establish enough evidence that the Philippines is a major service area for global terrorists, not all of whom are Muslim. Had both the US and the Philippines acted in preemptive operations to
[CTRL] The Point of No Return-Bill Koenig
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! NewsWatch: The Point of No Return-Bill Koenig February 16, 2002 A Courageous and Bold President America has passed the point of no return in the war against terrorism. The terrorist radical element is being challenged, but many attitudes, organizations, cells, and individuals yet remain as threats to life as we have known it in many different places around the globe, including the United States. For most people, their routines that were taken for granted prior to the events of 9-11, have changed dramatically, especially in airports, train stations, shipping and mailing, and the security of government buildings, public events, and communities. As has been said by many individuals in many ways and on many levels, post 9-11 life will never be the same. The Administration of President George W. Bush has designated the so-called rogue nations who are developing weapons of mass destruction as the number one target. In return, these nations have unleashed a war of words, including both overt and implied threats, against the United States. Few would argue that the American way of life, the freedoms guaranteed by this country, and indeed the leadership of this nation in the free world are at stake. The United States would have the most to lose. Fortunately, this country has a very courageous President who not only is operating under enormous pressure, but is responding with strength and wisdom and-perhaps most importantly-his Christian-based and prayer-fueled faith . President Bush came into office riding on the education, faith-based initiative, and kinder-gentler themes. He is now a war-time president, leading the battle of an era. In many ways, he has made a remarkable transition, because these themes are diametrically opposite. I could discern the pressure when I stood but 20 feet from him and Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf at their press conference held in the State Room of the White House last Wednesday. Both men are experiencing enormous pressure. Musharraf, feeling the pressure from radical Muslim elements in his country, said that the 9-11 attacks and the momentous events since then have demonstrated the depth and strength of this relationship. We reject terrorism in all its forms and manifestations anywhere in the world. We will continue to fulfill our responsibilities flowing from our commitment. Musharraf was accorded royal treatment. He stayed at the Blair House, reserved for foreign dignitaries, across from the White House. He received a formal military welcome as his limousine pulled up to the West Wing for his 10:30 a.m. meeting with President Bush and staff, which included Secretary of State Colin Powell, while Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice arrived later. President Bush has recently been bold about the evil axis of Iran, Iraq and North Korea, even adding the Palestinian Authority into that grouping this week. However, his statements have caused strong reactions (and words) from Russia, China, the European Union, and other nations, including those named. I have noticed, after one year in office, that when President Bush makes up his mind on something, he will not be swayed. He determines his course, and he sticks to it. The war against America has to be taken seriously, and he certainly has. The President's first agenda item of business every morning is the CIA's intelligence report. Can you imagine starting every business day with a review of that important, and often foreboding, material? No one understands the risks to this nation more than President Bush and his top level staff. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the Vice President, and Ms. Rice all know the real story about the Middle East and the enemies of Israel. In the past, the State Department has stood by Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat and the Arab nations, single-handedly taking actions to rescue Arafat four times in 12 months. Could next month's dispatch of Vice President Cheney to Israel-and at least eight Arab countries-signal that the White House is taking over from the State Department? I certainly hope so. Administration sources have said that they consider the Vice President to be far tougher on confronting the Palestinians, Iraq, and Iran than Secretary of State Powell or his recent envoy to the Middle East, Gen. Anthony Zinni. In addition, the trip thus far has been shrouded in a veil of silence, even to the point of indicating that the press has been uninvited. The obvious fact that Vice President Cheney has been an emergency president in hiding and has not traveled abroad since the September 11 tragedy, combined with his history of heart troubles and surgery, make this journey to Israel-plus Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, and United Arab Emirates-a trip with the highest of importance and priority labels attached. **
[CTRL] George Washington Document -- Please Read
-Caveat Lector- Dear Friends: I have updated my Document again on George Washington. Anyone wanting a copy, please let me know! It is in MS Word 97 format! God Bless; Bill A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] In the Absence of Democracy
-Caveat Lector- http://www.truthout.com/02.21C.Absence.Democracy.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! In the Absence of Democracy by Jennifer Van Bergen t r u t h o u t | February 20, 2002 One week before the bombing of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, I was on a safari truck travelling through those very two countries. On the truck was a collection of books people had left for others to trade for: you take a book; you leave a book. I left my Kenya travel book and took Jerry Mander's In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations. It was a well-worn copy, bent and water-damaged. On the inside of the cover were the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the previous owners. They both listed their addresses as Whitehorse, Y.T. -- the abbreviation for the Yukon Territories, part of northern Canada which is still largely untouched and inhabited by native peoples. This old book pretty much changed my world-view and explained much of what I had already perceived going on globally. Subsequent to that trip, I wrote a paper on Economic Development and Human Rights in Kenya, in which I argued that Westerners had no right to have ever gone to Africa to impose our corporate philosophies on millennia-old nomadic and agricultural tribal communities. I argued that our incursions had destroyed ancient, environmentally sustainable ways of life and replaced them with profit and exploitation as the chimeric basis for happiness. I wrote about the hostility I could sense in East Africa towards Western visitors. The anger was palpable and made one feel unsafe. This I felt only a week before those embassies were bombed by Muslim terrorists. I could see the results of Western incursion in East Africa with my own eyes. Where Westerners had improved areas, all was in decay, both environmentally and morally. High crime, pollution, poor sanitation, poverty, corruption. Where Westerners had not reached, there was yet great, undestroyed natural beauty and a strong sense of community. There was yet a light in the eyes of the people who lived agriculturally self-sustaining lives. But the eyes of the 12-year-old boy who sniffed glue on the street of the decaying city of Kisumu were vacant, except for flashes of occasional rage at his mother's absence and my inability to take him with me. The paper I wrote was for a class I took in law school (taught by a former Ethiopian Ambassador to the U.S.), and I got an A on it, but I never found anyone interested in publishing it. Indeed, one progressive economics publication found it uniformly lacking in proper research approaches. The fact that I used what they termed popular culture (meaning, I suppose, Mander's book, but I also drew on many other sources, including law review articles and my own observations) to support my arguments seems to have been a personal affront to the learned reviewers. But perhaps what was more offensive to these economists and sociologists was Mander's ground-level assertion that corporate culture and environmentally-sustainable culture cannot co-exist. Mander, in fact, asserts that corporate culture kills environmentally-sustainable cultures. This is a pretty powerful statement. One which I am sure many people would like to continue to deny. But, I wonder what those scholarly reviewers think now about that thesis, in the light of September 11th and Enron. I suspect that business intellectuals, who are as dissociated as can be from the effects of their progress on this planet, will continue to find excuses for turning a profit at the expense of the very foundations of life on earth: our environment and our bonds of humanity. To reinforce a point I've tried to make in earlier articles, democracy is not a game. It is the only basis for sustainable life on earth. But democracy does NOT mean free market removal of restraints for corporations. Why? Because corporations are not people. They are fictitious entities which have no morals and are not answerable for their actions, unless a statute says so. As Tony Benn, Britain's former minister of industry said, according the The Nation: If you want to know where economic globalization along the lines cheered on by the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, George W. Bush and Tony Blair is headed, look at Enron. Globalization has created an international no man's land where businesses survive by engaging in financial practices that no responsible nation-state would permit. In corporate government -- that is, in the absence of democracy -- the interests of humanity are subjugated to the interests of personal profit, hiding behind the guise of legitimate corporate pursuits. In aboriginal communities -- communities which depend on good treatment of the land and of each other in order to survive -- it would be unthinkable to do something socially or environmentally unsound. Corporate culture -- and that IS the
[CTRL] ISRAELI SHIPS, PLANES, HELICOPTERS ATTACK ARAFAT'S GAZA OFFICE
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! NEWSFLASH: ISRAELI SHIPS, PLANES, HELICOPTERS ATTACK ARAFAT'S GAZA OFFICE Gaza City (dpa) - In a predawn raid Wednesday, Israeli army F-16 warplanes, Apache helicopters and naval boats attacked Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's beachside Gaza City headquarters, killing at least five Palestinians and wounding 10, Palestinian witnesses said. Palestinian security sources said that at least five Palestinian officers of the Elite Force 17 guard for Arafat's headquarters were killed when a special Israeli commando unit tried to raid the offices. The witnesses said that Israeli naval boats fired several shells at the building, which also sustained heavy gunfire from Israeli helicopters. The Palestinian Force 17 arrived at the scene and fired back at the Israeli naval boats, which tried to land Israeli troops to enter Arafat's ``Al Muntada'' headquarters. Ambulances arrived at the scene and transported five Palestinians who were killed and at least 10 Force 17 members who were wounded during the attack. While the Israeli army commando unit was trying to raid Arafat's headquarters, F-16 warplanes rocketed the area. A big explosion was heard in the western neighbourhoods of Gaza City. Several explosions and the buzz of bullets were heard in the western neighbourhood of Remal in Gaza City, said the witnesses. MORE TERROR AND MORE WAR AGAINST TERROR AHEAD There is now a network being reconstructed in Europe . . . more secretive, more radicalised and with a greater capacity for violence... MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 2/20/2002: It's getting even more difficult to know just what to believe these days. Everything that comes from Washington, be it from government or from the huge government-connected sector of think-tanks and research institutes, is more and more suspect...and rightly so. Events of recent months have no doubt spawned much more disgust and hatred of the US and Israel in various quarters. But the betting from officialdom is that the extensive American-led worldwide crackdown on all serious opposition groups of whatever kind will have its impact. And the betting from officialdom is as well that few if any groups or individuals will come along that will ever have the resources and training as Al-Qaeda; and that they will be able to keep everyone else under control. On the other hand, while recent events may have fractured or even destroyed groups whose agenda was to oppose today's forms of American imperialism in the Middle East; more isolated, small, and deeply underground groups may have been seeded far and wide at the same time. Add to this the terribly brutal military occupations that have actually been stepped up in Palestine, in Chechnya, and in Kashmir -- plus what can now be expected in Iraq and then in other countries that may be added to the axis of evil countries -- and there will clearly be serious ramifications and counterreactions in the years ahead. And that's just the point actually. The American and Israeli militarists have succeeded at the moment in getting the world that they have wanted all along. Indeed it is their past actions, not to mention attitudes, that are primarily responsible for bringing such a world about. It's a world of secret agents and high-tech militarism on a daily, escalating scale. It's a world of freedom against terrorism, us against them, good versus evil; a world where security concerns dominant even if far far more of their own people are suffering and dying because of cureable diseases, faulty medical care, and car accidents. The world they have forced upon all is neither the real world nor did it have to be, not by any stretch of course. But it is the world they in their arrogance, simple-mindedness, and brutish ways think they understand. And at the moment -- because of the sole superpower status of the US and it's tremendous techological and military superiority -- it's a world they will further attempt to control and manipulate and dominate until more days of reckoning results in the months nad years ahead. OFFICIALS SAY AL-QAEDA NETWORK STILL A THREAT By Mark Huband and Jimmy Burns [Financial Times, London, 19 February 19 2002] Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network is preparing for a new phase of activity, western intelligence officers have told the Financial Times. Despite the destruction of its presence in Afghanistan, waves of arrests and the targeting of terrorist funds around the world since the September 11 attacks, security services fear that al-Qaeda is still successfully
[CTRL] 20 February 2002 Federalist Edition #02-08
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Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War!
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CONTENTS:
The Foundation
Insight
Upright
Editorial Exegesis
Dezinformatsia
Sociocrats
Village Idiots
Short Cuts
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THE FOUNDATION
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the
comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service, when it
is violating all His laws. --John Adams
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INSIGHT
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas
MacArthur {} To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme
excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's
resistance without fighting. --Sun Tzu {} A man should never be
ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that
he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope {} Work
spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. --Voltaire {}
...[T]here can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in
freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and
consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral
principle. --Murray N. Rothbard {} True eloquence consists in saying
all that should be said, and that only. --La Rochefoucauld {} Every
reform movement has a lunatic fringe. --Theodore Roosevelt {}
Justice is that virtue that assigns to every man his due. --Saint
Augustine {} Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity
and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the
vigors of the mind. --Leonardo DaVinci {} If you would know the
value of money, go and try to borrow some. --Benjamin Franklin {} He
that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own
trumpet, his own chronicle, and whatever praises itself but in the
deed, devours the deed in the praise. --Shakespeare {} Nothing can
harm a good man, either in life or after death. --Socrates {} I
didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me.
--Ronald Reagan
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UPRIGHT
Teaching children to disregard their consciences is the surest path
to lawlessness. --Alan Keyes ++ For centuries, theologians and
philosophers understood that conscience is the anvil of virtue and
character. They took it for granted that God places his moral law in
the heart, or conscience, of every person. --Joseph Laconte {} The
American Civil Liberties Union...is so committed to 'diversity,'
abortion rights and gay rights that when one of these causes comes
into conflict with free speech, it is free speech that is likely to
suffer. --John Leo ++ We need to get money out of government. Only
then will money not be important in politics. Campaign finance laws
will not make politicians more ethical, but they will make it harder
for average Americans to influence Washington. --Rep. Ron Paul ++
Under Shays-Meehan [campaign finance provisions], the authors of the
Federalist Papers may have suffered prison time and heavy fines, an
irony that underscores the fundamental nature of political speech.
--Phil Kent {} And thus, perhaps, Mr. Clinton's real military legacy:
The wars that might have been avoided, the wars that we must fight,
now that he's gone. --Philip Gold ++ The 'street' in any given Arab
country consists of 278 state-sanctioned mullahs already preaching
death to the Americans and Jews, five state-controlled newspaper
opinion columnists preaching ditto, 577,000 state security officers
making sure nobody says anything to the contrary, and 73 million
people who would very much like to be living in New Jersey. --Michael
Kelly ++ Terror isn't about throwing off oppression, and it never has
been. Terror is about the obscene joy to be had in creating chaos.
--Michael Long {} When did a lack of money and accomplishment become
a mark of virtue? --Ann Coulter ++ It's ideology, not poverty, that
causes political violence. --Don Feder ++ The mere wealth of America
is not what engenders love of country. In fact, the least affluent
areas are probably the most patriotic. --Mona Charen {} The House
took a vote on campaign 'reform.' The media won. --Brent Bozell ++
Only those in denial reject the proposition of a leftism that
dominates the written and visual media alike. --Ross Mackenzie
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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
The bottom line is that for every drop of oil extracted from ANWR
(Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), one less dollar goes into the
[CTRL] There Is a Conspiracy
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! There Is a Conspiracy By Chuck Baldwin February 19, 2002 Once again, a reader's letter intrigues me. He writes, I find everything you say about a coming New World Order and One World Government extremely difficult to believe. For one thing, while you yourself obviously display no hate towards anyone, most other conspiracy theorists are anti-Semites. He further wrote, An intelligent man such as yourself would do well to distance yourself from these loony theories. I will quickly acknowledge that unfortunately there are a significant number of conspiracy theories promulgated by people with anti-Semitic tendencies. Furthermore, like my reader friend, I unequivocally repudiate such ideas. To think that a little nation the size of New Jersey could be responsible for the vast worldwide conspiracies attributed to it is ludicrous and laughable, to say the least. Such people are as paranoid as the Nazis were, and I want no part of such prejudice. However, just because certain conspiracy theories are advocated by people with personal agendas and extremist ideologies is not reason enough to automatically dismiss the facts that suggest there is a conspiracy to steal America's sovereignty and independence. These facts are plentiful and powerful. Only foolish people would dismiss them out-of-hand. As a Christian, I believe the Word of God to be my source of faith and practice. Therefore, I must take seriously the Word's admonition that, There is a conspiracy (Ezek. 22:25). In fact, the conspiracy to overthrow righteousness is ubiquitous. If one will study American history, he will note that our Founding Fathers firmly believed that a conspiracy of influential internationalists was behind many of the Draconian decisions of old King George. They said as much in the Declaration of Independence. In the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson wrote, But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. If that isn't a clear reference to conspiracy, I don't know what is. As in British-controlled America 200 years ago, policies advanced by like-minded politicos today attempt to erode our constitutional laws and national independence. Only a naïve person would suggest that this is mere coincidence. I remind my readers that George Bush, Sr. first popularized the name New World Order. However, he is not the only notable personality that has openly called for such an international order. Former newsman, Walter Cronkite, has openly called for world government. Others calling for world government include England's Prime Minister, Tony Blair; former Clinton cabinet member, Strobe Tolbert; and a variety of spokesmen for the United Nations, as well as leaders from various multinational corporations. To think that all of these people (whose numbers are multitudinous) should not be taken seriously is the height of idiocy. Yes, my friends, there is a conspiracy. No, it is not a Jewish conspiracy. It is a conspiracy of elitists from all races and ethnic backgrounds who deeply despise our constitutional form of government, our national independence, and our Christian heritage. Some are communists; others are socialists. Many are wealthy and well positioned to advance their utopian ideas. They teach in our nation's colleges and universities. They occupy powerful positions in the media and in our political institutions. Many of them are also found behind the pulpits of our churches. The promoters of internationalism may not conduct monthly meetings. They may not carry New World Order membership cards in their wallets, but collectively they form a credible conspiracy to rob America of its independence. Furthermore, as long as patriotic Americans refuse to acknowledge their existence, the more effective they are at accomplishing their oligarchic objectives. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! 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
[CTRL] Mother suspects vaccines to blame for twins' brain damage; doctors unsure
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2002/02/16/8127.php WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Mother suspects vaccines to blame for twins' brain damage; doctors unsure Sevil Hunter RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL 2/16/2002 07:35 pm Doctors do not believe Zachary and David Nikoleyâs immunization for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis set off the chain-reaction of spasms the twins experienced after their 4-month shots. The boysâ mother, however, isnât convinced. Amber Nikoley believes the vaccine is what caused the seizures in her twin boys that ultimately led to their brain damage. âI know in my heart that it had something to do with the immunization,â she said. âEvery time I told doctors how I felt, they just pooh-poohâd the idea. I donât know why they never wanted to hear about it.â When the boys got their shots, Amber was given informational handouts. Like most parents, she never read the literature that explained the vaccines and risks. On the literature, it states that severe problems can occur from vaccines, but they are rare, striking fewer than 1 out of a million children. Problems can include seizures, coma and brain damage. âThey are so rare it is hard to tell if the vaccine causes them,â according to the Centers for Disease Control. Despite the risks, medical professionals say vaccinations are essential. Life-threatening diseases that once caused widespread epidemics have been controlled through immunizations, said Ellen Simms, nursing supervisor with the Washoe District Health Department. âI canât imagine where we would be without them,â she said. The twinsâ doctors say that even if they suspected vaccines were to blame for the boysâ condition, there is no way of ever finding out. Find out more For more information, call the following resources or look above right for links to these Web sites: * For information on vaccines, call the Centers for Disease Control, (800) 232-2522 (English) or (800) 232-0233 (Spanish). * Washoe District Health Dept. Immunization Program: 328-2402 * National Immunization Program Web site: www.cdc.gov/nip * For information about a national vaccine injury compensation program, call (800) 338-2382. Web site www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/vicp * Infantile Spasms Information Page: www.ninds.nih.gov/ health_and_medical/disorders/ infantilespasms.htm *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Immoral, fat, lazy, stupid
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26515 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Immoral, fat, lazy, stupid -- -- Posted: February 19, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com I've come to the conclusion there is a conspiracy about to make the American people immoral, fat, lazy and stupid â and, in some cases, where these conditions among the populace are already acute, to promote these undesirable characteristics even further. How else do we explain the following: The government is quickly adding sexual deviancy to the list of protected classes of people. In other words, it will soon be a crime across the board to draw conclusions about people based on their behavior. What on earth are we supposed to use as criteria if not behavior? The government considers the aborting of innocent unborn children a natural right. Yet, there is widespread debate still about whether the death penalty for convicted murderers is cruel and unusual punishment. The government penalizes â with a special, onerous tax â married people, thereby encouraging couples to shack up instead of making a lifelong commitment. The government discourages, at every turn, through strict regulation of churches and church-related ministries the civic involvement of pastors, priests and rabbis â the very people to whom officials should willingly turn for moral counseling and guidance. I could go on and on, but you get the picture. Government is intentionally encouraging and spreading immorality. But what about fat, lazy and stupid? Have you visited a government school lately? I won't dwell on the intentional dumbing down that is so obvious it can only be deliberate. Now, faced with decades of declining test scores and rampant functional illiteracy among high school students and graduates, the National Education Association â which virtually dictates federal education policy â is calling for more emphasis in the classroom on teaching alternate lifestyles. I kid you not. But immorality and stupidity are not the only end products of the government educational system â not by a long shot. Fat and lazy people are byproducts as well. I don't know if you have noticed, but physical education is no longer a serious part of the government school curriculum in most districts. Now, gym, as it was once called, is co-ed â meaning boys and girls are supposed to hone their athletic skills and workouts together. Of course, as any grown up should be able to predict, such a program turns the high school phys ed hour into the high school sexual politics hour. What's next? Co-ed showers? So, there you have it â Americans are being bred by their government to be immoral, fat, lazy and stupid. But why? Why would the government want Americans to be immoral, fat, lazy and stupid? Think about it, now. I'll give you a moment. OK, time's up. Here's the answer: It comes in the form of a quote from one of the great American founders â one often under-appreciated among a long list of heroes who are under-appreciated. His name was Samuel Adams, and here's what he said that answers the question of why the power brokers in Washington would want a nation of immoral, fat, lazy and stupid people to govern. A general Dissolution of Principles and Manners will more surely overthrow the Liberties of America than the whole force of the Common Enemy, he said. While the People are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their Virtue they will be ready to surrender their Liberties to the first external or internal invader. ... If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great Security. Now, I don't expect any immoral, fat, lazy and stupid people to comprehend that profound statement. But for those of you moral, lean, enterprising and intelligent people out there, this learned, insightful statement provides the motive for the madness we see around us. We're a nation of fat, stupid cattle being led to slaughter by an internal invader â our own government, which is no longer the servant of a self-governing people â it has become the master, the governor of a people incapable and unwilling to govern themselves. -- -- Joseph Farah is editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com and writes a daily column *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a
[CTRL] Desert Storm II?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26518 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Desert Storm II? -- -- Posted: February 19, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc. With his Axis of Evil speech threatening Iraq, Iran and North Korea with war if they deploy weapons of mass destruction, Mr. Bush burned his bridges. And when Gen. Colin Powell told Congress we have no war plans regarding Iran and North Korea, the signal was clear all the way to Baghdad. Mr. Bush intends war on Iraq. And when he goes to war, America must achieve its stated goal, regime change, or cease to be the invincible superpower. Why the president would lock himself into war to the death against Iraq, before he has convinced the country we have no other option, is puzzling. But so he did, just as his father did in August of 1990, when that President Bush declared, This will not stand! The first President Bush had said that if Iraq did not vacate Kuwait, the U.S. would evict Iraq from Kuwait. And he made good on that threat. But there are major differences between then and now. First, U.S. armed forces are only half of what they were in 1990-91. Second, where in Desert Storm I we had forces from NATO allies France and Britain and Arab allies Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, few or none of these will be enlisting in Desert Storm II. In 1990, Saddam had committed naked aggression against a fellow Arab League state and U.N. member by invading, occupying and annexing Kuwait. Condemnation was universal. And in his declared intent to liberate Kuwait, George H. W. Bush had the support of the Arab League, the Security Council, NATO and Congress. Today, Iraq has not committed aggression. The Arab League opposes a U.S. war on Iraq. NATO opposes a U.S. war on Iraq. The Security Council opposes a U.S. war on Iraq. Every Gulf state, except Kuwait, opposes a U.S. war on Iraq. And Congress has yet to be consulted. By what authority, then, does Mr. Bush threaten war? Answer: None but his own. The president has no constitutional power to attack Iraq, for there is no clear and present danger of an Iraqi attack to justify a pre-emptive strike or preventive war. So it is time someone whistled Congress in out of the tall grass to vote either to authorize or not to authorize Mr. Bush to lead us into a war that must surely end with the U.S. Army occupying Baghdad. Sen. Joe Biden and Rep. Henry Hyde, the chairmen of the House and Senate foreign-affairs committees, have a constitutional duty to conduct hearings on a declaration of war. If we must fight, let us at least show a decent respect for the Constitution. Public hearings are crucial. While all Americans have backed the war on terror to eradicate the al-Qaida killers who perpetrated 9-11, and their fellow vermin, no evidence has been presented that Saddam Hussein had anything to do with 9-11. The questions Congress must answer before declaring war are: Does Saddam have weapons of mass destruction? If so, what kind? And is there a present danger he will use them on U.S. forces or the U.S. homeland? After all, he is said to have had chemical weapons in 1991, but never used them. Deterrence worked then, why not now? And if he has weapons of mass destruction, is he more or less likely to use them if he knows the U.S. war against him has to end in his certain extinction and that of his sons and heirs? Never close off an enemy's avenue of retreat. JFK gave Nikita Khrushchev a way out of Cuba, and nuclear war was averted. We did not offer the German generals who wanted to kill Hitler anything but unconditional surrender. So, Nazi Germany fought to the death and took untold millions of innocents down with them. And if Saddam must go, must U.S. troops march to Baghdad to dictate his successor? How many will be required? Who will march with us? What are the anticipated casualties? How long must we occupy Baghdad? Is an independent Kurdistan an anticipated result? Will the Turks go along? Will we permit Iraq to be broken up and a Shiite state to form in the south? Is Iran the likely beneficiary of the breakup of the lone Arab power that can balance Iranian power? What will be the impact on the Arab and Muslim world when it sees America smashing Baghdad as Israel smashes the Palestinians? Could Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan or Pakistan explode, leaving us worse off than we are with Saddam Hussein? And if Mr. Bush may unilaterally expand our list of enemies, what other countries does the president have in mind to attack? General Powell once wisely said: Before you commit the Army, commit the nation. Before we commit the Army to war on Iraq, we must commit the nation. That is done through the Congress of the United States. And where the devil is the Congress?
[CTRL] Will Osama bring back the draft?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26517 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Will Osama bring back the draft? -- -- Posted: February 19, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 David H. Hackworth A few weeks ago, I wrote in this space about the terrorist rats at Club Fed in Cuba living the good life in comparison with their American Regular Army guards. A grunt wrote: A Marine general came right down and read your column to us, and things immediately began to improve. We got hot chow that very next day and cold beer that night. An Army officer had canceled the Marine general's beer order. Apparently the thinking went that the troops we trust to defend us with their lives can't be trusted with a can of beer. Another MP wrote: Your article got everyone's attention. Even our Army leaders are now visiting us and acting like they care about our welfare. The soldiers who blew the whistle say their communications are monitored, and they've been told to clam up when the press is around. They're regulars, the Army is their job, and almost 70 percent are married with mouths to feed. Since sounding off is a sure way to get on the CO's black list, they're super-paranoid about being ID'd. That's nothing new. I saw the same censorship during Desert Storm, in Haiti and during our ops in ex-Yugoslavia. Nothing like a Top Secret Pentagon stamp to cover up bad leadership and botched missions such as Black Hawk Down. So our regulars either accept the gagging drill and play the game, or they find a new profession â while the rest of us rarely pay much attention to what's going down in the armed forces unless it personally affects us, our family, our town. In 1965, when our all-volunteer forces first went to Vietnam, Jane and Joe Average Civilian were similarly disconnected. And while almost everyone deployed to 'Nam instantly knew it was a bad war and that our forces were ill-trained to fight their veteran guerrilla opponent, no one sounded off. Not until the draft kicked in and planeloads of dead conscripts began coming home in caskets did America's moms and dads start asking hard questions and getting the straight skinny from their sons. At the end of the day, it was the draftees who kept our politicians and brass reasonably straight and caused LBJ to hang it up and Nixon to finally pull the plug on that ill-conceived conflict. Now we're engaged in an even more difficult, more complex war that could well become our longest and our most costly in terms of casualties and dollars. With it being waged right here in the USA, with our very way of life on the line, the burdens of battle should be more intimately borne by us all, not just by our pricey volunteers. The draft would bring this war home to every family in America â and if our own kids' lives were on the line, you had better believe that we'd watch the threat conditions and how and where the war was being fought even more closely than the saga of Enron. Our military would be infused, as it was during World War I and II, Korea and Vietnam, with sharp citizen soldiers who'd not only be fulfilling their civic duty and reducing the high cost of defending America, but also would be keeping the Pentagon straight. With their proud record of exposing the trespasses of the brass, draftees are Olympic gold medal whistle-blowers! It would also be a plus for our youngsters â most of whom need the military as much as the military needs them. Too many have lost their way because their parents and our institutions haven't given them the right values to be good citizens and lead worthwhile lives. No question Uncle Sam's drill NCOs could provide the moral compass. And consider the positive ripple effect on our country if the kids of the powerful, the connected, the privileged and those who take all the wonderful gifts of democracy for granted without ever thinking about who pays the price were defending our country side by side and back to back in the melting pot with their patriotic regular brothers. Though national service is a turnoff to so many, it's kept our country free since we booted out the Brits. And those who've had the privilege of wearing the uniform come out of it much better Americans. Maybe it's time to sow the seeds for a Greatest Generation II. -- -- Col. David H. Hackworth, author of Price of Honor and About Face, *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL
[CTRL] Mysterious rash affects OR students and others in 7 states
-Caveat Lector- http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=41038 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! February 15, 2002 Mysterious rash affects OR students and others in 7 states Hundreds of youngsters in at least seven states have broken out in a mysterious rash, and some health investigators theorize it might be caused by a new or previously unrecognized virus. More an annoyance than a serious health threat, the rash has still managed to temporarily close schools, worry parents and frustrate school administrators, for whom answers have been elusive. Students in Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Oregon and Washington have all complained about rashes, which show up on the face, arms, legs and body. For the most part, the rash goes away when the students leave school. For something like this to occur almost simultaneously in different parts of the country is, to my knowledge, unprecedented, said Dr. Norman Sykes, who examined about 30 suburban Philadelphia students who came down with the red, itchy rash this month. Sykes is working with the Quakertown Community School District, where nearly 170 students at all nine schools were confirmed to have the rash. An environmental firm collected air and water samples and examined carpets, floor mats, vacuum bags and clothing, but all tested negative for contaminants. We may never know what this thing is, said Quakertown Superintendent Jim Scanlon, who has consulted with school officials in four other districts around the country, including the Peninsula School District in Gig Harbor, Wash. While most districts seem to have ruled out an environmental cause, not so Peninsula, where an elementary school was closed this week after more than 50 students and teachers complained about a rash. The region's rainy, humid climate made officials there suspect mold. But test results showed an abnormally high level of dust, dandruff and skin particles - probably caused by an overactive ventilation system that took too much moisture out of the air. People are very concerned about their children, said Peninsula Superintendent Jim Coolican. We say its not a long-term problem, but people say, 'How do you know? How do you know it won't be a problem for my child 10 years from now?' Sykes, a dermatologist and assistant professor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, suspects the culprit in Quakertown is either a mutation of fifth disease or a virus not yet described by science. So called because it was once considered one of the five main childhood illnesses, fifth disease produces a low fever and cold-like symptoms, followed by a rash that creates a slapped cheek appearance and a lacy red rash on the trunk, arms and legs. Though Sykes' patients had those same symptoms, a blood test called ELISA turned up no evidence of parvovirus, the virus that causes the disease. Sykes then performed a more involved blood test called PCR. This time, he discovered viral DNA in one student, confirming the presence of fifth disease. But nine other students tested negative for fifth disease. My hunch is that it's a virus. But if that is the case, it seems to be a benign, harmless virus, Sykes said. The rash also surfaced in November at Marsteller Middle School in Prince William County, Va. A cause was never determined, although officials also suspected a virus. Dr. Suzanne Jenkins, an epidemiologist with the Virginia Department of Health, suspects a type of virus that lives in the gastrointestinal tract. The virus could have been spread through coughing and sneezing or by students who didn't wash their hands after using the bathroom, she said. State and federal health investigators failed to isolate any of the known viruses, making Jenkins believe the virus has yet to be identified. We only know a tiny, tiny percentage, certainly less than 10 percent, of the organisms that are in and on our bodies, said infectious disease expert Madeline Drexler, author of Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections. Scanlon, the Quakertown superintendent, believes some of the rashes might have been caused by psychosomatic hysteria. And some rashes weren't rashes at all - high school students rubbed themselves with sandpaper in a futile attempt to get the school shut down, he said. Quakertown parent Keith Ruppel said the rashes are distracting his two children from their school work. I really wish they could find the cause, said Ruppel, 42, father of a 10-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl. But you can't keep them out of school. (Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref.
[CTRL] Plague Outbreak Claims New Victim in India
-Caveat Lector- http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=sciencenewsStoryID=606159 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Plague Outbreak Claims New Victim in India February 18, 2002 07:24 AM ET Email this article Printer friendly version By Geetinder Garewal CHANDIGARH, India (Reuters) - A 30-year-old woman who had been on a respirator died of suspected plague on Monday in India's northern state of Himachal Pradesh even as authorities said they had contained the outbreak of the disease. The latest victim brings the death toll to four while at least 14 others have been hospitalized in the outbreak which has revived memories of a 1994 plague that killed more than 50 people in western India and hit the country's reputation as a popular tourist destination. Doctors said the woman was hospitalized for suspected plague last week. No fresh case of suspected pneumonic plague has been reported from anywhere in the past 48 hours, state Health Minister J.P. Nadda told reporters. He said the government had distributed some 675,000 antibiotic capsules to 17,000 people and was keeping close tabs on the situation. Doctors said one patient, admitted to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science and Research in the city of Chandigarh, was critical but others had responded well to the antibiotics. A team from the New Delhi-based National Institute of Communicable Diseases investigating the plague, which is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas carried by rodents, said the disease was totally under control. Federal Health Minister C.P. Thakur was expected to release reports on the condition of patients in the capital, New Delhi, on Tuesday, the team said. Clinical tests have shown symptoms of plague but we will wait for the NICD report before giving this disease a name, S.K. Sharma, director of PGI, said. There is no need for panic as no new cases have been reported beyond the incubation period of the disease, Dr. Pallab Ray, associate professor at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science and Research, told reporters. Local transport had now resumed after it was temporarily suspended during last week's plague scare in Rohru and Jubbal Kotkhai areas -- about 60 miles east of the provincial capital of Shimla. But schools and colleges in the area remained closed and government doctors were still forbidden from going on leave. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Sharon: I will not dismantle the PA
-Caveat Lector- http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/02/19/News/News.43661.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Sharon: I will not dismantle the PA By Gil Hoffman JERUSALEM (February 19) - Rejecting pressure from the Right to dismantle the Palestinian Authority, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday the PA will endure and he intends to meet with top PA officials in the near future. I have no intention of dismantling the PA, Sharon told the Likud Knesset faction. But I do intend to deliver a strong blow to the terrorist organizations, with the hope that one day, there will be someone to talk to. Asked how he can meet with PA officials after declaring PA Chairman Yasser Arafat irrelevant, Sharon drew a firm line between Arafat and his deputies, saying the question would only become relevant if he meets with Arafat, which he does not intend to do. I have met with the Palestinians, and I intend to continue meeting with them, Sharon said. I will do anything possible to bring about a cease-fire. [Such meetings] do not interfere with the war against terrorism. They can only help, he said. Sharon sharply criticized his critics on the Right, especially former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, for suggesting he dismantle the PA. I disagree with those who think we should destroy the PA and then remain there and start running everything there again, Sharon said. I do not intend to stay in Gaza. In my opinion, this conflict needs to be handled with patience and composure, he said. He denied reports the Americans asked him to limit IDF responses to Palestinian attacks, because they could complicate an imminent US attack on Iraq. He said the US administration and even some countries in Europe understand the need for Israel to do everything possible to defend its citizens. Top IDF officers came to the Prime Minister's Office last night to consult with Sharon on new steps that can be taken to fight terrorism, but the meeting was not expected to yield a major change in policy. Sharon said the government's responses to terrorism have evolved, both in ways known by the general public and ways that cannot be revealed. He said there have been many achievements on the security front, mainly regarding targeted killings. The one policy that will not change is my decision to draw a fine line between terrorists and the Palestinian population, Sharon said, outlining his Palestinian Marshall Plan, which he presented to US President George W. Bush during his recent trip to Washington. The plan calls for the US, Europe, and Arab countries to contribute funds to create jobs for Palestinians, instead of contributing directly to the PA, which he called an empire of corruption. Sharon accused the PA of stealing two-thirds of the income of Palestinian laborers who work in Israel. Sharon said the plan, which is in its final stages, would create 100,000 jobs for Palestinians within territories under their control over the next three years. He said Saudi Arabia should be among the top contributors. Making reference to a column by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times printed in yesterday's Jerusalem Post, Sharon said the Saudis are big talkers and should stop talking and start contributing. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud told Friedman he intends to deliver a speech at an upcoming Arab summit in which he will call on Israel to withdraw to pre-1967 lines in return for full diplomatic relations, normalized trade, and security guarantees from Arab countries. Israel Radio reported that Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is the only Arab leader who has endorsed the Saudi initiative. However, Arafat yesterday praised the idea. In a statement to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Arafat said the important positions presented by Abdullah represent a clear support and push for the peace efforts toward creation of a Palestinian state in the territories the Palestinians demand, while giving security for the State of Israel. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! 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
[CTRL] Netanyahu Says Arafat Must Go
-Caveat Lector- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20020218/ap_on_re_mi_ea/isra el_netanyahu_5 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Netanyahu Says Arafat Must Go Mon Feb 18, 2:47 PM ET By KARIN LAUB and DAN PERRY, Associated Press Writers Exuding confidence that he will return to power, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (news - web sites) said Monday that Israel must remove Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) and destroy the Palestinian Authority (news - web sites) â perhaps via military assault â before peace talks can resume. Photos AP Photo In an interview with The Associated Press, Netanyahu said he has no qualms about challenging Ariel Sharon (news - web sites), a sitting prime minister from his own Likud Party, and that he was gratified by polls showing Israelis â who sent him packing in a 1999 election â now give him widespread support. Netanyahu, 52, has been speaking throughout the United States and Israel, and has criticized Sharon for stopping short of what Netanyahu believes is the only way to end terror attacks against Israelis â the removal of Arafat. The goal is to defeat the terror regime, to effectively bring it down, he said at his well-appointed office in a modern high-tech complex in Jerusalem. And that goal is easily attainable. Netanyahu said he wasn't suggesting Israel physically harm Arafat. But instead of restricting Arafat to his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah as Sharon has done, the Palestinian leader should be allowed to leave â but not to return. He keeps wanting to go abroad â I think we should not hinder him from doing so, Netanyahu said. I would very much like to see him have a happy retirement with his friends from Tripoli ... with his friends from Baghdad. Israel also should eliminate the terrorist infrastructure that has been established in the West Bank and Gaza, which would be a very simple thing to do, not very complicated and not very costly, Netanyahu said. He was evasive about the exact steps he would take, but hinted strongly at a large-scale military operation: Israel has not used a fraction of a fraction of the means that it has available, as you can imagine. Netanyahu said deterrence would no longer work with the Palestinian leadership, because at this point Arafat is already in 'Never-Never-Land.' In a meeting Monday with hard-line legislators, Sharon rejected the idea of destroying the Palestinian Authority. Do you want to sit in Gaza and run the civil administration there? I don't want to sit in Gaza, he said. I hear such advice from ... self-appointed experts. Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat condemned Netanyahu's comments. It's very irresponsible, very shortsighted and very unacceptable, Erekat said. The Palestinian people chose President Arafat It just reflects the danger of the likes of Netanyahu who really, in their attitude, reflect a lack of concern for human life. Netanyahu opposed the 1993 interim agreements with Arafat's PLO. As prime minister from 1996 to 1999, he put the brakes on the land-for-peace process and had mostly acrimonious relations with the Palestinians. Still, he did negotiate two interim peace deals and handed over most of the West Bank town of Hebron. He also developed a reputation for adventurism that dogged him throughout his tenure and contributed to his landslide defeat. But in light of almost 17 months of fighting, Netanyahu's hard-line ideas are again in vogue and he clearly feels vindicated and combative. The Palestinian Authority is truly a corrupt, backward, primitive regime that oppresses the Palestinians, that kneecaps anyone who dares to disagree with Arafat ... that controls the media, sucks all the money, leaves the Palestinians in an impoverished state, he maintained. He said that as prime minister he would only resume peace talks once terrorism was wiped out, and then offer much less than his successor Ehud Barak (news - web sites) did a year ago â a Palestinian state in almost all of the West Bank and Gaza with a foothold in east Jerusalem. That this wild offer was rejected by Arafat proves the Palestinian leader's true intention remains to destroy the Jewish state, Netanyahu said. Sharon has said a Palestinian state is inevitable eventually â but Netanyahu disagreed. A state, Netanyahu said, would mean Palestinian control of borders and airspace â with the potential of bringing in weapons and making military pacts with Israel's enemies â and that this Israel could not allow. At the same time Netanyahu said he strongly opposed expelling masses of Palestinians, once a fringe idea that is drawing increasing support. On the wall of Netanyahu's conference room hung a large map of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, and an etching of the Second Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. Behind him was a floor plan of the terminal at Uganda's Entebbe Airport â where Netanyahu's brother Yonathan was killed
