[CTRL] [Fwd: [Big-Medicine] They Chute Kubiaks, Don't They?]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: [Big-Medicine] They Chute Kubiaks, Don't They? From: Chris Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or is that kodiaks? Big-Medicine's own David Kubiak is hoping that as Maine goes, so goes the nation... GRASSROOTS Art imitates politics: Chute and Kubiak get reel By Jess Kilby There have been documentary films made about political campaigns before (The War Room, for example). There have been Hollywood productions that ape the process and its inherent moral ambiguity (Bulworth, The Candidate). But rarely (if ever) has a docu-drama been made about a real political campaign that was initiated for the sole purpose of making a movie about a political campaign. In short: Carolyn Chute is running for governor. This isn't exactly breaking news - hell, the Waterboro Public Library makes note of it on their website, and DC's Political Report dutifully lists Chute amongst the rest of the third-party candidates in Maine's 2002 gubernatorial race (following pastor Steven Farssaci [sic] as author/militia member Carolyn Chute and linking to a quaint 1996 Salon article for more information, rather than to an official campaign site.) What's news (or at least new) is the fact that Chute has a running mate, in fellow anti-corporate activist David Kubiak. And that the two are making a movie called Countercoup about their run as co-candidates for the highest office in the state, with (among other activities) mock town meetings in each county where residents will be asked to pretend to talk about their concerns for a common future. The whole thing is a bit tongue-in-cheek, you see - in that semi-serious, populist way for which Chute and Kubiak are known. As Kubiak explains via email, all events are staged for the movie, but attract 'real' citizens, 'real' journalists, and 'real' public attention to [the campaign] issues (e.g., the corporate coup d'etat in Augusta and Washington, the corporate takeover of our mass media, and Maine's urgent need to secede from Corporate America's political control). Chute and Kubiak will be attempting to collect enough signatures and $5 donations to qualify for Clean Election money, the better to add more realism to the film. How they'll pull off a two-person ticket is a mystery, because, as Domna Gattis of the Secretary of State's office points out, you can't really do that. (Candidates can only put one name on each application for Clean Election funding; likewise for the rest of Maine's electoral paperwork.) Putting the question of whether Chute and Kubiak will succeed in flouting Maine's election laws aside, there's at least one good reason for catching Countercoup when (and if) it's released: our heroes are strangely vindicated in an 11th month/11th hour surprise ending. Pass the popcorn. http://www.portlandphoenix.com/archive/features/02/01/25/tji/grassroots.html -~- Let us lift our vision high enough to dominate the problem. - - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ** If you find Big Medicine useful, please introduce your friends, and send them the link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/big-medicine/join = = A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Seventh Seal
THEY KNEW INSTANTLY THAT THEY COULDN'T FINISH THEIR ACT BECAUSE THE SEVENTH SEAL WAS BROKEN. =
[CTRL] The Seventh Seal (retry)
Did that not come through last time? THEY KNEW INSTANTLY THAT THEY COULDN'T FINISH THEIR ACT BECAUSE THE SEVENTH SEAL WAS BROKEN. =
[CTRL] Not For Yuppies
-Caveat Lector- Thanks to Joshua Tinnin and Duncan Bourne for graphics help in polishing up this logo. http://members.fortunecity.com/earthlingz/nwo-.jpg It's been suggested that it is too lurid, but it's not an attempt to sell an idea to the genteel middle-class Personally, I think the metaphor holds. Anybody know a good cheap place to order stickers online? 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] Sand Mandala in time-lapse
-Caveat Lector- Time-lapse video of Tibetan monks making a sand mandala in Washington for healing and protection in the wake of the Sept 11 incident. In progress until Jan 27th. http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/mandala/mandalaanimate.htm (needs Quicktime) A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Peopl'e's Republic of Information
-Caveat Lector- Here's Diane Harvey, making sense again: http://carnicom.com/dh1.ram 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] Be VERY Afraid
-Caveat Lector- KANDAHAR U.S. Military officials have been balking at recent allegations that armed forces have not been doing enough in the search for Osama bin Laden, who is believed to have fled the caves of Tora Bora sometime during the recent wave of airborne cave-bombings. The cause for the sudden disappearance of the man believed to have masterminded the destruction of the World Trade towers and a wing of the Pentagon is now understood in chilling clarity. The thing we had long feared to be true has been confirmed, said a visibly shaken President Bush. Bin Laden has found the One Ring, allowing him the ability to pass invisibly through any land or territory, even into the very heart of our command. The ring, which last sat on the finger of Senator Strom Thurmon, is believed to have fallen off at some point during his last term and found its way to Afghanistan. Bush added: The evil will within the ring will grant bin Laden seeming immortality but at a terrible price, manipulating and twisting his soul into ever-darkening circles of evil until his very being begins to Fade, leaving only a wraith, incapable of any emotion save for the indomitable urge to sup on human souls. While prolonged use of the One Ring almost always results in the same fate, the normal life span of the ring-bearer is lengthened extraordinarily, allowing for a far greater scope of evil-doing. FUll Monty: http://www.nationallampoon.com/news/1_10_2002a.asp A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[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] Hubris or disinformation?
Washington, Jan 14th In a move widely seen as calculated to benefit supporters and associates in the energy industry, President Bush today announced his intention to sign an executive order authorising a unilateral across-the-board increase of one degree Celcius in the international boiling point of water. The strongest protests have come from Switzerland, whose high standard of living has often been attributed to its lofty altitude and the consequent tepidity of its coffee, and from Israel, where the anticipated increase in revenues for oil-producing nations has prompted Mossad to approve an undisclosed adjustment in the consistency of export pretzels. =
[CTRL] 2001 : The Year of the Horse
[CTRL] In other news...
Meanwhile, the search continues for Osama Bin Laden's contact lens...
[CTRL] Fnord (fnord)
-Caveat Lector- ``Very nice,'' I said. ``But why did you bring me up here?'' ``It's time for you to see the fnords,'' he replied. Then I woke up in bed and it was the next morning. I made breakfast in a pretty nasty mood, wondering if I'd seen the fnords, whatever the hell they were, in the hours he had blacked out, or if I would see them as soon as I went out into the street. I had some pretty gruesome ideas about them, I must admit. Creatures with three eyes and tentacles, survivors from Atlantis, who walked among us, invisible due to some form of mind shield, and did hideous work for the Illuminati. It was unnerving to contemplate, and I finally gave in to my fears and peeked out the window, thinking it might be better to see them from a distance first. Nothing. Just ordinary sleepy people, heading for their busses and subways. That calmed me a little, so I set out the toast and coffee and fetched the New York Times from the hallway. I turned the radio to WBAI and caught some good Vivaldi, sat down, grabbed a piece of toast and started skimming the first page. Then I saw the fnords. The feature story involved another of the endless squabbles between Russia and the U.S. in the UN General Assembly, and after each direct quote from the Russian delegate I read a quite distinct ``Fnord!'' The second lead was about a debate in congress on getting the troops out of costa Rica; every argument presented by Senator Bacon was followed by another ``Fnord!'' At the bottom of the page was a Times depth-type study of the growing pollution problem and the increasing use of gas masks among New Yorkers; the most distressing chemical facts were interpolated with more ``Fnords.'' Suddenly I saw Hagbard's eyes burning into me and heard his voice: ``Your heart will remain calm. Your adrenalin gland will remain calm. Calm, all-over calm. You will not panic. you will look at the fnord and see the it. You will not evade it or black it out. you will stay calm and face it.'' And further back, way back: my first-grade teacher writing FNORD on the blackboard, while a wheel with a spiral design turned and turned on his desk, turned and turned, and his voice droned on, IF YOU DON'T SEE THE FNORD IT CAN'T EAT YOU, DON'T SEE THE FNORD, DON'T SEE THE FNORD . . . I looked back at the paper and still saw the fnords. This was one step beyond Pavlov, I realized. The first conditioned reflex was to experience the panic reaction (the activation syndrome, it's technically called) whenever encountering the word ``fnord.'' The second conditioned reflex was to black out what happened, including the word itself, and just to feel a general low-grade emergency without knowing why. And the third step, of course, was to attribute this anxiety to the news stories, which were bad enough in themselves anyway. Of course, the essence of control is fear. The fnords produced a whole population walking around in chronic low-grade emergency, tormented by ulcers, dizzy spells, nightmares, heart palpitations and all the other symptoms of too much adrenalin. All my left-wing arrogance and contempt for my countrymen melted, and I felt a genuine pity. No wonder the poor bastards believe anything they're told, walk through pollution and overcrowding without complaining, watch their son hauled off to endless wars and butchered, never protest, never fight back, never show much happiness or eroticism or curiosity or normal human emotion, live with perpetual tunnel vision, walk past a slum without seeing either the human misery it contains or the potential threat it poses to their security . . . Then I got a hunch, and turned quickly to the advertisements. it was as I expected: no fnords. That was part of the gimmick, too: only in consumption, endless consumption, could they escape the amorphous threat of the invisible fnords. I kept thinking about it on my way to the office. If I pointed out a fnord to somebody who hadn't been deconditioned, as Hagbard deconditioned me, what would he or she say? They'd probably read the word before or after it. ``No this word,'' I'd say. And they would again read an adjacent word. But would their panic level rise as the threat came closer to consciousness? I preferred not to try the experiment; it might have ended with a psychotic fugue in the subject. The conditioning, after all, went back to grade school. No wonder we all hate those teachers so much: we have a dim, masked memory of what they've done to us in converting us into good and faithful servants for the Illuminati. from The Illuminatus Trilogy -Anton Wilson Shea- fnord 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
[CTRL] Part 1 - WORST KEPT SECRETS OF THE BUMBLING BEAR - the CIA/NAZI marriage]
-Caveat Lector- URL for this article: http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/gehlen2.htm Alternative address is http://emperor.vwh.net/docs/gehlen2.htm Join our email list at http://emperors-clothes.com/f.htm. Receive one article/day, or fewer. === WORST KEPT SECRETS OF THE BUMBLING BEAR (Part 1 of 2) by Jared Israel [Originally Posted 22 May 2001] [Reposted 2 December 2001] === Below is an article from the 'San Francisco Bay Guardian', entitled, 'The CIA's Worst-Kept Secret.' It discusses some recently unclassified CIA files. These documents, 18,000 pages in all, confirm that U.S. intelligence recruited and protected Nazis starting at the end of World War II. I am posting and writing about this article for two reasons. First, it includes some useful information about the Nazi-CIA marriage. Second, it presents that information from a perspective that I consider at once mistaken and widespread; hence worth discussing. The article was written by Martin Lee. Mr. Lee argues that after World War II, Nazi spies duped the U.S. into hiring them, thereby protecting themselves and their networks from prosecution. He cites the example of General Reinhard Gehlen. Gehlen had been chief of Nazi intelligence in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. According to Mr. Lee, Gehlen fooled spymaster Allen Dulles, who later became Director of the CIA, in the following way: Gehlen was quickly spirited off to Fort Hunt, Va. The image he projected during 10 months of negotiations at Fort Hunt was, to use a bit of espionage parlance, a legend --one that hinged on Gehlen's false claim that he was never really a Nazi, but was dedicated, above all, to fighting Communism. Those who bit the bait included future CIA director Allen Dulles, who became Gehlen's biggest supporter among American policy wonks. (From the text below) There's a bit of a problem here. Starting more than a decade earlier, Allen Dulles, a leading diplomat and spy, and his brother, John Foster, a Wall Street insider, had created a financial-intelligence apparatus to assist the Nazis. So Dulles had long-standing, friendly relations with Nazis. That being the case, why would Dulles be upset if he 'learned' that Gehlen (a top Nazi spy) was a Nazi? (1) Moreover, Gehlen had not been some cloistered spy. His job had not been simply to coordinate the gathering of information. He had been a key leader of the work of fascist groups in the occupied East, such as the Iron Guard in Romania, the Latvian Vanagis and the Croatian Ustashe. These groups committed the most unimaginably brutal atrocities against 'Untermenschen', Jews, 'gypsies', Serbs and other Slavs and Orthodox Christians, as well as against anti-Nazis, both Communist and non-Communist, including various Nationalist groups, which resisted the Nazis. Gehlen was a leading war criminal. Did Allen Dulles know all this? Of course he knew all this. He was a U.S. spymaster with almost three decades experience and he had worked with the Nazi leadership for two decades. Dulles arranged to have Gehlen secretly brought to the U.S. precisely so that the Russians wouldn't get hold of him and put him on trial for war crimes and hang him. Once they had Gehlen safely in the U.S., Allen Dulles and other top U.S. Intelligence operatives met with Gehlen and planned a nightmare creation: a vast European spying-and-subversion apparatus, controlled by Washington but staffed by hundreds and then thousands of Nazi war criminals. The Nazis may have lost the war but Nazism had found new life. (6) Since Allen Dulles knew that Gehlen commanded an army of monstrous war criminals in Eastern Europe and Russia, what is the significance of Dulles' supposed (though frankly unbelievable) belief that Gehlen was not a Nazi? Mr. Lee's suggestion that Dulles' rescue and empowerment of Gehlen was somehow less monstrous because he was 'fooled' about Gehlen's Nazi beliefs is typical of the way the mass media has been whitewashing American foreign policy since 1945. According to this reasoning, it is a crime if Nazis (or Islamist terrorists) go out and commit atrocities on their own. But if they commit atrocities at the behest of American leaders who are a) naive about who these Nazis (or Islamist terrorists) are and b) are only using these Nazis or terrorists in pursuit of good American values, then it is OK. This treats the American foreign policy establishment as if it were some perpetual teenager who may have fallen in with a bad crowd, but heck, he'll grow out of it. Very few of us will ever read the declassified Nazi-CIA documents. Articles like Mr. Lee's from the 'San Francisco Bay Guardian', a left-leaning newspaper, must inform our view. Throughout the article, Mr. Lee portrays Washington as naive, trapped by a Cold War mentality into recruiting Nazis (or, as he suggests at the end of his article, by recruiting too many of them...you know, Nazis are OK, but only if
[CTRL] Testosterone/Adrenaline Levels in Amherst Reach Unpatriotically Low Level
-Caveat Lector- Hampshire College Students, Faculty, Staff Condemn 'War On Terror' Hampshire Students for a Peaceful Response Michael Sherrard Kai Newkirk 12-8-1 AMHERST, MA - The students, faculty, and staff of Hampshire College have voted to condemn the War on Terrorism and propose alternative solutions. The vote, which was won by a margin of 693-121 (with 11 abstaining or ambiguous votes), is believed to the first such decision by a college community in the United States. (A majority of the students, faculty, and staff participated in the vote.) Our community has spoken, said Michael Sherrard, an organizer with Hampshire Students for a Peaceful Response, which sponsored the vote and authored the anti-war resolution. We refuse to fall into silent support for an unjust war that kills innocents overseas, and threatens our safety and civil liberties at home. However, organizers were quick to defend the right to free expression of those who disagreed with the vote. As a diverse community of strong individuals, there are some at Hampshire who do not support our views. Even if they are in the minority, their opinions, and rights to free expression, must be respected. We wish that politicians and the media would extend the same respect to those of us who oppose this unjust war, or who happen to bear the same skin tone as Osama bin Laden, said Donald Jackson, also a member of Students for a Peaceful Response. Hampshire has a precedent for trend-setting political statements. In the early 70s, students voted for the impeachment of President Nixon. The college was also the first to decide to divest from apartheid South Africa. With this vote, organizers hope to make a similarly strong public statement, and build a movement which can similarly change the course of U.S. foreign policy. Students for a Peaceful Response is a multi-campus coalition in Western Massachusetts formed in the wake of September 11, and active in the growing nation-wide student movement against the war. It is organized around six points of unity: mourning for the victims of the September 11 tragedies; a call for the peaceful pursuit of justice, rather than war and militarism; condemnation of religious, racial, and ethnic scapegoating and bigotry; opposition to the curtailment of civil liberties; desire to provoke discussion of the root causes of terrorism; and recognition of global justice as the condition for a true and lasting peace. Full text of the statement approved by the community: The tragic day of September 11, and the days following, have been a time of profound suffering for people everywhere: firefighters in New York, secretaries in Washington D.C., and farmers in Afghanistan. One indiscriminate act of violence has been followed by another, a pattern seriously endangering the prospects for a just and peaceful world. In such a time of loss, we must ask ourselves - is there a path out of this escalating cycle of violence? Yes, we can respond to the tragedy of September 11 as a crime against humanity, carried out by individuals, not as an act of warfare for which a nation must be held responsible. This path would proceed within a framework of genuine international cooperation and be designed to bring to justice those guilty of the crime - without destroying the lives of innocent millions. It would employ the proven tools of transparent and conclusive investigations, diplomatic and police efforts, and fair courts of law to achieve its goal. At home, we can meet the immediate need for effective security through common-sense solutions that apply fairly to everyone, while preserving our hard-won civil liberties. Instead, the Bush administration has embarked upon a very different path - with disastrous consequences: * The death toll of innocent Afghan civilians killed by inevitably imprecise bombing is mounting. * The U.S. military campaign has made it impossible for international relief organizations to deliver the food aid necessary to prevent the starvation of millions of Afghan civilians in the winter now beginning. The token and scattered aid efforts of the United States have been roundly criticized as insufficient, or even counterproductive, by such organizations. A massive humanitarian crisis remains. * While the Northern Alliance has forced the Taliban from power (certainly a welcome development), they too possess a disturbing record of human-rights violations, especially against women and political dissidents. * The current suffering in Afghanistan will only deepen the conditions of loss and desperation which foster international terrorism. Even the CIA has stated that strikes against Afghanistan are 100% certain to lead to terrorist reprisals. * The recent U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act infringes upon everyone's First and Fourth Amendment freedoms. Rights to privacy, speech, and association remain as critical as ever and are, if
[CTRL] Videotape points to bin Laden's terror attack connection
-Caveat Lector- Ananova : Videotape points to bin Laden's terror attack connection US officials have obtained a videotape of Osama bin Laden providing the strongest evidence of his connection to the US terrorist attacks. In the 40-minute tape, bin Laden describes the damage around the fallen twin towers in New York as greater than expected. The tape is said to have been found in a private home in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. According to the Washington Post, US officials are debating whether and how to make it public. While officials have said they intercepted communications that allegedly tied bin Laden or associates to the attacks, they have refused to release any materials, citing intelligence concerns. The paper adds that some officials hope that making the tape public could counter concern in the Muslim world that bin Laden has been unjustly accused of involvement in the attacks. One senior official who has seen a transcript of the tape, told the Post that it makes it very clear that bin Laden not only had advance knowledge but is proof he was responsible for planning. Story filed: 06:35 Sunday 9th December 2001 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] WHITE HOUSE INSTALLS ANTI-QUESTION SHIELD
-Caveat Lector- WHITE HOUSE INSTALLS ANTI-QUESTION SHIELD AROUND ARI FLEISCHER Fearing a barrage of press corps questions that the White House does not want to answer, the Bush Administration has installed a high-tech anti-question shield to protect Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, sources confirmed today. The multi-billion dollar shield is designed to shoot down questions that could address what the White House feels is classified or sensitive information. The first test of the new shield was successfully employed today during a press briefing, intercepting and destroying a question related to what constituted classified or sensitive information. "This is a huge step forward in the White House communications defense system," said an administration source who explained that the system automatically responds to questions that attempt to penetrate the shield by launching a series of pat, repetitive and purposefully vague responses. The defense shield can respond immediately to any question fired off by reporters by launching standard, defensive non-answers, such as "I believe the president has made himself clear on that issue," "You'd have to talk to the DOD (Department of Defense)," or "I'm not going to talk about operational matters." Critics maintain that the shield may not be foolproof and that some tough questions could get through. Asked whether President Bush had concerns that a serious question could penetrate the shield, Fleischer said, "I believe the president has made himself clear on that issue." _ http://www.bobsfridge.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] CYBERPUNKTUATIONS
-Caveat Lector- Current events are making many of the insights and attitudes of the Cyberpunk movement of the early 90s seem as prophetic now as they seemed then. Here is an article I published (more an editing job than anything, really, excising such phrases as Prigoninic cathexis) in 1990. Wade through the pretentious language and perhaps you'll see what I mean... Chris *** CYBERPUNKTUATIONS The following is composed of extracts from an article by MARK DOWNHAM on Cyberpunk which appeared in London's VAGUE magazine . A disorganized mixture of clear apercus and tortuous prolixity, it lends itself to rearrangement and bowdlerisation. Here are a few of his more interesting statements. Chris OF CYBERPUNK FICTION Cyberpunk began as a loose generational nexus of writers swapping letters, manuscripts, ideas. Cyberpunk crunches together neuro- and physical chemistry, genetic biology, structural linguistics, cybernetics, bio-technology and cyborg engineering into a fantastic series of fictions. There is no typical cyberpunk, although the general project does have central themes, tenets, and topics. I'd say it is an eighties milieu - nineties, post-2001 would equally do - it is a product of the interzone between hard technologies/sciences and nihilo-romanticist surrealism. Its precursors are Michael Moorcock, Langdon Jones, Harlan Ellison, Samuel Delaney, Norman Spinrad, Brian Aldiss, John Varley, Philip. K. Dick, Alfred Bester, the strange pulsing entropies of Thomas Pynchon, the panic-theory of Baudrillard, the Situationist International, Larry Niven, Roger Zelaney, H.G. Wells, the programming phenomena control-data buzz of Guy Debord, and the seminal genius of J.G. Ballard. Cyberpunk was essentially initiated by J.G.Ballard in The Atrocity Exhibition. Ballard details the collapse of a landscape through which lines of deterritorialisation have proceeded to absolute tolerances, fractal zones in which sheer contiguity replaces syntax... Ballard's work is an attempt to grasp the contradiction of representational analysis of the future directly. These inundated near-futures transform our own present into the recognisably determinate past of something yet to come. Cyberpunk, as Philip K. Dick's novels and the films of David Cronenberg, deals with a near-future world congested with the coming technologies of everyday life and pushes the thresholds to the point where the psychoses rip through and the Metrophage gets ugly... Thomas Pynchon in Gravity's Rainbow explores the obliteration of outdated territories, languages, affiliations, of any boundaries or forms that have impeded the installation of cybernetics--the theory of messages and their control is here intermeshed with the hegemony of what Pynchon calls the mega-cartel, the zaibatsu, the multinationals. Cyberpunk is the literary incarnation of this colliding of fictional worlds, between the high-octane five star fantasies of the multi-nationals and the junk-cult feral scams of the street guerillas living off their products, but fantastically mutating them. Certain central themes spring up repeatedly in Cyberpunk. Firstly, the theme of body invasion, the target vehicle: prosthetic limbs, implanted circuitry, cosmetic surgery, cyberspace, DNA, genetic alteration. Secondly, the real hard edge of mind invasion: brain-computer interfaces, artificial intelligences, neuro-chemistry--all the techniques radically redefining the nature of humanity, the nature of the self. Cyberpunk is gorged with detail-it uses carefully constructed intricacy and readily extrapolates into daily life. It goes for crammed or condensed prose: rapid, dizzying, skidding bursts of novel information, sensory overload, a special brilliant feeling that makes you crisp at the edges--submerging the reader in the equivalent of a titanic blast of information, great gulfs of linguistic intensity as the vasopressin hits. Cyberpunk has a strong garage-band aesthetic. It grapples with the raw core of the near future--its myths, its ideas, its coming practices. It is a pop culture which is theorizing itself into a more cohesive and self-determined existence. Of BLADE RUNNER Blade Runner is really about Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer/method actors in general. The Cyberpunk must allow him/herself to be swept into the multiple currents that cross the city and beckon at random, to clear a path through a deliberately confused atmosphere of this fictive metropolis and distinguish the real from the irreal even in the most indiscernible cases. Roy's murder of Tyrell is the most meaningful statement in the whole of Cyberpunk : It is a fearful thing to meet your maker. Of the Media-Induced Experience: THE SPECTACLE: For Baudrillard, television--chief purveyor of the Spectacle--is a paradigm of failed escape combinations, of implosive effects, of remembered codes that make you
[CTRL] Kinights Templar and the Jews
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Excerpted from:
"...There is another book, sacred to this tribe, called the Kabbalah.
Its name literally means "a welcome" -- an initiation -- for the
Kabbalah is the key to understanding the hidden cipher of the Hebrew
Scriptures and Prophecies. The "Secret Chiefs" of this tribe, descended
as they are from magicians, Kabbalists and mystics, are dedicated to the
task of bringing about the fulfillment of these same prophecies. To this
end, they have learned to become masters of intrigue, deception, the
sleight of hand, and the inspiration of secret societies from the
Knights Templar and the Rosicrucians to the Golden Dawn, Argenteum
Astrum and the O.T.O., because from time immemorial the nations of the
world have sought to discover the secret knowledge of the Jews. It is
not mere coincidence that the word "cabal" is derived from the Hebrew
Kabbalah.
It was in 917 C.E. that Aaron ben Samuel, a Babalonian scholar and a
Jew, arrived in Italy. He carried with him the texts and ancient oral
traditions of the Practical Kabbalists, known to have existed at least
as far back as the time of Solomon, who had himself been a sorcerer.
Whereas the Speculative Kabbalists were well-known to be harmless
mystics and holy men, the Practical Kabbalists were given over to the
quest for worldly power, becoming the Grand Masters of illusion, the
arch-deceivers.
"Almost immediately upon his arrival, he imparted his mystical knowledge
to the scholarly Kalonymus family. When they moved to the Rhineland in
917 c.e. they established what is now commonly referred to as German
Kabbalism by some, and Early Hasidism by others. Until the time of
Eleazar of Worms, the mystic doctrine transmitted by Aaron ben Samuel
had been considered the private property of the Kalonymides. It was
Judah he-Hasid ("the Pious Jew", died 1217), a member of the Kalonymides
family, who directed his pupil Eleazar to reveal the oral and written
doctrine to a larger audience."
Charled Ponce Kabbalah: An Introduction and Illumination for the World
Today
In the meantime, a radical change had swept through Europe and the yet
more-civilized Islamic world. At the time of Aaron ben Samuel, the Jews
were in control of virtually all commerce and banking throughout the
Mediterranean, Northern Europe and eastward as far as Pakistan. This was
the Golden Age of the Diaspora, when Jews had become privileged in
virtually every court as doctors, advisors, financiers, navigators,
mapmakers, scribes (lawyers), alchemists and astrologers. Then suddenly,
with the start of the Crusades, the Jews were set upon, cast down and
slaughtered throughout the Christian parts of the world.
The First Crusade, in 1095, was under the military leadership of Godfrey
de Bouillon. After the sack of Jerusalem in 1097, Godfrey, allegedly a
Moravingian and Grand Master of the newly-formed (1070 AD) Prieure de
Sion, co-founded the Knights Templar, an order of warrior-monks drawn
from the ranks of the nobility, for the purpose of protecting pilgrims
to the Holy Land.
Conventional history tends to skirt the issue of why the Crusades. The
"calls for help" from the Byzantine Empire to fight the Turks have been
perhaps overstated. The fortress of Constantinople contained a vast
hoard of wealth dating back to Alexander the Great. The Byzantines could
well-afford to hire on the Franks as mercenaries. The Church needed to
transfer the Frankish Knights' loyalty from the French king to the Pope,
and a Crusade provided the opportunity. While the main Turkish force was
arrayed against Byzantium, the Crusaders struck at the exposed Turkish
flank -- Jerusalem! There only remained the question of how the Knights
would be paid. King Baldwin was appointed Prince of Jerusalem by the
Holy See, the Knights Templar became his de-facto government, and they
immediately set about fortifying their newly-created kingdom with modern
castles built for them by the Masons. Within ten years, the Knights and
an affiliated organization, the Hospitallers, were to amass a vast
fortune in land, castles and merchant fleets, as well as a banking
monopoly that was protected by a special Papal dispensation allowing the
Knights to engage in usury.
This is the key to understanding the Crusades: the rise in importance of
merchant-banking. We must remember that, at the time,
intelligence-gathering was an important function of the traveling
merchant class, later called the merchant adventurers, and that the
eleventh-century bankers and caravan masters formed the nexus of what
was to evolve into our modern intelligence and banking apparatus. The
two functions are inextricable from one another. By either providing or
withholding information, they could influence political affairs. And by
the setting of rates of exchange, the merchant bankers could either
drain a city of its capital, or direct wealth and commerce its way. And
thus it was that the merchant bankers -- who were primarily Jews, and
the upstart Venetians -- were
[CTRL] Diverse Voices
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/ "Far from being the terrorists of the world, the Islamic peoples have been its victims, principally the victims of U.S. fundamentalism, whose power, in all its forms-military, strategic, and economic-is the greatest source of terrorism on Earth People are neither still nor stupid. They see their independence compromised, their resources and land and the lives of their children taken away, and their accusing fingers increasingly point north: to the great enclaves of plunder and privilege. Inevitably, terror breeds terror and more fanaticism. But how patient the oppressed have been. Their distant voices of rage are now heard; the daily horrors in faraway brutalized places have at last come home." John Pilger, author - Hidden Agendas * "The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of the world for a long time, and only now can we begin to know what people have gone through, often as a result of our policies." Howard Zinn * "We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in Third World countries whose resources are coveted by our multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism and in the future, nuclear terrorism." Robert Bowman, Vietnam Veteran, bishop of the United Catholic Church in Melbourne Beach, FL. * "Patriotism itself - love of one's country and one's people - is a natural and reasonable human feeling. But patriotism which measures one's country by military superiority over all rivals regardless of consequence is irrational... There is surely a more rational form of patriotism that searches for excellence in social, economic and moral spheres rather than in weapon systems." Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould, Rollback ** "I believe the profligate waste of our resources on irrelevant weapons systems and the Asian economic meltdown, as well as the continuous trail of military 'accidents' and of terrorist attacks on American installations and embassies, are all portents of a twenty-first century crisis in America's empire, an empire based on the projection of military power to every corner of the world and on the use of American capital and markets to force global economic integration on our terms, at whatever costs to others." Chalmers Johnson - Blowback * " Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied. " Arthur Miller, playwright * "America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical change in the underdeveloped world because independent governments would destroy the world economic and political system, which assures the United States its disproportionate share of economic and political power ... America's preeminent wealth depends upon keeping things in the underdeveloped world much as they are, allowing change and modernization to proceed only in a controlled, orderly, and nonthreatening way." Richard Barnet, Intervention and Revolution * " Rogue states that are internally free - and the U.S. is at the outer limits in this respect - must rely on the willingness of the educated classes to produce accolades and tolerate or deny terrible crimes." Noam Chomsky, Rogue States * "Leaders symbolize what the country stands for. As corruption becomes routine in Washington in both parties, it trickles down as a corrupting influence in everyone's lives... Democracy is the ultimate casualty, and the sapping of democratic life is the most serious contribution of corporate ascendancy to our spiritual decline. As democracy ebbs, Americans retreat into private cocoons, feeling helpless to make a difference... In a democracy, civic participation and the belief in one's ability to contribute to the common good is the most important guarantor of public morality. When that belief fades, so too does the vision of the common good itself." Charles Derber, Corporation Nation * "Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II ** "Military intervention to
[CTRL] Scientists discover anthrax cure
-Caveat Lector- Scientists discover anthrax cure http://jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2001-daily/01-11-2001/world/w13.htm VIENNA: A substance that can destroy anthrax within seconds and could revolutionise the fight against bio-terrorism has been discovered in Austria, scientists said here Wednesday. The spray acts as an anthrax disinfectant, killing anthrax spores in envelopes, on surfaces, on the skin and even in the nose, scientist Apostolos Georgopolous of Vienna General Hospital told AFP. If it passes tests by Austrian health authorities, the spray could revolutionise the treatment of suspicious powders which have brought government offices, media centres and airports across the world to a standstill since the terrorist attacks on the United States of September 11. While anthrax scares currently mean whole buildings have to be evacuated, the new spray could decontaminate the room where a suspicious powder is found without affecting the rest of the building, according to Austrian state health office spokesman Martin Glier. The new substance was used in Vienna General Hospital as a disinfectant for some months before doctors decided to test it to see if it killed anthrax bacteria as well last weekend, Georgopoulos explained. We have found that in practice it is very easy to handle and that it works very well on anthrax, you just spray it on a surface or an envelope and then it's gone. You can even spray it on skin or in the nose, he said. Austrian health authorities are running tests on the substance to see if it can be marketed to a wider audience to deal with anthrax alerts. We are doing our best to speed up the process, Glier said. Since the anthrax scare started with the October 5 death of a photo editor in Florida, two postal workers in Washington have died and another 12 people have been infected with the disease. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The War Against Humanity: Afghan front
-Caveat Lector- from Richard K. Moore Aid officials estimate that up to 7.5 million Afghans might be threatened with starvation. - from article below Friends, The evidence seems to be that more people will die in Afghanistan this winter than died in all of Hitler's concentration camps. During these last few weeks when something might still be done about it, the US-UK Axis continues the bombing raids and drops token food packages - not enough to feed a single village. And these are dropped in the wrong places, often in fields infested with land mines. There is no possibility that the Axis leaders are unaware of the genocidal consequences of their acts, and the token food drops amount to a cynical propaganda ploy to distract public attention from those consequences. Add this to the 1.5 million Iraqi's killed by Axis sanctions, and millions killed by IMF/CIA actions in Rwanda and elsewhere in Africa -- we are witnessing history's greatest intentional holocaust. Following a brief report on the humanitarian disaster, and another about U.S. cover-up measures, there's a longer piece from ZNet. disgusted, rkm http://cyberjournal.org *** Today's commentary on the web: http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2001-10/19albert.cfm ZNet Commentary What's So Complex About It? October 19, 2001 By Michael Albert In the past few weeks I have minutely explored, often with Stephen Shalom, multifold concerns about September 11 and the war on terrorism. With him I have tried to calmly and soberly respond to all kinds of concerns people feel. I recommend doing it. We all need to become adept at rebutting the insanely manipulative media messages that crowd into so many people's minds, and into our own as well. But going straight to the uncomplicated heart of the matter sometimes has merit, too. The U.S. bombing of Afghanistan is a barbaric assault on defenseless civilians. It threatens a nearly incomprehensible human calamity. It is pursuing abominable goals. The bombing is not a just war, as Richard Falk labels it in The Nation, but a vigilante attack. No, it is not a vigilante attack; it is a vigilante lynch-mob assault writ large. No, it is not even a vigilante lynch mob assault writ large--even vigilante lynch mobs go after only those they think are culprits and not innocent bystanders. The bombing of Afghanistan is a gargantuan repugnance hurled against some of the poorest people on the planet. And this gargantuan repugnance is undertaken not out of sincere if horrendously misguided desires to curtail terrorism--since the bombing undeniably manifests terror and feeds the wellsprings of more terrorism to come--but out of malicious desires to establish a new elite-serving logic of U.S. policy-making via an endless War on Terrorism to replace the defunct Cold War. This is rehashed Reaganism made more cataclysmic than even his dismal mind could conceive. When people say, but doesn't the U.S. have a right to defend itself?. I understand their hurt, pain, anger, and confusion. But I also have to admit that I want to scream that the U.S. is increasing the likelihood that a million or more souls will suffer fatal starvation. Is that self defense? Put differently, what kind of thinking sees denying food to humans as self defense? The answer is thinking like Bush's, thinking like bin Laden's, thinking that treats innocent human lives as chess pieces, as checkers, as tidily winks, in pursuit of its own deadly agendas. Thinking that is willing to rocket a plane into a building to take 6,000 innocent lives, or thinking that is willing to drop bombs into an already devastated country abetting cataclysmic starvation. Or, more often, it is thinking that has been systematically denied the most basic information relevant to the issues at hand, and that is too fearful, depressed, angry, or cynical to admit disturbing truths. You think I exaggerate? Jean Ziegler, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said October 15, The bombing has to stop right now. There is a humanitarian emergency. Lest anyone miss the point, he continued, In winter the lorries cannot go in any more. Millions of Afghans will be unreachable in winter and winter is coming very, very soon. As Reuters reported (and AP carried as well, but not any U.S. newspaper or other major media outlet, as best I can tell), the United Nations has warned of a catastrophe unless aid can get through for up to seven million Afghans. Ziegler continues, We must give the (humanitarian) organizations a chance to save the millions of people who are internally displaced (inside Afghanistan), adding that he was echoing an (essentially unreported) appeal made by U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson a few days earlier, who was in turn echoing reports that go back to before the bombing. Ziegler called the bombing a catastrophe for humanitarian work. Or in the words of Christian Aid Spokesman
[CTRL] Kore
KORE Yea, she hath passed hereby, and blessed the sheaves, And the great garths, and stacks, and quiet farms, And all the tawny, and the crimson leaves. Yea, she hath passed with poppies in her arms, Under the star of dusk, through stealing mist, And blessed the earth, and gone, while no man wist. With slow, reluctant feet, and weary eyes, And eye-lids heavy with the coming sleep, With small breasts lifted up in stress of sighs, She passed, as shadows pass, among the sheep; While the earth dreamed, and only I was ware Of that faint fragrance blown from her soft hair. The land lay steeped in peace of silent dreams; There was no sound amid the sacred boughs. Nor any mournful music in her streams: Only I saw the shadow on her brows, Only I knew her for the yearly slain, And wept, and weep until she come again. - Frederic Manning -
[CTRL] So You Want To Be An Orthodoctor?
Original Message From: Chris Case [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some excerpts from: SO YOU WANT TO BE AN ORTHODOCTOR? http://www.nancho.net/memes/orthodoc.html by W.David Kubiak >>>"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of our own choosing." George Orwell >>>..What orthodoctors essentially do (is to) configure the psychic attention fields, the habits of mind, that animate and synchronize vast social bodies and render them agreeably servile to the current tenants in head-quarters. >>>Threats are obvious tools of the trade, but threats are tricky. The efficiency of a body that must individually threaten its members into line is abysmal. An orthodoctrinal threat must not just inspire a specific fear, it must conjure a nameless dread. The best threats are thus implicit, generic, and external to the hierarchy they benefit. >>>Threats justify emotional appeals for individual self-sacrifice in the name of the Greater Good, which inexorably entail the sacrifice of personal rights, freedoms and liberties - "since we must single-mindedly resist this terrible scourge, you will immediately renounce any mind of your own..." >>>...All viable orthodoxies dominate not only the content of their constituents' vision, but also its inclination. They must control who members look up to or down upon, what rules will be observed or overlooked, and how frequently their unifying symbols receive ritual re-spect and re-gard. >>>Without historical exception, orthodoxies exist solely to enforce and embody egregious inequalities. The social bodies they in-form are always vertically aligned - whether by caste, race, class or corporate ranking - with all those beneath the noble brow inescapably working more, owning little, deciding less, and being steeply looked down upon to boot. >>>It appears so self-evident that challenging the corporate crew's invulnerable power today would be so clearly, plainly and obviously futile, that we may justifiably suspect we are caught up in some vast translucent orthodoxy ourselves. For even if we do not personally inhabit either a major corporate org or recognizable hierarchy, we all still abide in a psycho-social environment that has for many intensive generations been cultured from Big Bodies, by Big Bodies, and for Big Bodies. And that ubiquitous miasma just has to affect our air, not to mention taste and vision. >>>An orthodoxy is not merely a static assortment of canons, codes and myths of regulation. It is above all a vital morphogenetic force field that aligns and synchronizes our beings within a hierarchical Greater Whole. Over time, these Wholes become tightly integrated entities bonded with common symbols, customs, language, etc. But the key adhesive is attention. Ultimately, it matters little how unified your values, myths or goals if your members don't pay any attention to them. Rapt attention, whether elicited with fear, love or fascination, is thus the vital precursor of all social synchronization and the life force that in-forms, nourishes and animates all corporate bodies. >>>Next to Japan, Inc., the happiest exemplar of social organismics has to be our ancient amigo, the slime mold. The slime mold is not a civilized beast but, for a brief and shining moment at least, it is a paragon of orthodoxy and a startling corporate parable. A typical specimen starts off as hundreds of thousands of rugged individual amoebas trysting and boogying across the forest floor. One day, however, if the good life starts to wane and the living gets un-easy, low frequency angst starts to reverberate through the population. Out of this troubled time, a leader or "founder cell" rises up and sends forth a gaseous clarion call. The masses quickly throng to its charismatic chemistry, swarm atop its bandwagon, and eventually form a micro skyscraping spire of sweaty melded bodies called a grex. This pulsing phallic collective then magically comes alive with its own esprit de corps, subordinates all individual liberties to the Will and Progress of the Greater Whole, and single-mindedly inches off toward a promised Babylon. OK, that part is civilized enough. The wild part is that grex leaders keep their promises. After long but swift migrations, they bring their incorporated brethren to some auspicious eminence and expose them to the light. When a shaft finally strikes a grex from behind, it reacts with yet another miracle. Its leadership hunkers down and launches its members aloft in a glowing group gondola where each working class cell reclaims its individuality, identity and a buoyant spore parachute. They burst free, ride the wind and resume singular life in some brave new world. This final rite of passage is called fruition, and is doubly wondrous because the leaders profit not. In a truly mythic display of publi
[CTRL] Washington Plots, Moscow Crawls, Kabul Burns
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by Jared Israel [19 October 2001]
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We in India have always been victims of terrorists from Pakistan. Many
times the Pakistan government would be on the Terrorist Watch List of
the U.S., but the U.S. would never brand them terrorists. How can the
Pakistan government be an ally to fight terrorism? They are the
terrorists. Remember that the 1993 bomber of WTC found sanctuary in
Pakistan. As for the U.S., when Indians were being killed by the Islamic
terror groups from Pakistan and Afghanistan, it wasn't terrorism - it
was a dispute. But when the exact same groups attack the U.S., it is
World Terrorism. (Arvind Kumar, a reader in California)
Colin Powell flew into Pakistan and gave a press conference two days
ago. U.S. fighter-bombers have been flying into Afghanistan all week.
On 17 October, the 'New York Times' reported:
American pilots have for the first time been freed to choose their own
targets and fire at will within specific zones around Taliban
strongholds in Afghanistan, senior Pentagon officials said today. United
States commanders warned that none of the Kabul leadership's forces were
immune from attack.
Tell that to the Red Cross. While President Bush was exhorting school
children to:
'go out and mow a lawn or do somebody a favor to earn a dollar' to help
the children of Afghanistan, and told them to send it directly to the
White House to be turned over to a Red Cross fund. ('Washington Post,'
17 October)
U.S. planes were bombing the Red Cross in Afghanistan:
'U.S. forces did not know that I.C.R.C. was using one or more of the
warehouses,' a Pentagon statement said. The Red Cross said each of five
warehouses in its compound was marked on the roof with a large red
cross. The raids occurred at about 1 p.m., in daylight, the agency
said. ('N.Y. Times,' 17 October 2001)
This is strikingly reminiscent of U.S. military crimes and
justifications in the 1999 war against Yugoslavia. There too, buildings
with red crosses on the roofs were bombed in daylight, though always by
accident. (1)
If clearly marked Red Cross buildings are not safe in the bright light
of day, then any structure, animal or person, with the bad luck to be
situated in a 'fire at will' zone may be blown to pieces. And we will
never hear about most such crimes because a) the U.S. military is
enforcing tight media control and b) most of the victims won't have the
Public Relations clout of the International Red Cross. Here's a
philosophical problem for you: if a child screams in pain but you are
not there to hear it, is he or she actually wounded?
[Residents of Kabul, Afghanistan look for belongings amid the rubble of
their home, Oct. 18. Four children were killed. Sayed Salahuddin/Reuters]
Why isn't this terrorism?
Because the U.S. government says it's not. Instead, we are told, it is
the unfortunate but unavoidable consequence of war, as if some natural
process were in control, as if the U.S. military command were helpless
to prevent the occurrence of 'fire at will' zones.
According to Washington, which has yet to present evidence that the WTC
horror was in fact masterminded from Afghanistan, it has no choice. but
to bomb. Thousands of hours of media broadcasts and miles of newsprint
support this claim, so who are we to ask for evidence?
Government officials and the media say: Bin Laden's terrorists are
attacking us. We have no choice but to wage 'infinite war' to root out
such terrorism.
Elsewhere we have argued that this answer is either weak or crazy. But
as more facts come to light, it becomes increasingly clear that this
answer is a conscious lie. (2)
The proof lies in one word: Pakistan. Pakistan is a key supporting
player in the infinite war, supposedly against terrorism.
On the 16th, Secretary Colin Powell held a joint press conference in
Islamabad with Gen. Pervez Musharraf, military dictator of Pakistan.
Here's what the 'New York Times' reported:
[Start 'New York Times' Quote:]
The United States and Pakistan agreed today to work urgently for the
creation of a new, broad-based government in Afghanistan that both sides
said could include moderate elements of the Taliban movement whose
present leadership is now a target for the American-led military
campaign.
Secretary Powell said he had come to tell Pakistan that the United
States -- long chastised here as having abandoned its cold war ally
following the collapse of the Soviet Union -- was returning to
demonstrate our enduring commitment to a great Muslim nation. ...
The high praise heaped on Pakistan provided a curious sight: an
American secretary of state standing next to a general in uniform who
seized power in a military coup, and lauding his achievements.
[CTRL] The War of Nerves
-Caveat Lector- The War of Nerves 2130 GMT, 011001 stratfor.com Summary Having resisted the temptation of precipitous retaliatory strikes on al-Qa'ida and Afghanistan's Taliban regime, the United States has entered a period of classic psychological warfare. Just as Americans have no way of knowing when, where or how suspected Islamic radicals might strike again, the Taliban and al-Qa'ida also must live in a state of constant tension. Both sides must diffuse their forces to protect possible targets, creating defensive weak spots -- and both sides hope to wear the other down to a point of capitulation. Analysis The key to victory is surprise. Surprise, like war, exists on three levels: strategic (whether there will be an attack), operational (how the attack will be carried out) and tactical (where and when the attack will occur). On Sept. 11 al-Qa'ida achieved tactical and operational surprise, even though it lost strategic surprise long ago. On that day, the United States lost strategic surprise as well. There was and has been no question that the United States intends to make war on al-Qa'ida, and by now, it is clear that some sort of war also will be waged against the Taliban government of Afghanistan. What the United States has fought hard during the past two weeks to develop and retain is operational and tactical surprise. Both al-Qa'ida and the United States are carefully cloaking the operational and tactical levels. It is likely that al-Qa'ida will strike again, though it is not known how, when or where that attack will be carried out. The United States was in danger of losing operational surprise early in the new war on terrorism, when the desire to act immediately was strong and the assumption was the United States would respond as it had in the past, with cruise missile attacks aimed at a variety of targets. Washington resisted the temptation of precipitous action, creating increasing uncertainty on the strategic and tactical levels. The resistance is more than simply regaining the element of surprise and initiative. The period we are now in is a war of nerves. Al-Qa'ida has created a profound uncertainty within the United States as to whether it will strike again and if so, how, where and when. It is of course unknown whether al-Qa'ida is capable of another attack now or in the future. This very uncertainty creates the foundation for follow-on attacks. This is a form of psychological warfare that achieves several things. First, because there is no good operational and tactical intelligence as to al-Qa'ida's next move, the United States must defend many possible targets against many types of possible attack. Because everything cannot be equally defended, al-Qa'ida can wait, observe the defensive system and attack the weakest point. Second, uncertainty raises tensions, increases the likelihood of response to imagined threats and exhausts the defenders physically and psychologically. Third, al-Qa'ida can choose to transmit false information about impending attacks to raise tensions and trigger unwarranted offensive operations. Finally, within this atmosphere, the probability that false alarms will lead to a lessened state of alertness opens the door to more opportunities. The United States is now establishing the same dynamic within the Afghan theater of operations. There is no question that an attack is coming. The United States has, however, created a profound sense of uncertainty as to the timing, nature and targets of the attack. Washington has carefully released information that U.S. and British Special Forces are already in Afghanistan. It made certain the Taliban and al-Qa'ida knew four carrier battle groups were stationed offshore. Using local and international news channels, it very publicly made clear that the United States has deployed some forces in Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. It has stated that U.S. forces are hot on the trail of Osama bin Laden. Washington is capable of launching air strikes at any time. It is constantly releasing information that various facilities might be attacked in a matter of days or that certain people might be captured at any hour. This campaign, like al-Qa'ida's, works because it is quite possibly true -- but not certainly true. Therefore al-Qa'ida and the Taliban must live in a state of constant tension, unsure when, where or how the strikes will come. Like the United States, the Taliban and al-Qa'ida must now defend all assets against operational and tactical uncertainty. In being forced to diffuse defenses, they create opportunities that U.S. intelligence can observe and exploit. The Taliban and al-Qa'ida must expend tremendous energy in unceasing alerts triggered by imagination, deliberate disinformation and genuine threats. Very soon, their intelligence and other forces will not be able to distinguish between imagination, lies and truth. The fact that the United States must
[CTRL] Is this clear enough?
-Caveat Lector- Check out this document with the FBI's definitions of domestic terrorist groups. Then go to http://www.pgpi.org/ and download your free copy of the PGP encryption program while you still can Chris http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress01/freeh051001.htm The FBI views domestic terrorism as the unlawful use, or threatened use, of violence by a group or individual that is based and operating entirely within the United States or its territories without foreign direction and which is committed against persons or property with the intent of intimidating or coercing a government or its population in furtherance of political or social objectives. The second category of domestic terrorists, left-wing groups, generally profess a revolutionary socialist doctrine and view themselves as protectors of the people against the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and imperialism. They aim to bring about change in the United States through revolution rather than through the established political process. Anarchists and extremist socialist groups -- many of which, such as the Workers'World Party, Reclaim the Streets, and Carnival Against Capitalism -- have an international presence and, at times, also represent a potential threat in the United States. For example, anarchists, operating individually and in groups, caused much of the damage during the 1999 World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Seattle. Special interest terrorism differs from traditional right-wing and left-wing terrorism in that extremist special interest groups seek to resolve specific issues, rather than effect more widespread political change. Special interest extremists continue to conduct acts of politically motivated violence to force segments of society, including, the general public, to change attitudes about issues considered important to their causes. These groups occupy the extreme fringes of animal rights, pro-life, environmental, anti-nuclear, and other political and social movements. 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] EDWARD W. SAID: The Clash of Ignorance
The Clash of Ignorance by EDWARD W. SAID Samuel Huntington's article "The Clash of Civilizations?" appeared in the Summer 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs, where it immediately attracted a surprising amount of attention and reaction. Because the article was intended to supply Americans with an original thesis about "a new phase" in world politics after the end of the cold war, Huntington's terms of argument seemed compellingly large, bold, even visionary. He very clearly had his eye on rivals in the policy-making ranks, theorists such as Francis Fukuyama and his "end of history" ideas, as well as the legions who had celebrated the onset of globalism, tribalism and the dissipation of the state. But they, he allowed, had understood only some aspects of this new period. He was about to announce the "crucial, indeed a central, aspect" of what "global politics is likely to be in the coming years." Unhesitatingly he pressed on: "It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future." Most of the argument in the pages that followed relied on a vague notion of something Huntington called "civilization identity" and "the interactions among seven or eight [sic] major civilizations," of which the conflict between two of them, Islam and the West, gets the lion's share of his attention. In this belligerent kind of thought, he relies heavily on a 1990 article by the veteran Orientalist Bernard Lewis, whose ideological colors are manifest in its title, "The Roots of Muslim Rage." In both articles, the personification of enormous entities called "the West" and "Islam" is recklessly affirmed, as if hugely complicated matters like identity and culture existed in a cartoonlike world where Popeye and Bluto bash each other mercilessly, with one always more virtuous pugilist getting the upper hand over his adversary. Certainly neither Huntington nor Lewis has much time to spare for the internal dynamics and plurality of every civilization, or for the fact that the major contest in most modern cultures concerns the definition or interpretation of each culture, or for the unattractive possibility that a great deal of demagogy and downright ignorance is involved in presuming to speak for a whole religion or civilization. No, the West is the West, and Islam Islam. The challenge for Western policy-makers, says Huntington, is to make sure that the West gets stronger and fends off all the others, Islam in particular. More troubling is Huntington's assumption that his perspective, which is to survey the entire world from a perch outside all ordinary attachments and hidden loyalties, is the correct one, as if everyone else were scurrying around looking for the answers that he has already found. In fact, Huntington is an ideologist, someone who wants to make "civilizations" and "identities" into what they are not: shut-down, sealed-off entities that have been purged of the myriad currents and countercurrents that animate human history, and that over centuries have made it possible for that history not only to contain wars of religion and imperial conquest but also to be one of exchange, cross-fertilization and sharing. This far less visible history is ignored in the rush to highlight the ludicrously compressed and constricted warfare that "the clash of civilizations" argues is the reality. When he published his book by the same title in 1996, Huntington tried to give his argument a little more subtlety and many, many more footnotes; all he did, however, was confuse himself and demonstrate what a clumsy writer and inelegant thinker he was. The basic paradigm of West versus the rest (the cold war opposition reformulated) remained untouched, and this is what has persisted, often insidiously and implicitly, in discussion since the terrible events of September 11. The carefully planned and horrendous, pathologically motivated suicide attack and mass slaughter by a small group of deranged militants has been turned into proof of Huntington's thesis. Instead of seeing it for what it is--the capture of big ideas (I use the word loosely) by a tiny band of crazed fanatics for criminal purposes--international luminaries from former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have pontificated about Islam's troubles, and in the latter's case have used Huntington's ideas to rant on about the West's superiority, how "we" have Mozart and Michelangelo and they don't. (Berlusconi has since made a halfhearted apology for his insult to
[CTRL] Have Respect, Will Crusade
-Caveat Lector- From: "Ananova" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi says Western civilisation is superior to Islamic civilisation. He also says he hopes the West conquers Islamic civilization. He told a news conference: "We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and in contrast with Islamic countries - respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its values understandings of diversity and tolerance." He also claimed Western civilization is superior because it "has at its core, as its greatest value, freedom, which is not the heritage of Islamic culture". Berlusconi went on to say that he trusts "the West will continue to conquer peoples, like it conquered Communism" even if it means a confrontation with "another civilization, the Islamic one, stuck where it was 1,400 years ago". 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] Time Plugs All Leaks
-Caveat Lector- There is going to be a time, hopefully in the near future, where people say, 'Gosh, my life is almost normal. September 11 is a sad memory, but it's a memory', Bush told workers at the Central Intelligence Agency. See this story on the web at http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_409068.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[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] Purple Prose Isn't Enough
-Caveat Lector- Bill Richer reposted: * Flag-waving isn't enough* by David H. Hackworth The uncanny appropriateness of the purported author's name suggests that this essay is some kind of parody, an impression confirmed by the miasma of cognitive retardation exuded by such concept-blocks as: be prepared for this conflict to take years and cost all the true grit our nation can muster. from each setback we learned and grew stronger -- and ever more determined to fight on. ... crafting and delivering a mighty international fist... Now that we're under siege, every citizen must stay minefield alert. Any activity that appears suspicious should be reported at once. The fiends we're up against are dedicated fanatics - often well educated - who hate our country and what it stands for with every fiber of their twisted souls. They'll continue to go after us as tenaciously as Japan's World War II suicide soldiers, whom we had to burn and blast one by one out of caves from Guadalcanal to Okinawa. [So the kamikaze were right after all in their belief that if you crashed gloriously for the Emperor you would be immediately reborn in a cave on some tropical island. Or perhaps the writer refers to those suicidal infantrymen who went deep underground to try to slash their wrists with strips of bamboo. ] there's the slow lifting of countless rocks in order to tear out the terrorist tentacles wrapped around our everyday lives. [and while we're there, nip in the bud the grassroots of the whirlwind of terror that will silently undermine the foundations of the ship of state...] ..real patriotism won't be about waving a flag or singing a song. It will be having the courage and commitment to stay with this war until dawn's early light, even after we're long weary of the slow-going and the sacrifice. [not to mention the cliches and solecisms...] © 2001 David H. Hackworth 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 to Wage War for USSR Inheritance
-Caveat Lector- http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/afghan2.htm === America to Wage War for USSR Inheritance by Anatoli Baranov [posted 20 September 2001] === The world is waiting for the war. There are so many different messages appearing on this subject, it is hard to read them all. It is also hard to say how many people on the planet try to guess what will happen in the nearest future. The sources in the Russian special services are not standing aside in this respect and PRAVDA.Ru has recently touched upon one of them. According to the estimations from this very respectable organization, the USAís incursion into Afghanistan will be carried out taking into consideration the British and Russian experiences. Missiles and bombardment will be used under the old scenario and special military forces will be used as well ñ nothing new... America will increase its military presence along the entire 40th parallel, which is what we can see now in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia; soon we will also see it in the republics of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenia, and Uzbekistan. The Injirlik military base, which is deployed in Turkey, will surely be modernized, and this base will become one of the key points of the American presence. The establishment of reserve points on the territory of several countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States will be performed under different forms. However, the mid-Caspian area and Turkmeniaís deposits will be taken under the control of the United States. It should be mentioned that the authorities of Azerbaijan and Georgia republics are in willing contact with NATO and the United States. The republics of Middle Asia are more reserved in their aspiration to change their orientation from Russia to the USA, because these republics are situated far away from the American bases and Russiaís military presence is there. The operation in Afghanistan has the following objective: to make the region closer to the zone of USAís vital interests. To begin with, the American army intends to gain control of the airports and other areas on Turkmenistanís territory (including the former Soviet republic in Termez). It is interesting that America is interested in the former Soviet base Bagram, which is on the territory of Afghanistan. This base is currently under the control of NATO. In addition, the USA is going to bring its influence back into NATO: the tragic and very ìtimelyî Ahmad Shah Masoodís death (Afghan opposition leader). Therefore, Russiaís control over the region of Central Asia is going to fade away. The same thing will happen with its control over the Caucasus. The USA will make the republics of Middle Asia to reconsider the Collective Security Treaty of the CIS and Russian troops will be called back to Russian territory. The United States will gain total control over Central Asia, over the Indian ocean, and the country will be able to efficiently control the processes in Indo-China and Indonesia. This will actually bring about the total control of the United States of America over the Islamic world, since the moves of Iran, Pakistan, and Iraq will depend upon the military presence of the United States. This scenario raises a lot of doubts regarding the versions of the acts of terrorism in New York and Washington, for there is only one country that is gaining absolute and long-term profit out of these acts. However there are doubts about the lack of information of the other members of the western intelligence community regarding the preparation for the terrorist attack. Most likely, such information was available, but all of the special services were blocking it for some reason. In this case, it is absolutely not important who gave the freedom of action to the suicidal terrorists. Slightly abridged from text by Anatoli Baranov PRAVDA.Ru *** Further Reading: ...An argument similar to Mr. Baranov's is made in 'Washington Wants Afghanistan' at http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/afghan.htm 1) Like a man with a guilty conscience, the U.S. government and its NATO allies constantly denounce terror while routinely employing it in international affairs. See for example: 'WASHINGTON: PARENT OF THE TALIBAN AND COLOMBIAN 'DEATH SQUADS' at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/mis.htm 'WHAT NATO OCCUPATION WOULD MEAN FOR MACEDONIANS' First-hand report of the state of terror instituted when NATO took over Kosovo. Can be read at http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe-a.htm ''Five Years On the Lies Continue.' Discussion of the use by the U.S.-sponsored Islamist regime in Sarajevo of systematic terror against Serbian villagers in Bosnia. Can be read at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/texts.htm 'Meet Mr. Massacre' - Concerning U.S. Balkans envoy William Walker's death squad activities in Latin American. Can be read at http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/meetmr.htm 2) 'Criminal
[CTRL] Plunging DOW
-Caveat Lector- Wow, have a look at http://www.bloomberg.com/ Every time the screen refreshes, the DOW is down another few points. On the surface, this looks like a blow to corporate America, but one recalls that the crash of 1929 was in large part engineered by financial and industrial interests who were able to step in at the bottom and buy everything up very cheaply. Anybody got a favourite link on that topic, BTW? If all of this is part of a longterm plan which includes occupying Afghanistan and some of its neighbours to secure Middle eastern oil, one can imagine these recent crashes to appear to some a small price to pay to consolidate hegemeny, and that in the long run corporate stocks will be worth even more, especially if bought at bargain basement prices... One wonders if the mysterious shortselling preceding the WTC attacks is exclusively traceable to Bin Laden... A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Konformist: WAR IS A RACKET
-Caveat Lector- For the amazing (?) story of Gen. Butler and his role in foiling the Morgan-Dupont-etc. attempted coup against Roosevelt, see http://www.webcom.com/ctka/pr399-fdr.html The coup attempt against FDR gives us an historical precedent to conclude that powerful interests will consider using every available means including political murder in order to pursue their personal wealth. *** Robert Sterling wrote: WAR IS A RACKET SMEDLEY BUTLER Smedley Butler on Interventionism -- Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC. -- War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket. There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its finger men to point out enemies, its muscle men to destroy enemies, its brain men to plan war preparations, and a Big Boss Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism. It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service. I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents. If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit: http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist 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] Definitions
-Caveat Lector- Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like a serious bummer. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. . . . 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] Uh-huh
-Caveat Lector- President Bush's cousin should have been in the World Trade Centre when it was attacked. Jim Pierce, managing director of AON Corporations, had arranged a business conference on the 105th floor of the South Tower where its New York offices were based. But his group was too large so they decided to move across the street to the Millennium Hotel. Two hundred AON staff are missing. See this story on the web at http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_401406.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[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] Sammy the Bull
-Caveat Lector- thew wrote: this is the kind of stuff i read saba for never know in advance how far she will go amazing *** Me too, but then I've always been fascinated by Mafia tales. So is the American public, perhaps because they exemplify so clearly the fundamental methods and structure of business and politics. People used to laugh when I suggested that politics, business, and enforcement were all different aspects of organised crime, but not so many chuckles any more... I still can't figure out, though, why Saba has such a soft spot for Gotti... I sometimes wonder if Saba is actually a bot created by Robert Anton Wilson to serve as a stabilising influence on the rest of us, in the way someone going overboard encourages others to hold onto the halyards. ..and even madmen manage to convey Unwelcome truths in lonely gibberish -W.H. Auden- 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] A Patriotic Prayer
-Caveat Lector- O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle--be Thou near them! With them--in spirit--we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen. -Mark Twain- 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] Jihad vs. McWorld
-Caveat Lector- Here, in its well-worth-reading entirety, is the well-known and seemingly quite prescient article published in the Atlantic Monthy in 1992, Jihad vs. McWorld. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/barberf.htm M A R C H 1 9 9 2 The two axial principles of our age -- tribalism and globalism -- clash at every point except one: they may both be threatening to democracy by Benjamin R. Barber Just beyond the horizon of current events lie two possible political futures -- both bleak, neither democratic. The first is a retribalization of large swaths of humankind by war and bloodshed: a threatened Lebanonization of national states in which culture is pitted against culture, people against people, tribe against tribe -- a Jihad in the name of a hundred narrowly conceived faiths against every kind of interdependence, every kind of artificial social cooperation and civic mutuality. The second is being borne in on us by the onrush of economic and ecological forces that demand integration and uniformity and that mesmerize the world with fast music, fast computers, and fast food -- with MTV, Macintosh, and McDonald's, pressing nations into one commercially homogenous global network: one McWorld tied together by technology, ecology, communications, and commerce. The planet is falling precipitantly apart AND coming reluctantly together at the very same moment. These two tendencies are sometimes visible in the same countries at the same instant: thus Yugoslavia, clamoring just recently to join the New Europe, is exploding into fragments; India is trying to live up to its reputation as the world's largest integral democracy while powerful new fundamentalist parties like the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, along with nationalist assassins, are imperiling its hard-won unity. States are breaking up or joining up: the Soviet Union has disappeared almost overnight, its parts forming new unions with one another or with like-minded nationalities in neighboring states. The old interwar national state based on territory and political sovereignty looks to be a mere transitional development. The tendencies of what I am here calling the forces of Jihad and the forces of McWorld operate with equal strength in opposite directions, the one driven by parochial hatreds, the other by universalizing markets, the one re-creating ancient subnational and ethnic borders from within, the other making national borders porous from without. They have one thing in common: neither offers much hope to citizens looking for practical ways to govern themselves democratically. If the global future is to pit Jihad's centrifugal whirlwind against McWorld's centripetal black hole, the outcome is unlikely to be democratic -- or so I will argue. McWorld, or the Globalization of Politics Four imperatives make up the dynamic of McWorld: a market imperative, a resource imperative, an information-technology imperative, and an ecological imperative. By shrinking the world and diminishing the salience of national borders, these imperatives have in combination achieved a considerable victory over factiousness and particularism, and not least of all over their most virulent traditional form -- nationalism. It is the realists who are now Europeans, the utopians who dream nostalgically of a resurgent England or Germany, perhaps even a resurgent Wales or Saxony. Yesterday's wishful cry for one world has yielded to the reality of McWorld. THE MARKET IMPERATIVE. Marxist and Leninist theories of imperialism assumed that the quest for ever-expanding markets would in time compel nation-based capitalist economies to push against national boundaries in search of an international economic imperium. Whatever else has happened to the scientistic predictions of Marxism, in this domain they have proved farsighted. All national economies are now vulnerable to the inroads of larger, transnational markets within which trade is free, currencies are convertible, access to banking is open, and contracts are enforceable under law. In Europe, Asia, Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas such markets are eroding national sovereignty and giving rise to entities -- international banks, trade associations, transnational lobbies like OPEC and Greenpeace, world news services like CNN and the BBC, and multinational corporations that increasingly lack a meaningful national identity -- that neither reflect nor respect nationhood as an organizing or regulative principle. The market imperative has also reinforced the quest for international peace and stability, requisites of an efficient international economy. Markets are enemies of parochialism, isolation, fractiousness, war. Market psychology attenuates the psychology of ideological and religious cleavages and assumes a concord among producers and consumers -- categories that ill fit narrowly conceived national or religious cultures. Shopping has little tolerance for blue laws, whether dictated by
[CTRL] Nostradamus tops the best sellers
-Caveat Lector- Nostradamus tops the best sellers God is losing ground to the doomsayers Special report: terrorism in the US Mark Lawson Saturday September 15, 2001 The Guardian The events in America touch at almost every turn on technology: the benevolent and malevolent uses of our inventions. In the central catastrophe, one of man's proudest pieces of engineering was flown into another. And - for every warming story of the cell-phone or email system which allowed a call for help or reassurance to a loved one - there was the thought that these same communications almost certainly allowed the terrorists and their overlord to synchronise the cataclysm. Indeed, our frequent ambiguity about scientific development may be encapsulated in this question: is it better or worse that a person about to die on an aeroplane is able to make a goodbye call from the sky? Now - following events on global live television - we wait to see which of the potential nightmares available in military technology George Bush might call on. And yesterday one aspect of modern technology allowed us an extraordinary insight into the effect of these events on the American psyche. The online bookseller amazon. com runs a best-seller list, which is updated hourly. By yesterday evening, three of the top five titles were about or by the celebrated doomsayer Nostradumus, with The Complete Prophecies at number one. The other two were a history of the World Trade Centre by an architectural writer who can never have expected the twin towers to become history, and a volume about how to fight terrorism. We may feel this week that this book, if it were honest, would be short on specifics. Amazon's ability to give an instant tally of national reading, however, gives a new tool to cultural commentary: a sort of psychological opinion poll. It was to be expected that, when Princess Diana died, sales of books about her would increase but it never occurred to me that Tuesday's war on New York would provoke a similar reaction. What, after all, would be the subject of the books you would buy? For - unlike earlier, much smaller rehearsals for this news story, such as the deaths of President Kennedy and Diana - the dead were not the kind to have biographies of them written. But now we know from amazon that, just as they did with Diana, people have craved, as information or souvenir, works about the central celebrity involved: the Twin Towers. Fascinatingly, they have also in large numbers sought to make sense of this unimaginable event in the imagination of Nostradamus. It is a measure of the fear and derangement now at loose quite understandably in the American mind that people can find consolation in the idea that a 16th-century French astrologer, writing long before aeroplanes or skyscrapers existed, somehow knew the Manhattan holocaust was scheduled. This widespread reading of the seer touches, though, on the more general question of what can reassure and console at times like this. The Americans who turn towards Nostradamus arise from an instinctively religious society. As citizens of a largely secular culture, the British have never comprehended the extent to which America believes itself to be a nation blessed and directed by God but it cannot be properly understood without this perspective. George Bush, a born-again Christian who is reported to pray on the telephone most days with his Bible advisers, almost certainly believes this. For all the inflammatory rhetoric about Islam in America now, there are without doubt those in the Bush administration who believe in the concept of holy war from the Christian perspective. Part of the shock to America's self-image has been a sense of divine abandonment. The preachers in America's thousands of churches this Sunday face their greatest intellectual challenge: explaining where God was in the skies above the US on Tuesday. At times like this, you can see why Nostradamus - who simply warned in universally applicable terms of disasters from now until doom - might be an easier sell than God, who promised to care what happened to us. Those for whom neither God nor Nostradamus work turn for consolation to ritual. But, however President Bush discharges his role as commander-in-chief, there is a growing consensus that he is failing in a crucial part of a politician's job: the crisis ceremonial. He has so far found neither language nor body language. Improbably, after such failures in the Diana week, Buckingham Palace has been impeccable in this regard. Incorporating the American national anthem in the changing of the guard was a genuinely moving touch. Perhaps, finally, it is music which most reliably consoles. Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings was played yesterday in Washington Cathedral and tonight forms part of an emergency programme at the Last Night of the Proms. This piece has become an American equivalent of Verdi's Requiem since Oliver Stone chose it for the soundtrack of his Vietnam movie
[CTRL] Citizen-produced coverage
-Caveat Lector- Computers and digital communications were too few and far between in Yugoslavia for the strife in Kosovo to have been a real Internet war. But one of the most striking things about the terrorist attacks in Washington and New York was the outpouring of outstanding Internet coverage from ordinary citizens. The terrorist strikes prompted an avalanche of personal accounts, photographs and videos of the terrible events from people on the ground. And not only was citizen-produced coverage sometimes more accessible than professional news organizations, it was often more compelling. Amateur videos of the events posted on the Net are full of heart-wrenching expressions of shock, fear and disbelief. Even if the soundtrack is just a string of expletives, it's an emotional response that carries the story home. And while there were many powerful photographs of the tragedy taken by both professional and amateur photographers, some of the most intimate and unexpected shots came from outside the community of professionals. Compare, for example, the clichéd photo of three firemen raising a flag against a disturbing shot of a dazed elderly man emerging from the dust. Of course, a lot of these amateurs aren't amateurs at all. They are among New York's creative or media professionals ?- photographers, designers and writers. Written accounts of the terrorist strikes and their aftermath also provided an intimacy that many news reports lacked. Take, for example, an account from Usman Farman, a Muslim who fell to the ground as one of the towers collapsed. I was on my back, facing this massive cloud that was approaching, it must have been 600 feet off, everything was already dark, Farman wrote. I normally wear a pendant around my neck, inscribed with an Arabic prayer for safety; similar to the cross. A Hasidic Jewish man came up to me and held the pendant in his hand, and looked at it. He read the Arabic out loud for a second. What he said next, I will never forget. With a deep Brooklyn accent he said, 'Brother, if you don't mind, there is a cloud of glass coming at us, grab my hand, let's get the hell out of here.' He helped me stand up, and we ran for what seemed like forever without looking back. Most of the amateur content would be inaccessible, or at least hard to find, if not for many of the Web's outstanding weblogs, which function as portals to personal content. Some higher-profile weblogs, Slashdot, Metafilter, Scripting News, Kottke and SiliconValley.com, have done an excellent job of helping funnel traffic to smaller sites, many of which have pictures, accounts, opinions and ideas superior to anything found in the mainstream media. And while The New York Times, the old, gray lady, was full of bloodthirsty war-mongering, ordinary citizens gathered online to present a wide range of opinions. Depending on where you looked, there were measured calls for restraint, investigation and thought before action. Of course, there was also plenty of bloodlust, chest-thumping and stupidity, but online there was at least a debate. Now we're about to get deeply involved in some nasty, subtle, dangerous politics, and the public doesn't even know who the players are, wrote Eric Kidd to Scripting News' mail page. The press ought to stop poking people's wounds and start educating the American public before we encourage our leaders to do something stupid. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46862,00.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[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] Mood of the U.S.
-Caveat Lector- A poster: http://www.rense.com/1.imagesC/poster.jpg 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] M0ssad?
-Caveat Lector- Stern-Intel (Canada). A US military intelligence source revealed details of an internal intelligence memo that points to the Israeli Mossad intelligence service having links to the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. The intelligence source, who requested his name be withheld, confirmed the internal US intelligence memo circulated four weeks ago described information that pointed to the threat of a covert Israeli operation on US soil to turn mass public opinion against Palestinian Arabs via an apparent terrorist attack on US interests that would give Israel the green light to implement a large scale military onslaught against the Palestinian Arab population. The 11 September attack has been described by experts as being too sophisticated for a lone terrorist group to execute. This attack required a high level of military precision and the resources of an advanced intelligence agency. In addition, the attackers would have needed to be extremely familiar with both air force one flight operations, civil airline flight paths and aerial assault tactics on sensitive US cities like Washington, Stated David Stern an expert on Israeli intelligence operations. The attacks targeted the Pentagon, World Trade Center towers, with the White House and Air Force One also being targets according to the FBI. The attacks have certainly turned US public opinion firmly back in Israel's favor after 11 months of Palestinian uprising, heavy criticism of Israel over war crimes allegations and racism by a UN conference in Durban. The attacks serve no Arab group or nation's interests but their timing came in the midst of international condemnation of Israel for its policy of death squad assassination of Palestinian political and police figures, added Stern. If verified, the news of Israel's involvement in the US attack will come as no surprise to intelligence experts. The state of Israel has a long history of covert operations against Western targets with attacks on the King David Hotel, USS Liberty, murder of a Scandinavian UN envoy as well as espionage against the US during the Jonathan Pollard case. On Wednesday the US defense department issued a warning to its officials to halt the leak of information on the investigation which it says is happening on a daily basis since the attacks occurred. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Militarization Of Earth
-Caveat Lector- The Militarization Of Earth By Diane Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9-15-1 Watching unfolding events in this country is like being forced to stand by helplessly as an ambulance chaser deliberately sells a ruinously expensive fake burial policy to a grief-stricken mother at the site of her children's fatal car crash. Those who have been waiting for just such an opportunity are cleverly manipulating natural human reactions to catastrophic events, hour-by-hour, and day-by-day, in the most outrageous and sickening manner possible. People are being summarily herded quickly along, and rushed over both the fine print and the finer points of reason, before they can wake up and come to their senses. The citizens of this country are eagerly accepting all the ongoing specious simulations of reality and constant barrage of half-truths simply because they are too stunned to notice what is actually happening. At any normal time sane people would resolutely balk at that which they are begging for right now. While suffering human beings are still in a highly convenient state of shock, the military is avidly and methodically seizing the day. They very naturally have no trouble whatsoever using their present surge of sincere anger and patriotism (and everyone else's) to justify this great leap forward toward their ultimate goal. The nauseating spectacle of cold-blooded hypocritical power preying on the most sacred human emotions and using them in order to achieve its own ends is nothing new, although this time it is far more shameless than usual. But the sheer scale and ultimate plan of this present gathering of the professionally opportunistic is unprecedented. While people are still in the throes of deepest anxiety and sorrow, the military-industrial complex, wholly at-one with the government, is about to launch itself in a nearly uncontested bid for control this planet. The smoke has not yet cleared, literally or figuratively, and it is not going to be allowed to clear. Half-truth after half-truth is being cannily and sequentially sold to traumatized people in order to silence all objections to what is to come. Waving American flags and singing The Battle Hymn of the Republic, the citizens of this country are signing away the future of freedom in the name of Protecting the Homeland. Before anyone rejoices overmuch at how American military technology and power will inevitable destroy opposing hostile forces in the world, it would be best to think through what the world will look like when they do succeed. Anyone who has been paying attention in the last few years to the advances in military capabilities knows that we have been seeing the most dangerous imaginable types of new technology roll out of the defense establishment. There has been a public outcry, to a small degree, at the damage being done to human beings, to other forms of life, and to the environment through some of these new weapons systems. Now, suddenly, we are thrust into a situation where a handy blank check has been deposited in the military-industrial expense account. We have said in a moment of human pain: please go right ahead and dominate the oceans, the ground, the near-space environment, and the high ground of space, however you wish to do so. Those who have been fighting against the rising tide of secrecy in these matters, and demanding accountability in government and military operations, must understand that this cause has just been overridden altogether. Whatever the military would like to do, whatever dangerous and deadly technologies it would like to employ, it is now perfectly free to do so, in what we are told will be years of war ahead. We know that the modern military has a full range of psychological, electromagnetic, chemical and biological, laser, microwave and scalar weapons technologies ready to deploy. And by the time people get around to realizing what they have bargained for it will be far too late to do anything about it. Internal security matters and external security matters will leave each one of us minutely accounted for and tracked for life. And for a time, we will think of it as a necessary evil. Down the road someday, when all the coming spying, snooping, tagging, marking, tracking and identifying business suddenly is being glaringly misused in obviously totalitarian ways, for purposes which have nothing to do with protecting anyone from anything, it will be far too late to complain about it. Technological systems in place are seldom dismantled, but simply change hands, for a price. And down the road, if the promised massive assaults on people and the environment do take place, our lives will be changed out of all recognition. Eventually the horrifying consequences, both intended and unintended, of what this military-industrial government has in mind for this planet, will be made manifest. Far too late, no doubt the people of the world will be very regretful indeed. A
[CTRL] Echelon Warned US Israel
-Caveat Lector- Echelon Warned US Israeli Intel Hijacked Planes Were To Be Weapons By Ned Stafford BizReport.com 9-14-1 U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies received warning signals at least three months ago that Middle Eastern terrorists were planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture, according to a story in Germany's daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The FAZ, quoting unnamed German intelligence sources, said that the Echelon spy network was being used to collect information about the terrorist threats, and that U.K. intelligence services apparently also had advance warning. The FAZ, one of Germany's most respected dailies, said that even as far back as six months ago western and near-east press services were receiving information that such attacks were being planned. Within the American intelligence community, the warnings were taken seriously and surveillance intensified, the FAZ said. However, there was disagreement on how such terrorist attacks could be prevented, the newspaper said. Echelon is said to be a vast information collection system capable of monitoring all the electronic communications in the world. It is thought to be operated by the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. No government agency has ever confirmed or denied its existence. However, an EU committee that investigated Echelon for more than a year just last week reported its belief that the system does exist. The EU committee said that Echelon sucks up electronic transmissions "like a vacuum cleaner," using keyword search techniques to sift through enormous amounts of data. The FAZ, in its news story, described the system as covering the whole world with 120 satellites. The newspaper also said Israeli intelligence had collected information indicated that Arab terrorist groups planned to hijack planes in Europe to use as weapons to attack targets in Tel Aviv and other coastal cities in Israel. Because of increasing concerns of plane hijackings, Israel has tested a new x-ray machine at the Tel Aviv airport, the FAZ said. The machine capable of detecting all known explosive elements, even if only in small quantities, the newspaper said. The FAZ said that German intelligence fears that in coming days planes will be hijacked in Europe and the Near East, and that there is no sure way to protect against it. http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id?37width?0 x A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Targets
-Caveat Lector- Here is a list of the tenants of the WTC: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/articles/tower1.html . . . . A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Post Office Honors COMMUNIST with a Stamp
-Caveat Lector- thew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Post Office Honors COMMUNIST with a Stamp Should we judge artists by their politics? Is their work enough? how much , if any, does their personality or belief systems shape the validity of their work? I think these are interesting questions - any thoughts? They are interesting questions, which keep coming up in other contexts (cf. the 604 list) as well. Hard to answer, though, without clarifying a few terms. For instance, what are we talking about when we speak of judging? One common meaning of to judge is to determine how something measures up to a certain set of standards or values. In this sense, one can judge the size, legality, beauty, etc. of some phenomenon. What can we judge of an artist by assessing hir politics? Indeed, what aspect of someone's politics does it make sense to judge? How far to the left, right, or other vector? And even if we have made a judgement of where someone's beliefs or politics fall on some scale, what can we assume this says about the person hirself? Practically nothing, I would say. Even less if we look for what it says about hir art. Wagner is a good example, of whom Thomas Mann said his success as a human being was in inverse proportion to his success as an artist. But then is there any agreement about what it is to be a success as a human being? Let's face it -- in most cases attempts to judge usually amount to value judgments of how good something is, which takes the subject into territory with no fixed or universal foundations. In practice, most judgmental thinking is little more than an attempt to spread a patina of objectivity over a statement of personal preference, as part of a broader, if unconscious, agenda of self-exaltation. In most cases, judgments are attempots to elevate the self by putting down the other or by associating oneself with what is seen to be acknowledged as the higher. A poor substitute for actually improving oneself. One last question, of the annoying form of define your terms, please. I know what it means for reasoning to be valid, but what does the word mean when applied to expression or work? Do some people serve French fries validly and others fallaciously? A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] World Population Set to Peak at 9 Billion -Experts
-Caveat Lector- Andrew Hennessey wrote: obviously ww3, NWO and scantily clad special forces with handbags - the fashion police, will have been assessing and testing our fnords well before then Usually reliable sources, and several that are unusually reliable, allege that roughly 37.63% of fnords have already been assessed, and for the most part found wanting. Hail Eris! . . A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Feds back off anonymous tip on Levy
-Caveat Lector- Aleisha Saba wrote: Ordinary street crimes usually produce a body; someone has taken great pain to dispose of this body - unless Chandra will return with severe case of anemia. What, no spinach in the Mossad hideaway? 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] Monty Python Disclaimer
-Caveat Lector- We would like to apologize for the way in which politicians are represented in this programme. It was never our intention to imply that politicians are weak-kneed, political time-servers who are more concerned with their personal vendettas and private power struggles than the problems of government, nor to suggest at any point that they sacrifice their credibility by denying free debate on vital matters in the mistaken impression that party unity comes before the well-being of the people they supposedly represent, nor to imply at any stage that they are squabbling little toadies without an ounce of concern for the vital social problems of today. Nor indeed do we intend that viewers should consider them as crabby ulcerous little self-seeking vermin with furry legs and an excessive addiction to alcohol and certain explicit sexual practices which some people might find offensive. We are sorry if this impression has come across. - - - Monty Python . . . 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] Flying A(u)nts
-Caveat Lector- Bill Howard wrote: In a message dated 7/17/01 10:56:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And if my aunt had wheels, she'd be a wagon. You need to work on this with a licensed counselor. This is really serious, thinking that your aunt is a wagon. WOW! My aunt the wagon. Does she know about this secret of yours? Obviously she's not a wagon yet, but the conditional proposition implies that she is already a box with axles. Why should they? Cessnas are cheaper and proven to work. Yes, you are correct. Cessnas have been flying for years, But then so have missiles. And many a parent's female sibling is also a frequent flier when not on a roll... Isn't it great that there's a list where we can publish our research with such ease? 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] Swift à l'Oignon
-Caveat Lector- Sometimes the Onion hits the bullseye: WASHINGTON, DC--Vowing to restore the pristine splendor of America's natural treasures, President Bush Monday unveiled Project: National Parks Clean-Up, an ambitious program to remove all toxic petrochemical deposits from national parks by 2004. Places like Yellowstone and Yosemite were once pure, unspoiled wilderness, Bush said at a White House press conference. But over the course of the past 10 million years, we have allowed them to become polluted with toxic fossil-fuel deposits, turning a blind eye to the steady build-up of vast quantities of dangerous pollutants. It's time to end this terrible neglect. Continued Bush: A comprehensive survey of our parks, conducted by a team of top geologists specially commissioned by me, has discovered giant pockets of petroleum, coal, and other 'fossil poisons' beneath an alarming 38 percent of our national parks' surface area. Though a majority of these poisons are buried under several million tons of rock strata, should they ever seep to the surface and spread into the surrounding areas, they would spell disaster for the parks' precious ecosystems. To underscore the severity of the crisis, Bush produced a chart illustrating survey results for Yellowstone National Park, where a staggeringly huge toxic-petroleum deposit was discovered. This amount represents the equivalent of 40,000 supertankers worth of oil, said Bush, gesturing toward a line on the chart. To put the dangers into perspective, consider this: If these 'petro-poisons' should ever spill out into the park itself, the resulting environmental disaster would be 40,000 times worse than the damage caused by the wreck of the Exxon Valdez. We cannot allow such a thing to happen, Bush said. We must remove this oil now, before it's too late. Under the Bush plan, 7.2 billion tons of toxic petroleum would be removed by the target date of January 2004. Unlike other federal environmental clean-up initiatives, administration officials say the plan would pay for itself, offsetting costs through the sale of petroleum byproducts produced as a result of the clean-up process. The clean-up, EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman said, may even prove profitable, a prospect that has attracted the participation of private industry. Already, many U.S. companies have expressed interest in lending assistance, and it is hoped that these companies will carry out much, or perhaps all, of the clean-up effort. Though Project: National Parks Clean-Up represents Bush's first major environmental initiative since taking office, supporters are quick to point that he has been a longtime champion of petroleum removal. As governor of Texas, Bush fought tirelessly to protect the state's subterranean environment through a series of massive petrochemical-deposit clean-up projects, Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton said. Under his governorship, more tons of petroleum-based subterranean environmental contaminants were removed in Texas than in all the national Superfund clean-up sites combined. The Democrats talk a good game about the importance of cleaning up the environment, but when it comes to actually eliminating the threat of enormous oil deposits lurking under the surface of our nation, no one can hold a candle to George W. Bush. Thus far, reaction has been mixed. Some have said it is unrealistic for the president to try to remove so much petroleum so quickly. Others, such as Sen. Bob Smith (R-NH), have charged that the president is caving in to pressure from environmentalists, arguing that the government's energies would be better directed toward improving the military. But despite such criticism, Bush stressed that the urgency of removing the oil deposits should take precedence over everything else. Nothing is more important than the legacy we leave future generations, Bush said. The costs of this project pale in comparison to the importance of safeguarding our planet's ecosystem. Our primary mission must be to protect and foster our nation's most precious natural resource: oil. I mean, the environment. http://www.theonion.com/onion3724/bush_vows_to_remove.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at:
[CTRL] Apocrypha
-Caveat Lector- Never reject a favourable interpretation of your motives simply on the grounds that it is incorrect. -Beelzebush's Fireside Chats- Chap. 4: On Raising Funds, Cain, and Consumable Beings . . . 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] Occult Origins of Power
-Caveat Lector- Robert Laugherty has written an intriguing short novel, somewhat in the manner of C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters and Gurdjieff's Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, namely as a series of talks from an aging archon of the financial elite and his advisors to the young man being groomed to take over his position at the peak of the pyramid of power. Heres a partial distillation, and the Full Monty can be found at: http://www.freedomdomain.com/neworder/occult01.html -Chris *** Until now, my advisors and I have deflected your questions as to how and if my diverse operations and holdings, which seem autonomous and even contradictory, are integrated into an organic whole to serve the dynasty's interests. The fact that you asked these questions, rejecting my carefully nurtured public image as an idle, coupon clipping philanthropist, was a major factor in the high esteem in which I hold you. Most of your competitors found puppet leadership in any one of my organi- zations so awesome and gratifying that they immediately eliminated themselves from the contest for the top position which you have won. Such men of limited vision are neces- sary for my success. They bend unconsciously to the subtle pressures to which I expose them. They can be led in any direction I choose by simple-minded rationalizations aimed at their vanity without being privy to my motives which would be short lived secrets in their undisciplined and envious minds . Although you now must begin to pursue it consciously you have already displayed the alienation from your emotional nature that is so essential to achieving real worldly power. As your tutors will explain, occult or secret knowledge is the basis of all power in human society, so I use the word occult advisedly, in its pristine usage. Human hierarchies, in contrast to the animal variety, are best sustained when the members are deluded regarding the oppressive nature, or better, even the very existence of the hierarchy Nearly everyone believes major decisions to be the vector sum of autonomous pressures exerted by business, labor, government, consum- ers, social classes, and other special interests. In fact, the vectors of societal power are carefully balanced by us so that any net movement is in a direction chosen by us. The only fly in the ointment is the occasional, but extremely messy, interferences by competing financial dynasties. Throughout history, secure ruling elites arise through se-cret, or occult knowledge which they carefully guard and withhold from outsiders The power of such elites or cults diminishes as their occult knowledge is transformed into scientific knowledge and vanishes as soon as it becomes common sense. The men who first studied and grasped the regularities of sun, moon, and stars that presage the seasons had a valuable commodity to sell and they milked it to the fullest at the expense of their credulous fellowmen. The occult priesthoods of early astronomers and mathemati- cians such as the designers of Stonehenge, convinced their subjects that they alone had contact with the gods, and thus, they alone could assure the return of planting seasons and weather favorable to bountiful harvests. The staging (predicting) of solar and lunar eclipses was particularly effective in awing the community The general success resulting from following the priesthood's tilling, planting, nurturing, and harvesting time tables insured the priest- hood's powerPopular knowledge of seasonal regularities was discouraged by every manner of mysticism and outlandish ritual imaginable. Failures in prediction were blamed on sins of the people and used to justify intensified oppression. For centuries people who had literally no idea of the number of days between seasons and couldn't count anyway, cheerfully gave up a portion of their harvests, as well as their most beautiful daughters, to their faithful servants in the priest- hoods . The power of our finance capitalist money cult rests on a similar secret knowledge, primarily in the field of economics. Our power is weakened by real advances in economic science. (Fortunately, the public at large and most revolutionaries remain totally ignorant of economics. However, we established money lords have been able to prolong and even reverse our decline by systematically corrupting economic science with fallacious and spurious doctrines. Through our power in the universities, publishing, and mass media we have been able to reward the sincere, professorial cranks whose spurious doctrines happen to rationalize in terms of common good the government supported institutions, laws, and economic measures upon which our money powers depend. However, we are so powerful today that it is no longer possible to conceal our imposing institutions with the appearances of free competition. Keynesianism rationalizes this omnipotent state which we require, while retaining the privileges of
[CTRL] Hold your fire!
-Caveat Lector- From:MICHAEL SPITZER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date:Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:52:58 -0700 From:MICHAEL SPITZER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Microwave gun with 150 meter range -Caveat Lector- http://members.spree.com/sip/d-roc/abupdate/handguns/heavyweapons.htm ARASAKA HMWBW-12 12,590eb SPECIAL - +2 - N - R - SPECIAL (microwave) - 1 - 1 - VR Another new and innovative weapon from Arasaka. This weapon is a one-shot heavy microwave gun. Developed to take out the electronics of a target even though shielding, it has a range of 150 meters. Unlike normal microwave weapons, which project a wide spread pattern of microwaves, this weapon fires a tight condensed beam (about 8 inches in diameter) at the target, disabling its electronics even through most shielding. This weapon uses and expels a lot of energy, so is powered by a very powerful battery (about the size of a car battery but much stronger). It must be recharged for 12 hours after every use. This weapon is perfect for SWAT teams, although its hefty price tag will keep it out of their hands for now. Apparently Michael did not check the link. At the bottom of the page, which shows and describes a wide range of futuristic weapons, one finds: *** (Created and written by Deric Bernier, Weapons and equipment created by Deric Bernier, art by Deric Bernier, Masamune Shirow, Adam Warren, Dan Norton, and various unknown artists, sources include Appleseed, Steam Detectives, Armitage, Macross, Mospeada, Gundam, Dirty Pair, Blade, Split Second, Xenon: Heavy Metal Warrior, Armitage III, Dark Minds,Robocop, Time Cop, Terminator, Ghost in the Shell, Man Machine Interface, Starship Troopers, Space:Above and Beyond, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Eraser, Wildstorm Comics, Rifts, Gurps, Trigun, Alien series, No Escape, Akira, Moonwalker, Gunm, Southern Cross, Escape From L.A., Johnny Mnemonic, SeaQuest, Sukeban Deka, Silent Mobius, BGC, AD POLICE, and other various manga, Anime, Comic book and RPG sources.) *** Caveat Lector indeed! 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] Up Stethoscope!
The patient will see you now The BIG MEDICINE MAILING LIST is in the slips, and you are hereby invited to be on board when her bow hits the water, churning up metaphors, insights, and analyses for those battling malignant corporate power, at least those wise enough to explore Big Corporate Bodies as evolving living systems, eco-social pathogens and/or our morbid rivals for control of the world. Here we will strategically examine these Big Bodies as true living systems, eco-social pathogens, and our virulent rivals for control of the world. Let us just suppose Big Bodies: are real superorganisms that dominate, shape and synchronize their members' lives and minds; generate a monstrous share of the poison, pain and havoc in the world; have overtaken humans as Earth's new dominant species and hijacked our evolutionary course; may yet be thwarted if we wake up, and miniaturize/localize/democratize their premises in time. We ask you not to debate these assumptions, just briefly pretend they are true. If indeed we presume they are, what kind of contest would we face, what would we have to learn and do? OUR BASIC HYPOTHESES: - Big Corporate Bodies are alive, in charge and out of control; - They must be miniaturized, localized and democratized across the board to restore human sovereignty and humane evolution; - Thanks to new people-power tech, the thousands now aware of Big Body rule (and our historic right to subvert it), and a hundred groups already building the post-corporate future, we are well begun. - Now we simply have to "persuade" our Big Brethren to liberate their people, give up power and melt down. This is going to take carrots, sticks, guile, and one hell of a wake up call. That's why we're here, and why we hope you will be also. So if you have any seductive, intimidating or communicative arts, please join us and put them to a collective effort. We hope you will use this list to broadcast any ideas, recon or tactics that might profit the resistance as a whole. (While we certainly sympathize with rants and raids against particularly malignant corporations, we conspire here to shrivel and supplant their kind as a whole, NOT promote single-issue reprisals.) We seek a final solution to the worldwide corporate plague, and that means victims on every front must recognize their common nemesis, and learn to think Big. Big Med thus asks you to provision this list with the following aid: Diagnostic - facts that illuminate the singular corporatist cause behind most eco-social ills. Remedial - broad-spectrum tactics to boost popular resistance locally and wither Big Bodies globally. Prognostic - self-fulfilling prescriptions for a spirited, sensual post-corporate world. We seek wise and witty contributions in any of these fields, particularly those that strengthen everyone's hand to belittle BIG's rampant power. In sum, we ask your aid in chronicling and quickening the coming Big Devolution. Grand surprises await once you start to think BIG. You have been invited because we already know of your interest in related issues. If you have friends of whom you can say the same, please send them the link below and invite them to join. The List Moderators: W.David Kubiak Kathy Arlyn Sokol Chris Case To join the Big-Medicine List, click here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/big-medicine/join
[CTRL] From Tribe to Gang
-Caveat Lector- My old friend, W. David Kubiak, has started a website and discussion group (of which I am a co-moderator) called Big Medicine, whose stated purpose is "dissecting corporate pathology". The basic assumption is that corporations, or Big Bodies, can be understood as a (comparatively new) form of social organism which threaten to dominate humanity and the planet, and whose interests are by no means identical to, nor perhaps even consistent with, those of human organisms... Here is an excerpt from his script for one episode of an NPR radio program, which deals with the rise of the military class and the concomitant imposition of hierarchy: ** There are several instructive ways to look at Big Body evolution - one that compares their formation to so-called super-organisms in other species, one that envisions how they actually began to form in early human societies, and one that traces their increasing diversification and dominance in modern human culture. First we have to remember how really, really old we are as a species - by latest accounts at least 2 million years - and for 99% of that time we lived in hunting, gathering tribes. Now imagine the daily flow of tribal life and how authority or the command of attention was distributed in your group. Tribes lived a common life but faced a diversity of challenges and, depending on the moment, very different kinds of people were looked to for leadership and direction. When meat was scarce, the tribe looked to its most able hunters; when crops were needed, it looked to its savviest plant people; when feasts were to be prepared, the best cooks assumed authority; when construction was required, the deftest builders led the group; when illness struck, those with healing talents commanded attention; and when festivity was called for - as it very frequently was in this world - the most inspired musicians and dancers ruled. In other words, the spotlight of attention and the authority it conferred shone on many different members of the group, depending on the moment, the talents available and the organic needs of the day. Such societies not only did not invite centralized power, they actively resisted it with an antique social trait that anthropologists call counter-dominance. That is, when one member got too high on his horse or uppity, a few of the lads would briskly step in and deflate a few of his airs. It was a natural problem. Many people who finally get attention don't like to let the spotlight go. You perhaps know the feeling. When everyone's attention is upon you, they are intimately connected to you and expand your being, feeling of power and the reach of your will. When multitudes attend you, you fill all their minds and you are magnified. When they are diverted to another attraction, you once become again single, solitary and small. When the spotlight shifts, when your moment in the limelight ends, you fall back into a kind of social darkness - and impotence. Most people hate the feeling, but hey, that's life. Or at least it was life during 99% of our history. No matter how much our tribal ancestors wished to prolong their personal turn on the stage, it was obvious you could not extend a hunt, a harvest, a plague, or even a party forever. Thus to every person, like every biblical thing, there was a season that came and went in time. Problem is, there was an exception to this wisdom, a militant exception. Beside their regular need for food, shelter and boogie, tribes occasionally required defense. Nasty or expansive neighbors could suddenly burst on the scene demanding instant collective response. As in other times of specialized need, the group looked toward its best fighters - the strongest, the sly and the mean - and followed their lead until the danger was passed. Now these bully boys may also have felt a bit wistful when their brief taste of glory passed, but unlike other trades, the brutal types had recourse to a permanent solution. If your pre-eminent power and perks only last as long as your fellows feel threatened, why not prolong that threat forever? The deep irrefutable logic of this insight has gouged the bloody course of human history. In tribal days, warrior-necessitating jeopardy could be extended indefinitely simply by jabbing the neighbors occasionally - snatching a goat or wench or scalp whenever tranquillity got out of hand. Since the resulting retaliation usually fell on innocent heads, a spirit of fear and vengeance could build up in the tribe until they saw in the neighbors an implacable and relentless foe. Relentless threats are clearly the best, because by definition they never go away, and thus the anxious need for perpetual military authority is born. This brilliant ploy changed everything - it concretized hierarchy and centralized rule, finally making real Big Bodies possible. It forced neighbors into slavery or
[CTRL] A Virtual Xmas Stocking
May Santa Claus Bring You All the Best Things in Life http://www.egroups.com/files/Earthlingz/Graphics/Hohoho.jpg Good Will, Chris
[CTRL] Supra-Supreme Court Ruling Expected
-Caveat Lector- Kennebunkport and Wall St. placed on waiting list See the Court in action at: http://www.egroups.com/files/TechGnosis/IMAGES/Hypersupreme%2520.jpg . . . 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] Affirmative Action
-Caveat Lector- " (George) P. is the son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Columba, the nephew of George W. Bush and grandson of former President George Bush, who once famously referred to him and his two siblings, while pointing out his grandchildren to Ronald and Nancy Reagan, as "the little brown ones." That P.'s a Spanish-speaking Latino (his mother was born in Mexico) adds to his value for his uncle's campaign. http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/07/22/p/index.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[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] There, But For the Grace of God, Goes The Neighbourhood...
A Saba wrote: "And so, you want a Final Solution? You asked what to do with black and gay problem? I have no problem for I eliminate such problems before they transpire on my own turf. That is why this bird flocks with like birds." Waspish in more ways than one, eh? A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Reply to Ynr Chyldz Wyld and proof
William Shannon wrote: ...extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Yet, when faced with an extraordinary claim, the usual mind demands a simple proof. "OK, then, lend me your wand." 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] Air-conditioning on the Moon
I posted on another list a summary of the argument that NASA's air-conditioned suits would not work in a vacuum, and provoked this thread: Chris writes: Poor me. With only a high school level education in physics, I find myself puzzled by this. Can some more informed soul deal with this for me? Well, my education in physics only goes a few years beyond yours, but I did work on NASA birds for several years... The author states: "Heat is defined as the vibration or movement of molecules within matter. The faster the molecular motion the higher the temperature. The slower the molecular motion the colder the temperature." Temperature, not heat, is defined by such a rate, and this difference is the fault behind the whole theory. Heat is merely thermal energy. It is true that thermal energy in and of itself cannot be transmitted across a vacuum because of the lack of molecules, but there exists a mechanism by which the thermal energy becomes transmittable. Energy can travel across a vacuum. Whenever charges move about, they produce some electromagnetic fields. And so it is with molecules. Molecules carry charges. When each molecule buzzes about, it produces a single, *extremely* weak signal. When 12 gazillion do it, they produce 12 gazillion separate small signals. But since the 12 gazillion molecules are roughly the same temperature, and temperature controls how fast they whip about, and how fast they whip about determines the frequency of the emitted wave, the 12 gazillion independent signals are all about the same frequency, and the combined signal does in fact carry a good deal of energy. If you build a device that monitors the frequency being emitted, you've built one of those thermometer guns that you just point at the target. This is what the last bird I worked on did, with target = earth. It is this mechanism, incidentally, that allows the sun to heat up the earth. If a vacuum were a perfect insulator, I don't see how the sun could affect the temperature of things here on earth, through 98 million miles of perfect insulator, when I can easily hold a 1/8th inch thick styrofoam cup containing liquid nitrogen in my hands. And since the earth is always in full sunlight, save the moon's occasional shadow, if we are to believe the author's claims, which is that heat cannot escape through a vacuum, we must ask why the earth doesn't boil over like an astronaut's suit, since it too is surrounded by a vacuum. We've also got to believe that heat can enter an object through a vacuum, but cannot leave an object through one, unless the object is the sun or at least sun-like. FYI, the higher the frequency, the more energy that is contained in the signal. In steady-state, the temperature of the object will adjust itself so the frequency is such that the energy emitted equals the energy being absorbed. It's somewhat neat to think that an 8-ball in orbit about the sun will absorb energy from a very wide spectrum...infrared, visible light, ultrviolet, radio, mmw, etc, but the ball will pretty much be uniform in temperature, so all its molecules will jiggle at the same frequency, and the signal it emits will be in a very narrow spectrum. The energy absorbed from the sun will equal the energy emitted, so the 8-ball has taken a full spectrum of colors, absorbed it, and produced a new single color. Not bad for an 8-ball. And if you really care Since the waves that are emitted precisely tell the tale of the molecular movement that produced them, if you can read those waves, you're getting a much better measure of the actual thermal energy of the target than if you were to use a thermometer, since a thermometer requires a host of things to work right, is made inaccurate by many different things, and gives the temperature of the thermometer, not the temperature of the target. --Mark * I replied: I don't quite see how clarifying the definitions of heat and energy explains this puzzle. The writer may use some words wrongly, but he also is obviously saying that solar energy is transmitted through space, without heating the vacuum. What he wonders about is how an air conditioning system based on heat exchange and evaporation can work where there is no medium for exchange, and when evaporation of ice does not occur in the shadow side. Elsewhere he claims that, although NASA explains that the spaceship itself was cooled by rotating it, this would be equivalent to turning a hot dog on a spit. The basic question is: how does heat escape, other than through slow entropy and perhaps radiation, from the shadow side of an object in space? --- and received this response: I don't quite see how clarifying the definitions of heat and energy explains this puzzle. I don't quite see how you see a puzzle: every step in his reasoning is based on dead wrong science and/or bluster. His insistent use of meaningless numbers should quickly clue you in to something being seriously
[CTRL] Dare to Call It Syntax
Much though one appreciates the humour value of the A. Saba persona, one cannot help but wonder if it is not in fact the creation of one whose intention is to discredit the whole conspiracy meme by creating another parody of the conspiracy nut that comes across like a deranged former hippy who's read The Illuminatus Trilogy once too often or too literally. Be that as it may, one thing is sure: a person who has never been bothered to find the correct spellings of concepts which recur regularly in hir routines cannot possibly be someone who carefully researched the ideas s/he puts forth. Accuracy begins at home, and a sloppy prose style and indifference to grammatical, syntactical, and orthographical accuracy is obviously symptomatic of the mental processes underlying the whole oeuvre. As such, I would say it does a distinct disservice to the cause of raising consciousness of the conspiratorial elements of history and current events. 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] Cooki Monsters
My mommy always told me to accept only those cookies that are returned to the original stranger. Cookies can be used as a backdoor into your computer, and to provide information about your online activity. Clinton only just issued an order for the US Govt drug information website to stop using cookies to monitor visitors. Shall we assume all other agencies and websites will immediately abandon the practice? You'll find lots of shareware/freeware to help you ensure greater privacy at http://www.softseek.com/Internet/Web_Browsers_and_Utilities/Privacy_and_Access_Control/2index.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[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] A pseudonym in the hand....
Aleisha (Dare To Call It Syntax) Saba might be amused by, if not downright derived from, the anagram HABEAS ALIAS 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] NASA Spills the Beans
NASA Science News for June 29, 2000 On a planet that's colder than Antarctica and where water boils at ten degrees above freezing, how could liquid water ever exist? Scientists say a dash of salt might help. 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] Reptilian Takeover! Officials Complicit!
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (www.nandotimes.com) "One alligator, crossing a major street about a mile west of the University of Florida campus, stopped traffic in both directions one day recently. But many are killed in the attempt. " "One of the most important things we tell people is to leave them alone," Williams said. He noted that it's illegal to harass alligators in any way. http://www.nando.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500220892-500315386-501748745-0,00.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html A HREF="http://home.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] Garlic and sapphires in the mud...
Aleisha Saba wrote: "All sentenced to life in Chinese Cookie Factory where they die of boredom and suggestion?" This one line redeems with its light profundity an otherwise totally stoned and slightly paranoid ramble. Edit your stuff ruthlessly and there'll be a poet's voice there. Excuse my proffering unsolicited advice., but "credit where credit is due" 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, misdirections and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives 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://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [Fwd: [TechGnosis] Bilderburg Minutes Leaked]
Original Message Subject: [TechGnosis] Bilderburg Minutes Leaked From: Chris Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] Afternoon, ladies. Most of you know why you're here. You know what secret longings draw you, week after week, to this bright and tastefully appointed place, far from the prying eyes of a society that will not allow us to sew free. Many of you are hardcore veterans of the quilting society, old-school regulars of our little group that meets twice a month here in this church basement. You are loyal and trusted members of the sisterhood. Your furrowed brows are intent upon sewing, and the lust for bare-knuckled hand-stitching action pumps through your veins. You know full well what long-repressed urges find their release in the quilting way. You know what you want. But some of you may still be wondering what drove you to this place, this mutually supportive environment where our raw, primal passion for patterning, cutting, piecing, and stitching has found a home, an oasis where our pent-up natural instinct to nurture explodes in a frenzy of furious, estrogen-fueled bonding. I see an awful lot of new faces in the crowd tonight, and that means one thing: Some of you little old biddies haven't been observing the first two rules of the quilting society. So, for the benefit of you rookies in the room: The first rule of the quilting society is: You don't talk about the quilting society. You don't talk about the fact that a well-made rotary blade sharpener can be found at fine quilting stores or through one of the better catalog houses. You don't say anything about batting or basting. You don't mention that the Rice County Piecemakers' new quilt show, "A New Century Of Quilting," will be held at the Congregational Church UCC, Parish House, 222 Northwest 3rd Avenue, Edina, MN, Saturday, 10-5, Sunday, 12 to 4. Or that there will be a quilt raffle, demos, and a charity auction. You do not tell anyone that admission is $2.50. My name is Mrs. Bert K. Verdon. Helen to my friends. But you don't say my name. When you encounter me or a fellow member of the quilting society on the street, at a rummage sale, or at a charity bake-off, you will say nothing. You will exchange one wordless glance, recognizing each other by the bruised, pricked fingertips, the eyes fatigued from needle-threading, and the palms calloused from pressing fabric into the machine in a gentle but steady feed. You will know each other by the stitches you bear and the passion you both feel surging through your quasi-fascist, sewing-based revolutionary consciousness. You will learn about even placement of scraps. You will learn to strip-cut instead of tracing templates the traditional way. You will learn to set delicate fabrics on a foundation to help them keep their shape, wear better, and hold up longer. You will learn all this and more, but you will not talk about the quilting society. The second rule of the quilting society is: YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT THE QUILTING SOCIETY. Got it, ladies? You don't say that the best iron to have for quilting is a heavy, stainless steel one with no steam vents. You don't talk about using spray starch to give limp fabrics the body needed for perfect seams every time. You don't talk about marking your quilt's appliques with one-inch-wide medical tape, which leaves no residue and can be repositioned several times. You will spot each other in airports and hallways, at cookouts and church bazaars. You will spread like wildfire across the nation in an ever-expanding network, a vast, subversive structure of untraceable underground cells, each one a den of feminine cooperation and unbridled, no-holds-barred emotional support. You will stealthily advance our quilting agenda from the shadows, protected by a shroud of silence and secrecy. You don't cut more than four layers of fabric at the same time. You keep an eye out for cuts containing fabric fibers, as this is a sign of a worn-out blade. You keep your blade covered when not in use and out of the reach of little hands at all times, because safety is paramount. And you don't talk about the quilting society. The third rule of the quilting society is: If this is your first visit to the quilting society, YOU WILL QUILT TONIGHT. You will affix batting, cut backing, and utilize straight or scalloped binding. You will use paper templates with the fabric basted onto the shapes to ensure accurate piecing. You will, should time and/or money be limited, be advised to use a "cheater's cloth"--a fabric printed with an all-over block design, made to look like a pieced or appliqued quilt top. You are here because, deep down, you want to quilt. You think you have what it takes to be one of us, but quilting takes discipline. And it demands perseverance. You have to possess, from the gut, the willingness to commit to a long-term project, one that may well last months in the case of such larger projects as multiple-charm or friendship quilt
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nessie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The world is overrun with belief systems based on a priori assumptions. They're all irrational. Give a moment's thought to the a priori assumptions of "scientific" empiricism before you shoot yourself in the foot, is my suggestion :-) A search for "Problem of Induction" would be the entry-level approach... 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, misdirections and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives 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://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html A HREF="http://home.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
